November 30, 2016
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Community Outreach
M ETRO
Pastors Dwight Minnieweather and Byrone Bolton team up with New Liberation Church, Straightway
Services and the Portland Police Bureau’s North Precinct to serve 600 meals to people in the home-
less and recovery communities at the Miracles Club on Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
The Thanksgiving holiday-related event was also able to provide 40 turkeys for needy families.
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Victory over Cancer Benefit
A new community gathering
and celebration will help pay the
lifesaving medical expenses of
Pastor W.G. Hardy Jr. of the High-
land Christian Center one year
after another benefit helped him
defy the odds by surviving an ag-
gressive form of cancer.
The “tremendous support”
Pastor Hardy says he received
from his peers, including leaders
of Portland’s religious communi-
ty, Highland church staff and his
own family, gave him the ability
to follow a regiment of specialized
treatment in Arizona over the past
year.
A second “Miracle of Life Cel- Pastor W. G. Hardy Jr.
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
C ALENDAR
C LASSIFIEDS
O BITUARIES
ebration,” to honor Hardy and cel-
ebrate his victory over cancer, will
take place on Saturday, Dec. 3 at
6 p.m. at the Embassy Suites Air-
port. The cost is $100 and all pro-
ceeds will be donated to the Pastor
Hardy Medical Fund. The event is
designated as evening wear/for-
mal with all white attire requested.
You can donate to the Pastor
Hardy Medical Fund by calling
the church at 503-287-9567, or
by sending a check or money or-
der to Highland Christian Center,
7600 N.E. Glisan St., Portland OR
97213. Please mark your dona-
tion clearly: “Pastor Hardy Med-
ical Fund.”
Held Accountable for Prison Abuses
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The Portland City Council is
considering an appeal to exclude
private prison lenders and inves-
tors from the city’s investments
portfolio due to their involve-
ment in human rights abuses in
private prisons.
Portland is the first city in the
country to consider divesting
from banks, including Wells Far-
go and JPMorgan Chase, due to
their active role in lending to and
investing in prisons.
A hearing before the Council
on Wednesday will be the first
since adoption of the council’s
Socially Responsible Invest-
ments policy in 2013. Under this
policy, a citizen-led committee
spent a year screening compa-
nies that might be in violation of
seven social and value concerns.
The companies with the “worst
of the worst” business practices
are recommended to be put on
the City’s Do-Not-Buy List.
Council members will hear
testimony from people who have
been directly or indirectly affect-
ed by the prison system as well
as community leaders who feel
strongly about divestment from
private prisons.
There will be a demonstra-
tion of support outside City Hall
before the hearing begins, ac-
cording to activists in support
of prison divestment, divestment
from the occupation of Pales-
tine, and divestment from banks
financing the Dakota Access
Pipeline.