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Who Isn’t Concerned With Inside this issue Important Neighborhood Street Safety? meeting pg. 1 Do You Risk Your Life Daily? to take questions and maybe give answers. That Just How Safe Are You as a Pedestrian, will be on Tuesday, September 13th at 7pm in our Smoked treats, community room at Kennedy School. a Boulevard Biker, or as a Driver on Cannon’s Ribs Concordia’s Streets? We will get updated on our bike boulevards, pg. 11 Join us at the general neighborhood officially now called Neighborhood Greenways. meeting Tuesday September 13th at NE Going Street should be dedicated as finished 7 p.m. We hope to have a good turnout by the time of the Sunday Parkways for Northeast Portland on the 25th of September. NE Holman ’s Cell tower siting for this important discussion. completion (originally scheduled to be ready by pg. 2 “I thought my family was safe when we went the end of July) seems to be stalled for now and the pocket park/traffic diversion promised for NE biking down Holman, until 2 separate times cars Children’s healthcare coverage pg. 10 13th is in limbo. We had over 100 enthusiastic failed to stop at the signs, just about hitting my Sunday Parkways pg. 11 kids.” residents come to the Holman meetings last fall, so now is the time for an update. And it will be “Today I stepped off the curb at a striped cross an occasion to give feedback on what bikers and Our major emphasis at this meeting will be on walk, looked directly at the drivers coming down drivers see going on, even with the only partial making our streets safer for everyone involved. Killingsworth, and no one, not even a passing completion. cop, would stop for me for at least 5 minutes.” Our transportation committee will prioritize your Portland ’s Bureau of Transportation claims that concerns. “What good do the 2 bike boulevards they have done a great amount of public outreach Along with our own traffic safety concerns, do? Seemingly totally oblivious bikers still use and education of drivers about the more than year we plan to hear from people involved with narrow crowded streets and make it risky for both old law requiring motorists to stop for pedestrians the Williams Street bike controversy. Originally bikers and drivers.” crossing at corners and crosswalks. What has planned to reduce car traffic to one lane and your experience been like? Or does PBOT need “Just try to cross NE 33rd, walking or biking, expanding bike lane widths to accommodate 3000 to do a lot more public education for drivers to drivers just zip by.” bikers per day, the project has now been put on know when to stop and for pedestrians to know hold. The local news organizations keep labeling what they have to do to get noticed? And does “At some of the busier intersections, cars line up it as a “gentrification” issue, while many residents this apply to bikers in the mix? And have newer waiting for the one driver who wastes more time say that it is another example (among many) of improvements, like the signaled and marked than they need, as if they are the only one who the City disrupting neighborhood patterns without crossing at 30th and Ainsworth, and 30th and needs to get through the intersection. Aren’t they local input, without consideration of side effects Killingsworth improved pedestrian safety? Ask aware of everyone behind.” of yet another change imposed “from above”. and enlighten the PBOT folks. You hear this kind of talk everywhere in the We hope to add clarification to the issue because neighborhood. Concordia Neighborhood Where are the riskiest crossings in our area? many neighborhoods, including Concordia, have Association’s Transportation Committee has Are students walking to and from Faubion and felt that the City decisions have been made heard the comments as well, so at our September other schools safe? What about speeding school without considering the impact on residents. bus drivers who, after dropping off students, CNA general meeting, we’re inviting a variety Meetings are held at the Kennedy School take short cuts through our residential streets? of City and citizen transportation spokespeople Community Room. 5736 NE 33rd Avenue

How’s your Petiquette? Fernhill Park: Petiquette 101 Play off-leash in the off-leach Portland Parks & Recreation PP&R staff was at Fernhill Park area only. Take a minute to launches Petiquette for Parks, a during the last two weeks of August, re-familiarize yourself with the campaign to encourage healthy, educating dog owners about off- OLA boundary map, which is respectful off-leash recreation leash area rules and boundaries. A posted on the rules sign. By law, series of rotating signs, focusing on dogs must be on leash when not Fernhill Park’s off-leash area (OLA) obeying leash and scoop laws, as in a designated OLA. is a popular spot for Concordia well as safe off-leash play, are also Keep an eye on your dog. Al- residents to exercise their dogs off- displayed at the park. ways call back pets that are ap- leash. But off-leash dogs in sports proaching the OLA boundaries. fields, the playground, and other Starting in September, PP&R and Leash up outside the OLA. leash-only areas are an ongoing Multnomah County will be stepping Dogs should be on leash to and source of frustration for park users up enforcement of leash laws in the from the OLA, and all handlers and neighbors. park. Off-leash citations come with must bring a leash to the park. a $150 ticket so be sure to keep dogs Scoop the poop. Save the paws In August, Portland Parks & on-leash outside the OLA. and shoes of all park visitors Recreation (PP&R) launched its from poop by scooping. Per Petiquette for Parks campaign, For more information about Multnomah County law, pet which helps dog owners learn dogs and parks, call PP&R’s dog waste must be scooped and dis- more about off-leash recreation and information line at 503-823-DOGS. posed of properly. respectful use of parks with pets. September 2011 CONCORDIA NEWS Page 2

CONCORDIA NEWS Join us for: Everyone is invited! Concordia News is a free monthly publication of the Concordia Neighborhood Association. Newspapers are delivered to all residences and many community locations in the Concordia September’s Neighborhood Meetings Neighborhood. General Meeting Tree Team Meeting Land Use, Livability Submissions The deadline for submissions is the 15th of the Tues. Sept 13 at 7 p.m. Thurs. Sept 1, at 6 p.m. and Transportation month prior to publication. Concordia News Topic: Are the streets safe? may edit for form and length. New Seasons dining area Committee Contact the Editors Meet with Portland Buraeu of [email protected] Transportation representatives to Meetings Advertising discuss traffic safety for vehicles, Please send advertising inquiries to: bicycles and pedestrians. Thurs. Sept. 15 at 7 p.m. [email protected] 503 688-3290 Next Meeting Oct 5. McMenmins Kennedy School, Community Room Concordia Neighborhood Association WellnessCommittee www.concordiapdx.org Wed. Sept. 14, at 7 p.m. We have two purposes: to PO Box 11194 Board Meeting Portland, OR 97211 Caffé Vita, hear about and try to solve Tues. Sept 13 at 6 p.m. 3023 NE Alberta St. issues affecting quality of life in Contact the CNA Board McMenamins Kennedy School, Concordia that are brought to us by [email protected] Community Room The wellness committee is planning individuals, and to identify changes Community Room Rental [email protected] Next Board meeting: a neighborhood survey on wellness and developments related to land Oct 11. topics use and transportation that could CNA Chair CNA Land Use improve life for large numbers of Robin Johnson Chair residents. 503 477-6807 George Bruender 503 287-4787

