April 2013 - NW Examiner

April ’13
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BOORA Architects
28-story
tower
planned
in Pearl
Illegal cycling
muddies drive
for greater use
of Forest Park
By Allan Classen
Bikes are banned on most Forest Park trails, a
policy Portland Parks & Recreation barely pretends
to enforce. The only city employee assigned to the
task lacks the authority to issue citations, and his
position is set to be cut in June.
Last month, the thin green line gave way to a
number of mountain bikers who had their way with
Wildwood Trail, the primary path linking this 5,000acre wilderness park.
“In more than 30 years of researching, exploring
and writing about Forest Park, I have never witnessed
such overt damage to Forest Park as I did today,”
Continued on page 6
Catherine Thompson
The Pearl District’s first “point tower” is planned by Hoyt Street Properties on the block bordered by Northwest 10th, 11th,
Northrup and Overton streets. It would also be the first new condominium building begun since the real estate collapse of 2008.
By Allan Classen
An unidentified mountain biker in February on Maple
Trail, on which cycling is banned.
The Pearl District may be getting its first point tower,
and many are eager to see it.
Hoyt Street Properties and project architect John
Meadows, principal at BOORA Architects, presented
a model and drawings last month to the Pearl District
Planning and Transportation Committee in a room
crowded by realtors, activists and others anxious to learn
details.
Committee member Hugh D’Autremont said he was
skeptical when he first heard of a possible 28-story building, but after learning more and seeing images, declared,
“I like it.”
Realtor Dave Davis called the tower “sexy.”
“We’re happy with the design,” said neighborhood
association President Patricia Gardner.
“I think it’s a beautiful building,” affirmed realtor Jon
Du Clos.
No proposed development in the Pearl has drawn this
kind of excitement in years, if at all. All seem to get the
Continued on page 12
inside
State Legislators consider air pollution bill
inspired by Northwest Portland activists
By Allan Classen
An environmental bill growing out of
Northwest Portland activism has a chance
of passage in the Oregon Legislature this
year.
House Bill 2336—titled the Industrial
Emission Modernization Bill—is in the
House Energy and Environment Committee, whose chair, Jules Bailey, is committed to bringing the measure before the
full House of Representatives.
House Speaker Tina Kotek has testified
in support of the bill, and District 33 Rep.
Mitch Greenlick predicted it will become
law.
“I think we’re gong to do it this time,”
said Greenlick.
The bill came in response to a petition
drive launched by Mary Peveto, a North-
west Thurman resident and founder of
Neighbors For Clean Air.
Peveto took her campaign to Salem
after ESCO attorney Mark Morford
advised her that the company would never
agree to enforceable emission caps.
“If you don’t like the law, you need to
make new ones,” Peveto recalled Morford’s
words.
That’s when Peveto concluded that
face-to-face negotiations with the company would not be enough.
“We felt [a good neighbor agreement]
required the facility to be held accountable
to the projected reduction values. ESCO’s
attorney knew that we couldn’t legally
require them to lower emissions limits
due to Oregon’s antiquated program that
allows facilities to pollute like before the
Clean Air Act of 1970.
“The GNA instead moved forward
with an enforceable schedule of … reduction strategies, but no enforceable limit for
the actual emissions,” she said.
Peveto said HB 2336 “seeks to modernize our oldest and dirtiest Title V
[the largest classification of air polluters]
industrial facilities by requiring them to
conduct an audit of current technology
and other actions that could be employed
to reduce toxic air emissions, and by making that information publicly available as
part of the application process to renew
state-issued permits.”
A 2008 independent audit of ESCO
funded by the Oregon Department of
Environmental Quality recommended 17
upgrades, including one pertaining to a
“dump back” process used to cool molContinued on page 21
Horse-loving rabbi
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conservatism
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Vista Bridge
Suicide barriers proposed
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Letters can be sent to
[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.
Don’t mar historic bridge
Thirty years ago, a group of concerned West Hills and Goose Hollow
residents formed an ad hoc entity called the Vista Bridge Light Brigade. The
bridge’s original cast-stone lights columns were crumbling, and the city planned
to replace them with standard goose-neck aluminum poles.
The outcry, below and above the bridge, was immediate and intense. The city
was responsive: If citizens could come up with half the cost, the city would kick
in the other half for cast stone replacements. Over several weekends, a voluntary
toll was solicited by the Vista Bridge Light Brigade. Architectural Reproductions Co. offered its expertise to ensure that the cast stone replacements would
be authentic to the originals.
Interestingly enough, almost all who crossed the bridge donated to this
cause. During this process, toll-takers compiled appreciative comments. With
few exceptions, all donors expressed concern that the Vista Bridge should retain
its original appearance as a Portland signature landmark. “Don’t mess with our
bridge,” uttered many, in the face of the city’s earlier aluminum threat.
Regrettably, suicides happen, with a very small percentage of the annual total
occurring from this bridge. Those below who have to witness these few suicides
suffer consequences too, which is definitely unfortunate.
I hope that the current Friends of Vista Bridge activists will consider seriously the consequences of any modifications to this scenic landmark. Eight-foot
barriers as suicide deterrents would not please the majority of those who cross
the bridge or even those who live in its shadow. I hope that any modification
decisions entertained by the city will consider this in the broader context.
Bill Failing
SW Georgian Pl.
Out of sight ...
On the front page of the March edition is a story about stopping folks from
jumping off Vista Bridge. It seems to be an annoyance to the folks that witness
the jumping. I see no concern for why that level of desperation is there. Just put
up a barrier.
On page 10, there is another story on the unsightliness of folks sleeping
under the protection of the freeway with no question as why they choose to
sleep there.
You seem to be saying, “Just keep all of that unpleasantness out of my view so
I don’t have to think about its existence please.” Is it all that easy?
Martha Van Dyke
NW Ninth Ave.
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index
Obituaries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
The Pearl . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
Going Out. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Community Events. . . . . . . . . . 17
Business & Real Estate. . . . . . . 20
VOL. 26, NO. 8
Editor’s Turn
By Allan Classen
Editor & Publisher
Getting processed
Portland is the Mecca of public process,
it is commonly believed. Textbooks refer
to our pioneering mechanisms to cultivate
citizen participation and give the public
multiple opportunities to weigh in before
official decisions are made. So it’s natural
to conclude that citizens and neighborhoods have a lot of power in our city.
After watching the system for 30
years, I believe that assumption is largely
hyperbole. The public voice may get more
traction here than in many cities, but far
less than purported or than implied on
“Portlandia.”
I suspect that the ease with which any
citizen can speak to City Hall has clouded
a more eternal reality: Political power does
not yield to mere good ideas and goodwill.
Neighborhood associations and other citizen groups cannot advance their agendas
without mustering old fashioned political
power, which is true even in cities without
formal structures or policies enthroning
citizenship.
Process without power leads to some
remarkable doublespeak, which may or
may not be better than silence or a flat no.
In his last month in office, former Mayor
Sam Adams asked a citizen who complained about being left out of a decisionmaking process if she would have been
satisfied with the decision had there had
been more process. That was like asking
a condemned person if they would have
been satisfied by the verdict had their lawyer been allowed to make more motions.
Adams’ comment also betrayed a jaded
politician to whom process could be measured in volume like some dung heap. At
the same public hearing, City Commissioner Nick Fish dismissed neighborhood
representatives who complained about
their views getting short shrift regarding
parking meters to be installed throughout
Washington Park.
His evidence? The Parks Bureau hosted
23 meetings on the subject. The count was
inflated, and any number would have been
irrelevant in that the specific question at
hand wasn’t brought up.
Even marginal college students would
get an A if this logic were sufficient. (“I
may not have answered the question, professor, but I did write a lot of words and
filled several sheets of paper.”)
Citizens are getting process, all right,
but it’s often a sham process with little
ability to influence their government.
Considerable citizen energy is diverted
to developing rules for neighborhood
associations and to lobbying for funding.
But when push comes to shove, a business
association spurning all city guidelines
for such groups (the Nob Hill Business
Association) has had far more clout with
City Council than the Northwest District
Association, which has taken the rules so
seriously that it provides a professional
note taker for one hearing-impaired person who often attends meetings.
At public hearings, the business association regularly turns out throngs of
outspoken and/or well-connected people
while a mere handful show up from the
neighborhood association. The funding, studied recommendations and city
recognition amount to little when going
against an organization that knows how to
mobilize people and wrestle for the levers
of power.
Generations of Portland neighborhood
activists have been trained to busy themselves within an elaborate advisory system,
become expert in city codes and policies
and then trust that the best idea will prevail in the end. It doesn’t work that way,
at least not on important matters where
powerful interests are on the opposite side.
Activists in “old” cities like Chicago or
Philadelphia learned they had to speak for
large numbers of voters or have some kind
of clout to be taken seriously. Portland
politicians, beneath it all, understand this.
Our activists, however, haven’t had
to build a constituency to gain a voice.
The city’s neighborhood system doesn’t
allow association’s to charge dues, on the
very Portland notion that charging dues
would be a disadvantage to poorer neighborhoods. But without dues, there is no
measureable way for neighbors to register
their support or opposition to their neighborhood association’s work. There’s no
functioning feedback system to determine
whether an association’s current direction
is more appealing than what it tried last
year.
The oil sheiks of the Mideast run governments without needing to tax anyone.
Without the accountability inherent in
taxation, these rulers cannot speak for
their constituents. And without membership dues or the need to raise money from
the people they serve, Portland neighborhood associations have power in name
only.
