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Sun. Frank Roberts, who died Sun
day. Iiegan his teaching i-areer in Van
port in l‘HO. at what was then called
Vanport College. The college Inter
became Portland State University
"The buildings are laid out in much
the same way ns they were in Vanport,"
Zupan said. "Children are protected
from traffic and neighbors i.nn look out
for each other. Amazon is still a safe
nnd active community, and the layout
i ontributes to that
/, it pan said Amazon tenants Brecon
fidnnt they will have the support of the
city government when the petition
comes lx*fore tin* Citv CtMini.il, and pre
serving the site fits well with c urrent
city planning (colic ic*s
/.iipan said an appl tuition filet! Mon
day includes a c.ost-lienefit analysis that
considers the costs of repairing the
buildings whir h University studies say
will lx* unsafe fccr occupant v after lOOfi
Nancy Forrest of tin* Amazon Com
munity Tenants Council said that whan
tile site* was opened by the Universi
ty, it was meant to lx* used for only five*
or 10 years
"These buildings have lasted 50 years
and they're still going strong, and I lias e
(ogive the University a lot of credit for
that," Forrest said.
Although Amazon has been threat
ened with demolition several times over
tile years. Forrest said the fatality is still
in good enough shape to c ontiniie its
use for several more years, and that the
sense of c ominunity is still strong there
Ml iM*N Vi I -*wtkl
Claudio and Sebastian Figueroa play
ball outside ol their Amazon homes.
“Even though wo re threatened with
demolition ont o again, this is still a
thriving and at live < ommunity," For
rest said "We've been dealt a serious
blow by the evacuation of several of our
tenants, but we're still going strong."
Amazon tenants are also asking for
help from the community to spruce up
the facility The Amazon community
clean-up work party will begin at 11
a m Saturday I'he work party will
include several community loaders and
elte ted officials, including Lane Coun
ty Commissioner Jerry Rust. Forrest
said.
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viewing one of the alleged victims. The*
officer pursued them and tilled for back
up
Police chased the alleged suspec ts
northbound on Patterson Street, across
Broadway and through the AgriPac c an
non property Perkins was arrested at the
south end of the Kerrs Street Bridge The
other two alleged suspects wore appre
hended a short time later at the hike path
beneath the north end of tile Kerry Street
Bridge.
At tin> linn? of the arrest, Shelley and
Perkins fun I already fawn suspended from
llu? Washington football and basketball
teams, rt sjiei tively. after an incident (h t
t in Seattle According |,J poin t? reports.
IVrkins and Shellev were in a car that
was blot king traffic on I huversitv Wav in
Seattle When polit e saw the car. the dri
ver sped nwav, running two lights and
barely avoiding hitting several cars
Eventually the driver hit the brakes and
spun the t ar flit) degrees around Perkins
and Shelley fled on foot but were arrest
ed and charged with ohstrut ling a police
officer Shellev was also c barged with an
alcohol infraction and allowing an unau
thorized person to drive the t ar involved
in the ill! ident, which was registered to
his parents.
In a pre-trial diversion two weeks ago,
the t harges against Shelley were to have
been dropped on the condition that he
not commit a criminal offense within the
next On days
Shelley was also accused of assault
March H when he apparently broke the
jaw of -i Washington student in a pit k-up
basketball game That case is currentl>
postponed
Shelley, a sophomore split end. was the
Huskies leading receiver at the time of
his suspension with 17 cat* hos for 270
yards and one tout hdown. Barnes, a f>
foot-fi. 240-pound defensive end. was a
sophomore for the Huskies Perkins tv.is .1
junior col Urge transfer from North Dako
ta State College of Scient e
Washington head football coach Jim
lairnhright said Monday that Shelley was
off the team permanently Washington
head basketball roach Bob Bender said
Perkins was off the team as well.
lambright said Mondnv .it his weekly
news conference that he was "surprised
and disappointed” when he heard the
news Sunday night. i.ambright met with
Shelley 10 days ago and the two drew up
a contract that stated what Shelley had to
do to lw- reinstated to the team.
One of the stipulations was that he
pro< eed through time without any phys
ical or v erbal i onlrontations." l.ambright
said. "This totally shatters that rule It is
apparent Jason and Prentiss weren't good
for each other and 1 also talked to Jason
about that It was very important lu
change Jus surroundings and who he
hangs out with.”
Shelley's mother. Karen, was reached
Monday by The Daily, the University of
Washington student newspaper When
asked what her reaction to the arrest was.
she said. "You could imagine that
because I am so worried, and I love Jason
so much and more if it was possible.
"I will never bwlievo that.” Karen Shel
ley said about the accusation of sex
abuse "He has always looked out for his
four sisters I couldn't believe he would
cio anything like this I know Jason never
got into any trouble before he came to
Washington"
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