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Workers Share Day With Kids
Job Opportunity Fair Thursday
The Oregon State Employment D e­
partment, 30 N. W ebster St., will hold
a Job Opportunity Fair, Thursday,
Nov. 1, from 10 a.m. - 1 p.m. Job
seekers are encouraged to attend this
free event.
Feminist Response
to War and Terrorism
Radical W omen hosts a round-table
discussion encompassing many o f the
questions generated by the events of
Sept. 11 and the U.S. government’s
subsequent bombing of Afghanistan.
The event will be held on Wednesday,
Nov. 14, 7 p.m., at the Bread and
Roses C enter, located at 819 N.
Killingsworth in Portland. A buffet is
included. Call 503-240-4462.
Public
Transit
Grows
with New
Services,
Security
Thanksgiving Dinner
Brothers on the Move will be having
their 4,h annual Thanksgiving Dinner
on Saturday, Nov. 17, from 11 a.m. -
3:30 p.m. Free rides are available for
the dinner. Everyone is invited to at­
tend at the Cornerstone Community
C .O .G .I.C ., located at 2216 NE.
Killingsworth St. Call 503-281 -4587.
New light rail route to the airport
has pushed Tri-Met ridership to
record highs.
Connect Your Disconnected Life
Legacy W om en’s Services still has
openings available for their annual
women’s retreat that is on Saturday,
Nov. 3, from 9 a.m. - noon at the
Legacy Emanuel Hospital & Health
Center, located at 2801N . Gantenbein
Ave. W omen will learn a new ap­
proach for keeping their life in bal­
ance with the Connection Solution.
Call 503-413-4840.
Barnes & Noble at Lloyd Center
Barnes & Noble, Inc., the nation’s
largest bookseller, will relocate its
northeast Portland store to a newly
expanded superstore at 1317 Lloyd
Center, in the Lloyd Center on Nov. 7.
The public is invited to a preview
night on Tuesday, Nov. 6, from 6-9
p.m.
Love and Logic
On Nov. 8, Dr. Charles Fay will be
presenting a talk entitled “Success
with Angry and Aggressive Youth” at
the Portland Conference Center in
Portland. He is the co-author o f “Love
and Logic Magic: W hen Kids Leave
You Speechless.” Call 1-800-LUV-
LOGIC.
Local construction workers deliver a load o f toys to young children from Albina Head Start.
photo by
Heavy equipment operators from Lo­
cal 701 of the International Union of
Operating Engineers took on a highly
unusual job assignment Friday.
Instead o f w orking w ith the tons of
rock, earth and steel they usually see
on construction sites, they hauled cargo
like never before - a delivery o f toys to
children at the A lbina H ead Start Pro­
gram.
The kids cheered as a massive front
loader tractor carried brightly wrapped
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toy construction sets to the Head Start
playground at the Community Lutheran
Center at Northeast Skidmore and M ar­
tin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
“The children have been learning about
the important work of the operating engi­
neers and their role helping to build our
communities,” said Hilda De La Garza,
assistant educational coordinator for Head
Start. “They see the big construction
projects going around them and this is a
chance to meet the people who perform
that work.
Operating engineers have been busy
working on major high profile construc­
tion projects in inner north and northeast
Portland, such as the expansion of the
Oregon Convention Center and Inter­
state Max Light Rail.
“Local 701 is so proud to share our
profession and of course these toy con­
struction sets with the great kids at Albina
Head Start," said Mark Holliday, busi­
ness manager for the union.
liiition-free School Opens to Applicants
Lela Triplett-Roberts
teaches a class at St.
Andrew Nativity
School, a new middle
school that opened
this fall in northeast
Portland, serving low-
income students who
work hard in a highly
structured
environment. Roberts
is a former principal
at nearby Jefferson
High School.
Volunteers Needed
Cares Northwest is a medical child
abuse assessment center. The program
sees over 1500 children each year for
concerns of sexual abuse, physical
abuse, emotional abuse, neglect and
exposure to domestic violence. The
center is in need of volunteers, prima­
rily from Monday through Friday.
S p an ish -sp eak in g volu n teers are
needed on Thursdays and Fridays.
