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July 03, 2002 ®I}e Jïortlanfc ®böeruer Page B2 i R eligion / F amily M ■ 1 * r 4 1 - W ¡7 - Æ « 1 A a I k Ì&. • IT t 1 U 1 ’ v t 4 1 |M I u ’ V v" I T Is V J - y . ' 1 W • J r - «-«cr I™ 1 ’1 1 a 1 K T W ; W k » Libraries Promote Summer Reading Jane Corry, the youth librarian for the Albina branch o f the Multnomah County Library at 3605 N.E. 15thAve., reads to kids during a special summerreading program. The story times for kids are scheduled several times a week at all library branches in Portland during the summer months. The Albina branch also schedules special summercrafts and performances each Saturday at 11 a.m. photobv M ark W ashington TT he P ortland O bserver SALES/MARKETING Fast growing company looking For energetic individuals to fulfill Sales/Training role (503) 636-4791 TLC-TnT based at Whitaker Middle School (Lakeside) 5135 N.E. Columbia Blvd. (503) 916-6320 Fax (503) 916-2753 In conjunction with Portland Schools and Portland Park Bureau Coordinated by Faye Palmerton & Roy Pittman TLC-TnT is a program for student and families to promote self-estee. The program is designed to offer everyone a chance to experience joy, fun gratitude, tenderness, love, accomplishment and victory. Please Call 503-916-6320 for 2002 TLC-TNT Summer Camp Registration Form. The camp is free to all. Suit Against Former All Saints Priest Grows (A P)— Six plaintiffs have joined a sexual abuse law suit against the A rc h d io c ese o f P o rtla n d and form er northeast P ortland priest T hom as Laughlin, bringing to 11 the num ber o f pending claim s against Laughlin. A m ong the m ost recent plain tiffs are tw o brothers w ho at tended All Saints C atholic Church in north east P o rtland, both o f w hom say they d id n ’t know the oth er had been abused until last month. L aughlin w as kicked o ut o f the priesthood in 1983 after being convicted o f sexual abuse and now lives in N ew M exico. The lawsuit, filed in Multnomah C ounty C ircuit C ourt, seeks $4 m illion for each plaintiff. Bud B unce, a spokesm an for the archdiocese, said he had not seen the law suit and could not comment. M ichael and T om V im ig were not the sort o f brothers w ho kept secrets from each other. But Vimig, now 35, kept a big secret from his older brother: A priest repeatedly sexually abused him . he says, w hen he w as an altar boy at All Advertise wnh diversity in il' j-lni tlaiii'i idliwnttr call 5 0 3 .2 K B 0033 tiren&nl: adstftxwtia» ibsarver.r.(’" W o rs h ip w it h us a t th e : A lb in a C h ris tia n L ife C e n te r Worship Opportunities A Services Sundays Sunday School: 9:45 A M Morning Worship: 11 AM Evening Worship: 6 PM Wednesday , Family Training Hour, 7PM »7217 * 5 0 3 28 3 -1 6 3 5 Please call fo r information or counci linn. Afinal Sunday morning service at the Albina Christian Life C enter at 5522 N. A lbina will be held Sunday, July 7 at 11 a.m. The church is m oving out o f its historic hom e in the old Colonial Theatre after 30 years o f ministry because of the em inent dom ain process held by Portland C om m unity College for expansion o f the C ascade C am pus in north Portland. The mostly African American congregation purchased the historic W illam ette E vangelical C hurch at N orth W illamette Boulevard and Gay Avenue for its new home on A pril 8. But it took considerable rehabilitation and m odification by the hard w ork o f volunteers and other contractors to get the church ready for use. Albina Christian Life Center officials said the congre gation will have its final Sunday m orning Service at the Albina site and then at 3:30 p.m. will parade along Albina to K illingsw orth to its new church hom e. A rea residents are invited to a reception that w ill follow in the dining area o f the W illam ette B oulevard church. Sisters In Action Garage Sale Supports Girls Leadership ter in T exas will encourage the further developm ent o f leadership and organizing skills in addition to team bui lding and bonding ex ercises. T he garage sale is one o f the many things Sisters in Action lead- Sisters in Action leaders are raising m oney for their first out- of-state retreat w ith a garage sale, scheduled Saturday, July 20, from 10 a.m . to 3 p.m. at the gro u p ’s office at 1732 N.E. Alberta. The retreat at an affiliated cen- NeedaTeteuhoneatHome? TlmeTo Get A Cell Phone? war« Tfxiijw WTonePAirwTttacx r CwÀmfrtoomudiHwmaôori? Can’t Walt todays? WhyChooae?-Ha»«al! NeedFeakierf Sr. Pastor Bishop Samual M. Irving 5 5 2 2 N. A lb in a P o rtla n d , O regon Saints from 1979 to 1981. It turns out T om kept the same secret about him self until last month. M ichael V im ig, w ho lives in Los A ngeles, started thinking about L aughlin earlier this year during m edia coverage o f a priest sexual-abuse scandal in M assa ch u setts. He knew Laughlin had been convicted and sent to a hom e for priest abusers. But M ichael Vim ig discovered in a new spaper article that L aughlin lived in an apart m ent on a church pension and was passing him self o ff as a priest to a com m unity that had no idea of his past. “It angered m e to the point that I felt like I needed to do som ething about it,” he said. In the article, V im ing read the nam e o f M ichael M orey, a Lake O sw ego attorney w ho represents several m en w ho are suing the Portland A rchdio cese o ver Laughlin. V im ing called M orey. A little later, M orey received a call from Tom Viming, who recently moved to W ashington. “It w as apparent to me that neither had talked to each other,”he said. Get Connected!! 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If approved, the SA T will include tougher math and em phasis reading and writing more. •
