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August 24. 2005 Il!'jjJortlanh ©bseruer EMBRACING DIVERSITY________________________pagcBS Minister and Role Model Remembered Funeral Saturday at Allen Temple photo by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver Local youth involved with Success Academy surround Portland Community College Cascade Campus President Algie Gatewood and Harold Williams, member o f the PCC board o f directors at the PCC Cascade Campus gym. Summer Activities Abound with Success Academy Youth from north and northeast Portland have been fulfilling their boredom during the last days of summer through fun activities led by the Success Academy. Every Thursday through Satur day, students have been participat ing in free impromptu basketball, kickball and volleyball games at the Portland Community College Cas cade Campus and Peninsula Park. The Success A cadem y is a pro gram that helps inner-city youth th ro u g h c o m m u n ity s e rv ic e projects and career developm ent. Through its “End o f the Sum m er” program , which continues until Sept. 24, the academ y has led gam es, entertainm ent and open dialogue on im portant social is sues ranging from education to police brutality. For more information on how to get involved, call 503-287-9836. L aw & J ustice Get Paid To Learn Company Sued for Racist Jobsite Accused of condoning area as ‘whites only’ A law suit alleges that Tyson Foods, Inc. is responsible for m aintaining a segregated bathroom and break room , rem iniscent o f the Jim Crow era, in its A shland, A la., chicken processing plant. T hirteen A frican-A m erican em ployees filed acom plaint in the U. S. D istrict Court for the N orthern D istrict o f A labam a last week, alleging that a W hites Only sign and a pad lock denied them access to a bathroom in the A shland plant. The com plaint states that num erous w hite em ployees had keys to the bathroom that were not provided to A frican- Am erican workers. The A frican-A m erican e m p lo y ees’ com p lain t a lso a lleg es th a t, a fte r they c o m p lain ed about the se g re g a te d b athroom , No skills required, just a willingness to learn the plant m an ag er told them th at the b a th room had been locked b ecause they w ere d irty and annou n ced the clo sin g o f the break room . A ccording to the co m p lain t, the sam e w hite e m p lo y ees w ho had keys to the “ W hites O n ly ” bathroom form ed th e iro w n , private break room , using Tyson m a te ria ls to c o n stru c t the fu rn itu re . In i tia lly , a locked do o r se g reg ated the p ri vate break room . C u rre n tly , locked c a b i nets and a locked re frig e ra to r m aintain a priv ate break room . Construction Trades www.bestOJT.com click on orientation We can help! 503-493-6027 ■■■■■■■■i V (Doing the Little Things that Make a Big ^Difference! V. West Contracting & Consulting Services, Inc. County Receives Substance Abuse Grant More than 60 youth offenders will benefit from a $ 1.8 million grant awarded to Clark County ’ s Depart ment of Community Services and C o rrectio n s by the S ubstance Abuse and Mental Health Services Funeral services are scheduled Saturday, Aug. 27 at 11 a.m. at Allen Temple CM E Church, 4236 N.E. Eighth Ave., for Ethel Bates-Bailey who died Aug. 18 at the age of 67. She was born July 1, 1938 in Marshall, Texas and moved to Portland in 1959. Her marriage to Billy Bates ended in divorce. He diedin 1978. She was a beloved minister and role model for both her family and the Portland community. She served as a minister at Allen Temple and as an instructor at the North Portland Bible College. She was a regular contributor to the Portland O b se rv e r serving as the newspaper’s religion colum nist. S he re c e iv e d both a bachelor’s and m aster’s de gree from W arner Pacific College in Portland where she was ordained a minister in 1997. She struggled through the diversity o f raising her children as a single m other with dignity and strength, attending school and w ork ing to provide for her fam ily. She alw ays encouraged her fam ily, friends and stu Ethel Bates-Bailey dents to live life right in the direction o f God. She continued to live with the grace of G od’s love, study the Bible, pray and teach throughout a long illness that began with breast cancer eight years ago. Survivors include four sons, W illiam . A ndrew , K enneth