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From: Concordia Neighborhood Association speak to the issues of a wireless installation of this type Editor Contributors in a residential area. The Board was most interested that Jeff Hilber Belinda Clark To: Mayor Sam Adams residents in this area be provided “due process” in any Layout Designer Clifford Dimoff Pharoah Fluker Commissioner Dan Saltzman consideration to permit a use of this type in our area. Jeff Hilber Photo Editor Jill Muhm-Glover The Board went on to say that we are also concerned Bob Pallesen Robin Johnson City of Portland Rochelle Saliba regarding a use of this type being considered appropriate Business Manager Kelly Schneyer 1221 SW 4th Ave. in a residential location. We were made aware that, Katie Transeth Katie Transeth according to city policy, this area appears to be in a Portland, OR 97204 Suzinn Weiss location designated as a low priority – Zone 4 for siting Chris Yensan cell equipment. Concordia News is printed on 40% post-consumer, or better, paper. Dear Mayor Adams and Commissioner Saltzman: Thank you for considering our concerns. We would appreciate being notified of any future consideration or The Board of the Concordia Neighborhood Association action on this matter. held our regularly scheduled Board meeting Tuesday www.concordiapdx.org evening. A number of people attended this meeting to Sincerely, give us their input and request our assistance regarding the Visit the website of the Robin Johnson installation of a T-Mobile wireless antennae/equipment Concordia Neighborhood at 31st and Prescott Streets. According to the group, Chairperson Association for: T-Mobile began work at this location without a valid permit (they indicated that the permit had lapsed since Cc: • Community News granted a number of years ago). It is uncertain to us from • Scott Rider, Chairperson, Alameda Neighborhood • Neighborhood Information their presentation, whether or not a public process was Association • Events part of the approval at the time the original permit was • Paige Coleman, Executive Director, Northeast • Services granted. Coalition of Neighbors In any event, the Board of the Concordia neighborhood • Commissioner Amanda Fritz • Blog took action last night to encourage the City of Portland • Jennifer Li, Utility Program Manager, to require that T-Mobile submit a new application to Communications and Franchise Management www.concordiapdx.org permit the construction of a wireless antennae/equipment at this site. This new process, we trust, would then give the immediate neighbors and affected neighborhood associations (Alameda and Concordia) the opportunity to Rent the Neighborhood Community Room

The Concordia Negihborhood Association rents the Community Room to non-profit organizations for $15 per hour. For all other uses the hourly rate is $25.00. The Concordia Neighborhood Association has To reserve the Kennedy School Community room for events a nominating committee to fill vacancies on and meetings, please e-mail: the Board. [email protected] Interested residents can submit names to [email protected]. Proceeds from the room rental help fund Concordia Neighborhood Association events. September 2011 CONCORDIA NEWS Page 3

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First animated neon sign on Alberta St. Caffé Vita coffee house. Reggie Houston and the C’EX Allstars play every Sunday evening at Cannon’s Rib Express A Guide to a Fun, Safe and Photograph: Robert Pallesen Sustainable Last Thursday How to Ensure Last Thursday Continues Building Thomas Cully Park The street is closed to vehicles from 6 – 10 pm. No parking after 5 pm, May – September. Verde, a non-profit dedicated designed to create economic and to improving the economic and environmental wealth and health Open containers of alcohol are not allowed. environmental health of the benefits for a predominantly low- Every two blocks is a port-a-potty. The neighbors don’t appreciate you Cully Neighborhood through income neighborhood. watering their lawn. environmental job training is leading a community coalition to It will be located on a 25 acre Pack out your trash, and please clean up after yourself. build Thomas Cully Park at NE site, formerly operated as a sand 72nd Avenue and Killingsworth. and gravel quarry turned landfill Illegal parking is illegal, even at Last Thursday. Don’t block driveways The Cully neighborhood has the until 1991, owned by Portland Parks or alleys. smallest amount of parkland per and Recreation from a master plan developed in 2008. The main access Better yet, don’t drive. Five bus lines serve Alberta St, Line 73, 72, 9, resident of any neighborhood in 8 and 6. Portland. Cully Park represents a will be from NE 75th Avenue. More long awaited developed park in the information and questions can be Last Thursday ends at 10 pm. neighborhood and is the centerpiece directed to Tony DeFalco, 503 309- Thank you for respecting the peace of the neighborhood that hosts this of a community-based eco-district 7385, or [email protected] event. September 2011 CONCORDIA NEWS Page 4

