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Installation begins for Gallery Young fencer sets her Without Walls exhibit sights high — See ENTERTAINMENT, Page B6 — See SPORTS, Page A22 THURSDAY, JULY 19, 2012 • ONLINE AT LAKEOSWEGOREVIEW.COM • VOLUME 99, NO. 30 • 75 CENTS Council Korach: Mandarin OKs urban immersion won’t renewal in happen until 2014 Detective Lee Ferguson of the School board pushes back, asks Lake Grove Lake Oswego for room to work on program Police Department, By KARA HANSEN MURPHEY front left, and By REBECCA RANDALL The Review Toni Tracy of the The Review West Linn Police Making your way along West Linn schools are taking a step toward Department, Boones Ferry Road can be a giving students at three elementary schools front right, lead harrowing experience, as basic profi ciency in Mandarin Chinese, but the local Lake Oswego resident and because of limited resources, Lake Oswego business owner Joe Buck contingent of Superintendent Bill Korach is suggesting that describes it: The sidewalks torch runners up a Mandarin immersion program in Lake Os- are narrow, and the cross- Highway 43 last wego remain on the back burner for now. walks few and far between. Friday. West Linn schools will have two native-speak- If you’re in a car, your REVIEW PHOTOS: ing Mandarin teachers instruct students once a chances of a carefree trip VERN UYETAKE week through its new world language program, aren’t much better — at which aims to bring a basic foreign language pro- least not if you need to fi ciency to all of its students by the time they make a left turn. reach middle school. Classroom teachers will in- Drivers honk and engines troduce the language roar as cars swoop around the through music, poems, “I think it’s vehicle waiting to cross traffi c, chants, books and digital Buck said, “with an attitude as materials. In grades 2-5, the important that if to say: How dare you hold us classroom teachers will also we look up, you — you left-hand turn A flame of hope use Rosetta Stone curricu- maker.” lum to learn the language seriously at Those traumatic times Local of cers take together with the students. adding could soon be over for busi- Three of its schools will (Mandarin), ness owners, residents and have Spanish as the target visitors in the Lake Grove ar- part in Special language, and one of those (but) the timing ea. schools will also host a is wrong. ... We The Lake Oswego City Olympics Torch Run Spanish immersion pro- need the time to Council tentatively approved a gram, which will provide $36 million urban renewal plan By LORI HALL instruction mostly in Span- do it and focus in Lake Grove on Tuesday. The Review ish. on that.” There’s no plan for a citizen Korach explained to the Milwaukie Police — Superintendent Bill vote on the issue, despite sev- he Special Olympic Torch Lake Oswego School Board Korach eral residents urging council made its way through Chief Bob Jordan last week that his adminis- members to consider sending West Linn and Lake Oswe- gives last-minute trative staff just doesn’t the question to voters. A fi nal go last week, bringing instructions to have the bandwidth to work on a Mandarin pro- T runners as they set version of the urban renewal with it some local athletes and law gram next year. This would delay any implemen- plan will come back for the enforcement offi cers. off from the West tation of a Mandarin immersion program until council’s approval next week. The Law Enforcement Torch Run Linn Police 2014. “We’ve been processing this represents a long-standing tradi- Department to Lake The school district would instead focus on to death; a vote, whether it tion within the Special Olympics Oswego. structuring a K-5 Spanish immersion program, goes one way or another, just family. During the week of July 8-14, which is moving forward this year with fi rst- and delays it,” Mayor Jack Hoff- more than 800 law enforcement vol- more than 30 offi cers and athletes “It’s a fun event,” he said. “You see second-grade classes for the fi rst time. man said. “This is a time for unteers (Guardians of the Flame) carried the torch from Waterfront a lot of the other offi cers you don’t Lake Oswego School Board member Linda bold decision-making and bold and Special Olympics Oregon ath- Park in Milwaukie through West get to see.” Brown asked if the agenda-setting document action. This is Lake Grove’s letes relayed the Flame of Hope to Linn and into Lake Oswego. The Running the torch for the first could still be written to say the more general term time.” the Summer State