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Senior assisted
living rapidly
expands careers
ñ s to r y fo r t h e w o r ld to h e a r
with little education, privilege,
writes stirring autobiography
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“I am telling my stones in English
for many months now, and it is a time
for me to see my whole life. I see that
things are always changing. I was
bom in 1930, so I remember many
things which were happening in the
old days in Lesotho and which hap
pen no more. 1 lived in Benoni Loca
tion for more than ten years, and I saw
the Boer policem en taking black
people and beating them like dogs.
They even took me once, and kept me
in one o f their jails for a while.”
Mpho ‘M ’atsepo Nthunya
A compelling and unique autobi
ography by an African woman with
little formal education, less privilege,
and almost no experience ofbooks or
writing, M pho’s voice is a voice al
most never heard in literature or his
tory, a voice from within the struggle
o f “ordinary” African women to ne
gotiate a world which incorporates
ancient pastoral ways and the con
gestion, brutality, and racist violence
o f city life. It is also the voice o f a born
storyteller who has a subject worthy
o f her g ifts-a story for all the world to
hear.
Mpho ‘M ’atsepo N thunya was
bom in Lesotho in 1930 and educated
in South Africa. Having returned to
Lesotho in 1949 to escape apartheid,
she supported her family as a dom es
tic worker for thirty years.
K. Limakatso Kendall is an Ameri
can actor, writer, and academic who
emigrated to South Africa in 1995.
She is now professor o f Drama Stud
ies in the U n iv ersity o f N atal,
Pietermartizburg.
Neighboring retirement centers host
job fair for employees, volunteers
A Job Fair for individuals inter
ested in entering into or who have
experience in the senior assisted liv
ing industry, a rapidly expanding
health profession, will be held Fri
day and Saturday.
Legacy St. A idan’s Place and
Glendoveer Retirement Villa, neigh
boring senior assisted living facili
ties in Portland, are co-sponsoring
the two-day event at both locations.
The Job Fair will be at Glendoveer
first non-profit residence o f its kind
in Oregon and represents a progres
sive approach to caregiving.
The facility operates at full capac
ity o f four individual households,
each with ten private apartments and
a common living room, dining room
and kitchen.
An adult day-care/respite program
serves families in the community
three days a week offering a group
activity program for up to twelve
Caregivers, food service and
administrative employees are particularly
needed. Education and training will be
available to qualified applicants
Retirement Villa, 13OO7N.E. Glisan,
on Friday from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m.
On Saturday Legacy St. A idan’s
Place will host the fair from 10 a.m.
to 2 p.m. a, 17309 N.E. Glisan.
L eg acy
St. A id a n ’s and
Glendoveer Villa are both profes
sionally managed by Paradigm Se
nior Living, one o f the N orthw est’s
most experienced providers.
Paid staff as well as volunteer
opportunities are available with im
mediate interviews to be conducted
at the Job Fair sites. Caregivers, food
service and administrative em ploy
ees are particularly needed. Educa
tion and training will be available to
qualified applicants.
Legacy St. Aidan’s Place, a se
nior housing development o f Legacy
Health system, is a state-of-the-art,
non-denominational residence for
individuals with Alzheimer’s disease
or similar dementias.
O pened in N o v e m b e r 1996,
Legacy St. Aidan’s Place was the
individuals. An on-site Alzheimer’s
support group, for families with a
family m ember living in an assisted
living residence like Legacy St.
A idan’s Place, is held monthly.
For over 30 years, Glendoveer
Retirement Villa has been providing
senior housing to the Northeast Port
land area.
Residents o f this Spanish-style
community choose the level o f as
sistance they need: independent liv
ing, residential care, and alzheim er's
and dementia care.
Glendoveer places strong empha
sis on wellness and activities pro
grams. This homey, comfortable set
ting has spacious apartments with
private patios and beautifully land
scaped courtyards.
For more information on the Job
Fair or the co-hosting facilities call,
Jacie Meldrum at Legacy St. Aidan’s
Place, 253-4920, or Ann Stillman at
Glendoveer Retirement Villa, 252-
2427.
New housing
opens with
celebration
Instar Place provides
homes for people with
mental illness
You're invited to join the Housing
A uthority o f Portland, Portland
YouthBuilders and Garlington Cen
ter in celebrating the grand opening
o f Instar Place, a home for people
with mental illness.
The event will take place Thurs
day at 10 a m . 5417 N.E. 25th Ave.
Instar Place services are provided
by Garlington Center. The home was
constructed by Portland Youth Build
ers.
“ Instar Place represents a unique
trio o f partnerships,” said Helen
Barney, Housing Authority execu
tive.
Instar Place is designed as a two-
story house containing five Single
Room Occupancy units, each with a
private bedroom and bath
In addition, the 2,500 square-foot
home provides shared space that in
cludes a community kitchen, dining
room, living room, laundry, and in
dividual pantry/food storage areas.
The shared housing offers privacy,
security and comfort along with oppor
tunities for group oriented activities.
Instar Place will provide safe,
drug-free housing for five clients
who suffer from a mental illness.
The residents o f Instar Place will
receive full case management ser
vices, in addition to on-site skills
training and supportive therapy ser
vices.
Communication
key to helping
street kids
Mpho ‘M ’ atsepo Nthunya, author o f Singing Away The Hunger:
The Autobiography o f an African Woman, a September 1997
publication o f Indiana University Press. She is shown here with one of
hergrandsons.
OMSI offers family Halloween fun
OMSI offers kids and parents eight
creepy nights o f Halloween fun as
part o f Scary Nights, starting Thurs
day through Oct. 31.
Climb aboard for a voyage o f ter
ror on the haunted submarine USS
Blueback with O M SI’s third-annual
Homeless
youths
need voice
Sub Scare! A hideous crew o f aliens
lurks around each passage-way as
visitors wind their way through the
sub’s "haunted” compartments.
Tours depart Ihursday through Sat
urday every ten minutes, 6:30 p.m. to
11:30 p.m. Tickets are $5.50 (adult and
youth)and includeadmissiontoOMSi’s
newest exhibit In the Dark, which offers
a rare glimpse at nature’s darkest envi
ronments through sophisticated com
puter games, mechanical displays and
interactive exhibits. Sub Scare visitors
should be at least 8 years o f age.
The rising number o f homeless
youths is one o f A m erica’s dirty little
secrets, and caring for this country’s
displaced children will become in
creasingly difficult without new ef
forts at communication.
That’s the conclusion o f an Or
egon State University professor who
has spent part o f the last three years
studying homeless youths in the Pa
cific Northwest.
Natalie Dollar, an assistant pro
fessor o f speech com m unication at
OSU, began working with homeless
youths in 1994, ironically, the inter
national Year o f the Family, A m a
jority o f those homeless - an esti
mated 75 percent - are on the streets
because they were physically or sexu
ally abused, or neglected by their
families. Dollar said.
They want their story told, she
emphasized. And it rarely happens.
“ I’ve been to many town meet
ings where concerned citizens dis
cuss the homeless and it’s pretty
easy to conclude that the process is
so adult-centered that these youths
don’t have a voice,” Dollar said.
“Their points are rarely analyzed
and they often feel forced to use
profanity or to talk loudly to make
themselves heard.
“The adults, the social service provid
ers and the government agencies all
wanttotalk logistics,” she added. "These
youths want to talk about personal is
sues, like what it feels like when your
Dad beats you. The end result is that they
just bypass each other.”
Dollar said that creating some dif
ferent settings may help bridge a
communication gap that seems to
grow wider every day.
She says the bureaucracy is pro-
cess-oriented, under-funded and in
consistent.
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