February 2013
NEWS
The Southwest Portland Post • 3
Police arrest burglary suspect in Maplewood neighborhood
POLICE BLOTTER
ment responded to assist in a search for
the suspect.
Officers, including the K-9, searched
the neighborhood and located the sus-
pect in a nearby backyard, also recover-
ing the victim’s stolen property.
The suspect, identified as 26-year-old
Beau Daniel Rappaport, was charged
with one count of Burglary in the First
Degree. Detectives from the Burglary
Task Force learned that Rappaport lived
a few houses away from the victim’s
residence.
Rappaport was booked into the
Multnomah County Jail and was ar-
raigned Jan. 25.
Police investigate a stabbing in
West Portland Park neighborhood
Beau Daniel Rappaport
Thursday Jan. 24, at 11:45 a.m., Port-
land Police officers assigned to Central
Precinct responded to the report of
a burglary in progress at a residence
in the 6800 block of Southwest 63rd
Avenue.
As officers were enroute, additional
information was broadcast that the
homeowner returned home to find the
suspect inside the house. The suspect
then ran out of the house with some of
the homeowner’s property and disap-
peared into the neighborhood.
Arriving officers established a neigh-
borhood perimeter and a Police K-9
Unit from the Beaverton Police Depart-
Thursday, Jan. 24, 2013, at 7:35 p.m.,
Portland Police officers assigned to
Central Precinct responded to the report
of a stabbing at Southwest 49th Avenue
and Dickinson Street.
Officers and medical personnel ar-
rived and contacted the 18-year-old
male victim who was suffering from
non-life-threatening stab wounds. He
was transported to a Portland hospital
for treatment.
Officers learned that the victim got
into a verbal altercation with some men,
one of whom stabbed him.
The suspects are described as His-
panic males and they left the scene in a
blue minivan.
UPDATE: Portland Police Bureau
Gang Enforcement Team detectives
arrested two juveniles on January 25
in connection with the stabbing of an
18-year-old man in Southwest Portland
on January 24.
18-year-old Juan Antonio Bermundez
was treated for non-life-threatening
stab wounds at a Portland hospital
Gang Enforcement Team detectives
responded to conduct an investigation
and determined that three juvenile
males pulled up to the victim and his
friend at the corner of Southwest 49th
Avenue and Dickinson Street and began
a verbal confrontation.
Based on initial information, it ap-
pears the stabbing was gang-related.
Two of the suspects got out of a blue
minivan and physically assaulted the
victim. One of the suspects used a
knife to stab the victim multiple times.
The suspects then fled the area in the
minivan.
Investigators were able to locate the
vehicle nearby and arrest the two pri-
mary aggressors without incident.
A 14-year-old male was charged with
Attempted Murder and Assault in the
First Degree and a 15-year-old male
was charged with Assault in the Third
Degree. The third person in the van was
a 13-year-old male. He was not charged
and was released to his parents.
The 14 and 15-year-old suspects were
lodged at the Donald E. Long Juvenile
Detention Home.
Community members are encour-
aged to visit the City of Portland’s
Office of Neighborhood Involvement
Crime Prevention page at www.port-
landonline.com/oni/cp for crime pre-
vention tips and resources.
New institutional zoning
worries college and
university neighbors
PORTLAND
COMPREHENSIVE PLAN
By Lee Perlman
The Southwest Portland Post
As part of the pending Portland
Comprehensive Plan, the City is con-
sidering changing the zoning of the
campuses of several major hospitals and
colleges, including Oregon Health Sci-
ences University and Lewis and Clark
College. Some community activists are
concerned about this.
As planner John Cole of the Bureau
of Planning and Sustainability told The
Post, most such campuses are zoned for
residential use. The institutions there are
allowed by a conditional use permit,
which strictly governs their activities.
Most such institutions create master
plans governing their growth and de-
velopment plans for the next 10 years.
Any deviation or addition to such plans
requires an amendment that includes a
public process.
Cole said that the City is consider-
ing changing the process for 19 such
campuses across the city, all of which
comprise at least 10 acres and employ
at least 100 people.
Among other things, there is a pro-
posal to change the underlying zoning
of the land on such campuses to an
employment zone where at least some
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Retirement ideas from the Ultimate Cheapskate
By Joyce De Monnin,
AARP Oregon Outreach Director
We
fre­
quent ly get
asked, how
much do
you need
to retire?
(Find out
at http://bit.
ly/TWNyf8) There are all sorts
of things people suggest – and
it usually depends on getting
started early. But what if you
are 50+ and you are behind in
your retirement savings – like
a good portion of boomers.
What then?
Well you are not alone. Half
of people over 55 have saved
less than $50,000. Another
survey shows almost half of
all Americans aren’t contrib­
uting to a retirement plan,
such as an IRA or 401(k).
The National Retirement Risk
Survey reported in late 2012
that more than half of today’s
households will not have
enough retirement income to
maintain their pre­retirement
standard of living, even if
they work to age 65.
So what are some ideas to
help you get from where
you are, to where you want
to be? One great source, is
AARP columnist, Jeff Yeager,
the self­proclaimed Ultimate
Cheapskate (my dad might
have argued with him, but
that is a different story!)
Here are some tips from Jeff
to help you save for retire­
ment:
• Get the facts! Find out where
you are in terms of planning
for retirement. It can be a
great motivator to pack a
lunch for work. Use the
free AARP calculator to get
started: http://www.aarp.org/
work/retirement-planning/
retirement_calculator/
• Join the Portland craze and
commute by bike – it’s es­
timated to save $4,000 a
year in transportation costs
– and all of that savings
should go right into your
IRA or 401(K).
• Repurpose (recycling!) ev­
eryday household things –
from new uses from fabric
softener sheets (freshen up
the vacuum cleaner bag) to
finding new uses for old
nylons, such as putting
soap slivers or samples into
panty hose and using them
in the shower.
• Reduce the number of times
you eat out each week, and
make coffee at home. Every
penny counts. This is one
of the hardest ones for me,
but when I took the AARP
retirement planning calcu­
lator, I gave up lattes and
put an additional $1,000 a
year into my 401(k).
• If you’re having trouble
saving money, consider
working a little longer. In
Oregon about 7% of the
workforce is 65 or older.
You can keep saving and
postpone taking Social Se­
curity until full retirement
age, which is 66 or older.
To get more ideas on saving
money and retirement, check
out Yeager’s book, “How to
Retire the Cheapskate Way.”
And I do mean check it out –
at the library.