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Food Biography
JUNE 2015 / VOLUME 28, NO. 10/ FREE
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***** SERVING PORTLAND’S NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS SINCE 1986
Besaw’s
Forever
The well-loved
restaurant is
closed, but
the name will
rise again ...
somewhere
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
W
hat’s in a name?
In the case of one
Northwest Portland restaurant founded in
1903, seemingly everything.
Cana Flug, the operator
of Besaw’s since 2005, and
her landlord, C.E. John Co.
Inc., are going to court to
decide who truly owns the
business name.
As attempts to renew the
restaurant’s lease broke
down, C.E. John filed a
trademark application with
the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office in January.
Flug’s company, Tuatara
Enterprises Inc., filed for
the same name two months
Patrons celebrate the last hours of Besaw’s May 29. The blackboard reads: "From all of us at Besaw’s. We love you.” Wes Mahan photo
Food Front
unionizing
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
Food Front Cooperative Grocery workers voted 64-11 to
form a union June 2.
The vote suggests that recent
advice by the head of National
Co+op Grocers to repair fractured employee relations at
Food Front have failed.
That’s the interpretation
of Adam Bristow, a produce
clerk at the Northwest Thurman Street store and a leader
in the push to unionize.
“Things have gotten worse”
since Holly Jarvis, the co-op’s
general manager since 1993,
resigned in March, said Bristow.
In January, NCG’s chief
operating officer, C.E. Pugh,
spoke in Portland, delivering
a message raising expectations
among Food Front employees.
“Your staff is not engaged,”
he said, a problem attributable
to a “deficiency” in leadership and communication from
management.
“That needs to change,” he
added. “We have to treat staff
as business partners.”
Despite clear guidance from
the trade group to which Food
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NW Examiner Community
Awards grows, moves to Pearl
Guests enjoy music by jazz duo Dan Balmer on guitar and Dave Captein on bass as they finish their dinners and await the
awards ceremony.
Julie Keefe photo
It was the year of the committee—four of the 12 awards
went to ad hoc groups—and historic preservation, as five
awards recognized historic preservation work.
"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed
citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing
that ever has." - Generally attributed to Margaret Mead
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Editor’s Turn
Flubbing the come-to-Jesus moment
BY ALLAN CLASSEN | EDITOR & PUBLISHER
Y
ou don’t need to be religious
to have a come-to-Jesus
moment … but you do have
to be real. Posers, blame-shifters and
those who have never peered into
their own souls cannot get there.
Last month, John realized his
buttoned-lip public relations strategy
wasn’t working, so he hired a top PR
consultant, who advised him to meet
with me.
The phrase refers to suddenly
realizing the truth of a matter,
admitting past failures and
committing to a new course, a return
to core values.
Throughout our hour-long meeting,
John apologized for nothing, fended
off critical questions as if they were
irrelevant and insisted the
company’s course of
action was fully justified.
He bemoaned being
characterized as
a villain and
“evil landlord,”
perceptions he
insisted were
totally unfair.
Jim John, the head of C.E. John Co.
Inc., owners of the Besaw’s building,
seemed primed for his come-to-Jesus
moment. The large development and
construction company has always
been notoriously tight-lipped about
its dealings, even as it acquired four
major commercial parcels along
Northwest 23rd Avenue over the past
25 years. With the recent exception of
one manager who soon after left the
company, C.E. John employees would
not even return phone calls from the
Examiner to confirm the identity
of retail tenants or answer other
innocuous questions.
That pattern of inaccessibility has
had its price. The company is taking
bruising criticism in its battle with
Cana Flug, the owner/operator of the
popular neighborhood restaurant, over
ownership of the Besaw’s name.
You can lead a horse to water, but …
John’s moment
passed. I
suspect he still
I read your editorial about public records
and the zoo this morning [“Propaganda
Cheap, records pricy,” May 2015].
One missing element from the story:
Metro socked you with an astronomical public records request bill, but then
turned around and gave the same bill for
nearly the same identical records pull to
another media outlet. So in essence, for
what should have had one set of labor/
materials charges, Metro wanted to double up and charge that twice, effectively
netting an $18,000 payday from the second requester.
It’s disappointing that my legislative colleagues seem disinterested in fixing this.
The governor’s “ethics” bill on public
records amounts to no more than an audit
and a report back to the legislature months
At Food Front, the come-to-Jesus
moment has been at hand for most
of a year. Yet leadership of the
cooperative grocery has hunkered
down, clammed up and issued a
series of rationalizations that lead
only to bewilderment and anger from
those paying attention. The board of
directors responds to suspicions and
discontent by conducting its business
in secret executive sessions not open
to the membership. Most decisions
are passed
under
consent
agendas
without
explanation
as to what
actions are
from now, and only on state agencies, not
local governments like Metro. We’re losing the public record at an alarming clip in
the age of digital records, and we’re losing
our democracy with every records request
that is stonewalled by a public body.
Thank you for taking the time to write
about the issue. Julie Parrish
State representative District 37
West Linn
Editor’s note: The figures supplied
by Metro were estimates. Neither the
Examiner nor KOIN 6 News paid for or
obtained the records.
Dereliction of duty
Thank you for your biting analysis of the
public records debacle with the zoo and
Metro. You are right; it is a Three Stooges
farce that unfortunately the elephants pay
the price for because the public is denied
access to the records that can inform them
being consented to.
Members who want to address the
board or ask questions are typically
limited to one minute each. Instead
of responding on the spot, the board
may or may not choose to publish its
position in the next co-op newsletter.
All the while, the board claims it is
acting to improve its communication
with members.
Sales are down (in the latest issued
comparisons with year-ago figures)
as the co-op braces for the stiffest
competition in its history in the form
of a New Seasons store opening four
blocks away in August. Employees
are so dissatisfied they are forming a
union. Resignations reduced the board
to only three members at one point,
but the remnant soldiers on as if its
only hope is in staying the course.
The acting general manager turned
down a request to meet with me
because she was too busy.
One wants to scream at those behind
the wheel to wake up before they drive
off a cliff, but remaining “in control” is
paramount to them, and admitting error
might loosen their grip.
People can accept mistakes. They can
forgive those who say “I messed up.”
But they will not trust those who
assert their infallibility despite ample
evidence to the contrary. You have to
be real. n
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Public records reform
needed
doesn’t understand why his words and
actions don’t engender the trust he
feels they deserve.
Letters can be sent to
allan@nwexaminer.com 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.
about the elephants’ miserable lives.
Your recounting of the district attorney’s
role in refusing to even look into whether
the records fees are reasonable indicates
a clear dereliction of duty and should be
of concern to every citizen of this city.
We not only do not have transparency in
our government, we have a Berlin Wall
separating us from the truth about how
our government agencies work.
Also, thanks for exposing the zoo’s refusal to destroy its stockpile of ivory [Zoo
wants out of ivory-selling ban,” May
2015]. All ivory is blood ivory. It’s like
keeping the teeth from a holocaust victim.
Surely that is the wrong message to give
if you claim — as the zoo does — that its
mission is to conserve wildlife. Unless it
is talking about conserving wildlife that is
brutally murdered and mutilated.
Courtney Scott
NE Flanders Street
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Educational purpose
murky
This is in response to the article “Zoo
wants out of ivory-selling ban.”
When I was in the third grade, my class
took a field trip to the Karshner Museum.
One of the artifacts was a real elephant
foot that had been fashioned into an
umbrella stand. The only curiosity my
classmates and I had about the elephant
foot was wondering if it was rotten. No
one asked any questions about how the
elephant foot came to be there, or what
happened to the elephant whose foot was
now an umbrella stand. No one asked if
this elephant had once lived in Asia or in
Africa. No one questioned if this elephant
had been a male or a female. No one wondered if this elephant had little ones or if
others grieved when this elephant was
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 Obituaries
Charles M. Allen
Charles Maxwell Allen, a resident
of NorthWest Place for five years,
died on March 23 at age 90. He was
born May 7, 1924, in Albany, N.Y.
He graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and
Harvard Law School. He also served
as a navigator in World War II. He
was a trademark attorney and partner
at Howson & Howson in Philadelphia. In 2005, he moved to Portland
and lived in NorthWest Place from
2009-14. He married Barbara Wiltbank in 1953; she died in 2014. He
is survived by his daughters, Barbara
Purinton;, Elizabeth Craigie, Deborah
Foltyn and Jennifer Allen.
Shirley F. Keltner
Shirley Furio Keltner, a Northwest
Portland business owner and resident for many years, died April 12
of cancer at age 84. She was born on
April 18, 1930, in Vancouver, Wash.,
graduated from Fort Vancouver High
School in 1947 and attended the University of Washington. She worked
in the travel industry for nearly 50
years and was a managing partner
with The Paulson Travel Company.
Her office was in the Uptown Shopping Center for nearly 30 years. She
lived at 2727 NW Pettygrove St. for
about 40 years. In 1955, she married
Glen Keltner. She is survived by her
son, Grant; and sister, Antoinette
Fulkerson.
Jane Kendall
Jane
Kendall,
who taught at
Gable
Day
School, died May
1 at age 99. Jane
Rosenfeld was
born April 20,
1916, and attended Miss Jewel’s
Preparatory
School and Miss Catlin’s School for
Girls in Portland. She attended Stanford University and graduated from
Mills College in 1938. She taught
preschool at Gable Country Day
School. She married Harry Kendall
Jr. in 1940; they divorced in 1973.
She was active with the Boys and
Girls Aid Society, Arts and Crafts
Society of Oregon and the Portland
Garden Club. She is survived by her
son, Peter; daughter, Ann Taylor;
brothers, Bill and John Rosenfeld;
and two grandchildren. Her son John
died in 1994.
Mary L. Altstadt
Mary Louise
Altstadt, who
worked for ESCO
and the Racquet
Club, died May 2
at age 84. Mary
Austin was born
Feb. 20, 1931, in
Hood River. She
attended Vernon Grade School,
Jefferson High School, Oregon State
University and the University of
Oregon. She married John B.
Altstadt; they divorced. She was a
member of the Multnomah Athletic
Club and the Town Club. She is
survived by her son, John; daughter,
Louise Hallman; and two
grandchildren.
Daniel F. Cetinich
Daniel Frank Cetinich, who grew up in
Northwest Portland and attended St.
Patrick’s School, died at his home in
Berkeley, Calif., of pancreatic cancer
May 5 at age 72. He graduated from
Jesuit High School and the University of San Francisco. He was a Peace
Corps teacher in Tunisia in the 1960s.
