Here you go:
Hip-Hop For Hope:
Hurricane Katrina Benefit Concert
Sunday Sept. 25th, 2005 5PM
All Ages w/ Full Bar
The Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave
Portland, OR
FREE w/ Donations
Featuring
Jumbo of Lifesavas
Vursatyl of Lifesavas
Cool Nutz & Maniac Lok
Mike Crenshaw
Sirens Echo
MYG
Starchile
Ray Ray of G-Ism
Magesdiq
Soul Plasma
Turiya Autry
Mr. Meezilini
Clockwerk
Dynamix
DJ OG One
DJ Chill
and DJ Reckless
Spokenword by:
RoDeezy
Renee Mitchell
Drill Team:
B.M.I.T.
Hosted by Opio Sokoni (KBMS Radio), Starchile (95.5), DJ Audio (KBOO), D Rock (My City TV) Big Kid Bootz and Drea Drea (Jammin 95.5), and DJ Fresh (1450 KPSU).
Sponsors: The Portland Mercury, Adidas, Double Tee Productions, Phoenix Media, Misfit Records, Stepchild Records, 1480 KBMS, Jus Family Records, Northwestern Inc., and More TBA
All donations (monetary or in-kind) will go throught the following:
Rosena Hart-Soul of Our People Foundation
Powerhouse Temple Church
4725 N Williams Ave
Portland, OR 97217
503-287-8419
contact is John Hart
tax indentification number 93-0825101
Checks should be written to : Rosena Hart-Soul Of Our People Foundation.
and in the memo Hip-Hop 4 Hope
Story From The Oregonian Newspaper
Shelter shifts gears to tend to needs of Katrina victims 'trickling' to area
Monday, September 12, 2005
LAURA GUNDERSON
Eight people who watched their lives wiped away by Hurricane Katrina arrived in Portland around midnight Saturday, exhausted and dazed after a three-day Greyhound bus trip from Gulfport, Miss.
The group, supported by a North Portland church pastor who grew up in Gulfport, joined 22 other family groups and individuals who found their way to the Oregon Trail Chapter of the American Red Cross earlier Saturday. Counting others who arrived over the past week, the group brings the count of survivors in the Portland area to 234, according to the Red Cross.
Portland may not shelter the hundreds of hurricane evacuees expected through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but survivors are arriving. The trick now, say people in agencies trying to help them, is figuring out who's here and what they need.
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"They are coming: It's just they're trickling in instead of pouring," said Mary Miller, spokeswoman for the local Red Cross chapter. "That means that what we're doing here will probably last a long time."
Though cots in the Washington-Monroe High School shelter were dismantled Saturday when federal plans changed, the shelter remained abuzz Sunday. Instead of a place to sleep, the site serves as a clearinghouse for any hurricane victims who need help finding temporary housing, meals, clothing, medical attention and counseling.
Miller said the shelter will remain open to help survivors and train needed volunteers. After hours, the shelter's main gate will be manned so anyone who arrives in Portland in the wee hours will be linked with a caseworker, Miller said. She expects other nonprofit and private groups that want to help will return to the shelter today.
"We're kind of flying by the seat of our pants here," said Dale Emmanuel, spokeswoman for Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette. Her organization helped another three sisters who arrived in a rented van on Saturday with nine children. The agency is helping organize trips to the grocery store, the Red Cross free clothes closet and social service agencies, as well as collecting items survivors need in a city much colder -- and for a while, drier -- than the one they left.
"It's rough," she said, "but today I saw a couple people smiling and laughing."
On Sunday afternoon, the Gulfport survivors arrived at Washington-Monroe for a health physical and a lunch of hearty beef stew.
They joined a dozen hurricane survivors invited by the Powerhouse Temple Church of God In Christ, including three in wheelchairs who arrived by plane and three families who drove themselves. Powerhouse Temple Pastor Mary Overstreet said she cashed in two certificates of deposit and sold her Arizona vacation home for money to help people from her hometown become self-sufficient again.
Late Saturday, Overstreet's daughters Rosetta Forbes of Portland and Anna Forbes of Tennessee greeted families as they climbed out of the Greyhound bus. Rosetta Forbes welcomed a young mother and took the weary traveler's 5-month-old baby in her arms. The church members greeted two women and four young men, including one teenage boy who lost his mother in the hurricane.
Overstreet, whose church is on North Williams, said she will cover the cost of rent -- reduced by the landlord -- and utilities in an apartment complex on Southeast Stark Street. She expects to bring 20 or 30 more people who want to come to Oregon over the next two weeks and provide them the same help.
"They are broke, homeless, disturbed and need something to help them get back on their feet," said Overstreet, who is looking for a house-moving company to donate the work to move a house she owns onto her vacant lot so she can put up more families.
"I figure, why give them a cot when I could give them a key?" she said.
