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Page A2 AUGUST 12, 1998 (Eljc JJortUttò <!)Ws»mwr Cooper Named Manager ot Sales Operations for Xerox Auditions are now being accepted for the 90 voice Bravo! Vancouver Chorale-a community’ based choral organization with professional quality'. Bravo! Vancouver is Southwest Washington s only professional concert series presenting concerts of classical, jazz, popular, and sacred music. Chorale highlights for the 1998-99 season include Handel's "Messiah, " the Poulenc "Gloria ” and Bach s "St. Matthew Passion. ” All voice parts open, for audition information and dates, please contact Dr. Maria Manzo, Music Director, at 360-696-4407 or email mariamstjoevan.org by Monday, August 24. August 23 is second annual Honor the Elders concert David Cooley and the Hards wi ng Band will k ickoffthe second Honor the Elders Concert Sunday, August 23, from 6-8 pm at W aterworks Park in V ancouver (north end o f Clark College parking lot). The public is invited to listen to an evening full o f 4 0 ’s, 5 0 ’s and swing richment Program, Northwest N atu ral Gas Company, Ron’s A utom o tive Specialties, The Holland R es ta u ra n t, Hi S chool P h arm acy , H am pton Special C are C enter, V ancouver Mall Retirem ent C om munity, M ultiservices Inc. and N a tures M arketplace. jazz. Bring the family, grandpar ents, grandchildren, friends, neigh bors, picnic blankets and lawn chairs. Food concessions will be available. This free concert is presented by the City o f V ancouver’s Parks and Recreation Department Senior En- Oregon Coast focus o f student photo exhibit The Oregon Coast is the focus o f a student photography exhibit at the Water Resources Education Center, 4500 SE Columbia Way. Vancouver/ Portland area junior high school stu dents participating in a Saturday Academy photography class at the Center will exhibit black and white images they captured at the Three Capes Scenic Area. The show runs from now until August 31. The Center hours are 9 PO L IC E am to 5 pm, Monday through Satur day. The Water Resources Education Center is at the east end o f Columbia Way, past Marine Park. Admission is free. NEW S Hysteria and paranoia seem to be driving the current national debate on what to do about kids who kill. The seven-month series o f in tensely covered shooting sprees at American schools proves that there is no safe place from violence. Most o f the schools in Oregon, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, Mississippi, andTen- nessee where children as young as 11 years old shot their classmates are located in the kinds o f commu nities most often characterized as safe. But the danger to these safe com munities didn’t come from the out side. It came from their own chil dren. Guns have been on inner-city campuses for so long that many black and Latino students think nothing of going through metal de tectors every morning. The campus police officers are just as well- known to the students as the foot ball coach. Our nation has a strange way o f viewing these problem. W ebelieve that as long as problems occur in one kind o f neighborhood, they will not spill over into other kinds o f neighborhoods. Less kindly put, we believe that only “those people,’’ have “those problems.” It is telling that after more than a decade o f big-city school shootings with hardly a mention in the press, the school shootings in tiny towns and suburbs now dominate the na tional news. W e’re all in the same boat. With more concern and a wider variety of skills, knowledge, and ideas focused on youth v iolence, perhaps this coun try will finally do something that will make serious inroads into solving the problem. Recent research shows that the child who kills someone typically has a family member for a victim. Eric Lotke, a researcher at the Na tional Center on Institutions and Al ternatives, a Washington, D C., non profit group, analyzed hundreds of cases where children had been con victed o f being principally respon sible for a homicide. He found that 80% o f the you people age 14 and under (roughly the same age as most o f the boys who have been accused o f the latest spate o f school shootings) killed members o f their own families. The most common victims were abusive par ent, stepparents or boyfriends o f their