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I Volume X X V II, Number 47 Committed to cultural diversity. NOV. 26, 1997 (T in ' | d n r t l a n h ( © b s c r t t e r SECTION ZiT im m u n it y VJ^a I e n i> a r Expect busy Thanksgiving holiday travel MLK design up for review Community members are invited to review the design for Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard at an open house. Dee. 4 from 4 p m . to X p.m. at King Elementary School Cafeteria. 4906 N.E. Sixth Ave. Public comments are encouraged on pro posals Io add on-street parking, improve ments for pedestrians and bicyclists, side walks, lighting and other elements de signed to encourage commercial revital ization along the corridor. T Largest Christmas bazaar A m erica’s largest Christm as bazaar opens Friday at the Portland Expo Center. The weekend show features more than 1,000 booths, thousands of unique gift ideas, plenty of food, plus decorations, greenery and more. Volunteers needed The Salvation Army needs food box preparation volunteers Dec. I through Dec. 23, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Plan on a shift of at least 3 hours and be sure to dress warmly. Call Lt. Colonel Jean McHarg, volunteer coordi nator at (503) 7310156. Garlington Center Singer Tamera Stephens o f Whitaker Middle School, Ken Boddie o f Channel 6, Police Chief Charles Moose and Shelia Holden o f Pacific Power attend annual dinner to show support for north/norheast program providing mental health services. Solving problems our communities really care about (Photos by M. Washington) Kwanzaa reception The Interstate Firehouse Cultural Cen ter presents Kwanzaa: A Celebration of Life, a group exhibition of African-Ameri can artists whose works evoke the African ancestral traditions and the sense o f com munity that underlie the celebration. The exhibit opens with a free public recep tion, Thursday, Dec. 4 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at 5340 N. Interstate Ave. Scouting for Food Scouting for Food is the last major food drive of the holiday season for the Oregon Food Bank. The non-profit agency depends on the food brought in from the drive to sustain hungry families through the winter. Call the food bank to help at 282-0555. Ring in the holidays Willamette Valley Vineyards presents Tall Jazz and Friends, a holiday concert and CD release party with Rebecca Kilgore vocalist, on Sunday, Dec. 7 at 7 p.m. in the vineyard’s Great Room. Table seating is available by calling (503) 588-9463. Gingerbread palace Portland's historic Benson Hotel will ring in the holiday season with a regal display of gingerbread art, displayed in the Benson lobby, from Monday, Dec. I until Monday, Dec. 29. Afternoon Rides Your invited to meet bicycle enthusi asts who gather for afternoon rides on Monday and Thursday from 12 :10 p.m. to 1:15 p.m. Prepare for fast rides with lots of climbing. Meet at the southwest corner of Pioneer Courthouse Square between noon and 12:15 p.m. Cost is free. Money management tips The money is Coming, How Much Can You Spare?' Sensitive Jazz Jordan sings Thanskgiving concert at Corbett’s Viewpoint Inn onderful food, and fabulous Books and Music in Tigard. music in a peaceful setting Just minutes away from Multnomah Falls will charm visitors when jazz and Crown Point, the Viewpoint Inn has quickly he Portland Community College vocalist Pamela Jordan sings at the View become a must-see for people visiting the Co Foundation and other school and point Inn Thursday, from 3 to 6 p.m. lumbia River Gorge. Since opening in mid-June college foundations from across Jordan gave her first performance at the the state are encouraging members of Inn the Nov. 16. Her sensitive, compelling community to donate some or all of the vocals, and gracious, understated style surplus tax checks, called the kicker, to wowed patrons. public schools. "When Pam ’s CD was playing in our The checks were mailed out by the state dining room a few' weeks ago, a patron of Oregon, and people received them this insisted - absolutely insisted that I sell it to past weekend. her," said Viewpoint Inn manager Geoff “The goals of the Portland Community Thompson. "I knew then and there Pam’s College Foundation are to first serve needy music would be a good fit for the Inn. We students and then to provide technology re just had to have her perform live." sources for our classrooms and student labs,” Jordan's recent release Standard Procedure said Jan Coulton, executive director of the has won rave reviews from local critics. And PCC Foundation. “We are working hard to merchants carrying the recording. keep college affordable and accessible to “Beautiful spare arrangements and a citizens and maintain high quality. We hope many-hued honey of a voice are the hall that community college supporters will do marks