Games, with their West Linn Police Department was time, Tracy said she wanted to par- of “immersion” rather than limiting it to Spanish The process leading up to fi nal destination being the games cer- represented by Capt. Ron Schwartz, ticipate in the run because about four only. the decision has been lengthy. emonies at Newberg High School Sta- Sgt. Mike Boyd and Assistant to the years ago she reconnected with some “This list is already possibly beyond what we In early 2008, the council ad- dium. Police Chief Toni Tracy. The Lake Os- friends whose son has special needs. are capable of,” Korach said. “I propose doing opted a vision and plan for The torch passed through Clacka- wego Police Department was repre- “This family has inspired me, Mandarin in the following year. I just want you to Lake Grove’s long-term suc- mas County, including West Linn and sented by Det. Lee Ferguson, Offi cer along with their son, who has Down be real realistic about what this is going to take.” cess after six years of public Lake Oswego, on Friday, running Dawn Pecoraro and Offi cer Karinya syndrome,” Tracy said. “We could all The school district will also face changes to discussion. Soon after, plan- from the West Linn police station, Moisan. learn from these wonderful human core standards and teacher evaluations being ners completed a refi nement past Mary S. Young Park and then As a lover of running in general, beings that are placed in our lives for handed down from the state as a part of the No study for Boones Ferry Road, down Old River Road into Lake Os- Ferguson has participated in the a reason.” Child Left Behind waiver process. This will take wego. torch run for the better part of the up much of the administrators’ time, Korach said. See LAKE GROVE / Page A5 From 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Friday, last 15 years. See TORCH / Page A2 “I think it’s important that we look seriously at adding it, (but) the timing is wrong. We need the time to do it and focus on that,” he said. Board member Bob Barman pushed for a change in the number of administrative staff, so that more time can be spent on Mandarin. “You have cut yourself over time to the bone and it af- fects the classroom ... when you can’t add curricu- Review captures 13 ONPA awards lum, when you can’t add programs because we don’t have the staff,” he said. By J. BRIAN MONIHAN staff,” Publisher J. Brian Monihan wego Festival of the Arts program in ONPA. He now assumes the role of The school board has deferred both Mandarin The Review said. “They all work very hard to 2011. president of ONPA’s foundation for and Spanish programs in the past because of ei- produce a great newspaper for Lake Hansen Murphey also earned a 2012-13. ther lack of resources or interest. The Lake Oswego Review was Oswego each and every week. It’s third-place award for Best Lifestyle Nine newspapers from the Pam- Last year it declined carrying its Spanish im- again named one of Oregon’s best important for them to be recognized Coverage. plin Media Group garnered a com- mersion kindergarteners into fi rst grade, while its newspapers by the Oregon News- by their peers for all their hard Barb Randall and Alvaro Fontan bined 90 awards for writing, photog- Mandarin pre-K program has never been offered paper Publishers Association, work.” were also honored with a third-place raphy and design in this year’s com- past kindergarten because of low enrollment. earning a third place general ex- Review photographer Vern Uyet- award for Best Overall Website. petition. Language immersion parent advocate Sarah cellence award at the annual ON- ake earned fi rst-place awards in the On the advertising side, the Re- The Review staff was competing Howell has said in the past that the lack of interest PA convention held last week in Best Photo Essay, Best Sports Photo view earned a fi rst-place award for against other weekly newspapers in Mandarin was simply the result of parents Welches. and Best Feature Photo. He also Best Merchandising Section for the with a similar number of subscribers wanting a full K-5 program before they commit to In addition to earning the gen- earned a second-place award for monthly LO publication. The Review from the state of Oregon. The con- the school district’s offerings. eral excellence award, ONPA’s Best Photo essay. was also honored with a fi rst-place test was judged by the Pennsylvan- Earlier this year, the school board committed to most coveted award, the Review Martin Forbes, Review editor, won award for Best Overall Advertising.