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PHOTO BY C \R I HACHM ANN/THE PORTLAND OBSERVER
Paul Harris (left) and James Griener, a couple for almost 4 0 years, were first in line to receive a
marriage license in Clark County Thursday, the first day same-sex marriages became legal in the
state after Washington voters approved a ballot measure in November to enact the law.
Freedom to Marry
Same-sex couples line up for licenses
C ari H achmann
married in the state of Washington.
T he P ortland O bserver
Several couples arrived the night
A rare jubilance was in the air before, braving the cold for a mid
T hursday at the C lark County night celebration and waiting in line
auditor’s office in Vancouver, where until the doors opened at 8 a.m. By
for the first time in history, same-sex midday, 40 same-sex couples had
couples could legally apply to be provided the necessary documents
by
and paid the $64 to bind them in legal
matrimony.
The first in line was Clark County
Marriage License Manager Paul
Harris. After 27 years of issuing
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Young Males Armed with Guns
Three incidents in recent days raise concerns
P olice B eat
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A 7-year-oId and 11-year-old vehicle outside the Freedom Four
The woman refused to give them
used a gun in an attempted carjacking square Church at 16000 S.E. Alder anything and drove away, calling 9-
at a southeast Portland church Sat St. when the two boys approached 1 -1. As she pulled away she saw the
urday, adding to separate incidents her vehicle and threatened to 11-year-old pull the gun from his
in the past few days of a young male shoot her if she d id n ’t give them pocket.
arrested with a gun at Jefferson High som ething.
Police were able to make contact
School, and another teenager ar-
She told police that when the with the pair. The 11-year-old was
fesied with multiple firearms at his younger male told the older one to Ordered to keep his hahds'out of his
home in north Portland.
"show her your piece," the boy lifted
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Ami G arrett was sitting in her his shirt and showed her a gun.