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MAY 09
VOLUME 23, ISSUE 9
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Serving Por tland’s Nor thwest Neighborhoods since 1986
Local schools try to straddle air issues
By Allan Classen
E
ver notice how when something foul is in the air, people tend to get quiet and
hang their heads as if to not
attract attention?
The phenomenon seems to have struck
Northwest Portland, where the offending
air emissions are not of a personal nature
but are largely industrial and possibly
deadly.
Awareness of a 2008 USA Today report,
“The Smokestack Effect: Industry Emissions and American Schools,” ranking air
quality around each of the seven schools in
Portland’s Northwest District among the
worst 2 percent in the nation, has mobilized neighbors.
At Earth Day activities in Wallace
Park last month, two separate grassroots
campaigns to rein in ESCO Corporation,
whose two steel refineries were identified
Sexual assault
cases rising?
Portland Police are investigating
a case involving the abduction, rape
and battering of a woman taken from
Northwest Portland recently.
Sgt. Michael Geiger of the Police
Bureau’s Sexual Assault Detail could
not give particulars, but he said the case
fits one described in the Women’s Crisis
Lines’ Portland Bad Date Line in April:
“Multiple reports of three black men,
possibly white van, abducting, assaulting, forcing to smoke crack, blindfolding and raping workers and homeless
women in downtown/Northwest/Burnside (between 10th and 20th avenues)
area.”
The case was reported in Street
Roots, which described a month-long
pattern of “violent sexual assaults by
multiple male attackers on young homeless women.” The story said “multiple
women have been taken from the area
around” Stadium Fred Meyer.
Geiger said, however, that no other
similar cases have been reported to the
police. He said victims can call a detective at 503-823-0400 anonymously, and
prostitutes can report such crimes without fear of arrest.
Neighborhood Response Team officer Sue Abrahamson said it is rare for
prostitutes to come forward.
“In almost 11 years of police work
and the hundreds of prostitutes I have
spoken with,” said Abrahmson, “I have
only taken one police report from a
prostitute who said she had been raped.”
Environmental activist Sharon Genasci (right)
collected 400 signatures on a petition aimed at reducing air
emissions from ESCO Corporation plants.
Brothers Luke (left) and Noah Gladen-Kolarsky help at the
“Cookies for clean air” booth at Earth Day in Wallace Park.
as the primary source of local pollution by
USA Today, set up tables, collected signatures and sold baked goods to further their
common cause.
“The day was a huge success,” said
Mary Peveto, parent of three school-age
children and leader of a new group of concerned parents.
In addition to collecting 400 signatures,
$922 was raised from cookie sales.
“In addition, it was a great snapshot of
the ‘new voice’ being lent to this issue,”
said Peveto. “We had Chapman, Childpeace and other affected families working
together.”
The event followed a public meeting on
local air quality at Friendly House earlier
in the month attended by 45 people, many
not previously involved with the issue. The
new group is teaming up with the longstanding Health and Environment Committee of the Northwest District Association to challenge renewal of
ESCO’s Title V air pollution permit with the Oregon
Department of Environmental Quality.
The permit expires in August.
But a room full of neighbors meeting
under the familiar “What’s in our air?”
placards in her community center made
Friendly House Executive Director Vaune
Albanese uneasy and feel a need to clear
the air with a public statement:
“Friendly House, as an organization,
will remain neutral on DEQ air quality standards and the ESCO air-emission
permit.
“Friendly House acknowledges the sup-
analysis
Businesses close one after another
Mike Ryerson
The word is out: 2009 has not been
kind to businesses in Northwest Portland, and Northwest 23rd Avenue is taking the hardest hit.
A total of 22 shops and restaurants
have closed this year in the Northwest
District and Pearl, and nine have been
on 23rd Avenue. Two more were in the
port ESCO has provided to us and to
the entire community, such as its 35-year
commitment to the ESCO Harvest Dinner—an annual dinner for
low-income seniors—and
its sponsorship of many
social and educational institutions in our
community.”
Whatever clarity she achieved was
immediately clouded by suspicion that
the agency’s neutrality owed to a sense of
indebtedness for ESCO’s benevolence.
Albanese said there is no connection
between ESCO’s contributions and her
distancing from the air-quality debate.
“A plus B didn’t equal C here,” she said.
“ESCO did not contact me about this
issue at all.”
Uptown Shopping Center area at the
avenue’s south end.
The Oregonian reported that the nolonger-trendy 23rd Avenue is “fraying
under the weight of the recession.” It
quoted Clyde Fladwood, the owner of the
recently closed CC McKenzie, as saying,
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Nature are combined to form a new direction for architecture—
together with today’s swing toward restoration, rehabilitation, and
revival. Architect Alan Hoogs took wood and glass and created
harmonious rectangular volumes of light-filled living spaces, revived
recently by carefully added skylights, hand chosen and cut bath and
entry hall tile, a newly refurbished gourmet kitchen and updated
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In the same way that John Denver’s acoustic guitar brought the
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his
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contemporary home’s spirit. It’s all about the site. The majestic trees
are viewed from every space within the home through floor-to-ceiling
picture windows. Thoughtfully angled skylights accent the dramatic
vaulted ceilings and most rooms are graced by clear vertical grain
cedar
walls. Numerous doors to wonderful outdoor spaces let traffic wind
from
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the
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Frank Sinatra’s silken voice, trend-setting fashion and sophisticated
lifestyle matches the “My Way” attitude of this 1974 ultra-contemporary
“International” style home. Old Blue Eyes delivered his music as an art
form—so too did Architect Edgar Wilson Smith. Inspired by the original
owner’s nationally acclaimed modern art collection, much careful thought
has gone into open rooms, soaring ceilings, expansive walls and light.
As is a canvas at the beginning, the house is designed as a blank and
is just waiting for the next collection to fill its walls. The master suite
on the upper level is original with closets galore. Its simple, unadorned
street side is the opposite both physically and stylistically from the glassdominated garden side. Multi-level patios on the sides and back are perfect
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[email protected] or 2825 NW Upshur St., Ste. C, Portland, OR 97210.
Letters should be 300 words or fewer; include a name and a street of residence.
Deadline third Saturday of the month.
Sky is not falling
I have lived in the Northwest neighborhood for 19 years now and I consider the
Examiner right on par with the Star or Enquirer for trying to make sensational news
rather than honest investigative reporting [“Neighborhood schools under cloud of
industrial air pollution,” Northwest Examiner, April 2009]. Creating a story out of
assumptions and disclaimers and not facts in my opinion really is journalism at its
worst, and all too common.
ESCO has probably been under more environmental scrutiny than most industries in Portland because of its proximity and anti-industry groups in the neighborhood. Stirring up the neighborhood with fallacious “sky is falling” scenarios just
wastes private and public resources, discredits well investigated scientific studies, and
attempts to make public opinion the evidence.
Kurt Ball, P.E.
NW Fairfax St.
Editor’s note: Mr. Ball is a current employee of ESCO, a fact he did not disclose when
submitting this letter.
Worried about air quality
Thank you for your excellent cover story [April 2009] about air-quality concerns
in Northwest Portland. I am a member of the Health and Environment Committee
of the Northwest Neighborhood Association. We have worked long and hard to
address and improve odor issues from ESCO, a nearby foundry. Many of the people
who have served on the committee are no longer part of the group or are assisting us
from afar, because they had to move out of the neighborhood due to bad air quality.
It should not be possible for an industrial source of pollution to have this kind of
negative impact on neighbors. I am very concerned about what health effects I may
experience down the road as a result of continued exposure to heavy air pollution.
The frequent industrial odors only serve to underscore this worry.
ESCO is a Title V [of the federal Clean Air Act] source. It has a permit review
every five years and is due for review late this summer. Our group has participated
in two permit hearings so far, but we have not received the relief we are seeking. It’s
important and helpful for people who are experiencing an odor event to visit our
website at www.portlandair.org to make a note of the date and time. The information is forwarded to DEQ as well as to our group.
While the nuisance factor is very real, health concerns are paramount. ESCO is one
of the largest air-pollution sources in the county. It’s permitted for ESCO to emit lead
and manganese, as well as many other things, into our air. It’s a problem to have such
a large industrial plant near this dense and vibrant residential neighborhood.
Caroline Skinner
NW Quimby St.
Beef, Bible remembered
Not only did Jon Heil have his business on Northwest 23rd Avenue [“In the
Hood,” Northwest Examiner, April 2009], he also walked door to door in Arlington
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VOL. 23, NO.9
MAY 2009
Editor’s Turn
By Allan Classen
Editor & Publisher
Elephant-joke
logic lives on
When I was in the eighth grade, we
thought this was a great joke: How do you
get four elephants in a Volkswagen? The
answer: two in the front and two in the
back.
I’d like to think I’ve put that silliness
behind me, but now I find the folks at the
Oregon Department of Environmental
Quality use the same kind of logic in
explaining their approach to protecting
Oregonians from toxic industrial air pollution. Instead of addressing a difficult
challenge directly, they skirt around it by
simply categorizing the problem.
As Northwest Portland residents have
grown increasingly uneasy about the
threat posed by ESCO and its two steel
foundries, DEQ has deflected public pressure by asserting that most air pollution
comes from vehicles and sources other
than major industry. Estimates of 10-15
percent have been given for the share of
hazardous emissions attributable to heavy
industry, i.e., the companies required to
obtain special permits under Title V of
the federal Clean Air Act.
