Inside Chromium 6 Emissions from ESCO

november 09 VOLUME 24, ISSUE 3 FREE Serving Portland’s Northwest Neighborhoods since 1986 Goodbye mike ryerson free parking Singer to delay garage construction to get meters in place

By Allan Classen

ayor Sam Adams and developer Richard Singer have a tenta- tive agreement to postpone construction of Singer’s Irving Street Garage until parking meters can be installed in the Northwest District. Adams expects authorizing and installing meters will take at least a year, delaying slightly Singer’s previously announced intention to begin work next summer. MCity Council affirmed last month that Singer has indisputable approval for the three-level garage, one of six prescribed by City Council in 2003 but put on hold by a series of appeals by the Northwest District Association. “I am pleased in my conversations with Dick Singer,” Adams said at an Oct. 21 council session, “that he has agreed to delay the demolition of the house and the construction of the garage … to give time to look at the full potential of an on-street parking plan, and I appreciate that goodwill gesture.” Adams’ aide, Amy Ruiz, said the agreement with Singer is not final. “We’re hoping to get to a place where he gets what he needs for a real Continued on page 7 Despite denials, DEQ knew of deadly inside chromium 6 emissions from ESCO

By Paul Koberstein problems. Thanks to Brockovich, they for it in mid-July. won a $333 million court settlement from In fact, DEQ has provided misleading, In the movie Erin Brockovich, a UCLA PG&E and brought a halt to the dumping. if not altogether false, information about chemistry professor tells Julia Roberts, Now it seems Northwest Portland has hexavalent chromium to residents. playing the title role, that there are three its own hexavalent chromium problem. At a neighborhood meeting in May, kinds of chromium. One form is necessary Documents released Sept. 9 by the Ore- Greg Lande, a top DEQ air-quality spe- for good health, a second form is relatively gon Department of Environmental Qual- cialist, denied any knowledge that ESCO benign and a third form, hexavalent chro- ity to the Northwest Examiner and Cas- is a source of hexavalent chromium. mium, also known as chromium 6, is a cadia Times show that ESCO, the owner According to a videotape of the meeting, deadly carcinogen. of two steel foundries in the Northwest held at Chapman School, Lande said, In real life as in the 2000 movie, neighborhood, has been emitting what “There is hexavalent chromium that can Comfort pies Brockovich, a legal researcher, discovered appear to be very low levels of airborne be measured in this neighborhood, but I Two new companies specialize in that Hinkley, Calif., a small town in the hexavalent chromium from both factories can’t tell you if it’s coming from ESCO or savory pies Mojave Desert, had a hexavalent chro- since at least 2005. the machine shop next door.” mium problem. Pacific Gas & Electric page 15 (Hexavalent chromium is used in Lande did not respond to a request for Company was using the chemical as an the production of stainless steel, one of an interview about his statements. anti-corrosive agent. Hundreds of resi- Here today … ESCO’s products.) Moreover, neither the DEQ nor ESCO Pop-up retailing gets foothold in dents filed suit after discovering that it DEQ has been sitting on the data for has ever notified the public that ESCO Pearl District had contaminated drinking water and was as much as four years, coughing it up only has been emitting hexavalent chromium page 10 causing cancers and other severe health after this reporter made a specific request Continued on page 26 itcHen gatHerings winter garden, warM k Forest Hunt: MusHrooMs, PHotograPHs and a iPPing a ZinFandel watcH tHe Birds at tHe Feeder wHile s great Place to Build re a You Hunting For a Private, PaciFic nortHwest lot?

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2 Northwest Examiner november 2009 Letters can be sent to By Allan Classen [email protected] or 2825 NW Upshur St., Ste. C, Portland, OR 97210. Editor’sEditor & Publisher Turn readerLetters should be 300 words or fewer; include areply name and a street of residence. Deadline third Saturday of the month.

ESCO responds The October article on ESCO contained inaccuracies too important to ignore. The truth is that both EPA and DEQ categorize ESCO as a minor source of hazardous air pollutants. ESCO is not violating its air quality permit and, in fact, continues to do better than required. The article’s statements about our emissions levels and permit compliance are not We’ll all pay to make correct. As noted in the article, the reporter took a list of materials and calculations from one regulatory program and plugged them into another program. But the programs cover different materials and require different calculation methods, and garage work the data is not interchangeable. ESCO’s neighbors have concerns about industrial air pollution, and those At the beginning of the movie, Life and problem by itself. The prudent approach concerns deserve to be addressed. DEQ monitored air quality at the Northwest Death, Woody Allen explains that he was would be to go one step at a time. Portland post office in 2005 and found manganese levels well within Oregon’s new sentenced to be hung at daybreak. But, But this garage isn’t about prudence or health-based benchmark. Levels were also within the new California benchmark in wry gallows humor, he says he got a responding to public needs. It’s akin to the that specifically protects children and other vulnerable populations. While these good lawyer and was able to postpone his quest for the great white whale. results assured us that ESCO is not causing harm, we agree that more neighborhood execution until noon. monitoring will help. The quest has caused Singer to take his Mayor Sam Adams may have had a eyes off his original purpose, which was to We’ve informed neighborhood leaders, Chapman school and DEQ that ESCO good lawyer, too, but he’s not talking make parking easier and more convenient. is offering $25,000 in seed money toward the monitoring that neighbors want at Richard Singer out of much when the In pursuit of that goal, he decided that a Chapman. We’ve suggested a collaborative approach from the start so everyone can developer says he’ll delay construction garage was the answer. And now, to make have confidence in the results. From there we can move forward as a neighborhood. of the Irving Street Garage. Before talks a garage feasible, he wants parkers to be Carter Webb began, Singer said he was planning to taxed and regulated. That, in turn, means Manager, Environment and Safety Affairs build next summer. Under the morato- parking here becomes less inviting. ESCO Corporation rium, he’ll wait until the fall. For years, Singer railed against permit Granted, all sides understand that parking and rallied merchants against it as Writer Paul Koberstein responds: As the article stated, I was careful not to include toxic Singer could build tomorrow, and you an inherently unwelcoming strategy. Now substances not listed in the Clean Air Act as hazardous air pollutants in my calculations. can’t be too pushy when the other guy he’s for a package that includes a per- In other words, there is no truth to Mr. Webb’s allegations that I confused two federal laws holds all the cards. mit system because that’s what a garage in my review of ESCO’s permit. But why is Singer willing to even wait demands. Were the local merchants’ asso- Excellent article on ESCO a minute? ciation truly an independent organization, Because he’s painted himself into a its members would stand up to him on Kudos to Paul Koberstein on his excellent article on ESCO’s air emissions in the corner. In chasing his Captain Ahab-like this point. October 2009 Northwest Examiner. I appreciate the coverage and clear explanation dream of a parking structure serving shops When the parking meters are installed, of the situation, and I continue to be very concerned about my personal health from along Northwest 23rd Avenue, Singer has there will no cheers from the multitudes. long-term exposure to manganese and other toxins from our nearby foundry. Your fought legal, political and publicity battles Merchants will not celebrate the kick-off reporting covers ground I would not be able to cover on my own, due to the tech- for six years. Every year it has become date. It will change shopping patterns in nical nature of the issue. I certainly hope Oregon will adopt California’s improved more obvious to others that the garage ways no one can predict, but once they’re benchmarks on manganese soon, to improve our public safety. This seems like the isn’t needed, wouldn’t solve a problem and in, they’re in. The cost of installation and best way to offer real protection to the people of Northwest Portland. would be the worst financial investment the flow of new revenues are not things Caroline Skinner he’s ever made. the city will readily abandon. NW Quimby St. The Irving Street Garage will never pay We can argue about whether a scarce for itself as long as it’s surrounded by free public resource such as parking should on-street parking. Singer hopes to fix that remain free and debate the global climate situation by giving the city time to install impacts of subsidizing auto use, but these Continued on page 5 parking meters. If using his garage costs aren’t the arguments upon which this about the same as parking on the street, “solution” is proposed or sought. It’s about more shoppers will choose the garage. a mad mission and trampling public values Obituaries...... 4 Without parking meters or a residents- and policies for a private goal. The Pearl ...... 8 only permit system driving customers to We’re long past debating why the city his facility, even Singer may not be able spot-zoned residential sites for commer- index Going Out...... 15 to afford to build and operate an empty cial garages in defiance of a neighborhood Community Events...... 20 garage. He needs public action to remove plan as well as tenets of public participa- the free alternative. tion, land-use and transportation policy Business & Real Estate...... 23 Of course, once parking meters and Portland otherwise deems sacred. Suffice In the ‘Hood ...... 30 parking permits are in place, they will it to say, this may be the most controver- reduce parking demand. Put a price or sial garage in city history. impediment on anything and it will be Singer needs one more favor from the used less. It could be that on-street park- city to make his garage a reality. He needs ing management will more than balance parking regulations tailor-made to accom- parking supply and demand, correcting the modate it. He’s waited six years; he can easily wait three more months.

