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Helps College Dreamers
Portland Observer offers three scholarships
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May 23, 2007
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The Portland Observer wants
to help you make your college
dream a reality.
Paying for college is ex
pensive and even commu
nity college has m ajor
costs. Since 1998. The
Portland Observer has
given thousands of dol
lars to local students
who wish to attend com
munity college.
There are three schol
arships to be given this
year: Joyce Washington
Scholarship, Cory Neal
W ashington Scholarship
and P ortland O b serv er
Scholarship with a minimum
of $500 for each.
The grants from the Joyce
Washington Scholarship Fund
are named after Joyce Wash
ington, the late publisher of the
Portland Observer who passed
in 1996. She was a single mother
of seven children who worked
to support her family. But she
Joyce
Washington
also attended college as they
grew older.
The scholarships exist to
serve local high school students.
W ashington's son Cory, who
also passed, has a scholarship in
his name. Fundraising is through
Saturday’s Cory Neal Wash
ington Basketball Classic at Self
Enhancement. Ine. as well as a
Joyce Washington Golf Clas
sic and a Diversity Festival.
Criteria to consider for
the scholarships are listed
on an application which
can be picked up at the
Portland Observer of
fices, located at 4747
N.E. M artin L uther
King Jr. Blvd.,orviathe
website starting in June
at portlandobserver.com.
Local o rg a n iz a tio n s
looking to sponsor a schol-
arshipeventoreitizens look
ing to donate towards the
scholarship fund, please con
tact Charles or Mark Wash
ington at 503-288-1897 or
jwsf@ portlandobserver.com.
To make a tax deductible
donation, make cheeks to Joyce
Washington Scholarship Fund
(JWSF) at PO Box 3993 Port
land, OR 97208
Hard Work, Education
Help Hispanics Advance
w eekends.
Labor force participation
rates
of Hispanic men have been
Since coming to Oregon,
E lizarraga has never been higher than those of the popula
without a job. He once held tion as a whole.
Education is one o f the most
three at the same time - two
important
predictors of female
factory jobs during the week,
and a lawn-care job on the la b o r fo rc e p a rtic ip a tio n .
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B achelor’s degrees earned by
Hispanic women rose 430 per
cent from 1976 to 2000, while
the number of bachelor’s de
grees earned by U.S. residents
increased 35 percent during
th a t tim e , a c c o rd in g to
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