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Aumist 12. I99S Committed to cultural diversity, http://www.portlandobserver.net Volume X X V II, Number S4 SECTION ■ ■ ■ ■ ■ M H ZlT n n t n t n u t t u V ia l e tt h a f Paper Arts Festival The Japanese Garden Society is pleased to announce a special Paper Arts Festival event to be presented Sunday, August 16th. This will take place in the Garden Pavilion from 10 AM to 4 PM. This is a fun event for all ages with demonstrations taking place throughout the day and “hands-on” oppor tunities for visitors. Call 223-9233. Lead Testing Did you know that lead is in house paint, water, soil and other things? There will be a free Lead Testing Clinic starting on Au gust 15th on Saturday from 10 AM to 2 PM. It will continue to be the 2nd Saturday o f every month. Any person living in north or northeast Portland with children 6 months to 6 years old are welcome. Chil dren are legally required to be tested for lead if on Medicaid or the Oregon Health Plan. Call 280-1616. MLK Statue On August 28th, exactly thirty-five years to the day o f Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech, the Martin Luther King, Jr. Statue Foundation will dedicate a statue in his memory at the Oregon Con vention Center (OCC) in Portland. “The Dream”, an original sculpture by interna tionally renowned artist, Michael Florin Dente will be dedicated between 6:30 PM and 8 PM at OCC, 777 NE MLK Boule vard on Portland’s eastside in the Lloyd District. Radical Women T ie Freedom Socialist Party and Radi cal Women is holding a weekly study group on Monday nights from 6 - 8 PM. This is a three - month study group that will read the response o f a tum-of-the-century Jewish, socialist feminist to the question: Can capi talism overcome its internal contradictions? - a question still hotly debated today. Call 228-3090. Puppetry in the Parks Look out! Giant puppets are invading the parks. The Puppetry in the Parks Fam ily Arts Encounter is back for the 4th year bringing kids, picnics, and quality outdoor theater to parks around Portland in a magi cal celebration o f summer. By popular demand Dragonmaker is remounting A Bridge o f Feathers for this year’s feature presentation. The next performance is on August 15 at Gabriel Park, 6 PM. S I Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center Names Artistic Director and Associate Director he Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center(IFCC) Board o f Directors has named Judith Yeckel artistic director and Brenda Phillips associate direc tor, Joan Biggs, IFCC president, announced. Roberta Wong will continue to serve as gallery director. The appointments mark the transfer o f management o f the IFCC from Portland Parks & Recreation, which formerly hired and supervised IFCC senior staff, the IFCC board o f directors, which will now hire and administer all IFCC staff. Portland Parks & Recreation, which owns and maintains the historic firehouse in which the IFCC is housed, will continue to provide significant financial and operating support for the organization. Judith Yeckel founded and for ten years served as artistic director o f The Coterie, a children’s theater in Kansas City known for its revolutionary interpretations ofboth clas sic and original works. Yeckel wrote origi nal scripts and directed The Coterie’s pro ductions, including an award-winning pro duction o f To Kill A Mockingbird. Since moving to Portland in 1987, Yeckel has beer, associated with the IFCC in a number o f capacities, including teaching, directing and, most recently, serving as the organization's director o f programs and de velopment. She holds an MF A in directing from the University o f Missouri at Kansas City, and a BA in theatre from Mount Holyoke. Brenda Phillips is well known to Portland audiences for her roles in The Colored Mu- Judith Yeckel, Artistic Director (L) and Brenda Phillips, Associate Director (R). seum(IFCC, 1989& 1992), A...My Name Is Alice and The Little Foxes (Portland Reper vival o f For C olored G irls W ho Have in New Y ork, w here she appeared in tory Theatre), and A Raisin In the Sun (New C onsidered Suicide W hen The R ain Bessie Sm ith: Em press O f The Blues Rose Theatre); as well as her direction o f bow Is E nuf (N ew Federal T heatre) un (Frank Silvera theatre). Brown W omen Flyin' West (Oregon Stage Company at der the direction o f playw right N tozake Who Fly (B illie H olliday Theatre), and IFCC, 1996). Shange. in the 20th anniversary Broadw ay re She returns to Portland after five years T Dedication and Open House Celebrate Northeast Health Center Renovation Project Green Purse XnrihcuM llc.ihh i einer The Everywoman’s Money Conference will be in town on September 14th, starting at 8:15 AM to 6:30 PM at the Convention Center. There is no charge for the event. Pre-registration is required. The vision and personal story o f Oregon State Treasurer Jim Hill is the catalyst behind this history making event. Call (888) 612-8249. Xfiihi* Mltnrul viiksen it House of Portland j Our House o f Portland presents the 6th annual Dinner at My House for Our House dinner series. Featuring fascinating dinner hosts, gourmet meals, exclusivesettings, cre ative themes and most of all, fun and interest- I ing dinner guests. 