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November 10. 2004
Soul Food Dinner
Highland Church sets table for
Promised Land Building Fund
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Learn to Swim
Fall Swimming Lessons are
available at Columbia Pool,
7701 N. Chautauqua BI vd. and
Matt Dishman Pool, 77 N.E.
Knott. For information, call
the Portland Parks Aquatic
Division at 503-823-5130.
Women in NAACP
Women in NAACP meets from
10:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. the first
Saturday of each month at the
American Red Cross Building,
3131 N. Vancouver. For ques
tions, call 503-249-6263.
Forces of Nature
OMSI presents Forces o f Na
ture, N ational G eographic
Chases Mother N ature’s Dark
Side, at O m nim ax through
March. For more information,
call 503-797-40ÎX).
Fox Chase Artwalk
The businesses o f Fox Chase
Comers, at Northeast 30th A v
enue and Killingsworth Street,
sponsor Artwalk for the entire
family, Sunday, Nov. 14 from
11 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more
in fo rm a tio n ,
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milagrostq’milagmsN xitique.com.
Gallery of Visual Arts
View art from talented local
artists o f all ages throughout
the month of November at the
Interstate Firehouse Cultural
C enter; 5340 N. Interstate
Ave., from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m.,
free.
Get Fit, Stay Healthy!
Sankofaa Health Institute of
fers a free diabetes support
group from 6 to 7:30 p.m.
e very th i rd Thursday at AI berta
Sim m ons Plaza, 6707 N.E.
Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.
For more information, cal1503-
285-2484.
Rose Garden Opens for School
Students see
‘real world'
need for math
Ninth graders from north Portland’s Roosevelt
High School’s Power Academy studied statistics,
engineering and measurement during a daylong
field trip to the Rose Garden Arena courtesy.
Students tracked the acoustics, heating and
cooling and general engineering aspects of the
building, home to the Portland Trail Blazers and
other events. They calculated the capacity for
parking and carefully considered statistics for a
professional basketball game in the same way that
coaches develop strategies to find the hot spots for
shooting and productivity of each player.
This was an attempt to bring math directly to the
students so they can understand, in ways they find
relevant, the way mathematical principles affect
their daily lives.
"Our kids need assurance that math is usable in
the real world," said Kathy Fong Stephens, a school-
work liaison who took the kids on last week’s
learning expedition.
“This is a fun way to practice everything they’re
learning in algebra and geometry," she said. “They
also got to see the size 16 shoes and eight-foot high
shower heads in the Blazers' dressing room."
The students also got firsthand views of issues
in science, health, sound, physical education and
urban planning related to Portland’s sports arena.
Students and staff from Roosevelt
High School's Power Academy work
on their math skills by measuring
the basketball court at the Rose
Garden and understanding how it
fits together like a jigsaw puzzle on
top o f an ice hockey rink.
Creative Space For Dance
A urora dance studio, 5433
N.E. 30th (& Killingsworth),
offers an array of classes for
children, teens and adults at all
levelsof ability. Call 503-249-
0201 o r v is it o n lin e at
w w w .h e v a n e t.c o m /
auroradance for additional in
formation.
The arithmetic is
the height o f the
shower heads when
Ninth graders from
Roosevelt High
School visit the
Blazer's shower
room, giving them a
sense o f the
differences in size
between the
professional
basketball players
and the rest o f us.
Work For Change
Community Advocates invites
those interested in protecting
children from abuse to be
come an event volunteer, event
outreach, technology expert,
graphic artists or office sup
port team member. For more
inform ation, call 503-280-
1388.
Home Improvement
T he C o m m u n ity E n erg y
Project holds free workshops
on w ater conservation and
weatherization. For more in
formation, call 503-284-4962.
World Famous Jazz for Kids Hits Portland
Birth Ready
Sunday concert to feature all-stars and rising stars
W hether you need childbirth
preparation classes, or just a
refresher. Providence Health
Systems has a workshop for
you. Prepare for pain, take a
weekend seminar or prepare
big sisters and brothers-to-be
throughout the sum m er by
visiting www.providence.org/
classes or call 503-574-6595.
Aquatic Fitness
Providence has a full schedule
of fitness classes including wa
ter exercising at the Provi
dence Aquatic Center. 4805
N.E. Glisan. For a schedule,
call 503-215-6301.
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Kenny Polson will join a group o f featured jazz
performers in a benefit for jazz education on
Sunday, Nov. 14 at 6 p.m. at the Legacy
Emanuel Hospital Atrium.
by J aymef . R. Cvn
T he P ortland O bserver
A world-renowned musician will
headline The Future o f Jazz, a Sunday
night o f jazz and funk with allstars and
rising stars.
The 6 p.m. to 9:30 p.m. event at the
Legacy Emanuel Hospital atrium, 501
N. Graham St., is a fundraiser for the
jazz program at Beaverton Arts and
Communication Magnet Academy.
P e r f o r m a n c e s in c lu d e F red
W esley, an exciting funk and jazz
trom bonist, form erly w ith Jam es
Brown, G eorge C linton and the Par-
liam ent/Funkadelic and the C ount;
the Kenney Polson Project and Port
land Jazz All Stars.
Polson, the smooth jazz saxophon
ist, has played in 35 countries with the
likes of Little Richard, Phil Walker.
James Brown and many, many more.
Polson’s song “No More Lonely
Nights" reached the Top 40 Adult
Contemporary New Music Weekly
Chart in 2001.
His band will soon release Seren
dipity. an album featuring many of
Polson’s famous friends.
“This particular album I just re
corded is a blend between smooth
jazz and old school and R & B,"
Polson said. “ I’ve gone back and
called my friends, the old school
musicians. There’s some famous cats
on there, man. It’s made it really
special for me.”
Polson, a Portland resident, has trav
eled nationwide to record “Serendip
ity" to collaborate with musicians such
as Michael Henderson, Tom Grand,
Fred W esley, Roger Smith. Larry
Gittens. Phil Upchurch. Bruce Conte
and members of WAR, Santana, Malo,
The Isley Brothers. The Dazz Band
and Taj Mahal.
The event doubles as a CD release
party for the Kenney Polson Project.
R e se rv e d se a ts fo r S u n d a y ’s
fundraiser are $45, including u sit down
dinner and dessert, and general adm is
sion is $35. For tickets, call Judy
Chow n at 5O3-672-37OO or v isit
w w w .acm ajazz.org.