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December 19, 2001 Dignity Village Threatened Club Holds Kwanzaa Event City officials may close tent city in northeast Portland unless order restored • * (AP) - It seems the behavior at Dignity Village has been anything but dignified this fall. Troubled by reports o f drunkenness and domestic violence, Mayor Vera Katz and Commissioner Erik Sten are warning residents diat die tent city near Portland International Airport in northeast Portland will be closed unless order is restored. Police have received 18 calls related to the homeless village since Oct. 7. One of the five domestic violence calls involved a registered sex offender, according to a police summary, and two others involved Ibrahim Mubarak, the cam p’s frequent spokesman. Last Thursday, a former resident who was booted out o f the camp called Sten’s office and threatened to “shoot up” the village and his wife, who still lives there, the summary says. Early Sunday, M ubarak and his wife were arrested on suspicion o f domestic violence, according to police reports. The district attorney’s office did not press charges at the couple’s arraignm ent Monday afternoon. “This is a lot o f calls in a short period of time, and it takes a lot o f our resources to go out there,” said Derrick Foxworth, commander o f the Northeast police pre cinct. “I f we were having this number o f problems atan apartment building, I’d be meeting with the landlord or the tenant The JO1” annual Portland K w anzaa cel ebration kicks o ff W ednesday, Dec. 26 with a 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. program hosted by the Black Educational Center at the Blazer Boys & Girls Club, 5250 N.E. M artin Luther King Jr.B lvd. K w anzaa is a seven-day A frican A m eri can cultural holiday founded in 1966 by Dr. M aulana K arenga. The holiday begins on Dec. 26 and ends on Jan. 1. The Portland Kwanzaa Haram bee Umoja program begins w ith storytelling by Askari and the opening o f the A frican M arket place at 4 p.m. The H aram bee celebration will begin at 5:45 p.m. with a processional led by African drum m ers follow ed by a libation and the traditional Nguzo Sava, the seven Kwanzaa principles candling lighting cerem ony. H aram bee m eans, “ le t’s pull together ” A fter the opening cerem ony, a tribute to elders in the com m unity w ill take place. Julia Fletcher w ill be honored for her many years prom oting A frican history and cul ture and com m unity service. The Prospective G ents w ill perform in celebration o f the festival’s “ first fruits” . A frican arts and crafts activities will be provided for children. Kids will also partici p a te in A fric a n d ru m m in g , d a n c in g , storytelling and refreshm ents. A closing ritual will include African drum m ing and dancing by everyone. All events are free and open to the public. F orm ore inform ation call 503-288- 8429 and leave a message. association and possibly considering a chronic nuisance letter.” The tent city, founded a year ago as Camp Dignity under a bridge downtown, now sits with City Council approval on seven acres o f city-owned property near the airport. But K atz and Sten, in a letter to residents, warn that the council ’s “sup port for the V illage is predicated on the assumption that the Village remain free o f violence and alcohol. I f these types ofillegal activities continue, we will be forced to conclude that this experi m ent has not succeeded.” Village supporters say some o f the trouble has come from residents who were kicked outand returned intoxicated. “T here was a handful o f people that needed to be ejected from the village perm anently, and that was trem en dously traumatic for village residents,” said John H ubbird, a com m unity orga nizer w orking w ith the village. “ I ’m confident that w e’re through the w orst o f that, but it has been a very difficult last six w eeks.” Jack Tafari, a resident, said the village plans to develop a protocol for when police should be called and route calls through a security liaison. The police summary includes one call from two resi dents complaining that another resident had poisoned their sugar. OHSU Nurses Strike G R E A T O F F E R F O R 'Based on availability Valid loi leisure In n l Thur-Sun only Other restrictions mat appt» Tai T H E H O L I D A Y t gratuity not included [spues 3/31/02 S get unlimited nights and weekends fo r life, plus up to $165 in savings. c o n tin u e d f r o m Front A total of 802 nurses, or 72 percent, voted against the pro posal, with 319 favoring the offer. About 400 nurses did not vote. The nurses want a 19-per- cent pay increase over two years, while management of fered a 14-percent raise over 27 months. OHSU also of fered to pay part of a sched uled increase in health-insur ance premiums, but not as m uch as the n u rse s had sought. Nurses also complain that they deal with the state’s most difficult cases at OHSU, and that considering there’s a na tionw ide shortage, OHSU doesn’t pay enough to attract the most qualified among them. OHSU nurses earn about $ 18 to $28 an hour, $2 to $3 less than at the state’s highest- p ay in g h o sp ita ls. OHSU counters that it compensates by contributing 12 percent of the nurses’ salary to their re tirement plans. “I know o f no retirement package in the private sector that even com es close to OHSU’s retirement package,” ' Driggers said. She also said that the hospital’s last offer is “both fair and the best we can do.” Kathleen Sheridan, a nego tiator for the Oregon Nurses Association, countered that OHSU is spending freely on expanding its hilltop campus, at the expense of patient care. • “ W e’re asking them to change th e ir p r io r itie s ,” Sheridan said. “The priority at OHSU should be patient care, and it’s not. It’s research, and VIP rooms and marble floors. They have a ton o f money, and that pie needs to be cut differently.” A prolonged strike could cost OHSU millions, in train ing o f replacements and in reduced patient admissions. 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