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I Winters Urged to Run for Congress
Could replace J.C. Watts as lone Republican
Actress Makes
Directorial Debut
A cto r a n d d ire c to r S a lm a H a yek ta k e s q u e s tio n s fro m th e
m e d ia d uring th e p r e s e n ta tio n o f th e cable-T V m o v ie “The
M a ld o n a d o M ira c le ," h e r directorial d e b u t. (AP p h o to )
(A P ) — A ctress Salm a Hayek says
she initially turned dow n the offer to
direct the u pcom ing cable television
m ovie "T he M aldonado M iracle.”
“I felt so honored, but I passed," she
said. "T hen I w ent to do F rida’ and when
I cam e back and I started reading scripts
and I d id n ’t like anything, I said I need
to find som ething that I’m passionate
about.
The film is H ay ek 's directorial debut.
“T he M aldonado M iracle" is about
the testing o f a sm all to w n ’s faith when
a statue o f Jesus appears to be shedding
tears o f blood. It stars Ruben Blades,
Peter Fonda and M are W inningham .
“ S h e’s a b o m leader and you w ant to
d eliver for her," W inningham told the
T elevision C ritics A ssociation last week.
"S h e ’s very inspired and excitable and
bossy and creative, and you w ant to
m ake her dream com e true.”
H ayek also w as executive producer
for the m ovie, w hich airs O ct. 12 on
Showtime.
S ta t e S e n . J a c k ie W inters
The 2004 elections are 16
m onths aw ay, but State Sen.
Jackie W inters, R -Salem , is al
ready considering a challenge to
D e m o cratic C o n g re ssw o m a n
D arlene Hooley.
A nd sh e ’s getting encourage
m ent from President Bush, w h o 'd
love to see a black R epublican in
C ongress. T here are none left since
O k lah o m a’s J.C. W atts left C on
gress last year.
“ I*ve had conversations w ith the
president on acouple ofoccasions,”
said W inters, w ho is s e n ing in her
first state Senate term . “ I ’ve said
that I w ould look at it, but I w o n ’td o
anything until after the session.”
W inters, 66, said she likes the
idea o f taking her interest in hum an
services to the next level.
W inters, o w n e ro f Jack ie’s Ribs,
has a long history o f com m unity
involvem ent. She is a charter m em -
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Check All Boxes that Apply
Census amplifies
confusion of
what it means to
be Latino
(A P) — Jean-R o b ert L afortne
considers h im self Latino, but to the
governm ent he is not H ispanic. He
checked o ff black as his race on his
census form , but ask him directly
and he will call him self A fro-C arib
bean.
W hile the C ensus B ureau re
cently m inted H ispanics as the
n atio n ’s largest m inority group,
Lafortune is an exam ple o f the con
fusion over w hat it m eans to be
H ispanic o r L atino and the co m
parison with blacks and w hites.
H ispanic first appeared in 1980
as a choice on a census q u estio n
naire. The ethnic category is d iffer
ent from any other label the govern
m ent uses in looking at A m ericans.
H ispanics can be o f any race.
T here are w hite H ispanics, black
H ispanics and A sian H ispanics, for
exam ple. Y et it is unclear w hat the
category means.
M any, but not all, H ispanics
speak Spanish. For som e, ancestry
in a Spanish-speak ing country w as
many generations back.
The Census Bureau reported this
month that the Hispanic population
grew nearly lOpercent to 38.8 million
betw een April 2000 and July 2002.
The rate o f grow th w as four times
that o f the overall U.S. population.
A b o u t tw o - th ir d s o f th e
country’s H ispanics are M exican, 9
percent are Puerto R ican a n d 4 p er
cent are Cuban. II ispanics can come
from nearly 20 other places as well,
including C olom bia, El Salvador
and Spain, according to the C ensus
Bureau.
The governm ent defines H is
panic as som eone from a S panish
speaking country, though hundreds
o f native dialects that predate the
introduction o f Spanish by colo
nists still are spoken throughout
C entral and South A m erica.