Laura Gunderson: 503-221-8378; [email protected]
Hip-Hop For Hope:
Hurricane Katrina Benefit Concert
Sunday Sept. 25th, 2005 5PM
All Ages w/ Full Bar
The Roseland Theater
8 NW 6th Ave
Portland, OR
FREE w/ Donations
Featuring
Jumbo of Lifesavas
Vursatyl of Lifesavas
Cool Nutz & Maniac Lok
Mike Crenshaw
Sirens Echo
MYG
Starchile
Ray Ray of G-Ism
Magesdiq
Soul Plasma
Turiya Autry
Mr. Meezilini
Clockwerk
Dynamix
DJ OG One
DJ Chill
and DJ Reckless
Spokenword by:
RoDeezy
Renee Mitchell
Drill Team:
B.M.I.T.
Hosted by Opio Sokoni (KBMS Radio), Starchile (95.5), DJ Audio (KBOO), D Rock (My City TV) Big Kid Bootz and Drea Drea (Jammin 95.5), and DJ Fresh (1450 KPSU).
Sponsors: The Portland Mercury, Adidas, Double Tee Productions, Phoenix Media, Misfit Records, Stepchild Records, 1480 KBMS, Jus Family Records, Northwestern Inc., and More TBA
All donations (monetary or in-kind) will go throught the following:
Rosena Hart-Soul of Our People Foundation
Powerhouse Temple Church
4725 N Williams Ave
Portland, OR 97217
503-287-8419
contact is John Hart
tax indentification number 93-0825101
Checks should be written to : Rosena Hart-Soul Of Our People Foundation.
and in the memo Hip-Hop 4 Hope
Story From The Oregonian Newspaper
Shelter shifts gears to tend to needs of Katrina victims 'trickling' to area
Monday, September 12, 2005
LAURA GUNDERSON
Eight people who watched their lives wiped away by Hurricane Katrina arrived in Portland around midnight Saturday, exhausted and dazed after a three-day Greyhound bus trip from Gulfport, Miss.
The group, supported by a North Portland church pastor who grew up in Gulfport, joined 22 other family groups and individuals who found their way to the Oregon Trail Chapter of the American Red Cross earlier Saturday. Counting others who arrived over the past week, the group brings the count of survivors in the Portland area to 234, according to the Red Cross.
Portland may not shelter the hundreds of hurricane evacuees expected through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, but survivors are arriving. The trick now, say people in agencies trying to help them, is figuring out who's here and what they need.
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"They are coming: It's just they're trickling in instead of pouring," said Mary Miller, spokeswoman for the local Red Cross chapter. "That means that what we're doing here will probably last a long time."
Though cots in the Washington-Monroe High School shelter were dismantled Saturday when federal plans changed, the shelter remained abuzz Sunday. Instead of a place to sleep, the site serves as a clearinghouse for any hurricane victims who need help finding temporary housing, meals, clothing, medical attention and counseling.
Miller said the shelter will remain open to help survivors and train needed volunteers. After hours, the shelter's main gate will be manned so anyone who arrives in Portland in the wee hours will be linked with a caseworker, Miller said. She expects other nonprofit and private groups that want to help will return to the shelter today.
"We're kind of flying by the seat of our pants here," said Dale Emmanuel, spokeswoman for Goodwill Industries of the Columbia Willamette. Her organization helped another three sisters who arrived in a rented van on Saturday with nine children. The agency is helping organize trips to the grocery store, the Red Cross free clothes closet and social service agencies, as well as collecting items survivors need in a city much colder -- and for a while, drier -- than the one they left.
"It's rough," she said, "but today I saw a couple people smiling and laughing."
On Sunday afternoon, the Gulfport survivors arrived at Washington-Monroe for a health physical and a lunch of hearty beef stew.
They joined a dozen hurricane survivors invited by the Powerhouse Temple Church of God In Christ, including three in wheelchairs who arrived by plane and three families who drove themselves. Powerhouse Temple Pastor Mary Overstreet said she cashed in two certificates of deposit and sold her Arizona vacation home for money to help people from her hometown become self-sufficient again.
Late Saturday, Overstreet's daughters Rosetta Forbes of Portland and Anna Forbes of Tennessee greeted families as they climbed out of the Greyhound bus. Rosetta Forbes welcomed a young mother and took the weary traveler's 5-month-old baby in her arms. The church members greeted two women and four young men, including one teenage boy who lost his mother in the hurricane.
Overstreet, whose church is on North Williams, said she will cover the cost of rent -- reduced by the landlord -- and utilities in an apartment complex on Southeast Stark Street. She expects to bring 20 or 30 more people who want to come to Oregon over the next two weeks and provide them the same help.
"They are broke, homeless, disturbed and need something to help them get back on their feet," said Overstreet, who is looking for a house-moving company to donate the work to move a house she owns onto her vacant lot so she can put up more families.
"I figure, why give them a cot when I could give them a key?" she said.
Laura Gunderson: 503-221-8378; [email protected]