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Milwaukie Resident
Wins $1.25 Million
Megabucks Jackpot
M ILW A U K IE-M ichael A volio is
th e O re g o n L o tte r y ’s la te s t
M egabucksjackpot winner afterclaim-
ing the $1.25 m illion prize from the
M arch 13, draw ing. A volio claim ed
his prize, $625,000before federal and
state taxes were w ithheld, at Lottery
headquarters in Salem on M arch 15,
A volio, ofM ilw aukie, m atched all six
num bers, and becam e the biggest o f
4,639 M egabucks winners from the
March 13, drawing. The winning num
bers w ere 1-5-11-29-30-33. The w in
ning ticket was purchased at Plaid
Pantry #177, 17250 SE M cLoughlin
Blvd., in Milwaukie.
M egabucks players m ust choose
one o f tw o ja ck p o t paym ents plans
w hen purchasing their tickets. The
“ O riginal P lan” provides the w inner
w ith 20 equal annual paym ents, and
the “ Investm ent Plan” provides the
w inner with one single paym ent equal
to o n e-h a lf the advertised jack p o t
am ount. W hen purchasing his ticket,
A volio chose the “O riginal Plan."
L ottery now has adopted a tem po
rary rule that provides M egabucks
ja c k p o t w in n ers w ho c h o se the
“O riginal P lan” at the tim e o f p u r
chase, the option o f changing to the
"Investm ent Plan” w hen they claim
their prize. A volio decided to change
to the “ Investm en t P lan” option,
w hich resulted in his one tim e p ay
m ent o f $625,000, before taxes.
A volio knew he held the w inning
ticket w hen he ch ecked the w inning
num bers in the new spaper the day
afte r the draw ing. H e ’d recently
purchased a new gun safe for his
hom e, and im m ed iately p laced his
w inning tick et inside. L ater in the
day a couple o f friends sto p p ed by,
and w anted to view th e w inning
ticket. T h eo n ly p ro b lem w as, A volio
co u ld n ’t get the safe open. A fter
trying a n u m b er o f tim es he called
the com p an y that so ld him the safe.
They sent som eone over, and A volio
w as sim ply ro tatin g the s a fe ’s dial
the w rong way.
A volio plans to invest his prize
money at this time, allow ing it to work
for him as he plans his future.
Since April 1985, m ore than $4.5
billion in prizes have been paid to
O regon Lottery players and over $2
billion has been provided for eco
nomic developm ent, jo b creation and
education in Oregon.
Kandis Brewer Nunn Joins Housing
Authority of Portland Board
The Housing Authority o f Portland
(HAP) welcomes new com m issioner
Kandis Brew er Nunn. Appointed to
the Board o f Com m issioners by Port
land M ayor Vera Katz, Nunn will work
actively on the com m ission as a repre
sentative o f the City o f Portland.
"Kandis has been a consultant for us
on communication issues in the past
and has demonstrated a deep under
standing o f what we can and should do
and also a broad understanding o f what
this means to the community,” said
Denny West, HAP Executive Director.
“She is accustomed to giving people
advice in an effective way. She has a
strong sense o f the larger community
and experience in helping organizations
like HAP keep it's healthy.”
Nunn is the principal o f Strategic Re
sources, LLC, providing counsel toorga-
nizations with marketing, issues man
agement and professional development
needs. As a consultant, Nunn works
with a vanety o f agenc ies and businesses
April 7, 1999
on communication and public relations
planning and implementation. She also
works with clients to resolve transition
and crisis management issues.
In other community activities, Nunn
is chair o f the O regon Entrepreneurs
Forum, member and former boardmem-
ber o f the Public Relations Society o f
A m erica, board m em ber o f the C iti
zens Crim e Com m ission, past local
officer and national taskforce chair o f
w om en in Com m unications, Inc. and
founder and chair o f the A m bassa
dors Public Relations Network.
“People simply can ’t be effective in
their jobs, or their children in the class
room, if they lack a safe and affordable
place to live,” said Nunn. “It is one o f
the basics o f a top priority that we, as
a collective, need to address.
