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June 3, 2015
Obama Makes it Right
The Leisure
Hour Jr. Golf
Program
(LHJGP)
Awards medals
to World
War I heroes
hosted its first annual “Tee It Up Fore Fun” Dinner and
Auction event on Saturday, May 30 2015 at the Holiday
Inn Portland-Airport. More than 200 community members
and leaders came out to support the local junior golf
program, which has provided golf opportunities to inner
city youth since 1978. LHJGP mentors, staff and junior
golfers would like to say thank you to the community for
their continuous generosity and support. Visit the Leisure
Hour Jr. Golf Program website at www.leisurehourjrs.
webs.com to learn more about the program and upcoming
community events.
Sincerely,
Debra Ingram
President
(AP) — Declaring it’s nev-
er too late to make things right,
President Barack Obama posthu-
mously bestowed the Medal of
Honor on two World War I veter-
ans whose heroic acts nearly 100
years ago went unrecognized in an
age of discrimination.
In a tearful, joyful East Room
ceremony recalling the battlefield
triumphs as well as the prejudices
of 20th century America, Sgt. Wil-
liam Shemin and Pvt. Henry John-
son were recognized Tuesday with
the nation’s highest military dec-
oration for saving their comrades
on French front lines. Shemin was
Jewish and Johnson was black.
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U.S. Army Sgt. Henry Johnson of
the 369th Infantry Regiment.
“It has taken a long time for
Henry Johnson and William She-
min to receive the recognition
they deserve, and there are surely
others whose heroism is still un-
The
acknowledged and uncelebrated,”
Obama said.
“The least we can do is to say
we know who you are, we know
what you did for us, we are forev-
er grateful,” he said.
Obama applauded the tireless
efforts of their advocates, which
included Portland city Commis-
sioner Nick Fish and the Skan-
ner’s publisher Bernie Foster.
Veterans of Johnson’s New
York National Guard regiment,
the 369th known as “Harlem
Hellfighters,” watched stoically
as Obama described how he died
destitute in his early 30s after his
injuries left him crippled and un-
able to work.
“America can’t change what hap-
pened to Henry Johnson,” Obama
said. “We can’t change what hap-
C ontinued on P age 4
Week in Review
Parking Manager Sentenced
reported and the quakes were too
Former
Portland small to create tsunami concerns.
parking manager
B.B. King Honored
and city employ-
Rhythm and Blues
ee Ellis K. McCoy
legend B.B. King
was sentenced to
had his life cele-
two years in federal prison last
brated on Satur-
week for taking bribes in the form
day, drawing two
of cash, travel, and entertain-
American
pres-
ment worth nearly $200,000 in
idents,
Barack
exchange for directing multimil-
Obama and Bill Clinton to his fu-
lion-dollar city contracts to two
neral. The star was 89-years-old
parking meter businesses between
when he passed away in his home
2002 and 2011.
in Las Vegas in mid-May.
First Somali-American Officer Vice President Loses Son
Saturday June 27th, at 11 AM, starting at King School
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The Portland Police Bureau has
sworn in its first Somali-Ameri-
can officer, Khalid Ibrahim. Ibra-
him migrated to the United Stated
with his family in 2006 and is a
Portland State University graduat-
ed who interned with the bureau.
Murdered Teen’s Ashes Stolen
The remains a Port-
land teenager who
was killed six years
ago were stolen
from a Public Stor-
age unit on North
Lombard
Street.
Borisshell Washington was a se-
nior at Jefferson High School and
a week away from graduation
when she was shot and killed in
Portland’s Raymond Park on May
31, 2009. The family is pleading
for information so that they can
get their daughter’s ashes back.
Vice President Joe Biden lost a
second child when his son Beau
died from bran cancer on Satur-
day night. Beau was 46 year old.
He and his father both survived
a car crash on Christmas of 1972
that killed Biden’s first wife and
another son, and severely injured
an infant daughter as well as Beau.
Caitlyn Jenner Introduced
Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known
as celebrated athlete Bruce Jenner,
graced the
July cover
of Vanity
Fair this
week
as
she
de-
buted her
long-clos-
eted iden-
tity. Jenner
came out
earlier this year as transgender on
Earthquakes off the Coast
Seven earthquakes struck off the a nationally televised interview
Oregon coast on Sunday night with Diane Sawyer.
through Monday. The first earth-
Gresham Robbery Probe
quake was magnitude 5.8 and
A man wearing a ski mask is ac-
three smaller aftershocks fol-
cused of robbing a Gresham deli at
lowed. Monday afternoon, a 5.9
gunpoint Tuesday morning. Police
magnitude hit the same area,
said that the same deli was victim
which lies about 330 miles west
to a similar robbery in May 2014,
of Salem. No damage has been
which ended being an inside job.