He was a historian and retired from a
career as a San Francisco City College
instructor. Months before his death,
he published his first novel, “Paris
Illusions.” He is survived by his wife
of 40 years, Dana Bass-Cetinich; son,
Aaron Bass-Cetinich; brother, George;
sisters Frances Cetinich and Jacqueline Shook; and one grandchild.
Donna J. Churchill,
Donna Jean Churchill, a resident of
Sauvie Island, died April 29 at age
87. Donna Robitsch was born July
5, 1927, in Tillamook and moved
with her family to a dairy farm on
Sauvie Island in 1942. She graduated
from Scappoose High School in 1945
and Oregon State University in 1950
with a major in home economics.
In 1951, she married Thomas Guy
Churchill; he died. She is survived
by her daughters, Laurie Hughes and
Denise Wilson; three grandchildren;
and one great-grandchild. She was
predeceased by her son, Timothy.
Mary L. MacGregor
Mary Laura MacGregor, a member
of the Portland Garden Club, died
May 4 at age 86. She was born Dec.
11, 1928, in San Rafael, Calif. She
attended Dominican High School
and Stanford University. She was
a member of the Portland Racquet
Club. She married James MacGregor
in 1947. She is survived by her
daughters, Anita Galloway, Sandy
Mack, Nancy Bennetts and Laura
Wiley; nine grandchildren; and four
great-grandchildren.
Michael Gold
Michael Gold, a
resident of Cedar
Mill, died April
20 at age 74. He
was born in Paterson, N.J., Jan.
16, 1941. He
graduated from
Rutgers University and received
a Ph.D. in biochemistry from SUNY
Buffalo. He was a professor of biochemistry and genetics at Oregon
Graduate Institute in Hillsboro from
1976-2001. His research included
the discovery of the key molecular
processes that rot wood. He is survived by his wife, Deborah Stewart;
son, Eric; daughter, Elena; brothers,
Stuart and Jonathan.
Louise W. Hickethier
Louise Wanda
Hickethier, a resident of Cedar
Mill, died May 8
at age 83. Louise
Reinholtz was
born Nov. 23,
1931, in Epping,
N.D. She attended the boarding
academy in Battleground, Wash., and
Columbia Academy. She earned a
registered nurse degree at Portland
Community College. In 1979, she
received a bachelor’s degree in nursing. She married Lloyd Hickethier; he
died. She is survived by her son, Dennis; daughters, Jeannie Miller and
Cheryl Hickethier; two sisters; six
grandchildren; and four great-grandchildren.
Dr. Harold D. Paxton
Dr. Harold D.
Paxton, a neurosurgeon at Good
Samaritan Hospital, died May 5
at age 91. He was
born March 12,
1924, in Widen,
W.V. He attended West Virginia
Tech, Princeton University and
Johns Hopkins University School of
Medicine. His education was interrupted by military service during
World War II. He was chief of neurosurgery at Oregon Health Sciences
University from 1966-91. He led a
team that founded the first neurosurgical unit in East Africa at the
Kenyatta National Hospital in Kenya
in 1974. He re-enlisted in the Army
and served in the General Hospital
in Landstuhl, Germany, rising to the
rank of colonel. He married Ann
Andrews in 1955.
The Harold D. Paxton International
Professorship in Neurological Surgery Education was created at OHSU
in his honor. He is survived by his
son, Richard; daughters, Barbara and
Kathy; and two grandchildren.
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Rodney L. Platt
Rodney Lee Platt,
who worked in
the Washington
Park Rose Gardens and Hoyt
Arboretum, died
April 25 at age
71. He was born
Feb. 5, 1944, and
graduated from
Madison High School in 1962. He
was a Vietnam veteran. He is survived by his wife Vickie; three children; six grandchildren; two halfbrothers and four stepbrothers.
Melba A. Roth
Melba
Arlene
Roth, a member
of the Portland
Garden Club and
the Town Club,
died May 1 at
age 82. Melba
Haugen was born
Nov. 24, 1932, in
Portland and attended Vernon Grade
School and Jefferson High School.
She was active in Portland’s Norwegian community. She married Reuben Roth in 1952. She is survived
her former spouse; sons, Stephen,
Eric and Michael; brother, Norman
Haugen; sisters, Mavis Shaw and
Shirley Brandt; and six grandchildren.
John K. Vitas
John Klug Vitas,
a graduate of
Ainsworth Grade
School and Lincoln
High
School,
died
April 11 at age
88. He was born
April 12, 1926,
in Portland. He
earned bachelor’s degrees in engineering at the Merchant Marine
Academy in Kings Point, N.Y., and
the University of Portland. He founded Plasti-Fab in Tualatin in 1965,
and grew the company into a global
leader in fiberglass equipment used
in water treatment and containment
industries. He is survived by his
wife, Pat Towle; children; Susan
Vitas, Terry Towle, Nancy Towle
and Robert Towle; seven grandchildren; and six great-grandchildren.
Helen Van Winkle
Helen Louisa Van Winkle, a member
of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, died
April 15 at age 80. Helen Goble was
born Oct. 5, 1934, in Hext, Texas, and
the family moved in 1943 to Portland, where she graduated from girls
Polytechnic High School in 1952.
She was a member of the Magic
Ring Acting Company and was resident leading lady at the Portland
Civic Theater. She was named “Miss
Polaroid” and was the face of many
advertising campaigns. She married
Roger Van Winkle in 1956. She volunteered in the critical care unit at
Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital for
many years and was a member of the
Oregon Symphony Auxiliary and the
National Episcopal Altar Guild Association. She is survived by her daughters, Lynn Van Winkle and Lane Carracci; sister, Ramona Borger; and one
grandchild.
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"Letters" continued from page 3
gone. No one considered what happens to the ecosystem
these elephants belong to when the elephants are systematically killed or removed.
Thanks for zoo coverage
The argument for the Oregon Zoo getting to keep and deal
in ivory because keeping tusks around may have some
A big thank you for all you have done and continue to do
kind of educational value (that will translate into useful
for the Oregon Zoo elephants and for the non-humans at
action in stopping the slaughter of endangered wildlife) is
the Oregon Zoo. Your efforts are appreciated more than
murky at best.
you will ever know. What is clear is that black market ivory eventually gets
Leslie Sodaro
filtered into the profitable legal ivory market, fueling the
Forest Grove
demand for more and more poaching. We have reached
the crisis point where all ivory must be banned if the wild
elephants in Africa are to have any chance of survival.
No ivory
Can the Oregon Zoo wholeheartedly join the worldwide
movement to save wild elephants? Can they take an undiluted, ethical stance, standing shoulder to shoulder with
the rest of the wild animal and conservation experts across
the world? Can they lead by example? Can they act solely
on behalf of the wild elephants even if there is no immediate personal gain for them?
Marna Herrington
NW 29th Avenue
Ivory stockpile appalling
I was completely appalled to discover that our zoo has a
stockpile of ivory.
Every day, 96 elephants are murdered for their tusks,
which are worth more than gold. If we want to save this
marvelous, intelligent animal, we must stop the poaching,
which is profit-driven.
What kind of example do we set if we hold onto stockpiles
of ivory? This keeps up the price, the demand.
Allan, thank you for highlighting Portland’s very own
“heart of darkness” in the Oregon Zoo. Maybe the
staff there could re-read Joseph Conrad’s book and
consider his words about “the vilest scramble for loot
that ever disfigured the history of human conscience.”
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Thank you for your coverage of the Oregon Zoo and ivory
selling. Keep up the pressure and the questions. Why did
Rama die? Why wasn’t he placed in a sanctuary? Where is
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Sell ivory? How many dead elephants are they planning
on having there?
Death Notices
Anna L. (Smith) Blickle, 88, worked at the old St.
Vincent Hospital.
John T. Bowman, 72, employed by ESCO.
Gilda M. (Albi) Duley, 87, volunteered with contemporary Crafts Gallery.
Sally (Caldwell) Gallagher, 93, worked at Stadium
Fred Meyer.
Kent H. Crossley, 72, employed at Sulzer Pump.
J. Michael Gray, 72, member of the Multnomah
Athletic Club.
Steve E. Herbert, 52, employed by ESCO.
Edith (Goldstein) Kamin, 91, attended Lincoln
High School.
Winifred M. (O’Brian) Mulflur, 88, secretary at
Good Samaritan Hospital.
Maxine M. (Tittle) Ruthruff, 92, attended Couch
School.
Imogene L. Sittner, 96, Multnomah Athletic Club member.
Saad J. Teeny, 83, employed at the main U.S. Post
Office.
John E. Van Loo, 66, graduated from Lincoln High
School in 1966.
The Northwest Examiner publishes obituaries of people who
lived, worked or had other substantial connections to our
readership area, which includes Northwest Portland, Goose
Hollow, Sauvie Island and areas north of Highway 26. If you
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WANTTO IMPROVEVOURBALANCEWITH EASE?
All ivory should be burnt as it has been in Kenya recently.
Buckingham Palace got rid of its ivory — all of it old and
new. I think the Oregon Zoo needs to look into its soul.
There can be no exceptions. It is shameful that our zoo
intends to hold onto ivory and to possibly profit from it.
Rene Breier
NW Cornell Road
Sadly, it is too late for Rama, but there are many captive
elephants in zoos and small circuses in addition to those
in Oregon who are abused and exploited. Please stay on
this story. I’ve been tracking this from across the country
in Virginia.
Carolyn Peake
Arlington, Virginia
There is a reason the Convention on International Trade in
Endangered Species (comprised of 179 member countries)
approved a worldwide ban on ivory trade in 1989. If the zoo
doesn’t know, they can go to bloodyivory.org and do some
light reading. The Oregon Zoo is like Namibia/Zimbabwe,
which pushed in 1999 and 2002 to sell ivory stockpiles to
Japan. And these types of greedy, self-serving choices
reignited poaching and trafficking of ivory worldwide.
What seems lost in the talk about sale versus display of ivory and the nuances of avoiding breaking
the law is the live elephants murdered by humans for
their tusks to create unnecessary luxury items. Displaying trinkets — such as billiard balls and mah-
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jong sticks — even from naturally deceased elephants
sends a message to observers: These items have
monetary value, which can ignite the desire to own.
The zoo does not “need” to exchange or display any items
for education. It needs to not exchange or display them for
education. What stronger educational message about both
elephant conservation and human beings own inability as
a species to halt the killing of these majestic, intelligent,
animals and the need to profit from their death, than to
have an exhibit based on “no ivory.”
The Oregon Zoo continues to disappoint and infuriate.
