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March 17,2004 ^portlanh (Obstruer Life GE) D continued Page AS TURNAROUND from Front She decided to find hope in a higher * - power and work to change her life. Laurie heard about the Women In Com munity Service’s (WICS)Lifeskills pro gram offered at Columbia River Cor rectional Facility. 1 Shortly after her release from prison. Palmer regained custody ofherchildren and custody of her youngest sister, who was also in the care of the state. “I didn’t have the skills that it took to live life in a healthy way and WICS taught me how to do that,” she said. "I owe this (my life) to WICS, my strong Ernie YazzoHno, a Drug Free Basketball volunteer at the Mt. Scott Community Center Passion for the Game continued from Front For him, this is a chance to have a moment with young people and teach an important lesson about life. His teams pledges before ev ery game to be drug and alcohol free, to exhibit good sportsman ship and lair play, to work hard to be their best, to respect the offi cials, the rules of the league and themselves, and to thank their families tor the opportunity to play. “If they don't take the pledge, we blow the whistle and stop the game,” said Y azzolino. Not only is Drug Free Basket ball a boon for kids often without after school programs and super vision, but Yazzolino says the games bring the community to gether. "It helps kids to get together with other kids and parents and have a good time,” he said. "It’s all in motivation and my belief in God. Through these things, I was able to overcome the things in life that were holding me back such as drugs and alcohol.” Palmer said she was dedicated to prove “everybody wrong that thought I wouldn't make it and not one time did I think I couldn’t make it. This was because I had made up my mind and 1 began to think like a winner and photo by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver through that I was able to overcome my past Laurie Palmer is a drug and alcohol intervention obstacles.” specialist at the Old Town Clinic. 1 46t/> Annual E B O N Y I F A S H IO N presenta f a ir — Tre Arrow Arrested in Canada 2003/04 Alleged eco- terrorist caught shoplifting in Victoria as he was trying to shoplift some bolt cutters, Jor dan said. Police realized he was a fugitive when his fingerprints were run through a database, Jordan said. (AP) — A fugitive radical envi The FBI is working with Cana ronmentalist wanted in Oregon for dian authorities on Scarpitti's ex setting fire to logging and cement tradition to Oregon. trucks in 2001 was captured in Scarpitti is among four activists Canada while shoplifting, the FBI charged with setting logging trucks said Monday. JoAnn Bowman on fire on June 1, 2001 to protest Michael Scarpitti — also known logging on the slopes of Mount as Tre Arrow — was arrested by Hood. police in Victoria, British Columbia He first gained notoriety in July on Saturday, said Robert Jordan, 2000 when he scaled a U.S. Forest the FBI s special agent in charge in Service building in downtown Port t._ Portland. land and lived on a ledge for 11 days Michael Scarpitti, also known Scarpitti — who has been on (AP) — The Democratic to protest timber policies. the FBI’s most-wanted list since as Tre Arrow Party of Oregon selected three In October 2001, he suffered sev disappearing two years ago — claimed responsibility for dozens people as candidates to fill a eral broken bones when he fell 60 has been connected by federal of crimes over the past several vacancy left by Rep. Deborah feet from a hemlock tree where he officials to the Earth Liberation years. Kafoury in House District 43. had perched to protest a logging Front, a shadowy group that has Scarpitti was arrested at a store sale in Tillamook County. serving north and northeast Portland. The Multnomah County Commission will choose from between JoAnn Bowman, Tom Markgraf and Joe Smith to fill the nearly 10 months reaming on Kafoury’s term. The Democrat and former House Minority Leader re Police officers signed on Feb. 27 after mov escort Marcus ing out of the district. (AP)— Police carried 12 wooden Wesson to the Bowman is a former legis coffins out of a home as they Fresno County lator who now works for Or F» searched for evidence to explain Jail. (AP photo) egon Action, coordinating why a man allegedly killed nine voter registration drives. people believed to be his children, Markgraf is a policy analyst some possibly the product of in for Rep. Earl Blumenauer, D- cest. Wesson walked out of the house in recent years, from a small boat Ore. Smith is a retired pros Investigators removed the cof covered in blood and was booked ecutor from Pendleton and fins and several large paper bags on suspicion of nine counts of anchored off Santa Cruz to the mountains outside Watsonville, former chairman of the Or out of Marcus Wesson’s house murder. Authorities said Wesson, before settling in Fresno. egon Democratic Party. Monday night and a tow truck 57, may have been involved in po Wesson was jailed briefly after There are four candidates pulled away a yellow school bus, lygamy and is thought to have fa being convicted of welfare fraud, in the May 18 primary seek which had been a fixture in the thered children with at least six the Santa Cruz Sentinel reported. ing the District 43 seat: Demo driveway. women, including two of his own Wesson and his family were vio crats Chip Shields and Tina An antique store owner has said daughters. lating city codes by living in the K otek, and R ep u b lican s Wesson bought hand-carved, ma The victims, who had six differ building where the shootings oc Shirley Whitehead Freeman hogany coffins about five years ent mothers, showed no signs of curred, which was zoned for com and Mitch Lee France. ago, saying he planned to use the physical or sexual abuse, said coro mercial use, the Fresno Bee re Committee members did wood to repair a houseboat. ner Loralee Cervantes. ported 7 uesday. They were given not choose either of the two All nine victims had been shot to Wesson has cooperated with the acitation March I .calling fora $ I (X) Democratic candidates run death, according to the coroner’s investigation, police said, but no fine and ordered to leave the build ning in the May primary be office. Investigators were still work motive had been determined. ing or acquire a special permit. cause they didn’t want to give ing to determine the relationships Authorities expect to release the "The day of the murder was the one an advantage, said Jim among the victims, who were found names of the victims by Friday, a day they had to comply with the Robison, chairman of the tangled in a pile of clothes when 24-year-old woman and eight chil administrative order," Fresno Plan D em ocratic P arty of police went to the house Friday dren ranging in age from I to 17. ning Director Nick Yovino told the Multnomah County. about a child custody dispute. 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