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Thanksgiving Blood Drive
Thursday, Thanksgiving Day,
the Red Cross continues a de
cade-long family tradition with a
blood drive at its building at 3131
N. Vancouver. Participants will
receive a free pumpkin pie; dis
count coupons for Oregon Ballet
Theater, and event T-shirts, while
supplies last. For more informa
tion or to make an appointment,
call 1-800-GIVE-LIFE.
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Free College Outreach
The first Saturday of each month
through May, from 12 p.m. to 2
p.m. high school students will be
helped to prepare for college at
the Matt Dishman Community
Center, 77 N.E. Knott St., through
the efforts o f Oregon State Uni
versity. For more information call
Earlean Wilson Huey at 1-800-
291-4192, extension 7-9032, or call
Jock White, Matt Dishman at 503-
823-3620.
Aquatic Fitness
Providence has a full schedule of
fitness classes including water
exercising at the Providence
Aquatic Center, 4805 N.E. Glisan.
Foraschedule, call 503-215-6301.
Swimming Lessons
Portland Parks and Recreation of
fers swimming lessons for all ages
and skill levels year round at the
Columbia, Dishman, MLC, Mt.
Scott and Southwest Community
Center pools. For rates and infor
mation, call 503-823-5130.
Women in NAACP
Women in NAACP meets from
10:30a.m. to 1 p.m. the first Satur
day of each month at the Ameri
can RedCross Building, 3131 N.
Vancouver. For questions, call
503-249-6263.
Work For Change
Community Advocates invites
those interested in protecting
children from abuse to become
an event volunteer, event out
reach, technology expert, graphic
artists or office support team
member. For more information,
call 503-280-1388.
Al-Anon Meetings
Al-Anon meetings are held Mon-
day evenings from 7:15 to8:30p.m.
at Miracles Club on the comer of
Northeast Martin Luther King Jr.
Boulevard and. Mason Street. Al-
Anon is for friends and loved ones
of alcoholics and addicts.
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‘Martinez Boys ’ courtesy o f Eckleman Photography, is one o f the photographs going on the auction block for Habitat for
Humanity and Architecture for Humanity.
Urgent Housing Needs
Lents auction
targets diverse
neighborhood
Habitat for Humanity and Architecture
for Humanity will hold a benefit art show
over three days from Friday, Dec. 2 to Sun.
Dec. 4, featuring a showcase of Portland’s
best-known photographers.
Owen Carey, Doug Frank, Cherie Heiser,
Stu L evy, Ann P loeger, C h risto p h er
Rauschenberg, to name a few, join with
talented students from M arshall High
School’s Renaissance Arts Academy and
Sun School in the “People in Places” exhibit.
The benefit will specifically help the 16-unit
Lents Habitat Development on Lambert
Street, taking place over three days with an
opening night reception.
The exhibition seeks to draw attention to
Lents’ diverse and changing neighborhood
which includes Portland’s new Chinatown
and a home-building project that is the larg
est yet undertaken by Portland Habitat for
Humanity.
Kate Mytron, a community activist and
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Lents resident organized the exhibit.
“In thinking about how to raise money for
the Habitat development in Lents, along
with Architecture for Humanity’s work around
the world, 1 decided that photographs cel
ebrating both people and a strong sense of
place would support both missions,” Mytron
said. "Being an arts lover, I also like the idea
of bring photography out of museums and
galleries into my own neighborhood.
The Lambert Street Habitat project, eight
duplexes in a city-designated Urban Re
newal District, began construction last July
and plans to complete by next summer.
The photoexhibit and auction will be held
at the Lents Town Center, 5716 S.E. 92"“ St.
The opening reception on Friday, Dec. 2 is
from 6 to 9 p. m. costs $ 10, while the Saturday
and Sunday viewings from noon to 5 p.m. are A photograph by Jim Lommasson from his book ‘Shadow Boxers ‘ will be auctioned
in a weekend benefit art show at the Lents Town Center, 5716 S.E. 92nd Ave.
free. For more information, call 503-788-5366.
