Opening Hearts, Minds
Annual PROPER festival at Kenton Park on
Saturday seeks to foster community dialogues
and lasting relationships
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Volume XXXVI. N um ber 35
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Calderon
ary Declared
Felipe Calderon
b ec am e p r e s i­
d e n t- e le c t o f
M exicoonTues-
day, tw o m onths
a fte r d is p u te d
elections, when
the nation's top electoral court
voted unanim ously to reject alle­
gations o f fraud and certify his
narrow victory. His leftist rival,
A ndres M anuel Lopez O brador,
had said he would not recognize
the ruling.
Croc Hunter Killed on Job
Steve Irwin, the
Australian tele­
vision personal­
ity and environ­
mentalist known
as the Crocodile
H u n ter on the
Discovery Channel, was killed
M onday by a stingray barb while
crew s photographed him during
the taping o f a diving expedition.
See sto ry , page A2.
Intel Cuts 10,500 Jobs
C hip-m aker Intel Corp, said Tues-
day atotal o f 10,500jobs, about 10
p e r c e n t o f its w o rld w id e
workforce, will be eliminated over
the next year through layoffs, at­
tr itio n
and
th e s a le o f
underperform ing business groups
as part o f a m assive restructuring.
1 ntel i s Oregon ’ s I argest em ployer
with 17,000 workers.
IRS Backs Off NAACP
The IRS which ini­
tiated an audit of
the N A A C P just
before the 2004
presidential elec­
tio n has fin ally
c o n c lu d e d
th e
civil rights group did not violate
conditions o f its tax exem pt status
as a non-partisanship organiza­
tion. N A A C P Board Chairm an
Julian Bond said the group "will
continue to speak truth to pow er."
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Devoted
Wednesday • September 6 2006
Uninsured
Church pastor,
Kaiser doctor
open free clinic
by S arah B lount
T he P ortland O bserver
Tw o w om en, one a pastor and the
other a doctor, have com bined their
skills and com passion to serve unin­
sured residents o f north and northeast
Portland at a new, no cost primary care
clinic. North by N ortheast C om m unity
Health Center.
Dr. Jill G insberg, a family practice
doctor with Kaiser Perm anente, becam e
acquainted with Pastor Mary' Overstreet
Smith o f Pow erhouse T em ple Church
after she learned o f her help bringing
Katrina refugees to Portland.
G insberg w anted to know how she
could help, and O verstreet Smith wasted
no tim e show ing her - Pow erhouse
Tem ple has an office ju st dow n the
street from her north Portland church,
which she envisioned as a free clinic.
Less than one year later the vision
was realized.
Located at 4725 N. W illiam s Ave.,
North by N ortheast’s volunteer staff
tended to their first patients on Aug. 17.
Finances can restrict healthcare ac­
cess, but North by N ortheast's patients
are qualified if they live in the surround-
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Clinic coordinator Roslyn Farrington and Dr. Jill Ginsberg take a moment during the second
evening o f operation at North by Northeast Community Health Center, 4725 N. Williams Ave.
Cascade Campus Positioned for Future
See story, page A2.
Ground Zero Workers Sick
Nearly 70 percent of the rescue and
cleanup workers who toiled in the
dust and fumes at ground zero
have had trouble breathing, and
many will probably be sick for the
rest o f their lives, doctors said
Tuesday in releasing results o f the
biggest Sept. 11 health study yet.
Likely Hurricane Coming
Tropical Storm Florence formed
far out in the open Atlantic on
Tuesday, and forecasters said it
will probably become a hurricane.
Purge of Liberals Wanted
Ira n 's h a r d - lin e P re s id e n t
M ahm oud A hm adinejad called
T uesday for a purge o f I i beral and
non-religious teachers from the
country's universities, urging Ira­
nian students to return to 1980s-
style radicalism.
photo by I saiah
B oi
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P ortland O bserver
The Cascade Campus of Portland Community College reaches two blocks west o f its former border with the completion o f an expanded north Portland campus. Still,
the college district continues to buy land west o f this location.
PCC buys land
as sellers call
by M ichael L eighton
T he P ortland O bserver
As Portland C om m unity College puts the
finishing touches on a beautifully expanded
Cascade Cam pus, it is quietly purchasing
new properties that may someday expand
the college's reach even further into its
north Portland neighborhood.
O fficials o f the college district say all o f
the acquisitions were done with property
ow ners who cam e to them with offers to sel I,
not the other way around.
V oluntary transactions offer an attrac­
tive alternative to the using the college's
right o f em inent dom ain or the forced co n ­
dem nation o f properties, according to PCC
Vice President Randy M cEwen.
M cEwen and other PCC leaders say there
are no plans on the draw ing board or even
in discussions on what will com e for the six
parcels o f land it has purchased and set
aside over the past four years.
“There are always people (sellers) ap­
proaching us," said Harold W illiams Sr., a
> We're not taking land for lands sake bat
managing public funds in a positive way that
takes account the needs o f the community.
— Harold Williams Sr., a long time PCC board member A
long tim e PCC board m em ber and African
A m erican com m unity advocate. "W e're not
taking land for lan d 's sake but managing
public funds in a positive way that takes
account the needs o f the com m unity."
W illiams bristles at any suggestion that
he or the college is not sensitive to the loss
o f housing and business stock in the adja­
cent com m unity.
“We want a viable com m unity that is not
isolated," he said. “I'm not an enem y o f us."
The most recent land acquired was in
July, when PCC bought a hom e that had just
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con tin u ed
Stage Set for Anti-Violence
March and Rally Saturday
T he 4 th an n u al "S en sele ss V io len ce L eads to S ilen ce" inarch and rally w ill take p lace
S atu rd ay , Sept. 9 in honor o f A sia “ Bell" Jam es and all other victims o f violence. A full day o f
events, food and entertainm ent follow s the 9:45 a m. march from Irving Park to Alberta Park. The
activities at Alberta Park will take place from 11:30a.m . to 6 p in
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