Wellness by Kelly Schneyer

Food Allergic meal list on Friday, grocery shop it! Serve with a green on Saturday, and clean up the smoothie and some Families: Sanity kitchen Sunday morning so I can sausage, and you’ll be Saving Tips& Brain get to work. When I’m done, I raring to go for the next Boosting Recipes usually have two batches of raw several hours. energy balls, lots of muffi ns, my Summer has been a tranquil time Ingredients for our family. We’ve enjoyed hot cereal mix (recipe below), Shop Local simple meals outside, eating grilled and a few dinners in the freezer. • Equal amounts of: EAT FRESH! skewered fruit, fresh vegetables, and An investment of 3-4 hours saves • Buckwheat, marinated meats. With the school hours of sanity throughout the amaranth, & millet year starting soon, I’m feeling week. (start with 2 cups each, • Get your veggies. I have a nervous about lack of simplicity add more if desired) EASY & FUN TO SHOP • SENSIBLY PRICED that comes with having a food- motto: Keeping (some) things • A few handfuls of LOCALLY OWNED & OPERATED allergic and special needs child. the same keeps (some) things nuts and/or seeds sane. This applies to our family’s The friendliest store in town. What challenges me most of all is (choose from the www.newseasonsmarket.com keeping my son’s typically healthy vegetable consumption. I chop up following): diet intact. a lot of red cabbage and chard – • Cashews, sugar, and/or milk. stems included – and parboil them almonds, hazelnuts, walnuts, and/ • This can also be made in a crock My four year old son has Aspergers for fi ve minutes. From this batch or pumpkin seeds pot overnight on low setting. Syndrome, and diet is an integral of vegetables, I can make a green • A few handfuls of dried fruit Sloppeh Joes part of his therapy. This includes smoothie for breakfast (recipe (choose from the following): keeping all meals and snacks free below) or sauté them with garlic • Currants, raisins, (adapted from Feeding the Whole from gluten, dairy, corn, cane sugar, and ginger for dinner. I can also blueberries, and/or cranberries Family by Cynthia Lair) and many other things. One wrong sauté some shredded rotisserie • Cinnamon to taste • 2 tsp. olive oil ingredient means his speech will chicken with onion, veggies, and • Salt to taste • 1 chopped onion regress or he’ll be a hyperactive marinara sauce, and spoon the • Butter or coconut oil • 1 green pepper chopped motor mouth for several days. With mixture into a teff tortilla for an • Garnish ideas: maple syrup, • 1 clove garlic, chopped rushed mornings and longer days at easy healthy lunch. fresh fruit, yogurt, milk • ½ tsp sea salt school, I want to be sure he is eating More allergy friendly recipes and • Prep (Can be done several days • 1 (8 oz) package tempeh, foods that feed his brain and keep cooking tips can be found on my ahead): crushed, or lean ground beef, him full for longer periods of time. website: www.nutrimentalist.com. • Optional: rinse your grains, chicken, or turkey. To nourish your family and keep HIGH MILEAGE ALLERGY nuts, & seeds with water in a • 2/3 cup fruit-sweetened organic food prep simplified, here are some FRIENDLY RECIPES sieve or soak overnight. ketchup • tips for getting the most mileage out Toast your grains, nuts, and • 2 tsp whole grain mustard of your meals this upcoming school Glorious Green Smoothie seeds in a dry frying pan using • 1 tsp brown rice vinegar medium to high heat. Stir • year: This is my son’s favorite way to .5 tsp cloves frequently to avoid burning. • 4 gluten free hamburger buns. • Cook once. Use twice or more. drink his veggies. Think of this as • Transfer mixture into a food green applesauce mixed with juice. Alternately, use lettuce, gluten Double recipes as your budget processor or blender to grind nuts, free English muffi ns, or teff allows. This applies to roasting In a blender, add two handfuls of seeds and grains. parboiled vegetables (see above), tortillas (gluten free!). meats, parboiling vegetables, • Transfer mixture into a bowl. Heat oil in a 10” skillet. Add onion, and making desserts. Store 2 cups of water, 1/3 cup honey, 2 Add cinnamon, and dried fruit. chopped apples or pears, and 1 to 2 pepper, garlic, and salt; sauté until leftovers in small or large storage • This mixture can be stored in an soft. Add tempeh or meat to onion containers in the freezer and label lemons (juiced). Blend until smooth airtight container for a few weeks. and creamy. Add more water for mixture; let brown. Mix ketchup, with freezer tape. They can be • Cook (can be done day of or mustard, vinegar and cloves in a converted into something else, desired consistency. Add more night before): honey or apple to sweeten. small bowl. Add to tempeh mixture, quickly thawed and added to • Fill a pot with grains and water mixing well. Warm buns in oven or someone’s lunch, or put in the Gluten Free Three Grain Cereal using a 1:2 ratio (1 cup cereal to tortillas in a skillet. Spoon mixture oven for dinner another night. 2 cups water, for example). Add onto buns or wrap and serve with • Block out ‘cooking frenzy’ This breakfast cereal is a family 1 tsp salt per 1 cup cereal and 1 T your favorite garnish. time. When I’m on top of my favorite. I make a giant batch of fat to prevent sticking. game, Sunday afternoons are it at night while I am doing dishes, • Bring to a boil, then reduce heat blocked out for making snack and have enough dry mix to last use and stir occasionally. Cook for 10 Kelly Schneyer is a practising holistic 2-3 weeks in a large container. It is health counselor with a focus on family and breakfast foods for the week. - 15 minutes. Add more water if health and nutrition and a member of If I’m up for it, I’ll also make a packed with protein and fiber, low necessary. the CNA Wellness committee. double batch of a casserole or glycemic and Candida friendly and • Serve! Add fresh fruit, maple soup. This means I make my is completely gluten free. Kids love syrup, yogurt, raw cocao coconut Please Take Th e Wellness Survey Poets Available on line in the Concordia The wellness committee has in local businesses in the Concordia wellness events please contact: neighborhood been hard at work! We want to Neighborhood and by going to the Submit your poems provide information and services following link: Jill Muhm at healthymuhm@gmail. for the December that neighbors will find useful and com http://tinyurl.com/cna-wellness CNews issue. Dead- interesting – and in order to do - - that, we need to know what you Once we get an idea of the kinds of Jill Muhm-Glover chairs the CNA line is November 1. want! So we created a survey that services you’d like us to provide, Wellness committee Please type ‘poem’ in Holistic Health Coaching should only take you a few minutes you can be sure to start hearing www.healthymuhm.com the subject line. to fill out. Tell us how we can about our progress in creating them! concordianews best work for you! Please look for For more information about the surveys at the Sunday Parkway Fair, survey or about potential upcoming @yahoo.com September 2011 CONCORDIA NEWS Page 5 Block Party Success by Katie Transeth REMODELING IN YOUR …Where was I? Oh that’s right, telling you NEIGHBORHOOD about the process of planning a block party. In SINCE 2004 the previous article, I explained that one needs to have a petition signed by all of your neighbors okaying that the streets will be closed and the party is happening, a permit from the city, and to reserve blockades . So what was the next step? www.recrafthome.com • 503.680.0939 Well, waiting for the permit, planning a party and Licensed, Bonded, Insured • CCB #160319 the hope of a successful first block party result. Admittedly, I like to plan parties. Okay, “like” is Paul Lyons not the best word choice. ”LOVE” is the most HAIR STUDIO appropriate word. So I thought having all the London Educated neighbors over to discuss the interworkings of this Vidal Sassoon first block party was a fabulous idea. However, a Mike, Justin and Nonga seize the moment Cut & Color Specialist quick dose of reality of my, daughter’s first cold, and the available grill space to cook up some delectable bites. a major sprained ankle and time got away from me. T minus 14 days and I realized that I had a problem. I knew only a handful of neighbors and could count on them for some of the essential items. However my inner party planner began to panic. Thoughts raced through my mind like professional “What if we don’t have enough grills, tables, too products and services many potato salads.” Just then my neighbors, at fair prices Matthew and Tanya, stopped by on their evening 25% off bike ride to share what they had been hearing from first service our neighbors. For one, everyone was excited. One neighbor even has a completely vegetarian 4562 NE 36th Avenue/Portland. OR/97211 grill. I eat meat, but I love this! They detailed 503 709 2946/[email protected] by appointment only a few more things that set my inner planner at ease and I delivered a flyer that said: “We will be tthe week before and we were able to enjoy the setting up at 4 o’clock for block party day. Bring parade and even a refreshing IPA in the beer your ideas, a dish to share and be ready to share a Dustin and son, Asher, take a break and switch garden. By 5:00, we had the five BBQs full of grill, a table, chair etc”. Sometimes you just need the ping pong table to a dinner table. food, surrounded by our neighbors. to let things be organic and magically it all was. Photographs: Katie Transeth What fun! How many times a year can we do Nine days till the block party and I received Hallelujah! The party was on. The week slowly this? a lovely voice message from the city that our passed until the day of the party. Because it fell on permit was approved and was put in the mail. the same day as the Alberta Street Fair, I prepped

