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Saturday, May 21, 2016
BRIEFLY
Student apologizes
for ‘build a wall’
banner at school
Hanford workers
evaluated after
reporting odor
PORTLAND (AP) — A
student responsible for
hanging a “build a wall”
banner at an Oregon high
school has apologized.
The student said he
wanted to do something
“provocative” to protest
restrictions on freedom
of speech and didn’t
realize until later that the
phrase held such a strong,
threatening connotation.
The student says he doesn’t
believe a barrier should be
constructed on the border
with Mexico and is truly
sorry for hurting people.
The apology was posted
on a public blog Thursday
and doesn’t identify the
student.
The banner that made
reference to Donald Trump’s
plan to clamp down on
illegal immigration briely
appeared in the Forest
Grove High School cafeteria
Wednesday.
It triggered a protest the
following day, with hundreds
of students marching out of
the school west of Portland.
RICHLAND, Wash.
(AP) — Oficials say two
more workers at the Hanford
Nuclear Reservation have
received medical evaluations
after they reported smelling
vapors at the former nuclear
weapons production site.
The Tri-Cities Herald
reports that Washington
River Protection Solutions
said Wednesday two workers
had reported an odor outside
the AY Tank Farm. Neither
had any symptoms and they
both went to get checked out
an on-site clinic.
Last week, a worker who
smelled nothing reported
symptoms and also underwent
a medical evaluation.
Since late April, a total
of 49 Hanford workers have
received medical evaluations
because of possible exposure
to chemical vapors.
Warm Springs
woman dead;
husband sought
PORTLAND (AP) —
The FBI says a 30-year-old
woman died violently in her
Warm Springs home and
agents are trying to ind her
husband.
Oficers from the Warm
Springs Police Department
found the body of Candelaria
Rhoan after being asked
to conduct a welfare check
Thursday.
Her husband, Mark
Johnson, Jr., was last seen
Wednesday at a friend’s
home on the Warm Springs
Reservation. He is likely
driving a 1998 maroon,
4-door Volkswagen Passat
with an Oregon license plate
of 223DXW.
The FBI says Johnson
might be suicidal and should
be considered armed and
dangerous.
PORTLAND (AP) —
Oregon regulators are telling
people living on boats on the
Willamette River to move
on or risk ines.
The Oregon Department
of State Lands is cracking
down on long-term boaters
on the river, saying they are
on a state-owned waterway
without permission, The
Oregonian/OregonLive
reported.
Lori Warner-Dickason,
the state department’s oper-
ations manager, said this
is the irst comprehensive
sweep of boaters since the
agency began tracking the
number of people living
on the water in 2014. She
said there are about 50 boat
owners on the river between
the Willamette Cove and
the Fremont bridge, less
than the 75 of 2014 because
some vessels have left the
water or sunk since then.
move to a marina or contest
the citation. If they don’t
comply, they can be ined
$100 a day until they move
or their boats will be seized.
Rix Miles Chapman, 47,
is among those who have
been told to leave. He said
he has been living mostly
on the river for about seven
years. He said he was sick
of paying landlords and
dealing with neighbors and
decided to stop. He said he
moves for special events,
like the Fourth of July
ireworks display or a barge,
but that he expects to stay.
“They’re mad that I
don’t have to pay anyone
anything,” he said. “This is
public water, and I’m not
bothering anyone. What
they told me is that I’m
breaking an administrative
rule. Issue me something
that says I’m breaking the
law, and maybe I’ll go.”
Everton Bailey, Jr./The Oregonian via AP
In this May 17 photo, Rix “Finger” Chapman, 47, is one
of several people living in a boat along the Willamette
River south of the Hawthorne Bridge in Portland.
Oregon regulators are telling people living on boats
on the Willamette River to move on or risk ines.
So far 14 boat owners
on the river between the
Sellwood and Hawthorne
bridges have been given
trespassing notices on
suspicion of living along
state-owned waterways for
at least 30 days.
