lanuary I. 2014 ® lft IN S ID E TheWeek Review C alendar sportiani» (Dbsrrnrr This page Sponsored by: Page 3 FredMeyer What's on your list today?, .. u photo by D onovan M. S mith /T he P ortland O bserver Multnomah County Commissioner Loretta Smith offers her reflections on the late Harold Williams during a ceremony honoring Williams and four other “Black Pioneers” at a Friday luncheon spon sored by Portland Community Reinvestment Initiatives. Honoring Black Pioneers Portland giants in their work to make for a better community were honored by family, friends, and civic leaders at a special luncheon Friday at the Oregon Association of M i nority Entrepreneurs. Sponsored by the north and northeast Portland housing pro vider Portland Community Reinvest ment Initiatives, the 2013 “Black Pioneers” honorees included the late C h arles Jo rd a n , P au lin e Bradford, Harold Williams, Evelyn Collins, and Dr. John Marshall, all strong advocates and activists for the city’s black community. Attendees at the presentation included current community advo cates like State Rep. Lew Frederick and Multnomah County Commis sioner Loretta Smith. Smith offered reflections on Harold Williams and told about his positive influence on her as only the second African-American to serve as an elected county official. Portland Community Reinvest ment commissioned artistic portraits of each of the honorees and pre sented the finished works during the event. The paintings were crafted by Fred Ingram , and are to be in stalled on the Russell Street face o f the Urban League o f Portland plaza building. The portraits are to jo in existing ones, which he also painted, som etim e within the next month. Grand Theft Dignity Village Popular game draws on Portland encampment F ood page 16 Popular video game series Grand Theft Auto is under the microscope after creating a homeless camp and naming it Dignity Village in the latest version of the game. The northeast Portland non-profit transitional campground Dignity Village was not amused. Nancy Mottaz, the cam p’s chief executive officer is reportedly looking into the situation further with the aid of an attorney. In the newest game Grand Theft Auto V, the homeless camp can be found at the edge of a city near a freeway that runs along a coastline; Portland's Dignity Village is a half mile south of northeast Marine Drive, parallel to the Columbia River. Rockstar Games, publisher of the game series, has not made a statement on the controversy. The latest version of the game was released Sept. 17 to huge fanfare selling over $800 million its first day out.. A screen capture from the newest version of Grand Theft Auto shows a homeless camp going by the name Dignity Village, the same name as the transitional housing camp located in northeast Portland.