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Northwest Examiner november 2009 3 news OBITUARIES Joseph G. Barone Johnson was born April 2, 1949, in Bakersfield, Calif. Nov. 11, 1935, in Portland. He served as a paratrooper Joseph Gene Barone, a sales manager for Blitz Weinhard She graduated from Foothill High School in Bakersfield with the U.S. Army in Korea. He enjoyed racing sports until his retirement in 2002, died Oct. 13 at age 72. Mr. and earned a degree in English at the University of cars at the Portland racetrack. He is survived by his Barone was born July 17, 1937, in Yamhill. He graduated California at Davis. She moved to Portland in 1972, daughters, Linda Camp and Leslie Quinlin. from Yamhill High School and served in the U.S. Army where she worked for 28 years for Anderson Roofing as for three years. He also worked for Fred Meyer and an office manager and vice president. She married Robert Ruth H. Kilcup Mayflower Milk. He married Shirley Martien in 1961; she Douglas Christie. She is survived by her husband; and Ruth Helen Kilcup, a longtime died in 2006. He is survived by his sister, Carmella Webb; sisters, Karin Core and Andrea Johnson. Northwest Upshur Street resident, died daughters, Candy Belt, Toni Ribail and Judie Nelson; six Sept. 26 at age 85. Ruth Harman was grandchildren; and seven great-grandchildren. Elizabeth A. Olson born Dec. 31, 1923, in Coeur d’Alene, Elizabeth Ann Olson, who retired from S.E. Rykoff in Idaho. She worked in the shipyards Erik Ettlin the Northwest Industrial Area in 1997, died Sept. 29 in during World War II and later was a Erik Ettlin, who grew up in Willamette Bakersfield, Calif., at age 75. Elizabeth Muller was born waitress at Multnomah Athletic Club Heights, died Oct. 18 at age 53. He was Feb. 1, 1934, in Portland, attended Couch Elementary and Henry Thiele’s. She married born Aug. 20, 1956, in Portland. He School and graduated from Lincoln High School in 1952. Daniel Dillion Kilcup Sr. in 1950 and they operated a attended Cathedral Grade School and She worked for S.E. Rykoff as a data-entry operator tavern called Ruth and Danny’s at Northwest 27th and graduated from Lincoln High School for 20 years. She married Gary L. Olson in 1952. She Vaughn for eight years. He died in 1992. She is survived in 1975 and earned a bachelor’s is survived by her husband; sons, Gary Jr. and Todd; by her daughter, Darlene Dietl; two grandchildren; and degree in education from Portland daughter, Beth Anne Olson; six grandchildren; and three six great-grandchildren. State University. He spent most of great-grandchildren. Her son Brad Harold died in July. his career at Lane Middle School and was a bargaining David G. Cyphers representative with the Portland Teachers Association. Elizabeth H. Dasch David G. Cyphers, a millworker for the Linnton Plywood He is survived by his mother, Natalie; and brothers, Elizabeth Hoffman Dasch, who grew up at 2323 NW Association, died Oct. 7 at age 69. He was born in The Michael, Karl, Hans, Kurt and Rex. Irving St. and lived for many years as an adult in Dalles Nov. 2, 1939. He is survived by his wife, Charlotte; Northwest Portland, died Sept. 10 at age 97. Elizabeth son, Jonathan; and daughter, Desiree Dean. Eleanor I. Charlton Hoffman was born Jan. 23, 1912, in Portland. She was Eleanor “Ellie” Izatt Charlton, an owner of Charlton the granddaughter of Oregon School of Art & Craft Barbara A. Howard Kennels & Farm on Sauvie Island for the past 43 years, founder Julia Hoffman. She attended Miss Catlin’s Barbara Anne Howard, who owned died Oct. 11 at age 72. She was born Oct. 7, 1937, in School, Westover School, Portland State University, Pets in the City, a pet-walking Baker City. She attended Oregon State University. She and Smith College, in Massachusetts. Working for the business, died Oct. 2 at age 53. She worked as a model for the Elizabeth Leonard Agency Works Progress Administration, she created designs that was born April 12, 1956, in Fort in Seattle and was a regular on a morning television decorated Timberline Lodge. She was also a painter and Worth, Texas. She lived on Northwest show filmed from the Space Needle. She married James producer of enamel jewelry. In 1935, she married Erskine 29th Avenue. She is survived by her Charlton in 1957, and in 1967 they returned to his Biddle Wood; they divorced in 1956. She married Fredrick husband, Thomas Kehoe; and parents, family’s farm, where they operated a dog-training and Dasch in 1958; he died in 1985. She is survived by her Charles and Marion Howard. boarding business. She is survived by her daughters, sons, Spencer Wood and Erskine Wood; daughter Mardi Charisse Kelly Charlton and Betsy Charlton Powell; and Wood; brothers, Eric Hoffman and Burns Hoffman; nine Valenta (Zeta) Duran five grandchildren. grandchildren; and 13 great-grandchildren. Valenta (Zeta) Duran, a housekeeping worker at Good Samaritan Hospital, died Oct. 14 at age 80. She was born Lucile M. Reeder-Reznick Selma J. Denecke May 21, 1929, in Quezon, Philippines. She is survived Lucile Marion Reeder-Reznick, who was born in Sauvie Selma Jane Rockey Denecke, who by her children, Amado Duran, Sonie David, Aurora Island, died Sept. 23 at age 93. She was born May 3, lived most of her life in Northwest Abarro, Benedicto Duran, Carlos Duran, Anita Terrobias, 1916, and was an artist and photographer. She is survived Portland, died Oct. 2 at age 90. Selma Dave Duran, Nicia Rubio, Jesusa Rubio, Rafael Duran, by her son, Robert Peterson. Rockey was born June 11, 1919, in Fernando Duran, Daisy Myers, Terry Duran, Pompey Portland. She graduated from Miss Duran and JR Duran. Gerald E. Dwight Catlin’s School in 1937 and Scripps Gerald Edward Dwight, who worked in the Consolidated College in Claremont, Calif., in 1941. Adrienne Baggenstos Freightways computer department for 31 years, died Oct. She worked for the Portland Art Adrienne Baggenstos, an employee at Montgomery Ward 1 at age 79. Mr. Dwight was born Aug. 24, 1930, in Pampa, Museum and in later years volunteered for Albertina Kerr on Northwest Vaughn Street for 40 years, died Oct. 13 Texas, and moved to Portland in 1942 and to Vancouver Center, Portland Art Museum and the Oregon Historical at age 89. She was born July 8, 1920, in Milwaukie. She in 2001. He married Darlene Gortmaker in 1957. He is Society. She married Arno H. Denecke in 1945. She attended Milwaukie High School before working in the survived by his wife; sons, Jerry and Darrel; daughter, is survived by her sons, David, Will and John; her shipyards during World War II. She is survived by her Diana Clagett; sister, Betty Giles; five grandchildren; and daughters, Ginger Denecke Hackett and Anne Denecke; daughter, Marilyn Grendele; three grandchildren; and six a great-granddaughter. and six grandchildren. great-grandchildren. Kristina L. Christie Jack J. Quinlin Grace E. Unger Kristina Louise Johnson Christie died in her Northwest Jack Joseph Quinlin, a comptroller for many years with Grace E. Dobbin Daly Unger, who lived on Northwest Heights home Sept. 21 at age 60 of cancer. Kristina Gunderson Brothers, died Oct. 12 at age 73. He was born Cornell Road for 38 years, died May 29 at age 101. She was born Feb. 23, 1908, and worked as bookkeeper until she was 87 years old. She is survived by her daughters, Ann Daly Smits and Sharon McCulloch Gilson; eight grandchildren; and nine great-grandchildren.

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They are in fact unrelated. a half-dozen weekends each year, so that Smith [not the Portland Planning Commis- I just wanted to say how grateful I am that Additionally, what we have been doing Kruger and others can make a profit and a sion member and Northwest resident] wrote you have taken such an active role in expos- for “100 years” does not make it right. As we mockery of the legal “farmland” designation? that Northwest residents and the Examiner ing ESCO. I first noticed the “ESCO smell” humans become more knowledgeable and The justification for this is absurd. Local should leave ESCO alone. He argued that when I moved to Old Town in 2006. The educated with each new scientific discovery, farms are not places where African baskets people who move into the neighborhood smell permeates not only Northwest Port- we alter our behaviors and activities to limit and Mexican produce need to be sold except are moving “to the nuisance” because ESCO land, but also Old Town and downtown. It the impact of our actions on the environ- to enrich one person: Don Kruger. It is has been around for 100 years. was so pronounced some days that I asked ment, which includes the humans and other telling that he has been able to purchase a coworkers who lived nearby about it, but Mr. Smith represents the land of wishful organisms who reside in it. Examples of quarter-square-mile of farm from his profits nobody knew anything. thinking on two counts. The easy issue first: what we used to do out of our own ignorant, from a handful of years of producing this Northwest Portland has been a residential I finally saw your article about the ESCO archaic and often defiant behaviors that circus. neighborhood since the late 19th century. pollution, and it all clicked. The scary thing we later learned and demanded we change Kruger and the other amusement-park ESCO and Northwest residents have been for me was that I assumed that a smell so include burning coal in London, dumping owners have done essentially nothing to neighbors for almost 100 years. bad and so prevalent must have been tested refuse directly into our waterways and hold- mitigate the impact that they create in traf- at some point and found to be safe. After all, The harder issues are the number of reg- ing slaves. fic or pollution in this otherwise bucolic how could a “green” city like Portland allow ulated pollutants ESCO emits, the amounts So, as today’s agricultural sector is strug- setting. It has only been in the past two itself to be bathed in toxic pollution every ESCO is permitted to emit and the fact gling to admit that carcinogenic pesticides years that they have even bothered to fund night? But my worst fears were confirmed: that, according to recent audits, ESCO may and the old way of farming lead to soil a traffic-control officer to help clear the exit I live in a stinky, polluted city. Not only have exceeded some of those limits. that is depleted and requires much effort to at Sauvie Island Bridge, and they have done that; the emissions were tested and found Arguments about exceeding permitted obtain any real harvest and any real nutri- zero to promote or encourage use of public to be extremely toxic but were allowed to pollution limits focus on details of failure, tion in the harvests and lead to our food and transportation during these peak weekends. continue nonetheless. ignoring the critical systems-failure itself. our waterways containing cancer-causing You will find little support among Don We need to discuss the issues at hand Physics tells us that matter is not destroyed agents, and as our medical sector continues Kruger’s neighbors or other island residents (Did they exceed their quotas? etc.), but and that everything spreads. ESCO emits to study ways to prevent cancer, and we for his attempts to turn his “farm” into a we should also be very aware that each metals and persistent compounds every day. continually ask, “What caused it?” we will sleazy entertainment venue. These don’t go away. They spread beyond day of discussion leads to another night of change our behaviors. Including ESCO. the limits of Northwest Portland to other toxic emissions. We don’t need to wait two Richard Zehr neighborhoods. At the same time, emissions years to read a DEQ report—we know it’s Angeleah Smallwood Sauvie Island Rd. from many other sources are doing the same bad. We want to know when we can start NW Lovejoy fixing it. Disappointed in column thing. Mocks farming designation We compromise the limits of our natural Thanks and keep up the good work! Your article was very disappointing! systems by allowing these substances to be To balance the ridiculously sympathet- Although I reminded you that you failed Spencer B. Bailey emitted and concentrate. Our industrial ic perspective in your front-page article to identify yourself as a reporter, you didn’t NW Lovejoy St. model is not sustainable and needs to be [“County hounds farmer Don,” October bother to put that in your article [Editor’s corrected. The questions we should be ask- Knowledge brings change 2009 Northwest Examiner], you might have Turn, October 2009 Northwest Examiner]. ing are: Why do we permit toxic emissions interviewed some of the neighbors and You misrepresented my communications I read the letter from Chris Smith titled of any type? Shouldn’t the cost of preventing other Sauvie Island residents to ask what we to you in which I pointed out that I did “Get off ESCO’s case, Chimpy” and was these emissions be embedded in the cost of think of Don Kruger’s attempts to turn the identify myself when I along with other inspired to reply. doing business? The model which perpetu- island into something resembling Disney- guests were asked to do so, and again when I ates a race to the bottom—lower costs and First, let me applaud your logical approach land combined with Costco. rose to speak. I attended what I understood lower environmental standards—isn’t a sus- with respect to clear examples of analogous Kruger and the other pumpkin-sellers to be a neighborhood association meeting, tainable one. It creates a downstream debt situations in which people make somewhat and corn-maze hosts turn our home into a meeting of neighbors, unaware that there which we cannot accurately calculate. blind decisions and then complain at the a nightmare for most of the months of was any media coverage. result as if it was a surprise. I have often What innovative triple-bottom-line solu- October and November, when the traffic When you secured my email address, thought, “Why do people move to a flood tions would permit ESCO to continue to they generate typically makes leaving the without my permission, and wrote me, I operate profitably while also being respon- plain and then when it floods they ask for island a two-hour ordeal. This is not just an public assistance and complain?” Continued on page 6

