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NEWS FOR GREATER NORTH AND FAR NORTHWEST PORTLAND
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FEBRUARY 2008
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ILLUSTRATION BY BRUCE ORR
Run or die!
Logging show sweeps local producer up in Vernonia flood
By Nina Lary
When Danny Rowland, a St.
Johns resident and filmmaker,
snagged a job as field producer for
The Axmen, a History Channel
series about Oregon loggers, he
was expecting to uncover a telling
narrative of honorable men doing
a dangerous job. He did not expect
what hit the set on Monday,
Dec. 3.
I HATE MONDAYS
Between Saturday, Dec. 1, and
Monday, Dec. 3, Vernonia received
11 inches of rain in a series of
Quiet on the set! Makers of the TV show The Axmen got more than they
bargained for in Vernonia last December. ART PROVIDED BY DANNY ROWLAND
storms that hurled hurricane-force
winds onto the nearby coast. By
noon on Monday, the Nehalem
River, which runs through town,
had swelled to over 24 feet – 14 feet
is considered flood classification.
The logging town of 2,300 was
declared a federal disaster zone
as its streets flooded in a matter
of hours.
“The day of the flood, my crew
was going ‘we shouldn’t go to work
... it’s too dangerous, all the roads
are closed,’ ” says Rowland. “I’m
responsible for their safety, but at
the same time I knew Melvin was
going to go to work ... I was like,
well, if they’re going to work we’re
going to work. Sorry, guys.”
Melvin Lardy is a fourthgeneration logger and owner
of Stump Branch Logging in
Vernonia. Rowland’s crew filmed
Stump Branch for the 13-part
series, which aims to illustrate
the dangers of the profession and
the stories of those who choose
it. The Axmen also follows Mike
Pihl Logging in Vernonia, and J
M Browning and Gustafson in
Astoria.
See Axemen / Page 17
Pole sticks out, raises questions in Arbor Lodge
Neighbors are angered by the installation of a replacement utility pole they deem unsightly
By Amber McKenna
An imposing steel utility pole
at North Wilbur Avenue and
North Dekum Street, equipped
to
accommodate
cell-phone
antennas, may be good news for
T-Mobile subscribers.
It has,
however, caused fierce objection
from the quiet Arbor Lodge
neighborhood.
The pole, as well as an
underground electrical vault,
was installed late in November.
A UAUTO
TO
VOLUME 8 ISSUE 2
Complaints quickly started —
television interference, computer
problems and issues with other
electrical appliances. There was
also a complaint of ear pressure
and headaches from a nearby
neighbor who said they felt their
symptoms were related to the new
antenna. Officials from the city,
PGE and T-Mobile investigated
the complaints immediately.
Elaina
Medina,
public
information specialist for PGE,
said PGE performed radio
BBODY,
O D Y, I N CINC
.
frequency studies after receiving
the complaints and concluded the
source of the problems was not the
utility pole or antenna.
“The complaints came in before
the site was energized,” Medina
said.
A letter sent to residents from
David Soloos, assistant director
of the city’s Office of Cable
Communications and Franchise
Management, reiterated this,
stating that the city is at a loss to
explain these issues because no
power was directed to the site at
the time.
“These
complaints
were
absolutely
unfounded,”
said
Andrew Nenninger, T-Mobile’s
Portland general manager of
engineering.
The steel structure is considered
by the city to be a replacement
pole, replacing a wooden one that
previously stood on the corner.
To the disturbance of those living
in the vicinity of the site, the
See Pole / Page 3
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FEBRUARY 2008
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Page 2 • The Sentinel • February 2008
PUBLISHER’S PAGE
Love stinks
It’s ironic that a terminally
single publisher such as myself
should have to suffer through
the indignities of a dating issue.
What do we, who have chosen
to marry our work, know about
love? Nothing! (cue sad violin
music) So we’ve set our happily
coupled, married or affianced*
contributors on the task. They’ve
investigated what opportunities
abound in North Portland for
the romantically inclined. The
results from Interstate (page 15),
Mississippi Avenue (page 9),
Hayden Island (page 6) and St.
Johns (page 14) are touchingly
personal and may even give you
some inspiration for this coming
Valentine’s Day.
ON THE WEB
In other news, our new website
saw significant participation
from the community last month.
Readers went to the site to post
events in our community calendar,
participate in opinion polls and
forums about local issues like
the proposed Walgreens in St.
Johns, post their own stories, or
just to comment on the numerous
podcasts and programming that we
now have on the site. We want the
community to make The Sentinel
site its online living room and to
encourge you the citizen to be a
journalist using the site. To that
end, we are happy to announce that
we are now partnering with both
the Portsmouth and University
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we are now printing in the paper
randomly selected free classifieds
from the website (page 17). It’s a
new media world out there and
The Sentinel is stepping right in
with both galoshes.
While 99.99 percent of you agree
the Sentinel’s new “news portal”
at portlandsentinel.com is, as my
mother put it, “the greatest website
they ever done, honey,” there have
been a few who find it hard to get
around on the site. We are working
on simplifying the site a little. The
search function should be up and
running early this month, and
we’ve created a new menu for links
to our top print stories. For those
who just want to see who’s posted
catty comments lately, just hit the
“Recent Posts” link on the top of
the navigation menu. That should
set you up nicely.
Well, that’s all the news we
can afford to print this month.
Please enjoy this edition of The
Sentinel. Believe it or not, my luck
is changing — I actually have a
date this Valentine’s Day. Wish me
luck.
See you in the neighborhood,
Cornelius Swart
Managing Editor/Publisher
* The Sentinel’s word of the month:
affianced (adjective) — engaged,
betrothed
LETTERS AND BLOG COMMENTS For complete letters go to portlandsentinel.com
SENTINEL: NOT FAIR AND BALANCED
FOR CATHOLICS
I am writing to request equal
opportunity for a positive
perspective on Catholicism in a
future issue of the Sentinel.
Three of the five stories on
the “Feature Stories” page in
December’s
“Spiritual Issue”
included criticism (either overt
or implied) of Catholicism. In
fairness to the several Roman
Catholic parishes and hundreds
(if not thousands) of committed
Catholics calling the newspaper’s
service area their home, it would
have been nice to include some
favorable perspective of Catholic
life and spirituality.
If you would like to know a venue
where you might find committed
Catholics who would be willing to
talk with you about their faith and
the great things that it leads them
to accomplish in the community,
I recommend the coffee-anddoughnuts gathering in the Holy
Cross School basement after the
8:30 and 10:00 Masses on Sunday
morning.
Sincerely,
Patrick Clark
ACTIVIST ACCOLADES
Just a note to say how excellent
were the choices for Best Activist
and Best Activista for 2007. Also,
the article on the Oklahoma!
production and theatre rebirth at
Roosevelt was tremendous.
I know we do not say it enough,
but what a first-class paper you
produce! And I’m a fan of the
new website with its interactive
opportunities, blogs, etc.
Thanks also for the growing
success of the Posada and for what
I know will be the case with the
2nd Annual St. Johns Bizarre.
You are a fine friend and a
wonderful promoter of our
community. Thanks for all that
you do on behalf of all of us!
Mike Verbout
COMMENTS FROM THE ONLINE
SENTINEL
DON’T YOU CARE?
Danny Callaway was my son.
In your article “North Portland
murders are exception, not rule
(January Sentinel, page 12), Eric
Gale of the Overlook Neighborhood
Association says very few residents
have come to him with questions
or concerns about the murders.
“There has not been much demand
in the community for information
or action following the murders,”
says Havilah Ferschweiler, North
Precinct’s
crime
prevention
coordinator.
Doesn’t anyone in North
Portland care about what
happened to my son? Why don’t
you care about a man walking into
his home and getting murdered?
What is there to be relieved about?
That it wasn’t you or anyone you
care about?
To the Andrews family: I am so
sorry for your loss. My heart goes
out to you. I care deeply.
Phillip Callaway
(Ricky and Patricia Andrews were
fatally shot in North Portland on
the two days after Danny Callaway
was murdered.)
•••••••
Blog: “Caught in the crossfire”
(on the reporter’s view that police
did not respond vigorously to
gunshots in the neighborhood)
“And what exactly did you think
the officer could do? Hours after
the shots were fired, no witnesses,
no victims, and no visible damage
to property. Should he pursue
every African American teenager
in the Albina neighborhood?...You
would then be writing an article
about how racist he was.”
[posted by anon. sentinel
reader]
•••••••
Forum: Should the St. Johns
Racquet Center be demolished?
Yes, the St. Johns Racquet
Center should be included in the
brownfield redevelopment. The
services the center provides do add
value to the neighborhood but the
building does not. The building
is old, tired and needs a major
facelift. It looks like a Quonset hut.
Either totally overhaul and update
the facility or scrap it.
reader]
•••••••
Podcast- Fear of SuburbiaPodcast with DJ Drew
I’ve got a fever and the only
prescription is more DJ Drew
podcast! Keep it up.
reader]
Last Month: North Portland Reviewed
Culled from news clearly on display at portlandsentinel.com
ROOSEVELT HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER
RECEIVES GIANT NOVELTY CHECK
Elisa Schorr received what
some at Roosevelt called the
“Grammy of Teaching” on Jan.
10, the Milken Family Foundation
National Educator Award, along
with $25,000. Schorr, who
teaches science at one of resurgent
Roosevelt High School’s academies,
is one of only 80 such recipients in
the nation. Congratulations, Elisa!
You’re one of bright spots bringing
positive things to RHS. Now ...
how about loaning us a little of
that cheese ... we forgot our lunch
money today.
JOURNALISM IN THE SERVICE OF COMMUNITY.
THIS NEWSPAPER IS PUBLISHED THE FIRST WEEK OF EACH
Park neighborhood associations
to help keep you more informed
about their activities.
In addition, our paper will be
increasingly interactive with our
website. The paper edition will
highlight late-breaking stories
covered in greater depth on
the web, such as the St. Johns
Farmers Market (teaser page 7).
Or the print stories will be part
of coverage that is ongoing on the
website, such as the Blazer Beat
column, which returns this year
with a corresponding blog (see
page 16). Some articles we regard
as the print companion of online
programming, such as our Arts &
Culture podcast, Junior Varsity
Yard Sale (see page 15). Lastly,
APARTMENT FIRE
No, it’s not a sensational
Canadian Mega-Band, it’s the
Bridgecrest Manor on North Alta,
which despite being across the
street from the fire department
was slightly engulfed in flames. No
humans were harmed, but R.I.P.
“Pumpkin” the cat. Investigators
cited “smoker’s carelessness” as
THE CONSENT OF THE PUBLISHER.
the cause of the fire. We told you
smoking kills!
POTTER CAME TO JEFFERSON ... AND
THEN HE LEFT
This is a heartwarming story
about a Big City Mayor who made a
promise to some wide-eyed young
adults – he promised to come
and visit their small high school
himself. Why? Hmm ... not too
sure. Well, he did go and then he
went. It caused a big media stir, but
of all the coverage, perhaps most
disturbing was the speculation the
following week in the Oregonian
that Portland Public Schools
only had enough money to fund
eight of their 10 high schools.
With Jefferson having the lowest
attendance of any of them, was
Potter’s visit a call to arms or the
kiss of death?
CHAVEZ COMMITTEE CONTINUES
The first meeting of a
reconstituted Chavez committee
happened at PCC the day after
this paper went to press. The
meeting was announced on their
site cesarechavezboulevard.com,
which also
includes helpful
links like “Ashamed to live in
Overlook.” And City Council
email information. More on this
story as it occurs at our website
portlandsentinel.com.
DISJECTA IN KENTON?
Just days after the upscale and
edgy Portland Art Center closed
its downtown doors, murmurs and
website innuendo began popping
up that PAC’s DIY competitor,
Disjecta, is moving from inner
Southeast to North Portland;
Kenton, to be more specific. PAC’s
founder, Gavin Shettler, and
Disjecta E.D. Bryan Suereth were
once partners and engineered the
biggest art event to hit St. Johns
since the bridge was a catwalk, the
2003 120K sq. ft. art exhibition
The Modern Zoo. Since then
Shettler opened the chi-chi PAC
in Old Town and Suerth opening
the scrappier Disjecta on Russell
and North Williams. The Eliot
neighborhood space is long gone
but the question remains, will
Suereth keep the progressive art
scene alive for Portland by bringing
a much-needed hipster anchor to
Kenton’s slowly awakening streets?
Stay tuned on the website!!
BURRITO BATTLES
He said it’s just business. She said,
“you’re raping my business” and
the neighbors honk in support or
skulk past the picket line for their
fresh Mexican food. The Burrito
Battles waged on Rosa Parks Way,
as Lotfi Siamak opened Boulevard
Taco last month. The space was
once El Burrito Loco, owned and
operated by Alberta Canales. She
has picketed the site ever since she
was evicted last year. The Sentinel
first wrote about it last September
then posted a series of video blogs
of the epic battle between two taco
titans who just can’t seem to get
along. When the Sentinel went to
press Canales was still standing
outside Boulevard Tacos in the
rain. Will someone ever triumph
in this Mexican Standoff? To
find out...you guessed it, go to our
website
portlandsentinel.com.
(Getting sick of hearing that yet?)
February 2008 • The Sentinel • Page 3
FEATURE STORIES
For one couple love trumps all
775 Words:
Around the world and back to Portland, a love story
By Amber McKenna
Inside their small, picture-filled apartment
at the Oregon Baptist Retirement Home in
Northeast Portland, Violet Miller ripped a
note that she had penned ever so carefully
from a yellow pad, with a smile on her face.
It read: “The first note — we were in (the)
library, supposedly studying, and he walked
by me and dropped a note. (It) said, ‘Are you
working hard or hardly working?’”
A simple note is how it all began for
Wilbur and Violet (Vi) Miller. Now married
for over 60 years, 13 of them spent in North
Portland, the couple has seen the world,
shared countless adventures and endured
through hardship.
Violet could speak back then when the two
first passed a note that changed their lives.
Now, decades later, Violet Miller, stricken
with Lou Gehrig’s disease, can no longer
speak. A yellow legal pad is her only voice.
Wilbur, 81, was born in the no-longerexistent Portland Sanitarium and Hospital
on Jan. 27, 1927. A lifelong Oregonian, he
graduated from Molalla High School and
enrolled at Warner Pacific College, then
named Pacific Bible College. It was here that
he would meet the woman he was going to
spend the rest of his life with.
