October 2014 - NW Examiner

Driving out cars
OCTOBER 2014 / VOLUME 28, NO. 2 / FREE
***** SERVING PORTLAND’S NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS SINCE 1986
City Council weighs
MAC garage issue
Decision on proposed
zone change to accommodate apartment
building/garage waits
for neighborhood vote.
ALLAN CLASSEN
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he Multnomah Athletic
Club’s effort to tuck member parking spaces under a
proposed apartment building is
in limbo pending an Oct. 1 City
Council hearing that has been
continued to Thursday, Oct. 30,
3 p.m.
Whichever way the case goes,
a casualty of the two-year campaign to rewrite the comprehensive plan to accommodate a 280unit apartment building and
Frank Warrens has nothing good to say about removing a lane on Northwest Everett Street for four blocks to create a bike lane. “A war on
cars is a very appropriate term for what they’re doing,” he said. Photo by Vadim Makoyed
ALLAN CLASSEN
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he folks who dream of a
city with more bicyclists,
pedestrians and transit
riders are nevertheless loathe
to speak of making driving less
convenient.
“It sounds to me awfully
negative to say we are ‘discouraging automobile use,’” said
Phil Selinger, a retired transit
planner active in the Northwest
District Association. “I don’t
think the NWDA, at least, has
ever made such a statement.”
While almost all recognize the need to curb driving habits, many find
alternative transportation programs hard to swallow.
Art Pearce, manager of policy planning and projects for
the Portland Bureau of Transportation, is similarly skittish
on the topic.
hand, does not mince words.
“That sounds like we’re taking away something without
acknowledging what we’re giving back,” said Pearce, who prefers to emphasize transportation alternatives.
The recent conversion of
one vehicle lane into a bike
lane along Northwest Everett
Street between 19th and 23rd
avenues blew his gasket.
Frank Warrens, on the other
Warrens owns the auto
repair shop bearing his name
on Northwest 20th near Burnside.
“The brain-dead idiots who
came up with the idea of mak-
ing a bike lane on Everett are
really out of line,” Warrens told
the Examiner. “It’s clearly an
attempt to get rid of all vehicular traffic in the downtown
Portland area.
“A war on cars is a very
appropriate term for what
they’re doing,” he said.
Warrens, not a bicyclist,
thinks bike lanes should be ▶
Continued on page 8
Bob Arkes (left) and Nic Clark
have found the Block 7 issue
divisive and perplexing. Photo by
Vadim Makoyed
commercial garage may be the
Goose Hollow Foothills League,
whose board has resisted growing opposition to the Block 7
project among neighbors.
Those opponents have called
a GHFL special membership
meeting Oct. 8 to pass a ▶
Continued on page 10
Keeping it local
Neighborhood couple quietly opens medical
marijuana dispensary behind art gallery on
Thurman Street.
ALLAN CLASSEN
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ext month, a state initiative will decide whether
recreational use of marijuana will become legal. Like
many voters, Bobby Wald isn’t
sure how he feels about Ballot
Measure 91.
While he harbors no phobias
about the plant and its derivatives, he can imagine negative consequences when large
numbers of people will suddenly have access to a previously illegal substance.
Wald’s perspective is of special interest in that he quietly
opened a marijuana dispensary
behind an art gallery at 2384
NW Thurman St. Sept. 19. The
business is only tangentially
related to the ballot measure
because the Thurman Street
Collective sells only medical
marijuana, which has been ▶
Continued on page 25
Thurman Street Collective is both an art gallery and a marijuana dispensary, separated by a locked door
at the left edge of image. Photo by Vadim Makoyed
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Editor’s Turn
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.
Thanks for elephant story
Thank you NW Examiner for the
exceptional research, for following
through with crucial questions and
then presenting the factual, truthful
answers in the September “No Place
for Elephants” article.
Unless the Metro Council and the
Oregon Zoo are preparing to make
drastic, immediate, positive changes
to provide a true sanctuary habitat for
the elephants, they must be placed
in a real sanctuary. There is no other
compassionate solution.
Thank you also to Blair Csuti, who
took the time to share his vast expertise and knowledge in this area—may
his wisdom truly be heard.
I believe it is only a matter of time
until elephant zoo exhibits are phased
out. The public is catching on to how
much physical and mental anguish
they cause.
Marna Herrington
NW 29th Ave.
Keep it up
Thank you for all you do for the
elephants. Please keep up the excellent work. We are counting on you.
Denise Perdue
Beaufort, S.C.
Sterling journalism
Thank you for another sterling
piece of journalism exposing the truth
about the lives of the eight Oregon Zoo
elephants. The article cuts through
the zoo's hyped-up rhetoric claiming
the elephants are “thriving” and enjoy
being with their “families.” Nothing
could be further from the truth, as
Blair Csuti makes crystal clear.
Index
If thriving is having your feet hurt
as you pace back and forth in your
own waste across a small lot or indoor
cage, then the elephants are thriving
big time. But of course they are merely
suffering, and all the glorified PR in
the world cannot disguise that fact.
Unfortunately, some people still
think that a zoo is a good place for
elephants, say as compared to the circus. What people don't realize is that
the zoo sells elephants, as babies no
less, to circuses. And like the circus,
the Oregon Zoo uses bullhooks to
control the elephants.
The lack of space, however, is the
biggest problem, as this article points
out. Zoo staff continues to deny that
space is a problem, at the same time,
touting the new Elephant Lands as
offering substantially more space.
But as this article states, that space is
really not so big after all. And the sand
substrate is not a cure for severely
damaged feet.
A new Oregon law gives animals
some of the same protections as
humans in cruelty cases. This needs
to be applied to the elephants, who
experience the cruelty of confinement
on a daily basis year after year.
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
EDITOR & PUBLISHER
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No umbrellas
nder cloudy skies some years ago,
I attended a concert at Waterfront
Park. Many in the crowd brought
umbrellas, which popped out when
the rains came. The problem with this
instinctive gesture was that the extended
umbrellas blocked everyone’s view of
the stage. No one could see, and those
without umbrellas were still getting wet.
be thin. “Point towers” may be a half or
quarter as broad as lower floors in the
same structure.
Soon, a chant rose from the throng
seated on the ground: “No umbrellas,
no umbrellas, no umbrellas.”
The lower floors of these slender
highrises usually take up the full block,
joining the more typical five-six-story
“squat” buildings that provide unfettered views only until the adjacent
block is developed.
The voice of the people won. As
the umbrellas retracted and everyone
became equally exposed to the elements, cheers and applause broke out.
We were all in the same boat and, I
sensed, somewhat uplifted by the sacrifice of some for the greater good of all.
Everyone seemed to enjoy the rest of
the concert.
It is my hope the Oregon Zoo will
become an elephant-free zoo, as over
22 zoos have already done. Although
the $58 million Elephant Lands is well
in the works, we can still urge the
zoo to move toward repurposing it for
poor lions or giraffes who endure the
confines of very small exhibits. It is
never too late to replace cruelty with
compassion.
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The extra value in point towers is all
in their higher levels, where the units
command soaring prices that can be
several times what mere mortals pay to
live closer to the earth.
City planners, developers and architects emphasize the benefit to all: the
towers are “light and airy,” cast thinner
shadows and create an impressive skyline that becomes a source of pride for
Portland promoters and others who
place stock in such things.
That’s what happens when the
market adjusts to a new reality.
Affordable housing, social
equity and opportunities for
innovative business ventures
are familiar catchphrases in the
proposed Portland Plan. These
laudable goals cannot compete,
however, with towers on the horizon in a beckoning real estate feeding frenzy.
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EDITOR/PUBLISHER ...................................................... ALLAN CLASSEN
GRAPHIC DESIGN ..................................................... VADIM MAKOYED
PHOTOGRAPHY ................................................................... JULIE KEEFE
ADVERTISING ........... JOLEEN JENSEN CLASSEN, LINDSEY FERGUSON
If you buy a 28th-floor condo in a
point tower and later a 30-story point
tower rises on the adjacent block, your
view would only partially be blocked.
There’s gentility among the upper
classes.
We are also given assurances that
most of the allowable heights won’t
be achieved. Small comfort. Because
most of the central city will have new
development potential, all affected land will become more valuable
whether tall structures are built on
them or not. Small shops or residents
enjoying modest rents in older
buildings may find their
landlords unresponsive to maintenance
calls because these
owners are just waiting for the right offer to
demolish and redevelop the
site with a structure renting for several
times the old rates.
Courtney Scott
NE Flanders St.
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Why won’t this thing retract?
The day of the no umbrellas may
have something to say about consideration of increased building height
allowances in Portland’s central city.
The opportunity to build up to 460 feet
is a benefit to some; owners of property
assigned this extra entitlement would
receive an instant windfall. Those with
the means could tower over their neighbors, enjoying prime views not likely to
be superseded by ensuing construction.
That’s because the upper floors of
the projected skyscrapers couldn’t fill
the full dimensions of the block due to
codes limiting the total floor area of the
buildings. To go tall, they will have to
Through the Central City 2035 plan,
we are writing our intended future. But
this draft document does not represent the Portland way. We’re a city of
small blocks, which have broken up the
concentration of major land holdings
throughout our history. We’re a city
where livability is defined by our neighborhoods. We’re a city where educated
young people come to birth creative
new ventures.
Rolling out a red carpet for the privileged few is not in our authentic character; we’re about uniting the people
to build a better community for all. We
can take some rain if it falls on all of us.
No umbrellas.■
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 Obituaries
Dr. Russell Lee Belknap
Russell Lee
Belknap, who
grew up in Portland Heights,
died Aug. 25 at
age 80. He was
born in Portland Feb. 9, 1930. He graduated from Ainsworth Elementary School and Lincoln High
School, attended Stanford
University and the University
of Oregon before obtaining his
medical degree from Oregon
Health & Science University in
1960. He served as a lieutenant
commander in the U.S. Navy in
San Diego. He returned to Portland in 1969. He was a founding partner of the Downtown
Women’s Clinic. He was heavily involved with wilderness
and environmental protection,
as well as the Outside In free
clinic. He was a member of
the Multnomah Athletic Club.
He married Cornelia “Corry”
Maria Waltmann in 1957; she
died in 2003. He married Kathryn Briegleb Dec. 2, 2011. He
is survived by his wife; sons,
Charles and Tom; daughters,
Maria and Bonny; brother,
Dr. Charles Belknap; and four
grandchildren.
Richard M. Rubin
Richard M.
"Rick" Rubin,
a
longtime
Northwest Portland resident
and freelance
writer,
died
Sept. 9 at age 83. He was born
May 19, 1931, at St. Vincent
Hospital on Northwest Westover. He graduated from Chapman Elementary and Lincoln
High before attending Lewis
& Clark College and earning a
journalism degree from Stanford in 1952. He was an Army
cryptographer for NATO in
Italy from 1952-54, and then
held positions at ski resorts, a
local ad agency and the New
York Welfare department. He
explored Oregon and much of
the world by foot, canoe and
a camper van. He published
hundreds of articles, essays,
columns and feature stories.
In 1999, he wrote “Naked
Against the Rain: The People
of the Lower Columbia River,
1770-1830,” a 431-page hardcover book about the Chinook
Indians. In 1988, he married
Charlotte Clark, who survives
him. A celebration of his life
will be held Saturday, Oct. 25,
4-7 p.m., at their house at 2147
NW Irving St.
Jerome Golby
Jerome “Jerry” Golby, owner
of Golby Bags on Northwest
12th Avenue, died Aug. 28 at
age 89. He was born May 19,
1925, in Portland, and attended
Grant High School and Stanford University. He was the
owner and president of Golby
Bags, a burlap bag manufacturer started by his father. In 1976,
he and Steven Goodin invented
a polypropylene bag for use in
an automatic bag filling process. He was a member of the
Multnomah Athletic Club and
Temple Beth Israel. He married
Carmen; she died. He is survived by his sister, Adele Langendorf.
Marsha Livingstone
Marsha Bates
Livingstone, a
Northwest Portland resident,
died Sept. 23
at age 89. Marsha Bates was
born May 7, 1925. She attended Riverdale, Catlin School
and Stanford University. She
volunteered for several organizations, including the Perry
Center, Portland Garden Club,
Junior League and Japanese
Garden. She wrote "Particular
Parties," a cookbook to benefit
the Oregon Medical Association. She was a regent at Kenmore Plantation in Fredericksburg, Va. For many years, she
was a director of the Oregon
Transfer Company in Portland.
She married Dr. Ernest Tucker
Livingstone in 1947; he died.
She is survived by her daugh-
ters, Joan Elizabeth and Sarah
Beck; son, Donald Bates; and
four grandchildren. She was
predeceased by her son, Ernest
Tucker Jr.