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Letters continued from page 5 Bad odors emanate from the restroom. The We are Portland residents who own a took Leonard on an informal walk around home in the Tanner Place condominium. told you that I was concerned about identity one on Fifth and Glisan stinks. Imagine the neighborhood two years ago and inspired As you point out, Tanner Place residents theft, and you misrepresented that as a new trying to enjoy a day at the park and having him to offer a loo for Jamison. Naturally feel ill-used. It seems to many of us that “humility” on my part. Perhaps it’s you who a stench waft through the park every time these quotes are supportive of the idea, and the Pearl District Neighborhood Associa- should find some humility. One gets the a breeze blows. And c) Do people in the buried in there is a single sentence about tion and Randy Leonard are rushing this impression that your ego was offended that neighborhood and park really want to be “some saying” there wasn’t enough public decision. It is true that meetings have been I didn’t recognize you. able to hear users’ bodily functions? input. held and some community input received. But, worst of all, you’ve chosen to write 2. To discourage people from bathing To be perfectly clear: The women who That being said, Tanner Place residents your article as a personal attack rather than or washing clothes in the restroom, the toured the Pearl District with Leonard were did not give their input. We don’t point fin- focusing on the subject of debate, the loo. Portland loo has a soap dispenser next to not doing it as official representatives of the gers. The PDNA and Leonard seem to have On that subject, I’ve emailed all the mem- the toilet, but the water faucet is outside the residents. Also, after Leonard came up with acted in good faith. Nevertheless, I don’t bers of City Council, of course, using my full structure. This significantly inconveniences the idea of his loo, the PDNA never ensured see how you can make an important deci- name, and my opinion is unchanged. all users. It requires the user to put soap on that all area residents were fully informed, sion regarding the neighborhood without I still feel that the neighborhood involve- his/her hands in the bathroom, then—with and it never gave those residents a chance involving the people most directly affected. ment in this decision was severely lacking, soapy hands—open the door of the loo and to weigh in. This is why many are upset and This issue needs more discussion. After- and it’s the wrong solution to a seasonal go outside and finish the hand-washing speaking out at meetings and in emails. process (all the while dripping soap). wards, the community may well reach a As your article explained, the city and need. And, I hope you have the professional th consensus that the loo on Northwest 11 integrity to publish my response. 3. The demand for a restroom has been the PDNA are both pointing at the other caused by thousands of small children and and Johnson is a good idea, a bad idea or to avoid blame and to make it a “done deal.” Frank J. Niezgoda families from outside the neighborhood an idea that would work with some modi- Bancud’s article just parroted the PDNA’s NW Johnson St. who visit the park, but the Portland loo fication, e.g., relocating it within the park, position instead of explaining how a process doesn’t have a baby-changing table. Doesn’t limiting the hours of operation, etc. that is meant to be more responsive to citi- Editor’s note: Mr. Niezgoda did pronounce his it make sense to meet the needs of the zens has been used to silence them instead. name at the meeting, but it is almost impossible Bruce Morrison people for whom the restroom is being Instead of haranguing those who speak to guess at the spelling. When asked to spell it for NW Johnson St. installed? out and printing their names to shame them, attribution in the newspaper, he refused on the Worries about safety can be addressed by Pursue balance your paper could pursue the truly balanced grounds that he didn’t want to be quoted. approach of talking to individuals on all limiting hours from 8 a.m. to dusk, rather In her article about the proposed loo sides and letting the readers draw their own Problems with loo than using a no-privacy, open-air louvers in Jamison Square [Pearl Diver, Octo- restroom. conclusions. Is Randy Leonard’s Portland loo a good ber 2009 Northwest Examiner], Michaela Looking forward to better and fairer solution to the lack of restrooms in Jamison There are a variety of manufacturers of Bancud says she will be impartial and reporting from you, Square? I would suggest that it is not. attractive, modular restrooms that better thorough. Then she completely disregards address these issues. Here are a few observations that echo these principles when she writes about the Anjali Rathore Northwest Examiner reporter Michaela Eric Williams political tussle between the residents of the NW Johnson St. blocks around Jamison and Commissioner Bancud’s comments about the Portland loo NW Ninth Ave. at Northwest Fifth and Glisan: Randy Leonard and his friends at the Pearl Citizen input lacking 1. There are open-air louvers that allow Rushed decision District Neighborhood Association. I have asked Commissioner Randy Leon- those outside the loo to see in. I’m skepti- I appreciate your article and the com- Instead of interviewing people from ard to review the process by which resident cal that this significantly improves safe- ments of Michaela Bancud on the different sides of the issue and giving them input was gathered before deciding to place a ty. Here’s why the louvers are a bad idea: a) Jamison Park loo in the October issue. equal consideration, Bancud offers three lengthy quotes from the very people who They provide users with little privacy, and b) Continued on page 12

6 Northwest Examiner november 2009 news mike ryerson Parking type of residential permit system should be continued from page 1 created to discourage visitors from parking on residential streets, and the potential of delay and then get a letter outlining how transit incentives aimed at reducing park- long that will be,” said Ruiz. ing demand. Even if those details fall into place, she Adams told the Northwest District said, Singer remains in control of when he Association in September that it takes builds. “two or three years to figure out the equi- “He’s certainly not giving up any rights librium between paid and unpaid parking whatsoever,” she said. in a district.” Singer’s spokesperson, Gwenn Baldwin, The mayor is not, however, asking said, “We agree with the delay concept and Singer to wait for the effects of meters and are working out the details. other programs to be measured before he “Sam asked for a year delay to allow builds. breathing room to implement the council- “We would like to see that, but the Sing- approved comprehensive parking program, ers have every right to build the garage,” a program we support,” said Baldwin. “We Ruiz said. “We’re not asking them to tie it have not agreed to an open-ended delay. to the performance of the TPMA.” The year delay is sufficient. … We fully Creating the management association intend to build the garage after the delay.” could be a two-step process, said Ruiz. Strict enforcement of over-time parking will likely follow installation of meters. The mayor’s office isn’t sure 12 months Adams may reconvene a parking advisory will be sufficient, but both sides agree that committee that met in 2001-2002 in prep- meters will be placed, said Ruiz. Because association. the garage and on-street parking controls aration for the council parking ordinance it is assumed that a residential permit The Northwest District Association are part of the same cloth. of 2003. Or, he may go directly to forma- system would accompany meters—allow- has not formally considered the proposed “Mayor Adams is hoping to push off tion of the management association, which ing residents to park on metered streets Adams-Singer agreement, but NWDA any of that work until we have a TPMA would be empowered to implement park- without paying and limiting visitor park- President Juliet Hyams expressed general [transportation parking management asso- ing programs and spend about half of net ing on residential streets—judgments must support for this approach at a council hear- ciation] in place,” said Ruiz. “We expect meter revenues on parking and transporta- be made about how far metering might ing Oct. 21. st rd at least a year to work out the process and tion programs and facilities in the district. extend beyond 21 and 23 avenues and “As for transportation and parking,” have meters installed. … Our target for The association would have three rep- how far the permit system would need to she testified, “it’s exciting and refreshing having a TPMA in place is the first quarter resentatives each from the business and go beyond that. to see the city applying logic, metrics and of 2011.” neighborhood sectors, plus a seventh mem- Installing meters—especially the expen- precedence to this challenging problem. Adams intends to establish an advisory ber appointed by the city, Ruiz said. sive modern “smart meters”—too far My board applauds the consideration of body of neighborhood and business repre- The mayor has said there must be charg- beyond commercial streets is wasteful, Ruiz parking ideas underway and anticipates sentatives to govern operation and finances es for both on-street and off-street parking said, because in outlying areas, most of the significant improvements for residences of on-street parking programs, said Ruiz. A if a comprehensive system is to succeed. parkers would have permits and therefore and businesses alike.” transportation parking management asso- Otherwise, drivers will seek out free park- not pay. The mayor isn’t sure whether Later, she reflected, “I want to give him st rd ciation composed of business and neigh- ing and avoid meters and paid parking lots the area between 21 and 23 should be [Mayor Adams] a chance, because I think borhood representatives will ultimately and garages. metered, and such decisions presumably he has the stuff to fix this.” decide where the meters are placed, what A critical decision has to do with where would be made through the management

Northwest Examiner november 2009 7 the pearl News & Views International School weighs costly remodel of historic Custom House

COUrTESY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL

By Allan Classen and locally noted architect Edgar Lazarus, the brick and granite Italian Renaissance he International School expects Revival structure has ornate chimneys, to decide this month whether it balustrades, bracketed cornices, Corinthian can afford to accept a gift of great columns and unique window designs. The Tvalue. The U.S. Department of Education main lobby has terrazzo floors and marble has awarded the school the Custom House stairs with cast iron and wood balustrades. building at 220 NW Eighth Ave., a his- The ceilings are vaulted plaster supported toric landmark valued by local tax assessors by Doric, Ionic and Corinthian columns. at more than $10 million. The four-story building has a full base- The catch? ment and 100,000 square feet of interior “Only the first step is free,” said Linda space. It was designated as a city Historic Bonder, marketing director for The Inter- Landmark in 1970 and was listed in the national School. National Register of Historic Places in Making the 1901 national landmark 1973. habitable will require massive work to “It is beautiful inside,” said Bonder. “For meet seismic and accessibility standards, children to be able to go into a school like improvements preliminarily estimated at that would help instill a sense of confi- $8 million-$10 million. dence and importance.” The school is awaiting more detailed Reconfiguring the space for a school Vaulted plaster ceilings in the hallways are supported by Doric, Ionic and Corin- studies to pin down that cost, said Bonder. should not be difficult, she said. thian columns. “It is beautiful inside,” said the school’s marketing director, Linda Then school trustees must assess their “It has lots of big rooms that can be Bonder. “For children to be able to go into a school like that would help instill a ability to raise the needed capital and com- partitioned,” she said, and there are many sense of confidence and importance.” plete the move within DOE’s three-year rooms that could serve as offices. There are timeframe. also cavernous rooms that could accommo- COUrTESY INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL Bonder cautioned that many charita- date a gym, library and art studio. ble foundations that normally contribute The building would provide the poten- to historic and educational projects have tial for growth in school enrollment, which reduced their giving during the economic currently is capped at about 400 in a com- slowdown. Private fundraising and the sale bination of leased and owned buildings in of historic preservation tax credits will also the South Waterfront area. Bonder said the be considered. Custom House would open the possibility The school expects to make its decision of adding middle school students. by mid-November. The International School, founded Katherine Topaz, who chairs a task force in 1990, provides Chinese, Spanish and of school parents and volunteers that has Japanese immersion instruction for pre- been meeting weekly for a year to make the school through fifth grade. It is the only move a reality, hopes for a go-ahead. elementary school on the West Coast “I’m in love with this building,” said to do so. Children learn a full American Topaz. “It is just breaktaking. Even on a curriculum taught in one of the three lan- gray day with the lights off, the natural guages by native-speaking teachers. Tuition light from the giant floor-to-ceiling win- is $11,700 per year, but 25 percent of the dows is beautiful.” student body receives scholarships covering The building speaks for itself. Designed up to 60 percent of the cost. by James Knox Taylor, supervising archi- “The Custom House location would Marble stairs with cast iron and wood balustrades rise from the main lobby. tect of the U.S. Treasury Department, help connect TIS students with the rich

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8 Northwest Examiner november 2009 Pre-K through Grade 8! Art Daily with Art Specialist • Spanish as Second Language p. 8-11

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The Custom House was built in 1901 in the Italian Renaissance Revival style. culture of the area, including the history of The engineering feasibility study is the building itself, the Chinese Garden, the being conducted by Venerable Properties Oregon Nikkei Legacy Center, the many and its principal, Art DeMuro. DeMuro galleries and downtown museums,” said attempted to acquire the Custom House Michelle Kerin, president of the TIS Board four years ago, but his proposal to reha- of Trustees. bilitate the building for multiple public Congressman David Wu said The Inter- and private tenants was rejected in favor of national School “will be a great tenant a Midwest hotelier that never proceeded Freshest Christmas Trees for this building and neighborhood. The after winning the bid. International School will help reinvigorate The U.S. Custom Service moved out an area of our city with long-standing of the building in 1968. The Army Corps multicultural roots, furthering the exciting of Engineers then occupied it until 2005. work already underway to revitalize Old Since then, it has been vacant. Most Gorgeous Wreaths Town/Chinatown.”

