OCTOBER 10, 2018
Portland and Seattle Volume XLI No. 2
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News ................................3,6-8 A & E ........................................5
Opinion ...................................2 Gospel Choir ....................4
Calendars ...............................4 Bids/Classifieds .....................7
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
Bill Proposes
Holocaust
Education
for Oregon
Schools
If passed, Oregon would
join 10 other states that
require Holocaust and
genocide education in
their classrooms
The Skanner News
hen he was incarcerated in a
concentration camp during
World War II, 92-year-old
Holocaust survivor Alter
Wiener had two dreams: to be reunit-
ed with his family and to be allowed to
eat as much bread as he wanted, walk
W
AP PHOTO/CARLOS OSORIO
See HOLOCAUST on page 3
In this Oct. 2 photo, marijuana buds are weighed for
a customer at Utopia Gardens, a medical marijuana
dispensary, in Detroit.
Marijuana
in the
Midwest
Voters to decide on
recreational use
page 6
World News
page 8
Briefs
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
r. L.M. Alaiyo Fos-
ter takes about two
walks a day.
It’s a quick way to
recharge and take care of
herself in what can be con-
suming work.
“I’ve been in education
and social services my
whole career. It’s con-
suming work. It’s passion
work,” Foster said, and
learning to strike an ap-
propriate work-life bal-
ance and care for herself
has been a major project.
Foster moved back to
Portland at the end of Sep-
tember to step into her
new role as executive di-
rector of the Black United
Fund of Oregon.
A Portland native and
Benson High School grad-
uate, Foster holds two
bachelor’s degrees from
Portland State, two mas-
ter’s degrees — one in ed-
ucation, from PSU, and one
from Capella University
in nonprofit management
— and a doctorate in lead-
ership and development
from Lewis & Clark Col-
lege. That adds up to more
than 20 years in postsec-
ondary education, during
which Foster also worked
full-time in education and
social services.
Most
recently,
she
worked as a remote con-
sultant and program offi-
cer for the Portland-based
Black
Educational
Achievement Movement
D
Dr. L.M. Alaiyo Foster, who stepped into her role as executive director of the Black United Fund of Oregon Oct. 1,
poses outside the organization’s historic building on Northeast Alberta Street.
while living near family
in Texas for two years. She
started her job Oct. 1 and is
still getting re-acclimated
to life in her hometown.
“It was one of those right
time for the organiza-
tion and right time for me
things,” Foster said of her
role at BUF, which was cre-
ated in 1983 by Black lead-
ers in North and Northeast
Portland to address a lack
of local philanthropic sup-
port for communities of
color. Foster said the or-
ganization will continue
building on that legacy, of-
fering scholarship applica-
tion assistance, mentoring
for Black youth and con-
tinuing to rent office space
in its Northeast Alberta
building to small nonprof-
its for below-market rent.
Black United Fund of Or-
egon reported $331,660 in
revenue in 2016, according
to its tax filings. The or-
ganization awards schol-
arships to local colleges
and universities starting
at $8,000 per year, as well
as scholarships named
for community members
See BUF on page 3
Deported Parents May Lose Kids to Adoption
More than 200 children detained are not eligible
for reunification or release
By Garance Burke and Martha Men-
doza, Associated Press
s the deportees were led off the
plane onto the steamy San Sal-
vador tarmac, an anguished
Araceli Ramos Bonilla burst
into tears, her face contorted with
pain: “They want to steal my daugh-
ter!”
It had been 10 weeks since Ramos
had last held her 2-year-old, Alexa.
Ten weeks since she was arrested
A
crossing the border into Texas and
U.S. immigration authorities seized
her daughter and told her she would
never see the girl again.
What followed — one foster fam-
ily’s initially successful attempt to
win full custody of Alexa — reveals
what could happen to some of the in-
fants, children and teens taken from
their families at the border under a
Trump administration policy earlier
this year. The “zero-tolerance” crack-
See CHILDREN on page 3
AP PHOTO/REBECCA BLACKWELL
Auschwitz, Holocaust concentration camp.
New executive
director comes
with 20 years
education,
social services
experience
PHOTO BY CHRISTEN MCCURDY
CC0 PUBLIC DOMAIN
FOSTER TAKES HELM AT BUF
Araceli Ramos holds her 5-year-old daughter,
Alexa, on her lap during an interview in a park
in San Miguel, El Salvador, on Aug. 18. The
federal government offers all deported parents
the chance to take their children with them, but
Ramos said she was ordered to sign a waiver to
leave Alexa behind. “The agent put his hand on
mine, he held my hand, he forced me to sign,”
she said.