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Page A 6 ïlie ^Jortlanò (l!)bserucr Neighborhood At Odds Over 7-plex enjoying the experience Jeff Moreland, a leader ol the op position. says he would like to see five owner-occupied dwellings on the site He teels there is a dispropor tionate amount of low-income rental housing in Northeast Portland, and especially in the immediate area. “ Is there a need for it?" he says. "A bso lutely. But there’s more of a need lor low-income home ownership oppor tunities." The Sabin CDC proposal is "looking for (zoning) loopholes instead of acknowledging the spirit and good intentions of the Albina ( ’l)NTIXI KII FROM FRONT. can do this whether you like it or not.” ' Neighbor Kenneth Bello added. You have made up your mind al ready, and you're wasting our lime Strachan retorted. "II it was a done deal, why would 1 stand here and take this sxxx for an hour'.’” Ediger later told the ()bserver that Sabin CDC has never before had such a high intensity dispute with neighbors since it was founded by members of the Sabin Community Association in 1993. and that it isn’t Community Plan Ediger says the project is funded by $666.(MM) from the Portland D e velopm ent C om m ission and a p ri vate lender that specifies rental housing She is unsure il there is funding for tire sort of project that M oreland and others want. "The vast m ajority of city funding is for rental housing." she says. "W e try to capture as much I unding tor ow n er-o ccu p ied housing as we can." Securing funds to reconfigure this project will be "a big uphill battle." she says. Neighbors of abused kids to become activists C ontinued classes in parenting or anger man agement. to substance abuse pro grams. "The problem is that there is not enough money for all these things, she said. Solutions to child abuse- need to be a "front-end early preven tion approach” instead ol the "back end that leads to costly incarceration of people.” Asked why surplus state lunds can’t be used for that purpose. Toran said, "The community voice is needed at the state legislature, mostly to pro vide programs of prevention and early intervention, the best ways to keep families functional." Foster care for the children cun be an intermediate step, while the par ents gel their act together, she noted, with adoption kept as a last step to protect the child from front . "It children are bombarded with the negative, they see this as norm a tive behavior," which adds to the problem ol child abuse Pi irtland Observer ot licials agreed about the need for more success sto nes to enthuse people and promised to provide more stories about people who make a difference and people who are overcoming challenges to provide children with a better home and social atmosphere. "Although we work with the whole family, the child is our primary cli ent.'' said Toran, who has headed the slate agency lor more than three years When we become aware of a report that a child is the victim ol abuse and neglect, we make a lull assessment," she said, with common solutions ranging from financial aid. If more quality programs aren't funded or provided soon, she said, there is danger that the children will become greater problems themselves and graduate to the juvenile justice system. That bears a higher cost. The next step up is the adult criminal system with costs ol $40,000 annu ally per person incarcerated, she stressed. Acknowledging the "tear-protec - tion reaction” that causes society’s rush to incarcerate violators. Toran said, "It is a lot easier to put more resources into family and kid pro gram.-. than later putting someone in jail because they hit someone over the head with a baseball bat One Problem with funding is the lack of "outcome data" to under stand how well or poorly our use ot resources is, she said OGcicncc eled to meet M etroLab's needs. The newly remodeled space will be fully occupied and operational by the fol lowing day, January 6. The lab is currently located in the basement of Legacy Emuanuel Hospital At Health Center, 2801 N. Gantenbein Avenue. T om eet strict f ederally-mandated security standards, the entire move has been carefully staged over a 32 hour period. A standard operating procedure, developed to focus on every detail of the move, as well as a copy of the floor plans, were subm it ted for review and approval by the federal Department of Health & Hu man Services, and their licensing arm, Substance Abuse and Mental Health S e rv ic e s A d m in is tra tio n (SAMHSA). The Legacy MetroLab currently performs more than 19.000 drug screen tests a month, up from 8.0(H) tests a month, three years ago. Three hundred sam ples a m onth came through the lab for testi ng three years ago; today, more than 900 samples a day pass through. THE SKY IS THE LIM IT IN CUSTOMER cannot understand today, a hundred and seventy years later than the M as sachusetts concept for both a stan dard curriculum and a related stan dard for the teacher, how there can be those who propose that America can successfully advance and compete in the year 2(KK) - Not without agree ment on the basics." A parent makes a similar poult in her own unique way, "why does the emphasis always seem to be on test ing the students, not on testing teach ers. H aven't we got the -cart-be- fore-the-horse'.” She brusquely re minded me of my similar statements to an urban economics class in the 1970s. At the time I was reciting my experiences in both industry and the classioom with young people from varying demographics and educa tional experiences. Their education reflected related disparities Some readers may recall that in previous years (decades?) I have detailed my administrative experi ences either in on the job training in industry or in urban manpower pro grams (Dept. o f Labor Funded). And I have emphatically called attention to the learning/technology interac tion between the workplace and the technology parameters of industry and governmental agencies; equip ment manufacturers, service indus tries. Bonneville Power, the former U.S. Bureau of Standards. ETC. A decade or more ago I had no difficulty explaining to many par ents and teachers alike how the unique quality of my experience in both industry and the university enabled me to assess and identify the