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PaseA6__________________________________ œi’1 JJnrtlanò ©bseriier M E D W e e k _______________ September29.2004 TriMet Secures Support for ‘Yellow Line’ Federal Transit Administra tor Jennifer Dorn visited Port land to announce a $37 million grant to Tri Met for the Inter state MAX, otherwise known as the Yellow Line. Dorn toured the north Port land route Sept. 22 to see how the line is contributing to the ongoing revitalization of the neighborhood, including new businesses and homes. She visited stores that have opened since completion of the line. It is estimated that about 50 new businesses and hundreds of new jobs have been attracted to the area as a result of the increased traffic from the transit line. One business Dorn visited is the Fred Meyer store, which is investing $20 mill ion to reno vate its existing property to take advantage of the grow ing customer traffic coming from the Interstate MAX line. The renovated complex will employ almost 240 people and is expected to open before the end of the year. Other major developments to come include a New Sea sons Market at North Inter state and Portland Boulevard and a 36,000 square foot tran sit-oriented village at North Interstate and Killingsworth Street that will include afford able apartments, condos, town homes and street-level retail. The $37 million grant to the Interstate MAX will be used for continued activities related to the development and gen eral operation of the line. The investment will fund the pur chase of new signs, train con trol signals and new equip ment for the line. Killer of Girls Pleads Guilty interviews on top o f the co n crete slab in his back yard under which investigators later found the body of I2 -y e a r-o ld Ashley, who dis appeared in Janu ary 2002. W e av e r w as arrested on Aug. 13,2002, after his s o n ’s g irlfrien d ran from his home, naked except for a tarp , scream in g that he had tried to Crimes matched conduct of Weaver’s father (AP) - An Oregon City man accused o f killing two of his daughter’s friends, then hiding their bodies on his property pleaded guilty Sept. 22 to mur der charges and received two life sentences in prison. Ward Weaver, 41, avoided the death penalty by pleading guilty in the deaths of the girls, classmates and friends who dis Ward W eaver appeared within two months of each other. gators focused on the younger rape her. W eaver's father, also named W eaver whose rental home was After that arrest, FBI investiga Ward W eaver, is on death row in just steps from the school bus stop tors cordoned off his back yard and California after he was convicted of where Ashley Pond and Miranda searched for the girls’ bodies. They killing a woman and burying her G addis were last seen. He re found A shley’s in a barrel under body in his back yard beneath con sponded by inviting television the concrete slab. The body of 13- crete. crews into his home to film him year-old M iranda was in a box in In the Oregon City case, investi- proclaiming his innocence, giving W eaver’s tool shed. Minorities Lag in State Appointments Advocates want to revive state commissions ( A P)— Oregon minority advo cates are calling for Gov. Ted Kulongoski to revive state com missions for blacks, Hispanics and A sian-A m ericans, saying they need more representation in state government. “W hen we d o n 't have those co m m issio n s, we d o n 't have anyone to advocate for us with the governor and the L egisla tu re," said E d uardo A ngulo, chairm an o f the Salem -K eizer Four Killed in Shooting C oalition for Equality. “We feel o u trag e d .” A recent new s analysis in the S ta te sm a n Jo u rn a l o f S alem show ed that o f K u lo n g o sk i's 236 appointm ents to state boards and com m issions, nine percent are minorities or of mixed race. T hat’s about half their share o f O reg o n ’s population. The state used to have com m is sions for blacks, Hispanics and Asians, but the 2003 Legislature (A P)— A 15-year-old student drew a handgun and opened fire in a school classroom in southern Argentina on Tuesday, killing four classmates and wounding five, authorities said. Police said the shooting came min uted before the start of classes in the Islas Malvinas public school in Carmen stripped their funding. A group of minority commission m em b ers h as been lo b b y in g Kulongoski to reinstate funding for the commissions in his next bud get, but so far have heard nothing concrete, according toCarol Suzuki, chairwoman o f the Commission on Asian Affairs. Suzuki said one lower-cost alter native would be to combine the three minority commissions into a multicultural panel. de Patagones, a city some 600 miles south of Buenos Aires. Mario Oporto, education minister for the vast Buenos Aires province where the shooting occurred, said two teen age girls and a boy were killed instantly and a fourth student died soon after at a hospital. 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