Determined to make choices completely contrary to the
education and conservation principles they claim as part
of their mission, these responses to the issues at hand
(like keeping/displaying ivory) are quickly positioning
the organization as a “potential liability” to Portland and
Oregon that may be best to simply “dispel.”
Doug Steves
NW 29th Avenue
Zoo animals suffer
Kudos on running the exposé on the double standards
of the Oregon Zoo. It’s truly deplorable that such magnificent, intelligent animals with a highly developed social
structure are being subjected to such inhumane treatment
for purported entertainment. Some may argue that it
serves an educational purpose, but the only message that
comes across is that we can be oblivious to animal suffering for human edification.
Surely, conveying that it’s OK to deprive an animal of
its natural habitat while deliberately inflicting immense
physical and mental agony for decades, isn’t certainly a
message that we want to pass on to the next generation.
Atul Khare
NW 126th Terrace
Japanese Garden overruns
neighborhood
The Portland Japanese Garden has lost its sense of scale
[“City sends Japanese Garden back to drawing board,”
April 2015].
Portland Parks has renewed the garden’s lease and given it
three more acres of park land. This expansion overwhelms
Arlington Heights. Homes that surround PJG add beauty
and charm, but livability will evaporate if the garden’s
growth dwarfs this residential area. The garden exists
within a neighborhood, and it cannot flourish amid local
antipathy. Alienating neighbors with community-degrading expansion is worrisome enough, but broken promises
of trail creation, ambiguity about building size and using a
Kingston Street residence as an office create distrust.
Because the garden’s expansion evades an updated parkwide master plan, how will the Portland Parks land giveaway that enabled it be seen by future Portlanders? If the
neighborhood falls apart from elimination of foot trails
and increased vehicle traffic, executive offices consuming homes, garden construction excavating to property
lines and structures abutting private yards, we may look
back and declare that it all began with an impolitic decision to expand a residentially based private garden into
public space that couldn’t handle the overload.
The time to mitigate is now. If Portland Parks knew that
an alternate trail was not viable, then they colluded with
the garden to gain acceptance for the expansion by lying
to City Council and the public. Parks must stand behind
the garden’s public commitment to provide trail access
from the Wildwood Trail to the venues around the Rose
Garden and entrance to Washington Park. City Council
approval for the expansion — and acceptance by the
neighborhood association — was contingent upon retaining an intra-park trail to the entrance. Stephen Bloom,
PJG’s director, is on record promising this.
For the garden expansion to be beautiful, it must be tasteful and mindful of its contours. Expanding the garden
to accommodate more visitors without fully considering
public impacts is careless and un-neighborly.
Lisa Calef
SW Upper Cascade Drive
Homeless marginalized
I don’t live in the Pearl, but I am very involved in an outreach program with those individuals who are homeless
or reside in low-income housing in our community, which
is why I was outraged by Michael C. Zusman’s review of
Charlie’s Deli [“Not-so-small bites,” May 2015].
I am referring to the following sentence: “The storefront
is just a few yards from downtown’s unofficially sanctioned homeless headquarters in an area where crime and
substance abuse are in your face.”
How quickly we have forgotten that there existed a real
neighborhood and community in this area before gentrification and the expansion of the Pearl District. Those who
are homeless and marginalized each have a name, a story
and hopes and dreams like the rest of us.
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This city has a responsibility to meet the basic needs of
all its members. How can we as a community give dignity and support to those we have marginalized? With the
shoe on the other foot, what must it feel like for them to
have a wealthy neighborhood with expensive restaurants,
markets, stores and bars “in their face” which are all
beyond their means and which do not extend them any
hospitality or welcome?
My hope is that Charlie’s Deli will be a success and
become the beginning of a bridge between these two
communities.
Mary C. Myers
NE 162nd Avenue
Why promote cigarettes?
After your recent edition regarding the Stadium Fred
Meyer remodel and talk of all the neighborhood input
[“High expectations meet Stadium Fred Meyer remodel,”
May 2015], I couldn’t help but think: Where were the
people of the neighborhood when Freddy’s decided to
add special fast checkout counters with a complete backdrop of cigarettes for all of the neighborhood kids to see
in full view?
The display is 6 feet high. Besides the fact that the neighborhood has schools with all kinds of kids who frequent
Fred Meyer, where were the Kroger anti-tobacco activists
who have been so active in trying to get Freddy’s to stop
selling tobacco in Cincinnati, as well as here in Portland?
Having Freddy’s still selling cigarettes sends the wrong
message to kids who we don’t want to think it’s OK to
smoke … because it’s not.
Shame on you!
Michael Roberts
NW 12th Avenue
Quiet zone isn’t
I am a Pearl District resident and have enjoyed reading
the NW Examiner for many years.
In conversation with a friend and fellow Northwest resident, we both expressed frustration over the train noise in
the Northwest and wondered why the “quiet zone” is no
longer respected by the passing trains.
We are so accustomed to the sound waking us in the night
that we can now identify which conductor is in charge by
their “signature” horn. We have nicknamed one conductor “Here Comes the Bride” as he/she sounds the horn
like the first four notes of the song. Another conductor,
“One Mile,” leans on the horn so long the train seems to
cover a mile during the sound.
We were wondering if anyone else has noticed this change
in the “quiet zone” and thought the NW Examiner might
help us determine who to contact to restore the quiet.
Lynn Christensen
NW Northrup Street
Zoo scraps ivory
exemption effort
The Oregon Zoo is no longer seeking exemption
from pending state legislation banning the sale of
ivory in the state.
The subject was addressed in last month’s NW
Examiner cover story, “Zoo wants out of ivoryselling ban,” the only media coverage of the
exemption effort.
“We have requested that the exemption be removed
from the bill because it has become a distraction
from the real issue: the need to protect wild
elephants by eliminating the market for illegal ivory
in Oregon,” said Metro lobbyist Randy Tucker.
“The zoo has never planned to sell any ivory and
won’t do anything different whether the exemption
remains in the bill or not,” he said.
Tucker said Zoo Director Teri Dresler made the
decision to reverse course “after she recognized
how much staff time was spent on the exemption
and realized that the bill without the exemption did
not limit the zoo’s ability to have the majority of
its ivory legally disposed of/crushed and to hold a
few pieces out to use in educational programs.”
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2015Community Awards Ceremony —————
NW Examiner Community Awards grows, moves to Pearl
T
he 21st annual Northwest Examiner Community Awards
moved to the Pacific Northwest College of Art building
this year, a move dictated in part by the event’s having
outgrown its longtime home at St. Patrick’s Catholic Church.
The crowd filled the 250-seat auditorium in the recently
remodeled historic landmark.
The awards night was kicked off by state Rep. Mitch Greenlick, whose longtime involvement with the Community
Awards includes a 2006 Justice For All award and several
years of service on the selection committee.
All costs were underwritten by major sponsors Dan Volkmer, Legacy Good Samaritan Medical Center, SELCO Community Credit Union and 16 other sponsoring companies and
institutions.
Above: Willamette Heights neighbors retell the story of how they saved the Montague
House from imminent demolition with a whirlwind two-week campaign.
Left: Northwest Portland’s Dan Balmer, one of only five members of both the Oregon
Music Hall of Fame and the Jazz Society of Oregon Hall of Fame, and Dave Captein
entertained from 6 p.m. until the program began at 7. Lower left: Skylights above The Commons at Pacific Northwest College of Art bathed
the event in light, a welcome feature after holding the ceremony in darker spaces for
many years.
Julie Keefe photos
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Compassionate Service
Architectural Legacy
Historic Preservation
Livability
Solomon Olshin
Cathy Galbraith
Wendy Rahm
Patrice Hanson
Two years ago when he was 12,
he created an organization to help
the homeless as a bar mitzvah
project. SoupSack brings volunteers
together to prepare, pack and deliver
hot, nutritious meals to homeless
people in the streets and shelters of
Portland. Every month, groups of
volunteers work out of his home,
and quarterly, up to 100 people
come together at Temple Beth
Israel; so far more than 3,000 meals
have been delivered.
The executive director of BoscoMilligan Foundation since 1993, she
has championed historic preservation
citywide since Ben Milligan and
Jerry Bosco appointed her executor
of their estate. In the past year, she
worked to raise historic preservation
as a fundamental goal in the West
Quadrant, an area that includes
parts of the Pearl, Goose Hollow, in
addition to downtown. Though health
issues made attendance painful, she
stayed through long meetings to track
the process, then using her influence
behind the scenes and during public
input opportunities.
She saw that no one was representing
the West End in the city’s Comprehensive Plan update, so she spoke up for
her neighborhood’s interests as an
outsider at West Quadrant advisory
committee meetings. She conducted
her own survey of historic buildings
in the West End, documenting about
100 buildings erected between 1880
and 1935 that would be vulnerable
to demolition if extreme increases in
proposed building heights were enacted. Her advocacy and mobilizing of
neighbors echoed at City Hall, where
citizens filled council chambers and
testified for hours, many supporting her
call for more modest height limits that
would preserve the area’s human scale,
character and purpose.
She rallied her neighbors to stop
noisy pile driving in the Pearl District
and marshaled evidence proving that
quieter methods were feasible. While
her neighborhood association and the
city’s Noise Review Board told her
that nothing could be done, she and her
neighbors impressed the City Council
and — more importantly — may have
had an impression on developers,
who suddenly switched construction
methods so that the next four Pearl
high-rises all relied on the quiet drilling
technology. Then she moved on to a
new cause: heading the Pearl District
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Arts & Culture
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Carolyn Sheldon
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Christopher Rauschenberg
As president of Northwest Children's
Theater and School board for the past
10 years, she has helped raise the
organization to new heights by raising
funds, recruiting strong board members
and achieving consensus for eventual
purchase of the historic Northwest
Cultural Center, which was acquired as
a community asset through a campaign
led by her husband in the 1970s. Since
moving to Northwest Portland in the
1960s, her leadership has touched
many people and issues over the years
and includes creation of the Child
Development Specialist program at
Portland Public Schools.
As the head of development for Conway for the past 10 years, he turned the
company toward a path of cooperation
with the community in creating and
implementing a master plan for the
company’s holdings in the Northwest
District. He has been open to a wide
range of ideas — some of them novel
— listening to citizens, responding
to neighborhood goals and forging a
partnership between a large company
and the neighborhood unprecedented in
the district’s history.
A full-time Portland artist since 1973,
he has photographed in 30 countries
and has had more than 100 solo shows
in eight countries on three continents.
Rauschenberg co-founded Blue Sky
Gallery, where he has co-curated more
than 800 solo exhibits since 1975.
