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5Q¿ Thousands Mourn Jam Master Jay Legendary rapper remembered as the embodiment o f hip hop See story, page A3 -ÌJnrtliinò © hserüer o c' ‘Citv of Roses’ www nnrt landohser www.portlandobserver.com P c ta h llc h p H ¡n in 107 1970 ft Established Committed to Cultural Diversity Volume XXXII • Number 44 Wednesday • November 06, 2002 Mental Health Services Take Cut Funds end for walk-in crisis services, patients will be sent out of Northeast by W ynde D yer T he P ortland O bserver The m ental health crisisju st got w orse for n orth and n o rth east P ortland resid en ts, public health care professionals say. A loss o f county funding to provide w alk-in crisis treatm ent for new clients at Tualatin Valley C enters’ C enterforC om m u- nity M ental Health and three other Portland area clinics, w ill cause C C M H w orkers to divert all new acute care clients from their clinic on the co m er o f N ortheast M artin L uther K ing Jr. B oulevard and Beech Street to a 24-hour, 7-day a w eek w alk-in clinic on Southeast 4 3 ,d and D ivision as o f N ov. 15. “T his decision is not at all sensitive to the needs o f the com m unity," said Rick Stanek, am en tal health therapist for C C M H . “ Easily 5 0 -p ercen to fo u r clients are A frican A m eri cans from this neighborhood and they com e Smokers pack up before tax hike O regon sm okers bought cartons o f cigarettes by the arm load last w eek before Friday’s 60-cent-a- pack state tax increase. The state tax w ent up from 68 cents to $1.28 a pack after v oters ap proved M easure 20 in S eptem ber by a tw o-to-one m argin. A pack-a-day sm oker now will pay $ 219m oreayear— or $467.20 in taxes — for the habit. Yemen leader urges al-Quida'to repent Y e m e n ’s p r e s id e n t, A li A bdul lah Saleh, urged al-Q aida m em bers T uesday to “ repent” and renounce violence follow ing the w eekend attack in w hich a U.S. Hellfire m issile fired from a C IA plane killed the terrorist m ovem ent’s top operative in the country. h ere becau se it’s co n venient. N ow do they j u s t e x p e c t th e s e people to m igrate over th ere?” O f the 700-plus in d iv id u als w h o have u tilized th e w alk -in clinic since inception last N ovem ber, Stanek e s tim a te s p ro b a b ly h a lf return for further stabilization through therapy, case m anagem ent, m edication ser vices and support groups. H e said the walk-in clinic model has proved highly successful because people can get in for a basic m ental health assessm ent and, if necessary, have m edications prescribed that day rath er than go through the intake pro This decision is not at all sensitive to the needs o f the community. Rick Stanek, m ental health therapist cess w hich can take anyw here from a few days to a few w eeks. O nce the w alk-in clinic closes in N ovem ber, clients w ill have to m ake the trip across tow n o r be put on the w aiting list for traditional intake. “ It has been a valuable resource for this com m unity,” Stanek said. "D o they expect a poor, single, A frican A m erican, m other in crisis w ho lives on food stam ps w ith no m oney to take tw o - i f not three - buses after dark, in the w inter, out to 4 3 rd and D ivision? Is that sensitive?” C C M H and the other em ergency w alk-in clinics in southeast and dow ntow n Port land, and in G resham , began offering ser vices last year w ith seed m oney from the county. B efore that, P rovidence M edical C enter had operated a crisis triage unit under a five-year grant. B ecause the overhead for providing psychiatric services w ithin a large hospital system is so high. P rovidence suf fered a loss o f nearly $ 1 mi 1 lion a year. W hen their contract w as up, the county decided to decentralize the m ental health system by spreading out treatm ent clinics in an effort to continued on page .46 CONCORDIA Looking Good OHSU tests new HIV drug E ighteen O regonians are par ticipating in the trial o f a p ro m ising new drug to treat H IV , the virus that causes A ID S. The experim ental dru g called T -20 stops individual viruses from r e p r o d u c in g , s lo w in g th e d isease’s progression. In that w ay it’s like A ZT , another HIV drug. B ut T -20 w orks by inter fering w ith an entirely d ifferent step in the v iru s’ life cycle. T hat m eans no HIV infection has learned to resist this drug. The development o f the New Seasons M arket block on Northeast 3 3 " Avenue and Killingsworth has brought more customers than ever to Wayne Cannon o f Cannon 's Rib Express. Skater fired up over hot sauce T onya Hot Sauce features an unflattering caricature o f dis g ra c e d fig u re sk a te r T o n y a H arding outside a dum py trai ler, cigarette