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* St.Johns Window Project Artists and businesses showcase creativity • J in north Portland Born to Breast Feed Campaigning to increase nursing among minorities See Focus section C, inside See Metro section B, inside tíanfr ©bseruer ‘City of Roses’ Established in 1970 Committed to Cultural Diversity Volume XXXIV • Number 30. .Week in TheReview Solider Faces Abuse Charge | An Army in vestigator tes tified that Pfc. Lynndie En gland and other members of her unit told him that pho tos of naked Iraqi prisoners piled I in pyramids and other humiliat ing poses were taken “just for| fun.” The statement came Tues day as a military hearing started I to determine if England should be court-martialed for her actions | at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. Boosting www.portlandobserver.com Wednesday • August 4. 2004 VOte with Gunfire Pregnant woman and four others suffer injuries Market Fire Kills Hundreds The death toll from a weekend fire at a supermarket in Paraguay shot up by more than 100 to reach 464 on Tuesday, as a security guard told investigators he re ceived orders to lock the I building’s doors just after the blaze began to prevent theft, of ficials said. Bryant Transcript Released I Transcripts released from a closed two-day hearing in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case provide rare detail of the fierce battles over evidence, including | a candid assessment by the pros ecution about its chances should I the judge rule on a number of | issues. Study Links Flu to Schizophrenia A new study adds more evidence I to a body of research that sug gests the chi Idren of some women who get the flu while pregnant are at higher risk of developing schizophrenia. More al-Qaida Arrests Pakistani authorities have ar-| rested two high-ranking al-Qaida terrorists - one with a multimil- lion-dollar U.S. bounty on his head - in a days-long sweep that has netted at least six suspected mil itants, officials said Tuesday. Statue of Liberty Reopens I photo BYDxvnrf*! h hi / I he P ortland O bserver Too young to vote, but old enough to make a difference, Davetta Lockett, 15, canvasses downtown, looking for unregis tered voters. She is part o f an Oregon Action campaign aiming to stir up 30,000 new voters. Big turnout begins with registration by J aymee R. C ut i T he P ortland O bserver Some people with the best intentions for participating in democracy have not regis tered to vote. If the reason is a lack of knowledge, some information should fill in the gaps. Registering to vote is as easy as filling out a form online at www.oregonvotes.org or stopping by a designated state agency, in cluding the Department of Motor Vehicles, Post Offices, libraries and other public assis tance agencies to pick up a form. To qualify, voters need to be Oregon residents of at least 18 years old on Election Day. In the case of the Nov. 2 presidential election, a voter registration card must be postmarked at least 21 days before the elec tion, which is Oct. 12. To check if your rregistration is curent, drop by Multnomah County Elections at 1040S.E. Morrison orcall 503-988-3720. You may update your registration and receive a ballot at any time up to Election Day, by going to your county elections office. your permanent address, you can request an absentee ballot. Be sure to include your name, residence address and your mailing address in a request for an absentee ballot. Absentee ballots are available 45 days be fore any election. In Oregon, even convicted felons can vote if not currently in custody of the state Department of Corrections. If you are situ ated in any other part of the criminal justice system, such as county jail, you have not lost your voting privileges and may participate in all upcoming elections. If you are a felon serving a sentence total ing less than 12 months, and you also are not in the custody of the Department of Corrections, you retain your voting privi leges. Only those felons currently in the custody of the Department of Corrections may not vote. A hotline has been set up to answer questions from Monday through Friday, from 8a.m. to 5 p.m. at I -866-ORE-VOTE (1-866-673-8683). Chaos erupted early Monday as gunshots were fired outside a packed private dance hall in northeast Port land. The International Club, at 322 N. E. San Rafael and Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, was hopping with mu sic and dancing at 12:30 a.m. when as many as a 20 shots, possibly from an automatic or semi-automatic weapon were fired, forcing a stream of scream ing people to duck under cars for cover. Shortly after, five shooting victims checked themselves into Legacy Emanuel Hospital, a few blocks away in north Portland. A member of a rap group perform ing in the Sunday night party described what he saw. “I came out, my car was shot up, my brother’s car was shot up and my people are in the hospital," a hip-hop artist known as Prophecy told KGW. Witnesses said an argument erupted between two men outside the hall just before the exchange of gunfire. It appears that none of the shooting vic tims were the intended target of shoot ing, police said. Svesha Harris, a 21-year old preg nant woman suffered serious injuries with a bullet wound to her back and was listed in critical condition. Her baby was unharmed. The other vic tim s were identified as A lexis Campbell, 18, who sustained a bullet wound to her upper-left thigh; 19- year-old Anthony Taylor, who suf fered a bullet wound to his left shoul der; PamelI Badon. a 22-year-old with Hailed once I You must re-register to vote every time again as a your address changes, your name changes, “beacon of or if you wish to change your party affilia hope,” the tion. You may update your registration and Statue of receive a ballot at any time up to Election Liberty wel Day. comed back Oregon’s vote-by-mail system makes h u d d le d voting simple. If you are living away from m asses ofl tourists for the first time since it was shut — 1 down nearly three years ago in the wake of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Interior Secretary Gale Norton was on hand toofficially open the doors, and a military choir sang George M. Cohan’s “It’s a Grand Old Flag" before the crowd rose for | by J ohanna S. K ino the national anthem. T he P ortland O bserver Deep financial strains have caused Union Gospel Mission to put on hold its building plans to drastically expand public services. Committed to feeding the hun gry, restoring the addict and put ting an end to hom elessness, Portland’s 77-year-old Christian outreach program is fervently work ing to find solutions to these ongo ing problems. Individuals living out on the street have come to know the down c o town mission as more than just a Zb u welcoming shelter or a place to fill their empty stomachs with a hot, Ï U home-made plate of food. Many X have identified it as their safe ha J ' ven from a world that has otherwise u X ' labeled them as rejects and failures. Zb ( ‘2 '2 i As part of the recovery center's A sign appeals for additional support to complete a new building for Union Gospel Mission at the □ goal to help those in pressing need. comer o f Northwest Third Avenue and Burnside. continued on page A2 Money Strain Halts Mission Expansion Postponement slows help to homeless, addicted m t the mission has planned a new 28,500 square foot, five-story bui Id- ing called the Li feChange Center at N orthw est Third Avenue and Burnside. The building phase of the project was originally planned to begin this past spring, but is now scheduled to start next summerdue to the lack of funds. Although the project boldly car ries a costly price tag of approxi mately $5.7 million dollars, raising funds to cover the remaining con struction costs of nearly $2 mi Ilion dollars is now firmly underway. “We have the vision. Now we're just looking for the financial sup port that’s needed to fulfill our dream of helping people live recov ered lives free from the bondage of addiction," said Bill Russell, Union Gospel executive director. The new building, which will house a recovery community of men and women learning to over come addiction, is intended to ac commodate twice the capacity of what the mission is currently able continued on page A 2