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November 12, 2003
Portland's vivid car culture is depicted by one o f 90 flaming comets on the new Interstate MAX
Vanport Bridge near the Portland International Raceway.
Comets Give Nod to Raceway
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Inspired by the car culture of the comets, made of large stainless steel
i 950s, 90 flaming comets are being spheres with orange, red and yel
installed over the next three weeks low painted steel tails ranging from
on the Interstate MAX Vanport 5 to 25 feet long.
Bridge as a spirited nod to the
The Vanport Bridge was dedi
nearby Portland International Race cated earlier this year in honor of
way.
the former City of Vanport that
P o rtlan d artists S pencer T. washed away in a flood 55 years
H o u ser an d C h ris R izzo o f ago. The bridge spans nearly 4,000
Houserworks, LLC designed the feet, crosses the Columbia Slough
B lues M u sician A w aits N ew K idney
Sunday concert to support transplant recovery fund
The blues community is coming
out with deep pockets for Frankie
“ F u n k m a ste r”
R ed d in g ,
keyboardist and Hammond Organ
player for the Norman Sylvester
Band.
Ailing health and complications
from diabetes have kept Redding’s
R&B schedule down to few perfor
mances.
But thanks to organ donor Jan
Bisconer, a music enthusiast and
past member of Cascade Blues
Association, Redding will have the
kidney he needs to take back his
health.
The surgery is slated for Dec. 1.
Redding began his career on
north Portland’s famed Cotton Club Frankie 'Funkmaster' Redding
Tonya Parker o f Fannie
Mae (from left) Vicki
Bell o f the African
American Alliance for
Homeownership, AAAH
Co-chair Bernie Foster,
AAAH Chair Jon Gail
and LaShondra
Lincoln, a first-time
home buyer, celebrate
the receipt o f $ 20 ,00 0
from Oregon, Housing
and Community
Services to support a
home ownership
coaching program for i
local African Americans
at Saturday’s AAAH
Home Buying Fair.
R a c ia l & E th n ic A p p r o a c h e s to C o m m u n ity H e a lth
A program of the African American Health Coalition Inc.
Sponsored by the CDC (Centers tor Disease Control and Prevention}
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A new George and Nancy Passadore
scholarship fund for students enrolled in
the School of Social Work at Portland
State University was established last
week thanks to a $20,000 donation by
Wells Fargo.
PSU will determine which students
receive the $5,000 annual stipend.
George Passadore is a long time cham
pion of community causes who is retiring
George Passadore
at the end of this year after 41 years of
service with the bank as one o f its top
executives.
In addition to his work at Wells Fargo,
he volunteers as the board president for
Tri-Met and as a board member of the
Portland branch of the Federal Reserve
Bank of San Francisco. He also serves on
the boards of many other community
organizations.
Few understand disease’s serious health effects
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stage in his teens. He has since
played keyboard steadily with the
area’s top jazz, blues and R&B
musicians.
Music lovers are invited to Cas
cade Bar and Grill, I5Û00N.W. Mill
Plain, Vancouver, on Sunday, Nov.
16from3p.m.to 10p.m. forabenefit
concert supporting both Redding’s
and Bisconer’s recovery.
Donations are $10 per person
and a portion of Cascade Bar’s prof
its will be donated. The lineup of
legendary R&B talent includes
Monti Amundson, Randy Monroe,
Doug Rowell, Jerry Smith, Norman
Sylvester, Franko Paletta, Randy
L illy , Paul deL ay an d L inda
Hombuckle and others.
Local Residents Get Home Buying Help
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and touches down on the north end
at the new Delta Park/V anport MAX
station.
The 5.8-mile Interstate MAX line
is 85 percent complete and slated to
open in May. The Interstate MAX
will add 10 stations between the
Rose Quarter and Expo Center, and
will operate through downtown
Portland.
Portland. OR 97227 • Phone 503-413-1850
E-mail kdempsey@aahc-portland.org • Web www aahc-portland org
A nationwide poll finds that
about three of every 10 Ameri
can adults know someone with
lupus, a disease that causes
the immune system to attack
the body’s own cells. The same
survey indicates most people
don’t know the disease can
cause life-threatening damage
to major organs such as the
heart, lungs, kidneys and brain.
Approximately 1.5 million
Americans have a form of the
chronic disease that can result
in severe joint pain and swell
ing, fevers, fatig u e, skin
rashes, anemia, chest pains,
sun sensitivity and other health
effects, including organ fail
ure and death. Lupus mostly
strikes women of childbearing
age - between 15 and 44 -
although men and women of
all ages can develop the dis
ease.
Women of color have the
highest prevalence of lupus,
including African Americans,
Hispanics, Native Americans
and Asians. African Ameri
cans are two to three times
more likely to develop lupus
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than Caucasians.
There is no cure for lupus, but
medications are prescribed that
can control the disease in most
patients. Unfortunately, current
therapies for lupus can be toxic,
causing other health problems.
But new research offers hope
that safer and more effective
treatments will be made avail
able in the not too distant future.
For more information about
lupus, visit the Lupus Founda
tion of America website at
www.lupus.org or call toll-free
888-38-LUPUS.