Page 8 The Skanner October 11, 2017
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A Cigarette, a Car
Backfi re: Small
Sparks Can Make
Big Fires
SAN FRANCISCO (AP)
— A carelessly discarded
cigarette, a downed pow-
er line, a car’s backfi re
or a chainsaw’s pull. Just
about anything could
have started any one of
the wildfi res now tearing
through Northern Cali-
fornia, authorities said.
“Every spark is going
to ignite a fi re,” said Ken
Pimlott, the state’s top
fi refi ghter. He said the
risk remains “extreme
for new starts.”
Pimlott said Tuesday
that investigators are
looking into the causes,
but no determination
has been made at any of
the 17 sites of major wild-
fi res blazing in Northern
California.
Pimlott, the California
Department of Forest-
ry and Fire Protection
director, said “98 per-
cent” of all wildfi res are
started by people and it’s
unlikely lightning is to
blame for any of the fi res
that exploded overnight
Sunday, killing at least 17
people so far.
California’s most dan-
gerous wildfi re season
comes in autumn, when
summer heat and insects
have left brush dead and
dried out, and winds are
especially hot, dry and
strong.
Hotel Questions
Revised Timeline
of Las Vegas
Massacre
A day aft er authorities
revised the timeline of
events on the night of the
Las Vegas mass shooting,
the hotel where the gun-
man was staying is cast-
ing doubt on the changes.
Police said earlier this
week that they believe
Stephen Paddock shot
a hotel security guard
through the door of his
high-rise hotel suite
six minutes before he
unleashed a barrage of
bullets into a crowd at
a musical performance
below. The injured guard
ran down a hall using
his radio and possibly a
hallway phone to call for
help, reporting he had
been shot in the leg.
That account diff ers
dramatically from the
one police gave last
week: that Paddock end-
ed his hail of fi re on the
crowd, where 58 people
were killed and hun-
dreds injured, in order
to shoot through his door
and wound the unarmed
guard, Jesus Campos.
But late Tuesday, the
company that owns the
Mandalay Bay hotel ca-
sino questioned the new
timeline.
“We cannot be certain
about the most recent
timeline,” said Debra
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By Kirby McCurtis, Administra-
tor, North Portland Library
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cifi c industries and career levels.
Resume help is off ered weekly
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and Albina libraries.
Five common resume mistakes
to avoid:
1. Typos and grammatical er-
rors: review your resume for
spelling and punctuation er-
rors, and then have another
person read it.
2. No specifi cs: be specifi c with
your responsibilities and ac-
complishments in each job.
3. Too long: your resume should
not be so long potential em-
ployers don’t want to read it.
The general rule is no more
than two pages.
4. No action verbs: using action
verbs demonstrates you actu-
ally did the work! Avoid using
“responsible for;” try instead
“organized.”
5. Picking the wrong font: pick
a clear font that is easy to read
and stick with it throughout
the document. Yes to “Arial;”
No to “Comic Sans.”
Having a great resume is not
the only thing that sets you apart
from other applicants. Employ-
ers also look for “soft skills,” or
the skills and traits that help you
work well with others. These can
include strengths in the areas of
communication, time manage-
ment, problem solving or collab-
oration.
Beginning Oct. 5, Central Li-
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land Community College to off er
the Brown Bag Lunch and Learn
series. These hour-long sessions
will teach you how to develop and
increase soft skills and how to ex-
pand your professional network.
Topics include building emotion-
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to fi nd employment and cultivat-
ing trust.
Visit multcolib.org or schedule
an appointment with a librarian
by texting “multcolib” and your
question to 66746.
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Trump to Pitch
Tax Plan as Boon
for Truckers
WASHINGTON (AP) —
President Donald Trump
will pitch his tax plan as a
boon for truckers in Har-
risburg, Pennsylvania
Wednesday — the latest
stop on a cross-country
tour aimed at selling his
tax reform proposal.
Trump will be speak-
ing in front of an audi-
ence of roughly 1,000
people, including lots of
truckers, against a back-
drop of big rigs at a local
air plane hangar, accord-
ing to the White House.
Trump is pitching a plan
that would dramatically
cut corporate tax rates
from 35 percent to 20
percent, reduce the num-
ber of personal income
tax brackets and boost
the standard deduction.
At his latest stop,
Trump will argue that his
tax reform framework
will benefi t truckers by
lowering their tax rates,
boosting
manufactur-
ing, and making it easier
for families to pass their
trucking businesses onto
their children, the White
House says.
“When your trucks
are moving, America is
growing. That is why my
administration is taking
historic steps to remove
the barriers that slow
you down,” he’s expect-
ed to say, according to
excerpts provided by the
White House. “Ameri-
ca fi rst means putting
American truckers fi rst.”
Trump has left it up to
Congress to fi ll in many
specifi cs of his plan,
which leaves out details
such as which income
levels his new tax brack-
ets would apply to.
Review cont’d from pg 8
Screenshot from ‘A Question of Faith’
hit spinoff , “The Facts of
Life.”
The fi lm unfolds in the
City of Atlanta where
we’re introduced to three
families dealing with
serious life issues. The-
resa Newman (Fields) is
worried that her worka-
holic husband (Richard
T. Jones) remains so ob-
sessed with taking over
as senior pastor of the
church from his father
(Gregory Alan Williams)
that he might break yet
another promise to at-
tend their younger son’s
(Caleb T. Thomas) basket-
ball game.
Elsewhere, we fi nd as-
piring gospel singer Mi-
chelle Danielsen (Amber
Thompson) being pres-
sured to perform at a re-
cord company audition
by her cash-strapped fa-
ther (C. Thomas Howell).
Overbearing John’s os-
tensibly more concerned
with avoiding an im-
pending collapse of his
own business than with
diagnosing the cause of
his daughter’s debili-
tating, recurring head-
aches.
Lastly, we have restau-
rant owner Katie Her-
nandez (Jaci Velasquez)
reminding her reckless
daughter Maria (Karen
Valero) to stop texting
behind the wheel while
making deliveries. She
doesn’t want the high
school senior to do any-
thing that might jeop-
ardize her chances of
becoming the fi rst in the
family to attend college.
These parallel sto-
rylines eventually con-
verge by chance and in
very dramatic fashion.
Since it would be unfair
to spoil any of the ensu-
ing developments, suf-
fi ce to say that the pro-
tagonists are challenged
to rise to the occasion in
diff erent ways as their
fates further intertwine.
A very moving tale of
redemption which not
only reveals God’s grace
but makes a case for
cross-cultural tolerance
that’s sorely-needed in
these divided times.
Excellent 
Rated PG for mature
themes
To see a trailer for A
Question of Faith, visit:
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