Page 4 il!‘ jJJortlanit (Observer Disaster Hits Home Earthquake Claims Grad p a g e, all the ro a d s to the c ity hav e b een d e c im a te d , w ith few w ay s in try that has been so ravaged will o r o u t. ev er rebound. He fears that with so m any desper­ “ I c a n ’t see a future at the cen ter ate people clam oring for such scarce of the c h ao s,” he said. resources violence will surely break B asic se rv ic e s , lik e g ro c e rie s, out. O f particular concern is his wheel­ are o n ly a v a ila b le in th e d e n se ly - chair bound m other and uncle, who p o p u la te d P o r t- a u - P r in c e , th e survived the earthquake and are safe n a tio n ’s c a p ita l, a c c o rd in g to B en in Port-au-Prince. Ferere. From the reports h e ’s heard “W e d o n ’t have days, we have from p h o n e c a lls from frien d s and hours for som ething to h ap p en ,” he re la tiv e s an d his u n c le ’s F aceb o o k said. co n tin u ed The University of Portland is mourning the death of Molly Hightower, a 2009 graduate of the north Portland school who did not survive the devastating earthquake in Haiti. The family of the 22-year-old victim from Port Orchard, Wash, was told that searchers found her body in the wreckage of the building where she lived. She had gone to Haiti in June to work with disabled children for “Friends of the Orphans.” “Our hearts reach out to Molly’s parents and her family and friends,” said University President Rev. E. William Beauchamp. A Mass to celebrate Molly’s life was held Saturday on the University of Portland campus. She majored in psy­ chology, sociology, and French Studies, and studied in Paris in the summer of 2007. 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