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Septem ber 15, 1999
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City Council Approves
New Drug Free Zone
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Voice Your Opinion
City Commissioner Dan Saltzman will
discuss issues o f interest to minorities in
Portland. Discussion with the Asian A m eri­
can Community will be on Thursday, Sep­
tember 16 at Buckman Elementary School
in the cafeteria (320 SE 16th ) from 7-8:30
PM. Discussion with the African American
community will be on Saturday, September
18 at King Elementary Schoool Cafeteria
(4906 NE 6th Avenue) from 11 AM until 1
PM. Discussion with the Hispanic Com m u­
nity will be on Tuesday, September 21 at
Whitaker Middle School (5700 NE 39th)
from 7-8:30 PM. Discussion with the Native
American Community will be on Thursday,
September23 at Southeast Uplift Neighbor­
hood Program (3534 SE Main Street
Fireside Room) from 7-8:30 PM
A fi fter hearing an
afternoon
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2 1 tim ony, the Port­
Juneteenth 2000
T he Juneteenth A ssociation N W in­
vites you to the Reflections C offeeshop on
Septem ber 25th to becom e a m em ber in
the Juneteenth Association NW. The m eet­
ing will begin at 2 PM. Juneteenth 2000 is
com ing! W e are looking for volunteers to
staff the planning com m ittee, board o f
directors, logistics, security, fundraising
and m ost o f all you! Call W oodrow V.
B roadnax at 503/281-8472.
The Horse Whisperer
Monty Roberts, whose book “The Man
Who Listens to Horses” created a break­
through in humane training for horses, will
visit Salem on September 25 to demonstrate
his groundbreaking Join-Up technique. The
event will take place from 7:30 PM to 10:30
PM at the Oregon State Fair & Expo Center
and will benefit Project Agape Institute o f
Sherwood. Tickets are available by calling
888/U2-M ONTY (888/826-6689).
The Wellness Village
The African American Health Coalition
need volunteers to staff the 4th Annual
Wellness Village, scheduled for October
23rd at the Center ofSelfEnhancem ent. The
W ellness Village is a one day event drawing
people from the community for interactive
activities such as health screenings, physical
fitness, healthy cooking demonstrations, dy­
namic speakers, health education workshops
andchildren’sactivities. Call 503/413-1850.
Borders for the
Ainseworth &
newly approved “Drug Free Zone” for Woodlawn residential Area
land City Council last
week approved a new
drug free zone, and the
expansion o f an existing
one, in north and north­
east Portland. Council
voted four to zero to ap­
prove the zones, with
com m issioner Erik Sten
absent for the vote.
A new W oodlaw n
zone will be bounded by
N ortheast M allory and
15th avenues, Portland
Boulevard and Lombard
Street, with a short pan­
handle extending south
to N ortheast Ainsw orth
Street.
The new zones are
sm all com pared to an
earlier proposal to take
in nearly all the territory
b e tw e e n N o rth an d
N ortheast D ekum and
R ussell streets, N orth
C oncord and N ortheast
15th avenues, w ith an
extension to N ortheast
33rd A venue north o f
Prescott Street. The cur­
rent proposed zone is
“ very narrow ly draw n around specific drug
traffic problem s,” H ayden said. “T he more
loosely draw n it is, the m ore vulnerable we
are to charges that the zone d o e s n 't address
the (drug) problem .”
A p o lic e o ffic e r can o rd e r a p erso n
a rrested fo r sale o r p o sse ssio n o f illeg al
d ru g s to be ex c lu d e d from all city drug
free zones for 90 days. A ju d g e ca n o rd er
so m eo n e c o n v icte d o f such o ffe n ses ex ­
clu d ed for a y ear. A n y o n e e x c lu d e d w ho
is fo u n d w ith in the zone is su b je c t to a
“ crim in al tre sp a ss” arrest. A n y o n e e x ­
clu d ed has sev en days to ch a lle n g e the
e x c lu sio n , or to seek a v aria n ce to travel
to or from a jo b , trea tm e n t p ro g ra m or
th e ir ow n ho m e i f it is w ith in a zone.
Sten, the o n ly C o u n cil m e m b er to vote
ag a in st esta b lish in g the B eech zo n e tw o
y ears ago, sa id he w as “ p le a sa n tly su r­
p rised by the w ay th is has gone. I f y o u ’re
a rrested and th e re ’s no ro o m fo r in c ar­
c e ratio n , it m ak es sen se to e x c lu d e .” He
said th at in tw o y ears “ th e re d o e s n ’t seem
to b e a ton o f ev id en c e th at th e re ’s abuse
g o in g o n .”
