Ted Kennedy’s Life & Times
Likely Bid for Governor
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A timeline from a liberal
champion who never wavered in
pursuit o f his causes
Former Gov. John Kitzhaber may
come out of retirement to run for
the state’s highest office
See special coverage, inside
See story, page A2
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Vandals Ransack Alberta
Several businesses, including
the T in Shed & G arden Café
were vandalized on A lberta
Street in northeast Portland on
M onday m orning. Police said
vandals broke out w indow s,
tip p e d tra sh c a n s an d d e ­
stroyed a com puter.
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$4 billion in the year's biggest
media deal, banking on Marvel's
pantheon o f superheroes to
broaden its lineupof movie fran­
chises that appeal to boys.
Man Shoots Pitbull
Police say a m an who shot and
killed a pit bull in V ancouver
had a perm it to carry a gun and
acted in self defense. The 73-
year-old man w as threatened
Saturday by tw o vicious dogs
as he was walking near his
home.
Wednesday • September 2, 2009
Irvington Village Redo
Providence
saves local
resource
A local residen tial facility
geared to A frican A m ericans
and o th e r resid e n ts n eed in g
quality, com passionate and af­
fo rd a b le a ssiste d liv in g and
M edicaid-funded services has
been saved with a new agree­
m ent
w ith
P ro v id e n c e
ElderPlace.
T he n atio n ally reco g n ized
residential healthcare program
has agreed to assum e o p era­
tions o f C ovenant Retirem ent
Com munities' Irvington Village,
a 104-unit affordable assisted-
living facility in northeast Port­
land.
C ovenant approached P ro v i­
dence and proposed the agree­
m ent to ensure the future suc­
cess o f the seven year old facil­
ity on N ortheast M artin Luther
photo by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserv kr
King Jr. Boulevard.
“T h is is the b est p o ssib le Irving Village employees Ricky Carter and Edwin Gonzalez join Providence ElderPlace executive Cindy Noordijk (center)
outcom e for Irvington Village,” outside the northeast Portland assisted living center, a key resource for seniors needing affordable living and Medicaid-
said Rick Fisk, C ovenant presi­ funded services.
dent. “We are grateful to Provi­
“Irvington Village is an impor­ in m aking sure that it serves the services for Providence Health
The agreem ent follow s sev­
dence for partnering with us to eral m onths o f conversations tant resource for the people o f com m unity for years to com e,” & Services in Oregon.
secure its future for our com ­ betw een C ovenant, Providence northeast Portland, and w e’re said Jerry Hunter, chief execu­
continued
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munity.”
glad Providence can take part tive o f hom e and com m unity
and the state o f Oregon.
Reflections on Kennedy’s Advocacy
Portland residents grateful
Firefighters Gain on Blaze
Firefighters set backfires and
rem oved brush with bulldozers
across a huge swath o f South­
ern C alifornia forest on T ues­
day to try to contain a 190-
square-m ile w ildfire that has
destroyed 53 hom es and threat­
ened thousands more in foot­
hill suburbs.
Coach Gets 15 Years
by A manda G rkak and J ake
T hom as /T iie P ortland O bserver
U.S. Sen. Edw ard Kennedy
may have hailed from M assa­
chusetts and fought battles in
a c a p ita l fa r aw ay , b u t th e
legacy left by the “Lion o f the
Senate" had a big im pact for
local residents.
A cham pion for the poor and
dow ntrodden, seniors and the
disabled, K ennedy was the last
surviving brother to civil rights
heroes John F. K ennedy and
Robert Kennedy, when he died
F o rm e r L ak e
O sw ego coach
H ow ard Avery
will spend the
next 15 years in
prison for sexu­
ally abusing a teenager he had
mentored. The sentence was
im posed Thursday after a trial
that found him guilty o f “forced
sex acts against a ju venile.”
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Middle Schools Improve
N ew ly released statistics show
Oregon middle schools have
made significant gains in stu­
dent perform ance on state read­
ing, math and science tests.
