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Development Leaves Doris’ Without a Home
Karaoke with a Cause
Join O regonA ction for their
karaoke fundraising event from 8
to 11 p.m. Wednesday, July 30, at
B ookies Sports Bar, 736 N.
Lombard. A $5 donation is sug
gested, plus bid on karaoke per
form ance by local perform er
Darcelle and many more commu
nity leaders. For more informa
tion, call 503-282-6588.
An empty space is
all that's left o f
Doris' Café on
Northeast Russell
Street and Martin
Luther King Jr.
Boulevard. Owner
Rosie Dean is
looking for a new
site after a dispute
with the building's
owner resulted in
the cancellation
of her lease
agreement.
Better Than Goldfish
200 pets are looking for love at
the Oregon Humane Society’s
A dopt-A-PetFairon Aug. 16 and
17 at 1067 N.E. Columbia Blvd.
V isit w w w . o re g o n h u m a n e
society.com for details.
United Voices
Radical Women will host an open
mic community discussion about
. police violence and Kendra James
at 7 p.m. W ednesday, Aug. 13 at
the Bread and Roses Center, 819
n. Killingsworth. A soup and salad
buffet isat6p.m . for$6. Formore
information, call 503-240-4462.
Benefit Feast
DiPrimaDolci Italian Bakery holds
a plant sale from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Saturday, July 26. You may also
be tempted by Italian ices, fruit
shakes, and other New York Ital
ian delicacies. The sale will ben
efit dogs and cats by helping to I
control pet population. 1936 N.
Killingsworth St. For more infor-1
mation.call 503-283-5936.
Mystery Cats
The Oregon Humane Society
wants you to communicate with
your kitty more affectively by
taking a “Finicky Feline” class at
1 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 10. $ 10.1067
N.E. Columbia Blvd. For more
information, call 503-285-7722.
PHOTO BY
M ark W ashington /
T he P ortland
O bserver
Revitalized
neighborhood loses
African American
Landmark
by L ee P erlman
T he P ortland O bserver
D oris’ Cafe, Portland’s oldest barbecue
and soul food restaurant and an anchor o f
the Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boule
vard renaissance, is down, if not out.
Cafe owner Rosie Dean is looking for a
new site to operate her business after a rent
dispute with the building’s ow ner resulted
in the cancellation o f her lease agreement.
Dean had operated D oris’ at 333 N.E.
Russell St. for the past 10 years.
The cafe became not only one o f the first
destination businesses on the boulevard,
attracting customers from outside the neigh
borhood, but a catalyst for other ventures
around it. Nike built a new outlet store just
a couple o f blocks away, the New Song
Church renovated the Egyptian Theater
building across the street and Bardy Trophy
moved into the former Coverall Uniform
building to the south.
“ Doris' was or.e o f the first businesses to
upgrade,” Shiela Holden ofthe North-North
east Economic Development Alliance re
calls. “She helped change the image o f M LK
and contributed to the revitalization o f the
Eliot neighborhood. This was what we
wanted to see: local, home-grown businesses
on the avenue.”
Dean attorney, Sean Hatfield, thinks the
increased value o f the property may have
had a lot to do with the lease cancellation.
“When Rosie first moved there, that
w asn’t the best location for a restaurant,”
Hatfield said. “’’She was an anchor. Now it’s
become much more valuable and it’s become
a priority to get her out. People you’d have
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Goldie Dredlocks
Enjoy a marionette performance of
the classic story o f the three bears I
with a Jamaican twist at 2 p.m. I
Native Culture Center
Nears Completion
Friday, Aug. 8.FairviewCommu-
nity Center, 300 Harrison St.
African Beats at Fairview
Enjoy marimba music inspired by
the rhythms o f southern and west
ern Africa from 11:30a.m. to 12:30
p.m. Friday, Aug. 1 at Fairview
Park, 1520N.E. VillageSt. Formorc
information, call 503-988-5655.
A bronze sculpture by
Klameth Native
American Jim
Jackson will be
displayed in the / t
"Gathering Area" t ‘¡B
o f the new j j l
PSU Native
American
Center.
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Classics for Canines
Improve your reading skills by
reading aloud to therapy dogs
from 1 to 3 p.m. Sat., Aug. 2 at the
Albina Library, 3605 N.E. 15* Ave.
Register at 503-988-5362.
Native American Fish
Quintana Galleries presents Wy-
Kan-Ush-Pum Gala, Celebrating
Salmon and Art, from 5 to 10 p.m.
Saturday, July 26 at the Governor
Hotel, 611 SW Tenth Ave. Auc-1
tions will feature internationally
renowned Native American art.
Enjoy a salmon dinner, live enter
tainment and Spirit o f the Salmon
Awards. For more information,
call 503-731-1284.
The Ockley Green Middle School community o f
north and northeast Portland congratulates
Abner Bastida and Ner Bastida for second and
third place awards in MESA (Mathematics,
Engineering, Science Achievement program)
USA s National Engineering Design competi
tion. The students won by setting gliders a-
sail. The competition was in Albuquerque. NM.
An artist's rendering (above) shows the Native
American Student and Community Center at
Portland State University. The building is under
construction on Southwest Broadway Avenue
and is scheduled for completion this
October, providing study space, class
rooms and a meeting place for the
. community.
Natural Gas Bill May Soar This Winter
Oregon PUC warns consumers of high climbing prices
The Oregon Public Utility Commission is warning
that consumers will likely see higher gas bills this
coming winter. The warning comes after a briefing to
the Commission last week by a number o f natural gas
industry officials who predicted that higher prices this
summer mean consumers will likely pay more for
natural gas this winter.
“N orm ally, w holesale prices com e dow n in the
sum m er, and gas retailers take advantage o f these
low er prices to store gas for the w inter,” C om m is
sion Chairm an Roy H em m ingw ay said. “ H ow ever,
w e h aven’t seen prices com e dow n much this
sum m er. U nfortunately, I fear consum ers should
brace them selves for the prospect o f paying more
this w inter.”
“lfthere is a silver lining in this dark cloud, it’s that
our price increases should not be as large as other
parts o f the country might see," added Commissioner
Lee Beyer. “We are fortunate to have easy access to
adequate supplies o f natural gas from Canada. How
ever, I am concerned about the potential impact o f
higher prices on residential, commercial and industrial
custom ers.”
Higher natural gas prices also put pressure on
electric companies to raise their rates, because com pa
nies use natural gas to generate energy.
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PSU building to serve
growing Native
American population
Poles are set around the c e n te r’s “ Place o f
H onor,” the ec o -ro o f is being installed and the
sky catcher ro o f is in place as construction nears
com pletion for the Portland State U niversity
Native Am erican Student and C om m unity C en
ter.
Located adjacent to the cam pus on Southw est
Broadway, the center should be finished in Sep-
tem ber w ith a reception scheduled for Oct. 24.
The university raised nearly $4 m illion to co n
struct the building as a place for classroom s,
celeb ratio n s and p reserv atio n o f the N ative
A m erican culture. In addition, the PGE F ounda
tion com m itted $50,000,to ensure increased ed u
cation opportunities for N ative A m erican stu
d ents.
The N ative A m erican population at PSU has
doubled in the last decade, grow ing to 243 stu
dents in the 2002 fall term. The college expects the
trend to continue. It plans several new courses
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