Bids & Classifieds
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
Book Review: To the Mountaintop — My Journey through
the Civil Rights Movement by Charlayne Hunter-Gault
By Kam Williams
Special To The Skanner News
FAMILY SELF-SUFFICIENCY
COORDINATOR
The Housing And Community Services Agency (HACSA)
of Lane County is accepting applications for a full-time
position as Family Self-Sufficiency Coordinator, who pro-
vides case management services to program
participants, in our Springfield office. Salary $2,592.53
to $3,683.84/mo. Posting & application may be obtained
at www.hacsa.org or at 177 Day Island Rd, Eugene.
Completed application packet must be received by 4:00
PM, February 21st, 2012. Resumes will not be accept-
ed. EOE/ADA
2-15-12
RIVERSIDE TERRACE APARTMENTS
200 SE Riverside Drive
Sheridan, Oregon 97378
503-843-3807
T.D.D. 800-735-2900
riverside@hayc.org
Riverside Terrace is now accepting applications for
one and two bedroom apartments. If you would like to
receive an application, please call, or come to the
office.
Office Hours are:
Monday-Friday
10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Riverside Terrace is an income based elderly, and/or
disabled/handicapped facility.
This institution is an equal opportunity
provider.
2-15-12
jobs • businesses • opportunities
bids/classifieds
to place an ad
call 503-285-5555
or 206-233-9888
C
harlayne Hunter-Gault is an accomplished reporter
who, over the course of an enviable career, has won
a couple of Emmys, a Peabody Award and been
named the Journalist of the Year by the National Associa-
tion of Black Journalists. While many might recognize her
as a veteran television news correspondent from her stints
at CNN, PBS and NPR or as a writer whose pieces have
been published by the New Yorker and the New York
Times, most folks are probably unaware of her critical con-
tribution to the dismantling of the Jim Crow system of
segregation during the Civil Rights Era.
In 1961, one of the bloodiest years in the integration
movement, she and a classmate, the late Hamilton Holmes,
became the first African-Americans admitted to the Univer-
sity of Georgia when the NAACP won a lawsuit filed on
their behalf. A few days later, accompanied by their parents
and attorney Vernon Jordan, the pair negotiated their way to
the school’s registrar’s office through a menacing gauntlet
PORTLAND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
REQUEST FOR PROPOSALS
(RFP) # 11-12
Read the rest of this story online at www.theskanner.com
City of Portland
Bureau of Technology Services
INFORMATION SYSTEMS ANALYST IV
– SECURITY SPECIALTY
Hourly Wage: $32.02 - $42.84
ECONOMIC OPPORTUNITY INITIATIVE –
MICROENTERPRISE SERVICES
The Portland Development Commission (PDC) is seek-
ing sealed competitive proposals from qualified and
experienced non-profits to provide Economic Opportuni-
ty Initiative-Microenterprise services throughout
Portland, as outlined in RFP # 11-12. The full RFP can be
downloaded from the PDC website at www.pdc.us on or
after February 10, 2012. A voluntary pre-proposal meet-
ing for the RFP will be held on February 16, 2012, at
10:30 AM (Pacific) in the PDC first floor Commission
Conference Room at 222 NW 5th Avenue, Portland, Ore-
gon. Instructions for attendance at the meeting can be
found in Section 6.3 of the RFP. Proposals must be
received no later than March 23, 2012, by 2:00 PM
(Pacific) at 222 NW 5th Avenue, Portland, OR 97209.
Fax, oral, or email proposals will not be accepted. Direct
all questions regarding this RFP to Linda Andrews, 503-
823-3261 (direct) or andrewsll@pdc.us (email). PDC
encourages participation of M/W/ESB firms in this and
all contract opportunities.
We honor the many
accomplishments of
African Americans.
of raucous whites shouting racial epithets.
Although the two new students had good reason for fear
and trepidation about being left alone on a hostile campus
in the heart of Klu Klux Klan country, they never let the
intimidation get the better of them and went on to graduate
from the college. To the Mountaintop: My Journey through
the Civil Rights Movement is a moving memoir which elo-
quently recounts their historic achievement in glowing
detail.
This fascinating autobiography covers a half-dozen piv-
otal years in Charlayne’s life, the period from 1959 to 1965.
2-15-12
The City of Portland, Bureau of Technology Services, is
seeking an Information Systems Analyst IV – Security
Specialty who will be responsible for providing opera-
tional and design support for a variety of security
platforms within the City that include firewalls, SSL
VPNs, IPS (wireline and wireless), web gateways, vul-
nerability and penetration testing tools, and two-factor
authentication platforms.
For additional, more detailed information or to apply
online,
visit
http://www.portlandoregon.gov/jobs/.
Women and minorities are encouraged to apply. The
City of Portland is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
2-15-12
INVITATION FOR BIDS
The Vancouver Housing Authority is receiving bids for
Project “201204 – Valley Homestead” until 2:00 p.m.
on Thursday, March 8, 2012 at the Vancouver Housing
Authority front reception desk, 2500 Main Street, Van-
couver, Washington 98660 at which time all bids will be
opened and read aloud.
This project is partially financed through the Community
Development Block Grant Program with funds from the
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
The contract will require the payment and tracking of fed-
eral wages thru Davis-Bacon and shall be subject to the
regulations of the Department of Labor and Department
of Housing and Urban Development.
A MANDATORY site walk-through will be held at 2:00
p.m. on Thursday, February 23, 2012. The address is
4921 NE Hazel Dell Ave., Vancouver, Washington
98663. Meet in parking lot outside the building.
Brief Work Description: Work includes replacement of
exterior windows and entry doors, and interior modifica-
tions to bathrooms and other interior spaces, including
mechanical and electrical upgrades.
Specifications are available at Precision Images -
www.precisionimages.com and may be viewed at our
Main St. office and local plan centers. Bids may be
mailed, or delivered, to Pam Haynes, Vancouver Housing
Authority, 2500 Main Street, Vancouver, WA 98660.
Technical questions may be directed to Terry Harder at
360-993-9511. Bidding paperwork questions may be
directed to Pam Haynes at 360-992-0217.
The Vancouver Housing Authority is an equal opportuni-
ty employer, and offers economic opportunities for low
and very low income persons.
2-15-12
Caldwell’s, Hennessey, Goetsch
& McGee Funeral Home
Von D. Bailey
Funeral Director
20 NE 14th Avenue
Portland, OR 97232
503-232-4111
Fax 503-231-1586
von.bailey@sci-us.com
February 15, 2012 The Portland Skanner Page 11