The claim has deflected criticism, but I
think it’s more sleight-of-hand than substance. What does the behavior of other
entities in an assigned category have to
do with anything? If a driver from Rhode
Island is stopped for speeding, can he
plead that Rhode Island drivers constitute
only 1 percent of the total speeders in the
country and as such their indiscretions
aren’t worth worrying about? Should a
70-year-old hold-up man get a free pass
because his age group seldom commits
violent crimes?
Arguments about the share of air polluters falling in certain categories are useful at budget time when the lawmakers
decide how much to spend on auto-emission programs versus industrial oversight.
But they have no place as excuses for lax
enforcement of industrial pollution standards.
Overuse of the “cars are the real problem” defense by DEQ’s industrial division
also creates the impression that the agency
is on the side of the polluters against the
public. It may be more than an impression. Major industrial air polluters are
required to take out permits, the fees of
which fund DEQ operations. So who are
the clients and who is the agency really
working for; the public or the polluters?
The department had a chance to
clarify itself on that question when the
federal Environmental Protection Agency
decided to follow up a national study by
USA Today showing particularly bad
industrial air pollution around many of
the country’s schools. The EPA asked the
Oregon DEQ to recommend a school
in the state for more specific on-site
monitoring. DEQ ignored three North
Portland schools in the worst 1 percentile
(according to EPA modeling and data)
and the seven Northwest Portland schools,
which all fell in the 2nd percentile. Instead,
it favored Harriet Tubman School, which
was in the 9th percentile—well below average, for sure, but far from the worst for
industrial air pollution.
DEQ’s explanation? Spokespersons
there said they wanted to consider all
forms of air pollution, not just industrial,
and the Tubman site is near a congested
section of freeway. That may be true, but
notice how the agency seized the opportunity to change the subject. The study
that triggered national concern and the
impetus for further investigation targeted
industrial pollution, but DEQ chose to
take the resultant one-time resources and
target vehicle emissions. If federal action
comes out of this, Oregon will likely be on
the sidelines looking at tailpipes.
Even if vehicles cause more pollution
than large industry, state regulators have
few tools to reduce their output. Cars and
trucks are manufactured to federal emission standards, and state agencies like
DEQ are left to inspect them periodically to see that they are running properly.
Blaming drivers is an easy way to assume
the moral high ground with an environmentally sensitive public, but it doesn’t get
far. When our country gets serious about
demanding electric and low-emission cars,
we’ll all be driving them and it won’t be
because of DEQ.
If the agency wants to apply a formula
that makes sense, it should compare the
cost/benefit of taking the small share of
untuned cars off the road versus substantially reducing the emissions of a few
major polluters.
Two can play the categorizing game. If
ESCO ever reduces its emissions to the
degree that it isn’t even required to obtain
a Title V permit, it will then be in the
group (all sources other than large industry) causing 85 percent of our air pollution. Then DEQ will have the justification
it needs to crack down on the company.
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O B I T UA RI ES
Edwin E. Petersen
Edwin E. Petersen, a former teacher
and principal at Linnton School, died
March 23 at age 90. Mr. Petersen
was born Nov. 15, 1918, in Portland,
where he lived all his life. He attended
Woodlawn Elementary School, Benson
High School, Lewis & Clark College
and the University of Oregon, where he
earned a master’s degree in education.
He also taught at Terwilliger and Duniway schools and
was principal at Lent, Ferrnwood, Joseph Lane, Vestal
and Clark schools before retiring in 1984. He started over
75 Golden Ball youth basketball leagues in Oregon and
Washington and served on the organization’s international
board. He was a member of the Lions Club in Southeast
Portland for 40 years and the Beaverton Church of the
Nazarene for nearly 30 years. He married Jeanne Girod
in 1943. He is survived by his wife; his sons, Wayne and
Tim; his daughters, Dianne Fagan and Sherri Vaughan;
nine grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Merrill ‘Lew’ Tuttle
Merrill Lewis Tuttle, an employee of Consolidated
Freightways for 36 years, died March 25 of complications
from amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) at Fort Harrison,
Mont., at age 66. Mr. Tuttle was born Aug. 7, 1942, in
Painsville, Ohio, and moved in 1951 to the Portland
area, where he graduated from Beaverton High School in
1960. He served in the U.S. Army in Germany. He joined
Consolidated Freightways as a clerk in 1964 and retired as
director of claims. In 1966, he married Peggy Politer; they
divorced. In 1975, he married Joy Bain. He is survived by
his wife; his daughter, Traci; brother, Marshall; and two
grandchildren.
Theodore J. Karwin
Theodore James Karwin was found
dead in his Northwest Portland
apartment March 24, the victim of an
apparent suicide at age 23. Karwin
was born Nov. 13, 1985, in Portland.
He was a senior at the University
of Portland. He is survived by his
parents, Tom and Nancy.
Richard W. Childers
Tom Denhart
Richard W. Childers, an employee of EC Power Systems,
died April 18 at age 74. Mr. Childers was born in Portland
May 30, 1934. He worked in welding equipment repair for
EC, which is located on Northwest Thurman Street. He
is survived by his sons, Dan, Dave, Donovan, Darren and
Dennis; and daughters, Dina Boyle and Diane Childers.
Tom Denhart, co-founder of the Hanna Andersson clothing
company, died April 12 of prostate cancer at age 67. Mr.
Denhart was born Aug. 8, 1941, in Portland. He graduated
from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, Calif. He
and his wife, Gun, started the company in their garage in
1983. It has since grown to a 400-employee corporation,
headquartered in the Pearl District, with stores in nine
states. Denhart was creative director of the company until
2001, when it was sold. He is survived by his wife and
children.
Donald L. Hart
Donald Leonard Hart, a longtime
Northwest Portland resident, died
April 20 of cancer at age 76. Mr.
Hart was born Aug. 23, 1932, in
Ross, Calif., and attended Couch
School, Cleveland High School and
Portland State University. He served
in the U.S. Air Force from 1949 to
1952. He worked in maintenance
for several local property-management companies. He
coached Little League teams. Survivors include his wife
of 48 years, Marlene; his sons, Michael and Jeffrey; three
grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren. He was
predeceased by his son, Richard; and his daughter, Sandra.
Douglas Lynch
Douglas Lynch, a central figure in the Oregon graphic
arts field, died April 17 of congestive heart failure in his
Northwest Portland home at age 96. Mr. Lynch was born
March 9, 1913, in LaGrande and moved with his family
to Portland when he was a teenager. He graduated from
Grant High School in 1931. He also attended the Portland
Museum Art School, the Rudolph Schaeffer School in San
Francisco and the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles.
Lynch designed, carved and painted the nine large linoleum
murals for the cafeteria at Timberline Lodge as a Works
Progress Administration project in 1937. He also designed
Portland’s city flag. Except for a seven-year stint as the
art director of the Jantzen swimsuit company starting in
1957, Lynch spent most of his career teaching and doing
freelance projects. He taught at the Portland Museum
School for 30 years. He won the Northwest Examiner’s
Lifetime Achievement Award in 2000. He is survived
by his wife, Alexandra; his sons, Peter, John and Jason;
daughter, Kathleen Walsh; eight grandchildren; and seven
great-grandchildren.
Donald L. Lewis
Donald L. Lewis, a steel foundry worker at ESCO, died
April 24 at age 68. Mr. Lewis was born April 18, 1941, in
Portland. He is survived by his wife, Dawn Z.; sons, Troy,
Tim, Dan and John; and daughter, Debbie Peterson.
Dorothy M. Johnson
Dorothy M. Johnson, a trustee
of Good Samaritan Hospital and
William Temple House, died March
24 at age 99. Dorothy Marsters was
born Sept 25, 1909, in Roseburg
and graduated from Oregon State
College in 1931. She was one of the
first women delegates to the national
convention of the Episcopal Church
and helped found the St. John the
Baptist parish in Portland. She married Kermit M. Johnson
in 1934; he died in 1969. She is survived by her son,
Roger; her daughter, Janelle; four grandchildren; and six
great-grandchildren.
The Northwest Examiner publishes obituaries of people
who lived, worked or had other substantial connections
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Urban renewal projects on ice as appeals play out
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By Allan Classen
ight projects in the River District Urban
Renewal Area remain on hold due to an
ongoing challenge before the Oregon Land
Use Board of Appeals.
The case was brought by Friends of
Urban Renewal, a group of eight individuals that includes
several former Portland Development Commission officials, on two fronts. The group questioned the legality of
expanding the River District to encompass parts of the
Pearl, Old Town/Chinatown and downtown, and it con-
Projects dependent on
expansion of River District
Urban Renewal Area
Project
PORTLAND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
tested a “satellite” extension
of the district in the David
Douglas School District in
outer Southeast Portland.
LUBA took the appellant’s
side on the satellite district, a
conclusion the city elected not
to appeal.
LUBA also asked the city to
demonstrate that the 42-acre
westside expansion meets the
urban renewal standard for
blight. Portland City Council
plans to approve new findings to satisfy LUBA later this
PORTLAND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION
Total UR budget
month. Another round of appeals is likely after that.
