April 16. 2003
(Elje |JortIan ò (Observer
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Planners Push Growth in St. Johns
S ports
co n tin u ed
fro n t M etro
BLAZERS o n BOOST AGAINST LAKERS
Rasheed Wallace Is mobbed
by jubilant teammates Zach
Randolph (left) and Jeff
McInnis after sinking a three-
point shot with less than a
minute to go to put the
Blazers in the lead over the
Los Angeles Lakers in
Portland Sunday. The Lakers
missed a final opportunity to
score, and the Blazers won
101-99. The Blazers are
locked in a race for the
fourth spot in the Western
Conference playoffs. They
will finish the regular season
Wednesday against the
Clippers in Los Angeles
(AP Photo)
Third Straight Masters Eludes Tiger
(A P) — T iger W oods w as m iffed. His
caddie gave him som e bad advice. W oods
m ade it w orse w ith a bad sw ing, and now
his chances o f w inning a third straight
green jack et w ere all but gone.
He w alked alone tow ard the fourth green
staring straight ahead, not even hearing
the m urm ur com ing from the bleachers
w hen his double bogey w as posted.
W inning an o th er M asters w as never
going to be easy.
W hen y o u ’re T ig er W oods, though, it’s
not supposed to be this hard.
“ N o one has ever done it," W oods said.
“O bviously it’s proven it’s hard to do."
A week filled w ith m istakes cam e to a
sputtering close Sunday w hen W oods shot
his w orst final round in a M asters - a 75 - to
finish nine strokes behind w in n er M ike
Weir.
. T he charge into A m en C o m er that both
his fans and fellow com petitors expected
never m aterialized, leaving W oods a chore
he co u ld n ’t have relish - putting the green
ja c k e t around W eir’s shoulders.
He w as sm iling and philosophical. But
even through the w ords it was hard to hide
the disappointm ent.
support for apartm ents
up to three stories high
on Lom bard, and less
enthusiasm for tall build
in g s
a lo n g
th e
W illam ette River.
She said the planners
are trying to place too
m any new residents in
the area.
“ W e c a n ’t take an
oth er 100,000 people.
T his is the peninsula;
w e only have three ac
cess roads and th ey 're
all at cap acity ," Bogus Traffic files down an intersection at N. Lombard in St.
said.
W ith regard to the process she says, center.
“ I feel w e ’re being pushed pretty hard
“ W e need to increase it through high-
pretty q u ick ly .”
density housing, and also (increase) b u si
B ud Logan o f the St. Johns Boosters nesses that draw people in from other
sees som e m erit to re-exam ining zoning areas. W e ’re quite a w ays from the center
along som e partsofN orth Lombard. How o f Portland, and w e need som ething d ra
ever, on the w hole, he said the m ost matic to draw people in,” H ow ard said
recent land use plan com m issioned in
Pat U pdyke, another m em ber o f the
1980 is “perfectly adequate" today.
citizen ’s com m ittee, stressed the im por
G erry H ow ard o f A lbina C om m unity tance o f strengthening the St. Johns b u si
Bank, a m em ber o f the p lan’s citizen advi ness environm ent.
sory co m m ittee, disputed com plaints
‘ We need new o r existing businesses to
about a lack o f local input in the latest m eet local needs, but also for people to
planning process.
shop locally rather than go dow ntow n,"
He also supported increasing the popu U pdyke said.
lation density around the St. Johns tow n
B oth said th ere’s a need to preserve
A Voice in Writing
con tin u ed
Tiger Woods eyes his ball as he
blasts out o f the trap on the seventh
hole during final round play o f the
2003 Masters. (AP photo)
“T h a t’s sp o rts,” W oods said. " I t’s w hy
we play, to put y o u rself in position. Y o u ’re
not going to w in every tim e.”
W oods w as good enough to w in the last
tw o tim es, but it d id n ’t take long in a sun-
splashed final round to figure out this w as
not going to be his day.
It m ight not have been surprising, given
W oods shot 76 in the first round and had
to m ake a par putt on the final hole ju s t to
m ake the cut. But after a third round o f 66
that brought him w ithin four strokes en ter
ing S u n d ay ’s play, o th er players w ere n er
vously eyeing the leaderboard.
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An old er w om an reads her essay about a lack o f m edi
cine because o f the fai lure o f Ballot M easure 28 that results
in dem ons telling her “to do terrible things.”
