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Page A2 May 11, 2016 The Week in Review Festival announced Thursday that the Timbers will be the Grand Marshal of the Spirit Mountain Casino Grand Floral Parade. The team’s Alaska Airlines loat will be decorated in green and white, with a huge soccer fan and Timber Joey. Quits Job for Election Ferguson’s New Chief House District 43 candidate Roberta Phillip-Robbins re- signed her job as a Multnomah County Youth and Gang Vi- olence Prevention Specialist Friday to avoid a conlict with federal law. The Hatch Act states no federal-funded gov- ernment employee can run for a partisan ofice, thus leaving Phillip-Robbins with two choices. She will continue on in her Egg Shooter Sent to Jail race against Tawna Sanchez for state rep- A 68-year-old resident of southeast resentative in the May 17 Primary. Portland was arrested last week after he retaliated with gunire following 42nd Ave Mural for Prince his house getting egged twice. William A mural depicting the purple one, Dean Thomas was booked on charges of Prince, has been erected behind Mo- reckless endangerment, unlawful use of tivasi Coffee on Northeast 42nd and a weapon and discharging a irearm in Prescott. The mural was painted by Ashley Montague who also painted a the city. mural of Michael Brown at the Bonire Grand Champ Timbers are Grand Marshals Lounge in southeast Portland, which is Following the Portland Timbers irst likely to be covered up soon according Major League Soccer title, the Rose to the bar’s owner. Delrish Moss was sworn in Monday to become the irst per- manent black chief to lead the embattled police force in Fer- guson, Mo. The St. Louis suburb was where 18-year-old Michael Brown, who was black and unarmed, was fatally shot by a white oficer in 2014, leading to the Black Lives Matter movement. Women’s Camp Must Move A recently constructed homeless camp for women, located in the Lents neigh- borhood at Southeast 93rd and Wood- stock, is already being taken down by city oficials. The camp was meant to shelter homeless women that have been sexually assaulted, but went up on Port- land Development Commission-owned land without permission. Providence Hospital Sued The parents of a deceased premature baby boy are suing Providence’s St. Vincent Medical Center for $3 million after learning the ashes they received were that of another deceased child. Norma Arellano and Sergio Maldonado held funeral services and family gather- ings with the misidentiied ashes, learn- ing ive months later that those received belonged to a baby girl. Obama to Visit Hiroshima The White House announced on Tues- day that President Obama will be visiting Hiroshima May 27 as part of his trips to Japan and Vietnam, the irst president to ever visit the city destroyed by a nucle- ar bomb in an attack to end World War II. Obama will be meeting with Japan’s Prime Minister to discuss a continuing peace without nuclear weapons. ACLU Blasts Sheriff’s Probe by M ichael l eighton p ortland o bserver e ditor An investigation that cleared Multnomah County Sheriff Dan Sta- ton of criminal wrongdo- ing failed to account for actions that may have vi- olated civil protections, according to the Ameri- can Civil Liberties Union Multnomah County of Oregon. Sheriff Dan Staton David Rogers, exec- utive director of the ACLU of Oregon, said the Oregon Attorney General Department of Justice’s conclusions, released last week, only represent part of the picture. “The DOJ’s indings strongly suggest to us that Sheriff Staton violated civil law that pro- tects Oregonians from state surveillance as well as free speech and association rights,” Rogers said. c ontinued on p age 8 Wells Fargo Presents the 2016 Good in the Hood Music and Food Festival June 24, 25, 26 Saturday June 25th, at 11 AM, starting at King School Web—www.goodnthehood.org; GITH hotline 971.302.6380 Volunteers needed—volunteers@goodnthehood.org Want to be a sponsor—shawnpenney@goodnthehood.org Festival Participation—feedback@goodnthehood.org Mark Washington, Sr. e ditor : Michael Leighton e xecutive d irector : Rakeem Washington A dvertising M AnAger : Leonard Latin Ofice Manager/Classiieds: Lucinda Baldwin c reAtive d irector : Paul Neufeldt P ublisher : r ePorter /W eb e ditor : Cervante Pope Established 1970 ------------- USPS 959 680 ---------- 4747 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland, OR 97211 he Portland Observer welcomes freelance submissions. 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