Power without process is harsh and
unjust; process without power is unjust
with a patina of politeness. Effective
democracy requires process and power.
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Elsa B. Warnick
Elsa Beth Warnick, a longtime Northwest
District resident, died March 6 at age 70.
She was born May 25, 1942, in Tacoma,
Wash., and moved to Portland to attend a
joint five-year program at Reed College and
Museum Art School. She taught art and
illustration and worked as a commercial artist. She illustrated several children’s books.
She is survived by her sons, Matt and Milan
Erceg; and brothers, Jack and Fred Warnick.
Steve D. Gann
Steve Dimitri Gann, founder and owner of Gann Publishing Co., died Feb. 15
at age 85. Steve was born
April 17, 1927, in Portland.
He attended Benson High
School and the University of Oregon, graduating in 1949 with a bachelor’s degree in
business. He earned a degree from Northwestern College of Law and became a
member of the Oregon State Bar in 1956. In
2005, he was awarded the Benjamin Franklin Award from the Portland Graphic Arts
Association in recognition of the contributions he made to the local printing industry.
He was a member of the Royal Rosarians,
the Greek Civic Club, East Portland Rotary,
the Masonic Order, Scottish Rite, Shriners and the Multnomah Athletic Club.
He helped found the Blueback Submarine
Council of the Navy League of the United
States. He is survived by his sons, Steven,
Christopher and Michael; five grandchildren; and a great-grandchild.
Gilbert J. Schwabauer
Gilbert James Schwabauer, a 1955 graduate of Lincoln High School, died March
2 at age 76. He was born Nov. 9, 1936, in
Pendelton and moved to Portland at age 6.
He graduated from Willamette University
in 1959. He worked at Freightliner for 40
years, retiring in 1999. He is survived by his
wife, Sharon; sons, Gregg and Blake; and
four grandchildren.
— obituaries —
Cecilia M. Baricevic
Beeebe and Kenneth; daughters, Caroline
Henderson and Louise Harris; six grandCecilia Mary Baricevic, a
children; and many great-grandchildren.
lifetime Northwest Portland resident, died March
Dr. Phillip A. Snedecor
26 at age 81. She was born
Dr. Phillip Alston Snedecor, a resident of
July 24, 1931, and grew
Kings Heights, died March 3 at age 86. He
up in the family home
was born in Portland and attended Lincoln
on Northwest 19th Avenue. She attended
High School and Stanford University. He
Cathedral Grade School, St. Mary’s High
began private practice in 1958 and coSchool and graduated from Seattle Univerfounded Surgical Associates. He was also
sity. She later lived on Northwest Westover.
on the staff of Good Samaritan Hospital.
She was a professor of foreign languages at
He married Sarah “Sally” Ralston Clark;
Marylhurst Learning Center and Eastern
she died in 2005. He is survived by his
Oregon College. She also managed refugee
sons, Gordon and Scott; daughter, Ann
resettlement for Catholic Charities. She was
Nicholas; and three grandchildren.
a lifetime member of St. Mary’s Cathedral.
Mary G. Farnham
Alma Abrams
Mary Glade Siemer Farnham, a Northwest Portland resident, died Dec. 9. She
was born Nov. 1, 1924, in Marin County
and graduated from the University of California Berkley. She lived on Northwest
Westover in the 1950s and on Northwest
Irving Street beginning in 1978. She was
the head of adverting for several department stores in San Francisco and Portland.
She created award-winning works of art
in abstract, photographic and construction
media that were exhibited worldwide. She
later used her design instincts in property
development and a haute couture line. She
is survived by her daughter, Gwen; sons
Lawrence W. Harris Jr.
Evan, Will, Hugh and Thomas; and six
Lawrence W. Harris Jr., a former Northwest
grandchildren.
Portland businessman, died March 2 at age
101. He was born in San Francisco, attended
Steve N. Voreas
Galileo High School and graduated from
Steve Nick Voreas, an Old Town busiStanford University. In 1932, he moved to
ness owner, died March 16 at age 95. Mr.
Portland to join the family business, Ames
Voreas was born in Portland and grew up
Harris Neville, a manufacturer of burlap and
in Greece. He returned to Portland at age
cotton bags with a large factory at North18. He served in the U.S. military in World
th
west 15 and Hoyt. He was a member of
War II and was part the D-Day invasion
the Multnomah Athletic Club and was the
of France. After the war, he opened Voreas
oldest and longest-serving member of the
Bros. Food and Bar on Northwest Sixth
Arlington Club. He married Jane Beebe,
Avenue with his brother George. In the
the great-great-granddaughter of Captain
1960s, the business was transformed into
John Couch. She died. He is survived by his
the Athens West nightclub. His wife Anassons, Lawrence W “Tige” III, Father Edwin
Alma Abrams, a Northwest
Trinity Place resident for
16 years, died Feb. 19 at age
76. She was born in 1936 in
Brooklyn, N.Y. She attended the University of Miami.
She moved to Chicago, where she worked
as a model and real estate salesperson. In
1996, she moved to Portland, where she
volunteered for the Portland Center for the
Performing Arts, KBOO, Elders in Action
and the Oregon Historical Society. She is
survived by her daughter, Carla Abrams.
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tasia and brother George predeceased him.
He is survived by his son, Nick; daughters,
Chrysanthe and Stella; sister, Phane RitusLarson; and five grandchildren.
Death Notices
John P. “Pat” Craven Jr., 82, member of the
Multnomah Athletic Club Balladeers.
Wayne E. Cody, 90, graduate of Lincoln
High School.
Larry J. Futter, 72, former employee of
Chown Hardware.
Gordon R. Janney, 88, member of the
Multnomah Athletic Club and volunteer
with William Temple House.
Thomas J. Hammond, 60, member of the
Multnomah Athletic Club.
John Allen Morris, 75, employed at ESCO
Corp.
Virginia C. Polley, 99, a champion teenage swimmer and diver who trained at the
Multnomah Athletic Club.
Duane V. Jue, 80, attended Abernathy Elementary School.
Shannon L. Lindquist, 49, graduate of
Lincoln High School.
Alpo J. Tokola, 87, project manager for
construction of the Fremont Bridge.
Monica M. Gotter, 55, nurse at St. Vincent Hospital who graduated from Good
Samaritan nursing school.
Donald G. Pool, 79, retired from Consolidated Freightways.
David P. Johnson, 60, employee of Mentor
Graphics.
The Northwest Examiner publishes obituaries of
people who lived, worked or had other substantial
connections to our readership area, which includes
Northwest Portland, Goose Hollow, Sauvie Island
and areas north of Highway 26. If you have information about a death in our area, please contact us
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Letters continued from page 3
Solutions, not barriers
I would like to correct your reports of
the discussion regarding suicides on the
Vista Bridge at the February meeting of
the Goose Hollow Foothills League. The
GHFL board adopted a resolution calling
for architecturally appropriate “solutions”
not “barriers,” as you reported. The term
“barriers” was proposed by Mr. Kahn, but
changed by the board when one of our
members rightfully objected to that term.
In addition, I believe you incorrectly
paraphrased my position regarding aesthetics of a potential solution. Aesthetic
concerns are of the utmost concern to
me. In my opinion, the Vista Bridge is the
crown jewel of our neighborhood and a
major factor why I live where I do. I was
speaking to the point that the bridge is ill
maintained and needs significant restoration work. Forming a nonprofit around the
bridge could ultimately help in getting the
bridge restored while providing a solution
to the suicide problem. In this case, one
issue could drive the other, thereby making the project a “relatively easy sell” to the
preservation community, of which I would
surely be a part.
Finally, my comment about a design
competition arose when Mr. Kahn submitted the photo shown in the paper to the
board. I immediately felt that this might
not be the appropriate solution for our
bridge. I felt that before this was circulated
as a solution there should be a vetting of
ideas. At that point, I mentioned a design
competition as a way to generate ideas for
relatively little cost. Perhaps a “request for
ideas” would have been the better way to
phrase it, but that was essentially my point.
Although I take exception to your
reporting, I do agree that it is time to deal
with the issue. Mary Valeant
SW Market St. Dr.
GHFL board member
Editor’s note: The Goose Hollow Foothills
League passed a motion calling for “barriers”
on the bridge. Valeant voted for this motion.
Immediately afterwards, the lone dissenter
was asked why he opposed the motion, and
he said he had aesthetic concerns. The chair
then asked the board to vote again on a new
motion substituting “solutions” for “barriers,” and it passed unanimously. Re-voting a
motion on the same topic at the same meeting
violates the association’s bylaws and could
make the second motion invalid. We chose not
to explain all of this in a 147-word page 1
story.
Not playground
As a Forest Park trail volunteer for 15
years [“Bikes vs. Nature,” February 2013], I
would suggest that fire lanes and the access
roads are designated for bicycles. Forest
Park is a forest, not a playground. I would
also suggest Portland is not Minnesota. It
rains in Portland eight months of the year.
Gail Burzynski
NW Vaughn St.
ODOT irresponsible
I was very interested in your recent
piece about the Oregon Department of
Transportation and the ongoing problem
at Northwest 16th and Johnson [“Volunteers not enough to keep underpass clean,”
March 2013]. At the suggestion of Jan Valentine, I contacted the Portland Police as
well as ODOT to see what could be done.
The police said that they could not do
anything because the property was owned
by ODOT and they were under instruction
from the city not to arrest the trespassers.
ODOT was just plain frustrating. In the
end, they pointed to some regulations that
require that they post No Trespass signs
and warnings about confiscating property
before anything could be done. Their main
concern without a doubt was that if ODOT
did anything they would be sued by one of
the homeless. They were simply afraid to
enforce the law, making excuse after excuse
as to why nothing would be done.
