Countdown to kickoff High school teams gear up for football season — See Sports, Page B1 FRIDAY, AUGUST 30, 2013 • THE HILLSBORO LEADER IN NEWS • WWW.HILLSBOROTRIBUNE.COM • VOL. 02, NO. 29 • FREE Driver charged with manslaughter ing and killing 11-year-old ment” is relatively common- that Thursday, Kylie Hornych, Hillsboro man jailed Kylie Hornych. place. a fifth-grade student at Che- in death of Kylie On Aug. 22, the grand jury “It’s just not letting people halem Elementary School, was handed down a secret indict- know their case is before the in her front yard in the 5200 Hornych, 11 ment charging David Alan Her- grand jury until we go to his block of 160th Avenue. She was man, 59, with second-degree house and arrest him,” said talking to neighbors about a By DOUG BURKHARDT manslaughter and reckless Ray. “It happens all the time. science project she was work- The Hillsboro Tribune driving. Washington County It’s just not letting the cat out ing on when Herman’s car, a Sheriff’s Offi ce deputies arrest- of the bag. We don’t want peo- 2007 Prius, went off the road, A Washington County ed Herman at his Hillsboro ple making our jobs harder for crossed a sidewalk and struck grand jury has returned an residence at 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. us.” Hornych. indictment against a Hills- 23. The arrest comes in the Daniel Lorenz, a Portland at- boro motorist who crashed According to Sgt. Bob Ray of wake of the fatal collision on torney representing Kylie’s into a residential yard in the Washington County Sher- April 4 that took a young girl’s KYLIE HORNYCH Aloha earlier this year, strik- iff’s Office, a “secret indict- life. At approximately 5 p.m. See DRIVER / Page A9 DAVID ALAN HERMAN Barley, the mascot of the Hillsboro Hops minor league baseball team, prepares to go into a crosswalk as a decoy pedestrian during a safety program sponsored by the Hillsboro Police Department last week. Behind Barley, Offi cer Scott Hanley watches from his motorcycle to make sure motorists stop. HILLSBORO TRIBUNE PHOTO: DOUG BURKHARDT HILLSBORO TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHASE ALLGOOD Natalie Sept, district representative for U.S. Rep. Suzanne Bonamici (D-Ore.) in Washington County, spends her off-hours at Falcon Art Community in northeast Portland, where she creates vivid portraits of workers she has encountered at home and abroad. Her website is nataliesept.com. Artist brings the right brain to Bonamici beat Natalie Sept blends creative, practical sides in dual life By NANCY TOWNSLEY The Hillsboro Tribune If Natalie Sept was able to buy a house at the corner of Left Brain Boulevard and Right Brain Lane, it would be the perfect place for her to live — and perhaps to blend Arts guide inside her practical and creative This week’s Hillsboro Tribune fea- sides. tures the 2013 Washington County As it turns out, the 29-year- Fall Arts Guide, brimming with old aide to U.S. Rep. Suzanne information about exhibitions, Bonamici (D-Ore.) has made plays, stage productions and quite a down payment on that more. We encourage you to set it dream already. aside as your roadmap to arts and In the last decade, Sept, a culture this autumn. Sellwood resident, graduated from Guilford College in North Carolina with a bachelor of fi ne dle school students aimed at arts degree in painting, spent collecting bikes for kids in Af- six months in India studying rica who had no way to get anthropology and Hindi and created a music video with mid- See SEPT / Page A2 Questions spring from Caught in the CROSSWALK water board’s vote Use of Willamette Washington County took a ■ Safety campaign gets boost from Hops’ mascot major step forward on Aug. River as Hillsboro 22 when the board of the Tu- alatin Valley Water District By DOUG BURKHARDT Thursday morning, Barley — could get run over if motorists water source likely (TVWD) voted to join with The Hillsboro Tribune the mascot for the Hillsboro did not follow the law and stop “Traffi c issues are the Hillsboro in supporting the Hops baseball team — began for someone — or something, By JIM REDDEN project. “We promise you won’t get his fi rst adventure in law en- in this case — stepping into a number one livability The Hillsboro Tribune The district already has the run down.” forcement. crosswalk. issue I hear about from right to draw water from the With those reassuring words Barley had been requested Time after time, with several A plan to tap the Willa- river. The ordinance approved from Hillsboro Police Depart- for an undercover role, posing neighborhood groups.” mette River as a second ment Lt. 