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Lifetime Achievement Herndon receives First Citizen honor On Friday, a lifetime Portland First Citizen award was presented to Ron Herndon on behalf of the Portland Metropolitan Associa- The Week in Review Sunday by beating the Thunder, 111-98 on the road. Bombings Kill Hundreds More than 320 people were killed and hundreds more wounded in eight suicide bomb blasts that rocked Christian churches and luxury hotels in or near Sri Lan- ka’s capital on Easter Sunday. ISIS claimed responsibility, and Sri Lanka officials said the pre- liminary investigation showed the attacks were “retaliation” for the recent massacre of Muslims at mosques in New Zealand. Lucinda Baldwin Paul Neufeldt Danny Peterson P ubliC r elAtions : Mark Washington Jr. o ffiCe A ssistAnt /s Ales : Shawntell Washington PO QR code news@portlandobserver.com • ads@portlandobserver.com subscription@portlandobserver.com Postmaster: Send address changes to Portland Observer , PO Box 3137 , Portland, OR 97208 tion of Realtors, an annual award that forms an honor roll of city’s most prominent leaders. The director of Albina Head Start for more than 40 years, Herndon has advocated for chil- dren and families for generations, working to solve issues impacting the black community and low in- come families. Blazers Strong in Playoffs Ahead of our press deadline Tues- day, The Portland Trail Blazers were looking for another win against Oklahoma City in Game 5 at the Rose Garden. The team took a commanding 3-1 series edge on Protesting Oil Shipments Environmental protesters planted a garden on train tracks in north- west Portland Sunday to protest the growth in oil shipments from Alberta’s tar sands oil to Port- land’s Zenith Energy facility. The next day, 11 protestors were ar- rested for sitting on the railroad tracks. Wreck Kills Uber Passenger Here’s a capsule of some of Herndon’s achievements as shared during the award ceremony: Known by everyone as “Ron- nie,” he grew up in Coffeyville, Kansas where he was raised by grandparents who emphasized the importance of education. Though C ontinued on P age 6 choke off the investigation. Trump is claiming vindication, but Muel- ler said the president was thwart- ed of obstruction of justice only by the refusal of some of those around him to follow his orders. TriMet Lifetime Ban Issued TriMet issued a lifetime exclusion to Jared Walter, 32, for tar- geting wom- en on transit last week, the first-ever life- time ban is- sued by the transit agency. Walter was arrested last month on two new cases of sexual harassment, after already have been convict- ed and charged in dozens of other instances of cutting, masturbating into or gluing women’s hair on public transit. An intoxicated driver operating a stolen pickup truck slammed into an Uber vehicle at about 100 miles per hour on the I-84 freeway over- pass of Northeast 102nd around midnight Saturday, killing a pas- senger in the Uber vehicle. The Life Sentence Overturned man was sitting in the backseat A federal judge ruled last week and was ejected through the wind- that Frank Gable, the convicted killer of former Oregon Correc- shield and died. tions Department Director Mi- Mueller Report on Trump chael Franke, must be retried or Special counsel Robert Mueller’s released from prison. The ruling report was released to the public means Gable will be a free man last week, spelling out how Pres- unless the Oregon Department of ident Donald Trump tried to seize Justice decides to retry the case, control of the Russia probe and which is nearly 30 years old.
