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Soul Food Dinner Sunday
Highland
church
fundraiser
HomeTown
We invite you to eom e wee why we are the
School T h a t H brÄw for you!!!!!
l i e h a Satie „\orlh Catholic
H igh School
o p h \ n o rs E
Sunday Novem ber 14th, 2 0 0 4
1 P M -4 P M
76S4 N Defamare Aw
PbrOuxL o n 87S1Z
903-389-0389 Ext.110
O pportunity...
Through „Icadcmica, Com munity, S errice
North Portland
Bible College i
A n n u a l B a n q u e t - N o v e m b e r 1 3 ,2 0 0 4
P hoto by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
■ Speaker: Dr. Patricia Pickles
Chief Academic Officer
Portland Public Schools
■ Where: Ramada Inn
6221 NE 82nd Avenue
Portland, Oregon
■ Theme: “Fulfilling God’s
Hometown Buffet General Manager Tim Ross (left) and Robert McDonald promote the Sunday,
Nov. 14 soul food dinner for the Highland Promised Land Building Fund.
Grace Hosts Saturday Bazaar
G ra ce M em o rial E p isc o p al
Church, 1535 N.E. 17th Ave., will be
holdi ng a hoi iday bazaar and art fair
from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday,
Nov. 13.
The fair will include crafts by
local artists, a tree o f life quilt cre
ated by church members, preserves,
home-baked goods, and a gour
met lunch for $6.
For more information, call 503-
287-0418
Purpose” Ex. 9:16
Date Set for Kwanzaa Gala
■ Time: 6:(X)pmforSilent Auction
■ Dinner at 7:00 pm
■ Contact Office: 503.288.2919
■ Cost: $25/person($27.50at the door)
A date has been set for the eighth
annual Bridge Builders Kwanzaa
Gala and Rite of Passage Initiates
Ball.
The event, w hich honors co l
lege students w ho com plete one
o f the Bridge B uilders rites o f
VICTORY
Middle School
At the Blazers Boys & Girls Club
5250 NE MLK (Near Killingsworth)
(5 0 3 ) 7 8 9 -9 0 9 9
6th & 7th Grade
Correction
In a photo caption
about a p a sto ra l
breakfast in last
week’s issue, David
Hinton, general man
ager o f Killingsworth
St. Johns Lombard
L ittle C hapel o f
the C him es was
m isidentified. The
P ortland O bserver
regrets the error.
Come Join Us Today
passage program s, raises m oney Newmark Theater. Tickets range
for scholarships and is the larg between $26.50 and $38.50 with
est K w anzaa celebration in honor additional costs for the post cel
o f youth in the Pacific N o rth ebration. Tickets are available at
w est.
the Portland Center for Perform
This year’s ball will take place at ing A rts Box O ffice o r any
7:30 p.m. on Friday, Dec. 31 at the TicketM aster location.
T he co ngregation at H ighland
M inistries invites the com munity to a
Soul Food Sunday featuring ham,
greens, fried chicken, black eyes peas
and more.
The event is a fundraiser for the
Highland Promised Land Building
Fund and will be held from 2 to 6 p.m.
Sunday, Nov. 14 at Emanuel Temple
Church on the com er of North M ichi
gan Avenue and Sumner Street.
Highland is growing out o f room at
its Northeast 1S"1 and Alberta Street
church location and is in the process
o f negotiating purchase of a larger
place for worship and supporting
services.
“W e’re growing in numbers. W e’re
not trying to be the largest church.
W e’re trying to be the most effec
tive," said Robert McDonald, High
land Church member and event orga
nizer.
HomeTown Buffet will cater the
“all you can eat” dinner. Tickets are
$ 10 for adults and $7 for kids aged 17
and younger. Kids five and under eat
free. Tickets are sold at the door.
For more information, call 503-287-
9567o r503^149-2585.
Pre-Thanksgiving Meal
Hot coffee, hot m eals and a
good fellow ship w ill be the order
o f the day w hen B rothers on the
M ove p resents its 7lh annual Pre-
T h anksgiving D inner on S atu r
day, N ov. 13 from 11 a.m. to 3:30
p.m . at C orner Stone C om m unity
C hurch O f G od In C hrist, 2216
N.E. K illingsw orth.
Free shuttle services will pick up
needy residents from Northwest
Third Avenue and Burnside Street
at 11 a.m„ 12:30p.m .,2p.m .and3:30
p.m. and from Northeast Martin
L uther King Jr. Boulevard and
W ygant Street at 11:30 a.m., 1 p.m.
and2:30p.m .
For more information, call the
church office at 503-281 -4587.
Ponzi Scheme Hits LA Churches
The Los A ngeles a re a 's black the m oney to governm ent co n
Boxer M ike Tyson attended the
com m unity w as the ch ief victim tractors and w ould see returns o f d in n er as the guest o f honor, said
o f a Ponzi schem e that took at 10 percent to 20 percent a m onth. L isa A. G ok, an SEC assistant
least $8 m illion from investors,
The SEC said the R iverside- regional director.
the Securities and Exchange C om based firm s m ay have collected
A federal ju d g e on granted the
m ission alleged as it shut dow n much more than $8 m illion by so S E C ’s request for a tem porary
tw o com panies it said w ere in liciting investors at “ lavish" sales restraining order and asset freeze
volved.
events — including a lobster and for O hana International Inc., F i
I n v e s to r s , s o m e s o lic ite d prim e rib d in n er O ct. 22 at the nancial Solutions, and 44-year-
through som e o f the are a’s larg R itz-C arlton hotel in M arina Del old C hristiano H ashim oto o f R iv
est black churches, w ere alleg Rey that attracted n early 500 erside, the president o f both co m
edly told they w ould be lending people.
panies.
Adding 8th Grade Next Year (2005-06)
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In just over 4 months last spring!
Parents bring Families to Victory for a Great Learning Experience
We educate children from “Where they are now!"
We address strengths to meet every child's needs.
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For more information call Rev. Renee'Ward at (503) 283-1976
Retired Barber
Turns 90
A longtim e Portland
resident and retired bar
ber celeb rates his 9 0'h
birthday Friday, Nov. 12.
Elijah G arfield Cash
passed his Oregon Bar
ber License exam in 1948.
He first barbered in the
black com m unity near
what is today Memorial
C o liseu m . He is w ell
known for his 30 years of
operating a barbershop at
4601 N. Williams.
Cash was bom in Pitts
b u rg h , T ex a s an d a t
tended Center Pointe High
Sch(X)l, an extension o f Wiley College in Marshall, Texas. He
moved to Vancouver, Wash, in 1944 to work in the local
shipyards.
On the train from Texas, he met Geneva Frazier Knauls,
who was ju st seven years old at the time, but like Cash would
become a local African-American business pioneer,
Mr. Cash retired from barbering after 50 years. He has a
son, Howard Earl and many grandchildren and great grand
children.
He and his wife, Betty, love gardening, dinning out and
going swimming.
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