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NE Portland residents parade down MLK during ’Good in the Hood’
Representin ’ & stridin '
in p rid e as P ortland
O b serv er N ew spaper
w alks to the beat a t
P o r tla n d s
Annual
"G ood in the H o o d ”
Parade on Saturday June
24, 2000.
(Trina Barber, Anthony
Huff, M aggie Gibson,
Cynthia Washington)
Parade steppers feelin
g o o d in th e hood.
(P re c io u s
L aw so n ,
Adora Butcher, Felicia
Brown, K ayla Davis,
G o o d in th e H o o d
Chairman: Paul Knowles,
T oni T a y lo r, S h ay
W a s h in g to n , T rin a
Barber)
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City moves to acquire three new park sites
COSTRIBCTEPSTUftY
for T h e P ortlaad O bserver
Neighborhood leaders from Parkrose
were present today as the Portland
City Council took the first step in
acquiring three new park sites - two
in park deficient NE Portland and one
site near the Pittock Mansion in NW.
Combined size o f the three sites is
1.56 acres.
The properties are all on a list o f tax
foreclosed properties which the City
will now request from the Multnomah
County Board o f Commissioners.
Transferoftheproperties is expected
sometime after June 30,2000
The Parkrose site ( 1.08) acres is the
former Senn’s Dairy at NE 112 th and
Prescott.
It will eventually be developed as a
small local neighborhood park - after
it is c le a n e d o f re p o rte d
contaminations and is released by
the O re g o n D e p a rtm e n t o f
Environmental Quality.
A 5,000 square foot comer lot at NE
14th and Summer in the Vernon
neighborhood will be maintained as
an open field with tall grass mowing
u n til funding is se c u re d for
community garden development and
maintenance.
The Pittock property will be included
within the Pittock Acres Park.
“We are very grateful to get this
additional acreage for parks,” said
Jim Francesconi, Park Commissioner.
“Parkrose, in particular, needs more
parkland to address the needs o f a
growing population. Parks do not
have any money to buy land, so w e’re
willing to try creative ways to acquire
it before it’s all gone,” he stated.
The tax foreclosed property list is one
way for parks to acquire land without
having to buy it.
Now they will have to find money for
one-time fix-ups, which total $ 19,600
forall three properties and money for
ongoing annual maintenance, which
comes to $13,700.
Grant awarded to Oregon Dept. of Community College
& Workforce Development Inc.
CONTRIBUTED STORY
T he U.S. D epartm ent o f L abor
awarded a $1,691,682 grant to the
Oregon Department o f Community
C o lle g e s
and
W o rk fo rce
Development in Salem to help Oregon
workers upgrade skills. The grant is
one of six totaling $9,214,051 awarded
for demonstration projects in six
states to upgrade the skills o f workers
employed in low-skill jobs, who have
obsolete job skills or have been
dislocated by a company layoff.
These grants also are designed to
recruit and retrain workers inn high-
tech, high-skill occupations
“The dislocated or incumbent workers
who will be assisted by these we
effo rts include groups such as
agricultural workers, low skilled
workers and those needing assistance
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employment,” Secretary Herman said.
“The focus o f these grants will be on t
skills training in occupations in new •
and growing high-tech industries.”
Specific barriers to em ploym ent:
include living in rural comm unities,,
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occupations.
The grant awarded to the Oregon i
Dept. o f Community Colleges and 1
W orkforce Development includes:
fiv e lo cal p ro je c ts to tra in :
approximately250 workers in English
as a Second Language (ESL) and
seven projects to train another 350
w o rk e rs in sk ills n e e d e d fo r
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m e d iu m -siz e d e m p lo y ers have
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workers will receive foundational
skills such as communications.
Ranging from orchard supervisor and
nursing a ssista n ts to com puter
sy ste m s a n a ly sts and d en tal
hygienists. In addition, workers will
receive foundational skills such as
communications, interpersonal, and
problem-solving. These skills are
in te n d e d to p a rtic u la rly help
minorities, limited-English speakers,
and women that remain comparative
in their jobs or advance to higher-
le v e l jo b s w ith th e ir c u rre n t
employers.
These grants will support projects
that further retention; provide career
development for employed workers,
especially those most vulnerable to
job loss; help companies increases
their ability to accesses and retain
sk ille d w o rk e r; and in c re a se
e m p lo y e rs ’ u n d e rsta n d in g o f
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