He also co-founded Photolucida, a
Portland photography festival, and
Nine Gallery. Through the Robert
Rauschenberg Foundation, which
he chairs, he supports the arts and
activists to pursue “creative problem
solving” through grants and a residency
program.
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Within about two weeks, these neighbors learned that the grand 1892 Montague
House in Willamette Heights was to be demolished, launched a whirlwind
multi-front campaign that collected 3,500 signatures and made national news
and facilitated its sale to a neighborhood couple committed to its preservation.
It was only possible because Fletcher Chamberlain, James Berry, Miranda
Weigler, Jennifer and Tom Saunders, Dennis Bromka, Ned Perry, Steve Wilson,
Will Aitchison and others put their normal lives on hold to do what was necessary.
These neighbors came together after learning that a 1918 office building with
connections to early Portland’s medical history was to be razed. Led by Wendy
Chung and Jessica Richman, they got organized, collected signatures, researched
the law and city policy, raised funds and convinced City Council that they were
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2015Community Award Winners —————
Historic Preservation
Alfred Edelman
Environmental Award
Citizenship
Dan Volkmer (L-R), Jeanne Harrison, Rick Michaelson,
Ruth Roth, Kathy Sharp, Wendy Chung, Fred Leeson,
Karen Karlsson, Sidney Perry and Peter Michaelson.
Rob Lee (L-R), presenter Jane Hartline, and Shawn Looney.
Karl Reer (L-R), Jerry Powell, Tom Milne, Harvey Black,
Kal Toth, Connie Kirk, Tracy Prince, Steve Salomon,
Sherry Salomon and Daniel Salomon.
Goldsmith House Angels
Rob Lee and Shawn Looney
Friends of Goose Hollow
Rick Michaelson, Karen Karlsson and about
20 neighbors prevented demolition of the
Edgar Lazarus-designed house at Northwest
24th and Quimby. They are now restoring the
1898 Victorian mansion, which was recently
purchased by a local family. Others who put up
funds include Jeff Joslin, Allen Tooke, Anne
McLaughlin, Dan Volkmer, Daniel Roth, Fred
Leeson, Greg Carlson, Jeanne Harrison, Karen
Brunke, Kathy Sharp, Peter Michaelson, Robert
Kraft, Ruth Roth, Steve Dotterer, Wendy Chung,
Frank Bird, Carol Carlson and Sidney Perry.
These hands-on environmental stalwarts organize
weekly work parties to remove invasive ivy along
Highway 30, thereby saving hundreds of trees. They
created Ma Olsen Garden, transforming a hillside ivy
patch in Linnton into a lovely garden with native shrubs
and plants. The past two years, they have spent many
winter nights picking up hundreds of red-legged frogs
and driving them across Highway 30 to their breeding
grounds along the river.
When their neighborhood association was
unresponsive, they formed an independent
organization to block construction of a Multnomah
Athletic Club parking facility in violation of the
zoning code and past agreements. They knew
it was an uphill fight, so they raised $40,000 in
preparation to appeal a City Council decision.
Instead, the council took their side, upholding
the long-range land-use policy plan for the area
and causing the MAC’s development partner to
withdraw the application. Having won the battle at
City Hall, they also elected allies and sympathetic
individuals to their neighborhood association board
at its annual election last fall. Friends of Goose
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 Going Out
BOOK REVIEW:
“Portland: A Food Biography”
Local author traces origins
of city’s culinary character
BY MICHAEL C. ZUSMAN
T
he last time I delved deeply into Portland history, I was in
fourth grade at Bridlemile Elementary School over in the
southwest part of town. This was 1968, when my fellow
innocents and I learned the sanitized basics about Lewis and
Clark, Hudson’s Bay Company, John McLoughlin (the merchant,
not the guitarist) and the city-naming coin flip between Asa
Lovejoy and Francis Pettygrove (won by the latter, by the way).
The only food discussion I recall was about pemmican,
described as a nasty-sounding amalgam of bear grease, salmon
and berries formed into cakes and dried to become something
like beef jerky.
Heather Arndt Anderson’s meticulously researched and
engaging “Portland: A Food Biography” (Rowman & Littlefield
2014), was released in November. The writer, historian and
fourth-generation Portland native offers all the edible details
my grade school teacher neglected to mention. For food lovers
and local historians alike, this is an important, one-of-a-kind
work, the closest prior effort being Karen Brooks’ disappointing “The Mighty Gastropolis: Portland: A Journey Through the
Center of America’s New Food Revolution,” that reads less like
a reliable resource than it does a chefs’ crush blog penned by
an overwrought foodie.
Arndt Anderson covers eight main subjects: natural resourcContinued on page 12
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of the librarian, to which her post-graduate
degree attests.
Nobby’s is a sports bar, and the clientele
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Casey would love to discuss great books, but
alas, it’s not to be.
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When Greg, the breakfast cook, overheard
her speaking of Hawthorne, he volunteered,
“It’s my favorite bridge in Portland,” so you
can see what she puts up with.
“Keep that flapjack flipper in the kitchen!”
was her retort.
Ever the trooper, Casey stays abreast of the
sports scene. She can discuss box scores to
Budweiser. So if you want to talk Poe over
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Continued from page 11
es, early inhabitants, westward
migration,
immigrants
from
abroad, markets, restaurants, alcohol purveyors and cookbooks.
Each topic is broken down into
bite-sized pieces, which proceed
more or less chronologically. The
organizational scheme works for
the most part, even if there is some
overlap and repetition.
Still, the entire book is only
250 pages or so, meaning readers
are likely spared (or miss out on,
depending on one’s perspective)
some of the minutiae, but I’m hard
pressed to say what critical historical information may have been
omitted.
The only untreated subject matter is the rocket-like trajectory of
the Portland restaurant world over
the last 20 years. That’s no major
omission, since other local and
national food writers have more
or less beat the topic to death.
Nevertheless it would have been
interesting to get Arndt Anderson’s unvarnished take on Portland’s more recent history, which
would presumably counter some
of the more excessive fawning.
While “Portland: A Food Biography” is detailed and scholarly (key
points are supported by reference
to abundant endnotes), it remains
an entertaining read abetted by
Arndt Anderson’s dry but unmistakable wit that occasionally veers
to the bawdy
side. If I had
to
compare
Arndt Anderson’s
style
with another
chronicler of
matters gastronomic,
it would be
to Waverley
Root, author of
seminal works
“The Food of
France” and
“The Food of
Italy,” which
provide timeless troves of
region-specific information
punctuated
by humorous
asides that go
by so fast they
can easily be
missed.
a “pleasantly
crispy texture
and
nutty,
parsnip-like
flavor;” both
of which were
harvested from
the wetlands
once comprising much of
modern Northwest Portland
before Guild’s
Lake
was
drained for the
1905
Lewis
and Clark Centennial Exposition.
In addition
to the expected
discussion of
the area’s historical abundance of salmon and berries,
Arndt AnderAuthor Heather Arndt Anderson
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son describes
Photo by Thomas Teal
Anderson’s
the “weedy, bitopening description of pre-Port- ter greens” that have been part of
land’s plenitude of natural resourc- the local, seasonal diet from Portes, its earliest known inhabitants land’s earliest days to the current
and their culinary folkways is a “renaissance of urban foraging”—
compelling exposition. We learn of miner’s lettuce, purslane and sorthe Chinook peoples’ staple foods, rel, for example. As to the latter, she
including wapato, an aquatic tuber glibly warns to avoid it as the base
that grew near today’s Sauvie of a meal, noting that the oxalic
Island, and the sweet potato-like acid that gives it a pleasant tart
camas bulb and yampah or “Indian flavor also “can cause crystals to
carrot,” described as possessing inconveniently form in the bladder,
creating the unfortunate sensation
of pissing shards of glass.” Point
taken.
In a town derisively billed as the
whitest city in America (mostly by
youngish white transplants who
left more diverse locales to move
here), it is refreshing to read a
more sanguine, color-blind assessment of the lives and influence of
immigrant populations that have
found their way to Portland. Beginning in the Wild West days of
the mid-19th century, “Jews and
Italians settled in South Portland
and opened delis and vegetable
stands; Germans moved to Goose
Hollow and started bakeries and
breweries; the Chinese, Slavs and
Scandinavians in Northwest Portland opened up fish markets and
sold produce by the cartful; and
German-Russians (also known as
Volga Germans), Central Europeans and Scandinavians in the
Albina District in North Portland
started dairies and meat markets.”
Arndt Anderson also documents
the later wave of Southeast Asian
immigrants who arrived in the
1970s, in particular those fleeing chaos in Laos, Cambodia and
Vietnam, who settled in the inner
Southeast’s Brooklyn neighborhood.
Many bits of the book track developments in Northwest Portland,
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 Going Out
hard’s brewery that stood in
roughly the same location
between Burnside and Couch
for nearly 130 years before
Miller Brewing Co. bought it,
closed it and sold it off;
he multitude of African•T
American-owned
business
along Flanders and “The Golden West Hotel on NW Broadway
and Everett, which became the
social hub of Portland’s African-American community;”
•P
ortland’s second Chinatown
(the first was downtown, but
relocated under the sway of
white property owners after a
fire in 1906), exemplified by
the 1928 opening of Hung Far
Low at the corner of Northwest
Fourth and Couch; and
•P
ertinent to this edition’s lead
story, George Besaw’s 1903
founding of a “gentlemen’s bar”
at the corner of Northwest 23rd
and Savier that “throughout the
generations … maintained its
reputation as a place to get a
stiff drink and a hearty meal.”
But no Northwest Portland story
is more entertaining than Arndt
Anderson’s account of the notorious Erickson’s Saloon, founded in
1884 by Finnish immigrant Augustus Erickson. There was Svensk
punsch, described as “a liqueur
made with sugar, spices, citrus and
arrack (an earthy Sri Lankan liquor
distilled from sugarcane juice, red
rice and coconut flowers, similar to
cachaça), the ironically described
“dainty lunch,” comprising mass
quantities of bread with salt-laden
meats, fish and cheese, free to
drinkers and, supposedly, “a urinal
trough at the foot of the stools that
ran the entire length of the bar.”
Then there were the shows, games
of chance and “private rooms” that
catered to other appetites. All in
all, a real Portland-weird kind of
place, albeit a turn of the prior century version.
As Arndt Anderson sums up in
her brief epilogue:
“The foods that many people
associate with Portland are derived
from and defined by its history:
Portland is the First People’s deference to deities Salmon and Huck-
leberry; the pioneers’ reliance on
salt pork and fruits foraged along
the way; the lumberjack’s utter
dependence on biscuits and gravy,
strong coffee and pie.
