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SPORTS

SEATTLE, Washington (AP)

Clint Dempsey was a spectator last time the Seattle Sounders played archrival Portland, kept

off the field by a red-card suspension during a 3-1 loss.

This time, he took charge.Dempsey scored twice and Cristian

Roldan added a goal - all in the second half - in Seattle’s 3-1 victory over the Timbers on Sunday night.

In front of 53,302 fans at Century-Link Field, the Sounders (9-12-3, 30 points) won their third straight game and extended their unbeaten streak to four (3-0-1). They climbed within two points of Portland (8-10-8, 32 points) for the last playoff spot in the Western Con-ference.

‘’Once we got the (first) goal, that kind of opened things up,’’ Dempsey said. ‘’They had to press forward to try to get the equalizer, and we were able to pick them apart. We pretty much put in a perfect performance except for conced-ing that (late) one.’’

Portland, which got a goal from Fanendo Adi in second-half stoppage time, has lost four of its last five games

and remains winless on the road (0-7-6).Dempsey put Seattle on the board

in the 61st minute when he converted a penalty kick past goalkeeper Jake Gleeson. The chance was set up when Roldan was taken down by defender Vytas Andriuskevicius just outside the box on the right-wing side. Dempsey, who missed a PK in last Sunday’s 2-1 victory against Real Salt Lake, drilled this try high into the left side with Gleeson going the opposite way.

In the 80th minute, Roldan sent a through ball toward the Portland penalty area. Demspey caught up with it, took two dribbles, and fired it into the back-right corner from just inside the restrain-ing arc.

Before he scored either of those goals, Dempsey, who now has eight goals for the season, had a near miss on a wide-open shot from 17 yards straight in front.

‘’Early in the season, that would have been the only chance I got all game,’’ Dempsey said. ‘’Now, when I miss a good chance, I’m going to have two or three more. When you fight hard and keep yourself in the game, you have people who can create opportunities, and that puts you in situations to get good looks.’’

The Sounders’ current four-game unbeaten run has come since Brian Schmetzer was named interim coach after the team parted ways with longtime coach Sigi Schmid on July 26.

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SPORTS: Dempsey scores twice, Sounders beat Timbers 3-1

STATE: Report says Pasco should hire more Spanish-speaking police officers

FINANCIAL LITERACY: Back-to-School Budgeting

POLITICS: Texas Hispanic voting bloc largely untapped

OUR FAITH: The Beatitudes

LATIN AMERICA: Storms damage monarch butterfly habitat in Mexico

NORTHWEST: Two wrestling coaches and 14-year-old fatally shot in Hermiston

COLUMN: Dave Says: Buy the car?

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PASCO, Washington (AP)

The Pasco Police D e p a r t m e n t should take

steps to ensure all offi-cers speak some Spanish, improve the training of officers to deal with mentally ill people, and hire more Span-ish-speaking officers in the wake of last year’s shooting of a man with a history of mental illness that sparked protests in the city, a training group recommended.

The recommendations were released Monday by the Police Executive Research Forum, which was asked by the U.S. Department of Justice to study the shooting in the central Washington city.

The report rec-ommended that the police department fully embrace the concept of community policing, provide more opportu-nities for officers to learn Spanish, attract more Spanish-speaking offi-cers and provide officers with an under-standing of cultural diversity and the role of implicit bias in policing. “While the guidance in this report is specific to Pasco, much of it can also be applied to police agencies across the nation that are facing challenges similar to Pasco’s,” the report said.

The report noted an upheaval in polic-ing since 2014, when protests broke out over the police shooting of a black man in Ferguson, Missouri.

Antonio Zambrano-Montes, an orchard worker from Mexico, was shot and killed as he threw rocks at police at a busy downtown intersection in Feb-ruary 2015. His death sparked weeks of peaceful protests in the city of more than 60,000 residents that is majority-Hispanic but has a police force with rela-tively few minorities.

In June, federal prosecutors announced

they would not file charges against the three police officers who killed Zam-brano-Montes. U.S. Attorney Michael Ormsby said there was insufficient evi-dence that the officers violated the civil rights of Zambrano-Montes when they fired 17 bullets at him on Feb. 10, 2015.

An autopsy showed he had metham-phetamine in his system. He also had a history of mental illness and previous interactions with police.

Cellphone video of the shooting went viral and led to weeks of peaceful protests in the city along the Columbia River.

Local prosecutors had also cleared officers Adrian Alaniz, Ryan Flanagan and Adam Wright in the shooting.

The parents of Zambrano-Montes have filed a lawsuit in federal court con-tending the officers used excessive force. That case is scheduled for trial next May. Several other lawsuits have also been filed.

Report says Pasco should hire more Spanish-speaking police officers

In this February 19, 2015, file photo, a photo of Antonio Zambrano-Mon-tes is displayed at a memorial in Pasco, Washington.

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POLITICS

HOUSTON, Texas (AP)

Diana Villenas begins her pitch in English, but

switches to Spanish if she gets blank stares, which happens often. It’s a tough sell in any language.