and V ictor; tw o daughters, Billy Jean and A ntoinette; many other fam ily m em bers; her church com m unity and friends. Administration. action, co-occurring treatm ent, The funds will help with sub employment assistance, targeted stance abuse treatment for juve education and housing. niles and young adults returning to The “Fresh Start Young O f their communities after incarcera fender Re-entry” program is part of tion though intensive group inter- a$ 19.2 million effort being launched SAVE BIG AT BIG CITY PRODUCE in 11 markets nationwide. It is a key strategy ai med at treat i ng the gro w- ing number of methamphetamine users in Clark County. For more information, call Dr. Barb Sussex at 360-397-2130. Organic, Conventional, Food A lliance Approved Lots of Locally Grown Fresh Produce Police Excess: Taser, Dog Subdue Protestors LOCAL GROWN MUSTARD OR COLLARD GREEN 4 BU NCHES FOR $ 1 .0 0 (A P) — T w o women protest David M eieran, who helped or that a police dog bit another do so, so we started dow n the ing the w ar in Iraq were taken to ganize the protest, accused po woman on the leg when she re sidew alk - officers in front, K -9’s a hospital Saturday after P itts lice o f “ inappropriate and exces fused police orders to disperse. behind us, and started pushing burgh police broke up an unau sive force.” Both women and a man in the crow d down the sidew alk,” thorized march involving about Pittsburgh Police Sgt. C lint volved in the march were arrested, W inkler said. He said the march five dozen people on a busy o n e W inkler said that one woman who W inkler said. broke up after the arrests. way street near an Army recru it w ould not leave was subdued “They w ere told to disperse, The recruiting station was not ing station. with a Taser. He also confirm ed peacefully disperse, and failed to open at the time. LIMIT 8 PER FAMILY WITH THIS COUPON Additional a t regular price o f 2 for $ 1 . 0 0 Coupon expires 0 9 /0 1 /0 5 Big City Produce 722 N Sumner Ave., PDX 503 4603830 Winner o f2004 BEST award from the city of Portland Best sustainable food system Civil Rights Leader Dies at 92 Man Stabbed in Lowry a mentor to Racist Incident Martin Luther King Jr. (AP) - The Rev. A. Leon Lowry, a promi nent local civil rights leader who once taught Martin Luther King Jr. and led the desegregation of public faci I ities in Tampa, has died at 92. Lowry died Saturday o f congestive heart failure. He had been adm itted to St. Joseph’s Hospital last week, said his wife, Shirley. Lowry’s association with the civil rights movement dated to the 1940s when he taught theology at M orehouse College and King was one of his students. In the 1960s, he led peaceful protests at Tampa lunch counters and helped found Tam pa’s first biracial bank. He becam e president o f the Florida N A A CP and in 1976 was the first A fri c a n - A m e r ic a n e le c te d to th e H illsborough C ounty School Board, where he served for 16 years. The Florida Bar aw arded him a medal o f honor for easing racial tensions and prom oting social justice. Until he was hospitalized, Lowry had continued counseling jail inmates, com muting by scooter because hip problems prevented driving. “That was just his whole life,” his wife said. “He always wanted to help people.” An African American man was found stabbed Aug. 18 at 12:25 a.m. in northeast Portland and Portland Police are still searching for suspects. Officers discovered the unconscious 25-year- old man with stab wounds on Northeast 109th Avenue. The victim was transported to an area hospital where he was immediately taken into surgery. When the victim regained consciousness, he told investigators that he was walking in the area o f Northeast 109th Avenue and Northeast Halsey Street when he was confronted by four white males. The suspects reportedly shouted racial epitaphs at the victim and stabbed him at least once during a physical confrontation. The suspects are described as four white the welfare matter. But Jackson's lawyers presented evi males in their mid-20s. All four suspects were dence that she and her family had received a wearing jeans and T-shirts. They fled the area $ 150,000 settlement in a 2001 lawsuit against eastbound on Northeast Halsey in a maroon- a department store at a time when she was colored, 4-door Honda Accord with stock wheels claiming to be poor. 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