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Wax Café and break dance entrepreneur Shannon
Guthrie demonstrates a spinning head stand.
from Metro
white or Asian,” she said.
Guthrie feels most adults in the neighbor­
hood are sheltered from hip-hop, but some
are very supportive.
“People don’t know that hip-hop is a
culture. Hip-hop isn’t just a rap video you
watch on television saying, "Bling-bling,”
he said.
Guthrie not only has a place to bring the
community but he reaches out to the com ­
munity by teaching at local schools.
Through the SUN (Schools U niting
Neighborhoods) program, he teaches break
dancing classes at schools like Femwood
and Binnsmead.
“It’s a free program for kids to have
something to do after school to not get in
trouble,” Guthrie said.
April 5 was the first day Wax was opened
for breakfast and business has been steady.
Wax serves breakfast everyday from 7
a.m. to 2 p.m. A big appeal is the more than
15 kinds o f milkshakes and candy filled
pancakes.
W ednesday and Friday nights is when
the dancing happens.
Freestyle Fridays is at 7 p.m. and is
proving to be a W ax favorite. Free styling
is when a m aster o f cerem onies creatively
takes the m icrophone in an im prom ptu
and spontaneous perform ance. It is also a
kind o f com petition betw een M C ’s be­
cause you have to be good to “bust a
good freestyle.”
This summer. Wax plans to have a hip-
hop elements camp, as well as a space set-
aside tor local clothing designers to sell their
clothes.
W ax’s ow ners feel that there are limited
options when it com es to finding hip-hop
style clothing and even more lim its for
local designers to get their fashions sold
in stores.
The summer camp would last all day and
teach the fourelements of hip-hop: b-boying,
MC-ing, tumtablism (learning how to make
beats using turntables and vinyl records)
and graffiti art. These plans are still in the
works.
R esidents o f the local com m unity are
urged to make Wax a com m unity place for
fun, food and art.
R eligion
H ighland C hurch Plans N ew H om e
Senior Pastor Rev. Dr W.G
Hardy and his congregation re­
cently ventured to the future
new home of Highland United
Church of Christ on Northeast
76th Avenue and Glisan Street.
The attendees were there to
celebrate a short service and
get a glimpse of the future. The
Highland church, currently on
northeast Alberta Street, is in
the final stages of negotiating
the purchase a campus facility
that is being vacated by the
New Beginnings Congregation.
City and state officials and
com m unity business leaders
joined with the Highland Con­
gregation to celebrate and listen
to an optimistic message deliv­ Lending support to the future home o f northeast Portland's Highland Church o f Christ is Roy Jay
ered by Dr. Hardy about the (from left) o f the African American Chamber o f Commerce and State Sen. Avel Gordly o f Portland.
future of the church.
Rev. Dr. W.G. Hardy Jr. (right) is the church's senior pastor.
Forum on HIV/AIDS
R ev. R en ee’ W ard, Portland N orthw est residents w hose lives
pastor o f Zion C M E C hurch, will have been im pacted by H IV and
host a forum on HIV and AIDS on A ID S w ill air d u r in g th e p ro ­
KN M T-TV C hannel 22 that will gram .
feature representatives from the
Rev. Ward isanordained Meth­
faith com m un ity, as well as gov­ o d ist m in iste r and n a tio n a l
ernm ent health advocates.
speaker and advocate for HI V and
T h e program titled “Silent A ID S education and prevention.
S cream s” and will address the H er h usb and , Joseph died from
social im pact on persons living A ID S in 1998.
with HIV and AIDS and the faith
For m ore inform ation or to re­
c o m m u n ity ’s role to su p p ort serve you r seat as a panelist or
people with the virus.
m em ber o f the audience, please
S e g m e n ts from a recen tly call Rev. W ard at 503-281-1800
p ro d u ced d o cu m e n ta ry called or 503-301-2172 o r via em ail at
“W h o W ill Speak F or M e,” that chry salisministries 1 @ hotn iail.com
p r o file s th e liv e s o f P a c ific or revrenee @ zioncm e.org.
A three-day celebration hosted food, beverages, an inflatable
by the congregation o f Ainsworth “Bounce House,” a clown, face
United Church o f Christ (AUCC), painting, a Portland Fire Truck;
w hose activities include social and a jewelry, plant & book sale.
response and action in the greater Festivities run from 11 a.m. to
Portland area, support for the com­ 3p.m. right next to the church on
munity issues, and promotion of closed N.E. 30lh Ave.
