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4936 N.E. Skidmore
Portland, OR 97218
Take N.E. Prescott,
Heading East (toward 60th) to
N.E. 49lh and Turn Right,
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Sunday School
9:30 am
Sunday Morning Service 11:00 am
Wednesday Prayer
12:00 Noon
Wednesday Evening
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Everyone
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’astor Marcia L. Taylor
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Tel: (503) 284-9959
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far are first time customers
w ho w alk aw ay p ra isin g
Okamura for her phenomenal
touch.
“ I like to m ake things
pretty. But there’s also som e­
thing about working one and
one with women to make
them feel better about them ­
selves. T h e re ’s too much
c o m p e titio n
b e tw e e n
w om en,” O kam ura said.
Packages include massage
o f the face, hands, feet and
back that polish and shine
even the roughest, toughest
spots. M ake-up application,
w axing, and even a special
“chocolate bliss facial” are
also available. Yum.
It doesn’t just take a m as­
sage to make people satis­ Sherry Okamura
fied, though.
“I have a theory that happy people happy. That should be
people are beautiful people. It everybody’s jo b ,” O kam ura said.
d o esn't m atter what you look like.
O k am u ra en c o u ra g e s those
If y o u ’re happy with yourself, who have never taken the tim e to
y o u ’re b e a u tifu l. I t’s m aking fully pam per them selves to try it
at least once.
“T ake a leap, be b rav e,”
she said. “ R elax atio n is so
im p o rtan t to yo u r health, if
you d o n ’t do it at least four
tim es a year, y o u ’re ro b ­
b in g y o u r s e lf . Y ou ju s t
have to lay there and relax.
I give an aw esom e facial if
I do say so m y se lf.”
F or som eone stum ped on
a creative gift to give som e­
o n e , a p a c k a g e , w h ic h
ranges anyw here from $25
to $195 proves to be one o f
the m ost a p p reciated and
th o u g h tfu l id e a s a ro u n d .
A nd b e in g th e g e n e ro u s
lady she is, O kam ura said
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Women Break Male Dominance
(A P) - A grow ing num ber o f
women are going into business,
capitalizing on new opportuni­
ties in A fghanistan in a still male-
dom inated econom y three years
a fte r the fall o f the Islam ist
T aliban governm ent.
A sc a tte rin g o f sm all tex tile
and h a n d ic ra ft w o rkshops, b o u ­
tiq u es, beauty p a rlo rs and even
a so c c e r ball facto ry - run by
w om en and em p lo y in g w om en
- have sprung up aro u n d the
c a p ita l. A fg h a n ista n ’s first fe ­
m ale b u sin e ss asso c ia tio n - set
up w ith fo re ig n fu n d in g 18
m onths ago - says it has 500
m em bers.
B arred from edu catio n and
jo b s during the five years o f
T aliban rule, women now have
the right, at least on paper, to
pursue careers o f their choosing.
“T here are barriers, and they
will be lifted slow ly,” said Mina
Afghan women wear burqa, a covering no longer required by law.
S h e rz o y ,
head
of
th e
governm ent’s W om en’s E ntre­
preneurship D evelopm ent. “We
are recovering from war and dev­
astation and Taliban repression.
... But th ere’s nothing in Shariah
(Islam ic law ) that says women
c a n ’t do business.”