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ments that the neighborhood had
been advocating for safety changes
black and its residents were voicing for years but came to no avail until
similar safety concerns to the city. the recent “neighborhood change,”
“It is a benefit to the community. as he called it.
It will make the air cleaner for one.
One new plan adopted to ad­
It’ll slow traffic speeds. I ’ll make it dress the concerns is an $80,000
safer for me to ride up Williams,” public art project set to honor the
DePass affirms. “That unfortunately history of African American pres­
won ’ t be benefitting my community ence in the neighborhood.
necessarily. It’s benefitting the
“Things like the honoring his­
broader community. It’s benefitting tory component of the project, is
people who own businesses, and definitely a result of that conversa­
people that live and walk around the tion about how the city needs to
area ‘cause the air is cleaner. But think of this as not just a matter of
again, having been in this neighbor­ transportation, but needs to think
hood for so long, the neighborhood more holistically about what this
has advocated for safety improve­ project means to this neighborhood,
ments for 40 years that I can remem­ again, the history of the neighbor­
ber.”
hood and issues like gentrification
She recalls a major push for simi­ and n e ig h b o rh o o d c h a n g e ,”
lar traffic changes as far back at the Newlands said.
1950s, when she says a 6-year-old
An artist or artist team has yet to
African American girl was struck be chosen to fulfill this instillation,
and killed by a vehicle on Williams but has been narrowed down to a
Avenue, to no avail.
handful o f potentials.
O f note, back in 1973 under
Taking cue from the advisory
M ayor Terry Schrunk, Portland committee, Newland says Portland
adopted its first bike plan calling for Bureau o f Transportation will be
190 miles of bicycle infrastructure to monitoring the project’s success
be built in the city.
after its completion using a method
With many low income people, that is “part data” and “people’s
specifically black, moving to the impressions” about the street and
outskirts of town in recent years, neighborhood feeling safer.
DePass says she’ll be watching
“We want to continue the con­
closely to see what efforts are made versation with the community, con­
by the city to instill bike infrastruc­ tinue to make m yself available to
ture on that side of town.
come out and meet with the neigh­
Rich Newlands, who took over borhood associations, and ask, you
as project manager of the Williams know, ‘how is it working, are we
redesign from Ellen Vanderslice who meeting those goals?’
started the public conversation
Newland says much of the cur­
about safety-changes on Williams rent functionality of Williams Av­
back in 2011, mirrored Depass ’ state­ enue is a “relic of ‘60s planning.”
continued
A Call to Culturally
Responsive Teaching
Based Healing
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“Educational Parenting” it’s a
term coined by author Tovi Scruggs,
as part of the solution to helping
kids who are not “being served by
their schools.” Scruggs says that
children can only truly succeed
when families and schools are com­
mitted to partnering.
She ’ s j ust released her book titled
“Be a Parent Champion: A Guide to
Becoming a Partner with Your
Child’s School.”
Co-founder of ASA Academy &
Community Science Center and now
principal of a large comprehensive
public high school, Scruggs says
the book is designed to inspire par­
ents to “analyze, reflect, and take
action in regard to how they co­
educate their children by partnering
with their child’s school.”
Scruggs holds two undergradu­
ate degrees from University of Cali­
fornia, Berkeley as well as teaching
and administrative credentials and
a M aster’s Degree from Bills Col­
lege, with 20 years working in both
public and private schools.
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