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DECEMBER 9, 2014
FROM ROCKAWAY BEACH TO
LA RAMBLA, VACASA GOES GLOBAL
INSIDE
PORTLAND’S
FAMILY ROOM
FAMILY
TRADITIONS AT
THE RINGSIDE
THE LANDPORT
LOCKS IT DOWN
VACATION
NATION
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BY JOSEPH GALLIVAN
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BUSINESS TRIBUNE 3
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
SU
CASA
Vacation rental management firm Vacasa
is growing at warp speed, although not
all the hires are visible to Oregonians
TRIBUNE PHOTO:
VIRGINIA WERNER
BY JOSEPH GALLIVAN
V
acation rental company
Vacasa is hiring 6,000
new employees in 2015.
This is a data-driven
company with some Phd. mathematicians on staff, so that number
(attractively round, impressively
large) has the seal of approval of
its team of data analysts.
Chief Strategy Officer Scott Breon, whose brother Eric founded Vacasa in 2009, stresses that 500 of
those jobs will be in Portland.
It will hire technology, analytics,
and marketing positions, including
a Chief Technology Officer, Director of Engineering, developers, Analytics Director, analysts, Marketing Director, PR Director, opera-
tions coordinators, and sales coordinators — all living wage jobs,
from the looks of them.
Vacasa is in the business of persuading more people to rent out
their second homes, and finding
more tourists to rent them. It takes
the property management burden
away from owners, hires caretakers and tries to raise the standard
of customer service from homey to
classy. Currently, it has 1,300 properties on its books, mostly in the
west and southwest, but it is just
expanding into Central America.
Belize and Mexico are coming online this week.
Like Airbnb, the homes are professionally photographed for the
COVER: Scott
Breon, ÐChief
Strategy Officer
at vacation
rental company
Vacasa, and Cliff
Johnson, Chief
Operating
Officer, in their
burgeoning
Portland office.
(Photo onathan
House) ABOVE:
Breon after a
Wednesday allhands meeting,
where keeping
up with change
is half the job.
web. Vacasa catalogs every amenity and markets them to customers
old and new. Both sites were born
out of the Great Recession, when
people were desperate for cash, either to just pay their rent or hold
on to their second home.
“But we’re like Amazon, they’re
like ebay,” says Scott Breon. “We
own the vertical.” Breon suggests
that Airbnb renters and owners
have the hassle of dealing directly
with each other, whereas Vacasa
people have professional intermediaries — managers, maintenance
people, cleaners — to do all the
worrying. .
“In traditional hotel management you had one or two employ-
Plans for expansion
Vacasa plans to expand to
Canada, Mexico, Central America,
South America, and Europe. This
includes Tuscany and the Amalfi
Coast in Italy, as well as Barcelona
and Costa del Sol in Spain.
Additional international destinations include Santiago, Chile,
Nicaragua, Panama, and Ecuador.
ees manage pricing, and the prices
depended on, does the room face
the ocean, or does the room not
face the ocean? We have 1,300
properties, each with its own ame-
nities and history and data, and we
can’t hire a person for each one to
set the price.” Instead, Vacasa staff
pride themselves on the rate optimization software which was built
in-house.
Breon compares pricing a vacation home to selling a peach at a
farmer’s market, its price varying
with how ripe it is. He also compares it to bringing a train into a
station at exactly the right place to
pick up the most passengers.
The website uses everything an
API can slurp up: weather feeds,
the calendar and customer data, to
change prices accordingly. They’ll
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■ From page 3
Vacasa Headquarters
hold off the customer who will only spend $100 a night for the one it
knows will spend $200 a night.
He is proud that the 260 properties for which there was a twoyear data set showed that the pricing system brought an average 21
per cent increase in revenue for
the homeowners.
“Any company would want
that.”
Vacasa’s headquarters, a salmon colored building above a boot
camp gym at N. Shaver St. and
Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard,
is its fifth home in two years because it grows so quickly. According to Lisa Hovey, Director of Internal Communications and Planning, Vacasa hired 425 people between December 2013 and December 2104. She has been with the
firm three months.
Looking around the room full of
programmers, Breon has a hard
time finding anyone who has been
there more than three months.
Many coders, sales and marketing
work remotely (that is, from
home). His top copywriter works
“from a cabin in the woods four
days a week, and she just spent six
weeks traveling in China,” he says.
The bulk of the hires will be scattered around the world, managing
and cleaning homes, and some doing sales and marketing. They are
paid hourly but they are staff, according to Breon, who stresses the
local community should be enriched not impoverished by the vacation rental business.
They are the locals in communities such as Lake Tahoe, California/Nevada; Vail, Colorado; and
Rockaway Beach on the Oregon
Coast.
The current vogue is to call
yourself a technology company
that just happens to deal in an old
industry, like taxi service, renting
beach cabins and matchmaking
singles. Uber, Vacasa and OKCupid all talk proudly of their algorithms making markets more efficient. Breon’s (and his brother’s)
background is in analyzing data,
and he needs to hire more people
like himself as the data explode.
But this company also depends
on finding non-technical people in
small towns to make beds, plug in
modems and unplug toilets, on a
24/7 basis. Vacasa rents storage
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Vacasa Executives Brian Butler, Tiffany Hadaller, Scott Breon, Kimberly White, Lisa Hovey in their headquarters on Martin
Luther King Jr Blvd.
units to hold supplies like paper
towels and cleaning products.
Staff routes and drive times are
optimized out of the Portland office. Cleaners who consistently
score higher than others are offered more work first.
Kimberly White, VP of Operations, is in charge of “Maintenance, guest services, owner services...Everything that happens
when you need to go in and out of
a home.” She uses ads on Craigslist and has staff “put up flyers at
the hardware store. They attend
PTA meetings and find teachers
who want to work their summers
cleaning rooms for extra cash.”
They are given smartphones
with an app lets them take photos
of damage and report it, and log
their hours and detailed checklists
of work.
While many things have been
automated — the app for tracking
work hours — certain things remain labor intensive.
Lisa Hovey, has an engineering
background and worked at Nike
for four years.
