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Even with the airlines' more-restrictive baggage limit, I was able to transport some of Portland's creative spirit to New Orleans. I'm here for a national sexual-assault training for law enforcement officers, lawyers, nurses and domestic violence workers from across the country.
The conference, titled Transforming Our Nation's Response to Rape, is looking for new ideas -- besides legal remedies -- to help victims. So, I'm importing a suggestion the folks in the room might not have heard:...
SANDY -- All of Sandy High School's 750 female students will take a self-defense class Wednesday at the school, courtesy of three Sandy businesses.
The students will learn techniques designed specifically for 11- to 19-year-old girls and women by two St. Mary's Academy students.
Dallas Jessup and Catherine Wehage, both 15-year-old sophomores at St. Mary's, created the "Just Yell Fire'' program and accompanying DVD to fulfill their community service requirements at the...
Sunday Oregonian, Metro Section
Background: This summer, two sophomores at Portland's St. Mary's Academy -- Dallas Jessup, 14, and Catherine Wehage, 15 -- produced a DVD called "Just Yell Fire." The DVD, which promotes self-defense for girls ages 11 to 19, can be downloaded for free on the Internet. Two stars of ABC's "Lost" -- Evangeline Lilly and Josh Holloway -- heard about the DVD through Wehage's cousin and lent their star power to the project.
Update: The DVD premiered at St....
Two St. Mary's High teens have attracted some star-power for a self-defense DVD.
Josh Holloway, the blonde never-do-well star of ABC's "Lost," has signed on to make a last-minute cameo in the local self-defense video, "Just Yell Fire,' which was written and stars 14-year-old Dallas Jessup and 15-year-old Catherine Wehage, two sophomores at St. Mary's Academy in Portland. The two friends, who live in Vancouver, enlisted the help of friends, neighbors in their community and from their...
On a warm Saturday afternoon, 14-year-old Dallas Jessup administers a knee strike, an eye jab and an ear pull to an attacker at a bus stop. Her best friend, Catherine Wehage, 15, dispatches a hair comb, an eye jab and a painful groin slap against an attacker in the woods.
It is necessary roughness: This is first day of shooting for "Just Yell Fire," a self-defense DVD project the two St. Mary's Academy High School sophomores co-wrote that centers on a "Bill of Rights" for teenage...