of Pamela Jordan's gorgeous new nate some of their (ax check to help students CD, Standard Procedure,” said Borders Pamela Jordan at PCC.” T W Control your money during the holi days and afterwards, is the topic of a professional development seminar pre sented by the National Black MBA Asso ciation. Portland-Seattle chapter. The event will be held Dec. 6 from 4 p.m. to 6 p in. at Reflections Books in the Walnut Park Plaza at NE Killingsworth and M ar tin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. Annual campaign finds tremendous support ampaign Chairm an Robert G. Miller announced that United Way of the Columbia-W illamette has raised more than $11 million to Campaign ‘97. "A s we w rap up our effo rt for an o th er su ccessful cam paign. I’d like to thank all o f the donors for th e ir trem endous support o f U nited W a y ,” says M iller, CEO and p resid en t o f Fred M eyer. Inc. For the past tw o years, U nited W ay has seen an in crease in cam paign d o l lars raised An a d d itio n a l $ 4 5 0 ,0 0 0 was c o l lected last year and c o n trib u te d alm ost $800,000 to m em ber agency budgets thanks to the in crease in funds and re d u c tio n in U n ite d W a y 's o v e rh e a d C Terry Evans brings his “Come to the River” west coast tour to Key Largo, 31 N.W. First, Dec. 4 at 9 p in. It Had To Be You SU BM ISSIO N S: C om m unity C alen d ar inform ation will be given priority if received two weeks before the event date. tile Inn regularly fills its dining room reserva tion list for Sunday brunch. The arts and crafts style structure rests on T hor's Heights in Corbett, and offers dramatic views of the Columbia River. The Lois Th om pson H ous ing Project ac quired the Inn in June. LTHP is a non-profit cor p o ra tio n th at p ro v id e s re s i dential, and vo c a tio n a l s e r vices to adults w ith d e v e lo p mental disabili ties. Additional per formances by Jor dan at the Inn are set for Dec. 5-6 United Way raises $11 million Terry Evans at Key Largo Stark Raving Theatre presents the re prise of last season's Christmas hit: It Had To Be You, a lighthearted story of a woman’s quest for love at any cost! Per formances run Dec. 3 through Jan. 3 at the Sanctuary Theatre, 3430 S.E. Belmont. here are several changes taking effect during the next week at Port land International Airport that can make travel through PDX easier during the busy Thanksgiving holiday period. Airport staff are reminding travelers to plan ahead and allow extra time for moving through the airport. The airlines request de parting passengers be at PDX at least one hour ahead of their flight. Persons traveling at busy times who are parking and checking bags should allow two hours. The busiest travel days are expected Io be November 25 and 26 and November 29 to December I with 50,000 or more travelers on the peak days. An average day at PDX has passenger counts of 35,000 Changes lor Thanksgiving Travel Period at PDX Include: The Airport Parking Garage will be par tially open as early as the evening of Novem ber 21 with parking for approximately 3(X) vehicles on levels I and 2. More than 500 spaces have been added to (he Economy Lot, expanding the lot to 7,500 spaces. The combination of the opening ol the garage,expanded Economy Lot and Short- Term Lot ( 1,200 spaces) gives PDX as much parking as it had for the 1996 Thanksgiving travel season. The airport has set up a toll free holiday travel hotline. Call 1-800-938-5167 for parking, ground transportation or holiday travel information. The hotline provides a direct connection to the airport's informa tion and paging staff during business hours (6 a.m. to 11:30 p.m.) and to recorded mes sages during non-business hours. Wheelchair users call battle with Rose Garden a major victory Tom Ciesielski (from left), Jack Benson and Bob Pike at a news conference celebrating judge s ruling upholding American Disabilities Act as it relates to violations in the new Rose Garden. The arena created a "wheelchair ghetto" assigning wheelchair users to a special floor in the nosebleed' section to maximize ambulatory seats in more desirable locations, they said. c o sts. M any c o m p a n ie s finished the c a m paign w ith p o sitiv e results: date L for o u isia n a -P a c ific C o rp o ratio n re a l ized a 90 p ercent in crease in em ployee giving D o u b letree H otel D ow ntow n. M ont gom ery W ard Jan tzen Beach and Mall 205, P ro v id e n c e M edical C e n te r and U nion Bank o f C a lifo rn ia rep resen t just a few com pany cam p aig n s that have in creased em p lo y e e giving by m ore than 50 p ercen t this year. U nited W ay w elcom es several c o m pan ies that ran first-tim e cam p aig n s this y e a r, in c lu d in g A lb in a C o m m u n ity B ank. P a ra m o u n t G ra p h ic s , Paul & C om pany and E icon Af ciates I »