PRESIDENT
VICE PRESIDENT
J. Mark Garber
Brian Monihan
EDITOR AND
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ADVERTISING DIRECTOR
Vance W. Tong
Christine Moore
On her first day
as an intern at
Vacasa, UO
graduate Taylor
Gemmet, 23,
was put to work
on the
company’s
brand identity.
Branding is
important for
unifying a
piecemeal
industry like
vacation rentals.
Hovey says the company is
“Very email heavy, but we’re
working on a central internal communications system,” where office
staff log in and a dashboard shows
them their relevant announcements and new tasks.
Right now she sends weekly updates in the field, where managers
often print them out for less tech
savvy people. “We can break the
data down by ways that interest
CIRCULATION
MANAGER
Kim Stephens
CREATIVE
SERVICES MANAGER
Cheryl DuVal
them, like how many beds were
made this week. It gives them a
sense of ownership.”
“We’re doing best practice improvements but we don’t want it to
ever feel corporate, or bogged
down in bureaucracy,” says Lisa
Hovey. She knows that from her
time at Nike, where she says staff
would “throw people under the
bus” to protect their turf.
“We want to keep agile and be a
team, and support each other to
make decisions about things they
are an expert in.”
Rapid growth has a look and a
sound. Freshly unpacked computer and monitor boxes still sit next
to desks. IKEA bookshelves act as
dividers and staff use noise-cancelling headphones when the energy level peaks or the gym bass
gets too loud below.
At the all-hands Wednesday
meeting last week, there was a
new-school-year feel. There were
announcements about the smoothest Thanksgiving weekend ever,
new hires and new babies. Of the
75 who work in the Portland office,
at least a third are female. The
word went out from Accounts that
printing checks in-house was
working well, but did anyone
know an accountant looking for
work?
Lisa Hovey’s background is in
engineering. Her sister Marsha
Hovey is a graphic designer working on the brand image. (In addition to the Breon siblings, there
are four sets of sisters at Vacasa.)
“You have to learn who your audience is,” says Marsha Hovey.
Her pinboard is festooned with
travel magazine imagery. She
came out of marketing ski resorts
to young guys. “This is a bit more
middle-aged, people 30 to 60.”
Next to her was new intern Taylor Gemmet, 23, a recent University of Oregon BFA graduate. “I saw
an ad on Indeed.com, I think,” she
said. Gemmet didn’t have much
vacation experience — Florida,
Idaho, Washington — let alone vacation rental management experience. But she studied the firm and
passed the test to design a business card. Now she really is redesigning the Vacasa business card.
Things move quickly.
“We’ve got five recruiters in
our Idaho office,” says Breon. “But
I need more. I need to hire people
to hire people.”
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Joseph Gallivan
Jonathan House, Jaime Valdez
DESIGN
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Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Anna’s Bridal in new, roomier space
Anna’s Bridal
By BARB RANDALL
Pamplin Media Group
402 N. State Street
Lake Oswego
Hours: 9:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m.
Monday through Friday; 9:30 a.m. to
1:30 p.m. Saturdays; and by
appointment.
Phone: 503-636-1474
Website: annasbridal.com
A
nna’s Bridal Boutique
and Bridal Bliss have
moved to 402 North State
St. in downtown Lake Oswego. At 4,000 square feet, the new
space provides much more showroom space, plus private dressing
and viewing rooms.
Owned by Anna Totonchy, Anna’s Bridal consistently wins regional and national awards. It features elegant designer gowns and
accessories — such as necklaces,
headpieces, veils, shoes and anything else you might want — for
brides, bridesmaids, mothers of
the bride and flower girls. Totonochy’s daughter, Nora Sheils, offers
in-house wedding coordination
through her own award-winning
business, Bridal Bliss.
“We’ve always carried accessories and shoes, but we never had
room to show them,” Sheils said.
The new space has three private
dressing rooms, as well as gown
storage and a separate dressing
room for alterations.
“We’ve doubled our space for al-
SUBMITTED PHOTOS
Anna Totonchy and her daughter, Nora Sheils, have moved their businesses, Anna’s Bridal Boutique and Bridal Bliss, to 40 2
N. State Street in Lake Oswego. The larger space allows for easier display of gowns plus private dressing/ viewing rooms
and twice the space for alterations.
terations,” Sheils said. She said
they had been looking for a larger
space for some time, as their previous location was far too small.
When they found the space at the
corner of State Street and A Avenue, they had only a week and a
half to complete the renovations
necessary. Renovation included
knocking out a wall, laying new
flooring, adding storage, painting,
installing new lighting and more.
“We were only closed three days,”
Sheils said. “It’s amazing how more
open the space is.”
It is so spacious, in fact, that
gowns can be arranged by designer,
most of which are exclusive to Anna’s Bridal. The larger space also
makes holding trunk shows for the
designers a possibility. The schedule
of trunk shows currently includes
Hayley Paige on Jan. 30 and 31, 2015,
followed by Modern Trousseau on
Feb. 6 and 7 and Marisa on Feb. 27
and 28.
Bridal Bliss, the wedding coordination arm of the operation, also has
comfortable space in the store. Sheils
has won awards for the business
since it began and has been voted
Portland Best Wedding Planner from
2010 to 2014 by Oregon Bride Magazine. Sheils has 11 planners on staff
currently, and is just two events shy
of totally 100 events in 2014.
“Bridal Bliss is a full service wedding planning business,” Sheils said.
“We can help you with every step of
the way, or just the day of the event.”
The goal of Anna’s Bridal Boutique is to exceed their customers’
expectations and provide a shopping
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Tuesday, December 9, 2014
IT’S Y OUR PERSONAL LOCKBOX
The Landport keeps
packages from being
stolen off your porch
Access for your
delivery service driver
I
t happens often. You stroll
along the street and you notice
a package propped up against
your neighbor’s front door. You
wonder if the box contains an inexpensive pair of socks or a pricey
piece of electronic equipment. Hard
to tell, but you get the nagging feeling the package is vulnerable.
A Portland woman has come to
the rescue by starting a company
that designs an outdoor lockbox
that protects your special delivery
from a wouldbe thief.
