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April 5, 2000 Page A5 (Clje Jìortlanò (Observer |Ju r 1 la itò ■■■■■■■■■■■i The Portland chapter of Links Incorporated honors Mariah Taylor Mariah Taylor, R.N., MSN, a long-time community activist & Nurse Practitioner, with a hearty’ thank you and a check to help support the work undertaken by Mariah & her clinic staff to provide medical services & supplies to those less fortunate who need the services the most and are least able to pay for them. Barbara Leonard, far right. President is accompanied by Lvdia Rov, second from right, and other Link members in the presentation o f the award & check to Mariah lavlor whose clinic is located at 5311 N. Vancouver Ave. Portland, Oregon. Training helps landlords keep rentals safe and free of illegal activity The City o f Portland’s Office of Planning and Development Review (formerly the Bureau of Buildings), in partnership with the Portland Police Bureau will offer an eight- hour training to help landlords keep rental properties safe and free of illegal activity. The first o f the Spring 2000 Landlord Training Programs will be held on Tuesday, April 25th at the P ortland B uilding, located in downtown Portland at 1120SW fifth Avenue. Sign-in begins at8:00 am. with the training starting at 8:30 am and ending at approximately 5:00 PM. Landlords, property managers, and others interested in attending may call the C ity’s Landlord Training Programs information line at 823- 7955 for registration information. Advance registration requested. Although the seminar is offered free o f change, there is a $ 15 charge for the ninth edition o f Portland’s Landlord Training program manual, which has been updated to include changes made during the 1999 Oregon legislative session. The Landlord Training Program was originally developed in 1989 under the lead sponsorship o f the Portland Police Bureau and has now been thoroughly updated and revised for issues facing landlords in 2000 by Portland’s Office o f Planning and Development Review. To date, Over 8,000 landlords and property managers representing over 120,000 rental units have attend. The program, which began in Portland with funding from the US Department of Justice, has become a national community policing model, winning for the C ity recognition as an in n o v atio n in sta te and local government by Harvard’s Kennedy School, o f Government and being replicated, in various formats, by over 400 state and local jurisdictions nationwide and in Canada. The training will be presented by program’s original creator and now national Landlord Training Program Director John Campbel 1 o f Campbel 1 Delong Resources, Inc o f Portland. In addition to the training on April 25th, four other training dates for Oregon’s average pay per worker lags behind in nation CQMRIBVTCOSTQBY iOR Tilt P o r i h v d O bslrvlr The average annual pay o f all workers in O regon rose som ew hat more slowly than that o f the nation in 1998. T he slo w e r w ag e g ro w th w as p a rtic u la rly n o tic e a b le in the construction and wholesale trade industries, but affected all major industry sectors. These findings summarize the Oregon Employment Department’s analysis o f Bureau o f Labor Statistics state-level average annual pay data for all employees covered by unemployment insurance. “One likely suspect for causing the slow average pay growth in 1998 is the onset in Oregon of the impacts o f the Asian economic crisis. As economists have known for a ' couple o f years, Oregon was more strongly affected by the A sian economic crisis than were most other states, simply because such a large share o f Oregon’s export value went to Asian countries,” said Art Ayre, economist with the Employment Department. Oregon’s average payroll per working grew from $28,411 in 1997 to $29,542 in 1998,againof$l,131 (+4.0%). The 1998 statewide average pay level was 22nd highest among the 50 states. In comparison, the national average annual pay per worker was $30,353 in 1997and$31,908in 1998. The national average gained $1,555 per worker (+5.1%) in 1998. “If this slower-than average wage growth keeps up, Oregon would move toward the bottom o f the pack. That isn ’t expected to happen, however,” Ayre said. “The state’s economic forecast includes a more rapid increase in per capita personal income in Oregon than in the U.S. as a whole, and the largest single piece o f per capita income is payroll income.” Among neighboring states, Washington, California and Nevada outperformed Oregon in 1998, while Idaho’s average pay grew more slowly. California’s 1998 averageannual pay per worker was $35,349, ranking 5,h highest in the nation, W ashington’s was 1 l,h with $33,076, and