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