Call Debby Kemen at 503-331 -2400
for more information.
photo by M ark
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St. Charles Spaghetti Dinner
The St. Charles Church, located at
NE. 42nd and Emerson will be having
their 51M Annual St. Charles Spaghetti
and Meatball Dinner on Sunday, Nov.
4, from Noon - 6:30 p.m. Take-outs
are available.
Weatherization Workshop
Don’t let your heating bills take you
hostage. Take action! W eatherize!
Come to a workshop and learn how to
save energy through material installa­
tion, behavioral changes and simple
maintenance around your home. The
next workshop will be held at the
W oodstock Community Center, lo­
cated at 5905 SE. 43rd Ave. on Thurs­
day, Nov. 1, from 6 - 8 p.m. Call 503-
284-6827.
St. Andrew Nativity School, northeast
Portland’s new tuition-free Catholic
middle school, will hold an open hcuse
for families of potential students on Sat­
urday, Nov. 3 from 1 to 4 p.m.
The Jesuit school is one of 40 nativity
schools currently operating in the United
States, but the only one in the Pacific
Northwest.
St. Andrew provides tuition-free pri­
vate middle school education to stu ­
dents w ho qualify for the Federal Free
and Reduce Price Lunch Program and
who are w illing to w ork very hard in
a highly structured school environment.
The mission is to prepare middle school
students from low-income families for
success in college prep high schools and
beyond, school officials said.
The school runs from 8 a.m. to 6:30
p.m. Monday through Thursday and until
4:30 p.m. on Fridays. W eekend activities
and participation in a summer program
are also required.
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Applicants should currently be in the
fifth grade and from a family able to
demonstrate economic need. Both boys
and girls may apply. Students need not be
Catholic or residents of northeast Port­
land. Students currently enrolled in Catho-
lic schools cannot be considered for ap­
plication. The school is located at 4925
N.E. 9*, near the comer of Ninth and
Alberta. For more information, contact
the school's principal. Father Kevin
Connell at 503-335-9600, extension 11.
Ridership is exceeding expectations
on northeast Portland’s new light rail
service to the airport, and all Max trains
now have security cameras on board,
Tri-Met officials announced in two re­
cent developments.
Since the airport Red Line opened
on Sept. 10, Airport Max has averaged
3,400 weekday boardings between
Gateway Transit Center and the airport
station. Another 7,300 riders pick up
the airport train between downtown
Portland and Gateway.
“The strong Airport Max ridership
figures show that people are finding it
a convenient alternative to get to the
airport," said Tri-Met General M an­
ager Fred Hansen. "Because of the Red
Line, w e’ re also seeing that more people
are choosing transit.”
In September, Tri-Met broke all pre­
vious ridership records in several ar­
eas.
Max reached 80,200 average week­
day rides during the period, a 19 per­
cent increase over last year. And by
combining both Max and bus service,
the w eekday ridership figure was
293,300 rides, a 6 percent increase
over a year ago.
Overall, average weekly ridership
has reached 1.76 million, a 7.7 percent
increase over last year.
LIFT, which provides door-to-door
service for people with disabilities and
others unable to use MAX and buses,
posted a 6.3 percent daily ridership
increase from September last year.
W eekend rides were up 14 percent
from last year.
Security cameras are now rolling on
all Max trains as part of Tri-M et’s
ongoing effort to deter crime on transit
vehicles and properties.
“Security cam eras enhance Tri-
M et’s overall enforcem ent efforts in
tw o w a y s," said C a p ta in M ike
G arvey, who heads the Tri-M et P o­
lice D ivision of the Portland Police
Bureau. “They are a deterrent to crime
and the images can be used as e v i­
dence in crim inal prosecutions.”
Nearly half of all Tri-M et’s buses
also carry security cameras.
Three hundred buses have three cam­
eras covering the interior of the bus and
the newest buses have a fourth camera
aimed out the windshield.
In evenings and at nighttime, about
80 percent of the buses in service have
cameras running, Tri-Met officials said.
Security cameras are also located at
some transit centers. Max stations and
other Tri-Met properties, with more
cameras to be installed during the next
12 months.
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