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WORLD IN BRIEF
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2 students shot inside
LA school, student
suspect arrested
LOS ANGELES — Two students
were shot inside a Los Angeles middle
school classroom this morning and police
arrested a female student suspect, author-
ities said.
Gunfire erupted shortly before 9 a.m.
at Salvador B. Castro Middle School just
west of the city’s downtown, police said.
The conditions of the victims were not
immediately known, said Sgt. Edward
Bernal of the Los Angeles Unified School
District Police Department.
TV footage showed a girl with dark
hair and wearing a sweatshirt being led
out of the school in handcuffs.
Bernal says a gun was recovered.
“With the suspect in custody the sit-
uation is under control,” Bernal told
KTLA-TV.
Man who drove van
into Muslims in London
convicted of murder
LONDON — A man who steeped him-
self in far-right, anti-Muslim ideas before
driving a van into a crowd of worship-
pers near a north London mosque was
convicted today of murder and attempted
murder.
A jury at London’s Woolwich Crown
Court deliberated for just an hour before
finding 48-year-old Darren Osborne guilty
of the June 2017 attack in the city’s Fins-
bury Park neighborhood.
A 51-year-old man, Makram Ali, was
killed and 15 people were injured when
a rented van plowed into worshippers
gathering after evening prayers during
Ramadan.
Prosecutors said Osborne was moti-
vated by extreme Islamophobia and saw
Muslims as extremists or rapists in pedo-
phile gangs.
Top career diplomat
to step down in blow
to State Department
WASHINGTON — The top career
U.S. diplomat announced today he will
step down, dealing a blow to the State
Department as the Trump administra-
tion confronts numerous international
challenges.
The State Department’s third-rank-
ing official, Undersecretary of State for
Political Affairs Tom Shannon, informed
agency staffers that he will retire as soon
as a successor for his Senate-confirmed
post is chosen and ready to assume the job.
Shannon is a near 35-year veteran of
the U.S. Foreign Service and was the most
senior department official to remain in his
job after the transition from the Obama
to the Trump administrations. He served
under six presidents of both political par-
ties since 1984 and was widely seen as a
symbol of diplomatic continuity and pro-
fessionalism during the tumultuous transi-
tion last year.
In an interview, Shannon, who holds
the rank of “career ambassador” — the
highest in the foreign service — said he
was retiring for personal and not political
reasons.
US says Syria may be
making new types of
chemical weapons
WASHINGTON — The Trump admin-
istration says Syrian President Bashar
Assad’s government may be develop-
ing new, more sophisticated chemical
weapons.
U.S. officials say the characteristics of
recent alleged attacks suggest Syria is pro-
ducing chemical weapons despite a 2013
deal to destroy its program. The officials
say it’s “highly likely” that Syria kept a
stockpile of weapons.
The officials also say Syria may be
making new kinds of weapons, either to
improve their military capability or to
escape international accountability.
The officials also say the Islamic State
group keeps using chemical weapons such
as sulfur mustard and chlorine. The offi-
cials say the militants are using shells or
improvised explosive devices to deliver
the chemicals.
The officials weren’t authorized to
discuss the assessment on the record
and briefed reporters on condition of
anonymity.
Closings: Downtown association is aware of closures
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Abeco Office Systems and
Columbia Chocolates, owned
by Royal Latham, has been sell-
ing off its inventory since the
beginning of the year as he and
wife, Teri, prepare to retire and
transfer the copy sales and ser-
vice business to their son, Pat-
rick. Latham bought Abeco in
1993 from the Stramiellos, who
he said had operated the Astoria
Business Supply Co. since the
late 1940s inside 1132 Commer-
cial St., now the site of future a
minimall under construction
and called Astor Court. Latham
relocated the business to 1254
Commercial St., a former sport-
ing goods store.
Neither the office retail,
nor a chocolate business later
acquired to accentuate greet-
ing cards, were ever a main part
of the business, Latham said.
Abeco services about 1,500
copiers in the Portland metro
area, east to Pendleton and south
to Newport, he said.
With competition from
the internet and larger retail-
ers, Latham sees an inexorable
march toward a more tourist-
and service-oriented economy
downtown.
“I think that’s what the city
has to be geared for,” he said. “I
don’t know how else to do it. I
think they’re going to be chal-
lenged with trying to define
themselves.”
Lynn Buckmaster opened
Adagio at 1174 Commercial St.
in 2001 after operating a simi-
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‘Overall, (the downtown
association) still believes
that downtown Astoria is a
great place to do business
and we’re looking forward
to welcoming new outfits
to our district.’
Sarah Lu Heath
Astoria Downtown Historic District Association’s executive director
lar store in Cannon Beach called
COLLiDE since the 1990s.
After 30 years of running busi-
nesses, Buckmaster said, she is
ready to transition into advocacy
on behalf of the world’s oceans.
“My goal is to raise aware-
ness enough so people will
change their behaviors,” she
said, adding that while the task
is monumental, “I’m sure to fail
if I don’t try.”
Buckmaster prided Ada-
gio on carrying only products
made through fair and sustain-
able practices and hopes Asto-
ria can develop into a beacon for
sustainable business, with more
light manufacturing and locally
focused businesses like maker-
space Astoria Maker Industries.
“I think the hospitality ser-
vices, retail, hotels, restaurants,
that type of thing … they’re
not a living wage for their
employees, not truly,” she said.
“They’re a dead end, basically.
We need more green jobs, and I
think more creative enterprises
— not just stuff.”
Sue Allen Clarke opened
In the Boudoir, a home decor
store, five years ago in the Allen
Building on the corner of 10th
and Commercial streets. A few
years ago they were joined by
clothing boutique The Fox &
Fawn, started by Alicia Phifer
and later taken over by Ayla
DeCoraggio. Both stores are
closing next month.
