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50¿ U 36 years of community service Drawn into School Battle Creative Expressions Over church-backed Siren’s Echo backs i u student i l V 111 . i 1 1 u show w academ y l^ n V See Metro, inside fk 8*-g |Z inside ^ee See ^e Metro, ,r<>’ *ns* <*e ^dnriutuu (Dueeruer 4 ‘City of Roses’ Established in 1970 Committed to Cultural Diversity Volume XXXVI, Number 10 www.portlandobserver.corti Wednesday • March 22. 2006 a A Iff Bishop T.D. Jakes will speak at New Begin nings Christian Center on Saturday, March 25. Bishop T.D Jakes to Visit Portland Considered one of the most influential pastors photo by S arah B iahjnt /T he P ortland O bserver One o f the largest protests in Portland history, and the largest anti-war rally in the world marking the third anniversary o f the Iraq War, fills Waterfront Park. Portland Police estim ated nearly 10 ,0 0 0 participated in Sunday's downtown rally and march. See story and additional photo, page A6 by S arah B lount T he P ortland O bserver New Beginnings Christian Center is taking their congregation in a radical new direction this summ er, moving to a new 60,000 square-foot hom e on 24 acres at33OON.E. 172nd Place in Gresham. The church will celebrate the move early, with an appearance by Bishop T.D. Jakes on Saturday, M arch 25. Last yearTim e magazine named Jakes as one o f the 25 most Influential evangelicals in America. He is the pastor o f The Potter’s House, a multiracial, nonde- nominational church in Dallas, with more than 50 outreach ministries. D oors for the event will open at 9:30 a m., and the program starts 10:30 a.m. Jakes will share his “word with the Northwest” shortly after. New Beginnings is at 7600 N.E. G lisan St. and the special appearance is open to the community. Childcare is available for infants to 12 years o f age. The church, which has been in northeast Portland for the past 12 years, will relocate to the G resham property they purchased in 1995. Senior pastors Larry and Tiz Hutch left last year to launch a w orldwide m inistry out o f Dallas. New Beginnings’ senior pas tors are now Brad and Lisa M akowski. continued on page A6 Drivers Offered $300 for Study ODOT' recruits 300 volunteers Electronic monitoring equipment would be installed the front dash and back end o f vehicles participating in a mileage counting study by the Oregon Department o f Transportation. TLWeek in The Review Man Dies after Taser Shot Portland police used a taser on a man w ho w itnesses say was speak ing gibberish, foaming at the mouth and running intotraf- fic on N o rth ea st S an d y Boulevard. He died on the way to the hospital. See sto ry , p ag e A3 Challenger Endorsed incum bent T ed Kulongoski. See sto ry , p ag e A3 Iraq War Defended President Bush said Tuesday there will be "m ore tough fighting ahead" in Iraq, but added, “W e’re making progress” and denied claim s that Iraq is in the grips o f a civil war. He also re je c te d a c c u s a tio n s that he was determined to wage w ar in Iraq from early in his presi dency. Form er State T reasurer Jim Iraq Prison Hill has picked up a major Stormed endorsem ent from the Ser Insurgents storm ed a Jim Hill vice E m ployees In tern a jail around dawn Tues tional Union in his race for gover day in the Sunni M uslim heartland nor in the May 16 Prim ary against north o f Baghdad, killing 19 police The Oregon D epartm ent o f Transportation will offer up to 300volunteers ¿minimum o f $300 guaranteed with the opportunity to earn more with price breaks on gasoline to help it test m ileage counting equipm ent. R esidents o f northeast and southeast Portland w ho drive 1996 or new ercars may qualify in the R oadU serFee Pilot Program, a program to test options for replacing O regon’s gas tax. The participants in the pilot pro gram will need to purchase their gas at one o f tw o stations in northeast and southeast Portland at least tw ice per month, O D O T officials said. During one six-m onth period, most volunteers will not have to pay the gas tax thereby saving 24 cents on each gallon o f gas. The program will run for one year starting in May. Like a m ile age o d o m eter, h ardw are in stalled in the volunteers’ ve hicles will count the num ber o f mi les they travel in Oregon. Elec tronic devices will have the abil ity to record and transm it m ile age information between the car and the gas pump. Potential volunteers can im m ediately see if they are eligible by v is itin g h ttp :// w w w .oregon.gov/O D O T / and click on “Road user fees.” Potential volunteers may sign up for the program by contacting Alex Nydahl at 503-423-3837. neighborhoods shattered by H ur ricane Katrina. See sto ry , page A2 and a co u rth o u se guard in a prison break that freed doz ens o f pri soners and le ft 10 a tta c k e rs dead. Teen Killed for Walk on Lawn Santana Speaks Out on War C a rlo s S a n ta n a quoted his old friend Jimi Hendrix in lash in g o u t a g a in s t Carlos Santana calls for peace over war. P resident Bush in an an ti-w a r r lessage M onday. “T h ere is more v alu e in p lacin g a Big Easy Rebuilding Plan flow er in a rifle jarrel than m aking New Orleans M ayor Ray Nagin fin w a r," S an ta n , sa id . “ A s Jim i ished work M onday on a plan to H en d rix u sed to say , m u sical rebuild New O rleans, endorsing a notes have m ore im p o rta n ce than proposal that would allow all resi dents to rebuild their hom es in b u lle ts." f A man in O hio w ho neighbors say was devoted to his m eticulously kept lawn was charged with murder in the shooting o f a 15-year-old boy who apparently w alked across his yard. See sto ry , p ag e A2 Chrysler Vehicles Recalled C hrysler is recalling 268,8(X) ve hicles from the 2005-2006 model years to replace a faulty front w ind shield w iper motor, the com pany said M onday The vehicles include the Dodge Durango. D odge C ara van an d G ra n d C a ra v a n , an d C hrysler Tow n & Country.