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OCTOBER 19, 2016 Portland and Seattle Volume XXXIX No. 3 25 CENTS News .....................8,9,12 A & E .....................................6-7 Endorsements ..... 2-3 Financial Literacy ....... 8-9 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW Calendars .................. 4-5 Bids/Classiieds ....................11 PHOTO BY CHRISTEN MCCURDY MORAL MONDAY Dr. Jill Ginsberg, medical director and cofounder of North by Northeast Health Center, ofers a tour of the clinic’s new location at 714 NE Alberta Street. By Christen McCurdy Of The Skanner News S taf at North by Northeast Com- munity Health Center are busy getting settled in at the clinic’s new location on Northeast Alber- ta Street and will begin seeing patients for scheduled appointments Monday. Last summer staf at the clinic — which opened in 2006 as a one-day-a- week clinic and had been situated on Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd., in a com- plex with Cascadia Behavioral Health, since 2009 — learned they would need to seek a new location for the center due to Cascadia’s plans to expand. Following a months-long search and a crowdfunding campaign that raised $25,000 to help with the move, staf found a space at Northeast 7th and Al- berta. “We had looked for quite a while and found what everyone looking for space in this neighborhood inds, which is not much is available, and what is available is very expensive,” Jill Ginsberg, the clinic’s medical director and cofounder, told The Skanner News. The new building is situated in a building that for years housed a janito- rial business and a security company — and in a neighborhood that has under- gone rapid change, including increased rents in recent years due to gentriica- tion. Ginsberg said staf discussed the idea of locating the clinic in east Portland, where many longtime Northeast Port- land residents now live, but patients — including the clinic’s 15-member pa- See CLINIC on page 12 Financial Literacy page 8-9 Lezley McSpadden, the mother of Michael Brown, a Missouri teen killed by a police oicer in the city of Ferguson in August 2014, spoke at Seattle University Oct. 17, as a guest of Moral Mondays at SU, the #BlackLivesMatter initiative at the university. Vivian Philips,the director of marketing and communications for Seattle Theatre Group, chair of the Seattle Arts Commission and co-chair of the Historic Central Area Arts and Cultural District, moderated the discussion. Emanuel Seeks African American Chaplains Course will teach ministers to provide comfort in health care settings By Arashi Young Of The Skanner News I f you take a walk through the corridors at Legacy Emanuel Medical Cen- ter in North Portland you will see Black patients and neighbors — but you won’t see many Black chap- lains serving the spiritual needs of the community. The Legacy Health Sys- tem Clinical Pastoral Ed- ucation program aims to change that by seeking out African American spir- itual leaders to become hospital chaplains. A new chaplain education course will break down structur- al barriers that have kept Black leaders from hospi- tal ministry. The Rev. William De- Long, director of spiritual care at Legacy Emanuel Medical Center, said most Black ministers and pas- tors gravitate toward the pulpit but they are essen- tial in the hospitals as well. “There is this wealth of really needed ministry for people that are experienc- ing life-changing crisis and situations like what we work with here at Emanu- el,” DeLong said. DeLong will teach a spring intensive intern- ship program from Jan- uary until April in 2017. The 12-week course will teach spiritual leaders to provide comfort in health care settings, such as trau- ma centers and acute care wards. Vicki Guinn, a communi- ty relations representative with LHS, said the program is very specialized training that will give the student a lot of hands-on experience working with people in need. “You learn a lot about yourself as a person. You get some insight into skills that you can develop, in- terpersonal relationship skills and how to work with people during these oten tragic and vulnerable times,” Guinn said. The internship is fully funded by grant money and there are ive available class spaces for minori- ty ministers and pastors. See CHAPLAINS on page 12 Judge Issues Order on Fontaine Bleau Lawsuit Allegations of historical conspiracy ruled ‘immaterial,’ but City’s motion to dismiss denied By The Skanner News Staf A pending lawsuit against the city of Portland, alleging a con- spiracy against the Fontaine Bleau nightclub will go before a jury — denying motions from the city and individually named plain- tifs to dismiss the conspiracy claims. The lawsuit names the city, the Portland Police Bureau and the Ore- gon Liquor Control Commission — as well as Mayor Charlie Hales, former Portland Police Captain Mark Kru- ger and several individual police oi- cers — as participants in a campaign against Black nightclubs, particular- ly those playing hip-hop music. Judge John Acosta’s order, which can be found in its entirety at http:// law.justia.com /cases/fed- eral /district-courts/oregon /ord- ce/3:2014cv01017/117611/73/, does grant relief to the defendants relat- ing to a few aspects of the original complaint. Moving forward, the suit won’t address initial claims that the See NIGHTCLUB on page 12 THE SKANNER NEWS ARCHIVE Clinic will be open to see patients Monday PHOTO BY SUSAN FRIED North by Northeast Settles in on Alberta Earlier this week a judge denied the City of Portland’s motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by the owner of the now-shuttered Fontaine Bleau, a Black-owned Northeast Portland nightclub that closed in 2014.