November 21, 2018
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Week in Review
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Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
Local students participate in the CommuniCare Leadership Retreat at the University of Portland.
Community Service Challenge
Over 300 students from 21
schools, including Portland, had
the opportunity to learn and par-
ticipate in community grantmak-
ing during a leadership retreat last
week at the University of Port-
land. They decided what causes to
fund, how to raise the money, who
to interview and who should ulti-
mately receive their grants.
The event was sponsored by
CommuniCare, a non-profit pro-
M ETRO
gram started in 1997 by Harold
and Arlene Schnitzer. It was their
dream to provide an environment
where young adults learn about
the needs of their communities
through grantmaking and devel-
op a long-term understanding of
philanthropy and the ethic of vol-
unteerism.
Guest speakers included Harold
Schnitzer and Kay Toran, a leader
from Portland’s black community
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Police Again Confront Protests
Dueling clashes not as
severe, but arrest made
O PINION
C LASSIFIEDS
who serves as chief executive offi-
cer and president of Volunteers of
America Oregon.
By challenging students to en-
gage in community service that is
both rewarding and educational,
CommuniCare hopes to encour-
age them to become active adult
citizens in their community. For
more information on how this pro-
gram works, visit communicareor.
org.
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A series of protests Saturday resulted in a most-
ly peaceful separation of right-wing and count-
er-protesting left-wing demonstrators by Portland
police, though the protests devolved into some
skirmishes near the end of the planned events and
six were arrested.
The protests took place in a pair of parks near
Portland’s City Hall, downtown.
Left-wing protestors started moibilizing Satur-
day morning in response a planned demonstration
later in the day by an offshoot of the right-wing
group Patriot Prayer which rallied in support of
the so-called “Him Too Movement,” which claims
that men are being oppressed and abused by unfair
prosecutions of sexual assault, a response to the
Me Too movement.
By late afternoon, Portland police and other
law enforcement officers successfully separated
the two sides for more than three hours, shutting
down a portion of Chapman Square and some
sidewalks adjacent to Terry Schrunk Plaza.
When the Patriot Prayer group appeared to
disperse, but held an impromptu march down-
town, some skirmishes broke out when they in-
tentionally tried to clash with masked, black-clad
antifascists.
Police gave dispersal orders to the crowds, but
it failed to de-escalate the situation. The assaul-
tive behavior by some of the people attending the
protests included the throwing of projectiles at
demonstrators and officers, including sticks, glass
bottles, lit road flares, bottles filled with what po-
lice believed was urine, and gopher gas, authori-
ties said. Police said they used a rubber ball dis-
traction device for crowd control.
Six were arrested, including five charged with
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