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Race stumbles toward end
■ Negative
fliers from
Smith’s
supporters
present him
with latest
challenge
By JENNIFER ANDERSON
The Tribune
Jefferson Smith, the mayoral
candidate who pledged against
negative campaigning, is now, for
the second time in the race, dealing with rogue supporters who distributed negative campaign literature on his behalf.
Monday night, before a debate at
Portland State University — the first
live televised forum of the fall race —
two women handed out fliers to attendees titled: “Mark Wiener, The real
power in City Hall.”
Wiener is a longtime political consultant who helped elect Mayor Sam Adams and Commissioners Randy Leonard and Dan Saltzman to office.
He now leads the media consulting
part of Hales’ campaign, including TV
SMITH and mailers. Three other consultants
are paid as well, including longtime
strategist Liz Kaufman. The campaign
has so far paid Wiener’s firm, Winning
HALES
Mark, $34,450 for his services.
But at least two of Smith’s supporters find that troubling.
The flier distributed Monday night
crowns Wiener the “King of City Hall.”
It depicts Leonard, Saltzman, city commissioner candidate Mary Nolan and
Hales as points on Wiener’s crown,
with question marks over the latter two
candidates’ heads since they haven’t
been elected yet.
See MAYOR / Page 4
■ Without drive-bys or emblems, Asian gangs target their own
Solar
flaring
in trade
dispute
Local companies in
thick of fight over
China’s products
By JIM REDDEN
The Tribune
SolarWorld is hitting back
at critics who say the company is threatening the entire
solar power industry by filing unjustified trade complaints against China.
“Many of our critics placed
their bets on illegally dumped
Chinese products and now they
are afraid of paying the price,”
says Ben Santarris, head of corporate communications and
sustainability for SolarWorld
America, which operates a
large manufacturing plant in
Hillsboro.
One of the most vocal critics
is SunEdison, a solar company
owned by
MEMC
Electronic
Materials,
Inc., which
manufactures solar
wafers in
Portland.
Last week,
Kevin Lapi— Kevin Lapidus,
dus, senior
SunEdison
vice president of legal
and government affairs for
SunEdison, said “SolarWorld’s
goal is to raise the cost of U.S.
solar energy.”
Lapidus spoke to reporters
the day after last Wednesday’s
final International Trade Commission hearing on SolarWorld’s complaint that China is
trying to monopolize the solar
industry in violation of international trade agreements. This
week, the U.S. Commerce Department is expected to finalize
its preliminary duties and tariffs against the Chinese products. The ITC is expected to
enact them next month.
At the hearing, SolarWorld
officials said they could be
forced to lay off Hillsboro workers unless something is done to
stem the flow of the subsidized
Chinese products into the U.S.
They were joined by other manufacturers who said China was
intentionally driving them out
of business.
But representatives of other
“SolarWorld’s goal
is to raise
the cost of
U.S. solar
energy.”
TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT
Siou Bounketh helped broker deals between police and Southeast Asian leaders that helped quell gang violence. When Bounketh closes Legin Restaurant later this month, he will
also vacate his position of authority in the Asian community.
Gangs still
intimidate,
but quietly
By PETER KORN
The Tribune
crime to police, his family would be in danger.
But there is more than fear behind the vichere are days when Adrian Galvez
tims’ silence, according to Galvez, who has
feels like half his job is trying to
met with the family numerous times in his
pry secrets out of people who don’t role as youth gangs program coordinator for
want to talk to
the Immigrant and Refugee
him, but want his help.
Community Organization.
A year and a half ago,
“I could pull my teeth out
Galvez says, a jewelry store
and they still won’t go to the
SECOND OF TWO PARTS
owned by an Asian family in
police. They’d rather (lose)
East Portland was robbed.
a few thousand dollars than
But the family never reported the robbery to lose their respect in the community or have
police. That means they can’t even file an people think they are weak,” he says.
insurance claim to recover their losses. The
Some leaders of Portland’s Asian-Amerireason? The robbers were members of their can community insist that the violent Asian
extended family, with ties to a prominent
gang. The store owner felt if he reported the
See GANGS / Page 2
T
MinoritiesReport
Activists sick of working while sick
Coalition to bring
ordinance before
Portland council
By STEVE LAW
The Tribune
Christine Stancliff, a longtime janitor at Portland International Airport, called in
sick last January when she
thought she had a stomach
flu, but her boss made her
come to work anyway.
Stancliff wound up working
four days while unable to hold
down food — until a supervisor
sent her home after she vomited
in the employee break room garbage can.
Stancliff went to Kaiser,
where she was diagnosed with
kidney damage. Her subsequent
stay in the hospital cost her two
days’ pay, Stancliff says, “so I
had to cut down on my groceries
and my insulin.”
After 11 years’ work for an
airport contractor, Stancliff
doesn’t get paid sick days. And
she’s not the exception.
More than 40 percent of private sector employees in the
Portland area lack paid sick
days, says Andrea Paluso, executive director of Family Forward
Oregon. The advocacy group,
launched a few years ago by
Paluso and other activist Portland moms, is spearheading a
campaign for a city ordinance
requiring every Portland employer to provide paid sick leave
for their workers. It’s modeled
after one passed by San Francisco voters in 2006, and similar
to ones passed by Seattle and
other cities.
Portlanders shouldn’t have to
choose between going to work
sick or getting fired, Paluso
says, or sending sick children to
school because they can’t afford
the lost pay. “If people don’t
have time off to go to the doctor,
they don’t have access to health
care in the traditional sense,”
she says.
Family Forward Oregon and
allies in the labor movement
have been building a case for the
ordinance for several months,
knocking on thousands of doors
to collect letters of support and
personal stories like Stancliff’s.
They expect to bring a proposal
soon to the City Council, Paluso
says, and hope to get it passed
this year, before a new council
takes office.
City Commissioner Amanda
Fritz has been leading the
charge at City Hall, convening a
group of labor, business and
community leaders to help fashion a proposed ordinance.
“As a nurse, obviously I want
people to stay home when
they’re sick,” Fritz says. Then
they’ll get better sooner, she
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A2 NEWS
The Portland Tribune Thursday, October 11, 2012
Gangs: Code of silence hinders police work
■ From page 1
Legin closing
ends era of
cooperation
gangs of the 1990s have disappeared, and there’s virtually
no organized Asian crime now.
But others say there are a
number of organized and semiorganized men and women
preying on others within the
community — gangs that don’t
look like typical gangs.
conflicting reports
In a community and culture
where airing dirty laundry in
public is considered indefensible, it is almost impossible for
outsiders to know whether reports of Asian against Asian
gang crime are true or not.
“For the past five years,
they’ve been by and large off
the radar,” says Captain Ron
Alexander, who oversees the
Portland police Gang Enforcement Team.
But not completely.
In August 2009, a North Portland home was firebombed and
the homeowner claimed a
Hmong gang that was trying to
recruit his sons was responsible.
In July 2011, 18-year-old LartriBUne PHotos: cHristoPHer onstott
ry Ma was shot and killed in his
Mercedes in Southeast Port- ronault catalani, coordinator of new Portlander Programs for the Portland office of equity and Human rights, addresses leaders of the Asian
land, a murder that Galvez says and Pacific islander community during a mayoral candidate forum.
was gang-connected, though
Ma was not a gang member.
might be the only hope, he
With leaders among Mult- says.
nomah County’s Asian community starting to demand that still about money
Thach Nguyen, manager of
their community receive more
attention and government re- juvenile counseling and court
sources to address a variety of services for Multnomah Counills, Asian gangs have become a ty, says Asian gangs have
symbol of the paradox con- learned how to keep from
fronting civic officials. A quiet, showing up on police radar.
insular minority can easily get They purposely avoid easy
identification as a
overlooked.
gang. Practically
“It’s hard to
all their crimes
take action when
are committed
people don’t call
within their own
us, whatever their
ethnic communibackground,”
ties, limiting the
says Robert King,
possibility that
public informaanyone will report
tion officer for the
them.
Portland police.
And while some
Galvez says he
Asian gangs deal
has been working
d r u g s , G a lve z
with Asian parsays, the dealing
ents whose sons
— Adrian galvez, isn’t on the level of
are committing
immigrant and refugee the larger black
crimes but who
community organization a n d H i s p a n i c Adrian galvez reaches out to young Asians and Pacific islanders at risk of getting involved with gang
simply won’t kick
gangs. Instead, he activity as youth gangs coordinator for the immigrant and refugee community organization.
their children out
says, local Asian
or turn them in.
“There are a lot of Asian gangs have opted for extortion,
families living in fear, and they identity theft, gun trafficking, place, Galvez says, it is well camps before emigrating to the culture at large.
United States. Galvez says he
“What happens is they end
don’t know who to reach out to, illegal gambling and robbery thought- out.
“They clean up their mess,” sees over and over the same up dressing like that because
and they don’t know what to — within the Asian community
he says. “A black gang might do pattern leading to gang in- they think they’re going to get
do,” Galvez says. In addition, — to finance their activities.
“The way (Asian) gangs are a drive by and leave a huge volvement among Asian youth the same level of respect that
he says, any Asian family
whose child goes to jail faces established right now, it’s mon- mess. They (Asian gangs) are here. It’s a pattern that is much the guy on TV is getting,” he
ey- connected,” Galvez says. an organization, and they oper- less overt than commonly seen says. Usually both parents in
community disgrace.
in black or Hispanic youth who refugee families are working
Galvez isn’t optimistic that “They’re not going to shoot you ate like an organization.”
join gangs, but it can be just as long hours, Galvez adds, so
police could make much prog- over a color. Black or Hispanic
destructive.
peer influence begins to counress in fighting Asian gangs, gangs, wearing the wrong col- Many grew up in camps
Portland’s Asian community,
The Asian kids, according to terbalance parental and culeven if they increase patrols in or, they’re going to shoot you.
Asian neighborhoods. Out- (Asian gangs), they’re more especially its Southeast Asian Galvez, get caught between tural influences.
Once the Asian kids begin
reach and gang prevention ef- calculated and more orga- members, is top-heavy with two cultures. They see popular
refugees, many of whom spent hip-hop culture on TV and misforts aimed at the young before nized.”
see AsiAn / Page 3
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A number of Asian
community leaders say
they regret the loss of the
community policing model that emerged in the
1990s to successfully oppose a proliferation of
Asian gangs. For a while,
they say, Asian leaders
were talking to police
about crimes in their communities, and police successfully worked with
those leaders to all but
eliminate Asian gangs.
A tipping point came one
week in the mid-’90s, when a
number of Southeast Asian
families were victimized by
home invasions, says attorney
Ronault Catalani, coordinator
of New Portlander Programs
for the Portland Office of Equity and Human Rights. Catalani became instrumental in
helping bridge a longstanding
lack of trust between local
Asians and police.
Among those who were
victimized was Siou Bounketh, owner of Legin Restaurant on Southeast 82nd Avenue. Bounketh responded by
helping call together elders
from among many of the
Southeast Asian groups in
town. The elders began meeting with police officials to put
together a series of community policing agreements.
According to Catalani, police officers started getting
tips through those leaders,
and began sitting in cafes
and taking lunch in Asian
restaurants to establish a
presence in the Southeast
As i a n n e i g h b o r h o o d s
around 82nd Avenue.
Bounketh, who speaks
seven languages, has become an informal authority
figure to many in the eastside Southeast Asian community. And Legin has been
the place where many
Asians tell each other what
is really happening in their
neighborhoods.
But Bounketh, originally
from Laos, is closing Legin
and retiring. Catalani says
that represents a hugely significant loss at a time when
many are wondering if Asian
gangs here are poised to
make a comeback.
Maybe, Catalani says, a
new gathering place will be
found to take the place of Legin. But something else will
not be replaced, according to
Catalani.
“His moral authority we
will never have.”
— Peter Korn
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The Portland Tribune Thursday, October 11, 2012
Asian: Community policing worked Labor race not
Q From page 2
Quick, name role models
for a black child or teen.
Martin Luther King, Jr.?
Barack Obama? Oprah Winfrey?
How about for a Latino
youth? Portland has a street
named for one — César
Chávez. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor is another.
Now, how about some nationally recognizable AsianAmerican role models? Not so
easy. And that, says Pepperdine University sociologist Rebecca Kim, reveals a big problem. If Asian-Americans are
the models of success so many
believe them to be, Kim says,
there ought to be public figures to inspire Asian youth to
become involved in public life.
Yes, at UCLA more than 4 of
10 undergraduate students are
Asian. At UC Berkeley, close to
half the students are Asian.
Kim says at the top music conservatories in the United
States, the Asian percentage
of students is even higher. But
even those high achievers will
face barriers,” Kim says.
“Asian-Americans are perpetually viewed as foreigners
who are not quite ‘American,’ “
she says. “They face a glass
ceiling in promotions, particularly to managerial /leadership positions.”
Police different in Vietnam
Nguyen says Portland’s Vietnamese Americans don’t view
the police as allies, because in
Vietnam police were corrupt,
constantly demanding payoffs
to provide protection. Even
home invasion robberies in the
‘90s, in which Southeast Asian
families were tied up and
robbed at gunpoint, were never
reported to police, Nguyen
says.
With the Asian community
maintaining silence about the
crimes, Nguyen says, few Asian
kids are getting caught and
sent into the juvenile justice
system. That keeps the Asian
gang problem below the radar,
so when it comes time to apportion government funds for gang
prevention, Asian problems are
undercounted.
“The police go by the definition, ‘Do they have a name? Do
they have a color? Do they identify as a group?’ “ Nguyen says.
“Asian gangs don’t. Why would
I be visible? I just stay under
the radar making money.”
Ronault Catalani, coordinator of New Portlander Programs for the Portland Office of
Equity and Human Rights, and
a long-time mediator between
Portland’s Asian communities
and local government, says a
solution to the problem of Asian
gangs exists, and it was successful in Portland 15 years ago.
so nonpartisan
F
Role models for Asian youth hard to find
dressing in hip-hop attire, they
gain the attention of the more
established black and Hispanic
gangs, often resulting in fights,
Galvez says. He mentions one
Asian high schooler with whom
he has been working who was
beaten up because he was
wearing red gangster-style
clothing. The youth was cornered in the school bathroom
by kids who associated themselves with another gang,
which wore blue.
Soon, the youth’s friends
started dressing alike as a form
of protecting each other. Next,
the Asian youth went out and
bought a handgun. After that,
he and friends started stealing
from their extended families to
get money for drugs, knowing
nobody would report them to
police. Eventually, after beating
his mother, he was sent to live
with out-of-state relatives, never coming to the attention of
police.
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In Portland, no Asian-American has sat on the City Council or won a race for a significant local office, says Mary Li,
a department manager of human services for Multnomah
County and board member of
the Asian Pacific American
Network of Oregon. Though
David Wu did serve several
terms as a local U.S. congressman, Li says Portland Asians
have never politically organized as they have in Seattle
and San Francisco, where
their populations are larger.
That’s because so many here
still take their cultural cues
from their Asian background
rather than an American perspective.
“You have to step outside
your own culture in order to
be present and visible in this
culture,” Li says. Too few
Asians in Portland are willing
to do that, she adds.
Li says another reason is
Catalani and others within formally by the community, in a
the Asian community say the model called restorative comcity needs to learn a lesson munity justice.
from the ‘90s. Catalani deIt worked, Catalani says. The
scribes Asian ethnic enclaves major Asian gangs disbanded,
then as having been left “un- with key members of the
policed” until
Hmong gangs joincommunity elders
ing an exodus leavand Portland poing for central Callice joined togethifornia. Now, a new
er to form the
generation of
Asian Law EnAsian immigrants,
forcement Counaccording to Catacil and signed a
lani, are mired in
series of commup o v e r t y,
and
nity policing
watching their
agreements.
kids fail in school
— Robert King, and turn to orgaThose agreePortland Police Bureau nized criminal acments led to police officers regutivity. But the comlarly meeting with Asian com- munity policing model that
munity leaders and, for a while, worked before, he says, has
crimes were indirectly being been lost, with the officers who
reported to police. In turn, po- had committed to working with
lice brought community elders the Asian community replaced.
into the picture so that some
Catalani says the Asian compunishments were handled in- munity needs to start seeing
“It’s hard to
take action
when people
don’t call us,
whatever their
background.”
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them have come to Portland,
she says, and found they
couldn’t duplicate their efforts.
“They crash and burn because that’s not how politics
works here in Portland,” Li
says. “Maybe it’s that ‘Portland
nice.’ “
Kathy Wai, an organizer for
Service Employees International Union who previously
lived in San Francisco, says
the large numbers of refugees
in Portland find themselves
separated by their different
immigrant experiences and
ethnicities. Until recently, they
haven’t joined together under
a pan-Asian banner.
“These waves and waves of
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police back in their cafes and
restaurants and meeting with
their elders. Capt. Alexander
says he’s concerned that gang
officers aren’t hearing from the
Southeast Asian community as
they once were.
“I’m not getting that feedback,” he says.
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The Portland Tribune Thursday, October 11, 2012
Mayor:
Many
remain
undecided
■ From page 1
“If they prevail,” the flier
reads, “Wiener’s kingdom will
swell: Four out of five people
running Portland will bow to
him.” The flier urges voters not
to support the “status quo.”
It’s at least the second piece of
negative literature that rogue
supporters of Smith are producing without his knowledge, his
campaign manager Henry Kraemer says.
A single-sheet typed essay, titled “Troubling pattern for
Hales,” was anonymously
dropped into mailboxes along
Northwest Old Germantown
Road about two weeks ago.
Kraemer says the campaign
did not know about either of the
fliers before they were distrib-
TRIBUNE PHOTOs: CHRIsTOPHER ONsTOTT
Jefferson smith knocked on doors in North Portland on saturday in the home stretch of
the race. Ballots are mailed Oct. 19 for the Nov. 6 election.
uted.
After the first piece surfaced,
Smith’s campaign managed to
find out which supporter circulated it, and Smith addressed
the issue during a public debate
afterward.
The message was to “stick to
positive messages and talk
about the needs of the city, and
staying out of the gutter,” Kraemer says. “We think politics
should be a thing that builds
people up, not tears people
down.”
From the day he announced
he would run for office, Smith
pledged he would be a different
kind of candidate. He’s disclosed
campaign contributions within
three business days, refused
corporate donations, and said he
would do no opposition research
or negative advertising. His
campaign doesn’t conduct polls,
saying it’s the equivalent of
Charlie Hales talks with voter Telly Gjinos at the Greek Festival on saturday. Both
candidates are looking to sway the 37 percent of undecideds in the race.
holding out a finger to test
which way the wind blows before taking a position on an issue.
Evyn Mitchell, Hales’ campaign director, said this is the
first she’d heard of the Wiener
flier. She called it “disturbing
and disappointing, and unworthy of our city.”
Already a rocky race
The negative campaign litera-
ture will hardly be the latest sur- professional stake in the mayprise in the rowdy mayoral race. or’s race.
To both Smith’s and Hales’ emMost of her friends are voting
barrassment, the fall campaign for Smith, based on image, she
has been marred by a steady says.
stream of revelations, including
But she felt she has more
Smith’s sloppy driving record, homework to do.
his 1993 scuffle with a woman,
So she went to see the candiHales’ residency issues, his cam- dates square off at the Portland
paign plagiarism and both of the City Club’s Friday Forum last
candidates’ shaky memories week, her ears perking up at the
about past events.
brief mention of ways to grow
“I don’t think anyone would small businesses.
dispute both have had a rather
While she was impressed by
rocky introduction ...” says poll- Hales’ mention of a seed money
ster Tim Hibbitts, principal of program, she was disappointed
DHM Research. “They have she didn’t hear anything specific
both stumbled repeatedly with on that subject from Smith —
voters and I think
despite the fact
voters might be
that he usually
wrestling with the
touts the “economdecision, ‘Who do
ic gardening” iniI dislike the
tiative he began in
least?’”
the state LegislaIf it wasn’t cliture.
che, the mayor’s
So she left the
race might even
forum still undebe a “Portlandia”
cided, her impressketch.
sions of the two
Only in Porthaving changed,
land do two probut still without a
gressive candiclear frontrunner.
dates run on virtu“I like Jefferally the same polison’s approach and
cy p l at fo r m s ,
his value system,”
— Tim Hibbitts, pollster she says. “He’s
while insisting
that they differ
very charming. I
sharply on the issues.
like his ideals that are lofty. But
Only in Portland do two candi- I didn’t expect Charlie to be as
dates try to be seen as the nic- casual and charming as he is. I
est, with self-imposed donor thought he’d be a stuffy busilimits and passive-aggressive ness guy, but he had some zingattacks rather than mudsling- ers, funny lines. He had examing.
ples of how he’d apply policy. He
And there’s something dis- used more examples than Jeffertinctly “Portland” about two son.”
candidates humbly acknowledgIn the next few weeks, Artis
ing that they are “imperfect” says, she’ll take advantage of the
candidates and “flawed human resources at her fingertips: the
beings.” After all, Portlanders campaigns’ Facebook pages and
forgave Mayor Sam Adams after web sites, and the endorsement
his sex scandal, even with the questionnaires that are posted
painful memory of Gov. Neil online.
Goldschmidt lurking in the
When it comes to issues, both
background.
support the Portland Public
No wonder nearly 40 percent Schools bond, the library tax
of voters are undecided, having district and the proposed arts
either been too tuned out or un- tax. Both favor fluoridating the
able to jump fully on board with city’s water. They both oppose
either Hales or Smith.
coal trains in Oregon.
As those undecideds weigh
The sharpest difference has
their decision, a flurry of last- been their position on the Cominute door-knocking, sign- lumbia River Crossing. Smith is
waving, TV ads, social network- outright opposed to the current
ing and phone-banking by the project, saying he was the only
Smith and Hales campaigns will candidate “willing to embrace
try to sway them over.
the facts from the beginning.”
Hales doesn’t support the curCase study of
rent project, but would support
an undecided voter
a slimmed-down version: “I do
One of those in the undecided believe there’s something in
category is Elizabeth Artis, a there to move on.”
31-year-old Northeast Portland
After months of running for
woman who owns a one-woman this office, Smith and Hales
floral shop inside the Food Front now have just over three
Grocery.
weeks to connect with a large
Artis says she doesn’t own a chunk of voters starting to
TV, and lives in a house full of take notice of the mayor’s race.
self-employed creatives like her“Probably like most voters,
self.
this down-to-the-wire thing is
As she tries to grow her busi- when we really pay attention,”
ness into a brick-and-mortar Artis says. “I want to take this
shop, she feels a personal and choice very seriously.”