W elcom e to W rite A round Portland, an event that
encourages traditionally disenfranchised people - like
those in poverty or with m ental illnesses - to “ find their
ow n voice” through w riting.
A rea residents are learning m ore about the non-profit
group during a series o f w orkshops this spring and sum
m er w ith a m ass reading set for July 26 at D aw son Park in
north Portland.
S om e participants in this neighborhood endeavor have
som e creativ e w riting experience, but it’sn o t a pre-requi
site, according to W rite A round Portland founder Liza
Halley
Last w eek, “alu m n ae” from the non-profit group held a
w orkshop at B roadw ay B ooks in northeast Portland.
Jack B abcock, one o f the n ig h t’s readers, w ho once w as
an English m ajor at the U niversity o f O regon, began
w riting again after attending a W rite A round Portland
w orkshop.
“T here are a lot o f people w ho are interested in w riting,
but they need people to encourage them ," B abcock said.
H alley originally began doing w riting w orkshops - for
the elderly and children - in New H am pshire.
“ In o rd er for racial, gender and other inequities to be
elim inated, people m ust find their ow n voice, and it is
incum bent on others to listen to that voice,” H alley says
T hose w ishing to participate or seeking m ore inform a
tion, can cal I the group at 503-796-9224.
single-fam ily residential areas
and the “v illag e" atm osphere
in St. Johns.
T raditionally a blue-collar
neighborhood and hom e o f
shipyard and Rivergate indus
try w orkers, St. Johns has
been changing dem ographi-
cally.
It is becom ing m ore ethni
c a lly
d iv e r s e .
The
neighborhood’s Latino popu
lation, in particular, is now 14
percent o f the total, tw ice the
proportion o f the city as a
whole.
A t the sam e tim e, m ore
young professionals are buy
Johns.
ing homes.
“T he neighborhood could
use som e gentrification, and it’s happen
ing,” Logan says. "B ut it’s still one o f the
cheapest places in tow n to buy a hom e."
U pdyke says that in looking to revitalize
the area, “W e still have to be sensitive to
the need to keep fam ily-w age jo b s ."
H ow ard notes that the neighborhood
has gone through planning processes in
the past with little to show for them
“ Folks have begun to think that nothing
ever happens here, and that (planning)
projects are a w aste o f tim e,” he says.
An open house on the draft St. Johns
and L om bard Plan is set for 9:30 a.m . May
17 at the St. Johns C om m unity C enter, 8427
N. C entral Ave.
A Dynamic Duo
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“ P eople d o n ’t see the good
sid e o f R o o se v e lt,” O m a r said.
“ I think P ortland Public Schools
is a g re a t sch o o l sy stem - p ro
v id ed th at y o u w ork hard. It’s
w h at you do, not w h ere you go
to sc h o o l.”
R oosevelt High School Princi
pal A ndy Kelly said the school is
the only one in the district to have
a full m ulti-cultural center. The
three sta ff m em bers w ho run the
center are funded by a special
grant to support the sch o o l’s high
im m igrant m akeup and ethnically
diverse student body.
“ I think this is the firsto fm an y
m ore to com e, evidenced by the
g re a t w o rk th a t te a c h e rs a t
R oosevelt High School are doing
w ith kids,” he said, com m enting
on the A bdullahs’ success. “O ne
o f the things to understand about
the low -perform ing schools des
ignation is that it’s only based on
one thing - test scores adm inis
tered in 10th grade.”
N ot only have the A bdullahs
achieved academ ic success in
their college preparatory course
load, but th e y ’ve also jo in ed
R oosevelt’s cross-country, track
and soccer team s and m ade an
effort to serve their com m unity.
The brothers research leukem ia
w ith the High School A ppren
ticeship C ancer C ure Project at
O regon Health & Science U ni
versity, O m ar is active w ith the
Health O ccupation Students o f
A m erica, a m edical term inology
com petition, and A bdulham id
volunteers as a tour guide at the
O regon Zoo.
“ I just w ant to help my com m u
nity,” A bdulham id said.
W hile A bdulham id says re
turning to Ethiopia holds little
draw for him , O m ar says he plans
to “go back and give service” to
his native country w hen he be
com es a physician.
“ T h ese are the k in d s o f kids
teac h ers and p rin c ip a ls love to
have in th e irsch o o l," K elly said.
“ T hey a re ro le m o d els to o th er
kids, show ing that you can o v er
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