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‘City of Roses’
Established in 1970
Volume XXXV, Number 34
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Committed to Cultural Diversity
Week in
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Wednesday • August 17, 2005
N ig h tlife
Shaken Up
photo by M ark W ashington /
T he P ortland O bserver
Gaza Settlers Defy Deadline
H undreds o f Jew ish settlers d e
fied a m idnight Tuesday dead
line to leave G aza, attacking Is
raeli troops and dancing around
the Torah in celebration o f their
resistan ce to Prim e M in ister
A riel S haro n ’s historic plan to
disengage from the Palestinians.
Clubs, police address
street shootings
Crash Leaves 160 Dead
A chartered je t filled with tour
ists returning home to the French
C aribbean island o f M artinique
crash ed T u esd ay in w estern
Venezuela, killing all 160 people
on board. The pilot had been
attem pting an em ergency land
ing after both engines failed,
officials said.
by N icole H ooper
T he P ortland O bserver
P o rtlan d police and n ig h tc lu b o w n e rs in the d o w n
tow n e n te rta in m e n t d istric t are q u e stio n in g and revising
public p o licies in the a fte rm a th o f several recen t street
shootings.
P olice have bo o sted p atro ls d o w n to w n an d at least
one n ig h tclu b an n o u n ced that it w as ch a n g in g its m usic,
Plane Lost Pressure In ‘04
e lim in a tin g hip -h o p to d e te r v io le n t cu sto m e rs.
Investigators trying to d eter
mine why a Cyprus airliner c a r
rying 121 people crashed in the
G reek m ountains focused on
reports o f past technical p rob
lems, with a form er mechanic for
the airline saying Tuesday the
je t lost cabin pressure during a
flight last year.
T here have been three sh o o tin g in c id e n ts on the
streets aro u n d the clu b s this m o n th . T h e v io le n c e m ostly
occu rred aro u n d c lu b c lo sin g tim es in the v icin ity o f
S o u th w est S econd, T h ird and F o u rth A v en u es.
A 28-y ear-o ld m an w as k illed on A u g 8 a fte r 4 0
g u n sh o ts w ere fired. T he bullets b roke w id o w s at M etro
Pizza, a late night restau ran t that stay s op en until 4 a.m .
on Friday and S atu rd ay nig h ts a ttra c tin g h u n g ry and
tipsy clu b patrons. T he d estru c tio n c o u ld c o st o w n e r
Coretta Scott
King in Hospital
D iana K oelling m ore than $ 5 ,0 0 0 in repairs.
D o w n th e s tre e t is th e V u e N ig h tc lu b . In an e ffo rt
C ivil rights m atriarch Coretta
Scott King was in fair condition
Tuesday after being h ospital
ized for an unspecified condi
tion, a hospital official said. See
story, page A2.
to sto p th e v io le n c e , it w ill b e o n e o f th e first
Madonna Breaks Leg
M adonna’s 47th birthday c e l
ebration was m arred Tuesday
when she suffered several bro
ken bones in a horse riding ac
cident at her country hom e o u t
side London, her publicist told
The A ssociated Press.
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The Red Sea, located on 318 S. W. Third Ave., decided many years ago
to switch from playing live Reggae music to mainstream hip-hop to
attract clientele.
What do you think of suggestions to close dance clubs early
and not play hip-hop as a response to the downtown shootings?
Parents Make Anti-War Plea
The day after burying their son,
the O hio parents o f a fallen M a
rine urged President Bush to
either send more reinforcem ents
to Iraq or w ithdraw U.S. troops
altogether. “W e feel you either
have to fight this w ar right or get
o u t,” Rosem ary Palm er, m other
ofL an ceC p l. Edward Schroeder
II, said Tuesday. Schroeder, 23,
died tw o w eeks ago in a road
side explosion.
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Bush Ranch
Restrictions Wanted
Some o f President Bush’s neigh
bors asked county leaders T ues
day to prevent large gatherings
near his Texas ranch like the
ongoing anti-w ar protest led by
C indy Sheehan, the m other o f a
soldier who died in Iraq. Dozens
o f people have joined Sheehan’s
protest by pitching tents o ff the
w inding, tw o-lane road leading
to B u sh ’s ranch.
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Younger people are the ones more
apt to make more trouble. I don’t
think the music has anything to
do with the maturity level o f the
clientele.
-Clarice Banks
It’s really rude to imply that
hip-hop is the problem. Hip-
hop is a form o f music and
everyone listens to it regard
less o f age and color, it’s not
the fault of the music.
-R e g g ie Brown
First African
American Officer
Honored
Charles Duke achieved
despite hurdles
Portland
Police —
Chief Derrick Foxworth
p o sth u m o u sly hon-
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Charles Duke with the
police d ep artm en t’s
Achievement Medal
On Dec. 4 , 1946, Of
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land Police Bureau. At
the time of his appoint- Charles Duke
ment, Duke scored first out o f the 203
individuals taking the entrance exam. In his
original application, he wrote that he wanted
to become a police officer, “because I be
lieve that I can do my community some good
in this capacity.”
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play.
do n ’t think
if s an effect of the atmosphere
or the music. The young kids
today need guidance. Now is
the time to talk to them so we
can prevent instances like this
in the future.
—Javier Chavez
-A rthur Williams
Dance clubs should be
closed all together be
cause there is too much
violence. I am not from
Portland but ever since
I have been here I have
heard nothing but bad
things about the clubs.
—Marsha Pittman
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—Michelle Harris
Safety Issue for Incoming Woodlawn Kids
Children must cross
major highways
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K atherine B i . ackmore
T he P ortland O bserver
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With the closure of Applegate Elemen
tary School in north Portland this fall, trans
ferring students to Woodlawn Elementary
might not be easy - literally.
Children from pre-kindergarten to fifth
grade will have to venture through the
crowded highways of Lombard Street (U.S.
30 bypass) and Martin Luther King. Jr.
Boulevard (U.S. 99) to get to school and
back.
Parents, community members and their
children are concerned about the safety of
this area, which is why about 50 people
photo by K atherine R lackmori / T hf . P ortland O bserver
rallied last Thursday at the busy intersec
Frustration spills over at a Thursday protest over the lack o f student bus services
tion to protest.
for kids entering Woodlawn Elementary after neighboring Applegate School was
Picket signs shouted “Kids and trucks
closed
last spring due to budget cuts.
don tm ix and “One lousy bus stop is all we
ask. Chants o f “Hey hey, ho ho, unsafe hurt, i f sone too many,” said Sheila Warren, decides to run across the street against the
crossings have to go!” were met with sup- chairperson o f the Woodlawn Association
light, and collides with an oncoming car?
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