A s im m igration from M exico
began to grow in the 1960s and
1970s, pressure m ounted to m ore
accurately count H ispanics.
O n the 2000 census, the ques
tion w as phrased, “Is this person
S panish/H ispanic/L atino?” People
w ho said “yes” w ere asked to check
o ff a box that identified them as
M exican, Puerto Rican, C uban o ra
w rite-in box for another country o f
origin.
The C ensus B ureau release in
cluded four pages o f guidance on
how to com pare race and ethnicity
data. T he bureau recom m ended
com paring H ispanics to all blacks,
regardless o f ethnicity or how many
other races they belonged to.
It w as the first tim e in m ore than
a decade that the bureau issued
such guidance.
A bout 1.7 m illion people in July
2002 w ere identi fied by the govern
m ent as black and H ispanic, w hile
36.3 m illion said they w ere w hite
and Hispanic.
P u b lica cio n es en E sp a ñ o l
S e g ú n lo s d a to s d el c e n s o
nacional de 2000, el 7 p o r ciento de
lo s re s id e n te s d e O re g o n son
hispanos/latinos. Estacifra equivale
a m ás o m enos 230,000 personas.
Para m ejor servirlas necesidades
de los hispanos y latinos del estado,
el Servicio de Extensión (Extensión
Service) de O regon State U niver-
sity hoy en día ofrece un núm ero
creciente de sus p ublicaciones y
videos en español, así com o en
inglés.
El Servicio de E xtensión ofrece
m ás de 37 publicaciones y videos
en español, con una ampl ia variedad
de tem as, incluyendo lajard in ería,
la cocina, el cuidado de niños y la
s e g u r id a d p a ra tr a b a ja d o r e s
agrícolas.
U n a lista d e los m a te ria le s
d isp o n ib le s se e n c u e n tra en el
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our U.S. troops with her recently
released CD titled “Y ou A re My
Hero.” She has launched a new web
site at w w w .m yhero.com . She also
will be honoring our soldiers by per
forming on tour in the near future.
“ No m atter w hat o u r personal
feelings are about w ar, the fact is.
Companies
cited for poor
hiring
practices,
charitable work
( A P ) - C i v i l rig h ts le a d e rs
a re a c c u s in g A m e r ic a ’s re ta il
in d u s try o f d o in g a p o o r jo b
o f h ir in g a n d p ro m o tin g
b la c k s a n d w ith d o in g little
m ark e tin g and c h a rita b le w ork
fo r th e b la c k c o m m u n ity .
Retailers got an overall grade o f
D in a report released last w eek at
the N A A C P ’s annual convention.
It w as the g ro u p ’s first ranking o f
the sector. The highest grade w as
a C+, aw arded to W al-M art Stores.
“It is very obvious that in that indus
try the time for change is now,” said
NAACP President K weisi M fume.
T hree retai lers — Di I lard ’ s I nc.,
K o h l’s D epartm ent S tores and
N ordstrom Inc. — got Fs. O f those
three, only D illard 's responded to
the survey.
The report ranked 45 large com -
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our men and w om en in uniform are
doing th eir best to protect o u r free
dom ,” said C onstantina. “ It’s u n
believable that since M ay I st, when
m ajor com bat ended in Iraq, over 60
A m erican soldiers have died. They
m ust not be forgotten as the days
and m onths go on.”
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(A P ) — Final vote counts in lo w er house o f C o n g re ss, and as th e PR I. “ W e have to tra n slate
congressional elections confirm ed p arty lead e rs im m e d ia te ly sig th is v o te o f co n fid e n c e in to a c
setbacks for President V icente Fox n aled th e ir w illin g n e ss to n e g o ti tion an d p ass th e refo rm s this
and show ed that - against all odds a te w ith F o x ’s p arty to p ass long- c o u n try n e e d s."
- M ex ico ’s old ruling party is very d elay e d refo rm s.