Jody Pettit,
who is also an
internal medicine physician
COURTESY : LANDPORT
at Providence and Legacy, rememJody
Pettit
designed
the
Landport
as
a
means
of
keeping
homedelivered
packages
safe
from
theft.
bered a moment in her life that inspired the Landport, a heavy gauge
steel box that can be bolted to a
porch, stoop or entryway.
Pettit recalled a special, beautifully-designed cup that her mother
According to Pettit, the name
inherited from her grandfather. Pet(Landport) is the word Portland
cut in half and switched. “It’s very
tit loved that cup and, eventually,
Portland,” she said.
her mother agreed to give it to PetThe cup-looking object, in the
tit. But they had to decide whether
company logo, was inspired, in
to ship the cup or tuck it in a suitAvailable in
part, by the cup that Pettit lost.
case. They decided to ship.
three siz es, the
The Landport can be used for
“Then I got an alert that the
Landport is
outgoing parcels.
package had been delivered. I
made from
The Landport lockbox can be
rushed home and it was gone. So
heavy gauge
bolted to wood, cement and other
that was it,” Pettit said. “I lost a delbuilding materials.
steel.
icate cup from 1840. It doesn’t make
For more information, call 971COURTESY : LANDPORT
sense that these things are just sit258-1970 or visit: thelandport.
ting on your front porch. I thought
com
there has to be something you can
Email: [email protected]
Five colors are currently offered,
rubber feet on the Landport will
do.”
but her company will consider cuskeep the lockbox about an inch off
To address the problem, she retom colors if requested.
the ground. The Landport weighs
searched the Internet and received
Tamper and weather proof, the
about 50 pounds and is safe, accordhelp from others. “It was really the
Landport keeps packages secure
ing to the company. There are
her Landport website.
generosity of people in the trades
and cannot be opened without a
rounded corners, with rubber
“Our first one (sale) was from
who helped me,” Pettit said. “I
unique access code. The code can
grommets covering sharp edges
San Francisco,” she said. “I think
would go from person to person,
be shared with friends, delivery
and struts.
people are finding us through the
getting little bits and pieces of infor- agents or family members.
The Landport is currently availweb. People are having trouble with
mation until we sorted it all out.”
“It’s your receiving station,” Petable on Pettit’s website (thelandpackages being stolen, and so I
At first, Pettit tried her own detit said. “It’s a secure place so your
port.com), yet Pettit has hopes of
think they go online and look for an
signs. Then she found Mark Annen, packages don’t get wet — they don’t expanding its visibility.
answer.” She has heard from areas
a restaurant designer-architect who get stolen. It’s critical that you bolt
“We are offering it retail at Boys
around the country, including
eventually came up with the final
it down. It’s made to be bolted.”
Fort,” Pettit said, describing the
South Dakota, Iowa, Seattle and
design.
There are different ways to open
downtown Portland store as eclecWashington D.C.
“I knew what I wanted to build. I
the Landport, according to Pettit.
tic with a lot of cool products. “I
Starting a business can be a
just didn’t know exactly what it
There is an access code, a key over- think it helps for people to see it be- stressful experience, even for a
should look like,” she said. “We
ride (if you forget the code), and in- cause it’s really made of a heavy
hearty soul. But Pettit is getting a
ended up with a horizontal model.
ternal glow-in-the-dark trunk re16-gauge steel — not file cabinet
kick out of introducing a new prodIt actually has a lot of advantages.”
lease. The latter is a safety feature
weight. We chose industrialuct.
The Landport, made in Portland,
and is exactly like those found in
strength locks. It’s not a lightweight
“I have loved every minute of it,
has been on the market, through
the trunks of cars.
system.”
except for the loss of money,” Pettit
her website, for about five months.
In a wet climate like Oregon’s,
Pettit is getting orders through
said with a laugh. “I thought you
BY SCOTT
KEITH
Landport
Pettit said there’s a benefit to
delivery companies if they use the
access code, because they don’t
need to re-deliver or deliver to the
work place.
According to her company, there
are different ways to give the
access code to drivers:
Use the second line of your
mailing address to say: Please
deliver to LANDPORT, access
code=53241.
Use the UPS My Choice or the
Fed Ex Delivery Manager app to
tell your driver where your Landport
is and what the access code is
Talk to your delivery driver when
they deliver a package and tell
him or her about your Landport
and the access code.
Every Landport comes with a
vinyl sticker for your home to let
your delivery person know about
your lockbox.
could do it on nights and weekends,
but you can’t. If you don’t do it, it’s
not going to be done. It’s not going
to happen magically.”
Now that her company has been
launched, Pettit is ready to answer
any questions or concerns the public may have about her product. She
will walk you through the process,
step by step.
For instance, some may wonder
if the Landport should be located
in plain sight or hidden. If it’s visible, a neighbor or good samaritan
may notice that it’s being tampered with. On the other hand,
hiding it may deter a potential
robber. It’s really up to the customer.
Another concern involves apartment dwellers. For people living in
an apartment building, a conversation with the apartment manager would need to take place before
installing the Landport.
Landport also allows owners to
provide delivery drivers with an
access code.
“We tell you every way to do it,”
Pettit said. “What we’re trying to
do is anticipate every question a
person would have. We literally
want to take you by the hand and
make it as easy as possible.”
Describing the versatility of her
product, Pettit mentioned a woman whose dog routinely chews up
her packages. Pettit recalled the
woman saying, “We need a Landport not because of thieves, but
because of our own dog.”
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
BUSINESS TRIBUNE 7
HOME MAINTENANCE MADE EASY
BPMI sets up shop
in Tualatin to
continue expanding
product line
H
ome improvement products might not fl y off the
shelves, but when you
need them, you want
them to work. President and
founder of BPMI, Inc. (Building
Products Manufacturing International), Ben McClurg, knows this
all too well. As a contractor in the
area for nearly 4 0 years, he recently moved
his business
venture to
Tualatin,
where he
hopes to
continue expanding.
F ounded in 1999, BPMI has focused more on product development and manufacturing in recent
years, and its new facilities in Tualatin provide the company with
room to grow. The mission at hand
is to create products for home owners and contractors alike that lessen repair times and lower costs of
maintenance.