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COURTESY WE VILLAGE Will the playful pop-up Other new businesses are hoping to be more per- retail concept help? The manent. Chipotle, the Mexican chain, just opened in th latest retail phenomenon— the Asa Apartments on Northwest 12 and Lovejoy. I here today, gone tomor- heard a woman at Safeway raving about it. Soon we’ll row—has been in full have take-and-bake pizza and a bakery on the corner th swing in other cities for a of Northwest 10 and Lovejoy, and a highly anticipated while. The idea is short- drop-and-go childcare for parents who yearn to have term enterprises “pop up” dinner with someone not wearing a tutu or a cape. and then disappear after Karen Beninati, a single mom who lives in the Pearl, they’ve sold enough of will soon open We Village in a 985-square-foot space on th whatever they’re hawk- 11 Avenue between Glisan and Flanders. Registration ing. The merchants pay is $39. The hourly rate is $10. Childcare is available for reduced rent to motivated kids ages 3-12. landlords, an empty space It’s been a dream of hers for a long time, she said, proof is activated and everyone’s that one person’s dream can inspire wide-eyed fright in better for it. another. Beninati plans movie nights and activities such The first store is Sole- as Wii, Guitar Hero and plain old books and toys. She struck, which just launched also invokes Steiner-Waldorf methods for parenting its maiden voyage into live purists who care about such things—but who really does retail. Their primary busi- when you’re desperate for a block of time? ness is selling shoes online “Full-time daycare is expensive,” said Beninati. “This from a warehouse in Wil- is an affordable option for the parent who needs to take Karen Beninati, owner of We Village childcare, and son Luca. sonville. They’re temporar- a class or get a haircut. It works like a yoga card. You buy ily located at Northwest the time and come when you want to.” 11th and Irving and plan to Haircuts remain big business. Magnum Opus recently be there through January. relocated to a 7,000-square-foot space in a former auto The first 100 people who garage on the Pearl’s northern edge. The salon’s impact arrive at Solestruck on Nov. is welcome, especially for us uncoiffed pedestrians. This hile I’m cheering for them, nonshoppers 7 barefoot get a free pair of classic Van’s. No, you can’t particular stretch of Northwest 14th, which fans out to like me are not much help to ailing retailers, drive there and remove your shoes. You must walk. the train tracks, Childpeace Montessori School, Sydney’s who are suffering a gaping hole in consumer The gallery space on Northwest 10th and Hoyt is used Café and Front Avenue, is less than manicured, though it demandW that even the most voracious shoppers can’t fill. for impromptu events such as Lizard Lounge sales and has a view of the river and I do like the wild fennel that Pearl District developer John Carroll sold all of a pop-up showcase that is part of the current Oregon grows under the Fremont Bridge. the ground-floor retail spaces in The Gregory to the Manifest bike event. Children’s Healing Art Project Eugene-based “G-Group.” This could explain recent (CHAP) turned the west side of the Metropolitan condo turnover there as a few businesses have closed while two tower into a glorious Warhol-like art factory for children Contact Michaela Bancud at [email protected]. new ones just opened. inside of space donated by Hoyt Street Properties. JOIN US FORSpa Day

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12 Northwest Examiner november 2009 Northwest Examiner november 2009 13 14 Northwest Examiner november 2009 going out Restaurants & Theater p. 15-21 cheese, apple and cheese, and cherries Two takes on a comfort-food favorite: and cheese. Goddard will omit cheese for vegans. We also tried two kinds of piroshki, similar to a burek but in a yeast bun. The first featured homemade kielbasa with sau- savory pies erkraut and potatoes. This too promoted groans of ecstasy. It was like a truly supe- rior hot dog, with the potatoes included. julie keefe By Wendy Gordon Sprinkles of caraway in the bun provided just the right accent. Inexpensive, homey and comforting My favorite aspect of this dish was the seem to be the winning food themes since homemade Hungarian-style kielbasa, made fall, so it’s not surprising that two new by Goddard from scratch, a week-long Northwest establishments are offering process involving grinding and trimming savory pies; comfort food par excellence the pork and smoking the links. A beef throughout the world. piroshki boasts a pretty pie exterior and Stone Pie Joe’s generous hunks of tender beef, sweet car- 1015 NW 23rd Ave ., 503-488-0399 rots and peas. It was pleasant but lacked the vibrant heft of the kielbasa. Other Stone Pie Joe’s occupies half of the piroshki fillings include bacon, egg, potato old Twenty-Third Avenue Books space. and cheese; spinach, potato, mushroom and Owner Joe Highfill, a sculptor, is making cheese; ground beef, lamb and potato; and his first venture into the roast pork, kidney beans and sauerkraut. food business. Drawing Nob Hill Bakery also has a variety of on his world travels for sweet treats. We sampled fritule, raisin- inventive, filling ideas, studded fritters. They tasted like some- he settled on pies as a thing my grandmother used to make, on tasty, good-value quick the heavy side (though not greasy) yet meal or snack. Michelle Tuffias, waiter/baker at Stone Pie Joe’s, displays a selec- wonderfully fragrant and yeasty. Other He bakes the pies the tion of fresh sweet pies in front of the shop. dessert options include seasonal fruit pies, evening before in a com- baklava, and homemade chocolate bon- mercial kitchen off of bons. Sandy, delivering them Loaves of Balkan bread and more elabo- fresh each morning. rate pastries, both savory and sweet, are His vegetarian fill- available by special order and with one day ings tasty and creative. advance notice. He offers a deep-dish pizza The Greek-accented spinach/artichoke until a delicious soup is bubbling on the fire. dard is also writing a cookbook focusing on special one day per week. While God- particularly stands out, as does the excel- It takes a whole village to make a soup, Dalmatian food.) Goddard was drawn to dard’s pastries cost more than Stone Pie lent curried potato and the sweetly spiced and I guess to bake a pie as well. In keeping Portland because of its reputation for pure, Joe’s (generally $5-$7) they are bigger and lentil with the spark of mustard seed. The with this theme, Highfill painted pictures artisan food, and finds Northwest Portland roughly equal in cost per pound. beef and squash is also a pleasant fla- of faces all over the walls. The effect is a an excellent fit. As of the beginning of November, vor combination, with the squash adding little creepy, as if all these people are watch- Goddard’s pastries are more bread-like Goddard’s creations can be purchased moistness and depth to the meat. ing you eat your pie. A cheerful, colorful than flaky, also, but they are moist and at Lovejoy Market, 1025 NW 23rd Ave. The meat pies fall short, however. The mural illustrating the fairy tale would get adhere delightfully to the filling, providing Goddard, who lives near Northwest 23rd salmon is mushy and slightly off-tasting, the point across better. In general, Stone a hearty treat on a chilly night. They vary Avenue, also delivers within a 3-mile radi- indicating the use of canned or frozen fish, Joe’s would benefit from a homier, cozier in nature according to the filling inside. us of 23rd and Lovejoy Monday-Friday, 11 and there are no additional vegetables or look. Placing a pie case in the window, as Besides, he doesn’t call them pies. a.m.-7 p.m. For delivery (cash only), call vibrant spicing to compensate. The spicing they’ve done recently, is a step in the right We sampled two bureks, a Balkan pastry 503-298-4890. in the chipotle pork is just plain wrong, direction. made from thin layers of julie keefe lending a harsh bitterness rather than a All pies are $3.25. While one pie makes dough baked in a circular smoky heat. The meat is dry, lacking the for a healthful snack, you’d need at least pan. The spinach and pota- typical tenderness of pork shoulder. The two for a meal. This would bring the price to one contained a hefty chicken pot pie features tasty chunks of to $6.50, still a reasonable alternative to a sampling of clearly high- carrots, potatoes and peas, but is marred by takeout sandwich. Stone Joe’s sells a home- quality vegetables merged dry meat and the lack of a sauce to cohere made soup of the week, which could round with a delicious exterior. the mixture. out the meal a bit. Hungarian mushroom It’s only failing was a lit- A pie crust need not be sweet, but it seems a common offering. I still see these tle blandness—a touch of should be flaky. Flakiness results from solid pies as more lunch than dinner though— salt and/or nutmeg would fat (butter or margarine, or even lard) rolled kind of upscale Hot Pockets. have brought out the flavor. out so that thin layers of fat alternate with Currently they are open every day but There was no lack of flavor layers of flour. Stone Joe’s crusts are made Monday from 10:30 a.m.-8 p.m. In keep- in the meat burek, a mixture from whole-wheat flour, yeast and water, ing with Highfill’s artist background, of excellently spiced ground a combination more appropriate for pizza they’ll stay open late on First Thursdays, beef and lamb. “Oh my God crustc. They taste like stale pita bread. They offering free coffee and tea. … scrumptious,” gushed my do not cohere to the filling inside, serving husband. My son told me merely as a delivery vehicle rather than an Nob Hill Bakery it reminded him of bilash, integral part of the dish. The fillings also John Goddard’s Nob Hill Bakery fully a pastry he enjoyed in Lat- suffer from a fear of fat. Fat carries flavor grasps the concept of pie as comfort food. via. Other burek fillings and provides a pleasant mouth-feel. The The problem with these yummy treats available include potato turkey could sure use a cream sauce. is that they’re hard to find. Goddard, an and cheese, mushroom and Joe’s also makes dessert tarts with a experienced private chef with 20 years’ traditional flaky crust, and recently intro- experience, prepares his pastries in a com- duced full-sized pies. The one I sampled, mercial kitchen on a special order/delivery chocolate cream, had delicious bittersweet- basis. Unless you know the right people or chocolate custard, topped with a dollop of happen across his website, it would be dif- whipped cream. The other fillings, mainly ficult to know he exists. fruit, looked good, too. But the crust was But the Nob Hill Bakery is a wonderful mediocre. With all the accomplished bak- discovery. This man knows how to cook. John Goddard sprinkles powdered sugar on his eries in town, I would go elsewhere. Until October, he prepared savory and finished Croatian-style delicacies—a dessert The business’s name derives from the sweet pastries from around the world, from that might follow the meat pie and bread on children’s tale, “Stone Soup,” where a man Indian samosas to Italian calzone. But he the butcher block next to him. throws a stone into a pot of water to make recently decided to concentrate on pastries soup and is then joined by all the villagers from Croatia’s Dalmatian Coast, where he who contribute a carrot, an onion, a potato, lived and cooked for several years. (God- Northwest Examiner november 2009 15 going out Happy Hour Hits By Desiree Andrews

Expertly sautéed organic vegetables and all other happy-hour appetizers are only $4 at Seres Restaurant.

A heaping plate of cucumbers, tomatoes, olives and bread is a bargain at New Old Lompoc.

mmm ... Beer Bacon-wrapped shrimp on a green salad at TeaZone.

$3 Winter Happy Hour

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going out this holiday season... Top Shelf: Seres Restaurant 1105 NW Lovejoy St . | happy hour: 3-7 p .m ., daily Come sleep with us!

Seres Restaurant and Bar (used to be The drink menu was seasonal and still Sungari Pearl) serves a variety of skill- offered summer/fall options so I had a glass fully made pan-Asian dishes. Their motto of chardonnay, which went extremely well is fresh, local, simple, organic; words that with the food. But, watching the bartender get thrown around a lot in Portland. Seres squeeze lemons, oranges and grapefruits for ask about our shop play and stay program! means it. the week’s cocktails made me want to come Every item on the generous happy-hour back and get a greyhound, or five. menu is described with appealing adjectives The meals on the regular menu can be like “fresh” and “made-to-order.” After a a bit pricey, but there is nothing over $4 heavy dose of happy-hour fried food and during happy hour. Not only is the food dishes where the main ingredient is cheese, extremely reasonably priced and filling, but the options of expertly sautéed vegetables the drink menu is heavily discounted too, and duck spring rolls with plum sauce are making the meal a luxury most people can more than refreshing. afford.

