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Gateway considers light rail
The Opportunity Gateway Program Advisory Committee last month considered, but did not take a position on, a possible light rail project along the I-205 corridor. (An alternative route would run through inner Southeast Portland). There are obvious transportation and development advantages associated with such a route, but funding is an issue. The Interstate light rail line, now under construction, relied heavily on urban renewal funds. Opportunity Gateway members were concerned about the effect such a project might have on their own funding priorities, already set back by funds used for the recently completed. Multnomah County Children’s Center in Gateway on Northeast 102nd Avenue and East Burnside Street.
High achiever makes a mark
Home of the Acre Pancake, The Cameo Cafe, is also the home of a talented young woman. Cameo owners, Charles and Sue Gee Lehn; share the academic successes of their daughter Kimberly Ann Lehn. Eastside customers of the Cameo Cafe will remember Kimberly, who often worked there with her mother. Before heading to the East Coast for college, Ms. Lehn worked for Mayor Vera Katz, assisting on the Chinese Garden project and was an editorial aide to Oregonian staff crime reporters digging out story leads.
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| Kimberly Lehn, daughter of Cameo Cafe owners Charles and Sue Gee Lehn. |
As a sophomore, Kimberly applied for and was awarded a National Security Scholarship that allowed her to study in Asia for a summer. In addition, she took advantage of American University’s exchange program to study for a semester in Rome. Graduating cum laude with a degree in Business and International Studies in 2002, Ms. Lehn won a Fulbright Scholarship to teach English in Korea. Scheduled to be in Korea until August, she teaches at a High School for girls that is located about four hours from Seoul. As Korean schools take a winter break in January and February, Kimberly has been using her time off to study the Korean language at a local University and to volunteer with the local office of the American Asian Foundation.
While Charles Lehn, encouraged his daughter at a young age to pursue a career in architecture, believing opportunities in design, construction and property development would abound, the family’s interest in government and the world inadvertently sent Kimberly on her current path.
Next, Kimberly plans to attend law school. She has applied at a number of schools, but is most hopeful she will be accepted back at American University. The school offers a program that will allow her to simultaneously pursue a Masters Degree in Foreign Services and an additional Masters Degree in Korean Studies, as well as a Law Degree.
Her parents, while excited and proud of their daughter’s accomplishments, stress that guidance provided by teachers, professors, counselors and quality institutions played no small roll in Kimberly’s successes. One in particular is Paula Warnick, a career counselor at American.
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