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August 28,2002___________________________________<3 E I|e J l o r t l a n ò ( S b s e r u e r _________________________________________ Pa«e AS Not In My Neighborhood A CM ft TV ROST G A R D E N ARI NA • P O R T I A N D . O R SFPT E M B F R 7. 21)02 Herb Jenkins works to keep crime out of his Falcon Apartmen t building and the adjoining streets around Killingsworth and Albina. Even though the private securityguard has had people arrested more than once, no one has ever hassled him. "I respect people," he says. “I've actually made a lot of friends here. ROY CLINTON WOODS FOR I Ht UGHI HtAVYWIIüHl î chamw onîhifof r i ir w o R t i - JttîsTKfïWsÇIHîl>1 I W t K ilt I W O R N ) I I 1 I I n o i PI R RONCO Mc KA continued from Front casionally runs deep enough to change the direction of the lives he comes in contact with. He recently talked a former prostitute into re turning to school at Portland Com munity College. Local law enforcement officers are supportive and impressed with his results. “The police are absolutely amazed," Jenkins said. His effectiveness at cleaning up the streets has been noticed by PC C ’s Cascade Cam pus as well. Much of the area is owned by the college or lies within its expan sion plan. He has approached the college about contracting services to pa trol Albina south of Killingsworth w here sev eral vacant houses owned by the college have been broken into. Jenkins thinks the partnership would be positive for PCC and the neighborhood. Jenkins has made such a differ ence outside his own apartment building, that he is beginning to lighten the frequency of his pa trols. He thinks it all comes down to community livability and personal accountability. “I would really like to see more people show respect for them selves and each other,” he said. DDJTIONÀL UNDERCARE BOUTS TO BE ADDED I TICKETS START AT $25 GET YOUR TICKETS NOW! 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The younger W eaver said he w ould have called 911 even without the alleged rape. “ It was inevitable,” Francis W eaver said. “My father probably knew that I was to come forw ard, and he ju st did that as a grand finale to his sick schem e.” Last sum m er, Ashley had accused W ard W eaver o f m olesting her, but he denied the allegations and was never charged. Fam ily m em bers and friends have said they had a close, and at tim es inappropriate, relationship. W eaver’s father, W ard Francis W eaver Jr., is on death row in C alifornia for two m urders. A raped and m urdered w om an’s body was found buried in his yard in 1982. Honored for Politial Integrity She cast lone vote in Bush’s war resolution after Sept. 11 (A P) — W hen C alifo r nia Rep. Barbara Lee cast the lone vote against w ar in the afterm ath o f Sept. 11, she was threatened and ac cused o f treason. She found a m uch more sym pathetic audience Sun day in Eugene, w here she becam e only the second w o m a n to r e c e iv e th e W ayne M orse Integrity in Politics Award. The aw ard goes to an elected official who d em onstrates political courage, integrity and independence. It honors the m em ory o f form erO regon Sen. W ayne M orse, one o f only tw o senators w ho voted in 1964 against the war in Vietnam . Barbara Lee Lee said she voted against President B u sh 's w ar resolution because it was a “blank check” that usurped congres sional pow ers and the Constitution. “It gave the president the authority to use force against any nation, organization or indi vidual that the adm inistration deem ed neces sary,” she said. “T here was no tim e frame, no organization m entioned, no country. “I believe that w hile we must fight terror ism. we cannot engage in actions that could spiral out o f control and lead to more violence and deaths." O f course, most A m ericans disagreed with her. A nd some o f them let her know. “People get an g r y ,” sh e s a id . “ O fte n tim e s th e y really do n ’t under stand what goes on in Congress. M any people have never read the C o nstitu tion. A true A m eri can, a true patriot, w ants to make sure that dem ocracy is p reserved. S eeing ho w so m e re sponded m akes me question if they re ally know w hat d e m ocracy is." F o rm e r s ta te Rep. Kitty Piercy o f E ugene, w ho opened and closed the cerem ony at the U niversity o f O regon, said people can never know when they may becom e a footnote to history. “People don’t plan to be famous, but the fact is that sometimes there are pivotal moments in our history when someone stands up and speaks out,” Piercy said. “It can make a great difference in the way we proceed as a country." Lee com pared M orse, w ho at 31 w as the youngest dean ever at the UO Law School, to M artin L uther King Jr. and G andhi. “ He was ahead o f his tim e,” she said. “He was larger than life. 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