“They have both
stumbled
repeatedly with
voters and I
think voters
might be
wrestling with
the decision,
‘Who do I dislike
the least?’ ”
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Flares: Politicians backing SolarWorld
■ From page 1
The solar industry also is touted
as an important element of the
new “green economy.” Adsolar companies also testified vanced manufacturing jobs like
that SolarWorld’s problems those at SolarWorld’s Hillsboro
were caused by its own bad plant pay above-average wages.
business decisions. They said But more solar power workers
the company needed to cut the in this country are employed as
cost of its products to become installers, and they have been
competitive, not file complaints helped by cheaper Chinese soagainst China — complaints lar panels.
that risk starting an internaSolarWorld’s Oct. 19, 2011 petional trade war
titions with the ITC
that could raise
and commerce dethe cost of solar
partment charged
power.
the Chinese govSome of these
ernment with viocritics amplified
lated international
on their comtrade policies by
ments the next
heavily subsidizing
day during a teleits country’s solar
phone briefing for
power manufacturreporters. Lapiers, allowing them
dus accused Solar
to produce excess
World, a German
products that have
company, of abusbeen illegally sold
ing U.S. laws to
below cost in the
compensate for
U.S. for the purits own inability
pose of dominating
— Gordon Brinser,
to compete.
the marketplace.
SolarWorld
Santarris deBoth sides in the
fends his compadispute have supny’s products and business porters.
practices, noting that the comSolarWorld is leading the Comerce department and ITC alition for American Solar Manhave repeatedly sided with So- ufacturing, which claims to replarWorld after conducting their resent about 225 companies emown independent investigations ploying more than 18,000 workof China’s trade practices.
ers at all levels of the solar industry. In addition to SolarWorld,
Different green jobs
those testifying in support of the
Solar power is seen by many complaint at the ITC hearing inas a way to increase America’s cluded other manufacturers, an
energy independence and re- installation company and an
duce greenhouse gas emissions. electrical supply firm.
“Far from
benefiting from
the growth in
U.S. demand,
SolarWorld has
been severely
harmed by
unfairly traded
Chinese
imports.”
CASE, not SolarWorld, speaks
for the vast majority of those
employed in the U.S. solar industry.
CASE’s top priority is increasing the availability of solar
power, Lapidus says, which is
best achieved by lowering the
cost until it reaches parity with
power generated by other
sources, including coal. Lapidus
argues the cost of solar power
has been coming down for a variety of reasons, but that it will
increase if SolarPower wins its
trade complaint.
TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT
Solar World workers transfer a solar panel to the next step in the
production process at the German company’s Hillsboro plant. Some
critics say their products are too expensive, a charge the company
denies.
“Five years ago, we saw the
industry really taking off in the
United States, and we carefully
planned how we would be a responsible leader in this growing
market,” Gordon Brinser, SolarWorld’s U.S. president of manufacturing, told the ITC. “We
made enormous investments in
our facilities and devoted substantial resources to technological development. However,
far from benefiting from the
growth in U.S. demand, SolarWorld has been severely
harmed by unfairly traded Chinese imports.”
During their testimony, supporters said at least 14 U.S.
manufacturers have closed or
downsized their operations in
recent years, resulting in the
loss of thousands of jobs in Arizona, California, Massachusetts, Maryland, New Mexico,
New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, New Mexico and Tennessee.
Local pols support SolarWorld
SolarWorld winning so far
After investigating the complaint, the commerce department announced preliminary
anti-subsidy duties of up to 4.73
percent on Chinese solar cells
and panels in March, and preliminary anti-dumping duties
on Chinese solar cell and panel
imports ranging from 31 percent to 249.96 percent in May.
In a preliminary vote, the ITC
ruled 6 to 0 in support of Solar-
Supporters are backed by
four U.S. Senators and 18 members of the U.S. House, including every Democratic member
of the Oregon Congressional
delegation.
SunEdison and MECM belong to The Coalition for Affordable Solar Energy, which represents more than 150 solar energy companies, including manufacturers, retailers, installers
and engineers. During the telephone briefing, Lapidus said
news A5
World’s complaint. That is why
most observers say the tariffs
and duties will soon be applied
against Chinese-made products.
Lapidus and others in CASE
insist SolarWorld has not proven its case. They say the preliminary ITC and commerce
department determinations are
flawed because they are not
based on detailed studies of actual Chinese transactions. Instead, because the U.S. government does not consider China
to be a market economy, they
are based on a model derived
from Taiwan.
Santarris disagrees. He
notes that Shi Zhengrong, the
chief executive and founder of
China’s biggest solar panel
manufacturer, Suntech Power
Holdings, admitted to the New
York Times in August 2009 that
his company was selling solar
panels on the American market for less than the cost of the
materials, assembly and shipping.
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The Portland Tribune Thursday, October 11, 2012
Charlie Hales should be next mayor
Questions of style — as opposed to
policy — are at the heart of the Portland mayor’s race.
The political differences between
Charlie Hales and Jefferson Smith are
extremely thin. Both are solid Portland
liberals who are willing to embrace
Portland’s loftier aspirations, but who
also firmly acknowledge that this city
needs to work
harder on basic
functions such
as public safety,
garbage pickup, street paving and sewer and water services.
Given the philosophical similarities
between the two candidates, voters
should base their decision on temperament, talent and experience. On balance, we believe Charlie Hales is the
right person for this job.
Hales is highly knowledgeable about
city government — having served as a
city commissioner from 1992 to 2002.
His work experience spans both the
public and private sectors. He has
shown his ability to build coalitions,
and he has an easygoing style that
doesn’t necessarily excite passion, but
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Anne Marie DiStefano
SPorTS edITor
Steve Brandon
SPorTSWrITerS
Kerry Eggers,
Jason Vondersmith,
Stephen Alexander
SuSTAInAbLe LIFe
edITor
Steve Law
coPy edITor
Mikel Kelly
that will allow him to work well with
city commissioners and other partners
who share the goal of moving Portland
forward.
Hales’ opponent certainly has his
strengths. Smith is smart — some
might say brilliant — and he bubbles
with ideas and energy. As a legislator
representing an East Portland district,
he won the respect of colleagues in
both parties. Smith has a particular
understanding of the disparities faced
by residents of outer East Portland,
whose neighborhoods often have been
neglected as the city invested its dollars and attention elsewhere.
Smith, however, isn’t ready for the
mayor’s job. His campaign has suffered
from a steady stream of reports about
his past unruly behavior and lapses in
judgment. He has had to spend too
much time apologizing for, or continually explaining and re-explaining, his
driving record and disturbing incidents that date back to his college
days.
We believe Smith is a different person today than he was 20 years ago, or
even five or 10 years ago. But he still
land and for re-examining city priorities. He pledges to redirect resources
away from pet projects and administrative overhead to better fund basic
needs such as street paving and sidewalks.
These are the types of promises that
many candidates make, but a defining
difference for Hales is that he already
understands how difficult it is to
bring about meaningful change in a
bureaucratic organization. He will
come into the mayor’s office with a
decade’s worth of knowledge about
City Hall and with the added perspective of having worked in the private
sector both before and after holding
public office.
cHArLIe HALeS
Hales and Smith have waged a
vigorous
campaign after emerging
needs to put some distance between
from
the
May
primary as the top
his present and his past. Voters need to
two
candidates
to replace Sam Adsee a consistent pattern of accomplishams,
who
did
not
seek re-election.
ment for a longer period of time before
These
additional
months
of camthey can trust him with one of the most
paigning
have
shown
that,
while
important political jobs in Oregon.
Smith
is
resilient
and
still
holds
poFortunately for voters, Hales has all
tential,
Charlie
Hales
is
the
person
the qualities necessary to be a good
mayor. He has specific ideas for foster- Portlanders should elect Nov. 6 as
their next mayor.
ing a better business climate in Port-
MyVIEW ● PGE: System better now, but disasters recur
Columbus Storm lesson: Be prepared
By Bill Nicholson
O
n the afternoon of Friday, Oct. 12, 1962, one
of the most intense
wind storms to ever
hit the Pacific Northwest swept
through Oregon. With hurricane-force gusts up to 145 miles
per hour, the Columbus Day
Storm tore roofs off buildings
and shattered windows, uprooted trees and power poles,
and left almost 98 percent of
Portland General Electric’s
customers without electricity.
It was the largest natural disaster in the country that year
— and it offers a reminder of
how important it is for us to be
prepared for events that could
have a similar impact on our
communities in the future.
As the winds subsided and
the next day dawned sunny
and warm, PGE staff, retirees
and temporary employees
worked day and night to restore electric service. Extra
work crews and equipment
were brought in from as far
away as Southern California
and Colorado. Despite the massive damage, most customers
had power again in 2 1/2 days
— although it took about two
weeks to bring everyone back
on and wrap up the majority of
the restoration work. The $4
million PGE spent on repairs at
that time would be the equivalent of $32 million in today’s
dollars.
Stories about the storm are a
testament to the hard work and
dedication utility workers and
thousands of other Oregonians
demonstrated as they rebuilt 50
years ago. While the Columbus
Day Storm was an extraordinary event, “routine” winter
storms and the potential for a
major natural disaster like a
Cascadia subduction zone
earthquake should motivate all
of us to prepare for similar
challenges in the future.
At PGE, we’ve made many
upgrades to our system since
1962 — learning from every
storm as we build a more resilient system and constantly
fine-tune our operations, including crew readiness, outage
preparations and materials and
equipment stockpiles. Today
we have a stronger distribution
system, with more underground lines, tree wire (with
heavier-than-usual insulation)
and an extensive tree-maintenance program. In addition,
smart meters and the smart
grid are laying the groundwork
for even stronger reliability and
outage response in the future.
Coordination with local emer-
courTeSy oF oregon HISTorIcAL SocIeTy, Pge ArcHIveS
Fifty years ago this week, the columbus day Storm of 1962 struck a
blow to Portland and the Pacific northwest.
gency responders is also crucial. This fall, in particular,
we’re making a special effort to
reach out to local officials to
give them a better picture of
how we’re prepared to respond
when the power goes out, and
to gain a better understanding
of their needs and expectations
of us as well.
This communication is essential, because in a major storm
or disaster, the region’s ability
to recover depends on partnerships created in advance to
identify capabilities and priorities, and assure that procedures
to protect public safety and
help those most in need can be
implemented seamlessly.
These partnerships extend to
every household in Oregon.
Emergency responders and
those of us who operate the
public infrastructure need to
prepare, but you need to as
well. That means having an
emergency plan and kit ready
for your family and your workplace so that you can be prepared for a range of situations,
from being stuck in traffic during an ice storm to finding food
and shelter after a natural disaster that could disrupt power
and other essential services for
days or even weeks.
The Columbus Day Storm left
many Oregonians camped by
their fireplaces and digging into
their canned goods while waiting for services to be restored.
Tens of thousands of homes
were damaged and 46 people in
Oregon and Washington lost
their lives. Hundreds more were
injured.
PGE’s customer base has tripled in the past 50 years. Along
with this dramatic growth,
we’ve all come to depend on
new technologies and conveniences that might not be available during a natural disaster or
storm. To prepare, PGE offers
tips on building an outage/emergency kit on our website, at
PortlandGeneral.com/Outage.
Bill Nicholson is senior vice president of Customer Service, Transmission and Distribution for Portland
General Electric.
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MyVIEW ● Lottery appointee has conflict of interest
vISuAL journALIST
And PHoTo edITor
Christopher Onstott
Another blow for Hayden Island
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PAge edITor
Keith Klippstein
ProducTIon
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Clarke, Chris Fowler,
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By Charles Kuffner, Jr.
O
n Sept. 26, it was announced that Gov.
John Kitzhaber appointed Elisa Dozono
to an unpaid, volunteer position
on the Oregon Lottery Commission. Cryptically, the report
says, “...the appointment is a
plum political one.”
The Oregon Lottery generates more than $500 million a
year, most of it from video gambling machines in bars and taverns. Dozono is a partner in the
Miller Nash law firm. Miller
Nash represents the Dotty’s
Deli chain, one of the largest
lottery retailers. Kitzhaber’s
spokesman Tim Raphael states,
“We don’t expect any legal or
ethical conflicts.”
Recently, the Oregon Government Ethics Commission
cleared Dozono for the appointment and, of course, she was
confirmed by the Senate. Has
anyone read the ethics opinion?
Please read the opinion rendered July 30.
Interestingly, Ms. Dozono
poses the question as a non-equity partner in Miller Nash and
therefore not directly compensated from legal work performed on behalf of Dotty’s:
Would the representation of
Dotty’s by other Miller Nash attorneys prevent her from serving on the Lottery Commission?
I guess I am naive in thinking that this appointment is
without doubt “political capital” for Miller Nash and will
not mean a financial benefit to
the firm? After years in the
lawyer business, you can bet
Dozono and Miller Nash don’t
consider this appointment as
counting towards their pro bono obligation, but on the contrary look to cash in on the
“political capital” this political
plum represents.
The ethics opinion saw no
conflict and justified the finding in that she received no direct benefit from Miller Nash
representing Dotty’s; however,
it took three pages of circumlocution to accomplish that result.
More importantly, are we to
believe if non-equity partner
Dozono takes positions contrary to Miller Nash’s client
Dotty’s she will experience no
negative impact on her career
at Miller Nash? In my experience, if a non-equity partner
doesn’t produce income or
alienates an important client,
tenure at that firm is short
lived.
Does Elisa Dozono expect
communities like Hayden Island — with six lottery outlets
along North Jantzen Beach Avenue with at least 36 slot machines working night and day
for the Dotty’s Deli chain — to
be objective when considering
any new applications for Miller
Nash’s client Dotty’s?
Governor, is this any way to
build trust in small communities who expect protection from
predatory and greedy business
practices and shoddy agency
control? How obvious does it
have to get that Dozono, when
acting as commissioner, is going to encounter legal or ethical conflicts involving Dotty’s
or any other lottery retailer?
Even though she isn’t the attorney in charge of the Dotty’s
account, she will be accountable to the firm by her treatment of Dotty’s as a non-paid
volunteer on the Lottery Com-
mission holding a sweet plum
of a political appointment.
Has Elisa Dozono considered
Canon 9 Code of Professional
Responsibility that a lawyer
SHOULD even avoid the appearance of professional impropriety?
President Lincoln at Gettysburg gave us the immortal
words of what our government
must be, “By the People, for the
People and of the People.” Governor Kitzhaber now amends
that to, “By Dotty’s, for Dotty’s
and of Dotty’s.”
Shame on you Governor ...
lead, don’t impede.
Charles A. Kuffner has been active
in Stop Lottery Row, an organization opposed to the “destruction of
Hayden Island” from the growing
presence of businesses featuring lottery games there. He has been a
Hayden Island resident since 1999.
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The Portland Tribune Thursday, October 11, 2012
INSIGHT A7
READERS’LETTERS
Make a real difference: Write in Katy Smith
A
lot of serious concerns have come to
the fore about the
honesty of Charlie
Hales and Jefferson Smith’s incredible record of speeding
tickets and license suspensions.
Right now, neither candidate
standing for mayor of Portland
appears worthy of election to
office, any Portland office.
While many Portlanders
agree they are facing an election conundrum, what real options are available to voters as
write-in candidates?
At the Democratic National
Convention, Barack Obama
said that the best thing he ever
did was marrying Michelle
Robinson. She became his
muse, ethical sounding board
and self-styled Mom-in-Chief.
This may have been political
posturing, but is was prescient
and beyond wise even for a Chicago Democrat looking for a
high political “bounce” coming
out of Charlotte. It was also
very cute and invoked the old
saw: Behind every great man is
a great woman.
That’s why I am suggesting
we write in the name Katy
Smith for mayor of Portland.
Katy, since her marriage to Jefferson, has acted as Jefferson’s
muse. Jefferson doesn’t speed
anymore. Jefferson’s ODL is
valid.
Candidate Smith is facing the
political heat and its grave fallout. And, he is accepting full responsibility.
Perhaps Katy’s home cooking
and unique domestic ways have
tamed the many beasts within
this bright Harvard man? Jefferson certainly appears to
have changed, but is that
enough to earn him the nod for
mayor?
No, it is not.
But Katy Smith has made me
pause and reflect a bit more.
Perhaps the best candidate for
this office is not a flawed man
at all, but a sterling woman.
And recalling the president’s
words about Michelle Obama, I
think Jefferson Smith may very
well feel the same way. One can
certainly hope so.
Politically, this choice is a
two-fer. With Katy as mayor,
ment.
she can hire Jefferson as chief
The commentaries betray an
of staff/consultant/policy wonk.
aversion to the “nanny state,”
Katy has shown she has a good
failing to recognize that this rehead for politics and that she
action is precisely the one carecan control the personal narrafully cultivated by “nanny cortive and maintain her cool.
porations,” often under the covShe has managed Jefferson,
er of front groups like “Save the
and I believe he would agree,
Plastic Bag Coalition” (funded
like the president, that he is a
by various plastics manufacturbetter man for it.
ers), “Progressive Bag AffiliBud Clark had Tim Gallaghates” (American Chemistry
er and David Kish as chiefs of
Council), or the “Center for
staff. Vera Katz had Sam AdConsumer Freedom” (repreams. Katy could have Jefferson
senting restaurant, tobacco, alworking those levers of power
cohol and other industries,
at City Hall just like Kish and
funded by corporations like CoAdams.
ca-Cola, Cargill, Tyson Foods
Of course, the really big upand Monsanto).
side here is that she can fire
These groups worked hard
Jefferson if he doesn’t do the
to insinuate disposable packagjob.
ing into the fabric of daily life
Not to be facetious, that is
and are now leading the oppowhy I’m voting for the best
sition to the bag bans.
woman in the race, and writing
While the intrusions and
in Katy Smith’s name on my
ballot for mayor.
TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT compulsions of industry either
go unnoticed or are defended
Sheridan Grippen Tribal gillnetters on the Columbia River wouldn’t be directly affected by a commercial gillnetting ban that
as expressions of individual
North Portland will appear on the November ballot, but tribes oppose the idea and fear they’ll be targeted next.
freedom, government action to
curtail or reverse them in the
To name a few: it is unethical section, because this fight is
and traumatized by gillnets,
interest of the common good
to force medication on us in our simply about the sport fishing
and yet present no evidence to
provokes howls of libertarian
industry battling over the allowater source; fluoride has not
support this.
protest.
cation of harvest with the combeen proven safe; the impleEven if it were true, it would
This is the industry’s insidiI’m disappointed with the
mentation of the water fluorida- mercial industry.
be no less true than whatever
ous tactic.
Portland City Council’s recent
There are limits on the num- terror and trauma are caused by
tion is going to be expensive for
Jonathan A. Jensen
approval of fluoridation of Port- taxpayers; and despite the arbers of fish that can be caught
sports fishers, orcas and bears.
Salt Lake City
land’s water. Medicating the
guments by Mayor Adams et al, in order to control overall fishRoy Sundstrom
public water without the pubpoor children will not be helped ing mortality to wild fish. This
Chinook, Wash
lic’s vote is unethical.
is simply a battle over who gets
by fluoridation of the city’s waA pea-size amount of fluorito catch the limited number of
ter supply.
dated toothpaste contains
Dan Currin fish available. It was very
I read “Traffic! Where not to
roughly 0.25mg of fluoride. One
Northeast Portland strange reporting on your part
drive” (Aug. 30), about the daily
glass of fluoridated water conto include not a picture of the
The many disgruntled recommute clot and was struck
tains the same amount of fluonon-Indian fishery, but a picsponses (Thursday, Aug. 16,
by this paragraph:
ride. We are told not to ingest
ture of the tribal fishery. Mea“Some of those vehicles
the pharmaceutical grade fluosure 81 claims not to involve the “Reader’s Letters”) to Portland’s partial plastic bag ban
speeding along 82nd Avenue
ride in toothpaste. If “accidentribes and it is odd that you
Regarding the article “Barbs seem to try to implicate they
are extremely telling of the deend up hitting other cars and
tally swallowed,” we are told to
Fly over Gillnets” (Sustainable
gree to which market libertaripeople because they try to rush
“get medical help or contact a
are part of the issue.
Life, Sept. 20), I must take issue
through a yellow light. The city
Poison Control Center right
It was inappropriate that you an ideology and corporate
with how you presented this ar- included a photo of a dead bird
skullduggery have been difhas placed sensors beneath
away.” On the other hand, we
fused and normalized.
82nd well before the Powell inare told to ingest the industrial ticle.
and claim that it was from an
The headline should have
Many of the letters took umtersection, so if a car is speeding
grade fluoride in drinking waabandoned net simply because
been taken from Mr. Bakke’s
ter.
one of the sponsors of Measure brage with the perceived “arro- fast a block away, the green light
gance” of the city’s ban, seeing
lasts longer, allowing that car to
According to Portland Mayor quote: “The initiative does
81 gave you a picture with an
nothing to improve spawning
it as an intrusion into the freeget all the way through the inSam Adams and the Portland
allegation.
grounds or boost depleted
dom of the consumer, failing to
tersection before cars and peoCity Council, fluoridated water
Before you state something
stocks ...”
recognize that the situation
ple headed up Powell start into
is beneficial to our health. On
as fact you should determine if
This article does not belong
against which the city is reit.”
Sept. 12, Portland City Council
it really is or clarify it is a
in your “Sustainable Life” secsponding is itself the result of
Isn’t this rewarding and enunanimously approved a plan
“claim” made by the CCA.
tion, because Measure 81 has
the ubiquitous “intrusion” of
couraging the worst type of
to fluoridate Portland’s drinkThe beginning of the article
nothing to do with conservathe plastics, chemicals and
driving behavior?
ing water. The decision is unsimply panders to emotion
tion. This article should have
packaging industries’ products
just, unethical and unsafe for
rather than explaining facts.
Roger Noehren
been printed in the business
many reasons.
You imply that fish are terrified into society and the environSoutheast Portland
Fluoride decision
unjust, unethical
Industry howls at
plastic bag ban
Don’t reward bad
driver behavior
Gillnet story
misstates Measure 81
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Local author revels in censorship fight
News writer’s story
survives challenge
from critics
Multnomah
County’s library
system handled
15 complaints
about material
last year. The
library has only
removed one
book from its
shelves in the
past few years
because of
challenges.
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book, “Tales of North Portland,”
included similar language and
slightly skewed views of local
neighborhoods, prompting
some people to informally ask
that it be removed from a local
library branch.
“People have taken exception
to me almost from day one,”
Speirs says.
