November 13, 2019
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INSIDE L O C A L N E W S
The
Week in Review
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Parkrose High School Head Football Coach Keaton Lowe instructs his players during a 59-20 win
against Lebanon Friday night, Parkrose’s first football playoff victory in school history. The Broncos
now advance to face Crater High School on Friday night in Central Point, the No. 2 ranked team.
Arts &
ENTERTAINMENT
First Playoff Win Ever
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Parkrose
advances with
their hero coach
The headlines keep coming for
Parkrose High School and their
hero head football coach Keaton
Lowe.
The Parkrose football team
made school history Friday with
its first playoff game victory ever
by defeating Lebanon, 59 to 20. In
just his second season at Parkrose,
Lowe has taken a team with a 0-9
winless record before his arrival to
making the playoffs for the second
year in a row.
Lowe is the hero coach and
school security guard who made
national news last May when he
stopped a student from discharg-
ing a gun at the northeast Portland
school. A Portland resident and
former University of Oregon foot-
ball player, he was able to peace-
fully disarm the 19-year-old and
then embrace the student, putting
the emphasis on the humanity of
the situation, a student later de-
termined to have only wanted to
harm himself.
Parkrose was playing only its
third football playoff game at
home in school history against
Lebanon. Next up, the team
goes on the road to play on Fri-
day at 7:30 p.m. in Central Point
against Crater High School, the
No. 2 ranked 5A team in the
state.
Public Airing on Police Contract
M ETRO
O PINION
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Mayor,
commissioner
to host two
meetings
by b everly c orbell
t he p ortland o bServer
Public meetings on a new po-
lice union contract will be held
Nov. 18 and Dec. 16 to encourage
community input about contract
negotiations, hosted by Mayor
Ted Wheeler and City Commis-
sioner Jo Ann Hardesty.
The goal of the events is to edu-
cate the public about the collective
bargaining process and to docu-
ment people’s concerns about the
new contract, according to Wheel-
er’s office.
The Nov. 18 meeting will be
from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Portland
Ted Wheeler
Jo Ann Hardesty
Community College Cascade
Campus Student Union, located at
5575 N. Albina Ave. The location
for the December meeting will be
announced at a later date.
Civil right advocates, including
the Portland NAACP and Albi-
na Ministrial Alliance Coalition
for Justice and Police Reform,
have been clamoring to become
more involved in the collective
bargaining process in hopes of
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