Mid-Shelf: New Old Lompoc 1616 NW 23rd Ave . | happy hour: 4-7 p .m ., daily

There’s no better indication that you’re With so many selections on tap, and a whole surrounded by fantastic boutiques in a good bar than four slightly haggard old backboard full of seasonal brews, it might be and world-class restaurants men seated at the bar as if they’ve been there difficult to choose, especially at only $2.50 complimentary on-site parking since 1986. Welcome to Lompoc. a pint. But just ask the bartender, the one and streetcar tickets It’s the perfect place for fall, with base- wearing the shirt that says “Divorce Rocks.” ball playing on the television, Halloween He’ll gently lead you toward a beer that suits cobwebs made of cotton strewn across the your taste. walls—covering what might otherwise feel As for the food, there is no special like overdone beer kitsch—and a genuinely happy-hour menu. Instead, the appetizer laid-back staff manning the bar. Pretension menu is discounted $2. While it’s traditional is a word that has no meaning here, and the appetizer fare—hot wings and nachos—the result is comfortable and cozy. portions are enough to fill you up and leave northrupstation.com Beer is the way to go for this happy hour. you feeling happy. contact the hotel for best available rates! 503.224.0543 800.224.1180 21st avenue @ northrup, portland Mid-Shelf: TeaZone and Camellia Lounge 510 NW 11th Ave . | happy hour: 4-7 p .m ., Monday-Friday

It’s always nice to come in out of the rain and don’t encourage relaxation. Overall, the to a warm, cozy little restaurant with Billie room doesn’t quite flow, but it’s a distraction Holiday playing softly in the background. that can easily be forgotten, and if you’ve It’s even nicer with a cocktail and a bit to eat. come to sit and read a book and drink some You might not know it but the TeaZone tea, you’re in the right place. is not just a place to get pots of exotic tea. It While the happy-hour menu has only a also offers a unique happy hour in a casual handful of options, it offers a choice of tra- and intimate setting. ditional favorites like quesadillas and novel From the entrance, it looks more like a snacks, including bacon-wrapped shrimp common coffee shop than a bar, but the with a simple green salad. The portions are Camellia Lounge (located in the back) is just enough to keep you happy until dinner. meant for live music and lounging. This The seasonal drink menu lists plenty of generous space decorated in dark, swanky interesting mixed drinks made with tea- fabrics feels like a place to hang out all day. infused liquors. Unfortunately, the cold- “Northwest Portland’s Favorite The Casablanca-like façade promises tran- weather drinks don’t come out until winter. Thai Restaurant” quility and luxury and possibly romance, Drinking a mojito during a cold snap isn’t Vegetarian Dishes Our Specialty but the plush chairs and low tables make it always that appealing, but there’s always the Try Our Fast Take Out Service awkward for eating. The tables in the center option of a nice pot of tea. Open Monday-Friday for Lunch & Dinner • Weekends All Day of the room are great for eating but are stiff 730 NW 21st Ave • 503-223-2182 WWW.BEAUTHAI.COM

Northwest Examiner november 2009 17 going out Characters search for Old West in hotel room

Win Goodbody

Chris Harder (right) and Val Landrum deliver knockout performances as Eddie and May in Sam Shepard’s Fool for Love.

By Carol Wells and cowboy boots. very stage production creates a There is no hiding from these lights. little world, and every little world They expose the characters deep down, has its own creation story. Direc- and if the actors playing them weren’t good, tor Megan Kate Ward deserves credit for the production would not work. We are E fortunate that all the actors are at the top meeting the high bar she obviously set for CoHo Productions’ Fool for Love, but the of their game. play also belongs to the clean artistry of The man in Western garb is Eddie, lighting designer Don Crossley. given an outstanding interpretation by The production starts, like Genesis, with Chris Harder. The woman is May, strongly darkness. Then the stage snaps suddenly played by Val Landrum. It is essential that into a revealing brightness, and we are these two are attracted to one another with shoved into the middle of an emotional the force of five-ton magnets, and they are. battle that maintains its ferocity until the The fact that the actors are married in real end. life no doubt contributes. Immediately illuminated are three peo- We learn that Eddie has driven over ple, frozen in place, in a room. In the center 2,000 miles to see May again. The light of the room, a woman sits on the edge of reveals every muscle in his face, where his the bed, bent over, face toward the floor, a tortured passion is constantly in evidence. figure of despair. In a back corner of the He looks at her with love, lust, possessive- room, an old man rocks in a chair. In the ness and disgust, all at the same time. His foreground is a man dressed as if in the Old body expresses it, too. It is sinewy and taut, West in jeans and a shirt with pearl buttons constantly ready for either passion or vio-

18 Northwest Examiner november 2009 going out lence, or both. living from unforgiv- Eddie lives in a ing nature resulted in dream of the past, in a nobility of spirit. a showman’s version of There is no hiding This coexisted with the West. He is a rodeo the reality of a sav- performer, and when he age world, where brings out a lasso to from these lights. primal forces were practice, he ropes chairs always in danger of and bedposts, not cows They expose the being unleashed. In and horses. this West, social iso- In this, he is a very characters deep down, lation meant social American charac- constrictions were ter. America, after all, and if the actors loosened. started as a dream. In the rocking The Puritans originally playing them weren’t chair in the corner brought from England of the room sits Tim the idea that the New good, the production Stapleton as The World would be the Old Man. He is a New Jerusalem, a city figure from the past upon a hill. Most of would not work. and spends much of us are relatively new the first part of the here, and we are not play in the shadows, Americans because our drinking whisky and ancestors were Ameri- cracking wise. As a cans. We are Americans ghost not nearly as because we share common dreams. awe-inspiring as Hamlet’s father—though The story of the West is another version equally onerous—he brings to light family of the dream, of the adventure and freedom dynamics that would make Freud salivate. that can only happen in wide-open spaces. At one point late in the play, the fire- It was, by all accounts, a brief period. The works between Eddie and May cease, and experience of my husband’s grandfather is there is an instance of real tenderness typical. He left his position as a stockbro- between the couple. He holds her in his ker in New York City in 1876 after “getting arms and golden light falls on their faces the Western fever” and headed for the big like the lovers in Klimt’s painting The Kiss. skies of Montana. By 1909, his dream was But the outside world keeps intervening being encroached upon, and he was com- via the shockingly invasive headlights that plaining of “the range becoming crowded.” pierce periodically though the window’s Playwright Sam Shepard has an abiding grimy blinds. We are aware that the range interest in the American West, evidenced has become hopelessly crowded, that this not only in this play but in others like Lie is the end of the road, and that the Old of the Mind and True West. Eddie and May West is gone. All that remains is to find out have a huge passion that should by all whether the characters see it, too. rights play out on an open range, but by the time Fool for Love opened in 1983, Shepard represented the West as so diminished that he confined all the action of his play to a small motel room. Fool for Love The wide-open spaces here have been replaced by a run-down motel with water- Runs through Nov. 21. stained walls and a window covered by Thursday-Saturday, 8 p.m.; grimy closed blinds that are slightly raised in one corner, demonstrating both that the Sunday, 2 p.m. lowering mechanism is old and broken, and Tickets: $20-$25. that the occupant of the room doesn’t care enough to set it right. Reservations and information: Into this narrowed world comes Martin 503-205-0715 or (Spencer Conway) as May’s date, a charac- ter so grounded he actually works close to www.cohoproductions.org. the earth as a landscaper. His relative nor- CoHo Theater, malcy does nothing to mitigate the tension; in fact, it increases it. 2257 NW Raleigh St. The dream of the West held that the rugged individual strength necessary to live away from civilization and wrest a

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Community Events

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World’s fair event Kirkpatrick, William Sullivan, James Guild’s Lake Inn will unveil a pan- Davis, Travis Williams and Robert oramic photo of the 1905 Lewis and Clark Michael Pyle, will sign their works. Exposition Saturday, Nov. 21, 5-8 p.m., A schedule of appearances can be at 3271 NW 29th Ave. The guest speaker found at www.wildartsfestival.org. will be Carl Abbott, author of The Great Bidding on a silent auction closes Extravaganza. The picture, enlarged to at 3 p.m. Sunday. For information, 12 feet wide and 26 inches tall, was taken call 503-292-6855 or visitwww. from the current site of Montgomery Park. wildartsfestival.org.

Wild Arts Festival Sitka art sale The weekend before Thanksgiving The 16th Annual Sitka Art marks the return of Audubon Society of Invitational, an exhibit and sale Portland’s 29th annual Wild Arts Festival, of work by 132 Northwest art- an exhibit and sale celebrating nature in art ists, will be held Nov. 13-15 at the World and writing, which will take place Saturday, Forestry Center. An opening-night party One of the largest model train Nov. 21, 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sunday, Nov. with the artists on Friday, Nov. 13, costs layouts will be operating Friday, Dec. 4, 5:30-8 p.m., 22, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. at Montgomery Park, $85. Saturday and Sunday are free. A panel for the Holiday Steam-up at Staver Locomotive, 2537 NW 29th Ave. 2701 NW Vaughn St. Admission is $5 discussion about the influence of ecology The community is invited to this free event, which includes music and (free for ages 16 and under). Now in its on art is scheduled Saturday, 4-5 p.m. For refreshments. Donations will be accepted for Friendly House. 29th year, the festival supports the conserva- information, call 541-994-5485 or visit tion, education and wildlife rehabilitation sitkacenter.org/sai/html. programs of the Society. More than 100 Holiday Steam-up High School, delivering meals through authors, including Ursula K. Le Guin, Jane th Loaves and Fishes, a monthly meal for societ y Staver Locomotive, 2537 NW 29 y audibon courtes Ave., invites the community to a free men in a homeless shelter, and a women’s Holiday Steam-up Friday, Dec. 4, 5:30- kitchen in Costa Rica. Tickets are $60, 8 p.m. Model trains will run on a huge, and include casino gambling, heavy hors custom-built table with trestles, bridges d’ouvres, drinks and prizes. For tickets, and switches. Boy and Bean will sing music contact Don Barney at 503-307-4946 or from the ’20s, ’30s and ’40s. There will be [email protected]. a light snack and an art project for the kids. Don’t forget to dress warmly. Cash Bird nest workshop donations, gift certificates and TriMet bus tickets will be collected for Friendly House West Multnomah Soil & Water Con- Community Center. For information, visit servation District and Audubon Society of www.friendlyhouseinc.org or call 503- Portland host a free Bird Nest Workshop 228-4391 or contact Staver Locomotive at at Heron Hall, 5151 NW Cornell Rd., 503-222-3223 or www.staverlocomotive. Wednesday, Nov. 18, 6-8 p.m. Charlotte com. Corkran, author of Birds in Nest Boxes: How to Help, Study and Enjoy Birds When Snags Are Scarce, will talk about local birds, why Casino night they need nests, what kind of nests to build Bet on the Pearl, a casino-style ben- and where to place them in your landscape. A free Bird Nest Workshop will be held at efit for the Portland Pearl Rotary Club, is Free bird-nest boxes will be given to all Portland Audubon Society, 5151 NW Cornell scheduled Saturday, Nov. 14, 7-11 p.m., at participants to put up in their own yards. Rd., Wednesday, Nov. 18, 6-8 p.m. Bird-nest the Treasury Historic Ballroom, 326 SW For information, contact Mary Logalbo at boxes will be given to all participants to put Broadway. Proceeds will go to the club’s 503.238.4775, ext. 103 or mary@wmswcd. up in their own yards service projects, which include Lincoln org.

