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FBI honors late
youth advocate
Rob Ingram
The late youth advocate Rob
Ingram has been honored by the
FBI with the presentation of a na
tional C om m unity L eadership
Award presented to his surviving
fam ily m em bers in h o n o r o f
Ingram ’s legacy o f extraordinary
work in gang prevention and edu
cation.
D ana Ingram , the P o rtlan d
leader’s widow, accepted the award
from FBI Director Robert S. Mueller
III on Friday.
“As we honor his work and dedi Dana Ingram accepts a Community Leadership Award awarded on
cation, we hope to inspire a new behalf o f her late husband Robert Ingram for his work with at-risk
generation of men and women to youth. Presenting the award in Portland on Friday was FBI Director
stand up for what can be and should Robert S. Mueller.
be a brighter future for our chil the Portland's Office of Youth Vio field divisions chooses one person
dren," said Greg Fowler, special lence Prevention in 2007.
or organization to receive the
agent in charge of the FBI in Or
In addition to his work at the city, Director's Community Leadership
egon.
Ingram was active in the commu Award. Each recipient must have
Rob Ingram, who died unexpect nity. He served on the FBI's Multi shown a lifelong commitment to
edly in November 201 1 at the age of cultural Advisory Council, as presi crime prevention orcommunity ser
38, began his work with at-risk youth dent of the Urban League of Port vice.
in 1991 as a counselor for Emmanuel land Young Professionals group,
"Over the years, Mr. Ingram
Community Services.
on the Big Brothers Big Sisters Af shared his personal story - the story
O ver the years, he worked with rican American Advisory Board, and of a child growing up in a family
kids at many different non-profits as the chair of the Gang Violence touched by gangs, drugs and vio
and service organizations before Task Force.
lence - to teach the lessons of hope
being appointed as the director of
Every year, each of the FBI's 56 and resilience,” said Fowler.
Oregon Opens Gun Control Debate
Governor calls
for expanding
background
checks
C alendar
C lassifieds
pages 18-19
(AP) — Gov. John Kitzhaber
called for expanding gun sale back
ground checks and for new restric
tions on carrying guns in elemen
tary and secondary schools as
Oregon's Legislature on Friday be
gan hearing testimony on gun con
trol bills.
"These two bills represent a rea
sonable and necessary set of steps
that this Legislature can and should
take, Kitzhaber told lawmakers and
more than 100 people who showed
Gov. John Kitzhaber
up to testify,
After a Decem ber shooting that
killed two people at a suburban
Portland mall, some lawmakers
called for a ban on m ilitary-style
rifles like the one used in that
shooting spree. But law m akers
ultim ately abandoned that idea
amid opposition from gun rights
advocates.
Oregon legislators on Friday be
gan hearing testimony on a package
of four bills that seeks to tighten
some gun restrictions while avoid
ing more contentious measures.
The bills would ban guns in
primary and secondary schools,
prohibit gun owners from openly
carrying weapons in public build
ings, require crim inal background
checks for private gun sales or
transfers, and require concealed-
handgun ap p lican ts to take a
safety course and pass a profi
ciency test.