Cl"|.lnrtlanb Observer May 14. 2008 Page A3 Lasting Legacy of the Vanport Flood continued fro m Front our unit, picked it up off the ground and it was headed north,” she says. "There was a lot o f noise, a lot of yelling going on, a lot o f screaming, ‘W here is so-and-so? W here is my b ab y ?” ’ O ut o f everything that W hite lost, the item she most w ishes she had thought to grab was the silk handkerchief that she first learned to sew on. W ord cam e that form er Vanport residents should head south to schools, shopping and recreation centers, although housing districts and churches remained largely seg regated. W ith fewer than a dozen black students in her graduating class, she left remembering discrimi nation that occurred despite W ash ington teachers’ remarkable efforts. “ I was doing great, but then I got uprooted," she says. Even without any pride in her grade-point average, she went on to becom e a nurse for many de cades and still works 27 hours a week as a medical receptionist. ( )th- There was a lot o f noise, a lot o f yelling going on and a lot of screaming, 'Where is so-and- so? Where is my baby?' - Vanport survivor Marghree White Boise Elementary, where HAP ad m inistered tetanus shots and new housing assignm ents. In 9th grade at Vanport School at the tim e. W hite lost any prospect to attend Roosevelt High School with all her friends and relatives, with subsidized tem porary housing for flood survivors located near the Broadway Bridge in W ashington High School territory. Her high school lacked the to getherness that she felt while living in Vanport, which had integrated ers from her childhood w ent on to not-so-successful fates. She sus pects that the Hood may have had som ething do with her brother suc cum bing to alcoholism in 1979. White credits herfather with amaz ing strength in keeping the small town Louisiana family together and succeeding professionally. Follow ing the dream he moved into Vanport with as a dockworker, he became the first African-American president of a trade union in Oregon. Sixty years after the dem ise o f a Vanport survivors are p u lle d to s a fe ty during th e M ay 3 0 , 1 9 4 8 flo o d d isa ste r. city. W hite argues that the name needs more than an Interstate Max ph o to m R aymond R endi . eman /T in I’oRI I . and O bsekvf R train station near Vanport and the Vanport Square development on M arghree W hite h a s fe w tre a su re d p o s s e s s io n s le ft from a flood Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. th a t to o k everyth in g b u t th e c lo th e s on h e r b a ck. S h e h o ld s a Boulevard. The obvious next step p h o to g ra p h o t h e r fa th e r w ho lived in h o u sin g c o n s tr u c te d for for her involves the park that now w o rkers in th e sh ip ya rd s. Saturday’s Art Hop to Fill 17 Blocks encom passes much of the area that once was the nation's largest hous ing development. "D elta Park should have been named after Vanport." she says. "They should rename it in honor of the flood's anniversary." Are You a Parent of a Preschooler Aged 2-5? We Need Your Help! Receive $50 to take part in a 90-minute discussion group with other parents. We are scheduling Portland dates in May & .lune Art on A lberta holds its 9th- annual Art Hop with 17 blocks o f N ortheast Alberta Street shut down to car traffic on Saturday May 17, from 11 a.m. unti!6p.m . A rt H op d raw s ov er 150 artists a n d v e n d o r s , m u s ic p e r f o r m ances, local choirs, th eater p er fo rm a n c e s and in te ra c tiv e art ev ents. T he m ission is to p ro m ote the A lb erta A rt D istric t’s d istin ct cultural identity through art and ed ucational activities. Music performances will include the S elf Enhancem ent, Inc Choir, The No! Kidding! Choir, Vernon E lem entary Students, Jefferson H igh S chool S tu d en ts, R o sa ’s Buds, Light’s Out, artists from Great M agnet Recordings, Lana Rebel, T he Headliners, G olden G reats and more. This year’s them e is "synergy” with three artists — A drienne Cruz, A n a le e F u e n te s, and T rip p e r Dungan - chosen to represent as pects o f the cultural diversity o f A lberta Street. C ruz, one o f A m erica’s best know n A frican-A m erican fabric artists who creates aw ard-w inning, sensuous and richly colored art quilts, will show her w orks at GuardinoGallery,2939N.E. Alberta and the Black United Lund, 2828 N.E. Alberta. CALL tollfree 1-877-366-3119 lor info & to sign up Research study funded by the National Institutes of Health; program developed by Oregon Center for type 2 diabetes? G uardino Gallery a n d th e B lack U n ited Fund will fe a tu re w o rks b y A frican-Am erican fabric a rtist A d rien e Cruz during Art H op on A lberta S tr e e t S aturday. A n a le e F u e n te s D ungan will show his w orks at the A lley way Café & Bar, 2 4 15 N. L. Alberta. Inspired by cartoons, he drew prolifically as a child. By age 13, he was steadily w riting acom ie strip and at age 15, he was accepted to the Las Vegas Academy High school where he received his first and most formal art training. F uentes is show ing at O nda Gallery, 2 2 15 N.E. Alberta. She was born in San Diego, Calif, and was raised by her m other, a first genera tion Mexican American who worked in a sw eatshop but was also a seam stress, painter and ceram ieist at the time. She also worked with jew elry at home. As a Latina, Fuentes has com e to the realization o f how fully her aes thetic is grounded in the Mexican B aroque—loving the ornate, exces sive and overdone. Hip-Hop Listeners Targeted A Portland radio station aim s to cap tu re the young listeners d is p la c e d on M o n d a y w h en Jam m in 9 5 .5 ’s hip hop and R&B m usic w as replaced by an a ll sp o rts form at. KVMX 107.5 EM announced Friday it will become "Jammin’ 107.5 with a form at of hits and hip hop. The station acquired the intel lectual property o f Jam m in 95.5 and PK ’s Playhouse morning show. But the fate o f other Jam m in DJs was still up in the air. Call letters of both stations will change pending FCC approval. "This is a rare opportunity for CBS Radio Portland to acquire the w e ll- e s ta b lis h e d , s u c c e s s fu l Jam m in' brand as well as a morning show that is consistently top-rated in the Portland m arket." said Dave M cDonald, local CBS senior vice president. 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This spring’s pro the pipeline, many o f the artists duction of D ream girls, with its A f (would) leave Portland for other rican-A m erican stars, had to ex opportunities or worse yet. cease tend its run and continue playing at production. There are som e who Jefferson High School because of will alw ays scrape anil struggle to find a way to produce, but scraping demand. IFCC operations would continue and struggling reinforces their dis as planned for at least a year. Flagg enfranchisem ent from ourcom m u- says, but funding for the more ex- nity,” she says. continued fro m Front The cen ter's longtime com m it m ent to b elow -cost art classes helped justify the funding sourced through Portland Parks and Recre ation. Flagg found some relief in the fact that IFCC has made strides to becom e less dependent on its fi nancial partnership with the city. 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