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Emmanuel Temple Creates
Landmark Expansion
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Michigan and Sumner) fhe $3.5 million
fter 20 years of careful visioning
facility encompasses an entire block and
and planning. Pastor Bishop
reflects his holistic, multi dimensional ap
A.A.Wells is manifesting his
proach to serving the community. By de
dream o f building a new
sign, the building will contain a sanctuary'
Emmanuel Temple Full Gospel Pentecostal
to hold 1300 people with an adjacent nurs-
Church in North Portland (on the comer of
ery, school campus, office rooms, banquet
hall with large kitchen, community out
reach and health care center. Phase I o f the
plan which involves the erection o f the
education and administration wing is near
completion.
Moscow Building
Explosion
At least 23 people have died and
dozens more feared dead in a bomb
explosion that pulverized an eight-
story apartment building in Mos
cow. Local officials said that the
blast was a terrorist act and was
caused by a gas leak or explosives
possibly stored in the building.
More than 200 people have died in
explosions in Russia during the past
two weeks.
East Timor
Evacuation
The United Nations postponed
the withdrawal o f local and inter
national U.N. staff from Dili de
spite an escalation o f violence in
the area. A bout 2 ,0 0 0 E ast
Timorese had taken refuge on the
compound. The United States has
no plans to contribute to any peace
keeping force for Indonesia.
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Earthquake in
Greece
127 people were killed in the
deadliest earthquake to hit Greece
in more than 40 years. The death
toll from the damage is expected to
climb to 140 with 13 people miss
ing and presumed dead.
Rwandan Bishop
Goes on Trial
Augustin Misago will be the first
Catholic bishop to go on trial for
genocide. He was accused o f par
ticipating in the murder o f half a
million Tutsis in Rwanda that was
led by an extremist Hutu govern
ment between April and July 1994.
Gun Buyback Offer
A $15 m illion federal gun
buyback plan by President Clinton
will get guns o ff the streets by
giving local police departments up
to $500,000 to buy guns in and
around public housing projects for
a “suggested price” o f $50. The
guns will be destroyed, the White
House said.
Global Y2K
Readiness
The International Civil Avia
tion Organization, a U.N.-based
group that sets international flight
standards, determined that 53 coun
tries had still not responded to a
survey o f their airport and airline
readiness for the Year 2000 com
puter problem. The organization
had asked its 185 members to re
spond by July 1.
T he P ortland O bserver offers
It’s sincere apology to Greg
Ely for the omission of his
photo credit for the photo
“M A ZE ” published In our
9 / 8 / 9 9 Issue.
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Local Kid
Makes Acting
Debut!
ocal actor, Edward Elias Jemar
Mashia, was selected to portray
“Jackie" in the 20th Century Fox
production. Navy Diver, currently filming
in Portland, Oregon and surrounding areas.
Navy Diver, starring Robert DeNiro and
Cuba Gooding, Jr. is the story of Carl
Brashear, the first African-American Navy
Diver. The role of “Jackie," the son of Carl
Brashear, is the youngest principal role in
the film and is featured in a pivotal court
room scene with DeNiro, Gooding, Charlize
Theron, and Aunjannue Ellis. Navy Diver is
directed by George Tillman. Jr. (Soul Food).
Edward has expressed interest in the
entertainment industry when he decided
he wanted to be the next Macaulay Culkin
after watching Home Alone 2; Lost in
New York. Edward is also featured in a
Fred Meyer Back to School television
commercial currently airing. He has par
ticipated in the Portland Actors Conser
vatory Summer on Stage program and
theatrical courses through the City of Port
land, Parks and Recreation. Edward, age
10, is a 5th grader at Richmond Elemen
tary School, where he has been learning to
read, speak, and write Japanese in the
school’s Japanese Language Immersion
Program for the past five years. He is
looking forward to the school’s annual
5th grade trip to Japan next summer. Ed
ward enjoys watching television, playing
the piano, basketball, and riding bikes.
include
Edward is represented by Brown Sugar
Jumah
& Spice Talent Management. Other talent
Leisha
from Brown Sugar & Spice Talent Man
Nathan
agement with extras role in Navy Diver
Florida Braces
for Hurricane
Floyd
Residents Told To Evacuate As Hurricane
Approaches With 150 Mph Winds
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William Hunter, Adrian Mashia,
Fahnbulleh, Kamana Caldwell,
Jackson. Cynthia Brooks, and
Hamilton.
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MIAMI (Sept. 14) - Authorities
urged nearly 2 million people to evacu
ate coastal areas stretching from Florida
to North Carolina today as Hurricane
Floyd, one o f the most powerful storms
to ever threaten the United States,
roared through the Bahamas.
Floyd’s eye was expected to pass
within 90 miles o f southern Florida
today, and perhaps come within 50
m iles o f north F lo rid a's coast by
Wednesday morning, before striking
land somewhere farther north.
• ’If this thing parallels us, it could act
like a weedeater going up the coast,”
said Craig Fugate of the Florida Emer
gency Operations Center in Tallahassee.
” It’s going to be pretty devastating.”
Floyd’s top sustained wind eased
slightly this morning to 145 mph - mak
ing it a Category 4 storm, the second
most powerful designation for a hurri
cane - but forecasters said fluctuations in
speed were expected. It would reach cat
egory 5 if wind speed reached 156 mph
Storm surges in the Bahamas were
reported at 20 feet above normal tide
levels as trees were snapped by the
wind and communications lines were
knocked out. and rain showers from the
600-m ile-w ide storm reached the
Florida coast today.
At 11 am . EDT, Floyd was about
2 15 miles east-southeast of Palm Beach
and moving to the west-northwest at
about 14 mph A gradual turn toward
the northwest was expected later today.
The Miami area appeared to have
escaped the brunt of the storm ‘ 'Tropi
cal storm force is probably about all
w e’ll see here in Dade and Broward
counties.” hurricane specialist Miles
Lawrence said at a morning briefing at
the National Hurricane Center.
Floyd was most likely to make land
fall in Georgia or the Carolinas, but
‘’we’re so close to the coast that just
about any small deviation could bring the
hurricane onshore anywhere from cen
tral Florida northward,” Lawrence said.
Hurricane-force wind o f at least 75
mph extended 125 miles from the
hurricane’s center. And tropical storm-
force wind was expected to reach the
Fort L auderdale and Palm B each
County areas by early afternoon, fore
casters said.