“Within two seconds I knew I was going
to marry her,” he recalled.
The way Vi, 79, born in Nebraska, tells it,
their dating was walks and talks on Mount
Tabor. They would also ride the city bus
together. The couple spent a good amount
of time in the college’s music practice rooms,
where Vi would play the piano while Wilbur
sang. It was in a practice room where they
shared their first kiss.
“We were engaged after five weeks. We
knew we were meant for each other,”
Wilbur said.
And so it was that the
couple married on June
1, 1947, in Woodburn.
They honeymooned at
Cannon Beach, and it was
the first time Vi ever saw
the ocean. Wilbur recalls
the morning after their
wedding night. Vi awoke
to hear her newlywed
singing in the shower,
“Seven Years with the
Wrong Woman.”
“It wasn’t the first song
she expected to hear,”
Enid Ringo, their eldest
daughter, relayed.
“It was the only song
that came to my mind,”
Wilbur said. “I was
happy.”
Shortly
thereafter,
the
couple
moved
around the Northwest,
driving their ’32 Model
A Ford. They lived in
Wyoming,
Montana,
Idaho, and Washington
doing ministry work and
starting their family.
Love conquers all. Well, time certainly got its butt kicked. Wilbur and
Wilbur worked a
number of jobs during Violet (Vi) Miller, married 60 years. PHOTO BY AMBER MCKENNA
that time, one of which
In early September ’61, four weeks before
was suit sales.
the Millers were set to open the A & W, Super
“We lived in the poorest county in
Typhoon Nancy hit the island. This typhoon
Montana and I sold 50-60 tailor-made suits
is said to have been the strongest ever to
to those people,” Wilbur said.
hit the region, but the Millers survived it,
In 1961 Wilbur heard from a friend that
losing their house but not their business in
there were good business opportunities
the process. After a break with a business
on the island of Guam, located in
partner, Wilbur opened another A & W in
Southeast Asia.
Guam on the other side of the island.
“There was no fast food in Guam, so I
brought A & W over there,” said Wilbur.
See Love story/ Page 8
New home for a sign of old times
By Derek Long
When the Crown Motel is demolished
this March to be replaced by an affordable
housing complex, don’t count on the loss of
the iconic neon sign.
While many local residents had expressed
concern at the probable demise of the twostory neon crown and sword, the Atomic Age
Alliance-PDX — a local group dedicated to
the appreciation and preservation of vintage
1950s and ’60s architecture in the Portland
region — was ready to lead an organized
campaign to save the sign.
“We had our infrastructure in place and
felt ready to take on a task of this proportion,”
said Alyssa Starelli, vice president,
Chairperson and co-founder of AAA-PDX.
Members discussed the issue after their
resident historian, Bo Sullivan, brought up
the topic at their December meeting at The
Alibi Restaurant and Lounge.
The group is currently soliciting property
owners for a new site along the stretch
of Interstate from Overlook to Russet to
relocate the sign. Options range from
commercial sites to parking lots, although
there is a chance the sign will be relocated to
a restoration facility in the event a permanent
site cannot be located prior to demolition.
Members of AAA-PDX are confident that
representatives of REACH Community
Development are dedicated to working on
a new solution to move the sign. REACH,
the nonprofit firm working on the project
in partnership with PDC and TriMet, said
inclusion of the neon sign into the new
Patton Park Apartments wouldn’t have been
a possibility with the cost and scale of the
current design.
“We had some feedback from the
neighborhood that they’d like to see that
preserved,” said Riad Sahal, the project
The Crown Motel sign echos a time when Interstate
Avenue was actually an interstate.
PHOTO BY JASON E. KAPLAN
manager. “But it wouldn’t have fit in with
what we’re trying to do and it wouldn’t fit in
with the design.”
Incorporating the sign into the existing
plans would be double the cost of restoring
and moving the sign to a new location.
At a meeting at Sam Adams’ City Hall
office Jan. 9, Starelli and other members
of the campaign met with members of
Adams’ staff, REACH, and the Portland
Development Commission about options
for moving and saving the sign.
Fuzzy
thinking
By Roger Anthony
Since practice makes perfect, Portlanders
are getting pretty good at dealing with
Portland Parks & Recreation.
In 2004, PP&R floated (so to speak) the
idea of shutting down the outdoor swimming
pool at Pier Park. Neighbors reacted with
surprise – no public input had been sought –
and then with enough decibels of disgust to
scuttle the plan. Since then, PP&R has toyed
with a variety of other revenue-enhancing
schemes, amongst them selling off a slice
of Mount Tabor Park. That, too, was shot
down once the neighborhood found out.
This time around, the fate of the St. Johns
Racquet Center is on the line. And this time,
PP&R is letting someone else carry the ball.
The Racquet Center opened in 1977. At
the time, tennis was a rapidly-growing
recreational sport, and racquetball was the
new fitness craze, one that was taking over
America like disco. Architects crow-barred
three tennis courts and four racquetball
rooms into a cozy building just a couple
of blocks north of the St. Johns business
district. The doors opened, and ... it turned
out they were right about the disco part.
Thirty-one years later, the elephant in the
room is a red one. It’s a little too dingy to fall
into the white elephant category, and once
you open up the balance sheet, there’s plenty
of red to go around.
The center sits next to a lot that was
once the site of a gas station. The Portland
Development Commission acquired that lot
in 1976. Hamstrung by the loss of an Urban
Renewal designation and the environmental
issues raised by 11 storage tanks on the
property, the space has been vacant ever
since.
Two years ago, the city’s Bureau of
Environmental Services completed a
cleanup of the property as part of its
Portland Brownfield Program. That left
BES with some developable land on its
hands, land that was located right next to
another publicly owned – and money-losing
– property with the initials SJRC. So a deal
was struck: The Brownfield Program would
seek out development proposals for both the
brownfield site and the Racquet Center.
Breaking tradition, Clark Henry, a
program coordinator with the Brownfield
Program, pulled together a Project Advisory
Committee that’s been meeting since
November of 2006. The fruits of its labors
will arrive some time this spring when the
BES issues a formal Request For Proposals.
If that seems like a long time to pull
together an RFP, you’re right. What’s the
holdup?
Henry and the committee decided to get
some input from North Portlanders. They
got 151 replies and one slight surprise.
“The idea was to find out what the
community values about the Racquet
Center,” Henry said. “Something about it
has to change. It’s in a state of disrepair, and
the City Council has directed PP&R to do
something about losses at the site.”
Henry’s still crunching the exact numbers,
but he’s already got the gist of the results. At
the Advisory Committee’s Jan. 9 meeting,
Henry listed three bullet points from the
surveys:
Preservation of Portland’s mid-century
“space age” architecture is a topic close to
the heart of members of the local group.
“With the advent of home-remodeling
shows, urban development programs, and
McMansion sprawl, mid-century buildings
and signage are in peril,” said Starelli. “I
was very lucky to find a core group of midcentury enthusiasts to help grow our club
and focus our objectives.”
The signs along the avenue date from the
1940s to ’60s when, prior to the construction
of I-5, Interstate was the main highway north
from Portland to Washington. Both the
Alibi’s Vegas-style tiki sign and the Palms
Motel monkey on a palm tree motif have
been successfully refurbished over the past
10 years. The Alibi remains one of the more
popular establishments on Interstate, while
the Palms Motel sign was restored with PDC
development funds as part of the Storefront
Improvement Program.
Many architects and neighborhood
members argue that saving the remaining
neon signs is essential in preserving the
historic nature of the street. Further goals
discussed by supporters include the possible
creation of a historic preservation district
encompassing all vintage neon signs along
Interstate, a broader goal that would require
working with the Landmark Commission.
“Our immediate focus will be the sign, of
course, as our time frame is so short, but I
hope to work on both concurrently,” said
Starelli. “I think our two main goals at the
moment are to find a suitable site for the
• The community wants accessible
sign, and to find the funding and support.”
recreation.
With a demolition date of March 15,
• There is support for having a private
Starelli and other supporters, including the
company operate the Racquet Center.
Overlook Neighborhood Association, are
• There is little support for private
hoping they’ll be able help save a piece of
development on the Racquet Center site.
Portland’s own Route 66.
~30~
See Thinking / Page 16
FEATURE STORIES
Can I quote Not a boat, yet afloat
you on that? Homes off Hayden Island sport stunning views, special issues
What was your
worst date ever?
STARBUCKS AT THE PLAZA
Stephanie Graupmann, 32
“A friend asked me to meet him for dinner.
He was 30 minutes late, ordered an expensive
meal and dessert and then said he forgot his
credit card. Then he told me he was still in
love with his ex.”
SIDEWALK ACROSS FROM THE PLAZA
Ronda Bunker, 46
“I wanted to see A Star is Born, but my
dad talked my boyfriend into seeing Rocky
instead.”
By Todd Anthony
Foul weather and minor inconveniences
fail to prevent the residents of Tomahawk
Island Floating Home Community from
appreciating their aquatic habitats year
round — even in the off season, they’re on.
Situated in the North Portland Harbor
of the Columbia River, “Tomahawk” is just
one of many floating home communities off
Hayden Island. Located on North Tomahawk
Island Drive, this gated community
encompasses seven acres of uplands and
water. Reachable by ramp, the floating
homes (not houseboats) accommodate
71 families.
Don Gire, vice president of the Hayden
Island Neighborhood Network (HiNOON)
and a member of the Tomahawk Destiny
(homeowners) Association (TDA), explains
the difference between a houseboat and
a floating home. “A houseboat is usually a
smaller, aluminum structure (200 to 300 sq.
ft.) that floats and has a motor and people live
in it temporarily. These are floating homes,
which are regular houses (1,500 to 3,000
sq. ft.) built on top of some kind of floating
structure ... such as old-growth cedar or
steel pontoons,” says Gire. Although the
floating homes don’t have motors, they can
detach and be pulled by tug boat to another
location.
Gire bought his floating home 12 years
ago with his spouse, Jane, and views his
years on the water as a second life. “I used to
be an insurance guy in Missouri,” Gire says.
POLE
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BUS STOP ON LOMBARD NEAR THE PLAZA
Isaac Robinson, 16
“I was with this girl and we were hanging
out, until her ex-boyfriend showed up and I
got my ass kicked.”
INTERSTATE FRED MEYER
Hildamar Florez, 21
“Going to the movies with a cowboy, getting
there late and not even seeing the movie.”
INTERSTATE PANDA EXPRESS
Darnell Cooke, 19
“I met this girl at a 4th of July party. The
next morning I woke up with no clothes on
and we realized what happened. I saw some
baby pictures around and then I found out
she had a boyfriend and a two-year-old
daughter.”
replacement pole is about 15 feet taller and
includes a cell-phone antenna owned by TMobile. Soloos said the utility pole is placed
in the public right-of-way and therefore is
public property that is city-maintained.
T-Mobile is leasing the space on the utility
pole in a franchise agreement with Portland
General Electric. Medina said because
of regulations prohibiting additional
utility poles to be erected, PGE is working
to collaborate with telecommunication
companies in need of placing cell-phone
antennas.
“I was shocked to see a metal pole that is
much larger than the old wooden pole,” said
Ginger Edwards, who can see the pole from
inside her house. “I was surprised to see it in
a residential neighborhood.”
Nenninger said regulations by the Federal
Communications Commission monitor the
waves emitted by cellular antennas and that
the waves are not dangerous to the health of
residents. According to the World Health
Organization website, radio frequency
fields emitted by cell antennas are unlikely
to induce or promote cancers or other ill
affects.
Power was surged to the pole and the
underground vault in mid-December. But
due to a noise complaint related to the
cooling fans in the vault, the fans were
turned off after a few hours.
Although poles of similar height exist just
one block over on North Delaware Avenue,
many neighbors oppose the new pole and
are fearful that the sight of it may decrease
the value of their property.
Soloos said there is not a requirement
for wireless companies to give notice to
residents when they place their antennas on
utility poles. The absence of notification
was the first stone of many that led to a path
of complaints, opposition and concern from
the neighborhood. Residents of the area
were only informed that a transformer was
going to be worked on and that they would
Honey, the basement’s leaking again. Hayden Island’s fabled floating “subdivisions.” PHOTO BY JASON E. KAPLAN
“Here I am now, a retired river rat, as we call
ourselves.”
The community, a cooperative, also
owns and manages the moorage itself,
which was purchased in 1999. Taxed the
same as landlubbers, residents are not
subject to additional fees, paying only those
of a standard homeowners association.
The biggest difference from a landlocked
neighborhood is that the entire community
— houses, walkways, electrical utilities and
plumbing, etc. — rises and falls with the
water level. “Because [the river] is tidal, we
get about three feet of tide every day from
the Pacific Ocean,” explains Gire.
After several days of hard rain last month
the community was at eight feet above sea
level. Before the rain it was at two feet. The
highest it’s ever been, according to Gire, was
during the floods of 1996, when it reached a
whopping 36 feet. “The water was so high we
were able to look down from our homes and
see the downtown buildings [over the levee
across the river in Vancouver],” says Gire.
Walking to and from the mainland is the
most inconvenient aspect of life on the water,
according to Gire. “You got to haul your
groceries down and your trash out. If you
get a new television it’s a major undertaking.
But that’s part of the lifestyle. On the other
hand, if you’re living in Hillsboro you can’t
sit out on your front yard and look at the sun
setting over 50 acres of water,” he says.
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be without power
for a few hours.
Replacement
poles are required
by the city to be
painted
brown;
however, in this
case, the rule
was not followed.
R e p r e s e nt at i ve s
from all parties
involved state this
mistake will be
corrected as soon as
weather permits.
“I don’t think
painting or not
painting will make
a difference,” said
Chris Duffy, chair
of the Arbor Lodge
Neighborhood
Association.
“It looks like it
would be more
appropriate
on
a
main
thoroughfare.”
All the same,
those who live near
the site wonder
if the close-by
intersection
of
I didn’t do it! Honest. ILLUSTRATION BY JEFF COOK
North Rosa Parks
about the pole and to find ways to improve
Way and North
Greeley Avenue or Arbor Lodge Park, located these situations in the future.
Additionally, Medina said PGE considers
adjacent to the pole, would have been a better
location. T-Mobile’s Nenninger said the this a valuable opportunity to rethink their
company sites its antenna where customers process of communicating with customers.
