Oakland Tribune from Oakland, California • 11

1 'I 1 Jf '-Vm QHie (Daldanb Sribune i i i v5v 1 -i 1 1 i Hearing It out Albany residents i discuss a proposal to bring a card club to their city A-13 i- Page A-11 Thursday July 7 1994 itaVuiv Critics: Women of color meeting has few minorities white In addition she said the organisers have done little to include women of color In the planning "This appears to be a very dear textbook case Of the co-option of women of color issues" she said in a letter to one of the conference organizers Sherri Matteo deputy director of the Institute for Research on Women and Gender at Stanford which is sponsoring the conference said she and the director are white but others on the staff are people of color The steering committee for the conference has about 70 percent minority members ahe said 1 have made an enormous effort to include women of color" Matteo said Hie conference which is fended by Region IX of the US Public Health Service will feature workshops on feminist organizing chronic diseases reproductive health teen pregnancy substance abuse domestic violence sexually transmitted diseases and spiritual healing 1 GaUa Turner an African-American community health advocate said she shares some of Martinez' concerns about the way the conference was being organized But in March ahe and several other women of color formed the Women of Color Health Coalition and got involved in planning the conference In response to their concerns conference organizers added the coalition as sponsor accepted new mem bers to the conference steering committee and incorptb rated some of their Ideaa into the program The revamped conference program includes a forum to encourage dialogue Tumer said wanted very much for it to be a participatory kind of conference not Juat people presenting papers' she said Zi Health qf Women qf Color: Exploding Myths Skating Data Healing Ourselves Setting rections" runs Friday and Saturday at Stanford University Registration for the forum is $95 per -person $50 far fulltime students Far more irtfdr-motion colt (415) 548-2424 STWfVMVIBI PALO ALTO Health care workers spiritual healers health policy experts and researchers of every hue will gather at Stanford University Friday and Saturday for a federally funded conference on the health of women of color But a few of the Bay leading experts on minority health wont be there Lux Martinez executive director of the Oakland-baaed National Latina Health Organisation said make that the lead organisers of a conference called the "Health of Women of are bM mott Oakland seeks $1 00 million for Invasion of base feared Homeless groups looking to Alameda RAY Soft Artist Richard List Wt bearing a trademark toilet seat and BN Duncan sit with one of List's sculptures at the Berkeley Marina vs Berkeley bureaucracy By Craig Stoats STAFF WRITER OAKLAND Oakland is in competition with nearly 80 cities in its bid to win $100 million in federal grants and tax tweaks for businesses through the Clinton administration's new "empowerment zone" initiative A spokesman for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) said Wednesday the agency 295 applications 77 from cities seeking the zone" designation and 218 seeking second-tier status The deadline for applying was June 30 Only six urban areas will be selected as empowerment zones with HUD Secretary Henry Cisneros expected to announce his choices later this year Oakland's hopes ride on a provision in the federal legislation that at least one of thexones be in a city of less than 500000 population HUD spokesman Jack Flynn said the agency is still compiling a list of which cities have applied In its application Oakland has proposed anetwoik of 60 community work crews to provide orvihe-job training for the unemployed The 10-member work crews modeled after the California Conservation Corps could repair buildings and homes provide escorts for se- Please see HUD A-12 permission to install a small statue of a whale on Telegraph Avenue So far so good But true to the plop art credo they didn't wait for city permission They started installing their 3-foot-high creation in the triangular open space at Dwight Way and Telegraph Avenue last week But Steve Belcher the assistant to acting City Manager Weldon Rucker Mew the whistle The Berkeley police stopped the installation and tore the whale apart a public space and we have a process when artists want to do Belcher said is a free spirit and what he wants to do may be all right But an arts commission and an arts coordinator and he needs to work with them" this gets into a thing I have about list replied "Whose land is it? The American Indians had a different view and so do He smiled you know we're going to ask the city for permission as long as it doesnM take a 35-page application" Belcher said For those who don't want to wait for the wheels of bureaucracy to turzu List previously plopped a whalework at the Berkeley TWhriha near "The statue at the foot of University Avenue a happy whale It gives you a sense of List said "It started out to be a homeless woman with a shopping cart but a whale just seemed more appropriate" STAFF WRITER BERKELEY In this city where the difference between art and toilet seats can be a tricky call artist-Richard List has happily plopped himself into a dispute with the city list calls himself a artist" because of his habit of plopping weird objects down on city streets Mostly they are inscriptions on small pieces of driftwood plopped inconspicuously in city parks His most visible installation is a series of toilets painted vivid fluorescent colors and plopped in a vacant lot at Haste Street and Telegraph Avenue Now List and a friend BN Duncan co-creator of the Berkeley Homeless Calendar want it By KtMaan Khfnwood STAFF WRRER ALAMEDA Officials here are worried that Alameda Naval Air Station will become a ground" for the homeless and thwart development of some of the most valuable property at the base Seventeen homeless groups from around Alameda County are converging on the base set to close in 1997 setting their sights on him- dreds of barracks and homes office space and even recreation centers like a gym and a pool Under the McKinney Homeless Assistance Act of 1987 homeless providers have first crack at surplus base property Homeless groups will start sending in formal letters of Interest next month to the Depart- ment of Health and Human Services Homeless shelters AIDS hospices work training