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TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13, 2020
THE OBSERVER — 7A
Protesters knock down statues of presidents in Portland
Associated Press
PORTLAND— Pro-
testers on Sunday night,
Oct. 11, in Portland over-
turned statues of former
Presidents Theodore Roos-
evelt and Abraham Lincoln
in a declaration of “rage”
toward Columbus Day.
Protest organizers
dubbed the event “Indig-
enous Peoples Day of
Rage,” in response to
Monday’s federal holiday
named after 15th-century
Italian explorer Christo-
pher Columbus, a polar-
izing fi gure who Native
American advocates have
said spurred centuries of
genocide against indig-
enous populations in the
Americas.
The group threw chains
around Roosevelt’s statue,
offi cially titled “Theodore
Roosevelt, Rough Rider.”
They threw red paint on the
monument and began using
a blowtorch on the statue’s
base, news outlets reported.
The crowd pulled down
the statue just before 9 p.m.
The group later turned their
attention toward Lincoln’s
statue, pulling it down
about eight minutes later.
Historians have said
Natural resource leadership
class launches in November
The Observer
SALEM — REAL
Oregon (Resource Educa-
tion & Ag Leadership) will
launch its fourth leadership
cohort in November.
Following the successful
graduation of its fi rst three
classes, the organization in
a press release announced
the selection of 23 natural
resource professionals from
throughout the state for
Class 4.
Greg Addington, the
organization’s program
director, indicated a diverse
mix of individuals applied.
Jake Gibbs, of Lone
Rock Resources in Rose-
burg and board chairman
for REAL Oregon, said
the prior three successful
years demonstrate the value
of REAL Oregon to nat-
ural resource professionals,
especially now.
“Our Class 4 partici-
pants represent the breadth
and scope of our natural
resources across our state,”
Gibbs said. “The level of
interest and support from
participants to program
backers, for continuing and
expanding this program
during these unprecedented
times, affi rms the desire to
provide an opportunity to
connect and learn with our
peers.”
Class 4 includes nine
people directly involved
in production agriculture,
fi ve from agribusinesses or
other natural resource orga-
nizations, three involved
in timber production and
forestry, three from the
commodity transportation
sector, two university fac-
ulty members and one non-
profi t foundation employee.
Class 4 will start in
November and end with
a graduation ceremony
in March. Recruitment of
Class 5 begins this winter.
Members of Class 4
from the Eastern/High
Desert region include Erick
Vera, of Walker Farms/
Gold Dust Potatoes, in Mer-
rill; Mark Milne, of WyEast
Timber, in Wamic; Chad
Mueller, of Oregon State
University/Eastern Oregon
University, in Cove; Ted
Netter, of Lower Bridge
Hay and Cattle, in Terre-
bonne; Jacob Putney, of
OSU Extension, in Baker
City; Randi Svaty, of North-
west Farm Credit Services,
in Ontario; and Quinton
Swank Jr., of Goose Lake
Railway, in Lakeview.
For sponsorship oppor-
tunities or more informa-
tion, contact Addington
through the website at
www.realoregon.net and
follow REAL Oregon on
Facebook.
Sean Meagher/The Oregonian via AP
A group of protesters toppled statues of former presidents
Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln late Sunday,
Oct. 11, 2020, in Portland’s South Park Block.
Roosevelt expressed hos-
tility toward Native Amer-
icans, once saying: “I don’t
go so far as to think that the
only good Indians are dead
Indians, but I believe nine
out of every 10 are ...”
Protesters spray-painted
“Dakota 38” on the base
of Lincoln’s statue, refer-
encing the 38 Dakota men
Lincoln approved to have
hanged after the men were
involved in a violent con-
fl ict with white settlers in
Minnesota.
After toppling the
statues, the crowd began
smashing windows at the
Oregon Historical Society
and later moved onto the
Portland State University
Campus.
Police later declared the
event a riot and ordered
the group to disperse.
Police said anyone involved
in “criminal behavior,
including vandalism” was
subject to arrest. It’s unclear
if any arrests were made.
The monuments are the
latest statues to come down
in a wave of removed mon-
uments and protests sparked
by the May 25 death of
George Floyd in Minneap-
olis police custody.
OREGON NEWS IN BRIEF
Associated Press
ALOHA — A
3-year-old western Oregon
boy has died following a
shooting, police reported
Saturday, Oct. 10.
The Washington
County Sheriff’s Offi ce
in a statement said the
family of James Kenneth
Lindquester called for
help Friday evening after
reporting the child found a
handgun in a bedroom end
table and shot himself in
the head.
Emergency responders
arrived and took over life-
saving efforts, but the child
was pronounced dead at
an area hospital just before
midnight on Friday.
Police are investigating.
its investigation of Top of
the Bowl in July, KEZI-TV
reported.
During an initial inspec-
tion, an inspector observed
a bartender not wearing
a face mask. In August,
the bar stayed open past
10 p.m. and some staff
members were not wearing
face masks, according to
the commission.
An inspector in Sep-
tember reported similar
fi ndings, the commission
said.
Rick Marin, who man-
ages the bar, told KEZI
that mistakes had been
made, but he promised
to do better. In the mean-
time, he said, the club will
remain open without alco-
holic beverages.
Marin said an appeal
had been fi led and he’s
working to get the license
reinstated.
Bar with topless
dancing loses
liquor license over
COVID-19
Invasive insect
found at Oregon
nursery could pose
threat
DRAIN — The Oregon
Liquor Control Commis-
sion has suspended the
liquor license of a bar with
topless dancing in a small
town north of Roseburg for
violating COVID-19 social
distancing and face cov-
ering requirements.
The Oregon Liquor
Control Commission began
CORVALLIS — A
dead spotted lanternfl y,
a destructive and inva-
sive insect species, has
been found at an Oregon
nursery, state agricultural
offi cials said.
Police: Oregon
boy dies following
shooting incident
The dead lanternfl y
was found in a shipment
sent from Pennsylvania
to Corvallis, the Oregon
Department of Agriculture
reported Thursday, Oct. 8.
The nursery reported the
fi nding to state offi cials.
“We are grateful to the
nursery for alerting us
about their discovery,” the
agency’s Helmuth Rogg
said in a press release.
“The spotted lanternfl y
could become a serious
pest here in the Pacifi c
Northwest and we want to
prevent it from coming to
Oregon in the fi rst place.”
The species poses a
serious threat to tree fruit
and grape production, and
has become a “serious
pest” for grapevines in
South Korea. Grapes
and fruit trees are both
important crops in Oregon;
grapes used for wine have
been valued more than
$238 million in 2019, ODA
said.
Spotted lanternfl ies eat
more than 70 plant spe-
cies including apples, hops,
chestnuts and cherries. The
spotted lanternfl y was fi rst
found in Pennsylvania in
2014 and it is believed to
have arrived on shipments
from China. Since then
it has been detected in 11
eastern states.
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