Flash Gordon, Earth saver EDITION Musical parody returns to Portland stage — SEE LIFE, B10 GREATER PORTLAND PortlandTribuneTUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18, 2014 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILY PAPER • PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND THURSDAY Infi ll plan lands on SECOND CHANCE at a Fish’s doorstep POLITICAL FIRST Commissioner sees ■ After By NANCY TOWNSLEY his chores, he shed his blue- the North Plains Police De- resigning as Pamplin Media Group and-black security offi cer partment. In an exit negoti- demolition project as uniform, ate some breakfast ated with city offi cials, he re- policy under scrutiny police chief, The day after he was and got ready for bed — he’d signed that position in May Scott Whitehead elected to the North Plains been up all night. White- 2010 after he admitted to City Council, Scott White- head, 50, works the grave- watching pornography on a By JIM REDDEN fashions a head drove his two daugh- yard shift at Tuality Commu- department computer — a As top cop in North The Tribune comeback with ters to school and returned nity Hospital in Hillsboro. clear policy violation. Plains for fi ve years, his election to home to help his wife, Co- That job is quite a depar- When he applied for a po- Scott Whitehead wore City Commissioner Nick by, care for the family’s ture from four years ago, lice position in Carlton the police department’s Fish is about to fi nd out the North Plains three dogs. when Whitehead wore an black uniform. whether the growing anger City Council When he was done with all-black uniform as chief of See WHITEHEAD / Page 2 COURTESY PHOTO about residential infi ll proj- ects is justifi ed. A developer plans to more After garnering than double the size of the the third- 90-year-old house next to where highest number Fish lives on a quiet stretch of of votes in the Northeast Cesar Nov. 4 election, Chavez Boule- Scott Whitehead vard. Portland will join the Development North Plains City Group Invest- Council Jan. 5, ment intends to 2015. “This is tear down most the best of the one-story, community I’ve 1,447-square- ever lived in,” he foot house and FISH said last week. rebuild it as a PAMPLIN MEDIA two-story, GROUP: 3,423-square-foot house. CHASE ALLGOOD The house was sold for $349,900 in September. The Port- land Realty Group, which is mar- keting the property, plans to sell it for $849,000 when the remodel- ing project is complete. Real es- tate broker Barry Smith says the work should begin in about two months and be completed within six. Fish told the Portland Tribune he has no reaction to the project, other than, “I expect them to fol- low the code.” The project is an example of the kind of infill development that is being protested across Portland: older homes being re- placed or remodeled into larger, more expensive ones. A group of See FISH / Page 9 Washington County clinics for Stimson tradition lights up the square low-income clients might close Timber company ready to make High-risk patients If all goes according to the rec- ommendations made by the a new ve-year commitment will have to nd county’s Department of Health and Human Services, the Board By KENDRA HOGUE above Hagg Lake to Pioneer another place for care of Commissioners will vote on The Tribune Courthouse Square. the proposal in mid-December. If For 12 years, Stimson Lum- By KENDRA HOGUE approved, the clinics would close Downtown Portland’s holi- ber of Gaston has provided The Tribune in July 2015. day season doesn’t offi cially Portland’s “living room” with The county’s Tigard clinic begin until a giant, freshly its crowning holiday glory. A plan is underway to close closed in October 2013. Beaver- cut Christmas tree rolls into “We’re really glad to be able Washington County’s two re- ton’s clinic at 12550 S.W. Second town from rural Washington to provide it,” says Roy Jones, maining clinics for high-risk, Ave., and Hillsboro’s at 266 W. County to be dressed in vice president of resources for low-income clients. Main St. served 8,856 patients in sparkling city fi nery. Stimson, which cuts the sus- Meetings with stakeholders 2013, a huge slide from the more On Friday, Nov. 14, a 75-foot- tainably grown tree from its and the county Board of Com- than 25,000 treated in 2002. tall, 40-year-old Douglas Fir private forestland. “We had a missioners have started, taking a “We think of this as a transi- made the final stretch of its hard look at the rapidly dwin- tion rather than closures,” said 25-mile journey from a forest See TREE / Page 6 dling number of patients at its Marni Kuyl, director for Wash- Beaverton and Hillsboro loca- ington County Department of tions. No date has been set for a Health and Human