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If f - I T | / | r f T I T I — - ■(■■Beaab .*»«’ 4 **'* FEBRUARY 3, 1999 Committed to cultural diversi^, http://www.portlandobserver.net Volume XX V I111, Number Black History Month McMenamins Kennedy School The Mystical Temples along the Nile The school is host o f 9th Annual Festival o f African Film BI LK RATE l .s. POSTAGI PAID PORTLAND, OR PERMIT NO. 1610 L See Metro, Section B See Black History Month University o f Oregon Knight Library Newspaper Section Hugene OR 97403 Bowman to Receive Elite Leadership Award m essage to staff. “W e continue w ith major Kay Toran, the state’s child protective changes that better serve the needs o f our services d irector since M ay 1994, an children and fam ilies.” nounced M onday she plans to retire at the Toran, 56, was chosen recently to receive end o f February. the U rban League o f Portland’s Equal O p Toran, w ho joined state governm ent as a portunity A w ard for 1999, w hich will be Portland State U niversity assistant profes presented in M arch. D onna Shalala, federal sor o f social work, said she plans to pursue health and hum an services secretary, last personal projects. She said she w ants to sum m er nam ed T oran to a national advisory w rite books, and she is expected to con panel on kinship care. tinue w orking with SCF through the bal Toran w as nam ed adm inistrator o f the ance o f the 1999 legislative session. O ld C h ild ren ’s Services D ivision in May “ K ay’s unselfish and energetic com m it 1994, and becam e director o f the State O f m ent to the welfare o f abused and ne fice for Services to Children and Fam ilies glected children means O regon’s kids are after the d ivision’s nam e and duties changed better o ff than they w ere five years ago," fo llo w in g th e s a id G ary “Kay *s unselfish and energetic 1995 legislative W eeks, d i session. commitment to the welfare o f abused rector o f the Toran holds a O reg o n D e and neglected children means m aster’s degree p a rtm e n t o f Oregon ’ s kids are better off than they in so c ial w ork H u m an R e fro m P o rtla nd sources. "B e were five years ago. ” State University cause of ----------- and a b ach elo r’s degree from the U niversity K ay’s O regon experience and expertise, I o f Portland. am asking her to w ork with us through the SCF has a 1997-99 budget o f nearly $455 end o f the legislative session.” m illion and a statew ide sta ff o f about 1,580. W eeks said a decision about selecting a K ay T o ran ’s Personal C om m ents to the successor will be made in the com ing weeks. Portland O bserver: "I leave the agency with During her nearly five years as the state ’ s m ixed feelings. Those o f sadness for a staff top child-protective services adm inistra that has becom e m uch like family to me - tor, T oran’s achievem ents included dra but w ith pleasure in the accom plishm ents m atically increasing adoption o f foster w hich the departm ent has m ade in creating a children into perm anent fam ilies; devel safety net for our m ost valued resources, oping com m unity safety nets in local com 'our children'. I will always be an advocate for m unities to serve children and teens who the protection and nurturing o f the children are at risk o f being abused; im proving the o f Oregon. 1 truly appreciate the support I d iv isio n ’s response to reports o f child have received over the years, that has al abuse and neglect; and strengthening fam i lowed m e to place our children higher on the lies so children in state custody can be conscience agenda o f all O regonians. " returned to their biological parents. “ SCF has m ade trem endous strides over the last few years," Toran said M onday in a B i L ee Pt reman he once-stro n g relatio n sh ip be tw een the B oise N eighborhood A sso c ia tio n an d H o u sin g O ur Fam ilies have undergone a drastic deterio ration in recent years. This w as revealed m ost dram atically by the n eig hborhood’s reaction to the non profit agen cy ’s latest project, the Fargo S treet R ow houses, a 10-unit developm ent on a vacant 19,000 square foot lot at N orth Fargo Street and K erby A venue, im m edi ately south o f B oise-E liot School. The three and four-bedroom units are designed by architects Jim and M artha A ndrew s, w ould be built by T hom as D. W alsh, and rented by H O F to fam ilies earning 60 percent o f m edian income. B oise has challenged the project. No land use approvals are involved, but it is receiving $361,000 in federal funds, and B oise has convinced the federal D epart m ent o f H ousing and U rban D evelopm ent, and the Portland Bureau o f H ousing and C om m unity D evelopm ent, to put a tem po rary hold on the money. B o ise’s o b jectio n s are tw o-fold: that T S ee M ore K ay T oran on page A 8 the neighborhood already has m ore than its share o f subsidized housing projects; and that B oise does not trust H O F to m anage the p roject w ell, based on its recent track