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August 31. 2005 «El» ‘ jJorflattit (Ohsvruer_________ Page A6 Fighter Jets to Stay in Portland (A P ) - A federal com m ission Friday blo cked a Pentagon plan that w ould have transferred 15 F - 15 fighter jets patrolling the N o rth w e st's skies from an O regon A ir N a tional G uard base at Portland International A irport. O regon G ov. T ed K ulongoski and the sta te’s congressional delegation w elcom ed the com m ission’s vote against sending the 142nd Fighter W in g’s 15 F - 15 je ts to Air Force bases in New Jersey and Louisiana. “ H ad the com m ission accepted the pro posal to relocate this prem ier air defense unit from the Portland Air National G uard Base. O regon - and our n ation's - hom eland security w ould have been com prom ised.’’ K ulongoski said in an e-m ailed statem ent. “T his is a big victory for O regon, a big victory for the Pacific Northwest and a big victory for the security o f the entire nation,” said Sen. Ron W yden. D-Ore. "The (base- closure) com m ission clearly took to heart the testim ony o f O regonians and defense experts, and agreed that it w ould be inex cusable to leave our region a security sac rifice zone.” Sen. G ordon Sm ith, R-Ore., said the d e cision by the D efense Base C losure and Realignm ent C om m ission "w ill help keep O regonians safe and fulfill our com m itm ent to national security. O ur com m unity and local m ilitary leadership m ade an ironclad case to the com m ission, and this is proof that O regon’s security trum ps governm ent stream lining.” U nder the Pentagon plan, tw o jets from an undeterm ined base w ould have been sent to Portland to be on alert status, but the nearest perm anent fighter base w ould be in Fresno, Calif. - 750 m iles aw ay. A ir G uard officials say. Kulongoski had threatened to sue to prevent the loss o f the 15 fighter jets. The Portland base would have lost 452 civilian and 112 m ilitary em ployees under the plan. A nother 1,200 part-tim e G uard airm en and reservists who train at the Port land base w ould have reported to other units. But the region’s main argum ent against transferring the jets was that it could endan ger the region’s security, Sm ith has said the plan w ould have left just a couple o f planes to defend “a target-rich environm ent" that includes num erous dam s along the C olum bia and Snake Rivers, the U m atillaChem ical W eapons D epot in O regon and the Hanford nuclear site in W ashington. photo by M ark W ashington ZT he P ortland O bserver Curtis Kimbrough, left, and Larry Jury speak with youth participating in the Dream Team Basketball Basic Skills Day Camp, held at the Portland Commu nity College Cascade Campus last week. Basketball Camp Aims High Youth wanting to improve their aim, learn about teamwork and have fun attended the Dream Team Bas ketball Basic Skills Day Camp last week at Portland Community Col lege Cascade Campus. The day camp has been hosted at various courts in the Portland-m etro area since 2002, w hen co ach es Larry Jury and Curtis Kim brough founded the program . O ver the last three years, the cam p has grown from eight children to more than 150 participants. Through a non-competitive atmo sphere, youth ages 6 to 18 are taught the fundamentals basketball, stressing the importance of teamwork, respect and discipline on and off the court. There will be four more camps held at other area locations until late December. For m ore inform ation, visit w w w.dream team cam p.com . Diane Linn pushes back co n tin u ed fro m F ront W ith the repeal o f the co u n ty ’s tem porary three-year incom e tax, w hich provided an estim ated $ 128 m illion to county school districts and program s p ro v id in g m ental health, disabled an d sen io r ser vices, Linn said dealing w ith this lack o f funding will be difficult, but not im possible. “ I t ’ll ta k e a lo t o f c re a tiv ity , a lo t o f to u g h ch o ice s, a lo t o f u s in g up re se rv e s,” L in n said . O n e w ay to k ee p lo cal c h ild re n aflo a t, she said , is th ro u g h the S U N (S ch o o ls U n itin g N eig h b o r h o o d s) p ro g ra m , w h ich has been rea ch in g o u t to m o re an d m o re are a sc h o o ls o v e r th e la st y ear. S U N e n c o u ra g e s afte r-sc h o o l a c ad e m ic an d re c re a tio n a l p ro g ram s, so cial se rv ic e s an d p a re n tal in v o lv e m e n t to k eep ch ild re n on th e rig h t trac k b e tw e e n 3 to 6 p .m ., w h ich are c o n s id e re d the m o s t v u ln e r a b le h o u r s o f a I ’m worried about my hometown. We're disinvesting in our education. We're making it harder to buy homes and making it harder for the middle class. - Diane Linn, Chair of the Multnomah County Board of Commissioners y o u th ’s d ay , w ith m an y p aren ts aw ay at w o rk . “ H ow is a kid supposed to m ake the rig h t c h o ic e w hen th e y ’re out a n d a b o u t? ” L in n a sk e d . She noted th at it’s o ften hard for youth to go a g a in st the n eg a tiv e p re s su res th ey e x p e rie n c e from peers an d ho m e life. 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