The state's elem entary and high
schools show ed less progress,
posting marginal gains or in
some cases, losses.
Natural Gas Rates to Fall
Because natural gas prices have
fallen significantly, NW N atu­
ral Tuesday filed a request with
the Public Utility Com m ission
o f Oregon for a rate decrease of
14.5 percent for residential cus­
tom ers and 17.5 percent for
com mercial custom ers.
of
community service
last w eek at age 77.
Sitting at a bus stop in north
Portland, Dee W ilson rem em ­
bers the senator’s deep-seated
concern for the disadvantaged
and his commitment to make life
better for those too often locked
out and left behind.
“He was som eone who dealt
with everybody,” she said be­
fore scurrying o ff to catch her
bus.
W alk in g alo n g th e N o rth
K illin g sw o rth S treet, R obert
In g ra m s im p ly re m e m b e rs
Senator
Kept
Dream
Alive
Kennedy for his steady support
for good causes.
‘'H e w as a g o o d g u y ,” he
said.
Shelia A shdow ell, w alking
along the same stretch of street.
a d d e d , “ I h o p e th a t th e r e ’s
someone w ho will pick things
up.”
A t th e U rb a n L e a g u e o f
Portland’s Multicultural Senior
Services Center, Jim Unthank
Shelia Ashdowell
w as sad d en ed to hear about
Kennedy’s death, while grateful
for his work on civil rights and
ardent support for minorities.
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THE W O R K
GOES O N
SHALL
NEVER
C
G O tS O H
CAUSE
Death marks end
to a political era
(AP) - Sen. Edward M. Kennedy was
laid to rest alongside slain brothers John
and Robert on hallow ed ground a, Ar­
lington National Cem etery on Saturday
evening, celebrated for "the dream he
kept alive" across the decades since
their deaths.
Crow ds lined the streets o f tw o cities
on a day that marked the end o f a politi­
cal era — outside K ennedy's funeral in
rainy Boston, and later in the day in
hum id, late-sum m er W ashington. D C.
With flags over the Capitol flying at half-
staff in his memory, his hearse stopped
outside the Senate w here he served for
47 years.
"Go now, to your place o f rest. And
meet the Lord, your God," said the Rev.
Robert Ingram
Jim Unthank
Dee Wilson
T H E hope
fH F tA U S E
STILL UVES
A makeshift shrine is seen during a candlelight vigil in memory o f Sen. Edward Kennedy at Dupont Circle in
Washington, D.C.
Daniel Coughlin, the House chaplain.
A few m iles away, K ennedy's freshly
excavated gravesite w as on a gently
sloping Virginia hillside, flanked by a
pair o f maple trees. His brother Robert,
killed in 1968 while running for presi­
dent, lies 100 feet away. It is another
1 (X) to the eternal flame that has burned
since 1963 for John F. Kennedy, presi­
dent when he was assassinated.
Kennedy died Tuesday at 77, more
than a year after he was diagnosed with
a brain tumor.
O ne son, Patrick, w ept quietly as an ­
other son, Teddy Jr., spoke from the
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pulpit of O ur Lady of Perpetual Help in
Boston. Teddy Jr. recalled the day years
ago, shortly after losing a leg to cancer,
that he slipped walking up an icy drive­
way as he headed out to go sledding.
"I started to cry and I said. I'll never be
able to clim b up that hill,"' the son said.
"And he lifted me up in his strong,
gentle arm s and said som ething I will
never forget. He said, ’I know you can
do it. There is nothing that you can't
d o ."
R ain b e a t d o w n s te a d ily as
K ennedy's coffin was hom e by a m ili­
tary honor guard into the Basilica of
O ur Lady o f Perpetual Help, and again
when it was brought back out for the
flight to W ashington and the military
cem etery in V irginia ju st across the
Potomac River from W ashington.
In life, the senator had visited the
burial ground often to mourn his broth­
ers, John and Robert, killed in their 40s.
more than a generation ago, by assas­
sins' bullets.
"He was given a gift of time that his
brothers w ere not. And he used that
tim e to touch as many lives and right as
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