Duffy said the city has been trying to
complain about bad reception.
In any case, this experience will not go work with the neighborhood and will start
without leaving a mark. Soloos said the city a public comment process this month. The
will soon revisit regulations surrounding outreach will assist in setting the standard
wireless antennas in the public right-of- for future installations of cell antennas in
residential areas.
way.
“I want to continue to challenge this so
“This particular pole has brought
some things to light that we would like to that some other quiet little neighborhood
consider tightening up such as the notice doesn’t have this happen to them,”
Edwards said.
requirement,” Soloos said.
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At the January ALNA meeting Soloos was
present to respond to residents’ concerns
ST. JOHNS
CATHEDRAL PARK . RIVERGATE
You’re not getting a
frickin’ Trader Joes, OK?!
By Meghan Planchon
Trader Joe’s has amassed an ardent fan
base in North Portland. But the store is
inconvenient for Fifth Quadrant fans, who
must cross the Willamette into Northwest
or fight traffic congestion in the Hollywood
District to purchase their beloved
inexpensive gourmet products, from Two
Buck Chuck to wasabi peas.
So, many in the North turn to wishful
thoughts of a Trader Joe’s in their own
neighborhood. Rumors fly nearly every time
a building is vacated or demolished.
While the store is notoriously guarded
about its real estate decisions, spokeswoman
Alison Mochizuki said a store in North
Portland was “not in our two-year
development plan.”
But that doesn’t stop people from trying.
Nearly 100 people signed a letter in March
2007 urging store officials to open a store in
the Delta Park area. Lynn Dorman, North
Portlander and Trader Joe’s fan, was part of
that effort. They thought their proximity to
Vancouver, I-5, and the number of expensive
condos in the area would be attractive to the
store, but they never got a reply from the
company, Dorman said.
Between 15 and 20 customers a week
say they want a Trader Joe’s to open in
North Portland, said a store captain at the
Hollywood location, who would not give
his name.
He said the company would like to open a
store in North Portland, but Trader Joe’s is
extremely cautious about expansion.
“We open 40 stores a year. That’s what it
comes down to,” he said on a recent Friday
evening over the uproar of the packed
store. “Right now we are concentrating on
expansion on the East Coast.”
Meanwhile the rumors continue to fly in
North Portland. Most recently, the Sterling
Auto site (formerly Rose City Chevrolet),
now being considered for a Walgreens (See
“Walgreening of St. Johns,” December
Sentinel, page 5), had some people buzzing
that a Trader Joe’s was coming. Brokers
for property owner Fred Bauer had in fact
contacted the company, said Steve Collinson,
a developer with Summit Development
Services, LLC. He was unable to comment
on why Trader Joe’s wasn’t interested.
Lorelei Juntunen, land-use and planning
chair of the St. Johns Neighborhood
Association, believes the neighborhood just
doesn’t have the demographics.
“Trader Joe’s is unlikely to come to a St.
Johns location until their market study
supports it,” she said. “In other words,
we need more people and higher average
incomes in the neighborhood before they’ll
be interested in locating here.”
Juntunen had in the past also heard
rumors about the Rainbow Curio Shop next
to Pattie’s Homeplate Café off Lombard.
Recently she’s heard people talking about
the Kenton strip club, the Dancin’ Bare, as
the possible future home of, you guessed it,
Trader Joe’s.
“It’s totally a rumor, but I’ve heard that
the owner is sick and that the building will
soon pass into the hands of his sons. Some
people are saying that they are considering a
Trader Joe’s for the site,” she said.
While many North Portlanders pine for
the store’s arrival on the peninsula, longtime
Trader Joe’s fan and North Portland resident
Liane Mitchell has learned to do without.
“I’ve almost weaned myself off of Trader
Joe’s,” she said. “I used to make a weekly
trip. Then it became monthly. Now I just
shop at Fred’s and supplement it with
New Seasons.”
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Is Dad’s dead?
Linchpin bar on St. Johns ‘tavern circuit’ in play
By Amber McKenna
Now partially closed for almost two
months, Dad’s Restaurant and Lounge, a
linchpin in the area’s “tavern circuit,” could
re-emerge under new ownership or remain
shuttered indefinitely.
The bar has switched management
and owners several times in recent years.
Dad’s is currently operated by Joy Luck
Incorporated and the So family. In
December, Dad’s lost it’s liquor license
when it was pulled by the Oregon Liquor
Control Commission (OLCC).
“The OLCC found on two separate
occasions that violations were repeated,”
said Daniel McNeal, metro licensing unit
manager at the Oregon Liquor Control
Commission.
According to the OLCC report, bartenders
at Dad’s were serving drinks containing
amounts of alcohol that exceeded their
license, as well as serving more than one
drink at a time to customers. Due to
persistent problems with the OLCC, the bar
was working with a restricted license.
The business has an extensive history with
the Portland Police Bureau as well.
According to PPB, police responded to
calls at Dad’s 19 times in 2007, including
calls for larceny, assault and credit card
fraud. Over the last five years and through
three different owners/managers, the
establishment has averaged about 15 calls
for service a year.
Off. Eric Zajac from the North Precinct
said visits to Dad’s ranged from brawls to
routine police walk-throughs. He noted that
the bar receives a large amount of calls for
service compared to the average business.
“Historically, Dad’s has been a problem
bar,” Zajac said.
He said its reputation stands out amongst
the large concentration of bars in the area,
including Slim’s, Blue Bird, Wishing Well
and The Ranger. Patrons are known to do
a “circuit,” traveling from one bar to the
next, leading to late-night disturbances and
disorder.
Ironically, while Dad’s sits without
patrons, new investors have lined up to
take over. Joe Cavalli and David and Renee
Larsen are in the process of requesting a
new liquor license in order to take over the
troubled spot.
“We’re Dad’s regulars,” said David Larsen,
who recently moved into the area with his
expectant wife, Renee. “It became a second
living room.” The Larsens said they wanted
to change the atmosphere of Dad’s. They
plan to shorten hours to 11:30 a.m.-12:30
a.m. on most weekdays, with alcohol service
ending at midnight.
“We want it to be more conducive to sitting
down and eating dinner,” David Larsen said.
“A really good dinner.”
COMMUNITY SUPPORT NEEDED
The Larsens and Cavalli put together a small
company, Cavalli-Larsen LLC, and have
made the rounds of community groups
trying to gather letters of support from
neighborhood and business associations to
help them gain approval for a new license.
The Larsens and Cavalli presented their
plans for Dad’s to the St. Johns Business
Boosters on Jan. 10, to mixed response.
The Larsens said they would make few to
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I carry no nostalgia for the Jantzen Beach
Amusement Park.
Neither does my wife Kate — no more than
either of us harbors memories of Luna Park
on Coney Island, or West View
Park near Pittsburgh.
All
were
worlds
away from our own
childhoods at Fairyland
Park in Kansas City, Mo.,
and Winwood Beach in
Northtown — our own
juvenile fun factories, also
long gone.
Even so, when on a date at
Jantzen Beach SuperCenter,
all roads seemed to lead
to the last remnant of “the
Coney Island of the West”: the
carousel, although it wasn’t on
the agenda.
“Coffee, dinner, a show, a
drink,” I told her. “At the mall.
It’s for a story.”
“A
show?”
she
replied.
“Where?”
“Isn’t there a theater at Jantzen
Beach?” I said, looking around for
the local daily’s movie page.
“Not since around 1996,” Kate said.
“They remodeled and tore it down.”
“Good God,” I said. “I’m 12 years
behind? Let’s get down there quick.”
“Great,” she said, reaching for her coat.
“Don’t spoil the surprise by telling me
where you’re taking me.”
The mall is accessible via TriMet, but the
No. 6 bus didn’t seem right for the occasion.
We punched through early rush-hour traffic
to the mall’s east entrance and agreed to try
to approach the old mall with new eyes.
“It says ‘Food, Shops, Entertainment,’”
Kate said, reading the wall of the mall. “Hey,
we can do everything here.”
“It’s ‘the mall that has it all,’ ” I replied.
The place was almost deserted. “People
watching” was not going to be on the
entertainment bill. We fueled up at Caffeine
Express (503-247-8164 ) with two Tazo teas
($4 including tip), and drifted from shop
to shop.
We mourned briefly at the now-deserted
hobby shop with the train tracks over
its threshold; checked the sales rack at
Burlington Coat Factory (503-285-0020);
enjoyed a free magic trick at Magic Fest Co.,
purveyor of conjuring accessories (503-7350600 ); marveled at bobblehead trophies in
SAUVIE ISLAND
LINNTON
On The Spot Engraving’s display case (503289-0860 — the shop, not the display case).
We posed in the Foto Fun Strips picture
booth ($2 for two strips of four washed-out
photos). We bought a rubber ball (25 cents)
from one of the coin-operated “Beaver”
brand gum machines. We watched the sun
set over Home Depot (503-289-9200).
Mostly we took in the vast historic displays
touting the wonders of the amusement
park, which was razed in 1970.
“Thrill rides, midget auto races, bigband music, giant swimming pools,” I
read from a reproduction poster. “What
a date site this must have been.”
We pondered the options at the
food court but opted for Stanford’s
(“I prefer to eat with real silverware,”
Kate advised; 503-285-2005). Dark
wood, soft booths, bad rock music
overhead and a 21st birthday party
roaring nearby — but for all the
chain-restaurant
ambiance,
dinner was a pleasant surprise
(a housemade veggie burger
for $8, the Bay Shrimp & Blue
Salad for $12, both of which
we split).
We had circled carefully
around it for hours, but
finally we approached the
piece de resistance: the
C.W. Parker Carousel, a
veteran of 42 years at the
park and more than 30
years in the mall. It’s
a monument to early20th century excess, a gigantic,
gaudy bauble, and it’s probably not long
for the mall — plans for partial demolition
and yet another redesign of the SuperCenter
don’t include the carousel. (See “Carousel
to be sent out to pasture?,” September’ 07
Sentinel, p. 7.)
“Shall we ride?” I asked. She shook her
head. “I’m happy just to look,” she said.
Which was appropriate. It wasn’t really
our ride.
The drink menu at Stanford’s was
intriguing, but the atmosphere didn’t fit the
mood. We found a table in Shenanigan’s
(503-289-0966), a few blocks away in the
Red Lion Hotel on the River (909 N Hayden
Island Drive), overlooking the Columbia.
Over a sweet vermouth and a Negrito ($12.50
total) we talked quietly about family, friends
and the future as the river — itself ripped
up, rechanneled and remodeled more than
once — rolled on to the sea.
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EAST SLOPE
Linnton presents first market of the year
Vendors change name, take new approach to monthly market
By Amber McKenna
What do crafts, Saturdays, and local arts
and crafts have in common? The Linnton
Weekend Market, of course.
Now in its fifth year, the Linnton Market
has decided to take a new approach. The
vendors have renamed themselves the
Linnton Weekend Market Artisans Guild
and instead of being held on the last weekend
of the month, the market will be on the first
weekend of the month and only on Saturday.
And that’s not all.
“We are trying a new approach to
see if people would like to make things
themselves,” marketing manager Nancy
Hamer said.
The market will feature a crafters circle
where those interested can learn a variety
of skills such as knitting, crocheting, soap
making, and gardening. Treats, handcrafted
items, collectibles, and used items will be
for sale.
The first market of the year will take place
on Saturday, Feb. 2, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
at the Linnton Community Center on 10614
NW St. Helens in the upstairs meeting room.
It will feature handmade Valentine’s gifts for
under $10.
The Guild will also host a fabric swap,
where participants can bring anything from
fabric patterns to buttons to the event. A
table can be rented for $5.
“People can bring things to trade or buy,”
Hamer said. “It’ll be a really fun event.”
The swap will take place on Saturday, Feb.
23, from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Linnton
Community Center.
Those interested in having a table at the market
can rent one for $10 or can join the Guild for one
year for $60. For more information or to rent a
table, contact Nancy Hamer at (503) 286-7752,
by email at [email protected] or visit www.
linnton.com/wkendmarket.
NORTH END
KENTON . PORTSMOUTH . UNIVERSITY PARK
Friends of PIR look to manage track noise
Portsmouth Neighborhood Association skeptical of proposal
By Sara Poulter
North End residents may have noticed a
break in noise over the last few months as
Portland International Raceway closed to
repave the track. With the grand re-opening
scheduled later this month, one of the
event’s sponsors is proposing to take over
management of track noise.
A nonprofit advocacy group, Friends of
Portland International Raceway, is seeking
to replace the city of Portland’s Noise Review
Board, citing the current noise variance
process as inefficient. “We could provide
the expertise and do things quicker,” said
John Draneas, vice president and founding
member for Friends of PIR.
Draneas said that going through the
Noise Review Board has created scheduling
conflicts for event promoters, and that
noise management by Friends of PIR would
be more effective in notifying neighbors
of upcoming events and maintaining the
mandatory complaint line. As the proposal
currently reads, Friends of PIR would replace
the Noise Review Board in managing the
track’s noise variances for a two-year trial
period. City Council could opt out at any
time and management would revert to the
Noise Review Board.
PIR currently gets four noise variances
per year, based on set decibel levels and
time restrictions. Event coordinators are
required to make separate applications
to the Noise Review Board, which then
holds public hearings before ruling. The
variances are given on a first-come-firstserved basis, which, according to Draneas,
proved problematic last year in planning the
track’s biggest event, the Champ Car World
Series. The variances would be granted
Zoom zoom or shhhhhhh?
in accordance with the current rules with
the exception of making the Champ Car
event’s 10 a.m. Sunday start time an hour
earlier. In addition to notifying neighbors
and maintaining the complaint line, Friends
of PIR would be in charge of monitoring
each event for compliance. They would
also charge a fee for the variances to cover
incurred expenses, and any remaining funds
would be dedicated to PIR noise mitigation.
Draneas hopes to gain support from the
Portsmouth and Kenton neighborhoods,
stating, “We see (the proposal) as a real good
solution for everybody.”
At their January meeting, PNA board
members were not as confident. They opted
to postpone a decision on whether or not
to support the proposal. An important
issue to the board is that there be a forum
where residents can voice their concerns. In
addition, they questioned whether Friends
of PIR could be objective.
MORE ON THE WEB: St.