The other big gainer in C ongress
m uch alive three years after Fox
“The M exican people have told w as the leftist D em ocratic R evolu
ended its 71-year grip on pow er.
th e g o v ern m en t and p o litical p ar tion Party, w hich appears to have
T h e Ju ly 6 e le c tio n s tre n g th ties to b u ck le d o w n an d get to nearly doubled its congressional
en ed the fo rm e r ru lin g In stitu w o r k ,” s a id C a r lo s J im e n e z , delegation based largely on a rep u
tio n al R e v o lu tio n ary P a rty ’s p o sp o k esm an for the In stitu tio n al tation for PR I-style social and p u b
sition as pow er bro k er in M ex ico ’s R ev o lu tio n ary P arty, also know n lic w o rksprogram s.
(A P) — Thousands o f C ubans
m arched inahom etow n funeral pro
cession forC om pay Segundo, sing
ing his famed song “Chan C han" as
he w as lowered into his grave.
The cigar-sm oking guitarist w ho
helped revive w orldw ide interest in
traditional Cuban m usic died ofkid-
ney failure. He w as 95.
B ystanders threw flow ers as the
B uena V ista Social Club. ’ ’
m u sician 's body passed by on a
C om pay S egundo becam e an
sw eltering 2.5-m ile jo u rn ey to the international star only in the final
cem etery from a city building where decade o f his life — first gaining
an overnight vigil w as held
recognition w ith concerts in E u
At the cem etery, the crow d sang rope, then em braced by global fame
an improm ptu, som ew hat mournful after the 1997 G ram m y-w inning
version o f “C han C han" — a song record “The B uena V ista Social
m ade fam ous by the 1997 record C lu b " and “C han C han."
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panies based on em ploym ent, m ar
keting, procurem ent, com m unity
reinvestm ent and charitable d ona
tions.
Nordstrom spokesw oman Brooke
White said her com pany couldn’t
com plete the survey within the two
w eeks required by the NAACP. She
said Nordstrom is a partner with the
civil rights group in black youth pro
gram s across the nation.
The other tw o fai I ing com panies
did not return calls for com m ent.
“To those com panies that did
poorly: W atch out, we arc com ing
your w ay,” M fum e said.
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Mexico’s Old Ruling Party Advances
Cubans Mourn Segundo in Funeral March
Bank o f Portland has opened a
new office at 2416 N . E . Fremont.
The commun i ty bank i nakes busi -
ness-related loans as a primary func
tion o f business and takes deposits
from both individuals and busi
nesses. It does not make individual
loans for consum er purposes.
T he bank first open in Portland
on N ortheast Sandy in 1996, a sub
sidiary o f the Bank o f Salem w hich
opened in 1991.
Jack A lvord is vice president
and branch m anager.
He cam e to Bank o f Portland
affera 37-year career with US Bank.
I le w as raised and educated in Port
land and is a graduate o f Lew is and
C lark C ollege and Pacific C oast
Banking School. His wife, Susan, is
a teacher at Rose City Park Elem en
tary.
A resident o f northeast Portland,
A lvord said he is looking forward
to becom ing involved in local com
m unity activities “as a good banker
sh o u ld .”
Rights Group Gives Retailers ‘D’ Grade
Latina Singer Supports Troops
W hat does “ Y ou A re M y H ero”
m ean in our current situation with
Iraq? W hat it m eans to one A m eri
can Latina artist is “giving back”
through the pow er o f m usic.
Constantina, the beautiful. Inter
national singer and songw riter, is
absolutely com m itted to supporting
b e r an d p re s id e n t o f S a le m ’s
N A A CP, vice-chair o fS alem ’s Hu
m an R ig h ts C o m m is s io n and
founder and past president o f O r
egon N orthw est Black Pioneers
A ssociation, to nam e a few.
A fter m oving to Portland at the
age o f 6, W inters attended Portland
Public S chools, graduated from
Jefferson High School and attended
the O regon State U niversity. Since
then, she has won m any leadership
honors, including the City o f Salem
D istinguished Service A w ard, the
N A A C P P resid en t’s A w ard for
advancing the cause o f civil rights
in O regon and the W h o ’s W ho in
Black America.