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STAR PUBLISHING INC. STAR H PUBLISHED IN NORTHEAST PORTLAND SINCE 1984 H THE HOLLYWOOD Save big. Support local businesses. Have some fun. July 22-24. SEE PAGES 15-17 StarH SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH METROPOLITANHNEWS PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS H JULY 2016 H VOLUME 34, NUMBER 1 H PLANTING A PLAZA A new community gathering space in the Cully neighborhood gets green. PAGE 9 Creature Comfort PARTNERING WITH PETS The Volunteers of America Family Relief Nursery program in the Buckman BIG FLOAT RETURNS The sixth annual Big Float river neighborhood uses therapy assistance animals to provide a nuturing experience for at-risk families. PAGE 20 float and beach party will be held Sunday, July 10. PAGE 30 HOME AT LAST Habitat for Humanity built two BYE BYE BACCHI’S The beloved, family-owned PARTY ON THE PATIO Clyde’s Prime Rib in houses for families in the Cully neighborhood. PAGE 2 deli in Roseway has served its last sandwich. PAGE 7 Rose City Park has a new patio to serve diners. PAGE 8 HERE’S THE SCOOP Sean Sitton is serving up SHOE TIME Jason Hovatter teaches shoe-making BATON BREAK Frank Holman retires after 40 handmade ice cream at the 42nd Ave. Food Carts. PAGE 11 classes from his home in North Portland. PAGE 23 years at Rose City Park United Methodist. PAGE 22 97208 SIGNATURE GRAPHICS SIGNATURE PORTLAND, OREGON 97213 OREGON PORTLAND, PORTLAND, OR PORTLAND, PAID 2000 NE 42ND AVENUE PMB 142 PMB AVENUE 42ND NE 2000 U.S. POSTAGE U.S. NORTH AND NORTHEAST METRO NEIGHBORHOODS METRO NORTHEAST AND NORTH STANDARD NEWS STAR HOLLYWOOD THE PRESORTED H 2 THE HOLLYWOOD STAR NEWS WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO: SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS JULY 2016 HSTAR DEVELOPMENT NEWS The Hollywood Star News Habitat PDX builds household income. To qualify for the Habitat Serving North and Northeast program, families must make between 35% Portland Metropolitan Neighborhoods. two Cully blitz homes to 60% of Portland’s median family income, Published monthly in Northeast Portland. over Memorial Day weekend between $25,000 and $42,000 annually. www.star-news.info While Habitat for Humanity is funded Two needy families found homes in a by private donations and government Mailing Address Cully Neighborhood subdivision thanks funding, there isn’t enough funding to 2000 N.E. 42nd Ave. PMB 142 to Habitat for Humanity Portland and meet the needs of the Portland community, Portland, OR 97213 its contractor cadre. The two homes at according to Stecker, “We turn away ten 6482 and 6485 N.E. Killingsworth Street Office Address applicants for each family we accept.” were built on an accelerated Memorial 3939 N.E. Hancock, Suite 303 Portland, OR 97213 Day weekend schedule and are the first Lloyd District opens of almost two dozen to be built with Phone 503-282-9392 contractor donations and owner “sweat nation’s largest bicycle center Mary DeHart Owner and Publisher equity” in the near future. BY PHILL COLOMBO Oregon’s third district U.S. congressman Speaking for Habitat, Shasha Stecker [email protected] [email protected] and Portland’s bureau of transportation told the Hollywood Star News that Noyes director helped open Lloyd Cycle Station Larry Peters Sales Manager Development of Beaverton contributed is overcrowded and has stairs, and my at the beginning of June. Located in the [email protected] all labor and materials to make the pair of parents are getting to an age that climbing basement of 700 N.E. Multnomah St., the Nancy Woods Editor houses happen. “In addition, each family the stairs every day is too hard.” 600-bike facility was touted as the largest [email protected] contributed 500 volunteer hours, at least Stecker said Habitat holds zero-percent- of its kind in North America and came 100 hours on their own homes and the interest mortgages on the homes, and the in the wake of neighborhood bike traffic Phill Colombo rest on other houses,” Stecker said, “so families are repaying the debt in monthly increasing from three percent of all trips Community Development Reporter Habitat’s gift becomes a hand up, not a installments equivalent to one-third of – CONTINUED ON PAGE 5 [email protected] hand out.” Built on 30-by-80-foot lots, the 1,000-square-foot homes have three Kathy Eaton Community Liaison bedrooms and one bathroom. [email protected] One family, Gabriel and Sylvia Triplett Gabriel and Sylvia Lisa Chiba Perkins and their two children, said they are Triplett and their Graphic Designer happy living in Cully. According to Gabriel two children are [email protected] Triplett, “We work here and go to church having a better here, but our rent has increased twice summer this year Ted Perkins and Mary Ann Seeger after moving into in the past year. If it was not for Noyes their Habitat for Digital Media Production Development and Habitat for Humanity, Humanity home. [email protected] we would have to leave Cully and They said their [email protected] probably Portland in order to find a place former landlord raised their rent James Bash and Janet Goetze we could afford.” twice in the past Contributing Writers Minh Le and Thuha Luong, father of year and the new Minh and grandfather of Minh’s son, will home made it Judy Nelson and Jane Perkins be living next door. “We are very happy possible for them Contributing Photographers to have a place that has enough rooms to stay in the Cully Neighborhood. Greg Schott Circulation for everyone to have their own bed,” (Habitat for said Minh Le, “Our current apartment Humanity Portland) Copyright Star Publishing Inc. Editorial deadline: 15th of the month before publication Advertising deadline: 20th of the month before publication Star News Publishing has many different journalists who write for our newspaper and web site. Many also write for other publications, causes and organizations. 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(Phill Colombo) to seven percent of all trips. in motion the implementation process. Rep. Earl Blumenauer reminisced The next step: consideration of the about his first days on the Portland City Composite Zoning Map by the city’s Council under Mayor Bud Clark and Planning and Sustainability Commission discussions about how development of (PSC). For several months, the PSC has the Lloyd District would be undertaken. held hearings on parts of the map, and “Now, I see what was once three acres of now it will look at the results of all those asphalt,” Blumenauer said, “transformed hearings on one map. into 600 housing units, and we knew The PSC hearing is set for 4:00 P.M. back then that the bicycle was a secret Tuesday, July 12th, at the Portland weapon to cope with changes.” The Building, 1120 SW Fifth Avenue, Room C. bicycle as a transportation mode was Following the PSC’s public hearing, the not an afterthought but “baked into” the Commission will hold a work session on planning, Blumenauer asserted. August 2, 2016, and recommend a new Leah Treat characterized the new Zoning Map to City Council, which will Bicycle Center as “…an incredible hold additional hearings in the fall. addition to the community” and said she was impressed by a facility that would Residential infill help the city deal with rapid population growth and the development necessary to info session planned for keep pace with that growth. “People keep mid-July in Rose City Park moving here, and seeing that they can get Draft proposals from Portland’s Bureau around without a car makes Portland that of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) will much more attractive.” Treat said people be discussed during an open house at moving to Portland are using bicycles in the German American Society, 5626 N.E.