BATTLING BARISTA Kate Carney stirs up trouble as professional wrestler — SEE LIFE, B10 PortlandTUESDAY, NOVEMBER 3, 2015 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILY PAPERTTribune • PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COMrib • PUBLISHEDu TUESDAYn AND THURSDAYe CITY MAY BAR FOSSIL KINDERGARTEN FUEL EXPORTS REDUX Policy could thwart propane terminal at Port of Portland By STEVE LAW The Tribune In a powerful statement against climate change, the Portland City Council could vote this week to oppose any new fossil fuel export facili- ties in the city — including coal, liquefi ed natural gas and propane — as well as oil trains passing through Port- land. The City Council is slated to vote Wednesday on two resolu- tions sponsored by Mayor Char- lie Hales and Commissioner Amanda Fritz, one establishing an anti-fossil fuels export policy for the city and the other estab- lishing a city position against crude-oil shipments via train. Resolutions don’t have the force of law, but the city Plan- ning and Sustainability Bureau intends to bring changes to the city code to the City Council TRIBUNE PHOTO: JONATHAN HOUSE early next year that would trans- Sarah Rappenhagen with her two daughters, Mimi, left, and Grace. Six-year-old Mimi will go to two years of kindergarten after her parents decided her public school was too heavily late the council’s intentions into focused on reading goals. law, says Jackie Dingfelder, poli- cy director for Hales. If that happens, that could spell the death knell for a pro- ■ More 5-year-olds are posed $500 million propane ex- TIMBERS’ HOPES UP IN THE AIR … port facility at the Port of Port- land in North Portland, as well as future projects. It also would getting ‘redshirted’ be a signifi cant statement for a city that arose on the confl uence of two rivers and was named af- By SHASTA KEARNS MOORE from Stanford University. ter its ports built for imports and The Tribune Parent-Child Preschools Or- exports. ganization Vice President “It sends a Sarah Rappenhagen has Kathy Ems says with Oregon message that two little girls. The oldest districts moving to full-day Portland is not “The Port was quick to pick up on kindergarten, she urges par- interested in numbers and letters when ents to consider the organiza- the expansion ... is not yet she turned 5, but the young- tion’s two Portland-area pre- of facilities convinced est needed a little more schools that also have half-day around export that the time. kindergartens. She says most of fossil fuels,” And that’s OK, Rappenha- families use it as a substitute Dingfelder city has gen says. for public kindergarten, but says. “It’s con- made a “If you look at two 5-year- some are using the programs sistent with olds, one can be really ready as a prelude. Ems says there our policies to case that a for more seated stuff and the needs to be options for chil- reduce our use fossil fuel other can be really not ready dren who aren’t ready for full- of fossil fuels for that,” she says. “I think the day kindergarten yet. and our carbon export expectation is that all kids are “I know it’s advantageous footprint.” policy at going to come out reading. I for most children, and the data Other U.S. the city think it puts a lot of pressure supports that, but every child cities have on kids.” is an individual,” Ems says. come out for- level is Her Mount Tabor-area fami- Oregon Department of Edu- mally against necessary.” ly is one of several in Portland cation spokeswoman Crystal coal exports or who are fi nding ways for their Greene says that full-day kin- — Phil Ralston, oil trains, but children to have two years of dergarten is not mandatory — Port of Portland Dingfelder was kindergarten. The practice of mandatory school starts at director of able to fi nd on- academic “redshirting” has age 6 — and parents can still TRIBUNE PHOTO: DAVID BLAIR environmental ly one other been gaining in popularity choose to have a half-day of But so far so good for Portland in the MLS Western Conference semifi nals. The Timbers, and a diving operations and major U.S. city, across the nation in recent Lucas Melano, played Vancouver to a 0-0 draw last Sunday at Providence Park. With a good result this policy Sunday in BC Place, the Timbers would move on to the conference fi nals. Oakland, to years, according to research See SCHOOL / Page 2 adopt a stance against all fos- sil fuel exports. Oakland, like Portland, is a major West Coast port city. The Port of Portland, which has sought to lure Pembina Pipeline Corp.’s propane facility to lease port property, pulled its representative out of the city Task force tackles school violence work group that helped frame legislative session in February. The