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Campus Dream Takes Shape Coming Out Party f 50/ Cleveland’s LeBron James is masterful in NBA debut PCC Cascade dedicates new science labs See Sports, Page B4 See Metro section, inside 5* ^ánrtí¿nuí!(0h5erU2r ‘City of Roses’ Committed to Lui turni Diversity Volume XXXIII • Number 44 Th^Review www.portlandobserver.com Established in 1970 Wednesday • November 05. 2003 City Moves to Protect Water Dad Arrested in Halloween Attack A 43-year-old M ichigan man faces charges after he sm ashed a bird-feeder and threw a pum p kin through the window o f a house where his young son said he d id n ’t get any H alloween can d y . Haiti Marks Day of the Dead the Water Bureau will Io co n tro l and isolate syste m more quickly Ihe new underground summer 2004 Passing under a crum bling arch way that reads “Thou Art D ust,” voodoo practitioners flocked to H aiti’s largest cem etery S atur day to honor the guardian of the dead with rum. thunderous m u sic and lewd behavior designed to aw aken m ischievous spirits. Fo# pfojeot informaba" G E O -E xplorotion Californians Go Home Some C alifornians are being al low ed to return to their fire-rav aged neighborhoods, and many are finding little left to salvage. M ore than 850 hom es were de stroyed by a wildfire that burned across 91,000 acres in and near the San B ernardino National F orest. , S e p t-m l» -' ■' C » "'” , u will conduci _ » opon reservo" - tullin« ''p¿’'\uH |l i' inside the UPP«' *> 'e p .a c e m e n .jd ;';” , ^ .ruled tor summe' a«« iftOO' »’•' w ’ Supreme Court to Rule on Patients’ Rights T he Suprem e Court said it will settle a fight over patients’ legal rights when their HM Os refuse to pay for recom m ended m edi cal treatm ent. The case involves an issue that has stym ied C on gress, which has tried and failed to pass national patients’ rights legislation. Columbine Families Furious M ore than four years after 13 w ere gunned dow n at C olum bine High, authorities and the g u nm en’s parents tell the world that w arning signs were missed with the recent release of a video depicting the gunm en at target practice. photo by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bsever The open storage reservoir o f drinking water at Mt. Tabor will be replaced with underground tanks under the city's plan to guard against possible contamination. Burying reservoirs is costly effort for safety by T im H all F or the P ortland O bserver Water from the Bull Run watershed flows to Portland, through Powell Butte, to Mt. Tabor and then across the river to Washington Park. The Mt. Tabor reservoirs serve about 70 percent of the C ity's residents, including the west side, north, northeast and most of southeast Portland. Portland residents drink the unfiltered water in these open reservoirs. What goes into the reser voirs comes out our taps. Last year the city initiated a phased project to replace three of these open storage reservoirs with underground tanks and two with temporary floating covers. Burying the storage will create opportunities for 22 new acres of parkland in Mt. Tabor. The project will cost $77 million and the construction will create local jobs. The project will increase residential water rates by about $1.32 a month. The city first planned to bury the reservoirs more than 30 years ago. The reservoirs are I (X) Signs of Economic Recovery T he n a tio n ’s m a n u fa ctu rin g se c to r re g istered its h ighest level o f activity in nearly four years in O ctober, according to an industry report, suggesting that the solid econom ic growth o f the third quarter is continu ing in the fourth. Iraq, Afghan Funding Nears Approval C ongress neared final approval o f $87.5 billion for the U.S. occu pation o f Iraq and operations in A fghanistan, edging President Bush tow ard a legislative win a day after A m ericans in Iraq en d u red th e ir w orst ca su a ltie s since March. years old, require continued and increasingly costly maintenance and repair, and no longer meet indus try standards for water storage. Because the res ervoirs are uncovered, the water is vulnerable to contamination from birds, animals, air-pollution and vandalism or intentional contamination. In May 2002, the Portland City Council voted unanimously to accelerate the reservoir project based on a complete assessment of the vulner abilities, security and health concerns involving the open reservoirs. continued on page A6 Improving Lives and Housing Shaunte Davis, 24. and Ken White, mentor coordinator for Irvington Covenant Community Develop m ent Corp., build a fence at Charleston Place in north Portland. Irvington Covenant builds foundations for the future by J aymee R. C i t i T he P ortland O bserver Irvington Covenant Com munity Development Corp, is not your average housing pro gram. While the agency is dedi cated to building affordable housing and helping low-in come residents and people of color buy a home, it also take strides to prevent recidivism and teach job skills to ex-of fenders and at-risk youth. PHOTO BY M ark W ashington T he P ortland O bserver Developing affordable hous ing is the primary operation, but through agreements with con tractors, the agency’s workers shadow professionals to learn foundation work, roofing, dry wal I ing and various other bui Id- ing skills. “ I look for the serious youth who are earnest about their sec o n d c h a n c e ,” said D avid Greenidge.thecorporation’sex- continued on page A6 Local Student Serves National Congress Jefferson’s Angela Gill in prestigious academic group U.S. Rep. Earl B lu m en au er. D -O re., o ffic ia lly w elc o m e d Je ffe rso n High S chool g rad u a te A n g ela G ill to W ash ington, D .C . last w eek as a co n g re s sional page. G ill w as n o m in ated by B lu m e n a u e r an d w ill se rv e in the n a tio n 's cap ital th ro u g h Jan u ary . B e co m in g a c o n g re s s io n a l p ag e is n o t e a sy . O n ly 6 6 h ig h sc h o o l j u n io rs a re s e le c te d e a c h y e a r fro m 1 th ro u g h o u t th e c o u n try . T h ese s tu d e n ts m ust h av e m a in ta in e d at least a 3 .0 g ra d e p o in t a v e ra g e in m a jo r s u b je c ts an d d e m o n s tra te th a t they are m a tu re , fle x ib le and have a stro n g w o rk e th ic . “ W e are th rilled and very fortunate to have A n g ela w ith us here in W ash in g to n ," said B lum enauer. “ S h e’s a te r rific a m b a ssa d o r for O regon and a d elig h tfu l person to w ork w ith .” A s a c o n g re s s io n a l p ag e . A n g ela liv e s in th e o ffic ia l P age R e sid e n ce H all n e a r th e C a p ita l. She a tten d s fo u r h o u rs o f c la s s e s ea ch m orning w ith o th e r p a g e s b e fo re rep o rtin g to w o rk fo r m e m b e rs o f C o n g re s s in th e a fte rn o o n an d e v e n in g . I t ’s a d e m a n d in g p ro g ra m th a t r e q u ir e s h ig h ly m o tiv a te d an d c o m m itte d s tu d e n ts , but it is a lso tre m e n d o u s ly re w a rd in g an d e x c itin g . A lthough pages have helped out law m a k e rs sin c e th e first d a y s o f the R epublic, C o n g ress in stitu ted the tra d itio n o f no m in atin g pages fo r ap p o in t m ent in 1855. M em bers o f C o n g ress m ay n o m i nate pages o n ly upon in v itation o f their p a r ty ’s le a d e rsh ip . B lu m en a u er has been invited to n o m inate pages tw ice d u rin g his ten u re in C o n g ress Jefferson High School graduate Angela Gill is welcomed to the U.S. Capitol by Rep. Earl Blumenauer.