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October 02, 2002 www.portlandobserver.com Committed to Cultural Diversity B (Tin' ^ o rtla n h ommunity a le n d a r C Bewitching Com Maze Fire Station Opens to Neighborhood Acclaim Sandy Boulevard location to shorten reaction times for emergency calls C elebrate the H allow een sea son roam ing the tw ists and tu rn s o f th e co rn m a ze at K ruger’s Farm M arket. This year’s , m aze features a w itch on a b ro o m , alo n g w ith o th e r spooky surprises. Call for de tails. K ruger’s Farm M arket, 17100 S. W. Sauvie Island Road, 1 !6 m iles straight across the Sauvie Island Bridge. Call 503- 621-3489. Urban League Dinner T he Urban League o f Portland is having their annual dinner and auction on T uesday, Oct. 8 at the Portland Hilton Hotel. T his year the league honors Senator M argaret C arter for her past tw o years o f service as the L eague’s President. K eynote speaker is internationally known author M ark M athabane from South Africa. Call 360-892-7675 or360-910-0216. Gumbo Extraordinaire E veryone is invited to a grand opening celebration for “ Rice in the M iddle,” a new restau rant on Saturday, Oct. 5, from 2 - 4 p.m. T here w ill be free cajun gum bo sam ples, prizes, face p a in tin g and b allo o n s. T he event w ill be located at 4 7 1 1 N. Interstate Ave. Call 503-260- 6877. Firefighters and neighbors alike are present Friday at the dedication o f a new fire station at 8655 N. E. Sandy Blvd. Beaverton City Library This fall, the Beaverton City Library is sponsoring a series o f program s to address areas o f co n cern fo r consum ers. O n T u esday, O ct. 8, the W ells F argo H om e M ortgage and O pen D oor C ounseling C enter in H illsboro is giving a talk on “ H ome Buying: U nderstanding M ortgage and Finances.” It will be from 6 - 8:30 p.m. C all 503- 644-2197. Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center T he Interstate Firehouse C u l tural C enter is “roasting” Roy Jay, D irector o f the A frican A m erican C ham ber o f C o m m erce, celebrating this popular E n tre p re n e u r’s a c c o m p lish m ents and featuring com pli m entary cham pagne, coffee and great desserts. T his is a m ajor fu n d ra ise rfo rlF C C ’s20 "'an n i versary season. T he event is on T uesday, Oct. 29, from 7-9 p.m ., located at 5340 N. Interstate Ave. Call 503-823-2070. Multnomah County Library M ultnomah County Library will expand its Cyber Seniors classes to six libraries throughout the Portland area in N ovem ber and D ecem ber. T he classes are d e signed for senior citizens with (¿tie or no com puter experience and are offered free o f charge. T he N ovem ber series o f classes at the Capitol Hill Library, lo cated at 10723 S.W . Capitol W ay, Nov. 6 ,1 3 and 20. by D avid P lechl and W ynde D \ f . r T he P ortland O bserver T he Portland Fire Bureau celebrated the grand opening o f a new fire station in north east Portland Friday, with bagpipes, a barbe cue and a dedication to fal len New York City firefighters. Fire C h ief Ed W ilson, num erous em er gency w orkers andcity officialsjoined neigh bors for the dedication, post-cerem ony fes tivities and station tours. S ta tio n No. 12, a 9 ,3 0 0 -sq u a re -fo o t “superstation” links state-o f the art design with a com m unity room and offices forC en- tral N ortheast N eighbors. Located at 8655 N . E. Sandy BI vd., it is the first new station to open in eight years. The Fire Bureau hopes its location will result in quicker reaction tim es for fire and m edical em ergency cal Is on the east side o f Port land. “T his is one o f the holes in the city w here w e ’ve had long response tim e,” said Neil Heesacker, public inform ation officer for the Fire Bureau. “ W e w ere having 15 to 20 m inute running tim es out here.” The 12 firefighters w ho will work inrotat- photo hi wynde dver /T he ing 24-hour shifts will be one o f the first units to respond to calls at the airport. N eighbors are pleased about the location o f the new station and the incorporation o f offices for Central N ortheast N eighbors, a non-profit coalition that assists local neigh borhood associations. “ Som etim es people think the city ends at 82nd A ve,” said Bonnie W ebster, a Sum ner N eighborhood A ssociation m em ber and com m unity volunteer for 20 years. “ I'm glad to see the city is finally recognizing w e exist