Meanwhile, the projects are on hold, and months could
pass before a clear answer on their fate is known.
City Commissioner Nick Fish said Friends of Urban
Renewal “took the River District hostage” when its real
objections were with the David Douglas satellite.
“The fight over the River District expansion has delayed
construction of a Resource Access Center for the homeless, limited the resources available for economic development in the district and stalled a number of other development projects. … The delay is particularly troubling in a
down economy, when the city has limited resources.”
Friends of Urban Renewal members have refused to
identify specific projects they consider unworthy of funding. One member, Wayne Kingsley, said each project has a
constituency and the group prefers to advance its general
point that “urban renewal is supposed to eliminate blight
by developing projects that will be on the tax rolls.”
While that position leaves little room for social-service
and tax-exempt projects, Kingsley said he has no blanket
objection to the Resource Access Center, “which—if properly done—could be justified.”
Main Post Office* $31 million
Acquire property for future redevelopment
Resource Access Center
$29.5 million
Construct new facility with services and housing for
homeless
Fairfield Hotel
$2 million
Preserve PDC-owned Fairfield Hotel on South Park Blocks
Yards at Union Station
$3.7 million
New construction of affordable housing
Blanchet House $2 million
Demolish and replace Blanchet house, develop
remainder of block
Grove Apartments
$600,000
Rehabilitate low-income housing
10th and Yamhill
$7.9 million
Replace city-owned Morrison West Garage with mixeduse building
Union Station Management and improvements
$8.2 million
*Although located inside existing River District Urban
Renewal Area, project depends on increasing the
indebtedness cap.
The proposed Resource Access Center would provide services
and housing for the homeless in an eight-story building next
to Union Station.
A proposed expansion of the River District Urban Renewal
Area would involve 42 acres in multiple parcels (highlighted
in orange) in Northwest and downtown Portland.
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Pearl Diver
courtesy of icebreaker
On Earth Day,
Icebreaker employees were hauled up
to Forest Park by
pedicab. Icebreaker
recently completed
their North Pearl
offices, and all I can
say is their wool
socks are incredible.
All this jibber-jabber about a ballpark in
Lentz must be some
By Michaela Bancud
sort of decoy. Merritt, Randy and Sam
know there’s no urban
renewal money there, so
they should stop getting people’s hopes up.
Don’t get me wrong, I’d
Harrison Ford, in town to shoot the crew of “Leverage” are shacked up at The
be thrilled if the city
medical thriller “Crowley,” was spotted Wyatt, the Pearl District apartment buildbuilt the new Beavers
michaela bancud
hitting balls on the Multnomah Athletic ing otherwise known as
baseball stadium down
Club tennis courts with Eric Pickard, for- Beau Breedlove’s office.
here by the river, which
mer Oregon Duck tennis player and son He’s the supporting
I believe is their real
Icebreaker employees ride Pedicabs
of pro Wayne Pickard. Apparently, Han actor in the unraveling
intention. The derelict
to Forest Park for Earth Day.
Solo likes to hit a lot of balls in an hour drama of Mayor Destretch of industrial
and work up a good sweat, but he’s not too Select Adams. Hutton
land known as Termiinterested in playing points. This may be also recently lined up
A
killer nal 1 north of the Fremont Bridge would
good, because the women on the next court with ordinary people at
view. The cruel be ideal. The city already owns the land and
observed his serve needs a little work.
“Poompui,” the popuand beauti- currently stores Big Pipe materials there.
ful osprey is A ballpark would have river views; and
Art of Catering chef Larry Grimes, lar new Thai cart on
back, perched most importantly, there are urban renewal
who lives and works in the Pearl Dis- Northwest Eighth and
on top of the boundaries that can be redrawn like so
trict, gave us four tickets to Game 1 of Couch in the North
B-Line co-owner Franklin Racine-Jones delivers. Lexis condo- much sidewalk chalk.
the Trail Blazer playoffs. We made a big Park Blocks.
miniums, tap“rrrriiiipppp” sign, then waited vainly for
Other events of note: The Pearl District
Little Green Grocer, the corner market ping its talons. The bird ate all the orange
an opportunity to flash it. Commissioner
Farmers
Market opens June 4 and continDan Saltzman’s chief of staff Brendan at Northwest 11th and Northrup in the coi fish placed in Tanner Springs pond in
Finn bought beer to numb the pain at shadow of Safeway, is one of a growing years past and seems to have designs on ues on Thursdays, 3:30-7:30 p.m. in the
Ecotrust parking lot, 721 NW Ninth Ave.;
Schonely’s, a concourse bar named for all- number of stores and restaurants in the the ducks.
and Andre St. James Trio plays Wednestime great sportscaster Bill Schonely. We urban core receiving deliveries by extraPortland
Center
Stage
recently
sold
days at Sungari Pearl, Northwest 11th and
made a toast to the Schonz—likety brindle strength bicycle. B-Line Sustainable Urban
tickets to its upcoming production of Lovejoy, 8-11 p.m., $2 cover charge.
up the middle!—then Finn noticed Carpet Delivery is a new freight-hauling electric
“Grey Gardens” on tax day for $25. It’s
Update: Chris DeWolfe, the Lincoln
Carl from the Marion’s Carpet Warehouse trucking bike line that fits into small spacprobably
not
too
late
to
buy
one
if
you
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graduate and MySpace co-founder
ads in the crowd wearing a startlingly wild es and can navigate narrow streets. Bike
missed
that
deal.
The
play
is
an
adaptation
who the Examiner wrote about last year,
trucks take up far less space than standard
shirt. Who next?
of the cult documentary by the same name has left MySpace in a management shakedelivery
vehicles
and
don’t
pollute.
Safeway
Timothy Hutton, that’s who. He’s in
about the aunt and cousin of Jackie Ken- up. Rupert Murdoch bought MySpace in
town to film the next season of the TV has a steep, narrow ramp on 14th Avenue
nedy, a mother and daughter called Big and 2005 for $580 million.
drama “Leverage.” He arrived after half- for its deliveries. A trucker there said he
Little Edie, who live in a dilapidated East
time during Game 2 to sit courtside, and and others call it Fort Knox: “Impossible
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quences of the defacto moratorium are
discussed.
The U.S. Postal Service has long-range
plans to move the main post office from
Northwest Hoyt Street to the airport vicinity. When it does, 13.4 acres will be opened
to redevelopment, rivaling in size the Hoyt
Street Properties parcel around which the
Pearl has been transformed in the past
decade.
PDC has been negotiating the purchase
of the post office property for years, and no
price has been agreed upon. Whatever the
cost, all parties agree that there will not be
sufficient resources to pay it unless the proposed increase in maximum indebtedness
for the River District URA accompanying
its geographic expansion survives legal
challenges.
David August, a former president of the
Pearl District Neighborhood Association
who now represents the association on the
River District Urban Renewal Advisory
Committee, said the post office site is the
key to the area’s future.
“This is not just a River District site
to lose,” said August. “It would be a huge
loss for the entire city. Beyond that is the
opportunity to finally bring together at
the north end of Broadway a connection
between the Pearl District and Old Town/
Chinatown with some smart development.
“All of the studies have concluded
that this is an important gateway into
downtown from the eastside, and it is
currently looking pretty shabby,” he said.
“The post office is an incredible opportunity,” said Patricia Gardner, chair of the
Pearl District Neighborhood Association
the pearl
planning committee.
Gardner estimates that it may be five
or 10 years before the property is available
but argues that the opportunity for publicguided redevelopment may be lost if urban
renewal funds are taken off the table now.
Access center
As part of the city’s 10-year plan to end
homelessness, a resource access center and
affordable housing project is planned for
the block bounded by Northwest Sixth,
Broadway, Hoyt and Irving streets. It would
be developed by the Housing Authority of
Portland and operated by Transition Projects, which would move its current men’s
shelter to this building.
The access center would provide a full
range of services for homeless people, and
“supportive” housing targeted to very lowincome individuals.
As the project was modified from 152
units on a whole block to 130 units on a
half-block, members of the Urban Renewal Advisory Committee have questioned
whether the community is getting sufficient value for the investment, which
would take $29.5 million in urban renewal
funds.
“The budget creeps up each time,” said
Gardner, noting that the initial request was
for $17 million. “For $30 million, we could
fund two affordable housing projects.”
Mike Andrews, director of development
for the housing authority, said the project’s
cost soared due to devaluation of proposed
urban renewal bonds.
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Albanese said her motivation was
for transparency; not wanting the
funding connection to be cast in a
negative light if it were discovered
later. In a step of further disclosure, she said Friendly House Vice
President Marie Benedetti works for
ESCO.
Albanese did not provide the exact
amount of ESCO’s donations, suggesting it runs about $5,000-$10,000
a year, not counting grants from the
affiliated Swigert Foundation.
ESCO vague
ESCO was not of much help in The Northwest District Association Health and Environment Committee and a
pinning down the numbers either. new group of concerned parents had adjoining booths at the Earth Day celebration
Company spokesperson Robert Ken- in Wallace Park. Nearly $1,000 was raised on cookie sales and 400 signatures were
neth at first promised to provide the collected on a petition to tighten regulation of hazardous air emissions by ESCO
amounts ESCO has given to Friendly Corporation.