“Are you registered to vote?” asks the 21-year-old environmental studies student at St. Thomas Uni-versity in Houston. “Do you want to be?”

“No, gracias,” the bearded man in the black baseball cap says. Another ambling by with a cell-phone to his ear shakes his head, as does a guy in a black-felt cowboy hat and a woman wearing a yellow blouse. The man in an American flag T-shirt even turns her down.

As brassy Banda music blares from a nearby stage at a sprawling Hispanic festival adjacent to the Houston Texans’ dome, Villenas and other volunteers with Mi Familia Vota, a nonpartisan nonprofit which encourages Latino civic engage-ment, exhort possible voters. They find most aren’t eligible to vote because they’ve not yet turned 18 or are recent immigrants who aren’t U.S. citizens.

Many others, though, simply aren’t interested.

Texas is home to 10.2 million Hispan-ics, 19 percent of the country’s Latino population. Excluding noncitizens and those under 18, about 5 million Texas Hispanics will be eligible to vote in the 2016 presidential election, but less than half may register and fewer still are likely to cast ballots.

That untapped electorate helps explain how, even though a majority of the state’s residents will be Hispanic by around 2030, Texas has grown increasingly con-servative. No Democrat has won state-wide office here since 1994, the country’s longest political losing streak.

Some Hispanics support Texas conser-vative causes, such as religious values and opposing abortion, but overall, Latinos statewide still lean strongly Democratic, as do their counterparts elsewhere. Higher Latino turnout won’t turn this

red state blue in November’s presiden-tial election, but given how much the Hispanic population is booming, even small improvements could make a big difference in the future. The trick will be pulling that off.

“We should know that demography is not destiny,” said Henry Munoz III, a longtime San Antonio community orga-nizer who now serves as the Democratic Party’s National Finance Committee Chair.

Hispanic voting habits are like church attendance, said Mario Salinas, Mi Familia Vota’s deputy Texas director.

“If you grow up in a house where mom and dad go to church, you’ll go too as an adult. If they don’t, you probably won’t,” Salinas said. “If parents don’t vote, the kids won’t.”

Across the country, naturalization applications are up 14 percent in the last six months of 2015 compared with the same period the previous year. That has fueled speculation that many Hispan-ics are anxious to vote against Donald Trump, fearful of the Republican nomi-nee’s harsh immigration rhetoric.

But Alberto Morales, project coordi-nator for the Advocacy Alliance Center of Texas, which leads voter registration drives along the Texas-Mexico border, cautions that it might not translate to higher turnout.

“There is frustration,” Morales said. “We would just like for more of the pop-ulation to come out to vote and they’re just not.”

Texas Hispanic voting bloc largely untapped

File photo of a sign showing the way to a polling station in Austin, Texas.

By Dr. Joseph Castleberry

God blesses those who are poor and realize their need for him, for the Kingdom of

Heaven is theirs …  Be happy about it! Be very glad! For a great reward awaits you in heaven.—Matthew 5:3,12 NLT

No element of the teachings of Jesus inspires greater tenderness in the human heart than the famous Beati-tudes. The central message of Jesus proclaimed that, with his advent, the Kingdom of God had drawn near to humanity. In the Beatitudes, Jesus signals the impact of the Kingdom on those who suffer in the world.

Not only does Jesus mention the poor; he also points at those who mourn, the humble, those who hunger and thirst for justice, the merciful, the purehearted, and the peacemakers. He also includes those who suffer insults, persecution and false accusations for following Jesus. God will bless them all when the Kingdom turns the world order upside-down and establishes divine justice on the earth.

Immigrants and their defenders feel an instinct to apply the Beatitudes directly to immigrants. Who qualifies as “poor in spirit” if not them? Who mourns more? Who hungers more for justice? In our times, who suffers more from insults, persecution, or false testimony? Never-theless, we should pay close attention to what Jesus said. God blesses those who suffer these contradiccions for following Jesus.

Suffering in itself doesn’t redeem anyone; it ennobles no one. It only destroys people, their dreams, longings,

and hopes. But everyone can redeem their suffering by surrendering it to Christ. When we dedicate our migra-tion to Christ, when we convert our lost wandering into a holy pilgrimage, we no longer suffer in vain. The Kingdom of God begins to work in us, converting our sufferings into blessings. The events of our earthly journey will bring us bless-ings now and a great reward in Heaven.

Copyright©2013 by  Joseph L. Castle-berry.  All Rights Reserved.  joseph.castle-berry@northwestu.edu

Dr. Joseph Castleberry is  president of Northwest University in Kirkland, Wash-ington.   He is the author of  The New Pilgrims:   How Immigrants are Renew-ing America’s Faith  (forthcoming in August 2015, Worthy Publishing). Follow him on  Twitter @DrCastleberry and at  http://www.facebook.com/Joseph.Cas-tleberry.

