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Volume XXXII
Number 19
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Committed to Cultural Diversity
Established in 1970
www.portlandobserver.com
May 15,2002
Renaissance Market to Close
B ishop A. A. Wells
o v e rse e s th e
closing o f his
com m unity
m a rk e t on North
Killingsworth.
Portland
Community
College h a s e y e s
on th e property
for expansion o f
its C ascade
C am pus.
U.N. Sanctions Against
Iraq to Get Overhaul
UNITED NATIONS— The U.N. Secu
rity Council unanimously approved an
overhaul of sanctions against Iraq in a
victory for the United States. The reso
lution aims to tighten the 11-year-old
military embargo on Saddam Hussein’s
regime while easing the flow of civilian
goods into Iraq.
photo by D avid
P lechl /T he
P ortland
O bserver
Earthquake Rattles Bay Area
GILROY, Calif.— A substantial earth
quake shook the San Francisco Bay
area, violently rattling the stands at
hockey and baseball gam es. N o in ju
ries or significant dam age were in i
tially reported.
Israeli Vote Rejects
Palestinian State
TEL AVIV, Israel— Israeli Prime Min
ister Ariel Sharon’s Likud party voted
to reject the creation of a Palestinian
state, a major defeat for Sharon. Also,
Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat left
Ramallah for the first time since Israel
confined him there six months ago.
Pom Shield Law Partly Upheld
WASHINGTON— The Supreme Court
gave new life to the government’s ef
fort to make it a crime to put sexually
explicit pictures on the Internet where
they can be seen by children. But the
justices made clear that constitutional
hurdles remain.
Dionne Warwick
Arrested In Miami
MIAMI— Singer Dionne Warwick was
arrested when baggage screeners at
Miami International Airport said they
found 11. suspected marijuana ciga
rettes inside her lipstick container.
Warwick, 61, o f Miami Beach, signed
an affidavit promising to appear in court
and was released.
Church squeezed by PCC expansion gives up grocery
by D avid P lechl
T he P ortland O bserver
The Renaissance Market at 909 N.
Killingsworth is closing its doors in the
face of the expansion of the Portland
Community College Cascade Campus.
Bishop A.A.Wells of the Emmanuel
Temple Full Gospel Pentecostal Church
has notified the store ’ s 22 employees and
community partners, Key Bank and The
Portland Development Commission, of
the imminent closure.
The market was a unique venture by an
African American church intent on offer
ing affordable groceries to the commu-
nity, while providing jobs and job training
to the underserved and disenfranchised.
In the last year, the store had been in
talks with PCC officials who have iden
tified the site as a potential parking lot
and location for future cam pus build
ings to accom m odate a grow ing body
o f students. The north Portland cam
pus has increased 55 percent in the
past five years to its current enrollm ent
of 15,000.
Wells had hoped for a partnership with
PCC, with the church retaining a much
smaller parcel on the 2-block site for a
future grocery, dovetailing with city plans
to develop a retail district along the
Killingsworth corridor.
A deal never materialized, with “nego
tiations currently at a standstill,” Wells
said.
The bishop told college officials, “Help
us keep our vision intact, and then let’s
talk about the price.”
PCC Vice President for Administrative
Services Randy McEwan said the school
was not initially opposed to the idea of
partitioning the property, but states, “We
still have questions about how that would
actually work.”
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McEwan does admit that PCC would
like to purchase the Renaissance lot en
tirely, without divisions.
He said the college is hopeful to ac
quire properties in a voluntary way, but
states, “The board has not made a deci
sion on whether or not to acquire the
(Renaissance Market) property with emi
nent domain.”
Eminent domain gives the school legal
right to take the property if public demand
for the space outweighs current use.
Last year, the board authorized em i
nent domain, but worked to voluntarily
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Stoudamire
Pleads Not
Guilty
Senate Passes Sizable
Jump In Farm Subsidies
WASHINGTON — The Senate gave
final approval to a farm bill that would
shower billions of dollars in new subsi
dies on political battleground states.
President Bush has promised to sign
the bill, which is expected to increase
agriculture spending nearly 80%.
Marijuana charge
dropped against father
Ex-Klansman Heads to
Trial for '63 Church Bombing
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— The trial of the
final suspect in a 1963 church bombing
that killed four black girls may be a
challenge for attorneys because of
aging witnesses and pre-trial publicity.
Opening statements were expected to
begin in Bobby Frank Cherry’s trial.
Suspect to Face Charges
In Pipe Bomb Cases
REN O — After allegedly planting pipe
bombs in mailboxes across six states,
21 -year-old suspect Luke J. Helder was
charged by federal authorities. Helder
was caught on a federal highway in
Nevada after a tip from Helder’s father.
Portland Police O fficers Joe Hurley a n d Tom Trevarthen breakdow n and catalog handguns an d rifles a t C easefire
O regon's g u n turn in Saturday a t Lutheran C enter for Christian M inistries on Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard.
photo by D avid P lechl /T he P ortland O bserver
Ceasefire Oregon Collects Guns
by D avid P lechl
T he P ortland O bserver
Citizens had a chance to turn in their
unwanted firearms no questions asked at
six Portland area locations on Saturday. It
was part of Ceasefire O regon’s effort to
reduce the threat of gun violence and
increase public awareness of gun safety.
Ceasefire board member, Julie Sterling
and volunteer John Canda helped collect
I
e
firearms on Northeast Martin Luther King
Jr. Boulevard with help from Portland
Police Officers Joe Hurley and Tom
Trevarthen.
“The police handle the guns because
many people bringing them in do not even
know if they are loaded,” Sterling said.
Participants were asked to fill out an
anonymous questionnaire telling why
they brought the gun in and if they have
any other guns at home. Several people
marked “recent shootings and other vio
lent incidents shown in the news" as a
reason.
Officer Hurley who helped break down
the guns, said many people bringing them
in do not know how to use them.
“If it saves one life,” he said, “it makes
a difference."
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D am on S to udam ire a n d his father,
Willie o u tsid e th e C lackam as
County C ourthouse in Oregon City.
(AP Photo)
(AP)— PortlandTrail Blazers guard
and northeast Portland native Damon
Stoudamire pleaded innocent Tues
day to a felony charge o f possessing
marijuana.
,
Stoudam ire’s law yer, Stephen
Houze, said he would challenge the
legality of a police search of the bas
ketball star’s home in Lake Oswego.
Bail for Stoudamire was set at
$50,000.
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