“It is the farmers’ handiness with
tools and the fruits of their labor.
“It is its immigrants and their
traditions, it is the Chinese industriousness and yes, the German
propensity for beer.”
From all these attributes, drawn
out in glorious detail in Arndt
Anderson’s loving biography of
her hometown, she offers the conclusion evident to fellow natives
and transplants alike: “Portland is
a gustatory wonderland.” Finally,
we understand why. n
Small Bites
The new Nuvrei
Although I’ve long admired his
handiwork, I had never met
Nuvrei’s owner and head baker,
Marius Pop, until a few days ago.
We talked for a while about the
business, his decision to eschew
wholesaling and miscellaneous
bakery geek stuff, such as the relative merits of using just-mixed versus refrigerated dough (refrigerated
is best).
I’d describe Pop as intelligent,
intense and totally dedicated to
creating superior pastries. With
the recent revamp of his product
lineup—offering a tighter selection
but several new items—he’s clearly
found his yeast-risen happy place.
On the savory side, my cronies
and I sampled a veggie sandwich
on a cheese pretzel, ham and cheese
croissant and karē pan. The latter
was a seeded brioche bun filled
with delicious curried chicken
and carrots. The veggie sandwich
was a dainty delight. The croissant
looked like it had been out to a wild
pastry party, leaving clumps and
patches of oozy cheese plastered
outside the croissant shell instead
of inside where they began.
And, then we tried some sweets.
Mini canales were one-bite indulgences sold by the cupful. We tried
the chocolate and mango versions,
passing on the pistachio rose. Pop
Fresh pastries at Nuvrei Bakery
has many more flavors in the pipeline.
Breton sablés, simple-perfect butter cookies with a feather-touch
of salt (not the hammer blow in
vogue elsewhere) were also winners. But the gold medalist—easily
the best single sweet I’ve tried since
sampling the transcendent kougin
amann last summer at B. Patisserie
in San Francisco—was cinnamonenhanced version of the venerable
sticky bun. This was a remarkable
blossom of flaky pastry leaves laminated generously with butter and
honeyed caramel and then baked
to golden pastry perfection. Go and
get one of these right now. You’re
welcome.
Nuvrei Bakery, 404 NW 10th Ave,
503-972-1700, nuvrei.com
Correction: The name of the Bellino Trattoria Siciliana owner was misspelled
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Fourth Annual Tour of Historic Homes
Visit the restored city homes of the
historic Goldsmith’s Addition
Sunday, June 21, 11-4 p.m.
BY DAN VOLKMER
Chair of Historic Home Tour
T
he inspiration for this year’s
tour is the now famously
saved and soon-to-be-restored
Goldsmith House. This has been the
year of the demolition of “good old
houses,” a recurrent wave of hasty
destruction that comes with a renewed
economy.
With half a dozen demolitions,
proposed demolitions or near misses
this year just north of Lovejoy
Street alone, we wanted to show
the public that north of Lovejoy
is rich with historic resources and
possesses criteria to merit special
designation just like the Alphabet
District south of Lovejoy.
Losing the Goldsmith House, the
family home built by Portland’s first
Jewish mayor and designed by one
of Portland’s most gifted architects,
would have been an unspeakable
tragedy in so many ways. Bernard’s
son, Louis Goldsmith, who also
lived in the home, platted and
developed the land tract north of
Lovejoy originally staked out by the
Couch family. This land became the
Goldsmith’s Addition, the focus of
this year’s tour.
The six restored homes (some still
in process) on the tour represent
millions of dollars pumped into our
local economy supporting contractors,
craftsmen, painters, designers,
mechanics and landscapers, who were
purchasing materials and supplies,
ringing up sales at hardware, lighting
and houseware stores, buying
lunches at restaurants and paying for
skilled and unskilled labor. Historic
preservation is good for the economy
and enhances livability.
Proceeds from this year’s tour pay
for improved accessibility for all
people, young and old, to comfortably
come, see and hear a musical, a play,
take an art class or join a choir at our
Northwest Neighborhood Cultural
Center and Children’s Theater.
The Wilson House - 1904
After decades of providing a safe haven to
residents served by The Boys and Girls Aid
Society, the current young family, with the help
of contractor Jim Bruce and designer Jenny
Baines, have restored this American Basic
Colonial Revival home.
Support our theater, our historic
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and our historic neighborhood. Buy
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See some gorgeous restorations, meet
some neighbors and buy lunch on
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Architect - David Williams
Owners - Danielle and Tim
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Contractor - Jim Bruce
Designer - Jenny Baines
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The Bernard Goldsmith House - 1892
The George T. Willett House - 1911
We almost lost the family home
of Portland's first Jewish mayor,
Bernard Goldsmith. It was designed
by Vista House at Crown Point
architect Edgar Lazarus.
St. Mary's Cathedral architect Josef Jacobberger
designed this richly appointed romantic petite
palais in 1911 for Lt. Col. George Willett. Roman
Design and the Lorence Brothers Construction
completed a recent renovation.
Architect - Edgar Lazarus
Owners - Sean and Gretchen Keys
Contractor - David Hassin
Designer - Jenny Baines
Architect - Josef Jacobberger
Onwers - Alice Boyd
Contractor - Lorence Brothers
Designer - Matthew Roman Design Inc.
The Barlow House - 1896
The Kyer House - 1906
Craftsman Design and Renovation’s Wade Freitag and JDL
Construction recently completed
a "to the studs" renovation of this
prominent 1896 Queen Anne.
Designer Jenny Baines just
completed total restoration of
this Emil Schacht-designed 1906
Craftsman.
Architect - Unknown
Owners - Jeff and Lori Sackett
Contractor - JDL, Joe Lyons
Designer - Craftsman Design,
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Architect - Emil Schacht
Owner - Eric Samuels and
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Contractor - Issac Walker
Designer - Jenny Baines
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Authors as Historic Homes tour guides
Norman Gholston Gholston was born in Portland in 1962 and
graduated from Jackson High School and Oregon
State University. Since 1985, he has lived in the
Goldsmith Addition, a block away from one of the
homes on this year’s tour. A self-described “history
enthusiast,” he has contributed images and content
to dozens of publications and projects as well as coauthoring “Portland’s Slabtown” with Mike Ryerson
and Tracy Prince.
Norman Gholston will be at the Eric Ladd House
11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Fred Leeson Leeson is president of the Architectural
Heritage Center. He co-authored (with Jewel
Lansing) “Multnomah: The Tumultuous Story of
Oregon’s Most Populous County.” His most recent
work is a biography of Fred Meyer, the founder of
the retail chain that bears his name. Drawing on
Oregon Historical Society interviews that were locked
up for 20 years, “My-Te-Fine Merchant” lays out the
successes and little-known failures of this pioneering
entrepreneur.
The Eric Ladd House - 1898
If it weren’t for Eric Ladd, we might have
no Pittock Mansion, historic Old Town/
Skidmore or Jacob Kamm house.
Fred Leeson will be at the Bernard Goldsmith House
11 a.m.-1:30 p.m. CEDAR LEE
“Selfie” acrylic on canvas, 48” x 30”
“Forest Light” oil on wood, 48” x 36”
Architect - Whidden and Lewis
Owners - Tracy and Oded Shulsinger
Designer - Eric Ladd
JD Chandler This rising star in the community has published one
novel “Mud Bay” and three non-fiction books: “Murder
and Mayhem in Portland, Oregon,” “Hidden History
of Portland, Oregon,”and “Portland on the Take.”
He writes two blogs, Slabtown Chronicle and Weird
Portland, focused on Portland history.
JD Chandler will be at the George T. Willett House
11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Donald Nelson
Donald Nelson writes history articles for the NW
Examiner and has published several photo books
about Portland history. His interest in local history
began as a child when his father worked at the main
Northwest Portland post office and his mother at
Montgomery Ward.
Donald Nelson will be at the Kyer House
11 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
Jane Comerford
An avid walker and author of several Portland
guidebooks, including “Portland Hill Walks, Walk
There!” “The Portland Stairs Book” and “Portland City
Walks,” Foster is working on a new guidebook to the
Columbia River Gorge. She lives in rural Northwest
Portland.
She might not consider herself a professional historian
or author, but critics and readers alike love to have
Jane Comerford’s books on their shelves. What
started as a research project on her great-grandfather
evolved into a “A History of Northwest Portland: From
the River to the Hills” with more than 150 amazing
images that highlight the neighborhood you’ll be
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Jane Comerford will be at the Barlow House from
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Concerts at hostel
Rotary topics
Super Physics
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Hostel, 415 NW 18th Ave., presents
free Tuesday night concerts June 16Aug. 25, 6:30-9:30 p.m., in its secret
garden. Traditional German barbecue
items, with vegetarian options and
beverages, are available for sale.
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, vogt4me1@icloud.
com or 503-228-9858. This month’s
programs are:
How do superheroes do it? Use
physics to uncover the stories behind
your favorite heroes’ abilities, from
Spider-Man’s wall-crawling to Iron
Man’s rocket flight. Create your
own super-gadgets in our library
laboratory, then take your prototypes
home. Northwest Library, 2300 NW
Thurman St., hosts the workshop
Tuesday, June 16, 2-3 p.m.
June 9: “The Oregon Way: Water and
Fish Habitat in Oregon’s Forests,”
Steve Wilent.
June 16: “Everything You Want to
Know About Oregon Pears,” Kathy
Stephenson.
June 23: Clayton & Ernie, with
Margaret Branch (folk and jazz).
June 30: Andy Goncalves and Karyn
Ann (songs from the heart). San Francisco
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July 7: “Pearl Rotary Celebrates the
Reign of President Tracy Vicario,”
Tracy Vicario.
Summer Camp
Composting Workshop
June 30: “The Brains Behind the
Maps,” Jocelyn Tutak, GIS analyst.
June 16: Lauren Sheehan (roots
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Wartime internment
“San Francisco 1906: How the
Greatest City in the West was
destroyed by Earthquake and Fire,”
will be presented by author Sig
Unander Wednesday, June 24, 1
p.m., at Friendly House, 1737 NW
26th Ave. Unander brings dramatic
archival images of the city and its
people taken by photographers during
and after the event. The cost is $7 for
members, $9 for non-members. June 23: “The Author
Returns: George’s Oregon Tour (de
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Summer Camp at Friendly House
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for kids from prekindergarten through
sixth grade. Curriculum and field
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cooking, swimming, movie-making
and outdoor adventures. Register at
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A composting workshop at Northwest
Library will show participants how to
compost for growing food or flowers.
