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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
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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-
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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.
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?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."
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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
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