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The Bite of Portland
Safew ay’s Bite o f Portland is the
city’s tastiest food, music and w ine fes­
tival. There will be international cuisines,
Oregon wine tasting and six stages of
music. Lots o f fun for the w hole family.
The event will be held at W aterfront
Park, Aug. 1 7 ,18and 19. For more info.,
go online to www.biteofportland.com .
Oktoberfest Sports
Mt. A ngel Oktoberfest 2001, from
Sept. 13through 16, offers a wide variety
o f sports for the visitor to w atch or to
take part in. There will be a softball
tournam ent, g o lf tournam ent, high
school volleyball tournament, volkswalk
and ten-mile fun run. For more info., call
503/845-9440or visit Oktoberfest on the
Childbirth in a Nutshell
O H SU ’ s Center for W om en’s Health
classes will be having a talk on ‘C hild­
birth in a N utshell” on W ednesday,
Sept. 12 and 19, from 1-4 p.m. in the
Outpatitnet Clinic Building, Room 1332.
T his class is for first-tim ers and a re­
fresher course forexperienced parents.
Call 503/494-8231.
Energetic Healing
Learn aChinese form of energetic self
healing called "Heaven, Earth, Sun and
M oon Q igong” from the originator of
the exercise. M aster Ou W'en Wei. Wei
has taught the technique to thousands
all over the world with great results. He
will be dem onstrating at N atures’s
W ellness Center, located at 3535 N.E.
15lh and Fremont from Aug. 2 4 - 26. Call
Donna Selby at 503/675-9809.
Senior Art Show & Sale
S how casing artw ork created by se­
niors w ho have taken part in Portland
Parks & recreation’s w ide variety o f art
classes, including draw ing, painting,
sculpture, textile, and m ixed media.
Seniors are encouraged to bring their
w ork to th e c e n te ro n Aug. 18, betw een
10-11 a.m. Prizes will be aw arded along
w ith f re e fu n , f e s ti v itie s an d
intergenerational activities. C all 503/
659-4180o r503/823-4328.
Open Hand
O pen H and is boldly m oving into
our third year with a celebration o f their
fabulous youth and innovative pro­
gram s. T hey will be having a youth
perform ance and fund raising party to
help support their scholarship fund.
Food and drinks will be provided. Join
them on A u g .2 8 ,fro m 6 :3 0 -8 :3 0 p .m .
Call 503/493-1000.
Car Seat Safety Clinic
T he Providence St. V incent M edi­
cal C enter will be offering a free car seat
safety clinic for parents, grandparents,
babysitters and anyone w ho uses child
car seats in their vehicles. T he clinic
w illb e h eld o n Saturday.Sept. 15.from
10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the hospital, located
at9 2 0 5 S .W . Barnes Rd.
Summer Fresh Salsa
Preserve the sum m er fresh and fla­
vorful salsa at K ruger’s Farm Market,
located at 17100S.W. Sauvie Island Rd.,
where visitors can learn the basics of
canning on Aug. 18 and 19, with classes
taught by master food preservers on site
at 1 p.m. and 3 p.m. each day. Call 503/
621 -3489. There will be live music and
hayridcs.
A Holy Ghost Block
Party
The Fellow ship M issionary Baptist
Church Youth Anti-Gang M inistry will
be presenting “A Holy G host Block
Party"on Saturday. Aug. 18. from Noon
- 6 p.m . at 4009 N. M issouri Avde.
There will be BBQ, games, music, dance,
rap. balloons, prizes and more. All arc
welcome.
Kids Create, Edit and Produce TV Spots
A T& T B roadband and Portland Cable
A ccess have team ed up to host "A dven­
tures in T elev isio n ,” a co llab o rativ e
project to help the children o f Boys &
G irls Clubs improve their com m unication
skills.
A one-w eek sum m er cam p w as held
last w eek featuring lessons in interview ­
ing people, identifying and assem bling
com pelling video and other m edia skills.
Team s o f students produced and ed ­
ited five 30-second public service an­
nouncem ents for their respective clubs,
w hich will air on Portland C able A ccess
channels 11, 22 and 23, as w ell as other
select cable channels from O ctober to
December.
“T he quality program s that w e provide
for Portland area youth are m ade possible
by the generous donations o f our co m ­
m unity partners," said V irginia H ensen,
executive director o f Boys & G irls Clubs
o f Portland.
“Investing in our children and the com ­
m unities w e serve is a top priority for us
at A T & T B r o a d b a n d ,” s a id C u rt
H enninger, sen io r vice p resid en t for
A T & T B roadband in O regon and S outh­
w est W ashington. "The lessons in co m ­
m unicating and w orking in team s, as well
as the w onderful feeling o f accom plish­
m ent will stay w ith these kids long after
this cam p is over.”
Rob Skelton, executive director o f Port­
land C able A ccess TV , added, “T his is a
w onderful opportunity for the youth o f
Portland to learn how the m edia has the
pow er to increase aw areness o f issues.
T hey also begin to understand how effec­
tive com m unication influences the world
around them .”
Speakers at the cam p included C.J.