Dr.
John
Francis Medica, a resident
of Northwest
Portland, died
Aug. 27 at age
53. He was
born in Portland May 9, 1961.
He grew up in Northwest and
received his medical degree
from Oregon Health & Science University. Until recently,
he lived for 18 years in TriCities, Wash., where he was a
urologist. He is survived by his
sons, John, Gordon, and Jeffrey;
mother, Joyce; brothers, Paul
and Collin; and sister, Kristin.
His father, Homer, died June 29.
1928, in Lebanon and graduated from Lebanon High
School in 1945. Following service in the U.S. Army in Germany during the Korean War,
he earned a master’s degree
from the University of Oregon.
He was an artist-in-residence
at the Oregon Ceramic Studio
1957-64 and directed the Contemporary Crafts Gallery (now
the Museum of Contemporary
Craft) from 1965-68. He established the ceramics art facility
at Lewis & Clark College, where
he chaired the art department
for nine years. In 1980, he was
elected Lifetime Trustee Emeritus to the national board of the
American Craft Council in New
York City. His own work was
shown at the Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland Art
Museum, Seattle Art Museum,
Johnson Wax Collection and
the Smithsonian Institution.
He is survived by his brother,
Richard; and partner, Tom Law.
Mary Packer
Carol R. Lawson
Dr. John F. Medica
Mary Packer, a resident
of Cedar Mill,
died Aug. 30 at
age 83. She was
born in Seaside Park, N.J.,
Nov. 26, 1930. After graduating from college, she worked
as a schoolteacher. She moved
to Oregon in 1975 and helped
found the Cedar Mill Community Library, where she worked
for 39 years. She helped open
Second Edition, the library’s
resale shop. Her husband of
57 years, Maury Packer, predeceased her. She is survived
by her sons, Richard, Jim, John
and Ed; daughters, Patti and
Suzie; 11 grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
Kenneth B. Shores
Kenneth B.
Shores, a resident of Goose
Hollow, died
July 30 at age
84. He was
born July 30,
Carol R. Lawson, a lifetime
Portland resident, died Sept. 20
at age 92. She attended Chapman School and Lincoln High
School. She received a bachelor’s degree in nursing from
the University of Portland and
spent many years teaching
nursing at Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center. Carol married Berton K. Lawson Jr.; he
died in 1976. She is survived
by her sons, Larry and Wally;
daughter, Barbara; and three
grandsons.
program and Santa Barbara
City College. She competed
in equestrian events, studied
dance and performed with a
swing dance group and developed and sold health and beauty products. She is survived
by her brothers, Charles and
George; and sister, Charlotte.
Death Notices
Virginia E. Adams, 83, 1950
graduate of Lincoln High
School.
Walter Wynne Caswell, 76,
Multnomah Athletic Club
member.
Sue Ann Schauer Dolan, 66,
tour guide at Pittock Mansion,
attended Abernathy School.
Leo J. Freiermuth, 85, member
of Multnomah Athletic Club.
William D. Hagenstein, 99,
a founder and builder of the
World Forestry Center.
Charles Haze Hudson, 83,
employed by ESCO 32 years.
Donna (Murphy) Kennedy,
96, member of Multnomah
Athletic Club.
Nadine Cecilia Liebertz, 90,
graduated from Lincoln High
School.
Stephanie May, 43, resident of
Cedar Mill.
Leeanne Gwynne MacColl, 87,
resident of Portland Heights.
Lois E. (Penn) Mako McCulley, 78, employed at Graphic
Arts Center.
Jeanne E. Mundal, 95, graduate of Good Samaritan Hospital
School of Nursing.
Deborah B.
Chamberlain
Deborah Boatner Chamberlain, who attended Ainsworth
Elementary School and graduated from Lincoln High School,
died June 27 at age 62 from
the effects of a stroke. She was
born Dec. 21, 1951, in Portland.
Her mother, Dorothy McCall
Chamberlain, was the sister of
Gov. Tom McCall. She attended
the University of Oregon, Lane
Community College's nursing
Eloise C. (Roller) Peper, 98,
attended Lincoln High School.
Jean Shirley, 96, teacher
and librarian at Lincoln High
School.
Donald S. Welch, 79, founder
of World Cup Coffee.
L. Greg Smith, 57, parishioner
of St. Mark’s Anglican Parish.
Esther Hunt Scofield, 96, Lincoln High School graduate.
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Voice for animals
I wanted to take the time to
thank the NW Examiner and
its editor for their continued
efforts to expose mistreatment
and improper care of animals
at the zoo, particularly elephants. As is rightly said, animals have no voice, and the
elephants depend on yours—as
do we—for clear-sighted, scrupulously accurate and effective
journalism.
Elise N. Zoli
Ipswich, Mass.
Tall buildings raise
stress
Add my voice to many others commenting on the negative impact of ever-increasing
building height in Portland's
core areas. Far more than an
issue of aesthetics, it smacks of
poor judgment and willful disdain for the vision of Portland
as a community of neighborhoods.
The message we glean from
City Hall is that leadership does
not care about preserving the
high quality of life Portland has
become known for. Whether
it's greed or other motives that
drive it, the untoward effects
are palpable.
Last evening was gorgeous,
perfect for enjoying a good
restaurant's outdoor service.
Later in the evening, loud yelling arose from the adjacent
park. We saw two men, one
started throwing punches, the
other trying to get away from
the blows. Phones lit up, but
Some readers disagreed with last month’s Tilt review.
police never arrived. From a
nearby table I heard an ironic
voice: "I love Portland." Clearly
enough, unlike her town, here
such events are predictably
common.
antees it could not decay again?
Infill was inevitable, but
planning for greater population density has been lagging.
City government doesn't seem
to notice or address the rising
level of conflict that accompanies packing more people into
limited space.
Jules R. Altfas M.D.
NW Lovejoy St.
I can't in this message enumerate the ways failed leadership manifests itself, but the
bottom line is its toll on the
community. It increases stress,
and invariably erosion of health
and safety follow in due course.
Continuing its present
course, Portland risks killing
the source of its golden eggs.
Surely we can leave a far more
generous legacy.
Petitioners speak for
neighborhood
"No Members Allowed"
(September, 2014) crystallized
a powerful movement in Goose
Hollow and across Portland—
citizens pushing back against
commercialization of residential areas and the cloistered tactics of neighborhood association boards.
Having lived and worked
Those signing the petition for
near central Portland for
Northwest
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the Oct. Examiner
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almost 40 years, I've seen many
changes, mostly for the better. ing were eager to express disBut I distinctly remember when pleasure with the Goose Hollow
23rd Avenue was a slum, and Foothills League board's failure
while it has revived and is now to arrive at a recommendation,
considered a jewel, what guar- despite hundreds of signatures
Those opposed to rezoning
represent a broad political and
economic spectrum working
respectfully in solidarity: engineers, urban planners, architects, small business owners,
seniors, people with disabilities, waiters, writers, professors, real estate reps, environmentalists, health physicists,
doctors, lawyers, parents with
kids who live in park-deficient
Goose Hollow, neighbors in
Section 8 housing and MAC
members alike.
With regard to GHFL President Bob Arkes' assertion that
Legends residents are "hardly
representative of the GHFL
membership as a whole," it
should be noted that the petition also reflects signatures
from Four Seasons, Vista St.
Clair, Royal Manor, The Jefferson, Arbor Vista, Collins Circle,
Rena Villa, The Fordham, 735
St. Clair, homes around Block
7 and reaching to Vista Ridge.
The number of Legends residate:
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dents who signed does not
present a "further complication" as Mr. Arkes suggests.
As pedestrians, many seniors
living there are navigating dangerous traffic levels. A pro-
posed tunnel will not mitigate
increased MAC congestion.
Traffic from latent demand can
back up feeding into it. Neighbors are united. The MAC and
Texas-headquartered
Mill
Creek can't steamroll them.
Connie Kirk
SW 19th Ave.
Tilt review slanted
Regarding Michael Zusman's review of Tilt restaurant
[September 2014], my wife and
I (both in our late 50s) have
been there at least six times
and have enjoyed every visit.
Zusman spent a good portion
of time complaining about the
service and the staff's attitude.
I don't know what he was
expecting regarding ordering/
picking up your food; the only
difference between Tilt and
other successful businesses in
this genre (Lardo, Bunk, Lovejoy) is that they deliver the
trays to you (versus having you
pick the food up), which takes
approximately 30 seconds. The
staff was always helpful. The
only impatience I've seen was
when a customer took five minutes to decide what to order.
With regard to the food, my
only "complaint" has to do with
the size of the portions: They're
just too generous! Their turkey
club is served on large slices
of toast, with each half enough
to satisfy a hungry eater. Their
biscuit sandwiches are also
TEAR SHEET
excellent. I eat regularly at Pine
State, Tasty n Sons and Country
Cat, and I enjoy Tilt's biscuits
as much as the other fine local
examples. The salads are also
impressive. ▶
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gathered to oppose rezoning,
despite the Block 7 subcommittee's examination of comprehensive plan goals and the
committee's subsequent vote
to oppose rezoning, despite
meetings packed with opponents. When neighbors arrived
to testify at the GHFL board's
special meeting April 29, a lottery was instituted. Only those
"lucky" enough to have numbers drawn could speak. Civic
involvement should be comprehensive.
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As for the baked goods,
I've tried several and found
them exceptional. They have a
homemade banana cake that
was as good as my previous
"best banana cake" reference
(Billy's in New York City). My
only real complaint with Tilt
is with the high-priced drink
menu, but I'm not drawn to Tilt
because of their bar.
I like living in Portland in
part because so many places
offer good food in an unpretentious setting. I don't live near
Tilt, but I find myself jumping
on the streetcar and heading
there on a regular basis. While
I'm sorry that your reviewer
hasn't enjoyed his visits, I will
continue to go there and suggest others go there as well.
Mike Goldstein
SW Bond Ave.
Hit piece on Tilt
I've lived in Northwest Portland for a year after living in
other parts of the city for 15
years. While the NW Examiner
is almost certainly the biggest
neighborhood publication in
Portland, I have found it to be
the most biased and unreadable.
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The latest issue's article
about Tilt is shameful. I picture the author going in and
acting completely rude, then
surprised to find he gets poor
service in return. A neighborhood paper shouldn't be in the
business of doing hit pieces
attempting to ruin a business
in the neighborhood.
Your content is unwaveringly
anti-development. I live at the
bottom of the hill and could
care less about rich people's
view of Mt. Hood, as could
the majority of the neighborhood. I think your writers and
staff should move to the suburbs because Portland as a city
has to change, and that means
more height and more development. Or maybe they can buy a
nice condo and get over it.
Paul Davidson
NW Johnson St.
Everett changes
backfire
The new traffic pattern on
Northwest Everett Street is a
bad idea [Snapshots, September]. The previous lane pattern
should be restored. This new
one-vehicle lane configuration
has created less efficiency in
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traffic movement, decreased
vehicle capacity, created a hazardous relationship between
motor vehicles and bicycles
and impeded commercial vehicle services to adjacent properties.
Everett is the only one-way
Northwest arterial providing
direct access—with only two
stops—serving Northwest hillside neighborhoods, Nob Hill,
West Burnside via 23rd Place,
Westover and Cornell commuter traffic to Downtown Portland, the Pearl District, I-405
north and south and to I-5. This
traffic volume must be served
by Northwest Everett and will
not simply disperse throughout
the Alphabet District.
With two lanes, commercial
service vehicles (garbage, postal and delivery, utilities, medical, school, etc.) do not create
congestion when stopped to
provide service. With one lane,
stopped commercial delivery
vehicles create traffic delays
and lane jumping by cars into
the bike lane.
Bicycle traffic, with dedicated lanes, is better served
regarding speed and safety
using other streets. Congestion
and hazards are also increased
with curbside parking on both
sides of Everett. Vehicle and
bicycle movements are comingled as an unintended consequence.
Tom Nelson
NW Calumet Ter.
No trust
I strongly disagree with the
transportation brain trust on
losing an entire lane to eastbound traffic on this major
Northwest route to downtown.
I saw no public alert prior to
this confusing mess appearing
from out of the blue.
This is Portland? I use this
route every day, and cars are
now more restricted and slowed
overall while bikers are really
given the same access as before
… with perhaps even less safety. Accountability please. We
should demand better than this
for everyone’s sake.
Patrick Wheary
NW 86th Ave.
