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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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