By Meghan Planchon
Momentum is growing in support of a
farmers market in St. Johns since the Sentinel
first reported on neighborhood ambitions in
October of last year.
At Multnomah County Commissioner Jeff
Cogen’s website, 100 people had responded
by press time that they’d love to see a farmers
market in the burgeoning North Portland
neighborhood.
Star Oil Co., a local biodiesel fuel company,
has already donated $500 to the market-tobe, said Karol Collymore, communications
and project manager for Cogen, who has
spearheaded the effort.
A meeting to discuss the issue was held at
Marie’s in St. Johns on January 22.
PNA Board Chair the Rev. Dr. Jeanne
Knepper framed the question: “How do
people that are not happy with the noise
have a voice if the process is taken away
from a neutral board?”
Over a year old, Friends of PIR has
over 5,000 members made up of event
goers and nearby residents. The nonprofit
corporation’s stated mission is to promote
the raceway and expand civic contributions.
Draneas explained the proposal would be
a step toward improving infrastructure
and mitigating noise. Friends of PIR have
recently joined with the North Portland
Noise Reduction Steering Committee,
splitting the cost to contract an acoustic
engineer to offer suggestions on ways to
reduce the noise.
PNA board members are expected to make
a decision on the proposal this month.
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visit www.portlandsentinel.com
Johns Farmers Market
“A very positive meeting amongst
neighbors, business leaders, and county
commissioner staff members,” said St.
Johns Neighborhood Association Co-chair
Thomas Ebert. Ebert cited Jeff Cogen’s blog,
as evidence that there was broad community
interest in the project. “[The blog showed]
a tremendous response that we look to
facilitate in a February meeting.”
Collymore has visited other markets to
get ideas about how to best run one in St.
Johns. The next step will be to draw up a
plan and get more community input. There
is still no firm timeline. “We would love to
see it open this summer, but that’s not going
to happen,” Collymore said.
A previous farmers market on the corner
of North Denver Avenue and North Lombard
Street, the Peninsula Farmers Market, failed
several years ago. The other market in the
area, Linnton Weekend Market, located
on heavily traveled state Highway 30, has
struggled to retain vendors in recent years.
Cogen’s office approached the Portland
Farmers Market, which runs four area
markets, hoping that they might entice the
support of the organization.
The group expressed concern about the
viability of the area. But Cogen’s office
intends to press on.
The in-depth version of this story will be at www.
portlandsentinel.com, on the first Wednesday of
the month.
THE HOT SEAT BLOG: with Jeff Bissonnette
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By Matthew David Deschaine
With the 2008 campaign season kicking into high
gear, the Sentinel will be following the campaign
of St. Johns resident Jeff Bissonnette in print and
on our blog as he makes a bid for City Council.
Please visit us online as we track the ups and
downs of this local activist as he competes with
more than a dozen others for public funds and a
shot at Seat 1.
As the volunteer supervisor of the Parkrose
High School concession stand, Allison
Newman-Woods answers a lot of questions
about the price of popcorn and pretzels.
On a busy Friday evening in late January,
during the halftime rush of a boys basketball
game, she was asked an important question
that had nothing to do with the menu:
“How can the city be a better partner to your
community?”
If a raucous high school snack bar strikes
you as an odd place to tackle tough political
questions, don’t tell Jeff Bissonnette, because
he’s bound to disagree.
Indeed, connecting with constituents in
places where they’re most likely to offer him
their “unvarnished opinions” is a key piece
of Bissonnette’s campaign, and he sees it as a
natural extension of his work as a longtime
community organizer.
“One of the things I’ve really been
encouraged by is the seriousness with which
Portlanders take their elections and their
politics. I’ve been really impressed with both
the willingness and passion with which they
will talk about the issues that play a part in
their lives,” said Bissonnette.
In the noisy gym that night, many of
the people Bissonnette spoke with were
concerned about the effects gentrification
and a lack of economic development
were having on the livability of the
neighborhood.
According to Guy Crawford, a member
of the Parkrose School Board, funding for
social services and infrastructure upgrades
has not kept pace with the needs of the
community. Parkrose has been invisible to
City Hall, he says, and too many resources
are going to the wealthy neighborhoods
closest to downtown.
Crawford is supporting Bissonnette for
his attention to this issue and for his plan to
open government “field offices” in some of
the outlying communities.
“Jeff has talked about more equitable
distribution of funding. It is a very
powerful message out here because we have
traditionally been shorted a lot of the city
money. His idea of bringing offices into East
County so that we have better access to the
power structure is important. We see Jeff as
the guy who will help end that inequitable
distribution,” said Crawford.
OVERLOOK . ARBOR LODGE
INTERSTATE
Interstate growing up. PHOTO BY CORNELIUS SWART
Expected housing finally
taking hold
By Derek Long
While the name might remain the same,
Interstate Avenue will see some of the
biggest changes in the coming year since the
completion of the MAX light rail in 2004.
With a lineup of guests fit for a political
rally, first-time developers Mark Kirchmeier
and Chris Gniewosz held a dedication
ceremony Dec. 13 for The Overlook
condominium complex. Speakers at the
morning event included Oregon Secretary
of State Bill Bradbury, TriMet General
Manager Fred Hansen, Metro Councilor
Rex Burkholder, and members of the Oregon
Smoke Free coalition.
Those presenting at the dedication
ceremony praised the 30-unit condo
development as an example of transitoriented, eco-friendly development, as
well as the smoke-free nature of the site.
The Overlook is one of the first completely
smoke-free construction projects in
Oregon as well as being the first mixed-use,
multifamily development to be completed
along Interstate.
“When they developed the original plan,
this area was to be zoned for light industrial,”
said Gniewosz. He and Kirchmeier both
commented on the fact that the neighborhood had been historically torn apart by
urban renewal due to the construction of
Interstate 5. TriMet Manager Hansen also
commented that the project was a step
forward for the revitalization of Interstate
that began with construction of the MAX.
“If you look back to 1998 you realize how
far it has come,” said Hansen. “The MAX
was developed in a way that didn’t displace
people, but actually enhanced the project
and neighborhood.”
Part of the inspiration for the project came
from Kirchmeier’s and Gniewosz’s Polish
heritage and dedication to revitalizing
LOVE STORY
From page 3
In ’67 Wilbur decided the time was right
to leave Guam and heard from a friend that
there were opportunities in Vietnam. The
Miller family moved just outside of Saigon
and Wilbur became a businessman — during
the Vietnam War.
“Saigon was fairly stable at the time,”
Wilbur said.
When the Tet Offensive was launched in
January 1968 and the Vietcong came into
Saigon, Wilbur decided to move the family
to safer ground. Vi and the kids lived in
Australia with relatives for a little over a year,
while Wilbur finished his work in Vietnam.
In ’69 the Millers came back to America
and Northeast Portland. Wilbur took a job as
a traveling book salesman with Zondervan,
an international Christian publishing
the area around the historic St. Stanislaus
Catholic Church and Polish Library.
“One reason Mark did this,” said Rex
Burkholder jokingly at the dedication
ceremony, “the secret is, he wants there to be
enough people around to buy kielbasa at the
Polish Festival.”
The ground floor of the development
will feature a lobby presenting art from
the Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center in
addition to the European-themed Krakow
Koffeehouse. The coffee shop will feature
a limited number of Polish offerings in
addition to typical coffeehouse fare. Mike
Smith, who previously ran the Java Nation
coffee shop in downtown Portland, will
serve as manager.
It remains to be seen whether the sort of
high-density condominium developments
such as the Overlook will be as successful on
Interstate as they’ve been elsewhere in the
city. With condos ready to be moved into
after completion of construction in lateJanuary, so far only a handful of the 30 units
priced from $199,000 to $360,000 have sales
pending.
Meanwhile, further up the Interstate
corridor, the Crown Motel, one of the
oldest fi xtures on the street, edges closer
to demolition and eventual redevelopment
as a low-income family housing project.
REACH Community Development, the
nonprofit which is heading the design and
construction, recently selected the name
Patton Park Apartments for the five-story
development.
“We figured the Crown Motel name
wouldn’t really fit in with the concept of
affordable housing,” said Riad Sahal, project
manager for the redevelopment. “This
name has some historical significance to
the Overlook neighborhood and ties in with
Patton Square Park, which is undergoing a
major renovation across the street.”
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company, and was based out of Alaska. He
retired in the early ’90s. The couple has a
total of eight children (one died as a teen), 21
grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
After such a long marriage, Vi and Wilbur
offer this advice to those in a relationship:
“You make a commitment at the beginning,
for better or for worse, no matter what.”
“The warm fuzzies lasted about a year and
a half,” Wilbur said. “Then you really start
loving, a deeper love.”
Wilbur is still an ordained minister and
acts as the chaplain for Oregon Baptist
Retirement Homes, where he and Vi have
lived for the past few years. Vi’s onset of Lou
Gehrig’s disease forced the couple to move
to the OBRH Assisted Living Campus.
All Vi had to say to Wilbur was, “I followed
you all over the world, you can follow me
across the street.”
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WEST ALBINA & MISSISSIPPI
PIEDMONT . HUMBOLDT . BOISE . ELIOT
Jefferson principal proposes
academy consolidation
By Roger Anthony
Of all the proposed changes involving
Jefferson High School, there’s one that
may be implemented when school starts
next fall.
Jefferson Principal Cynthia Harris and
Leslie Rennie-Hill, Chief of High Schools
with the Portland School District, have
developed a proposal to consolidate two of
the school’s four academies. Under their
plan, the Academy of Arts and Technology
would be merged with the Science and
Technology branch of the school.
Both are currently housed in Jefferson’s
main campus building at 5210 N Kerby.
Harris and Rennie-Hill presented the
plan during the Portland School Board’s
Jan. 14 meeting at Jefferson. They said the
consolidation of the two academies would
allow more choices for students and free
up resources that could be channeled into
Jefferson’s Young Men’s Academy.
The proposal would not affect Jefferson’s
fourth academy, the Harriet Tubman
Leadership Academy for Young Women,
which is housed in a former elementary
school located at 2231 N Flint.
Members of the Jefferson Parent Teacher
Student Association, while supportive of
Harris’ plan, bluntly told the board that it
didn’t go far enough.
“This is a very small first step in the
right direction,” Steve Rawley told the
board. Rawley, a North Portland resident
who said he would like Jefferson “to be my
children’s high school,” called for a return
to a comprehensive high school structure.
“And ‘comprehensive’ means more than
just tearing down the walls between the
academies.”
The academy system creates smaller,
self-contained “schools within the school”
at each building — or, in the case of the
Tubman Academy, at a separate location
that is still considered part of the high
school. Roosevelt High School, the other
North Portland public high school, has three
academies — an Arts, Communications and
Technology academy, the Power academy
that emphasizes math and science, and
a Spanish-English International School
focused on the rapidly growing Latino
population around Roosevelt.
Southeast Portland’s Marshall High
School, which like Roosevelt and Jefferson
has a high minority enrollment, has also
adopted the academy system. Marshall’s
three academies include schools focused
on the Integrated Sciences, Business and
Technology, and the arts.
Jefferson, which at one time was a magnet
school for the performing arts, now has no
music classes.
Under questioning from board member
Sonja Henning, District Superintendent
Carole Smith told the board that Harris’
proposal was, at this point, simply “ideas
that are under discussion.”
Harris’ consolidation proposal will
be submitted to her office and then sent
to the Board’s subcommittee on Student
Achievement for further study.
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By Todd Anthony
I was less than enthused about a date on
Mississippi Avenue. It abounds with such
Portland haunts as Muddy’s Coffeehouse,
Mississippi Pizza and Amnesia Brewing —
so why did I want to avoid it as much as a
fifth-grader wants to avoid spelling it?
Pushing reluctance aside, I set out to make
the most of the evening. Having a predilection
for Purple Tooth Porter, I voted to begin my
date (with my fiancée, Arts Editor Vanessa
Nix) at the Belgian Embassy, formerly
the Purple Tooth Lounge (938 N Cook St.;
503-517-9931). Having recently noticed the
name change on the big pink Victorian, just
south of Mississippi’s main drag, I wondered
whether this was a new establishment or
merely a facelift. More importantly, would
I still be able to imbibe the tongue-tickling
beverage I so adored?
Instinctively avoiding the crowd on the
first floor, we zipped upstairs and dodged
into the closet-turned-make-out-booth —
the most private seat in the house (a place
they call the “Nookie Nook”), with just room
enough for two and a tiny penny-colored
table behind a cheap see-through curtain.
The good-natured waiter and part-owner,
Jim Parker, soon informed us that Purple
Tooth Porter was no longer served. The
Embassy was in fact exclusively Belgian.
After Parker dashed off to attend to
our needs, I proceeded to cope with my
disappointment by wrestling as many
smooches from my date as I could. My date
ordered a ginger ale; I had a St. Bernardus.
I enjoyed it, despite my distaste for
dessert beers.
Our next stop was Mississippi Station
(3943 N Mississippi Ave.; 503-517-5751),
where my date ordered steak frites and I
savored the Station Burger with a side of
extra pickles served icy cold. A thin-crust
margarita pizza was just large enough to
share as an appetizer. Over a Mirror Pond
I stumbled upon Mouse Trap, a 1963 board
game. My date had never seen it. My only
letdown: it was missing a quarter of its pieces
(a finding which seemed to delight her). The
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place is laid back, and we sat on the same
side of the table near the fireplace, which
took care of the necessary romantic vibe.
Next door at Mississippi Studios (3939
N Mississippi Ave.; 503-753-4473), North
Portland’s own improv comedy troupe, the
Liberators, were about to take the stage. We
finished dinner in time to grab some choice
seats (third row.) Tip: never sit too close to
the stage at an improv event, especially on a
first date. They are much quicker than you
at repartee — you will never win, and your
date will think you’re an ass. Unless your
date is completely humorless, she should dig
this scene. The Liberators delivered a string
of comedic sketches which lasted just long
enough for our mouths to hurt from laughing
and our stomachs to make room for dessert.
My date chose Lorenzo’s for dessert (3807
N Mississippi Ave.; 503-284-6200). Although
the street was empty, the Italian eatery was
bustling. We ordered lemon ginger tea and
shared a piece of chocolate amaretto cake.