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Community safety meeting Rotary speakers City Commissioner Nick Fish will talk at a Pearl Rotary hosts speakers every community meeting on safety and livability Tuesday morning at 7:30 in the Eco- around Lincoln High School, 1600 SW trust Building, 721 NW Ninth Ave. Salmon St., Monday, Nov. 16, 6:30-8:30 A $10 charge includes a continen- p.m. The event will be held in the school tal breakfast. For information, contact cafeteria. Lincoln Principal Peyton Chapman George Wright at georgec3pub@com- and Portland Police Officer John Clinton will cast.net. also appear. Nov. 10: “Vocational Speed Net- working,” Matt Mahaffy, principal bro- Holiday Home Tour ker, Georgetown Realty Nov. 17: “The Leatherman Tool The Forest Heights Annual Holiday Home Story,” Tim Leatherman, founder, Tour will be held Tuesday, Dec. 8, 10 a.m.- Leatherman Tool Group, Inc. 12:30 p.m. and 6-8 p.m. Several homes of Nov. 24: “Auld Lang Syne: The Ger- CHAPMAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL various architectural styles and degrees of man Roots of English,” Jim Harris, club holiday décor will be open. Tickets, available 1445 NW 26th ~ 503-916-6295 member at Quinn’s Prime & Vine and the Barnes and Miller road QFC, are $15 (ages 12 and up only) prior to day of event or $20 the day of Theosophical lecture November’s Upcoming Events the event. Proceeds benefit the Forest Park Local artist and author Steve Her- Friday, November 6 Elementary School PTA. rington will speak on “2010: The End Teacher Planning Day NO SCHOOL of the World or the Birth of Paradise?” wednesday,November 11 Sunday, Nov. 15, 3-4 p.m., at Theo- veterans’ Day NO SCHOOL sophical Society in Portland, 2377 NW Kearney St. Donations appreciated. Friday, November 20 PTA Membership Meeting, 8:30 AM

kim berli ransom Friday, November 20 photograph y Chapman’s Annual Auction tuesday, November 24 Parent-Teacher Conferences 8 am until 8 pm NO SCHOOL thursday & friday November 26-27 Thanksgiving Break Schools and Offices Closed, NO SCHOOL

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Northwest Examiner november 2009 21 history ST . Vincent Hospital Collection Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps GladYou

AskedAnswering your questions about Northwest Portland history

By Mike Ryerson

St. Vincent’s has The original St. Vincent Hospital was on Northwest 12th Ave- This 1889 insurance map shows the full city block. nue. The center section of the building was completed in 1875, and the bell tower and wings were added later. The windmill roots in Northwest and the morgue were located behind the main building.

Nelson Photographic Archives Question: “I’ve heard that St. Vincent Hospital started in the Pearl District in a small wooden house. Is there any truth to it? ”–Terry Johnston Answer: You could say it started in the Pearl District, but it was more than 100 years before that section of North- west Portland got its name. The area has also been called North Portland, the Warehouse District and the Industrial Triangle District (because of its shape) over the years. ST . Vincent Hospital Collection th The first of St. Vincent Hospital’s three locations Above: Photo from Northwest 12 and Marshall was in a four-story wood structure on Northwest 12th streets of the first St. Vincent Hospital in 1908 Avenue between Marshall and Northrup. (At the time, after it was converted into an apartment building. those streets were known as 11th Street North, M and The bell tower had been removed, and a new roof N.) That block today contains The Wyatt apartments and more rooms had been added to the top floor. The and is directly east of BridgePort Brewery. building was torn down in the 1930s to make way When the hospital was built in 1875, it overlooked for a warehouse. Couch Lake, which was later filled to build Union Sta- tion. The hospital quickly outgrew the building and moved Left: This turn-of-century photograph of the to Westover Road (then called Cornell Street) in 1895. second St. Vincent Hospital was taken on Northwest At the time, Westover Road was considered to be far out Westover Road. It opened in 1895. in the woods, but the growing city soon surrounded it on the hill. Major expansions to the hospital followed in Mike Ryerson Collection 1910, 1924 and in the 1950s. St. Vincent Hospital remained on Westover Road for 76 years until opening its current facility at 9205 SW Barnes Rd. on Jan. 31, 1971.

Have a question about Northwest Portland history? Email it to Mike Ryerson at [email protected] or write: Northwest Examiner, 2825 NW Upshur, Ste. C, Portland, OR 97210.

Bud Clark Mike Ryerson By the 1930s, the hospital had seen two major expansions.

Mike Ryerson

Bud Clark photographed the demolition of the second St. Vincent Hospital from the roof of Good Samaritan Hospital several blocks away in 1977. Marjorie Newhouse from the hospital’s Public Information Department looks on. The Wyatt Apartments, completed in 2007, are on the site of the original St. One of Bud Clark’s photos taken from the roof. Vincent Hospital. 22 Northwest Examiner november 2009 p. 23-30 business Finance & Real Estate Retirement cooperative takes advantage of novel HUD loan program

allan classen By Allan Classen cent of the units before releasing a construction hen developers can’t bor- loan.) row money, they either Although more were get creative or cease being expected, Desbrow called developers. that number “sensational” The fact that Mark Desbrow’s last name for these times. Wsounds something like “desperate” is mere A hint of the reac- coincidence. But when his old firm, Opus tions Desbrow has been Northwest, virtually shut down after com- th getting is suggested by pleting Park 19 at Northwest 19 and comments from two local Everett, trimming a staff of about 20 to realtors contacted by the four or five, Desbrow knew it was time for Examiner. a new tack. “I would love the idea “There is no money out there,” said of The Sheldon if it were Desbrow, adding that he would be shocked more moderately priced,” if any new buildings break ground in Port- said Susan Marthens. “It’s land under current circumstances when basically for the well-off.” real estate values are below the cost of Marthens and her construction. husband are considering But the 31-year-old developer was not retirement housing, but out of ideas. He uncovered a little-used after checking out The federal loan program for cooperative hous- Sheldon, they are leaning ing, formed Green Light Cooperative and toward a privately devel- made The Sheldon, a six-story retirement Developer Mark Desbrow has bright plans for a retirement residential building at Northwest oped building planned for downtown. th housing co-op at Northwest 19th and 19 and Lovejoy. Wilma Caplan was more emphatic. Lovejoy, his first project. “That’s ridiculous,” she said of the ask- The Sheldon is named for longtime ing price for the hypothetical unit. Northwest Portland residents and civic Caplan, who lives in what may be Ore- This membership control also protects The building will be “homelike, not leaders Bing and Carolyn Sheldon, who gon’s only existing cooperative, Park Vista residents from unpredictable increases institutional,” with a public café in the also plan to live there. Bing Sheldon’s Apartments in Goose Hollow, said some in monthly fees as at private retirement corner space, lots of common space and architectural firm, SERA Architects, is of the biggest units in the top new condo- facilities, increases that are hard to avoid even ground for gardening. It will not have donating design services to the project. minium buildings in the Pearl District and because moving can create a severe hard- a common dining room. There will be no Cooperatives present a unique financing Northwest cost less per square foot than ship for seniors who would have to aban- health care staff, but those who need it problem. Because members of a coopera- The Sheldon. don not only their home but their entire may be able to buy it economically through tive do not own the units they live in—they Then there’s the co-ops’ special financ- social network, he said. a group arrangement with nearby Legacy hold a share in the entire property—they ing hurdle. Creating a lasting community is the Good Samaritan Hospital. cannot get real estate mortgages. That “I just don’t know why in this market central pitch of The Sheldon’s backers. The Sheldon is the first senior coopera- means co-op residents have to pay cash you would pay half up front,” she said. tive project in Oregon, Desbrow said. There or be part of a group mortgage, such as The idea coalesced a couple of years is one in the state of Washington, and they the HUD 213 program, which is designed Desbrow heard resistance to his pricing ago at a dinner party at Bing and Carolyn are more common in the Midwest. Coop- to finance construction costs. Members/ example and made significant adjustments. Sheldon’s home on Northwest Quimby. erative apartment buildings for all ages are residents then pay a prorated share to retire Singling out the $800,000, 1,800-square- They asked their guests, “‘What plans have common in New York City and in some the mortgage. foot unit was a mistake, he said. A more you made after you finally decide you have typical unit would be $500,000 and entail to leave your home?’ and the answer across cities in Europe, but almost unheard of in In this case, Desbrow is aiming for a $40 monthly payments of about $3,000 a the room was, ‘We don’t have any such Oregon, where the Park Vista Apartments, million, 40-year loan from HUD. Accord- month. plans,’” said Bing. built in 1960, are believed to be the only ing to a hypothetical scenario presented to one. prospective buyers, acquiring an $800,000 Later, there were more changes. Those who’d visited retirement homes, While the timetable for construction of unit would take a $400,000 downpayment Desbrow told the Examiner that the which they found too suburban and allow- The Sheldon depends on finding enough when construction begins. Upon mov- building is now being reconfigured from ing too little independence, were discour- buyers, the target for breaking ground is the ing in, they would pay $4,000 a month 50 up to 60 units in response to the number aged. spring or summer of 2011. toward the group mortgage and operating of people who want smaller spaces. The “They’re business owners, lawyers, pro- expenses. latest scenario includes lots of 960-square- fessionals,” said Bing, “and the idea that The 1910/1931 two-part Mediterra- nean-style structure now on the site, some- Desbrow admitted the example featured foot units priced at about $350,000, with they suddenly go someplace and someone times known as the Lovejoy Exchange in sales brochures was a hard sell. monthly payments around $2,000. else is going to make all their decisions for them is a bit of an anathema. It doesn’t Building, was judged in the city’s 1984 “I underestimated the time it would take “We’re listening,” he said. “We just want work for them.” Historic Resource Inventory to have his- people to consider [the financial model],” to build what people want.” toric merit for architecture and its asso- he said. “It takes three meetings with peo- Listening to owners/residents is the While many seniors want to remain in ciation with the first person to generate ple before they’re comfortable. It’s all new.” essence of a cooperative, he said. That not their own homes as long as possible, wait- ing too long has a downside, Bing said. If electricity in Portland. But it is not a reg- Nearly two months after the first sales only means building to suit the preferences people wait until they are unable to live istered landmark, and it is just outside the event, 12 households have signed up and of the first buyers but allowing them to on their own, they are unlikely to have the Alphabet Historic District. put down $5,000 refundable deposits. operate it democratically and without cov- energy and ability to form strong friend- “There are some significant elements in (HUD requires downpayments on 80 per- ering profits of any outside entity. ships at the facility they must move to. that building that are worth saving,” said By moving into a retirement coopera- Bing Sheldon, noting that the cast-stone th An information session for prospective buyers will be held Sunday, Nov. 8, 5-7 tive while they are still active, residents can entry on 19 Avenue near Kearney will be p.m., at the project site, 909 NW 19th Ave. This is an opportunity to meet other build relationships and benefit from a part of the new building. members, the architect and the developer, and ask questions. Wine and cheese supportive community in which people John Bradley, chair of the Northwest will be served. RSVP by visiting http://greenlightcooperative.com/. run errands for each other and take care of District Association Planning Commit- Tours for prospective buyers who have attended an information session will needs that would otherwise require the use tee, said the building has “a significant and be given at the project site, 909 NW 19th Ave., Sunday, Nov. 8, 1:30-4:30 p.m. of taxis, delivery services or other outside unique style that deserves saving,” and he Potential unit layouts and finishes will be presented. RSVP by visiting http:// assistance. would like to keep part of the façade and greenlightcooperative.com/. “There isn’t anything like this,” said some windows. He said his committee will Bing. “This is a model that actually creates consider historic concerns when it reviews community.” a formal land-use application. Northwest Examiner november 2009 23 business Kinder Morgan: ‘poster child’ of pipeline calamities Operator of Linnton tank farm fails to report emissions to feds

DAN DISHONG By Paul Koberstein affecting Northwest Portland. A federal lawsuit brought by Northwest Johnson hen more than 100 Street residents Don and Sharon Genasci Northwest Portland citi- led to the first controls of toxic releases zens complained to NW from the tanks during gasoline deliveries Natural in June about in 2001. Chevron settled the suit by paying troubling odors, the gas company inves- $50,000 for air-quality monitoring in the Wtigated and determined that it was not neighborhood. due to leaking natural gas. The Oregon Department of Environmental Quality [Editor’s note: The corrective action may also followed up, but could not identify have also been spurred by a 1999 expose by the source. Paul Koberstein in the Cascadia Times, a A Linnton man wondered if the smell regional environmental journal he edits.] had something to do with the 586 gasoline In all, the tanks have a capacity of more storage tanks located along the Willamette than 300 million gallons, and they legally River between the Fremont Bridge and emit a total of 1,394 tons of volatile organic Security is taken seriously at the Kinder Morgan property.

