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Page 2 November 21, 2018 Two Killed near Portland Bridges Murder Outside Strip Club Portland police arrested James J. Barquet, 26, Tues- day morning on murder charges in connection with two deaths hours earlier where a woman was found dead beneath the Morison Bridge around 9 p.m. and a man was shot and killed on the Burnside Bridge about 4 hours later. It appears that the suspect didn’t know the victims and the victims didn’t know each other, accord- ing to officials. The Week in Review A man was killed in a shooting early Thursday morning outside a strip club at Southeast 159th and Stark Street. Portland police said they responded to reports of gunfire about 2 a.m. and found the victim, identified as Edward L. Alberta Street. Susan Dowiasz Taylor Jr., 26, on the sidewalk. accused the man of trespassing because of where he had parked his car, police said. During the ar- gument, she fired a handgun. The man was not hurt. Curbs on Protests Rejected The Portland City Council voted against Mayor Ted Wheeler’s pro- Gun Fired Over Parking posed ordinance last week intend- A 71-year-old woman was arrest- ed to stop violence during politi- ed last week after police say she cal protests. Commissioner Nick fired a gun at a man outside her Fish cast the deciding vote, prais- home near Northeast 82nd and ter has filed a $2.7 million lawsuit against Multnomah County claim- ing she was sexually assaulted by a 15-year-old inmate in his jail cell. According to the lawsuit, the county didn’t warn the employee that the teenager was in custo- Fatal Crash Blamed on Driver dy because he had been accused A homeless man collecting bot- of sexually assaulting a pregnant tles and cans was killed Thurs- teacher at his Troutdale school. day night after the driver of a car on North Willamette Boulevard Man Burned by Gas Siphoning crashed into multiple unoccupied A man trying to siphon gas from parked vehicles and the male pe- a U-Haul caught on fire and then destrian. Police said the driver fled from the fiery scene beneath was speeding and under the influ- the Morrison Bridge in southeast ence of alcohol. The victim was Portland just before 7 a.m. Mon- identified as Jason Barns, 32. day, surveillance video shows. Firefighters extinguished flames Juvenile Jailer Sues County that had engulfed a van and a A female employee at the Donald U-Haul box truck. E. Long Juvenile Detention Cen- ing Wheeler’s effort to tackle the problem but citing constitutional concerns and expressing hope that opponents of the ordinance would join the city to pursue alternative efforts to combat violence. Rose Festival Leader Named Family’s participation goes back decades Teri Bowles-Atherton has been elected president of the Portland Rose Festival Foundation. The director of Physician De- velopment and Provider Com- pensation for Providence Medical Group first volunteered for the or- ganization 10 years ago when she signed up to be wardrobe coordi- nator and chaperone for the Rose Festival Court. In 2009 she was invited to join the board. Bowles-Atherton is a sec- ond-generation Oregonian and proud daughter of Gail Black- Bowles and Carl Bowles. She was born at Emanuel Hospital and raised in northeast Portland where she attended Alameda Elementary School, Beaumont Middle School and later St. Mary’s Academy. She completed her Bachelor of Science degree at Vanderbilt Uni- versity and returned to Portland where she would meet and marry Jermaine Atherton and raise their daughter Jaiden. Like many Portlanders, her family has a history with the Rose Festival, dating back to the 1960s when her uncle, “Jimmy Bang- Established 1970 P ublisher : e ditor : Mark Washington, Sr. Michael Leighton A dvertising M AnAger : Office Manager/Classifieds: C reAtive d ireCtor : Leonard Latin Lucinda Baldwin Bang Walker” entered the first Grand Floral Parade float repre- senting the African-American ‘Al- bina’ community in 1968. “I was seven years old and giv- en my first volunteer position with my parents, brother, family and friends, in a huge warehouse at 4:30 a.m. I was helping to put the finishing touches on my uncle’s float. It wasn’t play; it was work,” Bowles-Atherton said, “Even at that age I knew that I was contrib- uting to something grand; some- thing bigger than I could even imagine at the time.” ---------------------- USPS 959 680 ------------------ 4747 NE Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Portland, OR 97211 The Portland Observer welcomes freelance submissions. Manuscripts and photographs should be clearly labeled and will be returned if accompanied by a self addressed envelope. All created design display ads become the sole property of the news- paper and cannot be used in other publications or personal usage without the written consent of the general manager, unless the client has purchased the composition of such ad. © 2008 THE PORTLAND OBSERVER. ALL RIGHTS RESERVED, RE- PRODUCTION IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT PERMISSION IS PROHIBITED. 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