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news/Bids Advertising deadlines 12:00 Noon Monday Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. To place your ad, email advertising@theskanner.com Bikes continued from page 1 they ran adjacent to the rail- road tracks so we were probably never more than 5, 10 miles off the original route,” he said. “We went across the United States, through the same major cities that they did on the same calendar dates.” Doss and fellow Black Studies Professor Richard Smith organized the ride, traveling afterward to Minneapolis where they interviewed the sole sur- vivor of the 25th infantry, Dorsie Willis. “It was a wonderful time that we had with him,” Doss says. “He did not take the bicycle trip but his first ser- geant Mingo Sanders did. So we got to hear the story about that as well as the Spanish American War.” Doss said he and the oth- ers took the odyssey because they wanted to honor the 25th Infantry – which had sacrificed so much only to be crushed by racism. Also, though, the trip was a matter of principle. “I belonged to the speak- ers bureau in the Black Studies Department and we used to go out around the state of Montana, and peo- ple would say, ‘well you don’t understand, there were never any coloreds here, so we don’t know about new people.’ “And so when I found that original photograph of the bike corps outside Fort Missoula on their bicycles — that ended up being about a three year research project. “And we decided to take the trip in their honor as well as to show the contri- butions of African Americans.” NOTICE OF CONSOLIDATED PLAN AND FAIR HOUSING PLAN COMMENT PERIOD AND PUBLIC HEARINGS & FY 2011-2012 Action Plan Thursday, April 7, 3:00 - 5:00 pm Wood Village City Hall, Policy Advisory Board Public Hearing 2055 NE 238th Drive, Wood Village, OR 97060 Off-street parking, Bus Line #77 The FY 2011-2016 Consolidated Plan and FY 2011-2012 Action Plans for Multnomah County, the City of Portland, and the City of Gresham describe and prioritize current hous- ing and community development needs, establish strategies and set five-year goals to address those needs, and itemize how approximate- ly $15-20 million dollars in CDBG, HOME and other federal resources will be invested during FY 2011-12, the first year of the new Consolidated Plan. 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