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Volume X X V II, Number 34
Committed to cultural diversity.
Aug. 20, 1997
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School bells set to ring
Hammer away
Portland Habitat for Humanity invites
all women carpenters to compete in the
Great Habitat Hammer Off. The event
will be held between 11 a.in. and 3 p.m.
on Labor Day, Sept. 1 to build a new
home for a si ngle mother and her daugh
ter. The W omen’s Build home is on
North Commercial Avenue and is in
the framing stage o f construction.
Heart health offered
Men and women with documented
heart disease and those who are at risk
for its development are invited to take
part in a new and innovative cardiac
rehabilitation program sponsored by
Riverplace Athletic Club and Legacy
Health Services. The medically-super
vised, conditioning and maintenance
program offers exercise classes to build
strength, endurance and confidence.
For information, contact Kimberly Berg
at 223-1111, extension 504.
Diverse casting call
The Portland Revels is seeking a tal
ented and diverse cast, including ama
teurs and professional adults and chil
dren, to sing, dance and act in celebra
tion of the winter holidays. Rehearsals
w i 11 be held Monday e ven i ngs at Grace
Memorial Episcopal Church at North
east 18th and W eidler. Call Pam
Livingstone at 241 -3849 formore infor
mation or to schedule an audition.
Theatre at Mt. Hood
Shakespeare’s 12th Night, opens Fri
day and continues every Friday, Sat
urday and Sunday night through Sept.
21 at Mt. Hood Community C ollege’s
Studio Theatre. For reservations call
the box office at 667-7154.
Performers needed
Auditions for the comedy Moon over
Buffalo will be held Sept. 7-8 at the
Lakewood Center for the Arts in Lake
Oswego. Lake wood Theatre Company
supports multi-ethnic diversity in its
casting. Call 635-3901 to reserve an
appointment time.
King games coming
Sports, games, food and theater will
take over Alberta Park at Northeast
20th and Killingsworth for the King
Games, scheduled Friday, Aug. 29 from
9 a m. to 3 p.m. The 5th annaul event,
presented by the Youth Gangs Pro
gram, will include 3 on 3 basketball,
face painting, free throw contest and
egg carry toss. Special appearances
will include the Buffalo Soldiers,
Dragon dancers, Rapper L.G. Wise and
the Sojourner Truth Theater.
Women
songwriters unite
An evening o f diverse music and
storytelling with some o f Portland's
finest professional women musicians
and composers will be held Saturday,
Sept 20 at 8 p.m. at the Aladdin The
ater, 31 I6S.E. 1I th. The artists include
Theresa Demarest & the Good Com
pany, Janice Scroggins, Anne Weiss
& Connie Choen and Toni Land.
Haircuts offered
Haircuts will be offered the first, sec
ond and third Mondays from 10a.m. to
noon at the Multicultural Senior C en
ter at 5325 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr.
Blvd. Schedule appointments with
Jaime or Ella at 248-5470, extension
24545.
SI BM ISSIO N S: Community
< alendar information «till be gii co
priority if (lufcd I mo weeks
before the event date.
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Humboldt,
Vernon, King
start late
School
start, end
times
change
he morning routine for many Port
land families will be different when
school starts this year.
Portland School District has changed the
schedules forelementary and middle schools
in an effort to save money in transportation
costs and increase efficiency.
Elementary schools will either run from
8 a.m. to 2:15 p.m. or 8:45 a.m. to 3 p.m. All
district middle schools will open at 9:15
a.m. and run until 3:45 p.m.
High schools were not affected by the
transportation changes.
The school district anticipates saving some
$1.8 million with the standardized schedul
ing. About 13,000 students in the district
ride school buses.
The elementary school schedules are as
follows: 8 a.m. to 2:15 p.m . Alameda, Arleta,
Astor, B ridger. B ridle m ile, C ap ito l H ill.
C hapm an, C h ief Joseph, Faubion, G rout,
H ayhurst, H um boldt (8 a.m . to 3 p.m .),
J a m s J o h n , K e n to n , L e e , L e n t,
L iew elly n , M aplew ood, R ieke, R igler,
R o se C ity P a r k , S i t t o n . S m ith .
S tep h en so n , V estal.
8 :4 5 a.m . to 3 p .m . A b e rn a th y ,
A insw orth. A n n le e a te . A tkinson. Ball.
Schools starts
delayed by teacher
trainings
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Irvington. Kelly, King, Laurelhurst, Lewis.
Democrats salute
labor victory in
UPS strike
enate D em ocratic
Leader C liff Trow,
D -C o rv a llis and
Senators Susan Castillo, D-
Eugene, and Kate Brown, D-
Portland saluted UPS work
ers for what Senator Brown
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W ilcox.
W o o d law n .
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REA RESIDENTS
share the profits generated
by this expanding economy,”
said Senator Brown.
Senator Castillo observed
that “working people across
the country supported the
UPS workers, because they
“I think this is a turning point fo
our country,” said Senate
Democratic Leader C liff Trow. “Fo
20 years w e’ve seen a disturbing
trend of falling wages for the vas
majority of American workers.
knew this was everyone’s
fight. The polls showed the
people supported the strik
ers by an overwhelming mar
gin. They knew that if the UPS
workers won, it would be a
victory for workers every
where.”
“I think this is a turning point
for our country," said Senate
Democratic Leader Cliff Trow.
“For twenty years we’ve seen a
disturbing trend of falling wages
for the vast majority of Ameri
can workers. I think that this
strike, and the sympathy that
American showed for the strike,
shows that the labor movement
is prepared to reverse that (tend
- and the American people as a
whole are prepared for it. too.”
W o o d m ere,
T he A frican A merican P ioneers
EXPERIENCING A
termed a "dramatic and ex
citing victory” in the Team
sters’ Union strike.
The Teamsters won every
major demand in the strike,
including an agreem ent to
convert 10,000 p a rt-tim e
jobs to full-time jobs and to
raise the average hourly
wages of part-time workers
from $ 1 1 an hour to $15 an
hour.
“This victory in this strike
sends a signal throughout
America that we don’t have
to become a nation of low-
paid part-time workers. We
can be a nation of full-time,
well-paid workers-if w ork
ers stand up for their rights,
and persuade business to
tudents at H um boldt. V ernon
and King e lem en tary sch o o ls
get four e x tra days o f v acation
this year w hile th e ir te a c h e rs ‘h it the
b o o k s’ learning ab o u t the S u ccess For
All read in g program .
C lasses for stu d e n ts begin M onday
Sept. 8 at the three sch o o ls. O th er P o rt
land sch o o ls begin c la sse s on T u esd ay ,
Sept. 2.
S u ccess F or All is a stra te g y d e v e l
oped at Johns H opkins U n iv e rsity to
ben efit ch ild ren having d iffic u ltie s in
reading.
B eg in n in g w ith the idea that every
child can learn, the program stre sse s
p re v e n tio n , early in te rv e n tio n and re
le n tle ssn e ss in su p p o rtin g and e n c o u r
aging read in g sk ills.
One aspect o f the p rogram is that
stu d en ts have 90 m inutes o f u n in te r
rupted read in g in stru c tio n at the sam e
tim e every day.
T e a c h e rs at H um boldt, V ernon and
Kinu w ill receive train in g in S uccess
REINACTMENT OF
300
YEARS OF
A frican
A merican
history .