Nevada was 20th with an average annual pay per covered w orkerof $30,201. Microsoft Katz from page 1 access to breast cancer screening and treatment. W aited on announcem ent Katz said she also knew word would get around that she was getting daily radiation treatments at Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital in Northwest Portland. And she said she wanted to wait until after last Thursday, when her treatment regimen was certain, before making the announcement. Standard treatment guidelines for K atz’s type o f cancer include three options: simple mastectomy or breast removal; a lumpectomy with radiation th e ra p y , as K atz ch o se ; o r a lumpectomy without radiation. Breast cancer specialists generally do not recommend the last option, and Katz said she and her doctor concluded a m astectom y w asn ’t Idaho’s 1998 average annual pay per worker was $24,866, for a national ranking of44'h. Oregon’s metro areas ranked in the lower h a lf o f the n a tio n ’s 321 m etropolitan statistical areas for percentage gain in average pay per worker between 1997 and 1998. The P ortland-V ancouver a re a ’s average pay per worker grew from $31,560in 1997to$32,846in 1998. Its 4.0 percent increase was 192nd fastest among all metro areas and 29,h fastest among the 41 western metro areas. Other Oregon metro areas' average pay grew at rates similar to Portland's. Salem-metro average pay ranked 2O7lb among the nation’s metro areas and the Eugene-Springfield metro area’s average pay was 193rd. from page 1 necessary. The recurrence rate given Katz’s cancer and treatment regimen is 2 percent, “if that,” Johnson said. The radiation treatment scheduled for Katz will be kept to the area where cancer is discovered, and is “easily tolerated," Johnson said. Katz should have no hair loss, nausea, changing blood counts or difficulty eating. The first day o f treatment is long, but after that the treatment will last 10 minutes a day, five days a week. The mayor said she expects to feel tired because o f the treatments. She said she'll knock a few hours off her notoriously busy schedule. Katz, a former three-term speaker of the Oregon House, faces 16 political newcomers in the May 16 primary. She is expected to cruise to re- election. Pollster Adam Davis said Monday that K atz’s public announcement would likely reinforce her "one o f us" image in the public mind. Given the favorable diagnosis, he said he didn 't think it would give voters second thoughts about the m ayor’s health. “ I think it would be a mistake to make too much out o f this" as a political issue. Davis said. During the months o f waiting for a clear prognosis, Katz said she thought about all the other women “not necessarily as lucky as I was.” “ 1 thought about friends o f mine who have go n e th ro u g h far w orse situations, who were very upbeat," Katz said. “There is a family of women who have conquered this, and I never realized how strong that family is.” prices. The study says the company could have charged $49 for an upgrade to Windows 98 operating system from Windows 95 but instead charged $89 b e c a u se it w as the “ re v e n u e m axim izing price,” Jackson had written. U.S. law allows for plaintiffs to sue for treble damages, which in this instance would mean three times $40, the perceived overcharge, or $120 per litigant. But the formula would be much more complicated for the bulk ofcom puter buyers, for whom the cost o f the Microsoft operating system is far less clear, “It’s not a slam dunk for private plaintiffs,” Litan said. program are also being offered: Friday, April 28th at Providence Portland Medical Amphitheater, located at 4805 NE Glisan; Saturday, April 29th at Portland Community Cascade Campus, located at 705 N. Killingsworth; Friday, May 19th at P ortland C om m unity C ollege Southeast Center, located at 2850 SE 82nd; and on Saturday April 20th again at PCC’s Cascade Campus. Reactions from landlords who have c o m p le te d the c o u rse are consistently strong and positive: surveyed landlords and managers overwhelming agree that the training in c re a se s th e ir co n fid e n c e in screening rental applicants and their ability to recognize warning signs o f illegal activity or chronic nuisance activity Under the Planning and Development Review's sponsorship and guidance. Landlords new to the program will gain im portant in sig h ts, w hile landlords who have attended in the past can expect plenty of additional information. The 4 2 n d A nnual E B O N Y F A S H IO N F A IR Presents io n s Sponsored By The Links, Inc. Benefit o f LINKS E D U C A T IO N A L/ SCHOLARSHIP FUND Oregon Convention Center Portland. 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