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ML 2001
Borders welcomes
Tom Spanbauer,
Joanna Rose,
Carolyn Altman
& Stevan Allred
Reading from their
novels-in-progress
Wednesday,
February 28 at 7 pm
First Congregational
United Church of Christ
BORDERS
1126 S W P A R K A V E N U E
228-7219
708 SW Third Avenue
503-220-5911
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Guest Choir, performing
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February 25, 2001
10:25 a.m . Sunday Service
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An open, affirming church where everyone
is welcome — including straight, lesbian,
gay, bisexual and transgender people.
Across the Park from the Art Museum.
W ashington L egislators
F ight for E quality
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everal bills recently were intro
duced in the W ashington Legisla
ture that would affect gay residents.
Sen. Pat Thibaudeau and Rep. Ed
Murray, both liberal D em ocrats,
offered a proposal Feb. 2 that would
authorize Vermont-style civil unions
guaranteeing the same benefits and
protections as marriage. T he A ssociat
ed Press reports the bill doesn’t stand a
chance in the House, where Republi
cans hold a co-majority.
“T his bill is about treating all o f our
citizens with dignity,” Thibaudeau said.
“T he bill does nothing to diminish
marriage but grants same-sex couples
equal protection under the law.”
Murray added in a statement: “Sam e-sex
couples have the same responsibilities as all
other couples. It is time that same-sex cou
ples be accorded the same rights and the
same level of respect.”
Murray also is involved in the Safe
Schools/Bullying Bill, which would define
harassment and intim idation in an inclu
sive way to cover sexual o rien tation .
Dem ocratic Sen. Rosemary M cAuliffe and
Republican Rep. Ida Ballasiotes are the
Sen. Pat Thibaudeau
other sponsors.
T h e S e n ate also is considering legisla
tion that would reverse last year’s decision to
in Salem before m oving to M innesota, was
extend health care benefits to the dom estic
found dead Sept. 28. He just had been elected as
partners o f state em ployees, including sam e-
secretary o f the Lambda Society, a gay and les
sex partners. Sponsors o f the bill cite cost
bian campus group.
concerns, while opponents co n ten d it’s im
Gallaudet student Joseph Mafhas Mesa Jr. of
p ortan t for W ash ington to take a stan d
Barrigada, Guam, was arraigned Feb. 14- Executive
against discrim ination.
Assistant Police C hief Terrance W. Gainer said
the 20-year-old told investigators he killed the two
fellow freshmen during separate robbery attempts.
T h e news o f M esa’s arrest surprised Kathleen
allaudet niversity
C om ils, Plunkett’s mother. “ I have no comment
tudent rrested
at this time; I’m going to get more information.”
ust four months after the murder o f a former
T hom as M inch, 18, o f Greenland, N .H ., was
Portlander, another G allaudet University
charged Oct. 3 with second-degree murder but
student was found dead in the same dormitory released O ct. 4 because o f insufficient evidence.
Feb. 3. A n arrest was made in the case Feb. 13,
University Provost Jan e Fernandes said he was
The Washington Post reports.
kicked off the campus after the arrest but is free
T he death of Benjamin Varner, a 19-year-old
to return now that he has been cleared.
from San Antonio, shocked the campus, which
barely was beginning to recover from the first
slaying. G allaudet, located in W ashington,
oot atrol
D .C ., is the nation’s only university for the deaf
olds ew raining
and hard of hearing.
Eric Franklin Plunkett, who grew up in Port
he Rainbow Com m unity Foot Patrol will
land and attended Oregon School for the D eaf
train volunteers 2 p.m. Feb. 17 at M etro
politan C om m un ity C h urch o f
Portland, 2400 N .E . Broadway.
T h e new patrol is seeking a m ini
mum o f 12 volunteers to help keep
the community safe by their pres
ence on Portland’s streets.
Although the ultimate goal of
the foot patrol is to cover all of
downtown Portland, it will begin
this spring around the bar district,
on Stark Street at 12th Avenue,
and O ld Tow n/Chinatown. Pa
trollers, who will be easily identified
by their bright jackets, will carry
radios so they can alert police if they
come across problems.
C o -c h a ir D an a R osen lund
said she is working on an applica
tion for nonprofit status, design
ing a W eb page and setting up an
e-m ail account to improve com
m unication. Volunteers must be
18 years old and agree to a crim i
nal background check.
For more information call
503-774-9085.
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