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About Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current | View Entire Issue (Sept. 4, 2002)
Page A3 September 04, 2002 Giving Back NBA All Star and Portland native Terrell Brandon meets area kids at the Matt Dishman Community Center on Northeast Knott. Brandon was at the Portland Parks and Recreation facility Thursday to donate $25,000 to the center. He said he literally grew up at Matt Dishman between 1975 and 1984. P hoto by D avid P i . echl / T he P ortland O bserver U.S. Attacked, One Year Later Local Students Win Showcase continued Diane Littlejohn and Bobby Bridges of the Youth Opportunity Center on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, traveled to Los Angeles recently to compete in the YO West Coast Talent Showcase. The event drew over 500 Youth Opportunity students from the West Coast, as well as members of the Ruff Riders record label. Littlejohn and Bridges flew home with top honors. Bridges, 22, won first place for lyrics, and Littlejohn, 20 won third place for vocals. In addition to winning cash and prizes, they have been invited back by the City of Los Angeles to perform at the Anniversary Tribute to Sept. 11. For more information, contact La Shanda E. Hurst, Youth Opportunity Center 503-528-7520 City Considers PGE Takeover continued from Front “This is primarily to place the city at the table, period, end of story,” Katz said. City Commissioner Erik Sten said the city had to act to protect its interest and Portland ratepayers. “We won’t know what our final approach will be until we have some discussions with creditors d i rectly,” Sten said. “As it says in our resolution, we have the power of condemnation - not that w e’re going to use it, but we might,” Sten said. “I hope it will materially affect discussions on how the company (PGE) will be auctioned off.” Enron said last T uesday it planned to auction PGE and the rest of its main assets, possibly signaling it has abandoned its al ternate plan of reorganizing as a new company tentatively called “OpCo Energy” with PGE, Enron natural gas pipelines and a Brazil ian utility as its main assets. Giving our best. from Front Still, surviving the event was hard on Meaux. He saw people sucked from windows and bod ies strewn like matchsticks. AON Financial lost 203 em ployees. M eaux lost som e very good friends, “some o f the most beau tiful people I knew ,” he said. Dee described the im pact it had on her son, “All my children are grow n. I’ve never heard them cry, he cried.” Since Sept. 11, M eaux said al m ost everyone in his office has experienced “episodes o f fear.” For a while the sound of the planes crossing over his apart ment were hard to bear. It was the last noise he heard before the first jet slammed into T ow er 1. Despite the traum a and shock o f the event, M eaux returned to work ju st three w eeks later on the 32nd floor o f an office in lower Manhattan. He worked dili gently up to Jan. 25 when his m other Dee says stress becam e too great. M eaux co u ld n ’t con centrate at work. Like others who experienced the tragedy first hand, Meaux needed time away. R elief did not come easy. He had trem endous difficulty col lecting tem porary disability and i Tell people how much you love them, focus on the things that are important, the people that are important. — M e a u x C ra ig , W o rld T ra d e C e n te r su rvivo r and w fo rm e r P o rtlan d resident ■ w orkers comp. He spent months trying to collect any kind of check. Eventually, he was forced to contact the Red Cross for help meeting rent. They came through for him. Only later did he finally receive all his w orkers com p checks directly before he re turned to full tim e em ploym ent. Now back at w ork, M eaux is beginning to heal. He says it is therapeutic to talk about the event that changed his life. His physical sym ptom s have im proved. Life is beginning to re turn to norm al. He is focusing on his em otions and tying it all to gether. He now sees the tragedy as a new beginning. “The whole experience has been an aw akening for m e.” M eaux said recently from his apartm ent in B rooklyn. “Tell people how much you love them, focus on the things that are im portant, the people that are im po rtan t.” Meaux said the whole experi ence has changed his relation ship with his fam ily. "W e’ve gotten closer,” he said. Dee also said she and her hu s band have reevaluated how they feel about life, their son, and each other. “That person you love,” said Dee, “could be gone in a flash.” Safeway Classic 2002 Septem ber 13th thru the 15th Beef Chuck Steak Seedless Green Grapes Valu Pack. Blade or 7-bone. O r Roast. SAVE up to $1.50 Ib. Safeway Club Price Safeway Club Price Shell-O n G rilling Shrim p SAVE up to $4 50 lb IS SAFEWAY 99 ib SAFEWAY CLUB PRICE Visit Safeways Web site at www.safeway.com 881 991 Row 5 jrown. t sweet snack. to $1.11 Ib. 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