Kerseys raise MS awareness Wife of former Blazer becomes role model — SEE SPORTS, B12 PortlandTHURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 2014 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILYTribune PAPER • PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND THURSDAY Old mill goes wild IF YOU’RE HAPPY thanks to AND YOU KNOW IT … polluters ■ Most satisfi ed? Those who see work as a calling, not a job Sauvie Island work f anybody has reason to complain nadian workers during a 10-year peri- to restore habitat about working conditions in Port- Story by Peter Korn od. Clergy ranked highest for job satis- land, it should be clergy. Priests, faction in that study as well, by a large begins without EPA I ministers, rabbis and the like are Photos by Jaime Valdez margin. trying to sell a product — organized Conversations with local clergy from religion — in the least-interested city congregations big and small make it By STEVE LAW in the country. apparent that despite outward appear- The Tribune “Saying to a Portlander, ‘ I’m a pas- ances, spiritual leaders in Portland feel tor,’ is a terrifi c way to get respect but about the same as their brethren else- On the southern tip of Sau- a terrifi c way to get out of a conversa- where: fulfi lled and vie Island, an old farm and tion,’” says Cole Brown, founding pas- satisfi ed in their sawmill property is being tor at Emmaus Church in Northeast “ It’s a work. handed back to nature. Portland. People at social gatherings bizarre way But before we let This spring, demolition crews frequently excuse themselves and walk local clergy offer tore down the 19 60s-era Alder the other way when Brown lets his oc- to make a their own explana- Creek Mill, and excavators are cupation be known. living when tions, consider the removing fi ll dirt piled onto the Amy Piatt says when she fi rst moved work of J . Stuart site for 85 years, to recast the to Portland two years ago to become you think of Bunderson, professor land for salmon, lamprey, mink, senior minister at First Christian it.” of organization be- eagles and osprey. Church, colleagues here suggested she — Amy Piatt, havior at the Olin At 52 acres, it’s the fi rst major introduce herself to strangers by say- First Christian Business School at habitat restoration project since ing she worked at a nonprofi t. Church Washington U niversi- a polluted D windling and aging congregations. ty in St. Louis. 11-mile stretch Financial stress that has caused more Bunderson studies of the Willa- “ You j ust than one local church to close its doors workers and work- mette River build the in recent years. Lack of personal pres- places and what makes them happy was designat- tige. And a job description that fre- Pastor Cole Brown, top, who says he’s happy in his j ob, gives his Sunday morning and effi cient. A few years ago he decid- ed a Portland habitat and quently requires clergy to be available sermon at Northeast Portland’s Emmaus Church. Brown started the inclusive ed to narrow his focus to zookeepers. Harbor Super- hope that to congregants around the clock. Cler- congregation that meets Sundays mornings at W oodlawn Methodist Church. Above, fund site in they come gy burnout is legendary. Brown greets the congregation after a morning church service. Comfort from critters 2000. Now, in One hell of a job, right? All the classic measurements that another fi rst and fi nd Well, maybe. A government survey among all occupations. And that sur- this country about job satisfaction, a usually correlate with high job satis- here, a private it.” out of England recently revealed that vey reinforced the message from the 2007 project from the U niversity of Chi- company clergy ranked No. 1 in job satisfaction single largest study ever undertaken in cago that canvassed 27,000 U .S. and Ca- See HAPPY / Page 2 called Wild- — Julie Mentzer, lands Inc. will W ildlands Inc. try to coax some 100 pol- luters to pay for habitat restoration. While the Portland Harbor Superfund project sputters into Farmers go out on limb its 15th year with little environ- mental cleanup to its credit — despite more than $105 million spent so far — a parallel process to grow organic hops seems to be making more headway. U nknown to many Portland- stuff of which beer is made. ers, past polluters of the river Producers overcome Craft summit “They go through a bank of are on the hook twice under the Local brewmasters and 10 different belts; everything national Superfund law. They cost, logistics to industry leaders will gather that rolls down the belts is the must pay for cleanup of the con- supply craft brewers Sept. 12 for a daylong summit final product,” explains Pat taminated river bottom, over- on the economics