Nunn replacesJulieSterlingwho served
on the Board on two different occasions
for a penod o f close to eight years.
The Housing Authority o f Portland
provides affordable housing services for
over 20,000 low income and a very low
income people throughout Multnomah
County, and its commissioners are repre
sentative o f
the county.
The C om
mission in
cludes one
HAP resi
dent co m
m issioner,
tw o
ap
pointments
by request
of
the
Multnomah
County Chair, two appointments by re
quest o f the Mayor o f Gresham and four
Portland-area appointments. All com
missioners are appointed by the Mayor
o f Portland and approved by the Port-
landCityCouncil.
For m ore inform ation, please con
tact HAP Public A ffairs Coordinator
Joleen Colom bo at 802-8521.
OLCC Requests Dates of High
School Proms, and Graduations
To m any high school seniors,
“getting-dow n" and partying with
classmates and friends after a prom or
graduation cerem ony is as im portant
as the actual dance and com m ence
ment itself.
The Oregon L îquor C ontrol Com-
mission realizes that young people
will celebrate these festive times, but
doing so w ith o u t alco h o l is the
agency’s goal.
“Our goal is to make the unofficial
celebrations alcohol-free,” said Gary
McGrew, deputy director o fO L C C ’s
regulatory field operations.
“The O LCC is trying to prevent
students from starting their sum m er
vacation with a m inor in possession
or driving under the influence charge,
or even w orse a drastic injury or
death,” M cG rew said.
To com bat that problem o f under
age drinking this tim e o f year, the
OLCC collects the dates o f Oregon
High School prom s and graduations
to share w ith local law enforcem ent
agencies and m ajor hotels. Last year
the OLCC obtained the dates o f more
than 260 graduations and proms. The
dates are crucial to the OLCC in deter
mining when there may be parties
involving young people and alcohol.
“ W hen w e leam about a private
party involving m inors and alcohol,
our sta ff w ill try to stop the party
before it evens starts,” M cG rew ex
plained. "W e inform the sponsors
or property ow ner that O regon law
does not allow anyone but a parent
or guardian to m ake alcohol avail
able to a m inor.”
O reg o n law s also states that
ow ner’s o f property where such par
ties take place are legally responsible
and subject to having their property
confiscated as well as faces a sub
stantial fine. A nother law makes it
illegal for the person in control o f a
house; apartm ent or other property
to knowongly allows a mm or to drink
alcohol on the property. McGrew
w arned that parents who hold alco
hol parties for minors are subject to
crim inal charges and civil liability.
“Keep all parties involving minors
alcohol free,” he urged. The OLCC
has enlisted the cooperation o f O r
egon beer w holesalers to help pre
vent keg sales o fb ee r to minors. The
agency requests w holesalers to tell
custom ers about the penalties for
furnishing alcohol to minors. The
m inim um fine for furnishing is $350.
W holesalers are also asked to report
any sale o f a large num ber o f kegs to
one buyer to the OLCC.
A nyone with inform ation about
party plans involving m inors and al
cohol is encouraged to call the OLCC
toll free, 1 -800-452-6522, or the local
$ 1 5 5 ,0 0 0 Ford
Foundation Grant
The Ford Foundation has awarded
$ 155,000 to Penn State for the confer
ence and festival titled A gainst all
Odds: African Languages and Litera
tures into the 21st Century, planned
for Jan. 11 -17,2000, in Asmara, Eritrea,
in northeastern Africa.
The conference and festival will
recognize the achievements o f Afri
can languages and literatures in the
20,h century and prom ote their contin
ued growth and developm ent into the
21s' century. Dr. Charles Cantalupo,
professor o f English at Penn State,
said. He conceived the idea for this
project and is an organizer.
As he explains, “A renaissance is
taking place in A frica today. A ndlike
the European Renaissance that pre
ceded it by som e 400 years, the A fri
can Renaissance is going to be led by
scholars w ho are w riting in their own
languages. In doing so, they will be
engaging in a verbal tradition that
includes more than 1,000 African lan
guages and dates back over the course
o f a millennium .This conference and
festival will recognize the rebirth o f
African languages and literatures."
