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^Jortlaub (Observer
O ctober 19, 2011
Do You Remember the Columbus Day Storm?
Submissions needed
for 50th anniversary
The Oregon H istorical Society is plan
ning an exhibit com m em orating the 50th
anniversary of the Colum bus Day Storm,
which is regarded as the most powerful
w eather event in m odern Oregon history.
The exhibit will open on Oct. 8,2012,50
years after the Oct. 8, 1962 event.
The Oregon H istorical Society will be
displaying photographs and artifacts from
its collections to tell the story of an event
that changed the lives of many O rego
nians.
To tell the com plete story, however,
OHS needs the help o f all O regonians who
rem em ber the storm. The Oregon H istori
cal Society is looking for subm issions of
photographs, film footage, diary entries,
artifacts, or personal memories of the storm
50 years ago. Anyone who is interested in A p h o to from the c ity o f P o rtla n d 's A u d ito r’s o f f i c ' ^ h ^ d ^ ^ f t ^ t h ^ 9 6 2
contributing to this exhibit should em ail
C olum bus Day Storm .
Police Openings Draw Crowd
Elmore said, have already been
trained in the police department and
major cities like Los Angeles, where have received police certification.
police say, a larger minority popula Laterals or police officers that have
tion resides, and often in areas where already been active are also more
officer lay-offs are high, such as likely to be considered.
Lexington, Kentucky and Ohio.
When asked what the bureau is
Many individuals that apply, doing to find potential officers from
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the local community, police said
they are doing outreach to get area
residents competitive for the jobs.
At Portland Community College,
the bureau has officers on the Cas
cade campus in north Portland, three
days a week during the semester
terms, “talking to folks there” to
demonstrate positive reasons to be
a police officer.
T his type o f ou treach allo w s
o fficers to find out who m ay be
in terested in becom ing a Port-
land police o fficer and encour-
ages those, who m ay nev er have
tho u g h t about such a caree r to
becom e aw are o f the req u ire-
m ents and recru itm en t process.
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The Storm brought w idespread devas
tation to Oregon and the Pacific N orth
west. W ind gusts in Portland reached 116
miles per hour, 127 miles per hour in
Corvallis, and gusts in excess o f 145 miles
per hour were registered at Cape Blanco
on the Oregon Coast.
Nearly 50 fatalities were attributed to
the storm, more than any other Pacific
Northwest w eather event in history. The
storm also blew down over 11 billion board
feet o f tim ber in northern C alifornia, O r
egon, and W ashington combined.
The Columbus Day Storm damaged count
less buildings across Oregon, with the State
Capitol grounds in Salem, and the state's
college campuses, being hit especially hard.
Economic damage caused by The Storm has
been estimated at $6 billion in today’s dollars.
The Storm also forced portions of Oregon to
rebuild their power systems from the ground
up, with some locations going without power
for several weeks.
This is a new approach for the
bureau, Elmore said. “We should
have been doing it some time ago; it
could open some doors for us.”
A new process to register on
recruiting days has been imple-
mented city-wide. Applicants must
set up a p ro file a c c o u n t on
govemmentjobs.com.
Applicants must have or be able
to obtain a valid driver’s license
and have no excessive traffic vio
lations, no felonies, no history o f
dom estic violence or dishonor
able discharge from the m ilitary,
and no offensive forms o f body
art while on duty.
Minimum qualifications at the
time of testing include being at least
21 years of age, having a high school
diploma or GED, and being a U.S.
citizen within one year of employ
ment.
A pplicants must also possess
a minimum of one of the following:
an associate degree or equivalent
from an accredited college or uni
versity; two years o f active m ili
tary service or four years o f re
serve m ilitary service; two years
o f continuous service working in
a law enforcem ent agency in O r
egon; two years o f service as a
reserve police officer; two years
service as a police cadet; two years
o f continuous service working for
a law enforcem ent agency exer
cising police powers; or two years
o f continuous service in another
police agency as a sworn police
officer.
If applicants are lucky enough to
get applications in within the 10
minutes span it often takes for 200
spots to fill up, then they will be
considered for the job through a
series of evaluation phases.
The steps include a written exami
nation, physical agility test, oral In
terview, background Investigation,
physiological evaluation, and finally,
a medical evaluation.