“After 38 years of being in construction, it’s important to create
TRIBUNE PHOTOS: JONATHAN HOUSE
things that work right,” McClurg
BPMI’s Ben McClurg talks about the company’s new product, the Pierce and Seal, which helps keep the spout of a caulking gun clean, in the new Tualatin warehouse.
said. “These are all really simple,
silly, little products, but they have
a lot of value. It took a long, long
cause of the tube’s design.
solution to holes in the wall that
time to be able to come up with
“I got tired of throwing away a
would be permanent and firethem and to make sure that they’re lot of caulking. Our product, it’s a
proof. Y ears later, this is the comBPMI products can be found in
effective.”
caulk-saving product,
pany’s best-selling product and
5,000 stores across the country. In
The latest of these
and it allows you to use
used by a wide-range of customers,
the area, you can find them at:
products, the Pierce &
it for its full use. So
said McClurg.
■ Fred Meyer
Seal, is a solution to
you’re not filling Dump“With drywall, if you keep going
■ Target
the waste McClurg resters with toxic chemiinto the wall and keep doing crap■ Parr Lumber
alized occurs from the
cals, and it’s made parpy patches, which everybody does,
■ Ace Hardware (varying locadesign of caulking
tially out of recycled
eventually you’ve got to replace
tions)
tubes. Traditionally,
coat hangers,” he said.
the wall, and (a contractor is) go■ True Value (varying locations)
the tubes come with a
“When you’re done,
ing to come in and charge you
■ Lowe’s Home Improvement
rubber cap and no
you pull the thing
$ 5,000, $ 6,000 to fix it,” he said.
■ The Home Depot.
way to puncture the
apart, and you recycle
“These, you just do a permanent
For a full list of products, visit:
BPMI’s Ben McClurg shows off their
top to get it open. So,
it.”
repair.”
bpmiinc.com. Call your local retailmost people use a nail
The product works be- new product, the Pierce and Seal,
And it’s with this mindset that
ers to learn if they carry the products you need.
or similar item to
cause the recycled coat
McClurg approached creating the
which helps keep the spout of a
pierce and, well, seal.
hanger rod goes down
Pierce & Seal. He wanted to create
caulking gun clean.
This tends to lead to
once the lid is sealed,
something that would not only get
— Ben McClurg, president which pushes the caulk- products that work” has been the
dried up, toxic caulkmore use out of a product, but that vestment, and at the end of the day,
and founder of BPMI ing to the top of the tube. foundation for all of BPMI’s proding, which must then
would ultimately be recyclable, as
I want to make sure that you get as
be thrown away. By
This ensures it doesn’t
ucts. Its first product, which has
well — he wanted something that
much as you can back out of it,” he
McClurg’s estimates,
dry up and go to waste,
since been expanded into multiple
would cost less for consumers and
said. “This product is around like
he was throwing away $ 2,000 a
said McClurg.
sizes, was a The Drywall Plug. The save resources.
Drano. It’s not sexy, it’s not excityear in wasted caulking, all beThis idea of “making simple
purpose was to provide a doable
“Y our home is your biggest ining, but when you need, it works.”
BY CAITLIN
FELDMAN
Where to find them
“ These are all
really simple, silly,
little products, but
they have a lot of
value. It took a
long, long time to
be able to come up
with them and to
make sure that
they’re effective.”
8 BUSINESS TRIBUNE
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
Craig Peterson is
immensely
proud of the
RingSide’s dryaging room. At
any given time,
the restaurant
holds a fourweek supply of
meat.
TRIBUNE PHOTOS:
JOHN VINCENT
CREATING
FAMILY
TRADITIONS
FOR 7 0 Y EARS
John
Vincent
H E R I TA G E
M AT T E R S
For steak lovers, the RingSide is still the best seat in the house
E
very family has that
special restaurant
where the clan gathers
for the milestones of
their history.
For many Portlanders that
place to celebrate holidays,
birthdays and anniversaries is
the RingSide Steakhouse. For
the RingSide it’s not just about
the meal, it’s about the rela-
tionships they’ve built with
customers over the years.
“It’s all about traditions,”
says Craig Peterson, one of the
family partners that own the
three RingSide restaurants in
Portland. “Second and third
generations of families come in
here to get those special
meals.” The holidays are a
time that those generations
take care of one another, he
says. Parents create traditions
by bringing their kids in, while
adults treat their aging parents to special evenings.
The RingSide turned 70
years old this year with careful
renovations barely altering the
restaurant’s original feel. During those years, the family
business has expanded to in-
clude another steakhouse at
the Glendoveer golf course on
NE Glisan Street and the RingSide Fish House in downtown
Portland’s Fox Tower.
In 1944, the current owners’
grandparents, Alan and Marguerite Delepine, purchased
an existing restaurant across
the street from the current Uptown location, quickly convert-
ing it from a spaghetti and
meatballs restaurant into a
steakhouse. It was named for
the best seat in the house —
RingSide.
Alan Delepine moved the
RingSide to its current location
in the early 1950s, creating a
restaurant with a dark, timbered steakhouse ambience
and a dining room fireplace
BUSINESS TRIBUNE 9
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
TRIBUNE PHOTOS: JOHN VINCENT
Above and right, one of the steakhouse’s
signature dishes isn’t a steak at all. It’s their
spectacular onion rings and the dipping sauce
that goes with them. RingSide Chef Beau Carr,
below, has the responsibility of preparing the
finest beef in Portland. He j oined the RingSide
staff in 1 9 9 8 .
The RingSide’s
signs, middle, glow
over West Burnside
Street, only
dimming for a
nine- month
remodel in 20 1 0 .
During the
renovation in 20 1 0 ,
a barrel- vaulted
dining room was
added, left. The
room can be closed
off for special
events.
that still exists today. In 1955 the Delepines
sold the restaurant to their daughter and
son-in-law, Bev and Wes Peterson.
It was the Petersons who developed the
RingSide’s signature onion rings, with a
ring sauce so special that people still come
in just to buy the sauce. Based on the continued success of the Uptown location, the
Peterson’s opened the Glendoveer location.
The area had vastly different demographics
than the Uptown location, but as Craig’s father explained to him at the time “they all
have birthdays and anniversaries, and we’ll
become their special occasion spot.”
