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March 8. 2006
Doris ‘Granny D’ Haddock
96-year-old
Activist to Visit
2006 Transit Open Houses
Come talk to us!
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G ranny D, an activist w ho has
w alked thousands o f m iles in her
90s to raise attention to political
causes, will pay a visit to the U ni­
versity o f Portland.
Doris "Granny D" Haddock will
speak to students at 10 a.m. Friday.
March 10 in Mago Hunt Theater on
campus. 5000 N. Willamette Blvd.
Her talk is free and open to the public.
Bom in 1910 in Laconia, N.H..
H addock attended Emerson C ol­
lege. worked and raised her family
during the G reat D epression, and
later worked in a shoe factory in
M anchester for 20 years.
W ith her husband Jam es, she
helped stop the planned use o f
hydrogen bombs in Alaska in 1960,
saving an Inuit fishing village at
Point Hope. She nursed her hus­
b a n d th ro u g h 10 y e a r s o f
A lzheim er’s disease.
InJanuary 1999, at the age o f 89,
she began a walk across the coun­
try to dem onstrate her concern for
cam paign reform. She walked more
than I,(XX) miles through deserts
andclim bedthe A ppalachian range
in blizzard conditions.
In 2003 and 2004, she em barked
on a 23,(XX) mile tour of the “swing
states,” encouraging w omen and
the residents o f poor neighbor­
hoods to register to vote.
Visit one of our open houses in March and see what’s
planned for the Portland Mall renovation and bus relocation.
Plus 1-205 Light Rail, Washington County Commuter Rail, and
much more. You’ll find friendly people and inform ative exhibits
explaining TriMet’s five-year Transit Investment Plan (TIP) and
what it means for you.
Downtown Portland
Wednesday, March 15
Session 1:11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Session 2 :4 -7 p.m.
Portland Building, Room C
1120 SW 5th Ave., Portland, OR 97204
Located on the Portland Mall, served by
48 TriMet bus lines and all three MAX lines
Southeast Portland
Doris “Granny D " Haddock walked across America for vote reform
W hen no D em ocrat would run
against popular U.S. Sen. Judd
G regg in her hom e state o f New
H am pshire, she announced her
candidacy for the seat. Even though
she was the official Democratic
Party nom inee for that seat, she
refused all special interest PAC
contributions, walking the neigh­
borhoods o f the state to talk to
people directly.
Her memoirisentitled. Granny D:
Y ou’re N ever T oo O ld to Raise a
Little Hell.
Hip Hop Generation Stepping Up
b o a t.”
will be televised to air on Portland
H e ’s lo o k in g fo r in s p ire d Com m unity Media. He w elcom es
own business, SpeakLife E duca­ young people to jo in him in ad ­ youth who are interested in getting
tion and Consulting.
d ressing the issu es faced by A f­ involved with the sum m it, or an­
" W e ’re trying to build an e c o ­ rican A m ericans.
other project, NEXT: G enerationof
nom ic p latform so we can see eye
“ I w ant to m ake a call to all high Leaders, a program geared toward
to eye w ith the p uppet m asters school and co lleg e y outh w ho youth getting involved in federal,
w ho are co n tro llin g things in our see them selv es as a lead er,” he local and state policies that affect
c o m m u n ity ,” he said. “W hen we said.
com m unities o f color.
have o u r ow n businesses, we can
Crew s said the sum m it is tenta­
F or more inform ation, contact
say w hat w e say, and rock the tively scheduled for late M arch and Crews at 503-259-7109.
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Tuesday, March 21,4-7 p.m.
Portland Adventist Academy
1500 SE 96th Ave., Portland, OR 97216
Served by bus lines 15-Belmont and 27-M arket/M ain
Beaverton
Wednesday, March 22,4-7 p.m.
Beaverton Community Center,
12350
SW 5th St., Beaverton, OR 97005
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Served by bus lines 76-Beaverton/Tualatin and
78-Beaverton/Lake Oswego
Visit a virtual open house at trim et.org/tip beginning March 15.
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Parkrose Teen
Begins Tradition
Jeannette A shley Jam ison, a
Parkrose High School senior and
aspiring sociologist, ushered in one
o f P ortland’s oldest traditions last
Friday when she was chosen as
th isy ea r’s first Rose Festival Court
A m bassador.
Jam ison represents the first o f 14
Portland-area schools to serve as
am bassadors. Selections are made
throughout the month.
Jam ison is involved in many ac­
tivities at Parkrose, including vol­
leyball. National Honor Society and
the Black Student Union. O utside
o f school, she volunteers with the
Oregon Zoo, Big B rothers/Big Sis­
ters o f M etro Portland and New
Hope C om m unity Church.
Rose Festival A m bassadors re­
ceive a $3,500 Rose Festival Court
Scholarship, and Jam ison is con­
sidering G eorge Fox University, La
Sierra University or A zusa Pacific
University. She is the daughter o f
Dorothy Jam ison.
Smooth Jazz Is Here!
Jeannette Ashley Jamison
Write Around Reading Friday
Write Around Portland will spon­
sor a reading from its latest anthol­
ogy, “T he Sparkle in the G rit,” at 7
p.m. Friday, M arch 10 at Peet’s
Coffee, 1441 N.E. Broadway.
W rite Around Portland is a non­
profit group that helps people not
usually heard from in literature to
express them selves in writing. The
w ords produced through these ef­
forts are collected in anthologies
and published.
“The S parkle in the G rit,’’cam e
out o f a series o f w orkshops held
for, am ong oth ers, the C o ffee
C reek W o m en ’s D etention C e n ­
ter in M cM inn v ille, the C ascade
A ids P roject, the JO IN hom eless
s e lf-h e lp
p r o g ra m
and
H e le n s v ie w a l te r n a tiv e h ig h
school.
Eight o f the 40 authors w ho ap­
peared in the anthology will be
present and read from their work
and copies o f the publication will
be available for sale.
York Documentary Honored
O regon Public B roadcasting
Radio has won a prestigious honor
for a radio docum entary about
Y ork; W illiam C lark' s slave and the
only African American m em ber o f
the Lewis and Clark Expedition.
T he U ndiscovered E xplorer:
Im agining York won the G racie
Allen Award from the American
W om en in Radio and Television.
T he h o u r-lo n g au d io d o c u ­
m e n ta ry , n a r r a te d by D an n y
G lover, te lls the story o f Y ork
through a rich w eave o f m usic,
interview s, perfo rm an ce and d ra ­
m atic readings. It aired on O PB
R adio and on public rad io sta­
tio n s nationally in February.
Portland's Only Smooth Jazz Station
kijz.com
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