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LINDA WHITE PROMOTED TO CULTURAL DIVERSITY
MANAGER FOR PORTLAND BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS
Popular Blazers Club Director Moves to New Role
L in d a W hite, B o y s & G irls C lu b s o f P o rtla n d , w ith C ly d e B ell,
th e B la ze rs C lu b 's 1 9 9 9 Youth o f th e Year.
C ly d e is o n e o f
h u n d r e d s o f y o u n g p e o p le W hite h a s m e n to r e d a t th e C lu b s.
Linda White, D irector o f the Blaz
ers Boys & Girls Club, has been pro
moted to the position o f Cultural Di
versity M anager for the organization.
White, a former professional bas
ketball player, coach and 14-year vet
eran o f the Boys & Girls Clubs, will
assume her new responsibilities in
September. Her new duties will in
clude overseeing the organization’s
diversity programs, staff and Board
recruitment and training, and com mu
nity outreach efforts.
W hite took over as Director o f the
newly-built Blazers Boys & Girls Club
in 1996,afterservingasD irectorofthe
Columbia Boys & Girls Club in North
Portland and Program Director at the
Phoenix, AZ Boys & Girls Clubs. The
NBA Portland TrailBlazers provided
the initial funding for construction o f
the Blazers Boys & Girls Club, which
has the distinction o f being the first
and only Club in the country to be
nam edafteraprofessional sports fran
chise.
“ Linda alm ost single-handedly
built the Blazers Club into the show
case youth facility it is today,” said
Virginia Hensen, Executive Director
o f the Boys & Girls Clubs. “She de
serve.-: tremendous credit for the guid-
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$ 6 2 ,0 0 0 fo r th e p u rc h a s e o f li
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to th e P PS b o o k s b u d g e t.
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an y P o w e ll’s lo c a tio n in N o v e m
ber. S ay “ Its F or K id s,” w hen m ak
in g y o u r p u r c h a s e , an d 10 p e r
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to sc h o o l lib ra rie s.
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p lig h t o f o u r lo c a l sc h o o l lib r a r
ie s, an d to ra ise m u c h -n e e d e d
c a sh to b u y n ew b o o k s.
O v e r th e p a s t six y e a rs, th e
p ro g ra m h a s r a is e d n e a rly
$ 3 0 0 ,0 0 0 fo r th e p u rc h a se o f li
b ra ry b o o k s in th e P o rtla n d and
B e a v e rto n p u b lic s c h o o l d i s
tric ts .
O rg a n iz e rs h o p e th is
y e a r ’s d riv e w ill m e e t o r e x c e e d
la s t y e a r ’s d o n a tio n s .
The
P o w e ll’s d o n a tio n e n s u re s th a t
sc h o o l has m o n e y w ith w h ic h to
A frican A m erican ca n d id ate w ho
take on oversight o f these programs
anee and love she has provided to
can carry on the trad itio n o f ex c el
than Linda W hite," Hensen said.
hundreds o f young people who have
lence she has e stab lish ed at the
Applications are currently being
passed through her care,” Hensen said.
B lazers C lub. H en sen said N o rth
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and the B lazers C lu b A d v iso ry
that replacing W hite w ill be a dau n t
Northeast community. She serves on
C o m m ittee w ill p articip a te in the
ing task, but said the B oys & G irls
a number o f local committees dealing
search process.
C lubs are co m m itted to finding an
with youth issues, is a National Train
ing Associate for Boys &
G iris Clubs o f America and a
highly-sought-after public
speaker. She is also a mem
ber o f the Advisory Com
mittee for the Portland Fire
w om en’s basketball team.
“Boys & Girls Clubs have
rapidly expanded in recent
years from four Clubs serv
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tially in the last ten y ears. In 1992/
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Model Train
Club Opens
T he M t. H o o d M o d e l
E n g in e e r s c lu b in s o u th e a s t
P o r tla n d fe a tu r e s a lo o k a t
r a ilr o a d in g in O re g o n fr o m
th e 1 9 3 0 s th r o u g h th e e a r ly
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T he M ount H ood M odel E n
g in eers w ill h ost its annual open
h o u se ev e n t in N ovem ber.
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train club at 5500 SE B elm ont
features ra ilro a d in g in O regon
from the late 1930s thro u g h the
early 1960s.
T he la y o u t is o v er 1,000
sq u are feet in size and has six
scale m iles o f track. T rain s w ill
be o p e ra tin g co n tin u o u sly d u r
ing the day.
F ounded in 1975, the club has
been h o stin g the annual event
since 1978, T he layout is open to
the p u b lic each S atu rd ay and
S unday in N ovem ber. A d m is
sio n is free, but d o n atio n s are
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