Services. public hearing on the issue. Kuyl stressed that the county clinics offer limited services rather than full-service care, in- PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP: CHASE ALLGOOD cluding: Nurse Practitioner Lil Reitzel checks Elizabeth Rubio-Alfaro’s blood ■ Reproductive health such as pressure at the Hillsboro Clinic. family planning, contraceptive distribution and cervical cancer formation takes place, our num- “We have limited resources screening bers are going down,” she added, and we have a strong value that ■ Sexually Transmitted Infec- with more county residents cov- every patient should have a tion screenings, treatment and ered by Medicaid or Medicaid health care home,” said Kuyl. partner follow-up expansion. “That’s a good thing,” The proposal asks the Wash- ■ Adult and childhood vacci- said Kuyl. ington County Board of Commis- nations HHS has written up a policy sioners to reinvest its $1.3 million ■ Tuberculosis screenings brief that proposes moving the county general-fund savings to and latent TB infection treat- care it provides to local, Federal- qualifying FQHC’s to provide the ment. ly Qualifi ed Health Care clinics care. “We do not and never have such as Virginia Garcia Medical Jeri Weeks, chief executive of- provided primary care,” said Center, the Beaverton-based ficer of Neighborhood Health PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP: CHASE ALLGOOD Kuyl. Neighborhood Health Center, Center in Beaverton and a FQHC Portland’s Christmas Tree is lifted by crane off of a truck that brought “As health care changes and and Southwest Community it from Stimson Lumber near Gaston to Pioneer Courthouse Square the (Affordable Care Act) trans- Health Center. See CLINICS / Page 9 Nov. 14. “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to Portland Tribune MIDDLE MAN deliver balanced news that re ects the stories of our communities. Thank you — SEE SPORTS, for reading our newspapers.” Inside PAGE B1 — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN JR. OWNER & NEIGHBOR ______CAPTION ______FOLIO ________JUMP WORD ________JUMP PAGE NO. ________STORY ENDS A2 NEWS The Portland Tribune Tuesday, November 18, 2014 Whitehead: Seeks ‘peoples’ dreams’ for city ■ treated for PTSD and was able From page 1 to resist the temptation to self- Who’s joining the medicate. city council? months later, he said nothing to “If I hadn’t experienced Bei- These are the votes as of Nov. 11. the background investigator rut,” he said, “I might have Ofcial results will be certied by about the incident. stayed in the military.” Washington County on Nov. 24. “I had signed a nondisclosure Instead, he came home to Sherrie Simmons, Sandi King and agreement with [North Plains] Medford, took a year of col- Scott Whitehead will be sworn in that said I wouldn’t talk about it lege, dropped out — and was as city councilors Jan. 5, 2015. and they wouldn’t talk about it,” hired by the Talent Police De- Votes Candidates he said. partment south of Ashland in 459 Sherrie Simmons The Carlton job ended the fol- 1987. He graduated from the 298 Sandi King lowing year when the town’s Oregon Public Safety Academy 294 Scott Whitehead then-police chief, Bill Middleton, in 1988. 219 Glen Warren determined Whitehead had After that, Whitehead’s ca- 210 Michael Broome been untruthful during his ap- reer trajectory took him to the 175 Greg Kuhn plication process. Soon after Phoenix (Ore.) Police Depart- 60 Write-in that, a state Department of Pub- ment, where he stayed until lic Safety Standards & Training 1991. But he continued to “run ated a spike in tickets for speed- police policy committee yanked into more dead people,” in- ing and stop sign infractions, Whitehead’s certification for cluding a baby whose addled didn’t set well with some folks, “dishonesty” and “gross miscon- teenage father put him in a particularly drivers and bicy- duct,” banning him from police freezer one night when the in- clists from out of town. work for the rest of his life. fant wouldn’t stop crying. “They were upset, yeah,” Whitehead continued to live “That sort of thing stays Whitehead said. But he defends in North Plains, a tiny communi- with you,” Whitehead said. “I the activity, saying it was a top- ty with one school, a single con- needed to do something differ- down directive from Otterman venience store, two local water- ent for a while.” during a time of financial thin ing holes, three parks, two He moved to Portland in ice — voters turned down three churches, a senior center and a 1992 and worked security for of four property tax levy re- library. several companies. In 2000, he quests to support city services Because of the confidential went to work for a hazardous between 1980 and 2008.