record elsew here. The second w ould have been unthinkable tw o years ago. H O F, run by and for w om en, o n c e h o ste d B o ise m e e tin g s. Its first project, the rehabilitation o f a fourplex, w as in B oise and nam ed after longtim e B oise leader V esia Loving. It w as h ailed as a savior for turning around the d ru g -in fested C olonial A partm ents (now the M aya A ngelou apartm ents). T he tw o g roups have particip ated together in several co m m u nity betterm en t projects, including rev ital ization o f N orth M ississippi A venue. Boise leaders p articip ated in the d edication o f the flagship B etty C am pbell B uilding on N orth M ississip p i A v en u e and S h av er S treet, w hich houses the ag en cy ’s offices. M ore recently, how ever, there have been com plaints o f drug dealing in both the Betty C am pbell and M aya A ngelou. A cting d irec tor B arbara W ilier says it took tim e to legally evict a problem tenant from the Betty C am pbell, and there has been trouble $1.7 Trillion Budge? President Clinton w ill soon release hb $1.7 trillion Federal budget blueprint fix the year 2000. Under this new plan, he hopes to win die bi-partisan support. His proposal will appeal to liberal and middle-class constituencies with his domestic programs and Republicans with an increase in spending on the military, local police and small businesses. Calling On Wltneseee House prosecutors in the Senate announced their brief list o f potential witnesses. The three main ones are Monica S. Lewinsky; Vernon Jordan, die Washington lawyer who sought a job as Ms. Lewinsky, and Sidney Blumenthal, -•> State Representan veJo AnnB<Twman was named to the 1999 class o f Fellows at the Flemming Fellows 1 cadetship Institute, the Center for Policy Alternaos es recently announced. Representative Bowman joins a diverse group o f state legislators from across the country who were chosen tor their leadership, dedication to public life and civil ser- \ice and con am tn lent to making go vemment “part o f the solution" to challenges facing our society . ■ This F ellowship is designed to help stateelected officials leam to find common ground with un likely allies in order to make government work,” said Institute Director J. Wesley W atkins. ‘These are leaders who will continue to have a significant impart on ™ibh - nolicv in their official and private lives.” This is die fifth class o f Flemming Fellows. Fellows participate in a series o f retreats held throughout the year, at which they attend seminars encouraging creative and progressive problem solving strategies that can be implemented effec tively in their districts. Participants focus on how to develop a public decision-making process, what role government can effectively play in this pro cess and how public leaders can help build and act on public consensus on policy issues. Kay Toran, Director of the state office for Services to Children & Families locating the source o f the problem at the M aya Angelou. She readily adm its that "com m unication has broken dow n" betw een her A » % s i? <E«5B T N \ ) A GANTENBEIN j --------- y- ----------- ___ L I Tl <8 - VANCOUVER W IL L IA M S X z agency and the Boise Association. B oise co-chair Chris Brow n is not satis fied w ith this explaination. “ T he lock on the front door was broken for six m onths,” he says. “ People were throw ing drugs dow n from upstairs w indow s, it n r” to » !» »e 0 5 ÖL ÎT L < Jr BLVE w as so blatant." C ontinued T o page A 8 a White House adviser to whom Clinton gave a false account o f die relationship. The wit nesses would first testify in private with law yers before appearing in public. Presidential Apology White House lawyers issued a statement o f regret to Monica Lewinsky from die President for the disruption to her life and to her family. Nicole K . Seligman read her an apology for her ordeal act ass a year o f investigations. For four hours, Lewinsky underwent questioning before a group o f Prosecutors at the 10* floor Presidential Suite o f the Mayflower Hotel about her alleged affiur with Bill Clinton. •» * * * * •!•* * • Airlines Raising Faroe Large domestic aHhnes, industrywide raised their fines again. There has not been an across- the-board increase smee 1997. Usually, fares have just risen on individual routes. The new rate increase is expected to bolster industry revenue by 1.5 percent this year. Time Warner Joins AT&T A T & T Corp, and Time Warner Inc. joined forces to sell local telephone service over Time Warner’s Minions o f cable television lines. This new venture oouid provide con sumers with a good aheraative to die Baby Bells and G TE Corporation within a few years. Through this deal, A T & T i ‘ “ Chimpanzee AIDS Carriers A n international team o f scientists traced the origin o f the A ID S virus to a subspecies o f Chimpanzees in A fric a . that the was closely ► H IV -1 , the type o f A ID S vires worldwide, no« 30 m illion people w ith ■ft to resi« the A ID S virus w hile the