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Committed to Cultural Diversity www.portlandobserver.com Xe» M etro 3F 3:111 $ Io rtla n ò (Ji)h se m er C o ni ni u n i t y a le n d a r Prophetic Event Evangel Temple Community Church is having a Prophetic C onference through Friday, March 19 at 7 p.m. at 5417 N. Williams Ave. For more informa tion, call 503-287-7871. March 17, 2004 1 NFL Star Owens Gets Trade Wish •>< Sports, page B6 w. & Terrell Brandon Retires Sports, page B6 SECTION Student Authors at Sabin Wellness Workshops New Seasons Market offers a workshopcalled Allergies: Noth ing to Sneeze At, from 7 to9p.m . Monday, March 29 and a class on Optimal Thyroid Health from 7 to 9 p.m. Tuesday, March 23 at the Concordia store, 5320 N.E. 33 Ave. To register, call 503-288- 3838. Bloomfest Easter Seals Oregon announces BloomFest from April 6 -10. ask ing volunteers tocoordinate and sell fresh-cut tulip bunches for $5. For more information, call 503-228-5108ext. 317. J REHD Heart Walk Raise funds and save lives with a 5K71 K Heart Walk beginning at 8 a.m. Saturday, May 22 at the Eastbank Esplanade, Main Street Festival Plaza. To register, call 5 0 3 -2 3 3 -0 1 0 0 or v isit www.walk.americanheart.org. Interest in Adoption? A free information meeting for prospective adoptive parents is from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 17 at Belmont Public Li brary, 1038 S.E. 39,h Ave. Meet ings are held the third Wednes day of each month. For more information, cal1503-226-4870or visit www.openadopt.com. Reunion Watch Former students and faculty of Girls Polytechnic, James Mon roe and W ashington-M onroe high schools have the 66"’ an nual all-school dinner at 5 p.m. Monday, April 12 at Our Lady of Sorrow s School, 5239 S.E. Woodstock Blvd. Tickets are $15. For more information, call 503-236-6557. cnantez, i v e w reads from -Unmanned Tnp It I11ÜV o t be t the h e l last ast H n n lf n H r t n f the may n not book about Portland Trail Blazers coach and key play ers, but Sabin Elem entary School pre sented the third installm ent of their com pleted trilogy at an assem bly, to coach ,Pe Rose Garden. - ,Pe P oor sPe a u « ™ * along l __ i. ____ i . __ Maurice c Cheeks and players Darius Miles, Dan Dickau and Jerom e Kersey, charac ters in the story. “Unplanned Trip to the Rose Garden," written and illustrated by the 300 students of Surplus property closer to becoming community center — Packy Turns 40 by J aymee R. C uti T he P ortland O bserver Honor Political Women Trees Need Friends Friends of Trees will plant trees and shrubs in the Piedmont and Cathedral Park/St. Johns neigh borhoods on March 27, and in the G o o se H ollo w and Montavilla neighborhoods on April 3. If you want to be a help to yourcommunity and environ ment, call 503-284-TREE or visit www.friendsoftrees.org. Minority Business Boost A Small Business Economic D ev elo p m en t C o n fe re n c e hosted by HUD is designed to help minorities and female busi ness owners participate in fed eral governm ent contracting prospects. The conference is at the Doubletree Hotel in Jantzen Beach, from 7:30a.m. to5:30p.m. March 18. Pre-registration is$35. For information, call 877-741- 3281 or visit w w w .hud.gov/ Washington. ’ Sabin in a collaborative process, is a whim sical adventure o f a fieldtrip to the Rose Garden gone awry from icy weather. The experience gave Sabin kids impor tant life skills lessons including flexibility. patience, cooperation, pride, integrity, car ing and teamwork. The book was led by art specialist Chris Lamp, fifth grade teacher Nita Kreuzer and Principal Richard Shafer. Vision for Old School Redo Packy. the Oregon Z oo's el ephant which became nation ally renowned as the first Asian elephant bom in the Western Hemisphere in more than 44 years, celebrates his 4O'h birth day with a cake stomping from 10a.m. to4p.m . April l4.Com e by to sing happy birthday to Packy, and have a piece of cake for yourself. For more informa tion, visitwww.oregonzoo.com. The Oregon Historical Society presents a program honoring the accomplishmentsof women in the historic 1970s legislature (includ ing Mayor Vera Katz) in conjunc tion with W om en’s History Month. Conversations are at the Historical Society, 1200S.W. Park Ave. from 7 to 8:30 p.m. Thursday, March 18. For more information, call 503-222-1741. 300 order ' ft photo by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver Roger Konka and Gary Thomas plant a tree in front o f Star E Rose Café on Alberta Street. They were among many volunteering to add trees to the urban landscape after the city s Alberta Street revitalization project ran over budget. A lberta Trees Ensured Shop owners plant own trees when city breaks promise by J aymee R. C utí T he P ortland O bserver Frustrated Alberta Street business own ers and neighbors are taking matters into their own hands, and hopefully green thumbs. Neighbors say their tree wells remain empty slabs of mud despite promises from the city to plant and replace trees as part of a streetscape revitalization project. Last week, Louisa Heamish.ownerofStar E Rose Café, organized approximately 10 volunteers, mostly customers, to plant trees in front of her business on Alberta Street and 24,h Avenue. “This is truly a community effort to get the trees back," she said. Heamish says the city promised many im provem ents to the street, including benches, public art and trees, but stopped short after TriMet bus shelters were built. Jean Senechal Biggs, project manager for the Portland Office of Transportation, con firmed that the Alberta streetscape project is over budget, pushing tree plantings to the background. She said a request for more money to finish the project has been submitted and a response is anticipated in time for the fall 2004 planting season. We really want to stick with our commit ment,” said Senechal Biggs. One cost-cutting option for the project costing between $60,000and$85.000forthe 94 trees, is asking property owners to water and maintain the trees, once planted. Usu ally, contractors mai ntai n ne wly-planted trees for the first year. Jane Foreman, executive director of Friends of Trees, says the city cut back on continued ,,n page H6 Schools Real Estate Trust. Commissioner Jim Francesconi called t project his "number one priority” and Mayo! Vera Katz committed to keeping the projec] moving forward. Those with a stake in the neighborhood] including Portland Parks and Recreatior officials, a spokesman from Public Schools Real EstateTrust, the Buckman and Hosford] A bernathy neighborhood associations] Kerns Improvement Committee and South] One community’s vision to turn a sur plus property into a community center and pool is a step closer to reality. The Portland C ity C o uncil unanimously en dorsed a resolu tion to negotiate an agreement to purchase at least half o f now-va cant Washington High School cam pus betw een S o u th e a st I 2 ,h and 14,h avenues and S tark and ! ii Morrison streets. Popular with n eighbors is a plan including a community cen ter with a pool, a playing field, 130 to 210 housing units, parking, re tail outlets and preservation o f open space. T he c o u n c il p lan s to reprioritizeitmes within the Port photo by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver land Parks and A plan moves forward to turn parts of the former Washing Recreation bud ton High School campus in southeast Portland into a get to fund the community center, public pool and housing. p ro je c t. O th er funding options would come from Port east Uplift, suggested that such a ccnted land Parks and Recreation development would help attract people to the inner south] charge funds, capital improvement project east neighborhiMxl and ward against urban funds, a general fund and possibly the flight to the suburbs. private sector. Washington High School merged with The actual purchase o f 4.5 acres of the Monroe High School before closing in 1 98( property will come before council in a fu and has been undenitilized by the district eveJ ture meeting, after the details are negoti since. The building houses some district of] ated between the city and Portland Public flees and a small Child Services Center.