Why am I unexcited about going to North
Mississippi? Perhaps I just prefer it on a spring
day when I can sit outside enjoying chips and
salsa at ¿Por Que No? or stroll leisurely down
the street without needing a scarf.
All I can say is that the best parts of the
date for me were the smooching and the
extra pickles.
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art&community CALENDAR
15th
FEBRUARY PICKS
21st
BLACK LIKE ME
Join award-winning
Portland mystery author
Sharan Newman (creator of the
Catherine LeVendeur medieval
mystery series) as she presents
her first book set in
Portland’s past!
Interstate Firehouse Cultural
Center (IFCC)
5340 N Interstate Ave.
(503) 823-4322
[email protected]
Tickets $15, Fri-Sat 8pm,
Sun 3pm.
VIDEO
THE SENTINEL’S FIRST
EVER OSCAR NIGHT
VIDEO PODCAST
AND LIVE BLOG.
Join Sentinel Arts
Editor Vanessa Nix and film
reviewer Dylan de Thomas
for. Watch as they greet
guests on the red carpet at
Film Action Oregon’s “Oscar
Night® America” at the
Hollywood Theatre.
See emcees Daria, Mitch
and Ted of the Afternoon
Buzz, Honorary Chair
Commissioner Sam Adams,
and Jay Malone as red
carpet host.
Red carpet show
and broadcast 5-9pm.
Tickets range from
$75-$100.
Hollywood Theatre
4122 NE Sandy Blvd
503-493-1128
http://www.filmaction.org
LIVE BLOG AT THE
OSCARS
24
th
6-9 p.m. Oscar Night
Video Blog: “Almost live”
from the Red Carpet The
next day, Feb 25. Only at
www.portlandsentinel.com
8th-23rd
VAGABOND OPERA
AND PORTLAND CELLO
PROJECT VALENTINE’S
SPECTACULAR
Inspired by members of the LA Chapter of the
Black Panther Party, Black Like
Me is a tragic story about a
people’s need to obtain freedom
from the power structure only to
find that the real oppressor may
be themselves. Reservations:
(503) 473-6649
Wonder Ballroom
128 NE Russell St.
(503)284-8686
www.wonderballroom.com
LOST + FOUND
All-ages, 21+full bar
Genuine Imitation Gallery
8926 N Lombard St.
(503) 241-3189
Genuineimitation.com
14th
Featuring musical guest DJ Tyler
Stone
An evening of sultry
cabaret and romantic, swelling
strings, $13 advance, $15 day
of show. Doors at 7pm. Show
at 8pm.
The Wonder Ballroom celebrates
Valentine’s Day like no other
place in town, replete with a
Kissing Booth, Love Clairvoyant,
genuine chocolates by Sugarcube, and musical performances by Vagabond Opera and The
Portland Cello Project, who will
be serenading both lovers and
haters of love in equal measure
on this most loved and hated
evening of the year.
9th
Just in time for Valentine’s
Day, Lost + Found is about love
and all that it encompasses
– and not just the love between
two people, but all forms of
love.” Artists include Ashley
Armbruster, Kimmie Hutchins,
Kendra Binney and Kara Burke.
Prints, paintings, and an assortment of other goodies by
Tom Luedecke, Ashley G, Not
Too Pink, Ubiki, Chris Brindley,
Creative Thursday, Brownington Forest, LilyMoon, Jun seo
Hahm, and Joom. 5-9pm.
VALENTINE’S DAY /
SWEETHEART SUSHI
Ukiyoe Japanese Restaurant
6516 N Denver Ave.
SHARAN NEWMAN
PRESENTS
THE SHANGHAI TUNNEL
(503) 283-8770
14th Featuring: Acoustic guitar
with Dale E. Miller & Sushi
Specials. Open 5-9pm.
St. Johns Booksellers
8622 N Lombard St.
All ages, free, 7:30pm
(503) 283-0032
Bark, Hide, and Horn / Or,
The Whale / Band of Annuals,
$7/$8, 10pm
16th
23rd
Bernie Lahart, 8pm
24th
Sonny Cohen, 1pm, and
Hannah’s Fields, 6pm
Lila Nelson / Phil
O’Sullivan, $10/$12, 7pm
OPEN MICS
16
th
Rachel Taylor Brown (Trio)
/ Ali Ippolito / Ali Wesley, $7/$8,
10pm,
“OPEN MIC / SONGWRITER
SHOWCASE”
19
Martyn Joseph, $12/$13,
7:30pm
McMenamins White Eagle
20th Toshi Reagon, $15/$18,
(503) 282-6810
7:30pm
www.mcmenamins.com
21
Alice Di Micele with James
Wright, $12/$13, 8pm,
21 and over, Free
22nd
7:30pm sign-up, 8pm music. The
Sunday night Open Mic/Showcase always features an eclectic
mix of talented local musicians.
th
st
Two Shows: Nick Jaina
- CD Release (Opener), Karli
Fairbanks / Kaylee Cole, $8/$10,
7pm & 10pm
24th
The Liberators Comedy
Improv, $7/$8, 7:30pm
836 N Russell St.
3rd, 10th, 17th & 24th
MOCK CREST TAVERN
3435 N Lombard St.
(503) 283-5014
www.propereats.org
UNFILTERED INDIE-ROCK
SHOWCASE HOSTED BY
QUAKER GUN
21
12
Columbia River Evening
th
19
The Trap (Part 1)
26th
The Trap (Part 2)
st
Donna Jose Open Mic &
Jammin, 8:30pm
McMenamins Pub White Eagle
24th DC Malone Open Mic,
836 N Russell St., Free
8:30pm
www.McMenamins.com
OPEN MIC NIGHT AT
PROPER EATS
20th Featuring:Andrew Gorney,
Quaker Gun and Jared Mees.
8:30pm. Unfiltered Indie-Rock
Showcase hosted by Quaker Gun
on the third Wednesday of every
month. Each month features
Quaker Gun and two other bands
from the region.
Proper Eats Market and Café
8638 N Lombard Ave.
www.propereats.org
Every Wednesday at 7pm.
PROPER EATS MARKET
AND CAFÉ
FILM
1
3120 N Williams Ave.
(503) 367-3182
8 NE Killingsworth St.
www.thewaypost.com
(503) 232-6003
All ages, Free
www.inotherwords.org
1st
29th
8th Shake Speake, Ricci Swift &
The Rainy States, 8pm
9th
The Shrouded Strangers &
Pink Window, 8pm
15th
Paige Crater, Saw Whet,
Alison Milham & Dave (from
Valediction), 8pm
16th The Exosphere Project,
+CNCTD & George Veech, 7pm
22
nd
Arrington De Dionyso &
9th
10th
Steve Poltz / Truckee Brothers, $10/$12, 7pm
Authors, Poets, Songwriters Tell True Stories: Marc Acito /
Stacy Bolt / Jim Brunberg / Chelsea Cain / Courtenay Hameister/
Scott Poole, $8/$10, 7:30pm
1st Modernstate / Moodring / Mr.
14th
(503) 288-3895
www.mississippistudios.com
1st
Frederick, Free! First Friday Free,
10pm
2nd
Chris Kasper / Andrew
Norsworthy, $8/$10, 7pm
Valentine’s Day ¬– Amelia
(Duo) / Silk & Olive, $7/$8, 8pm
15
th
Lindsay Mac / Anna Fritz,
$10/$12, 7pm
SNACK & SHOP ON LOMBARD
between Burr & Buchanan
refind
U.S.E.D.
Fabulous assortment
of vintage clothing
and furniture!
vintage home & garden
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Hours: Wed- Sun, 12-6pm
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7400 N. Lombard St.
503.285.4959
7440 N. Lombard St.
503.283.6998
Organic Pastry
Coffee & Italian
Espresso to go
Pastrycat
7337 N. Lombard St.
503.546.2292
Universal Soul Art and Music
opening, 7pm
9th
Morgan Grace (Solo, Acoustic) / Billie Shears, $7/$8, 10pm
3939 N Mississippi Ave.
2
3rd
9
Hours:
Tues-Fri 6am-Noon
Sat 7am-4pm
Slowly Rising, 7pm
nd
Jen Bernard / Lara Michell
/ David Langenes / Jason Roark
- Songwriters In The Round.
Opener: Susie Blue, $10/$12,
7pm
th
MISSISSIPPI STUDIOS
st
Steve Cheseborough, 6pm
8th
Shane and Sean open play,
7pm
(503) 367-3182
www.thewaypost.com
All ages, Free
9th Dario Argento’s Suspiria, 4pm
14th
Sleepaway Camp & Behind
the Mask (filmed in Portland),
all night
Taylor Arrigio, 6pm, and
Scott Goodwin & Friends, 9pm
16th
10th
23rd Ravenous or Day of the
George Veech, 6pm
15th
Hawkins, 8pm
16th Djangovitis, 6pm, and Steve
Cheseborough, 8pm
17th
Taylor Arrigio, 4pm
22nd
George Veech, 6pm, and
DJ Mom, 8pm
(503) 445-2007
5th
Secrets of the CIA
th
THEATER, DANCE,
PERFORMANCE
(503) 445-2007
7
“Shane” Schneider, 8pm
Girl Movie Night, free,
6:30pm. This month we will
feature Chisholm ‘72: Unbought
& UnBossed. A documentary
about Congresswoman Shirley
Chisholm’s 1972 campaign for
the U.S. presidency. Chisholm,
the first African American woman
elected to congress and the first
black citizen to run a high-profile
campaign in the U.S. presidential
primary.
Claes of Blueprints Open
Mic & Jammin, 8:30pm
th
Robbie Fulks, $16/$18, 7pm
15th
14
Tracy Grammer, $18/$20,
The Waypost
7th Hammer Of Hathor, Steve
7pm
29th
www.propereats.org, Free
Luna Music Series – Showcase of local female musicians.
Free, 7 pm. For this month’s
featured artists check out www.
myspace.com/lunamusicseries.
(503) 232-6003
8638 N Lombard Ave.
IN OTHER WORDS
WOMEN’S BOOKS
AND RESOURCES
Gregory Miles Harris, Tony
Green Orchestra & John Cellar,
8pm
Proper Eats Market and Café
(503) 445-2007
8
IN OTHER WORDS
WOMEN’S BOOKS
AND RESOURCES
Randy Yearout Open Mic &
Jammin, 8:30pm
Led Kaapana and Mike
Kaawa, $16/$18, 7:30pm
th
Beetlejuice, 8:30pm
7th
6th
Jasmine Ash / Nat & Dave
(Derby) / Liz Stahler, $10/$12,
7:30pm
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21 and over, Free
Guests (Artist Reception), 8pm
th
African Queen, 8:30pm
st
1ST AMENDMENT
SCREENING
Hunter Paye Doorway
Dwellers / Baptist Arms – Benefits
Rock ‘N’ Roll Camp For Girls!
$7/$8, 8pm
FILM CLUB –
HORROR THEME
THE WAYPOST
24th
www.mockcrest.com
28th
8638 N Lombard Ave.
LIVE MUSIC
17th Lonesome Dove, 8:30pm
The Descent, 4pm
Dead or May (audience choice),
4pm
MONDAY MOVIE NIGHT
Pix Patisserie
(503) 282-6539
All ages, Free
3rd
Dark Passage, 8:30pm
10
th
Sword in the Stone, 8:30pm
INTERSTATE FIREHOUSE
CULTURAL CENTER (IFCC)
5340 N Interstate Ave.
(503) 823-4322
[email protected]
7th-26th Facets of Africa, Tickets
$8-$10/ Student matinees $5
per student with group reservations, Tuesdays and Thursdays
10:00am, and Saturday, February
16, 2pm. Artists and storytellers
from a variety of African countries
and African-based cultures celebrate the diversity within African
culture. Join the performers
for a discussion after the show.
Reservations: (503) 823-4322.
Artist’s tea in the gallery to follow
Saturday performance.
28th & 29th Emergence-See!
Tickets $18 student/seniors, $25
general, Thursday and Friday
8pm. A slave ship rises out of
the Hudson River in front of the
Statue of Liberty sending the
nation into a whirlwind of emotion
and exploration in this explosive
solo tour de force featuring slam
poetry, multicharacter transformation, and song. For tickets go
to www.brownpapertickets.com.
art&community CALENDAR
Poetry in Motion, a calligraphy
and painting collection by Charles
Lehman, Monday-Friday from
8:30am-8pm, and Saturday from
8:30am-4pm. Artist’s reception
will take place at 3pm, Feb. 19.
SECOND ANNUAL YOUTH
SUMMIT 2008 “IT’S
BIGGER THAN HIP-HOP”
Nation of Islam Event
Calvery Christian Center
Ministries
126 NE Alberta St.
(503) 781-5313
COMMUNITY
& CULTURE
9th
Youth panel discussion, 35:30pm, Free.
Keynote address by Prof. Griff of
Public Enemy
Concert featuring Octavia Harris,
Libretto, Blaque Butterfly, Madgesdiq, USA La Familia and more,
$10 donation, 8-11:00pm.
CANDY WRAPPER
BRACELETS AND BAGS
SCRAP
3901A N Williams Ave.
(503) 294-0769
NEIL SIMON’S
GOD’S FAVORITE
St. Johns North End Players
Hours: Wed-Sat, 11am-6pm; Sun
12-5pm. Closed Monday and
Tuesday
7600 N Hereford
Ages 10+
(503) 286-3679
16th
www.stjohnsnorthendplayers.com
Wheelchair accessible, Free
parking
All ages, $10/Seniors $8
th
th
nd
rd
th
15 , 16 , 22 , 23 , 29
& March lst, 8pm
17th, 24th, & March 2nd
2pm
VISUAL ARTS
WAR, CURATED BY
JIM RISWOLD
Guest Room Gallery
4114 N Vancouver Ave.
(503) 284-8378
www.guestroomgallery.com
Gallery hours: Wed-Sat, 12-5pm
18th
Artists include William
Anthony, Dmitri Baltermants,
Eva Lake, David Levinthal, Jim
Riswold, Susan Seubert, Michael
Spafford, and John Wesley.
Opening reception 6-9pm.
VALENTANGO
$15, 1-3pm. Learn to make
those awesome candy-wrapper
accessories you’ve been seeing!
Julie Yu teaches her self-designed technique of folding candy
wrappers into amazing bracelets
and bags. Please bring any wrappers you have been saving (make
sure they don’t rip too easily).
