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R evival is N ow
Bethel Church AME
5828 NE 8th Ave
Portland, Or 97211
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Rev Terry McCray Hill-Pastor
Sunday- August 4, 2019 5:00pm
Ecumenical Worship Service
Bishop John R. Bryant- Preaching
Monday-August 5, 2019 7:00pm
Pan Methodist Fellowship
Bishop John R. Bryant-Preaching
Avalon Flowers
520 SW 3rd Ave., Portland,
OR 97204 • 503-796-9250
Representatives from the Meyer Memorial Trust, the largest private foundation in Oregon, break ground
for a new headquarters on the corner of North Tillamook and Vancouver Avenue. Pictured (from left) are
Meyer Memorial Trust President and CEO Michelle J. DePass, Meyer Memorial Board of Trustees Chair
Toya Fick and Meyer Memorial trustees Janet Hamada, Alice Cuprill-Comas and Mitch Hornecker.
Meyer Trust Starts Albina Build
New space
A full service flower experience to strengthen
• Birthdays • Anniversaries community ties
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• Funerals • Weddings
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Open: Mon.-Fri. 7:30am til 5:30pm
Saturday 9am til 2pm.
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The Baltimore Sun newspaper
had a response Sunday to Presi-
dent Trump calling their city “a
rat and rodent infested mess” in
comments a day earlier meant to
hurt black Congressmen Elijah
E. Cummings, who represents
the city and has criticized Trump
for the lack of adequate care for
immigrant children at the border.
Referring to the president, the ed-
itorial declared “Better to have a
few rats than to be one.”
A shooting by a teenager with a
semi-automatic rifle at a garlic
festival in Gilroy, Calif. Sunday
killed three people and injured 15
more. Police officers engaged the
shooter and in less than a minute
he was killed. “It’s a nightmare
you don’t want to live,” said Gil-
roy Police Chief Scot Smithee.
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Better Than Being a Rat
Garlic Festival Shooting
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Meyer Memorial Trust, the larg-
est private foundation in Oregon,
broke ground Monday for its new
headquarters on the corner of North
Tillamook and Vancouver Avenue,
purposely moving into a historically
black neighborhood that has faced
waves of upheaval and displace-
ment to better a community it sup-
ports and serves.
Meyer Memorial Trust Presi-
dent and Chief Executive Officer
Michelle J. DePass led the ground
breaking celebration on the site of
the future 20,000-foot, three-sto-
ry building, just northeast of the
Broadway Bridge in the Albina
community. The site will also con-
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Man Killed in Portland
Police were searching for a per-
son who fatally shot a man around
6:40 p.m. Sunday near North Wil-
liams Avenue and Russell Street.
The victim was found on the
tain a library, education garden and
community meeting space.
“Establishing a permanent home
in historic Albina is one way to show
Meyer’s commitment to building
partnerships and connections that
help to make Oregon a flourishing
and equitable state,” DePass said.
The Meyer Memorial Trust leader
was hired last year, a former assis-
tant administrator for the U.S. Envi-
ronmental Protection Agency in the
Obama administration. She is not
related to newly elected Portland
School Board Michelle DePass.
Established by the late Fred G.
Meyer of Portland, the founder of
Fred Meyer stores, the Meyer Me-
morial Trust announced last year it
was planning to move 50 employ-
ees from leased office space in the
Pearl District to the new site. Fred
Meyer himself lived in the neigh-
borhood when he first established
his business, foundation officials
said.
The headquarters project is de-
signed to strengthen the connections
between the Meyer Foundation
and local communities, according
to Meyer Memorial officials. The
building is designed to achieve a
LEED v4 Platinum certification for
sustainability and the use of locally
available renewable materials. The
plans also include a process for en-
gaging women and minority owned
firms in both the design and con-
struction phases.
The Meyer trust also plans to have
at least 43 percent of the construc-
tion built by women and minority
owned subcontractors. Additionally,
O’Neill/Walsh Community Build-
ings plans to have at least 30 percent
of their journey and apprentice hours
filled by minorities and 10 percent of
the hours filled by women.
The
Week
in
Review
ily Fued” said about 600 people
auditioned for “Family Feud”
over the weekend in Portland.
The auditions took place at the
DoubleTree by Hilton-Portland.
Families played a mock version of
ground. A man identified as his the game for the audition and now
brother-in-law told KOIN 6 News anxiously wait for an invitation to
he was a father with a large ex- come back in the next few weeks.
tended family.
Street Racing Crackdown
Six people were arrested and four
cars were towed this past weekend
by Portland police in a crackdown
on street racing in north and north-
east Portland. Chief Danielle Out-
law thanked those involved in the
Rapper Breaks Hot 100 Streak enforcement as authorities look
Lil Nas X has made Billboard Hot for new strategies to hold partic-
100 chart history. The rapper’s ipants accountable.
country song “Old Town Road,”
Homeless Camp Fire Spreads
featuring Billy Ray Cyrus reached
Embers from a wildfire at a home-
No. 1 for 17 weeks last week,
less camp in southeast Portland
edging out Luis Fonsi and Daddy
near I-205 drifted across the street
Yankee’s “Despacito,” and “One
to the roof of nearby residential
Sweet Day” by Mariah Carey and
property Sunday. A fire crew on
Boyz II Men, which both lasted 16
scene called for a full residential
weeks in the top spot.
fire response and crews were able
kept flames from extending into the
Family Feud Auditions Held
Producers for the TV Show “Fam- house and limiting the damage.