Even if the property does belong to
ODOT, don’t all property owners have
a duty to remove public nuisances from
their land? Total irresponsibility is the way
I see it.
Michael Doyle
NW Irving St.
Nowhere to go
As a resident of the Pearl District, I take
umbrage with the articles that praised the
Pacific Patrol and disparaged the “campers”
under the overpass.
If these “campers” had somewhere else
to go, they would be there. I’m sure you’ve
never been in danger of losing your home
before, but imagine for a moment that you
had. The first thing you would want is
shelter, preferably somewhere safe. Nobody
else is using the underpass for residential
or commercial purposes; it isn’t a glamorous location. I have walked under the
underpass many times on my way through
the neighborhood, and the homeless are
the only people who have any real use for
it. Perhaps you find them unsightly and
unclean—fine, then work on the root issues
of their homelessness and stop insisting that they are “illegal” and must be
“roust[ed].” Shame on you for being so
heartless.
The hiring of Pacific Patrol to intimidate desperate people, throw them out in
the rain and push them into more dangerous neighborhoods, is despicable and cruel.
As a Pearl District resident, I resent
Jack Haynes’ statement that this was done
“for the community.” The real “filth” in our
community is the pee and poop left everywhere by the designer dogs of the fashionable urbanites. Every day I have seen waste
from dogs on the streets, and in my year
of living here, I’ve never seen human waste
and only seen one syringe on the street. It is
unconscionable that there are thousands of
animals crapping on every street corner and
you are ranting about the homeless people
who just want a safe place to sleep at night,
many of whom are women, by the way, who
are especially at risk.
Stop pretending to speak for everyone in
the Pearl and Northwest. You show yourself to be a caring person when it comes
to sick leave for low-income workers. We
residents don’t all hate the homeless, and
we didn’t all support the so-called cleanup.
I want a safe and healthy neighborhood
as much as you do, but I don’t narrow the
safety and health to a certain portion of the
population.
Rhiannon Orizaga
NW 14th Ave.
Aggressive alcoholic
Over the last six or more months, our
streets have been taken over by an aggressive and nasty drunk. I personally have
called the police on him three times, and
know he’s been dropped off at Hooper
Detox more than once.
He’s been banned by Plaid Pantry,
chased out by Lovejoy Market and arrested
for everything from theft to drinking on
public property. This man urinates where
he pleases, verbally abuses people who
won’t give him money and is a general
blight on the neighborhood. The police
are doing all they can and Central City
Concern offers him rehabilitation opportunities every time he’s dropped off. But by
all accounts, he doesn’t want to get sober.
I personally have witnessed well meaning people give him money and watched
him turn around and purchase booze in the
nearest store, then promptly go urinate on
the nearest building. He’s called me a million names because I chased him off of our
property while he was drunkenly raving at
people passing by.
I’m fed up. Frankly, I don’t live in Northwest Portland for this type of behavior.
But what can be done? People give him
money and places still sell him alcohol.
While that happens, he’ll harass us and
expose himself at will.
Tiffany Craig
NW Kearney St.
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Forest Park continued from page 1
Marcy Houle
wrote Marcy Houle in an email to Mayor
Charlie Hales, Parks Commissioner Nick
Fish and Parks Director Mike Abbate
March 15.
Houle, a biologist who has been studying the park since 1982, is author of “One
City’s Wilderness: Portland’s Forest Park.”
She took about 50 photos of deep
muddy ruts left by the telltale knobby tires
of mountain bikes last month.
“The prized Wildwood Trail is being
usurped and ruined by cyclists riding illegally and without any regard for the health
of the park nor the safety of walkers,” she
wrote.
“Please review the attached four photos
Signs prohibiting bikes are frequently
that I took today that show the incredvandalized and “gone within two days,”
ible damage caused by this one user group
said Marcy Houle.
and one photo that shows the rampant
Marcy Houle
vandalism to the signs that say ‘No
Cycling.’
“What are you doing to put a
stop to this criminal activity?” she
pleaded.
If the vandalism suggested to
some that mountain bikers can be
destructive, irresponsible and an
embarrassment to their political
allies—warranting official condemnation and remedial action—the
response from City Hall was lukewarm at best.
“There is no excuse for cyclists
riding on trails that are designated
for other users,” said Fish.
The commissioner, however,
didn’t give an inch on the policy
front, repeating his support for creating a single-track bike trail by Fire Another spot on Wildwood Trail, Forest Park’s
Lane 5 and building a new shared- primary pedestrian path.
use trail to Northwest Yeon Avenue.
“We believe that providing trails
specially designed for cyclists will attract ans. About 28 miles of park trails currently
and concentrate cyclists, reducing conflicts permit bike riders, but most of them are
with pedestrians,” Fish said.
wide fire lanes and of little interest to the
Simply put, he reaffirmed his position subset of riders behind the current thrust.
and claimed it would reduce rather than They want narrow “single track” trails that
contribute to repeats of the recently docu- provide the hidden turns and surprises that
mented incidents.
test their mettle.
Houle and other park defenders see
Single track is a fast-growing sport with
it quite differently. They believe opening its own culture.
more of the park to mountain bikers is
“It’s like an amusement park ride,” said
the first step toward wholesale conversion Janice Tower, the founder of Singletrack
of the wilderness park from a place of Advocates (which has a video on the
contemplation and passive recreation into construction of single track at singletracka magnet for destructive, thrill-seeking advocates.blogspot.com). “We’re out there
sports.
hooting and hollering.” The leading organization pushing that
On LovingtheBike.com, Riaan Coetzee
agenda, the Northwest Trail Alliance, has a wrote: “Speed—there’s few things in life as
stated goal of allowing cyclists on up to 30 epic as pinning a long, technical piece of
miles of paths now reserved for pedestri- singletrack at breakneck speed.”
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Marcy Houle
Wildwood Trail, on which
bikes are prohibited, was
deeply rutted March 15.
Biologist-author Marcy
Houle said, “I have never
witnessed such overt
damage to Forest Park.”
A writer on AlaskaDispatch.com said
“singletrack trail is a race track in the
woods.”
Blogger Eric wrote on BikePortland.
com last October: “I want to be excited,
I really do. But we’ve heard this before.
Commissioner Fish says ‘in the next nine
months’ and I fully expect some interest
group (City Club, friends of something,
etc.) to raise some newfound concerns in
the next eight months and Fish to back
down accordingly. Buy some lights. Once
the sun goes down, all the trails are open to
mountain bikers.”
In a huge park largely beyond the reach
of law enforcement, Houle finds the scoff-
law traits of some riders disturbing. Signs
prohibiting cyclists on trails “are gone
within two days,” and through websites like
PortlandBike.com, she reads bloggers who
encourage others to evade compliance with
cycling restrictions.
Houle spoke at the Portland Garden
Club on this topic last month. Parks Director Mike Abbate was scheduled to speak
in defense of his department’s plans to add
the single track facilities, but he cancelled
due to a medical emergency.
Another speaker, neurosurgeon and
Sylvan Highlands neighborhood activist
Claudia Martin, spoke on the health risks
of single track cycling. An 80-year-old
news
hiker on a trail was killed by a cyclist, and
a Portland mountain biker was paralyzed
after flipping over his handlebars. Both
accidents happened last summer, she said.
Martin said the speed and risk that
make single track thrilling for participants
are the same factors that make it dangerous
for hikers sharing the trails. The excitement
for riders of not knowing what’s around the
next corner inevitably collides with dangers
to hikers who may be the unseen obstacles
around that corner.
The biggest barrier to city plans to
expand bicycling opportunities in the park
remains the Forest Park Management Plan,
adopted by City Council in 1995. It bans
bicycles on trails less than 8 feet wide. The
plan also puts preservation and enhancement of the park’s natural resources as
the number one goal, a priority Fish and
Abbate both acknowledge.
Houle believes a verb stronger than
“acknowledge” is demanded of the park’s
caretakers.
“The flagrant, unsafe and criminal
behavior exhibited by cyclists who are
riding illegally on pedestrian-only trails
throughout the park needs to be made
public for all to see,” she said. “Their
actions need to be immediately addressed
and stopped.
“After reviewing these photos, I hope
you will finally begin to live up to your
responsibilities and show true leadership in
protecting this city park that is unequaled
in all of the United States. ... If you let rogue
users take it over with impunity, and then,
cater to their demands, we risk losing its
unparalleled and unique qualities forever.”
To her, the park should not be treated as
merely a recreation facility for immediate
enjoyment.
“We are not entitled to it,” she said of
Forest Park. “We are entrusted with it.”
Muddy tracks no cause for alarm to bike advocates
By Allan Classen
Photos of muddy bike tracks on Forest Park trails may
tell the whole story, but not the same story perceived by
some cycling advocates.
Jonathan Maus, editor and publisher of BikePortland.
com, offered this response:
“My reaction to the photos and Houle’s account is
that she is pointing out something that is not news or
surprising to anyone. She’s also clearly lobbying and
writing in a way she hopes gets people fired up. That’s
fine. We all know people illegally ride on Wildwood
sometimes.
“Just like we know people do all sorts of illegal things
in the park. People leave doggie bags, camp, hike and run
off designated trails, and so on.
“I view Houle’s email as very similar to the numerous times I’ve heard people yell and scream about how
‘bike riders are scofflaws and they never stop at stop
signs or red lights!’ My response to Houle is similar to
my response to those people: People break laws. No one
group tends to do it more than others. We will never stop
all people from breaking laws. Instead, let’s focus our
energy on doing things that make our city a better place
for more of the people who live here.”
