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~r daughter, Daniele Ouren, 11, tie ~tional movement to educate people to )bons and know that they can respond tnd we need to help think of solutions dinatore. The ribbons are an exten- ~aleM sion of the movement that started in Springfield to prevent incidents like the )r one on May 21, when .415. Kipland Kinkel, 15, aileg- ~roject edly killed two students and of wounded 22 others at Thur- eton High School. Pankratz said the cam- paign's goal is to go nation- the wide. ~eople "If the whole United ~orget States £~ghts this, then we ~ome- can make a difference,~ one Pankrats said. 'qb'e're much coor- bigger than the problem." "I was not considered in the critical ' the Dis- ye to decsions are being made ~.ach oJ1d ilors - ' yO~/'~ tlot ~w~r¢... ~a~'t~ 'y~ re n~ lmg~ ted. ~ec~ve. ~els that ~A~ mn- her Meier told councilors this week she wanted to resign as soon as a replacement is l on found, but several coma- l in cilors suggested she resign ;tm July 7. ~01. "I said I would do what- t a ever is best for council and be- the community," she said. )ns Meier said she will re- the main president of the fire district until she moves. of July holiday period, five people died in 317 reporte;1 traffic crashes in Oregon. Three of the five were not pendence Day celebration by getting hurt or hurting someone else," McLaughlin said. Thunderstorms possible for weekend The forecast calls for a 30 percent chance of showers. BY JANET DAVIES Statesman Jouma/ Mother Nature might be adding some of her own fireworks this weekend. There's a chance that some of the thunderstorms expected to hit the Cas- cades could drift farther west, said Dave Willson, lead forecaster for the Na- tional Weather Service in Portland. In any event, a 30- percent chance of showers is in the forecast for the next few days, along with the possibility of some clearing periods. Tempera- tures are predicted to re- main in the 70s. Blame the mildness and possibility of rain on an upper-level low-pressure system that has parked over Oregon, Willson said. State Climatologist George Taylor said his day model shows some dry- lng and warmth next week. He even stuck his neck out far enough to predict a dry July 12 in Salem -- the only day in the 106 years of record-keeping that no mea- surable rain has fallen. Even June was one of those rarer months where less-than-normal rainfall was recorded at McNary Field. June had .98 inches. July is traditionally the driest month of the year at .56 inches. The average temperature Weather year Salem has recorded 42.42 · inches of rain since Oct. 1. That compares with 56.12 inches for the same period a year earlier and the normal of 36.29 inches. 1o~ mop, th L~st ye~ This yea~ in Jmae was 61.3, tenth below normal. Al- though day~ime highs were two degrees below normal, comparatively warmer nights made up the differ- I