Park needs help
It was Sunday, Sept. 7, and
the day was warm and pleasant. As we walked through
Couch Park on our way to
lunch on Northwest 21st Avenue, I shook my head when
I noticed graffiti marring the
sign near the southeast corner
entrance. Except for one dog
owner strolling with a dog offleash outside of the off-leash
area and one father and child
in the play area, there were no
other people in the park except
a group of homeless people in
the shade.
The park is unloved and
untended, and it seems such
a contrast with the beautiful,
well-tended and well-used
parks on Portland's Eastside
that I observed this summer.
Couch Park needs neighbors
and friends to support positive
changes to make the park inviting for all.
Dennis Harper
NW 18th Ave.
Spreading the word
A friend has just brought
to my attention the plight
of Packy and his friends at
your local zoo. I wanted to
immediately comment on how
I was impressed with the clarity
of your article and how concise
your words were to bring an ▶
out-of-towner up to speed on
this obvious disaster for Packy
NEWS
and friends.
I intend to send the link
(nwexaminer.com) to friends
to heighten the awareness.
Thank you very much for
writing this piece.
PJ Rainwater
Cape Cod, Mass.
Rights of membership
Concerning your coverage [“No members allowed,”
September 2014] of the special meeting called by Goose
Hollow Foothills League members, two erroneous assertions
made by Robert Arkes, president of GHFL, and Mark Sieber,
executive director of Neighbors
West Northwest, should be
addressed.
First, that an insurance
policy may somehow restrict
the actions of a neighborhood
association. This is not only a
patent absurdity, it is repugnant. There is no authority
whatsoever for it. The only way
a contract of insurance could
be a governing document of
GHFL would be if it were incorporated in GHFL's articles of
incorporation or bylaws—
which is not the case.
The fact that the executive director of a “coalition”
(NWNW) supposedly dedi-
cated to serving neighborhood
associations would assert this
position (and which position
may or may not be supported
by ONI) should set off alarm
bells in every neighborhood
association in Portland.
We then come to the matter of the power vested in the
members of a neighborhood
association. Mr. Arkes and Mr.
Sieber imply that members
have no power other than to
elect a board. They cannot
intervene or act to correct a
board which is answerable and
accountable to them. This also
is an absurdity. The main purpose of the clauses in GHFL
bylaws and ORS Chapter 65
that provide for the calling of
special meetings is to enable
the members to rein in a board
that does not represent the
interests of the membership.
Neither the bylaws nor that of
Chapter 65 limit in any way
the purposes for which a special membership meeting may
be called. The limitation upon
such a meeting is only that it
must act “... within the purpose
or purposes described in the
meeting notice.”
To recapitulate, Messrs.
Arkes and Sieber say in effect
that GHFL members need only
come together once a year at
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the annual meeting to elect
the demigods, who will be
accountable to no one until the
following year, when the hoi
polloi elect or re-elect half of
the reigning clique. I happened
recently to re-read the views
Charles I expressed regarding
the rights of his citizenry (just
before he met his fate): “I must
tell you that their liberty and
freedom consist in having government. ... It is not in their
having a share in government;
that is nothing appertaining to
them.”
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Driving out cars
• Allowing apartment buildings in the Central City or
Northwest District to be built
without off-street parking.
• Raising meter rates and
restricting on-street parking during Timbers/Thorns
games at Providence Park.
• Street Seats, which replace
two or three parallel parking spaces with dining tables,
are expanding. Five of the 14
examples are in the Northwest or Pearl districts.
• Bike Corrals, in which curbside parking is devoted to
bicycles, are proliferating,
with 13 sites in Northwest
and the Pearl.
• Portland has 319 miles of
bike lanes of various types,
and new forms of bikeways
and intersection accommodations for bikes are constantly unfolding.
Pearce, who oversees such
projects at PBOT, said there is
a lesson to be drawn from the
fact that “we haven’t for many
years invested in expanding
capacity for the motor vehicle.”
Driver of the car turning left onto Northwest Everett at 21st Avenue after a long wait shows frustration. Photo by Vadim Makoyed
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kept on side streets.
Although the city promised
that the Everett Street modifications would reduce travel times only slightly, he has
experienced quite the opposite,
reporting that what used to be
a two or three minute trip from
23rd to his shop can now take
10 minutes.
“It’s hopelessly plugged up,”
he said, noting that he waited
through three cycles of the traffic signal at 23rd and Everett on
a recent morning.
As a result, he’s been taking
Flanders Street to 16th, where
he turns to reach I-405.
“If I can figure this out, others will too,” he said of a tactic
that puts cars onto neighborhood streets against all official
intentions.
If Warrens, with a long career
in the automobile business, is a
predictably testy about impediments to driving, Steve Bloch
is more difficult to pigeonhole.
Bloch rides his bicycle daily
and recognizes the benefit of
reducing auto use. He also
commutes from the West Hills
to his Old Town photo studio, a
trip complicated by the Everett
Street modifications.
“I used to make the whole
trip without missing a light,”
he said.
One recent morning, he
waited through five signal
cycles between 23rd and 19th
avenues, largely because a garbage truck making frequent
stops blocked the vehicle lane.
He’s seen traffic on the street
back up from 21st to almost
23rd on some occasions.
Another part of the Everett
Street project, moving the bike
lane from the right to the left
side of the street, may have
avoided the “right hook” problem turning onto the freeway at
16th. But it introduced a list of
what Bloch calls “messy, confusing, irritating, irregular and
illegal situations” encountered
when a driver or rider is forced
out of their designated lane.
(A city staffer advised him it’s
permissible to use the “wrong”
lane when the other is impassable.)
Bloch also has a personal
detour: He turns left from West
Burnside onto Trinity Place to
reconnect with Everett Street
east of 19th Avenue, where it
still has two vehicle lanes. He’s
not sure it’s a good solution—
it can cause cars to back up
behind him while he waits for
an opening in westbound traffic on Burnside—but it beats
slogging along predictably congested Everett Street.
“I don’t know why the car
always has to lose for a bike to
win,” said Bloch. “I would love
to challenge the city into winwin thinking, where the bike
gets its own improved way and
car travel isn’t hampered.
“Are we perpetuating dogma
or looking at every situation for
what it is?” he asks.
The Everett Street reconfiguration is a minor maneuver
in the campaign against “auto
orientation.” Many of the projects embodying this policy are
evident in Northwest Portland
and Goose Hollow.
• The Northwest Parking
Plan, to be fully implemented
by next April, puts a price on
parking in the district east of
25th Avenue through meters
and permits.
Meanwhile, the city is “working to get more explicit” about
transportation goals by increasing investment in other modes.
Although the movement seems
to gain momentum year by year,
it’s been a long time in coming.
Pearce said Portland first faced
the imperative of transforming
its transportation system in the
1970s, when air pollution violated federal standards on one
out of three days. In response,
City Council adopted a cap on
the number of parking spaces
in Downtown.
That wasn’t the only reason for changing transportation policy. The city core had
become overridden with parking lots and other auto uses,
degrading its form and efficiency. Businesses and residents
were fleeing to the suburbs.
Mayor Neil Goldschmidt
(1973-79) led Portland’s Downtown revival so successfully he
was named U.S. Secretary of
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where people gather, where businesses
thrive and where people want to live,
said Pearce.
That’s the philosophy and the strategy. But are locals buying it?
In many ways, clearly yes. The Street
Seats and Bike Corral programs have
been “phenomenally popular,” said
Pearce, with waiting lists of businesses
wanting their own.
“When given the right options, more
will choose to use means other than
driving,” he concludes.
But there’s a degree of doubt among
transportation planners and activists
that locals are ready to release their
grip on their steering wheels. The right
choice in their minds faces public resistance despite their best efforts to spread
the gospel.
Selinger rides astride this dilemma.
“Most people support the bolstering
of alternative modes of travel, but fewer
are prepared to make use of alternative
modes,” said Selinger, who does not own
a car.
While most may agree with Selinger’s
long-range goal of weaning Portlanders
from the automobile, Selinger’s successor as NWDA president, Tavo Cruz, is in
less of a hurry to get there.
“Long term, we have to get out of our
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Cruz has heard complaints from
drivers who feel that the “road diet”
embodied by the Everett Street project
has “affected their ability to get through
the neighborhood efficiently.”
“If we are to continue to 'densify' in
the Northwest,” he said, “something has
to give. It will be a race to see if parking
or traffic chokes the neighborhood first
and diminishes our highly valued livability.”
Meanwhile, “I haven’t heard people
say this is a great idea.”
Metered and permit parking begins
to assign the real cost of heretofore free
parking, he said, so “the value of that
parking can be set by the market.
“I resent anyone who sits around
thinking of ways to make my life more
difficult,” he said. “That’s really offensive to me.”■
“At some point, in my view, folks need
to make the choice of living in the suburbs with their three family cars or living
car-free in the central city by making use
of other options,” said Selinger.
years or older
Strong words for someone who in the
same message shunned the “discourage
auto use” label.
Reflecting a moment, he added,
“Maybe I’m too hard on my neighbors.”
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Johnson has no off-street parking, is
irked by the idea that driving should be
discouraged.
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City Council weighs MAC garage issue
Continued from page 1
resolution against the hybrid
structure. It will be held at 7
p.m. in the First United Methodist Church, 1838 SW Jefferson St.
Even before the Oct. 1 hearing, the council decided to
delay final action until after the
membership vote.
In April, the GHFL board
failed to pass a motion pro or
con at the end of a major public
meeting called for that purpose.
Last month, the board was still
arguing about that meeting and
how the minutes should portray various events.
Some have had enough of
the quarreling. Three members
resigned from the board this
summer, one in obvious disgust
at the division and dysfunction.
An effort to fill the first of those
vacancies was nullified on procedural grounds, and the other
seats were left empty rather
than test a method of finding
replacements that might again
be challenged.
Opponents of the Block
7 development grew so convinced they were not being
heard by the board that they
formed a separate nonprofit,
Friends of Goose Hollow, raised
funds, hired an attorney and
became a virtual neighborhood
association in itself. Members
of this bloc dominated the 2013
GHFL elections, taking four
of the six available seats, and
threaten to gain a majority next
month when 10 of the 13 seats
are up for election.
Most of the league’s monthly
meetings drag on, lasting as
long as three hours and frequently heading off into personal disputes or tangents. The
contesting of the right of the
developer of Block 7 to be a
GHFL member has consumed a
considerable amount of board
time and involved a records
request. Board President Bob
Arkes acted on an anonymous
charge that a board member
acted unethically, resulting in
filing of a formal grievance by
the person accused.
The writer of the poison pen
letter, a former board member,
was uncovered four months
after the fact. The email accused
a board member of mischaracterizing the organization’s position on Block 7 at a city hearing.
Multnomah Athletic Club
General Manager Norm Rich
removed all copies of Tracy
Prince’s popular Goose Hollow
history book from the club’s
gift shop, ostensibly because
the author
has been
an outspoken critic
Harvey Black, president of Friends of Goose Hollow, leads an organization perched to soon dominate
the area’s city-sanctioned Goose Hollow Foothills League. Photo by Vadim Makoyed
of the development proposal.
Prince accused the club, of
which she is a member, of “bullying” and attempting to silence
her. Rich did not respond to
a request from the Examiner
to explain why the book was
pulled.
Harvey Black, chair of Friends
of Goose Hollow, is attempting
to focus the opposition’s energies on the issue at hand.
“There are many reasons
to oppose the MAC project,”
he said. “But the bottom line
is that the MAC worked with
the neighborhood in the 1980s
and 1990s to secure a parking
garage and needed zone changes, promising the city and the
neighborhood, in exchange for
its support, that the club would
build within RH zoning on the
two blocks south of the parking
garage and it would refrain from
building further MAC parking
south of the garage. The MAC
has walked away from those
commitments.”
The Multnomah Athletic
Club claims the 1981 master
plan agreement and a later one
in 1992 both expired in 1995
when zoning for the main MAC
garage was changed, and they
no longer limit expansion of
club parking.
Block 7, surrounded by Southwest 19th, 20th, Main and Madison streets, has been used as a de
facto park since the 1990s.■
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Welcome to the NW Examiner’s new Lincoln High
School page. As the school year unfolds, we will be
providing news, photos, schedules and announcements of school activities and sporting events.
Poetry printed on bus benches
A
poem by Lincoln student Julianna Mazziotti, 16, is featured
on TriMet bus benches on
Southwest Salmon and 14th
next to the school. She was
one of 10 Portland students
recognized by the 2014 Poetry in Motion program.
Viola d'Amore
by Julianna Mazziotti
Dulled gloss on my deep red body,
each of my silent six strings fastened by pegs,
I float with no articulate notes.
Yet, in your ears, a sweet silvery sound resonates:
the nonexistent bow emerges from your imagination,
gliding across my vertical lines—
lively vibrations bouncing,
playing.
