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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
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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
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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
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Daze (Again), Part II
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