mothers. If we really want to do something abut the youngest perpetrators o f homicide, then we have to do more to protect all children from abuse. For every homicide committed, there are dozens o f lesser violent crimes such as beatings and sexual assaults that leave an impact on their victims. We cannot go on pretending to be serious abut fighting child abuse when our child protection agencies are too overburdened to do their job. We need to concentrate on cultivating more foster families and safe places for these children while they and their families receive help. We also need a stronger network o f support systems for young people with all kinds o f problems. It’s crucial to spot the problem and lend a helping hand before the rage be comes uncontrollable. As gang violence became more prevalent in the 1980’s and early 1990’s, most states decide that the way to deal with youthful criminals was to crack down on them and try teenagers as adults. One Texas legis lator said right after the Jonesboro, Ark., shootings that 11 yearolds should be eligible for the death penalty. That’s no answer. Other 11 year olds will not be deterred. We need to prevent our kids from becoming killers, not execute them afterwards. The bullets ringing out in the schoolyards around this country should compel all o f us to pay more attention to the needs o f our chil dren. On Friday, July 31, Detectives from the Portland Police Bureau, in conjunction with the Kern County Sheriff’s office and the FBI, ex ecuted a search warrant and arrested one male in Bakersfield, California. Francisco Cuba Hernandez, 21 years was taken into custody at his place o f employment, the N iagra car wash in Bakersfield, on an arrest warrant for 2 counts o f Aggravated Murder and 2 counts o f Attempted Aggra vated Murder in connection with a double homicide in Portland. A search warrant was executed at Hernandez’ residence for evidence in the murders. The homicide occurred on June 14, 1996 at 11:54 pm, in the 1200 Block ofN. Kilpatrick. Dennis Hester w ho was 20 years, and Damon Johnson who was 22 years, were passengers in a vehicle. The driver o f the vehicle drove into the lot o f the Astro Station at 7510 N. Interstate Ave. Mr. Hester and Mr. Johnson recognized a group o f Hispanic and white males and told the driver to leave. As they left the parking lot three or four cars gave chase. Mis takenly thinking they had entered a dead end street, the driver was turn ing the vehicle around when they were fired upon leaving Mr. Hester and Mr. Johnson fatally wounded and two passengers wounded. The motive appears to be gang related. Francisco Cuba Hernandez is the arrested suspect in these homicides, and assaults and is lodged in the Kem County Jail. Detective Sergeant D. Rubey and Detective Sergeant K. Ferrell are the i nvestigators on this case and are asking anyone with any additional information to call the Portland Po lice Bureau Detective Division at 823-0400. by S tarita S mith D r o w n in g V ic tim M u ltn o m ah C o u n ty S h e r if f s D eputies responded to the Sandy R iv e r at a b o u t 7:25 pm th is e v en in g w hen they w ere c alled a b o u t a p o s s ib le d ro w n in g . D e p u tie s learn ed that at ab o u t 7 :2 0 , 3 4 y e a r o ld L u c ia n o A ren ales H u rtad o d ove into the Jam es C o o p er has been p ro m oted to m a n ag er o f sales o p eratio n s for X erox o f the P acific N orthw est. C o o p e r, w ho p re v i ously served as m a rk etin g o p e ra tio n m a n a g e r fo r X e ro x ’s W estern R egion, w ill oversee all b u sin e ss a c tiv itie s in O reg o n , S o u th w e s t W a s h in g to n a n d N orthern C a lifo rn ia . C o o p er is a 14-year X erox veteran and has had a w ide range o f com pany e x p e rie n c e , in c lu d ing sales and m an agem ent w ork in the co m m ercial prin tin g m ar ket, go v ern m en t acco u n ts and m ajor a c co u n ts. D uring his c a reer, C o o p er has rec e iv e seven Give Oregon the Green Light to Stop Red Light Running by R epresentative K en S trobeck T w o O re g o n ia n s -o n e o f them a te n y e a r o ld b o y -h a v e b een tr a g ic a lly k ille d th is y e a r b e c a u s e d riv e r s h a v e ig n o re th e m o st fu n d a m e n ta l ru le o f th e ro a d -d o n o t ru n red lig h ts . A c