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September 20, 2017
Junior Teen Fights Bullying
A young Portland girl has
embarked on a mission to end
bullying as part of a new public
service campaign and her suc-
cess in the National American
Miss pageants.
Shayla Montgomery won
the national 2016 American
Miss Pre Teen competition, and
this year, earned a follow-up ti-
tle as 2017 National American
Miss Oregon Junior Teen.
Now she’s on an even stron-
ger mission to end bullying lo-
cally as well as nationally.
“Being someone who has
been bullied, my message of
spreading anti-bullying is very
important to me. I love to im-
pact the lives of others by in-
spiring them to resolve issues
and continue to spread kind-
ness around them,” Montgom-
ery posted on Facebook.
She is encouraging others to
support her anti-bully efforts
by taking a personal photo of
themselves with a piece of pa-
per using the hashtag #STAND-
UP and posting the photo with
a caption about bullying to her
social media accounts at Ins-
tagram @ShaylaMontgomery
or Facebook @2017 Nation-
al American Miss Oregon Jr.
Teen.
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2017 National American Miss Oregon Junior Teen Shayla Mont-
gomery of Portland makes it her mission to end bullying.
I will be creating a video about
bullying, the impacts it has in
our community, and how we can
change it!” she said.
County Faces
Claims of
Racism
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despite an accomplished track
record that included establishing
the Multnomah County Public
Health Advisory Board and over-
seeing the development of an eq-
uity-focused Community Health
Improvement Plan.
The dismissal occurred just
six weeks after returning from
approved Family Medical Leave
Tillman took in April to care
for her mother, who had stage 4
lung cancer. Tillman is currently
asking for higher severance pay
than the four month pay initially
offered and acknowledgement of
her unfair treatment.
In addition, she is asking for a
broader look into any pattern and
practice of racism as practiced
by the chair and other county
leaders, and the unjust and dis-
parate treatment of leaders of
color, who have served Mult-
nomah County.