Volume Raised on Verbal, Emotional Abuse
Columnist takes
courageous stand
Business Meeting
S. Renee Mitchell
Award-winning newspapercolumnist S.
Renee Mitchell is taking acourageous stand
on something she believes in: raising the
volume on a necessary community dia
logue about verbal and emotional abuse.
On Saturday, Dec. 3 at 7:15 p.m., Mitchell
will perform her poetry reflecting on the
issues of abuse to live music performed by
a jazz band of New Orleans-trained musi
cians - such as saxophone player Devin
Phillips, bassist Nobu Ozaki and Chuk Bar
Domestic violence is a pattern of behav
ber. All of the musicians relocated to Port ior committed by one partner against the
land after Hurricane Katrina.
other with the goal of exerting and maintain
T he ev e n t w ill takes place at the ing power and control. It can manifest itself
Ainsworth United Church o f Christ, located in physical, psychological, em otional,eco
at 2941 N.E. Ainsworth. D onationsofSl Oto nomic, sexual or social abuse.
$30 will be accepted at the door.
Mitchell silently suffered from psycho
All of the proceeds will be donated to logical abuse for several years. Now, she
Bradley-Angle House, the West Coast’s intends to spend the rest of her life educat
first shelter for women and children escap ing other women about it and then helping
ing violence. Founded in 1975, Bradley-Angle them.
House provides quality programming to
A playwright, actress and self-published
battered women and their children from all poet, Mitchell has performed her original
racial, social, economic and educational back work in Portland, Washington, D.C. and
grounds.
New York City.
College Addresses Clogged Street Parking
Bradley-Angle House
The Bradley-Angle House needs
volunteers to help its outreach
a g a in st d o m e stic v io le n c e .
Women of color and bilingual
women are encouraged to call.
For more information, call 503-
282-9940.
years,
•^community service
Jim Leisy's ‘Vancouver Man and Dog,'
is one o f many works by local photogra
phers being sold to raise money to
meet urgent housing needs in the city.
Photos Support
Sankofaa Health Institute offers
a free diabetes support group
from 6 to 7:30 p.m. every third
Thursday at Alberta Simmons
Plaza, 6707 N.E. Martin Luther
King Jr. BI vd. For more informa
tion, call 503-285-2484.
North/Northeast Business As
sociation meetings are on the first
Monday of each month from 6 to
8 p.m. at Albina Community Bank,
2002 N.E. Martin Luther King
BI vd. Morning networking meet
ings are the third Wednesday of
each month from 7:30 to 9 a.m. at
the Blazers Boys and Girls Club,
5250 N.E. Martin Luther King
Blvd. For more information, call
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or
v isit
www.nneba.org.
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Neighborhood streets get clogged with cars on school days and nights when classes are in
session on the Cascade campus o f Portland Community College in north Portland.
Portland Community College’s
expanded Cascade Campus is
An enforcement ban o f
spi 11 i ng parked cars on to ad jacent
parking by students and
neighborhtxxl streets, despite ef
forts to contain the vehicles to staff in the adjacent
designated parking lots.
neighborhood is made
The college will address park
ing problems duringa public meet possible through a PCC
ing on Monday, Nov. 28 at 6 p.m.
traffic patrol agreement
in Room 111 of the new Public
Services Education Building on
with the city o f Portland^
North Killingsworth Street be
tween Mississippi and Michigan Av manager of PCC's parking and trans
enues.
portation service.
An enforcement ban of parking by
He said the neighborhood meeting
students and staff in the adjacent was scheduled to keep connected with
n e ig h b o rh o o d is m ade po ssib le neighborhood concerns.
through a PCC traffic patrol agree
The session will be followed by a
ment with the city of Portland. W arn reg u lar m onthly m eeting o f the
ings and tickets for repeat violations Humboldt Neighborhood Associa
are issued, according to John Gamder, tion.