JUNE 8, 2016
Portland and Seattle Volume XXXVIII No. 36
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News ................................ 3,8,9 A & E .....................................6-7
Opinion ...................................2 Rose Festival Court .........9
Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classiieds ...............10-11
CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW
PHOTO BY ARASHI YOUNG
CLINTON’S IN
Bri Williams and her son Samir, 8, sit as Samir’s
blood is drawn during a lead testing clinic Monday
afternoon.
By Arashi Young
Of The Skanner News
S
tudents and parents line up inside
the Rose City Park school gym. The
children wander and play, mak-
ing jokes about being “poisoned”
while their parents sit, concerned and
somber.
They wait until their number gets
called and then walk past a partition to
meet with Multnomah County health
oicials to test their children for lead
exposure. The lead testing clinic is one
of two large-scale testing events facili-
tated by the county in response to the
recent public outcry regarding Port-
land Public School facilities.
See LEAD on page 3
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton greets supporters as she arrives to speak during a presidential primary election night rally Tuesday
in New York. Hillary Clinton declared victory in her yearlong battle for the heart of the Democratic party, seizing her place in history as the irst female
candidate of a major party and setting out on the diicult task of fusing a fractured party to confront Donald Trump. Clinton cruised to easy victories
in three of the six state contests on Tuesday — including delegate-rich New Jersey. She had already secured the delegates needed for the nomination
before Tuesday's contests, according to an Associated Press tally. Still, Sanders had hoped to use a victory in California to persuade party insiders to
switch their allegiances.
Washington May Drop ‘Jim Crow’ From Maps
Committee accepting comment on proposed landmark name changes
By Christen McCurdy
Of The Skanner News
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professional title ight, beat Sonny Liston 215¼ lbs
by KO at 2:12 in round 1 of 15.
Ali: The Champ
Who Made a
Diference page 8
Rose Festival
Princesses
page 9
t’s not clear how Jim
Crow Point, Jim Crow
Creek and Jim Crow Hill
got their names.
The three landmarks are
nestled close together out-
side Brookield, Wash., a
Columbia River ghost town
northwest of Portland. Joe
Budnick grew up in the
area, which was the home
of the J.G. Megler Compa-
ny, a salmon cannery, until
1931. When the town’s post
oice closed in 1954, just
three families remained
in the area, and Budnick’s
was one of them.
When a newspaper in the
area ran a series of stories
asking how the landmarks
got their name, Budnick
decided to act.
Budnick has proposed
changing the names of the
places in question to Beare
Hill, Brookield Point and
Harlows Creek — taking
these names from the de-
funct community and the
surnames of people who
lived in the area.
Caleb Maki, executive
secretary for the Wash-
ington Committee on Geo-
graphic Names, said name
changes don’t happen as a
result of a complaint alone.
Instead, citizens seeking
to change the way a place
reads on oicial maps must
propose an alternative.
Now
Washington’s
Department of Natural
Resources has begun ac-
cepting comments on a
proposal to change the
names, and will receive
public comments in the
coming months, then make
a decision at its next meet-
ing Oct. 13.
According to Maki, the
U.S. Geographic Survey
didn’t create a digital data-
base of geographic names
until 1979, and documenta-
tion on the origins of many
place names is spotty.
Sometimes what’s writ-
ten on a map isn’t neces-
sarily consistent with what
locals call a place, or what
signs say.
“Jim Crow Point, every-
body always called Jim
Crow Point,” Budnick said.
See NAMES on page 3
Portland Summer Programs for Kids
Summer movies, open swim, meals, day camps
and more available to youth in Portland
The Skanner News Staf
T
oday is the last day of school
for students in Portland Public
Schools. The Skanner News has
compiled a list of free and low-
cost programs throughout the city to
keep children and teenagers busy.
Portland Parks & Recreation
Programs
Portland Parks & Recreation’s Sum-
mer Free For All includes 55 Con-
certs in the Park, 41 Movies in the
Park, 27 Summer Playgrounds &
Lunch sites, 20 Mobile Playgrounds
sites, Free Swim sessions at all of
PP&R’s indoor and outdoor pools,
and the Washington Park Summer
Festival. In addition, a Children’s
Concert Series at Unthank Park is
new this year.
To view Summer Free for All
schedules,
visit
https://www.
See SUMMER on page 3
PHOTO COURTESY OF PORTLAND PARKS & REC
revelation of high lead
levels in PPS water
AP PHOTO/JULIE JACOBSON
County
Tests for
Lead
Levels
Parents worry after
Portland Parks & Recreation will provide a
wide variety of free and low-cost programs for
children and teens this summer, including free
movies, summer meals and daily play programs.