in m outh, ice skates in one hand and a hubcap in the other. H arding’s San D iego at torney W illiam M arkham , says the sp o o f defam es H arding and unfairly conjures up m em ories o f w hat he says are disturbing and m isunderstood events that foi led her dream s o f an O lym pic cham pionship. PHOTOSBY M ark W ashington / T he P ortland O bserver (left) and Stanley Jackson, custom er service manager, will mark its one-year anniversary next month with northeast Portland residents giving the store good reviews. First anniversary for New Seasons Market, revitalized neighborhood noted by L ee P erlman T he P ortland O bserver W ha, m akes the one year anniversary for the N ew Seasons M arket at 5320 N .E. 33rd A ve. a plus for the C o ncordia neighborhood and Portland in general? Let us count the w ays. It is a full-service grocery in a residential neighborhood that had been begging for one for seven years. It provides both fresh- Coast Guard looks for migrants T he C oast G uard said T uesday it has stepped up sea and air patrols in response to a pos sible increase in the flow o f ille gal m igrants from H aiti, the Do m inican R epublic and C uba. m ade goods and natural foods, plus cheaper generic products. It provides a m arket for locally produced products, and jo b s for n eighborhood people. It is a reliable sup p o rter o f local charities and causes. It even takes the trouble to be pet-friendly. A bove all, it is a good n eighbor w hose ow ners listens and responds to local concerns. "T h e y ’ve been g reat neighbors,” said H e c to r R o ch e, lan d use c h a ir fo r the C o n c o rd ia N e ig h b o rh o o d A sso c ia tio n . “T h ey ’re very attentive to o u r concerns." As part o f the developm ent o f the N ew S easons site, new quarters w ere built for W ayne C annon’s R ib Express, a 1 iquor store, and m ost recently F igaro’s Pizza. “ It’s been w onderful,” C annon said. “ I kept al 1 my old clientele and got a w hole new one from New Seasons. T h ey ’re w onderful; 1 co u ld n ’t ask for a better neighbor. T h e y 're alw ays there to help.” N ew Seasons em ploys 150 people at its C oncordia store. M anager C arly C urtis said about 70 per cent o f the w orkforce lives in inner north east Portland. Stanley Jackson is a local A frican A m eri can resident and w orks as the sto re ’s cus- continued NK on page B5 ¡■ M M M M M N M M M N iw M n M N M M H B M B H B H African American Chamber Hosts Networking Event Godzilla on the loose G odzilla w as found w andering the streets in N orw alk, C alif., but M othra w asn ’t his biggest adversary— cars were. The 105- p o u n d , 5 5 -y e a r-o ld A fric a n spurred tortoise, nam ed after the horror m ovie icon, w as found several blocks from his hom e, three days after he escaped from his hom e o f 30 years w ith Chuck and Frances Gil. Lisa Manning and Paul Knauls o f the Oregon African American Chamber mingle at a reception introducing them to some o f Portland's top lawyers. Man threw feces, police say T he ow ner o f W orld Fam ous A utos, a M edford car d ealer ship, faces assault charges after pol ice say he hurled feces at tw o Jackson C ounty d e p u f J ing a drunken fit. by L o t M iller for T he P ortland O bserver I ig h t in g f o r S o l i d a r i t y £> £ E 2 3? x> 9 b O c ?s Heurta. co-founder o f the United Farm Workers along with Cesar Chavez, rallies the on Saturday at the All Saints Catholic Church in northeast Portland. Huerta delivered a lal speech about sources o f inspiration in her life and encouraged solidarity for Willamette migrant farm workers. “It's up to us, we have g ot the power, ’ she told the crowd. “We all ustice but we re not going to get it if we 're ju s t sitting at hom e." photo B y D avid ■ * P iet h i /T hi P ortland O bserver The A frican A m erican C ham ber o f C om m erce does everything w ith style and first class one at tendee said at the V IP reception held last W ednesday at the law offices o f B ullivant, H ouser and B ailey, one o f P o rtlan d 's m ost prom inent law firms. Roy Jay, president o f the cham ber, term ed the reception as an inform al netw orking event to e n able A frican A m erican business ow ners and professionals to m eet som e o f P ortland’s top law yers. The C ham ber is trying to open up m ore opportunities for b u si ness contacts beyond w hat Jay cal Is the "m inority certi fled” arena. H arold W illiam s. C hairm an o f the B oard for the A frican A m eri can C ham ber ofC om m erce gave a w e lco m in g m essag e that laid dow n the ground rules for those that w ant to be involved w ith the cham ber W illiam s said all appli cations for cham ber m em bership arc taken under consideration, but continued yf on page A3