Potential for censorship
The challenge to Speirs’
newspaper article was one of 15
filed last year with Multnomah
County library officials. All 15
books and DVDs were retained
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after a review of the challenges, Kitchen” by Maurice Sendak,
says Jeremy Graybill, the li- challenged five times; and,
brary system’s communications “Mommie Laid an Egg, or
director.
Where do Babies Come From?”
County library branches by Babette Cole, a picture book
have a formal review system to about human reproduction,
handle complaints, and only challenged four times.
one book has been removed
Roberta Richards, co-chairfrom the county’s collection in woman of the state Intellectual
the past few years, he says. Freedom Committee and a Port“Master Math: Basic Math and land Community College faculPre-Algebra” by
ty reference librarDebra Ross, was
ian, worries that
challenged in 2009
budget woes could
and taken off the
hamper review of
shelf because it
future challenges
contained inaccuto material in pubrate technical inlic schools.
formation.
“Most challengAc r o s s
the
es to books occur
state, the Oregon
at the school liLibrary Associabrary level,” Richtion’s Intellectual
ards says. “School
Freedom Commitlibrarians have
tee has kept track
developed a proof challenges at
— Jim Speirs, cess for respondpublic and school
St. Johns Review ing to challenges
libraries since
thoughtfully that
1987. The state retakes into account
corded a high of 34 challenges in the competing interests in the
2008 and a low of 14 in 2007. In case. Unfortunately, many
2010, there were 24 challenges. school libraries in Oregon are
Since 1987, books most chal- no longer being staffed by
lenged include “Daddy’s Room- school librarians but by assismate” by Michael Willhoite, a tants who are not trained in the
comic book-style story about issues of intellectual freedom.
homosexual parents, chal- My fear is that when a parent
lenged six times; “Annie on my challenges a book in a school
Mind” by Nancy Garden, a library run by a library assisyoung reader novel about a tant or a volunteer, that book
blossoming relationship be- will quietly disappear, and no
tween two teenage girls, chal- one will ever know it has haplenged five times; “In the Night pened.”
“We’re talking
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that took place
about 100 years
ago. The
vocabulary was
different back
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says Speirs, a 65-year-old Vietnam veteran and self-published author who also is a
fourth-generation Portlander.
“I feel privileged to be the
By KEVIN HARDEN
only newspaper person to run
The Tribune
in such company. My observations are this: political correctJim Speirs expected some- ness equals censorship.”
thing like this to happen
Speirs’ use of the words
eventually.
“squaw,” “Chinaman” and
Speirs, the historical editor “cookie” (a derogatory term
for the St. Johns Review, has for Asian-Americans) raised
written articles for seven years the ire of a Multnomah County
at the neighborhood
library patron
newspaper that, in
who read the
his words, were
front-page Halsometimes very poloween-related
ST. JOHNS
litically incorrect.
story at the St.
Last month, one of
Jo h n s l i b r a r y
his articles, peppered with such branch. Just one day after it
politically incorrect (but histori- was published, the St. Johns
cally accurate) language, ended man (whose name was not reup on the list of more than two leased) filed a formal comdozen books, DVDs, graphic plaint about Speirs’ article
novels and CDs challenged last with county library officials.
year by library patrons across
On Oct. 26, 2011, Mutnomah
the state.
County Library Director VaiHis Oct. 14, 2011, story, “A ley Oehlke declined to remove
grave history and telling walks the newspaper article from the
in North Portland,” was the library collection, saying to do
only newspaper article among so would have been an “act of
28 challenges listed in the censorship.”
2011-12 Oregon Intellectual
Speirs says he was only usFreedom Clearinghouse re- ing historically correct names
port. In fact, it was the only while recounting spooky stonewspaper article among ries of hauntings in North
books, graphic novels, manga, Portland, including the former
videos and CDs challenged by Vanport site, a railroad line
patrons around Oregon for the through the neighborhood and
past five years. (Rolling Stone a plane crash on “Squaw Mounand Playboy magazines in tain.”
their entirety have been chal“I use history as a backdrop
lenged at least three times to tell interesting stories,” he
during the past 25 years.)
says. “We’re talking about
“For me, it’s great fun to get events that took place about 100
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Sick pay: Restaurants likely to protest
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Cooks Matt Alspach and Tamara Edens (above) prep food in the kitchen of Grain & Gristle. Elsa Ortega (left)
waits on tables at the Northeast Portland restaurant. starting in January, Grain & Gristle kitchen and wait
staff will begin accruing paid sick leave for the first time.
tion and productivity.
Meyer has worked in the restaurant industry for 22 years,
much of the time without getting
any paid sick leave. “Generally,
it’s unheard of,” he says, except
for managers and top chefs.
“The cook may be snotty;
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just muscle through it,” Meyer
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they shouldn’t all the time.”
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chef and operations manager at
Grain & Gristle, says he’s offering health insurance to his employees, and realizes they’ll
need paid sick days to assure
they’ll use it. So starting in January, his servers and kitchen
staff will begin accruing paid
sick days, at the rate of one
week a year for full-time employees.
“Honestly, I think it’s a basic
right,” he says.
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“We’re going to
do a thorough
public process.”
settled yet on how many days of
sick leave might be required.
For employers of office workers, mandating sick pay may not
be a big deal if the sick worker
isn’t replaced and simply makes
up lost time when they return.
But if workers are granted five
days sick pay, and they must be
replaced, that can be costly.
One week equals about 2 percent of their annual wages. And
drafting replacement workers
sometimes involves having to
pay overtime, says Ben Meyer,
co-owner of the Grain & Gristle,
a Northeast Portland restaurant.
In San Francisco, a study by
the Institute for Women’s Policy
Research found the average
worker is taking three sick days
a year now. In the restaurant industry, it’s about two days —
shorter because many of those
workers can’t make up for lost
tips, and tend to return to work
sooner.
Paluso and other proponents
of paid sick leave point out that
it provides many benefits to employers as well as employees.
For example, it can improve
worker retention, job satisfac-
G
says, and won’t expose people
on the bus or at their workplace
to their illness.
Fritz says there’s a sensitivity
at City Hall about rushing into a
new policy after the council provoked citizen outrage for ramming through a controversial
water fluoridation ordinance
last month. But Fritz and Paluso
say every member of the council
appears interested in the paid
sick leave idea.
Leaders of Family Forward
Oregon met with Mayor Sam
Adams on Tuesday, and Fritz
says the mayor then asked her
and Commissioner Dan
Saltzman to help prepare a proposal for council consideration.
Adams also wants the issue to
come before the council before days. It’s common in certain inthe end of the year, Fritz says.
dustries, such as in restaurants,
“We’re going to do a thorough day care, home health care, food
public process,” Fritz promises, service, construction and manu“not something that comes to facturing. In the Portland area,
City Council next week.”
55 percent of Latinos lack paid
Given its political makeup, sick days, the highest of any eththe Oregon Legislature is not nic group.
likely to pass a
Eve n
some
state law requirunionized jobs lack
ing paid sick
the kind of sick pay
leave, Paluso says.
others take for
But the city of
granted. Workers
Portland has the
at Fred Meyer and
authority to pass
— Amanda Fritz , Safeway, for examan ordinance afcity commissioner ple, don’t qualify
fecting employers
for sick pay until
in the city, so the
their third day off.
campaign decided that’s a good So there’s a disincentive to take
place to start.
time off unless they think they’ll
The movement for paid sick be off more than two work days,
leave has been growing since Fritz says, “which makes absoSan Francisco restaurant work- lutely no sense from a public
ers led a successful 2006 initia- health perspective.”
tive campaign. Since then, SeatA recently signed city contle, Washington D.C., and the tract with the Service Employstate of Connecticut have re- ees International Union grants
quired paid sick leave, and cam- the janitors who clean City Hall
paigns are under way in other one paid sick day a year, Fritz
cities.
notes — the first time they’ve
When canvassers from the gotten any paid sick leave.
Oregon Working Families Party
The Oregon Restaurant and
and Working America, a com- Lodging Association opposes
munity organizing arm of the paid sick leave mandates, says
AFL-CIO, went door-to-door this Bill Perry, the trade group’s
summer, they found many Port- chief lobbyist. “This is not somelanders were surprised to learn thing employees are asking for,”
that paid sick leave isn’t re- Perry says, and it would make it
quired by law. It is in 145 other harder for restaurants to afford
nations, Paluso says.
health benefits.
A study by the Institute for
The Portland Business AlliWomen’s Policy Research found ance is waiting to see what the
that the Portland area was typi- campaign proposes, says spokescal of the nation when it comes woman Megan Doern, but unto workers without paid sick derstands that paid sick leave
leave, Paluso says. The study will be a significant issue for
found that 80 percent of low- small businesses
wage workers lack paid sick
The Portland campaign hasn’t
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Subject of true-crime book starts anew
COURTESY OF RICK SWART
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the Lostine River in Eastern Oregon’s Wallowa-Whitman National Forest on Oct. 9, 2000, when
she shot him in the head while he
was either sleeping or passed
out. Toxicology tests showed a
high level of a heavy sedative in
his system, as well as trace
amounts of alcohol.
Northon said her husband was
abusive. During the camping
trip, she said he was intoxicated
and on drugs when he choked,
beat and tried to drown her. During the night, she heard him stirring and thought he was coming
after her. She said she grabbed
her son, ran for the car and blindly fired a gun at her husband.
Then she jumped into the family’s Ford Explorer and drove to a
friend’s house in Washington
state, where her 8-year-old son
from a prior marriage was.
When she got there, she claimed
that Chris had tried to kill her on
the camping trip. The county undersheriff found her husband’s
body later that afternoon.
Police ultimately arrested the
woman, and she was charged
with murder. She told investigators she reported prior acts of
abuse to Bend police and accused her husband of violating a
restraining order she had
against him.
Ann Rule’s book about the
case paints a very different picture of the couple. Rule found
that Chris was asleep or drugged
unconscious when he was shot in
the temple at close range. Rule
doesn’t agree with Northon’s version of events.
Northon, however, calls the
book “such a bunch of rot.”
Smitten with each other
Rick Swart was editor of the
Find out more
For more information about Liysa
Northon’s case, or for domestic
violence resources, check out
these web sites:
n liysanorthon.com
n authorannrule.com
n dvrc-or.org (Domestic Violence
Resource Center)
n multco.us/dv/experiencingdomestic-violence
n cwsor.org (Clackamas Womens
Services)
Wallowa County Chieftain, a
weekly newspaper, when Northon was arrested and tried for
murder. At the time, he didn’t
realize the woman appearing in
the pages of his newspaper was
the same woman who stole his
heart more than 20 years earlier
when she was 17-year-old Lisa
DeWitt.
The two met at Wallowa Lake,
and Swart, then 22, was smitten.
But they lost touch with each
other.
He didn’t make the connection
until years after the trial and
plea deal.
By 2007, he’d moved to Portland and became the publisher of
the South County Spotlight
newspaper in Scappoose, a
newspaper owned by Pamplin
Media Group, which is the same
company that owns the Gresham Outlook and the Portland
Tribune. He later went to work
for the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife as a spokesman.
Meanwhile, Northon had filed
complaints against her former attorney, Pat Birmingham. The Oregon State Bar Association dismissed the complaints in 2009.
She also sued Ann Rule, a suit
that a federal judge dismissed
that same year.
In December 2010, Swart wrote
to Northon in prison. She said he
presented himself as a journalist
interested in her story. A few
weeks after Swart mailed the letter, Northon agreed to an interview.
On Feb. 24, 2011, Swart’s wife of
19 years filed for divorce. She is
still employed by Pamplin Media
Group.
And on July 20, 2011, his freelance article titled “How Seattle’s
Queen of True Crime Turned a
Battered Wife into a Killer Sociopath” hit the streets of Seattle.
He skewered Rule, dissected
errors in the book and challenged its depiction of Northon
as “a sociopath who’d spent
years lying about abuse to provide an alibi for cold-blooded
murder, and, afterward to cash
an insurance check.” Rule didn’t
interview Northon for the book
to get her side of the story, he
wrote.
When confronted about the
conflict of interest, Swart defended the article as factual.
And on Sept. 18, 2011, he and
Northon got married in the visitor’s room at Coffee Creek Correctional Facility. It was 12 days
after his divorce became official
on Sept. 6.
As for Northon, she’s especially looking forward to spending time with her family, including her sons, who are now 15
and 20.
“You can’t ever make up for all
the lost time,” she said. “I hate
the fact that I had to lose 12 years
of my kids’ lives, but who
wouldn’t to save their kids’
lives?”
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After 12 years in prison, a
woman who killed her husband — and who became the
topic of a best-selling true
crime book — is being released with plans to move into her new husband’s Eagle
Creek home.
Liysa Northon, 50, was released from prison Tuesday — 12
years to the day after she shot
her former husband, 44-year-old
Chris Northon, at a rural Eastern
Oregon campground.
She must report to a parole officer based in Oregon City.
Northon’s case — called one of
domestic violence and self-defense by some, one of calculated
murder by others — is a complex
one.
During a telephone interview
from Coffee Creek Correctional
Facility in Wilsonville this week,
Northon said she was motivated
by nothing more than the desire
to save her two children and her-
“Once they
understand the
circumstances,
they will know
that I am
definitely not a
threat to
anybody. ...
I’ve been
misportrayed
wildly.”
Liysa Northon and
Rick Swart married
in the Coffee Creek
Correctional Facility
in Wilsonville on
Sept. 18, 2011.
Northon, who
pleaded guilty to
manslaughter in the
shooting death of
her previous
husband, was
released from
prison early Tuesday
morning, 12 years to
the day of the
shooting.
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By MARA STINE
Pamplin Media Group
self from her abusive, alcoholic
Within two months, he marhusband.
ried Northon in the prison visiTrue-crime writer Ann Rule tor’s room.
sees it differently. In her 2003
Less than a week before her
book “Heart Full of Lies,” she release, Northon was looking foroutlined how Norward to settling inthon methodically
to her new home in
planned her husEagle Creek with
band’s death, motiher new husband
vated by $300,000 in
and writing a new
life insurance,
chapter in her new
property in Hawaii
life.
and Bend, report“I’m just a girl
edly worth $1 milwho loves her huslion, and free airband,” she said.
line flights due to
Shooting disputed
her husband’s caEagle Creek is a
reer as a pilot for
pastoral unincorHawaiian Airlines.
porated communiBut the story
ty located at the
doesn’t end there.
junction of highLast year, a forways 224 and 212.
mer newspaper
editor and publish— Liysa Northon It’s south of Damascus, north of
er penned a
E st a c a d a a n d
lengthy investigative article for a Seattle weekly, southwest of Sandy.
Northon’s new neighbors have
dissecting how Ann Rule’s book
ruthlessly and inaccurately nothing to fear, she said. “Once
painted Northon as a sociopathic they understand the circumstances, they will know that I am
killer.
Two days after the article definitely not a threat to anybody.
went to press on July 20, 2011, au- ... I’ve been misportrayed wildly.”
She was camping with her
thor Rick Swart made a shocking
admission: The subject of his ar- husband Christopher Northon
and their 3-year-old son along
ticle was his fiancée.
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Liysa Northon and
new husband settle
in Eagle Creek
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Portland!Life
Section B
thurSday, octoBer 11, 2012
SoulS
in Motion
Dance is for everybody, say the folks who participate at Polaris Dance Theatre: In background, choreographer Yulia Arakelyan and Sarah Lakey (purple shirt); in foreground, Kathy Coleman and Sydney Skov (gray shirt).
■ Dancers of all abilities take to the floor at Polaris Dance Theatre
A
bacteria took away
show in June. She remembers
her legs and hands.
the first time she and Brinkley
It did not take away danced together under the direcdesire.
tion of Yulia Arakelyan, a PortKiera Brinkley dances, like all land choreographer and the first
the others in the Polaris Dance wheelchair user to graduate with
Theatre All-Access Program. The a Bachelor of Arts in dance from
feeling flows out of her, through the University of Washington.
heart and soul, manifesting itself Arakelyan emphasizes improviin expression and movement. No sation, which Lakey witnessed in
legs, no hands? No limitations for her first duet with Brinkley.
the 19-year-old
“We didn’t know
Portland woman
what the piece
Story by
who makes beautiwould be, but she
ful dance in her Jason Vondersmith hopped out of her
own way.
chair and we were
Photos by
“Dance is about
improv-ing,” Lakey
lines and shapes Christopher Onstott says. “I could sense
and space,” says
her movement, and
Robert Guitron, Poshe has this full,
laris artistic director. “When you amazing, beautiful movements. I
watch her move, even though she was, like, ‘Oh, this is going to be
lacks what you would consider awesome.’ Learning how to
lines or limbs, she creates them dance with each other was pretty
in space. Very few dancers with amazing and awesome. She has
limbs have that ability. She’s a this attitude of, ‘Let’s check it out,
dancer.”
let’s give it a try.’ I love working
“Able-bodied” dancer Sarah with people who are open to exLakey shared the stage with ploring.’”
Brinkley in the Polaris “X-Posed”
For three years, Polaris has
Free expression and movement went to another level once Kiera
Brinkley, 19, left her wheelchair behind and danced like
everybody else.
welcomed all shapes, sizes, ages
and abilities. Guitron views dancing as an endeavor and celebration, not meant for only skinny
people in tights and tutus, but for
all in the community to enjoy. Everybody with a beating heart has
a dance inside them. Express
yourself. Move yourself.
“I can show people that everybody can dance,” says Alexis Jewell, an All-Access Program attendee and dancer for 13 years.
About 30 people regularly attend program classes at Polaris,
with up to 80 from around the city
taking part at times.
Often, “altered ability” dancers
perform with Polaris members.
Just to see them dancing with the
more physically fortunate, sideby-side ...
“Hugely compelling stories,”
says Colleen Genuine, All-Access
Program director.
“It’s an element of human connection,” she adds. “For anybody,
that’s powerful. As we recognize
that our community is not made
up of all ‘able-bodied people,’ the
art of dance can cross all levels of
stereotypes and demographics. It
doesn’t fit into a container box.
We’re all able to express ourselves through movement. Just
moving our bodies with the connection and movement and intention becomes a very rewarding
physical experience.”
Brinkley’s legs and hands were
amputated at age 2. It didn’t take
long for her to hear the music and
learn to rhythmically move in the
wheelchair and, by middle school,
a teacher had convinced her to
get out of the chair and dance. It
was a big step forward.
She feels free, moving about on
the floor.
“I’m able to do more, express
myself better,” she says. “I have to
figure out ways to express myself
with little, but to make it big. ...
Music inspires my movement,
watching other people dance inspires my emotion. That’s different.”
A 2011 Jefferson High grad
See POLARIS / Page 2
The shorT LisT
MUsiC
Columbia Symphony
The Portland Columbia Symphony Orchestra kicks off its 31st season with “A Season of Firsts” as the
theme, using guest conductors for
all of its performances as PCSO undergoes a two-year conductor
search process to replace Huw Edwards as music director and conductor. Paul Haas conducts and pianist Rosa Li solos.
7:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, First
United Methodist Church, 1838 S.W.
Jefferson St., 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct.
14, Good Shepherd Community
Church, 28986, SE. Haley Road,
Boring, columbiasymphony.org,
$30, $25 seniors, $10 students
Portland Baroque Orchestra
The group tabs 2012-13 as its best
season ever, starting with its opener featuring choral masterpieces by
Bach, Handel and Vivaldi, with
Monica Huggett directing PBO and
vocal ensemble Cappella Romana.
Later in the month, PBO presents
the Portland debut of Pacific MusicWorks, directed by Stephen Stubbs,
with the resplendent “Vespers of
1610.”
7:30 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Oct.
12-13 (season opener), First Baptist Church, 909 S.W. 11th Ave., 3
p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, Kaul Auditorium/Reed College, 3203 S.E.
Woodstock Blvd., pbo.org, $18-$49;
5 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 21 (“Monteverdi”), Trinity Episcopal Church,
147 N.W. 19th Ave., pbo.org, $26$54
White Bird
presents two
shows in the
next week,
including Akram
Khan’s “Vertical
Road,” Oct. 17 at
Arlene Schnitzer
Concert Hall.
sTAGe
“The Black Lizard”
It’s Imago Theatre’s seasonopening production, an Englishlanguage premiere of Yukio Mishima’s play.
7:30 p.m. Thursdays, 8 p.m. Fridays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays,
through Nov. 4, Imago Theatre, 17
S.E. Eighth Ave., ticketswest.com,
$15-$30
White Bird Uncaged
The season starts with the longawaited return of Trisha Brown
Dance Company with the program
featuring three decades of work by
the post-modern choreographer,
including new work.
8 p.m. Thursday-Saturday, Oct.
11-13, Newmark Theatre, 1111 S.W.
Broadway, whitebird.org, $30, $20
student/senior
COURTESY OF
LAURENT ZIEGLER
“Othello”
Northwest Classical Theatre
Company, debuting its newly expanded acting company under the
direction of Bill Alexander, puts on
the William Shakespeare epic, the
story of a young marriage complicated by corruption, deceit and
jealousy.
7:30 p.m. Thursdays-Saturdays, 2
p.m. Sundays, Oct. 12-Nov. 4, Shoebox Theater, 2110 S.E. 10th Ave.,
nwctc.org, $20, $18 students/seniors
Oregon Ballet Theatre
Its season opens with a collaboration with Portland Art Museum’s
“The Body Beautiful in Ancient
Greece” exhibition, which explores
the human form through objects
from British Museum’s Greek and
Roman collection. Balanchine’s
“Apollo” opens the program, followed by “Orpheus Portrait” and a
collaboration between OBT’s Christopher Stowell and visual artist
John Grade. It culminates with William Forsythe’s “The Second Detail,” which explores the dancer as
superhuman.
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, 2 p.m.
Sunday, Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m. FridaySaturday, Oct. 19-20, Keller Auditorium, 222 S.W. Clay Ave., obt.org,
$27-$144
“Vertical Road”
Akram Khan’s world-accliamed
production, presented by White
Bird, features eight dancers from
Asia, Europe and the Middle East,
performing a work of catharsis and
transcendence. Khan contributed
to the opening ceremonies of the
London Olympics.
7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 17, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037
S.W. Broadway, whitebird.org, $26$64
MisC.
Portland Tattoo Expo
More than 300 artists attend the
three-day event, with 30 vendors on
hand.
2 p.m. Friday, Oct. 12, noon Saturday-Sunday, Oct. 13-14, Expo Center, 2060 N. Marine Dr., portlandtattooexpo.com, $20, $40 weekend
Meteorological Society
The Oregon Chapter of the
American Meteorological Society
will commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Columbus Day
Storm as part of its annual weather
discussion meeting at OMSI.