out here.” P ortland O bserver Karen K nauss brought her tw o children Finn, 3, and O liver, 6 mos., to the opening. Her kids love fire trucks and she appreciates the addition o f a positive public building into a portion o f Sandy Blvd. she describes as neglected and overrun with strip clubs. “These firefighters will be positive role m odels am idst things that are not so posi tive,” K nauss said. Station No. 12, builton the site w here City A uto W recking once stood, is dedicated in h o n o ro fth e N ew York City Firefighters lost on Sept. 11,2001. Lyon’s To Make Way for High Rise Housing Complex L ee P erlman T he P ortland O bserver by L y o n ’s R estaurant, a m ainstay o f the L loyd D istrict area e n te r tain m en t quarter, w ill serve its last m eal on Sunday. T h e re s ta u ra n t c h a in ’s lease on th e p ro p e rty at 1215 N .E . M a rtin L u th e r K in g Jr. B o u le v a rd e x p ire s o n O c t. 10. TheC.E. John Company, owner o f the property, and residential developer Trammel Crow plan to demolish the building and replace it with a six-story structure housing 184 market-rate rental units, ground floor retail and underground parking. T he P ortland D esign C o m m is sion w ill hold a hearing on the p ro p o sed stru c tu re ’s design, and five req u ested code adjustm ents, at 3 p.m . on T h u rsday, O ct. 17, at 1900 S.W . Fourth A ve. T ram m el C ro w 's Rob H innen told the Lloyd D istrict C om m unity A popular local restaurant will be demolished for the construction of new housing. A ssociation last m onth that the com p an y expects to rent the units for S750 to $ 1,300 a m onth. “G iven that this is right next to light rail, two stops from dow ntow n within the fareless zone, it’s very viable,” he said. “T here’s a desire for living dow ntow n w ithout deal ing w ith their traffic levels.” C.E. John is considering leasing a restaurant in the low er level o fth e new building, but spokespeople say they arc looking for som ething “m ore upscale” than L yon's. Manager Rick Luger says Lyon's staffwill be offered positions at other restaurants in the ehain. However, one stall'member says those who do will be treated as new hires, losing all accrued benefits. ‘T ve spent 25 years with this com pany, and 23 o f them have been at Lloyd Center,” Luger says. “ 1 grew up there. 1 ’m sad to see it go, but I’in glad I’ll be there at the end.” Portland Farmer’s Market C elebrate H allow een at Port land Farm ers M arket’s “G reat Pum pkin E vnet" on Saturday, Oct. 26, from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. This e v e n t c o in c id e s w ith th e m arket’s final day o f the 2002 season and features free pum p kins, on-site carving lessons, a ch ef dem onstration and a pump- kin pancake breakfast. A H al low een parade starts at 11 a.m. Call 503-241-0032. I Vote Would Remove Racist Language from Oregon Constitution (A P ) — “No free negro, or m ulatto, not residing in this state at the tim e o f the adop tion o f this constitution, shall com e, reside, or be w ithin this State, or hold any real estate,” reads a provision in the Oregon C onstitution from 1857. A century and a h a lf later, the passage is still there. O n Nov. 5, O regonians will vote on w hether to rem ove it and other discrim ina 4 tory language. O regon state Sen. A vel G ordly o f north east Portland, one o f three A frican A m eri can legislators, led the effort to delete the offending passage from the Oregon C onsti tution. G ordly said there had been discussions about rem oving the language since she took office in 19 9 1, but only in recent years has it received enough attention to prom pt law- m ak ersin to action. A bout 56,000 blacks live in O regon, less than 2 percent o f the population. Prom inent A frican A m ericans include Jam es DePreist. conductor o f the O regon Sym phony, and Jim Hill, form er state treasurer who cam e in second in the 2002 D em ocratic prim ary for governor. G ordly said no m oney will be spent to prom ote the m easure, since little resistance is expected from voters. “T hese w ords reflected a tim e o f w hite suprem acist thinking,” she said. “ Hopefully that tim e is behind us.” O ver the past four years, about a half- dozen states have taken steps to expunge racist constitutional w ording and statutes that had been virtually forgotten over the decades. continued on pane H4 I