House and Chapman School, then
reconsidered. Finally, he offered an estimate that included
“I don’t want any secrets either. I also believe that
employee donations. Combined, the total came to more ESCO has been a big contributor with jobs and all kinds
than $75,000 since 2005. He emphasized that the com- of things. My understanding is that they have met DEQ
pany gives to many neighborhood charities and causes, and EPA standards. … It’s hard to make a judgment withand none with a goal of silencing dissent.
out having all the facts. I’m electing to stay neutral.”
Kenneth also decided that it was not a good time
to announce that ESCO just received the top honor at Private schools mum
After talking to the Examiner about the air-pollution
Friendly House’s annual awards ceremony, “for fear of
issue,
Childpeace Montessori School head Sue Pritzker
appearing self-congratulatory.”
sent
an
email asking that the entire conversation be off
ESCO is also a frequent contributor to the Chapthe
record.
She evidently considered something about her
man Foundation, which collects donations to upgrade
following
statements
embarrassing or damaging.
programs at the school. It gave the foundation $3,500 for
“As soon as the USA Today report came out,” Pritzker
math and science programs in the current fiscal year. We
said,
she hired an independent firm to conduct a “fullfollowed up a report that Examiner reporting on ESCO’s
fledged
environmental study” of air inside and outside its
air emissions was discussed at a recent Chapman Foundabuilding
at 1516 NW Thurman St. “just to make sure we
tion meeting and considered to be exaggerated, but founwere
clear.
dation President Jeremy Sacks failed to return messages.
“We did a lot of work,” she said. “We installed the highAgain, it seemed the less said, the better.
est
grade of filters we could possibly have. Our indoor air
Peveto, who has a child in Chapman School, was disis
pristine;
we don’t have open windows.”
appointed that Principal Scott Choate would not allow
As
for
the
playground and surroundings, she said, “We
signature gathering on school property and wondered if
don’t
get
a
lot
of industrial pollutants. A lot of that stuff
teachers were advised not to sign the petition.
goes
eastward.”
Choate said teachers are free to speak out or sign petiPritzker asked that her comments be off the record due
tions in their free time and that he only asked them not to
to
the “inflammatory” and “sensitive” nature of the issue.
represent themselves as speaking for the school.
She
insisted that she is not suppressing information, how“I certainly want kids to have clean fresh air,” he said.
ever,
and has sent parents a two-page flyer outlining steps
“However, I also believe that ESCO and some of the
taken
to mitigate the hazard at the school. She also said
companies in the neighborhood have been great partners
that
parents,
many of whom attended the special public
with us.
meeting at Friendly House last month, are encouraged to
study the issue and advocate for reform.
“We have encouraged all interested parents to stay
involved in the Northwest neighborhood’s efforts in
regard to industrial pollution,” she said. Pritzker was more candid than the other private schools
in Northwest Portland. The principals at Class Academy,
Cathedral School and Emerson School all failed to return
messages about the story.
Does that mean they haven’t noticed anything? Or do
they hope others haven’t noticed?
Environmental center
looks at ESCO
When ESCO’s application for a new Title V
air discharge permit is weighed by the Oregon
Department of Environmental Quality later this
year, clean air advocates will be backed by a new
level of expertise.
A team of law students from the Northwest
Environmental Defense Center, a nonprofit spinoff
of the Lewis & Clark Law School, is reviewing
ESCO’s current permit, which expires in August,
in preparation to challenge its renewal for another
five years.
One of those students, John Krallman, reviewed
Title V permits when he worked for an East Coast
consulting firm.
“I think this is the most general permit I’ve ever
seen,” said Krallman, who worked on behalf of
military bases and hospitals in Virginia and Maryland for three years.
ESCO is considered a minor source of hazardous air pollutants because its reported emissions
are below the 25-ton-per-year threshold. That
reclassification substantially reduced the restrictions imposed on the company and its two steel
foundries.
Krallman believes there may be errors and omissions in ESCO’s current performance and reporting that could push it above the 25-ton level. He
emphasized that his comments are preliminary; his
team will know more after getting answers from
ESCO and DEQ.
“These were the things that would concern me
if they were my client,” he said.
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Stimulus aids Parking structure picture gets
23rd repaving cloudier with latest ruling
Northwest 23rd Avenue got almost half a million
dollars in federal stimulus funds—not that anyone will
notice.
That’s because the $432,000 grant will merely fill in
an expected shortage in the project to rebuild the street
and repair underlying utilities.
“We would have had to make cuts to the project prior to going to bid,” said project manger Jean
Senechal Biggs of the Portland Bureau of Transportation. “With the addition of the stimulus funds, we
now expect to be able to complete the full project from
Burnside to Lovejoy.”
Construction is to take place between January and
June of 2010, a timetable unchanged by the federal
cash infusion.
Originally scheduled to be completed in 2008, the
project was postponed and reengineered to accommodate avenue merchants, who feared lengthy traffic
disruptions would hurt sales and cause some businesses
to fail. The current plan is to limit costs and construction time by excavating only the two traffic lanes.
“The parking lanes are in better condition [than
the travel lanes],” said Biggs, “and the pavement will
be repaired by doing a three-inch pavement grind and
inlay so the entire roadway between the curbs will have
new pavement surface.”
New curb ramps that meet ADA standards are also
part of the project.
The work will include excavating the existing travel
lanes, removing buried trolley tracks and ties, reconstructing the roadway base and repaving the surface.
During the excavation period, decaying sewer lines will
be replaced. The total budget for the street and sewer
work is $4.7 million.
Construction will take place in two- or three-block
sections—each section taking about three weeks—
while the rest of the street remains intact.
To meet that expedited schedule, crews will work six
days a week, from 7 a.m. to 6 p.m. or 7 p.m. There will
be no work on Saturdays in deference to merchants,
who consider that their busiest day.
A noise variance will be needed to work after 6 p.m.
on Sundays. Notice will be given to neighbors and
businesses before the variance is reviewed by the city’s
noise control officer or the Noise Review Board.
Richard Singer may be a step closer to gaining approval
for a commercial parking structure at 2311-2317 NW
Irving St., or he may have slipped two giant steps backward.
It all depends on how a decision by the Oregon Land
Use Board of Appeals favoring the project is interpreted.
Last month, LUBA rejected the Northwest District Association’s appeal of the garage design, which had been
approved by Portland City Council last October. The
neighborhood appealed that decision to the Oregon Court
of Appeals last month.
But in upholding the council’s decision, LUBA dropped
a bombshell on the 2003 Northwest District Plan, which
the city and all parties involved thought was the governing
document for land-use policy in the neighborhood.
Because the 2003 plan contained inadequate documentation in support of intensifying the zoning along
Northwest Vaughn Street, LUBA ordered the city to fix
the omission. Portland officials accepted the challenge and
began methodically to consider traffic impacts on and near
Vaughn Street, all the while assuming that the rest of the
plan was an official and binding ordinance. Not so, said the
LUBA; the entire plan is invalid until the remanded portion
is brought into compliance.
“… the city is almost certainly wrong in its position that
the NDP adopted by Ordinance No. 177920 remains effective today,” said the LUBA decision.
NWDA’s case rests on the belief that LUBA made an
error; it cannot simultaneously rely on an amendment to the
2003 Northwest District Plan permitting parking structures
at this and five other sites in the neighborhood while contending that the plan itself has no standing.
And if the 2003 plan isn’t in effect, the governing
ordinance for land-use policy across the district is a 1977
plan that contains no provision for commercial parking
structures in residential areas west of 23rd Avenue. And that
could make the pending garage application illegal, in the
interpretation of NWDA board members and advisors.
NWDA board member Jeff Love said that neither City
Council nor any affected parties in 2003 believed that the
parking addendum to the plan could stand as an independent document.
“It’s a simple argument,” said NWDA board member Jeff
Love. “It can be stated very simply.”
If NWDA’s latest appeal succeeds—a prospect that the
pro bono attorney handling the base admits is no better
than 50-50—it would remove the basis for permitting the
Irving Street Garage, said Love.
Although City Council could pass enabling legislation
anew, it may not apply retroactively to the period when
Singer filed his application.
“I think it means the garage applicant has to start from
scratch with a new application,” said Love.
Meanwhile, Singer is making gestures to proceed with
his garage. In early April, he sent a letter to Carmella
Ettinger, who owns an apartment building abutting the
rear of the garage site, informing her that he is exercising
an option to purchase land under the part of the garage site
from William DeBellis and that she will be given notice to
remove her backyard fence before construction begins.
What’s the plan?
The NWDA board also moved to clarify the uncertain
status of land-use policy in the district, authorizing a letter
to the city stating its assumption that the 1977 Northwest
District Plan is once again the binding document.
“Our understanding is, the 1977 policy plan is still in
effect,” said NWDA Planning Chair John Bradley, adding
that the goal is to force the city to state its interpretation of
the current status of plans.
“Everyone thought 2003 plan had standing until our
latest appeal,” said board member Ron Walters. “We’re
operating in a vacuum.”
Board member and former mayor Bud Clark quipped,
“I’m for the 1977 plan myself,” quipped board member and
former Portland mayor Bud Clark. “That goes back to when
I understood things.”