10 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, Oregon
Museum of Science and Industry,
1945 S.E. Water Ave., ametsoc.org/
chapters/oregon, free
Portland!Life
B2 Life
The Portland Tribune Thursday, October 11, 2012
Polaris: Dance brings out emotion, spirit
■ From page 1
who choreographed dance at
her school, Brinkley joined Polaris and became a professional
company member. She’s also the
All-Access Program coordinator, and she shares her thoughts
and feelings with the aspiring
dancers who enter the Polaris
studio.
“It’s something more people
should be involved in,” Brinkley
says. “Everybody’s welcome. You
learn so much about different
people and what they’re capable
of, and you learn about yourself
and what you’re open to.”
When she danced with Lakey
at “X-Posed,” Brinkley could feel
that the duet “shocked the audience.” But, “it felt completely
natural to me. We connected so
easily. Made it a lot of fun.” Brinkley will dance in Polaris’ next
performance, Oct. 18 to 20 at Lincoln Hall.
Lakey was recovering from a
torn anterior cruciate ligament
in June. Now she has an Achilles
tendon injury. Although clearly
not in the same condition as others around her, she can relate to
them.
“I came from the ballet world, people express themselves
where there was such an em- through arm movement, or
phasis on one particular phy- even chair movement only, so be
sique. This perfectionist cul- it. It’s dancing. It’s time and temture,” she says. “It zapped me, po and feel.
sucked me dry. I quit dancing for
“I try to give people enough
a few years, but when I found structure to improvise and find
Polaris, it was the perfect combi- their own movement style,”
nation of professays Arakelyan,
sional company of
who doesn’t want
different shapes
to talk about what
and sizes, but they
put her in the
all know how to
wheelchair. It’s
move. Have so
who she is. “I love
much soul. It was
working with peoso inspiring. Then,
ple with different
it’s not just a
body variations. It
dance company,
— Kiera Brinkley, makes the choreit’s a community
Polaris Dance Theatre ography so much
around it.”
more exciting.
Arakelyan and
They bring so
her husband, a wheelchair user much more into it. No prehimself, teach through their scribed movements, just bringclub, Wobbly Dance. She knows ing your authentic self.”
the importance of creating an
Guitron concurs. He comenvironment for anybody to feel pares a dance performance to
TRiBunE PHOTO: CHRiSTOPHER OnSTOTT
comfortable, where they’re not an orchestra, in which differColleen Genuine, Polaris all-access director (right), works in a class with Yulia arakelyan, a university of
going to be judged. She joined ent instruments such as the
Washington dance grad, accomplished choreographer and dancer.
the integrated Light Motion tuba, bassoon, violin and cello
Dance in Seattle and has per- provide different effects. Peoformed professionally before for ple of different shapes and and expression,” he says. “We harnesses the skills and tech- press and dance. That’s the idea
London’s Candoco Dance Com- abilities provide for compelling want to create a mixed abilities niques to do special performanc- behind our program.
pany. She gets a thrill from dance.
company. A professional dancer es in front of an audience. But
“It opens the world to possiteaching the “altered ability”
“Everybody should have the is part of a small group that re- everybody should perform. Ev- bilities not limited to convenand “able-bodied” alike. If some right to experience movement fines the craft, practices and eryone should feel free to ex- tional thought or perception.”
“i have to figure
out ways to
express myself
with little, but to
make it big.”
LiveMusic!
By ROB Cullivan
Pamplin Media Group
Oct. 11
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Hallowscream
Nothing says it’s fall when
everything is totally dying like
thrash-infused doom metal designed to elicit your arcane
mystical yearnings for a paganistic underground aiming to
survive the oncoming Rude
World Order. That’s one of the
many reasons to check out San
Diego’s female-fronted Castle,
which comes to our humble
town to promote their latest record “Blacklands.” Named newcomers of the year at the Roadburn Festival in Holland, the
trio also earned an “Album of
the Year” award for “In Witch
Order,” their previous record,
from Hammer Norway.
Witch Mountain, Castle, Rabbits, Holy Grove, 8 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 11, Plan B, 1305 S.E.
Eighth St.
Oct. 12
Mysterious melody
Oregonian Michael Jarrett
was one of Elvis Presley’s songwriters, and apparently wrote a
never-recorded song for Elvis
more than 40 years ago that
Justin Shandor will be singing
in public for the first time during this concert fundraiser for
the Willamette Falls Symphony.
Shandor is the king of the
King’s impersonators, having
won $20,000 in the Ultimate El-
vis Tribute Artist Contest in
Memphis. Shandor performs as
Elvis in the 1950s, 60s and 70s,
something few other Elvis impersonators can pull off.
Justin Shandor Elvis Tribute, 6 and 8:30 p.m. Friday, Oct.
12, Melody Ballroom, 615 S.E.
Alder St. $25, $25. Info: brownpapertickets.com, 800-838-3006.
Oct. 13
Purrfect lineup
Jonny Cat Records is trying to
bring legendary Belgian punk
band The Kids to the West Coast
in 2013. Formed in 1976, The Kids
penned one of the best upbeatdownbeat punk songs of all time,
“Fascist Cops,” among other
gems, and this show is designed
to raise money to bring them
here. Portland’s hardcore, slightly Southern-in-a-unwashed-hairway Bi-Marks headlines this
show, featuring a lead singer
who, as his video show, hates
sand and will throw mounds of it
when it gets in the way as he
flails on the beach.
Bi-Marks, Chemicals, Defect
Defect, Piss Test, 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, Slabtown, 1033
N.W. 13th Ave. $5. Info: 971-2291455, slabtownbar.net.
Oct. 17
Everybody twist
This is the FUN with a capital
“F” show this week! Nick Waterhouse, who looks like a
more handsome Buddy Holly or
less handsome Cary Grant,
wears suits and ties but is no
stuffed shirt. This cat plays
groovy 1950s and early 1960s
oriented rock ‘n’ soul music fea-
turing honking, saxophones,
sultry vocals, and bluesy guitar
and organ. His Innovative Leisure label mates Allah Lahs
rock in an equally groovy garagey way. This is music shaken, not stirred, the kind of stuff
you need to play when seducing
a Cold War spy.
Nick Waterhouse, The AllahLas, DJ Beyonda Doubt, 9 p.m.
Wednesday, Oct. 17, Star Theater, 13 N.W. Sixth Ave. $10. Info: 503-248-4700, startheaterportland.com.
Oct. 19
Just in time for real war
Yesteryear, political turmoil
in Turkey kept such Western
films as “Star Wars” out of
viewing for the average Istanbul moviegoer. In 1982, however,
Turkish filmmakers cobbled together footage stolen from
“Star Wars” and added their
own, including some of the bestworst fuzzy costumed scenes
ever filmed, as well as ominous
Big-Brother-sounding narrative,
in order to slake the thirst of
Turkish audiences for science
fiction. Filmusik will feature a
variety of musicians and voice
actors creating an original live
soundtrack for “Dünyayi
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Public displays of poetry a local phenomena
Poetry comes off
the bookshelves and
into front yards
By ELLEN SPITALERI
Pamplin Media Group
Paintings, sculpture and
other forms of art are displayed in museums, on walls,
in public places, but poetry?
That is usually only available
on pages in books squirreled
away on shelves — until now.
About 10 years ago, Laura
Foster, author of “Portland Hill
Walks” and several other
books, noticed a lone poetry
pole — a box on a stick in a
front yard playing host to a
typewritten poem for passersby
to read.
“I thought it was a one-off,
but a friend called me a couple
of years ago and asked if I’d noticed the proliferation of poetry
posts,” Foster says.
Once she started looking
around, she found plenty of poetry poles, enough that she
could lead walking tours, taking in a dozen or so at a time.
“It is a charming part of our
city; Portland is so literary
minded,” Foster says.
Why the sudden interest in
public displays of poetry?
“Maybe the gray skies make
you contemplative; we are less
active in the winter and more
introspective. When we take a
walk on a gray day, it is so apt to
read someone’s well-thought
out thoughts,” Foster says.
Although she admits she is
not one who reads a lot of poetry, she does pay attention to the
ways that people express themselves creatively, like in their
gardens or with stonework.
“If people feel strongly
enough to type up a poem, that
becomes a magnet; it shakes
you out of your own world,” she
says. “These wonderful threads
weave together, as we go off
and explore the city.”
Maps and apps
Matt Blair has been working
on an iPhone/iPad application
that will allow folks to choose a
neighborhood, look at poetry
boxes near their current location, share them via email,
Twitter and Facebook and submit their own photos of the poetry boxes they visit.
It is taking him a bit of time
to make the app happen, he
says, so in the meantime he
made a Web-based map that
works with desktop and laptop
computers, showing the locations of poetry boxes in the
metro area.
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Colleen McClain and Don Riggs have posted poetry outside their North
Portland home for about five years, and are astonished at the number
and variety of people who stop and read their prose.
“When I started this project,
I only had two photos and seven
confirmed locations. Now I have
71 photos, and 173 locations, but
it’s taken more than two years
to get there,” Blair says.
“I’ve always been enthusiastic about projects/practices
which bring art out of traditional venues and into the ‘real’
world; the spaces where we
live, walk, move and interact in
our everyday lives — to bringpoetry into pedestrian places,
literally,” he adds.
He has found a few examples
of similar phenomena in other
cities, but thinks that Portland
has more of these than the rest
of the world combined.
“I think poetry boxes have
the potential to be one of Portland’s next great cultural exports,” Blair says.
“We are a city of walkers,
that’s a big part of it. And also a
city of words. People here love
language and literature, and
poetry boxes give them a way to
put that love on display and
share it with their neighbors,”
he adds.
‘Opportunity to philosophize’
A portion of the proceeds go to
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It is a love poem, with an
opening line reading: “When I
n To see Matt Blair’s map of poet- die, I want your hands upon my
eyes ...”
ry poles in the Portland metro
area, visit poetrybox.info.
In December, after playing a
n To read Laura Foster’s musings
game of basketball, Riggs says
about poetry poles, visit her blog
he came home, “collapsed on
at portlandhillwalks.com.
the bed and died for a few minn To learn more about Paulann
utes.”
Petersen, Oregon’s Poet Laureate,
His wife called 911, and some
visit paulann.net.
of the firefighters who first ren The 2012 Wordstock Festival
takes place at numerous locations sponded had been the same
around Portland, Oct. 11 to 14. To ones Riggs had just played basketball with; they were able to
see a complete schedule of
revive him. He was diagnosed
speakers, workshops and events,
visit wordstockfestival.com.
with cardiac arrest, but has now
completely recovered.
As to why others should put
up poetry poles, McClain says,
a poetry post and knowing “There is no ‘should’ attached
there is a poetry lover inside — you do it totally because you
the house.”
love poetry.”
Riggs adds, “We’re delighted
Touching moments
when we see new ones come up.
Colleen McClain and Don There is a sense of sharing;
Riggs live in North Portland, on that’s how it started out.”
a walking route to New Seasons
and light rail. They put up their Poet Laureate
Paulann Petersen, Oregon’s
poetry pole in 2008, and at first
didn’t know if anyone would sixth and current Poet Laurestop to read the poems they ate, and a speaker at the upcoming Wordstock Festival opening
posted.
“We were astonished — it today, Oct. 11, said she is honhas been incredibly well re- ored and delighted when she
ceived. Poetry is a language ev- hears that her work has been
eryone understands at some displayed in poetry boxes
around the city.
level,” McClain says.
Petersen, who was appointed
Riggs says he started out
keeping a list of how many peo- to her position as Oregon’s Poet
ple commented on their poetry Laureate in 2010, has a poetry
box, but stopped when he had 60 post outside her Sellwood home
names; he now figures there and says she thinks the boxes
have been at least 100 people have become popular, because
passing by who have expressed “people enjoy the serendipity,
the unexpected delight of findtheir thanks.
McClain and Riggs are lucky ing a poem beckoning to them
enough to have a front porch as they take strolls or walk their
facing the street, so they can dogs.”
Her poetry post serves two
watch passersby stop to read
the poems. They noticed such a functions: it displays the curwide variety of types and ages rent poem for reading, and it ofof people, that they decided to fers each passerby the opportuput some small stones under nity to open the flap and take a
the box, so that children could copy of that poem with them.
“I’m continually surprised by
rearrange them, while the
adults read the poems out loud. how quickly the copies of a poThere have been a few touch- em are taken,” Petersen says,
noting, “Poetry speaks the laning moments.
“We’ve had people stop us on guage of us at our best. A poem
the street and say, ‘You don’t speaks to us as our most creknow me, but that poem got me ative, attentive, responsive
through a really tough time,’” selves. Who doesn’t want to be
spoken to as a creative, responMcClain says.
Riggs adds that he and his sive, attentive creature?”
She adds, “More and more
wife put up a poem written by a
10-year-old neighbor girl, who people are reading and writing
had written a poem about au- poems. When people are moved
tism for her brother, who is au- by a poem they encounter, their
impulse is to share it with othtistic.
One poem, “Soneto de la ers. A poetry box is a way to
Noche,” by Pablo Neruda, has publicly post a poem, a way to
come to have special signifi- share it with as much of the rest
of the world as possible.”
cance for McClain and Riggs.
Find out more
Two couples have poetry
poles in their front yards, and
they have experienced a coming together of neighbors who
read and enjoy the works on
display.
Susan Moray and Art Nord
live in Southeast Portland’s
Ladd’s Addition, and they saw a
map of poetry poles in the city,
drove around looking at them,
and then six months ago put up
their own box.
“I loved the idea of poetry out
in public; I like the idea of art
being visible, especially in
these days when art is not in
the budget, this is an inexpensive way to get it out there,”
Nord says, adding that he and
Moray always include a photo
illustration to accompany the
poems in their box.
The couple also makes a
point of putting out poems that
will appeal to children, since
they live so close to Abernethy
Elementary School.
“We like to have children exposed to the poetry come away
thinking they could create this,
or maybe they’ll ask their parents to do this,” Moray says.
The two have different tastes
in poetry, Nord says, noting that
he is more image oriented,
while Moray, his life partner,
prefers inspirational poetry.
“I like nature imagery that
captures a moment, an experience that can inspire us to wonder, whereas Susan likes poetry
that tells where the moment
has led you,” he adds.
The couple gets a kick out of
watching people stop to read
the poem in the box, and once
had two people come to the
door asking about a poem that
had recently been taken down.
“Susan keeps all the poems
she has put out, so she was able
to give them the poem,” Nord
says.
Moray likens putting up a poetry pole to putting a bumper
sticker on a car, noting, “It’s my
opportunity to philosophize.”
Nord adds, “When we read
other people’s poetry posts I
feel I know a little bit about
them — I just like walking past
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Appliances
S P O R TI N G G O O DS
WASHER & DRYER: GE,
5-speed, lightly used, need
the room, $50/each. Call,
503-563-5947.
Arts/Crafts/Hobbies
GUN & KNIFE SHOW
CANBY - October 13 - 14
Clackamas County
Fairgrounds
Saturday 9-5, Sunday 10-3
Admission $6
1 (800) 659-3440
www.CollectorsWest.com
Everything Goes!!!
Pumpkins
Gourds
CEMETERY PLOTS: 2,
side-by-side
at
Forest
Lawn
Cemetery
in
Gresham.
Endowment
care included, $2,900. Call
503-666-1109.
Sweet Corn
fall decor
26483.100212c
BEAVERCREEK
ESTATE SALE
24525 S Beavercreek R
FRI - SUN, 10a - 5:30p
Cemetery Lots
Apples & pears
Cauliflower
VEGGIES
Conveniently located on the corner
of 222nd & Borges Rd., Damascus
OPEN: 9am-6pm M-Sat • 10-5 Sun
503.658.2237 • www.olson-farms.com
✵
Shower bench-$35, Rail
support for tub-$40, Wall
mount support bars-$20,
Folding walker-$40, Bedside toilet (brand new)-$80,
Oak entertain center-$200.
(503)528-4715 - PDX
GENERATOR: Briggs &
Stratton, 5 hp, used only
once. $200.
(503) 522-1702
10 am - 4 pm
(Early Bird Show 9-10am
for $6 Admission)
Polk County Fairgrounds
Rickreall (Hwy 99W)
130 SALES TABLES!
Admission $3.00
Vendor Tables $30.00
Info: (503) 581-1206
FRUITS & VEGETABLES
COMMUNITY CLASSIFIEDS
Miscellaneous
Wanted
Bubblicious
Bubblicious is sure everyone she meets is a new
friend-all the better to chat
with and play with. And investigate, too, because
Bubblicious is sure whatever you’re doing is intensely interesting and requires her oversight. She’s
a two-year old cat who
loves people and playtime,
and she’s looking forward
to a good conversation
over catnip: Bubblicious
can chirp, murmur, and
meow with the best of
them. She’s waiting to
meet you at CAT’s Sherwood shelter: 14175 SW
Galbreath Drive/503-925
8903/catadoptionteam.org
LAB PUPS
AKC registered, incredible
bloodlines, super hunters
and great family dogs.
Yellow & black pups
available. Ready for
Christmas. $1,200. Mark
@ (509) 961-6411
10th ANNUAL FALL
DOLL SHOW & SALE
Sat, Oct 13th, 2012
Fresh Picked
es
ecticid
No Ins icides.
g
n
or Fu
reat
Just G !!
Taste
Meeting at St Francis of
Assisi Episcopal Church
8818 SW Miley Road
Wilsonville, OR 97070
(Take Charbonneau Road
exit off I-5)
Bazaars/Flea
Markets
THOMPSON FARMS
503-667-9138
503-658-4640
BASIC PLATFORM BED
Made of hardwood. ALL
NEW! $199 Queen or Full,
5 finishes. Mattress extra.
Call for info. 503-775-6735
Original oil & acrylic
paintings. Landscapes,
animals and still life.
(503) 863-2054
Pumpkin
Patch
Located 5 miles south of Powell on SE 242nd
or 1 mile north of HWY 212 on 242nd.
$295
NEW PILLOW TOP SET
Full or Queen Mattress Set
Call for Info: 503.775.6735
www.applecrate.net
Health Care
Equipment
WE BUY GOLD
Community Newspapers and the Portland Tribune
publish eighteen newspapers in Portland and suburban
markets. We are currently seeking a skilled support
person to join our busy retail advertising team.
Ours is a fast-paced work environment, and we depend
on the effort of each member of our team. In return, we
offer a base salary plus commission, health benefits,
401k, life & disability insurances and a 125 plan. For
consideration please send a resume, including salary
requirement, to: Box 354, c/o: Community Classifieds,
PO Box 22109, Portland, OR 97269.
for an abundance of pumpkins,
fall produce & seasonal decor.
An inclusive, contemporary
& ecumenical Catholic
congregation.
First Mass:
Sun, October 21, 2:00 PM
Communion Table open to
ALL baptized Christians.
No one excluded because
of belief, conscience, or life
circumstances.
SALES ASSISTANT
Business Development Professional
We are seeking a dynamic, organized and self-driven
professional to join our team selling print advertising to
regional and national accounts. This position is
responsible for acquiring new accounts, as well as
maintaining relationships with existing clients. We’re
looking for someone who can identify advertising
opportunities and go after them, find unconventional
ways to explore new revenue ideas, and keep the new
accounts coming in. Experience in print sales is
essential, while media buying, selling and financial
forecasting is preferred.
Sts Brendan & Bridgid
Catholic Mission
Sell it today
H E L P WANTE D
Advertising Marketing Consultant
WILSONVILLE:
www.catholicswithadifference.com
DRIVERS: $0.01 increase
per mile after 6 months.
Choose your hometime:
Weekly,
7/ON-7/OFF,
14/ON-7/OFF. Requires 3
mos. recent experience.
800-414-9569.
www.driveknight.com
NEED EXPERIENCED
ASSISTANT MANAGER
for food processing facility.
Responsible for crew,
maintaining and operating
machinery, production flow,
sanitation, quality of production. Contact:
BauschPotatoInc@in-tch.com
for ad rates, general
information or help
writing your ad in any one
of our
Community Newspaper
Publications
and get the RESULTS
you want!
Community
Calendar
Personals
Must have valid Class A
CDL, with 2 year verifiable
exp. Must pass drug &
background checks.
Please call
Greg @ 678-576-8151,
or Dan @ 515-557-0299.
H E L P WANTE D
Call Mindy!
503-546-0760
Furniture/
Home Furnishings
YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD MARKETPLACE
✵
FIREWOOD: Mixed - fir,
dogwood & apple. $125
per cord. You pick up.
Troutdale | 503-665-0056
FREE FIREWOOD: U-Cut,
haul & clean site. Oregon
City area. Call for info:
503-656-8147.
✵
Furniture, holiday decor,
books, lamps, linens,
glasses, pictures and much
more.
GRESHAM
ESTATE SALE
1560 NW 1st ST
SATURDAY, 9 - 2p
Firewood/
Heating Supplies
503-620-SELL (7355)
BEAVERTON
MOVING SALE
5525 SW 166TH AVE
FRI-SAT-SUN: 9-5
Furniture, craft items, tools,
lots of books & misc!!
CLASSIFIEDS
plus business equals
results.
Call 503-620-SELL
(503-620-7355)
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
MILWAUKIE
ESTATE/YARD SALE
11166 SE 27TH
FRI-SAT: 9-4
Tools, household items,
books, clothing & much
more!
PORTLAND SW
MOVING SALE
ESTATE SALE
17738 NW
ANASTASIA DR
FRI-SAT: 9-3
Whole houseful of furniture, dishware, linens, decor, holiday items and
much more!
PORTLAND’S
LARGEST GARAGE
SALE
Hundreds of Sales
NOV 3: 8 am-5 pm
PORTLAND EXPO
CENTER
Sellers & Shoppers
Wanted
www.portlandgsale.com
SPRINGDALE
(Between Troutdale &
Corbett)
SIX-FAMILY HUGE
SALE
NORTHWAY ROAD
(Follow Pink Signs)
FRI: 8-6 SAT: 9-5
Antiques, furniture, quality
women’s clothes and much
more!
TIGARD
GARAGE /CRAFT SALE
FRI & SAT, 9a - 4p
12367 SW 131ST AVE
(off Walnut & 132nd))
Purses, jewelry, ruffled
scarves, book & misc.