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Dozens of around except on foot. doing half of what she loved — canvases fi ll her tidy studio in- “We were focusing on the im- making art — but the other side the Falcon Art Community pact of bicycles on an African half, a keen interest in politics, in northeast Portland, includ- village,” Sept said simply. “It felt was languishing. ing oil and acrylic paintings like we were able to change Fate intervened in the form from what she refers to as “the lives through art.” of a fortuitous series of events. dishwasher project” — pictures Restless and energetic, Sept In 2010, a chance meeting of of kitchen workers named Ka- went to Sweden and Spain with Sept and former Oregon Trea- Natalie Sept trine, Armando and Rudy. Worldwide Opportunities on surer Randall Edwards began a likes to focus her In 2013, Sept was invited to Organic Farms — a nonprofi t series of political connections exhibit her colorful, pensive paintings on aimed at encouraging ecologi- and jobs that eventually led, in portraits on the walls of the Ra- behind-the- cally-conscious farming prac- 2012, to a district representa- dio Room on Northeast Alberta scenes people, tices across the globe — and tive position on Bonamici’s Street. That led to a one-night- stayed until the end of 2008. Washington County staff. including these only showing last June at The While in Sweden, she discov- “It was magic, because I al- two dishwashers Cleaners at the Ace Hotel on ered she was related, a couple ways have admired her,” Sept who toil in a Southwest 10th Avenue. Some generations back, to painter said. “What I do in urban Wash- Portland-area of the shows’ proceeds benefi t- Carl Larsson, who died in 1919. ington County is meet people, restaurant. ed the Forest Grove nonprofi t “He’s kind of a national trea- listen to them and try to dispel COURTESY PHOTO Adelante Mujeres, which focus- sure,” noted Sept. “I stayed with the myth that nothing gets done es on empowering Latinas with his family.” in Washington, D.C. cluding business, trade, health ing the work of the Oregon Cul- education because it helps to job and parenting skills. The Clackamas High School “I try to be Suzanne’s eyes care, transportation, women’s tural Trust, a nonprofi t champi- engage both halves of the brain The fact that her efforts as an alumnus returned to Oregon in and ears here at home.” issues — and arts and culture. oned by her boss. and leads to creative, innovative artist buoy her work for the con- 2009 and got a job as a server at Sept is particularly astute at Last month, she hobnobbed For her part, Bonamici practi- thinkers,” Bonamici said Mon- gresswoman isn’t lost on Sept. Papa Haydn restaurant in staying connected to constitu- with folks at a Cultural Coali- cally bursts with accolades for day from her offi ce on Capitol “I bring the perspective of an downtown Portland, where she ents’ thoughts on issues Bon- tion of Washington County cel- Sept. Hill. “Natalie exemplifi es this — artist to my job as district repre- started painting scintillating amici is passionate about, in- ebration in Beaverton, promot- “I’m a proponent of more arts she is the perfect person to help sentative,” said Sept. “I can ele- communicate the message and vate the arts and culture con- promote the arts.” versation toward innovation Sept also got high marks and decision-making.” from her Guilford College paint- Sept believes that even ing instructor, Adele Wayman, though Portland gets a lot of at- who pointed out that Sept’s the- tention from those connected to sis project — painting the peo- Oregon’s arts scene, Washing- ple behind the scenes on cam- ton County is “ripe with poten- pus — “lit the match to her cre- tial for a flourishing cultural ative fuse.” community.” School officials purchased When she comes to the end of several of those paintings.