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^Jortlanb (Observer Page 2 Wellness Village Health Events Free screenings for dental, vision, hearing and diabetes The 15th annual African American Wellness Village and 6th annual Health Disparities Conference takes place this weekend bringing together community members, health care providers and local and state officials to generate solutions to health disparities. The conference focuses on diabetes and will be held Fri day, Oct. 15 at the Airport Holiday Inn from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sal ly Norby, executive director of the Ameri can Diabetes Association, will share the facts about diabetes— particularly diabetes among African Americans, the largest disparity in diabetes mortality. The Wellness Village, organized by the African American Health Coalition, will pro vide much needed life saving health screen ings as well as health and wellness information at no charge. The village takes place Saturday, Oct. 16 at the Blazers Boys and Girls Club, 5250 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Community members will have the opportunity to receive complimentary eye exams, dental We invite all o f our African American community members to take advantage o f this valuable community resource event. - Corliss Me Keever, AAHC president checks, immunizations, diabetes foot checks and many more health screenings. “We invite all o f our A frican A m erican com m unity members to take advantage o f this valuable com m unity resource ev e n t,” said Corliss Me Keever, AAHC president and ch ief executive officer. “The health o f many o f our friends and neighbors has been im proved be cause o f the services offered at the V illage.” |NEW S E A S O N S J October 13, 2010 This was the second weekend in a row they have searched the island, located about 20 miles north o f Port land. T,Week in The Review Blazers Sign New Center School Reid Landing The Portland Trail B lazers have sig n ed c e n te r Steven Hill, 24, a B lazer sum m er league player from 2008, it was an Drinks Spiked with Drugs nounced Monday by General Man Twelve young people were rushed ager Rich Cho. The Blazers needed to a hospital in Roslyn, Wash. Sun to beef up their roster after an injury day after they overdosed on a pow over the weekend to forward Jeff erful drug that apparently was mixed Pendergraph and while waiting for into their drinks without their knowl center Greg Oden to recover from an edge at a party. Police said most o f injury. the victims were young women from Central W ashington University. Adams Voices I t Gets Better' M ay o r Sam D e tec tiv es are in v e stig a tin g Adams joins pop whether they were given the spiked culture figures Dan drinks to render them defenseless Savage, Tim Gunn, against a sexual assault. Ke$ha and many Sauvie Island Search others in contrib A team o f nearly uting a video mes 60 searc h ers sage to the “It Gets scoured Sauvie Better” project to raise awareness Island again over and stop suicide among lesbian and the weekend in gay questioning youth by telling the search for them that bullying and mistreatment Kyron Horm an, does stop. The campaign follows a the student from Skyline Elemen rash o f suicides, including the tary who went missing last June. Rutgers college student who took his life after a roommate secretly broadcast him in his dorm room with a fellow male student. A small plane landed early Sunday evening in a field at Robert Gray Middle School, 5505 S. W. 23rd Ave. The pilot, who escaped injury, said he was having engine trouble and looked for a safe place to land. M A R K E T N O W D E L IV E R IN G Y o u r f a v o r it e n e i g h b o r h o o d g r o c e r y s t o r e n o w d e liv e r s g r o c e r i e s r ig h t t o y o u r h o m e o r o f fic e . w w w .n e w s e a s o n s m a r k e t.c o m you click, we deliver, (or pull up for pick up) Broadway Gets Bicycle Signal A remodeled traffic signal that includes a bicycle-only signal dis play has been added to the inter section North Williams Avenue and Broadway. The new signal was turned on Tuesday as part o f a long-planned improvement o f the intersection that is being implemented along with the installation o f streetcar tracks. Transportation officials say the public should pay close attention to the signals, signs and lane markings and be aware o f fel low travelers in the vicinity o f the intersection, which is adja cent to an on-ramp for Interstate 5. The new traffic signal for bi cyclists provides a signal control that separates the through move ment o f bicycles from the heavy right-turn movement o f vehicles. It is designed to eliminate con flicts between motorists and cy clists and improve overall safety. Motorists are not permitted to make right turns are the right turn signals are red. • - • •