ro ss th e s ta te , m o re and m o re d riv e r s a re se e in g th is v io la tio n o c c u r on a d a ily b a sis. W h at u se d to be an u n th in k a b le b re a c h o f a r e s p o n sib le p e r s o n ’s d riv in g p riv ile g e is i n c r e a s i n g l y b e c o m in g a c o m m o n ly u se d w ay to g a in an a d d itio n a l fiv e o r te n se c o n d s o f d riv in g tim e . T h e re a re m a n y p o s s ib le r e a so n s fo r th is d e te r io r a tio n in d riv in g s ta n d a rd s -g rid lo c k th a t p ro m p ts f r u s tr a te d d r iv e r s to ta k e g r e a te r c h a n c e , a th r e e fo ld in c r e a s e in v e h ic le tr a f f ic w h ile th e ro ad sy stem has fa ile d to k e e p p a c e , a n d a d im in u tio n o f e n fo rc e m e n t p re s e n c e to th e p o in t th a t m a n y d riv e rs do not b e lie v e th e y w ill e v e r be ,, c a u g h t, o r sim p ly a g ro ss d is r e s p e c t fo r th e law a n d th e s a fe ty o f o u r fe llo w c itiz e n s . Jo . U s in g in f o r m a tio n from th e v e h i c l e 's lic e n s e p l a t e , th e d r iv e r is c ite d to r th e v io la tio n in a m a n n e r s im ila r to p h o to ra d a r fo r s p e e d e rs w h ic h is a l re a d y in u se in B e a v e rto n and P o rtla n d . E ven th o se w h o a re u n c o m fo rta b le w ith te c h n o lo g y th a t is a b le to “ w a tc h you d r iv e ” seem to a g re e on o n e th in g : N o o n e has th e rig h t to run a red lig h t. A nd lik e b a n k c a m e ra s th a t w a tc h you c o n d u c t tr a n s a c tio n s d a y - in and d a y - o u t, th e y a lso p ro te c t you and y o u r m o n e y from c r im in a ls . T he sa m e w ill be tru e w ith p h o to red lig h t. D riv in g in O re g o n is a p r iv i le g e g ra n te d to th o s e w ho use it r e s p o n s ib ly . E ach o t us w a n ts to be su re th a t w h en w e tak e to the r o a d , t h e “ o th e r g u y ” w ill o b e y th e r u le s , ju s t as w e do. W e ow e ea c h o th e r n o th in g le ss. W e h a v e a lre a d y m isse d an o p p o r tu n ity to ta k e a c tio n to p re v e n t th e lo ss o f tw o liv e s. 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T he b a sic s a fe ty o f o u r s tre e ts and h ig h w a y s re q u ire s th a t s o c ie ty h av e z e ro to le r a n c e for in te n tio n a l red lig h t ru n n in g . T he O re g o n L e g is la tu re had an o p p o rtu n ity to b e g in to fix th e p ro b le m la s t s e s s io n in H o u se B ill 3 1 2 8 , a b ill w h ic h a u th o riz e d a te s t o f “ p h o to red lig h t” te c h n o lo g y in B e a v e rto n . T he b ill p a sse d in th e H o u se , b u t fa ile d to re c e iv e a m a jo rity v o te in th e S e n a te . It w ill r e tu rn in th e 1999 S e ssio n u n d e r m y s p o n s o rs h ip . I h o p e th e b ill w ill be p a sse d in to la w -to o la te to sa v e th o se w ho h a v e a l re a d y b een n e e d le s s ly k ille d , b u t p e rh a p s a w ay to p re v e n t o th e r d e a th s and r e s to r e c i v i l ity to o u r ro a d w a y s. P h o to red lig h t u se s a s tr a te g ic a lly p la c e d c a m e ra at d a n g e ro u s in te r s e c tio n s . O n c e a tr a f f ic lig h t tu rn s re d , th e c a m e ra is e n e rg iz e d and ta k e s a p h o to g ra p h o f any c a r th a t m ay ille g a lly e n te r th e in te rs e c tio n . These Before They Fly B Id e n tifie d riv e r ab o u t 15 yards from the T ro u td a le bridge at G lenn O tto Park. M r. H urtado did not re su r face. T he C lackam as C ounty In te ra g e n c y D ive R escue team was c a lle d and its divers recovered Mr. H u rta d o ’s body at about 9:45 pm . Mr. H urtado su ffered a head perfo rm an ce aw ards, including s ix o f X e r o x ’s p r e s t i g i o u s P re sid e n t’s C lub honors. In his new post. C o oper w ill o v ersee and ag g ressiv e m a rk e t in g a n d s a le s d i r e c t i v e to r X e ro x ’s new digital docum ent m anagem ent and production sy s tem s. A C lev elan d native. C ooper grad u ated from C leveland State U niversity. He is a longtim e su p p o rte r o f the U rban L eague, and has been a ctiv e in several X erox em p lo y ee m entoring program s, co o p er, his w ife T erry and th e ir tw o ch ild ren w ill reside in the S o uthw est P ortland area. ’iè r i
