Oregon Advance Times_1968-02-01

Page 8 Oregon Advance/TIMES February 1, 1968 Community Services Has Worlcshops In Many Fields The Community Services department at the Neighbor– hood Service Center is always busy. There are many work– shops manned by this depart– ment. Miss Minnie Harris is the coordinator of a very new and delightful workshop involving the children. She has many volunteer instructors teaching the children creative things. Miss Harris also has a cre– ative workshop offering mu– sic, dramatics, dancing and sports which is held every Sunday from 2 to 4 p.m. Mrs. Carson has an educa– tional class teaching the chil– dren who are slow learners to achieve better grades. She has volunteers from different colleges teaching the children. Her classes are held every Saturday from 10 to 11 a.m. Mrs. Gertrude Crowe has three workshops working with teen-age girls. She holds her classes on Wednesday, Thurs– day, and Saturday. The classes consist of grooming and modeling. They also have formed a drill team. .Mrs. Verna Shepherd has a Negro Heritage class which meets every Wednesday night at 7:30 p.m. Mrs. Lizzie Sheppard has two sewing classes. One is held on Thursdays at Mallory Ave. Church from 10 to 12 noon. The other workshop is held at 5744 N. E, Cleve– land Ave. She is also get– ting people interested in learning how to upholster. This class is being held at Boise School. She is also working with the Parent-Child Service program which in– volves many area residents. Sewing class and parent– teacher study groups meet Mondays from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. at the Service Center. legal Service Program Set Residents of Albina whose income falls below certain federal standards can get free legal service from Legal Aid in the Albina Neighborhood Service Center, 59 N.E. Stanton. The office, staffed by two attorneys, two secretaries and one research assistant, is open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Mon– day through Friday and 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturday. Legal Aid is authorized to handle nearly all types of cases including misdemeanor and city ordinance violations, divorces, finance problems, garnishment, welfare prob– lems, landlord- tenant prob– lems, (including disputes with the Housing Authority of Port– land), tax matters and con– tract cases. The office, which will add a third attorney soon, does not handle felony matters or cases where the client is seeking a substantial sum of money from someone else. Reliable Boys * * * to deliver Once a week delivery your home Routes near Good pay ... can earn up to per month Carriers $20. IF YOU ARE BETWEEN THE AGES OF 9 AND 13 AND FEEL THAT YOU CAN QUALIFY FOR ONE OF THESE ROUTES PLEASE 'FILL OUT AND I MAIL THE COUPON BELOW. r-------------------------- Name Address _________ Age Phone____ Oregon Advance/TIMES 714Yl N.E. ALBERTA PORTLAND, ORE. 97212 500 Get Jobs After .Asking For Placement More than 500 applicants have been placed on jobs by the North Portland Place– ment Office since it opened. The office is part of the State Department of Employ– ment and is under super– vision of Chalmers Jones with Isadore Maney the manager. It is located at 3620 N. Vancouver Ave., in the More for Less Shopping Center, and is open 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. In addition to finding jobs for those seeking work, the office also provides voca– tional counseling, apprentice– ship programs and the man– power development program. Staff members working with Maney are Ruth LaBate, Nick Coleman, Calvin Toran, Audrey Parsons, LeRoy Al– bert, Richard Owens, George Quarker and Helen McDaniel. Waiting List For Children Approximately 213 children are enrolled in the Albina Child Care Services at 58 N, E. Morris. The program is providing child care for 43 more child– ren than originally planned. Parents who wish to enroll their children in either the Head Start program or the Day Care Service now will be placed on a waiting list, The center proviaes two types of child care. Child– ren from the ages of 1 to 3 are placed with Day Care mothers who have been aP– proved by the center. These. mothers are paid $2. 