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WWW . tHESkANNEr . COM A PrIL 20, 2011 P OrtLAND , O rEgON V OLUME XXXIII, N O . 25 25 CENtS i nSiDe A Black Earth Day page 5 Video Contest Winner page 9 Housing Special Issue C hallenging P eoPle to S haPe a B etter F uture n ow Lloyd Center Shooting page 11 Palm Sunday Shiloh Hampton, 14, Dies in Apparent Drive-By; No Suspects P Friends posted a heart-breakingly charming tribute on YouTube pital the night of the shooting, and met members of Hampton’s family. “Shiloh Hampton was loved by his family and friends, and my thoughts and prayers are with them at this time,” Adams said in a statement. Crime Stoppers is offering a cash reward of up to $1,000 for information, reported to Crime Stoppers, that leads to an arrest in this case, or any unsolved felony, and you can remain anonymous. Call Crime Stoppers at 503-823-HELP-4357, leave a tip online at www.crimestoppersoforegon.com, or text 823HELP plus your tip and send it to CRIMES (274697). “There is no tip too small,” Mayor Sam Adams said. “Please call with any informa- tion.” At this point in the investigation, investi- gators believe the shooting involved gang- involved people but have not determined the role gangs played, if any, in the life of Hampton. Detectives say that Hampton was with a group of friends Monday night at the Lloyd Center Mall as a suspect fired multiple shots photo By Julie keefe ortland police this morning report that Shiloh Hampton, 14, died Wednesday at an area hospital. Friends of Shiloh posted a heart-breaking- ly charming tribute to the teen on YouTube before his death. “Any death from gun violence is unac- ceptable. It’s even more tragic for our com- munity when the victim is a 14-year-old,” Mayor Sam Adams said. The mayor’s staff said he visited the hos- Members of Vancouver Avenue Baptist Church’s Angel Choir lead everyone in song during the commemorative Palm Sunday Procession,April 17, celebrating the church’s historic dignitary-filled opening event 60 years ago. Missing Child Exploitation, Part 2 Northwest charities and businesses make millions from tragedy By lisa loving of The Skanner News Y ashawnee Vaughn, Kyron Horman, Polly Klaas. When innocents disappear, emotions run high – even among people who have no connection to the lost chil- dren or their families. Polly’s father, California resi- dent Mark Klaas, says the terror and confusion in the aftermath of abduction opens the door to manipulation and hysteria that are used to line the pockets of See Shiloh on page 3 inDeX News .........2,3,6,14,16 Opinion ..................4,5 Finances....................7 A & E .........................8 Food........................10 Housing ..............11-13 Bids/Classifieds ........15 inscrutable people. “When children go missing chaos seems to rule everything – it seems to rule the family, they don’t know where to go or what to do, and I say this from expe- rience,” he says. “You have these people that just exploit that chaos for their own ends, people who really have nothing going in their lives but to wait around for something like this to happen.” The Skanner News took a closer look at Northwest busi- nesses and charities dedicated to finding lost and missing chil- dren. We discovered that scams, slack operations and consumer rip-offs are costing charitable givers millions a year. And set alongside the honest attempts of concerned volun- teers to help out – it’s almost impossible for law enforcement or state agencies to crack down on the problem. grey Area of Registration, money Michelle Bart, who emerged in media reports April 3 as the spokesperson for Vaughn’s trau- matized mother and grandmoth- er, has not been paid for writing press releases and arranging media interviews for the family – and says she never asked to be (in full disclosure, she arranged an interview with Vaughn’s grandmother for the Skanner News and KOIN television). Her website, www.HelpingHeroes.com, lists her contact information for mar- keting and public relation, but See miSSing on page 3 Statistics Feed Unemployment Puzzle McDonalds’ hiring blitz isn’t enough to put a dent in jobless rate By Brian Stimson of The Skanner News A ccording to the Oregon Employment department, the economy has been slowly gaining jobs in most indus- tries over the last two years. But according to state employment econ- omist Nick Beleiciks, every couple hundred jobs added over the last two months has to be tallied against the large numbers of jobs lost during the Great Recession. “The (finance) industry added 500 jobs from February to March,” he told The Skanner News. “That comes after major losses … so they only really added 100 jobs over that period.” Job losses have been so severe, for exam- ple, that McDonalds’ recent advertising blitz to add 50,000 jobs across the country is really a drop in the bucket for the Pacific Northwest. Even if Oregon McDonalds hired 1,000 people – assuming there would be an even 50 state split, which is unlikely given that Western Washington’s McDonalds contin- gent of 121 stores is hiring 640 workers – one industry can’t shoulder the burden See unemployment on page 3