Buckley Center Gallery on the
University of Portland campus
5000 N Willamette Blvd.
For more information, contact
Jamie Powell at (503) 943-7702
or [email protected].
Free to the public.
11th-March 7th
The University
of Portland will feature Sacred
New Columbia Community Education Center
4625 N Trenton St.
15th
(503) 282-6539
Every Thursday, Pix delivers
you themed rounds of drinks and
some knowledge, to boot. $10,
5pm-close.
MULTNOMAH COUNTY
LIBRARY EVENTS
The Balancing Act: Making
Art & Making Money, Fee: $25,
9am-12pm.This workshop introduces simple and powerful tools
to get more of the work you love.
Go beyond marketing to get connected and create a following for
your work with professional artists
and marketing experts Carolyn
Campbell and Bob Sterry.
29th
All ages, free
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North Portland Library
512 N Killingsworth St.
rd
3
African American Read-In,
2-4pm
9thChata Addy and Shi Dah
Valentine Collage, 11am-1pm
Artists Wanted: Public Art
from A to Z, Fee: $25, 9am12pm. Learn about the opportunities and challenges of applying
for publicly funded public art
commissions. Topics will include
tips on putting together successful applications, learning how
selection panels review work and
select artists, sorting through the
mysteries of public art budgets,
determining realistic timelines for
design, fabrication and installation, and the do’s and don’ts for
presentations and interviews.
th
16
Taste of Calligraphy, 11am12pm.
th
SACRED POETRY
IN MOTION BY
CHARLES LEHMAN
REGIONAL ARTS &
CULTURE COUNCIL
(RACC) 2008 ARTISTS
WORKSHOPS SERIES
Pix Patisserie
9th
1 -26 ValenTango, 6-9pm.
21 artists have created 35 works
of art with the theme of tango.
In addition to the wonderful art,
there will be dancers, music and
refreshments.
A History of Working-Class Resistance to Fascism: Lessons for
Today. Free, 7pm. Explore how
fascism arises and how people
have successfully fought against
it. This 10-week discussion
circle will include excerpts from
historical texts and contemporary
struggles.
www.racc.org/workshops
2215 NE Alberta St.
st
7th, 14th, 21st, & 28th
(503) 823-5111
Onda Gallery
www.ondagallery.com
Weekly Reading and Discussion
Circle on Thursdays
Freedom Socialist Party
Contact: Laura Mannen
at [email protected]
FLIGHT NIGHTS
- Traditional Drumming & Dance,
2-3pm
(503) 493-1909
23rd Black History Month
Forum, door donation $2.
7:30pm. Creole buffet available
at 6:30pm for an $8 donation.
The forum features a multiracial
panel on the civil rights struggle
in Jena, Louisiana.
“FAMILY AND
FRIENDS DAY”
St. Johns Library
New Hope Baptist Church
7510 N Charleston Ave.
3725 N Gantenbein Ave.
23rd Stories with Baba Wagué
Diakité, 3-4pm
Free, 3pm.
BREAD AND ROSES
CENTER
(503) 240-4462
All ages
BLACK HISTORY
MONTH CELEBRATION
Freedom Socialist Party and
Radical Women
Contact: Jennifer Laverdure at
[email protected]
For info call (503) 698-5447
or (503) 281-0163.
27th
Music by family choirs
comprised of some of the most
gifted families in the city, plus
Derrick McDuffey & Chosen Generation, Ronnye Harrison, Linda
Hornbuckle, Minister Eugene
Blackmon, New Hope’s Jubilation
Dancers and more! Reception
follows program. Pastor Robert
C. Jointer.
KNIT NITE AT THE NAKED
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All ages, Free
(503) 283-2004
(503) 283-0032
Email: info@thenakedsheepknits
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13th
Every Thursday
from 6-9
pm. Join them for animated
conversation, stitching, bitching,
knitting, crocheting, free help,
support and inspiration. Prizes,
giveaways, delicious snacks and
goodies may make an appearance at any time, so don’t miss it!
READINGS & SPOKEN
WORD
8622 N Lombard St.
Beren deMotier presents
The Brides of March, 7:30pm.
The Brides of March is a poignant
and often hilarious bride’s-eye
view of same-sex marriage at a
moment’s notice, with a bevy of
brides, their coterie of children,
donuts, newspaper reporters,
screaming protesters, mothers
of the brides who never thought
they’d see the day, white wedding
cake, and a houseful of happy
heterosexuals toasting the marriage!
19th
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WOMEN’S BOOKS
AND RESOURCES
(503) 232-6003
3rd The Portland Feminism
Meet-up, 6:30-8pm. The
Feminism Discussion Group
meets the first Sunday of every
month and is moderated by Jen
Moore. Open only to female and
female-identified.
5th
Food Not Lawns, 7pm
Gather together for a study
and planning group to discuss
gardening, urban agriculture, and
community. This new group will
use ideas from the book Food
Not Lawns by Heather Flores as
a springboard for discussion and
action.
North Portland
Poetry Jam
Trippin’ Billies
3226 N Lombard St.
(503) 283-0205
Code Pink Meeting, free,
6:30-8pm.
www.trippinbilliescoffee.com
7th
Queer Polyamory Discussion
Group, free, 6:30-8:30pm. If you
have ever wondered “How do I
do this polyamory/open-relationship/non-monogamy thing?” you
are not alone. Join us with your
experiences, questions and ideas
– they are an important resource
for this group. Open to all trans,
pansexual, lesbian, gay and
queer folks. All ages encouraged.
3rd, 17th
12th Bisexual Women’s Discussion Group, free, 6:30pm. This
month folks will meet at Haven
Coffee shop located at 3551
SE Division. People interested in coming should RSVP
[email protected].
8th
All ages, Free
16th Relational Cultural Theory
Workshop, free, 2pm. Karen
Hixson and Jenna Goldin formed
Connect, a collective that offers
educational outreach, workshops,
support groups and consultation.
Explores the effects of connection
and disconnection on relationships and community building.
27th
The “Non-Profit Industrial
Complex” Discussion & Working Group, Free, 6:30pm. If
the revolution won’t be funded
– how will we sustain our radical
work? How can we bring back or
strengthen the political edge to
our social-change efforts? What
are the strategies, methods and
models for ensuring the culture
and practice of our organizations
better reflect our politics and
values?
(Every 1st and 3rd
Sunday), Open Mic Poetry Night
from 7-9pm. Sign-up at 6:30pm.
IN OTHER WORDS WOMEN’S BOOKS AND RESOURCES
(503) 232-6003
Dirty Queer (X-rated Open
Mic 18+ ONLY), $1 per person,
6:30-9pm. Dirty Queer is the
place to celebrate sexuality and
strut your creative stuff! Hosted
by renegade writer and poet Sossity Chiricuzio. Queer erotic entertainers of all sorts are encouraged
– dancers, jugglers, singers,
musicians, comics, poets, storytellers, and gender performers.
9th
Shout Out: Women of Color
Respond to Violence, edited by
María Ochoa and Barbara K. Ige,
free, 2pm. Meet María Ochoa
and Barbara K. Ige co-editors of
and contributing writers to Shout
Out: Women of Color Respond to
Violence.
12th
The Common Secret: My
Journey as an Abortion Doctor by
Susan Wicklund, free, 6:30pm.
Join us for a special author reading by Susan Wicklund, who has
worked in the field of women’s
reproductive health for more
than 20 years. She has been on
the front lines of the abortion
war – both as a doctor and as a
spokeswoman for women’s rights.
28th
A Night of Queer Readings:
Romance, Advice, Murder and
Trans-Feminism, free, 6:30pm.
This event will provide a unique
opportunity for local readers to
meet five authors at one venue,
including Curve magazine’s executive editor and the duo behind
the lesbian magazine’s hit advice
column, Lipstick and Dipstick.
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5th, 12th, 18th, 26th
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Master of shots
By Dylan de Thomas
Local fi lmmaker Warren Pereira is a
master of the master shot, but I’m getting
ahead of myself.
First, a little Film 101: a master shot is
an entire scene that is fi lmed from start to
finish with no edits. They’re impressive
things, difficult to pull off, because nothing
can go wrong during the shoot. If something
happens, the fi lmmaker can’t just cut away
and use another take, they have to start over
from scratch.
In the early days of Hollywood, the
“master shot” was typically the first shot of
any given scene and all other shots – closeups, medium shots, etc. – would use the
“master” as the reference for all following
shots. Most of today’s masters are known as
“tracking shots,” the camera following the
entirety of a scene without cutting away.
Famous “master shots” include the
opening scene of Orson Welles’ Touch of
Evil (3 minutes, 20 seconds), the beginning
of Robert Altman’s The Player (8 minutes, 5
seconds), and this year’s Academy Awardnominated Atonement (5 minutes, 30
seconds.)
Warren Pereira puts them to shame — all
of his movies are master shots. Not just
scenes, the whole things. This could seem
like a stunt if he wasn’t able to sustain it and
Writer, director, actor, man of action, Warren Pereira.
See Master Shots / Page 13
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Carcrashlander
Silly meets
One artist’s struggle with a statement sincere in CD
Support Your
Local Midwife
By Joel Preston Smith
By Todd Anthony
Bret Hostetler is struggling to write his
artist’s statement. He’s looking dubiously
around his studio on Northeast Alberta
Street — at the shards of metal, the paint
buckets and spray bottles, and shredded
burlap, and a woman’s trampled hemp hat
that’s been ground underfoot, waiting for
the animate gesture that will incorporate
it into one of his mixed-media canvases —
wondering how to distill all the forces, needs,
longings and hunger that drive the human
urge to create, into a summary statement of
500 words or less.
It’s hard. “I don’t know how to make sense
of it,” he sighs. “I had a nice-paying job,
pretty steady, and I didn’t have to worry
about how I was presenting myself, to be
accepted in the art world.”
Hostetler, 33, was born in Oregon City,
where he grew up on his family’s tree farm,
driving a tractor, planting ornamentals,
maintaining equipment. He says it was good,
steady work, and it gave him an appreciation
for landscapes, for solitude and the chaotic
order of the natural world. He says he
became an artist mainly because he peopled
his life with artists. His friends and heroes
were artists, and it was in their company he
felt most at home.
There are no obvious, fatal flaws in
his work. If there’s a shortcoming, it’s in
his utter lack of pretentiousness or selfaggrandizement — qualities that have
launched and sustained the careers of many
artists less talented than he. He’s incapable of
a hard sell. Thus his struggle to summarize
himself on paper. “The last thing I think
about is recognition,” he says. “The most
flattering thing anyone ever said to me was
that my work made them want to go make
a painting.”
His work is good — reminiscent of J. M.
W. Turner, who resides in the pantheon of
artists Hostetler most admires. Hostetler,
like Turner, works his oils into an ethereal,
otherworldly view. He creates spaces — some
are landscapes, some are vaguely figurative
— in which the viewer might enter as if in
a dream. He incorporates sticks, torn pages
of magazines and cardboard, discarded
clothing and other found objects into some
canvases, with the desire, he explains, “to
transform them into their basic chemistry.”
Where does it all go? Too much of his
work, he admits, stays in his studio, and not
on the walls of buyers. “I think I don’t really
MASTER SHOTS
From page 12
keep all of his metaphorical balls in the air,
but he does. He and director of photography
Jeff Streich have made three of these rare
master shot short fi lms in the last year, each
one longer than the next.
Pereira’s shorts are witty and urbane, a
mix between the dialogue of Woody Allen’s
’70s relationship comedies such as Annie
Hall, but with the slinky camerawork and
exacting blocking of Brian De Palma or Paul
Thomas Anderson.
The level of planning and exactitude
to shoot these “masters” is imposing but
Pereira and Streich fit together. “He has a
calm focus and I have an intense focus, so we
compliment each other well,” says Pereira.
He likes working with master shots for
many reasons, for example, is important
to him and “masters” put it in stark relief.
Actors with strong theater backgrounds like
them, but also, Pereira says, “When you get
it, you get it, no more coverage to shoot.”
Another local independent fi lmmaker,
former Sauvie Island resident and Sentinel
subject [Best Local Filmmaker January
Bret Hostetler is having problems reducing his work
to a superficial label. PHOTO BY JOEL PRESTON SMITH
wish to be successful. I’d be required to do
something for someone else, and that would
jeopardize the direction I want to go.”
He says that when he thinks about being
successful, mostly he wants to focus on fully
exploring a single theme or idea. He wants
to obsessively invest himself in an idea, and
not worry about trying to explain himself,
or pound the pavement in search of a living.
“It would be nice to be given the
opportunity to take on a really worthy yearlong project. To spend more time on a body
of work, than living from month to month
and trying to make something to sell.”
He says his greatest fan is his wife, Darci,
a graphic artist who studied painting in
Florence, Italy. They were married Aug. 4
last year. “Even if I don’t make a fortune, she
still encourages me. She sees it as what I’m
meant to do.”
Bret Hostetler Studio is at 1627 NE Alberta. His
next show, during Alberta Street’s Last Thursday
art walk on March 27, will feature new works
based on mixed media and assemblage.
~30~
2006] Aaron Kirk Douglas, is co-producing
Pereira’s next short, Salt and Silicone, a
comedy dealing with the issue of breast
augmentation. That means he’ll get to see
the high-wire act of fi lming one of these
things in person, though there is one
hitch. “The downer for me is that we shoot
the same night as Oscar night, and I’m
chair of the Oscar Night America event
at the Hollywood Theatre,” Douglas said.
“So I’m going to head to the shoot after I
wrap my Oscar duties for the evening ...
it’s going to be a long day.”
Salt and Silicone will be ready for a
limited theatrical release this summer.
Then he’s on to planned feature project,
Breakfast Special, a dark comedy.
“It’s hard work being an independent
fi lmmaker,” says Pereira. “You have to
wear many hats, but it seems worth it in
the end.”
Pereira’s first short, Who’s Good Looking, will
be shown at the Portland International Film
Festival’s Short Cuts IV: Made in Oregon,
Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 SW Park Ave.,
on Saturday, Feb. 16, at 2 p.m. Master Shots
can be seen at http://www.wfilms.biz/.
North Portlander Cory Gray, front man
and originator of the keyboard-driven
musical outfit Carcrashlander, delights in
using gross-out metaphors like the menstrual
cycle to describe his creative process.
