April 13. 1994 “Serving the c o m m u n ity th ro u g h c u ltu ra l diversity." V oinnin XXIV. N u m b er 15 ®lre lattò Cf X?25i E & M Sentry Market Scene Of Vicious Attack Student Assaulted 14 YEAR OLD BOY WAS TREATED AND RELEASED FROM EMMANUEL HOS PITAL AFTER BEING BEATEN, A 14 YEAR OLD GIRL IS IN POLICE CUSTODY CHARGED WITH CONSPI RACY, RIOT, AND ASSAULT IN THE 3RD DEGREE. HER MOTHER, 30 YEAR OLD JOURANNA LOGAN, IS CHARGED WITH THE SAME VIOLATIONS. THE TWO COULD FACE OTHER CHARGES. SCHOOL POLICE ARE SEARCHING FOR TWO MORE PEOPLE REGARDING THE INCIDENT. O fficials say the situation began early Thursday m orning before classes started. W ords w ere exchanged and a fight took place betw een a boy and a girl. There are varied reports about who pushed who and how far the fight escalated. O ther Benson High school students reportedly broke it up. T he girl and a friend left the school and m ade their way to her home. The tw o laterretum ed to Benson with three adults. They did not check in at the office. The five went to the classroom where the boy was located. O ne or two of the adults attacked him. (The police inves tigation continues to question w itnesses.) The teacher in the classroom tried to intervene. She was hit by one o f the women. A nother Benson staff m em ber arrived and the five people left the school (two girls, tw o w om en, and one man). The school nurse briefly treated the boy and the teacher. The youngster left school and went to Emanual H ospital.. He was treated and released. The girl involved in the original inci dent returned to the school woth her fa ther. She was questioned. T he questions continued through the evening. Eventually she and her mom were charged with three violations. The search continues for the other two people in volved. Robert Malone co-owner of E&M Sentry Market Malone said, “My eyes started to water and bum and tears started to run down my face. I turned to the next checker and asked if he was ATTACK THAT SENT SEVERAL PEOPLE alright and he said, ‘ My eyes are burning and full TO THE HOSPITAL AND MANY MORE HAD of water too. ’ Then Malone and the other checker TO RECEIVE EMERGENCY TREATMENT. observed the man going through isles of the store THE MARQUEE IN THE WINDOW NOTED ■ spraying and then leaving the store and entering a red car and heading west in the direction of - “TODAY’S SPECIAL”. Swan Island. On Wednesday Almost everyone in April 13, 1994, a the store suffered the ef white male, about 30 We're here to serve the fects of the spraying, but or 35 years old en community and outsiders some were effected more tered the E & M Sen than others. Everyone’s try Market and began come in and tried to destroy eyes began to sting and going through the it. It was really an act of bum. Some of their eyes store isles spraying a were watering so badly substance from a can terrorism that resembled “Pep stated Malone that they needed assis tance just getting out of per Mace”. Robert _____ _______________ the store. Malone co-owner of When The Portland the m arket stated Observer arrived on the scene there were ten there were 17 or 18 customers and eight employ emergency vehicles at the store, and some of the ees in die store at the time of the incident. & M SENTRY MARKET LOCATED r - 1 AT 909 N. KILLINGSWORTH ST. J i L a / WAS THE SCENE OF A VICIOUS it n Geneva Sturnes customers were outside being administered oxy gen, to help with their breathing. Some were still coughing and choking. Some were even sneezing and having a difficult time with their breathing. The chemical had evidently affected their respira tory systems. Most were given blankets; one young customer who really needing one because she was shaking so badly that the blanket didn’t seem to help. Geneva Sturnes, one of the older customers, who was using a oxygen mask stated to us that she had a bad heart. One other customer had just moved to Portland from Louisiana, and was in the store with her small baby. She had to be placed in one of the ambulances. Unfortunately one of the customers had lung surgery and was still in the recovery process. Thee only apparent provocation for the inci dent was disruption of business, which lasted for two hours. Malone stated,”W e’re here to serve the community and outsiders come in and tried to destroy it. It was really an act of terrorism.” Mayor Vera Katz Outlines Agenda For Portland's Downtown i f A Y I N G THAT “THE KEY TO X ADDRESSING OUR CHALLENGES U Jr IS FOUND IN PUBLIC/PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS,” MAYOR VERA KATZ TODAY IN AN ADDRESS TO THE A SSO C IA TIO N FOR PORTLAND PROGRESS (A PP) OFFERED AN AMBITIOUS AGENDA FOR DOWNTOWN PORTLAND THAT INCLUDES NEW INITIATIVES TO ATTRACT BUSINESS AND HOUSING. The M ayor offered a holistic vision for dow ntow n, striving for “a com plete urban ecosystem , with hom es and schools, shild care and grocery stores, transportation and entertainm ent.” Katz unveiled three major bublic/private partership initiatives to m eet this challenge. First, the M ayor unveiled the Livable City Housing Initiative, a publis/privatc ven ture to increase the am ount o f housing avail able in the C ity o f Portland. Katz said in the next 60 days she will be calling together leaders from the fields o f finance, developm ent, design, real estate and governm ent, along with neighborhood lead ers and housing activists to finalize the initiative's concept. The initeative's goall is to help Portland manage the projected grow th during the next 20 years. “This is the heart o f our efforts to plan for our grow th, strengthen