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LATIN AMERICA

MEXICO CITY (AP)

Storms earlier this year blew down more than a hundred acres of forests where migrating monarch butterflies

spend the winter in central Mexico, killing more than 7 percent of the monarchs, experts reported Tuesday.

Rain, cold and high winds from the storms caused the loss of 133 acres (54 hectares) of pine and fir trees in the forests west of Mexico City, more than four times the amount lost to illegal logging this year. It was the biggest storm-related loss since the winter of 2009-10, when unusually heavy rainstorms and mud-slides caused the destruction of 262 acres (106 hectares) of trees.

This year’s storm also appears to have frozen or killed about 6.2 million butterflies, almost 7.4 percent of the estimated 84 million butter-flies that wintered in Mexico, said Alejandro Del Mazo, the attorney general for environ-mental protection.

“Never had we observed such a combination of high winds, rain and freezing temperatures,”

monarch expert Lincoln Brower said of the storms, which struck March 8-9.

Two big storm losses within five years may suggest changes in the climatic conditions that have allowed the survival of patches of moun-taintop forests. An additional 16 acres (6.5 hectares) of trees were lost to drought this year.

“This points up just how fragile these forests are, and how fragile the monarchs are, and it makes clear the importance of reforestation efforts,” said Omar Vidal, director of the con-servation group World Wildlife Fund Mexico, which carried out the forest survey along with experts from Mexico’s National Autonomous University and the government.

The number of monarchs making the 3,400-mile (5,500-kilometer) migration from the United States and Canada had been declining steadily before recovering in 2014. This winter was even better. In December, the butterflies covered 10 acres (about 4 hectares), compared to 2.8 acres (1.13 hectares) in 2014 and a record low of 1.66 acres (0.67 hectares) in 2013. That’s still well become the 44 acres (18 hectares) the covered 20 years ago.

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My wife and I are 31 years old, and we have no debt except for our home. We also have an emergency fund and college savings in place for the kids. Over the last several months we’ve saved $22,000 for a newer car, but we’re also worried about retirement. We’ve been putting 15 percent of our income toward retirement, and we’re concerned that maybe we shouldn’t spend the whole $22,000 on a car. We make around $100,000 annually and have $50,000 in our nest egg. What do you think, Dave?

— Brandon

Dear Brandon,

In your situation, a $22,000 car is not unreasonable at all. You guys are both 31 years old, and you’re going to be in great shape for retire-ment if you just keep doing what you’ve been doing. On top of all that, you’ve got your emergency fund in place, in addition to a nest egg and car savings. If I’m in your shoes, I’d go out and find the best car $22,000 can buy.

You’re doing all the right stuff. Your kids can go to school debt-free, and you’re going to have the house paid off in no time. In short, you’re going to retire multi-millionaires at the rate you’re going — as long as you keep on keeping on!

You’ve done a great job together, Brandon. Keep up the good work, and enjoy that car!

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HERMISTON, Oregon (AP)

Two Oregon high school wrestling coaches, lifelong friends, are dead in an appar-

ent murder-suicide and the body of a teenager who was last seen alive with one of them was also found, authori-ties said.

Kenneth Valdez, 45, was killed in a bedroom last Thursday morning at his home in Hermiston, a northcentral Oregon city of about 17,500 near the border with Washington state.

Jason Huston, who volunteered along with Valdez as a wrestling coach at Hermiston High School and was also 45, was found dead in the bedroom from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot.

A 35-year-old woman, Andria Bye, was also found shot in the same bedroom and was taken to a hospital for treatment.

The woman’s son, 14-year-old James “JJ” Hurtado, was found dead from a gunshot wound in a remote area west of Hermiston that same night. The Umatilla County Sheriff ’s Office is handling the

investigation into that homicide. Sheriff Terry Rowan said Friday that he doesn’t have a motive for the slaying and “would hate to even speculate.”

The boy had been missing since Thurs-day morning, when police say Huston picked him up at 10 a.m. to play disc golf. He was found in a wooded area adjacent to farmland along the Umatilla River, Rowan said.

The shootings at the Valdez home hap-pened at about 11:15 a.m. Thursday.

Hermiston Police Chief Jason Edm-iston said the boy’s mother gave a detailed statement to investigators at the scene and a detective was doing a follow-up interview at the hospital Friday.

“The three parties in the house all knew each other, and there were rela-tionships between all three of them involved,” Edmiston said. Huston, he said, was a “father-like figure” to the boy.

“Clearly this was a selfish choice that was made,” he said. “All of us are just numb that he chose to do what he did.”

Huston was arrested in December 2009 on charges of menacing and unlawful possession of a firearm. He pleaded no contest to the gun crime and the men-acing charge was dropped. He was sen-tenced to probation and 20 hours of com-munity service.

Hurtado was due to start his fresh-man year at Hermiston High on Aug. 29, school district spokeswoman Maria Duron said.

Two wrestling coaches and 14-year-old fatally shot in Hermiston

Kenneth Valdez (left), 45, and James Hurtado, 14.