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Committed to Cultural Diversity
September 17. 2003
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Ceremony Recalls Forced Detentions
Harvest Auction
Leach Botanical Garden will hold
its annual Harvest Auction at 6
p.m. Friday. Sept. 26 in the Manor
House, 6704 SE 122 Ave. Garden
reporter Amy Jaeger will host
this event, and all proceeds will
benefit the garden. Tickets are
$50 per person. For more infor
mation, call 503-823-1673.
High Energy
The Community Energy Project
holds a series o f free workshops
to help make consumers energy
conscious. W orkshops on water
conservation are at 10 a.m. Sept.
20 at Lents Community Market,
at 12:30 p.m. Oct. 3 and 10 a.m.
Oct. 6 at OHSU, 3181 SW Sam
Jackson Park Rd., and at 6:30 p. m .
at Peninsula Park Community
Center, 700 N. Portland Blvd. The
project also includes weatheriz
ing workshops throughout Sep
tember and October. For more
information, call 503-284-6827.
Cultured Kingdoms
The Oregon Zoo is throwing a
multicultural celebration to show
case how various cultures around
the world revere animals from 11
a.m. to 4 p.m. Sept. 20 and 21 and
Sept.27and28. Local groups will
present folklore through perfor
mances and exhibits. For more
information, call 503-226-1561.
Green Walks
Discover Portland’s green space
from lOto 11 a.m. Saturdays with
guided tours by park volunteers.
Meet at Laurelhust Park’s office
building on souteast Ankeny on
Sept. 20. Meet at Mt. Tabor Park ’s
volcano parking lot on Sept. 27.
On Oct. 4, meet at the Global
Garden at Harold Oliver School's
parking lot. On Oct. 11, meet at
Peninsula Park, next to sunken
rose garden. On. Nov. 1, meet at
Whitaker Ponds visitor center.
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M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
The Japanese American group “Portland Taiko ” performs during an Interstate Max Station dedication at the Expo Center that honors the nearly 4,000
Japanese-Americans from the Portland area and Central Washington forced into a Portland detention camp during World War II.
TriMet has dedicated artwork at the
Interstate Max light rail station at the
Expo Center in memory of the nearly 4,000
Japanese Americans from the Portland
area and central Washington who were
forced into a Portland detention center
during World War II.
The transit agency held a ceremony at
the site last week to dedicate artwork that
recalls the history o f the internment o f
people o f Japanese ancestry at the Port
land Assembly Center, now the Expo
Center.
During the hysteria o f war with Japan,
President Roosevelt signed an executive
order forcing the relocation o f all people
o f Japanese ancestry, even those who
were American citizens, from the West
Coast
The assembly center was used to hold
the men, women and children until perma
nent interment camps were built. After
the war, the Japanese were allowed to
return to the West Coast, but many lost
their homes, businesses and possessions
during the ordeal.
The 5.8-mile Interstate Max line is 80
percent complete with construction ahead
o f schedule and under budget. The line is
set to open in September 2004, but may
open in April due to the construction
efficiencies.
B lock with D iverse
B usinesses Plan M ove
Pounding Pavement
Fitness fanatics will lace up their
tennies for the 32nd Annual Port
land Marathon on Sunday, Oct.
5 at 7 a.m.. The event starts in
front o f City Hall, 1221 SW 4th
Ave. and finishes at the Justice
Center, 1120SW 3rd Ave. Regis
tration is $ 125. For more informa
tion, call 503-226-1111 or visit
www.portlandmarathon.org.
Moving Moments
The IFCC offers Life Movement
dance classes and workshops.
Stilling the Center is on Sept. 20,
Our Breathing Boday is on Oct.
11 and Touch Stones is on Nov.
1 and 8. All workshops are be
tween 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. at the
dance studio, 5340 N. Interstate
Ave. W orkshops prices range
between $45 and $60. T o register,
call 503-284-1908.
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Salmon Fest Northwest
The Salmon Festival at Oxbow
Regional Park is on Oct. 11 and
12. The festival features a Wy-
Kan-Ush-Pum village, the Salmon
Nation Welcome Center, guided
salmon viewings, crafts, music
and more. For more information,
call 503-979-1850.
by L ee P erlman
T he P ortland O bserver
Taking Out Alzheimer’s
You can help the A lzheim er’s
A sso ciatio n cre a te a w orld
w ithout the disease by partici
pating in the 12th A nnual P ort
land M emorial Walk at Pioneer
Courthouse Square on Sunday,
Sept. 28. The 5K walk raises
m oney for national research.
For more inform ation or regis
tration, call 503-413-6850 or
visit w w w .alz.org/oregon.
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M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
A major redevelopment of three properties on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard
north of Failing Street will provide a new home for The Horn o f Africa restaurant
and a group of other African American interests.
photo by M ike C alkum
Mission Accomplished, Plus
Carol Jones-Williams (left) of Kaiser Permanente helps deliver
pens, pencils, notebooks and other school supplies to children
at Beach Elementary School. Kaiser staff from the Interstate
campus in north Portland started the school supplies drive five
years ago at four nearby low-income schools. This year, the
donations have grown to include 27 schools.
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The popular Hom o f Africa restaurant
and a group o f African-American interests
will have a new home on Martin Luther
King Jr. Boulevard when three properties
north o f Failing Street get a major upgrade.
The Halal Market, the offices o f the
Somali Community Organization and o f
State Sen. Margaret Carter will also be
impacted by the remodel.
Mohamed Yousuf, proprietor o f the
Hom, says he likes the new plans by devel
oper Eric Wentland because the restaurant
could use a larger space.
“The community has been very sup
portive o f me,” he said. “ I’ve been very
successful.”
The Hom o f Africa first started serving
area residents from a portable stand at Port
land Saturday Market nine years ago. After
three years, “People urged me to open up a
restaurant, so 1 did,” Y ousuf said.
His Halal market sells food prepared ac
cording to Islamic Law: “ Kosher,” is one
way Y ousuf describes it.
"I found that what we cooked back home
was not available here,” Y ousuf said “Else
where they don’t have this kind o f market.”
“ Back home” for YousufisOromia, politi
cally part o f Ethiopia but culturally distinct
from it.
He earned a scholarship to study in Egypt,
only to find that he had fallen out o f favor
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