of Oregon’s Leavy, third-generation farm- seen by the U .S. Environmental craft beverage industry. er at The Oregon Hophouse in Protection Agency. And they By JENNIFER ANDERSON Hosted by the Oregon Liquor the rural community of Butte- must compensate the public for The Tribune Control Commission, it’ll include ville, 25 miles south of Craft brewers in talks from leaders at Oregon and damaging natural resources — McMenamins, Rogue Ales, Portland. some of which will never be re- The aroma — a mix of Deschutes Brewery and King Leavy and his wife, J ean beyond rely on freshly cut grass, pine nee- Estates, as well as discussions Ann, have fueled the craft the bounty from See HABITAT / Page 11 dles and, strangely enough, on the economic impact of craft beer industry since becoming hops farms in watermelon — is sharp and beverages and industry develop- Oregon’s fi rst certifi ed organ- the W illamette pungent, immediately ment, tourism, hospitality and ic hop farm in 2007. Prior to Valley. Fall recognizable to any beer marketing. that, hops from the Leavys’ harvest is connoisseur. farm — along with most of Or- wrapping up A three-story 19 64 picking dance from one conveyor belt egon’s hop production — was right about now. machine roars like a jet en- to another. The treasure here TRIBUNE PHOTO: gine as bits of bright green is the bright green hops, the See HOPS / Page 7 JENNIFER ANDERSON “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to Portland Tribune deliver balanced news that refl ects the AIR SHOW SOARS OVER HILLSBORO stories of our communities. Thank you — SEE LIFE, PAGE B1 for reading our newspapers.” Inside — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN JR. OWNER & NEIGHBOR 462866.090914 A2 NEWS The Portland Tribune Thursday, September 11, 2014 Happy: Clergy ranked No. 1 in job satisfaction fi nds fulfi llment in getting to ■ From page 1 deal with people on a spiritual level. faction are absent for zookeep- Nevertheless, Brown, 37, is a ers, Bunderson says. The gos- minister in a mostly secular pel according to occupational city, and he’s got a small strug- experts identifi es pay, benefi ts, gling congregation of about 125 work environment, relation- members. It can take a toll. ships with workplace col- Last March, Brown started a leagues, status and job expecta- six-month sabbatical because tions among the key elements he was burning out in his job. that keep workers happy. Ideol- He says he started to feel anger ogy sometimes comes into play, toward his congregation. according to Bunderson, so “They didn’t appreciate what that “psychic rewards” such as I was doing,” Brown says. He an employee feeling he or she discovered, he says, that he was is doing important work also the problem, not his congre- can enhance job satisfaction. gants, and that he needed to Bunderson set out to survey learn that he could turn his cell more than 1,000 zookeepers be- phone off at night and let oth- cause they had very little in the ers accept responsibility. And way of those traditional bene- despite the burnout, Brown fi ts. The average zookeeper sal- says he loves his work. ary was around $26,000 a year. “We have the privilege of be- Their jobs are not generally ing with people in their darkest considered prestigious. Three moments, and we have the out of four zookeepers have col- privilege of being with people lege degrees, but most of their in their most joyous moments,” time is spent in physical labor he says. such as shoveling what their animals leave behind. And they Heeding the call have little time for on-the-job Talk about struggling, Miri- friendships because almost all am Mendez started Esperanza their time is spent with the Church in Southeast Portland animals. because there wasn’t an Ameri- And yet, zookeepers love can Baptist Church in Oregon TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSOTT their jobs, according to Bunder- specifi cally for Latinos. Now, Amy Piatt, senior minister at the First Christian Church in downtown Portland, walked the South Park Blocks two years ago with a sign hoping to son, maybe because they see most Sundays, Mendez is lucky talk with Portlanders about her church and its message. W hen Piatt came to Portland, she said friends told her to tell people she worked for a themselves as doing more than if she’s preaching to 25 congre- nonprofi t. holding down jobs. Without gants (in Spanish). Her church getting religious about it, the rents space, fi nding money to sure they want to engage spiri- zookeepers told Bunderson pay the bills is often an adven- Job happiness index tuality in the traditional ways. that their work repre- ture, and Mendez holds Top occupations In Portland, Cahana has been sented a calling.