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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
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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.