Your hands embrace me,
my backward "S" shapes,
working, working
for halo-like music
to dance gracefully through each parcel
of unfilled air.
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incoln High School senior Theodora Mautz achieved perfect scores
on both the ACT and SAT college entrance exams this year. She is
believed to be the first to do so in
Oregon.
OregonLive featured her story,
which involves a father from Pendleton
with a close connection to cowboy culture and a mother from Beijing.
Julianna Mazziotti enjoys her seat by
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Chinese culture; she regularly visits her
grandparents in China.
She plays in piano competitions,
excels in science and pole vaults on
the school track team. She also runs a
tutoring program to help immigrants
become citizens.
She attended Class Academy on
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Time
Opponent
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Fri
4 pm
@ Grant
L
10/2
Thu
7:30 pm
vs. Roosevelt
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Wed
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Fri
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10/16
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7 pm
@ Wilson
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Tue
6 pm
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Thu
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vs. Grant
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Day
Time
Opponent
(location)
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10/2
Thu
TBD
@ Wilson
Type Date
Day
Time
NL
10/2
Thu
6:30 pm
@ Benson (Wilson HS)
Opponent
(location)
L
10/2
Thu
7 pm
@ Roosevelt
L
10/7
Tue
6:30 pm
vs. Jefferson
L
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Wed
7:30 pm
vs. Franklin
L
10/9
Thu
4 pm
vs. Cleveland (Madison)
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Tue
7 pm
@ Cleveland
L
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Thu
6:30 pm
@ Madison
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10/16
Thu
4:15 pm
@ Wilson (Hamilton Park)
L
10/16
Thu
6:30 pm
vs. Roosevelt
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10/21
Tue
7:30 pm
vs. Benson
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10/21
Tue
6:30 pm
vs. Grant
L
10/23
Thu
7 pm
vs. Grant
L
10/23
Thu
6:30 pm
vs. Franklin
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The Pearl
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Proposed hotel gets warm welcome after revisions
Hampton Inn & Suites
on Northwest Everett Street overcomes
prior neighborhood
objections.
ALLAN CLASSEN
W
hat a difference a year
makes.
When a Hampton Inn
& Suites hotel was proposed at
Northwest Ninth and Everett
in 2013, immediate neighbors
came out in force to register
opposition. Many, who lived
in the Elizabeth Lofts Condominiums across the street, were
alarmed at the possibility of an
eight-story building screening
their views of the Park Blocks.
There were also broader concerns about the design, quality
of construction and incompatibility with the surrounding
area. It was considered too suburban looking by some members of the Pearl District Neighborhood Association land-use
committee and not connected
to neighborhood life.
The design ran into even
harsher criticism from the Portland Design Commission.
After going back to the drawing boards—and buying another quarter block to expand
the original half-block site—
Hampton Inn’s design team
has come back with a reconfiguration that seems to satisfy
both immediate neighbors and
the Pearl District Neighbor-
The two-story commercial building at Northwest Everett and Park (foreground) has been acquired by developers of a Hampton Inn Suites,
allowing the proposed hotel to fill three-quarters of the block. The Elizabeth Condominiums are in the distance at left.
hood Association.
Barry Perkel, director of real
estate for the Raymond Group,
a Wisconsin-based company
that designs and builds Hampton Inn hotels and other commercial buildings, presented
the updated proposal to the
PDNA last month. After seeing
drawings, hearing about plans
and interacting with the development team, the audience of
about 20 people applauded,
not typical protocol at such
meetings.
“I think this is a huge
improvement over the previous design,” said PDNA Vice
President Bruce Morrison. “I’m
delighted with the ground floor
on Everett.”
The addition of the quarter
block at Northwest Park and
Everett streets allows a larger,
L-shaped building with a full
block fronting Everett. The
ground floor along Everett
will be devoted to a restaurant
and separate bar surrounding the main entry. The walls
will tilt up to fully open the
space to the outdoors in good
weather. There will also be an
open fire pit and a water pool
near the entry. The hope is to
enliven the corner and make
it an attraction for neighborhood residents as well as hotel
guests.
That resonated with neighbors, who made this suggestion
in 2013. Association representatives also pushed developers
of the new Marriott Residence
Inn on Northwest Ninth Avenue for a street entrance to its
bar, but they have been disap-
pointed to find that the bar is
difficult for non-guests to find.
No restaurant/bar operator
has been identified, but Perkel
said the company’s preference is for a local tenant. If no
such operator can be found,
he said the Raymond Group
will run the bar itself to ensure
the building connects with the
community.
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The design of the Hampton Inn Suites passed muster with Pearl neighbors and now
goes to the Portland Design Commission.
without a local operator.
ish by fall 2016.
“Out first choice is not to be in the
restaurant business,” said Perkel, adding that the local broker looking for
tenants is confident they can be found.
While some neighbors disparaged
Hampton Inn Suites for what they perceived as its low-brow clientele in 2013,
that criticism did not re-emerge this
time.
The building will be 94 feet tall,
slightly below the allowable 100 feet in
this zone. It will have 232 rooms and
114 parking stalls on the second and
third levels. Underground parking is
favored by the PDNA, but the developer
rejected it due to construction costs and
logistics.
The application will go directly into
the city’s design review process without
the typical design advice step. The goal
is start construction next spring and fin-
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Wisc., suggests it will be a good fit in
Portland.
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third floor parking at the center of the
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PEARLANDIA
History
Vince Paveskovich pitched for the
University of Portland in 1942.
All historic photos are courtesy of
Vincent Paveskovich
Portland Beavers groundskeeper Rocky Benevento (L-R), with brothers Tony,
Johnny and Vince in 1948.
Johnny Pesky autographed this photo from 1946,
when he led the American League in hits with 208
and batted 335 for the Boston Red Sox.
Those Pesky Boys of Slabtown
In the early 1900s, Croatian immigrants Jakov and Marija Paveskovich
raised six children in a two-story house at Northwest 20th and Upshur
streets. The home was near St. Patrick Church, where the boys, Tony,
Johnny and Vince, were altar boys.
DONALD R. NELSON
A
sthma forced Jakov, by
then known as Jacob, to
stop working at the Eastern and Western Lumber Company in Northwest Portland.
Johnny starred for the Boston Red Sox in the 1940s and
’50s. He spent 61 of his 73 years
in professional baseball with
the Red Sox organization, earning the title, “Mr. Red Sox.”
After dabbling in professional baseball, Vince returned to
Portland where he taught and
coached at Lincoln, Jefferson
and Marshall high schools.
Baby Beavers in 1929 when he
was 16. He later played in an
industrial softball league for his
employer, Oregon Casket Company.
Less is known about the oldest son, Tony, who had rheumatic fever as a child and later
developed asthma. He left
school after the eighth grade
to work to help the family
finances. Still, he managed to
play semi-pro baseball for the
Tony’s love of sports transferred to following his brothers’ athletic exploits. He kept a
scrapbook of their clippings.
He did not serve in the military in World War II, but was
a member of a citizen patrol
group, receiving an award in
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1944 for 400 hours of service.
In the mid 1940s, Tony
became a warehouseman for a
wholesale appliance company,
Electrical Distributing Inc.
"He unloaded the freight
cars and was very watchful of
our inventories, people going
through our warehouse,” recalls
A.M. "Buddy" Cronin, CEO of
the company. “He was a good
man. When the Beavers would
have opening day, he would
take a couple of days off or we'd
give him the time off because
he was so excited that the Beavers were playing."
Tony was a ticket taker for
the Beavers after they moved to
Multnomah Stadium in 1956.
A man who remembers run-
ning into Tony on business in
the 1960s said his favorite subject was his brother Johnny.
He suffered a brain aneurism
in 1965 and died.
His
younger
brothers
enjoyed better health and longer athletic careers.
They were never far from
the Vaughn Street Ball Park,
whose beloved Portland Beavers groundskeeper Rocky
Benevento hired them as batboys.
The pair also developed an
interest in roller hockey. The
boys went down to the junkyard near Montgomery Ward
to retrieve discarded roller
skates, which they rebuilt from
multiple skates to make ▶
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The Paveskovich family,
circa 1921 or ’22. Back row:
Jacob Paveskovich holds
Johnny, Mary holds Vince.
Middle row: Ann and Tony
Front row: Millie (left) and
Catherine.
Vince Paveskovich (2014 photo) now lives in a retirement
center. Photo by Donald R. Nelson
serviceable pairs. They made
their own sticks and later used
hockey sticks from the nearby
ice arena.
The pucks came from discarded circles of wood from the
casket company. According to
Vince, Tony would leave the
wood outside on the windowsill. If they needed more pucks,
they would rap on the window
and tell him.
The younger brothers hung
out at the ice rink at Northwest
20th and Marshall, earning the
“rink rats" label. Johnny was
clubhouse manager for
the original Portland
Buckaroos hockey team
in the early 1930s, and
Vince was a stick boy.
Tony Paveskovich played right field and first base for
the Baby Beavers in 1929.
"When it was hockey
season, we were at the
rink; when it was baseball season we were
at Vaughn Street Ball
Park," said Vince.
Johnny, a natural at hockey, played in an amateur beer
league while in his teens. One
sportswriter dubbed him "Pesty
Paveskovich."
Johnny was also a standout
on the 1936 state championship Lincoln Cardinals baseball
team. Oregonian sportswriter
L. H. Gregory suggested his
name be shortened for newspaper box scores. He was known
as Johnny Pesky throughout his
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Johnny Pesky played for the semipro Silverton Red
Sox in 1949.
major league career, although
he didn’t officially change his
name until 1946.
Johnny joined the U.S. Navy
Pre-Flight School at Chapel
Hill, N.C., with his Red Sox
teammate Ted Williams. They
played baseball for the Navy
Cloudbusters baseball team.
Johnny earned the rank of
ensign.
In 2005, he summarized the
key to his happiness:
“I've been married to the
same woman for over 60 years.
I'm still with the Red Sox. What
more do you want?'"
He died in 2012 at age 93.
he wanted to teach and coach.
He started teaching at Irvington Elementary School before
moving on to three Portland
high schools, working as a
teacher, coach and administrator. He retired in 1988.
"Today I am fortunate,” he
said recently. “I think the good
Lord guided me. I have no
regrets."
One of the players he
coached was Pete Ward, who
went on to play for the Chicago
White Sox. "One thing about
Vince,” said Ward, “if you play
sports, he knows about you."
He is a member of the ExNewsboys Association and the
Oldtimers Baseball Association
and continues to attend St. Patrick Church. He can be found at
his usual booth at the monthly
Slabtown baseball breakfasts at
McMenamins Tavern and Pool.■
Vince played baseball for the
University of Portland in 194142, then served in the U.S. Navy
before returning and graduating in 1948. He was signed by
the New York Yankees organization, but saw limited action.
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THE PEARL
Food Front members start Cook’s Club
Anyone interested
in food, community
invited to join monthly gatherings.
KC COWAN
F
ood Front Cook’s Club is a
small group with a passion
for food and a cooperative
spirit.
Northwest Raleigh resident
Faye Yoshihara got the idea last
year, when she served on the
Food Front board of directors.
“We could never get people
to come to our board meetings,
because they’re kind of boring,” said Yoshihara. “There’s
so much community here, but
board meetings are not the best
way to try to engage our owners.
“A couple of us, well, we love
to cook, we love to eat. So we
thought, wouldn’t it be fun to
see if there are enough people
interested in just talking about
food from all angles?”
Food Front members Regina
Hauser and Evan O’Neill joined
Yoshihara in starting the group.
The co-op announced the venture and provided a small stipend for supplies, but the club
is free to set its own agenda.
Sharing food is a big part of
the club’s fun. At last month’s
Food Front Cook's Club members Regina Hauser (L-R), Evan O'Neill, Joan Zucker, Susana Feraris, Gretchen Westlight, Faye Yoshihara
and Mary Bartlett. Photo by KC Cowan
meeting, cherry tomatoes and
tiny mozzarella cheese balls
were paired with the olive oil
and balsamic vinegar. They
sampled two wines, and Hauser brought pakhoras she made
by dipping basil leaves in chickpea batter.
They meet monthly, except
summers. Topics are whatever
interests the members. So far,
they’ve explored chocolate, fermentation and
Old World foods.
“It’s really (based on)
whoever has an interest in a topic,” Yoshihara
said, “and it’s really been
very informal, very small.
Just very easygoing and
fun.”
Hauser said the club
shows how Food Front is
different from other grocery stores. “There’s more
community around Food
Front,” she said. “I love
getting to know people.
The food is almost secondary.”
