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A NEW LAND USE PROPOSAL FOR PORTLAND, COMING THIS SUMMER
THE CITY'S NEW COMPREHENSIVE PLAN WILL INCLUDE LAND USE CHANGES
TO CREATE A HEALTHIER, SAFER, MORE CONNECTED CITY.
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more about the project, add your name to the mailing list and give feedback.
You'll also see where and how development will be guided over time, and what's
proposed in your neighborhood.
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[Activate Summer!
Opportunities to keep youth engaged
Teen Killed Crossing Bridge
Informational open houses in July and early September
will help Portlanders understand the proposal and prepare testimony.
After considering public testimony, the PSC will forward
a Recommended Plan to City Council in early 2015.
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Force m eeting held Friday at the
North Police Precinct in northeast
Portland focused on some o f the
issues concerning youth violence
rising as the tem peratures rise. At
the gathering, which brought in a
host of community members, Port­
land Police announced the month
o f May had seen 16 gang-related
shootings, the same am ount it had
D onovan M. S mith
thirds o f the high school fresh-
T he P ortland O bserver
man achievem ent gap. That same
In Portland, streaks o f sunshine study also reported that 60 per-
alm ost always mean sum m er is cent o f black dropouts end up
upon us; and that it is. But as local spending some am ount o f time in
youth enter sum m er break, the
Portland Observer wanted to check
on some of the things being done
to keep them engaged.
In P ortland Public Schools
alone, more than 48,000 students
were served this year. Though the
m ajority of those kids will not be
engaged with their school during
the 3 m onths o f sum m er vacation,
many children will come into con­
tact with a school program or spe­
cial activity in one form or an­
other.
Program s like one at Roosevelt
High School which helps incom ­
ing 8th graders prepare for high
school and college are one such
example. Public charter school Self
Enhancem ent, Inc. is another lo­
cal sum m er resource with its pro­
grams known for fostering aca­
demic excellence am ongst its pri­
m arily underserved m inority stu­
dent population.
At SEI, both o f its middle and
high school students m ust take at
least one class, five days a week,
d u rin g the sum m er. A nthony
Deloney and Tony Hopson Jr.
who both designed the school’s
sum m er program m ing say this
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type o f engagem ent is not only a Kids enjoy the challenge o f a che ss m a tch a t the B lazer Boys an d
preventati ve step to keep kids out Girls Club on N o rth e a st M a rtin L u the r K ing Jr. Boulevard. Local
o f trouble, but also one that will o ffic ia ls are g e a rin g up to kee p kids o u t o f tro uble a n d active
keep the pupils focused on edu­ during s u m m e r break.
cation during the sum m er days as
well.
prison.
been last year.
They point to a recent study
SEI estim ates that 1,005 stu-
C iyanna W ebb who works for
conducted by statisticbrain.com dents will be participating in their Youth V iolence Prevention said
which found learning loss over sum m er activities.
continued
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the summer is responsible for two-
A city o f Portland Gang Task
by
The Week Review
S h a re fe e d b a c k w i t h th e P la n n in g an d
S u s ta in a b ility C o m m ission (P S C ) s ta rtin g J u ly 21 .
June II, 2014
Taishawn Nathaniel Millage,
18, was killed Friday when he
tried walking across a railroad
bridge near St. Johns and was
struck by an eastbound train
and k n o ck ed in to the
Willamette River. Students at
Roosevelt High School where
he was a student held memo­
rials for him on Monday.
Vancouver Senior Hit by Bus
A Hudson Bay High School
senior set to graduate was
struck and killed by a Grey­
hound bus in Northwest
Portland on Sunday. 18-
year-old Monseratt Garcia
was set to graduate June
11, No citations have been
issued, but the accident
remains under investigation.
Child Falls Out of Window
4-year-old Addison Rojas-Casteneda suffered fatal
injuries after falling from an upper window at his north
Portland residence Thursday. Detectives say the fall
was accidental after the boy leaned against the win­
dow to talk to a friend, the screen broke loose and he
fell through.
School Officials get Armed
When school resumes in the fall in the Toppenish
School District o f Washington state, some administra­
tors will be armed. The 11 principals, vice principals
and administrators, including Supt. John Cema, have
volunteered under a program approved following the
school shooting at Sandy Hook, Conn.
Olympian Severs Spine
Former Olympic
swimming cham­
pion Amy Van
Dyken-Rouen is
recovering fol­
lowing surgery
to stabilize her
spine after it was
severed during
an all-terrain ve­
hicle accident in
Scottsdale, Ariz.
on Friday. The 41 -year-old six-time Olympic gold med­
alist told emergency personnel she had no feeling in
her legs or toes.