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HORSIN’ AROUND 63. Kitchen cloth 50. One of the Ingalls’ work-horses from Little 56. Lennon’s lady 64. Col. Potter’s horse (from MASH TV series) House On The Prairie 57. Mind-reading letters In honor of my horse, Teaspoon, this month’s 65. The Cisco Kid’s horse 52. The slide doesn’t lower completely, in gun 58. Indonesian word for tea puzzle contains famous horse names from lingo (Abbr.) 60. “See, it ___ who created the blacksmith . . movies/TV and literature. DOWN 53. A young colt .” (Isaiah verse) ACROSS 1. Tom Mix’s horse 54. Xena’s horse from Xena: Warrior Princess 61. “Gotcha!” 1. Hopalong Cassidy’s horse 2. Walkie-talkie word 55. Peg Leg ___ (Children’s book about horses 7. Richard Boone’s horse from Have Gun Will 3. Church benches by Martin Duffy) Travel 4. Paid athlete 13. Too pudgy? 5. Rural land zoning code (Abbr.) 15. Old-fashioned aircraft 6. The Rifleman’s horse 16. Freshly made Greek aperitif? 7. A Horse from Ben Hur 17. Took no notice 8. Sleep disorders 18. It takes a hundred to make a cent. 9. Character from Alice TV series 19. Collection agents’ words 10. Road paving substance 21. Mesoamerican flatbread 11. Compass dir. 23. Norma ___ (1979 film) 12. ___ Fox (Jesse James’s horse) 26. Astonish 14. Emphasizes the merits of 28. Bulgaria’s Eng. Lang. news 15. Medieval weapon 29. Odor 20. Circular irons 31. Shallow Gulf between Trinidad and 21. Slow-moving aquatic reptile Venezuela 22. “I’m ___!” 33. ___ Scott Heron (self-named “bluesologist”) 23. Make bigger or smaller 35. ___ Bayram (Miss Germany 2005) 24. Lonely in Holland 36. Mattie Ross’s horse in True Grit 25. Book of ___ (2010 movie) 39. Where to get a book in Cape Town? (Abbr.) 26. “Splish-___ I was takin’ a bath . . .” 40. Brian ___ of Roxy Music 27. ___ Duthus (long-running Scottish 41. Thin material football club) 42. First generation Japanese 30. Brotherhood of ___ (Bionicle 44. Single pilot aircraft (Abbr.) species) 46. British WWII submachine gun 32. Schooner filler 47. Singapore time zone 34. Fall behind 48. Concept for a short play? 37. Surround 51. Sheldon ___ (on-and-off member of rock’s 38. It follows book or suit Adler’s Appetite) 39. Small drink 52. Ag. club for youngsters 43. Connecting strips of land surrounded 55. “And desire shall fail, because man ___ his by water long home . . .” (Ecclesiastes verse) 45. Holy war 59. Pilot 49. The Kid’s horse in The Young Riders 62. Anagram of SIN MENU TV series September 2011 CONCORDIA NEWS Page 6 The Importance of Family by Pharoah Fluker

As I thought about the above subject, older, I learn that family makes a don’t forget about true friends, I ran across some words that caught great impact on my life because they they are like family and they can my attention: are one of my biggest influences. I play an important role in your life. can rely on them. No matter what “If you are already a successful happens throughout my life or what So even if you don’t live in a person, then it only underlines the challenges I face, like with school, two parent home or with your importance of family and the values I know that I will always have a biological mother and father, if you inherited by you” solid support system in my mother, have people that love you and care dad, sister, grandparents, aunts and for you and share goals and dreams, I felt it had meaning and I could then you have family. relate. “My family is why I I like spending time alone, reading, As I look at the world around me playing video games and sometimes and think about the future, I can am in this world.” just to think, but I also like to Photograph by Belinda Clark also remember some of my earlier have fun and laugh at silly things beginnings, you know, when I was uncles; all of them are there for me. Family togetherness gives me the about one or two years old. Family I know that all of them have a wide chance to enjoy the fun things life Trash-ion Trends teaches you priceless lessons, like range of personalities and this also has to offer and at the same time a tying your shoelaces and putting allows for various conflicts among feeling of being safe. Talking about on Alberta your shoes on the right foot, toilet us. But because of my family, I safety, it’s one of the golden rules in Have you noticed the new trash cans training, how to use the silverware am learning to deal with conflict my household. In other words, you on Alberta (see picture)? I’ve been properly, how to put on your clothes. and manage problems effectively can’t go any where without family looking at them and noticed they I can recall a number of times in order to fairly resolve them. For knowing where you are going, who have an interesting feature: holes putting on my shirt with the tag example, my Omi and dad had a you are with and your every location. on top. Initially, I thought this must showing on the outside and I can difficult time finding another job I guess when family care and they have been an accident and the holes hear my mother, “Sweetheart, I can and they were frustrated, but they are trying to teach you how to use were too small. In asking about see the tag. Where did I say the tag didn’t give up. your brain and understand and cope them, I was told these holes are belongs?” I think family is a very important with the world, to them the rules are “cup holders” and intentional. They My family helps me in becoming part of everyone’s life, that why not trivial. are intended to help with sorting of recyclables, and give our local a better person and boosts my you need to take care of each My family is why I am in this confidence from time to time other. And of course there is my gleaners an opportunity to collect world and if I lost them, I would be the redeemable bottles and cans. through their affection, appreciation, extended family. Unfortunately, I crushed. a sense of belonging, and of course have not seen as much of my Please help keep our neighborhood love. They have taught me what extended family lately. Not as Pharoah is a teenager in the Concordia clean by using the trash receptacles. love is and how to love. As I get Neighborhood much as I would like too. And Belinda Clark, neighborhood recycler. September 2011 CONCORDIA NEWS Page 7

