Committed to Cultural Diversity
www.portlandobserver.com
September 7. 2005
Chata Addy, a talented
drummer and dancer from
Ghana, West Africa, will
perform at the Global
Portland Festival.
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Career Fair
T he P o rtla n d E m p lo y m en t
G uide’s Fall Career Fair will be
held Wednesday, Sept. 7 at the
Hilton Portland and Executive
Towers from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Employers from a wide variety of
industries will be represented and
the event is free to the public. For
m ore
in fo rm a tio n ,
v isit
www.employmentguide.com.
PCC Admissions
Global Festival
to Promote
Understanding
The Admissions Offices of Port
land Community College will hold
a question and answer session
for prospective students regis
tering for fall classes with infor
mation booths at the Lloyd Cen
ter Mall on Saturday, Sept. 10
from 10a.m. toôp.m .T hisisalast
chance opportunity to sign up
for college courses before the
term begins on Sept. 26. beyond
in person registration on Sept.
19. For more information, visit
www.pcc.edu/news.
Bones and Brew
The Bones and Brew Festival has
moved to the Pearl District this
year, and will be held Saturday,
Sept. 10 from 12 to 8 p.m. and
Sunday, Sept. 11 from 12to6p.m.
Four city blocks will be filled with
BBQ, music, small and local
microbreweries and microdistill
eries.
Mural Dedication
A dedication ceremony will be
held on Saturday, Sept. 10 from
10 a.m. to noon for the commu
nity mural titled “Learning Be
yond,” located at SE 28lh and Start
Streets. Ping Khaw-Sutherland,
designer of the mural, will be
honored with music and refresh
ments. For more information, visit
www.crossingeast.org.
Global Portland Festival
The second annual Global Port
land Festival will take place on
Sunday, Sept. 11 at Holladay Park
from noon to 6 p.m. A huge vari
ety of cultures wi 11 be represented
through diverse music, speak
ers, dancing and food. This is a
free event, sponsored by the
Community Language and Cul
ture Bank. For more information,
visitwww.clcbank.org.
Immigrant’s Odyssey
PSU Professor David A. Horowitz
will speak on a m em oirof Jewish
families migrating from czarist
Russia to their settlement in New
York City on Wednesday, Sept.
M at 10:30 a.m .at the Oasis Edu
cation Center, located at 621 SW
5,h Avenue in the downtown
Meier and Frank building. For
m ore
in fo rm a tio n ,
v isit
www.oasisnet.org.
I Double S will mix R&B with French,
Senegalese and American hip-hop at
Sunday's multicultural celebration to
honor our common humanity.
Humanity theme
of annual Sept. 11
gathering
H olladay Park across from Lloyd C en
ter in northeast Portland will soon have
the whole world in its hands - or at least
part o f it.
A diverse gathering o f m ulticultural
entertainm ent will be featured at the G lo
bal Portland Festival on Sunday, Sept. 11
from noon to 6 p.m., in its second year of
‘crossing the borders” to prom ote inter
racial unity.
A brainchild o f the C om m unity Lan
guage and C ulture Bank, the volunteer-
based festival is a culm ination o f more
than 40 local organizations. Through
speakers, world music and dance, w ork
shops, yum m y food and a ch ild ren 's area,
photo by
M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
Volunteers for the Global Portland Festival include Kayse Jama (from left), Ann Kasper, Scott Beck, and Mary Prottsman.
Sunday's multicultural celebration at Holladay Park in northeast Portland is scheduled on the anniversary o f Sept. 11, 2001
to honor our common humanity.
attendees are bound to have their eyes
opened to countless cultures outside of
their com m on realm , including those of
Cuba, Poland, Senegal, G hana, Palestine,
Iran, Korea and many others.
The gathering boasted more than 3,000
people in its first year.
“It started it as a time and space for all
Portlanders to gather together and build
some relationships where there’s usually
a lot o f division and a lack o f aw areness of
who people are,” said Scott Beck, a volun
teer with Com m unity Language and C ul
ture Bank.
O ne out o f every eight residents of
Portland is o f im m igrant status, which is
why it’s so im portant to celebrate the
grow ing com m unity.
“It’s becom ing increasingly apparent
that w e’re already interconnected,” Beck
said. “This is a chance to recognize that
there are a lot o f different people already
living in Portland and to learn from each
other and grow together in a place where
we can easily remain isolated. It’s to have
some com m on ground through recogniz
ing that com m on human interconnection
to build a chance for peace here, hopefully
o th ercitiesan d in international relations.”
MayorTom Potter and City Commissioner
Sam Adams, along with other area leaders,
are also scheduled to speak on the impor
tance of understanding diversity.
The Global Portland Festival is free and
open to the public, rain or shine. For more
inform ation, visit w w w .clcbank.org.
Jefferson High Reunion
Jefferson High School will host its
Class of 1955 reunion, celebrating
50 years since graduation, on Fri
day, Sept. 16 from 7 p.m. to mid
night at the Gateway Elks Lodge
on 7 1 1 NE lOO"1 Street. A no host
bar with appetizers will be fea
tured. For more information, call
Hal Freitag at 503-243-2350.
Saturday Wellness Walk for Health, Fitness
Annual event led by
new Blazer coach
Echoing a national sentiment that living long
takes
exercise, the African American Health
“Problem Pooch” Canine 101
Coalition
will host its third annual Wellness Within
classes will offer an open discus
REACH Walk on Saturday, Sept. 10 at Dawson
sion for new pet owners and
adopters, or for those just curi Park in north Portland. Hundreds of supporters
ous, on why dogs do the things are set to walk in celebration of community
they do. The next class will be health.
held on Saturday, Sept. 17 at 11
Trail Blazers Head Coach Nate McMillan will
a.m. at the Oregon Humane Soci
serve as Grand Marshal, kicking off the benefit
ety on 1067 NE Columbia Blvd.
for the coalition's free physical activity classes
S ug g ested d o n atio n is $10.
program,
which serves more than 1,500 local
Please leave pets at home. For
African
Americans.
more information, call 503-285-
“I look forward to being an active member in
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Portland's African American community and
humane.org.
participating ... seems a natural place to start,”
McMillan said. “It will be a great day and a
perfect setting to lend my support to the AAHC’s
mission.”
Longtime Portland resident and businessman
Paul Knauls Sr. will serve as Community Grand
Marshal.
The free physical activity classes being sup
ported by the walk are part of the Racial and
Canine 101
years
•'community service
Ethnic Approaches to Community Health program,
which seeks to reduce risk factors associated with
cardiovascular disease - the leading cause of death
among African Americans.
Portland State University's Regional Research
Institute has documented that more than 1,500 local
African Americans participating free physical activ
ity classes in association with the program.
“We want to make physical activity a cultural norm
in our community,” said AAHC President Corliss
McKeever. “I'm proud that we can offer a service
that is truly needed and embraced by the community."
Saturday's walk begins at 9 a.m. and participants
can choose to take the 1.5- or 4-mile route through
north and northeast Portland neighborhixxls. Event-
day activities begin at 8 a.m. with registration. The
band Ocean 50.3 will perform as part of the day's
festivities that include a children's exhibit by the
North Portland Public Library and refreshments.
Pre-registration is encouraged at www.aahc-
portland.org/events.htm.
For more information, contact AAHC at 503-413-
1850 or www.aahc-portland.org.
Trail Blazer Coach Nate McMillan will lead
Saturday's Wellness Walk sponsored by the
African American Health Coalition.