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Health Disparities
Research at OHSU
March 24. 2004
Girl Escapes King School Kidnapping
The Northwest C enter for Health
Disparities Research is a program at
the Oregon Health and Sciences Uni-
, versity, providing health care for ra
cial, ethnic and underserved com
munities. The location and sponsor
ship was regrettably om itted from a
story about the p rogram in last
w eek’s edition.
The Portland center, on the OHSU
cam pus in southw est Portland, has
joined com m unity-based agencies,
foundations, academ ic institutions,
local and state public health agen
cies and health care system s with the
mission o f de veloping culturally com
petent research.
C orliss M cKeever, president of
the A frican A m erican H ealth C oali
tion, i s the program ’ s co-direc tor w i th
Dr. N ancy G lass from O H S U ’s
School o f Nursing.
For more information, call 503-494-
6740.
Portland Police
Officer Ron Cash
and Lew Frederick
o f Portland Public
Schools discuss
kidnapping as they
watch parents
collecting their
children
afterschool.
photo by M ark
W ashington /T he
P ortland O bserver
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m an and his car. T h e su sp e ct is according to Sgt. Cheryl R obinson,
way at Kellogg M iddle School and d escrib ed as a w h ite m an in his spokesw om an for the Portland Po
raped her in a nearby motel.
20s w ith brow n an d b lond hair lice Bureau.
A ccording to Frederick, one o f an d a thin build. H e has a scar on
“W e encourage parents to talk
the changes in school security may the le fts id e o f his chin. T he ca r is to their children about stranger
include im plem enting a “buddy d escrib ed as an o ld er, black four- danger," Robinson said. “You want
system ,” so students are not alone door.
to bring attention to yourself.”
w hile out o f class.
Police knocked on doors after
A nyone with inform ation about
N o su sp ects are in cu sto d y , the kidnapping, questioning neigh the abduction is asked to call police
b ut the girl has p ro v id ed p olice bors surrounding the school, and a t503-823-0446.
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Urgency on Vanport Project Grows
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w ard is th at in v esto rs and p o te n
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Still, success is critical and not
ju st to the people involved.
“If this is the primary commercial
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veloped, where will developm ent
occur?” Leary asks.
He notes that the project “has
had some victories. W e have sales
ag reem en ts from four property
* If this is the primary commercial
node on MLK, and it remains
undeveloped, where will development
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p rese n ce o f in c re ase d h o u sin g
values in the area.
“N o developer can force the
m arket to do w hat it's not prepared
to do," Leary says. Further, he says,
creating an “urban com m ercial
space” o f this size on M LK is “an
u n p rec ed en ted effo rt, still u n
charted waters. There are very few
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neighbors, there was general ap
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potential anchors for quite som e
tim e; th ere’s som ething about the
project that still has them at the
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“Clearly th ere’s an urgency to
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Ford to lobby
African-American
concerns
Earl W. Ford, president
o f the V ancouver Branch
N A ACP, has been nam ed
to the W ashington State
C om m ission on African
American Affairs, the first
m em ber o f the com m is
sio n fro m s o u th w e s t
W ashington.
Earl W.
Ford received notifica
tion o f the appointm ent by Gov.
G ary Locke on M arch 5.
“I am excited about the opportu
nity to serve V ancouver and Clark
County in this capacity. I hope to
be o f service to African A m ericans
throughout southw est W ashing
ton,” Ford said.
An executive order established
the com m ission in 1989, but state
law d id n 't form ally establish it until
1992. The panel is charged with
providing a focal point in state
governm ent for the interests o f
A frican-A m erican citizens.
“Sidney Clark, President, USDA
Coalition o f M inority Em ployees
and I along w ith several oth er
the com m ission about five year;
ago to becom e actively involved ir
issues in southw est W ashington,’
Ford said. “ I consider this
ap p o in tm en t to be the
culmination o f ourefforts
Now we have to roll up
o u r sle ev e s an d work
twice as hard to focus
some o f the com mission ’ s
in te rest on S o u th w est
W ashington issues that
we believe need critical
Ford
atten tio n .”
Ford cited several is
sues that will draw his attention as
a m em ber o f the com m ission.
“There are many em ployees who
are suffering the pain of discrim ina
tion in agencies that are taxpayer
supported in Southw est W ashing
ton and that m ust change, he said.
Ford said other issues include
failing public schools, state testing
standards, and increasing em ploy
ment and business developm ent
opportunities for people o f color.
R eg in a J. Jo n es, w ho is a p
p o in ted by and serv es at the p le a
sure o f the go v ern o r, ad m in isters
the co m m issio n as ex ecu tiv e d i
rector. T he panel c o n sists o f nine
g o v ern o r ap p o in ted m em bers.