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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
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“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.”
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