The 1970s brought the third generation of
Petersons to the business. Siblings Craig,
Scott and Jan took over the management
and in 1986 purchased the restaurants from
their parents.
By 2010, the RingSide’s Uptown location
was in need of a major remodel. Not wanting to risk losing customers and staff to
competitors, they took a risk and moved the
restaurant — menu,
“Everybody emstaff, and all — to
braced the fact that
downtown’s Fox Tower.
they got their little
Established: 1944
“It was survival,”
dark corner back.
Employees: 203
says Craig Peterson.
They were really glad
Ownership: Craig, Scott and Jan
“We would have lost 50
to be home,” says
Peterson.
percent of our longCraig.
Locations:
time staff, and many
But it’s behind the
Uptown — 2165 W. Burnside
customers.”
scenes where the UpEastside — 14021 NW Glisan St.
The Uptown location
town Ringside has
Fish House — 838 SW Park Avenue
was all but torn to the
changed. The Peterson
Value of the 4-week supply of beef in
ground, leaving only a
brothers each had
the dry-aging room: $125,000
couple of walls and the
something they wantvenerable fireplace, beed to add. For Craig, it
fore being rebuilt into
was a dry-aging room
the restaurant of today. And when they
where steaks are aged for 28 days to maxiwere done, the customers came back —
mize their natural flavors. Few restaurants
stronger than ever.
have their own dry-aging room, and now
One thing that didn’t change is the feeling RingSide chef Beau Carr has complete conthat you experience when you walk in. The
trol over the process.
light fixtures are the same ones that Alan
Scott Peterson had been transporting the
Delepine built in the 1950s, and the fireplace restaurant’s wine back and forth from the
still provides its soft glow.
cellar of his own home. With the remodel, a
RingSide Steakhouse
12,000-bottle wine cellar was added, and
that cellar houses one of the best selections
of wine in the region.
Part of the 3,500 sq. ft. that was added to
the restaurant is a stunning wine room that
can be closed off for private events. An impressive collection of wine rings the room
while a brick barrel-vaulted ceiling creates
the feeling of being in a wine cellar.
After moving the Uptown RingSide’s
menu and staff back into the original location, the Peterson’s elected to keep their
temporary location in the Fox Tower. They
converted the space into the RingSide Fish
House, the family’s third restaurant.
Or as the Petersons might say, a third
place to create lasting family memories.
John M. Vincent is a third-generation Oregon journalist. He can be reached at: JMVincent2848@
gmail.com. He welcomes your suggestions for this
column.
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OREGON SQ UARE HOPES TO BE
PORTLAND’S FAMILY ROOM
American Assets Trust hopes to demo the existing buildings and activate Oregon Square with, retail, apartments and a programmed public plaz a.
COURTESY GBD ARCHITECTS
Lloyd District development will bring apartments, shops, water and more bikes
Y
ou’ve heard of Portland’s
Living Room.
Get ready for Portland’s Family Room.
Eastside style.
That was the message recently
from developer American Assets
Trust (AAT) and GBD Architects
at the city’s Bureau of Development Services.
GBD architect Kyle Andersen
led a PowerPoint deck showing
early ideas for a proposed development between NE
Holladay
Street and
NE Oregon
Street
bounded by NE 7th and 8th Avenues. Currently the block holds
some two-story concrete office
BY JOSEPH
GALLIVAN
buildings framing a quiet square
with one food cart and a rain shelter that once housed a carousel.
GBD’s plan is to “activate the
space,” called Oregon Square, by
building four apartment buildings
with retail on the ground floor.
The cross-shaped plaza is designed for heavy programming.
Ideas for its use includes concerts,
a beer garden, organized extreme
sports, seasonal hammocks, fashion shows, a street food alley, rodeos and car shows. AAT is currently developing Hassalo on
Eighth, a LEED Platinum, mixeduse, 657 apartment complex between Oregon Square and the
soon-to-be-refurbished Lloyd Center mall.
For developer AAT’s vice president and regional manager in
Portland, Wade Lange, it’s a waitand-see game.
“We’re still establishing our
neighborhood with Hassalo and
Eighth, and figuring out what
does that mean?” Lange told the
Tribune later by phone. “Will
there be a senior living component, more offices, what does our
retail look like? What makes
sense to keep this movement
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going in the Lloyd District?”
Some details were given at
pre-application conference,
where staff from the city’s Bureau of Development Services
(water, environment, permits)
hear the long range plans of the
developer and architects and
give them early feedback on how
easy it will be to proceed.
The Oregon Square plans fall
into line with the concept of an
Ecodistrict.
Hassalo on Eighth will have a
wastewater treatment center
that will use ultraviolet light to
treat black and gray water and
return it to the apartments.
The focus of Oregon Square
will be more on energy conservation. There are hopes for a fuel
cell designed by Northwest Natural Gas and Bloom Energy. Also,
an Australian company is already
working on a bike mechanic,
washing and storage center for
1,500 bikes.
The building masses are
splayed to allow in natural sunlight. Another architect compared it to Plaza Santa Ana in
Madrid, Spain. A water feature is
planned that can be attractive day
and night, but shallow enough
that it can be drained and the
space used by pedestrians.
The developer will receive feedback from the Design Review
Date night
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Oregon Square will join with the Hassalo on Eighth superblock development by the same developer, AAT, creating a new,
pedestrian- and transit-friendly neighborhood in a zone previously cut off by freeways.
Committee in mid-December.
“The buildings on Eighth will
have a beaux arts relationship,”
said Andersen explaining how
new buildings will relate to the
old. “Although it’s not something
you’d build. It’s not the Champs
Elysees.”
Nothing is set in stone yet.
“Each of those apartment
blocks could change, in the number of floors or floor footprint,
what mix of retail and other uses,
how much parking, public areas,
and so on,” said Lange.
He knows for sure that Hassalo
on Eighth will open in September
2015. And knowing who is moving
in will define the neighborhood,
and in turn define how Oregon
Square’s design proceeds.
Lange is excited about the
Lloyd District.
“We’ve never done this before.
From my window I’m looking at
contractors working, but when
step down and stand at Hassalo
and Eighth it becomes reality.”
