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Rose City Showcase Brings Top Recruits
Tournament
gets ready for
June 7 tip off
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Courtside Entertainment pre
sents grassroots basketball at its
finest, the 11th annual Rose City
Showcase sponsored by Nike tip
ping off on Friday, June 7 at Lewis
and Clark College.
Before Dwight Howard became an
NBA All-Star, before Josh Smith and
Gerald Green won the NBA Slam Dunk
Trey Lyles
James Blackmon
Trevon Blueitt
Contest, before O. J. Mayo, Michael the 2008 NCAA Championship, they
Beasley, and Kevin Love became All- all had one thing in common — they
Americans and before Brandon Rush participated in the Rose City Show-
and Mario Chalmers led Kansas to case sponsored by Nike.
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JaQuan Lyle
Now in its ninth year, the
Portland Showcase will once
again serve as the host to the
nation's top grassroots players.
PSU Strikeouts
Athlete Earns Good Sport Award Leader Honored
The Portland Observer is proud award.
to announce that Joyce W ashing
The Grant High School freshman
ton Classic alumni Evan Harvey has is a starter for the school’s varsity
been selected been as the winner of basketball team and has been main
2013 Cricket Wireless Good Sports taining a 4.0 GPA since 5th grade.
As a result of winning the award,
Evan Harvey earns a perfect she will receive $1,000from Cricket
4.0 grade point average while W ireless in c o n ju n c tio n w ith
Oregonlive.com as well as a cell
playing basketball for grant
phone equipped with free service
High School.
for a year.
Portland State University senior
pitcher Anna Bertrand has been
named to the 2013 National
Fastpitch Coaches Association
Division I Pacific Region second
team. Bertrand also picked up
five Big Sky Conference Pitcher of
the Week honors on way to being
named the Big Sky Pitcher of the
Year. She is the all-time career
strikeouts leader at PSU.
Allen Temple Celebration AME Zion
Serving with
love, devotion
for 16 years
The Allen Temple C.M.E. family is
inviting the community to a celebration
in honor of Rev. Dr. LeRoy Haynes Jr.
for his 16 years of outstanding leader
ship. The special service will be held
Sunday, June 2 at 4 p.m., at the church,
located at 4236 N.E. Eighth Ave. This
year’s theme is “Call to Serve: What
Would Thou Have Me to do?” Acts
9:5-6.
Allen Temple church leaders say
they been blessed and grateful to have
Haynes as their pastor, a dedicated Rev. Dr. LeRoy Haynes Jr.
servant of God to minister, lead the
congregation, and reach beyond to the
greater Portland metropolitan commu
nity and the State of Oregon to serve.
Dr. Haynes is the Presiding Elder of
the Oregon Washington District and
Alaska District, Past President of North
Portland Bible College and current
President of the Board of Ecumenical
Ministries of Oregon.
The guest speaker at Sunday’s cel
ebration will be Pastor Carl Stubbs of
PowerHouse Worship Center in Eu
gene.
“Join us for praise, worship and
celebration of one of God’s anointed
leaders who has served from his heart
with love, devotion and distinction,”
church officials said.
Opens Food Bank
Vancouver’ s historically black Community A. M. E. Zion
Church has opened a new food bank to help our neighbors,
friends and family seeking food assistance.
Emergency food boxes and brown bag lunches for senior
citizens and families with children will be distributed every
fourth Friday o f each month from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the
church, located at 3605 E. 13th St.
Food bank volunteers will ask you for your name, ad
dress, date ofbirth, the last four digits of your Social Security
number, and the num ber o f adults and children in your
household.
For more information, call the church at 360-693-4566.
Churches Plan Free Health Services Day
Donors and sponsors still needed
was developed by local churches, neighbors, a love of God, multi-eth
com m unity volunteers, and health nic participation, a community work
Compassion North Portland is a those in need. The day-long event professionals working together to ing together for the common good,
one day free health services event will include basic m edical exam s, bring health and dental care and prayer and the transformative heal
taking place Saturday, June 22 at basic dental cleaning and dental social services to members of com- ing power of Christ, and a love for
Roosevelt High School.
emergency treatm ent, basic opti m u n ity w h o a re u n in s u re d , others to bring health and well-be
The school will be transform ed cal services, social services infor underinsured, or unable to obtain ing to those in need.
into a local neighborhood clinic, mation, children’s activities, and treatm ent or services at traditional
Those with apassion to serve are
p ro v id in g
m u ch
n e e d e d a free lunch.
medical facilities.
encouraged to get involved as do
healthcare and other services to
C om passion N orth Portland
This collaborative effort values nors and sponsors. The financial
needs include raising up to $ 12,000
to pay for medical equipment leas
ing, supplies, materials, food, and
promotions.
Visit compassionconnect.com/
donate to give online. Checks pay
able to Compassion Connect, Inc.
may also be mailed to Compassion
Connect, Attention: Charles Fraga,
1868 N. Lombard St., Portland, OR
97217. Write “Compassion North
Portland Event Donation” on the
memo line.