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(Elie jjJorilanh 0i)bscruer luly 23. 2003 Page A3 Athletes Score Points with Community Columbia Villa Coach goes Move-Out door-to-door to raise donations Nearly Complete for his team B y J aymee R. Cirri T he P ortland O bserver continued Besides pushing his athletes through summer training and writ ing game plans for the upcom ing season, Tim Price, Jefferson High School’s football coach, is spend ing his sum m er going door-to- door. Price is popping in north and northeast P ortland businesses, asking ow ners to sponsor an a th lete for $200. That price buys m ore than je r seys and equipm ent for the up com ing year. It buys a com m it ment to com m unity service. In exchange for the donation, the com pany receives a t-shirt with the com pany logo and 30 hours o f service from a sponsored ath lete. “ We w ant to give back w hat the com m unity has given u s,” said Price. Price said he hopes the public service experience will give his athletes a ju m p start tow ards a jo b in the future. The goal is to raise $ 10,000 by the start o f the football season in September. For m ore inform ation about sp o n so rin g a Je ffe rso n H igh School football player, call 503- 869-8913. finding social services they re ceived atColumbia Villa and mak ing sure they w on't fall through the cracks when the project is done. Door-to-door interviews with current residents revealed that 69 percent plan to return to New Columbia. The PflA ha. even budgeted to pay the mov ing costs related to their return. The first phase o f relocation began in the spring, when resi dents from the 462-unit commu nity received 90 days notice to leave. Ground will break in De cember, and new units are ex pected to be available in 2005. The "mixed economy” commu nity features 370 units o f public housing, 190 units o f affordable housing, 60 units for housing for Em ploym ent Figures Look Bleak “An unemployment rate o f 1 l.Sper- cent is terrible news for African Ameri can people. Too m any hardw orking « the elderly, and 230 market rate homes tor sale, along with a Vil lage Square, a Main Street design, edu cation and service centers and com mercial property. The concept behind “m ixed- economy” housing, according to Shelly Marchesi, com m unication director for the housing authority, is to end the physical and social, visible and invisible, isolation that Columbia Villa residents experi enced in the m aze o f to d a y ’s projects. “Hope 6 plans to integrate the surrounding community with the new commun ity,” she said. “O ne o f the goals o f New Columbia and mixed income com munities is that you don’t know if you are driving by public housing or market rate homes for sale. It’s much more like a neighborhood.” Correction: Racism Doesn’t Cause Alzheimer’s J e ffe rso n High S chool Football C oach Tim Price h its th è s tr e e ts to raise d o n a tio n s for h is team . The latest unemployment figures show African Americans continue to sufferthe highest rate ofjoblessness in the coun try. According to a governm ent report released by the Bureau o f Labor Statis tics, 11.8percentofAfrican Americans were unemployed in June, almost double the overall unemployment rate o f 6.4 percent. from Front people are looking for work and Presi dent Bush and the R epublican C on gress continue to look the other w ay,” H ouse D em ocratic Leader Nancy Pelosi said. Congressional Black Caucus chair Elijah Cummings, D-Md„ calls the un employment situation unacceptable. “African American families are finding it harder to make ends meet,” Cummings said. “Our people and our great country a re s u ffe rin g b e c a u s e o f the Administration’seconomicpolicies.” O H SU , studying the effects o f stress on the A frican-A m erican m em ory. H is study co n sid ers w hether racism m ay be an en v i ronm ental stress related to d e mentia. “ I am interested in various as pects o f racism in the lives o f A frican-A m erican seniors. R ac ism however, is researched as one o f many causative agents involv ing stress, w hich m ight im pact ones m em ory,” M iller explains. “O ften this type o f stress can be The Korean War Veterans Association tem porary. I am not aw are o f any stu d y that eq u a te s rac ism to will celebrate the 50-year commemorative A lzheim er’s d isease.” Korean War cease fire. « M iller was also m isidentified A celebration, with Korean dancing and Fred Miller is con d u ctin g a in the sto ry ’s photo caption. We refreshments, will be at 9 a.m. Saturday, ' s tu d y a t OHSU on how s tr e s s sincerely regret these errors. a ffe c ts m e m o ry in th e African July 26 at the Korean War memorial next to M iller is th e p rin cip al in v e s American com m unity. tig a to r w ith the A frican A m eri the Wilsonville Visitors Center. A headline equating racism c a n D e m e n tia a n d A g in g A local African-American veteran of the with A lzheim er’s disease was P ro ject in the D ep a rtm en t o f war is inviting both veterans and non-veter w rong in the story, “W ords that N eurology in the O H SU S chool ans to the event. H urt,” on the M etro page in our o f M edicine. For more information, call Troy at 503- July 9 issue. He can be reached at 503-494- Principal Investigator Fred 7 4 9 9 or v ia e m a il at 260-0969. M iller co n d u c ts research at m illefrcteohsikedu. Korean War Veterans Celebrate a »