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tion Agency’s Toxic Release Inventory, but two do not: Shore Terminals and Kinder Morgan, a spinoff of the infamous Enron corporation. Richard Kinder, the top fundraiser for George W. Bush’s presidential campaigns, has been its CEO since it was founded in 1996. It owns more than 170 gasoline storage terminals across the country, including two in Portland. The company also owns 37,000 miles of pipeline, including two pipelines in Oregon—one 114-mile line from Portland to Eugene and another that carries jet fuel from Northwest Portland to the airport. It bought the Portland terminals and the Oregon pipelines from GATX in 2000. Kinder Morgan does not own the Olympic Pipeline, which carries gasoline from Puget Sound refineries to Portland. In 1999, the Olympic Pipeline exploded Aerial photo shows Kinder Morgan tanks at upper right. Linnton Plywood mill is at bottom. after a construction crew accidentally ruptured it. Three people died in the blast. But several Kinder Morgan pipelines Linnton. compounds, including benzene and naph- residents. have blown up in recent years, killing six “It smelled like somebody dumped gas- thalene (both known carcinogens), through First, they have no way of knowing how people and raising concerns that a similar oline on the ground,” said John Shaw, who leaky valves, pumps and flanges, according much benzene and other toxic chemicals explosion could affect its two pipelines that noticed the odor while driving along High- to their air-pollution permits. are being emitted by the tanks. Five of run underneath Northwest Portland. way 30 in that vicinity. But these fumes, though troublesome, the companies report their toxic emis- After one accident, the Dayton (Ohio) The tanks are a proven source of fumes may be the least of the worries of nearby sions to the U.S. Environmental Protec- Daily News wrote that a pipeline explo-

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business sion in November 2006 “sounded like the a consent agreement the next year which roar of a jet engine as the torrent of highly “shall not constitute or be construed as an pressurized natural gas rushed out of the admission of liability.” ruptured pipeline, stirring up a dust storm • In June 2007, PHMSA cited Kinder that choked the air. Then came a fireball Morgan for violating its own procedures that could be seen from 30 miles away, for establishing the distance between a nat- with temperatures reaching 3,000 degrees. ural gas pipeline and a “high-consequence When the blaze finally subsided, one wit- area” like a school or hospital, resulting in ness said, the work site near Cheyenne, distances being too close. PHMSA also Wyo., looked like the surface of the moon. said Kinder Morgan didn’t always evaluate “Near the burnt husk of a bulldozer lay nearby pipeline segments when “significant the charred body of Bobby Ray Owens, his corrosion” was found in pipe inside a high- Want to Live In the Pearl? arms raised to his face in a futile defensive consequence area. Kinder Morgan denied posture. the allegations. The case is still unresolved. Lease Now. Own Later. “He was just vaporized,” said Robert • In July 2007, a Kinder Morgan pipeline Painter, a Houston lawyer who represented in Burnaby, B.C., was ruptured by a work ] Owens’ survivors in a civil lawsuit. “It was Looking to be part of the Pearl, but not crew, unleashing 200,000 liters of crude oil like Hiroshima. This is what they’re trying Studios, 1 & 2 bedrooms into a suburban neighborhood. City offi- ready to buy? Kearney Plaza luxury apart- to bring into your backyard.” cials said Kinder Morgan provided inac- Full size washer and dryer Owens’ family is suing Kinder Mor- ments are the ideal gateway. With our curate maps of the pipeline, didn’t inspect it gan, the majority owner of the pipeline, Air conditioning before the accident and delayed in shutting Credits for Condos program and a minimum the Rocky Mountain Express, or REX, it off—charges the company denies. Controlled access building claiming it bears responsibility for failing 9-month lease, a portion of each month’s to ensure a safe workplace. REX officials Additionally, a federal judge has fined Underground parking a Kinder Morgan subsidiary in Portland rent goes toward the purchase of any new declined to comment, citing the pending On the Portland Streetcar line litigation. $240,000 for a felony violation of ocean construction Hoyt Street Properties condo- Kinder Morgan has been “sort of the dumping laws. A company supervisor in Floor-to-ceiling windows minium, loft or townhome. The best route poster child for pipeline problems,” said 2003 paid a sea captain to dump 160 met- Patios, balconies ric tons of potassium chloride stored on Carl Weimer, executive director for the to owning in the Pearl is through Kearney Pipeline Safety Trust, a fuel transportation the Portland waterfront into the Pacific and rooftop terrace Ocean, the Justice Department said. An safety advocacy group formed after a 1999 Plaza apartments. Call for details today. [ Bellingham, Wash., pipeline explosion that EPA agent said, “It’s hard to imagine a killed a fisherman and two 10-year-old clearer violation of the Ocean Dumping boys. Act. 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Then, on July 19, 2009, in Smith Coun- • In November 2004, an explosion of a ty, Miss., authorities have confirmed that Kinder Morgan gasoline pipeline in Wal- three workers were critically injured while nut Creek, Calif., killed five workers and another man was killed in a blast that severely burned four others in the deadliest occurred on part of the Midcontinent such explosion since 1983. The pipeline, Express pipeline belonging to Kinder Mor- which wasn’t properly marked as a hazard, gan. was near a high school and a block away The EPA spokesman said officials in the from downtown. Last October, a Kinder agency’s national office are investigating Morgan subsidiary pleaded no contest to Kinder Morgan’s failure to report its toxic six felony charges and was fined $15 mil- emissions to the Toxic Release Program. lion in the incident. 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Paul Koberstein ESCO continued from page 1 among the 64 toxic substances in its air Spikes in chromium emissions from ESCO pollution, said Sharon Genasci, chairwom- an of the Northwest District Association’s Health and Environment Committee. One out of every seven “We all saw Erin Brockovich, so we knew chromium particles how serious chrome 6 is as an environmen- emitted by ESCO is the tal pollutant,” she said. deadly hexavalent chro- “We asked DEQ to monitor for chrome mium variety, according 6, and we were told it was a special test and to monitoring results would be too expensive,” she said. “Year produced in 2005 by the after year, we brought up the subject of company. A 2008 study chrome 6, but got no answers. They were by Cooper Environmen- always ‘looking into it.’” tal Services, a Portland All the while, DEQ had been requir- consulting company ing ESCO to conduct its own tests for working under contract hexavalent chromium, and the findings with the Environmen- P ER CUBIC METER were coming up positive. DEQ required tal Protection Agency, A MS the company to test for the chemical in its found that chromium air emissions at least once every five years emissions can spike up at each of the two plants. To conduct the to 250 times higher at N A NO G R tests, ESCO hired another firm, Horizon various times during the Engineering of Portland. According to its day than at other times. website, Horizon Engineering was founded in 1977 and most of its work is centered on air-pollution emission testing. Horizon conducted the tests at the main th bronchitis, decreased pulmonary function, 28 are gastrointestinal or liver toxicants, 26 Hexavalent chromium’s extreme toxicity ESCO foundry on Northwest 24 Avenue pneumonia and other respiratory effects are cardiovascular or blood toxicants, 24 became clear to 16 members of the Oregon June 2, 6 and 7, 2005. It tested emis- have been noted from chronic expo- are kidney toxicants, 22 are developmental National Guard serving in Iraq in 2003. sions at the other ESCO plant on North- sure. Human studies have clearly estab- toxicants, 19 are reproductive toxicants, 16 Each of the 16 said they were sickened by west Brewer Street June 15-17, 2005. An lished that inhaled chromium 6 is a human are immunotoxicants, eight are endocrine contact with it. analysis of the data by this reporter shows carcinogen, resulting in an increased risk toxicants and one is a musculoskeletal that emissions of hexavalent chromium The Oregonian reported in September of lung cancer. Animal studies have shown toxicant. at ESCO amount to between 1 and 17 that National Guard soldiers from Oregon, chromium 6 to cause lung tumors via inha- Genasci, the producer of What’s in the pounds per year. Indiana, West Virginia and South Caro- lation exposure. Air? a 1999 documentary filmed partly lina serving between April and September Although there is no evidence that emis- Most of the 64 toxic substances emitted in Northwest Portland, has been battling 2003 reported breathing problems, holes in sions at these levels are affecting human by ESCO have multiple health conse- ESCO over its smelly and toxic emissions their nasal septums (called “chrome nose”) health, hexavalent chromium accumulates quences. In addition to seven substances for 15 years. and skin sores. At least two soldiers who in organisms and does not break down in known to cause cancer, another 12 are When she first got involved, she said, served, including Sgt. Nicholas Thomas the environment. No level of human expo- suspected carcinogens. DEQ said they did not know what was from Oregon and an Indiana commander, sure is considered safe. According to information on these coming out of ESCO because they hadn’t later developed cancers and died. The EPA says that the respiratory tract substances gathered by Environmental monitored and didn’t have the money to do The newspaper said that hexavalent is the major target organ for chromium Defense and published at its website www. so. Through private fundraising, she and chromium is a corrosion fighter so toxic 6 toxicity, both for acute (short-term) scorecard.org from government environ- Dr. Robert Amundson conducted indepen- that an amount the size of a grain of salt and chronic (long-term) inhalation expo- mental authorities, 39 of the air toxics dent monitoring and discovered more than in a cubic yard greatly increases the risk of sures. Shortness of breath, coughing and emitted by ESCO are classified as respira- 70 toxic chemicals in Northwest Portland leukemia and lung, stomach, brain, renal, wheezing were reported from a case of tory toxicants, 37 are classified as neuro- air. They concluded that ESCO was the bladder and bone cancers. acute exposure to chromium 6, while per- toxins, 37 are skin or sense organ toxicants, source of much of the pollution “by follow- forations and ulcerations of the septum, ing our noses.”

26 Northwest Examiner november 2009 business Open-door policy confounds neighbors ESCO, DEQ insist pollutants are not escaping

Paul Koberstein ing them isn’t “practicable.” This legal- two plants emit 25 or more tons per year ese, neighbors say, essentially gutted the of 60 different toxic substances, including requirement by giving the company discre- dangerous gases and tiny particles of dust tion to keep the doors open whenever it consisting of toxic metals like lead, nickel, wanted. As a result, with the DEQ’s con- manganese, and as DEQ revealed in Sep- sent, ESCO usually leaves the doors at least tember, hexavalent chromium, a dangerous partially open. carcinogen. In an email, DEQ spokeswoman Cory- On those occasions when odors are not Ann Wind explained that she sees no escaping through the open doors, it is still reason to require the doors to be closed possible that these dangerous toxic sub- because odors do not escape the plant stances or dust particles are escaping. through the open doors. “In DEQ’s experi- On a recent morning, this reporter ence,” she said, “air does not flow out of the inspected an open door at the ESCO plant doorways; it flows inward.” on Northwest 24th Avenue located one half “Closing the door is pretty useless,” said block north of Vaughn Street. The door George Davis, the DEQ official in charge was fully open, the yellow streamers indi- of writing the ESCO permit. “Even if the cated an outward airflow, and the air on the door were closed 100 percent of the time, it sidewalk outside the door reeked of a very wouldn’t solve the odor problem.” foul odor. It is entirely possible that on this ESCO sees no reason to keep the doors morning, the outward flow of air was car- Yellow streamers prove that the air doesn’t always flow inward at the ESCO foundry on closed at all times. Carter Webb, ESCO’s rying invisible and odor-free deadly toxins. Northwest 24th Avenue near Vaughn Street. The photographer noted a very foul odor carried vice president for safety and the environ- It is unclear how ESCO’s open-door by wind currents when the picture was taken. ment, said company policy requires the policy can prevent dangerous substances doors to be cracked no more than 3 feet from escaping through the doors when By Paul Koberstein ment of Environmental Quality issued open at the bottom when molten metal is the air is flowing outward, as it sometimes the current air-pollution permit to ESCO, being poured at the plant. Studies show the does. Much of the pollution coming from the neighbors made a series of demands, odors don’t leave the building until after Meanwhile, the DEQ seems to be large- th two ESCO foundries on Northwest 24 including one seeking to force ESCO to the pouring is finished. ly focused on the odor issue. At DEQ’s Avenue and on Northwest Brewer Street close its doors. That permit, which was in “Also, during very hot weather the doors request, the Oregon Department of Justice enters the neighborhood via smokestacks. effect for five years, expired in August and may be open to prevent employee heat is reviewing whether the odor problem at But some of it escapes through porous is in the process of being renewed. stress,” he said. ESCO can be declared a nuisance by DEQ walls and ceilings. And still other pollut- “Neighbors argued for the doors to Yellow streamers have been affixed to and enforced as a violation of the permit. ants escape through two large open doors. be kept closed to prevent odors, particu- the bottom of the doors to indicate the However, neighbors of the ESCO plant For many years, the open doors have late and volatile organic compounds from direction of airflow. Webb said the fans point out that hazardous air pollutants been a sore point with neighbors. When going into the neighborhood,” said Sharon inside the buildings are designed to draw pose a dangerous nuisance that also must the doors are open, foul odors and dan- Genasci, who chairs the Northwest Dis- air into the plant, forcing the pollution to be addressed. gerous toxins seem to have an unim- trict Association’s Health and Environ- escape upward through the ceiling, where ESCO’s inability to contain all of its peded pathway to nearby houses, parks and ment Committee. “DEQ agreed to put a the pollution control equipment is located. odors may be a blessing in disguise for schoolyards. ‘special condition’ on the permit that the ESCO has agreed to keep the doors nearly neighbors. Genasci said neighbors are “for- For more than a decade neighbors have doors must be kept closed. During the last closed “when processes that can cause tunate” that ESCO’s toxic emissions emit vociferously complained about ESCO’s five years we have repeatedly complained to emissions are occurring,” he said. an odor; “otherwise we wouldn’t know the foul smells. DEQ that the doors were open.” But odors are not all that leaves the toxic pollution is there.” In 2004, during the months leading up The DEQ has directed ESCO to close plant when the doors are open. As reported to the date on which the Oregon Depart- the doors except at times when clos- in last month’s Northwest Examiner, the