sources of those "related educa tion disparities" to which I have referred. And perhaps 1 should add to this experiential background, more than a year of touring the nation’s schools - public schools as well as universities (Industry de sig n s machines to national stan dards). The task is not that easy anymore (to at least be allowed to explain). The opposition and the ineffective seem entrenched. That parent I just quoted says that not only does her neighbor's kid fail those tests which would indicate that he could read an analog meter that displayed quan tity, quality, weight, etc. - or would indicate he could perform critical operations directed by such com mands as "if thus-and-so. turn clock wise" - but several conversations w ith Ins teachers leaves her alarmed. This leads me back to my fre quent account of my experience before the Oregon State Teacher Practice and standard board when Mayor Verta Katz was chairman of the related Senate Committee. A p a in k ille r c o n ta in e d in Tylenol and som e other over-the- counter brand m edications might lower a w om an's risk o f d ev elo p ing ovarian cancer, according to a new study. R e se a rc h e rs from B o s to n 's Brigham and W om en’s Hospital say the risk of ovarian cancer could be reduced by half for women using acetaminophen. But the researchers, who published their findings this week in the British medical journal The Lancet, said more study was needed to determine whether there really is a protective effect and if so, how it works. “This being the first report of this association, one would have to be very, very cautious." said Dr. Daniel Cramer, who conducted the research with colleagues. The researchers studied the use of over-the-counter painkillers in 563 women from eastern Massachusetts and New Hampshire who had ova rian cancer and 523 healthy women selected from the general popula tion. The researchers found that 8.8 percent of the women from the gen eral population used acetaminophen, compared with 4.6 percent ol the women with ovarian cancer. They calculated that this indicated the risk of ovarian cancer was cut by 50 percent for acetaminophen users. Aside from Tylenol, other pain killers tluit contain acetaminophen include Excedrin. Anacin 3 and Midol. The researchers also found that women who took aspirin had a 25 percent lower incidence of ovarian cancer, but said this difference was not large enough to be statistically significant. C ram er said the study was the first on the effect of acetam inophen on ovarian cancer in hum ans and the figures "jum ped right out" of data the research team is still an a lyzing. Earlier studiesdone in North Caro lina on mice and rats indicated ac etaminophen shrinks healthy ovarian tissues, he said McCOY VILLAGE ERA Problem! *■* "DREAMERS," Some of the Portland O bserver’s readership seemed quite "dazed” by last w eek’s citation of the 170 year-old slate of M assachusetts’ teacher standards for high school instructors "I neverdream ed.w hal in the world has happened to educa tion in this country? asked a local administrator who requested that his name be withheld. I was pretty certain that I would hit a number of raw nerves with that polemic on 'universal or national standards’ ("Quality Control")' be ing a rather obvious prerequisite to developing an orderly and efficient education structure - an approach that is commonsensical by defini tion. This is not the opinion of rocket scientists but that of our readers and that general public with whom, we interact. Isn’t Europe moving to ward a 'uniform currency? An attorney not only adopts my models - "Standard Time Zones, standard prescription labels, uni form widths of railroad tracks for all the state’s” - but states that in the legal profession "we have moved far beyond the earlier advances such as uniform partnership laws, sales acts etc. but have instituted many standard procedures for the federal legal system Our barrister goes on to say. "I (503) 708-5510 1-888-288-5432 Pager 1-800-536-4450 Office 1-360-574-4513 FAX Big House No Problem! Little Hoyse No Problem! a ___ t , You Name It B y P rof . M c K inley B urt Painkiller may lower cancer risk Legacy Drug and Alcohol Lab to Move Under Challenging, Stringent Security T he L eg acy H e a lth S y ste m MetroLab. which provides drug and alcohol testing for clients in the Pa cific Northwest, will be moving un der very challenging conditions set by the federal government, in early January. This move has been long- awaited and consolidates the Legacy MetroLab with the Legacy Health System Central Lab in the former Holiday Park Hospital, located at 1225 NE Second Avenue. Moving began Monday, January 5. at 6 a.m. to space specifically remod Oregon Education Process In A Daze (Again), Part II < I will find that dream ,v house you want In the tijne yovt want at the pri^ttflh J 1 A NEW D ENTA L RESEARCH STUDY AT RUSSELL STREET C L IN IC ARE YOU HIV POSITIVE? O.N.E. Company, Northeast Community Development Corporation (NECDC), Do You Have Tooth Pain? Do You Have These Symptoms? Do you have a persistent tooth ache, intermittent tooth pain, or swelling in your mouth or face? Have you been told your tooth needs a root canal? and the following funders: Portland Development Commission, Bank of America, Enterprise Foundation, Oregon Corporation for Affordable Housing. State Economic Development Department P articipate In A N ew Free Research Study You may qualify to participate iu the Oral Health Enhancement Study being conducted by the Russell Street Dental Clinic, a part of OHSU. Volunteers must be HIV positive, 18 to 65 years of age and have at least 15 teeth invite you to the GRAND OPENING Benefits Participants will receive free root canal treatment, free CD4 counts and viral load blood tests, free check-ups, and $125 for participation. Participants will also be helping to improve the quality of life for people with HIV. For m ore in fo rm a tio n , call: o f the McCoy Village Affordable Housing Units at the corner of Martin Luther King, |r. Blvd. and Prescott. (503) 4 94 -6300 OHM O R IG O N I HEALTH scitNcn Where Healing, flfaebing and Discovery Come Together Saturday February 28, 1998 I lam to 3pm An «inai opportuna). ilhrmaM' irtlon tiMiluunn. Applications now being taken on site.
