April 13. 1994
“Serving the c o m m u n ity th ro u g h c u ltu ra l diversity."
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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.
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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.”
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