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September 22. 2004
Got Neighborhood
School Pride?
Sisters in Action
support local schools
S is te r s in A c tio n jo in e d
Jefferson High School students
to bring in the schixil year with a
pep rally and t-shirt giveaw ay.
T he 500 shirts, espousing the
logo "got neighborhood school
pride?” are designed to encour
age students and the com m unity
to have m ore p rid e in local
schools.
T hrough research and inter
view s, Sisters in Action volun
teers learned o f the frustration
and pressure schools and stu
dents are under. T he shirts are
their way o f show ing that neigh
borhood schools and students
deserve support.
“ I’m tired o f people in this
com m unity alw ays saying nega
tive things about my school. W e
have some o f the best program s
and teachers at Je ff but nobody
ever talks about that,” says Elisha
W illiam s, 16, Sisters in Action
m em ber.
S upport o u r S ch o o ls and S tu
d ents is S isters in A c tio n ’s new
cam paig n , co m m itted to b rin g
ing atten tio n to the stru g g le s
schools such as Je fferso n face.
"In ste ad o f talk in g ab o u t our
s c h o o l, p e o p le s h o u ld h e lp
m ak e su re w e h a v e th e r e
sources w e need to ge, a good
e d u c a tio n ,” C o u rtn e y Jo n e s,
by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
16, an intern w ith S iste rs in
Courtney Jones (from left), Nyesha Sims, Sharnae Rouse, Nyema Sims, Rachel Huff, Renieta Hawkins and Elisha Williams don t-
A ction intern.
shirts at Jefferson High School to support neighborhood schools, as part o f a Sisters in Action Support Our Schools campaign.
Free M ovies Bring D onations
Captors Kill
Hostages in Iraq
Movie fans can see a film and help offer is good for all show times was collected.
tight hunger at the 24th annual Cans except starred attractions.
"The problem of hunger con
Film Festival, Tuesday, Sept. 28.
M oviegoers don ated nearly tin u e s to g ro w ,” sa id D ick
Donations o f three cans o f non- 125,000pounds of food at last year’s Westerling, senior vice president
perishable food at any Regal C in Cans Film Festival.
of marketing at Regal Cinemas.
emas in Oregon and Clark County
All food donations directly ben “T hat’s why we are continuing to
bring free admission to a movie and efit the Oregon Food Bank Network work with Oregon Food Bank to
a free small box of popcorn. The in the communities where the food address it.”
4 hostage alleged to be American Jack Hensley
is seen in this video.
(AP) — A posting on an Islamic W eb site claim ed
Tuesday that the al-Qaida-Iinked group led by Abu
Musab al-Zarqawi has slain a U.S. hostage in Iraq, just
24 hours after grisly video showed the terror m aster
mind beheading another American captive.
The posting was followed about two hours later by
a claim on a different Web site threatening to kill a third
hostage, a British man, if women prisoners in Iraq are
not freed.
N eitherclaim could immediately be verified.
A l-Z arq aw i’s group, T aw hid and Jihad, k id
napped tw o A m ericans - Jack H ensley and Eugene
A rm strong - and Briton K enneth Bigley on T h u rs
day from a hom e that the three civil engineers
shared in an upscale Baghdad neighborhood. Al-
Z arqaw i beheaded A rm strong, and the m ilitants
on M onday posted a gruesom e video o f the 52-
year-old m an ’s death.
The new postings followed the passing o f the
m ilitants’ 24-hour deadline for the release of all Iraqi
women from prison, and after anguished relatives in
the United States and Britain begged for the lives of
Bigley, 62, and Hensley, who would have marked his
49th birthday W ednesday.
Indian Prisons Found Disgraceful
(AP) — Indian prisons are “a least 11 fatalities, 236 suicide at
national disgrace" where 11 people tempts and 632 escapes since the
have died and hundreds have es change o f administrations in Janu
caped or tried to kill themselves the ary 2001.
past three years, government offi
Its release was timed to coincide
cials said Tuesday, likening the with the opening Tuesday of the
conditions to the U.S. m ilitary’s Smithsonian Institution’s National
mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners at Museum o f the American Indian.
Abu Ghraib.
The Interior D epartm ent’s Bu
The Interior Department report reau of Indian Affairs had 2,080
painted a grim picture, capping people in 70 Indian jails, detention
months of investigation. It found at centers and other correctional fa-
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More Expansion for New Seasons
The locally-owned grocery chain
N ew Seasons M arket has an
nounced that it will open a seventh
store in the Cedar Hills Crossing
shopping center in Beaverton in
2006. The opening will create about
140 new jobs, provide grocery ser
vices to area residents and support
local community organizations and
vendors from the region.
The company is currently in the
process o f building its sixth store in
north P o rtlan d ’s A rbor Lodge
neighborhood at Interstate Avenue
and Portland Boulevard.
New Seasons M arket carries
essential groceries foreveryday liv
ing and feature organic produce,
natural meats and chicken, fresh
seafood, cheeses and an extensive
wine and beer selection The com
pany is an active and committed
supporter o f the regional food
economy and is dedicated to pur
chasing from sm all N orthw est
farms, ranches, dairies and fisher
ies.
The stores are also com m itted
to helping guide custom ers to a
healthy lifestyle and include large
Minimum Wage Boost
Oregon Labor Com m issioner
Dan Gardner announced last week
that based on an inflation rate of 2.6
percent, O regon's minimum wage
will increase by 20cents from $7.05
per hour to $7.25 per hour begin
ning with the New Year.
An Oregon law passed by vot
ers in 2002 requires an annual ad
justm ent o f the minimum wage for
inflation based on a rise in the Con
sumer Price Index. The annual ad
justment is to be calculated every
September, rounded to the nearest
five cents and becomes effective
the following January.
G ardner said when the m ini
mum wage increases, local econo
m ies benefit from the increased
purchasing pow er o f low -w age
w orkers and their fam ilies.
“Most low-wage workers pump
every dollar o f their pay checks
directly into the local economy by
spending their money in their
neighborhood stores, local phar
m acies, and co rn er m ark ets,”
Gardner said.
He said indexing also offers
businesses the ability to budget
more effectively and accurately for
increased costs.
G ardner also pointed out that
the “real" cost o f living in O r
egon is rising even faster than
theC P I.
nutritional supplem ent and vil
min departm ents staffed by exp
r ie n c e d a n d k n o w le d g e a b
people. For specialized custom
needs, stores have a nutrition!
available for free consultatior
In addition. New Seasons Mark
offers health classes, tours ai
lectures.
New Seasons Market enthut
astically supports the communiti
in which it operates. In the last yet
the company has made donatioi
to over 160 nonprofits and
community groups.
Scouts Kick Off
Popcorn Sale
Boy Scouts are “popping up" in
local neighborhoods during the
month o f October as they kick off
their annual sale of T rail’s End
Gourmet Popcorn. Proceeds will
support programs for over 47,889
youth in northwest Oregon and
southw est W ashington.
Scouts, often recognized for
their good deeds, provided over
1.3 m illion hours o f service to
local com m unities last year, and
continually strive to do a “good
turn" daily.
In addition, orders may be placed
by contacting the council office at
503-225-5761.
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Correction:
Ken Hatch is the owner and pharmacist at Ainsworth Drug on
Interstate Avenue in the Overlook Neighborhood o f north
Portland. He was incorrectly named in our Sept. 8 issue. We
sincerely regret the error.