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| Congressman Earl Blumenauer selected Emily Bryant’s self-portrait as this year’s winner of the coveted Congressional Art Competition. Bryant was a senior during the 2004-05 school year at Parkrose High School. |
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Congressman Earl Blumenauer announced Emily Bryant, a 2004-2005 senior at Parkrose High School, is the winner of the Annual Congressional Art Competition for the Third Congressional District of Oregon. Bryant’s artwork will be displayed in the U.S. Capitol along with winners from around the country.
“The competition provides Oregon high school students with a unique and exciting opportunity to showcase their work on a national level,” Blumenauer said. “I’m proud to have Emily’s piece representing the artistic talents of Oregon’s 3rd Congressional District in the U.S. Capitol.”
The Congressional Art Competition was first launched in 1982. Since then, over 650,000 high school students have participated in thousands of contests around the country. Each Member of Congress sponsors a local art competition in their Congressional District and selects one winning entry. The winning piece of art from each District is displayed in the Cannon Tunnel, a pedestrian walkway leading to the U.S. Capitol, for one year as part of a national exhibition.
Blumenauer selected Bryant’s artwork from a collection of art submitted by students from all over his Congressional District. In her piece, entitled “Seeing Through,” Bryant blends hundreds of patterned slips of magazine paper to create a complex, mosaic-style self-portrait.
Last year Bryant took first place in the Parkrose High School Spring Art Show. She plans to attend Portland Community College next year and hopes to transfer to the Pacific Northwest College of Arts in Portland after two years. Bryant, the daughter of Kristina Bryant, studied art under her teacher Bev Cordova.
Central East Rotary awards scholarships
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| Central East Rotary scholarship committee members pose with 2005 and continuing scholarship winners at its annual awards luncheon in May. In the first row from left to right are: Amy Heide, Elizabeth Limongan, Marilyn Zook, Joshua Wong and Agnes Yuen. In the second row from left to right are Teena Ainslie, Michael Naughton, Kevin Chao, Brian Neyenhuis, Carolyn Ham, Gene Pavelenko and Craig Mendenhall. |
| Photo by Jerry Auker |
The Central East Portland Rotary, with 35 members, has awarded 139 scholarships worth $179,500 since the program began in 1990. Applications are accepted from students attending David Douglas, Parkrose and Reynolds high schools. From 1990 through 1996, the award was $1,000 per student. The award was increased to $1,500 in 1997. Realizing that it is difficult for students to accumulate funds for additional college years, Central East Rotary began assisting students throughout their college careers in 1994.
First-year students granted awards for the academic year 2005-06 are Kevin Chao, Amy Heide and Elizabeth Limongan from Parkrose and Adam Jongeward, Joshua Wong and Agnes Yuen from Reynolds.
Counting these freshman scholars and students continuing their education, the club awarded $21,000 in scholarships for the upcoming academic year.
Help a child learn to read
OASIS Education Center seeks volunteers age 50 and over to become OASIS Intergenerational Tutors to help young children in the mid-county schools. Training, supplies, and monthly meetings are provided. Work with a child once a week during the school year. You can make a difference in the life of a child and have a very rewarding volunteer opportunity.
Tutors work in their local schools using supplies and training provided by OASIS. Please call Colleen Shannon to learn more 503-833-3636.
Marching band takes first place
The Parkrose Middle School marching band strutted off with a first place award as a result of their performance in the Rose Festival Junior Parade.
The sixth, seventh and eighth grade students, led by band director Randy McCray, looked classy in their all black out fits.
Volunteer tutors paired with kids
Parkrose United Methodist Church hosted students from Sacramento Elementary School for two weeks of special reading. About 25 volunteers spent a couple of hours a day tutoring kids and visiting with them over lunch. Sacramento teachers guided students who would benefit from extra summer reading to the program. Another session is planned for September.
New off-leash hours in effect at Argay Park and Cherry Park
At off-leash sites all around town, new signs and boundary markers are appearing. These changes are part of the recommendations of the Citywide Off-Leash Advisory Committee and are intended to help make the city’s off-leash program work better for all park users.
Among those recommendations were site-specific hours that responded to seasonal hours of daylight and park use patterns. In many cases, significant expansion of off-leash hours was recommended. At the same time, off-leash use was confined to a designated area with boundaries clearly marked. Signs with rules, hours, and a site map were recommended for the off-leash area itself and directional signs were recommended elsewhere in the park as needed.
With expanded hours for off-leash use and designated, clearly marked off-leash areas, the city is hopeful that the off-leash program will better meet community needs.
With different hours at each park, it will be important for park users to know the specifics about the parks that they visit. Parks & Recreation field staff, park rangers, animal control officers and volunteer site stewards will distribute information cards for the unfenced off-leash areas. Cards have also been sent to neighborhood associations and can be downloaded off the Parks & Recreation website http://www.portlandparks.org/OffLeash/sites.htm and clicking on “Info” next to the park name.
Summer off-leash hours at Argay Park, Northeast 141st Avenue and Failing Street, are 5 to 10 a.m. and 6 p.m. to midnight on weekdays and 5 to 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. to midnight on weekends. The new hours at Cherry Park, Southeast 100th Avenue and Stephens Street, are 5 to 10 a.m. and 7 p.m. to midnight all days. Schedules will change on Sept. 2.
The city is looking for volunteer site stewards to assist with caring for and programming the off-leash areas. For more information about Portland’s off-leash parks, call 503-823-3647.
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