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Page 16 ®*’* Northini» ODbsewer T erry F amily F uneral H ome October 13, 2010 2337 N. Williams Ave. Portland, Or 97227 503-249-1788 We make the service personal. You make the tribute personal. Every time we arrange a personalized funeral service, we take special pride going the extra mile. With our online Memorial Obituary, now we can do even more, friends and family can find out service information, view photos, read obituary, order flowers and leave personal messages of condolences from anywhere, anytime. Simply go to our website. www.terryfamilyfuneralhome.com "Dedicated to providing excellent service and superior care o f your loved one ” A Cornelius family gets their medical needs met at the Virginia Garcia Health center, a longtime provider of health services for underserved Hispanic populations and other diverse communities of Washington County. A m b a s s a d o rs o f H e a lth Virginia Garcia clinics celebrate 35 years Dwight A. Terry Oregon License CO-3644 Amy S. Terry Oregon License FS-0395 M IN IS T R IE S ¡In in te s T v o u lto c o m e o u tla n ä ] TiT The Virginia Garcia Memorial Foundation and Health Center re cently celebrated 35 years o f serv ing the community during an Am bassadors o f Hope fundraiser to support their community clinics. More than 30,000 individuals each year get high quality, compre hensive and culturally appropriate primary health care at Virginia Garcia clinics in Beaverton, Hillsboro and other locations in Washington and Yamhill counties. Virginia Garcia has developed a strong reputation in the community for delivering the highest quality health care to some o f the most vulnerable populations in the re gion, regardless o f individuals' abil ity to pay. "For more than three decades, the Virginia Garcia Memorial Health Center has worked diligently to re spond to the needs o f low income and uninsured," said Sen. Ron Wyden, in recognizing the health provider’s achievement. Virginia Garcia's first clinic started in 1975 in a three-car garage in Cornelius. The organization has grown since then to meet the chang ing needs o f the community. It now serves patients in over 60 languages at six locations. Virginia Garcia has thrived because o f the support o f individuals and corporations. Part nerships with local businesses and individuals in the community have enabled Virginia Garcia to increase access to high quality care. Ambassadors o f Hope will sup port the health center's ability to continue to serve community mem bers in need and expand access to care for the over 100,000 uninsured Oregonians in their service area. For more information about Vir ginia Garcia, visit virginiagarcia.org. Writer of Human Struggles Honored ilei iversary Music, Worship, Fellowship and more! New Song Community Center Jerry & Annie Gutierrez 25H NE Martin Luther King Blvd Comer ot N[ MIK BM and Russell St Doors open at 6pm for every service For directions or more information, call 503-488-5481 or log on to www.mfhmportland.Gom (AP) — Peruvian political opinions," writer and one-time the 74-year-old au presidential candidate thor said at a news Mario Vargas Llosa, a conference in New chronicler o f human York. stru g g le s a g ain st "I th in k L a tin au th o ritarian ism in A m erican literature Latin America, won the d eals w ith p o w er 2010 Nobel prize for lit an d p o litic s an d erature on Thursday. Ma„ 0 Va(gas U o sa this was inevitable. A leading m em ber We in Latin America o f a generation o f writers behind have not solved basic problem s the resurgence in Latin Am erican such as freedom ," Vargas Llosa literature in the 1960s, Vargas Llosa said. was a cham pion o f the left in his The Swedish A cadem y award- youth and later evolved into an ing the $1.5 m illion prize said outspoken conservative, a shift Vargas Llosa had been chosen that infuriated m uch o f Latin "for his cartography o f structures A m erica's leftist intelligentsia. o f pow er and his trenchant im- "I hope they gave it to me m ore ages o f the individual's resistance, for my literary work and not my revolt and defeat."