Updates from Friends of Last Thursday

We hope you’re having fun in the sun this [email protected] summer! The Friends of Last Thursday team is excited to announce what we’re Too Loud? doing to make Last Thursday great! We’re dialing in our sound compliance Freinds of LT represents a broad spectrum of component in order to ensure Last Thursday residents, businesses, vendors, performers, volume is in tune with neighborhood visitors and passionate people working to needs. Street performers are asked to ensure community ownership and fiscal limit audibility to a 100ft range. “If I can oversight of Last Thursday. Our goal is a hear you a 1/2 block away, please turn it vibrant neighborhood event that positively down,” warns our friendly Ambassador impacts all stakeholders. (twice) before calling the on duty Noise Ordinance Officer. A ticket for the offense Become an Ambassador! runs $500 per each offending musician/DJ. We enjoy listening to the great musicians We need your help to keep Last Thursday who serenade us during the event and we TOO MUCH, TOO FAST, TOO SOON free, fair & respectful! Consider joining our thank them for hearing our message! Ambassador team. We have shifts, before, “Simplify Your Child’s Life” Through coaching and during and after the event. It’s a blast! Thank You! Tavi and the Cruz Room for parenting groups, Yvonne Here’s how it works: A pair of Ambassadors your contribution. The garbage bill is paid! Simplicity Parenting coach, helps parents simplify their will be assigned to a 2 block area during Leader Parent coach and routines and lives, allowing the 6 to 10 pm street closure to help Meet and Greet group leader Yvonne de parents to see an improvement Maat shares the simplicity artists, vendors, musicians, and participants Want to reach the Friends of Last Thursday in their child’s behavior. have a fun, safe and sustainable Last formula with parents in a new The simplicity parenting face to face? Are you a potential volunteer, workshop series starting this Thursday. Ambassadors keep sidewalks do you have a question, comment, concern philosophy teaches that many clear, check food vendors, communicate fall. Yvonne became a trained of today’s child behavior or hug for us? Come talk to us the 1st Simplicity Parenting Coach LT expectations, mediate disputes, and aid Wednesday of every month, May thru Oct. problems come from TMS - in moving vendors along at the close of the this summer and has been a Too Much Stuff. at 7:30 pm, Talisman Gallery, 1476 NE Waldorf teacher for 20 years. event. Ambassadors are also a link to city & Alberta St. county agencies. Please feel free to call on Simplicity Parenting is for “Many of today’s behavioral all families living in today’s them if you are in need of assistance during Take our Survey issues come from children the event and keep our lead Ambassador modern, fast-paced American Please visit our website, having too much stuff and phone number handy to call or text at any culture. lastthursdayonalberta.com and take our living a life that is too fast” time: 503-888-2934. Community Survey. Your feedback is vital Yvonne de Maat runs a neigh- borhood pre-school: HEARTIN- Next Ambassador training: Sept. 22, 7 pm, to our success! Happy Last Thursday! HANDPRESCHOOL.COM Talisman Gallery, 1476 NE Alberta. September 2011 CONCORDIA NEWS Page 8

