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The Clackamas Print
February 5, 2003
Students rally for Coates
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The Criminal Justice Club is
sponsoring a fundraiser for severely
wounded
Clackamas
County
Sergeant Damon Coates, 42, this
evening at 9 p.m. at Gladstone Lanes
in Milwaukie.
Students and members of the
community will bowl to the tune of
three dollars per person, per game.
Owner of Gladstone Lanes, Mike
Winklepleck, will donate fifty per
cent of all proceeds to assist the
Coates family. Also featured willLie
concession items for purchase, as
well as raffle tickets for one dollar
each, and prizes donated by local
area businesses.
This show of community support
has been rallied to benefit Coates,
who was shot point-blank in the face
Jan. 9 in the line of the duty. Coates
was shot as he and three other
deputies tried to remove Nick
Teixeria, 15, from his home for a
psychiatric evaluation.
According to updates from the
Oregonian, Coates is making a
remarkable recovery. He was moved
from the intensive to the intermedi
ate care unit of Legacy Emanuel
Hospital and Health Center in
Portland, where he is expected to
stay for the next two weeks.
These facts at the forefront of
Poets celebrate in
Stafford's memory
Feature Editor
William Stafford aficionados
met last Thursday night in the
Gregory Forum to celebrate the
Portland poet’s work.
The celebration was put on by
the Friends of William Stafford,
and was one of 29 in the Northwest
this year. At each birthday party
featured poets read a Stafford poem
and share an original poem in a
similar vein.
After the featured poets read,
audience members are invited to
read Stafford poems.
In fact,
Friends of William Stafford sug
gest bringing one of his poems-«s a
birthday gift.
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their
members of the
Crimi
Justice Club chose to
develop a fundraiser in order to show
community support for a man willing
to put his life on the line.
“Since we’re all going into law
enforcement fields, this event relates
to our majors because this is some
thing that we’re going to be experi
encing when we’re out doing our
jobs,” said Jami Bywater, Criminal
Justice Club president.
“We just wanted to do what we
could to help,” Bywater said. l\vo
other club members, Tim Couture and
Lisa Domme, helped contribute by
posting fliers, making ribbons, acquir
ing raffle prizes, and securing the bowl
ing alley, which turned out to be one of
the easier tasks in organizing the event.
‘Tim’s uncle actually owns the
bowling alley and [Tim] was the one
who brought it up in a meeting, that we
could use it if we wanted to,”
By water mentioned.
Winklepleck concurred, “It was
my nephew who started the whole
thing, he approached me about it.”
Winklepeck is not the only
Clackamas County business owner
participating in fundraising for the
Coates cause; Figaro’s of Oregon
City recently raised six thousand dol
lars in donations.
“We’re hoping to achieve more
than that, but I couldn’t give an exact
amount now. We’re waiting until
Thursday to tally up all the totals,”
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William Stafford, former
Portland resident, died in
1993. Portlanders cele
brate his memory every
January. A party was held
on campus last Thursday.
According to Kate Gray, lit.
instructor and host of the party,
there were more volunteers to read
among this year’s fifty-odd atten
dants than there were last year.
Reading can be intimidating,
though, especially in front of
Friends of William Stafford board
members and professional poets.
“I was scared,” admitted
• Melinda Crouchley, a student who
read part of former instructor
Derek Sheffield’s interview with
the Stafford family. “I’d never
read in front of big important peo
ple before.”
Although Stafford is known for
his conscientious objection during
World War II, his pacifism wasn’t
the only theme apparent at the
party.
“You always hear... the celebra
tion of nature and quiet, I’d say,”
Gray said. “The deep appreciation
for kindness and simplicity... car
ried over into the [original] work
people shared.”
Although Stafford died in 1993,
the birtnday parties are becoming
more popular. This year the first
party held outside the Northwest
took place in Knoxville, Tennesee.
“Stafford is the quintessential
Oregon poet,” Gray said.
She
explained that despite his attach
ment to his native Kansas, his atti
tudes shape and reflect those of
Oregonians. “In terms of capturing
the spirit of this landscape, no one
has done that in any way, shape or
form before or since.”
Membership to Friends of
William Stafford is $15 for stu
dents per year. To learn more visit
www.williamstafford.org.
By water said.
Attendance is estimated at 300
plus community members, at least
half the number of people who were
present at a service held Jan. 26 at
Lake Bible Church in Lake Oswego,
dedicated to Coates. Among his fam
ily members, Bywater, Couture, and
Domme were also, present to distrib
ute fliers.
At the service, Bywater talked
with Lou Beres, Coates father-in-
law, who may attend the fundraiser.
She also spoke with some police
officers. She believes there will be a
few officers at the fundraiser.
The club members mailed invita
tions to fifty different police stations
and courthouses requesting their
attendance and support. A Coates
family friend has also contacted
Bywater and requested she clip news
articles and save mementos to be
placed in a scrapbook for the wound
ed sergeant.
The general outlook appears to be
a positive one.
“I hope they have a big turn-out.
It’s a really good thing they’re
doing,” Winklepleck said.
In lieu of attendance, students
knd community members should be
aware that a relief fund has been
established at the Clackamas Federal
Credit Unions in Oregon City and
Milwaukie.
For updates on Coates’ condition,
access the websites for Legacy
INTERNET PHOTO
Clackamas County Sgt.
Damon Coates was shot in
the line of duty Jan. 9. A
fundraiser in his honor will
take place Wednesday.
Health System, KATU-TV, KOIN-
TV, KGW-TV or NewsRadio KXL.
Updates can also be found by calling-
(503) 655-8468. Well-wishes can be
sent to the family by e-mailing
news@koin.com. KOIN will make
sure the family receives notes of sup
port or send diem to the Clackamas
County Sheriff’s department.
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