TIGARD
MULTI-FAMILY SALE
10200 SW MURDOCK
FRI-SAT: 9-4
Exercise equip, furniture,
household, books, household decor & much more
✵ WWW .C OMMUNITY -C LASSIFIEDS .COM
B6 NEWS
Manufactured
Homes/Lots
Boats/Motors/
Supplies
MILWAUKIE:
WANTED: GUARDIAN
FOR BEAUTIFUL
ESSENTIALLY FREE
AUSTRALIAN
LABRADOODLES!
Carole
Do you have a shoulder to
spare? With your permission, Carole thinks that
would be a great place to
perch and get to know you
better. And when you have
things to do, this four-year
old cat is looking forward to
keeping a close eye on
you, just because humans
are so darned interesting.
If Carole could talk, she
might say something like
this: “Is that a feather wand
in your hand? Do you like
affectionate cats who are
also okay doing their own
thing? Let’s talk! Are you
sure that isn’t a feather
wand in your hand?” Carole is waiting for you at
CAT’s Sherwood shelter:
14175 SW Galbreath
Drive/503-925
8903/catadoptionteam.org
We are looking for
‘’guardian homes’’. One
for a medium/standard,
chocolate non-shed girl
and one for a small,
non-shed parti or red, boy
or girl! Service/Therapy
Quality. Interested?
Check out our Web site:
www.trailsendlabradoodles.com/
guardiian-home/opportunities/
E-mail:
trailsendlabradoodles@gmail.com
or call 503-522-5210
ENGLISH BULLDOGS
AKC registered, first
shots, born 8/6/12..
Call BRADY’S BULLDOGS : 541-280-6268
GERMAN SHEPHERD
PUPPIES/ADULT MALE
RARE OPPORTUNITY
East/West DDR working
international championship
lineage: Heavy bones;
Strong head type; Great
pigmentation;
Strong
working drive.
2 litters, males and
females/10 weeks old
Dark mahogany, black and
tan, sables. Excellent
temperament, kid and
adult handled. Adult male
is
obedience trained
PUPPIES: $850.00 $2500.00 ADULT MALE:
$3000.00 (to qualified
home). Visit our website for
more information.
ZimmerhoffGermanShepherds.com
SANDY/ESTACADA,
OREGON AREA
503-686-0217
503-637-3163
OREGON CITY
Approved 55+ community.
Great home, lots of extras,
must see. Garage, 3 bdrm
plus den. $69,900
JandMHomes.com
(503) 722-4500
PUBLISHER’S
NOTICE
All real estate advertised
herein is subject to the
Federal Fair Housing
Act, which makes it illegal to advertise any preference, limitation or discrimination based on
race, color, religion, sex,
handicap, familial status
or national origin, or intention to make any
such preferences, limitations or discrimination.
State law forbids discrimination in the sale,
rental or advertising of
real estate based on
factors in addition to
those protected under
federal law. Oregon
State law forbids discrimination based on
marital status. We will
not knowingly accept
any advertising for real
estate which is in violation of the law. All persons are hereby informed that all dwellings
advertised are available
on an equal opportunity
basis.
SENIOR LIVING AT IT’S
BEST!!!
Homes for sale in our
Quiet, tranquil 55+ park.
Near Shopping & services
near bus line. In-home
companion pets welcome.
You’ll LOVE our Lifestyle!
16745 SE Division. Call for
Special deals & details.
503-806-7118.
SHOP
ONLINE
New & Used Repos
JandMHomes.com
503-722-4500
!~VIDEO’S~!
Pictures & details
Oregon’s friendliest and
Most informative website
Huge selection of
MANUFACTURED &
MOBILE HOMES.
Family Owned Since 1992
WANTED LOTS & LAND
Builders want finished lots
or land to develop.
Nancy Gregg
503-720-6117
ngregg@realtytrust.com
Realty Trust Group, Inc
OPEN HOUSE
10/14 & 10/21, 12-4p
16930 SW Monterey Lane
2bd, 2.5ba, 1679sf, twnhse
Split level, fenced, covered
patio, new oven, plumbed
with natural gas, sunken lv
rm, oak floors, ceiling fan,
china cabs & newer roof.
Resort amenities incl golf,
covered pool, mtg hall, gardens, etc. View slideshow:
RMLS #12253187,
Property #94706
www.homesbyowner.com
503-338-9611
503-639-0292
Homes for Sale
Campers &
Canopies
Apartments for Rent
❃❃❃❃
Show Your Apt
Rentals in
Community
Classifieds
The rental market is
moving again!
Call Sherry Carsten
503-546-0755
www.tinyurl.com/5810SW192ndAve
Realty Advantage
503-481-5174
ESTACADA
2 & 3 Bdrm , Laundry
Hook-up, Kitchen
appliances, Storage
Shed. Includes water &
sewer. Ask about our No
Deposit Option!
Sec 8 OK
emv2007@usa.net
email for details
503-630-4300
Accommodates large &
small groups for meetings
& personal use. Amenities
include: Stage, kitchen &
licensed beverage service.
Affordable rates!
Veterans Memorial Bldg
104 South Tumwater
Oregon City
503-655-6969
MANZANITA
Cabin for 4
View!!! Top of Mt Scott
3 bdrm, 2 ½ ba, 2 story
contemporary w/view of
West Hills, on 1ac w/barn,
ideal for family & entertaining, 60’ garage, landscp
w/3 waterfalls, $475,000.
Also avail, 5 other view lots
Gresham
Butte
&
Mt.Scott. 503-887-0070.
CHRYSLER, New Yorker,
1994 - lo mi 82K, leather,
pwr locks & windows, auto,
Maroon, good brakes/tires
- $2000. | (503)543-6394
2 blocks from beach
FALL & WINTER
DATES
Available. Call to
reserve 503-636-9292
Manufactured
Homes/Lots
FORD TAURUS SE 2006:
Gold color, 6 cylinder 3.0L,
power windows and locks
with 72,000 miles. Runs
great! $6,000/OBO. Call,
503-290-9357
Snapdragon
Snapdragon is just two
years old and has spent
some of his time at the
shelter figuring out the
latch on his cage. He’s
inquisitive-things like grocery bags are so
interesting-and he thinks
people are great, too. He
settles easily into one’s
arms and stops to purr before chasing his next
mini-adventure. Snapdragon has gotten along
well with other shelter cats
but is really hoping for a
home and some people of
his own. Meet him at the
Hillsboro PetSmart or learn
more at CAT; (503)
925-8903/
catadoptionteam.org
FACTORY SPECIAL
New Home,
3 bdrm, 1296 sq ft,
$54,900.
Finished on site
JandMHomes.com
(503) 722-4500
GET
FAST
RESULTS
THROUGH
THE CLASSIFIEDS
CALL NOW!
CALL
503-620-SELL
COMMUNITY CLASSIFIEDS
✵
FORD EXPLORER, 2004,
Silver, V-6, Tow Pkg, All
Power, CD, CC, very good
condition, up-to-date maintenance. 118K miles.
$6,500/obo, (503)706-4686
Call
Community Classifieds
and sell all those
unneeded items.
Items valued
up to $1000:
3 lines - 3 weeks
17 newspapers - $15
Items valued
$1001-$3000:
3 lines - 3 weeks
17 newspapers - $20
Call (503)
620-SELL(7355)
MERCEDES-BENZ
SL500, 2003, Hardtop convertible. Excel condition!
Special Launch Edition,
Designo Edition, includes
suede headliner and other
upgrades. Sport and handling package. Black leather
interior/launch edition
champagne exterior. Fairly
new premium tires. Regularly serviced by a Mercedes specialist garage.
89,800 miles. | $18,950
(503)317-8427
Service Directory
Home & Professional Services
Cleaning/Organizing
MERCURY SABLE LS
Premium, 2002 Equipped
w/some upgrades not avail
on all Sables incl. Duratec
24-valve high torque engine. Adjustable pedal ht.,
fog lights, leather seats,
digital electronic climate
control, A/C, heated mirrors, alloy wheels, keyless
& remote entry, powered
Sun Roof, dual 12V outlets
160K mi. | $2,800
(503)397-5511
DIVORCE $135. Complete
preparation. Includes children, custody, support,
property and bills division.
No court appearances.
Divorced in 1 - 5 weeks
possible. | 503-772-5295
paralegalalternatives.com
divorce@usa.com
Building &
Remodeling
FORD MARK III 2000,
Van conversion.
Fully
loaded! DVD player, four
Captain’s chairs, fold-down
backseat bed, seats 7.
Excellent condition! $3700
(503)636-3087
RVs & Travel
Trailers
38.6’ DUTCH STAR Motor
Home 2001: Excellent condition, new reconditioned
roof, 6 new tires, 4 new
batteries, all oak cabinetry,
33,832 miles, lots of extras, tow bar included, satellite dish, Thousand Trails
membership avail. Must
sell due to health. $50,000
or offer. Call 503-543-4492
or 503-705-6096.
FLEETWOOD,
SOUTHWIND, 1997 - 34’, wide
body, Class A. Onon generator and new brakes.
$16,625 or trade for Class
B RV. Call: 503-803-0480
FORD 250 CLASS B
MOTORHOME 1990: Very
nice condition, low miles,
new
tires,
batteries,
shocks, brakes. 2 gas
tanks, sleeps 4, shower &
bath,
toilet,
2-burner
stover, ice box, hot water
heater,
electric
heat,
$12,250. 503-661-3965.
NOTICE:
Oregon Construction
Contractors’ Law
(ORS 701)
Requires anyone who contracts for construction work
to be licensed with the
Construction Contractors’
Board. An active license
means the contractor is
bonded and insured. Verify
the contractor’s CCB license through the CCB
Consumer Web site:
wwwhiralicensedcontractor.com
www.ccb.state.or.us
Call 1-503-378-4621
JAMES F.
WIEDEMANN
CONSTRUCTION
Remodeling, Windows,
& Doors, Decks,
Fences, Sheds. 20 yrs
exp. L/I/B CCB
#102031.
503-784-6691
James Kramer
Const.
Locally since 1974!
Kitchen, bath, walls,
ceilings, additions,
counters, cabinets,
decks, drywall, tile,
granite, windows and
doors, etc.
Reasonable.
CCB#11518. Jim
503-201-0969,
503-625-5092.
Boats/Motors/
Supplies
ELECTRIC POWER
No gas, no diesel, no
noise. Schooner Creek
Boat Works built fiberglass
hull, decks, seats & surrey
top. Brand new motors,
batteries, battery chargers,
wiring, pumps, instruments
etc. Launched June 6
2012. $24,500 w/trailer.
503-245-5074
Concrete/Paving
CONCRETE FLATWORK
Everything Concrete
Excavation/Retaining Wall
ccb#158471 503.297.6271
www.concretetom.com
YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD MARKETPLACE
✵
Cleaning/Organizing
Personalized care of your
home! 13-yrs exp. Honest
& Organized. Ref’s avail.
503-657-2877
503-539-0704 (cell)
503-620-SELL (7355)
✵
FATHER AND SON
HAULING
‘’Fast, Honest, Reliable
& Hardworking’’
Junk, Yard & Building
Debris; Attic, Garage &
Rental Clean-outs.
Rick, (503) 705-6057
MB PAINTING
Landscape
Maintenance
** AFFORDABLE **
Quality Maintenance &
Cleanups
TURF TENDERS
(503) 667-4253
COMPLETE SERVICE
•Mowing •Trimming
•Pruning: hedges, shrubs,
ornamental & fruit trees.
•Fertilization •Weed control
•High grass •Aeration•Bark
•Bed work •Clean-ups
•Maintenance programs
Check out my rates!
Call Dave, (503) 753-1838
CONTRACTORS NW
Decorative Etched or
Stamped & Beyond
•Pools •Decks •Patios
•Retaining structural
walls •Driveways
Since 1978
CCB#31044
503-760-2997
www.cnw-inc.com
*Clean quality work
*Cabinets/woodwork
*Free est. CCB#56492.
www.mbpainting.us
Call Matt @
503-640-0632
Plumbing &
Drainage
All Jobs, Large & Small
Senior Discount
CCB#194308
503-867-3859
CPRplumbing
(503) 867-3859
www.CPRplumbing.info
FALL CLEANUP Let
me help you get your
yard ready for
FALL
Senior Discount
CCB#194308
Roofing/Gutters
Decks
GUTTER GETTERS
Total Quality Deck
Restoration
‘’No job too small’’
Strip, sand, stain, repair.
Power Washing Driveways & sidewalks
Mowing, leaf clean up,
general pruning, etc
(503) 544-5296
DECK
JLS
Restoration
GARCIA
MAINTENANCE
READY FOR FALL
Mowing, trimming,
weeding, bark dust.
Leaf pickup,
(503) 774-2237
503-312-1622
Licensed, Bonded,
Insured #171558
SECOR YARD
SERVICE Complete
Yard Service
Senior Discount
We do it all! Trimming,
pruning & bark dust.
Gutter cleaning, weeding, blackberries, staining & painting,
(503) 853-0480.
TESLA
Electric Company
Full Service Electrical
Fair Rates, Fast
Response
CCB#189699
www.teslapdx.com
503-724-1175
Fences
YARD DEBRIS HAULING
•Rototilling •Trimming
•Bark Dust •Gravel •Yard
Maintenance. Free est,
7 days. (503) 626-9806.
Painting & Papering
Post setting, rails installed
or complete job #27194
KENT’S PAINTING
503-639-5792 John
Fine qual, int/ext, free est
ccb #48303. 503-257-7130
Handyman/
Handywoman
HANDYMAN MATTERS
Locally owned, nationally
recognized. Specializing in
small to medium jobs
#191473
WestPortland.HandymanMatters.com
503-621-0700
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
Gutter Cleaning, Install &
Repair, Roof Repairs,
Fence & Awning Repairs &
Handyman. CCB#195040
Low rates • Steve
503-260-6280
Paint
it!
MOW •CUT •EDGE
•LEAF CLEANUP •MORE!
Average Price, $30. (503)
550-8871 / 503-708-8770.
Electrical
Straight & Sturdy
Fencing
BIRDS CHIMNEY
SERVICE
1-800-CHIMNEY
Cleaning & Repairs
503-653-4999
CCB# 155449
Painting & Papering
Gerry Dean’s
Cleanup
(503) 244-4882
Chimney Services
2011 Keystone Passport
Ultra-lite Limited Edition
300BHWE. $19,599 FIRM.
Hate to sell but have a
baby on the way! Harvest
interior, dark cherry cabinets, Sleeps up to 9, front
bdrm
Queen
Bed
(aftermarket
residential
mattress), 2 Slides, Rear
fold-out couch & fold down
bunk w/additional entertainment area, banquet
dining
area,
additional
fold-out
couch
in
dining/entertainment area,
19” LCD TV, AM/FM/CD
with interior & exterior
speakers, electric tongue
jack, electric leveling jacks,
exterior gas stove, full
cover. Located in Gladstone, OR. 503-723-9009.
Hauling
*Interior / Exterior
Mini Vans &
Passenger Vans
jameskramerconstruction.com
2011 23’TURN OF THE
CENTURY ENGLISH
GENTLEMANS
LAKE/RIVER LAUNCH
REPLICA
Debi’s Personalized
Cleaning. 26-Years!!!
Honest, Reasonable.
Due to Economy,
Need WORK!I
503.590.2467
Attorneys/Legal
Services
FACTORY SPECIAL
New Home, 3 bdrm, 1,296
sq ft, $52,900, finished on
site. Also repos and listings
JandMHomes.com
503-722-4500
Sport Utility
Vehicles
STORAGE
PROBLEMS??
Miscellaneous
Rentals
Vacation Rentals
HAPPY VALLEY:
Cars For Sale
scarsten@commnewspapers.com
BEAVERTON-$199,900
Great for First time Buyers1 Level updated in 1999!
New Garage Doors, new
paint, move-in ready 1
Level on 1/4 acre lot, close
to parks and schools.
NORTHLAND 8.5’1998,
Good condition, Remote
control hydraulic jack, Nordic refrigerator, Atwood
room heater & kitchen
stove, roof mounted AC,
36 gallon fresh water tank,
6 gallon hot water tank.
503-701-5768 $3,500.
503-543-2577.
for information, rates,
special promotions or for
help in writing an ad.
We can help!
Houses for Rent
TENT TRAILER
2009 Starcraft 2406
$6,850 OBO. Queen and
double beds, indoor & outdoor showers, stove, frig,
hot & cold water, heater.
Excellent condition. Call
Ron @ 503.543.7089
TRAVEL TRAILER, 1981,
21’ with awning, been under cover, sleeps six, self
contained. $2,500.
(503) 658-2257
503-652-9446
OREGON CITY:
HALL RENTAL
Libby Jane:
SARA: Rescued from a neglect situation, Sara was
very shy & scared when
she arrived at the shelter.
After some patience & attention she’s blossomed
into an adoring girl. She
would love to spend her
second chance at life, giving you all the love she
can!
Please
call
503-292-6628 or visit our
website for more info:
www.animalaidpdx.org
SEASWIRL,1978, 18 ft.,
Inboard boat.
Garaged.
Includes trailer, boat canopy & 105hp QMC motor.
$3,325 | (503)620-3666,
(503)799-2286
www.wrightchoicehomes.com
PORTLAND SW:
Not just another pretty
face, gentle, friendly
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Libby Jane is a great companion cat. She loves her
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Oct. 11
Prep football: Most teams play
on Thursday this week. Local
games (all 7 p.m., unless otherwise indicated) are Central
Catholic (4-2) at David Douglas
(3-3), Benson (0-6) at Wilson
(5-1), Roosevelt (4-2) at Franklin
(1-5), Cleveland (3-3) at Madison
(3-3), La Salle (4-2) at Madras
(3-3), and Falls City (0-5) at
Portland Lutheran (0-5), 3 p.m.
College soccer: The Portland
Pilot women (6-3-2) have their first
West Coast Conference match at
Gonzaga (6-6-0) at 3 p.m.
Oct. 12
Blazers: Preseason game No. 2
is at Phoenix, 7 p.m. PT. The Suns
were 10th in the West at 33-33
last season. Now minus Steve
Nash, the Suns are a bunch of nonames, but Clyde Drexler says they
could finish fourth or fifth in the
conference this season.
Winterhawks: Portland (4-3-10 through Tuesday) plays at faststarting Prince Albert (7-0-0-1), 6
p.m. PT
Prep football: Grant (3-3) plays
at Aloha (6-0), and Jesuit (5-1) is
at Southridge (3-3), both 7:30
p.m.; Sunset (3-3) is at Lincoln
(0-6), 7 p.m.; Parkrose (2-4) goes
to Milwaukie (4-2), 7 p.m.;
Portland Christian (6-0) travels to
Gaston (3-2), 7 p.m.
College soccer: The Big Sky
women’s regular-season race hits
the home stretch, with first-place
Portland State (4-1-1) playing host
to Idaho State (2-2-1) at 3 p.m. at
Hillsboro Stadium. ... The Portland
men (3-1-0 WCC) kick off a home
weekend with a 7 p.m. Merlo Field
match against Santa Clara (3-1-1).
Those two teams and San Diego
are tied for first in the conference.
College cross-country: UP men,
tied for fifth in the national rankings, compete at the Wisconsin
Adidas Invitational.
College volleyball: Corban
(1-10 Cascade Collegiate
Conference) is at Concordia (7-4),
7 p.m.; Northwest Christian (5-6)
at Warner Pacific (6-5), 7 p.m.
Oct. 13
College football: No. 10 Oregon
State (4-0) is at BYU (4-2), 12:30
p.m. PT. The Cougars are 4-0 at
home. ... PSU and Oregon have
byes. The Ducks play Thursday, Oct.
18 at Arizona State, 6 p.m. ...
Lewis & Clark (4-1, 1-1 Northwest
Conference) is at 24th-ranked
Willamette (5-0, 1-0) at 1:30 p.m.
The host Bearcats lead NCAA
Division III in passing yardage
(393.8 per game). Also in the
Northwest Conference, fourth-
Central
Catholic’s Xavier
Griggs hauls in a
two-point
conversion pass
from Kael
Kryger as the
Rams defeat
Gresham 37-0
last week and
improve to 2-0
in Mount Hood
Conference play.
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ranked Linfield (4-0, 1-0) plays
host to Whitworth (5-1, 1-1) at
1:30 p.m., and Pacific (2-3, 1-1)
welcomes Pacific Lutheran (2-2,
1-1) to Forest Grove for a 1 p.m.
tilt. Pacific is coming off a 62-21
win at Puget Sound (the most
points scored by the Boxers since
they shut out Albany College 62-0
in 1930). PLU stopped L&C 31-14
at Griswold Stadium. ... Division II
Western Oregon (3-3, 3-2 league)
is at home at 1 p.m. against Great
Northwest Athletic Conference foe
Dixie State (3-3, 3-2 after a win at
St. George, Utah over visiting
Central Washington 29-21). The
Wolves are on a three-game winning streak.
Winterhawks: A six games-innine nights swing through Canada
concludes with a 6 p.m. PT game
against Swift Current (3-1-3-1).
Portland then is idle until Oct. 20,
when Seattle (3-3-0-0) returns to
the Rose Garden, where the
Thunderbirds spoiled the Hawks’
season opener, winning 5-2 on
Sept. 21.
College soccer: The UP women
(17th in RPI) welcome BYU (fifth in
RPI, 11-1-1) to Merlo Field at 7
p.m. The Cougars’ lineup includes
junior transfer Cloee Colohan, a
midfielder-defender who was honorable mention all-WCC last season with Portland.
College cross-country: The
Warner Pacific Open, which starts
with Junior Olympics races at 10
a.m. at Lents Park, includes PSU
and UP, along with Concordia and
other Cascade Collegiate
Conference teams for a CCC preview meet. . ... The Lewis & Clark
Invitational, featuring the Pioneers’
22nd-ranked women, starts at 11
a.m. at McIver State Park.
College volleyball: The No.
5-ranked Oregon Ducks (14-1, 5-1
after last week’s five-set home loss
to No. 4 Stanford) take on secondranked Washington (14-0, 5-0) at
7 p.m. at Matthew Knight Arena.
The Ducks will be coming off a
match the night before at home
against Washington State (0-6
Pac-12). ... Concordia (7-4 conference) has a home league match
with Northwest Christian (5-6) at 7
p.m., while Corban (1-10) invades
Warner Pacific (6-5) at 7 p.m.
Oct. 14
College soccer: The PSU
women play their next-to-last regular-season conference game at 1
p.m. against Weber State (3-2-0)
at Hillsboro Stadium. The Vikings
entered the week with a two-point
lead on Sacramento State (3-1-2),
and those teams will meet Oct. 19
at 1 p.m. at Hillsboro Stadium. ...