95 per day per child and provide full time care. The Volunteers of America provide this ser– vice. Children from the ages of 3 to 6 are cared for at the Child Care Center. They receive instruction in creative activities and take part in guided play. There are three rooms ofthree..year-olds, two rooms of four-year-olds, and one kindergarten class. These children receive breakfast, dinner and supper and two snacks a day. This program is run by the St. Vincent de Paul Society. About 75 per cent of the enrollment for both programs is from the North or North– east area. The children are eligible for the program be– cause they meet national Headstart standards. For more information about the child care service, call 288-6921. Sam Granato is the project director. Mrs. Joyce Veterane is supervisor of the social service staff. Sister M. Robert Francis is super– visor of child care and training. Other staffmembers include Ruby Ryan, nurse, and Carol Fleming, nutritionist, and teachers, teacher aides, social workers and their aides. Free Chest X-Rays Available Friday Chest X-rays will be avail– able to members of the Albina community on Friday, Feb, 2, at 104 N. Russell Street from l p.m. to 4 p.m. Our neighborhood has the second hig:hest number of cases of tuberculosis of any neighborhood in Portland. The X-ray is free. It i!; a valuable way of making sure that your health and that of your family is not in Janger. Workers Receive Service Award Ira D. Mumford, commun– ity service worker at the Al– bina Neighborhood Service Center and Vernon Summers, code enforcement officer at the center, received an Ur– ban Service Award at a meet– ing of the Portland Metropol– itan Steering Committee Jan- uary 17. The award was one of 531 given by Sergeant Shriver' s Office of Economic Opportun– ity, The two men accepted the award on behalf of the Neighborhood Service Cen– ter Employees Association. Mumford is chairman. The award was given in recogni– tion of the association's out– standing achievement in com– munity service through their LIFE Center. LIFE Center, 3041 N. E. Union Ave., was started a year ago to serve low income families. A card, available at the Service Center allows families to get emergency help such as clothing, food or furni– ture without money. People receiving help, in turn, help the LIFE Center by doinj_( volunteer work there. LIFE Center has operated with no funds more than a year. Money has been raised by the Employees Association to pay for utilities and rent by benefits and dinners. Life a Drag? Get With 'Y' For Fun and Better Loolcs By Benjamin Clark Are you 25 or 30 and feel you are 55 or 60? Are you trying to correct this by taking Geritol, one– a-day vitamins? Are you bored but would rather be with people so you can feel like somebody? Well, your YMCA can bring you out of the rut. Kay Lee, director-coor– dinator of the North Branch YMCA' s Lively Arts Depart– ment says, "All people have memory, experience, imag– ination and invention. When these are directed and dis– ciplined with and for other YWCA Winter Classes Dated Winter term classes at the YWCA, 1111 S.W. 10th Ave., begin the week of Feb. 5. Hours are from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thurs– days with shorter hours on Friday and Saturday. Adult classes include cooking, sew– ing, gymnastics, fencing, golf, bridge, photography, Japan– ese, French, German and others. New are Yoga and the Jogging Club. The YWCA can be contacted for more information. The phone is 223-6281. people, the result is perform– ance." So, contact Miss Lee - t h e phone number i s 281-0017 - and see if this beautiful idea extends into her classes in dancing, painting, carpentry, and puppetry. I'm sure it does. Ladies, don't be envious when another of your sex cat– ches the eyes of the opposite sex because of her well pro– portioned figure. Instead, improve your own. Attend one hour of toning, conditioning and slenderizing exercises followed by a re– freshing 40-minute swim twice a week at 9:30 a.m. Wednesday and Friday. Now you men, there is no need to be afraid to go home because Junior is waiting to throw you that football when you can hardly get out of the car after a day's work. Register for the men's evening fitness class, de– signed to take off pounds and inches - 40 minutes of ex– ercise followed by an hour's swim. So if you want to be in the know as well as on the go, with energy to spare, the YMCA awaits you. Come on in, the water's fine. The North Branch is · at 5430 N. Moore Ave. Weleome to from your Pontiae Dealer! Bud MEADOWS PONTIAC 31st and Sandy Boulevard 235-4101