Cook’s Club met in the Food Front patio last month and discussed plans
for a cookbook. Photo by KC Cowan
The meetings average
six to nine people, includ-
ing a Cordon Bleu-trained chef,
a woman who has a large citrus
orchard and a woman who lives
in France half the year. Yoshihara calls herself the “worst
cook” of the group, but since
she grew up on a farm, her
interest leans toward the food
system.
“Even though we only had
nine people show up for a cooking session, we have done some
outreach in the store, some
pairings and things like that,”
Yoshihara said. “And we’ve had
upwards of maybe 40 or 50 people who will stop and will try
the pairing and in that process,
we’ve been amazed with the
owners and shoppers and their
knowledge.”
“I just would love to see a
space where people could
come and talk,” she said. “Just
have a night where someone
could talk about a certain type
of food, and maybe have a
demonstration.”
Club members are thinking
of creating a cookbook to sell to
Food Front members. Several
brought cookbooks to examine
and critique at the September
meeting.
Club member Mary Bartlett,
co-author of a cookbook entitled, “Throw a Great Party,”
advocates for including good
photographs and not being too
wordy.■
Food Front Cook’s Club is open
Cook’s Club has met in the to all, including non Food Front
community kitchen at the members. Contact the club at:
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ESCO opens innovation
center with nod to
history, baseball
DONALD R. NELSON
E
SCO, formerly Electric Steel Foundry, has been a
Slabtown fixture since 1913.
While the company looks to the next 100
years with the opening of the Hank Swigert Center
for Innovation, ESCO respects the past. The center
is located in a former warehouse standing on land
that was once occupied by the old Vaughn Street Ball
Park. Old Portland Beavers photos decorate the center’s lobby, and baseball themes identify its rooms.
For instance, an area for sensitive research is called
ESCO President and CEO Cal Collins (left) and Hank Swigert, a longtime ESCO employee and director and grandson
the Bullpen.
ESCO’s backstory is also told with photos and
innovative products from the company’s 101-year
history.
of the company’s founder, dedicate the Hank Swigert Center for Innovation. Photo by Donald R. Nelson
The real work of the innovation center is turning
new ideas into products and testing them in preparation for production.
“This is a collaborative space that promotes interaction between customers, designers and manufacturing in the development of next generation
products," said Chris Carpenter, vice president of
innovation and technology, at opening ceremonies
attended by ESCO employees.
Hank Swigert is the grandson of ESCO founder
C.F. Swigert.■
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is commemorated in the new center for innovation.
Photo by Donald R. Nelson
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Dining & Entertainment
Seasonal slurping at Boke Bowl
Northwest Portland
joins a nationwide
ramen rage - for
good reason.
MICHAEL C. ZUSMAN
O
nce the cosmic weather
switch flips from sunny
and warm to cloudy, cool
and damp, a hot bowl of soup
sounds alluring again. That
pivotal moment is upon us,
but with comforting news for
Northwest Portland residents.
After a year-long run as a
popular pop-up, Boke Bowl
emerged to full-time bricksand-mortardom in the Central
Eastside Industrial District in
2011. The Northwest 18th and
Northrup outlet followed in
May of this year. It was not on
my summer radar. Call me a
foul weather fan, but it turns
out the ramen here is a natural tonic for an easy night out
A pork dumpling ramen bowl ($9) and brussels sprout salad small plate ($9) are popular items at Boke Bowl. Photo by Vadim Makoyed
when the wind blows the rain
sideways and the temperature
scale plays in a single octave
range.
The Japanese love their
ramen regardless of the season, slurping hot soup and
noodles year-round. It’s been
that way since the end of
World War II, which triggered
an influx of cheap wheat flour
from the West and repatriated
war veterans who had developed a taste for wheat noodles
during campaigns in China
and elsewhere in Asia.
An abiding memory of a
2013 visit to Tokyo is the profusion of ramen shops (“ramenya” for showoffs) where customers punch their orders
into what look like large
vending machines stationed
18
at the establishments’ perimeter, then sit down and wait for
humans to deliver according to
mechanized specifications.
The essential ramen components are simple: broth, most
often pork, chicken or dashibased; flavoring (or tare), commonly relying on soy sauce
supplemented with a blend
of spices; and wheat noodles,
curly or straight. From there,
the ensemble can take any
number of tacks depending on
what additions get thrown in
the bowl, either standard components chosen by the house
or menu options selected by
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the customer.
In the United States, most
everyone over a certain age
associates ramen with college
days or early work life on a
desperately tight budget. We
all survived on those 10 for $1
cups of dried noodles with the
packet of uncertain seasonings that were magically transformed into a meal with the
addition of boiling water. Perhaps it’s these taste memories
shared by the Boomer generation that account for ramen’s
recent ascent in American gastronomy.
Books are dedicated to
divining its deepest secrets,
and restaurants specializing in
ramen have sprouted all over.
(A popular Chinese restaurant
outside Boston that I visited
earlier this year had recently
installed a “ramen night.” I
suspect this is testament more
to the soup’s sudden notoriety than the noodles’ Chinese
roots.)
Enter Boke Bowl. Love or
hate the bright lights, eyesearing orange and white color
scheme and cutesy graphics
splattered everywhere, this is
a trend surfer (or tradition in
the making) worth getting to
know.
The ramen options begin
with three types of broth: a
seafood version that’s a bit too
salty; caramelized fennel that’s
a tad too sweet (but which fits
the vegan/vegetarian manifesto); and pork, which is just
right. Each variety arrives piping hot in a quart-sized bowl
with a substantial tangle of
bouncy noodles on board.
Other incorporated elements
differ somewhat from variety to
variety, but my preferred pork
ramen ($10) boasts shredded
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THE ZEN OF BEAU
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October, 2014
The bright overhead menu board is designed for no nonsense ordering. Photo by
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dried seaweed and bamboo shoot, corn
kernels, chopped scallion and mustard
greens. The highest and best use of the
seafood broth is in Miso Black Cod and
Sausage Ramen ($16).
And don’t forget the condiments on
each table: tangy/salty/spicy togarashi
powder and a bottle of sriracha-like
chili sauce that’s plenty hot, but not
debilitating. Adjust away.
The optional add-ins help round out
each one-bowl banquet. The poached
egg for a buck—slow-cooked to yield
a silky-soft bright white orb—ought to
be mandatory, as the runny yolk adds
luxurious body to the broth. For cravers of animal protein, a sizeable chunk
of crispy, well-seasoned deep-fried
chicken breast ($4) is a must, though
the dollop of pickled mustard seed aioli
accompanying the chicken doesn’t add
anything intelligible to the ensemble.
The intertwining flavors and textures
of the different broths, condiments and
optional additions offer a near-infinite
universe of ramen variations. And
don’t forget the side dishes, notably
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Since the gentrification of Northwest
23rd Avenue, there aren’t many passed out
bodies lying along the sidewalk. One exception is Beau. A companion dog, Beau can
be found observing the world most days
in front the Nob Hill Bar & Grill. According
to legend, his lineage is that of a Kentucky
coon hound, but there has to be a great
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and pass by. Smaller dogs may walk over
him, Beau doesn’t flinch. He may open his
eyes, and you sense he’s thinking, “It is what
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outside, chewy and mochi-like inside,
splattered with chili-inflected mayonnaise. The only forgettable side I tried
was a dish of seriously under-fermented cabbage kimchi ($1).
The most surprising joys on the Boke
Bowl menu are the mealtime possibilities that aren’t hot soup: the selection
of pillow soft steamed buns (three for
$9) filled with brisket, pork belly, zucchini or even peanut butter and jelly; a
cold noodle salad ($10), a bowl of delicious dry (brothless) ramen served with
pork loin or tofu, plus carrot, greens
and a soy-cured hard-boiled egg; and
a formidable seasonal garden salad
($9)—on an early fall night, including
spicy arugula, sweet cherry tomatoes,
crunchy fried garbanzos and big firm
cubes of smoked tofu—dressed with a
sesame-lemon vinaigrette.
For dessert, skip the miso-butterscotch “Twinkie,” more a gimmick than
a go-to, and opt instead for the rich and
earthy dark chocolate and five-spice
pot de crème or mango and kaffir lime
leaf tapioca pudding (each $3).
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Boke’s budget-friendly pricing, though
all demographics are represented in
the space that occupies the ground
floor of The Addy Apartments.
Indoor seating, at small tables and
the kitchen counter, tops out around 50,
with reasonably comfortable, if spartan, furnishings and ample elbow room
for all. In the summer, outdoor tables
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sun returns. There are plenty of good
things to eat year-round (including dim
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Farewell Noisette:
Restaurant closures have never been
on my beat. One can be fairly certain
that whenever a place closes, there are
ample measures of wounded pride,
heartache and financial wreckage leading up to and following the event. So,
I decided a long time ago that when a
restaurant failed or was about to, I didn’t
want to be the one to tout the fact as if it
were sign of my peerless insider access.
Portland’s crop of thumb-typing
young Turks, on the other hand, seem
to feel no such constraint. Instead, a
closure gets treated no differently than a
new opening, especially if the writer can
be the first to jam something out online,
before moving on abruptly to the next
hot event and the next and so on, rarely
with any follow up or consideration of
the underlying human cost.
And so it was with the recent closure of Noisette on Northwest Vaughn.
Michael Russell’s shallow exposé
appeared on the Oregonlive website July
22, announcing the impending closure
at an indefinite future date and offering
little else besides a perfunctory emailed
quote from owners Tony and Debbie
Demes professing their retirement from
the restaurant business and Russell
quoting at length from his own recent
review of Noisette. I’ve never been
impressed with Russell’s
integrity and this insufficient smidgeon only
solidified my dismay.
There was no reason to
jump on this story other
than ego. But, I suppose
Russell must have felt
great pride in being the
first to kick a little dirt on
the coffin before it was
even lowered into the
ground.
Tony Demes is a restaurant lifer. Cooking fine
food is what he’s done
with extraordinary skill
and dedication for more
than 20 years. His original
Portland restaurant, Couvron, which was open
from 1995-2003, was an
exemplar of Portland’s maturation as a
serious culinary destination. His return
to town after stints in New York City and
Washington state was exciting news. I
and his best efforts not to appear too
formal.
When I interviewed Demes a short
while before Noisette opened, he told
Demes just couldn’t find
the right angle despite
top-notch food and his
best efforts not to
appear too formal.
remember chatting with him while he
and Debbie personally renovated the
decrepit building they bought for Noisette to fill.
But Noisette never caught on the way
Couvron did. So much has changed
in the way Portlanders eat—the “casualization” of fine dining, some maven
wrote—that Demes just couldn’t find
the right angle despite top-notch food
ing, but it's still on the cutting edge,
compared to Seattle and even New York.
There is lot more going on here than in a
lot of major cities.”
I don’t know whether Demes is serious about retiring from the restaurant
business or was just trying to conceal
the anguish and disappointment he had
to have felt at a vulnerable moment. I
hope he returns to the local food world
and Portland reciprocates his affection.
Well wishes are due in any event. Noisette will be missed.■
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 Community Events
Gay and Grey Expo
Gay and Grey Expo, sponsored by Friendly House’s
SAGE Metro Portland program
for LGBT older adults, will be
held Saturday, Oct. 18, 9 a.m.-5
p.m., at 1737 NW 26th Ave. This
is the seventh annual Gay and
Grey Expo, which is touted as
the largest LGBT resource fair
in the nation. Highlights will
include a session with Carlton
Rounds, an expert on AIDS/HIV
survivor syndrome; a presentation by retired therapist Reid
Vanderburgh on gender identity; an entertainment showcase
hosted by Ecstacy Inferno; and
the Eugene Woodworth Memorial Art Show, Reception and
Sale, 5-7 p.m.
Couch Park work day
Volunteers are needed to
weed, remove litter and spread
mulch at Couch Park, Northwest 19th and Glisan streets,
Saturday, Oct. 11, 9 a.m.-1 p.m.,
as part of Portland Parks Foun-
Low-cost yoga, Pilates
dation’s annual citywide Parke
Diem. Registered participants
will receive a free T-shirt. To
register, visit parklandia.org/
parkediem/couchpark.
Volunteer instructors will
provide yoga classes at Friendly
House for members Wednesdays, 6:30-7:30 p.m., starting
Oct. 22 and Pilates classes Saturdays, 9:30-10:30 a.m. The
classes are free for members
and $6 for others.
Rotary speakers
Portland Pearl Rotary Club
meets every Tuesday at 7:25
a.m. in the Ecotrust Building,
721 NW Ninth Ave., second
floor. The public is invited. A
$10 charge includes breakfast.
For information, contact Randy
Vogt, [email protected]
or 503-228-9858. This month’s
programs are:
Oct. 7: Rotary district governor annual address, Doug
Taylor.
