June 10, 2015
The
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Week in Review
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M etro
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
C lassifieds
C alendar
L ocal N ews
Queen Kahedja!
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Jefferson junior defies
the stereotypes
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Congratulations to Jefferson High School junior
Kahedja Burley for her selection as Portland Rose
Festival Queen.
The 17-year-old was bestowed the honorary crown
Saturday just prior to the Rose Festival’s Grand Floral
Parade. She is the ninth Jefferson student to be select-
ed Queen of Rosaria and the first for the north Port-
land school in 17 years.
Queen Kahedja will hold the title as the 101st Port-
land Rose Festival Queen until she passes it on next
year.
An active member of the Jefferson high school
community, she participates in student government
and the Black Student Union while also competing
on the boys wrestling team while also being active in
volleyball, track, cheerleading.
She hosted several talent shows and pep assemblies
at the school and is currently enrolled in Jefferson’s
health and biotechnology program. When she was
named to the Rose Festival Court earlier this spring,
she described herself as someone who steps outside of
the stereotypes.
“I’m the only female on the [wrestling] team, as
well as one of the hardest workers on the team. I do
the same drills and pushups as everyone else. I push
Kahedja Burley
myself every practice to do better than the last.
While everyone else is jogging, I push myself to
sprint.”
The daughter of Mashavu Hicks and Rondale
Burley and sibling to Tahir Burley, she hopes to
attend a four-year university outside of Oregon and
pursue a career in marketing.
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Three acres of vacant land with views of the West Hills and the Willamette River has been purchased
by the city of Portland for use as a public park. The parcel is located on a bluff in the Cathedral Park
neighborhood of north Portland.
View Property Turns to Public Use
F ood
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Portland Parks & Recreation
has purchased a nearly three acre
parcel of vacant land with views of
the West Hills and the Willamette
River for use as a public park in
the Cathedral Park neighborhood
Previously known as the North
of north Portland. The land also Crawford Street and Polk Avenue
contains two heritage trees, both property, the site was purchased
Oregon white oaks (Quercus gar-
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ryana).