Hage A5 (The November 10, 1999 rt binò (Dhövmer Be prepared: food collection on December 4th Saturday, December 4, 1999, Boy Scout o f the cascade Pacific Council o f the Boy Scouts o f America will collect food door-to-door in Portland. If you are not home when the scouts com eby they will leave a plastic bag on your porch or doorknob.. please fill the bag with food and drop it off at any G rocery O utlet store! Most wanted foods include canned meats and meals as tuna, chicken, soups and stews; boxed pasta or potato meals; canned fruits and vegetables; beans and peanut butter. No glass or homemade foods please. More babies bom to unwed parents T he A ssociated P ress The portion ofbabies bom to unwed parents has increased fivefold since the 1930s, according to a new Census report that documents the trend. Politicians and policy makers alike worry about children bom to unmarried parents, who are more likely to be poor and face other socioeconomic problems. The report, being released today, looks at the first births to women ages 15 to 29. It found that in 1990-94,41 percent of these births were out-of-wedlock. That’s a five-fold increase since 1930-34, when just 8 percent o f these babies were bom to unmarried parents. The report also looks at marriages after a baby is conceived - but before it is bom. Until the 1960s, about 50 percent to 60 percent o f couples married after discovering the woman was pregnant. But that dropped to 29 percent in the early 1980s. The report noted that, during the intervening years, women were more likely to be educated and abortion laws were relaxed. ‘ ’Declines in the propensity to marry to avoid an out-of- wedlock birth by this generation o f women may also reflect the questionable stability o f a forced marriage, especially if the father o f the child may not be able to maintain the family after marriage,” the report says. The report’s analysis ends in 1994. 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Central Catholic High senior named AP Scholar CONTRI BUTTO STORS for T he P ortland O bsf . r i er -------ri October 19, 1999- Jason Quach, currently a senior at Central Catholic High School, has been named AP scholar by the College Board in recognition o f his exceptional achievement on the college-level AP Examinations. Ouach, is the only student from Central Catholic who received this award from AP Examination test scores taken from his junior year. Three other 1999 Central Catholic graduates werenamed AP Scholars; Colin Bracis, Dominic Caruso, and Honor award : Jocab Jensen and Heather McCraig. Quach received a ‘5 ’ in his AP Calculus 1 test (the highest score possible,) and a perfect 800 in his SAT test. Over the summer, Quach took C a lc u lu s and M acro Economics at Harv ard and this year is enrolled for two classes at Portland State University: * C a lc u lu s 4 and M icro Economics. “Jason is very bright, remarkable student. 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