The UP men complete their home
weekend against Saint Mary’s
(1-2-1) at 1 p.m. at Merlo Field.
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from Stockton, too, though he
was a freshman at Lincoln High
when Vaz was a senior at St.
Mary’s.
“Cody’s a great player,” Cooks
says. “It’s been a competition
between Sean and Cody
through camp. I’m really confident with both guys. Cody’s going to step up, and we’re going
to keep on shooting.”
Vaz says he feels comfortable
playing with the OSU starters.
“It’s going to be a little different taking more reps with those
Oct. 16
Prep soccer: Wilson is at
Cleveland in a key PIL 5A boys
game. Also in the league, Franklin’s
boys visit Madison at 4:15 p.m.
The PIL 5A girls slate has
Cleveland at Wilson, 7 p.m., and
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Blazers: The Kings are still in
Sacramento, and that’s where the
Blazers will play at 7 p.m. Former
UO point guard Aaron Brooks has
made the Kings his third NBA stop
and is battling Isaiah Thomas and
Jimmer Fredette for playing time.
Ex-Blazer forward Travis Outlaw
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centage (26.7) and seventh in
opponents’ first downs (14.2).
Langsdorf knows establishing
the run will be a key Saturday.
“We have to protect the quarterback,” he says. “We have to
get the ball out of his hands
quick. And we have to be able to
run the ball. It’s the normal cliche stuff, but it’s real. When
we’re a balanced team, we’re
very good. When we’re one-dimensional, it’s hard.
“You have to be able to sustain some drives against this
team and continue to try to
run. It’s not always going to be
easy. If we can run early and
get two to three yards and keep
going, then those things turn
into five and six yards in the
fourth quarter, and that’s how
you win.”
If it happens, it will mean a
sweet first start for Vaz.
“I’ve been waiting for this
chance,” he says. “So here it is,
and I have to make the most of
it.”
guys, but we’ll get the chemistry down,” he says. “I don’t
think that will be a problem.”
Langsdorf says the Beavers
won’t have to alter their plan
with Vaz at quarterback.
“We really don’t,” the O-coordinator says. “There’s always
that consideration with the No.
2 guy, where you might have to
pare down some things. That
won’t happen with Cody.
“He’s a junior, he’s been here
forever, he’s had a ton of work
and he had a wonderful (training) camp even a year ago. He
hasn’t played in games, but he
has played a ton of football (at
practice) for us. We’ll run the
same exact package that we had
for Sean. Nothing will change.”
Oregon State’s offense was
going to be in a tough game Saturday even with Mannion at
quarterback. Brigham Young
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red-zone defense, is third in
scoring defense (8.8 points),
fifth in total defense (229.3
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n From page 10
as a blocker and offensively,”
Seemann says.
And, as a distributor, 5-10 junior Garyn Schlatter from Canby leads the way with 11 assists
per set, third in the Big Sky. The
Vikings have “clarified her role
this year,” Seemann says, using
her solely as a setter after she
mixed in some hitting duties
with her setting last season.
PSU has 12 more regular-season matches, including Friday at
Idaho State and Saturday at Weber State. And then it will all
come down to — as it always
does — the conference tournament, to be hosted by the regular-season champion Nov. 23-24.
The Big Sky tourney gets an automatic berth to the NCAA tournament, and odds are good it
will be the league’s only spot in
the national playoffs.
“It’s a tough region, with six
or seven Pac-12 teams probably
getting in and the West Coast
Conference having some good
teams, too,” Seemann says. “The
Big Sky as a whole is so much
better this year than it has been,
but you might still be talking
about just one team making it.”
Seemann says he’d like to see
the conference send its regularseason winner to the NCAA
tourney — “and I’ve been on
both sides of it.”
The other thing he’d love to
see is more fans in the seats at
Stott Center matches. Average
home attendance this season:
416.
“We’re consistently disappointed with the turnout,” he
says. “We have a winning product, an exciting, dynamic
game.”
On Campus
n In soccer, the University of
Portland men are tied for first in
the West Coast Conference and
the PSU women are leading the
Big Sky.
The WCC regular-season
men’s champion gets what could
be the conference’s only spot in
the 48-team NCAA tournament.
Portland is No. 49 in the RPI
rankings. Saint Mary’s, 19th, is
the only WCC team rated higher
than UP.
In the Big Sky, the regularseason champion plays host to a
four-team tournament Nov. 1-4,
the winner of which gets into the
NCAA tourney. Any other Big
Sky team would have to make
the 64-team NCAA field via the
RPI, something that is highly unlikely.
n In Monmouth, coach Steve
Ancheta (former Central Catholic High coach) has the Wolves’
women’s soccer team at 4-3-1 in
the Great Northwest Athletic
Conference after their 1-0 weekend upset on the road of Montana State Billings. Ex-Wilson
High standout Lindsay Bauman, a senior midfielder, scored
in the 109th minute. She leads
the Wolves with 10 points.
n Another week, another Andre Broadous mention. The Cal
Poly senior QB from Grant High
threw a career-high three TD
passes in a 45-23 victory over
Weber State last week. With a
win Saturday at home over
Northern Colorado, 14th-ranked
Cal Poly would take a 6-0 record
into its Oct. 20 home tilt with
Portland State.
Elsewhere
n Trail Blazers fans could
have special interest in one of
the opposing players when Port-
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Jaime Velasco, University of
Portland soccer player from
Westview High, has two goals and
four assists in four league
matches for the Pilots, who are
tied for first place in the West
Coast Conference.
land and the New York Knicks
meet Thursday, March 14 at the
Rose Garden and Tuesday, Jan. 1
at Madison Square Garden. ExBlazer Rasheed Wallace is
launching an NBA comeback
with the Knicks.
n After a foot injury to Cedric
Benson, backup Green Bay running back Alex Green, from
Benson High, got a chance to
contribute Sunday against Indianapolis. Green had 55 yards on
nine carries, including a 41-yard
burst that set up a TD, giving
Green Bay a 27-22 lead that it
couldn’t hold in the 30-27 loss.
Green’s run was the longest by a
Packer since Dec. 11, 2011.
With Benson expected to miss
at least eight weeks, Green
should be in the rotation, start-
ing Sunday night at 5-0 Houston.
n The American Hockey
League and East Coast Hockey
League start their season on Friday with several NHL players
joining AHL regulars due to the
big league’s labor strife.
The list of AHL players includes former Winterhawks
Nino Niederreiter (Bridgeport
Sound Tigers), Ryan Johansen
and Oliver Gabriel (Springfield
Falcons), Riley Boychuk (Rochester Americans), Brett Ponich
(Peoria Rivermen), Luke Walker (Lake Erie Monsters), Spencer Bennett (Portland Pirates),
Frazer McLaren (Worcester
Sharks), Marcel Noebels (Adirondack Phantoms) and Colton
Sceviour (Texas Stars).
The ECHL has Brandon Dubinsky (Alaska Aces) and Taylor
Aronson (Cincinnati Cyclones).
n Mike Pierce of Portland
knocked out Aaron Simpson in
their UFC undercard bout last
week in Minneapolis. Pierce
raised his MMA record to 15-5,
after surviving a first-round flurry by Simpson.
Commentary
n Looks like the country’s soccer powers all are seriously
brainstorming a new women’s
professional league that would
begin play in 2013 and help support the U.S. national program.
It’s time for Portland to have a
team in any new league. It would
be an embarrassent for the city
not to be represented and for the
likes of Portland’s Megan Rapinoe and others to be playing for
a team in Seattle.
n As for the Timbers and
their frequent criticism of MLS
referees ... if the refs just would
have given Portland four penalty
kicks Sunday night at Seattle,
Merritt Paulson’s team probably would have done all right.
Happy birthday
Oct. 11, 1938 — Darrall Imhoff
(age 74)
Oct. 13, 1978 — Jermaine
O’Neal (age 34)
Oct. 14, 1986 — Wesley Matthews (age 26)
Oct. 15, 1990 — Kalif Alhassan
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MIkE RILEY
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Oct. 16, 1941 — Mel Counts
(age 71)
Oct. 17, 1942 — Steve Jones
(age 70)
This day in Oregon
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Oct. 16, 1970 — The Blazers
win their first NBA game. They
beat Cleveland 115-112 before
4,273 at Memorial Coliseum.
Oct. 18, 1976 — The Blazers
trade Moses Malone to the Buffalo Braves for cash and a 1978
first-round draft pick (which
eventually brought them
Mychal Thompson).
Oct. 17, 1987 — Blazers center
Sam Bowie fractures his right
tibia in an exhibition game. Bowie had broken his leg in the same
area the year before. It is his fifth
leg injury in seven years. Second-year center Kevin Duckworth moves up in the rotation.
Oct. 18, 1995 — The Blazers
play in the Rose Garden for the
first time. They lose a preseason
game to Minnesota 114-110 before a capacity crowd of 21,398.
Oct. 14, 2010 — Merritt Paulson sells the Portland Beavers.
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The defense can’t key on anybody.”
n Barner has 727 yards rushing (6.3 per carry) and nine
touchdowns through six games.
Thomas has touchdowns in the
past two games, but he has
been held somewhat in check in
the Pac-12 outings.
Much of UO offense’s success
depends on the line, which suffered another injury (Ryan
Clanton) versus UW. Carson
York has been lost for the season, and others have been
banged up.
Kelly likes the play of his offensive line, though. The Ducks
are averaging 302.3 rushing
yards, 541.7 yards total offense
and 52.3 points.
“You don’t consistently run
for 300 yards a game if you’re
not playing well up front,” he
says. “It’s a group that hasn’t
gotten enough credit.”
n Bralon Addison caught a
55-yard TD pass against Arizona. Barner slipped out of the
backfield for a 30-yard TD reception against WSU. Then,
Mariota threw four TD passes
against Washington — 21 yards
to Keanon Lowe, 10 and 13 yards
to Lyerla and 34 yards to Huff.
The Ducks have started stretching the field, especially with
teams gunning to stop the run.
No surprise to the Ducks.
“As an offense, we can always
do that. (Versus UW) the opportunity presented itself,” Mariota
says. “We capitalized. The receivers have been patient, trying to get open. They’ve been
working hard. I’m glad I was
able to get the ball to them.”
Mariota says he has focused
on his progressions, setting his
feet and getting the ball out to
receivers — “I have to trust
them and trust my ability to get
them the ball.”
Barner smiles, confidently,
when saying that the Ducks always have had the downfield
passing game. They just don’t
show it, unless needed to take
heat off the run game.
“Our playbook is full of
things that you guys never see,”
he says. “We go through a lot of
stuff in (closed) practice that we
never run in games.”
It feeds the perception that
Kelly and the Ducks have more
offense to display against upcoming tougher opponents.
“I’m not a coach, but if I was,
you run what you need to run,”
Barner says. “If you don’t have
to run anything you don’t want
anybody else to see, why would
you run it?”
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Blazers: Batum knows ‘I have to step up’
from the line. He set a franchise record with nine 3-pointers en route to a career-high 33
points in a game against Denver and registered back-toback double-doubles in April.
But he was inconsistent,
sometimes hardly leaving his
imprint on the game or on the
stat sheet. Which leads to another goal for this season.
“I know that’s my biggest
weakness,” he says. “Since I
was playing in France when I
was 14 or 15, my coach told me
every time, ‘Consistency, consistency.’
“In the NBA, that’s huge. You
play so many games. You don’t
play once a week. You have to
be there every night. It’s going
to be even bigger for me this
year, I know that.”
For Batum to contribute, say,
18 points and six rebounds and
shoot with precision on most
nights would be a major boost
to the Blazers.
“Coaches love when they
know what they’re going to get
from night to night,” he says.
“The great ones give you a certain level every night that you
can count on. That’s going to be
part of his growth.”
Can Batum be a great one?
“He has the physical skills to
become a great player,” Stotts
says. “He’s young and has a
long career ahead of him. To
say at this stage that he
couldn’t be would be a disservice.”
Batum expects to be the No. 2
option on offense for Portland
this season behind All-Star
power forward LaMarcus Aldridge. It’s a role he became
used to this summer with the
French Olympic team, playing
with San Antonio point guard
Tony Parker.
“I played with a star, a go-to
guy in Tony, like LaMarcus
here in Portland,” Batum says.
“I’m the No. 2 option, but when
“Of course it has changed,”
T.P. went down (to injury), I he says. “Now I’m one of the
was the guy.
vets — still young, but one of
“It will be much
the vets on this
the same with the
team. I have to
Blazers. It was a
give even more
good warm-up for
than before. Last
me. I know I have
year was different,
to step up.”
but I’m a cornerBatum
has
stone of this frangrown tired of bechise now. I have
ing asked if he
to be there.
feels pressure try“It’s a challenge.
ing to live up to
In this league, it’s
the high-priced
a major chalrestricted freelenge.”
agent deal he
Batum says he
signed in July
signed an offer
with new Portsheet with Minneland general mansota knowing he
ager Neil Olshey.
would be in good
“Doesn’t matposition no matter
ter what the con— Nicolas Batum what happened.
tract is,” he says.
“I chose Minne“It’s all the same.
sota because I
You still have to play. What’s knew (Portland) could match,”
the difference?”
he says. “I knew those two
Batum concedes his role will teams were going to be the best
be more significant, though.
options for me. I wouldn’t have
“People don’t
expect us to
make the
playoffs. We
have five rookies
and the
youngest team
in the league.
But we have
heart. We’re
going to
compete.”
PrepWatch
Grant’s Abby
Matsushima
digs as the
Generals beat
Lincoln 3-2 in a
PIL volleyball
match.
Football
Central Catholic is No. 2 in the
Oregon School Activities
Association computer rankings,
behind Tigard. Aloha is third, and
Jesuit is fourth. Jesuit plays Friday
at No. 8 Southridge, then plays
host to Aloha on Oct. 19. ... In 5A,
PIL leader Wilson (12th) and
Roosevelt (10th and coming off a
key 34-20 home win over
Madison) are the only teams in
their league likely to rank high
enough to make the 24-team
state playoffs. ... Portland Christian
(6-0) is No. 2 in Class 2A.
Boys soccer
Grant (4-1-2 after a 1-1 tie with
Lincoln on Tuesday) leads No. 2
Jesuit (8-1) in the OSAA rankings.
Central Catholic (5-0-3) was seventh going into Wednesday’s games,
and Lincoln (6-0-2) was eighth. ...
In the 3A-2A-1A ranks, Riverdale
(first), Portland Christian (third),
Catlin Gabel (fourth) and Oregon
Episcopal School (seventh) were
top-10 teams (through Tuesday)
from the Metro area.
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5A Cleveland won at Lincoln 2-0
last week. ... In 3A-2A-1A, Oregon
Episcopal, Valley Catholic and Catlin
Gabel were ranked 1-2-3 (through
Tuesday) by the OSAA, with some
key league rematches remaining
against one another.
Volleyball
Cleveland defeated visiting
Wilson 3-0 Tuesday to even their
two-game season series. The two
teams are likely to tie for the PIL 5A
championship. Cleveland is ranked
ninth and Wilson 21st by the OSAA.
... 6A Grant has a 6-8 record and
won at home 3-2 over Lincoln last
week to sweep their two-game
series. The Cardinals are 6-10. ...
2A Portland Christian is 9-0 in the
Northwest League and No. 11 in
the OSAA rankings. The Royals have
it. I knew either way, I was going to be happy.”
With Portland thin in the
backcourt, Batum is ticketed
for some duty at shooting
guard, the position he played
for France this summer alongside Parker.
“I’m not saying I’m used to
playing the 2, but I’m OK with
it,” he says. “I know I can defend the 1 through the 4.”
Batum is hoping the Blazers
can surprise the pundits this
season.
“People don’t expect us to
make the playoffs,” he says. “I
can understand that. We have
five rookies and the youngest
team in the league.
“But we have heart. We’re
going to compete. We’ll try to
win every game, and we’ll see
what happens. We’ll give everything on the court. We’ll
compete and have no regrets.”
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signed with anybody else.
“And I wanted to challenge
the Blazers, to see if they really
like me or not.”
Those in the Minnesota organization, including general
manager David Kahn and
coach Rick Adelman, contend
Batum would have preferred
the Blazers not match the offer. Batum insists that’s not the
case, despite public comments
he made during the courting
process to the contrary.
“It’s not that I wanted to
choose Minnesota,” he says.
“For me, it was a good situation
— good team, great coach. Of
course I liked Minnesota. But
after I talked to Neil before (the
Blazers) matched, I liked the
situation in Portland — young
team, new coach, a re-start to
this franchise. And this franchise has some history.
“The good thing about restricted free agency is, I knew
I was going to like either team.
That’s the way I thought about
three league matches to go, including one Tuesday at second-place
Knappa (6-2). ... Portland Lutheran
(11-3) is sixth in 1A.
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Air of success
surrounds young
Oregon squad
KerryEggers
on sports
Players say Ducks have the right
attitude, balance and hunger
By JASON VONDERSMITH
The Tribune
EUGENE — “In The Air
Tonight” by Phil Collins
blared over the Autzen Stadium sound system before Oregon played Washington last
week. How appropriate.
There was something in the
air, as Oregon played its most
complete game, winning 52-21
to move to 6-0 (3-0 in Pac-12)
and solidify its No. 2 ranking
behind Alabama.
It’s still in the
air, and Kenjon
Barner says he
can feel it.
Something special is brewing.
“It’s been a
great attitude
throughout the
season,” the seMARIOTA nior running
back says. “But
it’s constantly progressing into
the attitude that we need to
have to be a championship
team.
“I felt we’ve had a special
group my entire time here. But
with this team, the attitude is
different. The attitude and the
drive. We have a hungry team.”
Tougher games lie ahead,
with upstart Arizona State at
Tempe, Ariz., at 6 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 18, and road tilts at
USC (Nov. 3), Cal (Nov. 10) and
Oregon State (Nov. 24), sandwiching a Nov. 17 home date
with Stanford. The only gimme
will be Colorado at Autzen
(Oct. 27).
But the way the Ducks
turned up their preparation, execution and hard-fast-finish
play against Washington ...
they’re going to be tough to
beat. The season might turn
out the way everybody anticipated: The Pac-12 comes down
to two USC-Oregon games, one
for the Pac-12 title Nov. 30 (although the Sun Devils, Bears,
Beavers and Cardinal will have
something to say about it).
n The young Oregon offense
starts with redshirt freshman
quarterback Marcus Mariota,
who has suffered through some
growing pains — decision-making — but has been proving
himself to be the real deal, completing 67.9 percent of his passes and averaging 216.8 yards
per game, with 15 TD passes
and five interceptions. Fleet
afoot, he’s averaging 5.1 yards
per carry on 43 attempts.
His intangibles — learning
ability, work ethic — impress
coach Chip Kelly. Mariota rarely makes the same mistake
twice, Kelly often says of his
6-4, 210-pounder from Hawaii.
And, remember, Mariota has
been dealing with youth on the
offensive line and at receiver
and tight end, and injuries on
the O-line and to junior receiver Josh Huff.
“It’s fun to watch him grow
up in front of your eyes,” Kelly
says, of the QB.
Mariota throws a nice ball
and displays athleticism on the
run. “His pocket presence —
it’s amazing to me how he gets
out of tight situations that nine
out of 10 quarterbacks aren’t
getting out of,” Barner says.
Huff returned from a knee
injury to make one catch
against Washington State, and
then had a pretty one-on-one
move and stiff arm against a
Washington defensive back at
the end of a receiving touchdown.
Counting on Huff and tight
end Colt Lyerla, as well as stalwarts Barner and De’Anthony
Thomas, to make plays can only make Mariota’s job easier. It
makes the UO offense whole.
Huff says he’s close to 100
percent after missing 2 1/2
games with a knee injury.
“He can take a 5-yard out
route and turn it into a 60-yard
touchdown,” Mariota says.
“That’s very pivotal for an offense like ours. Now you’ve got
to respect his ability on the outside and can’t load the box.
That opens up running lanes
for De’Anthony and Kenjon.
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SteveBrandon
scoresheet
gram is to go for it.”
The proof isn’t so much in the
stats on aces and errors, he says,
as it is in opponents’ hitting percentage. The Viks, who are hitting .209 (fifth in the Big Sky),
are allowing their opponents
.181 hitting (tied for third).
PSU has six primary servers,
including 5-7 sophomore Kasimira Clark (27 aces), 5-8 junior
Kaeli Patton (19) and 5-9 senior
Dominika Kristinikova (10),
who grew up in Slovakia.
Senior Megan Ellis, one of
the team’s top hitters, has 15 aces. The 6-0 Ellis (3.33 kills per
set) has extra help up front this
season from UO transfer Jaklyn
Wheeler, a 6-0 junior (4.23 kills
per set).
“Jakyln is very, very active,
and can bring it from anywhere,” Seemann says. “Megan
is the same way and is very experienced and a steady Eddy.
Both of them handle the ball
well, pass well and defend. Having Jaklyn come here pushed
Megan from day one, but they
complement each other well.”
Third in points for the Viks is
Leigh-Ann Haataja, a 6-1 sophomore. “She’s been outstanding
and has come a long way, both
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CORVALLIS —
ith its franchise
player out, Oregon State’s offense will re-set
for Saturday’s game at Brigham
Young with a little-used backup
at quarterback.
Sean Mannion has undergone surgery to repair meniscus damage in his left knee,
leaving the offensive controls to
junior Cody Vaz.
The 6-foot, 200-pound Vaz
hasn’t started a game since his
senior year at St. Mary’s High
in Stockton, Calif., in 2008. He
saw limited duty in five games
as redshirt freshman at Oregon
State in 2010 but didn’t play at
all as the third-string QB behind Mannion
and Ryan Katz
a year ago.
The timing
couldn’t be
much worse
for the Beavers, ranked
10th nationally
and in position
VAZ
to start a season 5-0 for the
first time since 1939. Mannion,
the Pac-12 offensive player of
the week two weeks ago
against Arizona and ranked
sixth nationally in passing
yardage per game, was the unequivocal leader of the OSU offense and, even as a sophomore, is one of the best signalcallers in the
Pac-12.
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Kerry Eggers
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Vaz, who ev- the week at portland
eryone in the tribune.com
Beavers’
camp believe
is up to the challenge.
“It’s really sad, but it’s football,” offensive coordinator
Danny Langsdorf says. “Just
like at any other position, we
have to move on. That train is
still rolling.
