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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 24, 1997)
SEPT. 24, 1997 • T he P or i land O bserver P age A2 Leading the struggle Continued from Front MHRC’s Non-Profit Diversity Award will be presented to the Or egon Advocacy Center for incorpo rating cross-cultural actions into its daily activities and maintaining a diverse workforce The Oregon Advocacy Center works with and for persons with dis abilities to prevent abuse and ne glect, and to promote dignity, self empowerment, choice and full par ticipation in the community by se curing legal and human rights through advocacy, legal representa tion and public education MHRC’s Mayor’s Award goes to former State Sen Shirley Gold of Portland; and its Multnomah County Chair Award will be presented to Multnomah County Commissioner Sharron Kelley. Several awards will be presented to individuals and organizations for responding to injustices and pro moting harmony as a routine part of their daily lives. These recipients are Floy Pep per, the Urban League of Portland, Judith Kahn, Sam Watson, Bob Boyer, Norma Trimble and Joe Briden, Sunshine Dixon, Clydie Mae Towner, Vice Wannassay, Karen Ettigner, Ty Ho, Sister Jane Hibbard and Sister "Rose” Frawley, and the Community Monitoring Advisory Committee Floy Pepper has been deeply in volved in education for many years. She taughtatChemawa Indian School in Salem. Pepper became the first minority teacher hired by the Port land School District in 1945. The Urban League of Portland has a history of building harmony within our community that stretches back more than 50 years As area director of the American Jewish committee, Judith Kahn has extended the scope of human rights work of the Committee well beyond strictly religious issues. Sam Watson is a performing art ist who has written a song called "Stop the Hate” which he will be performing at the awards dinner. Bob Boyer was one of the first African Americans to become a switchman for the Southern Pacific Railroad. N orm a T rim ble and Joseph Briden have recruited Native Ameri can foster parents to allow Native American children to be placed in homes with similar cultures Over the last 51 years, Clydie Mae T owner has been foster parent to over 100 children, and has adopted three. It’s not the United Nations, but it might as well be. Each month Sun shine Dixon hosts a dinner party for people of diverse cultures she has met, bringing together people who may not speak the same language, but recognize their common human ity. Vince Wannassay is a Native American man that everyone de scribes as “real grass roots." Within his community he has earned a place of respect by having overcome many personal challenges, and by his ac complishments in building organi zations that meet the needs of the Native American community. Sister Jane Hibbard and Sister Rose’ Frawley of Holy Redeemer Catholic School were the coordina tors of the 'Good in the Hood’ fes tival in North Portland. The M ulti-Cultural Resource Center, recently relocated to Port land State University, has a wealth of culturally significant information and items from a variety of coun tries and cultures that can give you hands-on experience. Ty Ho is a Vietnamese woman who came to the U S. as a refugee in 1975. She is a champion for the poor and voiceless. African-American, Hispanics, and other minority groups joined together to form the Community Monitoring Advisory Committee to demand an action plan and account ability for progress in the education o f minority children. Portland Mayor Vera Katz will present the Mayor’s Human Rights Award and Multnomah County Chair Beverly Stein will present the Mult nomah County Chair Human Rights Award Tickets for the dinner are $12. Reservations can be made by calling 823-5136. SUPPORTING ACHIEVEMENT! More than a thousand supporters gather to celebrate area children 'doing the right thing.' Urban League o f Portland celebration honoring achievement by young people start a Saturday march at Urban League Office on Russell Street, proceed to Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and then northwest to Jefferson High Schoo! for jamboree. T School days, but no golden rule Continued from Front Metro dent of the Oregon Education Asso ciation). Teachers' unions serve who? Well, we are led to understand that Mr. Bierwirth can both read well and hear well, so there cannot be the slightest doubt that he was well aware of the game-playing that went on for decades in respect to schools with a predominately mi nority enrollment. The educational disabilities that resulted may have had much to do with today’s social instabilities among minority youth - not to mention their diminished earn ing power. Next week: The push fo r ref orms better Teacher training, failures of the ‘industry sector, the unions Amtrak hop Continued from Front Portland to work in Vancouver, summed up most passengers’ comments when she called the com muter train “an absolutely wonderful, comfort able, convenient, efficient train. It left on time and I wasn’t stressed out when I got home." She also likened the "friendly attitude of the people" to the "friendliness among strangers you find during a disaster or a snow storm " As the 8 a m. train started to roll out of Portland’s Union Station Friday, Vancouver spe cial education teacher Roma Barman had a friend photograph her in her train seat, reading a travel magazine. The photo was for a bulletin board project about adult readers at Hough Elementary School. Many people looked like seasoned riders, quickly settling into their seats, pulling out a book or newspaper to read, with quick or no glances at the scenery Many pencils filled in blank squares of crossword puzzles. Some people took advantage of the free trains to give their children a chance to be on areal train adventure. Silently, the train glided through rail yards, freight and container cargo cars resting on one side, warehouses on the other, fog hugging the northwest Portland hills The patterns o f criss crossed tracks soon narrowed to four sets, along U S. 30 where there was very light traffic, then down to two The train click ity-clacked over a slough bridge, then skipped onto the railroad bridge over the Columbia The river was still asleep, with some gentle pinks slipping through the fog to mix with the calm steel blue waters below.Log jams in the water were going nowhere, unlike traffic on the I- 5 bridge, which kept an orderly flow throughout the construction project Although the nine passenger cars had a capac ity of 800 people, only 79 were on this trip. "This is really light. 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