Is your goal to expand bicycle access
to Forest Park beyond the routes
recommended recently by Portland
Parks & Recreation?
“Absolutely.” Do bicyclists cause more trail damage
than pedestrians do?
“All human uses of the park damage the trails in different ways. As it stands currently, people walking and
running do far more damage to Forest Park than people
on bicycles. Bicycle use is small compared to other uses.
Also, there are large-scale competitive running events
in the park. It is also well documented that people on
foot make rogue trails, encampments and do many other
things that damage the park’s trails.
“Another part of this conversation that deserves attention is the environmental/park damage done by automo-
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biles. The vast majority of people who ride bikes in the
park get there under their own power. This means they
are not spewing harmful emissions into the park’s air, and
they are not putting oil, gas, brake-dust fibers and so on
into the streets, where it runs off into the park’s streams.
They are not crowding the neighborhoods around the
trailheads with their vehicles.
“I very much doubt any study has ever taken into
account the things I mention above. Also, all three
activities have impacts on the park. If we want to have
an honest conversation about usage impacts, it is nothing
but ignorance/fear/bias if someone only brings up biking
and not those other two activities.”
Do you disapprove of riders who use
hiking trails posted as off limits to
bicycles?
“Absolutely.”
Frank Selker is a mountain bike advocate who
launched a campaign in 2009 to have 150 bike advocates
join Forest Park Conservancy with a goal of steering
that organization’s policy toward greater bicycle access
of Forest Park.
“If you are going to quote me, please refer to me, like
Marcy, as a biologist,” he asked the Examiner. “I have a
biology degree, have been employed in research labs, am
author of several peer-reviewed scientific publications in
biology and was hired to study ecosystem value for the
Environmental Protection Agency.” What do you make of the photos of trail
damage taken by Marcy Houle?
“Tire tracks in the mud are no more ‘damage’ than are
footprints in the mud, which you will find in vast quantities. If the definition of ‘pristine’ is no marks in the mud,
then it never has been pristine and never will be. “And why haven’t they been sending ‘horror pictures’
of greater erosion on the fire lanes over the years? In fact,
they oppose reducing erosion on Fire Lane 5 if it would
mean bikes could be there.
“I learned from opponents to cycling that they are not
concerned about the health of the park, but it is the flag
they wrap themselves in to protect their privileged access
to a public resource. “As for vandalism, do they know who did it? In any
case, it is absurd bigotry to throw all cyclists together. When a crazy man attacked a ranger in the park last
year, the headlines did not read ‘Hiker Attacks Ranger.’ But I am sure if he’d been on a bike they would have said
‘Cyclist Attacks Ranger.’”
Why should bike access to Forest Park be
increased?
“I think that cyclists should have substantial trailriding opportunities in Forest Park, and those do not
currently exist. There is currently less than a mile* of
trail open to bikes, less than that provided by many cities around the country with far smaller parks. The park
belongs to all, not just to neighbors, who have been the
primary source of resistance to any new users, including
off-road cycling.
“Some opponents are pushing for bikes at Gateway
Green, but it’s apples and oranges: The latter is a large
vacant lot surrounded by freeways. There’s a reason the
Forest Park neighbors and opponents don’t want to hike
there and they don’t want to have us use Forest Park. We
seek what they seek—natural beauty and long interesting trails.”
*Editor’s note: Selker does not include the approximately 28
miles of fire lanes and paths on which bikes are permitted
because they are too wide to be called trails.
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Vista Bridge anti-suicide campaign gains traction
By Allan Classen
Thomas Iverson
so traumatic.
They intend to form a nonprofit corporation called
Friends of Vista Bridge to raise funds and advocate
for barriers on the bridge. They are impressed with the
transparent, 8-foot-tall barriers on the 1874 Viaducto de
Segovia in Madrid, which overcame aesthetic concerns.
David O’Longaigh, bridge engineer for the Portland
Bureau of Transportation, has been in contact recently
with the Oregon State Historic Preservation Office,
which would have to approve any modifications affecting
the appearance of the bridge. Although SHPO was cool
to the idea of a glass wall as suggested by the Kahns, he
said the agency might be open to a metal screen extending
vertically from the existing railing.
Because work is needed on the masonry railing anyway, O’Longaigh said it may be more feasible to reinforce the existing railing and add the screen above. By
using thin screening material and painting it black, he
said it would not be highly visible. A very preliminary
estimate of screening the bridge came to about $2 million, he said.
Citizen efforts to reduce suicides from the Vista Bridge
are gaining momentum two months after Kenneth and
Bonnie Kahn asked the Goose Hollow Foothills League
for support.
GHFL President Leslie Johnson is considering creation of a neighborhood association committee to pursue
“solutions” to the ongoing problem, in keeping with a
resolution the organization passed in February.
The Kahns are proposing transparent barriers similar
to those added to a historic bridge in Madrid, Spain. The
association has reservations about marring the historic
appearance of the 1926 bridge, a national historic landmark, which is why its resolution did not specify barriers.
Nevertheless, Kenneth Kahn is pleased with the “willingness of the community to be increasingly more involved.
“It’s easier to get things done with a chorus than a solo,”
he said.
A would-be jumper in 2012 was talked off the bridge by
While grassroots efforts slowly gain momentum, there
Portland Police.
is reason to believe they will find a sympathetic ear from
City Commissioner Steve Novick, who has said the city
Allan Classen
should consider anti-suicide barriers.
David Stabler, a reporter for The Oregonian who wrote
an in-depth story on Vista Bridge suicides in February,
participated later in a live online chat on the topic.
“One issue that commenters raised several times is, ‘Oh,
they’ll just go somewhere else,’” said Stabler. “But research
shows that jumping is an impulsive act, and if a person can
be impeded, he or she will not find another bridge. In fact,
most people change their minds about killing themselves.”
Novick joined the chat session.
“I really appreciate your shining a light on this issue,”
Novick told Stabler. “The story was very well done, and
so sad.
“I think the city has an obligation to see if we can put
an effective barrier up without ruining the beauty of the
bridge. I realize that there is an argument that we need
to save lives, to heck with aesthetics, but beauty is part of
what makes life worth living. I’m glad to hear you think
there are aesthetically acceptable options.
A glass wall inside the railing provides protection on Viaducto de Segovia in
“Of course, we also need to see what the costs are,” said
Madrid, Spain.
Novick.
The Kahns, whose offices are beneath the bridge, say
they have witnessed about one suicide per year. They
have taught themselves not to look when they hear a
Bonnie and Kenneth Kahn under the Vista Bridge.
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Looking Back
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E. Henry Wemme:
Builder, car lover,
benefactor to
women in need
He owned the first automobile in Portland and, for good
measure, he also bought the first airplane. He built what is
now called the White Stag Building, where he manufactured tents. He was an early advocate for roads.
When he died, E. Henry Wemme gave half of his
fortune to establish the White Shield Home for unwed
mothers. The building and agency endure to this day in a
corner of Northwest Portland surrounded by Forest Park.
“Some have called him eccentric, but no great man has
ever lived that has not been called eccentric,” said Rev.
J.E. Leas of St. James English Lutheran Church at his
funeral. “Mr. Wemme was eccentric to a degree, but he was
enthusiastic in the cause of right and in the interest of the
community in which he lived.”
According to information gleaned from newspaper
articles, as well as from a 1952 booklet written by Omar
C. Spencer of the E. Henry Wemme Endowment Fund,
Wemme was born in Germany in 1861. He had an elementary school education and worked on his family’s farm
until he was 14, when he became a milling apprentice.
At 17, he came to America, where he found work stringing power lines in Chicago. After a fall from a power pole
caused serious injuries, he was taken in by a family of nine
living in a crowded tenement. The woman of the household, Ann Reardon, also took in a pregnant single woman,
in addition to an injured child and an older woman.
“All these cases of unfortunate people being nursed back
to life and health by Ann Reardon made a deep impression
upon Wemme, who then and there formed a decision that
if he ever acquired anything worthwhile he would make
provision for the poor and particularly wayward girls,”
wrote Spencer.
Wemme moved on to Montana, Tacoma and San Francisco before settling in Portland in the early 1880s. He
found employment repairing and installing awnings, eventually gaining the expertise to establish Willamette Tent &
Awning Company.
His company provided tents for the city of Seattle after
a devastating fire in 1889. Similar tragedies in Ellensburg
and Spokane also boosted tent sales. His tents were used
by the United States military in the Spanish American War
and by miners heading to the
Alaska Gold Rush.
Willamette Tent & Awning
was incorporated in 1906
by Wemme, Max S. Hirsch
and H.A. Weis. Hirsch was a
nephew of Aaron Meier of the
Meier & Frank Department
Store, and Weis was manager of
the company before the incorporation. A new building was
built at the corner of Burnside and Front Avenue (today’s
Naito Parkway) in 1907-08.
Wemme was listed in the Polk’s Portland City Directory
as president of the company between 1907 and 1910. He
retired in 1911 at the age of 50, divesting himself of his
interest in the firm and most of his other holdings.
Wemme continued as president of the Overlook Land
Company, which brought him much success.
His passion, however, was evidently for the horseless
carriage. In the late 1890s, he purchased the first automobile in Portland, a Locomobile Steamer, which he used for
company deliveries. He was the first president of the Portland Automobile Club and was an outspoken advocate for
roads for automobiles. He bought the Barlow Toll Road,
which later became part of the Mt. Hood Highway Loop.
