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Aug. 27, 1997 Committed to cultural diversity. Volume XXVII, Number 35 (Tin' ^ n rtla n h ODbserUer SECTION B ■ K A B U K I im i in u n i t o a I r n ò a r (Ü B a n n e ri to w ave over A lt e r f a The race is on Summer youth hoist artworks over northeast “It’s Time for the Cure,” is the theme of this year’s Race for the Cure, a walk and run in the fight against breast cancer. Portland runners and walkers will take to the streets for the event on Sunday morn ing, Sept. 2 1. Registration forms are avail able at JC Penny, Pier I Imports, Lady Foot Locker or in the Oregonian. rtistic and colorful banners are jettisoning a splash of brilliance upon the canopy known as the Alberta corridor - between Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and 23rd Avenue on Alberta Street. A ceremony to mark the hosting of the artworks, created by kids employed in a summer youth program at Sabin Community Development Corp., was scheduled Tuesday at Roslyn's Garden Coffee House at north east 14th Place and Alberta. The program, in it's second year, was called creative, innovative, and fun for the 11 youth who participated, according to Robert Coley of Sabin Corp. Adriene Cruz, a local banner artist, as well as other mediums, of great renown saw the challenge and grasped the opportunity to teach design, plan, conceptualize, construc tion, machine sewing and monster applica tion to the I I neophytes, eight ol which were young men 14 to 18 years old. A Building discipline A series focusing on child develop ment and parent education will be pre sented this fall by the Oregon State Uni versity extension service in Washington County. “Building discipline habits in children below the age of 14 takes time, planning, and a knowledge o f what behav ior will be healthy in your family, says Sue Cook, extension service program assistant. For classes, dates, times and locations call 725-2101 and request “ Fall 1997 Parenting Schedule.” Fair at Ainsworth church Ainsworth United Church of Christ presents the Ainsworth Fall Festival Sat urday and Sunday, Sept. 20-21 at 5:30 p.m. Many neighborhood artists will share their talents and items will be on sale. There will be wonderful barbecue lunches and dinners, storytelling, games, balloons and prizes for kids. Free bike clinic A free legal clinic for bicyclists with bike lawyer Ray Thomas will be held Sept. 18 at 6:30 p.m. at the Intel Rohr Acres Auditorium, 2501 NW. 229th, Hillsboro. Call Terry Crawford at 264- 6664 to register. Wilderness weekend You can discover Opal Creek Wilder ness, one o f the Pacific Northwest’s largest and most pristine ancient forests, during an outdoor adventure sponsored by Portland Parks and Recreation, Oct 3- 5. Contact the park bureau’s outdoor rec reation at 823-5132. Help serve meals University Park Loaves and Fishes needs help to deliver meals-on-wheels to seniors and homebound persons. If you can give your time, talent and energy, please call 285-8199. Street fair fun Local artists, merchants and residents will be celebrating in the Belmont Street district of inner-southeast Portland, Sat urday, Sept. 6. A street fair will feature live music, carnival games, street per formers, sidewalk sales and a food pavil ion. Dance at Rexali Rose Portland’s only dance forum at Rexali Rose Theatre, 2403 N.E. Alberta St. is held Sunday, Aug. 3 1 at 7 p.m. Rally on equality Equality on the Equinox, a rally cel ebrating fatherhood, motherhood and fam ily will take place Saturday, Sept. 6 at noon at Pioneer Courthouse Square. Live bands will perform. The event will en courage communication and harmony between men and women, making divorce less adversarial and champion joint cus tody of children Kids Games Friday A host of events for kids with special performances by the Buffalo Soldiers, Clown Around, Dragon Dancers and rap per L.G. Wise, will take place during the fifth annual King Games, Friday, Aug. 29 from 9 a m. to 3 p.m at Alberta Park The festivities are sponsored by the Youth Gangs Program. s i B M IS S IO N S : C o m m u n ity ( a le n d a r in fo i m a d o n « i l l be given p r io r i) ' it dated tw o weeks before the ia eut date. Aaron McPherson puts an iron to work assembling a brilliant banner for Alberta Street. Modern culture rooted in eroding families issues, Pipher is the author of several best sellers, including "Reviving Ophelia" and most re cently, “The Shelter of Each Other. Rebuilding Our Families." The sym posium takes its title from her latest book, in which Pipher explains how the overw helm ing impact of mod ern culture erodes the family unit every day - from the over worked. harried existence of most parents, to the plight of children raised by appliances. Parents are undermined by a host of influences that invade their "houses without walls," she says, and beleaguered families blame Mary Pipher themselves for what is essentially a cultural problem. Maintaining that "much of our