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CAREERS Special Edition
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Seniors Need Fans to Keep Cool
President Joe Biden speaks with Opal Lee after he signed the Juneteenth National Independence
Day Act, in the East Room of the White House on Thursday, in Washington, D.C. (AP photo)
Juneteenth Established as Federal Holiday
Biden signs law, calling it a ‘great honor’
(AP) — President Joe Biden
signed legislation Thursday es-
tablishing a new federal holiday
commemorating the end of slav-
ery, saying he believes it will go
down as one of the greatest honors
he has as president.
Biden signed into law a bill to
make Juneteenth, or June 19, the
12th federal holiday. The House
voted 415-14 on Wednesday to
send the bill to Biden, while the
Senate passed the bill unanimous-
ly the day before.
“This is a day of profound
weight and profound power, a
day in which we remember the
moral stain, the terrible toll that
slavery took on the country and
continues to take,” Biden said.
Juneteenth
commemorates
C ontinued on p age 4
June 23, 2021
against a protester last summer.
Court Sides with Athletes
The Supreme Court on Mon-
day unanimously ruled that the
NCAA can’t enforce certain rules
that limit compensating athletes.
The case doesn’t decide whether
students can be paid salaries, but
clears the way for student athletes
to receive certain benefits.
Hot temperatures and a forecast
for even more heat this weekend
have many seniors struggling to
keep cool in houses that have no
fans or air conditioning. Meals on
Wheels People is trying to help
by asking for donations of new or Guilty in Hate Crime Case
gently-used fans. Visit mowp.org. A white Colorado man accused of
stabbing a Black man in a racist
Golf Tourney Moves from Homeless attack at a truck stop in eastern Or-
This year’s annual LGPA golf egon in 2019, pleaded guilty last
tournament won’t be held at its week to a federal hate crime. No-
typical location at the Columbia lan Levi Strauss admitted he was
Edgewater in northeast Portland trying to kill the man because was
because of concerns that nearby he was Black, documents said.
homeless camps have made the
club unsafe, tournament officials Rioter Sentenced to 5 years
announced Sunday. Instead the A Black Portland man was sen-
Portland Classic will be held at the tenced to 5 years in prison last
week after pleading guilty to ar-
Oregon Golf Club in West Linn.
son for starting a dumpster fire
next to the Police Bureau’s North
Precinct during a protest riot last
summer. Gavaughn Streeter-Hill-
erich, 23, was recorded on video
Police Resign Protest Duty
intentionally setting the fire.
About 50 Portland police officers
who serve on a specialized crowd Health Care Act Survives
control unit, who have respond- The Supreme Court dismissed
ed to the city’s ongoing and often a major challenge to the Obama
violent protests over the past year, era Affordable Health Care law
resigned en masse last week after on Thursday, turning aside an ef-
criminal charges were filed against fort by Republican-led states to
one of their members. Officer Cody throw out the law that provides
Budworth faces 4th-degree assault insurance coverage for millions of
stemming from a baton strike Americans. The justices, by a 7-2
vote, left the entire law intact.