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ÿorthtnh Observer
Metro/Religion
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M M I
0M M H I
Officers Pay
Last Respects
to Slain Deputy
Helping
Hands
Gives
Area Kids
A Boost
Value Based Center
Accepting New
Enrollments
B y M ichael L eighton
Cinda Jackson directs the Helping Hands Develpment Center at Emmanuel Temple Church.
P ortland O bserver
A local learning center is do
ing its part to get kids ready for
school in north and northeast
Portland.
A ccording to recent statistics,
m ore than a third o f O regon kids
are not ready for school.
The people at the E m m anuel
H elping H ands D ev elo p m en t
C enter are w orking to im prove
those odds.
“W e’re highly oriented tow ard
academ ics,” said C inda R. Jack-
son, director o f the center.
Located in the low er level o f
guage. V alue-based instruction
includes the im provem ent o f life
skills like responsibility, attitude,
co m passion, courage, honesty
and self-discipline.
O ther activities inc lude games,
m usic, story tim e, field trips, per
form ances, arts and crafts, and
outdoor activities.
Helping H ands has a staff for
up to 39 students w ith new enroll
m ents now being taken. The staff
includes h erself as director, two
teachers and an assistant direc
tor.
Emmanuel T em ple Church, H elp
ing H ands w orks to provide a safe
and healthy learning environm ent
for each child, w hile also helping
to establish and m aintain a quality
level o f academ ic, social, physical
and em otional developm ent.
Helping Hands believes that all
children can learn, and that the
diversity o f each child will en
hance and enrich the know ledge
o f cultural environm ent.
Jackson said the program ’s cur
riculum includes reading, writing,
arithmetic, science and foreign lan-
The non-profit program is part
o f the Em m anuel Tem ple Church
but is open to people o f all faiths.
The cost for one child in all day
care is $350 a year. Part-tim e day
care is $250 a year. D rop-off rates
are $2.95 an hour.
The program also provides free
transportation, and is open on
days and vacation periods when
schools are closed. There are no
application or enrollm ent fees^
For m ore inform ation, yo(
co u rag ed to call Helping Hand
281-1511.
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T h e r e s a C a m ie R ic h a r d s o n
p a rte d from th is life S e p te m b e r
1 1 ,2 0 0 0 at th e a g e o f ag e 81.
T h e re s a w as b o rn in S a ta rtia ,
M is s is s ip p i on S e p te m b e r 17,
1918. S he w as th e 7 th o f 10 c h il
d re n b o rn to J e f f a n d L illia n T h
o m p s o n -R ic h a rd s o n . S h e led h er
sib lin g s in -m ig ra tin g to P o rtlan d ,
O re g o n in 1940.
U p o n a r r iv in g to P o r tla n d ,
T h e re s a h e ld m a n y o c c u p a tio n s
such as, d o m e stic , fa c to ry w o rker,
an d o ffic e a d m in is tra to r.
In 1939 sh e m a rrie d W illie
Je n k in s, w ith w h o m sh e h ad tw o
d a u g h te r s , L a V e rn e C a r r an d
C o n s ta n c e Je n k in s . S h e w as a
d e v o t e d a n d lo v in g m o th e r .
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T h e re s a w as c iv ic m in d e d , an d
in v o lv e d in m any so c ia l p ro g ra m s
su c h as M o d e l C itie s , S H E P H y
p e r te n s io n R e s e a r c h , a n d th e
F o ste r G ra n d p a re n t P ro g ra m .
S he w a s a w o n d e rfu l c o o k , e x
c e lle n t g a rd e n e r, a n d an a c tiv e
c o m m u n ity v o lu n te e r.
She is su rv iv ed by h er dau g h ter,
C onstance Jen k in s o f P ortland. O r
egon; G ra n d ch ild re n : D am on A.
C arr, JR. o f K o rea, and M artin
M oore, JR. o f P o rtlan d , and G reat-
g ran d d au g h ter, N ia J. M u rat o f
Portland, Surviving siblings, Zelm a
S carb o ro u g h , C o rn elia M o n tg o m
ery, O sb o rn e D. R ich arso n , all o f
P o rtland, and A rd ean W h ite o f
P o n tia c M ic h ig a n .
CLACKAM AS, Ore. (A P)— Po
lice officers from Idaho, W ashing
ton and O regon paid their last re
spects Tuesday to the C lackam as
County deputy who was acciden
tally shot by a firearms instructor
during a training exercise last week.