To find out m ore about Against
A ll O d d s, c o n ta c t D e b o ra h a.
Benedetti-814-238-4895
O LCC office. (See local OLCC con
tract person listed below.)
In Oregon
N o one other than the person’s
parent or guardian can provide alco
hol to a person under the age o f 21.
N o person in control o f private
property can allow a person under 21,
who is not a childor ward o f the person
in control, to drink alcohol on the
property or to remain on the property.
It is illegal for a m inor to m isrep
resent their age and to m isrepresent
their age to buy alcohol. The lic
ensee or alcohol server to recover
dam ages m ay sue a m inor w ho m is
represents their age to anyone li
censed by the OLCC.
You are liable for damages incurred
or caused by intoxicated guests away
from your home, if you serve alcohol
to the guest in your hom e and the
guest was visibly intoxicated.
If you provide alcohol to minors
who are guests in your home, you are
liable for injuries caused by the minor.
Y our room, house, building, boat,
structure or place o f any kind where
alcohol is provided or sold to minors
is subject to confiscation. The alco
hol and other property including bars,
glasses, chairs, tables, music devices,
furniture, equipm ent may also be
confiscated.
Happy
Birthday
Trey Washington
Me Lave You
Friends of Trees
Celebrates Community
Tree Planting
• Earth Day Celebration Set for
Thursday, April 22, 1 9 9 9 at
Sellwood Park
M ore than 200 students will join
Friends o f Trees and its public and
private sector sponsors to celebrate
Earth Day on Thursday, April 22 from
9am untiIN oonatSellw oodPark. This
will be a special planting project where
trees will be planted at Sellw ood Park,
Sellwood Riverfront Park and Oaks
Bottom W ildlife Refuge. Theplanting
will be followed by a BBQ lunch pro
vided by N atures Fresh Northwest.
Earth D ay is the culm ination o f
year 3 o f Seed the Future, Friends o f
Trees five-year cam paign to restore
our urban forest. Seed the Future is
the region’s largest urban tree plant
ing cam paign in history involving
thousands o f volu n teers to plant
144,000 trees and seedl ings by 2001.
Fnends o f Tree will announce the
accom plishm ents for Y ear 3 and its
goals for Y ear 4 o f the campaign.
Earth Day will also mark the plant
ing o f the 100.000"1 tree by Friends o f
Trees since its inception in 1989.
O n Earth Day, approxim ately 200
native trees w ill be p lan ted in O aks
B ottom W ild life R efuge, 6 large
trees in S ellw o o d Park an d 9 larg e
trees in S ellw o o d R iv erfro n t Park.
T h e re w ill also be e d u c a tio n a l
b o o th s h ig h lig h tin g w etlan d e c o l
ogy and urban refo restatio n as w ell
as re p re se n ta tiv e s from sp o n so r
ing o rg an iz atio n s such as P o rtlan d
G en eral E lectric, N a tu re ’s F resh
N o rth w e st and others.
T here w ill be a short program
before the p lan tin g begins. Invited
speakers include M ayor V era K atz,
G ov ern o r John K itzhaber and P ort
land Public Schools S uperintendent
B en C anada.
W ith the year 2001 and the con
clusion o f Seed the Future rapidly
approaching. Friends o fT re es is en
couraging neighborhoods to get in
volved now to plan com m unity tree
planting projects w hile th ere’s still
tim e to jo in this historic campaign.
The P ortland area is losing m any
o f its stately, old trees to age, d is
ease, urban grow th and w eather.
Friends o f T r e e s are involving the
com m unity to plant trees for future
generations. Friends o fT re e s ' Seed
the Future cam paign is a unique part
nership w ith business, public ag en
cies and com m unity volunteers to
plant 144,000 trees and seedlings by
the year 2001.
Seed the Future is supported by
Presenting Sponsor Portland G en
eral Electric, M ajor Sponsor Bank o f
A m erica, Co-Sponsors Fred M eyer,
Rosie 105, The Oregonian and Public
A gency Co-Sponsors Portland Parks
and R ecreation and C ity o f Portland
Bureau o f Environm ental Services.