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In 1914, while planning to upgrade a 4-mile portion of
the Barlow Toll Road, Wemme fell ill, forcing his temporary relocation, at doctor’s orders, to Southern California.
His personal secretary, Miss Jessie Carson, took over the
project and completed it.
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project’s completion:
“To the surprise and dismay of his nurse, E. Henry
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leaped out of his coddling blankets, whooped out his joy in
mixed German and English, and began to pirouette gaily
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News & Views
What’s wrong with the Pearl?
Neighbors take aim at ways to address deficiencies
By Allan Classen
While the popular Pearl District has its
critics, people who live and work here find
a lot to like. Which is not to say it couldn’t
be better.
That is the focus of an effort guided
by the Portland Bureau of Planning and
Sustainability to update the western quadrant of the 1988 Central City Plan, setting
land-use policies for the next 25 years.
“What are we missing?” asked Pearl
District Neighborhood Association President Patricia Gardner, in kicking off a
wide-ranging discussion of goals to strive
for.
land Development Commission’s changing
vision. A new proposal by Harsh Investments will be presented at PDC’s April 9
meeting.
Troy Doss, from the Bureau of Planning
and Development Services, conceded that
“the riverfront is tough to plan for.”
Retail vitality
Neighborhood representatives feel the
retail sector has not fulfilled expectations.
In the main, shops outside the Brewery
Blocks have not thrived, and many
residents say
Some retail spaces remain empty for
years, a sign that commercial space has been overbuilt.
River orientation
Better connection to the Willamette
River was high on everyone’s list. Neighbors feel separated from the river, unable to
readily see, touch or experience the water in
their daily lives. Much of the waterfront is
blocked by private development, and there
is no park or public attraction that serves
as a gathering place along the river’s edge.
Some believe retail space and multistory buildings facing the river in the
European style would be ideal. Others
want to limit the height of structures near
the river to protect river views from buildings farther inland.
PDNA board member Pat Lydon thinks
commercial and residential buildings on
the east side of Northwest Naito Parkway
block access to the river. Although there
are walkways through some of these complexes, there is no direct line of sight that
signals a person unfamiliar with the terrain
that they can reach the river.
In balancing the high-density versus
open space approach to taking advantage
of the river, Gardner said the neighborhood association has taken a middle view,
reflected in the general 100-foot height
limit there.
PDNA board member Daniel Dysert said massive subsidies are needed to
create active places along the river. The
best opportunity for such an attraction is
the Centennial Mills site, but a project
there has been sidetracked by the Port-
The bank south of Centennial Mills
is inaccessible to pedestrians, as are many
other sections along the river.
they cannot conveniently and affordably
find the daily necessities of life in their
neighborhood.
PDNA board member Kate Washington said groceries are too expensive for
poor people, and Safeway has not provided
a lower cost alternative to Whole Foods.
Some believe the customer base is too
small for the number of businesses, a product of zoning that requires active ground
floors in new construction.
“We don’t have enough customers to
support retail on every ground floor,” said
Bruce Wood.
“We don’t require ground floor retail,”
said Doss, “just active use, and developers
always go for retail.”
Karl Lisle, project manager for the
West Quadrant of the Central City Plan
update, said, “We talk a lot about retail.”
Lisle said research indicates that urban
neighborhoods, as a whole, cannot support their associated retail space.
“Do we let developers decide?” he
asked. “Should we get more proscriptive?”
Architect/developer Steve Pinger, who
has followed plans for the redevelopment
of Con-way’s property in the Northwest
District, said that according to a 2008
study by Eric Hovee, the 3,000 house-
holds expected to eventually populate this
area will support only four block faces of
retail. That ratio would suggest the Pearl
District has vastly overbuilt for retail.
Gardner said a mistake was made in
assuming shops and eateries could thrive
everywhere and therefore not designating
certain Pearl streets for retail. Hoyt Street
Properties, the Pearl’s largest developer, is
now concentrating retail at the corners of
parks, but “we may be too late” to find a
workable formula, she said.
Gardner offered another reason Pearl
retail struggles: landlords are charging
downtown rates, which are excessive for
this area.
“It’s driven retail away,” she said.
Transit
TriMet bus service has diminished even
as the North Pearl is built out and the
population of the area increases.
“We have no bus service north of
Glisan,” said Gardner, noting that only one
line runs between Burnside and Glisan.
“This will leave acres and acres and thousands of people out of luck.”
Without mentioning it, her comment
deemed the Portland Streetcar, which loops
through the district, as something less than
an important part of the transit network.
Gardner is worried that future North Pearl
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Board member Tom Harvey asked the
central question: “Is there a market for
market rate housing?”
Can families and people of average
incomes afford to live here without subsidies? Do households with children have to
move out when their offspring need their
own bedrooms?
Doss said families in market rate housing move out because they can’t afford
units large enough for their needs.
“We need middle-income housing,” said
Gardner. “We have high- and low-cost
housing.”
Doss said there is a growing demand for
both senior and student housing.
These factors are causing reconsideration of the generous bonuses for housing
that have largely shaped the Pearl District.
While most of the Pearl has been zoned
for a maximum floor-area ratio of 4:1 (a
measurement of density comparing the
total square footage of a building to the
size of the lot), a bonus of an additional 3:1
has been utilized for virtually every new
building in the past 15 years.
“The 3:1 residential bonus was very
generous,” said Doss, “but it worked. At the
time, no one was willing to build housing
downtown. As a result, more than 10,000
housing units have been built in the River
District (which includes the Pearl and Old
Town/Chinatown).
“It has obviously worked,” he said, in
terms of generating more housing.
On the other hand, he noted, “The city
wasn’t thinking of the kind of communities
that might evolve.”
While young and old flocked to the new
buildings, families have not, and people
who start families here tend to move out
as their children reach school age. And
because housing has been favored over
offices, there aren’t enough work places
that could allow large numbers of people
to commute on foot.
Doss and Gardner agree that the current
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The Pearl has no churches, no public
school building and no community center that brings the diverse sectors of the
population together. While some see these
as glaring deficiencies, others believe it’s a
matter of perspective.
“We don’t need our own library,” said
Dysert, noting that the central library is
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“point”—point towers are radically different from typical construction.
Point towers avoid the “canyon” effect
of large, blocky buildings that hide the sun
and sky. They also create a unique skyline,
an image that identifies a district and marks
its architectural attainment.
“Point towers are favored by some
because their thinner profile allows for
greater visual permeability and view protection,” said Troy Doss of the Bureau of
Planning and Sustainability. “They also
provide outstanding views for those who
occupy them.”
While no clear definition of a point
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tower exists, it generally refers to a building
that is very tall and relatively thin.
“The only building in Portland that is a
true point tower is the Benson Tower [on
the South Park Blocks],” said Doss. “It is
similar to the point towers that dominate
the Vancouver, B.C., skyline. These usually
have a floor-plate size of less than 8,000
square feet, some as low as 6,000 square
feet.”
Above a four-story base, the new Pearl
point tower will have 10,000 square feet
per floor, most having five or six living
units.
The unnamed building will be about
350 feet tall, with a total of 150-160 housing units and at least one parking space for
each unit. Penthouses will have two parking stalls.
The location between Northwest 10th,
th
11 , Northrup and Overton streets will be
adjacent to streetcar tracks, and for that
reason will have a higher than usual share
of retail on the ground level. The retail
spaces are envisioned as small, many about
600 square feet.
Before becoming reality, the project
must clear the city’s design review process.
A design advice session was scheduled
April 4, with final design review targeted
to begin in July.
Perhaps more importantly, the developer
must feel assured buyers are ready to pay
much higher prices for condominiums
than anything seen in Portland to date. If
all signals are go, construction could begin
as soon as October.
Hoyt Street President Tiffany Sweitzer
asked those in attendance if they thought
the pearl the market was ready for such a bold project. When asked about prices per square
foot, all she would say is “high.”
Unprecedented price levels could ripple
throughout the district. Gardner reminded
homeowners that the pounding of pile
drivers during construction will pay off in
higher property values for them.
Rick Gustafson has been a key player
in Portland development for 40 years and
is now president of Portland Streetcar Inc.
He believes point towers can make a dense
urban neighborhood work better for all of
its residents and visitors.
“I like the point towers better than the
blocks of buildings,” said Gustafson. “They
provide more light in the district and more
varied housing unit types.”
But the greatest benefit may be the possibility of more open space.
“There is more light and open space,
and it preserves our block system,” he said.
These advantages come at a price.
“My guess is that the condos will have
to sell for nearly $500 per foot,” said Gustafson, perhaps more for units with the
best views.
That would represent a return to the
peak prices paid in 2008 before the housing bubble burst.
Du Clos, a broker with Windermere,
expects the project will set new price standards for new construction. He believes the
market is ready for it.
“I don’t think they’ll have trouble selling
them, I really don’t,” said Du Clos. “The
market has only been going up since the
beginning of the year.”
He said a building such as this boosts
the local economy in several ways as current owners of Pearl condos step up to
higher-value units while selling their old
units. Property values in the entire district
rise in the process.
“It would definitely help the neighborhood by increasing overall property values,”
he said. “I think it’s exciting.”
A point tower suggests the Pearl District and Portland are entering an elite real
estate realm.
“They are expensive to build and thus
expensive to own or rent,” said Doss. “They
are common in Asia and increasingly in
New York, where the costs of construction
verses the cost of living in the inner city
pencil out better.”
He attributed the plethora of Vancouver
point towers more to urban planning and
housing policy than raw market forces.