Land Use Board of Appeals
decision, page 12:
“… we tend to agree with petitioners that the portions
of the NDP that were adopted by Ordinance No. 177920
and were not adopted by Ordinance No. 178020 are no
longer effective. If that is the case, in the abstract, this
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Heights taking orders for meat the way others took orders for magazines or Girl Scout
cookies.
When I mentioned the Better Beef &
Bible report to a friend, she said the name
was not familiar. But then she remembered
that young man who canvassed Arlington
Heights for orders and reminded me that
both of us bought dozens of his delicious
hamburger patties, which he delivered to
our door. Thanks for the memories.
Jame Hofmann
SW English Ln.
Appreciates Examiner
My wife and I have lived in the Pearl for
two and a half years. We have lived in Portland for over 35 years and “downsized” to a
condominium in the autumn of 2006. Our
professional offices have been in Northwest
Portland for many, many years.
Since coming to the Pearl, I have had the
opportunity and privilege to attend countless planning and other meetings in our
neighborhood. Allan Classen was almost
always there, taking notes and recording the
proceedings and then reporting them accurately in the Northwest Examiner. Great
journalism; great service.
Over the last few years, as I have benefited from the information supplied by
the Examiner, I have thought to write and
commend Allan for his great work on the
behalf of all of us.
I write this today, having read his “Editor’s Turn” in the April 2009 edition of
the Examiner focusing on print media in
America and our neighborhood. I could not
news
agree more. The print news business is facing a crisis in these times. Local is local; it’s
about “location, location, location,” as they
say in the real estate business.
Thank you, Allan Classen, for your paper
and your journalism. It benefits all of us,
every day.
We all need to support this local resource.
Bill Zieverink
NW 11th Ave.
Avenue repairs overdue
I wish you would do an article about the
condition of Northwest 23rd Avenue. I am
shocked and appalled at the disrepair. I’ve
written to the director of the Transportation Bureau and have received a reply from
Dan Anderson in the mayor’s office. He
informed me about next year’s repaving
(which, of course, I think is too late), but he
also said that the city is working to patch
holes as needed before then.
I just wrote back to him that I don’t see
much evidence of that. In fact, what I do
see is that the city spent time to spray-paint
circles around holes that need to be fixed
(as you can imagine, they painted much of
the road), but that spray paint is now fading
away and is not very visible anymore. Soon
the paint will be gone and the time and
money the city spent circling holes will have
been a waste. I hope you can focus attention
on this sad situation.
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NW Westover Rd.
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The neighborhood’s best
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By Josh Gross
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Stone Café may be difficult for tourists
to find.
Located on a residential corner at
Northwest 24th and Quimby and
untouched by advertising, a crowd of regulars nevertheless seems to show up every
morning.
That’s why patrons should expect at
least a 10-minute wait for seating, longer
if you have a large party. And as there isn’t
room to wait inside the café, one should
dress accordingly. Many prove daily that it’s
worth the wait.
Nothing is sautéed with lemongrass,
or marinated in orange blossoms at the
Stepping Stone. There is no aioli. Lunch
offerings are well-made but standard sandwiches and burgers served with choice of
batter fries, tots or hash browns, as well as
several soup and salad options. The Cobb
salad, made with hot, fresh, crumbled
bacon on organic greens, is particularly
recommended.
Dinner at the Stepping Stone, offered
four nights a week, offers a narrow selection of comfort-food options like meatloaf,
mac ’n’ cheese, and chicken fried steak,
served with all the appropriate side dishes.
But where the Stepping Stone really
shines is breakfast. The menu is jampacked with a delicious assortment of
scrambles, omelets and selections from the
griddle, as well as “traditional” breakfasts
like steak and eggs, and a fantastic eggs
Benedict.
The French toast is made from your
choice of regular bread, banana nut bread
or house-made cinnamon rolls. The latter
should only be ordered if you really like
sweets, but they are good.
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Saturday morning routine. The waiter is
Denise Carlin.
Left: Every time the front door opens,
Christmas ornaments bob overhead, a phenomenon pointed out by one patron.
The Stepping Stone’s enormous “mancakes” are roughly the size of dinner plates
and were recently featured on an episode of
the Travel Channel’s Man vs. Food. If you
can finish the whole stack of three, they’ll
even take your picture to post on the wall
of shame by the bathroom. It’s quite the
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PDX Roasting coffee is bottomless for
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Owen Carey
Nixon (Bill Christ) and Frost (David Townsend) face off, overshadowed by the televised
image of Nixon.
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I was just a kid when the Nixon administration imploded in the Watergate hearings. Members of Nixon’s staff were caught
breaking into Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate Hotel to
plant electronic bugs during the 1972
presidential campaign. The next year, the
nation watched wall-to-wall coverage of a
sordid tale of spying, sabotage and coverup.
From my innocent vantage point, the
whole thing was about television. This was
before TV had become an essential part of
every household. We owned one, but my
parents turned it on each evening for the
half hour it took John Chancellor to deliver
the “NBC Nightly News,” and then it was
firmly clicked off.
The moment the first hearing began,
however, TV became the constant background for my daily activities. The adults
around me watched every minute, bearing
witness to the events as they unfolded on
TV, both fascinated and distraught.
Before he was forced to resign, my parents and millions of Americans learned
enough to be horrified that this man had
been their president.
Three years later, he was back on TV.
British journalist David Frost interviewed
Nixon for six hours, producing four
90-minute programs. It is the time just
before and during these interviews that the
play “Frost/Nixon” covers.
A fundamental question about plays
(and movies) like this one that represent
modern history is: Why do we go to see
them when we have easy access to the
actual history on which they are based?
It’s easy to understand the appeal of a play
about Marie Antoinette or Harry Houdini,
where an artistic portrayal is our only
opportunity to imagine their lives. But if
we want to see the real Frost-Nixon interviews, they are readily available on Netflix.
Perhaps Peter Morgan, who wrote
“Frost/Nixon” and has also written about
Queen Elizabeth II (“The Queen”) and
Idi Amin (“The Last King of Scotland”),
agrees with Aristotle’s contention that
people have an inborn desire to watch real
things being imitated. The purpose of all
art, Aristotle thought, was to copy nature as
exactly as possible. He noted, for instance,
that the action in a play should take the
same amount of time as that action actually would take in real life. There was no
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that took place over years or generations.
Through the Renaissance, people saw
the business of art as being about imitation.
Leonardo da Vinci wrote that the more
closely the painting conforms to the object
it is imitating, the better it is.
Painting, sculpture and theater once
served to document real life. Portraits and
history plays immortalized their subjects.
After photography and film came along,
those art forms were freed to explore
nonrepresentational forms, so we got
expressionism, impressionism and all sorts
of abstractions. Yet representational art
remains steadfastly popular.
Part of the pleasure in watching “Frost/
Nixon” does, in fact, lie in checking off
whether the actors successfully imitate the
most significant characteristics of their
subjects. For Nixon (Bill Christ), of course,
the primary quality is that hyper-controlled
growling voice (check). And then there is
the tense, uncomfortable movement of the
body (check). For Frost (David Townsend),
it is all about stance: the self-aware posture
of the bantam rooster as an expression of
1970s hip (check), and the Austin Powers
wardrobe (Italian loafers, check).
Another pleasure is that we are introduced to less well-known figures from
the era, including Jim Reston, played with
focused intensity by Adam Ludwig, who
serves both as an assistant to Frost and a
central narrator. Local actor Darius Pierce
delivers a watertight performance as Swifty
Lazar, the Hollywood talent agent and
wheeler-dealer who, incredibly, Nixon hires
to negotiate the deal with Frost.
The play goes beyond mere imitation
in its central metaphor. It likens the FrostNixon interviews to a prizefight. Director
Rose Riordan carries it out sanely without
a lot of “Rocky”-like rigmarole. In this corner is Frost, with the bigger posse, including Reston, who diligently does background research for the interviews while
Frost hits Spago and other hot spots. In the
other corner we have Nixon, an abandoned
man with only his chief of staff and his
valet by his side.
As far as I am aware, the first artistic
representation of Nixon was in 1987, 10
years after the interviews, when he was
the subject of the opera “Nixon in China.”
It is significant that this was the artistic
medium chosen. Operatic figures, after all,
are larger than life.
By 2006, when this play was written,
Nixon had become smaller; no longer a
subject for opera, but one of two characters
who share the title of the play. This shrinking Nixon is perhaps caused by the natural
distancing that time brings. Also, subsequent events made the Watergate cover-up
seem less shocking. And a scandalous fall
after a promising start has become the
norm for our presidents.
The post-presidential models familiar to
my parents were the genteel withdrawals
from public life of Truman and Eisenhower. Since Nixon’s fall, we have witnessed
the charismatic Ronald Reagan dishonored
by the Iran Contra affair, the brilliant Bill
Clinton lose dignity and credibility over a
series of dalliances, and the likeable George
Bush destroy the trust of the nation. We
watched them all fall on television.
Tony Cisek’s set for “Frost/Nixon,”
dominated by a giant screen, makes clear
the role that TV played. Although, in fact,
Nixon was writing his memoirs at the
time of the interviews, he chose TV as the
means to explain himself to the American
people and achieve, if not their forgiveness, at least their understanding. Perhaps
he could only ask for redemption via the
medium that had caused them to damn
him in the first place.