He’s hoping for walkable amenities such as a grocery store,
coffee shops, a dry cleaner and
restaurants. Of the former Red
Lion which is opening as Hotel
Eastlund in May 2015 with a
rooftop bar, he said “When I was
a kid it was the place to go, take
your date to the top of the
Cosmo.”
His firm talks to Cypress
Equities of Texas, which owns
Lloyd Center mall, although their
plans are not concerted nor
linked financially. AAT has no
plans to flip its properties.
Of the Lloyd District he said,
“I’d love to live there. My wife and
I talked about it. We’ve never
lived in an apartment but these
are going to have incredible
views of the entire city.”
Lange says the recovery is underway. “Portland’s bouncing
back. I’m no economist, but the
fact that AAT is investing large
amounts of dollars into the Lloyd
District in a long-term investment
is a sign.”
Beaverton / Cedar Hills
2905 SW Cedar Hills Blvd.
503.626.1400
Hillsboro / Tanasbourne
2364 NW Amberbrook Dr.
503.352.5252
Oregon City / Hilltop
334 Warner Milne Rd.
503.722.8222
437753.060613 ENT
West Linn / Ristorante
18740 Willamette Dr.
503.636.9555
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This customized
Honda Odyssey
minivan was
converted for
wheelchair use
with a Braun
Ability mobility
kit. This and
other similar
conversions can
cost upward of
$20,000,
although the
company gives
veterans a
sizable discount.
SPOKESMAN PHOTO:
JOSH KULLA
MPJ MOBILITY HELPS PEOPLE WITH
DISABILITIES STAY ON THE ROAD
S pringfield firm
opens W ilsonville
shop to serve the
P ortland metro area
Pamplin Media Group
M
PJ Mobility, a company
that converts vehicles
to meet the needs of
disabled drivers and
passengers, has set up a location
in Wilsonville to serve the Portland metro area.
“We’re primarily in Springfield,
so we thought, well, we need to
branch out,” said David Jennings,
who founded the company in
2000. “We’ve had so many of our
customers want us to go north
that we finally decided to make
the move. We’re off to a start, and
we’re there and we look forward
to being in the community.”
MPJ Mobility is a family business in the truest sense of the
phrase — the letters MPJ are the
initials of Jennings’ father, Manly
Pritchard Jennings.
“Everybody always asks, what
does MPJ stand for?” Jennings
said. “And that’s it — my dad’s
initials. He always went by MP.”
Jennings started working in
the health care industry selling
mobility products in 1986 and has
been doing it ever since.
“My first business was in Eugene, and then we sold that business and the people we sold it to
ran it into the ground,” he said
with a wry chuckle.
In 2000 he returned to the fold
and started MPJ Mobility. He
brought with him his son-in-law,
Chris Royer, who first worked as
a technician and now is a partner
in the business. Royer is in
charge of the new Wilsonville
shop, which is run out of a warehouse space in a new business
park off Wilsonville Road just
west of old town.
“It’s definitely a family business,” Jennings said. “We have
right now, although we’re on the
growth path, eight employees. It’s
a relatively small business and
we keep it small for a reason; we
want to keep it family oriented ...
it’s all a tight-knit group.”
Royer is a former EMT and
firefighter, so he has a long history of helping people in need. He
said that translated naturally to
working in the mobility industry.
He also has spent time working
in the construction industry, a
unique blend of skills that has
served him well in his current
role as a manager and co-owner.
“I was in that line of helping
people and being a servant to the
public,” he said. “To a certain ex-
MPJ Mobility
Where: Wilsonville Road Business
Park, Suite 440; 9670-9770
Wilsonville Road
Phone: 541-726-4001
Web: mpjmobility.com
tent I’ve always been a jack of all
trades, and when I found out
what Dave was doing it definitely
sparked an interest in me.”
More recently the company has
pulled back from remodeling
homes to focus on vehicle conversions that allow owners to use a
wheelchair. The Great Recession
definitely played a role in this, but
logistics also made it necessary.
“We used to do remodels of
bathrooms, etcetera, so for while
we kind of stretched into areas
that we weren’t really good at,”
Jennings admitted. “It’s hard to
take a technician that’s trained to
work on vehicles and send them
out to demo a bathroom. So we
decided to stop that and we kind
of geared back and concentrated
on what we know best, which is
vehicles and stair lifts and that’s
done us well.”
For the company, Wilsonville’s
location is a definite advantage.
From there they can serve the
metro area while also avoiding
much of the traffic that makes
commuting to and from Springfield a bit of a chore for Royer
and other staff.
“You look at the population
base for the state and it’s a real
key factor,” Royer said.
With only three companies in
Oregon offering vehicle conversion and other wheelchair and
mobility services, serving the
Portland area was a no-brainer.
“This helps us to be closer to
the customers we already have,”
Royer said. “Now we’re able to
service them and take care of
them up here.”
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Roundhouse opens small business
partnership program
Portland creative agency Roundhouse is now accepting applications for its new small business
partnership program, the Roundhouse Collab. This pro bono program is designed to support
emerging Pacific N orthwest businesses through intensive collaboration around branding and marketing strategy.
Interested companies can apply
online at: collab.roundhouseagency.com. Applications are being accepted now through Dec. 19.
“In the past 12 years, Roundhouse has grown from two guys in
a basement to 8 0 employees working with global brands. We remember what its like to be a small business, and we’re excited to help
companies we admire get to the
next stage in their growth,” said
Dan Walsh, Roundhouse Managing Director and Partner.
Each mentorship will include a
two-day workshop with representatives across Roundhouse disciplines. The Roundhouse team will
spend time with the business
stakeholders to gain an understanding of their business and immediate challenges, and to identify
short- and long-term goals. Once
they have a prioritized list in hand,
Roundhouse will put together a
roadmap and get to work. The goal
is for each small business partner
to walk out of their two-day session with marketing tools that will
have an immediate impact on their
business.
Precision Castparts declares
dividend at quarterly meeting
The board of directors of Precision Castparts Corp. has declared
a q uarterly cash dividend of $ 0.03
per share on the company’s common stock payable on December
29, 2014, to shareholders of record
at the close of business on Dec. 5.
