Date: 08/21/2015 03:59 AM
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Here is the latest Oregon news from The Associated Press
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – The owners of a Portland-area bakery who were fined for denying service to a same-sex couple have sent cakes and copies of a Christian film to ten LGBTQ groups on the West Coast. Melissa and Aaron Klein, of Sweet Cakes by Melissa, told The Oregonian they sent the gifts as “an expression of love.”
BOISE, Idaho (AP) – Australia and New Zealand are sending firefighters to help battle wildfires burning in the western United States. The National Interagency Fire Center in Boise has announced that top fire managers representing various U.S. agencies requested about 70 fire managers and specialists from the two countries. After a one-day orientation to learn about current fire behavior they will be assigned to large fires.
PORTLAND, Ore. (AP) – Three farmworkers are suing a Portland farm, claiming they were fired for taking a water break on a hot summer day. The lawsuit says the farmworkers were fired from The Pumpkin Patch on Sauvie Island last August, the day after a supervisor discouraged them from drinking water and told them to get back to work. The Pumpkin Patch’s attorney told The Oregonian the workers’ firing had “nothing to do with” taking a water break.
COOS BAY, Ore. (AP) – Authorities say a 27-year-old man from Shoreline, Washington, died when his motorcycle collided head-on with an ATV in the Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area. The Coos County Sheriff’s Office says Lucien Imbodien was traveling north when he came into the path of an ATV heading south near No Name Hill.
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