KENNEDY SCHOOL ... THE DARK SIDE by Clifford Dimoff

Remembering some items that might twisted minds of my classmates and was to create a noise-maker by throw blackboard erasers at it to get not be on your back to school list. I used the feathers to make darts by straightening a flat hair-pin, bending it swinging. Once someone tossed taping a straight pin onto them. It it at about one-third of its’ length in an eraser that missed the swan and Much has been written about was amazing how accurately they a right angle, then about one-third hit the substitute teacher, who had Kennedy School, but until now could be thrown, and it was not of its’ length further, bending it in his back turned. We were fortunate the focus of the writing has been unusual at all for another kid to be an opposite right angle. We would there were no squealers, because primarily on how the school came the target. then wedge one end of this device being sent to the principal’s office into being and the notable principals between the cast-iron support form was not a pleasant experience. and teachers, however it has hardly Another way of launching a and the wooden top of our desks scratched the surface of the daily projectile was by putting a rubber inside the storage compartment When the school was in operation, routine experienced by those of us band between two fingers held in a where they could not be seen. Then the restrooms for both boys and girls who went to school there. This V-shape like a sling-shot and using by reaching in and plucking it gently went from the front hall to the back, article is written to expose once and it to shoot what we called spit- with a finger it would vibrate against the front halves having standard for all the applied nonsense of our wads, which were made by rolling the bottom of the desk top, making size fixtures and the back equipped creative juvenile minds. a strip of paper a subtle but very with tiny little ones suitable for into a tight roll, annoying buzzing/ use by the little children in the Some of the things we did took then bending it “...our teachers lower grades. When McMenamin’s place in the classrooms, and others twanging sound. them half. Yet apparently imparted We would often acquired the property the boys’ at various places in the school or another weapon bathroom was modified by placing on the grounds. Among those that enlist a classmate in our arsenal some knowledge who sat in separate small bars at opposite ends and could take place almost anywhere was pea- dividing the middle part into both was the practice of collecting Levi without us even being part of the room to shooters, which also put one into men’s and women’s restrooms, with tags, which was something all the were nothing doors opening into the long hallway cool guys tried to do. So anyone aware of it.” action, so if the but plastic tubes teacher looked or connecting the front hall to the (who was smaller than you) wearing that we used to back. The girls’ restroom which ran a pair of Levi Jeans with the tag still came in your direction, your buddy blow virtually anything that would would twang his to confuse and parallel to the boys’, with the front intact on the right rear pocket, was fit into them. opening at the top of the ramp, was fair game for having it ripped out mislead her. This was an especially effective tactic used on substitute closed for public use and converted and added to your collection. The desks in use at that time were into the company brew house. constructed of open cast-iron sides teachers. A non-profit public aid society called with slanted wooden desk-tops If the opportunity presented itself Community Chest was in practice in Since the desk-tops were slanted we with a storage area beneath the top also used them to create a pin-ball when we were at school in the those days, who gave a red feather to for books and paper. One of the evenings for cub scout or boy scout anyone donating to their cause. The machine by using modeling clay to non-aggressive pranks we pulled edge the top surface, make curved meetings a great thrill for us was to pockets, and hold a rubber band run through the girls’ restroom from on the right front corner of the the front hallway to the back, and desk which was used to launch McMenamin’s honored this tradition a marble or other small round by having the image of a running object. boy painted on the new brew house wall when it was converted. My best friend modeled the upper torso of two boxers in clay with Considering all the diverse and their fists extended, and affixed disruptive nonsense we dreamt up it them to the end of pencils. By seems a wonder we learned anything holding his hands in the book worthwhile at all …but we must storage space and sticking the have absorbed something in spite boxers up through the hole in the of ourselves, because many of us top right-hand corner of the desk went on to successful high school, top (originally intended to hold college, and business careers. One an ink-well), he would spin the of my classmates became student pencils back and forth making body president in high school, them appear as if they were and others reached the top levels punching each other. of their chosen professions, so our teachers apparently imparted some Mrs. Palmer, the science teacher, knowledge without us even being had a stuffed swan with its’ aware of it. wings extended hanging from Please send any improvements to these the ceiling in the center of her techniques to Clifford at CNews. room. If she was called away from the room, or if there was a substitute teacher, we would

Still bothered by the noise? A Reminder: As reported in past issues of CNews, the re-construction of the South runway at the Portland Airport, just north of the Concordia neighborhood, will conclude in October. At that time the large turbo- prop airplanes will no longer fly over the neighborhood; resuming their normal east - west landing pattern on the South runway. If you need more clarification, call the noise Management Hotline at 503-460-4100. September 2011 CONCORDIA NEWS Page 9 Artist Spotlight Flora Bowley www.florasbowley.com I thought that being Tell us about your art. a full time I am an acrylic painter. I’ve been painter was painting for 15 years. My style has my dream developed over the years, because I job. I got am not really interested in doing the there about same thing over and over again. I try 7 years to do something new on every piece. ago. After This is a layered process. Acrylic a few years paint dries fast. The beginning is I began to really chaotic, explosive, a purging. feel a little As the layers build up I step back isolated more, I make more choices. I look and maybe for something to emerge. I never not making know what the painting is going as big of a to be ahead of time. I don’t sketch difference before hand. I like to let it surprise as I wanted. I connected me and not be something I am is not working, looking with a woman who runs a company attached to before I start. It keeps for the portal back into called Papaya. I mentioned that I Witnessing Skies of Birds, 48” x 60” me more in the moment of creating, the painting. Painting might want to start teaching. She finding happy accidents, letting the on bigger canvases also wrote a blog post about my art and painting emerge as I go. It keeps the tends to free up their Photographs supplied by Flora Bowley the next day I had a full in-box pressure exciting for me. technique. from people who wanted to take Last Thursday, now I like to be part I went to three schools all in a workshop. I was invited to New What brought you to Portland? of the crowd. I noticed last month Colorado. I didn’t have a focused Hampshire to teach. Since then I that it seemed more diverse with art school experience. I was doing a have taught 15 three-day workshops After spending 6 months in New more people from the neighborhood lot of art, but I was really interested in the past year, all over the world. Orleans after Katrina, I was ready for participating. in snowboarding. This next year I want to teach longer a new place, still in the Northwest, workshops that offer more time for but not Seattle, so Portland was a This past year has taken me so many Do you use your experience in immersion. natural choice. I love hanging out on directions that I am looking forward other ways besides painting? Alberta Street and riding my bike to to being at home. I miss painting. Who attends your workshops? I’ve been teaching all year and Fernhill Park. I have shown my art at writing a book. I get full time painters and people who have never painted. The first The book is called “Brave Intuitive thing we do is eyes-closed finger- Painting”. It is partly about my painting to music. I try to get people approach to creativity: being brave into moving from the heart, to get out and letting things unfold. Heavier of their heads. I include lots of yoga on the philosophical approach rather and stretching. Then we try different than how to do it. tools to create an understanding that In the workshops it is about you nothing is permanent. We work on finding your voice. what is working, rather than what Solution to September crossword September 2011 CONCORDIA NEWS Page 10

