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Franklin Students Earn Foundry Awards
Raising Student Achievement
The Love and Logic Institute is host
ing a new sem inaron “Raising Student
Achievement Through Discipline and
Responsibility.” The talks will address
some of the most frustrating aspects of
teaching and raising today’s kids. The
event will be on Monday, March 11,
2:30 p.m. at the Portland Conference
Center, 300 NE. Multnomah St. Call 1 -
8 0 0 -L U V -L O G IC
or
v isit
www.loveandlogic.com.
Metal shop students
Ilya Grigoryev (left)
and Randy Flowers
o f Franklin High
School show off
their award winning
techniques to create
sand molds for
aluminum casting.
Franklin recently won
first and fifth place
awards in a design
and die-casting
contest sponsored
by the Northwest
Chapter o f the
American Foundry
Society.
History of the Columbia Slough
Interested in learning about the Colum
bia Slough? An overview that covers
the watershed history, hydrology, land
use, fish and more will be given at the
Pacific Power Metro Operations Cen
ter, 7544 NE. 33rd Drive on Saturday,
March 2, from 9 a .m .- l p.m. Call 281
1132 to pre-register.
Celebrating Women of Color
Meet the cast members from the play,
“for colored girls who have consid
ered suicide when the rainbow was
enuf” at Billy R eed ’s R estaurant in
the Sky Room on Saturday, M arch 2,
at 3 p.m. This is a fundraiser that
offers an intim ate setting for women
to celebrate the beauty o f A frican
American women laureates. For more
info, or to purchase tickets, call 493-
8623 or reserve your tickets via email
at africqnam ericanl@ qw est.net.
Walking Tour of Old Town
The Old Town History Project will
present a 45-minute walking tour of Old
Tow n’s historic architecture. The host
will be Bing Sheldon from SERA Archi
tects. Tours are limited to 15 people. To
reserve a place on the tour and a lunch
table, call 225-0198.
Cultural & Community
Appreciation Night
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‘Peninsula Crossing’
Brought to Life
Willie Fuller is a role model for
young kids in his community
The Muslim Community Center of Port
land will be having a cultural and com
munity appreciation night on Satur
day, March 2, from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. at the
Lutheran Inner-City Ministries, 4219
NE. MLK and Skidmore. The event will
have live jazz music with appearances
by KBOO’s Shaheed Haamid. Fortick-
ets, call 281-7691.
Matt Dishman
Community Center
Offering a low cost solution to a night
out with the family, the Matt Dishman
Community Center will get everyone
involved with activities for all ages.
The evening will conclude with a per
formance by Portland Taiko, from 8 -
8:30p.m. Call 823-3186.
Cancer Society’s Daffodil Days
Volunteers are needed for the Ameri
can Cancer Society’s Daffodil Days,
which is held in Mid-March. This is an
opportunity to serve for several hours
a week to take orders and payments for
bouquets of daffodils from co-w ork
ers, friends and family. Anyone wish
ing to participate, call 1 -800-577-6552.
Power Wheelchairs Available
Miracle on Wheels makes available
power wheelchairs to non-ambulatory
senior citizens, usually at no out-of-
pocket expense if they qualify. No de
posit is required. This service is avail
able to the permanently disabled of any
age.Call 1-800-749-8778 or goonline to
www.durablemedLcaLcQm.
Boys & Girls Club
Welcomes New Director
Two volunteers plant native trees and shrubs along a new section of the
Peninsula Crossing Trail o ff Columbia Boulevard in north Portland.
photo by M arkeli . f . S mith
A group o f 65 volunteers has helped
make north Portland more livable by plant
ing native trees and shrubs along a new
section of the Peninsula Crossing Trail.
The planting was held Feb. 9 as part of
the 2,500-foot section of trail under con
struction on the east side of the Columbia
Boulevard W astewater Treatment Plant
at 5001 N. Columbia BI vd.
