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December }Jortlanò © bseruer Opera Singer Shares Love o f Classics Portland Community College Dedicated to Education Danielle Bryant, Portland Community College s Sylvania student president, speaks at the grand opening o f the school's new technology building. Expansions to all PCC campuses are part o f a voter-approved $144 million bond measure. Foxworth Reviews Policies Police Chief Derrick Foxworth will hoods, improving community and po pitch a new Community Policing Stra lice partnerships and making police of tegic Plan on Friday to the City Club. ficers more accountable to the public. Among his top objectives are re “Our new goal of accountability was ducing crime and fear of crime, improv added in response to community and ing the quality o f life in neighbor internal feedback,” said Foxworth. Dear Deanna! My 8-year old son is fat and eats too much. I try serving him small portions o f food but he cries for more because he’s hungry. He eats like a grown man and gobbles plates o f collard greens, pinto beans, ribs and pies. How do I stop him from eating so much and make him lose some weight? -E a ts Too Much: Tulsa, Okla. Dear Eats Too Much: Obviously you already know that fat kids like cake. Since you're the mother feeding him. this is more than likely a problem you created without knowing it. Before trying to put him on a diet, visit your Real People, Real Advice A h advice column known for its fearless approach to reality based subjects! Soprano Gail Strong-Price will per form in the Vancouver Children’s Opera Company’s holiday produc tion of Engelbert Humperdinck’sop- era, “ Hansel and Gretel.” Strong-Price and Loti ChVistensen, another opera singer, founded the company in April 2000 to share their love tor opera, education and classi cal music. "We have performed for about 4,(M)0 students in Washington and , it's been very well received by ev- I eryone who has seen it,” said Strong- Price. “It’s an excellent production and we look forward to doing lots more productions for students and for parents.” The goal of the opera company is to introduce young people to the classical repertoire by educating, en couraging and nurturing in them an appreciation for opera and classical music through performances and to enhance music program s within Vancouver and Portland school dis tricts. Perform ances of "Hansel and Gretel" will be at I p.m. Dec. 2 and 3 in the W ashburn Auditorium in Washougal, Wash, for approximately Gail Strong-Price co-founded the Vancouver Children s Opera 1,000students in the Washington area. Company to expose young people to the classical repertoire. Advertise with diversity m I J o r tla ttb <J=)ba I r u c r Call 5()3-288-(X)33 ads@portlandob server.com pediatrician to get assistance with she caught me o ffg u a rd . I'm at his weight and eating habits. In the the point w here I’m ready to tell meantime, you can’t starve him or her she reaped what she sow ed push him away from the table to but I c a n ’t do it. W hy? — Leslie; lose weight. You can either give B oston him yogurt and healthy snacks or dangle a chicken leg and let him Dear Leslie: chase you a few laps around the You can definitely say she got what she deserved. I guess your hus house. band saw the grass w asn’t greener Dear Deanna! on the other side (hee. hee). When My husband o f 7 years left me for she calls again, let her know in your a y ounger wom an. He dogged me sweetest voice you appreciate her and broke my heart but I’m over seeking your advice but you had it. The problem is now with this enough drama from both o f them to w om an. H e’s putting her through last a lifetime. Share some words of the same dram a he put me through wisdom that if a married man cheats and she calls me for advice. The on his wife, h e’ll cheat on anybody first tim e I tolerated her because and keep it moving. Dear Deanna! Please help me settle this d is pute. My sister had a baby a few m onths ago and she still wears halter tops that reveal her stom ach. She has a lot o f stretch marks but she still p ra n c e s aro u n d thinking sh e’s cute because she lost h er baby fat. W e arg u e when I point out the fact her stom ach looks nasty and flabby a n d s h o u ld b e c o v e r e d up but she d o e s n ’t listen to me. Do you agree? - M ichelle C.; Richmond. Va. Dear Michelle: your sister is com fortable with her body and it d o e sn 't bother her to put those stretch m arks out there for the world to see, then more pow er to her. It's not for you to worry about. 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