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Antidote
to Health
Disparities
con tin u ed
Julius Thomas turned his life around by training for
bodybuilding competitions. He just won first place in
the novice category o f One on One Fitness ' Oregon
State Natural Championships.
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b o d y b u ild in g re p la c e d the
need for a life o f crime.
“T here w as som ething
that w as alw ays in me
about w orking very hard
and staying focused,” he
says, holding the sword
that he won for outshin
ing the com petition in the
novice category o f the O r
egon State Natural cham
pionships held a few weeks
ago.
Through extrem e com m it
ment to drug-free fitness, T ho
m as’ trainer D avid Hardy over
cam e his share o f troubles with 15
years o f alcoholism and a nearly fatal
car accident. E veryone considered him
a lost cause, but he thinks something clicked
inside his psyche to take on his troubles with
bodybuilding.
“ I like the ch a lle n g e keep in g m e and my
h e a rt an d m y s o u l m o v in g f o r w a r d ,”
H ardy says.
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Summer Program Starts With PAL
503-550-3841
This Week’s Specials:
99 Suzuki Esteem GL Wagon $3995
1999 Buick Century -O ne owner $4995
1995 Nissan Altima GXE $2995
“Least Expensive and the cleanest in town”
Sell me your car before you
accept less at the dealership.
I ’ll give you cash in hand.
"If I D on’t Have It In Stock. I Will Get It For You! ”
Black Gay Pride
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“We are hoping to build on the
m om entum o f the previous five
years and on the attention and
support we have gained at both
the local and national level,”
M och said.
For inform ation or calender
events, go to pdxblackpride.info
or brotobropdx.org.
Pastor Honored for
23 Years’ Service
C o m m u n ity A .M .E . Z io n
C h u rc h , 3605 E. 13th St. in
V ancouver, will honor the Rev.
Robert F. Kemp, a faithful shep
herd at C om m unity Zion for 23
years. C om e help the church say
thanks for his m any years o f dedi
cated service.
T his special cerem ony takes
place Sunday, June IO at4p.m . For
more information,call 360-891 -3999.
T h e P o lic e A c tiv itie s
League (PA L) o f G reater
Portland announces the start
of a new summer program to
com plem ent its existing pro
grams. The weekly themed
PAL M orning Cam p is open
to youth ages eight to 13,
Monday through Friday, July
9 to Aug, 17, from 7:30 a.m.
to 10:30 a.m. at the PAL
Youth Center, 424 N.E. 172nd
Ave. Youth can register for
a specific cam p week or all
six weeks for a five percent
discount. C ost is $25 per
week along with the yearly
Youth C enter m em bership fee
o f $50, or $25 for youth who
qualify for free/reduced lunch.
Cam p fees must be paid in full
the week prior to each camp
session.
Following arrival at camp
between 7:30 a.m. to8:00a.m .
and breakfast is provided at
no charge. Youth are orga
nized into groups based on age
and will rotate through a vari
ety of recreational and enrich
ment activities throughout the
morning.
Advocate, Cookie Maker to Speak
at Clark College Graduation
Businessm an and literacy advo
cate W ally Am os will be the key
note speaker at CI ark Col lege ' s 2007
com m encem ent cerem ony. The
cerem ony will be held on T hurs
day, June 14 at 7 p.m. at the Clark
County A m phitheater.
C lark C ollege is the third largest
com m unity and technical college in
W ash in g to n S tate. D u rin g the
2006-2007 academic year more than
925 C lark C ollege students are e x
pected to graduate with associate
degrees and certificates.
Clark C ollege Interim President
Robert K. Knight noted, "W hile
m any people know him as the
founder o f ‘Fam ous A m os’ cook
ies, W ally Am os has used his fam e
to draw attention to an im portant
cause: literacy. T hat issue is criti-
Wally Amos
cally im portant to our college and
o u rco m m u n ity .”
A m os dedicated his efforts to
Literacy V olunteers o f A m erica
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percent o f PSU ’s student body,
Soto w ants more than anything to
“engage students that have been
d ise n g ag e d .”
O th er issu es he p lan s to push
in clu d e a textbook ex c h an g e p ro
g ram , lib rary ac cess afte r 11 pm .
lo w er T riM et rates fo r PSU s tu
d en ts and a c e n tra liz e d in fo rm a
tio n so u rce for e v e n ts on c a m
p u s.
Som etim e this w eek, P S U ’s ad
m inistration hopes to find an in
te rim re p la c e m e n t fo r D an ie l
B em stine,. the A frican-A m erican
president o f the college due to leave
Just west of Portland 1,700 acres of hilly forestland between HWY 26 and Vernonia is
now protected as a state park. Constructed with funds from the Oregon Lottery, "S tu b "
Stewart State Park is Oregon's first new full service park in more than 30 years. It's less
than 30 miles from Portland and it opens July 2007.
With 80 campsites, 15 miles of trails for hiking, horseback riding and mountain biking,
a cabin village, a horse camp, a hike-in camp for backpackers, interpretive exhibits, a
sheltered picnic ground and a hill-top observation tower for sightseeing and stargazing,
Stub Stewart is an ideal place to escape into nature - whether you want to get away or
just hear yourself think.
In 1998, Oregon's state parks were in trouble. There wasn't enough money to maintain
them and some were in danger of closing, which is why Oregonians voted to use Lottery
profits to support state parks. Today, Oregon is able to make investments in all of its parks
and is buying and developing new park land across the state because of the Lottery funding.
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w here he served as their National
Spokesperson from 1979 to 2002.
As a literacy advocate, he supports
educational causes and serves on
the Boards o f the N ational Center
for Fam ily L iteracy, Read to Me
International and C om m unities in
Schools, in addition to many o th
ers.
In 2005, Amos and his wife, Chris
tine, founded the Chip & C ookie
Read A loud Foundation, a publicly
supported 501(c) (3) organization,
to prom ote reading aloud to ch il
dren.
He is the recipient o f m any hon
o rs and a w a rd s in c lu d in g the
P resident's A w ard for E ntrepre
neurial E xcellence, the H oratio
A lger A w ard and the National Lit
eracy H onors Award.
New Leadership is Dancing Away Controversy
ESCAPE
itdoesgoodthings.org
W eekly them es include
Around the World (July 9-13),
Imagine That! (science-based,
July 16-20), American Adven
tures (July 23-27), Sports
Camp (July 30-Aug. 3), Zoo
Week (Aug. 6-10), and Back
to Basics (Aug. 13-17).
Applications for the PAL
M orning Cam p are available
online at w w w .palkids.org,
at the PAL Youth Center or
at your local school.
For questions or more in
formation please call 503-
256-3479.
OREGON
LOTTERY
Lottery games are based on chance and should be played to r entertainm ent only.
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for Pennsylvania.
“ S tu d en t g o v ern m e n t m atters
becau se it co n tro ls 12 m illion d o l
lars in stu d en t fe e s,” S o to says.
PSU earm arks much o f this fund
ing for athletics and core student
services, but Soto will begin w orry
ing about all this after the dancing
is over.