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Portland activist and educator Ron Herndon (center), director of Albina Head Start for more than
40 years, was presented Friday with a lifetime Portland’s First Citizen award from the Portland
Metropolitan Association of Realtors. Also pictured are longtime community supporters, Richard
Brown, board chair for Albina Head Start, and Paul Knauls of Geneva’s Shear Perfection.
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.
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Paul Neufeldt
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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.