A Time To Plant by Suzinn Weiss

September Garden – a great time to garden again

.After the lazy daze of August plants’ energy for next years crop. to moist soil invited us to relax and enjoy the • Plant winter cover of annual rye beneath heuchera, heat, (finally) the cooler days of or winter peas in any “resting” rhododendrons and September are the perfect time to beds. azaleas that show tackle the gardening ‘to do’ list. In the ornamental garden root weevil damage (notched leaves). Many flowering bulbs including • In the edible garden Plant, divide or transplant • Dampwood termites begin Crocus, daffodils, tulips, lilies & woody ornamentals and mature alliums. • flying late this month. Make sure Do a tomato dance for a herbaceous perennials. Fall sunny September so that all that your home is free of wet wood or The best way to grow healthy planting of trees, shrubs and places where wood and soil are in green fruit will ripen before the perennials can encourage healthy drought tolerant plants is to have temperatures drop again. Harvest contact. well drained soil and to plant new root growth over the winter. • Prune any branches close or on and enjoy fresh or learn to • Plant daffodils, tulips, lilies, additions in late fall or early spring preserve this delicious crop before the outer walls and windows. so that you can take advantage of all alliums and crocus for spring Sources: OSU Extension and Seattle frost. bloom. the free water we are so fortunate to • Tilth Harvest winter squash when the Lawns: receive. “ground spot” changes from white It may be dry in September Suzinn has a drought tolerant garden • to a cream or gold color. (Early-September): Apply 1 lb. (let’s hope so anyway), but that in her parking strip. • Harvest potatoes when the tops nitrogen per 1,000 sq.ft. to lawns. doesn’t mean you have to water die down. Store them in a dark Reduce risks of run-off into local as much as you think you do. I location. waterways by not fertilizing often see folks watering plants • Before planting fall crops, turn just prior to rain, and not over- that, once established, are perfectly & harvest finished compost and irrigating so that water runs off of drought tolerant. Surprisingly even amend your garden plot. lawn and onto sidewalk or street. Portland’s venerable rose can take • • You can now sow new lettuce, Stop irrigating your lawn after drought and bloom beautifully spinach, radishes, shell or snow Labor Day to suppress European peas as well as parsley and root crane fly populations. For full sun, here’s my short list on crops like rutabagas and turnips • Optimal time for establishing a what not to water: for late fall harvest. new lawn is August through Mid- • Plant starts for winter hardy September. Woody herbs such as rosemary, greens such as kale, mustard, • Aerate lawns. lavender and many types of sage. collards, chard & broccoli. Houseplants and Indoor Perennials: Agastache (a • Sow & mulch carrot, parsnip, Gardening hummingbird favorite), Agapanthus, and beets for winter harvesting. • Clean houseplants, check Asclepias (Butterfly weed), Baptisia, • Reserve a place in your garden Caryopteris, Daylilies, Dianthus, for October planting of garlic, for insects, repot and fertilize if necessary; then bring them Gaillardia, Gaura, Helenium shallots & onions. autumnale, Helianthemum, • Remove any dying strawberry indoors. Maintenance and Clean Up Rudbeckia and Zauschneria to name leaves and divide plants. Cut off but a few. runners to conserve the mother • Apply beneficial nematodes Salt & Straw, opening day for the ice cream scoop shop on Alberta St. (L-R) Ian Kane, Lauren Vermaas, with owners: Your Child Can Have Health Coverage Kim and Tyler Malek by Rachel Gilmer Photograph: CNews

Today, the challenges faced by The Urban League has taken on prescriptions and more. Children will parents have never been greater. several initiatives to get the word not be turned away due to preexisting Many working families are out to families that their child or conditions or be put on a waiting list. struggling to just make ends meet teen can have health coverage. No family makes too much money in this difficult economy. However, They partner with community for Healthy Kids. Parent’s income we know that when our children are organizations, faith-based groups, will determine whether a child is healthy, they are equipped with the community assistance programs and eligible for the no-cost, low-cost tools they need to guarantee their the Housing Authority, conducting or full-cost coverage option. For success. That’s why Healthy Kids, radio and print advertising as well example, a family of four that earns Oregon’s no-cost & low-cost health as talking to families through mass as much as $67,200 a year may coverage program for uninsured transit and door-to-door canvassing. qualify for low-cost coverage. kids and teens has partnered with the Those interested in volunteering Urban League of Portland, to make to help get kids health coverage, For more information, to enroll, sure every child in the state has should contact the Urban League! or for volunteer opportunities with access to health insurance parents Healthy Kids, please contact Rachel can afford. Healthy Kids provides no-cost Gilmer, Healthy Kids Coordinator and low-cost health coverage for at the Urban League by phone at The Urban League of Portland is uninsured Oregon children and teens 503.280.2600 ext.630, by email at helping families apply for Healthy up to their 19 birthday. Coverage [email protected] or in-person at Kids coverage. Families can make lasts for one full year and covers 10 N. Russell St, Portland Oregon The first Salt & Straw customers appointments with Urban League all health needs, including doctor 97227. We look forward to hearing at the new shop. staff to meet at their home or visits and check-ups, dental, vision, from you! (L-R) Ally Nkwocha, Ian wherever is most convenient. mental or behavioral health services, Petersen, Sarah Parker Photograph: CNews September 2011 CONCORDIA NEWS Page 11

Restaurant Spotlight by Jeff Hilber

Cannon’s Rib Express, Smoked Treats and Vegetarian Fare, 26 years in Concordia

5410 NE 33rd Ave. be here for at least another 5 years, BBQ sauce. “I make 971 270-2464 “That’s when our lease is up. 24 gallons a week. The Open at 11 a.m. everyday, Expanding is hard because there are last thing Chuck gave weekends til 10 p.m., so many BBQ carts. At least they me was the recipe for weekdays til 9 p.m. can’t park close to me here.” the BBQ sauce. He just handed me a piece of Located in the New Seasons parking paper with the recipe.” Wayne Cannon bought this business lot, a few years ago Wayne started in October of 1995 from Chuck offering vegetarian fare. “With New In addition, Cannon’s Hinton, when he first moved to Seasons and all of the health minded serves chicken and Portland from San Jose, CA where people, we changed all of the side catfish. He will also sell he had been bartending for 30 yrs. “I dishes. And they taste better now. you the sauce to take was waiting for a job interview and I We have eliminated all of the meat home. picked up the paper, saw the for-sale in them.” ad for a BBQ business. That’s how Wayne credits the I met Chuck. He had it for 10 years. There is a Veggie bowl and the neighborhood for his This business has been around for Veggie sampler along with side success, “I almost didn’t (l to r) Frank Baker, Mr. Cannon, 26 years.” dishes of red beans, rice, potato buy this business because Reggie Johnson salad, corn on the cob, cole slaw, there were no books. My Photograph: Robert Pallesen After they closed the deal, “He greens (mustard and collards), all tax guy told me to sit [Chuck] gave me all of his recipes with a vegetarian base. outside and see what and his cooking style. Everything happens. And I tell you; originated in the Concordia Wayne has six employees; this I almost didn’t buy it neighborhood. We might be the summer he hired two school kids. because after dark all oldest BBQ place in Portland. I Everyone walking by the restaurant of the monsters came learned it all from Chuck. He stayed has heard the live jazz music. Wayne out. Now you can walk with me for four months and taught says, “Been going on for five years the streets any time me the in and outs of the business.” now.” Janice Scroggins, Reggie and feel safe. People used to drive through When the developer for New Houston and the C’EX Allstars play this area and not even Seasons asked the neighborhood every Sunday, 5 to 8 p.m. through the stop. The neighborhood what businesses they wanted to stay; end of September. “It is something is so different now. their response was for OLCC and everyone looks forward to.” This is one of the this BBQ restaurant. The main stay of any BBQ restaurant finest neighborhoods Wayne is the unofficial information is the ribs. “We use hickory and in Portland. The booth for the neighborhood. “I get mesquite charcoal. You get two neighborhood support asked all the time about the Concordia different smoke tastes. Between the has kept me going even Neighborhood. 70% of our business smoker and the grill it takes about during the lean years. is from the neighborhood.” four hours to prepare.” I want to thank the Frank Baker checking the pork ribs in the neighborhood for their smoker He and his co-owner have been Wayne serves beef and pork ribs support.” Photograph: Robert Pallesen talking about expanding, but will covered with mild, medium or hot

