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Page 18 February 14, 2018 C LASSIFIED /B IDS SUB BIDS REQUESTED Metro runs the Oregon Zoo, Oregon Convention Center, Portland Expo Center and Portland’5 Centers for the Arts and provides services that cross city limits and county lines including land use and Maple Star is looking for transportation planning, parks a family just like yours… and nature programs, and …to partner with Maple garbage and recycling systems. Star Oregon to provide Visit oregonmetro.gov/jobs for TreatmentFoster Care for current openings and a link to some of our communities our online hiring center. most vulnerable children. Metro is an Affirmative Action / Portland’s foster children need Equal Opportunity Employer you now more than ever. Maple Star Oregon serves children referred by the Department of Human Services as well as Multnomah County Department Advertise with diversity of Juvenile Justice. 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After receipt and review of all bids received, PCRI will invite a final group of bidders to meet with a selection team to highlight areas of their proposal or explain further any details. PCRI’s Blandena Homeownership project is to be a new-construction 6-unit townhome style condominium development on a single infill lot in North Portland. The project also involves deconstructing an existing single family home and preparing the site for the new construction development. PCRI has organizational and project goals to maximize participation of People of Color and women in the workforce and MBE/WBE- owned firms constructing this project. Contractors should be prepared to detail their history or plans to maximize utilization of this workforce and contracting pool. Bid Documents will be available beginning February 12, 2018 by contacting Travis Phillips at PCRI (development@pcrihome.org; (503) 288-2923 x116). 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Bids due 2:00pm PST February 16, 2018 Bids may be delivered to JE Dunn Construction via email to Robert Means at Robert.Means@jedunn.com. Any Bid received after the specified date and time will not be considered. A complete copy of the documents can be obtained by emailing Robert Means at Robert.Means@jedunn.com 424 NW 14th Ave, Portland, Oregon 97209 • (503) 978-0800 JE Dunn Construction reserves the right to select the best value response, negotiate with multiple bidders, or reject all responses. This is an Equal Opportunity and encourages Minority, Woman, Veteran, and Emerging Small Business participation. License Number: 109192 L egaL N otices Handicapping African- American Progress for Decades C ontinued froM P age 17 Obama’s constituents. Farrakhan also was the religious leader of many of Obama’s Illinois constit- uents. To categorically state that Obama should not have taken a picture with Farrakhan ignores the complexity of the African Ameri- can community and takes Obama out of that context by asserting that his main concern should have been the comfort level of white liberals. There is not enough room here to list the many interactions of Obama’s predecessors with con- troversial figures that drew little attention, but I feel compelled to mention one. In 1915 Woodrow Wilson hosted a screening of D.W. Griffith’s extraordinarily racist film “Birth of a Nation.” It was one of the first screenings of a film at the White House and members of Wilson’s cabinet were in atten- dance along with their families. Wilson’s hosting the screening of “Birth of a Nation” barely rates a footnote in American history while Obama’s having his picture taken with Farrakhan has some white liberals like Dershowitz in conniptions. The disparate responses to these two events point out a war of ideas between Black folk and many white liberals. A war that has simmered in this nation since its birth and continues to this day. We can love our allies, and still have a concern that they do not speak against our interest when our interests diverge from theirs. Alan Dershowitz and others of our allies must come to understand this. Oscar H. Blayton is a former Marine Corps combat pilot and human rights activist who practic- es law in Virginia. Advertise with diversity in The Portland Observer Need to publish a court document or notice? Need an affidavit of publication quickly and efficiently? Please fax or e-mail your notice for a free price quote! Fax: 503-288-0015 e-mail: classifieds@portlandobserver.com The Portland Observer Call 503-288-0033 or email ads@portlandobserver.com