The free workshop will be held
Saturday, June 13, 2-3 p.m., at 2300
NW Thurman St.
University of San Francisco Professor
Brian Komei Dempster will present
his editing and writing projects in
which Japanese Americans who were
former internment camp prisoners tell
their stories. He will read his poems
about the impact of imprisonment on
his maternal family. The free program
will be held at Oregon Nikkei Legacy
Center, 121 NW Second Ave.,
Saturday, June 6, 3 p.m.
Community garden to knit the town split by a highway
Fundraising begins for a garden in Linnton
between the highway and railroad track
BY THACHER SCHMID
I
f you’re a big vegetable
person like Amanda
Munro, who gets enthusiastic about onions, spring
salad, potatoes and zucchini, getting a new community
garden is cause for celebration anywhere.
But for Munro and other
residents of Linnton, the
promise embodied in a
community garden goes
beyond cucumbers to the
point where it touches old
wounds. Like the loss of
the community’s downtown
during the widening of St.
Helens Road (U.S. 30) from
two to four lanes. Or its legacy of industrial pollution
near the center of the Portland Harbor Superfund site.
At the May Linnton Neighborhood Association meeting, Community Gardens
Program Coordinator Laura
Niemi announced that Portland Parks & Recreation has
decided to move forward
with a garden at Kingsley
Park after receiving enthusiastic support from the
neighborhood. The project
will require fundraising of
$40,000 to $50,000 for a
water line, parking and fencing improvements, she said.
But with 28 people wanting
plots, a new steering committee and strong fundraising
outlook, the garden seems
likely to become reality.
“It’s been a long time com-
ing,” says Rob Lee, secretary
of the neighborhood association and a leader of local
ecological restoration projects. “I feel like we’re kind of
at a tipping point.”
Donated to the city by lumber magnates Edward and
Charlotte Kingsley in 1924,
the park is sandwiched
between Highway 30 and a
railroad track often loaded
with tanker cars — not quite
the bucolic vista offered
by nearby Forest Park.
The grassy acre of land
reflects Linnton’s character
as “a transportation hub,”
as LNA Vice Chair Edward
Jones calls it.
There’s no plan for a covered structure at Kingsley,
Niemi said, but enthusiastic
locals don’t care.
“To me, the community
garden is one little thing
that Linnton should have,
because Linnton lost a lot,
a lot, in losing half the community,” said Shawn Looney, who was elected LNA
chair last month. In the
early 1960s, road widening,
the city demolished all the
buildings on the west side
of U.S. 30—“virtually half of
[Linnton’s] downtown,” says
a city document.
The Kingsley Park location feels disconnected from
Northwest Front Avenue, the
Linnton Community Center and Ma Olsen Garden,
though it’s an easy walk from
these local attractions.
Rob Lee has bright hopes for
Kingsley Park as the site for a
community garden. “It’s been
a long time coming,” he said.
“We had been holding
[Kingsley Park] hoping that
we might be able to use it
in some sort of land swap
or deal to provide a better
site for Linnton,” Niemi said.
“The community just said,
‘Listen, you’re not doing anything with it, let’s do something.’ ”
Parks & Recreation sent
postcards to 318 Linnton
residences to assess interest. Of 99 responses, Niemi
said, 81 were in favor, 11
neutral, seven against. Niemi
has successfully found funding for 11 other community
gardens, she said.
As an “underserved” community, Linnton might be
given priority for grants like
Metro’s Nature in Neighborhoods, Niemi said.
Folks in Linnton have a
slightly different way of saying that.
“There are a lot of folks [in
Linnton] who feel like the
city owes us,” Looney said.
Unique site
While some of Portland’s
50 community gardens are
urban, none is surrounded
by petroleum tank farms, sits
on top of the Olympic Pipeline and abuts a state highway, as Kingsley Park does.
Niemi said the park’s soil
was tested extensively a
year ago by the city’s brownfield assessment program for
heavy metals, pesticides, herbicides and petrochemicals.
“They actually found that
there was no contamination
concern,” Niemi said. “It’s
surprising, but we’ve done a
lot of good research and found
out that it should be safe.” The garden will take up
about a fifth of the park on
the north side. Community
access will be on the south.
“I just don’t see any downside,” Looney said. “So
many people live alongside
the hill, and they just don’t
have any sun.”
Looney walks her dog at
the park — the other use
most requested by survey
respondents — but rarely
sees anyone except for a
neighbor who scrawls a morbid tally of moles he and his
dog have killed along the
highway wall.
“I think it would be huge
for the community,” Munro
said. “I know when I went to
high school here, I would see
that there were community
meetings in the community
center and I thought, ‘This
isn’t a community, this is
just a couple of stores on the
side of the highway.’ I didn’t
realize until this year that
[U.S. 30 widening] kind of
destroyed the community.”
“I really need that, the
sense of knowing who I’m
living around, and having
relationships with them,” she
continued. “I think there’s a
lot of interest in the garden,
so that would be really nice
if we could work together
outside and have picnics and
do stuff there.” n
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Do development charges on new
construction push Portlanders to remodel?
BY ALLAN CLASSEN
M
ajor home improvement projects
frequently run into a broader
question: Is it better to fix up an
existing house or to buy/build a new one?
There is no simple formula, no numerical
calculations that aren’t overshadowed by
subjective matters, such as how much a family
feels attached to its present home and its
location. But when considering the pros and
cons of either path, the city of Portland tips
the scales somewhat with major fees for new
construction.
System development charges are intended to
make new construction pay for the demand for
additional public infrastructure it triggers in the
form of more parks, storm and sanitary sewers,
transportation systems and water. A new
single-family housing unit is assessed about
$20,000 in SDCs. (Apartment units are closer
to $15,000.)
Even if one is buying a home or apartment built
by someone else, the price reflects these costs.
By remodeling your existing house, all of these
fees are avoided. A pure economist might say
the effect is an incentive to stay in place and
remodel.
Is encouraging the remodeling option good
public policy?
In several ways it is. It preserves the character
of the neighborhood. When homes fall out
of repair and lose value, they become ripe
for demolition and redevelopment, a pattern
New construction typically triggers system development charges, which average about $20,000 for single-family home.
now booming in Portland, especially on the
Eastside. The replacement structures, which are
almost invariably much larger if not multistory
apartment buildings, can be jarring if not
incompatible with the adjacent properties.
Environmentally, saving and reusing has clear
advantages over demolishing and building new.
The carbon release and energy consumption
clearly favors remodeling … unless the new
building is more energy efficient than the old
and/or adds substantial density, which reduces
transportation and other costs of sprawl over
the lifetime of the building.
Michael Harrison, the former chief planner for
the city of Portland, lives on Northwest 25th
Avenue. He has weighed the remodel-versusbuild conundrum from a social perspective
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An unpaid utility bill hung on the door of the vacant Besaw’s building in this 1979
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establish trademark rights.
later. Tuatara sued C.E. John in U.S.
District Court last month seeking
summary judgment.
Flug closed the restaurant May 29
and plans to reopen by the end of the
summer “within a stone’s throw” of
her former location.
C.E. John’s claim is based on a
lease, inherited from previous owners of the restaurant, Geri and Richard Beasley, stipulating that the
name stays with the property. Flug
affirmed the lease when she took
over the restaurant although she had
paid the Beasleys $380,000 for the
restaurant, its name and goodwill.
Flug’s legal case centers on the
assertion that C.E. John never operated the business, which her attorney,
Dennis Steinman of Kell, Alterman
& Runstein, LLP, says is necessary to
The dispute creates the theoretical
possibility of two restaurants of the
same name operating within a block
of each other.
Or maybe not. C.E. John is still
looking for a new operator to take
over the restaurant at 2301 NW
Savier St. Even if a new operator
is found, company CEO Jim John
said the space will not reopen until
repairs and upgrades are made to the
building.
Structurally, John called the build-
The waiting line surrounded the restaurant on the evening of May 29, the last day of
business. Photo by Wes Mahan
ing “a mess … not up to any code …
that needs a considerable amount of
work.”
By the time Flug’s new and former restaurants are operational, the
trademark suit may be settled, the
winner taking exclusive control of
the name.
To Flug, keeping the name means
retaining the goodwill and patronage
she has built up over a decade.
“I believe passionately in being
a steward for this brand,” she said.
“We want to represent the heart and
soul that this team has poured into it
for these 10 years.”
And no one is saying she hasn’t
been successful.
On her busiest days, she serves
about 1,000 meals, a number so
impressive one longtime local restaurant critic found it hard to believe.
Her customers are also loyal,
as evidenced by a flood of online
forum entries after the closing was
announced. Many vowed to follow
Flug wherever she might reopen
and to shun any operator who might
claim to be Besaw’s in her old place.
The loyalty extends to her staff.
Flug said she hasn’t hired a new
server in the past eight years, a
period during which her entire
management team of seven has also
remained intact.
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Responses to news stories about the Besaw’s name dispute
have been plentiful and passionate, the vast majority taking the
restaurant operator’s side.
“Is C.E. John trying to do identity theft and steal the business?”
asked “Hawthorne” on OregonLive. “It sounds as though he’s
gambling on being able to get away with it because he had
the money for a legal battle that might drive Besaw’s rightful
proprietors into bankruptcy.”
“If C.E. John is allowed to keep the Besaw’s name, I will never
patronize the business,” wrote Bob Mulk on OregonLive. “I
recommend others to consider doing just that. Seems that C.E.
John wants to capitalize on someone else’s name.”
Shannon Hennessy charged C.E. John with “trying to steal a
business that is clearly not his.”
“If every landlord with a successful tenant is allowed to hijack the
name of the business, the courts are gonna be real busy,” wrote
“rjbobby” on OregonLive.
“What a greedy [attempt] by the landlord,” wrote Edith Spencer
on Willamette Week’s website. “I for one would never patronize
a place that kicked out rightful owners and caretakers of the
restaurant to just put in a sterilized version of the joint. No way!”
“It is a foolish attempt to front-load a customer base for the new
restaurant replacing the existing tenant,” wrote “BlanchJoe” to
Willamette Week. “I have seen this happen in Manhattan and San
Francisco. The existing Besaw’s could open up somewhere else
with a completely different name, and word spreads quickly where
the ‘original and actual’ restaurateur is located at. All the existing
customers end up going there.”
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Warped history
C.E. John’s most appealing public
argument is that the name and historic building belong together.
“Besaw’s has been Besaw’s since
1903,” said John. “Operators come
and go. It’s more important to keep
the stability of the name.”
