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Tuesday, November 26, 2019 • portlandtribune.com Join us to Free in Portland • $1.00 outside of Portland WHEN PUSH S AV E COMES TO Nicole Williams, known as Bonnie Thunders, elbows her way past opponents on the way to the world championship. It’s the fourth time Portland’s Rose City Rollers have taken the global honors, this time in Montreal. See Sports, Page A12. VICTORY time Portland’s Rose City Rollers have taken the global honors,COURTESY PHOTO:this time CAPOBIANCO in Montreal. PHOTOGRAPHY Adieu, Concourse A: Portland community City launches new airport prepares for demolition $2 billion PDX kind of response Next project will move gates, extend for homeless folks Concourse B Six month pilot say it’s a way to make the first By ZANE SPARLING would remove police responder system more effec- The Tribune tive, cut down on unnecessary from equation arrests and help with the high number of 911 calls related to Portland International Airport chopped off the By KOIN 6 News people experiencing home- first letter of the ’lphabet. lessness or mental health cri- ses. No, really. The city of Portland is Travelers heading for the getting ready to launch a The program is slated to be- runway this week can find new kind of emergency re- gin in the spring of 2020 in the signage pointing toward con- sponse program that could Lents Neighborhood. courses B, C, D and E — but help people in crisis. Lents Park visitor Mandy not A. The City Council approved Guth said the program is “a great idea.” The stuffy, low-ceiling the program, called Portland space closed to the public Street Response, on Thurs- “I think if police officers overnight on Wednesday, day, Nov. 21. have pressing issues — these Nov. 13, and the concourse The pilot project aims to are pressing issues, too — but journalism. find a more effective way to I think that it’s great to have will be de molished over the next three months to make address the rise in 911 calls re- specific people for specific way for an extension of Con- lated to people experiencing goals or calls,” Guth said. course B. It’s a $100 million homelessness or a mental The effort is being led by slice of the ongoing $2 billion health crisis. It will be based City Commissioner Jo Ann PDX Next campaign that will in Portland Fire & Rescue. Hardesty and has been en- dramatically reshape one of Instead of sending police of- dorsed by hundreds of busi- the nation’s most popular air- ficers, Portland Street Re- nesses, neighborhoods and ports. sponse will send an emergen- individuals, according to rec- Port of Portland Executive Director Curtis Robinhold spoke during a send-off for Concourse A on ommendations released by Currently, the most notice- cy medical technician and cri- Tuesday, Nov. 19. PMG PHOTO: ZANE SPARLING able change will be for regu- sis worker to some mental Hardesty. lars on Alaska and Horizon health and homelessness-re- “Being homeless is not a course C with a few in B for lated calls. crime, having a mental illness airlines — or anyone needing a regional flight to Seattle, the next 16 to 18 months. not going left anymore, you Portland Street Responders is not a crime, and addiction is Gathering, editing and distributing news about of a facility with an interna- will not a crime. If there’s no Medford or northern Califor- “Folks come in, they use turn right.” go to calls where a person nia. Those gates have left the airport, they go through The Port of Portland held a tional reputation for excel- doesn’t have access to weap- crime, we don’t need law en- Concourse A and will be re- the checkpoint, and they turn departure party Tuesday, lence. ons, isn’t suicidal or violent. forcement,” Commissioner housed primar left,” said PDX spokeswoman Nov. 19, both in mourning and Standing on what he They will be recommended for Chloe Eudaly said. “Portland ily in Con- Kama Simonds. “Now you’re in celebration of the end of an deemed “the world’s smallest calls like people outside yell- Street Response is a sea admittedly utilitarian portion ing or intoxicated change in how we treat people See CONCOURSE / Page A3 among other issues. people, in crisis — it will provide first Supporters of the project your neighborhood, your community and See RESPONSE / Page A3 INSIDE Portland Life PAID Insight ...................................... ........................... A16 CONTACT US PRSRT. STD. 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Page 3 Get to know year, we are faced with the reality that advertising alone will not the Refuge Page 4 cover that cost. Just as public radio stations hold pledge drives to secure listener theregalcourier.com • support, we are asking our readers to pay a greater share of our costs April 2019 so that we can continue to provide the local news coverage you depend Planners Fine-Tune on every day. THE Details For Possible SW Corridor As the only consistent and dedicated source for local news about MAN Max Line Light-rail route over with the Barbur could raze 25 our communities and the Portland metro area, our newspapers and businesses, 200 jobs By BILL GALLAGHER Pamplin Media Group websites provide powerful storytelling and reliable reporting. The prospective 12-mile Southwest Corri- PLAN dor MAX line that may someday connect down- town Portland, Tigard By keeping our readers informed about local issues, we help and Tualatin would trav- el along an elevated bridge when trains reach Ken Gibson has been watching King City grow since he became mayor; and it’s only going to grow more. the “complicated” inter- section called the Cross- make our communities the best places they can be. roads at Southwest Bar- bur Boulevard and Capi- Mayor Ken Gibson tol Highway. ‘If you’re going to move from A steering committee composed of local elected sees King City the Bay Area, you really need PMG PHOTO: JAIME VALDEZ to look here,’” Gibson said. officials, TriMet’s general manager, and an Oregon doubling in size Gibson took the advice and, a few years after moving Department of Transporta- If you believe that an informed community is a strong tion manager voted unani- lthough being may- north, received a nudge from or of King City is a his wife. mously Monday, March 11, to abandon all other possi- volunteer position, “She (Ramona) saw some- AKen Gibson keeps thing in our Regal Courier. ble alignment alternatives busy these days watching “We have a lot of in favor of a plan that would his town grow and They were advertising that community then we need your support -- now, more than ever. there was an opening on the mean the demolition of 25 evolve. great projects that businesses employing al- Moving from the city council,” Gibson will make existing most 200 people. It includes Bay Area to King STORY BY said, noting with a King City better a new light-rail bridge that City, Gibson’s career SCOTT laugh, his wife’s com- crosses over Barbur south trajectory includes a ment: “You ought to than it is today.” of Capitol. decades-long stint KEITH think about doing — Mayor Ken Gibson “With this alignment, if with United Airlines. that. You like to run you’re heading south on HERE’S THE DEAL – HELP US CONTINUE TO “I worked for United Air- your mouth.” Barbur Boulevard (toward lines for 32 years, all in San Gibson joined the Tigard), the route turns left Francisco,” Gibson said. “I council in 2008 and was ap- pointed mayor in 2015. off of Barbur and goes be- started with the company as a hind the Barbur Transit journeyman machinist — I Nicely settled into his posi- tion as mayor of King City, Center. Then, just south of worked my way up through the transit center, the route the ranks.” which is now home to all age GENERATE MORE LOCAL NEWS! groups, not just those at or spans over I-5 and over Gibson remembers receiv- near retirement age, Gibson King City has plans to expand as the region’s Urban Growth Boundary gets moved westward. Capitol Highway as a fly- ing a tip from a friend and fel- over until you land on the low United worker, who hap- looks ahead to goals this year and beyond. west side of Barbur and the pened to live in Tualatin. size,” he said. “We’re going to east side of I-5,” said Jeb Growth is always a chal- “He started sending me build about 3,000 more homes Doran, TriMet’s project Sunday supplements and said, lenge, and in King City, Gibson to use the term “growing expects a growth spurt. and the population will hit manager for the light-rail somewhere around 10,000. pains,” Gibson is, nonetheless, plan. For a limited time the Pamplin Media Group is offering our “We’re going to double in excited about the growth po- much energy surrounding this We’re at about 4,200 now.” The new light-rail line — tential.

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