“Frost/Nixon” runs through May 10,
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State Rep. Mitch Greenlick
will hold two town halls in May
to discuss issues facing the Legislature. The first is Saturday,
May 9, 1 p.m., at the Northwest Library, Northwest 23rd
and Thurman. The following
Saturday, May 16, the meeting
will be at 11 a.m. in the Cedar
Mill Grange Hall, Northwest
Saltzman and Cornell roads
across from Cedar Mill Library.
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City Commissioner Amanda
Fritz will speak at the Northwest District Association annual
meeting Monday, May 18, at
the CoHo Theater, 2257 NW
Raleigh St. The meeting begins
at 6 p.m. and Fritz will speak at
7 p.m. Business on the agenda
includes election of officers and
board members and updating
bylaws. A board meeting will be held at 8
p.m. after Fritz’s talk.
Benefit performance
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Music, BBQ
Chris Kokesh of Misty River will kick off
a summer music and barbecue series at the
Northwest Portland International Hostel
Tuesday, June 2, 6-10 p.m., in the Secret
Garden near Northwest 18th and Glisan.
The series continues every Tuesday through
Sept. 29. Admission is free with a purchase
of food. People of all ages from the neighborhood are welcome. For information, contact [email protected].
A special performance of “The Uneasy
Chair” at CoHo Theater, 2257 NW
Raleigh St., Thursday, May 7, will benefit
Neighbors West-Northwest, the coalition
of 12 westside neighborhood associations.
The play by Evan Smith is billed as a “witty
period piece stuffed full of drawing-room
plot twists and rich comic turns.” A reception begins at 7 p.m. and seating at 7:45 National Train Day
p.m. Tickets are $35, or $25 for students
National Train Day, Saturday, May 9,
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and displays at Portland Union Station, 800
NW Sixth Ave., 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Trains on
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sports, field trips, swimming, a vegetable Empire Builder Mt. Hood sleeper/lounge
garden, art, music, cooking, reading and and an X40 Great Northern Caboose. Pera climbing wall, will begin June 15 at formers will include Two Sisters Trio, feaLinnton Community Center, 10614 NW turing 1940s music; the Amtrak Cascades
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close at 6 p.m. Participation is for ages 7 Cosmo, the Balloon Wizard clown. The
and up. Teens are needed as helpers. The event is sponsored by the Oregon Lincost is $20 per day. For information, visit coln Bicentennial Commission and PSU
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exhibit and sale May 8-10 at 147 NW
19th Ave. More than 100 professional and
aspiring artists of all ages are included.
Tickets to a gala celebration and silent
auction Friday, May 8, 6-9 p.m., are $15
in advance, $20 at the door. There is no
admission charge to the exhibit Saturday
10 a.m.-4 p.m. and Sunday 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
For information, call 503-478-1219 or visit
www.trinity-episcopal.org/arts.
Balch Creek Summit
Health classes
An open house on the Streetcar System Plan for Northwest Portland and
the city’s Bicycle Master Plan Update
will be held Wednesday, May 13, 4-7
p.m., in the Portland Building, 1120 SW
Fifth Ave., Room C. For information on
the plans, visit http://transportation/index.
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West Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District and Audubon of Portland will host a free summit on the current
condition and threats to the Balch Creek
Watershed Saturday, May 9, 10 a.m.-1
p.m., at 5151 NW Cornell Rd. A panel of
speakers will discuss invasive weeds, soil
erosion, septic tanks and other impacts on
the bird and wildlife sanctuary. To register,
email [email protected].
Cancer classes
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital, 1015
NW 22nd Ave., offers several classes this
month. They include Treatment Options
for Gynecologic Cancers, Tuesday, May 5,
6-7:30 p.m. (call 503-413-8069 to register); Meditation for Cancer Patients, Their
Caregivers and Families, Thursdays, May
7, 14 and 21, 6:30-7:30 p.m. (call 503-4136535 to register); Exercise, Nutrition and
Cancer, Thursday, May 28, noon-1:30 p.m.
(call 503-335-3500 to register); and T’ai
Chi for Healing, every Friday, 4-5 p.m.
(call 503 413-8404 to register).
Friendly House, 1737 NW 26th Ave.,
hosts free health-education classes in May.
Naturopathic physician Jason Black lectures on brain health and memory May
4, 2 p.m., and on heart disease and hypertension May 18, 2 p.m. A class entitled:
Diabetes and Your Heart: How Medicare
Helps, Tuesday, May 5, 10 a.m., is aimed
toward seniors and caregivers. While supplies last, Fred Meyer gift cards will be
given to seniors attending who have preregistered. Call 503-224-2640 to register. Saturday, May 16
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Annual Graffiti Removal Day is Saturday,
May 9, 8:30 a.m. Volunteers are asked to
meet in the lobby of Stadium Fred Meyer
for coffee and donuts. Crews will be working 9 a.m.-1 p.m. and those who can’t stay
till 1 are welcome.
Show tunes
A Sunday Afternoon of Song, a medley
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By Mike Ryerson
Mike Ryerson
Question:
“What’s the history on the Mission Theater
on Northwest Glisan at 17th Avenue?”
—David O’Connor
The first Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant Church at
Northwest 17th and Glisan was built in 1891.
Answer:
The Mission Theater & Pub at 1624
NW Glisan St., which is listed on the
National Register of Historic Places, is one
example of McMenamins’ efforts to save
history in every project they do.
The building was originally the home
of the Swedish Evangelical Mission Covenant Church of Portland. The congregation formed in 1887, and four years later it
built a wooden church at this corner.
In 1912, the current structure was built.
By 1954, the congregation had outgrown
the building, parking was becoming a
problem and the area had become largely
industrial so they moved to 45th and East
Burnside, where women and children felt
safer walking to church.
For the next 28 years, the building was
occupied by the International Longshore
& Warehouse Union as a meeting hall
McMenamins opened Oregon’s first pub/theater in the former
Swedish Mission in 1987.
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in 1982.
The building was used briefly as a performing arts theater until McMenamins
remodeled it in 1987 as a movie theater
and pub.
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Twenty-third Avenue Books:
The neighborhood’s bookstore
Abrupt closure after 28 years leaves
cultural vacuum, community loss
T
William Cornett
wenty-third Avenue Books closed
abruptly in January after almost
three decades on the avenue. The
loss to the community was cultural more
than economic, just as in the case of the
2007 closure of Music Millennium.
The store was founded by Richard Burkland, who was inspired by a visit to City
Lights Books in San Francisco and decided
to open his own neighborhood bookstore.
By the summer of 1980, he leased space in
a rising, densely populated neighborhood
of well-educated residents.
“It seemed like a great time to be part
of the renovation of Northwest Portland,”
he said of the Aug. 1, 1980 opening. “I was
excited to find that space.”
Burkland recalled hosting Jean Auel’s
first “Clan of the Cave Bear” event as one
of the milestones of his tenure as owner.
“We had a line out the door,” he said.
In that era before the national book
junket, most of the authors who read or
signed books at the store were local or
regional writers.
More than that, Burkland remembers
the excitement newly arriving books generated for his five-person staff and neighborhood customers.
“Oftentimes, there would be four or six
people standing around talking about the
new book by Anne Beattie or Raymond
Carver,” he said. “One had the feeling one
was on the cutting edge of one’s culture.”
Burkland remembers this era filling a
gap in his intellect. Although he had
always been a reader, he majored in business in college. Owning a bookstore provided the opportunity to get an education
in literature.
“It was quite a personal joy for me,” he
said.
After operating the store for almost a
decade, he made the difficult decision to
pursue other business opportunities.
“I was stopped on the street. People were
horrified. They didn’t know whether they
were going to get a good new bookseller.
We had an amazing number of loyal customers,” he mused. “More than that, many
mike ryerson
Everything looked normal at 23rd Avenue Books one day in January until a padlock on the
front door spelled the end.
of them had become friends.”
As Burkland was looking to get out of
the book business, Bob Maull happened to
see his classified ad in The Oregonian.
“The only Sunday that I ever picked up
the paper and looked through the business
section,” Maull said, “was literally the only
Sunday he advertised the store for sale.”
Maull bought the store in 1987 despite
knowing nothing about running a bookstore.
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Books continued from page 21
“The one thing I did do right when I
bought the store was I didn’t change anything for the first year or so,” said Maull.
“There were things I wanted to do, but I
waited.”
Maull remembers getting help in that
first year from longtime neighborhood
resident Jimbo Beckman.
“Someone would be asking me where
a certain book was and Jimbo would be
pointing at it,” he chuckled.
Maull also credits Burkland for choosing a location that enabled the store to
become a neighborhood fixture.
“I think Rich was more smart than
lucky when he picked that spot. I’m not
sure there was a bookstore in the city with
more people walking by looking through
the windows at books. I didn’t know when
I bought the store how important those
windows were.”
Good Samaritan Hospital workers
shopped there, as did the people living in
nearby homes and apartments. Maull was
amazed that people would come in and ask
whether he had a book they had seen at
Powell’s, and if not, could he please order
it for them. After a while, he worked up
the nerve to ask a few of them why they
didn’t simply buy it at Portland’s literary
landmark and many explained, “That’s not
my bookstore.”
“I used to jokingly say that the neighborhood owned the store, and I think in
many respects they did,” Maull said. “It was
a place where people came in to talk. There
were a lot of people who maybe spent $10
a month. But it was their bookstore.”
