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To Download a PDF of Our July, 2021 Edition H PUBLISHED IN NORTHEAST PORTLAND SINCE 1984 H STAR PUBLISHING INC. STAR BARKING THE HOLLYWOOD AT THE PARK The Star’s newest reporter, 8-year-old Penelope Baimbridge checks out the dog park at Grant Park. PAGE 6 H SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH METROPOLITANNEWS PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS H JULY 2021 H VOLUME 39, NUMBER 01 H StarH SENIOR CHAMPION After 48 years on Hollywood Senior Center board, Paul Clark plans to step down. PAGE 9 Rolling along MISSISSIPPI STREETWISE Barb Hughes visits the historic Mississippi Avenue business district and finds ART SMART Grant neighbor Sophia Hatzikos returns Anthony Fusaro tending the energy-efficient machines at Spin Laundry Lounge on Fremont. PAGE 12 from college with a passion for visual arts. PAGE 10 KNIVES OUT Chef Eytan Zias and Steelport Knife Co. PROJECTING AGAIN The Hollywood Theatre will ALL SCREAM Nico Vergara is set to open an handcraft top quality knives in Laurelhurst. PAGE 18 reopen in July with ‘Summer of Soul’ documentary. PAGE 17 ice cream cart in the Boise neighborhood. PAGE 17 97208 SIGNATURE GRAPHICS SIGNATURE PORTLAND, OREGON 97213 OREGON PORTLAND, PORTLAND, OR PORTLAND, PAID 2000 N.E. 42ND AVENUE PMB 142 PMB AVENUE 42ND N.E. 2000 U.S. POSTAGE U.S. NORTH AND NORTHEAST METRO NEIGHBORHOODS METRO NORTHEAST AND NORTH STANDARD NEWS STAR HOLLYWOOD THE PRESORTED H 2 THE STAR NEWS WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO: SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS JULY 2021 HSTAR COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS GRANT SOFTBALL FIELDS Denver Avenue. The organization, which is known for its The Hollywood Star News GET OKAY, WITH CONDITIONS range of media and styles of presentation, Published monthly in Northeast Portland. A city land-use hearings officer has started in 2000 under Bryan Suereth. He Mailing Address approved upper field plans between selected the name Disjecta from the title 2000 N.E. 42nd Ave. PMB 142 Grant High School and Grant Park with of collected writings by Samuel Beckett. It Portland, OR 97213 conditions limiting the hours for sports became a non-profit in 2005 and moved Phone 503-282-9392 activities, lights and a school public to Kenton in 2008. In a dispute with the address system. board of directors over leadership, Suereth Mary DeHart Owner and Publisher The decision is expected to permit left the center in 2016. [email protected] Grant’s women’s softball team to have a The Portland Art Museum ceased hosting the Oregon Biennial in 2006 Mary Ann Seeger place to play games at the school instead of Administrative Assistant and the North Portland organization traveling to other fields. The plan expands [email protected] the existing field to land owned partly by started the Portland Biennial in 2010. the city Parks and Recreation Bureau and In 2011 it began the region’s first Jane Cullinan Advertising Executive BY JANET GOETZE partly by Portland Public Schools. Curator In Residence program to bring [email protected] The effective date for the regulations is [email protected] challenging regional, national and July 2 if no appeal is filed by July 1. international work to the city. The Phill Colombo Development Reporter Some neighbors were concerned about program inspires local audiences and [email protected] DISJECTA IS RENAMED creates connections throughout the the hours for activities on the field, but worldwide arts community. Janet Goetze Community Reporter hearings officer Kathryn Beaumont set a OREGON CONTEMPORARY Shell, who became executive director [email protected] condition for ending Park Bureau events Disjecta, the contemporary arts center in 2017, said the new name speaks “to at 9 p.m. with lights turned off by 9:30 that hosts the Portland Biennial in its the caliber of art presented at Oregon Barb Hughes Feature Writer p.m. High school sports must end at 9:30 12,000 square-foot building, has changed [email protected] Contemporary and projects our vision for p.m. with lights off by 10 p.m. A sound its name to the Oregon Center for the future of the organization, reaching system, to be used only by school officials, Contemporary Art. Lisa Lakes Feature Writer new audiences while increasing equity can’t be used after 9:30 p.m. Oregon Contemporary, as executive [email protected] and accessibility.” Some neighbors feared that new light director Blake Shell calls it, remains in the A show of six Oregon artists, “Time Nancy Varekamp Feature Writer poles would be too tall and increase glare Kenton neighborhood at 8371N. Interstate Being,” will continue to Aug. 8. Functional [email protected] for homes across U.S. Grant Place from Ave. While that’s the official address, the entry door is off McClellan Street, east of the fields. However, the plan calls for “dark – CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 Jane Perkins Contributing Photographer sky” lights that reduce ambient glare. Beaumont set a condition that four new Lisa Chiba Perkins Graphic Designer Oregon Center poles be 70 feet high and three be 80 feet for Contemporary [email protected] high. That’s an adjustment from a 50-foot Arts is the new limit for the zone. name for the arts Ted Perkins Managing Editor The Park Bureau said it will require venue originally and Digital Media Coordinator called Disjecta [email protected] portable restrooms and trash clean-up as in Kenton. needed for groups receiving city permits This rendering 2020 Copyright Star Publishing Inc. for using the field. The school district is shows a large O planned for To submit story ideas, letters to the expected to direct custodial staff or other the entry of the editor or press releases please email responsible parties to clean trash from the building. (Oregon [email protected] fields after games. Contemporary) Editorial deadline: 15th of the month Advertising deadline: 20th of the month Experienced therapists Star News Publishing has many different providing individualized care in journalists who write for our newspaper and web site. 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