OCTOBER 19, 2016
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXIX No. 3
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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.