goal of the project is to them off their trajectory and “You can’t measure events the fossil fuel export policy, and Statewide system The project would be mod- prevent incidents such as the help them make decisions that that don’t happen,” Van Dreal issued a letter opposing the poli- eled after a student threat as- shooting at are positive,” said said. cy. recommended to sessment system in Marion, Troutdale’s Reyn- John Van Dreal, Surveys indicate 90 to 95 “The Port ... is not yet con- head off threats Polk and Yamhill counties, olds High School “It is much director of school percent of school administra- vinced that the city has made a said task force member Dave in June 2014, and risk manage- tors and counselors believe case that a fossil fuel export pol- By PARIS ACHEN Novotney, superintendent of when gunman better to ment services for the system has helped to en- icy at the city level is necessary, Capital Bureau Willamette Education Service Jared Padgett prevent these the Salem-Keizer hance a sense of safety on or that a city policy is the best District. killed a 14-year- School District. campuses, Van Dreal said. tool to materially advance a low- The Oregon State Police When schools receive an in- old student and things than to The system Schools in several other carbon future or safer transpor- Task Force on School Safety dication of threatening or de- wounded a teach- respond to started taking states, including Vermont, Cal- tation of fossil fuels,” wrote Phil is recommending a new structive behavior, the system er. In that in- them.” shape in 1999 in ifornia and Idaho, have adopt- Ralston, the port director of en- statewide threat assessment deploys a team of law enforce- stance, Padgett Salem-Keizer ed the protocols, he said. vironmental operations and system aimed at preventing ment personnel, educators had written in his — Geoff Spalding, schools and later The recommendation by the policy, in a letter to the city Bu- shootings and other vio- and counselors to respond. journal that he Beaverton police chief expanded to all of task force calls for establish- reau of Planning and Sustain- lence at public schools. The team may help connect planned to kill the schools in Wil- ing response teams in eight ability. The work group named the the student with resources classmates, according to po- lamette ESD. regions in the state and train- Pembina declined to comment system, estimated to cost more such as mental health counsel- lice. Measuring the effectiveness ing for employees. on the new city policy. than $1 million, one of its two ing or provide the student with “The idea is to intervene of the system has been chal- See VIOLENCE / Page 3 The resolutions come in re- top priorities for the upcoming more supervision. with the hope we can nudge lenging. sponse to a fl urry in fossil fuel export and transfer projects the past few years in the city, across “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to Portland Tribune deliver balanced news that re ects the the river in Washington, and FOOTBALL ROOTS stories of our communities. Thank you — SEE SPORTS, PAGE B1 for reading our newspapers.” See FUEL / Page 2 Inside — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN JR. OWNER & NEIGHBOR A2 NEWS The Portland Tribune Tuesday, November 3, 2015 School: More time to mature City Club to debate ■ From page 1 Sarah peers in a lot of ways because higher minimum wage Rappenhagen’s she knows how to read and write already.” two daughters, kindergarten at public schools. But she says her daughter Mimi, left, and Committee suggests Find out more Greene says children who have needed to mature a little. Grace, play in turned 6 by Sept. 1 are enrolled “Just allowing her the extra higher threshold for Report of City Club panel and in first grade regardless of at- their Mount year to be emotionally pre- summary: tendance in kindergarten, un- Tabor-area pared, to go along with her in- http://www.pdxcityclub.org/mini- Portland workers mumwage less the district has made a poli- backyard. The tellect, was really important to cy or exception allowing older girls switched to us,” Van der Merwe says, add- By PETER WONG children. a private school ing: “You know what? An extra Pamplin Media Group “There is not good research- after their year never hurt anyone.” attle, San Francisco, Oakland based evidence to support hold- parents were Kim Hill, executive director The City Club of Portland and Los Angeles have increased ing students back for a second disappointed in of Childswork, says she sees will hear a recommendation their minimum wages, most to year of kindergarten and, in their many families choosing the on Friday to let Portland set a $15 in stages.