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Jïortlanit (Pbsertirr November 2. 2011 IN S ID E This page Sponsored by: Pag^B FredMeyer What's on your list today?» A rmed F orces page 4-23 N ovember C alendar pageS H ealth pages 10-11 °M G0AnMV.COM G°/fh g R » SS. COM D.S. ARM Y 12 M JET R O Military Service Honored pages 13 Hollywood parade to collect donations by L ee P erlman T he P ortland O bserver T he H ollyw ood B oosters and Ross H ollyw ood Funeral Chapel will once again host the c ity ’s largest V eterans D ay Parade - and this y ear parade volunteers have a special w ay for people to honor veterans particularly in need. T he annual parade will begin at 9:45 a.m. on Friday, Nov. 11 onN orth- east 40th A venue at T illam o o k Street in the H ollyw ood D istrict. It will m arch south to N ortheast Sandy B oulevard, and conclude at Ross Chapel, 4733 N.E. Tillam ook St., for a cerem onial raising o f the flag. The parade w ill feature W orld W ar II veteran G eorge T im m ons as grand m arshal, and there w ill be high school m arching bands, ser vice organizations and public offi- cials as well as veterans groups m arching or riding by. O n b eh alf o f JO IN , a group o f volunteers will push an open w agon over the route. The public is asked to toss blankets, in useable c o n d i tion, into the w agon for use by hom e less veterans w ho spend nights on the streets. T he project is the brain- continued on page 6 Police Arrest ‘Occupy’ Campers INIIlIAINMtNI Second sweep targets new tent city pages 12-18 O pinion pages 20-21 ' , 2; • • V ,.A ' ? A A y. / a C lassifieds F o o d page 24 í ' . • page 22 For the second tim e, police in Portland have dislodged protesters w ho tried to expand the O ccupy Portland encam pm ent. Before daw n T u esd ay , city offic ers helped Federal Protective S er vice agents clear the T erry Shrunk federal plaza, w hich is located next to tw o city parks w here a tent city sprang up on Oct. 6. N ine people w ere arrested, and the tents they had erected the day before w ere rem oved. T hat follow ed the arrests early Sunday o f 27 people w ho refused to leave a park in the gentrified Pearl District. T he city has allow ed protesters to cam p on tw o city-ow ned park blocks, but said they c an ’t occupy more. "I w anted to m ake sure it w as M oore praised the Portland version o f the m ovem ent protesting c o rp o done peacefully: I approved the feds’ rate influence in governm ent and request for assistance," said M ayor w ealth inequality. Sam A dam s in a tw eet. " I’ve been to m any o f the o ccu p a Lt. Robert King said police m oved tions across this country. N ew York, on T erry Schrunk Plaza at 4 a.m . so L.A ., San Francisco, and this is by people w ould be sleeping and few far the largest occupation I have cars w ould be on the streets. seen," M oore said. T he crow d o f "It definitely got a little tense, several hundred cheered. m aybe heated." King told T he O r A g ro u p p ro te stin g p ro p o se d egonian. "Tensions didn’t rise to the coal export term inals in the N o rth point where we used any kind o f w est staged a H allow een "zom bie" force. I d on’t feel that m ost o f the m arch to B ank o f A m erica branches people with O ccupy Portland want to in dow ntow n Portland. have a confrontation with police." Police arrested one m an in zom Som e protesters told the paper bie m akeup after a bank em ployee the expansion w as a distraction, identified him as the person w ho left others, such as Jason Sayer, 40, o f a red substance and pieces o f p aper Portland, criticized w hat they called stuck to glass in the lobby. Sgt. Pete a m ilitary-style p olice operation. Sim pson said T im Sw enson, 27, w as King said the nine w ould face arrested for investigation o f c rim i federal charges. nal m ischief and disorderly conduct. O n M onday, film m ak er M ichael -Associated Press
