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Portland To Receive New
Critical Care Helicopter
Portland Teen To Represent Oregon At
RespecTeen National Youth Program
Doug G a ilh e rl2 ,o f O regon, w ill
be among 51 stu d en ts-o n e from each
slate and the District o f C olum bia—
who will lobby Congress on behalf of
the nation[ ‘s youth at the sixth annual
RespecTeen National Youth Forum,
April 23-28, 1994, in W ashington
D.C. Doug is the son of Donna and
Ronald Gaither.
G aither, a sev e n th -g ra d e r in
Linda K uhlm ann’s class at Trinity
Lutheran School, was chosen from
more than 8,000 students nationw ide
who entered letters they wrote to
m e m b e rs o f C o n g r e s s in th e
RespecTeen “ Speak for Y o u rse lf’
contest. The stu d en ts’ letters ex
pressed their views on public policy
issues. G aither’s letter to U.S. Repre
sentative Ron W yden discussed im
proving the quality o f education.
The “ Speak for Y o u rse lf’ cur
riculum was distributed to social stud
ies teachers nationw ide last spring.
The program encourages students to
exam ine issues that affect their lives
and teaches them how they can play a
role in govem m entdecision-m aking.
The curriculum and N ational Youth
Forum are sponsored by Lutheran
Brotherhood, a fraternal benefit society.
During the Forum , the students
will meet with their respective U.S.
representatives, senators, and/or con
gressional aides to discuss their views
on public policy issues. And, they will
m eet with key U.S. representatives
and adm inistration decision-m akers
to discuss pending legislation on is
sues that concern them. In addition,
students will participate in a com m u
nity service w orkshop and service
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Burglary
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Larceny
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MV Theft
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Arson
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Drugs
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Doug Gaither; 1994
RespecTeen National Youth
Forum Oregon Reresentative
project. They will also hear Melissa
Poe, the 14-year-old founder o f Kids
For
A C le a n
E n v ir o n m e n t
(K idsFA CE) and environm ental o r
ganization forkids, speak about youth
activism and how young people can
make an im pact on decision-m akers.
“How to be an active participant
in the political process is something
every U.S. citizen should learn about.
T he 51 young people attending the
N ational Youth Forum are learning
how they can make a difference, set
ting an exam ple for others,” said Steve
P r e u s , d ir e c to r o f L u th e ra n
Brotherhood ’ s RespectTeen program .
The N ational Youth Forum is
part o f a national program sponsored
by L u th eran B ro th erh o o d called
RespecTeen. This program is aimed
at helping parents, young people, con
gregations, schools and com m unities
work together toward positive youth
development.
Scholastics and athletics keep
Doug as busy as he can be. In school,
Doug enjoys math class and creative
writing. He likes writing action sto
ries in his creative w riting class and
also likes reading action and adven
ture novels. O n the basketball court,
D o u g ’s ath leticism really sh in es
through. He was the only seventh-
grader on the eight-grade “A ” Team
at school this season and he now
holds the team ’s three-point record
with 44 three-point baskets. He sur
passed the old record by 16 baskets!
W hen not out practicing this
three-point shot, Doug keeps active
by playing baseball.
Doug has a brother named Ben
w ho’s 15-years-old and a five-year-
old sister, Alyssa. On Sundays, Doug
volunteer as an usher at this church
and helps take care o f the youngest
church m em bers in the nursery.
Improving the quality o f educa
tion in the inner-city schools is an
im portant issue to Doug. He proposes
a program to bring successful people,
or m entors, into the inner-city school
to show the students they can achieve
their goals and be successful. He also
proposes shelters for troubled youths
where they could feel wanted and a
part of a loving, caring family.
Lutheran Brotherhood, based in
M inneapolis, a fraternal benefit soci
ety with one m illion members nation
wide. It offers a broad range o f finan
c ia l p r o d u c ts a n d s e r v ic e s to
L u th eran s. T h ro u g h its fraternal
(charitable and benevolent) resources
it aids its m em bers and their com m u
nities.
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Action Taken Due To
The Community Police
Agreement Signed On
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A new em ergency helicopter,
which reduces by two hours the trans
port time for some patients, will ar
rive in Portland next week.
The new Bell 230 aircraft flies us
ing both instrument flight rules (IFR)
and visual flight rules (VFR). Life Flight
pilots plan and fly the aircraft’s course
using instruments, computers and radar.
Use of IFR allows Life Flight to fly in
adverse weather conditions, such as fog,
heavy rain and some snow conditions.
T henew aircrafttravelsatacruise
speed o f 155 mph, com pared to the
top cruise speed o f 135 mph for Life
Flight’s BK117 and BO 105,” says
David Long, Life Flight Network con
sortium adm inistrator. “F or som e
patients, that will m ake a big differ
ence,” notes Paula Derr, consortium
liaison from Sister o f Providence
Health System. “This new aircraft
will help us reach critically ill or
injured patients and transport them to
specialized m edical centers faster.
For exam ple, transporting a pa
tient from Heppner to Portland via a
helicopter rather than the current fixed
wing aircraft, will save as m uch as
two hours o f travel time, thus we can
save more lives.” T he consortium
anticipates flying 1,000 to 1,200 he
licopter transports and 150 airplane
transports a year within O regon and
southwest W ashington.
“The new helicopter will be fully
equipped as a flying critical care and
coronary care unit, and it will accom
modate two patients the sam e as Life
F light’s current helicopters,” says
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The new Bell 230 helicopter
Trish Tiffany, chief flight nurse. “A
major difference is that patients will
be loaded through a side door, rather
than through a “clam shell” door at
the back o f the helicopter. The load
ing will take place in full view o f the
pilot and away from the tail rotor,
which is considered the m ost danger
ous part o f the helicopter.”
With the integration ofPortland’s
Life Flight and A ircare flight pro
grams, last November, the three Port
land-based health system s are re
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Democratic gubernatorial can
didate John K itzhaber received a
unanim ous endorsem ent from the
Oregon B lack Leadership Conference.
‘“Twenty six years ago, one man
who worked his entire life to break
down barriers o f race and discrim ¡na
tio n w as v io le n tly s ile n c e d ” ,
Kitzhaber said. “ It is therefore a par
ticular honor to have been endorsed to
day by O regon’s Black Leadership
Conference.”
“The Black Lightship C onfer
ence was happy to unanimously en-
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said George Richardson o f Northwest fears about O reg o n ’s future any
Natural Gas, the chair o f the B L C ’s longer.”
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endorsem ent process. “John’s leader
ence
is a broad-based com m unity o r
ship on issues o f justice and discrim i
ganization
created to identify and
nation made him the obvious choice
support
national
state and local can
for our endorsem ent.”
didates
for
public
office who are sen
“Those who profit by dividing us
sitive
to
issues
that
have an impact on
have tried to convince us that there
the
African
American
community.
are two O reg o n -u rb an and rural, old
and young, black and white. But there
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is only one O regon, and we all depend
upon each other to build a future, “
K itzhaber said. “W e refuse to fall
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sponding jointly to a nationw ide need
to reduce duplication o f services and
to collaborate on quality o f care. Life
flight N etw ork’s two helicopters will
be rotated among the cam puses o f the
three health systems. The program
also includes a medically-equipped
twin-engine turbo-prop fixed wing
aircraft based at Hillsboro Airport,
provided by Premier Jets. Life Flight
Network serves a population base o f 2
million people within 27 counties and
in two states.
Requirements:
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________ or drivers license: high
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