This would be the first condominium
building erected in the Pearl since 2009,
when Hoyt Street Properties built The
Encore, a 15-story building at the southeast corner of The Fields Park. The new
point tower would be on the west side of
the park.
Although sales lagged for years at The
Encore, Sweitzer said 90 percent of the 177
units have been sold.
“The condo market is getting tight
now,” said Gardner, referring to a run of
recent rental projects that she called “the
apartment bubble.”
Long-delayed Fields Park to open in May
Allan Classen
Playground equipment on the south side of The Fields Park at Northwest 10th and
Overton streets was one of the elements delaying completion of the park.
Deadlines have been missed before,
but Portland Parks & Recreation officials are confident The Fields Park will
open to the public May 6.
A grand opening Friday, May 17,
will include live music, an art exhibit by
neighborhood children, appearances by
government and community leaders and
refreshments.
The latest schedule revises a promised
March 15 opening, which was scrapped
due to several problems, including safe-
ty concerns with the playground equipment that required intervention by the
manufacturer, according to Pearl District Neighborhood President Patricia
Gardner.
The originally target for completion
was in 2008.
Having already waited so long, Gardner said it is better to wait another two
months rather than begin using an
incomplete or flawed park.
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Dining & Entertainment
Chris Ryan
Bamboo Sushi:
Taking care of
the oceans
while setting a
fine plate
Chris Ryan
Chef Kevin Trinh prepares a Local roll, featuring albacore, red jalapeño, cucumbers and red
crab mixed with a spicy sesame aioli and flying fish roe.
All seafood in this roll is certified by the Marine Stewardship Council.
By Wendy Gordon
Bamboo Sushi is nothing if not ambitious. Founder and CEO Kristofor Lofgren aims to run “the most innovative and
creative restaurant group in America.”
Not only is their seafood impeccably
sourced (they are the first Marine Stewardship Council certified sushi restaurant in
the world), their tables and chopsticks are
hewed from sustainably grown hardwoods.
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Their to-go containers are biodegradable.
Their “core values” statement urges staff
to “feel free to be amazing to your fellow
teammate.” They’re even proud of their
low-flow toilets.
It would be tempting to dismiss all this
as Portlandia sanctimoniousness if it wasn’t
for two very important things. One is the
critical state of our oceans. Seventy-six
percent of the world’s fish populations are
overfished and many species are in immi-
p. 14-19
nent danger of becoming extinct. Unsustainable fishing practices such as trawling
kill many other forms of sea life, such as
sea turtles, sea birds and marine mammals.
The other is a desire to know what
one is putting in one’s mouth. Lost in the
controversy over “pink slime” was an even
more unsavory report about “tuna scrape,”
tuna detritus harvested under dicey conditions in the Indian Ocean that finds its way
into mass-produced sushi. A 2013 report
by Oceana, the ocean conservation nonprofit, suggested that two-thirds of the fish
in local sushi restaurants are mislabeled.
Occasionally this leads to health problems,
as in the case of escolar, which frequently
causes severe gastric distress, being substituted for “white tuna.”
Bamboo Sushi welcomed the scrutiny
of Oceana, which found only one disparity
at the restaurant (a squid was incorrectly
identified as coming from Japan). Bamboo
Sushi claims it can track its sources so
effectively because they deal directly with
small, local distributors, walking the docks
and speaking with the fishermen.
Bamboo Sushi is open only for dinner,
which our server Genevieve explained is
because it takes the staff all day to prepare
for the dinner meal. Many of the fish are
broken down from scratch (looking at
the whole fish, instead of a frozen slab, is
another good way to be sure of its identity)
and many other items, such as sauces and
pickles, are made in house.
The restaurant is surprisingly large, with
a small, serene dining room to the front, a
large bar area with high tables and stools,
and another dining area with tables by the
sushi bar. The atmosphere is friendly and
calm.
Despite the name, the menu is wideranging, featuring Asian fusion specialties,
such as fish and chips with edamame mash,
house-made vinegar and shiso tartar sauce;
and a hanger steak with mushrooms and
puffed rice. There’s a great selection of
vegetables too: grilled asparagus or seaweed salads, a variety of tempuras and tofu
tossed with shitake mushrooms.
The drink list features a superb but
expensive selection of sakés, as well as beer,
wine and craft cocktails.
But we were there for the sushi. For sustainability reasons, you won’t find octopus,
mackerel, yellowtail or unagi (freshwater
eel). But you will find plenty of wild salmon, shrimp, sea eel (manago), albacore tuna
and East Coast red crab, as well as some
unusual items such as giant clams and flying fish roe.
One of our favorite rolls was the Lucky
13: albacore, cucumber and avocado inside
the seaweed roll, with a luscious spread of
red crab, scallop, flying fish roe, and cilantro on top. We also enjoyed Chasing the
Dragon, a flatter roll of shrimp tempura,
spicy tuna, red crab, cucumbers, avocado
and flying fish roe.
MSC Local was another flat roll featuring albacore, red jalapeño, cucumbers
and red crab mixed with a spicy sesame
aioli and flying fish roe. Definitely the
most unusual roll we tried was the Ring of
Fire, comprised of fried oysters, cucumber,
pickled burdock root, albacore and jalapeño
marmalade topped with fried shallots and
yuzu (an Asian citrus) juice. The potent
flavor of the oysters dominated the roll, but
was moderated perfectly by its sweet, tangy
accompaniments.
Every ingredient in these rolls maintained a distinct character, in contrast
to most sushi I’ve eaten, in which the
ingredients meld into an indistinguishable
mixture. I’m not sure whether this is due
to the high quality of the ingredients, how
they are cut or more generous than usual
amounts. Even the soy sauce, pickled ginger (free of artificial color and sweetener)
and wasabi tasted like the best of their
class.
Integrity and artisanship does not come
cheap. Rolls at Bamboo Sushi range from
$5 for a simple vegetarian roll to upwards
or $13 for the signature rolls described
above. In contrast, a roll at Sushiville
averages $2.25. Our instinct was to order
mindfully and savor each bite. We ended
our meal with Albacore Carpaccio, five
exquisite strips of thinly slice albacore with
a mix of house-smoked cippolini onions,
pickled shitake mushrooms and chervil
tossed in a citrus ponzu sauce. We rolled
these up, popped them in our mouths and
delighted in their perfection. And we were
satisfied.
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Vol. 19, No. 6
“News You Can’t Always Believe”
going out
Happy
Hour Hits
April, 2013
Half-Fast Cook Finds A Home At Nobbys
When Chris applied for a job at Nob Hill Bar
& Grill and described himself as a half-fast cook,
owner Greg Hermens was taken aback. It wasn’t
until Greg watched Chris cook and witnessed his
smooth pace and graceful moves that Greg began
to understand. The proof was in Chris’s food, which
was delicious and always on time. “You see” Chris
says, “I’m not too quick and I’m not too slow, I’m
just right, I’m half fast!”
Greg is asking his entire staff to learn from Chris.
It seems to be working. When Gabe the bartender
arrived 15 minutes late for work one day, he proudly
explained he walked to work using the half-fast
method. Greg understood and realized a lot of his
employees had been using the technique for years
and didn’t even know it!
“My eyes have been opened!” exclaims Greg.
“One of our regulars, Keith, will order a beer and
then go outside for a smoke, his beer left sitting until
his return. Now I understand! Keith is just a half-fast
beer drinker!”
Employees and customers have all noticed
the change in Greg. “It’s a lot nicer to work here
since Greg adopted his “half-fast philosophy” says
Hillary, the bartender. Greg is thinking of putting a
“Half-Fast Burger” on the menu. “In this fast-paced
world, you have to stop and smell the burgers, and
once Nobby’s is up to speed, I’ll be proud to invite
everyone to come meet our entire “Half-Fast Staff!”
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Story and photo
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dark peanut sauce that was a refreshing change from the more common coconutbased condiment. Jicama rolls ($2.50) had an unexpected and odd fishy taste. A
grilled lemongrass pork bánh mì sandwich ($4) was juicy without being too wet,
a delicate achievement. Kalbi beef short ribs and fish sauce wings, both priced $6,
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going out Community
Events
Molly Jones
Reynolds on trees
Neighborhood resident Phyllis Reynolds will discuss the latest edition of
her 1993 book, “Trees of Greater Portland,” Sunday, April 14, 2 p.m., at Hoyt
Arboretum Visitor Center, 4000 SW
Fairview Blvd. On Saturday, April 27,
at 3 p.m., she will speak at Portland
Audubon Society’s Heron Hall, 5151
NW Cornell Rd., in celebration of Arbor
Phyllis Reynolds, author of
Month.
“Trees of Greater Portland,” has two
speaking engagements in the neighborhood
E.J. Dionne speaks
this month.
Washington Post columnist E.J. Dionne
lectures on “Personal Faith and Public Policy” at Congregation Beth Israel, 1931 NW and the Lela, Kenya Water Project,” ZachFlanders St., Sunday, May 5, at 5 p.m. His ary Dunn, public policy graduate student,
most recent book is “Souled Out: Reclaim- Oregon State University.
April 16: “Lincoln & Qatar Foundation
ing Faith & Politics After the Religious
Right” (2008). The event, which is free and International,” Peyton Chapman, principal,
open to the public, is underwritten by the Lincoln High School.
Oseran Family Fund.
April 23: “The Mad Hatter,” Dayna
Pinkham, owner, Pinkham Millinery.