“I’m putting a lot of stuff
online, freeing up time for per-
sonal stuff,” Clarke said.
Both Clarke and DeCorag-
gio said it was a challenge get-
ting enough foot traffic farther
from the cluster of shops near
the Liberty Theatre.
Fox & Fawn probably filled
a niche left by the closure of J.C.
Penney, DeCoraggio said, but
“there seems to be a trend where
people are doing less actual buy-
ing overall of consumables in
general.”
Lee’s Attic, an antique store
at 1312 Commercial St., also
has closing signs posted. The
owner could not immediately be
reached for comment.
The downtown association is
aware of the recent closures.
“However, we’re excited to
have seen several new shops
come into downtown and find
success like Good to Go and
Naked Lemon,” Sarah Lu
Heath, the association’s exec-
utive director, said of the new
sandwich shop and bakery on
Commercial Street, along with
Nourish Juice Bar in the Astor
Hotel Building.
Heath also pointed to the res-
toration of two long-blighted
Flavel family Commercial
Street properties by new own-
ers, with new businesses com-
ing in, as a sign that downtown
is still on a healthy track.
“Overall, (the downtown
association) still believes that
downtown Astoria is a great
place to do business and we’re
looking forward to welcoming
new outfits to our district,” she
said.
The downtown associa-
tion recently issued a busi-
ness cluster analysis calling for
more local-oriented businesses,
including a general clothing
store and midbudget grocery
outlet.
“Later on this year we will
be looking at some business
recruiting,” Heath said, adding
they will also look at how to
expand the offerings of existing
businesses, such as groceries at
the Astoria Downtown Market
convenience store.
Audit: Found
persistent shortage
of foster homes
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“substandard facilities” and
using “improper … force
against foster children.” On
top of potential harm to chil-
dren, the audit calculated $39
million in state legal settle-
ments since 2006 over the
state’s poor protection of
neglected and abused kids.
According to the audit,
the problems start at the top.
It found management at the
Office of Child Welfare to
be “disorganized, inconsis-
tent” and a “high risk for
children.” The audit pointed
out the office’s tendency to
constantly restructure and
rebrand, rather than make
substantive changes needed
to improve services.
The audit dug into four ini-
tiatives that never delivered
promised improvements:
• The 2006 “Oregon
Safety Model” was supposed
to instill “a best-practice
method of managing child
safety throughout the life
of a case,” according to the
audit. But staff didn’t receive
consistent training and man-
agement resisted. “Some
openly refused the change,”
the audit said. “The resis-
tance was tolerated (by upper
management.)”
• An initiative called
“Differential Response” was
meant to enable caseworkers
to allow more children to stay
with their biological parents.
But “management turnover”
and the agency’s decentral-
ized implementation across
13 different communities
“stalled” the effort, the audit
said. Even its abandonment
was botched: Auditors found
when that was announced,
central office staff respon-
sible for the rollout were
“caught by surprise.”
• A years-in-the-making
change to the OR-Kids com-
puter system was supposed
to improve data collection
of complaints and other data
critical to managing child
welfare cases. Many staff
said using OR-Kids took
more time and was no more
reliable than the previous
data system. Auditors heard
from staff who “report lost
data, inconsistent and inac-
curate search results, and
inaccurate information dis-
played.” OR-Kids was prob-
lematic across the state, but
around Portland, problems
were so acute that the district
office contracted with the
Multnomah Education Ser-
vice District for a separate
database. Implementation of
the MESD system proved lit-
tle better, even after spending
$20 million on it. Elsewhere
in the state, auditors said
rather than use the software,
caseworkers posted sticky
notes to their cubicle walls
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to track appointments with
families.
• The audit also looked at
an unofficial effort to com-
plete more child abuse inves-
tigations in 2016, which the
audit agreed did produce “big
improvements,” as reported
to the Legislature. But audi-
tors concluded the improve-
ments were short-lived,
about three months, and
were based on questionable
management decisions, such
as shifting caseworkers away
from other work to focus on
investigations and attempt-
ing to motivate employees
by threatening to deny them
scheduled vacations.
The audit also questioned
the agency’s lack of a central
screening center for reports
of child abuse and neglect
— an initiative the audit said
could help coordinate efforts
statewide. The audit counted
15 different hotlines through-
out Oregon, serving 16 dis-
trict offices throughout the
state. Centralizing the com-
plaints is a recommenda-
tion dating back to previous
reviews of Child Welfare —
as far back as 2006. But the
audit found it’s only now
being seriously considered.
But managing attempts at
improvement were far from
the only problems the audit
uncovered.
In terms of day-to-day
operations at the Office of
Child Welfare, the audit
found a persistent shortage
of foster homes due to lack of
support and failure to recruit
new foster parents.
The audit stated starkly
that the state has no plan to
recruit new foster families
and no data on how many fos-
ter parents are needed. And
once people become foster
parents, the audit found that
rather than support, the par-
ents are frequently asked to
take on work that should fall
to caseworkers and may be
called upon to accept “emer-
gency” foster children who
suddenly need homes.
“DHS does not know
the true capacity in cur-
rent foster homes, what
homes have openings, and
what behavioral and special
needs the family is trained
and equipped to accept,” the
audit said.
The audit found reim-
bursements for foster fami-
lies are falling short.
At the same time, the
audit noted forces putting
stress on the broader system
of support for the state’s most
vulnerable children: shrink-
ing capacity at both Depart-
ment of Human Services
in its residential treatment
program and in the Oregon
Health Authority’s Children’s
Mental Health Services
program.
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