Oct. 14: Club assembly, Tracy
Vicario, club president.
Oct. 21: “A year in Brazil,”
Xavier Rodriguez.
Oct. 28: “The Power of Art,
Nature and Community in
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Underserved
Children,” Tricia Snell, executive director, Caldera.
Current events
discussion
Matt Carlson will moderate
free current events discussion
sessions the fourth Tuesday
of each month a 7-8 p.m. at
Friendly House, 1737 NW 26th
Ave. The next one is Oct. 24 and
will cover upcoming local elections. The goal is to promote
active citizenship.
Tracy Snell of Caldera speaks at Pearl Rotary Oct. 28.
Nov. 4: “Unintended Consequences and Oregon Property Tax,” Lou Ogden, mayor
of Tualatin.
Lane closure trial
A proposal to convert a
traffic lane of Third Avenue
between Northwest Davis and
Southwest Ash streets will be
showcased from Friday, Oct. 3,
7 a.m., to Sunday, Oct. 5, 7 p.m.
Businesses are invited to set up
tables, sell food, play music or
otherwise activate the street to
demonstrate what a permanent
closure might look like. “We
want to make this the Times
Square of Portland,” said Timur
Ender of Better Block PDX, a
nonprofit which is organizing
the event.
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 Community Events
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invited to enjoy a free lunch
while learning about the agency’s programs. For information
or to make a reservation, contact Monique at 503-935-5287.
Pittock Mansion tour
A special tour of the Pittock Mansion will explore its
evolution since 1914, from the
changes made when the Pittocks lived there to repair after
the 1962 Columbus Day Storm
as part of the Friendly House
Continuing Learning program
Thursday, Oct. 9. Meet at the
mansion at 1:45 p.m. The cost
of $12 for Friendly House members ($15 for nonmembers)
includes admission.
First United Methodist Church,
1838 SW Jefferson St. The purpose of the meeting is to consider and vote on a proposal
to rezone Block 7 (between
Southwest 19th, 20th, Main
and Madison streets) from residential to commercial to allow
construction of an apartment
building and Multnomah Athletic Club parking facility.
family and sing or dance or play
little instruments. The next session is Friday, Oct. 17, 6-7 p.m.
There is no admission charge.
Music Circle
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Ted Kaye leads a Family
The Oregonian newspaper
publisher had a summer home
near Lacamas Lake. The tour
includes the Camas Library,
a walk along Main Street and
a nod to the Georgia Pacific
paper mill, started by Pittock to
Adoption presentation
Boys & Girls Aid will present information on adopting a
child at Friendly House, 1737
NW 26th Ave., Thursday, Oct.
16, 6 p.m.
Members of the Goose Hollow Foothills League will hold
a special membership meeting
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 7 p.m., at
Music Circle every third Friday
of the month at Friendly House,
1737 NW 26th Ave. He invites
neighbors to bring the whole
Camas tour
A tour of Camas, Wash.,
which was founded by Henry
Pittock, is scheduled Thursday,
Oct. 23, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.
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The cost is $25 for Friendly
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Family Open Art Studio
Friendly House invites families to the Arts and Crafts room
to work on a different art project each Saturday morning.
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Northwest Parking Plan inches
toward implementation
The metering system is
expected to generate perhaps
$1 million a year in surplus
revenue that will be available
to provide local transportation
improvements and alternative
transportation incentives. The
SAC will advise the city on how
this money should be spent and
the logistics of operating the
program. The body is advisory
to PBOT, which has the authority to make final decisions.
City Bureau of Maintenance workers install a pay station on the
Eastside. Pay stations will be installed later this year in Northwest,
though they won’t be functional until next spring.
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Northwest Parking Plan, which
will be fully implemented when
meters are installed next April,
according to Chris Armes, who
is administering the program.
The program will involve
meters and permits east of
Northwest 25th Avenue and
west of I-405, though the existing K Zone between 16th and
18th avenues will not be affected. For $60 a year, residents and
workers in the district may purchase permits, which will allow
them to park free in metered
areas (except on 21st and 23rd
avenues).
The first meeting of the
SAC is tentatively scheduled
Wednesday, Oct. 15, 4 p.m, at
Friendly House, 1737 NW 26th
Ave. The meetings are open to
the public.
The committee has four
representatives each from the
Northwest District Association
and Nob Hill Business Association, plus five at-large seats. It
will be chaired by Rick Michaelson, a neighborhood resident,
developer and business person
since the 1970s.
Responding to questions
about other city programs
such as Street Seats and Bike
Corrals that take the place of
parking spots, PBOT’s Bill Hoffman, who has shepherded the
program from conception, to
City Council adoption and on
to implementation over the
past five years, admitted the
program’s goals are “schizophrenic.”
“On one hand, we’re working
to maximize on-street parking,
while at the same time there is
a real desire to use the public
right of way differently” in ways
that add vitality to the community and businesses, he said.■
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NameAffiliation
Craig BoretzAt- large
Tavo CruzNWDA
Judy KafouryNHBA
Karen KarlssonNWDA
Rick Michaelson, chair
At-large
Nancy PautschAt-large
Thomas RanieriNHBA
Greg SarishAt-large
Phil SellingerNWDA
Don SingerNHBA
Mark StrommeAt-large
Ron WaltersNWDA
Charlotte WilsonNHBA
Street Seats
installments,
such as this one
on Northwest
Glisan Street,
reveal the city’s
ambivalence
on best use of
the on-street
parking lane.
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legal in Oregon since 1998.
Although sales for recreational use would greatly
expand the market, it would
also complicate his business
and divert him from his mission.
“I think I’ll stay with the
medical route,” he told the
Examiner.
Wald noted that marijuana
prices in Washington tripled
after it was legalized there,
resulting in long lines outside
dispensaries and frequent
shortages causing stores to
close for days or weeks.
Medical marijuana cardholders browse the dispensary, where they can choose from smoke-able, edible and liquid forms of the product.
Oregon law requires that the dispensary have a locked door. Photo by Vadim Makoyed
He’s also seen Californian
marijuana stores bar their
windows and employ armed
guards, becoming shady places
that degrade their neighborhoods. That’s not what he has
in mind on Thurman Street.
he prefers due to the stigma
attached to marijuana.
“I know a lot of people
who need it,” he said. “They
shouldn’t have to turn to the
black market, or have to feel
ashamed or intimidated.”
“I don’t want the madness of
anyone over 21 [being eligible
to buy],” he said.
Wald, who moved to Portland with his family—he and
his wife live across the street
from Chapman School, where
their twin sons attend fifth
grade — from Hawaii in 2010,
has a close friend who credits
his survival to marijuana.
While he doesn’t begrudge
those who gain pleasure from
the substance, he’s focused on
the health benefits.
Owner Bobby Wald, a medical marijuana user himself since having
three knee surgeries, aims to provide a clean, safe product in a
context where people don’t feel shame.
“I think everyone should
have safe access to cannabis,” said Wald, using the term
Robert Drew was an outstanding volleyball player and
fitness paragon who contracted
Crohn’s Disease, causing him
to waste into a skeletal form
unable to take in adequate
nutrition and needing a wheelchair. He also became addicted
to narcotic painkillers, Wald
said. With marijuana use, he
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juana. Normally, he’ll
only be on-site after
5 p.m. (the collective
will be open 10 a.m.10 p.m. daily) because
he continues to work
for 24-Hour Fitness,
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dispensaries in Northwest
Portland: Urban Collective, in a
room inside a house at 305 NW
21st Ave.; Health Awareness
Group, above a nail salon at
2312 NW Kearney St.; and Oregon’s Finest, below On Deck
Sports Bar at 1327 NW Kearney
St. Wald said another is opening in a converted warehouse
building at Northwest 19th and
Vaughn. None are visible from
the street. Wald said medical
marijuana users know how to
find them, and there’s no need
to attract the curious.
His 24-Hour Fitness
job involves maintaining the buildings and
equipment, though his
physique reveals a personal time spent in the
gym. He’s been with
the company 17 years,
most of it in Hawaii,
where he also owned a
tattoo shop.
He promises to dedicate 10
percent of his earnings to charitable causes and intends to host
various fundraising events. The
entire price of art sold in the
gallery will go to the artists.
An
independent
laboratory to assess
“It’s really important for us to
the type, purity and be in a nice neighborhood,” he
potency of marijuana said. “We want to give back and
products will lease be an asset to community.”
The Thurman Street Collective storefront at 2384 NW Thurman St. gives faint clues to the business’ primary
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Brent Douglas, who owns the
space. Bobby Carr of two-story building where ThurRussell Marine Group, man Street Collective is locatwhich tests grain ship- ed, said he considered whether
ments at its main lab this type of business would
at Northwest 26th and offend the community. After
lic access to dispensaries.
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Upshur, will operate the lab.
talking to neighbors, includHis wife, Kanani Miyamoto, and both rooms opened for the
Program cardholder.
All products are labeled for ing those of older generations,
receptions.
The marijuana aspect of who’s in the masters program
their percentage of cannabidoil he concluded it wouldn’t be a
This is Wald’s first marijuana
the Thurman Street Collective at Pacific Northwest College of
(CBD), which provides pain problem.
resides behind a locked door Art, will run the gallery, where enterprise. For the last seven relief without the high associ“He’s a positive person,” Dougseparating it from a modest- she will also show her own months, he’s been learning ated with tetrahydrocannabilas said of Wald. “I think he’s
work.
A
different
local
artist
the
ropes
of
a
unique
indussized storefront art gallery. The
nol (THC). The dispensary sells going to be a good neighbor.”■
two-tiered configuration is a will be featured each month. try while also doing much of cannabis in smokeable, edible
response to the OMMP rules First Thursday receptions will the remodeling work himself. and liquid forms.
that prohibit unrestricted pub- include live music, wine and He recently attended a two-day
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Pettygrove Physical
Therapy & Sports
Rehabilitation
Civic Taproom & Bottle
Shop
621 NW 19th Ave.
503-703-9639
thecivictaproom.com
The Civic Taproom and Bottle Shop
will open soon in the Civic Condos,
offering beer, wine and hard cider.
“There are over 188 breweries in Oregon,” said co-owner Spencer Raymond,
“and we will represent them all over
time.” His partner is David Bloom, and
they have hired Sean Hiatt, who co- David Bloom (L-R), Sean Hiatt and
owned Caps & Corks on Northwest Spencer Raymond.
Lovejoy, to manage the operation. They
will keep a rotation of 12 beers, three
wines and six ciders on tap. They will Uno Mas or Hot Lips Pizza. They will
not serve food, but invite patrons to display historic photos of the area and
bring items from nearby Boise Fry Co., train staff to answer questions about
local history.
1515 NW 18th Ave., #400
503-228-1306
pettygrovept.com
Northwest Portland residents Karl
and Sasha Kolbeck purchased the Pettygrove clinic from Vinton Mougey this
year. Both are experienced physical
therapists, and they have five other certified therapists on staff, providing a
total of 125 years of experience. The Kolbecks are also certified in orthopedics. Karl and Sasha Kolbeck.
The clinic has 4,500 square feet of gym
and treatment space and seven private
treatment rooms. Lockers and showers of equipment, the clinic offers Biodex
are available. In addition to other types isokinetic strength testing and exercise.
Thurman Street
Collective
Spectacle
2250 NW Lovejoy St.
503-719-5179
spectaclepdx.com
Dr. Marc Schmitt (L-R), Martina
Stoytcheva and Hector Miranda.
The first tenant in the new Franklin Ide Apartments building, a full service optical clinic, opened in August.
Owner Mark Schmitt is an optometrist
and medical laboratory scientist who
can evaluate glaucoma, macular degeneration, diabetes, high blood pressure,
cataracts and other diseases affecting
the eyes. Dr. Schmitt is particularly
interested in evaluating children under
6 to best correct eye problems. Spectacle also sells frames, including Leisure
Society Frames. The clinic will partner
with nonprofits to provide free glasses
to local people in need. A grand opening celebration will be held Friday, Oct.
10, 5-8 p.m.
2384 NW Thurman St.
971-803-7970
thurmancollective.com
Northwest Raleigh residents Bobby
Wald and his wife, Kanani Miyamato,
opened a medical marijuana dispensary and art gallery last month (see
story on Page 1). Wald, who has worked
for 24-Hour Fitness the past 17 years,
will continue that job while running the
dispensary in the evenings. Miyamato,
who’s working toward a master’s degree
at Pacific Northwest College of Art, will
manage the gallery, where she will display her own art and works by other
local artists.
Bobby Wald.