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B usines S B R I E F S New Mike Ryerson States to compete in the event. She helped develop the oatmeal recipe for the creative category, trained the video makers and advised on everything from costumes to proto- Businesses col. Bob’s Red Mill won in the traditional category and was runner-up in the creative entry. ... Versailles in the Pearl is Toast & Pho Restaurant moving from Northwest Ninth and Hoyt Street to 221 NW 103 NW 21st Ave ., 503-274-0888 th 11 Ave. in February. In the spring, the company will spin Tan Nguyn, who grew up working in off its outdoor furniture, statues, fountains and pots into a his mother’s restaurant in Saigon, has th separate garden center at the north end of Northwest 18 opened a Vietnamese restaurant with Avenue. The interior furniture, lighting and fabrics will go his wife Tammy and sister Titi in the to the Northwest 11th store, which owner Gerard Philippon former Biscuit’s space below Walgreen’s. said will benefit from being closer to the heart of the Pearl Pho, Nguyn’s signature dish, is served all District near Powell’s and the Armory. ... Slabtown Ribs day long. He cooks thick noodles in a and BBQ traveled to Kansas City last month to compete in beef broth for 10 hours to make the base, the 30th annual American Royal BBQ Competition. Com- then adds meat, bean sprouts and basil. th The former Windermere office at Northwest 21st and Irving is peting against 486 teams, Slabtown BBQ finished 14 in He said it provides energy and has cura- th th ... for lease. Brisket, 14 in Pork Butt and 24 overall. Portland Busi- tive powers. Nguyn describes the cuisine ness Journal honored ESCO Corporation for excellence as “Mekong style” and a mix of urban Mary Peveto and rural cooking. Traditional American Windermere Cronin & Caplan Realty Group did not in training last st breakfasts are served in the morning. renew its lease at 636 NW 21 Ave. The company has month. Elizabeth Dinners are under $12 and breakfasts reduced the number of its agents, who will be consolidated King, ESCO’s under $6. The three partners used to in other Windermere offices. Wilma Caplan, who owns executive director operate a beauty salon in Lake Oswego. the building at 21st and Irving, said she may divide it into of organizational two or more retail spaces because “nobody wants large retail effectiveness, Bistro Asian ... Pizzicato said the com- spaces” these days. Marc Frankel, co-owner of 1900 NW 27th Ave ., 503-274-4096 Pizza, is opening Lovejoy Bakers as an independent ven- pany’s approach ture. The artisan bakery will be the fourth tenant of the to training is not The former Bull Ring Mexican Restau- ill-fated space at Northwest 10th and Lovejoy where Nina’s classrooms and rant will take on a different flavor when ... Madi- tests but to make Bistro Asian opens early this month. Place, Graze and Leonardo’s failed in short order. Victoria Arellano (L-R), Elizabeth King, son Millinger Handmade Rugs it indistinguish- Owner Andy Xie (pronounced “see”), who has moved their show- Marion Pender and Heather Noel of the th has operated an Asian buffet restaurant room from Northwest 11 and Glisan to 1307 NW Glisan, able from day- ESCO Organizational Effectiveness team. with his brother in Albany for nine years, next to French Quarter Linens. ... Seaplane has moved to to-day opera- ... Albina plans to feature a broad spectrum of Chi- 919 NW 23rd Ave., the former Frumoasa Boutique, which tions. Community Bank nese cuisine and Japanese food, including in turn has taken the former space of Chinoise at 728 NW has not taken a position on the Oregon sushi. Chinese dishes will cost $6-$10 rd Bankers Association’s campaign to overturn a tax package 23 Ave. The old Seaplane spot at 2266 NW Lovejoy St. is and Japanese somewhat more. Because vacant again. ... Laurie Holland Real Estate has moved to passed by the Oregon Legislature and did not contribute ... making healthy food is central to his busi- 526 NW 24th Ave., where Chuck Arbuckle Interiors used to the association’s political action committee. James Frying Scotsman ness, Bistro Asian will not use MSG or to be. ... McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurants, King has opened , a fish and chips cart at nd animals oils. It will be open 11 a.m.-10 a Portland-based chain with 93 restaurants in North Amer- Northwest 22 and Raleigh in front of Katayama Framing. p.m. seven days a week, and there will be ica, is moving its headquarters into the entire seventh floor King, who is from Scotland, married the daughter of Kata- ... Clearing Café home-delivery service. He has applied of the new Machine Works building at 1414 NW Northrup yama owner Sally Murdoch. , 2772 NW for a license to serve beer and wine. St. in January. The publicly-traded company, founded in Thurman St., was recently sold by founders Briana and Portland in 1972, will move 110 workers from Southwest Peter Borten to Kelley Winchester and Andrew Griffiths. NW Postal & Shipping Washington Street to the nine-story Machine Works 3055 NW Yeon Ave ., 503-274-9489 ... Turtle Island Develop- Building. Ed McNamara of Mike Ryerson ment The owners of Yeon Mini Storage have will receive a Spirit of Portland Award in the small added a complementary business that business category. It will be presented at Portland Center operates from the same address. NW for the Performing Arts, 1111 SW Broadway, Thursday, Postal & Shipping offers FedEx and Nov. 12, 7 p.m. McNamara built the Sitka Apartments UPS drop shipping, mailbox rentals, at 1115 NW Northrup St. and will soon erect another copying, fax service, notarizing, bind- affordable family-housing project at 1350 NW Raleigh ing, office supplies, key duplication, gifts, ... St. Lucy Radys, a Northwest Portland resident for 20 cards, balloons, computer rental, mov- th years, had a hand in the 16 Annual Golden Spurtle World ing and storage supplies, and printing Bob’s Red Mill Porridge-Making Championship won by of many types, including business cards of Portland in Scotland last month. 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restaurant. His local suddenly became as local as my local. The whole thing reminds me of my dealings with California Pizza several years ago when they had a place rd InBy Mike Ryersonthe ’Hood in then newly-opened Thiele Square at 23 and Burnside. Number One, I was critical of their name, and Num- ber Two, they sponsored a Kenton neighborhood Little League baseball team. To a marketing person in California, Kenton may have It goes beyond buying local sounded local, but to a little ballplayer at Wallace Park, it might as well have been in China. Besides that, they’re the enemy on the field when they play games. In their world, Mike Ryerson local means in the same neighborhood. eighborhood Portland. b u s i n e s s e s I guess I haven’t grown beyond that thinking either. I’ll Oops! Here’s where Give Local! keep remind- some thought should ing us to Think Local, N have been given to that Steak dinners update Shop Local, Choose promotion. Local and Buy Local. If I’m going to buy For the past couple of months, I’ve been offering to give As trendy slogans, my new winter coat up two steak dinners at the RingSide Restaurant to anyone rd they’re right up there at the corner clothing who can find all three pay-to-park lots near 23 Avenue with “natural,” “organic,” shop, why shouldn’t the full. The lots are located behind Papa Haydn on Irving, “low-fat,” “recyclable” old one go to a helping behind Pizzicato Pizza on Glisan and under Williams- and “green.” the homeless in North- Sonoma at Flanders. It’s smart business to west Portland? What’s Last month, I announced our parking problem was get us to buy at home wrong with William officially over because nobody has even tried to claim they and support our local Temple House, Friend- saw all of the lots full. economy, but there’s Buy local is a common theme these days, but what about local giving? ly House or Transition Because some folks still believe we need to tear down another side to this coin. Projects? All of these, a house on Northwest Irving and build an 87-car garage What about Give Local? and several I haven’t mentioned, are well-deserving agen- because there’s a parking shortage, I’m going to give them A recent promotion by a new neighborhood busi- cies right here in our neighborhood. (They might have another chance. I’ll make it even easier. How about burgers ness got me thinking about just how far this should go. even given the items to the Assistance League of Portland, for two at Nob Hill Bar & Grill for the first person who rd Brooklyn Industries at Northwest 23 and Johnson had which moved out of the new clothing store’s spot because can find even one of the three lots full? a promotion last month in which you could buy a new the rent was too high.) With holiday shopping gearing up on 23rd Avenue, winter coat at a discount, and they would give the old one I’m quite sure their Brooklyn Industries stores in there will never be a better opportunity to cash in on this to a homeless agency. Brooklyn are not giving the coats they collect to a home- offer. Nice idea, and it sure beats throwing the old wrap less agency in the Bronx. in the barrel back in the storeroom. But the used coats One of my sons thought I was going too far on this until You can reach Mike Ryerson at 503-381-8050 or were going to an agency called Impact NW in Southeast I reminded him he works at a local Northwest Portland [email protected]

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Tim King and Chris Stearns of Slabtown Ribs and BBQ, 2606 NW Vaughn St., placed 24th out of 486 teams from around the country in the 30th annual American Royal BBQ Competition in Kansas City, Mo., last month.

City Commissioner Randy Leonard took over the stage as guest lead singer for Central Precinct Commander Mike Reese’s (left) band at the Transition Projects’ 40th anniversary dinner.

Bill Radakovich donated his old No. 7 Friendly House basketball jersey, worn in 1937 when he was 11, to Friendly House at the Slabtown Festival in September.

Bob Alexander of the Portland Development Commission leads a workshop on the proposed Central City Urban Renewal District, which could include parts of Goose Hollow and the Northwest District.

The Tanner Springs Park Rain Pavilion was dedicated to Graham Clark, a city of Portland planner assigned to the Pearl District and an advocate of the park, at ceremonies in September. mary peveto

Portland City Commissioner Nick Fish (L-R), J. Greg Ness, president and CEO of The Standard, and Michelle Bussard, executive director of The Forest Park Conser- vancy, spoke at the launching of a partnership between The Standard and the con- servancy. The company has pledged $150,000 in the next three years plus employee volunteer hours for the park.

A mural at Fat Tire Farm at Northwest 27th and Thurman by local artist Mark Asiano is nearing completion.

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