John said he wants to keep the
historic building, name and business together. “She’s the one trying
to move the name up the street,” he
said.
John’s history is faulty. Besaw’s
was actually founded across the
street in what is now McMenamins
Tavern & Pool, moving to its present
location a year or two later. A restaurant, tavern, confectionary or soft
drink business bearing the Besaw’s
name has operated in this building
less than half the time since 1903,
according to research by historian
Tanya Lyn March (historicpreservationclub.blogspot.com/2015/05/slabtown-nob-hill-fun-fact-17.html). The
rest of the time it housed another
business or was vacant.
While it’s a technicality Flug herself has glossed over in promotional
materials that never mention the
original location, the chronologi-
cal detail weakens the landlord’s
claim that this is and always was the
Besaw’s building.
Details aside, the powerful public
mood in Flug’s favor owes to the
sense that C.E. John is reaping where
it has not sown, acquiring a business without having to pay for it, in
effect.
John was asked if a lease controlling a business’ name doesn’t reward
uncooperative landlord behavior
that would tend to drive the tenant
out, in the process sacrificing the
name and accumulated goodwill of
the business.
John would not even acknowledge
the logic of the question, insisting
that C.E. John has been a good landlord, going “so far out of our way to
deal” with Flug’s wishes, even forgoing rent increases in the five years as
her landlord.
“To consider us the evil landlord,”
said John, “that’s not right and it’s
not fair.”
But some who commented online
to various news reports were sensitive to the exploitative potential
when a landlord claims a tenant’s
business name.
“Is C.E. John trying to do identity
Not about
the rent
theft and steal the business?” asked
one person.
“Ever get the feeling that your
landlord wants to own you?” asked
another.
“John is behaving like a rich bully
and an arrogant pig,” said another.
“C.E. John is trying to bully a small
local business owner,” was another
comment that reflected the mood of
most online respondents.
Reaction overblown?
Yet, there are some who say the
fight over the Besaw’s name is overblown.
Lisa Schroeder, owner/chef of
Mother’s Bistro in downtown Portland, was the chef at Besaw’s in
1997-99 when it was owned by the
Beasleys.
She finds nothing unique in linking a restaurant’s name to a building. She mentioned the Heathman
Restaurant & Bar as a name tied to
the hotel through a series of operators over the years. Jake’s Famous
Crawfish Restaurant has followed
the same pattern since its founding
in 1892.
“To me, the name Besaw’s belongs
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The lease negotiations between Cana
Flug and C.E. John Co. Inc. were
not apparently about price. Flug said
she wanted a long-term agreement,
preferably at least 10 years, plus
rights to the business name.
C.E. John would not commit to
a lease beyond the point when it
plans to redevelop the quarter block
surrounding Besaw’s (while keeping
the 100-plus-year-old restaurant
building intact), which company
CEO Jim John said could be in a
year or two. The company says the
name must stay with the building.
After Flug vacated the building,
C.E. John accused her of violating
the lease by removing the Besaw’s
sign, awnings, barstools and tilework
numerals. Flug said the lease required
her to remove signage and that other
items removed belonged to her.
Continued on page 23
Above: Thirteen members of the Besaw family
gathered for what Gordon Besaw (fourth from left)
called “the last supper.” His son Steve (in black
shirt to his right) said, “We love Cana. … She’s put
her heart and soul in [the restaurant] and made us
very proud as Besaws." Left: Server Jacqui Brock obviously loves Besaw’s.
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with the place,” said Schroeder. “I
don’t know that people went there
for the name. … I can’t see that the
value of the restaurant rests on that
name.
Schroeder said Besaw’s recent
success owes far more to Flug’s
leadership than the business’s name
or history.
“Many are big fans of hers,” she
said.
In time, Schroeder thinks “people
will forget that there ever was a controversy.”
She does not, however, recommend that a new operator jump in
before the dust settles.
“It would be foolish to put a new
operator in the middle of that mess,”
she said.
NW Examiner restaurant reviewer
Michael Zusman also suggested the
fight may be much ado about nothing.
“What is the value of a place
named Besaw’s somewhere [else]
versus some new name. If the owner
can hire a good chef and offer great
food, that is the main determinant
for success,” said Zusman.
“Conversely, if you start over with
a ‘Besaw’s’ in place [at 2301 NW
Savier St.] … how much is that
really worth if, for example, the new
owners fail to deliver good value or
a good product? The goodwill effect
is limited and fades quickly over
time if the operator fails to deliver
an ‘authentic’ experience.”
He mentioned Yaw’s, the popular
midcentury drive-in restaurant in
east Portland that failed to reclaim
the magic under a series of new
owners.
Their expertise and experience
notwithstanding, Schroeder and
Zusman seem to be in the minority.
Besaw’s loyalists are taking the naming rights very seriously.
What makes a brand authentic?
David Howitt, CEO and founder of
Meriwether Group, a private equity
firm on Northwest 19th Avenue that
works with consumer brands, wrote
an opinion piece for the Portland
Business Journal.
“C.E. John is missing something
significant: An authentic brand is
more than a name,” Howitt wrote.
“C.E. John may own the Besaw’s
brand name as matter of trademark
law, but they do not ‘own’ the
Besaw’s promise, heart, DNA and
soul. In fact, they can’t."
“On any given weekend, one can
drive past lines of people—hipsters,
professionals, families, joggers, old,
young, rich and not so rich—waiting
to have an amazing meal at soonto-be-closing Besaw’s. Often, I am
one of them. We come and we wait
because of the food, the servers, the
energy, and frankly, the love.”
Flug regrets that things couldn’t be
worked out at 23rd and Savier.
“I’ve advocated and hoped for that
for years” that the new structure
would surround the historic building with a modern kitchen and additional dining space.
“To say I’m disappointed is an
understatement,” she said. “I love
this place. I wanted to stay forever.”
But the grieving is behind her
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Request for Proposals: Neighborhood Promotion & Communication
The Old Town Chinatown Community Association is looking to expand its outreach efforts!
Neighbors West-Northwest, on behalf of OTCTCA, is inviting proposals from individuals
and firms interested in contracting to support the promotion and communication work of
a geographically-based, all-volunteer organization.
Initially, the Contractor will support the development of a multi-media communication
strategy – anticipated services include conducting site visits, interviewing stakeholders and facilitating
community discussions. In the second phase, the Contractor will focus on implementation – anticipated
services in this stage include marketing campaigns, website content management, electronic and print
neighborhood communications, media management, event planning logistics, business vacancy mapping
and grant writing/fundraising.
Do you have a firm that specializes in this field? Does it sound like your background might fit our needs?
The full Request for Proposals (RFP), available at www.nwnw.org/neighborhoods/old-town-chinatown, has
additional information about the project and the application process.
Old Town Chinatown Action Plan Focus Area
Emergency Team
Radio Training
Date: Monday, June 8, 2015
Time: 5:00 - 7:00 PM
Place: 1900 SW Fourth Ave., Room B
In the event of the BIG ONE, communication among
and between Neighborhood Emergency Teams
(NET) is critical. NET members are welcome to
join the Downtown team to learn how to use radios
during an emergency, when phones are out or
overloaded. Bring your own, charged, Family Radio
Service (FRS) radios. This non-technical training
shows you how radio fits into the big picutre of
NET and emergency communications and gets you
comfortable talking and communicating via radio.
Dress for the weather as getting outside with some
distance between participants will be important.
Submission Deadline: E-mail proposals to coalition@nwnw.org by 2:00 p.m. on Monday, June 22, 2015
with “Response to Old Town-Chinatown RFP” in the subject line.
National Night Out
Information Fair
Date: Thursday, July 9, 2015 • Time: 5:30 - 7:30 PM
Place: Laurelhurst Park, SE Cesar Chavez Blvd. & SE Ankeny St.
Join your neighbors from all across the City of Portland, Mayor
Charlie Hales, and the Police & Fire Bureaus at the Picnic Area
North of the Pond at Laurelhurst Park. Come learn about:
• Registering your party
• Party insurance
for National Night Out
requirements
• Closing you street
• Party activity ideas
• Reserving a park
• Preventing graffiti
• Amplified music rules
At the award ceremony, see how Portlanders are making a
difference in their neighborhoods. Food, drinks and games
for kids. For more information, call 503 823-3131 or visit
www.portlandoregon.gov/oni/nno.
Hillside 4th of July Picnic & Parade
Date: Saturday, July 4, 2015
Parade: 11:00 AM with picnic to follow
Place: Meet at NW Powhatan Ter. &
Cumberland Rd.
Don your red, white & blue and decorate bikes,
trikes and wagons! Join the parade at 11:00 a.m.
on Saturday, July 4, 2015 at the corner of NW
Powhatan Terrace & NW Cumberland Road!
Wind your way down the hill behind an official
city escort to the Hillside Community Center for
a neighborhood picnic! Activities for kids. Bring
a blanket and sunscreen and stay for awhile!
Hot dogs, chips and soda provided by Hillside
Neighborhood Association. Last names A-L
please bring dessert, M-Z a salad. This is event
paid for by your generous donations with the
support of Portland Parks and Recreation.
Pedalpalooza
Date: Wednesday, June 24, 2015
Time: 6:00 PM
Place: Meet at NW Flanders St. &
23rd Ave.
Interested in biking and walking
infrastructure in NW Portland? Join
local residents for an independent
Pedalpalooza event that celebrates
the future Flanders Neighborhood
Greenway! The (Ned) Flanders
Neighborhood Greenway Ride will
feature local advocates and planners
discussing possible improvements to
NW Flanders to create a safe eastwest route from NW 24th to the Steel
Bridge. For more details, visit:
http://bit.ly/1dHG5Bv.
PDX Reporter
PDX Reporter is a Smart Phone App
allowing residents to digitally report
potholes, graffiti and other issues.
Find more at: www.portlandoregon.
gov/transportation/article/405043
Police Review
The Portland Police Bureau is
reviewing its directives. Currently,
the Bureau is asking for the
community's feedback regarding
four directives enacted in December
2014. Community members are
encouraged to read the directives and
comment by June 30, 2015 at: www.
portlandoregon.gov/police/59757
Industrial Sanctuary = Large Acreage for Low Job Projects
by Ed Jones, Linnton Planning Chair – Our focus should be on land use for businesses needing less land for more workers. The message in the proposed Central
City 2035 plan for all neighborhoods in or near industrial zones is that economic prosperity trumps livability and even safety. And when it comes to a balancing of
community and environmental needs with the potential for job growth, the community and the environment get the short end of the stick.