GP Kitchen
433 NW 10th Ave.
503-222-1563
eatgpkitchen.com
A “fine foods market” founded by
husband and wife team James Joyce
and Vicky Davies in Lake Oswego in
1992 will open its second store in The
Gregory building this month. They offer
dine-in and take-out meals, in addition to catering. Prepared foods include
fresh produce, meats, seafood and
locally baked breads. Grocery items will
include pastries, soups, salads, entrées,
desserts, wines, chocolates and cookJames Joyce.
books. It will be open six days a week
beginning Oct. 16.
Hope Valentine, DVM, MS, CVA
Traditional Chinese Veterinary Medicine Practitioner
Founding Veterinarian
503.893.9PET (9738)
[email protected]
1500 NW 18th Avenue Suite 102
Portland, OR 97209
2 blocks from DoveLewis
503.926.9394 fax
www.balancedpetsnw.com
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The Jackson Tower
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503.235.3556
1231 NW 11th Ave. • Portland, OR 97209
www.circlestudio.biz • [email protected]
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Oscar Drakes, a full-service restaurant featuring steak and seafood,
closed after less than six months in business at 1939 SW Morrison St.,
across from the stadium. General Manager Benjamin Pickthorn told the
Examiner, “We didn’t have the financing to keep it going.”
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10 Barrel Brewing, which is remodeling the former Mellow Mushroom
space at Northwest 14th and Flanders, intends to add a rooftop deck. The
bright mural covering both sides of the building will not be retained by
the pub.
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CK Thai Kitchen, 323 NW Park Ave., has been closed during normal
business hours lately and no one is answering phone calls.
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Plaza Cleaners closed its second outlet at 909 NW Everett St. last month.
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Cinema 21’s Kickstarter campaign to replace 50-year-old seating in the
main theater succeeded, raising $73,763 from 716 backers.
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Tribute’s, 2174 W. Burnside St., closed recently. The pizza and sandwich
restaurant never regained the popularity it enjoyed at 2272 NW Kearney
St. after being forced to move two years ago.
Will Leather Goods, which opened at 816 NW 23rd Ave. in July, is
expanding to the lower level in the same building, where it will feature
its “found collection” of used items.
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Whole Foods Market now offers home delivery service for $4-$6.
Hand-Eye Supply, a store dedicated to work wear and high quality tools,
is moving from Fourth and West Burnside to 427 NW Broadway this
month.
art gallery
Architectural Design
- Residential and Commercial Projects -
Oscar Drake closed
unexpectedly in
September after less
than six months in
business.
New Construction, Additions,
Renovations, Accessory Dwelling Units
DDP Architecture, LLC
D. Dustin Posner
Architect, AIA, CSI
p: 971.279.3760
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The Parker Apartments
on Northwest 13th
Avenue, featuring the
Pearl’s first concrete
ping pong table,
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Lend a Hand to Improve the Local Environment!
Polish the Pearl
Parke dieM: CouCh Park
Date: Saturday, October 11, 2014
Time: 9:00 - 11:30 AM
Place: Peet’s Coffee & Tea,
1114 NW Couch St.
Date: Saturday, October 11, 2014
Time: 9:00 AM - 1:00 PM
Place: Couch Park,
NW 19th & Glisan St.
Meet at Peet’s for a free coffee before we
head out to Polish the Pearl. We will wrapup at 11:30 am at Chipotle where you will
return cleaning supplies and enjoy a free
burrito to celebrate your accomplishments
(first 75 to register). Register at www.
solv.org/get-involved/events/polish-pearl
Parke Diem is an annual, volunteerdriven, city-wide event organized
by the Portland Parks Foundation.
People and organizations work
together to improve Portland’s
public parks. Volunteer for Couch
Park’s work day by weeding,
gathering litter, etc. Learn more
and register at parklandia.org.
suPerFund Mitigation
Date: Monday, October 27, 2014
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Place: Linnton Community Center,
10614 NW Saint Helen’s Rd.
Designs, plans & timetables for four sites
being restored as animal habitat on the river.
Forest Park day oF steWardshiP
Date: Saturday, October 18, 2014
Time: 9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Meeting Place: Linnton Creet Trailhead, NW 107th & St. Helen’s Rd.
Join the Linnton Neighborhood Association and Forest Park Conservancy
for restoration work (ivy removal!) on Hoge and Linnton Creeks. Dress
for weather and mud! Lunch to follow! Park around the Community
Center at NW 107th or across the railroad tracks on the right.
Grants
Metro Central enhanCeMent
If you have ideas on how to make your
neighborhood more beautiful, a Metro
Central Enhancement grant could help
make your vision a reality. Apply by
October 27, 2014. For more information,
visit www.oregonmetro.gov or contact
[email protected],
503 797-1739.
nW neighborhoods
Parks & reCreation Fund
The Oregon Community Foundation
invites proposals from qualified
nonprofit and public organizations for
grants to support the construction and
renovation of parks and recreation
facilities in NW Portland. Apply by
5:00 p.m. on Friday, October 31,
2014 at NWNW, 2257 NW Raleigh
St., Portland, OR 97210. Questions?
503 823-4212 or www.nwnw.org/
resources/grantprogram.
Community Policing
Coffee Klatch
Lace up your sneakers and join
us for
a walking
two)! October
series
of walking
tourstour
and(or
infor�ational
talks is a great month to get out and
enjoy our neighborhoods for Walktober celebrations. Find details about these FREE, public events at Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Time: 9:00 - 10:00 AM
www.nwnw.org/walking. RSVP encouraged: [email protected] or 503 823-4265.
Place: Guild’s Lake Inn, 3271 NW 29th Ave.
Date: Thurs., October 27, 2014 • Time: 5:00 - 6:00 PM Date: Thursday, October 30, 2014
RSVP: [email protected] (space is limited)
Time: 6:00 - 7:00 PM
Meet at: PSU Urban Center, 506 SW Mill St.
Join Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney Laurie
Meet at: Hillside Community Center
Join NWNW and Portland State University for a
Abraham & ONI Crime Prevention Coordinator Jenni Pullen
653 NW Culpepper Drive
walking tour of the Downtown and Goose Hollow
for coffee and conversation. How does the court system
neighborhoods as part of the PSU Recreation Center Prefer a hilly terrain? Come meander through address issues like graffiti, trespasses, public drinking,
the Hillside neighborhood. Explore the area drugs? What is the role of and impact on local neighbors and
Walktober program.
Date: Thurs., November 6, 2014 • Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM from 1913, when the first streetcar came to businesses? Discuss issues and possible solutions with your
the emerging neighborhood, through the neighbors. Sponsored by Neighbors West-Northwest, ONI’s
Meet at: Portland Archives & Records Center,
end of the 1920s, when construction around Crime Prevention Program, and the Multnomah County
1800 SW 6th Ave, Suite 550
Westover Road was winding down. Learn
Save the date. Learn about neighborhood archives & about the neighborhood’s development, past District Attorney’s Office. RSVP requested. Questions or to
RSVP: [email protected] or 503 823-4211.
records to research local history on your terms!
residents, and little gems of history.
Neighborhood General Meetings & Elections
arlington heights
Date: Monday, October 13, 2014
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Place: Sylvan Fire Station, 1715 SW Skyline
You are cordially invited to the Arlington Heights social and
neighborhood elections. Come renew old acquaintances, meet
new neighbors, and catch up on neighborhood news. This is
a great opportunity to find out what is going on and weigh in
on neighborhood issues. If convenient, bring an appetizer or
snack to share; beverages will be provided. Parking available
near East Sylvan Middle School. Find out about transportation
and parking in Washington Park, Japanese Garden Expansion
Plans and Reservoir Construction. For more information
contact: Jen at 503 823-4265 or [email protected].
goose holloW sPeCial Meeting
hillside
The Hillside Neighborhood Association will be voting on a bylaws change to Section 8a allowing the
association to meet quarterly instead of monthly. To read the text, visit www.nwnw.org/neighborhoods/
hillside. Neighborhood members are encouraged to attend the upcoming meeting on Tuesday, October
14, 2014 from 7:30 - 9:00 p.m. at the Hillside Community Center, 653 NW Culpepper Drive. Questions? Email
[email protected] or call 503 823-4212.
Pearl distriCt
The Pearl District Neighborhood Association will be holding its annual meeting Thursday,
October 16, 2014 at 5:00 p.m. (Voting starts at 6:00 p.m.) All members of the PDNA (this means
you’ve filled out a membership application available at www.pearldistrict.org/join-the-pdna) are
invited to join us for an important vote on new board members. This is a great opportunity to meet current board
members and have your say in future PDNA leadership. This event will be generously hosted by the Marriott, 1150
NW 9th Avenue. Finger food provided. The following people have been nominated for board positions: Patricia
Gardner, Yasmine Foroud, Bruce Levy, Stan Penkin, Glenn Traeger, Reza Farhoodi, Toni Shemarya, Jan Valentine.
To all members of the Goose Hollow Foothills League Neighborhood
Association: Pursuant to a request of at least 10% of the members of the GHFL, notice
is hereby given that a special meeting of the membership will be convened on
Wednesday, October 8, 2014 at 7:00 p.m. at the First United Methodist Church,
1838 Jefferson St., in the Chapel. Per the request, the purpose of the meeting
is to “adopt a Goose Hollow neighborhood position opposing the proposal
submitted by Mill Creek Resident Trust LLC, partnered with the Multnomah Athletic
Club (MAC), to rezone Block 7 from RH (residential) to CW (commercial).” This
meeting, like all meetings of the GHFL Board and membership, is open to the
public. Further details regarding the conduct of the special meeting will be posted at
www.goosehollow.org and sent via e-mail to all subscribers to our e-mail list. Note
that the Board will hold its regular meeting on October 16, 2014 at the MAC.
goose holloW annual Meeting & eleCtions
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2014 • Time: 7:00 PM • Place: MAC, 1849 SW Salmon St
The Goose Hollow Foothills League is preparing for the yearly election of their
Board of Directors. This year there are 7 open positions. All interested candidates
are encouraged to submit their names and a brief (100 words or less) statement
of qualifications and interests no later than October 13th to Casey Milne,
[email protected].
The Board will approve a list of candidates at the October 16th Board meeting,
however, candidates may also be nominated at the annual meeting from the floor.
Qualified candidates must be members of Goose Hollow Foothills League. Deadline
for submitting a membership application is November 13, 2014 in order to vote for this
years Board. On December 18, 2014 the newly elected Board will elect officers for 2015.
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Arlington Heights
Neighborhood Association
www.arlingtonheightspdx.org
Northwest District
Association
Old Town Chinatown
Community Association
Portland Downtown
Neighborhood Association
northwestdistrictassociation.org
www.oldtownchinatown.org
www.portlanddowntownna.com
ANNUAL MEETING
Mon., Oct. 13th 5:30 pm
Sylvan Fire Station
1715 SW Skyline Blvd
Forest Park
Neighborhood Association
BOARD MEETING
Mon., Oct. 20th, 6:00 pm
Legacy Good Samaritan (LGS)
Wilcox ACR 102, 1015 NW 22nd Ave
Air Quality Committee
Mon., Oct. 13th, 7:00 pm
Silver Cloud Inn, Breakfast Rm
NW 24th Place & Vaughn St
www.forestparkneighbors.org
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Oct. 21st, 7:00 pm
Willis Community Center
360 NW Greenleaf
Executive Committee
Weds., Oct. 8th & Nov. 5th, 8:00 am
NWNW Office, 2257 NW Raleigh
Planning Committee
Thurs., Oct. 9th, 16th, 23rd, 30th, &
Nov. 6th, 8:00 am
CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh
Call to confirm, 503.823.4212
Goose Hollow
Foothills League
www.goosehollow.org
NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING
Thurs., Oct. 16th, 7:00 pm
Multnomah Athletic Club
1849 SW Salmon St
Safety & Livability Committee
Tues., Oct. 14th, 6:00 pm
LGS, Wilcox B, 1015 NW 22nd
Transportation Committee
Weds., Nov. 5th, 6:00 pm
LGS, Northrup Building
2282 NW Northrup St
Special Membership Meeting
Weds. Oct. 8th, 7:00 pm
First United Methodist
1838 SW Jefferson
Planning Committee
Tues., Oct. 7th & Nov. 4th, 7:00 pm
First United Methodist, Chapel
1838 SW Jefferson
Vision Realization Committee
Tues., Nov. 6th, 8:00 am
Providence Park Community Room
909 SW 18th
Communications Committee
Weds., Nov. 5th, 8:00 am
Artists Repertory Theater
1515 SW Morrison
2nd Saturday Clean-up
Sat., Oct. 11th & Nov. 8th, 9:00 am
Food Front Co-op
2375 NW Thurman
3rd Saturday Clean-up
Sat., Oct. 18th, 9:00 am
Elephants Deli, 115 NW 22nd
Northwest Heights
Neighborhood Association
Contact: Charlie Clark,
503 459-3610
www.hillsidena.org
BOARD MEETING
Mon., Oct. 6th & Nov. 3rd, 12:30 pm
Forest Heights HOA Office,
2033 NW Miller Rd
Northwest Industrial
Neighborhood Association
www.nwindustrial.org
Linnton Neighborhood
Association
www.linnton.com
TOWN MEETING
Weds., Nov. 5th, 7:00 pm
Linnton Community
Center, 10614 NW Saint
Helens Rd
Day of Stewardship
Sat., Oct. 18th, 9:00 am
Linnton Creek Trailhead
NW 107th & St. Helens Rd
Superfund Mitigation Sites
presentation
Mon., Oct. 27th, 6:00 pm
Linnton Community Center
10614 NW St. Helens Rd
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MTG
Tues., Oct. 28th, 5:30 pm
BOARD MEETING
Weds., Oct. 15th, 1:00 pm
Central City Concern
232 NW 6th Ave
Meetings held at:
Meals on Wheels Elm Court 1032
SW Main St
Business Committee
Tues., Oct. 23rd, 10:00 am
Davis Street Tavern, 500 NW Davis
Marketing & Communications Comm.
