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September 12, 2001
Homeless Camp Moved to Northeast Site
OHSU To Study
Drug Addiction and
Treatment
‘Dignity Village’ puts down roots on a city-approved site
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O regon H ealth and Science
University will receive $4 million
from the Office o f National Drug
C ontrol P olicy’s Counterdrug
T echnology A ssessm ent C en
ter to purchase a high-pow er
m agnetic resonance im aging or
MR1 system and other equip
m ent to investigate the neuro
logical effects o f dnig abuse.
"OHSU researchers are impor
tant players in a national effort to
use advanced technology to find
better ways to prevent and treat
d ru g a b u s e ,” sa id A lb e rt
Brandenstein, center director.
M RI is a noninvasive tech
nology that can be used to study
anatom y, function and neuro
chem istry in hum an and anim al
subjects, M RI creates three-di
m ensional. high-resolution pic
tures o f the body through the
use o f a m agnetic field. O H SU
currently has tw o M R ls that it
uses for clinical and research
applications. The new m achine
is tw ice as pow erful.
O H SU w ill use the high-tech
im aging system to further re
search into how drug use a f
fects the brain.
Specific projects include the
effects o f chronic m etham phet
am ine and cocaine abuse, the
effects o f anabolic steroids on
the brain and looking at how
genes can affect an individual’s
s e n s itiv ity to a b u s e d s u b
stances.
The new M RI system will be
the centerpiece o f the O H SU
A dvanced Im aging R esearch
Center, a new facility that will be
split between O H SU ’s main cam
pus in Portland and its W est
C am pus in H illsboro. C om ple
tion is slated for 2003.
Regal Cinemas
Files For Bankruptcy
(A P) — R egal C inem as, the
nation’s largest m ovie theater
chain and the Portland area’s
la rg e st th e a te r o w n e r, said
Thursday it w ill file for C hapter
11 bankruptcy protection as part
o f a restructuring plan that will
shift ow nership to a group led
by billionaire P hilip A nschutz.
Regal, like several other m a
jo r m ovie chains, aggressively
expanded in the late 1990s and
People lacking a place to live are putting up this tent city on the outskirts of northeast Portland. City officials approved the site as a
temporary location for the homeless and as an alternative to a former homeless camp under the Fremont Bridge, downtown.
ended up w ith too many th e
aters. It closed 98 theaters w ith
646 screens this year but re
m ains tops in North A m erica
w ith 3,898 screens in 338 loca
tions.
U nder the reorg an izatio n .
R e g a l’s u n secu red cred ito rs
stand to recover up to 100 per
cent o f their claim s through a
$75 m illion pool set up by the
new ow ners, the com pany said.
photo by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
( A P )— A fter w eeks o f tension
betw een them and the city o f P ort
land, several dozen hom eless resi
dents said they are m ostly pleased
with a new location provided by
the city on a leaf com posting lot
near N ortheast 33rd A venue and
the Portland A irport.
T ^ a t has co m e as a su rp rise
ev en fo r m any o f th e h o m eless
w h o liv e d in D ig n ity V illag e
h o le ” — b u t h e lik e s it.
A nd 37-year-old Jam es Johnson
said he appreciates the quiet sur
roundings, after m onths under the
Frem ont Bridge.
Som e residents are calling the
suburban location “D ignity 2.”
The city ’s order that the 75 or so
people living in D ignity Village
relocate to a com posting field near
the airport has resulted in the
clo se to d o w n to w n , an d w ho
h ad p ro tested th at the new site
is far from se rv ic es an d g ro cery
sto re s.
By last Thursday afternoon,
less than h alf o f the 75 people who
lived in the old cam p had moved
out to the site near the airport.
O ne resident, H ow ard Henry,
originally o f Phoenix, Arizona, said
they m ade it sound like a "hell
group splitting up.
Some w anted to stay because
the dow ntow n site is clo se to
stores and public services. O th
ers were w illing to m ove to the
new site chosen by the city.
A third group said it is w as
moving to a place they called “The
R anch," land in a Portland suburb
that w as offered to them by a
private landow ner.
Housing Group Hires New Deputy
A northeast P ortland housing agency has
hired as its deputy director a successful local
developer w ho has a passion for neighbor
hood revitalization and com m unity develop
ment.
The Portland C om m unity Reinvestm ent Ini
tiatives, Inc. hired M artin Solow ay to assist the
nonprofit agency in fulfilling its m ission o f
providing quality affordable rental housing to
residents in north and northeast Portland.
S o lo w ay ’s develo p m en t-related acco m
plishm ents include helping to develop more
than $13 m illion o f housing in the m etro area,
including the pioneering loft concept.
“W ith the addition o f M artin S olow ay to
P C R I’s staff, we have expanded our capacity
and affirm ed our long term com m itm ent to
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affordable housing,” said M axine Fitzpatrick,
executive director o f PCRI. "H e brings the right
balance o f com passion and business acum en
needed to m ake a non-profit like PCRI operate
successfully.”
O ne o f S olow ay’s m ost successful projects
is the creation o f the E verett Station Lofts and
G alleries in O ld Town.
PCRI was form ed in 1991 w hen an investor
/banker know n as D om inion C apital filed for
bankruptcy, putting 350 fam ilies at risk o f los
ing their homes. T hrough a com m unity effort,
PCRI acquired those properties in partnership
w ithU .S. Bank. PCRI offered hom eow ners the
opportunity to purchase their hom es with the
rem aining hom es preserved as long-term af
fordable rental housing.
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Shark Attacks Lead to Feeding Ban
the sharks could be conditioned to associate
(A P) - A fter a sum m er o f highly publicized
hum ans w ith food.
shark attacks, Florida officials voted to ban all
“Y ou d o n ’t feed any o f them . T h ey 're wild
shark-feeding, saying it could be teaching sharks
anim
als,” said Robert D im ond, president o f the
to seek out people.
M
arine
Safety G roup o f D eerfield Beach, a pro
T he target o f the ban is “interactive” shark
ponent
o
f a ban. "W e are talking about preda
tours that use cut-up fish to lure sharks so
tors
with
teeth that can tear o ff people’s arm s.”
scuba-diving tourists can sw im w ith them.
T he F lorida Fish
and W ildlife C onser
• Tri-M et is hiring bus drivers. ■
v atio n C o m m issio n
had been considering
rules to regulate such
shark-feeding dives,
but instead voted 7-1
T hursday for a total
ban. It could becom e
law after a final vote in
November.
T o u r o p e r a to r s
w ere o u tra g e d and
threatened legal ac
tion if the ban goes
through.
T hey argued that
officials had no ev i
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d ence to prove the
Fully paid medical, dental and vision benefits after only one m onth o f employment.
sh ark -feed in g dives
Start w ith part-time and progress to a fu ll-tim e career. $10.50/hour to start,
w eren't safe and said
$12.38 in 6 months, $19.08 in three years.
none o f their tourists
Requirements:
had ever been bitten.
• Two yean strong customer service skills
But several com m is
• Five years good driving record
sioners expressed fear
• Solid w ork record
that by feeding sharks.
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