Precision Castparts Corp. is a
worldwide, diversified manufacturer of complex metal components
and products. It serves the aerospace, power, and general industrial markets. PCC is a market leader
in manufacturing large, complex
structural investment castings, airfoil castings, forged components,
aerostructures and highly engineered, critical fasteners for aerospace applications.
Kuni’s Greg Goodwin nominated
for TIME Dealer of the Y ear
Greg Goodwin, CEO of K uni Au-
tomotive, which includes K uni Lexus of Portland, has been nominated for the 2015 TIME Dealer of the
Y ear award.
Goodwin is one of a select group
of 55 dealer nominees from across
the country who will be honored at
the 98 th annual N ational Automobile Dealers Association (N ADA)
Convention & Exposition in San
F rancisco, California, on J an. 23,
2015. The announcement of this
year’s nominees were made by J ed
Hartman, group publisher, worldwide, TIME, and Tim Russi, president of auto finance for Ally F inancial.
“The dealers nominated for this
award are dedicated business owners, auto lovers and, most importantly, champions for their local
communities, with a willingness to
give back on a grand scale,” said
Russi. “Ally is proud to honor and
support these dealers as they work
today and tomorrow to build better
places to live, work and do business.”
Oregon Tradeswomen hire
development director
Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc.
(OTI) hired Dennise M. K owalczyk
as a Development Director to lead
new efforts to build a robust fundraising and development department, and diversify the funding
base of the twenty-five year old
non-profit organization.
K owalczyk has more than 17
years of experience working in the
non-profit sector, including the
Station Manager for K BOO Community Radio, the Executive Director for Lehigh Valley Community
Broadcasters Association in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Director
of Organizational Advancement
for MetroEast.
Thomsen, Roehm named
partners of the firm
Sussman Shank LLP recently
announced that
Dallas G. Thomsen and Victor J .
Roehm have become partners of
the firm.
Thomsen is a
business attorney
and focuses his
practice on busiROEHM
ness law, taxation,
estate planning,
intellectual property, food and beverage, and trademark. With a
masters in taxation, he provides
clients with in-depth tax analysis,
evaluation and planning, particu-
larly in the areas of complex partnerships and advanced estate
planning. His
practice also includes representing clients in the
food and beverage
industry with regulatory compliance
and labeling req uirements.
Thomsen is admitTHOMSEN
ted to practice law
in Oregon and
Washington.
Roehm is a business attorney
and focuses his practice on corporate and real estate transactions,
commercial and public finance,
and economic development. He is
co-chair of the firm’s Banking and
F inance Practice Group, regularly
representing financial institutions
and borrowers in connection with
loan transactions. He has assisted
clients on a variety of transactional matters from entity formation
and restructuring, to complex
mergers and acq uisitions. Roehm
is admitted to practice law in Oregon, Washington, California, and
Ohio.
NVISION Laser Eye Centers buys
Teplick Custom Vision
N VISION Laser Eye Centers has
made its first acq uisition in Oregon by purchasing Portland-based
Teplick Custom Vision.
“Teplick Custom Vision will be a
great addition to the N VISION
family, now totaling 18 Centers,”
says Todd Cooper, CEO of N VISION . “We will be announcing
multiple acq uisitions in the next
few years, as we continue to
search for growth opportunities.”
“Teplick Custom Vision is a perfect fit for N VISION as we expand
into the Pacific N orthwest,” said
J ames Pereyra, VP of Business Development. “We are both focused
on providing an exceptional patient experience, superior visual
outcomes, and building a strong
relationship with the local optometric community.”
THA Architecture taps
Fowler to lead firm’s
interior design practice
THA Architecture has tapped
designer J ennifer F owler as director of the firm’s growing interior
design practice. The appointment
of F owler, whose work and collaborations have received regional and
national recognition, refl ects
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STAFF PHOTOS: VERN UY ETAKE
Longtime homebuilder and Lake Oswego resident Larry Todd stands in
front of a spec home he is building. Todd says he loves what he does and
can’t wait to get up every morning.
BUSINESS LEADERS
Larry Todd has made a career
out of building homes
By BARB RANDALL
Pamplin Media Group
Meet Larry Todd of Maywood Homes Inc.
A native Oregonian, Todd has
been building homes for more
than 35 years. He lives in Lake
Oswego with his wife, Debbie
Todd.
Todd said even as a young
person he loved to watch the
Portland skyline change.
“I was fascinated with commercial construction,” he said.
After graduating from the
U niversity of Oregon, Todd
went to work in sales. As a side
business, he and a partner
starting purchasing homes and
fixing them up to sell, and then
ventured into new construction.
He started his own general contracting business in 197 9.
“I started with one spec home,
and by the mid-8 0s, I was developing my own subdivisions in
Lake Oswego, Southwest Portland, the Murrayhill area of Beaverton and two developments in
Oregon City,” he said.
To date, Todd has built more
than 600 homes. During the recession, when people were remodeling rather than building,
he said he got to see a whole
new side of the construction
business.
“It was eye opening,” he said.
“Y ou are working in people’s
homes — most of the time,
when they are still living in
them. It becomes a very personal experience. But I have some
amazing relationships with
those families due to the close
nature of the working relationship.”
Todd says he loves what he
does. Every home and homeowner are uniq ue.
“I can’t wait to get up every
morning and go check out the
jobs,” he said. “I enjoy building
and the creative process as well.
It’s fun working together to
complete a vision.”
Todd credits his success to
his design team, having professional subcontractors and supportive customers.
“I have had the privilege to
have some very dedicated customers who support me and refer me to others,” he said. “My
company prides itself on q uality
construction, attention to detail
and customer service.”
Todd’s credo is three-fold: Do
what you say you are going to
do, be open and honest with
your customers and keep cool;
building a home or remodeling
a home is a large monetary investment and a very personal
experience for people.
Todd enjoys spending spare
time watching Duck football
and entertaining with friends.
“I am fortunate to have my
children and their families
here in Lake Oswego as well,
so we spend a lot of family
time together.”
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THA’s move towards offering fully
integrated architectural and interior design services.