Thurs., Oct. 16th, 3:30 pm
One Pacific Square, 11th floor
220 NW 2nd
Land Use & Design Rvw Committee
Tues., Oct. 21st, 11:30 am
University of Oregon, Room 152
70 NW Couch
Livability Committee
Tues., Oct. 21st, 3:30 pm
Oregon College of Oriental
Medicine, 75 NW Couch St
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Oct. 28th, 6:30 pm
Land Use & Transport. Comm.
Mon., Oct. 20th, 5:30 pm
1900 Building, 1900 SW 4th
Public Safety Action Committee
Weds., Nov. 12th, 12:00 pm
Portland Building, Room B
1120 SW 5th Ave
Sylvan-Highlands
Neighborhood Association
www.sylvanhighlands.org
Pearl District
Neighborhood Association
www.pearldistrict.org
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MTG
Tues., Nov. 11th, 7:00 pm
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Oct. 14th, 7:00 pm
BOARD MEETING
Thurs., Oct. 9th, 6:00 pm
PREM Group, 351 NW 12th Ave
Meetings held at:
Sylvan Fire Station
1715 SW Skyline Blvd
ANNUAL ELECTIONS
Weds., Oct. 16th, 5:00 pm
Marriott, 1150 NW 9th Ave
Hillside
Neighborhood Association
GENERAL MEETING
Tues., Oct. 14th, 7:30 pm
Hillside Community Center
653 NW Culpepper Drive
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MTG
Weds., Nov. 5th, 11:30 am
Central City Concern
232 NW 6th Ave
NINA MEETING
Tues., Oct. 14th, 7:00 am
Holiday Inn Express
2333 NW Vaughn St
Nob Hill
Business Association
[email protected]
GENERAL MEETING
Weds., Oct. 15th, 8:30 am
Holiday Inn Express
2333 NW Vaughn
Executive Committee
Thurs., Nov. 6th, 8:00 am
Urban Grind, 911 NW 14th
Neighbors West-Northwest
Coalition
www.nwnw.org
Livability & Safety Committee
Weds., Nov. 5th, 5:30 pm
Cupcake Jones, 307 NW 10th
Planning & Transportation Comm.
Tues., Oct. 7th, 21st & Nov. 4th
6:00 pm
PREM Group, 351 NW 12th
Communications Committee
Mon., Oct. 20th, 6:00 pm
Cupcake Jones, 307 NW 10th
Emergency Prep Committee
Mon., Oct. 13th, 6:00 pm
Ecotrust Bldg, 2nd Floor
907 NW Irving
Finance & Fundraising Committee
Weds., Oct. 22nd, 5:00 pm
Realty Trust Pearl District Office,
1220 NW Lovejoy
Polish the Pearl
Sat., Oct. 11th, 9:00 am
Peet’s Coffee, 1114 NW Couch St
Cornell Road
Sustainability Coalition
www.cornellroad.org
No scheduled meetings.
BOARD MEETING
Wed., Oct. 8th
5:30 pm
LGS Northrup Building
First Floor Conference Rm
2282 NW Northrup St.
Community Policing Coffee Klatch
Weds., Oct. 22nd, 9:00 am
Guilds Lake Inn, 3271 NW 9th Ave
Walkabout/Talkabout events
Mon., Oct., 27th, 5:00 pm
PSU Urban Center, SW 5th & Mill
Thurs., Oct. 30th, 6:00 pm
Hillside Community center
Neighborhood Records
Openhouse
Thurs., Nov. 6th, 6:00 pm
Portland Archives & Records Cntr
1800 SW 6th Ave, Ste. 550
Find calendar updates at: www.nwnw.org/Calendar
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BUSINESS
Swift watchers at Chapman School left a lot of litter, as Northwest
Westover resident Dustin Johnsen documented with this Sept. 14
photo. “It's an impressive spectacle that adds unique vibrancy to our
neighborhood,” said Johnsen. “But … we can do better than what is
pictured. … I'm confident we can come to a solution.”
Dustin Johnsen photo
The first Homer Award, named for longtime 23rd Avenue Market owner Homer Medica, was awarded to Mike
Ryerson (right) at the Slabtown Festival last month. He is accompanied by (L-R): Karen Walcott, Joyce Medica's
sister; Julie Benevento Ball, Collin Medica, Homer’s son; and Joyce Medica, Homer's wife.
Donald R. Nelson photo
Young Slabtowners interacted
enthusiastically with Penny’s Puppet
Show at the Eighth Annual Slabtown
Festival last month.
Dove Lewis Emergency Animal Hospital honored Joe
Justice, who collected more than $1,000 for the clinic in
a donation lockbox by his aluminum pigs at Northwest
23rd and Lovejoy.
Chess for Success, based in
Montgomery Park, recently
hired Marilyn Anderson as
director of development.
Last month, Con-way Inc. employees made a special delivery of school
supplies to Friendly House, where Executive Director Vaune Albanese
accepted the donations from Tom Hentges, facilities maintenance
specialist for Con-way.
The Rogue Bluegrass Band performed at Besaw’s 111th Anniversary Bash
last month. The event benefitted Potluck in the Park.
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3,300,000
Meadow Ridge Estate
1,575,000
West Hills
999,500
Willamette Riverfront
995,000
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Exclusive Lakota Estate
180° View • Private 5.10 Acres • 9,188 SF
4 Ensuite Bedrooms • Bonus • Theatre Rm.
Call Lee Davies
899,500
Main House: 4,278 SF • 4+ BD • 3.5 BA
Guest House: 1,457 SF • 2 BD • 1.5 BA
1.3 Acres with View • Call Trish Greene or Dirk
Close-in Northwest Estate
West Hills • Braedon Heights
929,000
989,000
2.05 Acre • Home + Guest House
Gated, Fenced, Private River Frontage
Call Andrew Misk or Heather
Bauer Oaks
699,900
SA
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Marquam Hill
.53 Acre Level View Lot • 5,600 SF • 4 BD + 5.2 BA
Pool and Expansive Level Lawns
Call Lee Davies or Scott
Built by Hearth and Home • 3,964 SF
5 BD + 4.5 BA • Includes 700 SF Apartment
Call Suzanne Klang or Linda
Bauer Oaks
1.5 Acres • 4,014 SF • RV Shop with Full Bath
6 Car Garage • Private Cul-de-sac
Wash Co. • Call Lee Davies
759,900
Classic Broadmoor Ranch 699,900
3,880 SF • 4 BD + Den + Bonus
Valley Views • Fully Fenced Level Yard
Call Dirk Hmura or Rachel
Fabulous Great Room • Master on Main
Elevator • 4 Car Garage • Wash. County
Call Lee Davies or Cindy
Catlin Crest Area
1/3 Acre Level Lot • 2,946 SF • 3 BD + 3 BA
Private, Level Yard • 3 Outdoor Patios
Call Kristan Summers or Heather
3,596 SF • 4 BD + Bonus + Den/Office
Schollander Built, Custom Executive Retreat
Call Lee Davies or Cindy
639,900
Gated Country Estate
3,831 SF • 4 BD • Master on Main
Coast Range Views
Call Lee Davies or Megan
949,900
4.74 Level Acres • 3,200 SF • 3 BD + 2.5 BA
Single Level Living • Sport Court
Call Lee Davies or Scott
BI
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Forest Heights Area Communities
749,900
Dutch Colonial
Call Lynn Marshall or Morgan
Bauer Crest Estates 685,000
599,900
650,000
LD
SO
Custom Built Beauty on .4 Acre
599,000
.38 Acre • 3,365 SF • 4 BD + Bonus
Call Lee Davies or Cindy
3,245 SF • 4 BD + 2.5 BA • Views
Call Lee Davies or Cindy
Bauer Woods
Beaverton
559,000
Stunning Valley Views
Call Lynn Marshall or Morgan
Arbor Cascadian
615,000
.4
3
3,485 SF • 4 BD + Den + Bonus
Call Dirk Hmura or Megan
Bethany Lake
Bauer Woods Est.
Call Lee Davies
Call Dirk Hmura
Portland Heights
649,900
53w9,900
3,185 SF • 4 BD + Den + Bonus
Call Dirk Hmura or Linda
Arbor Creek
549,900
2,682 SF • 4 BD + 3 BA
Call Megan Westphal or Andrew
Arnold Woods
544,950
SA
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The Pearl
Big View • 3 Master Suites
Le
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SA
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4,592 SF • Incredible Remodel!
Call Dirk Hmura or Cindy
LD
SO
449,900
Call Dirk Hmura or Tricia
4,628 SF • 4 BD + 3 BA • Full Bath on Main
Flexible Living Spaces • Fantastic Theater
Entertainer’s Patio • Call Lee Davies or Megan
PE
N
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Bauer Terrace
The Gables
Fabulous Great Room & Full Sport Court
SA
LE
719,900
899,000
Call Dirk Hmura
PE
N
DI
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G
Vista Hills
New Construction
899,000
.29 Acre Corner Lot • 4,778 SF • 5 BD + 3.5 BA
Guest BD + Full BA on Main • Bonus/Theater
Call Dirk Hmura or Cindy
Ac
re
565,000
Call Lynn Marshall or Heather
Gorgeous Tudor
LD
SA
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PE
ND
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SO
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Flat Yard
1,285,000
180º Breathtaking Views • 5 BD + 5.5 BA
5,505 SF • Two Levels of Decking • Level Yard
Call Lee Davies or Cindy
SO
Panoramic Views
LD
2,150,000
8,500 SF • 8 BD + 6+ BA • Entertainer’s Dream
3 Huge Suites • Rec. & Media Room • Library
Private Flat Street • Call Lee Davies or Lynn
SO
Worldly Mediterranean
1,400 SF • 1 BD + 2 BA
Call Bob Harrington or Morgan
3,710 SF • 4 BD + 2.5 BA • Lake View
Call Kristan Summers or Scott
Sylvan Highlands
Cooper Mountain
2,784 SF • 4 BD + Bonus • 3.5 BA
Call Dirk Hmura or Cindy
.23 Acre • 2,672 SF • 4 BD + 2.5 BA
Call Suzanne Klang or Morgan
Haydon Highlands
Bauer Crest
429,900
A
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2
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2,116 SF • 3 BD + 3 BA
Call Lawrence Burkett or Jasmin
423,500
Zoned R6 • 3 BD + 3 BA
Call Julie Williams or Tricia
Irvington
429,900
2,544 SF • 4 BD + Den • 2.5 BA
Call Dirk Hmura or Megan
Lake Oswego
314,000
2,760 SF • 3 BD + Den + Bonus
Call Lee Davies or Megan
North Portland
299,999
SA
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PE
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IN
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Northwest Portland
525,000
PE
N
DI
N
G
425,000
3,046 SF • 4 BD + Den • 2.5 BA
Call Dirk Hmura or Cindy
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469,000
2,817 SF • 4 BD • 2.2 BA • Large Lot
Call Suzanne Klang or Marla
2,081 SF • 3 BD • 14 x 12 Studio
Call Lawrence Burkett or Suzanne
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1,359 SF • 2 BD + 2 BA
Call Bob Harrington or Trish
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.29 Acre • 1,254 SF • 3 BD
Call Jasmin Hausa or Tricia
2,080 SF • 4 BD + 2.5 BA
Call Bob Harrington or Morgan