in terfaith u n d erstanding. P ro ­
Sunday, May 15
ceeds will support the mission and Celebration and Birthday Party
ministry o f AUCC, as well as our
When you are as welcoming as
community partner for 2005, Port­ AUCC, the worship service offers
land Impact. AUCC is also offer­ inspiration, ju b ila tio n and the
ing a special raffle for a one-week Word o f God brought to you by
stay in a Mayan Resorts time-
people of profound faith, wit­
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ness and service. Please join
Friday, M ay 13
us in w o rsh ip . P a sto r
Silent A uction, H ors
L ynne Sm ouse L o p e z ’s
D ’O euvres and Dancing
W serm on sure to be inspir-
W hen the sun go es
ing. R ooted in A U C C ’s
down in Stump Town, we will
tra d itio n a l F o u r S easo n s
g a th e r
at
M c M e n a m in ’s Birthday C elebration, the after­
Edgefield, 2126 S.W. Halsey in church activity will honor and
Troutdale. From 6:30 to 10:30p.m., celebrate everybody’s birthday
we will enjoy a plethora of hors w ith scrum ptious food, cakes,
d ’oeuvres, have great fun with our punch and beverages. The draw ­
silent auction, Live-Music-featur- ing for the M ayan Resorts tim e-
ing Janice Scroggins! -and danc­ share will be done at the B irth­
ing. There will be something for day C eleb ratio n . W inning the
everyone’s taste. Tickets are avail­ draw ing includes one w eek at a
able now: $35 per person ($10.50 M ayan R esorts tim e share and
of which is tax-deductible dona­ $ 1 ,5 0 0 to w a r d s a ir f a r e and
tion). Call the church as soon as sp e n d in g m oney. M ayan R e­
possible at (503) 284-8767.
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Church Helps African Victims
T he C h u rc h O f G od In
Christ is contributing to the
hum anitarian tsunam i relief
effort in Africa. As a denom i­
n a tio n ,
C O G IC
ra is e d
$425,000 in an effort to help
relieve the financial burden o f
c le a n in g up and resto rin g
towns and cities destroyed by
the devastating tsunami.
The money will be allocated
to different African govern­
ments and charities that apply
for the aid “Other monies raised
will be given to Haiti and other
countries that have been devas­
tated by natural disasters,” said
Bishop C.E. Blake, First Assis­
tant Presiding Bishop of the
Church O f God In Christ.
The Church o f God in Christ
is the fifth largest church de­
nomination in the United States
with an estim ated m em ber­
ship of over six m illion m em ­
bers. CO GIC headquarters are
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Tem ple.
Spiritual empowerment
fo r black males
that come with those changes.
Young people can examine their
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In his new book, Reaching
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with a Hindu Yogi, and in 1998 was African-American history, sex edu­
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Personal Editorial
Rites o f Passage
In 1999,9.4 percent of all black
males between 25-29 were in prison.
In 2001, a Department of Justice
study revealed that a black male
bom that year had a 1 /3 chance of
going to prison. The 2000 Census
revealed that women headed 48
percent o f black families, and of
those, 40 percent were living under
the poverty level.
W orking towards solutions to
these issues, many groups incor­
porate African traditions that speak
to the mind, body and spirit. One of
those traditions is Rites-of-Pas-
sage, supervised developm ental
processes that help young people
on the journey from childhood to
resp o n sib le ad u lt. T hey teach
young people about the changes
happening in their minds and bod­
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Opinion: Politics, Religion & Community
Political Scientist,
Rev. John Pearce
Hear on KKPZ, 1330 AM dial, 7:00 Sunday mornings;
and worldwide via WWCR & WINB Radio
US: Falling Giant
T ogood citizen s o f every ethnicity:
Last week, I stated, Rev./Dr. Jim & Jannie Pearce,
my parents, were denied the right to vote. These
senior citizens were forced to show two pieces of ID
& were not informed previously of this frivolous
requirement. This violated a Florida Law.
Note: There are God fearing Democrats, Republi­
cans, good Christian & Muslim folk. However, there
are a very few “Hooded Ethnocentric-Rightist Re­
publicans,” unfortunately, in power with the Presi­
dent. These few are bent on taking voting rights from
African Americans, mixed race included. Instead of
bearing the cross o f G od’s love, these bum the cross
of hate. ( Several of this type look up to Rev. Jerry
Farewell, the Southern Baptist.)
Back to the polls: A state Rep, in Illinois. John
Pappageorge, was over heard saying “If we d o n 't
nately Black.
They came for the Jew, I did nothing, I was not
a Jew. They came for the Poles, I did nothing, I was
not Polish. So when they came for me, there was no
one left to speak for me.
Note, the concept of the Patriot Act was said by
one official in the Bush administration, to have
been used in America for years on African Ameri­
cans via socalled. War On Drugs. Unjustly, “battle
ram s" indiscriminately knock down doors in inner
city neighborhoods & police brutality is rampant -
none come to help. Today. Patriot Act concepts are
violating rights of all Americans. This further im­
plies, since African American votes are suppressed,
later all American votes will be suppressed, if Power
feels it's necessary to retain itself.
Supreme Court; Bush V , Gate-’ "The indi­
vidual citizens has no federal constitutional
right to vote... fo r the President o f the US unless
suppress the Detroit vote, we’re going to have a & until State legislature implement its fthe
tough time. .."1 2004 election I. Rep. Pappageorge citizen) power... ” This implies that the people's
later said he was referring to the local election. right to vote can he taken away should the state
Isn’t this still called cheating? D etroit is predom i­ desire.