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luly 23. 2003
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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
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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.
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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
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260-0969.
M iller co n d u c ts research at m illefrcteohsikedu.
Korean War
Veterans Celebrate
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