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ebratingCops Helping Kids” auction benefiting
youth, on Saturday, April 6,5 p.m. at a location
in downtown Portland. PAL serves thousands
o f youths through their juvenile crime preven
tion program. Call Deborah Munn or Maria
E lm o re a t 8 2 3 -0 2 5 0 , o r go o n lin e to
www.palkidsotg
Monterrey Touted As Model Mexican City
M ONTERREY, Mexico (AP)
Nestled among jagged mountains 120
miles south o f the Texas border, this city
in many ways is everything Mexico is
not: It’s modem, the residents are uni
versity graduates and you can drink the
water.
Monterrey is also what anti-global
ization activists fear, with its suburbs,
mini-malls and U.S. chains.
W hen world leaders converge on
Monterrey next week, Mexico will be
presenting this industrial metropolis as
the poster child for how to develop the
third world.
M onterrey is playing host to the
U.N. International C onference on Fi
nancing for D evelopm ent, an unprec
edented world sum m it on how to com
bat poverty and red istribute w ealth
Garcia Clinic
Earns Praise
Senator Gordon Sm ith went to the
floor o f the U.S. Senate early this
month to praise the efforts o f the
Virginia Garcia Memorial Heal thCen-
ter in providing primary health care
services to migrants, seasonal farm
w orkers and o th er low -incom e
groups in W ashington County.
“The V irginia Garcia Clinic does a
wonderfbl job at bridging the large
gap between access to coverage and
access to care,” said Smith. “The
clinic staff represent the kind o f
health care heroes we desperately
need in our quest to ensure that
every person in this country has
access to health care. Today, I salute
the work and workers o f the Virginia
Garcia Clinic, true heroes for Oregon.
Virginia Garcia was a 6-year-old
girl who died from a treatable in
fection in the 1970s. She died, not
because she lacked health care,
but because nobody spoke to her
fam ily in the only language they
knew - Spanish. The clinic, lo
cated in C orm elius, serves nearly
8,000 patients a year, 80 percent o f
whom are Spanish speaking and
90 percent o f w hom are below the
poverty level.
around the globe.
During a side meeting o f anti-glo
balization activists, a group o f Euro
pean nongovernmental organizations
denounced recent pledges by indus
trialized countries to spend billions
more on aid, calling it “cosmetic” and
another move to keep poor nations
dependent.
Fifty-two heads o f state are ex
pected to attend the summit, includ
ing President Bush and Cuban Presi
dent Fidel Castro.
U.N. spokesman Tim Wall said
Mexican President Vicente Fox chose
Monterrey to show world leaders its
economic success “rather than a sce
nic place with great cocktails.”
“ M o n terrey is not w hat you
w ould call a great tow n for tourism ,
it’s not a center o f colonial architec
ture, it d o e sn ’t have a beachfront,
but it’s an econom ic pow erhouse,”
Wall said. “ I t’s the hom e o f Latin
A merica’s first steel mill, it has manu
facturing, trade, com m erce, high-
tech industries.”
With more millionaires per capita
than any other area in Mexico, the
Monterrey metropolitan area o f some
3 million people boasts the highest
standard o f living in Mexico.
Wages for laborers can be as much
as five times higher than in the rest o f
the country — where the urban mini
mum wage is $4 a day — and the
people o f Monterrey study an aver
age o f three years more than other
Mexicans. The crime rate is among the
lowest for M exico’s metropolitan ar
eas, and its police are considered among
the least corrupt.
The city is home to M exico’s richest
b u sinesses, including C em ex, the
w orld’s third-largest cement company.
Dotting the green mountains outside
the city are sprawling estates with swim
ming pools, helicopter pads and horse
stables. Versace and other world-class
designers have stores here.
M ercedes and BM Ws zoom to strip
m alls and superm arkets. M any resi
d e n ts sp en d w e e k e n d s at beach
hom es on Padre Island o ff the Texas
coast o f the G u lf o f M exico, and have
adopted English w ords like “shop
ping.”
But some anti-globalization activists
say the glossy image is nothing more
than a Hollywood prop.
Workshop Teaches Brazilian Dance
The Portland State U n iv ersity ’s
World Dance Office presents an eight-
week Samba workshop with Sheyla
Mattos and the local band, Lions o f
Batucada.
