August 31. 2005
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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.
L in n n o te d th at w h ile d ata is
still co m in g in re g a rd in g th e su c
c e ss o f S U N , w h ich a ffe c ts m ore
th an 10,0(X) local k id s, te st sco res
are im p ro v in g , p are n tal in v o lv e
m ent is h ig h e r, an d sch o o l s ta ff
“ fin ally feel like th e re ’s so m eo n e
th e re to h elp th e m .”
Linn hopes her w ork will m ake
the people o f M ultnom ah County
feel the sam e w ay.
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