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Private personal information about more than 2,000 people may have been accessed after someone broke into the Multnomah County health department's headquarters last month, the county announced Friday, March 17.
Portlandâs Black Catholic service couple
Bill and Gladys McCoy used their power for societyâs good Gladys McCoy greets Archbishop William Levada at a 1991 Mass honoring the work of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. (Michael Wilhelm/Catholic Sentinel) 7/8/2021 4:53 PM
select Bill McCoy entered the Oregon Legislature in 1972 and would serve until his death in 1996. (Sentinel archives) Gladys McCoy serves as a lector at Holy Cross Church in North Portland in 1992, a year before her death. (Sentinel archives) • •
In 1996, when Bill and Gladys McCoy had died after fruitful careers in public service, a former Sentinel reporter wrote a reflection.
“It is hard to think of one McCoy without the other,” wrote Geri Ethen, who’d known the couple since her childhood. “These path-breakers set goals for themselves in the early civil rights era to go where no African-American had been in Oregon.”
Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women has aimed for consolidated action from Catholic women Delegates attend the 1970 Archdiocesan Council of Catholic Women convention on the Oregon Coast. (Sentinel archives) 5/4/2021 9:07 AM
select On April 14, 1921, the Sentinel reported on the first local womenâs groups to affiliate themselves with new National Council of Catholic Women.
After decades of advocacy and protest, American women had only just secured the vote nationwide. A few years earlier, while the doughboys were fighting overseas, mothers, wives and daughters had stepped into influential roles — including in the Catholic Church.
By April 1921, three Northwest Catholic women’s societies had affiliated themselves with the new National Council of Catholic Women. The women’s auxiliary of Portland’s Ancient Order of Hibernians; the Confraternity of Christian Mothers in Cottonwood, Idaho; and the Women’s Order of Catholic Foresters of Seattle all wanted to be part of what would become an umbrella organization for groups across the country. Together, Catholic women reasoned, they could do greater good on a national scale.
Multnomah County battles workplace outbreaks, complaints
Employees complain of notification failures and shortcuts. Management says they're doing their best.
At the headquarters of the Multnomah County Department of Health, nine workers at the county's HIV clinic tested positive for COVID-19, forcing numerous others to quarantine and the clinic to shutter its doors for a four-day stretch in mid-December.
At the county's Donald E. Long Detention Center for juveniles, nine workers and three youth tested positive since the end of November, and jails operated by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office have seen outbreaks of their own, with 13 inmates and 30 employees infected.
Multnomah County battles workplace outbreaks, complaints
Employees complain of notification failures and shortcuts. Management says they're doing their best.
At the headquarters of the Multnomah County Department of Health, nine workers at the county's HIV clinic tested positive for COVID-19, forcing numerous others to quarantine and the clinic to shutter its doors for a four-day stretch in mid-December.
At the county's Donald E. Long Detention Center for juveniles, nine workers and three youth tested positive since the end of November, and jails operated by the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office have seen outbreaks of their own, with 13 inmates and 30 employees infected.