Rotary speakers
April 30: “Hollywood Theatre: EmbracPortland Pearl Rotary Club, which ing the Future While Honoring The Past,”
meets at the Ecotrust Building, 721 NW Doug Whyte, executive director, Film
Ninth Ave., every Tuesday at 7:25 a.m., Action Oregon.
announced this month’s speakers. The
meetings are open to the public. The $10 Arboretum work days
charge includes breakfast. For information,
Volunteers are invited to meet at the
contact George Wright at georgec3pub@ Hoyt Arboretum Visitor Center, 4000 SW
comcast.net or 503-223-0268.
Fairview Blvd., at 8 a.m., Tuesday, April
April 9: “Engineers Without Borders 9, and Friday, April 26, to help plant and
mulch trees. Wear work clothes and bring will be held Friday, April 12, 6:30 p.m., at
water and a snack. Gloves and tools will be Friendly House, 1737 NW 26th Ave. Chilprovided. No registration required.
dren and parents/caregivers are invited to
bring instruments—guitars, ukeleles, perGoose Hollow slide show cussion, etc.—to participate in a raucous,
Tracy Prince, author of “Portland’s all-ages jam session. A donation of $5-$10
Goose Hollow,” will present a slide show per family is suggested.
with rare photos from the city’s earliest
days Wednesday, May 1, 6-7:30 p.m., at p:earblossoms auction p:ear, a Northwest Portland-based nonthe Northwest Library, 1700 NW 23rd
Ave. Scenes include the Great Plank Road profit that works with homeless youth,
( Jefferson/Canyon Road), Tanner Creek, holds its 11th annual benefit auction and
Couch Lake, Chinese vegetable gardens dinner Saturday, May 4, 6-9:30 p.m., at
and Native American encampments in the 800 SE 10th Ave. More than 100 travel and
gulch.
party experiences will be up for silent auction. An aerial performance will be providSenior Trips
ed by The Circus Project in a human-sized
Friendly House Senior Recreational metal birdcage. Tickets are $125 a seat or
Trips in April will visit the Northwest $1,000 for a table of 10.
Annual Quilt Show (April 11), Wasco
County Historical Museum and the Discovery Hikes
Columbia Gorge Discovery Center (April
Forest Park Conservancy sponsors guid18) and Ridgefield National Wildlife Ref- ed hikes in April.
uge (April 25). Transportation is providSaturday, April 6: “Invasive Action,”
ed by Ride Connection. To sign up, call with Graham Klag, Forest Park ConserAlberta or Carol at Friendly House at vancy.
503-224-2640.
Saturday, April 13: “The Migration is
On!” with Marcy Houle, author of “One
Chronic conditions
City’s Wilderness.”
Friendly House hosts a free six-week
Sunday, April 14: “Forest Park Women’s
Living Well with Chronic Conditions Walk,” with Mikala Soroka, Forest Park
workshop Fridays 1-3:30 p.m., at 1737 Conservancy.
NW 26th Ave. The class will help individuSaturday, April 27: “Herb Walk,” with
als identify resources, reduce impacts of a National College of Natural Medicine
symptoms and give greater control of daily student.
living. Call Alberta at 503-224-2640 to
Sunday, April 28: “Holding on to Habiregister or for more information.
tat,”
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feature
Shaarie Torah rabbi finds
balance in transition
By Carol Wells
The rabbi’s phone is barking like a dog.
It’s a text to let him know that a woman he’s
been helping find work has just been hired.
Why that particular ringtone?
“It drives my wife nuts.”
Rabbi Arthur Zuckerman has a way of
blending the divine with the down to earth.
Four months ago, Rabbi Zuckerman’s
congregation, Shaarie Torah, on Northwest
25th and Lovejoy, switched to Conservative
Judaism, ending more than 100 years as an
Orthodox congregation.
The primary driver was the congregation’s shrinking membership. By adopting a
more modern approach that imposes fewer
strictures on daily life, the board hopes to
attract new members.
Why this switch?
The rabbi explains with a story about
himself. He comes from an Orthodox part
of Brooklyn.
“When you grow up in that kind of insulated community, life is pretty simple.”
When he entered the University of
Maryland, everything changed. A class he
couldn’t miss fell on a Jewish holiday (when
one is not supposed to work).
“You realize,” he tells me, “now you have
to negotiate things.”
His professor offered a compromise: It
was OK for him to attend the class, but not
to write.
“I started stepping out of the realm of
Orthodoxy and looking at the big world and
saying, ‘How can I accomplish more and not
sell my soul?’” he says.
Shaarie Torah has been an Orthodox
synagogue in name only for quite some time,
he says.
“I would venture to say the majority were
not Orthodox by the time the 1990s rolled
around.”
You can count on one hand the people
that walk here on a Saturday, he says, referring to the traditional prohibition against
driving on the Sabbath.
On a shelf in the rabbi’s spacious office
(it has to be, what with the pool table) is
a snapshot of the rabbi with a horse. The
rabbi, yarmulke in place, is holding half an
apple in his teeth and leaning toward the
horse. The horse, whose ears are angled
forward indicating all is well in the world,
is about to take the apple. It is a moment
of unselfconscious love between two happy
creatures.
In addition to feeding them apples, the
rabbi works with horses and the people who
ride them. He is the chaplain at the Portland
Police Mounted Patrol Unit. The rabbi also
works with prisoners, traveling to Coffee
Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville
to hold classes and services, during which
he gives the blessing using challah, an eggy
After being forced to move for urban renewal and again for a freeway, Shaarie
Torah has been at Northwest 25th and Lovejoy for the past 50 years.
Rabbi Zuckerman in his role as chaplain
of the Police Bureau Mounted Patrol with
Murphy, the unit's newest member.
Jewish holiday bread, and grape juice to
substitute for the prohibited wine.
“People would say to you, ‘He’s very rigid.’
I don’t drive on Shabbat (Sabbath), although
if it’s a medical emergency I’ll be there. My
wife says, ‘If it’s a medical emergency, why
don’t they call a doctor? Why are they calling you?’”
He is fine with the board and the congregation’s decision to move to Conservative
Judaism: “I’m comfortable either way. It’s
not going to change my practice of how I
do things.
“We haven’t modified the services other
than women doing stuff,” he explains.
This business of women doing stuff is
part of a process that has been going on for
many years at Shaarie Torah, and the rabbi
approves. He has nothing but support for
women “breaking into the old boys’ club.”
I eavesdrop while the rabbi helps a glowing young couple plan their wedding. There
is some talk about the ring, and I later ask
about that.
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feature A Jewish wedding ring cannot have any
stones on it, he explains, and hers has a diamond. So he was advising her to get a plain
band for the ceremony.
“I need three things for a Jewish wedding,” he says. “I need a man and a woman, a
ring and two witnesses. If the two witnesses
see the man give the ring to the woman, and
he recites the traditional verse, we’re done.”
What if she insists on wearing her own
diamond ring during the ceremony?
He will still do the marriage, he answers.
Why not use his influence to push someone to follow the customs?
“What do I accomplish?”
The window in the rabbi’s office frames a
tree that is covered with pink blossoms.
“There’s my squirrel!” exclaims the rabbi,
pointing. “He’s running around on the lefthand side. I put out food this morning.”
And then I think I get it.
What is up for negotiation? The nature
of religious divisions. The rules and regulations for a wedding. The way a congregation
wishes to define itself.
What is set in stone? Dogs. Horses.
First responders. A loving marriage. Women
whose religion gives them the same dignity
as men. People who need help finding a job.
Prisoners. Squirrels.
Shaarie Torah history
In early 1905, a small group of Jewish men began meeting in Portland
stores and homes to hold minyanim.
Eventually, the topic of organizing a
synagogue came up. After months of
organizing and fundraising, this group
founded Shaarie Torah. Under the able
leadership of Joseph Nudelman, the
group purchased a Presbyterian church
on Southwest Third Avenue and moved
it to First Avenue, south of Hall Street.
Shaarie Torah was the first Orthodox
synagogue established in the Pacific
Northwest, predating even San Francisco. The congregation’s services were well
attended and its members were leaders
in the Portland community.
In 1952, the city of Portland designated the synagogue’s location an urban
renewal area. So synagogue leaders
established a building fund campaign
to purchase land on Southwest Park
Avenue and construct a new structure,
which was completed in 1960.
But, within six months, the route of
the I-405 freeway was announced and
the new synagogue was in its path. After
many meetings with the state highway
commission, an agreement for compensation was reached. Land was then purchased at Northwest 25th and Lovejoy
and plans drawn for a new synagogue,
which was dedicated in 1963.
Congregation Shaarie Torah has had
only eight rabbis in the last 102 years.
Rabbi Joseph B. Fain, a Lithuanian
scholar, served from the early 1930s
until his retirement in 1949. Rabbi
Yonah Geller served from 1960 until
2000, followed by Rabbi David Rosenberg until 2006 and now by the current
rabbi, Arthur Zuckerman.
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The Extraordinary Life
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In the decade of the 1890s, just before the dawn of a new century,
American society was going through a transition; from the gilded age of
robber barons and monopolistic trusts, into the progressive era, a time
known for great social reforms. From horses and trains to automobiles
and airplanes. Change was everywhere. Through it all, Oregon-born
cartoonist Homer Davenport was there, wielding his pen to spray a
steady stream of caustic caricatures onto the notables and notorious of
the global political scene. But who was Homer Davenport?
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Passengers and community
TriMet continues to blame its budget woes on the cost of transit workers’ health care. We don’t apologize that we and management
agreed on decent health insurance over the years. Everyone should have the same coverage, and many in our community do.