Boaters have been given
20 days to move to another
spot at least ive miles away
and not return for a year,
Gov. Brown tells grads about former closeted life
Sprinkler used
to deter homeless
attacked twice
By GORDON FRIEDMAN
Statesman Journal
EUGENE (AP) — Two
people got into trouble with
Eugene police this week
after targeting a sprinkler
that was turned on to
prevent the homeless from
damaging a yard.
Police say a visitor from
Stockton, California, was
cited for criminal trespass
Monday after she unhooked
the sprinkler and threw it in
the street.
Two days later, police
arrested a homeless man
who damaged the sprinkler
with a golf club and a pipe.
The Register-Guard
reports that the man ran
from oficers, but was later
arrested when threatened
with a stun gun. He was
booked into jail on charges
of criminal trespass and
criminal mischief.
Police say the sprinkler is
in a neighborhood that has
faced a continuing problem
with people loitering,
littering, damaging property,
and urinating and defecating
in yards.
SALEM — Willamette
University President Stephen
Thorsett introduced Oregon
Gov. Kate Brown to a crowd
of thousands last weekend as
the school’s 2016 commence-
ment speaker.
As Brown approached
the microphone, Thorsett,
adorned in full academic
regalia, bent down and
positioned a small black
wooden box behind the
podium. Brown, 55 and short
of stature, thanked him and
stepped up.
Her speech had all the
hallmarks of a typical
commencement address: She
told the 400-some graduates
to ind a path, help others,
have ambition and work hard.
And then the governor
made uncharacteristic, telling
remarks about her personal
life — details about being a
family practice lawyer and
public servant, underscored
by the realities of living for
years as a closeted bisexual.
Brown said that as a new
lawyer in the 1980s, she
felt terriied when going to
work, afraid of losing her job
if someone discovered that
she was seeing a woman.
(Brown has been married to
her husband, Dan Little, for
nearly 20 years and has two
step-children.)
It was a rare moment
when the governor spoke
publicly about her sexuality.
“I wanted to share that
because people don’t always
appear as they seem,” she
said during an interview this
week at her personal ofice in
the Capitol.
Though she feared losing
her job in the ‘80s, Brown
wouldn’t be outed publicly
until the mid-’90s when The
Oregonian published a story
about LGBT legislators.
The outing forced her
to confront the truth with
her parents, who lew from
Minnesota to Oregon after
the news broke. They had a
dificult conversation, telling
Brown it would be easier if
she were just a lesbian.
She wrote in “Out and
Elected in the USA,” an
online collection of essays by
LGBT elected oficials, that
some of her gay friends called
her “half-queer.” Straight
friends were convinced she
couldn’t make up her mind.
The most frightening part
was coming out to fellow
legislators.
At the time, Oregonians
were presented with anti-gay
ballot measures, though they
failed.
Brown, then a member of
the state Senate, served on a
committee where all the other
members were white, male
and presumably straight.
“And they didn’t have any
experiences like mine,” she
said. “They didn’t know what
it felt like to be afraid to go
to work.”
Members of her Senate
caucus told bisexual jokes. In
a way, Brown found solace in
the levity.
Bill Markham, an older,
more experienced Repub-
lican lawmaker, joked with
Brown about the Oregonian
article, saying perhaps he
now had a chance with her.
“I was really nervous
about how my colleagues
were going to relate to me,”
she said. Markham, who
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body,” she says, broke the ice
with his comment, enabling
them to connect.
Yet Brown had only
igured out “who, or what”
she was when in her 30s,
she wrote. She didn’t know
the implications of being an
openly bisexual legislator.
“There was no one else
in the country ... So it was
like, what does this mean? I
was very upfront with it, but
I hadn’t put a label to it,” she
remembered.
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Since becoming governor
in 2015, the label of being the
nation’s irst openly bisexual
governor has followed
Brown in the national press.
She sighed when asked if
she resents the label.
It’s more challenging for
her family than for her, she
said.
“I think my mother said
to me, ‘Do they have to say it
every single time?”’
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