“When construction is finished, trail
users will enjoy the native trees and shrubs
and the plants will help control erosion
and improve water quality,” said Portland
City Commissioner Dan Saltzman.
A team from the city’s Environmental
Services Bureau first cleared the site of
non-native vegetation and planted na
tive grass seed to control erosion.
The land now contains Oregon ash,
black cottonwood, red osier dogwood.
Pacific ninebark, snowberry and other
native plants.
The planting was a successful partner
ship between the city bureau's Commu
nity W atershed Stewardship Program,
Columbia Slough Watershed Council,
Friends of the Peninsula Crossing Trail,
AmeriCorps and SOL V.
Willie J. Fuller, a local coach and
resident, has been named Club Director
at the Blazers Boys & Girls Club at 5250
N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Fuller is moving from his position as
a teacher and head coach o f the boys J V
Sophomore basketball team at Jesuit
High School to join the Blazers Club.
He has 12 years experience working in
the youth development field, including
working with the Catholic Youth Organi
zation as a sports director and administra
tor. Fuller attended the University ofTexas
at El Paso, where he played football and
earned his B.A. in Business Administra-
tion/Marketing.
In addition to his experience working
with young people. Fuller brings consid
erable management skills to his new job.
He spent several years in the insur
ance industry, working as an agent
ow ner and sales representative for
Allstate and Liberty Mutual.
He and his wife, Traci, and four chil
dren live in Northeast Portland 10-15
minutes from the Blazers Club.
Fuller’s new duties will include over
seeing the Blazers Club facility, pro
grams and staff, as well as working with
the Blazers Club Advisory Committee,
which is made u p o f Northeast Portland
businesspeople and parents of Club
members.
The professional appeal of the Club
Willie J. Fuller
is important to him and says he loves
being able to use his business and ath
letic experience to be a role model for
young kids in his community.
The Blazers Boys & G irls Club
serves over 1,000 young people b e
tw een the ages o f 6-18 annually with
after-school education and recreation
program s designed to help kids reach
their full potential.
For more information about the Boys
& Girls Clubs o f Portland or volunteer
opportunities at the Blazers Club, call
503-282-8480.
Oregon Department of Human Services Program Helps Pregnant Smokers Quit
A new grant will help the Oregon De
partment of Human Services assist preg
nant smokers in their efforts to quit.
The funding is from The Robert Wood
Johnson Foundation Smoke-Free Fami
lies program and amounts to $200,000 for
the first year of a three-year smoking
cessation project for a potential maximum
of $600,000.
"Tobacco has serious health conse
quences for moms and babies,” says
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Donalda Dodson, administrator for DHS
family health programs. “Many pregnant
women want to stop smoking, but they
don’t have the support they need. Now
they will get help."
Dodson says DHS will work primarily
with health providers who serve women
enrolled in the Oregon Health Plan, where
data show women have higher smoking
rates.
In 1999, almost 15 percent o f Oregon
women who delivered babies reported
they had smoked during pregnancy. Preg
nant women enrolled in Medicaid had
much higher rates, with about 28 percent
reporting they smoked while pregnant,
according to Dodson
The program will be incorporated into
cessation counseling offered by mater
nity case managers, prenatal care provid
ers and the toll free Oregon Tobacco Quit
Line.
“A strength of this program is that it
builds on other state and local systems
and it will coordinate efforts,” Dodson
says.
According to the U.S. Surgeon Gen
eral, 20 percent of low birth weight births,
eight percent of premature births and five
percent of all infant deaths are linked to
smoking during pregnancy. Risks include
tubal pregnancy, miscarriage, pre-term
delivery and other life threatening com
plications.
“W omen w ho sm oke also face long
term health risks including lung cancer
and cardiovascular disease,” D odson
says. "T heir children, who breathe sec
ondhand sm oke, are vulnerable to a
host o f health problem s and p articu
larly respiratory illnesses. Studies show
that every dollar spent on preventing a
m other from smoking saves $3 in m edi
cal costs.”