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Page 2 The ^Jortlanò (Oh sem er USPS 959-680 __________ Portland Observer Black History Month Established 1970 4 7 4 7 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland, OR 97211 P u blish er : E d ito r : Mark Washington, Sr. M ich a el L eig h to n E xecutive D irector : Rakeem Washington C reative D irector : P aul N e u fe ld t O ffice M anager /C iassieieds : Lucinda Baldwin A dvertising M anager : Leonard Latin R eporter /P hotographer Donovan M. Smith TheWeek Review School Bus Drivers May Strike February 12, 2014 for the first time. Wireless Emergency Alerts sent out a special alert tone and 90 character messages Sunday to all enabled phones urging residents to stay inside to avoid the weather conditions. Amalgamated Transit Union and the school bus company First Student met with mediators last Oregon Not Prepared for Disaster week, but failed in an attempt to settle an A new state audit released on Monday concluded employment contract for school bus drivers. The that Oregon may not be able to prepare for a major last labor agreement for the group expired nearly disaster due to insufficient planning and organiza one and a half years ago. The union says a strike tion problems at the Office of Emergency to is imminent over proposed cuts to health care Management. benefits. Winter TriMet Calls for Mediator in Labor Talks Olympics Begin TriMet and the Amalgamated Transit Union The 22nd W inter P 0 B o x 3 1 3 7 , Portland, 0 R 9 7 2 0 8 have reached a dead end in their continued Olym pic Games CALL 503-288-0033 FAX 503-288-0015 negotiations on a wages and benefits agreement kicked off over the new sQ p ortlandobserver.com ads @portlandobserver, com for TriMet drivers. Randy Stedman, TriMet weekend in Sochi, subscription @ portlandobserver.com executive director of Labor Relations and Hu Russia. Russian fig The Portland Observer welcomes freelance submissions. Manuscripts and photographs should be clearly man Resources, asked the state last week to ure skater Irina labeled and will be returned if accompanied by a self addressed envelope. All created design display ads become the sole property of the newspaper and cannot be used in other publications or personal usage without appoint a mediator to assist the two parties in Rodnina and ice the written consent of the general manager, unless the client has purchased the composition of such ad. © 2008 hockey player further talks. THE PORTLAND OBSERVER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, REPRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART Vladislav Tretiak lit WITHOUT PERMISSION IS PROHIBITED. The Portland Observer-Oregon’s Oldest Multicultural Publica- Shirley Temple Remembered tion-is a member of the National Newspaper Association-Founded in 1885, and The National Advertising the torch for the Representative Amalgamated Publishers, Inc, New York, NY, and The West Coast Black Publishers Association Shirley Temple, the games which will ex- dimpled, curly-haired tend to Feb. 23. child star who sang, 503-288-0033 danced, sobbed and Nordstrom to Close in Lloyd Center Attn: Subscriptions, The $45.00 for 3 months • $80.00 for 6 mo. • $ 125.00 grinned her way into Retail chain Nordstrom announced last week it Portland Observer, PO Box | for 1 year (please include check w ith fo r m ) 313? Portland OR 97208. the hearts of Depres plans to close its Lloyd Center and Vancouver I sion-era moviegoers, Mall stores due to poor performance. Both stores N ame : I died,Monday at her are set to close in January 2015. I home near San Francisco. She was 85. T elephone : Tavern Robbed in Cully Neighborhood P ostmaster : Send address changes to Portland Observer, • S u b s c rib e I I I I I ! --------------------------------------------------------■ I A ddress : _ Snow and Ice Brings First Wireless System Alert I or email subscriptions@portlandobserver.com | The snow and freezing rain that hit the metro- area over the weekend, saw the city of Portland using brand new technology to warn residents Officers responded to calls of an armed robbery at Mad Hanna’s Tavern in the Cully Neighborhood at 1:25 a.m. on Monday. Two suspects fled the scene before police could detain them.