Stop The Spread of Herpes
S topping the spread o f genital
herpes, acco rd in g to the N ew E n
gland Journal o f M edicine, is p a r
ticu larly u rg en t given the role o f
h erpes in facilitatin g H IV tran sm is
sion. T he latest d ata reveal a one in
five prev alen ce am ong peo p le age
12 and o v er in the U nited S tates,
representing an increase o f 30% over
the last tw o decades. P articu larly
h ard hit in the herpes epidem ic are
A frican A m ericans, w ith nearly a
46% prevalence. C learly, concerted
p revention effo rts are badly needed.
Beginning April, 1,1999, the Ameri
c a n S o c ia l H e a lth A s s o c ia tio n
(ASH A), the n ation's prem iere non
profit STD prevention organization,
will launch a media-centered campaign
for N ational STD A w areness M onth
to stem the tide o f genital herpes in
America. A report o f the latest preva
lence statistics published in late 1998
by ASHA with the Kaiser Family Foun
dation established further justifica-
tion for a focused herpes cam paign,
finding that approxim ately 45 million
A m ericans are currently living with
the virus.
Stop the Spread o f Herpes has the
follow ing com ponents:
The slogan: “ Herpes. Spread the
W ord. Not the Virus ”;
A series o f five radio public ser
vice announcem ents (PSAs) in ; 15,
: 30, and : 60 formats to be broadcast in
three roll-out cities beginning April 1,
1999;
Initial roll-out cities o fN ew York
City, W ashington, DC, and Raleigh/
Durham, NC;
• The results o f a Y ankelovich tele
phone survey o f 1,000 individuals
assessing herpes know ledge, atti
tudes and beliefs in the US;
Y ankelovich study results o f an
over 500 sam pling o f African A m eri
ca n s;
T h e Genital Herpes Quiz (3 primer
m edia questions derived from the
Y ankelovich study);
A m edia tour o f radio, print and
television news launching April 1,1999
and featuring ASHA President, Linda
L. A lexander, PhD, FAAN;
■A new toll-free telephone num ber
for herpes-specific inform ation and
counseling: 1-877-411-HERPES;
The availability o f several ASH A-
approved and nationally recognized
patient- and provider-onented print
materials on genital herpes (via the
same toll-free number); and
Several additional campaign com
p o n e n ts— u p o n fu n d in g p ro c u re
m ent-are planned, including a televi
sion feature and PSA, purchased air
time for both radio and television,
posters, billboards, transit boards and
an enhanced herpes w ebsite.
For further inform ation, contact
A llison W nght Kalloo, D irector o f
P u b lic
R e la tio n s :
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allkal(<tashastd,org; phone 919-361-
8416;fax9l9-361-8425
CAREER OPPORTUNITIES
IN APPRENTICESHIP
Are you interested in a FUTURE in the Piping Trades?
U A Local 290 will be accepting applications for
Metal Trade Pipefitters Apprentices
WHEN:
MONDAY, April 19 through FRIDAY, April 30, 1999.
9am - 4pm weekdays
WHERE:
Apply in person: U A. Local 290 Training Center, 20220
SW Teton Avenue, Tualatin, Oregon 97062; 691-1997.
AGE;
Must be at least 18 years old (proof required - non-
returnable copy of birth certificate, or current driver’s
license)
REQUIREMENTS: High school graduate with C average or better QR
GED with minimum 255 total score; AND C or better in
one year high school algebra. Official transcripts are
required and must be mailed directly from the
institution to Local 290 Training Center before
May 7, 1999.
NOTICE OF NON-DISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS
The United Association Local 290 Apprenticeship and Journeymen Training
Trust Fund admits students of any gender, race, color, national and ethnic
origin to all rights, privileges, programs and activities generally accorded or
made available to apprentices at the school. It does not discriminate on the
basis of gender, race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of
its apprenticeship policies, admission policies and other Trust-administered
programs.
Matt Walters, Business Manager