our sense o f com m u nity, and prevent urban sprawl from destroy ing the precious natural wonders o f this re gion,” Katz said. Second, the M ayor announced she will nam casubcom m ittceto the M ayor's Business Roundtable toestablish an International Coun cil for Portland. The subcommittee will use Seattle's highly successful version as a model for the Council. The C ouncil, the M ayor explained, “will con nect Portland to the w orld, from business to education and research to cultural exchanges.” T hird, the M ayor m oved to bring addi tional rerail attractions to dow ntow n, an nouncing plans to “call together dow ntow n's key retail experts to develop a proactive cam paign to add exciting new retail attractions to dow ntow n.” The M ayor began her address to the general m em bership o f A PP by declaring, “D owntown is a symbol o f our city.” She stated that the w ell-bing o f dow n town is tightly linked to the health of the intire city. “ W e cannot have healthy neighborhoods w ithout a vibrant central city, just as we risk the decline o f dow ntow n if Portland's neigh borhoods are not thriving.” Katz addressed critics o f further action dow ntow n, “ Som e day that we should not bother anym ore with the central city . We have done enough there, they say.” The M ayor responded, “T o this I say, resolutely , no.” Katz declared that her definition of dow n town includes O ld Town and the R iver Dis trict, extends south to the South W aterfront/ North M acadam area, and crosses the W il lamette River to include the Lloyd Districts and the Central Eastside. Her action agenda addresses each o f these districts. She reported on the status o f downtown. “ M easured by jobs or by income, our dow n town is healthy - at this moment. But there is a lot o f work still to do.” Editorial Food Stamp Benefits Decrease We know how to pour concrete and build buildings. The challenge before us, downtown and in every neighborhood, is to combine infrastructure and people so that we build communities... Vera Katz, Mayor ood stamp recipients in Oregon are seeing a slight drop in their benefits beginning this month, because of adjustments made in the way food stamp allotments are calculated. 99 Katz recounted some o f the work her adm inistration has done to lay the ground work for new agenda. She spoke o f the new custom er service ethic in the Bureaus o f Planning and B uild ings. She form ed the M ayor's B usiness Roundtable, a group o f local business leaders that developed the city's new economic devel opm ent stratagy. Katz then spoke of specific goals for downtown that her agenda addresses: • Jo b s: a significant share of the new jobs coming to the region have to locate downtown; • H ousing: a grow ing proportion o f the region's residents must make dow ntow n home; • Societal Ills: downtown must provide ser vices for the social problem s that w hile present throughout society, cluster dow n town; and, • C u ltu ra l an d Civic Life: the qualities o f dow ntow n that make it the center o f our region’s cultural life, as well as the place where citizens come face-to-face with one another to realize their com m on civic iden tity, m ust be preserved. Travel Each April, a change in benefit com pulations is made because o f lower utility bills that come with w arm er w eather. D ur ing w inter m onths, additional food stamps arc provided because recipients m ust pay higher heating costs. In the spring, that additional benefit is discontinued. The exact am ount o f the decrease will vary from family to family, because food stamp grants depend on a num ber o f fac tors, including incom e, expenses and fam ily size. The change will only affect recipi ents who use a “standard utility allow ance” rather than actual utility costs in com putations. In O regon, m ore than 126,000 fam i lies - m any o f them low -incom e working families - receive food stamps. The aver age am ount of food stamps per family is just over $160 per month. The program is adm inistered by the A dult and Fam ily Services D ivision o f the O regon D epart ment o f Human Resources. The cost o f the food stam ps is paid by federal funds, with the costs o f adm inister ing the program shared by the state and federal governm ents. The M ayor then described a variety of projects and initiatives to m eet these goals for each o f the districts o f downtown: the tradi tional core. Old Tow n/C hinatow n, South W aterfront/N orth M acadam , the Central Eastside, and the Lloyd District. A d m ittin g sh e w as p ro p o s in g an am biitous agenda, the M ayor review ed with the audience the new fiscal constraints now facing the city. G iven these new realities, the M ayor said, ‘T o make things happen, we have to find a new way of doing business.” “The key to addressing our challenges is found in publie/private partnerships.” The M ayor indicated that the new ly re newed Portland Developm ent Com m ission would play a lead role facilitating the form a tion o f these parterships. “W e need an inde pendent com m ission, above the day-to-day fray o f local polotics, to bring together out partners w ho would m ake things happen.” Katz concluded by pledging that she would be a “cheerleader for those who act in the interests of the people o f Portland.” “By working together, we will propel downtown into the next decades of prosperity.” S p o rts E n te rta in m e n t Civil Rights Journal In Reno, Play An Unforgettable Round Of Golf Midway Manufacturing Company Launches An All-New Rendition... 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