September 11, 2002
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Food Bank Calls For Volunteers
The Oregon Food Bank is ask
ing for help in the fight against
hunger.
At least 40 people are needed
each week to sort and repackage
donated food.
The agency serving the Port
land metropolitan area from its
headquarters in northeast Port
land. is estimating that as many as
700,000 people will have eaten at
least one meal from an emergency
basis enables us to efficiently get
donated food out to agencies, and
in turn, low income individuals.
Volunteers who can commit to a
weekly or monthly shift are the
driving force behind this program,"
saidOFB Volunteer Program Man
ager Ellen Curtis.
For information on how you can
volunteer, call 503-282-0555, exten-
sio n 3 0 0 ,
or
e-m a il
volunteer@ oregonfoodbank.org.
food box in the last year.
The need is 16 to 18 percent
higher than in previous years.
To meet the increase in both
requests for donated food and
donated food product, Oregon
Food Bank needs more volunteers
to help in projects that range from
repackaging food to tending a new
urban garden at the hunger relief
agency’s warehouse site.
“Having volunteers on a daily
Vandals Hit Abandoned School
The Portland School District is receiving complaints about vandalism and graffiti at the
abandoned Whitaker Middle School site. The northeast Portland school was closed more
than a year ago because o f mold and other maintenance issues. The district wants to tear it
down and build a new middle school. In the meantime, Portland Police have proposed using
the building to conduct drills on school terrorism. The school opened as John Adams High
School in the fall o f 1969.
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nom ic developm ent plan,”
Wyden said.
The summit will “invest in
the people of our state, commit
ting them (to action) and then
hold everybody accountable,”
Wyden said. Wyden proposed
a kind of economic report card
in which officials would be
graded on whether they sup
ported development initiatives
and how hard they pushed
them.
W yden said the agenda
would focus on four major ar
eas: transportation, education,
health care and energy.
When he talks to executives
about expanding or locating a
With Oregon in the grips of
recession and a jobless rate
that’s the highest in the coun
try, the state needs a fresh ap
proach to economic develop
ment, Sen. Ron Wyden says.
The Oregon Democrat plans
to host a Dec. 9 conference at
the Portland Convention Cen
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elected officials from both par
ties to forge a coordinated strat
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“I’m really excited about it,
because this is the first time
there’s been a comprehensive
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sector to essentially endow the
people of the state with an eco-
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Wyden said.
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stuff in and out? Tell me if I am
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Business leaders also worry
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New Food Service Rule Bans Latex
contain proteins that can cause
allergies, according to Kohn.
“Workers who are in repeated
contact with the gloves are at
increased risk of developing
reactions that range from mild
itching and rash to hives, diffi
culty in breathing and some
times even death.”
Kohn said that custom ers
can be at risk o f a reaction
related to latex gloves, too.
“People who are sensitive to
latex rubber can have a reac
tion just by eating food that
has been prepared by an em
ployee wearing latex gloves,”
Allergic reactions associated
with latex gloves have prompted
a new state rule that bans their
use among food service work
ers, according to public health
officials at the Oregon Depart
ment of Human Services.
“This change will protect
the health of O regonians,”
says Mel Kohn, M.D., state
epidem iologist in DHS. “A l
though the ban isn’t effective
until next March, we encour
age, restaurants to switch to
safer gloves as soon as pos
sible.”
Natural rubber latex gloves
he said.
Between 8 percent to 17
percent of workers who are
regularly exposed to powdered
latex gloves are sensitive to
latex and between 1 percent
and 6 percent of the general
population have latex allergy,
according to Kohn.
The March 1, 2003 imple-
nentation date will give restau
rant owners and supply compa
nies time to switch to safer
alternatives.
Vinyl and polyvinyl chloride
gloves are considered low-cost
solutions.
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