Yet, our health insurance costs more. Why? It’s because we need medical treatment more often. Countless studies have found
that the transit worker’s job is more stressful and physically damaging than almost every other job.
Fact: Transit workers become disabled
and die younger than people working in other
occupations.
(Source: National Institutes of Health)
Fact: Transit workers suffer more often
from serious diseases including: cancer, heart
failure, urinary/gastrointestinal/kidney failure,
strokes, diabetes and musculoskeletal damage.
(Source: National Institutes of Health)
Fact: Transit workers have the highest
incidence of on-the-job injury, even higher
than police and firemen.
(Source: U.S. Dept. of Labor)
Fact: Transit workers rank third as
victims of on-the-job assaults, just behind
police and corrections officers.
(Source: U.S. Dept. of Labor)
StreSS iS the number one cauSe of major
health problemS for tranSit workerS
and is linked directly to obesity and heart disease. The second cause is one that may surprise
people—no opportunity to use the restroom. Computerized transit schedules leave operators
with little or no time for breaks. How do we cope? Two ways. We “hold it” for hours, and we
keep ourselves dehydrated—often drinking nothing in a 14-hour stretch. Daily “holding it”
and voluntary dehydration damage our internal organs, causing catastrophic long-term effects
on our health.
Being confined to the driver’s seat for long hours is the third major cause of illness and injury.
That immobility, as well as constant road vibration, have been linked to a wide range of chronic
health conditions.
Finally, we recognize that many in our community suffer from the high cost of health care in
the U.S. We understand that, given the current state of TriMet’s finances, we are going to have to
shoulder more of the health care burden created by our jobs. At the same time, there is a much
larger issue looming over this discussion. That is the need for every American to have access to
decent, affordable health care. The richest nation in the world should not rank 37th in health
care. We must address this critical issue together, in our community, our state and our country.
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Finance & Real Estate City expands stadium parking program
The city of Portland has expanded the Jeld-Wen
Field Event District parking program boundaries to
cope with demand.
“By expanding the event district down to 12th
Avenue, we now manage an additional 182 on-street
parking spaces for a total of 631 spaces for events at
Jeld-Wen Field,” said city Traffic Engineer Robert
Burchfield.
The event parking rate of $3.50 per hour in the
event district applies during event hours, more than
double the regular rate of $1.60.
More information is available trimet.org and portlandoregon.gov/transportation/timbers.
Downtown residents Samantha Bailey and Jeremiah Barton
exercise their dog on Block 7.Samantha Bailey and Jeremiah
Barton exercise their dog on Block 7.
MAC pursues
parking structure
The Multnomah Athletic Club and Mill Creek Residential Trust are proceeding with a joint venture to create
more than 400 underground parking spaces topped by a
six- or seven-story apartment building.
Sam Rodriguez, managing director of Mill Creek,
announced to the Goose Hollow Foothills League last
month that he believes the development will not need a
zone change, as earlier assumed. A pre-application conference with city officials in April may clarify the approval
process.
The project would provide 225 parking stalls and six or
seven short-term residential units for use by MAC members, plus another 179 stalls serving 200 market rate rental
apartments. The site is bounded by Southwest 19th, 20th,
Main and Madison streets.
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Air bill continued from page 1
Mary Peveto’s campaign for
cleaner air was featured last year in
The Oregonian.
ten metals, an emission-causing technique
employed since the foundry was built in
1913. As a result of the audit, the company
modified procedures to eliminate about 70
percent of the dump backs.
Former ESCO environmental affairs
manager Carter Webb told a Neighborhood Advisory Committee last year that
the modifications produced a more efficient, cost-effective process.
Peveto said this is an example of the type
of improvements HB 2336 could engender
statewide.
Neighbors For Clean Air attorney John
Krallman testified that “until DEQ and
the stakeholders have detailed information on possible reductions and
their costs, this evaluation cannot take place.”
Greenlick called DEQ “in
many ways a reluctant partner
when working on industrial sites
of air pollution.”
He said the bill “would give
DEQ the opportunity to do some
really effective things.”
On the other hand, “DEQ could
drag their heels as they’ve done in
the past, and then it will be only
somewhat effective.”
ESCO did not testify on the bill,
but it is represented by Associated
Oregon Industries, which opposes it.
Neighbors For Clean Air hosts an
appearance by activist Lois Gibbs,
whose campaign to protect her children from pollution at Love Canal 35
years ago led to creation of the federal
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daily. Lorrainen pie with chicken combines apple onion
stuffing with Parmesan cheese, much like a quiche. They
also have a liquor license. Manager Nicolo Rodeo said
they’ve hired 27 employees. They serve Portland Roasters coffee and Grand Central Bakery bread. Theobroma
means “aroma of the gods,” and the café’s trademark is the
blossom of the cacao plant.
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Nicolo Rodeo, manager at Cafe Theobroma.
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Owner Sergei Udalov’s other café is in the Ukraine,
and that’s not the only source of cosmopolitan flavor. He’s
selected a chef trained in France to prepare French and
Italian fare. The menu includes fresh omelets, sandwiches,
soups, sweet and savory crépes and pastries made in-house
A 50-seat, campfire-themed restaurant opened in the
former Music Millennium space last month. The Oregon
Corporate Division lists Richard Singer as the principal
owner. The website also lists Sue Erickson and Wendy Viyarda Marson of Thai Noodle Etc.
Hessel as owners. Portland Monthly interviewer Allison
Jones described an interior designed to reflect elements of
open flame: a floor-to-ceiling fireplace and an open-fire
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21st and Kearney. They feature meatless “burgers” (made the true taste of Thailand and how it tastes in the streets
from mushrooms or roasted vegetables with nuts and ber- and homes of Thailand.” Yen Ta Fo (noodle soup with
ries), lasagna, press-grilled sandwiches, soups and salads. red bean sauce) features shrimp, calamari, fish balls, tofu
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Twist Frozen Yogurt will open its second location in the new Savier
Flats building at Northwest 23rd and Savier streets in July. Twist owners
Jan and Scott Tullis opened their first store in Forest Heights in 2011.
“This is like the Louisiana Purchase to us,” said Jan Tullis, a teacher at
Chapman School. ... National art supply giant Blick Art Supplies, which
acquired Portland’s Art Media and opened a store in the Pearl last year,
recently took over Utrecht Art Supplies, a current competitor in the
Pearl District. ... Seattle-based Lake Union Partners recently broke
ground on the Addy, a 104-unit apartment building on Northwest 18th
between Northrup and Overton streets. ... Cinema 21 owner Tom Ranieri has applied for permits to build two smaller auditoriums (50 and 80
seats) in the vacant former Windermere Real Estate building directly
north of the theater. ... New owners of the historic No. 17 Firehouse
at 824 NW 24th Ave. plan to restore the interior original condition as
closely as possible. It will be used as their single-family dwelling. ... The
Yoga Space opened its second location at 210 NW 17th Ave. in February. The other location is in Southeast Portland. ... Vanillawood, an
interior design firm, opened a retail shop at 1238 NW Glisan St. in the
space formerly occupied by Knit Knot Knitting. ... Niko Sushi now
occupies the former home of Love Via Crepes at 1019 NW 23rd Ave. ...
Sloan Boutique is adding a shoe store next door at 728 NW 23rd Ave.
... Harsh Investments’ proposal to redevelop the Centennial Mills site
will be unveiled at a Portland Development Commission meeting April
9. ... Meriwether’s Restaurant is building offices for the business at the
western edge of its parking lot. ... The Goose Hollow Foothills League
board refused to support neighbors seeking adjustments in the design of
Jefferson Street Flats, a 134-unit apartment building next to the MAX
stop at 19th Avenue, was approved by the Portland Design Commission last month. Residents of the adjacent Arbor Vista Condominiums
considered at appeal but were not supported by Goose Hollow Foothills
League and dropped the idea.
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Tracy Vicario will be the next president of Portland Pearl Rotary.
Moving to Portland from Lafayette, Calif., in 2010, she became
membership chair of the club and boosted membership from 40 to
71. “My friends and family could not understand how I could leave
California and move to a place where we did not know anyone,” said
Vicario. “I told them I would join Rotary and make 50 new friends.”
When neighborhood resident Vernon Vinciguerra noticed the traffic hazard created by
interruption of the Northwest 19th Avenue bike lane at Johnson during construction of an
apartment building in early March, he submitted photos and observations to the Portland
Bureau of Transportation. “This is a heavily-used bike corridor and several near car-bike
collisions have already accrued,” he wrote. Later in the month, the lane was restriped.
The Linnton Community Center playground has named
Melody Playground after Linnton resident Martha Melody
Gordon (back row), who with her husband Glen donated property to expand the center’s grounds several years ago. The yellow
sign was created by Linnton artist and center board member
Ivan McLean (left).
Susan Saphone of 2146 NW Everett St. is having a dispute with the nextdoor property owner, who trims the limbs off Saphone’s giant camellia tree that
extend over the property line. Saphone, a member of the American Camellia
Society, believes it may be the largest specimen of its type in the city and does
not want it trimmed. The neighbor, Angela Crandall, said, “I have no intention of harming this beautiful tree. I only want to maintain safety for my tenants on my property.” Portland tree expert Phyllis Reynolds said she’d advise
Saphone to let Crandall “cut off a few branches. Camellia petals can be very
slippery and dangerous when it rains.”
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Volunteers Ralph Wells and Mike Kennedy prepare Lift Urban Portland food boxes every
Friday for delivery at the agency’s warehouse. The following Tuesday, the boxes go to a
LUP pantry, where volunteers add fresh produce.
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