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a new college wood-bat team that will be
based at Lents Park in southeast Portland,
officials announced Monday. The Great
West League team is for college players to
gain experience in a professional atmosphere
similar to the minor leagues, to prepare them
for potential professional careers in baseball.
Teen Charged in Shooting
Gresham Police arrested Ze'andre Davis-
Gray, a 15-year-old male Monday for a gang-
related shooting near 175th and Stark Sun-
day night that left Umberto Velasco-Arango,
23, with serious injuries.
Sewage Floods Apartment
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Residents of a downtown housing com-
plex were dealing with a stinky mess Mon-
day after thousands of gallons of raw
sewage flooded the basement at the
Whitmarsh Building at Southwest 11th
and Park. Portland Environmental Ser-
vices took responsibility for a sewer line
becoming clogged and backing up into the
basement of the building.
Shooting Called Accidental
Baseball Coming to Lents
Man Sets Self on Fire
Baseball is returning to the City of Roses with
Authorities say a southeast Portland man
Police say a Portland man appeared to have
accidently shot his friend while parked in a
vehicle near North Lombard and Portsmouth
around 12:45 a.m. Sunday. Beketel Elbelau
Sleeper, 23, died. The friend, Isaiah Horatio
Hayes, 21, was arraigned Monday for man-
slaughter and being a felon in possession of
a firearm.
died Sunday from injuries caused after he set
himself on fire in a suicide attempt. Fire
crews extinguished the fire Saturday while
medical personnel treated him and trans-
ported him to a Portland hospital, where he
died later the next day.
Woman Steals Own Dog
A Grants Pass woman is accused of breaking
into the county’s animal shelter and stealing
her own dog. Police said surveillance video
from Feb. 18 shows Jennifer Dompier, 41
cutting several padlocks at the shelter.
Mayor Seeks 2nd Term
On Friday Portland Mayor Charlie Hales
announced that he is officially running for a
second term in 2016. Hales was elected to the
office in 2013. He previously served on the
Portland City Council.
Airport Thieves Arrested
A family of luggage thieves that has been
plaguing the Portland Airport for more
than four years was sentenced Friday.
Brian Craig Mottaz, Nancy Marie Mottaz,
Joshua Philip Ryan, and Amanda Lee
Grogan, were sentenced to 18 months
bench probation and banned from the Port-
land Airport.
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Mayor Charlie Hales is placing
new limits on Last Thursday cel-
ebrations on Northeast Alberta
Street.
“We have three goals for Last
Thursday,” Mayor Hales said. “To
celebrate the arts on Northeast
Alberta Street, to be a good neigh-
bor, and to reduce the impact on
taxpayers throughout the city. To
accomplish these three goals, Last
Thursday probably has to get
smaller, temporarily, in order to
get bigger and better in the long
run.”
The street fair, now in its 18th
season, began as an art walk and
has mushroomed into a monthly
event that reaches crowds of up
to 20,000 people during the peak
of the season.
In recent years, neighbors
complained that the celebrations
ran all night and resulted in loud
music and lawlessness into the
early morning hours. The cost to
city taxpayers also grew to an
estimated $75,000 to $80,000 per
year, officials said.
Hales is recommending reduc-
ing the city’s full involvement to
the last Thursdays of June, July
and August, eliminating May and
September. This should reduce
the taxpayer cost by as much as
40 percent.
The decision means Albert
Street will remain open to traffic
in May and September, curbing
the number of vendors and visi-
tors able to take up space on the
streets. The street closure has
been an essential part of the cel-
ebration since 2008.
Vendors also are being asked to
register in order to set up in the
right-of-way. And the city is seek-
ing sponsorships and donations to
help cover the cost for taxpayers.
“It’s a fairness issue,” Hales
said. “Many neighborhoods hold
annual celebrations, which are
popular and terrific. But those
neighborhoods are expected to
pick up the tab. Taxpayers
throughout the city have picked
up the tab for Last Thursday.
That’s not a sustainable practice,
and it’s not fair.”
Hales initiated other changes
for Last Thursday last year, which
included ending the celebrations
at 9 p.m. and reducing the num-
ber of blocks closed to traffic.
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