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Countdown for Signatures Assault weapons ban effort gets July 6 deadline ‘City of Roses’ Volume XLVII • Number 21 See Local News, page 3 Sidewalk Attack Motorist arraigned for attempted murder See Local News, page 3 www.portlandobserver.com Wednesday • May 30, 2018 Established in 1970 Committed to Cultural Diversity Photo Courtesy B oys & g irls C luB Imani Muhammad of the Rockwood Boys & Girls Club oversees a basketball clinic held in partnership with the Portland Trail Blazers during the club’s grand opening last fall. The Nike-sponsored gym is one of many amenities available to youth over the summer to serve families and single-part homes of outer east Portland. Stepping Up for Kids Rockwood Boys & Girls Club’s first summer By d anny P eterson t he P ortland o Bserver The Rockwood Boys & Girls Club is now taking signups for its very first sum- mer season of activities and programs serv- ing a growing need to an ethnically diverse and often economically disadvantaged population in east Portland and Gresham. The youth organization’s eight-week summer program begins June 25 for chil- dren ages six to 18. An open house will be hosted on Saturday, June 2, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. for parents to visit the club, meet the staff, and hear about the wide-range of programming available to keep kids safe for summer. Before the Rockwood Boys & Girls Club opened last October, families and sin- gle parent households in the area it serves had few, if any, hubs for after school and summer programs serving kids. The new facilities are one of seven Boys & Girls Clubs across the Portland metro area dedicated to providing youth enrichment programming after school and during the summer. “We create our programming around the interests of the children,” Imani Mu- hammad,38, the Rockwood Club’s senior director of programs, told the Portland Ob- C ontinued on P age 4