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Grandmother Remembered
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Audrey Mae Pryce
A funeral w as held at the New Jerusalem Full G ospel Baptist
C hurch in Portland on June 28, 2003 for A udrey Mae Pryce. She
died June 22 at age 68.
She was bom Nov. 15,1934, in Baton Rouge, La. A hom em aker,
she m oved to Portland in about 1959. In 1952, she m arried W illie;
he died in 1963.
Surv ivors include her daughters, M ary Pryce and Barbara W ells;
sons, K enneth Jam es, Larry Pryce, Raphiel Jam es and Kevin
Jam es; sister, Eunice Ryles; 27 grandchildren; and three great
grandchildren.
Rem em brances to the Portland Rescue M ission.
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Longtime Resident Dies at 76
George Belgrave
A funeral was held last m onth in C ornerstone Com m unity
Church in Portland for G eorge Belgrave w ho died June 19 at age
76.
B elgrave was bom Sept. 6, 1926, in British Guiana. He im m i
grated to Portland in 1948 and w as a m achinist for K ay M anufac
turing and a driver for Hertz car rental. He w as a longtim e m em ber
o f the church. In 1950, he m arried M ary 1. M atthews.
S urvivors include his wife; sons, M alcolm M atthew s, Carl
M atthew s and N orm an M atthew s; daughters, D eborah Belgrave
and Jacqueline Belgrave; 17grandchildren; and 20 great-grandchil
dren.
Rem em brances to the C ornerstone church.
Plan to Protect Amazon
(A P )— Brazil announced mea
sures to fight Amazon deforesta
tion, days after researchers warned
that development projects were
destroying the rain forest at an in
creasing rate.
Environment Minister Marina
Silva said the government would
give Brazil’senvironmental protec
tion agency Ibama $7 million to help
it crack down on illegal deforesta
tion by loggers and farmers.
The government also will create
a working group with the participa-
tion o f 11 ministries, among them
Agriculture, Science and Technol
ogy, Transport and Defense, to
develop effective long-term mea
sures to stop deforestation.
The government is requiring that
The Amazon Forest in the Amazon River basin which covers half
of South America is being purposefully cut and burned down.
all infrastructure and land reform
projects take environmental as
pects into account to avoid further
deforestation, said Ciro Gomes,
minister o f national Integration.
Expertssay 16percentofBrazil’s
1.6 million square miles o f Amazon
rain forest have been destroyed.
Many scientists believe the destruc
tion is accelerating global warming.
Sea Creature Found in Chili
Two scientists measure a
rare, giant octopus found
dead on a beach in Los
Muermos, Chile on June
29. The 39-foot-long
carcass weighs about 13
tons. Elsa Cabrera, of the
Cetacean Conservation
Center, took samples of
the creature to send to
Italy, France and the
United States to deter
mine its species.
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Mexican Election Crosses Border
o f the Democratic Revolution, or
PRD in Spanish.
Medina is one o f six U.S. resi
dents seeking a seat in, M exico’s
lower house o f Congress in July’s
midterm election. A Los Angeles
(AP)- Standing before a packed labor organizer who came to the
room decorated with his party’s United States 30 years ago, he is
brightly colored signs, congres eligible to hold office in Mexico
sional candidate Jose Jacques because that nation considers him
Medina implores the crowd to give a citizen. He was bom in Mexico
him its support in next m onth’s City in the regional district he hopes
to represent.
election.
It’s just another campaign stop,
Mexican voters w on’t directly
except that the election is hundreds vote for Medina and the other immi
o f miles away in another country — grant candidates, who are running
M exico— and the yel low and black for 200 al-large seats under a pro
signs adorning the restaurant’s portional representation system.
walls bear the emblem o f the Party Instead, their names appear on five
U S candidate
seeks seat in
Mexican Congress
regional lists compiled by the po
litical parties in order ofpreference.
The party’s share o f the vote deter
mines how many candidates are
selected from each list.
Medina pledged he would bring
im m igrants’ concerns to the M exi
can Congress. There are about 9.1
million Mexican-born residents o f
the United States, including citi
zens o f both countries.
“ W e d o n ’t h av e o u r ow n
voices," Medina told the crowd, a
mix o f recent immigrants and long
time residents, all taking a break
from theirjobs in theCentral Valley’s
fields, construction sites and ser
vice industry. “There’s no repre
sentation."
Dropout Rate Higher for Immigrants
(AP) — Hispanics in their late
teens bom outside the United
States are more than twice as likely
to drop out o f high school as U.S.-
bom Latinos, according to a recent
Thursday Night Bible Study 7:00 P.M.
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analysis o f census data.
Nearly 34 percent o f Hispanic
immigrantsage lóto 19didnotgradu-
ateor were not enrolled in high school
in 20(K), the Pew Hispanic Center
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July 25, Saturday, July 26 and
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Canoe Tours of Northwest
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found; unchanged from 1990.
Among U.S.-bom Latinos o f the
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Portland Parks and Recreation will
offer trips half-day and full-day
trips o f the Tualatin, Columbia
and Willamette Rivers all summer
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Summer Camp at the
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Children four years o f age through
seventh grade can spend five ex
citing days at the zoo learning
about various endangered spe
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a.m. to 4 p.m. through Aug. 29,
includes daily lunch breaks and
instruction from the zoo's most
experienced animal keepers. For
more information or to register,
call 503-220-2781.
Drawing for Enthusiasts
Capture the human form by learn
ing special drawing techniques
from Instructor, Marko Polo -fea
turing live models. The drawing
class meets Saturdays through
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Online Adopt-a-Pet
The Oregon Humane Society has
put a new twist on on-line person
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looking for a loving pet can find it
with the dog, cat, rabbit or rodent
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through photos o f all the pets
available for adoption at the north
east Portland shelter and read pet
profiles that are expanded daily.
NAACP Meetings
T he P o rtlan d B ranch o f the
NAACP will hold two monthly
executive committee meetings,
one on the second Thursday o f
the month and the Thursday be
fore the fourth Saturday o f the
month. General membership meet
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day ofeach month. Formore infor
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Justice Forum to
Tackle Barriers
cusing on issues o f relevance to
the African American community.
Community leader and advocate She also served 9 years as pro
Raina Beavers will host the event. ducer o f the Pacific N o rth w est’s
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