{"id":1333,"date":"2008-12-14T08:42:18","date_gmt":"2008-12-14T16:42:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/eaf.net\/mvp\/?p=1333"},"modified":"2013-11-28T08:20:05","modified_gmt":"2013-11-28T16:20:05","slug":"woodburn-black-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/2008\/woodburn-black-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Woodburn, Oregon: Black Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"

Updated on Sunday, December 14, 2008<\/b> Please scroll to the end for the update.<\/i><\/p>\n

Though I no longer live there (I don’t live in any town, for that matter), I still think of Woodburn as my home town (although Molalla is closer by four miles or so). Thus, last evening’s events seem particularly close to home.<\/p>\n

From The Woodburn Independent<\/a>:<\/p>\n

According to the Oregon State Police a bomb detonated around 5:45 p.m. Friday evening at West Coast Bank, located at 2520 Newberg Hwy. in Woodburn.<\/p>\n

The Woodburn Independent has learned through various sources that a Woodburn police officer has been killed and Woodburn Police Chief Scott Russell was seriously injured in the bomb blast.<\/p><\/div>\n

Newer info from The Oregonian<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A bomb exploded Friday at a West Coast Bank branch in Woodburn, killing a Woodburn police officer and an Oregon State Police bomb squad technician, and critically injuring the Woodburn police chief.<\/p>\n

The bomb detonated around 5:30 p.m. at the bank in the 2500 block of Oregon 214.<\/p>\n

Oregon State Police authorities this morning confirmed the death of its bomb technician. Authorities have not released the names of the officers.<\/p><\/div>\n

I wonder if the dead Woodburn officer is one of those I have thanked for his service. I’ll try to remember to thank law enforcement folks more often.<\/p>\n

To all law enforcement personnel, thanks for your service! Likewise to all other first responders.<\/p>\n

And may God be especially near those who have lost a loved one, a friend, a comrade.<\/p>\n

And may He grant whole-being healing to the injured.<\/p>\n

Original post date (for the above):<\/b> December 13 at 7:58 am Pacific<\/i><\/p>\n

Update<\/h2>\n

The Oregon State Police released biographical information for Sr. Trooper William “Bill” Hakim and Woodburn Police Capt. Tom Tennant, who both died in a bomb explosion at West Coast Bank in Woodburn Friday, and Woodburn Police Chief Scott Russell, who is in critical condition at OHSU Hospital.<\/p>\n

What I’m interested in here isn’t each one’s bio, but his family.<\/p>\n

Oregon State Senior Trooper William “Bill” Hakim (51) is survived by his wife and a 16-year old son and 18-year old daughter. (It had been over seven years since an Oregon State trooper died in the line of duty.)<\/p>\n

Woodburn Police Captain Tom Tennant (51) is survived by his wife Mary and three children (Becky, Jennifer, Scott) 24, 22, and 17.<\/p>\n

Woodburn Police Chief Scott Russell (46) is married and has two daughters, ages 12 and 10.<\/p>\n

\"Oregon       \"Woodburn<\/center><\/p>\n

Update source: The Oregonian<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank a law enforcement officer or another first responder…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[704,463],"tags":[706,717,24,266],"class_list":["post-1333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-thankful","category-thisandthat","tag-gratefulness","tag-law-enforcement","tag-oregon","tag-woodburn"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/prJUJ-lv","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1333\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eaf.net\/mvp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}