“It’s unfortunate for Sean,
but we have a ton of confidence
in Cody. We’ve talked up Cody
for a long time now, and now is
his chance. He knows it. It’s not
doom and gloom around here.”
Vaz smiled often and seemed
loose as he met with media following his first practice as the
Oregon State starter on Monday.
“That’s the type of person I
am,” Vaz said. “I’m sure there
will be some butterflies on Saturday, but as a quarterback you
have to stay calm and let your
teammates know everything’s
going to be all right.
“I’m not going to be too overwhelmed with the whole situation. I’ll stay calm, be positive
and try to go in there and get a
win.”
Vaz threw for 3,908 yards and
32 touchdowns as a senior at St.
Mary’s, completing 31 of 46
passes for a state bowl game record 336 yards and four TDs in
the CIF D-II state championship
game. He was one of 10 finalists
for CalHiSports.com’s Mr. Football state player of the year.
Langsdorf and head coach
Mike Riley have given Vaz almost as many snaps as Mannion since spring practice, and
Vaz has worked in with the
starting group often. He has a
gun for an arm and knows the
OSU offense as well as Mannion, if not better.
“We’ve been going with Cody
for a long time,” senior wide receiver Markus Wheaton says.
“He came in (to Oregon State)
when I came in. We’ve had a lot
of reps together. I’m real confident in his abilities. He has always looked good at practice. I
don’t think we’ll miss a step.”
Oregon State’s other big-play
receiver, Brandin Cooks, hails
W
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An open-court dunk was part of Nicolas Batum’s best NBA season, as he averaged 13.9 points
per game in 2011-12. But new Trail Blazers coach Terry Stotts wants the fifth-year small forward-shooting guard to improve in a variety of ways and situations.
NUMBERS GAME:
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Serving up a winner
at Portland State
ortland State volleyball
is serving up something
good. The team is 8-0 in
the Big Sky Conference
for the first time and is taking
aim at a third trip to the NCAA
tournament in five years.
The Vikings are doing it this
season with a blend of talent,
good offense and defense, and
improved, more aggressive serving.
Fifth-year coach Michael Seemann says a focus on “tough
serving” has helped set the table
for the Vikings’ run, which included 3-0 home sweeps last
weekend of perennial Big Sky
contender Northern Colorado
and North Dakota.
“A lot of people talk about
serving tough
and what that
means,” Seemann says, “but
the challenge is
how to build
serving tough
into your practice and create
environments
KRISTINIKOVA where the outcome of the
serve has an impact on points.
“This is the first time in my
career in Division I that the kids
are totally locked in and understand the value of the serve. It’s
the one thing you have complete
control over in our sport.”
The Vikings don’t agonize
over service errors as much as
they reward aces or good serves
that help to take an opponent
out of its offensive system.
“We understand that if we’re
not missing some serves periodically, we’re not serving tough
enough,” Seemann says. “The
culture we’ve built in this pro-
Business
as usual
for 4-0
Beavers?
50, 40, 90
n $46-million forward Batum also shoots
for more consistency as a Blazers veteran
N
icolas Batum has some numbers in mind for the 2012-13 season — 50, 40 and 90.
As in shooting 50 percent
from the field, 40 percent from 3-point
range and 90 percent from the free-throw
line.
“If I get those three, or get close to it,
my other numbers should be in good
shape, too,” Batum says.
Terry Stotts has some different goals in
mind for the Trail Blazers’ starting small
forward, who signed a four-year, $46.1-million free-agent contract in the offseason.
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“I just want him to
improve,” says the
first-year Portland
coach. “I’m glad he
came back. I’m glad he
has a good contract. But he’s 23, and he
needs to continue to improve. There are a
lot of things he does well, but ...”
Stotts then enumerates several areas in
which the 6-9, 210-pound native of France
can get better as he enters his fifth NBA
season.
“Offensively, being a facilitator, a playmaker, whether in pick-and-rolls or postups,” Stotts says. “Being a consistent wing
runner. Defensively, because he is playing
both (small forward) and (shooting
guard), he’ll be in position to have a challenge every night. Those are tough positions to play in the NBA. And in general,
having more of a leadership role.
“Sometimes after a player signs a big
contract, there are expectations that he is
going to be a different player from day
one. To me, it’s more important he just
Kerry
eggers
Nicolas Batum says being France’s No. 2
option behind guard Tony Parker in the
London Olympics was a “good warm-up” for
the No. 2 role he hopes to assume behind
Portland’s LaMarcus Aldridge this season.
continue to grow as a player.”
Batum had his best NBA season statistically a year ago, averaging career highs in
points (13.9 per game), rebounds (4.6) and
steals (0.97) and leading the team in
blocked shots (1.02). Batum shot .451 from
the field, .391 from 3-point range and .836
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Bond may
not bring
top green
schools
Activist wants PPS
to shoot higher on
building retrofits
By JENNIFER ANDERSON
Pamplin Media Group
Ten years ago, Shane
Endicott took his wife and
two young sons to Reggio
Emilia, Italy, to see what
great schools look like.
That public education system — known as one of the
best in the world — was rebuilt by residents from
scratch, brick by brick, after
World War II, when they decided to make children and
their education their most important priority.
“They have
an economy
built on their
intellectual
capital,” says
Endicott, a
North Portland resident
— Shane and executive
Endicott, director of the
ReBuilding Center ReBuilding
executive director Center on
North Mississippi Street.
“Portland’s soil is 10 times
richer than Reggio Emilia is
— we could blow them out of
the water.”
In fact, Endicott served on
Portland Public Schools’ longrange facilities advisory committee to try to come up with a
vision to do just that. The committee laid the ground work
for the $482 million construction bond measure voters will
consider Nov. 6.
Endicott is in full support of
the bond. He just thinks the
capital plan could fall short of
its sustainability potential,
and hopes the community will
step up to remedy that.
“Portland wants to be the
leader in sustainability,” he
says, but in the bond-funded
plans to rebuild four schools,
“we’re lowering the bar.” Endicott is referring to the fact that
PPS may seek LEED Silver
certification or equivalent
when it rebuilds Roosevelt,
Grant and Franklin high
schools and Faubion K-8, if the
bond is approved.
LEED Silver is one step below LEED Gold, the certification the district reached when
it built North Portland’s Rosa
Parks School in 2006.
Some Portland-area school
districts have set their sights
higher. Vernonia’s new K-12
school building is set to receive LEED Platinum, the
highest ranking. The new Sandy High School is seeking
LEED Gold.
Endicott says Portland must
aim higher. “Why take something out there and ask Portlanders — who embody this
ethos around sustainability —
and then take our public
schools to the lowest threshold?”
Portland is
“lowering
the bar”
on green
school
retrofits.
Plans could change
Jim Owens, PPS’ director of
capital operations, says the
jury’s still out on that part of
the bond development.
The long-range facilities advisory group had talked about
a silver standard or equivalent, he says, but “we could
still end up at a higher level,
like gold.”
Owens points out that a new
citizen group — comprised of
school community members,
parents, teachers and others,
will begin meeting in Novem-
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Phil Gilder, left, and Lorren Livingston of Ocean Power Technologies untangle an o-ring at the first Power Buoy made by Oregon Iron Works for deployment off the Oregon Coast.
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■ State an early leader in deploying, testing wave energy
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t isn’t the wild, wild west on
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fledgling wave energy industry.
In the wake of increased solar
and wind energy production, proponents of drawing electricity from
the power of waves say their way
will eventually be more attractive.
After all, waves roll 365/24/7.
The key word: eventually.
“Are we going to do commercial
(business) in 20 years? 10? 15? 30?
Heck, I don’t know,” says Jason
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Photos by Jonathan House
Busch, executive director of the Oregon Wave Energy Trust, the industry’s state-financed, nonprofit
advocacy group. “Give us five years
and see where we are.”
Led by an Oregon State University effort, which recently got a
boost with a $4 million federal
grant, testing for the right way to
create wave energy continues off
the Oregon Coast. That’s also
where New Jersey-based Ocean
Power Technologies has received
the first license from the Federal
Energy Regulatory Commission to
operate a wave power station in the
United States. The 144-foot buoy,
set to be installed vertically, looks
something like a baby’s rattler or
the aluminum space modulator of
Marvin the Martian/Bugs Bunny
cartoon fame, with 30 feet showing
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Waves: OSU mobile lab tests new devices
■ From page 1
that thrusts to create electricity. The tethered buoy would
transmit electricity through a
above water.
seabed cable.
The company hoped to install
“We are still working on the
it off the coast of Reedsport this interconnection” to the grid,
month, weather permitting. It Lennon adds.
won’t be hooked up to the grid
The buoy has been under
immediately or generate power construction at Oregon Iron
for utilities, but Ocean Power Works in Milwaukie and Vanhopes that occurs
couver, Wash., and
in the near future,
at Vigor Marine on
says Greg LenPortland’s Swan Isnon, director of
land. Funding
business developcame from the U.S.
ment.
Department of EnThe average
ergy and PNGC
— Sean Moran, OSU’s Power, a Portlandoutput will be 150
marine
research
center
kilowatts, going
based electricity
to 1.5 megawatts
generation and
with the installation of nine ad- transmission cooperative
ditional buoys. That translates owned by several regional utilito 4,100 megawatt hours — ties.
enough for 900 homes. We’re
Busch says “all eyes” will be
not talking high volume, yet.
on the publicly traded Ocean
“Once it’s deployed it’ll help Power Technologies’ venture
validate the technology,” Len- off the Oregon Coast, including
non says, referring specifically energy interests, fishers and
to rack-and-pinion technology. environmentalists.
Ocean Power has shifted from
hydraulics used on devices off Oregon companies also players
Corvallis-based Columbia
the shores of Scotland to its
new direct-drive system, which Power Technologies trails
would prevent spillage of hy- Ocean Power Technologies in
developing its full-scale, floatdraulic liquids into the water.
Essentially the computer- ing buoy device for licensing.
equipped buoy has extended But it has already tested a halfwave riders that gauge waves scale device in Puget Sound.
“They’re moving along quickand adjusts an internal shaft
rents, wind speeds, extremes of
wave height and other data.
In addition, Newport and
Reedsport have been chosen as
possible locations of the Pacific
Marine Energy Center, a
planned $8 million grid-connected wave energy testing facility.
There are other U.S. testing
sites, particularly in Hawaii
connected to the military, off
the California coast and East
Coast. The U.S. Department of
Energy is “focused on what
we’re doing here,” Moran says.
“I think we’re
20 years behind
wind.”
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Oregon State University’s Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center deploys its new wave energy
testing platform, the Ocean Sentinel, two miles offshore from Yaquina Head in August.
ly,” Busch says.
M3 Wave, a Salem company,
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Various constituencies gathered in Portland recently for
the Oregon Wave Energy Trust
conference.
“We got in front of this opportunity as a state about six
years ago, when we recognized
there would be an ocean energy
industry,” says Busch, a renewable energy lawyer. “It was a
matter of grabbing hold of it
and making it ours.”
Oregon is well-positioned to
be a player in the fledging industry, he says, with worldclass waves, a grid infrastructure up and down the coast and
a local research presence in the
Northwest National Marine Renewable Energy Center at Oregon State University.
The role of his organization,
Oregon Wave Energy Trust or
OWET, is to provide support for
companies to get their devices
into the water and develop their
technology.
“I’ve convinced myself that
ocean energy can be done and
done well,” Busch says.
“OWET’s mission is for responsible development of ocean energy.”
OSU Research
OSU, a national leader in
oceanography studies, deployed
its new $1.5 million Ocean Sentinel, a testing device for wave
energy, in August off Yaquina
Head on the Oregon Coast.
The goal is to provide a standardized, accurate system to
compare various wave energy
technologies, says Sean Moran,
ocean test facilities manager for
OSU’s marine research center.
“We’re looking to answer
some of the core questions for
this industry, from an unbiased
perspective,” Moran says.
“We’re not concerned with a
particular device. We’re testing
all sorts, and what are the impacts.”
Different devices may work
with different waves.
Among other research, the
Ocean Sentinel is helping test a
device belonging to Wave Energy Technology-New Zealand,
or WET-NZ. That study will
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wave energy technology at
depths of 50 to 100 feet below
surface on the ocean floor, and
wants to position itself for future scale-up funding from the
U.S. Department of Energy and
private investors. Its device
would tap the variation in water
pressure from waves to inflate
and deflate airbags that turn a
turbine.
Moran believes that a 20-year
timeline is reasonable to figure
out how wave energy can be developed and utilized efficiently
— even with private companies
like Ocean Power Technologies
wanting to give it a try now.
“I think we’re 20 years behind wind,” Moran says. Generating electricity from waves has
to make financial sense, given
the low cost of natural gas, even
with the push toward renewable energy in place of burning
fossil fuels.
But there are many advantages of ocean energy.
“If we can do it cleanly, it’s
clean and renewable,” he says.
“A lot of sustainability elements
lead me to say that this is right
to pursue.”
The idea of wave energy has
been around for decades, but
ocean waters, including off Oregon’s coast, had not been
mapped for appropriate places
to do such things. Mapping has
been taking place for about
three years, Busch says, for the
development of the Territorial
Sea Plan. Soon, that will be
presented to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission
and National Oceanographic
and Atmospheric Administration.
So is harnessing renewable
energy from the ocean the, er,
wave of the future?
“We’ll see,” Busch says. “We
know states have renewable
portfolio standards. They want
renewables to come on line.
Can it compete with solar? Yeah. With wind? Not yet. But
then again (wind) couldn’t compete 10 to 15 years, and it was
on par with natural gas until
natural gas plummeted in
price.”
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School nabs state’s
first Green Flag
Students, mentor
transform Rieke’s
environmental ethic
By DREW DAKESSIAN
Pamplin Media Group
Rieke Elementary School
in Southwest Portland has
long prided itself for being a
green school.
Now it’s got the national cred
to prove it.
On Sept. 7, Rieke became Oregon’s first school to receive a
coveted Green Flag Award, the
highest honor of the National
Wildlife Federation’s EcoSchools USA Program.
“The commitment of the
school, the teachers and the
staff, the principal ... there’s dedication here that is unique,” said
Courtney Sullivan of the National Wildlife Federation, presenting the Green Flag at a school
assembly to students in Rieke’s
EcoThink Club.
Credit goes to the club members and to Jamie Repasky, a
mother of two Rieke students
who volunteers as the EcoThink
coordinator.
One project was to gather all
the food waste generated in one
day. It turned out to be what Repasky called “kindergartensized” — 40 pounds’ worth.
“The kids were just livid
about it,” Repasky says. “They
were just like, there is an apple
with one bite; how can you do
this?”
The exercise taught the students to take only the food they
plan to eat during lunch. Eventually, they convinced the district
to outfit the cafeteria with napkin dispensers and optional
forks and spoons, instead of distributing individual packets featuring a spork, napkin and straw
to each student.
While studying biodiversity,
Rieke students planted a different tree for every class at the
school.
Students showed a passion
and curiosity that many adults
could use, Repasky says. “In
their minds, you can do anything.”
Much like the youngsters in
the EcoThink Club, Repasky
was inspired by an older mentor,
Jeanne Roy, who leads the Agent
of Change program designed to
encourage participants like Repasky to become environmental
leaders.
“Jamie Repasky has been a
dynamo in transforming the operations and eco-awareness of
Mary Rieke School,” Roy says.
A hallmark of the Eco-Schools
USA program is its 11 pathways
to sustainability: energy, water,
climate change, global dimensions, transportation, school
grounds, consumption and
waste, healthy living, healthy
schools, biodiversity and
food. Rieke concentrated on energy, biodiversity and consumption and waste.
To earn the coveted Green
Flag, a school must:
n establish an Eco-Action
Team
n conduct an environmental
audit
n develop an Eco-Action Plan
based on audit results
n link the Eco-Schools program into the school’s curriculum and engage other students
n involve the community
n create an Eco-Code stating
the school’s environmental values
n provide school staff with
professional development on
best practices in environmental
education
n provide cost-benefit analysis for each project
Sullivan says younger kids often can connect with environmental improvements on a deeper level.
“They’re still fascinated by
bugs and by dirt,” she says.
“That means that their heart is
open to just have a sense of wonder and exploration ... or to
care.”
It’s getting easier for Oregon
schools to go green now, since
Eco-Schools USA partnered
with Oregon Green Schools, a
nonprofit that helps schools
with waste reduction and resource efficiency programs.
“Now, when a school signs up
to be with either of our programs, they’ll be enrolling in
both programs,” Sullivan says.
Though Portland Public
Schools seems perpetually
strapped for money, going green
can help.
“Recycling, composting, just
starting to teach the students
about reducing their waste, all
these can be really easy steps
and they cost no money to start,
but they instantly save the
school money,” Sullivan says.
There’s also long-term payoffs.
“Working with students is the
best way to create lifelong environmental stewards.”
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Schools: LEED Gold no guarantee
for improving student achievement
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ber to develop the “educational
specifications” for each of the
four schools to be rebuilt. If the
bond doesn’t pass, those “ed
specs” will be saved for future
use.
The group will spend six
months on the work, discussing
the physical characteristics of
the buildings as well as options
for LEED certification.
Owens says the thinking
about the silver ranking is that it
isn’t the bottom tier and yet it’s
not as expensive as gold. “We’re
not trying to do something at the
very top because of cost,” he
says.
No matter what label it’s given, sustainable design and energy-efficient features will still
play a major role in what Owens
calls the “life cycle” of the school
building projects — from planning and design to construction
and maintenance for at least 80
years, or as long as the buildings
are in use.
“What’s important about applying sustainable concepts is its
contribution to a modern learning environment,” Owens says.
New school, lower test scores
When it comes to building design, many have wondered
about a building’s impact on student learning.
PPS leaders and bond campaign volunteers say there have
been numerous studies to show
the benefits of better lighting,
better equipment, better air
flow and smarter design.
No one, however, has used
Rosa Parks as a case study. Perhaps that’s because in the past
six years since the building was
finished, the school’s progress
as measured by test scores
doesn’t show any improvement
— in fact it’s gone in the opposite direction.
To be sure, test scores are
hardly a full picture of a school’s
progress. Many times they’re
misleading: the federal government has raised the bar for
achievement each year, making
it impossible for schools to
catch up.
That said, there’s been a drastic drop in test scores between
2006 — Rosa Parks’ first year of
existence — and last year.
A quick snapshot: 55 percent
To come
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Rosa Parks School was designed as a model green building, but student test scores haven’t matched its
LEED Gold rating.
of third-graders met their read- a second language.
ing benchmarks in 2006, but
that declined steadily and Integrating design with learning
Endicott says it’s not the dedropped to 31 percent last year.
Fourth-grade reading tests mographics, but a missed opshowed the largest drop: from portunity by the district during
71 percent meeting benchmark construction and design to fully engage the
in 2006 down to 21
school community,
percent last year.
even though the
And fifth-grade
students came
reading scores
f r o m d i ff e r e n t
sunk from 50 perschools.
cent to 16 percent
He was part of
last year.
an ad hoc group of
Math scores
community memshowed a parallel
bers who met for
trend.
another month afBond campaign
— Jim Owens, Portland ter the long-range
volunteer Nancy
Public Schools director of facilities group
Hamilton, a longcapital operations disbanded. They
time school dedrew up an “edusign guru and a
consultant in the running for a cational impact statement” for
contract for the bond work, the bond and presented it to
chalks it up to the fact that Rosa the board. It proposed that the
Parks has a transient popula- district include a set of question of students who are often tions in the bidding process for
forced to move, which affects all bond work, asking contractheir achievement. Ninety-five tors to describe the learning
percent of the students receive opportunities they’d provide
free- or reduced-price meals for students while projects are
and one-third speak English as under way.
“We’re not
trying to do
something at the
very top
because of
cost.”
That could entail giving
building tours to teachers and
students during construction,
visiting the classroom to discuss different concepts as they
apply to math or science, or offering paid or volunteer internships to high school students,
in everything from construction and design to finance and
maintenance.
The ad hoc group also wants
teachers to use the bond work
to inform their curriculum in
their classes and in the field,
such as having media students
document the building process
to create a living history of it.
If students are involved intimately in the process, Endicott
says, they’ll take ownership of
it. And they’ll come back after
they graduate to give back.
“The core of equity is ownership,” Endicott says. “It doesn’t
matter what your socioeconomic status is. If you have
ownership of what happens
around you, that’s equity. If it’s
happening to you, you don’t
own it. If it’s happening with
you, you do.”
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The Portland Tribune Thursday, October 11, 2012
Schools earn green buck$ by recycling
TerraCycle pays
schools for juice
pouches, other waste
By RAymond RendlemAn
Pamplin Media Group
Hayhurst Elementary in
Southwest Portland has gone
from using seven 30-gallon
bags of waste each lunch period to just half a bag.
What’s the school’s secret?
Hayhurst PTA sustainability
chairwoman Kendall KIC,
(who legally changed her
name to all caps), says that
back in November of 2009 she
discovered a program online
called TerraCycle and has
since kept 9,000 juice pouches
out of the trash.
Capri Sun and other juice
pouches had been among a
slew of items difficult for
schools to recycle, so kids ended up just throwing them in
the garbage. But TerraCycle
provides Hayhurst’s sustainability “brigade” with prepaid
labels to ship out hard-to-recycle items, such as drink pouches, candy wrappers, chip bags
and flip-flops.
The New Jersey-based company makes money from recycling the products and shares
its earnings by granting points
for the brigade to earn cash for
the school or a favorite charity.
Check it out
program at Sojourner School
in Milwaukie. “Sojo” is an alternative magnet school and,
at about 186 students, the
smallest elementary in North
Clackamas School District.
Known for a high number of
volunteer hours parents put
in, it turned out to be a perfect
early adopter of a TerraCycle
program.
Starting with juice pouches
in the first year, the Sojo pro“Over time, it’s slowly build- gram added toothpaste tubes,
ing so people realize that flip-flops, glue sticks and tape
we’re doing this,” KIC says. rings last year. TerraCycle
“My goal is at least 5,000 juice program coordinator and forpouches collected during this mer PTA Vice President Polly
upcoming school year.”
Lugosi says the brigades have
She keeps them packed in a extended their reach to neighyard-debris bag in her garage, bors not usually involved with
but recentthe school.
ly a school
They’ve
custodian
t a ke n t o
allowed her
collecting
PAmPlIn medIA GRoUP: JonATHAn HoUSe
space in the
from soccer
Quinn moxley sorts recyclables stored in Katy Preston’s milwaukie garage. Preston turns in the recyclables
Hayhurst
games.