Maull initiated a tradition of devoting
special “pick shelves” for his, his employ-
A favorite memory for Cowgill was
walking from her apartment to the store
to hear David Sedaris read in the rear
courtyard.
“That made it a neighborhood store,”
she said.
Good employees were also critical to the
store’s appeal.
“I had great employees,” said Maull. “I’m
amazed at how many great people I had
working there for no money. That truly
liked being there. They truly liked the customers. I’m not sure people get the pleasure
of working in that atmosphere often.”
Former employees agree. Freelance writer Derek Hill, who worked at the store
2000-06, said, “I have a lot of good memories of my period at the store, and some not
Store founder Richard Burkland (left) with Michael Cannarella and Robin
Havenick, the store’s first employee.
ees and even Jimbo’s favorite books. He
encouraged his staff to read during slow
moments and share their opinions with
customers. Once employees had established reputations for literary discernment,
neighborhood residents came to examine
the shelves to see what staff members were
reading. Friendships and friendly critiques
ensued. A one-time prank played by the
staff while the owner was taking a few days
off became a store tradition—changing the
books on Bob’s pick shelf to reflect wildly
uncharacteristic choices.
Parish & Company
In v es tment Management
Eliza Cowgill regularly
shopped at the store for a
decade.
“I went to Twentythird Avenue Books to buy
books, to look at books,
to be around books and
nice book people,” she said.
“Most of the shops on 23rd
aren’t for neighborhood
people. They’re destination
stops. The bookstore was Author Merritt Linn, a doctor at Good Samaritan Hospital,
signs a copy of “Book of Songs” at the bookstore in about 1982.
different.”
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10614 NW St. Helens Road, Portland, Oregon.
PROJECT LOCATION: 10504 NW St. Helens Road, Portland, Oregon.
PROPOSAL: Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) invites public comment
on acceptance of completed removal actions and a proposed no further action determination
(NFA) at the Linnton Plywood Association property at 10504 NW St. Helens Road in Portland,
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HIGHLIGHTS: The Linnton Plywood Association (LPA) property consists of 24.74 acres on
three parcels fronting the Willamette River. A sawmill operated there from 1894 to 1947. LPA
began operating a plywood mill at the site from 1951 through 2001. The southern 10.9 acres
of the site are leased for a sand distribution operation.
LPA agreed to enter the DEQ Voluntary Cleanup Program in 2000 based primarily on contamination found in sediments of the Willamette River. Investigations of possible sources of
contamination led to two small soil removal actions. DEQ issued a Source Control Decision
for the site in 2004 that determined that the site was not a current source of contamination to
the Portland Harbor, and that no additional source control actions were required.
In 2007, LPA expanded the scope of review and investigation at the site to facilitate its request
for an NFA for all upland concerns. The site data identified some minor exceedances of environmental screening values, but they do not pose an unacceptable risk to human health or the
environment based on the current site conditions. Any redevelopment of the property is to be
conducted in accordance with applicable DEQ environmental regulations and policies.
Based on the environmental assessment and soil removal work performed by LPA, DEQ is planning to accept the completed removal actions and issue an NFA to LPA for this upland site. All
concerns related to the Willamette River itself or sediments of the river are outside the scope of
this proposed NFA but remain part of the ongoing investigation of Portland Harbor under the
oversight of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund Program.
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on the DEQ Environmental Cleanup Site Information (ECSI) database at http://www.deq.state.
or.us/lq/ECSI/ecsiquery.asp , enter ECSI #2373 in the Site ID box and click “Submit” at the
bottom of the page. Next, click the link labeled ECSI #2373 in the Site ID/Info column. To
review the project file contact Dawn Weinberger at 503-229-6729. The DEQ contact is Loren Garner, 503-229-6900. Send written comments by 5 p.m., Monday June 1, 2009 to DEQ
Project Manager Loren Garner, DEQ Northwest Region, 2020 SW Fourth Avenue, Suite 400,
Portland, OR 97201; e-mail to [email protected]; or fax to (503) 229-6945.
DEQ will hold a public meeting 7 p.m., Wednesday, May 20, 2009, at the Linnton Community
Center, 10614 NW St. Helens Road, Portland, Oregon, to discuss this proposal and receive
verbal or written comments. If you need copies of written materials in an alternative format
(e.g., Braille, large print, etc.), contact DEQ Office of Communication and Outreach at 503229-5317. Additional information is also available at: http://www.deq.state.or.us/news/publicnotices/pn.asp
THE NEXT STEP: DEQ will consider all public comments before making the final decision.
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has been the hardest hit” and “many stores
along Northwest 23rd Avenue are struggling.”
The Examiner has compiled a list of business closures in the current year. April businesses include those having announced plans
to close but, in some cases, are still operating.
2009 Northwest Portland closings
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Business closings continued from page 1
“People are scared to death to go out and
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Justin Alpern, a commercial photographer
and video producer, opened an art gallery
in his new working studio, which is next
door to the Industrial Café, last month.
The gallery features many forms of fine
art from “emerging and established artists
at affordable prices,” said Alpern, who also
shows his photos and video work. Gallery
hours are noon-6 p.m. Wednesday-Friday.
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studio, which will serve wine and coffee, will treat patrons as if they are actors
or models. Doors will open May 5.
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MetroVino, billed as a bar, bistro and
bottle shop, will open the first week of
May. Owner Todd Steele will feature 80
wines by the glass, a range made possible by an enomatic system that keeps
the wine fresh; “classically inspired
cocktails; and locally sourced cuisine.”
Greg Denton, who moved to Portland
to be the sous chef at the short-lived
Lucier, will be the executive chef. At
the wine shop, customers will be able
to sample selections before purchase.
Kim Ferris paints a closing sign at Elizabeth Street. It was later reworded as “consolidation.”
One of the longest-lived clothing shops on Northwest 23rd Avenue, Elizabeth
Street, is closing after 26 years. Formerly owned by Richard and Lori Singer,
Libby Hartung and partners bought the business in 2003. Hartung will re-open
her Zelda’s Shoes (next door at 635 NW 23rd Ave.), which had shared the Elizabeth Street space in recent months. ... A-Boy Plumbing & Electrical Supply
on Northwest Vaughn Street is liquidating its inventory in preparation to close
permanently. “Business has been declining for some time,” said company president Dan Dolan, who is closing four of the six stores in the chain. ... Iyara Thai
restaurant in The Civic building on West Burnside closed in early April. ... CC
McKenzie, a women’s clothing and shoe store at 2323 NW Westover, is closing.
It opened in 2004. Owner Clyde Fladwood said sales began declining in October
2007 and have gotten progressively worse each month thereafter. ... Stephanie
Wang has closed Chinoise Spa at 728 NW 23rd Ave. after less than two years in
business. Chinoise opened as a home furnishings boutique but became a spa and
skincare salon last summer. Wang will continue to do business online. ... Northwest Portland-based Storables Inc. filed for Chapter 11 reorganization bankruptcy recently. The private company owned by Dodd Fischer has eight stores,
including one in the Pearl. Its warehouse and offices are on Northwest Yeon.
... The Compleat Bed & Breakfast, 615 NW 23rd Ave., called it quits after 13
years. ...Two Pearl restaurants, Leonardo’s on Lovejoy at 939 NW 10th Ave.
and District at 232 NW 12th Ave., closed recently. ... Windows at Misohapi,
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“As a writer who lives and works in the neighborhood,
I realized that when I read there myself. The faces in the
audience were all faces from these streets. Twenty-third
Avenue Books fostered the reading community right there
on its doorstep.”
Although the store experienced a memorable run for a
time, business slowed a couple years into the new century.
Staff was trimmed. Maull made plans to sell the store and
retire before the declining health of his parents hastened
his search for a buyer, bringing to an end “the best part of
my life.”
Stephanie Griffin jumped at the chance and took over
the business in April 2006. Despite changes in both the
nature of publishing and the character of the neighborhood, she was optimistic until the economic recession
deepened.
“Twenty-third Avenue Books had some wonderful loyal
customers, who wouldn’t buy anywhere else,” said Griffin.
“I love and miss those customers. Being able to get excited
with a customer about a book was a wonderful thing. But
then we had people who couldn’t wait a couple of days
for us to order a book we didn’t have in stock, or say that
they would ‘just order it on Amazon,’ not understanding
that an order on Amazon is another nail in the coffin of
an independent.
“That, along with the downturn in the economy, killed
us,” said Griffin. “We felt the downturn start over a year
ago, and the more time that went by, the more money I
was losing. I am greatly disappointed that I couldn’t save
the shop.”
“In the best of worlds, she would have been lucky to
make it,” said Maull. “I really feel badly that the store has
closed.”
Hill pointed to changes in the cultural economy. “It’s
a huge loss that the store joined Music Millennium as a
cultural vanished species. It’s an unfortunate sign of the
times and of the changing dynamics of the neighborhood.”
“We all live through our own particular time,” said
Burkland. “Today it’s kind of different with the internet
out there. That’s certainly stripped away local connections
to community resources. The country as a whole skewed
itself towards big business.”