That band’s name, Carcrashlander, speaks
directly to Gray’s quirky sense of humor.
“Let’s pretend that I was in a cornfield in
Nebraska, having a beer, enjoying the shade
of a tree and along came a car and hit my
car, did a triple flip in the air, landed on
its wheels and took off. As I stood there
in bewilderment a business card came
flying down through the air ... and it said
‘Carcrashlander’ on it.”
But listening to Carcrashlander’s selftitled debut CD reveals that for every dash of
droll silliness in his persona there is an equal
dose of sincerity in his musicality.
The album’s first track, “Gold Sunset,”
contains all the ingredients of a great pop
song: a solid, bob-your-head beat, catchy
keyboards, subdued, too-cool-for-school
vocals, an unexpected flailing fuzz-guitar
solo and a haunting female voice, all of which
culminate in a noise-induced climax.
Not exactly a band or a solo act, the
essence of Carcrashlander lies somewhere in
the realm of collaboration with the primary
songwriting credits belonging to Gray.
“It started off as my solo thing with a lot
of contributions and now it’s becoming a
band,” explains Gray who sings and plays
keyboards and trumpet.
Brian Wright, the drummer on 10 of the
12 tracks, has worked closely with Gray on
several projects and says, “He’s been on the
road so much the last couple years [fi lling in
with friend’s bands] he hasn’t had the time
to dedicate to it [Carcrashlander’s vision].”
Carcrashlander’s first album, presented
during the sold out Jan. 12 CD release party
at Mississippi Studios, is also the debut
release for the environmentally conscious
label, Parks & Records, of San Francisco.
The album’s final recording session
occurred last March but some tracks were
recorded as early as 2005. Recorded in
both studio and home environments with
a variety of old and new equipment with a
dozen contributing musicians, the album is
surprisingly crisp and fluid.
Aside from a show in February and a
tentative Bay Area CD release party in March,
Carcrashlander’s horizon is somewhat of a
blank canvas. But with any luck this openendedness will evolve, much like the album
did, into a possible tour. “Hopefully this
summer we’ll go somewhere. We’ll either do
a U.S. tour or we might try to go overseas,
depending on lots of things ... nothing’s solid
right now,” says Gray.
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self-titled CD
go to music and
podcast link at www
portlandsentinel.
com/.
Cory Gary has
Carcrashlanded.
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for the taquerias are plentiful, lining our
humble street of North Lombard. Triedand-true favorites run the gamut from King
Burrito and Su Casa to Taqueria Santa Cruz
in St. Johns. But in December, Las Nayaritas,
near Greeley changed owners and in doing
so may carve a niche for itself like no other.
The new owner, Willliam Ramirez, has
decided to feature pozole.
Pozole, or posole, is a rich meat stew,
the focus of which is corn. Authentically,
pozole is made with corn that has been
nixtamalized (dried corn soaked with an
alkaline substance such as lime, wood ash or
natural soda releasing the stored niacin in
the corn and thus softening it). Today
most restaurants use hominy in
their pozole. The word posolli
came from the Nahuatl potzonti,
meaning to boil or bubble.
Pozole is often made with
pork, although chicken has
gained popularity in recent
years and seafood
versions
that
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Veracruz coast can
also be found.
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two kinds of
red
pozole
(chicken and
pork) on the
weekends only.
“We make it only on the weekends now as
something special. ... We have other food
specials the rest of the week,” said Ramirez.
The warmth and aroma of a steaming
bowl of pozole on a crisp winter day brings
a brief respite from the pouring rain and a
comforting feeling of being taken care of.
The pozole at Las Nayaritas is like that. It
is deeply flavored, a rich, dark-hued, almost
poinsettia red and spicy but never hot. The
meat is tender, as is the hominy, and you
will find yourself slurping this luscious soup
with abandon.
Las Nayaritas serves their pozole with
the traditional condiments of lime wedges,
dried oregano, cilantro, shredded cabbage,
chopped onion, sliced radishes and crisp
fried tortillas. “We’re making our corn
tortillas homemade now,” says Ramirez
proudly. “People like that.”
Las Nayaritas serves other traditional
Mexican fare such as chili rellenos, spicy
hot tamales, tacos fi lled with cilantro and
onions (divine), and more complicated
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Date for the whole family
By Jason E. Kaplan
our daughter and sit and talk about our lives
while our little girl plays in the tiny castle at
There was a time when my wife, Summer, the back of the cafe. Generally, she’ll give
and I used to make it a point to go out on a us about 10 minutes of alone-time before she
“date night” once a week or so. Often we emerges from the play area with a book and
would stay in St. Johns. McMenamins St. says, “Read this to me, Daddy.”
Johns Pub was a favorite as we could get
There are those rare occasions when we
dinner and a movie at the same time (a find a babysitter and get to go out as a couple.
wonderful way multitask). The food there is Our favorite dinner spot has become Proper
good even if the menu is somewhat limited. Eats. Recently, Summer and I went there on
There was also Café Nola (now Proper one of those rare babysitter nights. As we
Eats) which was open at night sometimes, looked at the menu, Piper, one of the owners,
depending on the mood of the proprietor. came over to us and said, “Put down those
But all this was Before... About four years menus. You know you’re both going to get
ago Summer transformed me into a father. the Tempe Rubens.” And he was right. After
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3-year-old Anika Kaplan and her parents, Jason and Summer, enjoy a
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without our
“family date” at Anna Bannanas in St. Johns. PHOTO BY JASON E. KAPLAN
movies
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daughter:
the Internet.
pizza beer
While it’s true the streaming catalog is a and a movie at St. Johns Theater; dinner, beer
little thin, it now has over 6000 titles and and a movie at McMenamins; or dinner and
is growing all the time. Of course, all this live music at Proper Eats. The last entry in
requires a fairly powerful computer and a that list has some great live performers come
decent Internet connection.
through and an open mic every Wednesday.
From time to time, you may want to For a child-friendly movie, McMenamins
actually go somewhere to experience a little now has “mommy matinees” on Wednesdays
nightlife in and about the town. With a at 1:00 p.m. According to their website you
toddler in tow, “nightlife” starts about 4 p.m. can “Let the kids fuss, we don’t mind!”
Over the past few years St. Johns has become
It doesn’t get any better than that.
somewhat more child-friendly. The opening
Well, maybe it does.
of Anna Bannanas was a great addition for
the neighborhood’s parents of little ones. McMenamins St. Johns Theater and Pub, 8203
They have a small play area that is just the N Ivanhoe St., (503) 283-8520; Proper Eats, 8638
right size for a 2- to 4-year-old. My wife and N Lombard St.; Legong Gelato, 8712 N Lombard
I can go there on a rainy afternoon and order St., (503) 453-9025; Anna Bannana’s 8716 N
some coffee, child-sized mac-and-cheese for Lombard
FEATURE STORIES
Interstate date means TIKI TIME
By Meghan Planchon
The White Eagle Saloon sports historic
ambience and McMenamins’ dependable
line of beers and bar food. Its tiny stage
hosts an interesting selection of local and
regional bands. Some nights there’s a cover
charge — but there’s also that patio entrance
around to the side, and no one collecting at
the door ...
It doesn’t work, as my date and I found out
on a recent Saturday night. McMenamins has
the cutting edge in cover-dodging prevention:
bracelets. We got
inside
without
incident but were
quickly asked to pay
before the music
started, or leave.
Needless to say,
our stay was short.
Our adventure
at the White Eagle
(836 N Russell
St.; 503-282-6810)
was an interlude
in an evening that
began and ended at
another historic Interstate corridor haunt.
The Alibi (4024 N Interstate Ave.; 503-2875335) has been open on Interstate in various
incarnations since 1890, according to Amy
Hand, a waitress there for three years. Only
since the 1950s has it had its overwhelming
tropical motif. Some think it’s tacky; yet,
even with life-size pictures of hula girls,
phony palm trees and low-hanging canoe
light fi xtures, it somehow feels classy.
A jazzy lounge version of “Young at
Heart” played as we settled into one of the
cozy, dimly lit red-vinyl booths near a bar
that’s backlit by an aquarium. It was quiet.
Football played on TV. The bartender
discussed Aristotle. We felt at ease right
away and wondered how it was we had never
been to the Alibi before.
“It feels like we’re on a cruise,” said David,
who is not proud that he really has been on
a cruise. The Love Boat effect is heightened
by the fact that every Saturday the Alibi
hosts a free midnight buffet, also a hallmark
of the cruise experience. The Alibi’s buffet
is slightly less ritzy, boasting fried chicken,
meat balls, pasta salad and rolls.
We each had the drink special for the
evening, Bloody Marys for $2.50 each, and
ordered off the happy-hour menu: chicken
wings
and
cheese sticks
($13 for both
of us).
We
left
r e l u c t a n t l y,
feeling obliged
for the sake
of the story
to at least try
two different
spots,
and
headed to the
White Eagle.
But after our
encounter there, we returned to the Alibi to
sample its famed karaoke (9 p.m. nightly).
We found a much-changed scene upon
returning around 10 p.m. The place was
packed. The crowd was as varied as it could
be, from fraternity types to hipsters, all
peacefully united for horrible renditions of
“Love Shack” and “Sweet Child O’Mine.”
The highlight of the evening was Kelli
Schaefer, bearing an uncanny resemblance to
Judy Garland in gothic attire, who abruptly
broke the chain of bad ’80s pop by declaring,
“This is what you call a party foul.” Then
she belted out a gorgeous rendition of
“Somewhere Over the Rainbow,” making us
all cry into our meatballs.
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Junior Varsity Yard Sale
Ah Holly Fam’ly
PODCAST
By James Yeary
On Jan. 28 at Valentine’s, an intimate
performance venue downtown on
Southwest Ankeny, Idaho transplant
Jeremy Faulkner performed a solo set of
songs from his own repertoire and from
that of his band, Ah Holly Fam’ly.
Although a multi-instrumentalist
(Faulkner’s recordings include clarinet,
bells, percussion, banjo, and many
others), Faulkner performed only vocals
and guitar. His voice, quiet and ghostly,
alternately hovered over or wove through
guitar melodies that moved between
classical, folk, and bluegrass.
Faulkner’s style becomes more robust
and apparent when transmitted through
his five-piece band. Ah Holly Fam’ly
features Whitney Menzel on drums
and drum-like objects, Morgan Hobart
on tragic violin, Jeff Diteman on steel
guitar and cello, with songbirds Becky
Dawson and Faulkner sharing a host of
instruments between them. The band
has a hard-to-categorize sound.
“One thing I’ve seen written about Ah
Holly Fam’ly is that we play folk music, or
have an ‘old-timey’ sound,” said Faulkner,
“and I just wonder what the [$%^&]
they’re talking about. It’s not at all what
we’re going for.”
The band has categorized itself as
“Stoner rock, stoner calypso, stoner jazz,
stoner fusion,” but Faulkner says, “I really
think of [Ah Holly Fam’ly] as my own
genre, which I call resin rock, resin pop,
or whatever.” Clearly weed is a significant
musical influence.
But when someone told him they were
“dangerously close to World Music,” his
answer was: “Good.”
Faulkner spent the last year working on
just one track called “The Water,” a stoner
gospel epic that features a choir and calls
to mind The Kingston Trio and The Beach
Boys at church.
According to Faulkner, Ah Holly
Fam’ly, originally called Oh Holy Family,
got their name from a book by Karl Marx,
but the name was changed to “distance
themselves from Christianity and
Marxism.” There is no date set yet for the
album’s release, but Faulkner expects it to
be “no more than a couple months.”
Music from Ah Holly Fam’ly is featured on the
Junior Varsity Yard Sale Podcast this month.
Ah Holly Fam’ly, 9pm, February 23, Funky
Church, 2456 SE Tamarack, funkychurch.com
This month on the Junior Varsity Yard Sale
• Wednesday, Feb 13: Interview with Timothy Stollenwerk of Stereophonic
Mastering about the art of master recording.
• Wednesday, Feb. 27: Discussion about Portland’s literary scene including
James Yeary’s own lit magazine, Cloudrag.
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THE RETURN OF
BLAZER BEAT
BLOG
Leadership pays off
By Matthew David Deschaine
fans were potentially looking at another
“rebuilding year.”
With the halfway point of the 2007-08
When the team opened the season a
NBA season fast approaching, local fans disappointing 5-12, a familiar gloom
and sports writers across the country are settled over the Rose Garden. There were
running out of adjectives to describe the grumbles (from outside the organization)
resurgent Trail Blazers.
that Coach Nate McMillan was the wrong
For the moment, however, let’s shut the guy for the job, and although the team
thesaurus, put the playoff talk on hold and had shed its “Jail-Blazers” image, nothing
take a closer look at how the Blazers have on the court had really changed.
come so far so fast.
But something had.
Lots of attention has been paid to the
In Roy, the Blazers have an explosive,
Blazers’ league-best 13-game winning versatile, combo-guard with an assassin’s
steak and remarkable
mentality. As a slasher
play over the month
and a passer, Roy leads
of December. There
the team in scoring
are many factors that
(19.4) and assists (5.6)
have contributed to
and posts a healthy 3-tothe team’s success:
1 assist to turnover ratio.
the emergence of
He consistently draws
“Mr. 4th Quarter”
double-teams, finds the
Travis Outlaw, the
open man and guards
addition of Steve
the opposing team’s best
Blake, a healthy
perimeter player. Yet, his
LaMarcus Aldridge.
true value goes beyond
These things are all
the numbers.
important, but the
With the ball in his
real key to the Blazers’
hands at the end of
turnaround can be
games and in pivotal
found in a move
situations, Roy exudes a
Kevin
Pritchard,
steady confidence drawn
the Blazer’s general
not only from his athletic
manager, refused to
talent, but from the
make.
knowledge that this is his
Over the summer,
team.
Brandon Roy phoned
With the burden
Pritchard to see if he All-Star Brandon Roy. PHOTO BY CHRIS RYAN
of leadership resting
intended to sign a veteran player to fill the squarely on his shoulders, emerging
leadership void. Pritchard’s answer: No. players like Outlaw, Aldridge and Jarrett
You’re our leader.
