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DECEMBER 12, 2018 Portland and Seattle Volume XLI No. 11 25 CENTS News .............................. 3,8-10 A & E .....................................6-7 Opinion ...................................2 Dr. Jasmine ......................9 Calendars ........................... 4-5 Bids/Classifieds ....................11 CHALLENGING PEOPLE TO SHAPE A BETTER FUTURE NOW PHOTO VIA GOOGLE STREETVIEW VANCOUVER MULLS ‘LYNCH PARK’ Seven men and one woman were arrested for investigation of assault, hate crimes and other allegations early Saturday in Lynnwood. Suspects who attacked man at Lynnwood, Wash., club affiliated Aryan Brotherhood, according to court papers By Gene Johnson Associated Press SEATTLE — The FBI is helping inves- tigate an attack by several suspected White supremacists on a Black disc See DJ on page 3 PHOTO VIA CVTV.ORG Police, FBI Probe Suspected White Supremacist Attack on DJ Cecelia Towner, founder of Black Lives Matter Vancouver, testifies at a Dec. 10 Vancouver City Council meeting about the name of the city’s to-be- developed park using land donated by the late philanthropists Ed and Dollie Lynch. City looks to develop park named for Ed and Dollie Lynch — but activists are concerned about the name’s secondary connotation By Christen McCurdy Of The Skanner News AP PHOTO/JAY REEVES, FILE E In this Nov. 27 file frame from video, April Pipkins holds a photograph of her deceased son, Emantic “EJ” Bradford Jr., during an interview in Birmingham, Ala. Bradford, who was licensed to carry a gun, was killed Thanksgiving night by an officer responding to a report of gunfire at a shopping mall in Hoover, Ala. d and Dollie Lynch are remembered as titans of philanthropy in Clark County, Wash- ington. At a Vancouver City Council meeting this week, former Vancouver Mayor Royce Pollard said the couple had given more than $130 million to char- itable causes in the area over the years. That included the trans- fer of nine acres of land to the Community Founda- tion of Southwest Wash- ington, which sold the land to the city in 2002 with the intention of developing it as a public park. The fate of that land — and the secondary conno- tation of the Lynches’ sur- name – brought out more than a dozen members of the public to testify about what the park should be called. Near the end of the meet- ing, city manager Eric Holmes said city officials had for years referred to the park simply as Lynch Park and that it’s a com- mon practice in the city to refer to an undeveloped parcel of land simply by the last name of its donors. The name Lynch Park then appeared on promo- tional materials for the Stronger Vancouver pub- lic investment initiative, sparking an outcry from activists asking the city to reconsider the name – as well as from longtime Van- couver residents saying the council should stick with its plan to honor the philanthropic family when the park is developed. “I was on the city coun- cil when we promised Ed and Dollie we would name the park for them,” said former city councilor Pat Jollota. “We don’t say Short Park, we don’t say Davis Trail. We don’t say Brown Park. It’s Sam Brown Park, it’s Esther Short Park, it’s the Alan Davis Trail. When we promised Ed and Dol- lie that the park would be named for them, Ed kind of teared up. He really did.” “We have enough parks named after White people, frankly,” said Cecelia Town- er, head of the Vancouver chapter of Black Lives Mat- ter. After receiving a letter from a high school stu- dent who thought the park should be named after an See PARK on page 3 PPB Board Votes to Pay for Increased Police Presence The Fears of Agreement will go to the City Council in January Black Gun Owners page 8 The Skanner News Staff and Wire Reports New Film Honors the Life of Harriet Tubman page 7 T he Portland school board voted Tuesday to approve an agreement to pay police officers for an increased presence in schools. Students, teachers and parents implored the school board to delay the vote to al- low more discussion about whether to spend more than $1.2 million a year on nine school resource officers. Board member Scott Bai- ley suggested the vote be postponed until February to get more feedback from the community, but only board member Amy Kohnstamm voted for his motion urging a delay. (That motion also had the support of the board’s stu- dent representative, Cleve- land High School senior Nick Paesler.) But when the board vot- ed on the measure itself, Bailey and Kohnstamm ab- stained and board member Julie Esparza Brown voted no. The board then voted a second time, with Bai- ley changing his vote and Kohnstamm abstaining. Ju- See SCHOOLS on page 3 Portland School Board member Julie Esparza Brown