The owner who first opened the double doors of the
store almost three decades ago paused, then added that
he felt Twenty-third Avenue Books’ closing represented “a
true loss to the community, in that a bookstore has always
been a place to go and talk about ideas, new books, politics,
life. … Where do you go for that now?”
so good. The decline in business the last few years was
frustrating to witness. But it was frequently an amazing
place to work, and I loved meeting so many great writers
and customers.
“I got to know customers well and loved to recommend
new books to them,” Hill said. “It was always gratifying to
have them come back and tell you how much you got it
right … or blew it.”
Neighborhood novelist Jamie S. Rich was invited to
read at Twenty-third Avenue Books several times.
“The store always seemed like a place for authors as
much as it was a place for book lovers,” said Rich. “I first
realized that when I was having dinner with Brad Meltzer
after one of his readings there. Brad is an author whose
sales figures meant he could book a reading at any store
in town, but he said he always went back to Twenty-third
because they were the first place to host him when he was
just getting started, and he couldn’t see going anywhere
else. This speaks a lot about Brad’s loyalty, but it also was
the kind of loyalty the shop inspired, too.”
The affinity that even major authors felt for the store
was most evident over the course of several years in the late
’90s, beginning around the time the store hosted novelist
Charles Frazier for a reading of National Book Awardwinning “Cold Mountain.” A crowd of more than 300
jammed the courtyard behind the store to hear him.
Maull also commissioned a limited edition broadside
for the event, which sold out.
“That Charles Frazier event, in retrospect, was the
defining moment for the store,” said Maull, “because it
gave us entrée to other author events. I could go to a publisher and say, ‘Look, we had 400 people here.’”
When Frazier next passed through town, he insisted
that Random House schedule his only bookstore event at
Twenty-third Avenue. David Sedaris, James Ellroy, and
Sherman Alexie all read to audiences numbering in the
hundreds on multiple occasions. Frank McCourt, John
Krakauer and Ralph Nader also drew large crowds.
On occasion, an author visited the store at the wrong
time. Mitch Albom presented a new book to a meager
crowd at the store, brushing off questions about the
Detroit Redwings because he wanted to discuss the justreleased “Tuesday’s with Morrie,” which, despite the humbling start to its book tour, went on to spend about half a
decade on the New York Times bestseller list.
Jamie Rich confirmed that in addition to being a vital
venue for both unknown and renowned authors, the store
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longtime Northwest businesses have announced their
departure or have locked the doors and left.
The Orientale Motif Shop had been in business for
nearly 50 years when Sue Lee became ill and closed last
year. Music Millennium and Twenty-third Avenue Books
both had nearly 30 years under their belts, and Wham! and
Elizabeth Street were both in business here for more than
a quarter of a century. Numbers like these may not be seen
again for a long time.
And the businesses that survive may not be high-end
boutiques. They tend to stay away from areas where Dollar
Trees (soon coming to West Burnside) move in.
By Mike Ryerson
Is Trendy-third Avenue
becoming Bargain Street?
I was sitting in a Northwest 23rd Avenue restaurant
when I saw them with my own eyes. There were four of
them in the front seat of one of those big GMC pickups
with a winch on the bumper and a gun rack in the rear
window.
Yup, bargain hunters.
They parked and got out of their rig as if they were
lookin’ for a half-price sale at the Levi Store or free cone
day at the local ice cream parlor.
You could spot them a block away ’cause they just
weren’t the typical shoppers from Dunthorpe or Lake
Oswego we’re used to seeing on 23rd. This gang was from
somewhere like Hubbard or Silverton, and one of them
had on coveralls with a fanny pack. I don’t think they
bought their last outfits on 23rd Avenue.
As it turns out, the word is getting around that the once
Trendy-third Avenue has a lot of going-out-of-business
sales, store liquidations and clearance sales going on these
days. I first noticed the sale signs starting to pop up in the
store windows over the top of the Christmas displays in
October, and they haven’t come down since.
Twenty-third Avenue had to follow a careful road to
become known as a unique and classy place to shop, but
now it’s quickly getting a completely different kind of
reputation. Those folks in the big pickup didn’t come here
to check out a new line of ladies’ spring shoes.
Once the economy settles down, the remaining merchants are going to have a tough time recreating that
exclusive image. People won’t forget they enjoyed 50 per- You can reach Mike Ryerson at
cent off on all of their purchases the last time they were 503-381-8050 or [email protected].
here.
One shop is even
Mike Ryerson
having a 75 percent
off spring cleaning
sale. There’s something
about seeing a sale with
those kinds of savings
that seems to give away
how much they’ve been
marking up their goods
all along.
To stay in business,
a shop owner needs to
have a decent markup
on merchandise, and
they need to maintain
it until the normal time
for seasonal inventory
changes. Ongoing sales
may put some cash in
the till for now, but
they don’t make for a
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2.1BA • 3290SF
tasteful Extras
$569,900
FORESt HEiGHtS tOWNHOME $328,500 FORESt HEiGHtS
4BD • 2.1BA • 2739SF • Master on Main
2 Master Suites • 1474SF
Kitchen Remodel • Slab Granite$739,900
Counters
Knotty Alder Cabinets • Granite
Counters
RAEBuRN
ESTATES
ML 9011367 • Call Brian Lawson
ML 9008635 • Call Bob Harrington
UP
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Call Dirk Hmura
BLUE POiNtE
$619,000
3BR + Den + Bonus • Many Windows
w/Greenspace View
9027747 • Call Brian Lawson
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SMART CLIENT
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3BR • 3BA • 3966SF
$1,470,000
SKYLiNE HEiGHtS
$919,900
5BR + Den + Rec Room + Exercise
Room • 4982SF
ML 8098159 • Call Lee Davies
$399,000
3BR • 3BA
1516 SF Homes
Rec Center
Pool • tennis
$329,900
$349,900 PENTHOuSE
Secure Building PENTHOuSE
Call Bob Harrington
ML 8095885
ML 9017107
A
COuNTRY VIEW ESTATE
Dunthorpe
MONTGOMERY
The
Quintet
4
Custom Built
5BR • 3.2BA
5041SF • Mtn &
Valley Views
6 Car Garage
Call
Dirk Hmura
KI
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Sherwood
2BR • 2.1BA •
Close to Shops and
Restaurants on NW
23rd • Private Deck
ML 8083396 • Call
Brian Lawson
Southwest
• Less than 10 minutes from Downtown Portland
Developed by
Trammell
crow
residential
Or By Appointment Call Bob Harrington
NW Row
House
• A Quality Planned Developement Enhances Your Investment
Prices Starting at $229,500 • Call Dirk Hmura or Bob Harrington
Located at 2350 NW Savier.
Open Sat-Sun 11-4pm
Arbor Cascadian
$509,950
• Owner Run HOA
• No Assessments
• One Year Warranty
Items Complete
• No Litigation
SA
• 100% Completed
Development
• 96% Sold
• 74% Owner
Occupied
Pre-Owned
CEDAR MILL
• Exceptional View of 4 Mountains, the Columbia & Willamette
Rivers and Forest Park in your Foreground
Rest Easy
Enjoy the success, quality and financial
security of ownership at the Vaux:
SW Boones Ferry Rd. & 18th
Just North of Lake Oswego
•3BR+Den+Bonus
•2-StoryGreatRoom
•FindleyElementary
•NeighborhoodPark
•ML9028469
•CallBrianLawson
Nine Premier Home Sites in Portland’s West Hills
• 1 BR • 1BA • Ground Lvl #127 •
807 SF • ML 9012376 • $324,900
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$589,900
• 2 BR • 2 BA • Second Lvl #224 •
1385 SF • ML 9012056 • $479,000
EW
SIERRA
• 2 BR • 2 BA • Ground Lvl #100 •
1349 SF • ML 9012063 • $499,000
TC
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Brian Lawson or
Donna Russell
• 2 BR • 2 BA • Penthouse #403 •
1933 SF • ML 9012074 • $625,000
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$609,900
SF
ALEXANDER
NW Home Rush Properties!
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through Banner Bank,
Community Financial and
Arbor Homes.
• 2 BR • 2 BA • Penthouse #402
1934 SF • ML 9012069 • $625,000
KI
3,
32
8
Incentive Package includes
• Stainless Refrigerator
• Front Load Washer & Dryer
• Window Covering Pkg.
ForestHeights•BluePointe•CedarRidge
SkylineHeights•Pinnacle•Lakota•MeridianRidge
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$259,900
3BR • 2BA • 1312SF • Recently Remodeled
One Level • ML 9022268 • Call Donna Russell
BANNiStER CREEK PARK
$519,800
Many Extras • ML Call Donna Russell
503.292.1500
Lee Davies
Principal Broker
503.292.1500 x102
[email protected]
Shelly Brown
Broker
971.221.2641 cell
[email protected]
Dirk Hmura
Broker
503.740.0070
cell
[email protected]
Bob Harrington Donna Russell Brian Lawson
Broker
503.913.1296
cell
[email protected]
Broker
503.310.5669
cell
[email protected]
Broker
503.502.5330
cell
[email protected]
Trish Gallus
Sandra Miller
Lisa Migchelbrink Lori Davies
Broker
Broker
503.810.7934
503.805.1988
503.970.1200
503.292.1500
Broker
cell
[email protected]
Broker
cell
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cell
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[email protected]
9200 SW Barnes Rd.
Portland, OR 97225
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May 2009 - NW Examiner

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