G lazerof Will V inton Studios, Gary Nolton
o f Limbo Films, Ken Ackerman of KPTV ’s
P hoto by D eborah P i . eva
Tiffany Shimabukuro, a camp mentor, and Maurice Stroud, a young participant from the Blazers Boys &
Girls Club use an umbrella to bounce light across a TV set.
G ood D ay O regon, and other guests.
T im Larson, director o f D ow nstream
V ideo Production showed the kids how to
create storyboards. Students also re­
ceived hands-on training from cable ac­
cess volunteers and A T& T Broadband
staff in using video equipm ent, cameras,
editors, audio boards, video sw itchers.
and graphics.
The lessons learned m ay be applied to
future jobs in the television and com m u­
nications industry.
Portland C able A ccess, a non-profit
charitable organization, prom otes broad
participation in civic cultural life by en­
couraging effective use and understand­
Summer Camp Delights
4 counselor leads a camper on a
horse ride at Camp Rosenbaum,
one of the many activities during
citizenship camp on the Oregon
Coast, sponsored by the Housing
Authority of Portland, Oregon
National Guard and Portland Police
Bureau. More than 100 children
from Portland and about 60 other
young campers from the area
attended the Aug. 1 camp named in
honor of Fred Rosenbaum, former
Housing of Portland Commissioner
and Oregon Air National Guard
assistant Adjutant General, who
helped transform the National
Guard Camp at Rilea near Astoria
into great summer camp
experience for Housing Authority
Children.
G ro u p W in s F ig h t for L o w er B u s F a res
T ri-M et has voted to cut m onthly
passes for students in half, thanks to the
efforts o f Sisters in Action for Power.
T he m u lti-racial o rg an izatio n has
fought for cheaper student passes for
nearly four years. M embers protested,
held a rally and attended m eetings to get
their dem ands met by the T ri-M et T rans­
portation Board. The effort was done for
the sake o f low -incom e and m inority stu­
dents w ho couldn’t easily afford to pay
$31 per month. Through their persistent
efforts, student passes arc now $16 a
month. Studies conducted by Tri Met
determ ined that charging students $31
per month was too high, com pared with
fares in other states T ri-M et officials say
the new rate change could result in a loss
o f $1 million in revenues each year -
forcing the transportation provider to
spend less on new products.
Fiesta Coming to 42nd Avenue
A f ie s ta to c e le b ra te th e d iv e rs ity
an d u n iq u e n e s s o f th e 42"d A v en u e
c o m m u n ity w ill be h eld o u td o o rs on
th e c a m p u s o f th e P C C M e tro p o lita n
W orkfo rce T rain in g C en ter, 5 6 0 0 N .E.
4 2"d A ve. an d K illin g s w o rth , S a tu r ­
d a y , A ug. 2 5, fro m 11 a m. to 3 p .m .
T h e p a rty w ill in c lu d e lo c a l fo o d
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v en d o rs, a live Larin b an d , salsa d a n c ­
ing le s s o n s , sp e c ia l a c tiv itie s fo r
c h ild re n , a d o g w ash an d lo ts o f c o m ­
m u n ity fun.
T h e new d ire c to r o f th e P o rtla n d
B u rea u o f H o u sin g an d C o m m u n ity
D e v e lo p m e n t, T o n y a P a rk e r, w ill
o p e n th e fie sta . E v e ry o n e is in v ite d
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to a tte n d . E v e n t s p o n s o rs in c lu d e
th e 4 2 nd A v e n u e T a rg e t A re a b u s i­
n esses, C e n tra l N o rth e a st N e ig h b o rs,
th e B u reau o f H o u sin g a n d C o m m u ­
n ity D e v e lo p m e n t, P o rtla n d C o m m u ­
n ity C o lle g e , th e H a c ie n d a D e v e lo p
m ent C o rp o ra tio n . St. C h a rle s C h u rch
an d W h ita k e r S U N S c h o o l.
ing o f com m unity media. PCA offers
affordable classes in television produc­
tion where people learn w ith hands-on-
experience about cam eras, television stu­
dios and editing. Their flagship channel,
CityN et 30, is dedicated to public affairs
program m ing and is one o f the largest o f
its kind in the country.
Fewer Women
Smoke
During
Pregnancy
Oregon is making headway in re­
ducing tobacco use among expectant
mothers, according to data that ap­
pears in the Oregon Vital Statistics
Annual Report for 1999, recently pub­
lished by the state Department of
Human Services.
“We found some positive changes
in the 1999 birth data.” says Mel
Kohn, M.D., state epidemiologist at
the Health Division. "We are espe­
cially encouraged by a decline in the
number of women who smoked while
they were pregnant."
“The fact that fewer mothers are
smoking means they are getting the
message that tobacco is harmful to
them and to their babies,” says
Kohn. “ But we need to redouble
our efforts, because far too many
women continue to sm oke.” ,
The Health Division is planning
a new program that will enhance
current tobacco cessation efforts,
according to Donalda D odson, d i­
rector of child and family health
programs. “We are working with
health care providers to increase
their use of interventions to help
pregnant women stop sm oking,”
Dodson says The program has sup­
port from the Robert W ood Johnson
Foundation’s Smoke Free Fam ilies
program.
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