Mattos, the workshop instructor is
from Sao Paulo, Brazil. She frequently
returns to her homeland for intensive
studies o f Brazilian folkloric dance to
inspire and share the beauty and energy
o f Brazilian dance and culture with her
students.
The dance workshop will be from April
9 - May 30, every Tuesday and Thurs
day, ffom6-7:30p.m. at PSU’sPeterStott
Center, Room 207. Beginners o f Samba
dance willjoin with advanced and return
ing students o f Mattos. Members o f the
legendary Lions ofBatucada will provide
live accompaniment for all classes.
For more information, call the World
Dance Office at 503-725-5670.
Men’s Gospel Music Workshop
For all male youths and adults who can sing
gospel, the New Hope Baptist Church, located
at 3725 N. Gantenbein, will be having a gospel
music m en’s workshop choir on March 21 and
22 at 7 p.m. and on March 23 at 10 a.m ., followed
by lunch at 1 p.m. A New Hope Church free
concert is scheduled for March 25,6:30 p.m. Call
281-0163, 698-5447 or send an email to
new hopefeips.net.
Chinese Kite Festival
The Portland Classical Chinese Garden celebrates
the tradition and history o f Chinese kites during
the Clear Brightness Festival. On Saturday, April
6 and Sunday, April 7, from noon to 3 p.m.,
children 6 years and older can learn to make kites
in a Chinese opera mask motif. The garden is
located at N W. 3"1 and Everett. Call 228-8131 or
go online to www,pQrtlandghingSggardgn.org.
Wildlife Conservation Lectures
The Oregon Zoo is having a W ildlife Conserva
tion Lecture Series. This year, Peter Matthiessen,
an acclaimed writer o f two dozen books will be
speaking on the preservation and revitalization
o f the world’s dwindling crane populations. The
event will be held on Tuesday, March 26, from
7:30p.m. -8:30p.m . Call 226-1561.
Pacific University Lecture
The streets o f Portland liven up as dancers o f all ages move to Samba
music.
Linking Creative Services to Hispanic Businesses
Creative Services’ contributions in
Oregon is the topic at the Hispanic
Chamber meeting on Tuesday, March
26, from 11:30 a.m. - 1 :30 p.m. in the
Benson Hotel, located at 309 SW.
Broadway in Portland.
“The goal o f this forum is to in
crease the participation o f Hispanic
Learn Local Demographic Analysis
Learn about how to do local dem ographic
analysis at three different w orkshops on the
subject. The w orkshops will be held March 20
and 22 at the Portland Building. They are
designed for human service providers, neigh
borhood activists, grant w riters, planners or
anyone who w ould like to easily look up and
analyze social data. For m ore inform ation,
contact Gina Clemmer at 234-5959 or go online
t o w w w .sm artgirltechnologies.com .
businesses to economic opportuni
ties in O regon’s creative services in
dustry, and to increase communica
tion and networking between the His
panic community and the creative ser
vices industry.
“Presenters from the Creative Ser
vices Association, Downstream Digital
and the Metropolitan Group will provide
an overview o f the industry and how they
work with Hispanic businesses and the
Latino community,” says Gale Castillo,
executive director o f the Chamber.
To attend, call 222-0280 or email to
hmcctouswest.net. The Hispanic Cham
ber website is at www.hmccoregon.com.
Immigration policy post-Septem ber 11 will be
a topic o f discussion at the Pacific Q uestions
Tow n Hall “People W ithout Papers,” on
W ednesday, April 3 at 7 p.m. in T aylor A udi
torium in M arsh hall on P acific’s cam pus in
Forest Grove. The event is free and open to
thepublic. Call 359-221 1.
Women’s HIV/AIDS Support Group
For women with HI V/AIDS, a support group is
available through Sister’s Keeper. It meets ev
ery 2nd and 3rd Monday, from 7 - 8 p.m. at the
Allen Temple CME Church, 4236 NE. Eighth
Ave. Call Renee W ard at 249-1719.
Continuing her commitment
to family and community
T he
M emorial S chon . » ship
Joyce Washington was tireless in her devotion to children and building a better community.
îl!f ^ o rtla n h ffilsftlb r is continuing this loving legacy by awarding high school seniors
from our community scholarships to help them achieve their dreams.
You can help by sending your contribution to the Joyce Washington
Memorial Scholarship Fund in care of Bank of America.
Your support will be truly appreciated.
Call your local Bank of America for more information, thank you.
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