“We wanted to
elevate interiors
as a conceptual
component of our
work, and having
a creative collaborator in-house
FOWLER
seemed key to realizing this goal,”
said THA Design Principal Corey
Martin. “Jennifer’s wonderful
sense of elegance and responsiveness to site and place will not only
complement our work, it will inform it.”
Fowler began practicing interior
design in Portland in 2001 and became known for her timeless,
modern interiors. Her diverse
portfolio of residential, commercial and institutional projects includes being a key team member
on the Weiden + Kennedy Headquarters, Portland, and the renovation of the Bass Performance
Hall at University of Texas, Austin.
Fowler studied at the New York
School of Interior Design.
Lorna Jane launches the Active
Living Room at Bridgeport Village
Lorna Jane active wear is bringing founder Lorna Jane Clarkson’s
Active Living philosophy to life at
Bridgeport Village, with the
eighth Lorna Jane Active Living
Room concept store in the U.S.
The store features more than
2,600 square feet including an exclusive studio, wholesome nourish
bar and boutique. The Boutique
will offer the latest fashion-forward active wear.
Made for active women by active women, Lorna Jane is an Australian brand and a global leader
in “intelligent” active apparel.
“The Active Living Room
brings my Active Living philosophy and daily practice of Move,
Nourish, Believe to life,” explains
Clarkson. “It is a one-stop active
destination where you’ll find everything from fantastic fitness
classes to nourishing snacks and
juices, and of course, the best fit
fashion on the planet. I designed
the Active Living Room to allow
my customers to experience the
Active Living philosophy firsthand and learn how taking the
three simple steps of Move, Nourish, Believe can pave the way to
COURTESY : BERKSHIRE HATHAWAY
A Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northwest Real Estate volunteer crew at
Cordero House in SW Portland.
an amazing life.”
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices
Northwest Real Estate’s ‘ Give
a Day Away’ benefits local
transitional housing residents
Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northwest Real Estate brokers, staff and their friends and
families recently rolled up their
sleeves and put their landscaping
and maintenance skills to work in
support of the company’s Give A
Day Away service event.
In partnership with the Home
Builders Foundation of Portland,
work crews of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices volunteers
spread out across the Portland
metro area to spruce up the
grounds at several facilities providing temporary family and juvenile residential housing.
Jason Waugh, President and
CEO of Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northwest Real Estate, called the day a tremendous
success.
“Being in the real estate profession, we experience the emotional
ties of ‘home’ and what it means to
people every single day. So we
were grateful to be able to reach
out and offer our services at some
transitional housing facilities to
help make them a little more welcoming to come home to. Several
of the residents pitched in and
joined us, so it was a real team effort that made us all feel good at
the end of the day.”
Volunteers came from nearly all
the company’s 21 offices, many
driving in from Yamhill County,
Vancouver and even Mt. Hood to
lend a hand. Next year, the company plans to hold Give a Day Away
service events in all the communities in which they have offices.
Pictured above: A Berkshire Hathaway HomeServices Northwest
Real Estate volunteer crew at Cordero House in SW Portland.
1 8 Oregon employers honored
for excellence in workplace
effectiveness
Family Forward Oregon announced recently the Oregon winners of the When Work Works
Award for exemplary workplace
practices.
The award, given by the Families and Work Institute (FWI) and
the Society for Human Resource
Management (SHRM), is the result
of a rigorous assessment. Worksites must first qualify in the top
20 percent of the country based on
a nationally representative sample
of employers. Two-thirds of the
evaluation of applicants comes
from an employee survey. Applicants are evaluated on six research-based ingredients of an effective workplace: opportunities
for learning; a culture of trust;
work-life fit; supervisor support
for work success; autonomy; and
satisfaction with earnings, benefits and opportunities for advancement — all factors associated with
employee health, well-being, and
engagement.
Family Forward Oregon official
host of the awards in Oregon.
“We are very proud to have a
number of our companies recog-
nized as among the best employers in the nation on providing an
effective and flexible workplace.
These business strategies help
their employees promote the
health and wellbeing of their employees and their families as well
as help the organization achieve
strong business results,” said Sharon Bernstein, Deputy Director of
Family Forward Oregon.
The 18 Oregon recipients of the
2014 When Work Works Award
are Boly:Welch, Carpe Diem Education, Child Care Development
Services Inc. (Gresham), Ecotrust,
FMYI Inc., gDiapers, HRAnswerLink, Innovative Care Management, Inc. (Milwaukie), KPMG,
Lensbaby, NPC Research, Oregon
Humanities, Research Into Action,
Ride Connection, River Network,
Rose City Mortgage, Swift Collective, and Ultimate Staffing Services.
Portland company donates
to children in need
Portland-based company, ZizzyBee Bags, LLC, recently donated
more than $5,000 worth of product
to children’s charity Kids Wish
Network to help kids facing life-altering circumstances.
The donation will be distributed
through the charity’s Holiday of
Hope gift-giving programs, which
reach children suffering from
homelessness, neglect, abuse, or
illness.
Kids Wish Network is a national, charitable organization dedicated to infusing hope, creating
happy memories, and improving
the quality of life for children having experienced life-altering situations. While also known as a wishgranting organization, Kids Wish
Network has developed programs
to assist all children in need.
Established in 2012, ZizzyBee
Bags, LLC, is a mom-centered and
child-focused business that produces items designed to keep life’s
clutter cleaned up. The reusable
bags are eco-friendly, washable,
and convenient for everyday life.
ZizzyBee Bags eliminates the
need for baskets and bins and
makes toys portable and travel a
snap. They are easily packable
and transportable for vacations,
gym and work, road trips, school,
grandparent’s house, playdates,
strollers and so much more.
“Kids Wish Network is extremely grateful to our Guardian Angel
donors; our programs couldn’t exist without them,” says Kids Wish
Network Executive Director Anna
Lanzatella.
“For the kids we help, receiving
a new gift lifts their spirits and
gives them the hope they so desperately need. We thank all our
donors for helping provide joy to
children facing difficult circumstances.”
COURTESY : KIDS WISH NETWORK
Z iz z yBee Bags, a Portland company, recently donated more than $ 5 ,0 0 0 worth
of product to the Kids Wish Network.
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