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Cinco de Mayo Fiesta Kicks off' Friday
The downtown waterfront is jammed with people for Cinco de
Mayo Fiesta, one of the largest festivals in Oregon, returning for
a four-day run on Friday.
The Cinco de Mayo Fiesta celebrates family, culture and community at Tom McCall Waterfront Park. The 24th-annual event opens
Friday on the downtown waterfront.
Celebrates arts, music and folklore
The Cinco de M ayo Fiesta is a four-
day celebration that opens Friday a,
Tom McCall W aterfront Park, dow n
tow n.
The celebration brings to Portland
and all Oregonians the beautiful colors,
cuisine, arts, music and folklore o f
M exico and specifically, Guadalajara,
Portland’s sister city.
This will be the 24th anniversary for
the largest Cinco de M ayo fiesta in
North America. Your perennial favor
ites from G u a d a la ja ra , the B a lle t
Folklorico and M ariachis will be back
and perform ing daily.
New for this year’s event will be the
Guadalajara Pavilion. It showcases arti
sans and other successful businesses
from Guadalajara, Mexico. Representa
tives from Guadalajara have taken the
reins and promise to provide a distinctive
environment with artisans and jewelers
from Guadalajara who will demonstrate
their craft onsite and sell their wares.
The C inco de Mayo Fiesta is a boost
for tourism and supports our local.
regional and global econom ies with
hundreds o f people w ho jo in us as
guests from Portland’s sister city of
G uadalajara as well as people from
across Oregon and other states across
our nation.
Unique to the celebration is the ability
to provide entertainm ent and activities
for fam ilies and people o f all ages.
The fiesta will start on Friday, May 2
at 11 a.m. and continue through Cinco
de M ayo which falls on M onday this
year. Firew orks will kick-start the fi
esta Friday night at 9:45 p.m.
Admission is $8 for ages 12 to adult,
$2 for children under 12 and free for
kids under 3.
Free adm ission is scheduled before 4
p.m. on Friday and from 11 a.m. to 2
p.m. on M onday.
Diverse background leads to crusader for jobs
Transportation commissioner turns to schools
He also says that he tries not to to make the district more cost-
be evasive about his sim ilarities efficient, econom ic issues re
a different experience— but gen to M ayor Tom Potter, preferring main tantam ount.
erally speaking I certainly under to talk about some programs he
“All that stuff begins with a
stand that we all need to work would keep like supporting hous healthy econom y, because if
together.”
ing for inner-city families.
you do n ’t have good, family-
Dozono says the campaign is
One thing Portlanders can be wage jo b s, everything else is
not about running against any sure of with Dozono as mayor is nothing," D ozono says.
one but about what an experi a c o n cen tratio n on attractin g
As mayor, he plans to reduce
enced minority businessman can businesses to the city and keep taxes for com panies and travel
bring to the city, though he intro ing existing enterprises happy. the world to tell business lead
duced subjects with “ 1 disagree Even when talking about public ers that the city is open to busi
with my chief opponent” repeat schools needing more advocacy ness, saying, “For too long at
edly in his conversation with the in Salem, along with the c ity ’s least the perception is that Port
Portland Observer.
reinvestment in school buildings land is business-unfriendly.”
Adams has some opponents
from over a decade at City Hall, yet
Adams led last year will be acontro- argues that he’d be less divisive
v e rsia l tax m easu re on this than Mayor Tom Potter, saying, “I
November’s ballot to raise money think it’s despicable that the mayor
for long-term transportation fixes tries to play one side of the city off
and paving projects, replacing on another side of the city.
But with messages such as “a
bridges, easing congestion and
city is only as good as its public
building streetcar lines.
On initiatives to reduce the use schools,” Adams can remain posi
of carbon fuels, he says, “ I would tive and goal-oriented at the same
be loath to do any sort of carbon time. He envisions a “self-improv
tax that didn’t have a break for ing prophesy" that links Jefferson
High School and its neighboring
low -incom e people.
As a fighter for social con cam pus o f Portland Com m unity
cerns, Adams has strong convic College.
Hoping to build on his advo
tions. “ I m ake absolutely no
apologies for the priorities that cacy for low -incom e housing,
I’ve made or the decisions that Adams cam paigns for affordable
I’ve m ade,” he says.
living with taxes on real-estate
continued
from Front
continued
from Front
transactions and large develop
ments.
A non-tax method aimed at im
proving the schools involves
A dam s’ proposal to make com pa
nies pay em ployees for work lost
attending parent-teacher confer
ences.
Various plans in partnership
with school districts, county and
business representatives make
the top city position, in his words,
“e q u a l p a rts p r iv a te - s e c to r
fundraiser in chief, honorary ac
countability officer and parental
involvem ent cheerleader.”
“Only a m ayor can do all that,”
he says. “ I can ’t change people’s
minds, but hopefully I can change
their pocketbooks.”
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Artist and muralist
Isaac ‘Isaka’
Shamsud-Din is
encouraging young
art students to
participate in an
art competition
with the theme
“ The Black West.”
W EU O M
Young, Gifted and Black
Art contest embraces cultural histories
A local African-American artist
The purpose of the contest is Hargrave, 5210 N. Kerby Ave.,
and muralist is encouraging Afri to encourage the study of rich Portland, OR 97211 (phone 503-
can-American or African-Diaspora cultural history as a living legacy 916-5180, extension 1391 )orM r.
high-school students in the Port and inspire the creation o f origi Sham sud-Din (phone 503-232-
land metro area to participate in an nal works of art. Throughout time, 1671) o r v is it the w e b s ite
art competition under the theme the study and know ledge of his aavas.com .
•The Black West.”
tory has given artists a founda
The African American Visual
Isaac "Isaka” Shamsud-Din is tion to fashion their visions as Arts Scholarship Committee is ac
one of the organizers of the compe they chronicled and interpreted tively seeking young A frican-
tition sponsored by the African past and present people, places American artists, offering tuition,
American Visual Arts Scholarship and events.
financial support, m entoring, tu
Committee at Portland State Uni
A deadline of May 23 has been toring, portfolio development and
versity, the Portland Rose Festival set for submissions. Each entry a network o f art students o f color
and the office of Mayor Tom Pot must be accompanied by a typed throughout the Portland area.
ter.
100- to 200-word essay or outline
Recipients must be African-
Cash prizes of $5(X), $250 and from readings that provide the ba American or African-Diaspora art
$100 will be awarded for original sis for your art. Be sure to attach majors enrolled as full-time stu
two dimensional works with a maxi student information: name, address, dents, concentrating in studio art.
mum size of 36 by 36 inches. Some phone number, school, art teacher's drawing, painting, printmaking,
exceptions will be considered. All name and year in school.
sculpture, graphic design with com
entries will be exhibited at the 2008
D eliver entries to Jefferson puter graphics components or art
Rose Festival.
High School, in care o f Amy history.
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