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B OBBIE D ORE F OSTER
Executive Editor
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Advertising Manager
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Multimedia Editor
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respect to other people – let alone
themselves. They don’t even
respect themselves,” Feathers
says.
“So we teach skills like how to
deal with peer pressure, how to
respect themselves and others —
interpersonal skills.”
Feathers says she pulled herself
out of a difficult upbringing in
part through attending a modeling
school that showed her how to
present herself with poise and
assurance – which over time
changed her own negative self
image.
But even though she also cur-
rently teaches modeling, she also
offers many other important life
skills, including how to write a
resume and how to shine in an
interview.
“We have people from the com-
munity come in, including
bankers who teach the kids how to
balance a checkbook, how to
maintain a checking account and a
savings account, and how to
respect money.
“We teach
table etiquette
– so many of
our kids today
go into a fast
food restaurant
and eat like
that – they
don’t
taste
their
food,
they
don’t
know what it’s
like to tip a
waitress,” she Youngsters in urban Bridges learn everything from table manners to resisting
says. “They peer pressure and how to find a job.
don’t
know
Many of these are skills that ing less time with their kids.
what it’s like to have respectful would have been taught by par-
And some of her clients live in
conversation at the table, to be
foster care or are coming out of
juvenile detention facilities.
“These types of things are very
important when you go to get a
job,” Feathers says. “You need to
know how to act and what to do
and what not to do. It could make
the difference between getting a
job and not getting one.”
For more information go
respectful in the restaurant, and ents – but so many parents are to www.urbanbridges.org.
what to do with their cell phones.” working multiple jobs and spend-
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son-Liday, 20; La’Braye Franklin,
17; and Olyvia Lynn Baston, 17
who was grazed by a bullet and
treated by EMTs at the scene.
The other three more seriously
wounded were rushed by ambu-
lance to Legacy Emmanuel Hos-
pital for treatment.
Though Zimmers and Jackson-
Liday remained in the hospital on
Monday in fair and good condi-
tion, Franklin was released on Sat-
urday.
The Skanner News team was the
first on the scene after more than a
dozen police cruisers sped past
our
offices
on
North
Killingsworth Street on Friday.
Nearby Portland Community
College and Jefferson High
School immediately went into
emergency lockdown.
Within the hour, The Skanner
News witnessed members from
the Multnomah County Sherriff’s
office, Fairview, ATF, FBI at the
scene alongside Portland Police.
The victims were shot right on
the spot where local muralist
Antwoine Thomas had worked
with youth from the group Striv-
ing to Reduce Youth Violence
Everywhere to paint a ‘peace
the young people wounded at the
hospital.
Joe McFerrin II, director of the
POIC, was honored by The Skan-
ner News and the Portland Royal
Rosarians in 2013 as “Newsmaker
of the Year” for his work in help-
ing young people graduate from
‘This is an issue that schools face all
around the country with respect to
violence’
mural’ on the street last summer.
Franklin, a student at POIC,
interned at the office of Mayor
Charlie Hales as one of the hun-
dreds of youth in the Summer-
Works program headed by
Commissioner Loretta Smith.
Hales, who is also police com-
missioner, visited the site of the
shooting before later visiting with
high school and find jobs, and also
for expanding the program into
East Portland.
McFerrin says he was on his
way to a meeting when he got
word of the shooting from his
staff.
“My heart just sank,” McFerrin
told a small group of reporters on
Friday. McFerrin also cautioned
na on the reservation and is trying
to halt state regulated pot sales
and grows on lands off the reser-
vation where it still holds hunting
and fishing rights. The Hoopa Val-
ley Tribe in Northern California
policy more thoroughly but that
given her long background in law
enforcement, she opposes loosen-
ing marijuana laws.
“For me, it’s a drug,” Fills the
Pipe said. “My gut feeling is
against jumping to conclusions.
“This is not a North Portland
issue, or just a Black issue, or a
ghetto-type issue,” he warned,
“this is an issue that schools face
all around the country with
respect to violence.”
In response to the shooting,
which made national headlines,
organizers from the anti-violence
group Don’t Shoot Portland
staged a march through inner
Northeast Portland, using the site
of the shooting as the starting
point.
Portland Opportunities Industri-
alization Center works to recon-
nect at-risk youth affected by
poverty and homelessness, with
higher education through the “last
chance” high school education
with its partner school Rosemary
Anderson High School, and career
training programs.
Tribes
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tribal businesses, our tribal hous-
ing? How will you help us combat
marijuana abuse in Indian Coun-
try when states are no longer there
to partner with us?”
Whether tribal pot could
become a major bonanza rivaling
tribal casinos is a big question.
Marshall said only three tribes —
one each in California, Washing-
ton state and the Midwest — have
voiced any interest. She did not
identify them.
Seattle attorney Anthony Broad-
man, whose firm represents tribal
governments throughout the West,
said the economic potential is
vast. “If tribes can balance all the
potential social issues, it could be
a really huge opportunity,” Broad-
man said.
But many in Indian Country are
wary of compounding existing
drug and alcohol problems by
growing and selling pot.
The Yakama Nation in Washing-
ton state recently banned marijua-
Seattle attorney Anthony Broadman,
whose firm represents tribal
governments throughout the West,
said the economic potential is vast
has battled illegal pot plantations
on its reservation that have dam-
aged the environment.
In South Dakota, the Oglala
Sioux Tribal Council this year
rejected a proposal to allow mari-
juana.
Oglala Sioux tribal Council-
woman Ellen Fills the Pipe, chair-
woman of the council’s Law and
Order Committee, said Thursday
she needs to review the federal
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we’re most likely going to shoot it
down.”
In Oregon, former Klamath
Tribes chairman Jeff Mitchell said
communities everywhere deal
with drug and alcohol issues, and
tribes are likely to proceed care-
fully.
“I have confidence in tribal gov-
ernment that they will deal with it
appropriately and they’ll take into
consideration social and legal
aspects, as well as other implica-
tions that go along with bringing
something like that into a commu-
nity,” Mitchell said.
Marshall warned that marijuana
is still illegal under federal law.
Problems could arise for tribes
with lands in states that outlaw
marijuana due to the likelihood
that pot would be transported or
sold outside tribal boundaries, she
said.
Tribes selling marijuana may
not be subject to state and local
taxes, allowing them to undercut
off-reservation sales. In Washing-
ton, heavy taxes on recreational
pot have pushed the price to about
twice the price at medical mari-
juana dispensaries.
Alison Holcomb, a primary
drafter of Washington state’s
legalization measure, said most
people in larger states won’t want
to drive to far-flung reservations
to buy pot.