Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
BEND, Ore. (AP) - The Oregon National Guard is holding a
demobilization ceremony Sunday in Bend for more than 400 soldiers
returning from Iraq.
They are among the 2,700 soldiers from the guard's 41st Infantry
Brigade Combat Team returning this month from deployments.
Meanwhile, about 200 members from an Oregon National Guard
Engineer Battalion at Salem have received orders to deploy in
December for a year in Afghanistan.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Hundreds of protesters waving American flags
and homemade signs made their way to the steps of the Oregon state
Capitol in Salem to ask for less -- taxes and government. The
Oregonian says Salem drew an estimated 1,000 demonstrators
yesterday, reportedly the biggest tax day crowd among Oregon
rallies. In the Portland suburb of Tigard, state Transportation
Department officials briefly shut down Oregon Highway 99W to let
about 250 activists cross the highway to reach a rally at the post
office. Dozens of protests were held around the state, including one in North Bend.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - A Beaverton middle school teacher whose
"Crash the Tea Party" Internet campaign has drawn national
attention is being put on paid leave while school officials
investigate whether he used school equipment or time to work on his
Web site. School officials have been deluged with e-mails and phone
messages since Jason Levin's Web page went public, encouraging
people to infiltrate the tea party movement to discredit it.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - The Linn County city of Lebanon has been
chosen as the site of the Oregon's second veterans' home. The home
was originally slated to be a 250-bed facility, but a site
evaluation committee has recommended the Lebanon home be limited to
no more than 150 beds -- and that a third home be built in Roseburg
to cover the state's southwestern region. Legislative approval
would be needed to build a third home.
SALEM, Ore. (AP) - Ed Westerdahl, a key aide to former Gov. Tom
McCall died last week at his home in Palm Springs, Calif. He was 74.
Westerdahl was a 28-year-old lobbyist when he managed McCall's 1964
secretary of state campaign. Two years later, he directed McCall's win over
Democrat Bob Straub in the 1966 governor's race. Westerdahl was a
top McCall aide during the first term and came up with the idea of
Vortex I, a free rock concert held in 1970 in Clackamas County. His idea was
to divert possible protesters away from the American Legion Convention held in
downtown Portland.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) - For the first time since 2007, commercial
and recreational fishermen will get to cast their lines for ocean
salmon from the Canadian border to Mexico. A federal panel set
seasons and quotas for chinook and coho salmon off the coasts of
Washington, Oregon and California yesterday.
OAKRIDGE, Ore. (AP) - The family of a 91-year-old woman killed
last fall when her car collided with an Oakridge patrol vehicle
plans to sue the city. The Register-Guard reports that Virginia
Spalinger's family alleges that officer Daniel Miller negligently
caused the woman's death. Investigators said that Spalinger was
responsible because she violated a state law requiring drivers to
yield to an emergency vehicle.
ALOHA, Ore. (AP) - An Aloha convenience store clerk who was
repeatedly stabbed while chasing down a beer thief is expected to
survive. Washington County sheriff's deputies say the man suffered
non-life threatening stab wounds in the upper body last night while
fighting with the thief who had swiped a half-a-case and was trying
to get away on a bicycle.
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