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Self Enhancement Inc.
Roy Jones Jr., undisputed light
heavyweight champion of the
world will visit youths at Self
Enhancement, Inc. to deliver a
m otivational speech. Jones
spends much of his free time
speaking to America’s youth on
the value of education and the
perils of drugs. He will be at SEI,
located at 3920North Kerby Ave.
on Wednesday, Sept. 4, from
5:30-6p.m .
SECTION
‘You Gotta Make a Living’
Longtime barber works feverishly in an impatient world
Portland RV & Van Show
, The Portland Fall RV & Van
Show, the largest in the North
west, returns for its 19lh year.
The show will be bringing you
the best in motor homes, 5th
wheels, travel trailers and more.
The exhibit will take place at the
Portland Expo Center, from Sept.
1 2 -1 5 , located off of Interstate
5 and Delta Park. Call 503-246-
8291 o r go o n lin e to
www.pdxrvshow.com.
River City Celebration
Harbor jet-boat tours, interac
tive trade exhibits, historical
displays, lantern-making work
shops, food booths, entertain
ment and an evening illuminated
procession along the c ity ’s
Eastbank Esplanade await visi
tors to Portland’s “River City
Celebration & Illuminata Parade
of Light” on Saturday, Sept. 21,
from noon - 10:30 p.m. The
daylong festival will be at the
e a st end o f P o rtla n d ’s
Hawthorne Bridge, where S.E.
M a d iso n ST. m eets the
Willamette Riverbank.
Dora Cam pbell s its in her A lberta S tr e e t barbershop in front o f pictu res o f fam ily an d friends. S h e h a s b e e n cutting hair in th e city for 3 4 years.
photo by D avid P lechi / T he P ortland O bserver
by D avid P i . echl
VIctlmsAsslstance Program
Volunteers are needed as on-
call Rape V ictim Advocates with
the Multnomah County District
Attorney’s Victims Assistance
Program for evening and week
end shifts. Training is five
events, from6:30-8:30p.m„ be
ginning Oct. 1 at the Multnomah
l| County Courthouse. Call 503-
988-3222 to volunteer.
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T he P ortland O bserver
“Barbershop,” says Dora Campbell, sim
ply, as she answers the phone in her modest
Alberta Street shop.
Dora has been cutting hair in north and
northeast Portland since 1968. She doesn’t
need to tell her customers over the phone
her name, they already know. Some of her
regulars go back 15,20, even 30 years.
When Dora was just 20 years old, she
entered Molers Barber College.
“Molers, and then Modem,” she explains.
“I also went to Fagan’s Beauty School.”
Dora worked diligently as a barber for a
number of years and then entered the Army
and served as a medic for four. A valuable
experience, but not exactly her cup of tea,”
Dora continued her trade.
“I always stayed with my barbering,” she
says.
And her customers have stayed with her.
Retired construction worker Ira Cheatham
has been a client of Dora’s for about two
decades.
“lean go back 20 (years), I ’ m scared to go
back more,” Cheatham jokes, adding, “I
follow her wherever she goes.”
Dora stands only about 5 foot 2, but her
presence is somehow both commanding
and warm.
She is stem with a grandson who barges
in looking for a beard trim, but behind large
rimmed glasses are clear and caring eyes.
She is a single mother o f five grown
children. She has ten 10 grandkids and two
great-grandkids.
Campbell is typical of the many tireless
black business owners in north and north
east Portland that give patiently and work
feverishly in an impatient world.
In addition to her busy schedule barbering,
Dora works 5 days a week at Hollywood Fred
Meyer.
“I stay tired all the time,” she says, “You
gotta make a living.”
Unfortunately, Dora has fallen on slightly
unpredictable times. Her landlord recently
passed on and the building she rents is now
up for sale.
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Parole Officer Lands in Jail
by L ee P erlman
T he P ortland O bserver
Dr. Ed M allett
g iv e s an eye
exam ination at
the M ultnom ah
County Health
Clinic at 5 3 2 9
N.E. Martin
Luther King Jr.
Blvd.
PHOTO BY
M ark
W ashington /
T he P ortland
O bserver
Eye Clinic Gets Kids Ready for School
An eye examination can be part of
every child’s annual back-to-school
routine, thanks to free vision screen
ings for pre-schoolers and school-age
children at local vision centers of the
Pacific University College of Optom
etry.
Normal vision function is critical in
the development of learning skills for
infants and children.
The screenings take about 30 min
utes and provide important information
about clarity of vision, eye health, and
eye coordination - factors that are es
sential for good vision and healthy eyes.
Screenings are especially beneficial
for younger children whose learning
skills, such as reading and writing self
esteem in the classroom depend on good
vision and healthy eyes.
Free screenings for school-age chil
dren are offered weekdays, evenings and
!
weekends with locations throughout
the P ortland area, including the
Multnomah County Health Clinic at
5329 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
Screenings also are available for area
schools, businesses and community
organizations.
For more information, or to schedule
an appointment at a Pacific University
Vision Center near you, call 503-357-
5800.
Harrison Danley spent 21 years putting
problems from his youth behind him and
building a life for himself. In a few minutes,
it was all “wiped away.”
Danley, a corrections counselor with the
Multnomah County Office of Parole and
Probation, was convicted of fourth degree
assault, a misdemeanor charge that nor
mally results in not more than two years of
probation.
Last week, he began serving a 90-day jail
sentence and three years probation stem
ming from a fight he says he did not provoke.
Danley will also have to pay fines that,
together with the expenses of his legal de
fense, will leave him homeless, bankrupt and
in debt.
The conviction also means he will lose
his accreditation as a parole and probations
counselor, costing him his job and his ca
reer.
Danley admits to both criminal activity
and drug use in his youth, but maintains he
has been both law abiding and sober for 21
years. In fact, his work on the African-
American prison program, a pilot project on
transition from incarceration for African-
American men, earned him national recogni
tion.
However, he also had his share of con
flicts with co-workers.
Danley said he frequently clashed at
meetings with James Cohen, a fellow mem
ber of his substance abuse recovery group,
a man he admits got “under his skin."
At an evening meeting on Dec. 16,2001,
Danley says Cohen, “goaded me” and fol
lowed him out to his car.
“He continued to goad me, bumped
against me. I hit him, knocked him down and
Harrison Danley, who o n c e won national
acclaim for helping African Am erican of
fen d ers m a k e th e transition from prison
to society, now finds h im s e lf in jail.
hit him again,” Danley said.
Cohen suffered a broken bone and a cut in
his forehead.
Danley said a police officer he knew re
sponded to the incident, took a statement
from him. and then told him, “D on’t worry
about it.”
Then on Feb. 19, Danley was arrested and
charged with aggravated assault involving
the use of a weapon - a Measure 11 offense
that would require 70 months imprisonment
and held on $250,000 bail.At a subsequent
hearing, a judge refused to lower the bail.
He finally managed to raise the bail.
Danley says he clashed with two of his
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