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ects in the four-county Portland/Vancouver Community of Oregon will hold a special pledged pastries, snacks and drinks.
Around 20 volunteers, have signed up,
cultural and liturgical celebration to honor
area.
there is space for 20 more. The land is
and
celebration
The
Jr.
King,
Luther
Martin
Dr.
The events will include the nation’s
largest gathering of college and university is set for 5:30 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 14, at St. being prepared for installation of native
students. Nine colleges and universities Mary’s Cathedral, N.W. 18th Ave. at Couch plant species. Also needed: someone to pro-
from N.W. Oregon will send up to 1,200 St. Rev. Msgr. Charles Lienert of St. vide day care for the volunteers. To sign up
students to Roosevelt High School Jan. 16 Andrew Catholic Church will officiate. call Diego Gioseffi 808-779-3435
to perform service projects that support the Everyone is welcome to attend.
resurgence of one of the area’s most
Sisters of The Road
ethnically diverse high schools.
Celebrates King Jan.
“I am thrilled that United Way,
with its partners, can help convene Change does not roll in on the 15 and 16
so many people who are willing and
Sisters of The Road supporters will
wheels of inevitability, but
eager to spend their time to strength-
at noon Jan. 16 at the Sisters of
meet
en our community,” said Jay Bloom,
continuous
through
comes
café, 133 N.W. 6th Ave.,
Road
The
interim President and CEO of
the 19th annual Martin
for
Portland
struggle
United Way of the Columbia-
Jr. Day march and rally.
King,
Luther
Willamette. “I’m also amazed that
march will honor the social
year’s
This
Jr.
King
Luther
Martin
—
every year, more and more people
justice movements that have come
sign up to help.”
before us and celebrate continuing
This year, there’s space for 3,151
struggles for racial and economic jus-
people, up more than 50 percent
civil rights and a nonviolent world.
tice,
from 2011. As of today, several of the 93
will include ‘dreamers’ from the
Speakers
events are full; organizers are encouraging Space Invaders
Too (project on homeless-
Dream
2
Right
would-be volunteers to check the United
Volunteers will gather to remove invasive ness) and Paul Boden, the organizing direc-
www.unitedway-
Way website at
plants from the King Facility parking lot, tor for the Western Regional Advocacy
pdx.org/mlk for a list of events.
from 10 am to 4 pm. Jan 16, at 4815 N.E. Project in San Francisco.
United Way’s Martin Luther King Jr.
Wygant, as part of the Martin Luther King
Sisters’ Dorothy Day Community School
Weekend of Service is sponsored by The
Jr. Day of Service. At the same time the will host a special teach-in on nonviolent
Boeing Company. Partners are The
King School PTA will be coordinating a direct action in the cafe at 11 a.m. Sunday,
Skanner, Hands on Greater Portland and
cleanup, weeding, graffiti removal project Jan.15. We are hoping that everyone who
Campus Compact.
on the school grounds, playground, and attends this training will play an active role
local area. The Portland Farmers Market is in the march the next day. If you are inter-
Mass Appeal
also planning to bring a small crew, a tent ested in attending, please RSVP to Lucilene
Catholic and some snacks. Whole Foods has also at lucilene@sistersoftheroad.org or 503-
African-American
The
Working
together to
keep the
dream alive
The Pacific Northwest
Regional Council of
Carpenters
The Pacific Northwest Regional Council of Carpenters is
over 20,000 carpenters, piledrivers, drywallers, mill-
wrights, trade show workers, shipwrights, exterior/interi-
or specialists, scaffold erectors, insulators and related
craft workers who have banded together to maintain and
improve Safety, Wages, Benefits, Training and Working
Conditions.
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The teach in will be followed that evening
by the second annual peaceroots celebra-
tion. Peaceroots will take place from 6 to 8
p.m. Jan. 15 in the Siters of the Road Café
(133 N.W. 6th Ave.) Ibrahim Mubarak, co-
founder of Dignity Village and Right 2
Dream Too will receive the Genevieve
Nelson Award.
All events are free and open to the public.
Pastor W. G. Hardy
Headlines PSU Event
Rev. Dr. W.G. Hardy, Jr., senior pastor of
Highland United Church of Christ, and a
well-known advocate for Portland’s African
American Community, will deliver the
keynote address during a week-long cele-
bration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., at
Portland State University. King’s birthday is
15.
Jan.
Pastor Hardy formed the nonprofit organi-
zation Highland Haven in 2000 to serve dis-
tressed Portland communities with nine dif-
ferent social service programs. He also
serves on the board of the African American
Coalition.
Health
Mental
Hear Pastor W. G. Hardy at 7 p.m. Jan. 19 in
the Smith Memorial Student Ballroom,
Room 355, 1825 S.W. Broadway. Cost is
$5 to the general public; free with valid stu-
dent ID
See EVEnTS on page 18