centers counseling centers for runaway youths and even organic garden cooperatives have been contemplated for the bdfe by a regional committee' that's now trying to pull together -the variety of interest from home- less groups But both theVminent timing of the McKinney Act process along with the extensive plans from homeless groups have made city offi-- dab here wary in recent weeks They're now considering asking the health department to delay granting the homeless any entitlement to -base property until after the community has adopted a reuse plan for NAS As it stands now however the base could "become a dumping ground for (homeless) into the city 'of Alameda and we're Juat not going to stand for that" raid City Council Lii Arnerlch at a recent Jack London station grant on track Sister friend of Iddnapping suspect say drugs involved Coliseum plan fails to pass state review projects to the same internal cost-review process that' highway projects receive existing Amtrak Station at 16th and Wood was severely damaged by -the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake Hie new station at Embarcadero and Alice Street is 1 to open this December and will feature a large' parking lot and a footbridge connecting to Jack London Square's shops and restaurants It will be served by Am-trak's Capitol and San Joaquin intercity lines as well as the Coast Starlight train from Los Angeles to Seattle and the Zephyr which will travel from San Jose to-Chi-cago Total cost of the project is estimated at $145 million ln state and federal funds plus $3 million in property donated by the Pent of Oaldand The total includes $9 million for the station itself and $55 million tor track improvements which include $2 million in repairs to damaged tracks at the old station Commissioner Joe Dulfel of (kinds complained that the state is spending too much on stations and not enough on basic service feel gold plating on stations is inappropriate from her home The charges which include kidnapping forced oral copulation and assault with a deadly weapon could send Cochran to state prison tor 100 years or more if convicted on all counts Lodi Police Chief Larry Hansen said At least nine of the counts relate to crimes allegedly committed against Katie Romanek Seven charges relate to alleged crimes against Katie's 16-year-old sister Two charges relate to alleged crimes against another 12-year-old Hansen said At leasL three charges relate Please see Suspect A-12 By David Boitano SAN JOAQUIN BUREAU LODI A transient accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 12-year-old Lodi girl may have been on drugs or otherwise affected the night of the crime his friends and family said Wednesday "I think he did it but he didn't know what he was doing" said Christina Singleton old Stephen Reece Cochran's -sister Amid tight security' Cochran was arraigned in Lodi Court Wednesday on 21 felony counts related to the July 2 abduction at knife point of Katie Romanek By Sam Dsfeon SACRAMENTO BUREAU SACRAMENTO Oakland's new Jack London Square Amtrak station moved' closer to completion Wednesday when the California Transportation Commission approved the final $18 million needed for the project I Funding for the Jack London Square station comes at the expense of the proposed Oaldand Coliseum sta-' tion which has-been mired in cost overruns and dis- putes between the California Department of Transportation and the Southern Pacific railroad The commission which had previously approved "I2M million for the Coliseum station voted unanimously to transfer almost all of thaifrunding to the Jack London Square project Caltrans officials were critical of the problems with the Coliseum station and promised to subject future rail A-12 Pteasdzee fcYou IMeed jo Know Public gets Its chance to examine CLAS exam tion The public will soon be able to see copies Getting Join a fossil dig DANVILLE Families will search for real fossil fragments tlus summer in "Family Fossil Hunt" a program at the UC Berkeley -Museum of Art Science Culture Participants will work in the museum under the supervision of instructors to do the final important inspection of fossil-rich material from the Blackhawk Ranch Fossil Quarry AUfragments'of bonf and mfc crofauna will be collected to aid UC paleon- tdogbts ongoing Btudjy of the site Seven two-hour sessions will be held from 10 am to noon on Saturday and on July -23 Aug 6 and Aug 20 and from 1 to 3 pm on July 16 and 30 and Aug 13 Please call (510) 736-2280 ext 236 to reregister Your Body The Arthritis Foundation and Summit Medical Center sponsor a free monthly support group for people with arthritis The next meeting win be from 1 to 3 pm Saturday at Summit Health Education Center 400 Hawthorne Ave Oak- land The group meets far Summit North Pavilion (formerty Merritt -Hospital) Cafeteria Annexes A CaDl (800)464-6240 A 900-space parking garage has opened on the west side of the Hayward BART ptation The -entrance to the four-level girage from Grand Avenue The lot a short walk from the station Ihe 'temporary parking lot at and 1 Atherton streets has been dosed Hie garage increases thfc number of parking spaces at the station to 1871- of the controversial California Learning As- aessment System exama at local viewing aites' i Portions of the 1994 CLAS exama the language aria testa for the fourth eighth and 10th grades will be available for viewing for one month starting July 1 8 Visitors to the sites will have an opportu- nlty to read all cCthe literature selections the questions that were included on the reading aecttons the grouproric activities and the writing tasks ofthe English-language arts test A viewing site coordinator may make -copies of the reading questions the group work and the writing tasks upon request eraiy selections are protected by the author's copyright and are not available for dupUca- -v 1 AlSo on display wiU be sample student sponSes to each lest item along with accompanying teacher-scOrw wwurwntariea The exams administered to about 1 million California students thb spring drew a fire-' storm of controversy when parents and con- servative groups charged that the tests were intrusive snd probed students' value systems The exams will be available for viewing at: Alameda County Office of Education 313 Winton Ave Hayward Call Coordinator Sharon Oldham at 670-4236 Contra Carta County Office of Educar tion LRDC No 24 77 Santa Barbara Road in Pleasant HiiL Call Kkanthy Goriaa 942-3370.