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Page 4 ^ortlanb (Observer July 16, 2014 Silencethe Violence! c o n t i n u e d f r o m fro n t northeast, outer southeast Portland and nearby suburb Gresham. Tarvon Randolph, 14, co-chair of Striving to Reduce Youth Violence Everywhere (STR Y VE), helped organize the “Silence the Violence” event at McCoy Park. Randolph says he’s lived in New Colum bia for eight years and was down the street when 24-year-old Andrew Coggins was killed in a daytime drive-by shooting on Fessenden Street, a block from the park, in late June. He says his mom is afraid for him to be out with his friends now, even if just for a stroll to the neighborhood basketball park. “I wanna be able to come out here and hang out with my friends and chill. You know, play basketball and do fun things,” he says. As for the quiet demonstration, Randolph says it was a move to show the community that the youth want and can do positive things for themselves and others. “We all care, I care,” he says. “I will do my best to make this a better place.” Abdullah Hafeedh, a com m unity health w orker for STRYVE says a public re sponse to the violence is especially im portant in a town like Portland, where many Black and Latino com m unities are fragmented. A Southern California native, Hafeedh also called on government to invest more in .. .. photo by D onovan M. S mith /T he P ortland O bserver Mayor Charlie Hales visits with local youth Friday during a ‘Stop the Violence'demonstration in north Portland's McCoy Park. vulnerable populations. Days earlier, after a 5-year-old boy was shot in the leg in a suspected gang-related shooting, Hales called gun violence in He acknowledged that there is gang activ ity in Portland, but as someone who was Portland a public safety and a public health crisis’. incarcerated for gangbanging in California some groups involving them selves in some about that.” He later led the crowd in a cheer, inspired before turning his life around, he says the type of gang-on-gang interaction but there Back at M cCoy Park, the youth form ed by youth that want to preserve a popular situation here seems to have less to do with hasn’t been an all-out war inside o f Port a circle with Hafeedh at the center. He reference to New Columbia before it was full-on gang organization around control land for years.” he says. “So that lets me addressed them by explaining how the reconstructed and renamed from Columbia ling markets like territory and drug traffick know the m ajority o f the conflicts w e’re idea to rally against the violence, wear Villa, “They call [this] ‘The Villa’, they wanna ing, or making a name for oneself. having here and there is not from direct black and white, and keep the gathering as take that back. Everybody say that with m e!” “P ortland’s scenario is more interper gang-violence per-se, m eaning cats try an overall silent protest, was all the idea of The crowd responded in force, “The sonal conflict that plays out with maybe ing to put their hood on the m ap— it’s not young people. Villa!” THE SPINACOLUMN An ongoing series of questions and answers about Am ericas natural healing profession. Part 6. HEADACHES: Why Chiropractic is nature’s long-lasting pain reliever. : I always seem to be plagued extrem e pain. Your problem s could be drugs have serious side effects. The with headaches. They come up nerve-related and therefore, stand a only side effects o f C hiropractic are over my head and seem to stop at my very good chance o f being relieved by relief from pain and a healing o f the eye. What can Chiropractic possibly Chiropractic. cause o f pain. To find out how C hi do to help me? ,: Why should I go through a ropractic could help relieve your : A bout 70% o f all people fu ll course o f Chiropractic when headaches or for answ ers to any experience headaches of one sort drugs often relieve my headaches? questions you m ight have about or another. The type you describe A is : Drugs work primarily on re your health, please call us at the quite typical. The pain can range lieving pain, but not on treating the telephone num ber listed directly anywhere from m oderate to nause cause of the headache. W hat’s more, below. ating. The top three nerves in the neck go up over the back o f the skull in a very sim ilar pattern to what you 2124 NE Hancock, Portland O regon 97212 describe. Any type o f pressure or irritation on these nerves can cause Phone: (503) 287*5504 Q a A Q Flowers' Chiropractic Office Dr. Billy R. Flowers