The community, through city government, already subsidizes the “traded sector” in a great variety of ways. We should be slow to offer additional incentives before
we determine if we are getting our money’s worth. We should not offer protected zoning or other subsidies to businesses that do not meet a job-per-acre threshold
sufficient to achieve our prosperity goals. Every tax break is a street not paved, a park not cleaned, a restaurant not inspected or a criminal not arrested.
Our poor past management of industrial development is demonstrated by the large supply of brownfields that impede new development of the waterfront. Brownfield
redevelopment is constrained by high clean-up costs and greater risks relative to greenfield sites, which are easier to find outside the city. By annexing new “virgin”
areas into industrial use, the city makes cheaper “shovel ready” land available and no investment in brownfield remediation will occur.
Note: The previous excerpt is from comments the Linnton Neighborhood Association submitted on the Portland Plan, December 2011. Find the full document
at www.linnton.com/landuse.asp.
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Arlington Heights
Neighborhood Association
Hillside
Neighborhood Association
Northwest Heights
Neighborhood Association
Pearl District
Neighborhood Association
www.arlingtonheightspdx.org
www.hillsidena.org
Contact: Charlie Clark,
503 459-3610
www.pearldistrict.org
BOARD MEETING
Mon., June 8th, 6:00 pm
Sylvan Fire Station
115 SW Skyline Blvd
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Oct. 13th, 7:30 pm
Hillside Community Center
653 NW Culpepper Terr
Forest Park
Neighborhood Association
www.forestparkneighbors.org
BOARD MEETING
Tues., June 16th, 7:00 pm
Willis Community Center
360 NW Greenleaf
4th of July Parade & Picnic
Sat., July 4th, 11:00 am
NW Powhatan & Cumberland Rd
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Sept. 8th, 12:30 pm
Forest Heights HOA Office
2033 NW Miller Rd
Northwest Industrial
Neighborhood Association
Linnton Neighborhood
Association
www.nwindustrial.org
www.linnton.com
TOWN MEETING &
BOARD MEETING
Weds., July 1st
7:00 pm
Linnton Community
Center, 10614 NW St.
Helens Rd
Goose Hollow
Foothills League
Northwest District
Association
www.goosehollow.org
NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING
Thurs., June 18th, 7:00 pm
Multnomah Athletic Club
1849 SW Salmon St
northwestdistrictassociation.org
NINA MEETING
Tues., June 9th, 7:00 am
Holiday Inn Express
2333 NW Vaughn
BOARD MEETING
Thurs., June 11th & July 9th
6:00 pm
PREM Group, 351 NW 12th Ave
Executive Committee
Tues., July 1st, 9:00 am
Urban Grind, 911 NW 14th
Livability & Safety Committee
Weds., July 1st, 5:30 pm
Portland Center Stage
128 NW 11th Ave
Planning & Transportation Comm.
Tues., June 16th & July 7th
6:00 pm
PREM Group, 351 NW 12th
Communications Committee
Mon., June 23rd, 6:00 pm
LRS Architects
720 NW Davis, Ste 300
Emergency Prep Committee
Mon., June 8th, 6:00 pm
Ecotrust Bldg, 2nd Floor
907 NW Irving
Old Town Chinatown
Community Association
www.oldtownchinatown.org
Portland Downtown
Neighborhood Association
www.portlanddowntownna.com
Planning & Zoning Committee
Tues., July 7th, 7:00 pm
First United Methodist Church
1838 SW Jefferson
Public Safety, Parking,
and Transportation Committee
Tues., June 16th, 6:30 pm
First United Methodist Church
1838 SW Jefferson
BOARD MEETING
Mon., June 15th, 6:00 pm
(LGS) Northrup, 2282 NW Northrup
Executive Committee
Weds., June 3rd & July 7th, 8:00 am
NWNW Office, 2257 NW Raleigh
Bylaws Committee
Tues., June 24th, 7:00 pm
The Legends Condominiums
1132 SW 19th Ave
Air Quality Committee
Mon., June 8th, 7:00 pm
Silver Cloud Inn, Breakfast Rm
NW 24th Place & Vaughn St
Duty of Loyalty Committee
Tues., June 9th, 7:00 pm
The Legends Condominiums
1132 SW 19th Ave
Planning Committee
Thurs., June 11th, 18th, 25th, July
2nd & 9th, 8:00 am
CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh
Call to confirm, 503.823.4212
Neighbors West-Northwest
Coalition
www.nwnw.org
Public Safety & Livability Committee
Tues., June 9th, 6:00 pm
LGS, Wilcox B, 2211 NW Marshall
Transportation Committee Meeting
Weds., July 1st, 6:00 pm
LGS, Wilcox A, 2211 NW Marshall
2nd Saturday Clean-up
Sat., June 13th & July 11th, 9:00 am
Food Front Co-op
2375 NW Thurman
3rd Saturday Clean-up
Sat., June 20th, 9:00 am
Elephants Deli, 115 NW 22nd
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MTG
Weds., July 1st, 11:30 am
Central City Concern
232 NW 6th Ave
BOARD MEETING
Weds., June 10th & July 8th
11:30 am
University of Oregon, Room 150
70 NW Couch
Art History and Culture Committee
Weds., June 24th, 11:30 am
Non Profit Center, 221 NW 2nd Ave
2nd floor front conf room
Business Committee
Thurs., June 25th, 10:00 am
Davis Street Tavern, 500 NW Davis
Land Use Design & Rvw Committee
Tues., June 16th, 11:30 am
University of Oregon, Room 152
70 NW Couch
FLANDERS PEDAL PALOOZA
Weds., June 24th, 6:00 pm
Ride on Flanders St., meeting
location to be announced
Land Use & Transport. Comm.
Mon., June 15th, 5:30 pm
1900 Building, Room 2500 B
1900 SW 4th
Public Safety Action Committee
Weds., July 8th, 12:00 pm
Portland Building, Room B
1120 SW 5th Ave
Sylvan-Highlands
Neighborhood Association
Livability Committee
Tues., June 16th, 3:30 pm
Oregon College of Oriental
Medicine, 75 NW Couch St
www.sylvanhighlands.org
Hospitality Subcommittee
Thurs., June 18th, 6:00 pm
Darcelle XV, 208 NW 3rd Ave
Nob Hill
Business Association
info@nwpdxnobhill.com
BOARD MEETING
Weds., June 10th
5:30 pm
LGS Northrup Building, 1st floor
Conf Rm, 2282 NW Northrup
BOARD RETREAT
Tues., June 16th, 7:00 pm
Meals on Wheels Elm Court
1032 SW Main St
GENERAL MEETING
Weds., June 17th, 8:30 am
Holiday Inn Express
2333 NW Vaughn
BOARD MEETING
Tues., June 9th, 7:00 pm
Sylvan Fire Station
1715 SW Skyline Blvd
Find calendar updates at: www.nwnw.org/Calendar
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Snapshots
BUSINESS
A budget of $2.2 million
has been approved to
build a new playground
at Couch Park, replacing
equipment deemed
unsafe and removed
last year. Friends of
Couch Playground has
been formed to raise an
additional $500,000 for
additional improvements.
It may include fully
accessible designs
developed by Harper’s
Playground, such as this
“Harper’s Hill” at Arbor
Lodge in Northeast
Portland.
Escape From New York owner Phil Geffner wants
to install a metal sign in the shape of the statue of
liberty on his storefront at 622 NW 23rd Ave., but the
city Bureau of Development Services says it violates
historic guidelines.
Northwest Portland developer and resident Robert Ball brought his son
Parker to meet Barack Obama during the president’s recent trip to the city.
Former Portland Timber Bernie Fagan runs youth soccer camps at Forest
Park Elementary School this summer for both recreational and competitive
levels. The camps will be held June 29-July 3, July 20-24 and Aug. 10-14. For
information, visit berniefagansoccer.com.
The free Washington Park Shuttle has been providing
daily service since May 23. It makes nine stops at park
attractions. The service is underwritten by the new
metered parking system inside the park.
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Free the Oregon Zoo
Elephants demonstrated
at the Oregon Zoo last
month in opposition
to the zoo’s “failed
elephant breeding
program.” Seven
elephants born at the
zoo have died before
their first birthday, in
part due to inbreeding,
the FOZE says.
Business Briefs
The Bitter End Pub, 1981 W.
Burnside St., has a new look, new
menu and new name — The St.
Helens. The sports bar milieu gives
way to a Northwest theme and an
emphasis on whiskey and scotch
rather than beer.
Wing Kin Mui and Dana Mui have
purchased the 80 year-old Republic
Café at 222 NW Fourth Ave.
Pamela Crutchfield, a clinical
Darcy Kunkel bought Linnton
Feed & Seed, 10920 NW St. Helens
Rd., from Dan Cadmus.
social worker and therapist, has opened
a new office at 1136 NW Hoyt St.,
Suite 230.
Legacy Good Samaritan
Medical Center broke ground last
month on a $10 million remodel of
its emergency room and urgent care
center. The goal is to direct less acute
patients to nonemergency care, a
growing market in recent years.
Food Front, continued from page 1
Peter Reynolds and CDR Corp. have
purchased the Underdog Sports
Bar at 2100 NW Glisan St.
J. Rollins Art of Framing moved
to 2224 NW Quimby St. from 2335
NW Savier St.
Romaine Electric, a distributor
of engine starters and alternators,
will be leaving its longtime home
at 1831 NW 28th Ave. by the end of
the year, according to shop manager
Russ Brown. The business (and its
predecessor, Faulkner Electric) has
been in this building since the 1940s.
The property is for sale.
A 75-year-old single-family home
at 2246 NW Pettygrove St. was
demolished by Rainier Pacific
Development to make way for a
five-story apartment building.
Commodore Lounge, 1650 W.
Burnside St., was hit last month by
an armed robber, who fired a shot in
the air and fled with cash.
Correction: The Dapper Frog at
915 NW Davis St. has not closed (as
reported in the Examiner in May) but
will remain open through June 30.
Front belongs, Bristow said “communication, accountability, mistreatment and general unfairness in the
workplace” continue, compounded
more recently by a campaign to instill
fear that conditions will only get
worse under a union.
“As a consequence, Food Front
workers took it upon themselves to
fix these problems through a collective bargaining process,” he said.
Food Front workers will join the
United Food and Commercial Workers Union, the same union that represented co-op workers until they voted
to decertify in 2007.
"Food Front employees have unionized,” acknowledged Jessica Miller,
director of marketing and outreach
for Food Front. “We look forward
to working together as we prepare
both locations for an exciting year
ahead." n
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