Jack can be aggressive, make mistakes and
At the time, Pritchard’s decision to hand not worry about catching too much heat
the reins of the league’s youngest team (and in the locker-room or in the papers. On a
the third youngest team in NBA history) young team with chemistry in the making,
over to a second-year player seemed risky. Roy’s ability to take over games without
Sure, Roy was the league’s reigning Rookie dominating the ball, or the spotlight for
of the Year and immensely talented, but that matter, cannot be overvalued.
So let’s give Pritchard credit for
conventional wisdom holds that a team
without veteran leadership will shoot gambling on Roy’s ability to lead. By
a low percentage, turn the ball over and bucking conventional basketball wisdom
struggle to achieve any sort of chemistry. and keeping a talented, young squad
In other words, the Blazers and their intact, it appears that Blazermania will
rage for years to come.
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From page 3
All of which puts Henry and the
committee between a racquetball and a
hard place: The more the RFP reflects
the priorities listed in the surveys – tennis,
racquetball, affordability and maybe some
space for indoor soccer, too – the less likely
it is to attract profit-oriented developers or
operators.
Of course, that’s one reason you pay
taxes for a park bureau in the first place:
Recreational facilities and parks add sparkle
to a community’s quality of life; it’s a bonus
if they add revenue, too.
Then again, PP&R’s budget crunch
wouldn’t be quite so tight if it weren’t for the
Block 5 project that kicked off in downtown
last week. Block 5 was a surface parking lot
donated to the city by downtown developer
and parking mogul Tom Moyer. In exchange
for giving up his ownership of the lot, Moyer
gets to build a larger, underground parking
lot where the surface lot was. Meanwhile
PP&R steps up to provide a “garden block”
at street level.
The need for this isn’t immediately clear:
Block 5 is a scant block-and-a-half west of
Pioneer Courthouse Square; it’s also a blockand-a-half north of the South Park Blocks.
On the other hand, it will make a nice
amenity for a new office tower being built
on an adjacent block by one Tom Moyer.
All told, $2 million of taxpayer money is
committed to this thing. No public input
was sought for that either.
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FEATURE STORIES
AXMEN
DAD’S
From page 1
From page 5
no immediate changes to the building. They
would paint the exterior, ban smoking, shorten
weeknight hours, and hire a bouncer.
The potential new owners would keep the
lottery machines in place, saying that these
machines “pay the rent” and allow them to
spend more money on better quality food.
Some board members felt that any change
at Dad’s was for the good. Other businesses
felt that the venture had too little money, and
too little experience in the industry to handle
a place with entrenched problems.
“I feel a little bit anxious about how much
is going to be done with it,” said Sarah
Anderson, owner of Anna’s Bannanas. “I
don’t want it to turn into the same thing:
new owners with good intentions.”
A recent poll on portlandsentinel.com
asked voters what should happen if Dad’s
were to reopen with new owners. Sentinel
polls usually contain three response options
and a joke option. The response intended as
the joke option for this poll, “Burn the place
to the ground and salt the earth,” trumped
all other responses, earning 68% of votes.
The ability of Cavalli-Larsen LLC to take
over the existing operation will depend on
a new liquor license and approval from the
city. Currently their application with the
OLCC is in the review process.
“St. Johns is evolving and we want to
be part of it, a catalyst for change,” Renee
Larsen said. “Dad’s has the most potential
for change and this is going to be different,
it has to be.”
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Lardy was the only logger to make it to
work on Dec 3. Rowland sent his B-camera
crew into town to cover the flooding while
he followed Lardy to work with the A-crew.
“We got up to Round Top Mountain [a
logging site outside of Vernonia] and the
roads were washing out everywhere,” says
Rowland. “It was like mountains of water.”
As film rolled, Lardy and SB logger Eric
Davis jumped into company bulldozers and
tried desperately to dig their logging roads
out from underneath the rushing water.
“They disappeared in a matter of eight
hours,” says Lardy. “There’s basically a 40foot-deep hole, eight feet wide. That’s where
a road was.”
Meanwhile, down in Vernonia two SB
loggers were working to save their homes,
which flooded with two to four feet of
water. Lardy says Rowland’s film crew was
helpful amidst all the chaos: “It was getting
pretty bad. They helped move furniture out,
brought supplies in. Whatever they could
do. They were right there with us trying to
help everyone when the flood happened.”
Vernonia is geographically prone to
flooding, attested to by devastating floods in
1897, 1996 and 2007.
“The flooding did not come from rain
that fell in Vernonia,” says Jim Tierney of
Columbia County Flood Relief Assistance,
“but rather in the Nehalem River and Rock
Creek watersheds upstream from Vernonia.
[In Vernonia] the Nehalem and Rock
Creek and two smaller creeks converge,
overwhelming the ability of the Nehalem
River to carry the water away, and we have
flooding.”
“Logging [especially clear cutting] can
increase erosion and the risk of flooding,”
says Steve Pedery, conservation director for
Oregon Wild. “Instead of being soaked up
or moving slowly off the land through the
duff layer, the water rushes off the land and
down slope toward the nearest river. Factor
into this the steep slopes found in the Coast
Range, and the volume of water that is
rushing off the land after logging, and you
have a recipe for disaster.”
“The rain which occurred in December
was at a catastrophic level,” said Kevin
Weeks, public information officer for the
Oregon Department of Forestry.
“The storms were bad, but they were not
record-breakers” says Pedery. “How big of a
factor logging was in the Vernonia flooding
is hard to say. It certainly didn’t help.”
DANGEROUS JOB ANY TIME OF YEAR
“One of their biggest sayings is ‘run or
die,’ ” says Rowland. “Anything can kill you
at any time ... the first week I saw the two
youngest guys almost get killed three or
four times each ... [they’re] like ‘Eh, that’s
logging.’ ”
“It’s like Melvin said, you can’t think
about that stuff,” Rowland says of Lardy’s
attitude. “You just go to work every day. You
don’t know if you’re going to come back.”
Lardy’s chief motivation for doing the
show was to overturn negative images of
logging professionals.
“The biggest misconception, I think, is
that we’re all rapers and pillagers,” says
Lardy. “Our whole life is about the forest, we
need to keep it healthy.”
Rowland likens the loggers to gazelles,
hopping from log to log in their cork boots.
“They live in the woods, they play in the
woods ... they’re the people of the woods,” he
says. “They are the last people in the world
that want to see the woods destroyed.”
Lardy and his crew are logging trees less
than 75 years old. “It’s all tree farms now,”
says Rowland. “They’re farmers.”
WHAT NOW?
While a debate ensues over which county
is responsible for fixing logging roads on
Round Top, Lardy’s crew is working in
Yamhill County. “You just got to lower your
shoulder and keep working and rebuild and
keep going on,” says Lardy. “That’s part of
life right there.”
Columbia County’s database lists 642
flood victims. According to Tierney, there
is $32 million worth of known damage and
costs throughout the county, two-thirds of
that being homeowner loss. Three schools
are also at risk of demolition.
“Non-psychologist that I am, I think
I recognize PTSD [post traumatic stress
disorder] in many of my fellow Vernonians
and the victims up and down the Nehalem
Valley,” says Tierney. “We will need dry
weather, money and time to heal.”
Filming wrapped on Dec. 22, foreshadowing a regenerative (or restorative?)
holiday to come. The Axmen series is set to
air for 13 weeks beginning Sunday, Mar. 9,
on the History Channel.
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me, “We just moved into our dream house and
we have a problem. My wife and son cannot
sleep. Both of them are prowling the rooms at
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old home. A friend told me that you may have
some lights that can help.”
The man told me he had quartz lights
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family to come in that Saturday and I showed
them the different lights. The family took some
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Three days latter the man came back and
bought a large box of NEODYMINUM lamps.
Since then his son and wife have been able to
go to bed at 10pm and sleep well.
Different lights do different things. Come
to the playroom to find out what lamps you
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Belladonna Beads -NEW
7235 N St. Louis Ave., (503) 283-0661
www.belladonnabeads.com
Open Tue – Sat, 10 – 6;
Sunday 11 – 5; Closed Monday
Ever had an urge to affi x a bead to
something? Maybe bring back the old
“friendship bracelet” fad? Belladonna Beads
has the materials for you, with beads of all
colors and sizes from as far away as Africa,
China, Nepal and Afghanistan.
Belladonna Beads had its grand opening
in November and business has been “going
along swimmingly ever since,” according
to owner Kelly Siegle. Belladonna will
begin offering bead design classes starting
in February. Other classes range from
beginning beadwork to more advanced
classes like chain mail, pearl knotting and
hammered wire. “Classes are a great way to
focus on a project. They’re a good way to get
your feet wet. And they allow you to hang out
with some like-minded creative people.”
Siegle also offers a full line of handmade
jewelry for those less inclined to create. And
she’s from Detroit, so she keeps it real.
Chapter Four -SORT OF NEW
4702 N Albina Ave., (503) 841-6290
Open Tue – Sat, 11 – 7;
Sunday noon – 5; Closed Monday
Chapter Four is a one-stop shop for
men’s and women’s streetwear, but it caters
especially to those interested in headwear.
From Kangol to local designer Brook Moreno
(described as creating “vintage fitted Red
Baron-types”), owner Mita Pasqualle has an
eye for keeping your head fashionable.
The name came from the fact that this
is Pasqualle’s fourth store, and thus, her
fourth chapter. The three other stores were
in Pasqualle’s hometown of Detroit. When
asked, Mita said that Portland seemed like
“a nice place for a new chapter of my life.
The economy in Detroit was really sour. And
Portland is like a little slice of Disneyland.
The grass is definitely greener here.”
Items retail from $20 to $200. The more
unique and specialized it is, of course, the
more it will cost.
Flor Demar -REALLY NEW
7025 N Lombard St., (503) 752-6594
When Sandra Aulger’s mother passed
away she left her a portrait of a Portuguese
sailing vessel named the Flor De Mar. “My
Mother inspired this place. She was the
‘Lombard Queen’ and everybody knew her.
She supported everything I ever did.”
Flor Demar is Aulger’s attempt to “give
something to the community that we don’t
have. I’m trying to stay abreast with the
growth and offer things that are interesting.
And I have good taste.” She offers handbags,
shoes, pottery, paintings, furniture, antiques
and a whole line of lavender products, all of
it leaning toward high-end.
Hours are limited right now as Aulger
recovers from a horrible case of the flu. “I
have to go through one more inhaler before
I can open full time.”
Big Kahuna’s -MOVING SOON
8221 N Lombard St., (503) 522-4012
Sometimes tiki torches and watching Blue
Hawaii for the 10th time is just not enough.
For an authentic Hawaiian experience, Big
Kahuna’s offers North Portland its awardwinning* barbeque cuisine.
Described by owner Gary Ferrera as “a
little island paradise in the big city,” Big
Kahuna’s caters to “lovers of Hawaiian food
and barbeque of all sorts.” Its specialty,
Kahlua pig, is nothing to be sloughed off,
either.
Meals range from $4 to the low $20s.
*First place, Kahlua pig roast – Chinook
Winds Casino.
Club K-9 -NEW
7427 N Curtis Ave., (503) 289-7472
www.clubk-9.com
Club K-9 is a state-of-the-art facility for
pet owners who are interested in more than
just a run-of-the-mill kennel facility. Small
dogs have a separate play area. Overnight
“guests” (dogs, that is) have private “suites”
and “cushy beds,” as well as an overnight
caretaker who lives on-premises. The large
outdoor play area is covered to allow for
year-round dog piling.
Owners Sharon and Jeremy Cram have
been running the flagship store in Tigard for
the past six years, and have been planning
this St. Johns location over two years.
Obedience classes are offered for dogs of
any age. Furthermore, Club K-9 is located
right next door to the North Portland
Veterinary Hospital. To be sure, all bases
have been covered at Club K-9.
Second Dressed -NEW FORMAT
5003 N Lombard St., (503) 286-7696
The goal of Second Dressed was initially to
provide a clean, pretty store where neighbors
can buy and resell unneeded – but still great
– pre-owned clothing and accessories. When
newfound partner Renee Byrd came along
recently, changes were made. A spacious
play area was added for small children to
enjoy while parents shop. Merchandise was
expanded to include toys and gifts, along
with the usual quality merchandise.
Second Dressed will have a grand reopening on Feb. 1, which will also include
their new store hours from 9:30 a.m. to 6:30
p.m., Tuesday through Saturday. They look
forward to showing you how great change
can be.
FOR ADVERTISING CALL: 503.706.7190
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the
parlour
st.johns
formerly
The Wandering Hare
For Hair and Tattoos
Open Tuesday-Sunday
By appointment
Walk-Ins Welcome
Client Appreciation
& Grand Re-Opening Party
WHEN
Saturday, Feb. 9th
6-10pm
WHERE
The Parlour/St. Johns
FEATURING
Snacks • Drinks • Free
Raffle • Live Music
“Two Step Slumber”
(an eclectic folk rock duo)
Sale Items • Salon Q & A
FREE and open to All Ages
503.289.0830
7327 N Charleston Ave.
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503-286-0666
800-675-4396
7538 North Lombard
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North Portland’s Best Italian Food Restaurant . . .
Nicola’s
Pizza & Pasta
Valentine’s Day
Romantic Dinner
Call for your Valentine’s Day
Special Dinner for Two!
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Valentine’s Day
Dress Quarters
(503) 285-1119 | 4826 N. Lombard
Flowers & Gifts
Valentine’s Day
Specials
Party Dresses Galore!
Lingerie
Party Shoes
Men’s Suits
Men’s Shoes
Specials
Bras $3.99
Thongs $1.99
• Mixed Bouquets $19.95
• Dozen Roses $59.95
(medium & long-stemmed)
• Single Wraps starting at 99¢
All flowers guaranteed to last 7 days
100% SATISFACTION
Order online at
www.ftdfloristonline.com/aroseofsharon
CALL FOR SPECIALS OF THE DAY
Tuesday-Thursday 11:30am-9pm
Friday 11:30am-10pm, Saturday 12:00-10pm
A ROSE OF SHARON
503.289.9505
Gift Certificates Available
8005 N Lombard St.
503-283-1598
2735 N Lombard
A Romantic
Sweetheart Dinner
Beautiful Candlelight Dinner For Two
• Appetizers
• Sweetheart Salad with Rolls
• His & Her Plates for Two
• Decadent Chocolate Desserts
• One Glass Champagne each
All for only $49.95!
Call early for your reservation
503.289.6111 | 5507 N Lombard

Feb. - Portland Sentinel

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