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M artin L uther K ing J r . “ "4 R osa P arks Page A 6 Cool Jazz At Clark College AFFORDABLE « JJ FULL LOCKSMITH LOCK & KEY Music legend to join best young talent Clark College celebrates the best young musical talent in the region and welcomes jazz legend John Handy to its 44,h Annual Clark College Jazz Festival. The jazz festival and competition, featuring 59 high school jazz bands and vocal ensem bles from across Oregon and W ashington, will take place day and night from Thursday, Jan. 26 to Sunday, Jan. 29 in Gaiser Hall on the Clark College campus in Vancouver. Handy, a saxophonist and composer who has captivated audiences from Carnegie Hall to the M ontreaux Jazz Festival with his soulful and fiery style, will perform Sunday, Jan. 29 at 3 p.m. supported by local jazz favorites Greg SERVICE • RE-KEY AND INSTALL LOCKS LOCKED OUT? WE MAKE KEYS FROM SCRATCH: HOUSE. 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West Contracting & Consulting Services, Inc. $ 1.50 Each A Get Paid to Learn We can help! $35.00 Additional Services • AREA & ORIENTAL RUG CLEANING • AUTO/ BOAT/ RV CLEANING • DEODORIZING A PET ODOR TREA TMENT • SPOT STAIN REMOVAL SERVICE • SCOTCHGUARD PROTECTION Coupon 10% off on first cleaning \Dotcq the Little Things that Make a B»q Each Area 1 CLEANING AREA PRE-SPRA Y TRAFFIC AREA (HALL EXTRA CHARGE) Spring Cleaning Special Linda J. Scott O w ner $25.00 2 CLEANING AREAS OR MORE PRE-SPRA Y TRAFFIC AREAS INCLUDES 1 SMALL HALL Residential-Offices call me Goebel on piano. Phil Baker on bass, and Ron Steen on drums. Handy’s “up tem po” seat vocals have been put on par with the best in the world. As a musicologist and jazz historian, he has taught at Stanford and UC Berkeley among other pres tigious universities. Tickets are$15 for general admission or $10 for Clark College students and are available at the Clark College book store. music department or at the door. G aiser Hall is located on the north west corner of the main campus, on F o rt V a n c o u v e r W ay b e tw e en M cLoughlin and Fourth Plain Boule vards. For more information, call the Clark College Music Department at 360-992-2188 or 360-992-2662. Belly D ance C lasses - Caravan Studios offers classes in belly dance, African dance and more. Visit w w w .gypsyearavan.us. S tu n n in g D a n ce - Italian-born dancer Em io We pay up to 100% of your deductible ■Always Service with A Smile" lanuary II. 2 0 0 6 COUPON SPECIAL A N Y 3 CLEANING AREAS PLUS HALL A SOFA OR HALL, LOVESEA TA CHAIR I . I $135.00 I MB M M M M M M MM MM MM M i M M M M CALL FOR APPOINTMENT: (503) 281-3949 i Portland poet and O regonian colum nist S. Renee M itchell has been nam ed one o f 2 1 Leaders for the 21st C entury and will receive the Ida B. W ells A w ard for Bravery in Journalism during a gala cer em ony in New Y orkC ityonM ay 16. Past winners include actress and activist Jane Fonda: Kenyan envi ronmentalist Wangari Maathai. win ner o f the 2004 Nobel P eace P rize; S heikha LubnaAIQasimi. the first woman to hold a ministe rial cabinet post in the United Arab Emirates; and W ilhelm ina C ole Holladay, co-founder of the National Museum of W omen in the Arts, in S. Renee Washington, D C. T h e in te rn a tio n a l aw a rd by W om en's eN ew s, a New York- based online global m agazine, is aw arded to passionate trailblazers all over the world w ho “stand out for their extraordinary visions and com m itm ent to working on behalf o f w om en.’’ M itchell, who was nom inated last year for the Pulitzer Prize for com m entary, si lently suffered from psychological abuse for several years. Now. she intends to spend the rest of her life educating other w omen about it and then helping them heal from it. An engaging perform ance art ist, M itchell recently perf orm ed her poetry with a six-piece band that included relocated m usicians from New O rleans. The Dec. 3 event ra is e d m o re th a n $ 3 ,0 0 0 fo r Portland’s Bradley-A ngle House, a dom estic-violence shelter. “I'v e never experienced any thing like her presentation,” says m usician and activist Larry W ilder, band leader o f the C olum bia C ut u p s b lu e g ra s s b a n d . " It w as th o u g h t-p ro v o k in g , deep ly c re ative and heartfelt.” Last year, M itchell also directed, produced and perform ed her sec ond play, titled T ango ing W ith Tornadoes, at th e I n te r s ta te F ire h o u s e C u ltu ra l C enter in north Port Mitchell la n d . A s a p a rt o f M itc h e ll’s w o m e n ’s em pow erm ent project, she also published a book o f poetry, re leased a C D o f her poetry set to music and finished her first novel. “ I am honored to receive this amazing award.” says Mitchell, who is also a publisher, playw right, col lege professor, jew elry m aker and single m other o f three children. “If w omen need to hear my story to have the courage to tell their own, then so be it. W ith G o d ’s help, let healing begin with my shoulder.” Em otional and verbal abuse is a pattern o f behavior com m itted by one partner against the other with the goal o f exerting and m aintain ing power. For the victim , it saps their energy, com prom ises their health and erodes their self-esteem.
