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H appy 50/ T h a n k s g iv in g (©bscrlicr ‘CitV of Roses’ www.portlandobserver.com www.Dortlandobser F«»ahlichi»d in 1970 Established in 1970 Committed to Cultural Diversity Volume X X X II • Number 47 Remodel Boosts Neighborhood TlWeekin TheReview American Chamber and community partners welcome additions Warning on laptop bums D octors are w arning that laptop Com puters m ay inflict b u m s ev en th ro u g h clo th in g . T he Bitish m edical m agazine The Lancet has reported a bizarre case o f a Sw edish scientist w ho scorched his penis and testicles w hile w riting a report in his arm chair. The unnam ed 50-year-old had balanced the com puter on his lap w hile he w rote the report at hom e, taking about an hour to do so. T he follow ing day he d e veloped painful blisters. Where’s Iraq? A survey by National Geographic has found only one-in-seven A m ericans between the ages o f ! 8 and 24 can find Iraq on a map. It also revealed only a little over 50 •■per cent knew the Taliban and Al Q aeda w ere based in A fghani stan. The world-wide study asked 3 6 questions relating to geogra p h y and current affairs. A m eri ca n s scored an average o f 23 right Answers. Thirty-four per cent o f th o se surveyed knew the island setting o f the last series o f TV show “ Survivor.” V Wednesday • November 27, 2002 Safeway Store at 5920 N.E. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. S afew ay o ffic ia ls h av e a n nounced the com pletion o f a m ulti m illion d o llar expansion and re modeling ofthe Martin Luther King Jr. B o u le v a rd an d A in sw o rth Safew ay Food and D rug Store. Friends and neighbors in the north and northeast com m unity are invited to attend a special rib bon cutting cerem ony in partner ship w ith the A frican A m erican C ham ber ofC o m m erce ofO reg o n and the O regon B usiness N etw ork on W ednesday, Dec. 4, at the store at5920N .E . M artin Luther King Jr. Blvd. Store M anager T roy Steele is eagerly aw aiting the final details as the m assive rem odeling and ex pansion project com es to a close. “Safew ay is thrilled to offer our custom ers w hat a brand new store. W e hope our friends and neigh bors w ill agree, it w as w orth the wait. W e’d like to thank everyone for their support and patience dur ing the rem odel.” M any people are unaw are that S afew ay first began doing busi ness in the Pacific N orthw est. The very first store to open its doors under the Safew ay banner w as in 1926 in dow ntow n Portland. Safew ay began operating in the King N eighborhood in 1936. T oday, S afew ay operates 118 stores in O regon and S outhw est W ashington, em p lo y so v er 12,000 em ployees and is O reg o n ’s 4 11’ larg est em ployer. The new M artin L uther K ing Jr. and A insw orth S afew ay Food and Drug will create30new jobs. Its 115 em ployees will stock o ver 4 0,000 items. W ith the addition o f6,300 square feet, the rem odel that b egan 8 m onths ago increased the sto re’s size to 39,000 square feet. T hrough continued on page AS ■ That girl had no reason to die. The only thing she ever worried about was getting K > to her job on time or getting home to her kids. - A neighbor of murder victim Asia Bell Violence Claims Mother Car buyer scores big bonus ; A man try ing to fix a car he bought at a police auction discovered m ore than he paid for: bundles co ntaining about 9.7 pounds o f cocaine. T he m an, w hose nam e w as not released, bought the 1992 car in Las C ruces, N .M ., a vehicle he knew had been for feited in June 2001. He notified the P ecos V alley D rug T ask Force on N ov. 12 that he found packages o f drugs u nder the v e h ic le ’s c o n s o le w h e n he started to repair the em ergency brake. Elderly robber strikes again in Viagra crime wave An elderly man in southern France h as robbed a pharm acy in the city * f M arseille for the fourth tim e in less than a year, each time making o ff with its full stock o f the anti im potence drug, V iagra. Messing with the mystical D ozens o f m ystical creatures that disappeared in the subur ban C hicago village o f Bartlett, III., have been found, but several have yet to find their w ay hom e. An assortm ent o f alm ost 60 lawn g n o m e s , le p r e c h a u n s a n d dw arfs are at the Bartlett Police D epartm ent. T hey w ere confis cated over the w eekend from the garage o f one o f three teenage boys charged with stealing them. Business Slide Show Includes Nude A businessm an and form er p as tor in Fort W orth, T x ., w as charged w ith possessing child pornography after a photo o f a nude boy appeared during a com puter slide presentation he gave at w ork, officials said. E m ploy ees at Exel Inc. told p olice that Jam es A ndrew Sm ith had fin ished a P ow erPoint slide show Sept. 4 w hen he tried to open another docum ent on his laptop co m puter. T he im age o f the young, nude boy appeared on screen, according to the co-w ork ers. Sm ith blam ed the i r com puter virus. & s Periia Bell holds a portrait of her daughter Asia, with husband Tyrone Lee James and their four children. Friends say Asia Bell was not a gang member by W ynde D yer T he P ortland O bserver O f three fatal shootings that took place w ithin three m iles o f each other in north and northeast Portland o ver a span o f six days, the death o f A sia Bell, a m other o f four children w ith no crim inal record, ap pears the hardest for fam ily, neighbors and police to com prehend. Bell, 24, w as shot to death last W ednes day evening on the front porch o fh er hom e on the intersection o f N orth M ississippi and Jessup. Her husband, T yrone Lee Jam es, 26, w as seriously injured with gun T Stoudamire Rasheed Wallace PHOTOS BY W ynot D y er / T he P orti . and O bserver on page AS imon Stoudamire, Rasheed Wallace cited for marijuana c A continued lazers Bounce into Judicial Court o o T r- o* S 2 x u > ad O - 1 c u a => c w Sil - UJ Family and friends investigate the North Mississippi Avenue crime scene Thursday morning. shots to his head and hip. and a third victim, Robert M illhouse, 28, was treated for graze w ounds to his arm. Bell w as celebrating Jam es' birthday w hen the gunfire erupted. “ People say she w as in the w rong place at the wrong tim e,” Bell’s m other Periia Bell said. “ But 1 say it w as the w rong tim e for her to be in the right place - she w as in her house, w ith her husband and her kids." Periia said she usually talked to her daughter three or four tim es a day and had Damon Stoudamire and Rasheed Wallace o f the Portland Trail B lazers apologized to their fam ilies and fans F riday after being cited for m arijuana possession after a traffic stop for speeding. T he players and the driv er o fth e car were ticketed ju st after m idnight Friday near C entralia, W ash., about m idw ay betw een Seattle and Portland. A police report said Stoudam ire and W allace adm itted to sm ok- ing m arijuana and both failed to pass field sobriety tests. “T he trooper got th cstro n g sm ell o f m ari juana com ing from the vehicle so he initiated an investigation," W ashington State Patrol spokesm an G arvin M arch said. T he trooper requested assistance from local police, w ho sent a drug-sniffing dog to help search the vehicle. M arch said. A sm all am ount o f m arijuana w as found, m aking it a Ruben Patterson charged with domestic assault See story, page A 2 m isdem eanor instead o f a felony. A fter the tickets w ere issued, the three men continued on their w ay, police said. T he players w ere returning to Portland after the T rail B lazers beat the S eattle SuperSonics 89-85 T hursday night in S e attle. Friday evening, both Stoudam ire and continued on page A2
