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May 16, 2018 The Skanner Page 3 News cont’d from pg 1 tial check, but a warrant from Pierce County did turn up during warrant check before release. The county runs warrant checks for inmates at the time they are incarcerated and at the time they are re- leased He also said once bail is placed on an inmate’s books, that money either belongs to the inmate or goes to the courts. In this case, bail went to the latter, which is why the money Spencer posted was not refunded. The Skanner will update this story as more informa- tion becomes available. Library cer said, and organizers will keep working to bail women out as funds are released. It’s common for trans- actions from Crowd- funding sites to take two to five days to appear in the designated bank ac- counts, as the support guide for Fundly notes. Community Invited to Celebrate Whitaker Park Renovation The recently renovated Whitaker Ponds Nature Park will host a celebration and dedication from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. June 2. The celebration will include a Native Blessing ceremony, cupcakes, nature walks and baby turtles and will take place at Whitaker Ponds Nature Park, 7040 NE 47th Avenue. Portland Parks & Recreation recently renovated our Whitaker Ponds Nature Park with improvements including a new bus drop-off area and increased parking area, as well as a hardscape gathering area and improved path system. cont’d from pg 1 community and its leaders, from past to present. “We’ve been dabbling in digitizing more of our collection and making more resources available online,” Vai- ley Oehlke, director of libraries for Multnomah County, told The Skanner. “But then we wanted to do something that was broader and more connected to the community,” she added. “We’ve been talking a lot about how to cele- brate the history of the African Amer- icans in Portland — and more broadly across the state – and this seemed like a really great way to do that.” In partnership with Know Your City, the Oregon Historical Society and Van- port Mosaic, the Multnomah County Li- brary also received enormous support from the City of Portland Archives, which contributed 175 digital images and documents from its archival collec- tions. “People have an immediate connec- tion to photographs,” said Mary Han- sen, reference archivist at the City of Portland Archive & Records Center. “Our goal for the materials selected for the ‘Our Story’ project is to highlight resources available in the city archives that people might not know exist.” Those materials include images of numerous community events, neigh- Election borhood clean-ups, protest ral- lies, elect- ed officials, n ewsl e t t e rs and city gov- ernmental re- cords, as well as audio clips and music. “As an ar- chive, we don’t write the history,” continued Hansen. “We provide the raw materi- als for people Young man in front of Columbia Villa “Village Store.” to write their own stories.” card or a login is not necessary. Once The City of Portland Archive has also launched, the gallery will be present- made available a downloadable guide ed alongside the libraries’ other online to the city’s historical records has they collections. relate to the Black experience. To celebrate its launch, the North Released in sections, the first phase of Portland branch will host a kick-off the diverse collection will be released event from 2 to 4 p.m., featuring vari- this month and will focus on communi- ous speakers, “story time” from former ty building. The library is expecting to Portland Trail Blazer Brian Grant, and grow the collection to 500 items by next a performance by World Stage The- June. atre’s musical “Vanport.” To view the “Our Story,” a library As Oehlke explained, the new digital DEFUNCT & CLOSED CITY AGENCIES - HOUSING AUTHORITY OF PORTLAND “ Most of the money raised hadn’t been re- leased from the fund- raiser by Friday, Spen- PHOTO COURTESY OF PORTLAND PARKS & RECREATION Bailouts gallery is, in a sense, a companion piece to the physical materials found at the North Portland Library’ Black Resourc- es Collection, which offers more than 7,000 items — from books and periodi- cals to films and music. “The beauty of a digital environment is that the collection can be so much richer, and more importantly, so much “ The beauty of a dig- ital environment is that the collection can be so much richer, and more importantly, so much more broadly accessible more broadly accessible,” said Oehlke. “I do think that the advent of digiti- zation, as well as a growing acknowl- edgment of the degree to which the Black community in Portland has been marginalized, is certainly a part of why “Our Story” is our first robust project like this straight out of the gate.” cont’d from pg 1 Write-in – 463 — 0.54 percent Metro Council, District 2 Joe Buck – 1,152 — 33.49 percent Christine Lewis – 1,110 — 32.27 percent Carol Pauli - 324 — 9.42 percent Betty Dominguez - 842 — 24.48 per- cent Write-in — 12 - 0.35 percent Multnomah County Chair Deborah Kafoury — 66,303 — 71.36 percent Wes Soderback — 7,074 — 7.61 percent D Bora Harris — 12837 — 13.82 percent Chuck Crockett — 6100 — 6.57 percent Write-in – 593 — 0.64 percent Multnomah County Commissioner District 2 Susheela Jayapal —15,094 — 59.27 percent Maria Garcia — 3,738 — 14.68 percent Bruce Broussard — 3,653 — 14.34 percent Sha Yvette Maxwell — 2,906 — 11.41 percent Write-in — 75 — 0.29 percent Multnomah County Auditor Scott Learn — 36,096 — 41.87 percent Jennifer McGuirk — 35,287 — 40.93 percent Mark Ulanowicz — 14,475 —16.79 percent Write-in — 351 — 0.41 percent Multnomah County Sheriff Mike Reese — 64,355 - 97.06 percent Write-in — 1946 — 2.94 percent City of Portland Auditor Mary Hull Caballero — 53,927 — 98.77 percent Write-in —670 — 1.23 percent City of Portland Commissioner, Position 2 Nick Fish — 50,868 — 62.71 percent Julia DeGraw — 25,172 — 31.03 percent Philip J Wolfe — 2,548 — 3.14 percent Nicholas Sutton — 2,097 — 2.59 percent Write-in — 436 — 0.54 percent State Senator, 24th District (Democrat) Shemia Fagan — 3,600 — 62.86 percent Rod Monroe — 1243 — 21.70 percent Kayse Jama — 870 — 15.19 percent Write-in 14 — 0.24 percent State Representative, 51st District (Democrat) Janelle S Bynum - 1108 — 98.14 percent Write-in — 21 — 1.86 percent U.S. House District 3 NW, Portland/ Multnomah Democratic Primary Earl Blumenauer — 62,992 -—91 per- cent Ben Lavine — 4,187 — 6 percent Charles Barnett — 1,238 — 2 percent Eric Hafner — 1,019 — 1 percent Governor, Democratic Primary Kate Brown — 264,526 — 83 percent Ed Jones — 29,975 — 9 percent Candace Neville — 25,253 — 8 percent Governor, GOP Primary Knute Buehler — 125,124 — 47 percent Sam Carpenter — 79,497 — 30 percent Greg Wooldridge — 51,503 — 19 per- cent Bruce Cuff — 4,283 — 2 percent Jeff Smith — 4,164 — 2 percent David Stauffer — 1,864 — 1 percent Jonathan Edwards — 777 — 0 percent Keenan Bohach — 700 — 0 percent Brett Hyland — 666 — 0 percent Jack Tacy — 464 — 0 percent State Senate, District 7 – Democratic Primary James Manning, Jr. — 10,404 —98.99 percent Write-in — 106 — 1.01 percent Supreme Court Position 3 Meagan Flynn — 419,698 — 73 percent Van Pounds — 154,821 — 27 percent Labor Commissioner Val Hoyle, NP 309,589 - 51 percent Lou Ogden, NP 216,087 - 36 percent Jack Howard - 76,516 - 13 percent