modern unhappiness involves a crisis of meaning and values,” Pipher contends technology and consumerism have become the gods of the '90s. est-selling author Mary “We really underestim ated Pipher talks about "re the effects of TV and other building our families and ls,” she says. "For the first communities during a Sept. to 12 o lec time in history, children are ture and at an all-day symposium. not being socialized by their Sept. 13, at Lewis & Clark College. p aren ts.” A national authority on family Lewis & Clark hosts dialoge B professor o f performing arts and humanities guide PSU's Chicano-Latino studies program. Chicano-Latino studies opens hen Ruben Sierra was a child in the “Tex-M ex" (Texan-M cxi can) culture of San Antonio, Texas, there was a lot of love within the family. But in the schools the perception he loo often encountered was that Mexicans were lazy or sav ages. "Yet the roots of Chicanos are found in the Aztecs. Maya and Toltecs-complex civilizations with tremendous skill in math and science,” says Sierra. Now, as Director of Portland Stale University's newly established Chicano-Latino Studies program, W his duties include helping people to learn and giving them accurate information which doesn’t foster stereotypes. Beginning this fall, PSU students can enroll in the program which offers a cohesive body of study on the forces that shaped Mexicans and Latin Americans in the United States over the past 300 years. Students work towards a minor or a certifi cate in Chicano-Latino Studies. Sierra, who was hired in 1995 to direct the program, says, "It's one of very few such programs in the nation. And we’ve had the chance to define and refine it over the last two years." Panel sees many looks for MLK B\ L ee P erlman hen it comes to a new street design for the four miles of Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard between Broadway and Co lumbia Boulevard, one size does not fit all. That was the direction indicated by con sultants and staff at a meeting of the Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard Transportation Project Citizen Advisory Committee last week. The committee is examining how and where to add $1 million worth of physical improvements to the street. "There is no single clear cut, black-white, A or B solution," consultant Lloyd Lindley told the committee. Instead, he said, staff is looking at different treatments for different parts of the boulevard The committee will fine-tune a series of design alternatives prepared by staff at its next meeting Sept. 11, and these will be discussed at a public workshop on Sept 18, consultant Elaine Cogan said One all-or-nothing solution concerns bike W i Wholesale removal of the street's medians to make room for on-street parking appears to be growing less likely lanes, will either be added to all of the boulevard or to none of it. Lindley said that one design alternative will show how the street would work with bike lanes and onlv two lanes of traffic. However, he added, "What we've heard traf fic-wise is that bike lanes just won't work here.” The committee is working with the Bi cycle Transportation Alliance on a plan to install bike lanes on North Williams and Vancouver avenues, he said. A long-cherished goal that seems to be growing less likely is the removal of the street's planted medians, and its center left- turn lanes, to make room for on-street park ing An analysis prepared by the consultants listed several negative results of such ac tions. These include the elimination of ref uges to help pedestrians cross the street, elimination of any chance to widen the side walks. and forcing cars to make left turns from travel lanes and thus obstruct traffic. The committee raised another negative: the removal of the median's large trees. Cogan said tha, if the median was re moved, "The trees will be victims, but maybe there’s a greater good ” Geri Ethen of the Piedmont Neighbor hood Association retorted, “You'd have to show me a lot of greater good to justify tree removal ” Aviva Groner of the Eliot Neighborhood I oulevard Association suggested a compromise: nar rowing the median and replanting smaller trees. The committee also tried to classify the character of boulevard segments as a way to determine what treatment they should re ceive. There was general consensus that the W a ln u t P ark a re a at N o rth e a s t Killingsw orth Street, and the area near N ortheast Knott and R ussell streets, are com m ercial nodes; that from N orth east Shaver to A lberta streets has be come a housing area, and from N orth east Stanton to Ivy streets is destined to become one based on its zoning; and that from Northeast Lom bard Street to Colum bia Boulevard is part o f the in dustrial area to the north. There was less certainty about other parts of the Boulevard. Michael McElwee of the Portland Development Commission com mented, “I don't think there’s any one big solution You have to look at little solutions block by block "
