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PageA2 £*!C'JjJortÌanò © bseruer December 22. 2004 Christmas at Moore Street A Production o f W orld Arts Foundation, Inc. Where? Jefferson High School School o f Champions ~ School o f Pride The Robert G. Ford Memorial Theatre 5210 N. Kerby, Portland. Oregon Tribute To: W hen? Rev. Dr. Martín Luther King, Jr. Monday, January 17, 2005 12:00 P.M. - 7:00 P.M. “ Keep The Dream A live” Live B roadcast/Sim ulcast Portland C om m unity Media, Channel 11 Jefferson High School Television Dept./Television Services (PPS), Channel 28 KBOO 90.7 I'M Donation: $3.00 or 3 cans o f non-perishable food Volunteer Danielle Bradford (left) packs food for gift baskets Monday at the Moore Street Salvation Army in north Portland. Thanks to donations, the non-profit was distributing food to families who could use the help during the holidays. LIM ITED E X H IB IT SPACE Sponsored by: Portland Public Schools • Portland Association of Teachers • Killingsworth Little Chapel of Chimes • SAFECO Corporation • Oregon Education Association • Providence Health System • Portland Community College • Enterprise Rent-A-Car • Portland General Electric • KBOO Radio • Portland Community Media AVAILABLE FOR VENDORS photos by For More Inform ation Please Call: (503) 283-7069 Felipe Andres, 5, gets a free haircut Monday from Nin Dickinson o f Perfect Image Plus during a holiday celebration with local kids at the Moore Street Salvation Army. M ark W ashington /T hk P orti ani ) O bserver U S Military Base Attacked www.worldurtsfoundation.org (AP) — An explo sion ripped through a iness tent at a military base in Mosul where hundreds of U.S. sol diers had just sat down to lunch Tuesday, and officials said 24 people were killed and more than 60 wounded. The dead included 19 U.S. soldiers. The attack came the same day that British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a surprise Yisit to Baghdad and described the ongoing violence in Iraq as a “battle between democ racy and terror.” Workers and U.S. soldiers tend to the wounded after a mortar attack on a The force knocked U.S. military dining facility. soldiers off their feet and out of their seats as a fireball their tables upside down, placed tack. The militia is believed to be enveloped the top of the tent and the wounded on them and gently a fundam entalist group that shrapnel sprayed into the area. carried them into the parking lot. wants to turn Iraq into an Islamic Amid the screaming and thick The Ansar al-Sunnah Army state like Afghanistan’s former smoke in the tent, soldiers turned claimed responsibility for the at Taliban regime. Child Dies, DHS Investigated (A P ) — G ov. T ed K ulongoski on M onday o r dered the state D epartm ent o f Hum an Services to hire an outside expert to review the child w elfare system after two incidents o f suspected abuse w ere re p o rted in as m any w eeks. F rid a y , a 1 5 -m o n th -o ld M ilw aukie boy died at a local hospital ju st three days after C lackam as C ounty sheriff’s deputies responded to a report the toddler was not breathing and was bleeding from the mouth. An autopsy showed the child had suffered m as sive head injuries. The boy had been returned to his biological parents after the state D epartm ent o f Hu man Services had taken legal custody, said sheriff’s spokes man Joel M anley. Two weeks ago, C lackam as C ounty deputies arrested W il liam and Thelm a Beaver on crim inal m istreatm ent charges after one o f their foster ch il dren, a 5-year-old girl, had to be hospitalized because she w eighed only 28 pounds. MNMMMMMMI Expectant Mother Knew Killer It's Better at the Beach! (AP) — Bobbie Jo Stinnett and the woman accused of stran gling her and cutting her baby from her womb were photo graphed together at a dog show months before last week’s at tack, a woman who attended the show said. Stinnett, 23, was eight months p re g n a n t w hen sh e was ¿Ski no o iZYVi n d ¡ 1-888-CHINOOK www.chinookwindscasino.com CASINO RESORT strangled Thursday at her home in Skidmore, Mo., where she and her husband, Zeb, raised rat terriers. Investigators used tips from other rat terrier enthusiasts and data from Stinnett’s computer before arresting Lisa M. Mont gomery, of Melvern, Kan., on Friday. Montgomery, 36, who A d v e rtise w ith d iv e rs ity in ffl" j . ì l i r t l j t n ì ’l ( O b s e r v e r Call 503-288-0033 rite p ort iarKj O b serv er ___________ USPS 95 9-6 80__________ T Established 1970 A 4 7 4 7 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., F F Portland. OR 9721 1 3 E d IT O A S -I N - C a l e r , P U B L IS H UK C k r. a Charles H. 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