Portland observer. (Portland, Or.) 1970-current, September 14, 2005, Page 3, Image 3

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Breast Cancer Awareness Focus of Expo
Booths, speakers focus on health
Helping to kick o ff the Susan
C honitia Sm ith, executive d i­
G. Komen Race for the Cure this rector o f the Sankofaa H ealth In­
weekend will be Health Expo 2005, stitute, will speak at 10 a.m. on
held at the O regon Convention breast c a n c e r p rev en tio n and
C enter on Friday from 8 a.m. to 7 education for A frican A m erican
p.m. and Saturday from 9 a.m. to women. S he’ II be one o f nearly 20
5 p.m. The expo is designed not speakers spanning the two-day
only to prom ote breast cancer event.
aw arness, but general fitness as
Sm ith, along with Rev. Renee
well.
Ward o f Chrysalis Ministries, will
also host a booth that offers
vouchers for free mammogram
health screenings.
Registration for Race for the Cure
begins at Sunday at 6:30a.m. at the
Tom McCall Waterfront Park with
the race continuing through the
morning. Those interested in par­
tic ip a tin g
can
v isit
www.raceforthecure-pdx.org.
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A memorial marks the location o f a hit-and-run fatality.
Accident victim, Christopher Burris
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21-year-old Christopher Burris
died instantly after being hit by a
suspected drunk driver while riding
his bike down Martin Luther King
Jr. B o u lev ard n ear N o rth east
W ygant Street around 2 a.m. on
Sept. 3.
A white “ghost bike” bike now
lays mangled on the sidewalk near
the scene of the collision to memo­
rialize Burris, letting passersby
know that he was loved by family
and friends.
“Chris was a phenomenal per­
son. He was so intelligent, so pro­
gressive,” saidChakra, Burris’girl­
friend. “He always thought of other
people before himself.”
Chakra was riding together with
Burris at the time o f the collision.
Her 4-year-old daughter was in a
small trailer attached to her bike.
Riding close to the curb, she
recalled that Burristold her calmly
to move over onto the sidew alk.
Seconds later, a speeding car hit
Burris with such im pact that he
(lew off his bike into the middle of
the street. The driver, 4 1 -year-
old A n th o ny T roy S au n d ers,
sped off.
Traffic investigators arrested
Saunders a day later. He has been
charged with manslaughter in the
second degree and one count of
felony hit and run.
This makes four bike-related
deaths in Portland this year alone.
This incident isjust one reminder to
drivers and bicyclists to play it safe
on the streets.
“W e’re not invincible-w e’re on
a bike. If you hit us, w e’re going to
go flying,” Chakra said.
For more information on bike
and driver safety or to find marked
bike routes around the city, visit
www.bikeportland.org.
A rendering shows the structure o f the Headquarters Hotel, as
presented by local developers Ashworth Pacific and Garfield
Traub. The structure is being planned for Martin Luther King Jr.
Blvd. across from the Oregon Convention Center.
Convention Center
Hotel in the Works
The Oregon Convention Center
will have a new neighbor soon when
the Headquarters Hotel pops up.
An evaluation com m ittee re­
cently met with local developers
A shw orth Pacific and G arfield
T raub to discuss plans for the 23-
floor hotel, to be built along M ar­
tin L uther K ing Jr. Blvd and
H olladay S treet fo r travelers.
Three levels o f the hotel will be
transparent, to expose the inside
activity to the adjacent conven­
tion center.
A final decision on the hotel’s
development plans and an oppor­
tunity for public comment will be
made a, an Oct. 12 meeting with the
Portland Development Com m is­
sion.
For more inform ation, visit
www.pdc.us/hqhotel.
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