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‘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.
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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
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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
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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.