For more information about
boiler room,
“ I f i n d to TerraCycle and donates the proceeds to Camp Quest, an overnight camp for kids with High-Functioning
TerraCycle: terracycle.com/en-US
where the
that people Autism and Asperger’s Syndrome.
juice pouchdon’t throw
es can dry.
them away such as by seeing the labels on
All schools are eligible, Tay- ior Ministries, Earl Boyles ElSome money comes back to even when they’re not at Capri Sun juice boxes, and lor says. A tax ID number is ementary, Mount Scott Elethe PTA for funding school ac- school,” Lugosi says.
necessary so the money can go mentary, Oak Grove Elementhen they go to the website.
tivities, but that’s not the emAt a holiday assembly this
“It’s very easy for people to to charity. The revenue from tary, John Wetten Elementary,
phasis for organizers.
year, Lugosi says students will sign up based on the waste recycling can go to any charity Chief Joseph Elementary, Sau“About $200 a school year is get a chance to vote on chari- stream they’re looking to col- — even the National Rifle As- vie Island Academy, John Janot really what it’s about for ties to donate about $100 col- lect,” Taylor says.
sociation (we asked).
c o b Ast o r E l e m e n t a r y,
us; it’s more about the sustain- lected from the program.
The growing list of Portland- Markham Elementary, LaurelNationally, TerraCycle says
ability piece,” KIC says.
TerraCycle spokeswoman its programs have raised $4.5 area schools getting involved hurst Elementary, Parklane
Apparently, the secret is Lauren Taylor says a lot of million for charity, thanks to includes Menlo Park Elemen- Elementary, Lynch Meadows
getting out, as this will also be people find out about the pro- nearly 31 million people col- tary School, David Douglas Elementary and Creative Scithe third year of a TerraCycle grams through the packaging, lecting trash.
Arthur Academy, Faithful Sav- ence School.
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Ashes: Coming back to life as an oak or pine tree
■ From page 1
ing.”
Eternitrees is an uplifting
way of looking at a rather maudlin subject. Instead of leaving
loved ones alone in a cemetery
plot, their cremated remains
help produce a living memorial
that represents their vibrancy
in life and keeps them present in
our lives.
Hammerling, 51, is a soft-spoken, gentle soul who under-
stands the process of death and
mourning. He left his post as a
cemeterian at Gresham’s Forest
Lawn Cemetery in August to
market his patented burial urns
full-time.
Hammerling began exploring
an alternative disposition method after witnessing the emotional turmoil families endure when
burying a loved one. He wanted
to provide a more peaceful option that also would yield a gift
to the planet.
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Science experiments
with the proper nutrients to
“I originally wanted to make a nurture a tree sapling.
pen — a Living Pen,” he exThe result was a lightly fired
plains. “There are so many pens bisque urn that breaks down
being thrown away, and I when exposed to the elements,
thought we could place the ash- combined with seeds, growth
es in the barrel and plant it. But medium and organic pH neutralwe couldn’t get the pen to biode- izers that mingle with the ashes
grade at a set rate. There was no to produce a healthy growing
way to control it
environment for a
because of the
sapling.
plastic.”
“The tiny pieces
The death of his
of bone in crematmother prompted
ed remains cona new idea.
tain potassium
“She had always
and
calcium,
told me she wantwhich are good in
ed her ashes scatthe growth protered
somecess,” Hammerling
where,” Hammersays. “But ash has
ling says. “But if I
detrimental elehonored that, I
ments that choke a
couldn’t have visplant. The propri— nicholas Hammerling, etary mixture in
ited her to tell her
eternitrees founder the Eternitree adabout my day or
what was going on
justs the pH natuin my life.
rally in the ash to allow the
“She’s now going to be a dog- good parts of the ash to feed the
wood tree.”
sapling.”
Using the cremated remains
The graceful white urn was
of his own three pets, Hammer- designed by Hammerling’s coling spent three years fine-tun- worker at the cemetery, Helen
ing his concept. He learned the DuBarry. Embossed pussy wilhorticultural elements neces- lows wind around the vessel,
sary to marry a completely bio- which is packaged in a metal
degradable burial container container with landscape pho-
“Wouldn’t it
be more
comforting to
watch a growing
tree that brings
you memories
of your loved
one?”
tos shot by
Hammerling.
The metal container, Hammerling says,
can be used as
a time capsule
for personal
mementoes,
HAmmeRlInG
such as photographs or other
meaningful keepsakes.
Eternitrees are meant to be
shared, Hammerling says, pointing out that one urn is not large
enough to contain the entire cremated remains of a loved one.
With family members often
separated by distance, each person can purchase his or her own
urn and create a living memorial.
“The containers are airport
approved,” Hammerling says. “If
grandma was from England originally, how wonderful would it be
to take her home?”
At one with the squirrels
Those who have buried a family member can be shocked by
the expense of a traditional burial. It could cost $4,500 to bury
people at the cemetery, he says,
and that’s without a grave marker.
“Cremation can cost $2,000,”
he says, “and that’s for the plot
and urn. All you’re left with is a
name on a wall or a marker.
Wouldn’t it be more comforting
to watch a growing tree that
brings you memories of your
loved one?”
The Eternitrees option requires direct cremation, which
Hammerling says can cost about
$1,000. The urn, growth mixture
and commemorative container
cost less than $80 and can be
shipped anywhere.
Hammerling has compiled a
descriptive list of the trees guaranteed to grow with his patented mixture. He details each
tree’s characteristics and links
them with the personality traits
that would apply to a loved one.
It’s legal to plant the trees anywhere, but permission to use the
property should be secured first.
There are 16 varieties of living memorials to choose from,
ranging from oaks and corals to
ponderosa pines and sugar maples. People can even plant them
in their backyard.
Eternitrees thus provides an
affordable burial option, and one
that enables a departed friend
or relative to become a gift to
nature.
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SuStainable life C5
ADUs: Add-on homes OK with neighbors
■ From page 1
room table, where she also
keeps her computer.
“I gave a lot to Goodwill,”
apartments or the more formal she says. “I continue to.”
Accessory Dwelling Units.
Her modest living room douBut few Portlanders built bles as a dining room, with
ADUs — at least legally — until enough space for a small re2010, when the city raised the cliner and a couple of chairs
maximum unit size to 800 around the dining table. Her
square feet and waived system bathroom lacks space for a
development charges for three bathtub but has a shower.
years. The development fee
Her bedroom is large enough
waiver shaved $7,000 to $15,000 for a queen-sized Murphy bed,
off the price of a new ADU, which flips up to reveal a table
which can cost less than $20,000 suitable for a work or study
for a basic garage or basement space. She stores her winter
conversion, and up to $130,000 clothes under the bed. A
or more for stylish new con- French door provides plenty of
struction.
natural light and leads out to
Since the fee waiver and new the garden.
size limit took effect in April 15,
A high ceiling makes the
2010, a new tiny-home industry unit feel more roomy, and prohas taken root in Portland.
vides extra storage space
Homeowners and builders above the bathroom. Three
have taken out 256 permits to small wall heaters are all it
build ADUs, says Ross Caron, takes to take the chill out durspokesman for the Portland Bu- ing the winter, Pawlowski says.
reau of DevelopPeople visiting
ment Services.
often remark how
That’s equal to
it seems much
one-sixth of all
larger than 325
single-family
square feet.
building permits
“This is just a
issued since then.
charming little
— Raynice Pawlowski, home,” gushed
Some of the
who lives in a Melanie Wilson
permits were for
325-square-foot home while visiting durolder ADUs built
under the radar
ing the Build it
by owners trying to avoid city Green! tour.
building inspections and stiff
Walt Quade, who designed
development fees. But getting and built the 325-square-foot
those units inspected and up to cottage occupied by his sistercity code was one of the goals in-law, says he can build more
of the 2010 changes, says Eli just like it for $40,000, plus the
Spevak, a green builder who costs of a foundation and utililobbied for those changes. ty hookups.
What’s clear, Spevak notes, is
He recently scored a deal to
t h at A D U c o n st r u c t i o n build a second one near Port“jumped at the same time as land’s trendy Hawthorne Boulethe rest of the market plum- vard for about $45,000, which
meted.”
includes the foundation and
With the fee waiver expiring utility hook-ups. The woman
next June 30, Portlanders con- ordering the unit expects to
sidering a new ADU have less rent it out for as much as $100
than nine months to take ad- a night via the Airbnb webvantage. That should be based service, Quade says.
enough time to finalize deSome people build ADUs as
signs, arrange financing and rental units, others to have elsecure a building permit.
derly parents or other family
With the looming deadline in nearby. Some homeowners enmind, this year’s Build it vision moving into their ADUs,
Green! tour featured eight dif- and renting out the main
ferent ADUs, including the one house, when they are empty
where Pawlowski lives.
nesters and need less space.
Not every ADU is as cheap
Living simply
or small as Quade’s.
When she moved here from
Sue Firpo spent $95,000 outChicago three years ago, Paw- of-pocket on her 500-squarelowski ditched her big-screen foot ADU in Northeast PortTV, and now watches a smaller land, though that doesn’t count
unit placed atop her dining- her labor as a designer and
“For one person,
how much space
do you need?”
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■ What: Portland will host a oneday Build Small/Live Large summit
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of its kind.
■ When: all day Friday, Oct. 26
■ Who for: architects, builders,
remodelers, policy-makers and
real estate professionals
■ Where: PSU Smith Center,
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Sponsored by: Cascadia Green
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A 480-square-foot garage conversion in Southeast Portland, the Master-Draper Backyard Cottage features
a cozy living area and an upstairs sleeping nook.
The Peterson
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nearly 800
square feet of
space. A threeyear city waiver
of development
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general contractor. She listed it
for rent at $1,075 a month the
night before the Build it Green!
tour, and several prospective
renters stopped by during the
tour.
Owners of the 480-squarefoot Master-Draper backyard
cottage in Southeast Portland,
a stylish two-story garage
converted by Portland’s Hammer and Hand, spent $130,000
o n t h e i r p r o j e c t . Th at
included about $30,000 to relocate the main home’s electrical
service entry.
Environmental benefits
Regardless of their size,
ADUs are generally more environmentally friendly than a
new home built in a traditional
subdivision. They require no
new land, less building materials and energy usage. They
help Portland and the metro
area meet population growth
needs without developing farm
land. Putting those residents in
existing neighborhoods reduc-
es sprawl and vehicle miles
traveled, easing road congestion.
Quade says the new ADUs
built since the fee waiver are
just the beginning. People are
“starting to come around” to
the idea of living in smaller
spaces, he says, some by economic necessity and some to
save resources. But it takes
time to change people’s thinking and willingness to live with
less belongings, he says.
Quade would like the Port-
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for use anywhere in the state.
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smaller infill developments,
says the increase in ADUs has
been well-received in Portland,
in contrast to neighborhoods
where residents openly oppose
“skinny homes” or huge McMansions that dominate lots.
ADUs are “discreet by definition,” Spevak says. “They’re not
the kind of things neighbors get
upset about.”
Though he’d welcome a move
by the City Council to extend
the fee waiver, Spevak understands there are concerns
among the city parks, water,
sewer and transportation bureaus about lost revenue from
new construction.
Spevak suggests the city
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ADU.
Mayor Sam Adams and City
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who championed the fee waiver,
won’t be on the City Council
when it expires. Commissioner
Nick Fish, who will be on next
year’s council, notes that the
city’s policy is to have new development “pay for itself,” and
not burden the rest of the city to
cover the costs of new public
facilities needed. However, the
benefits from the fee waiver are
“pretty clear,” Fish says. “We’re
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he word “endangered” carries a lot of baggage.
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t, it’s a
trouble.” For the governmen
and
legal status assigned to plants
animals after a lengthy process.Pacifthe
Two species stand out in
and
ic Northwest — wild salmon
and they’ve
northern spotted owls —
hogged the limelight.
rare,
Here are some of the other ed
obscure, threatened or understudithe
—
flora and fauna of Oregon
well as the
legally endangered, as
The
other was trapped in December.
Audrey
goal, says wolverine expert
female,
Magoun, is to find a lactating
breed in
which would prove that they
informaOregon. It could be valuable
t,
tion for the federal governmen g
is currently considerin
from Oregon, while which to list wolverines under the
just plain to be eliminated
had nev- whether
overlooked, imperiled, or
later studies suggested they
Species Act.
But once Endangered
missing in action.
er been native to the state.
would
murrelet
every decade or so, someone
2. Marbled
1. Wolverine
wolverine.
murrelet
elusive, report an Oregon
To survive, the marbled
phoWolverines are notoriously
Last spring, camera traps Ea- requires healthy old-growth forests
They’re so
wolverines in the
and famously ferocious.
than 800 tographed three
Wallowa
rare that there may be fewer
See ENDANGERED / Page 3
gle Cap Wilderness of the
rn Oregon. Anin all the lower 48 states.
presumed Range in northeaste
By 1936, wolverines were
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The Portland Tribune Thursday, October 11, 2012
Can woody briquettes replace coal?
Company in race to
create alternative
fuel for coal plants
By JORDY BYRD
Pamplin Media Group
Hiroshi Morihara’s wife said
he looked bored. She suggested he invent something. The
result of this suggestion,
paired with Morihara’s ingenuity, may change the world.
Morihara is the CEO and
founder of HM3 Energy. The
Gresham-based company,
formed in 2008, has developed a
proprietary
process to turn
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waste like tree
limbs, bark,
tree tops and
agricultural
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MORihARA economically
viable clean fuel that can replace coal in coalfired power plants.
Substituting HM3’s biomass
briquettes for coal would reduce
carbon emissions into the atmosphere and throw a monkey
wrench into the path of global
warming. It also could prove vital
for Oregon’s energy supply, in
light of a 2010 agreement to close
the state’s only coal-fired power
Final resting place
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River View Cemetery will
get help from the West Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District to restore more
than 14 acres of forested land
owned by the Southwest Portland cemetery that is riddled
with ivy and other invasive
weeds.
“The cemetery is hoping to
establish a dedicated natural
burial area adjacent to this
14.3-acre parcel of land, so it
makes sense for us to do what
we can to restore and improve
the area,” says David Noble,
executive director.
plant, Portland General Electric’s
Boardman facility, by the end of
2020.
“You have to have environmental and government pressure to replace coal with clean
fuel,” Morihara says. “Five to ten
years ago this technology wasn’t
possible, this pressure wasn’t
there.
“The United States burns 1 billion tons of coal a year and power
plants globally are under pressure to clean up. So we have a
great opportunity.”
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Morihara and his team of engineers, along with researchers A Gresham company hopes its briquettes made of biomass — and
from Oregon State University’s resembling hockey pucks — can be a clean-burning fuel substitute for
Department of Wood Science coal at coal plants.
and Engineering, are racing to
develop and successfully comFirst, biomass is collected shipped in open rail cars.
mercialize the dense biomass
briquettes. Morihara says his from urban construction sites,
A BEST bet
seven-person operation is com- forest thinning or logging.
This year, the Oregon Built
Next, the biomass is ground,
peting with a handful of green
energy companies to be the first dried and heated to torrefaction Environment & Sustainable
to successfully market such a temperature — more than 392 Technologies Center (Oregon
degrees Fahrenheit in the ab- BEST) awarded an $86,000 comproduct.
sence of air, causing the wood’s mercialization grant to HM3
Like coffee beans
Energy and its partners at
properties to change.
The dark-brown briquettes
Carcinogenic vapor is re- Oregon State University. Oreresemble hockey pucks. Howev- leased from the biomass, cap- gon BEST awarded $1 million in
er, they pack the energy equiva- tured and combusted. Heat from grants to speed commercializalent of coal and burn without re- the combustion is used to dry tion of the state’s most promisleasing pollutants like sulfur, ni- now-torrefied wood. The prod- ing clean-technology products.
trous oxides and mercury.
“If HM3 Energy is successful
uct is then cooled and comThe process to create the bri- pressed into dense briquettes in its goals, it will have created a
quettes, called torrefaction, is old. that, unlike wood pellets on the truly transformational technolRoasting a coffee bean is essen- market, can be burned in exist- ogy addressing a major global
tially torrefaction. HM3 Energy ing power plants. The water-re- energy challenge,” says David
has cleverly reapplied the tech- sistant briquettes also can be Kenney, Oregon BEST executive
nology to create clean energy.
stored outdoors and easily director.
The cemetery, originally
350 acres overlooking the Willamette River, sold 146 acres
of surplus forested land last
year to Metro, the city of Portland and the Trust for Public
Land.
Green
Briefs
Visit some waterfalls
Friends of the Columbia
Gorge is organizing a series of
fall hikes. October marks the
culmination of the group’s Waterfall Wanderlust, a challenge
to visit 25 waterfalls in the
gorge. More information:
gorgefriends.org.
Fostering ecodistricts
Budding “ecodistricts” in the
Foster Road area of Southeast
Portland and the Gateway area of outer Northeast Portland
will be featured at an EcoDistricts Summit on Oct. 23 to 26.
Ecodistricts are attempts to
integrate sustainability principles in multi-block areas.
Portland Sustainability Institute hosts the four-day
event at Portland State University’s Smith Center, 1825
S.W. Broadway. Keynote
speaker is Carol Coletta, chief
executive of CEOs for Cities
and host/producer of the public radio show “Smart City.”
More information: ecodistrictssummit.com
Farm to table
Zenger Farm hosts its fifthannual Farm to Table dinner
to raise money for its affordable food and education efforts.
Eventually HM3 Energy plans uct was inconsistent. A third test
to build a small commercial will be executed in November.
“The most critical test is scalplant in Prineville, Ore., where
sufficient biomass feedstock is ing up; that’s what we are doing
economically available within a now,” Morihara says. He refused
40-mile radius. An additional 10 to reveal the location and details
to 20 plants could be built of that test.
“Only a few comthroughout Orepanies in the world
gon to replace all
are at our state,” he
of the fuel currentsays. “We want to
ly burned by Portmake sure nobody
land General Electakes advantage of
tric.
us. The key is who
“The beautiful
is going to be the
thing is that these
first ... We think we
plants have the
are better than
potential to adthem.”
dress many of OrUtilities like
egon’s woes right
Portland General
now,” Morihara
Electric, TransAlta,
says. “The producPacifiCorp, Duke
tion facilities will
Energy and interbe located in rural
national energy
areas where jobs
providers have alare so desperately
needed. The feed— David Kenney, ready expressed
stock is forest
Oregon BEST interest in HM3’s
briquettes. Morihaslash which is curra says the comparently burned in
place or left to rot. And the final nies are “anxiously waiting.”
Morihara, his wife — who now
product is a clean replacement
fuel for coal. This is good for the works in the lab — and the rest of
Oregon economy and good for the team at HM3 Energy are also
anxious. The team is racing
the environment.”
against the clock to be the first
Final tests?
company worldwide to successBut the product isn’t quite fully create and market a clean
ready for marketing.
replacement for coal.
HM3 Energy conducted a pilot
The stakes of this race —
test in 2010 and again this Au- averting environmental catastrogust. Morihara says the last test phes caused by an increasingly
was semi-successful, as the prod- warm climate — are high.
“if hM3 Energy
is successful
in its goals,
it will have
created a truly
transformational
technology
addressing a
major global
energy
challenge.”
Zenger is a nonprofit farm
in outer Southeast Portland
that teaches about sustainable
food systems and environmental stewardship to school
groups and others.
The dinner is Saturday, Oct.
20, at 6 p.m. in the Unversity of
Portland’s Bauccio Commons.
More information: zengerfarm.org/index.php?page=
farm-to-table.
Paint recycling
Portland-based Miller Paint
agreed to purchase 50,000 gallons of recycled MetroPaint by
2017. Metro sold nearly $1 million worth of its recycled paint
in the last fiscal year, with
Miller buying one-fourth of it.
Locally, paint recycling got
a higher profile after Metro
began collecting unused paint
and remixing it into its own
blends for resale.
The idea went statewide in
2010, when the paint industry
launched a stewardship program funded by a surcharge
on paint sales.
PaintCare Inc., a nonprofit
established by the paint industry, collected 83,122 gallons of
unused paint in the Portland
metro area during the past
year. The program is being expanded into California, Connecticut and Rhode Island in
the next two years.
EAST COUNTY BUSINESSES: LEADERS IN SUSTAINABILITY
Gresham: A Green and Efficient City
The City of Gresham is successfully identifying waste
reduction opportunities while practicing sustainability.
Being green and efficient goes hand-in-hand. Smart
practices ensure the public’s resources can be preserved
for future generations and new efficiencies strengthen
resiliency to rising costs in energy, fuel and water rates.
Road Recycling
Gresham took recycling to the
next level when it reconstructed
N.E. 162nd Avenue. The green
reconstruction process called
full-depth reclamation recycles
the existing, worn-out asphalt
of the roadway and uses it to
build a new surface. The cost of
recycling road materials is about
25-50% less than traditional
road replacement that includes
removing and replacing materials.
Information provided by
the City of Gresham
GreshamOregon.gov
reclamation recycled the existing,
The green reconstruction process called full-depth
a new surface on Gresham’s
worn-out asphalt of the roadway and used it to build
Northeast 162nd Avenue.
Gresham City Hall replaced all fluorescent fixtures
with lower-watt models to save about
$7,400 annually in energy costs.
ter Treatment Plant save ratepayers
Innovative energy savings at the Gresham Wastewa
$230,000 per year in electricity costs.
City Hall Energy Retrofit
The City’s energy management retrofit at City Hall
included upgrading computerized modules for the
facility’s major mechanical components, replacing
ventilation boxes and changing all fluorescent
fixtures at City Hall with lower-watt models
to save about $7,400 annually in energy costs.
Overall projected energy savings: $48,000 a year.
Renewable Energy Powers Plant
Innovative energy savings at Gresham’s Wastewater Treatment
Plant save ratepayers $230,000 per year in electricity costs.
Gresham’s diversified energy strategy at the plant includes
converting methane gas into electricity to power the plant,
one of the Pacific Northwest’s largest ground mounted solar array
systems, and a new fats, oils and grease – to-methane energy
project. The plant’s goal is to reach energy independence.
are projected
Grant-funded solar projects at the City Hall complex
Hall.
15% of the annual electricity consumption at City
to cover
Solar at City Hall
Solar trees and a carport, both
grant-funded solar projects at the
City Hall complex, are projected to
cover 15% of the annual electricity
consumption at City Hall. The City
projects electricity cost savings
up to $624,000 over 30 years. An
educational display inside the front
lobby allows visitors to monitor
how much solar power is being
generated at the moment.
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data directly to the City, thus eliminating the cost and pollution of
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