Sunday Parkways – September 25th See You There by George Bruender

Walk. Bike. Run. Stroll. Saunter. you decide to bow out. The main Church congregation Skate. Strut. Dance. Exercise. Push streets are Ainsworth and Going to march en masse baby vehicles. Just come out on paralleled with 13th/17th and Cully through our streets. Sunday, September 25th, rain or Blvd so it encompasses practically Empty the college shine, between noon and 5:00, and all of Concordia and then some, 8 dorms. Get the school meet your neighbors and enjoy all miles total of streets. Remember kids together. Abandon Shelton McComb a new investor in the the activities along the route. This that Ainsworth was once going your computers and business with Mr. Cannon. is the 3rd annual Sunday Parkways to be part of a city-wide system coffee shops for a couple Photograph: Robert Pallesen and the 3rd for the Concordia of boulevards with people going of hours. Walk and bike neighborhood. The idea is to get on Sunday strolls in their Sunday with a group of friends the major streets will be closed, families and singletons out of their best. And this year, all of Going and relatives. And enjoy your volunteers stationed at specific homes and out of their cars and to and sections of Holman have just neighbors and neighborhood. intersections will help you manage take a leisurely trip through our been turned into neighborhood to get to and from your homes; Sponsors this year include: the neighborhood, seeing everything greenways. A little restoration of the however, why not postpone car trips Portland Bureau of Transportation, first hand and up close on auto-free “old times” that perhaps never was. and become a participant. streets. Kaiser Permanente, Portland Parks, Last year we had thousands take and Concordia University. George is the chair of CNA Land Use You can join the loop of closed the trek and thousands have already Committee. Attend this event to see him streets from anywhere you decide turned out for the other Parkways this Just a note to residents living in on a bicycle. to jump in the loop to anywhere summer. We suggest you get your the affected areas: Even though June 2011 CONCORDIA NEWS Page 12

NEFP - Northeast Emergency Food Northeast Portland Tool Library, Program. The First Annual Labor We have tasks that require a variety Day Rummage Sale, Labor Day, of skill sets; no prior tool knowledge Monday September 5, 2011 8 a.m.-3 required! Volunteering is a great p.m. 4800 NE 72nd Avenue, between opportunity to learn about different Killingsworth and Prescott at Wygant, types of tools, tool maintenance, and Contact: Jeni Boussard, (503) 284- is a way to get to know other members 5470, E-mail: [email protected] of your community. NE Portland Tool Howard Kenyon, Program Library 5431 NE 20th Avenue, www. Manager, Jennifer Broussard, neptl.org, 503 539-1756 Project Coordinator at NEFP at Luther Memorial is open Portland’s Seed Library resides to clients from 1 to 4 p.m. on inside the NEPTL. Stop in during tool Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. library hours to find seeds to plant or Robert Blake, Program Coordinator at contribute seeds you’ve saved. Learn Genesis, NE 27th and Killingsworth is more at http://portlandseedlibrary. open to clients every Thursday from 5 com/ to 7 p.m. and every third Saturday Columbia Slough Watershed Council’s from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. http://www. Aquifer Adventure: a pirate-themed emoregon.org/NE_food_program.php groundwater treasure hunt on Saturday, Fernhill Park will be the site of the September 17, 12:00 – 4:00 p.m. Portland World Cup September NE 166th at Airport Way, Free! Big 3-5. This free, all-volunteer Labor Day and little pirates alike are welcome Weekend event is organized through to join the Portland Water Bureau the Voz Workers Rights Education and the Columbia Slough Watershed Project. In its second year, it combines Council for a family festival all about soccer with a health/multicultural fair. groundwater! Play fun games and go Concordia residents are invited to on a canoe ride in search of hidden attend and participate. There are many treasure - not gold, but groundwater, opportunities for volunteers and other a precious resource that flows beneath non-profit organizations. For more your feet! Come dressed in yer information: finest pirate togs, or else the Cap’n might make ye walk the plank. Live www.portlandworldcup.org. music from 1-3 p.m., free t-shirts or Eric Berg, Volunteer, Portland for kids. More information at www. World Cup, 503 784-1197 columbiaslough.org or 503 281-1132. Portland Storyteller Guild presents The 6th annual Green Sprouts “Storython”--a rollicking evening Organic Baby and Family Festival, of 5-minute stories told by guild presented by The ReDirect Guide, members. Saturday, September Sunday, September 25, 10 a.m. – 5 10, from 7:00 to 9:00 P.M. at the p.m. at Peninsula Park, 700 N Rosa McMenamin’s Kennedy School in Parks Blvd. Families come celebrate the Community Room. Suggested a greener lifestyle! 100+ Vendors, donation: $5.00/adults, $4.00/c ldren Music, Activities & Seminars focusing 9 and older, $10.00/families. Join us on holistic pregnancy, childbirth, for a lively, fun evening. healthy and non-toxic homes, The 7th annual Vegfest will be held green products and early education. at the Oregon Convention Center Featuring the Cotton Babies Diaper September 17-18, featuring Dr. Neal Dash, Baby and Children’s Clothing Barnhard and other speakers, chef Swap, Setting the World Record demos, 100 exhibitors, free food for the Most Person’s Wearing samples and local restaurants. www. Baby Carriers and Alma Midwifery portlandvegfest.org Education & Movement Seminar Series. Admission to the festival is free. www.GreenSproutsFest.com

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