A m id the sound o f som ber bag
pipes, the coffin carrying the deputy,
W illiam Bow m an, was carried into
the N ew H ope Church and placed in
front o f family by six w hite-gloved
officers. The coffin was covered
w ith the A m erican flag and topped
w ith B ow m an’s deputy hat.
A black hearse carrying Bowm an
w ound its w ay under a large A m eri
can flag that w as hoisted over two
firetrucks.
Bowman, 35, was eulogized as a
m an o factio n and intensity. M ourn
ers said he loved jokes, golfing,
rafting, his jo b — and most o f all, his
w ife Corie and their two daughters,
3-year-old Lauren and 3-m onth-old
Grace.
“The w orld felt like a safer place
with Bill in it, because I knew he
loved me,” his sister Dacia Bowman
told about 2,000 people gathered in
the church. “A s I struggle w ith the
loss o f his presence on this earth,
I’ve gained in the realization that he
is still protecting us, only now it is
as a guardian angel.”
Bowman, a six-year veteran, died
instantly last T uesday after a fellow
deputy used real bullets during a
SW A T team drill that was supposed
to be run with dum m y rounds.
The shooting is still under inves
tigation, but authorities have d e
scribed it only as a tragic accident.
“ There’s no making perfect sense
o f what has happened,” S h eriff Ris
Bradshaw said during the service.
“ T h ere's no drunk driver, no m i
crobes or cancer, no bad guy.
“It’s tim e to restore ourselves,”
he added. " It’s tim e to accept our
responsibility to move on. Bill would
insist that w e go on and stay to
gether.”
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Bowm an ’ s wife, sister and brother-
in-law echoed those w ords, saying
people have to rem em ber the good
things about Bow m an and try to get
on w ith their lives.
C orie B ow m an read a short poem
o n that very subject. B ow m an’s sis
te r a n d b r o th e r - a n d - la w g a v e
lengthier eulogies, taking long pauses
to catch their breath and sw allow
their tears.
“ I kept asking w hy this had to
happen,’ ’ said Ryan Foote, B ow m an' s
brother-in-law w ho is also an officer.
“T he only thing I can think o f is God
m ust have had two little girls in heaven
w ho needed a daddy.”
T he officers in attendance w ore
black ribbons across their badges.
Foote vow ed to w ear his for the rest
o f his career.
T he m an w ho shot B ow m an,
D eputy R ick Vail, was at the service
and on the m inds o f the mourners.
“ I grieve for him as I grieve for the
wi fe and those two girls,” said Debbie
Besner. w ho works for the Clackamas
County S h e riffs Departm ent. “ He
has to carry that for the rest o fh is life.
Though Bill w ould never blam e him,
h e’ll blam e himself.”
A fter the service, the pallbearers
li fled the coffin and w alked out o f the
church w ith B ow m an’s fam ily close
behind. T he hearse and the proces
sion drove to Lincoln M emorial Park,
w here Bowm an was buried.
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“W e are one body,” is the them e
fo ra ju b ilee conference being spon
sored by the A rchdiocesan M arriage
and Fam ily Life and M inistry to the
A ging O ffices.
T he sem inar will reflect upon the
various m eanings ofbeing em bodied
persons throughout the life cycle: in
m arriage and fam ilyand in the aging
process. T he conference will be held
on Oct. l4 ,atS tA n th o n y p a rish 3 6 0 0
SE 79Th, from 8 am to4 PM.
Franciscan Sister M ary Tim othy
Prokes will give the Keynote p resen
tation. H er talk is titled “Theology o f
the B ody T hrough the Life Process.”
Sr. M ary T im othy is professor o f
T heology and Spirituality at N otre
Dame G raduate School in Alexandria,
VA. T he theology o f the body a fad
based in current health trends. It is
faith seeking understanding o f Jesus
C h rist’s com ing in the flesh, and the
co n seq u en t u n derstanding o f our
ow n em bodim ent.
Dr. R obin M aas w ill present a
w orkshop “The Sanctifying Pow er o f
M arriage." Dr. M aas is professor o f
Spirituality and retired academic dean
o f the John Paul II Institute in W ash
ington, DC.
People com m only em bark on the
married life with high hopes that it will
m ake them “ happy” by satisfying all
o f their needs and longings. This
w orkshop will draw on the history o f
an actual m arriage, in m any respects
bitterly difficult, to illustrate how the
sanctifying pow er can operate in any
m arriage w hen w e desire above all
things to be faithful to Christ.
“T he fam ily and the C hallenge o f
V iolence,” to be presented by Harold
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to com bating violence is a com m it
m ent to m arriage and family life.