1998's theme is “Food for the Body Food for the Soul” dinner series events will begin in September and continue through December. Call 736-9276. i Pediatric Allergy i Healthy Chats are educational talks by OHSU health care experts hosted by the university’s community health care cen ters. Chats are free and open to the public. On Wednesday, August 19th. Dr. Stephen I Tilles will discuss advances in the treat ment o f pediatric allergies, including asthma, allergic rhinitis and food allergies. The event will be held at Doembecher I Pediatrics Practice. Call 418-5000. Mall Walking Enjoy the benefits o f walking in a safe, convenient and weatherproofenvironment. Adventist Health is a sponsor o f LifeWalk at Mall 205, a loosely structured program that allows you to walk at your own pace inside the mall while tracking your progress. Registered walkers receive a water bottle, map and mileage log, and are eligible for bi-weekly prize drawings. Call 255-5805. Beverly Stein special open house celebrat ing the incredible renovation o f M u ltn o m a h C o u n ty ’s N ortheast H ealth C enter happened on A ugust 5 from 11:00 am to 2:00 pm at 5329 NE M artin L uther King Jr. Blvd. The entitle com m unity was invited to share in the m ultitude o f events planned for adults and children. M ultnom ah C ounty chair Bev Stein (L-R) Theresa Williams-Stoudamire, Dir of the NE Health Center, and Shirley and noted artist A drienne Cruz w ere only Graham prepare for the dedication of the center celebration o f it's renovation. a few o f the many dignitaries to be on (Photo by Larry J. Jackson Sr.) hand to greet the public. The dedication the Healthy Birth Initiatives program . As our clients or our programs. Now w e’ve was scheduled from noon to 12:30 pm, a result o f the extensive renovation, ser not only increased our efficiency, but we public tours w ere given from 12:30 to vices are now located on both the first have a great looking building as well. We 2:00 pm. and second floors o f the building. have to com pete with the private sector Festivities began at 11 am and w ere The W alnut Park building also houses and we fell that the renovation gives us a enhanced by a variety o f m ulticultural a num ber o f im portant program s under com petitive edge." she said. entainm ent and refreshm ents were served. the A ging S ervices D ivision. N ortheast The N ortheast Health C enter is located A driene Cruz, the artist selected to M ulticultural Senior Services C enter op in the south end o f the W ainut Park Build enhance the building’s exterior is a n a erated by the U rban L eague is located in ing. It is a full service County health tionally known quiltm aker and has exhib the building as well as Loaves and Fishes/ facility serving over 12,000 clients annu ited her exceptional quilts throughout the M eals on W heels. T ri-M et provides a ally. It includes a medical clinic, dental U.S. and Brazil. lift program and Legal Aid S ervices o f clinic, tw o field services units o f com m u A c c o rd in g to T h e r e s a W illia m s fers assistance. The Y ellow B icycle nity health nurses who provide visits to Stoudam ire, the c lin ic ’s director, the program had sp a c e d o n a te d by the the home. WIC supplem ental food pro building was badly run down and d ilapi County. gram , pharm acy, optom etry services and dated. "T he layout w asn’t efficient for A » t Light rail meets community needs, but questions remain B y L ee P erlman Tri-M et, M etro and the city have made most decisions about how, when and with what funds a proposed south-north light rail line will be built. In north portland, however, there are still a few unknowns, and the uncertainties are more o f a problem than any decision that could be made, say local leaders. For the most part the current plan, re cently approved by the Metro Council, the Portland City Council and other local ju risdictions, was a series of careful compro mises between cost savings and benefits to local communities. For instance, a three-level station in the Rose Quarter com bining both light rail lines and local buses was scrapped for economic reasons. Elsewhere: *The line will cross the W illlamette River south o f downtown via a new bridge near Southeast Caruthers Street, serving the Oregon Museum o f Science and Industry and the Brooklyn neighborhood. An alter native would have crossed further south, across Ross Island, and served the pro posed N orth M acadam developm ent, a planned com m unity o f up to 5,000 resi dences. ♦It will proceed through downtown along the Southwest Fifth and Sixth avenue Tran sit M all, have a stop at Union Station, and cross back to the east side over the Steel Bridge. An alternative, using the existing MAX line, would have left the growing River D istrict underserved, but saved $73 million. Some downtown businesses and transit advocates had called for using other streets, saying the line would overburden the mall. ♦In the Eliot segment, north o f the Rose Q uarter, the line will hug the east side o f the 1-5 Freeway, with a bridge over N orth east Broadway, then switch to North Flint Avenue and a station at N ortheast Russell Street. The route is a com bination o f two earlier proposals. One was favored by the Trail Blazers and Lloyd D istrict com m u nity because it w ould be less disruptive to traffic, the other by the Eliot N eighbor hood A ssociation because its Flint-Russell station would give the best service to that com m unity. The hybrid route is midway betw een the two alternatives in terms o f cost. However, it maximizes the amount o f private property that will have to be taken, to the dism ay o f some housing and historic preservation advocates. ♦North Portland had one o f the most important route choices: through North In terstate Avenue, or along the west side o f the 1-5 Freeway (a faster and $44 million cheaper choice, but less attractive to rider ship.) The chosen route will hug 1-5 part o f the way, then switch over to Interstate som ew here north o f North Killingsworth Street and go through downtown Kenton. T he c ro sso v e r co u ld o c c u r at N orth Ainsworth Street or Portland Boulevard. Earlier in the process, planners looked at routes along N ortheast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, and one that stayed on the east side w ithout going downtown at all. The MLK route was abandoned be cause it would have required removing all buildings along one side o f the street. An all-east side route would be faster and cheaper, but w ould not function for down- tow n-bound riders, who w ould be most o f the passengers, planners concluded. One o f the biggest cost com prom ises is the tim ing o f the construction. Plans call for first building from M ilw aukie to the Rose Quarter, then extending the line south and north to C lackam as Town Center and M ilwaukie, then finally to O regon City and V ancouver. This could change depends on when and if funding is secured, including a $475 m illion bond Tri-M et will bring to voters in November.