D uring public testim ony the w eek b e­
f o re , R e p r e s e n ta tiv e s o f th e B o is e ,
H um boldt, K ing, Piedm ont and W oodlaw n
neighborhood associations, the C oalition o f
B lack M en, Portland C om m unity College,
Jefferson H igh School, and the H ope and
H ard W ork C om m ittee spoke in favor o f the
proposed zones. Jack Paulson o f K ing called
for a six square block addition to the Beech
zone expansion to take in a critical area on
the north. C ouncil declined to approve this
request.
Piedm ont chair Betsy Radigan said that
drug houses these days are "less likely to be
rentals run by clueless landlords than people
with nowhere to go but back to ma or grandma.
The tools have to change with the problem .”
Several speakers, m ost o f them lawyers,
opposed the zone as a threat to civil liberties
and discrim inatory in its operation. K elly
Skye o f the M etropolitan Public D efender’s
Office said that the w ritten inform ation given
to those excluded is confusing, as is the m ap
o f the zones. Exclusion puts m ost treatm ent
and drug-free housing off-lim its to recover­
ing addicts, she said.
Frances O ’H allorhan o f the Sabin neig h ­
borhood said she feared the zone w ould
continue the process o f “disrespect” o f A f­
r ic a n - A m e r ic a n s
b ro u g h t
on
by
gentrification. She cited several cases o f
A frican-A m ericans harassed by police sim ­
ply for being on the street.
M ayor V era Katz, in response to Skye and
others, urged the police to m ake inform ation
as understandable, and legal redress as easy
to obtain, as possible.
Several zone supporters said the exclu­
sion actually helped recovering addicts stay
clean. D aniele Johnson o f Franciscan Enter­
prise told o f being stopped for trespassing in
a drug free zone. “ It show ed m e my problem
was out o f control," she said. “I am a result o f
this program , clean for two years.”
National BBQ-Cookoff
Hits Waterfront
Acupuncture & Herbal Remedies
The Oregon C ollege o f Oriental M edi­
cine in Portland is offering people a w ay to
experience acupuncture and com plem en­
tary m edicine in a safe, educational forum.
The college is sponsoring free seminars on
Septem ber 11, 18 and 25. Each Saturday
sem inar starts at 10 AM and lasts about 90
minutes. At the free seminars you can learn
about and sample acupuncture, herbs and
meditative exercise. These natural thera­
pies, used in China for centuries, can be
very helpful to people o f all ages. To re­
serve youi place at the seminars, call 503/
253-3443. The O regon College o f Oriental
M edicine is a, 10525 SE Cherry Blossom
Drive, next to Mall 205 in East Portland.
Dream Ceremony and Workshop
Ed Fox will be in Portland giving a special
dream awareness workshop and ceremony
based on native Toltec practices from ancient
Mexico. Fox is an apprentice to the best­
selling author and nagual, Don Miguel Ruiz
who wrote “The Four Agreements" and “The
Mastery ofLove". An introductory lecture on
the indigenous, Toltec Path will be given on
September 24 and will precede the workshop
and ceremony. All arc invited to attend. Call
Katie at 503/234-9946.
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Oregon Tradeswomen Network
T he n ex t m e etin g o f the O reg o n
T radesw om en N etw ork is scheduled for
Thursday, Septem ber 16 at 6 PM at the
State O ffice Building, 800 NE O regon St.,
room 120. Join us for a discussion on how
ergonomics (the science o fhow you move)
affects you at work. M onthly m eetings are
held the third T hursday o f the m onth and
provide inform ation, netw ork resources
and fun for all. C hildcare is provided. The
m eetings are free. C all 503/943-2228.
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BBQ C ookoff finds, besides being a m ajor
success donor to the O regon Food B ank, It
garnered rave review s from the youngsters
for its petting farm and tim e sensitive play
center. All o f this m ade for a great fam ily
day, w here parents sam pled BB Q from c it­
ies across the nation. All w as vying for the
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variety w as im m ense, som ething for ev ery ­
one. Som e hot, som e m ild, som e sw eet and
som e tart - but all w ere filling & dependent
on a hand ful o f napkins and several p o rtab le
w ater stations. Portland was also ex p erien c­
ing one o f its hottest days o f the year as
tem peratures toyed with the 90-degree mark.
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