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Nicole Williams, known as Bonnie Thunders, elbows her way past opponents on the way to championship. It’s the fourth time Portland’s Rose City Rollers have launches taken the global honors, this time innew Montreal. See Sports, Page A12. kind of response

Adieu, Concourse A: Portland for homelesssay it’s a way folks to make the first responder system more effec- Six month pilot tive, cut down on unnecessary arrests and help with the high would remove police number of 911 calls related to airport prepares for demolition people experiencing home- from equation lessness or mental health cri- ses. $2 billion PDX By KOIN 6 News The program is slated to be- gin in the spring of 2020 in the Next project will The city of Portland is Lents Neighborhood. move gates, extend getting ready to launch a Lents Park visitor Mandy new kind of emergency re- Guth said the program is “a Concourse B sponse program that could great idea.” help people in crisis. “I think if police officers The City Council approved By ZANE SPARLING have pressing issues — these The Tribune the program, called Portland are pressing issues, too — but Street Response, on Thurs- I think that it’s great to have Portland International day, Nov. 21. specific people for specific The pilot project aims to Airport chopped off the goals or calls,” Guth said. first letter of the ’lphabet. find a more effective way to The effort is being led by No, really. address the rise in 911 calls re- City Commissioner Jo Ann S AV E Travelers heading for the lated to people experiencing Hardesty and has been en- runway this week can find homelessness or a mental dorsed by hundreds of busi- signage pointing toward con- health crisis. It will be based nesses, neighborhoods and courses B, C, D and E — but in Portland Fire & Rescue. individuals, according to rec- Instead of sending police of- not A. ommendations released by The stuffy, low-ceiling ficers, Portland Street Re- Hardesty. space closed to the public sponse will send an emergen- “Being homeless is not a overnight on Wednesday, cy medical technician and cri- crime, having a mental illness sis worker to some mental is not a crime, and addiction is Nov. 13, andmolished the concourse over the will be de health and homelessness-re- not a crime. If there’s no PMG PHOTO: ZANE SPARLING next three months to make lated calls. crime, we don’t need law en- Portland Street Responders forcement,” Commissioner way for an extension of Con- go to calls where a person course B. It’s a $100 million will Chloe Eudaly said. “Portland slice of the ongoing $2 billion doesn’t have access to weap- Street Response is a sea PDX Next campaign that will ons, isn’t suicidal or violent. change in how we treat people Port of Portland Executive Director Curtis Robinhold spoke during a send-offof a facility for Concourse with an A oninterna- They will be recommended for in crisis — it will provide first dramatically reshape one of people, the nation’s most popular air- Tuesday, Nov. 19. tional reputation for excel- calls like people outside yell- See RESPONSE / Page A3 not going left anymore, you lence. ing or intoxicated ports. turn right.” Currently, the most notice- Standing on what he among other issues. course C with a few in B for The Port of Portland held a deemed “the world’s smallest Supporters of the project able change will be for regu- the next 16 to 18 months. departure party Tuesday, See CONCOURSE / Page A3 lars on Alaskar anyone and Horizon needing “Folks come in, they use Nov. 19, both in mourning and community airlines — o the airport, they go through in celebration of the end of an 503-620-9797 a regional flight to Seattle, the checkpoint, and they turn ...... admittedly utilitarian portion 971-204-7771 Medford or northern Califor- left,” said PDX spokeswoman Circulation nia. Those gates have left Kama Simonds. “Now you’re Ads ...... portlandtribune.com Concourse A andily will in be Con- re- CONTACT US 503-684-0360 ...... A16 Website housed primar ...... Of ce ...... 503-620-7355 Portland Life A2 A8 Classi ed ...... A6 Sports ...... INSIDE Puzzles ...... Insight ...... A7

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• April 2019 theregalcourier.com Planners Fine-Tune we can continue to make a difference. Details For Possible SW THE Corridor Max Line We pride ourselves on being Oregon’s best and largest source of Light-rail route over Barbur could raze 25 MAN businesses, 200 jobs By BILL GALLAGHER local news. But we can’t do this alone. As we look toward the new with the The prospective 12-mile Southwest Corri- dor MAX line that may year, we are faced with the reality that advertising alone will not someday connect down- town Portland, Tigard and Tualatin would trav- el along an elevated bridge when trains reach PLAN the “complicated” inter- cover that cost. section called the Cross- roads at Southwest Bar- bur Boulevard and Capi- tol Highway. A steering committee composed of local elected officials, TriMet’s general manager, and an Oregon Just as public radio stations hold pledge drives to secure listener PMG PHOTO: JAIME VALDEZ Department of Transporta- tion manager voted unani- mously Monday, March 11, to abandon all other possi- ble alignment alternatives support, we are asking our readers to pay a greater share of our costs in favor of a plan that would Ken Gibson has been watching King City grow since he became mayor; and it’s only going to grow more. mean the demolition of 25 businesses employing al- ‘If you’re going to move from most 200 people. It includes Mayor Ken Gibson the Bay Area, you really need a new light-rail bridge that so that we can continue to provide the local news coverage you depend to look here,’” Gibson said. crosses over Barbur south sees King City Gibson took the advice and, of Capitol. a few years after moving “With this alignment, if doubling in size north, received a nudge from “We have a lot of you’re heading south on his wife. Barbur Boulevard (toward lthough being may- “She (Ramona) saw some- great projects that Tigard), the route turns left on every day. or of King City is a thing in our Regal Courier. will make existing off of Barbur and goes be- volunteer position, They were advertising that hind the Barbur Transit Ken Gibson keeps there was an opening on the King City better Center. Then, just south of A city council,” Gibson busy these days watching the transit center, the route said, noting with a than it is today.” his town grow and laugh, his wife’s com- — Mayor Ken Gibson spans over I-5 and over evolve. STORY BY Capitol Highway as a fly- Moving from the ment: “You ought to SCOTT think about doing over until you land on the As the only consistent and dedicated source for local news about Bay Area to King west side of Barbur and the that. You like to run City, Gibson’s career KEITH east side of I-5,” said Jeb your mouth.” trajectory includes a Doran, TriMet’s project Gibson joined the decades-long stint manager for the light-rail with United Airlines. council in 2008 and was ap- plan. “I worked for United Air- pointed mayor in 2015. The new light-rail line — our communities and the Portland metro area, our newspapers and Nicely settled into his posi- lines for 32 years, all in San which would be the Port- tion as mayor of King City, Francisco,” Gibson said. “I King City has plans to expand as the region’s Urban Growth Boundary getsmuch moved energy westward. surrounding this land area’s first new line started with the company as a which is now home to all age to use the term “growing that it is too much fun, and too since the Orange Line to journeyman machinist — I groups, not just those at or pains,” Gibson is, nonetheless, exciting, to call it a pain, but worked my way up through near retirement age, Gibson size,” he said. “We’re going to See MAX / Page 2 excited about the growth po- it’s a lot of work.” the ranks.” looks ahead to goals this year build about 3,000 more homes websites provide powerful storytelling and reliable reporting. tential. Gibson remembers receiv- and beyond. and the population will hit See MAYOR / Page 2 “It is very, very, very excit- ing a tip from a friend and fel- Growth is always a chal- somewhere around 10,000. ing,” Gibson said. “We have so low United worker, who hap- lenge, and in King City, Gibson We’re at about 4,200 now.” pened to live in Tualatin. expects a growth spurt. Although he doesn’t choose “He started sending me “We’re going to double in By keeping our readers informed about local issues, we help Sunday supplements and said, make our communities the best places they can be. The battle of words began Saturday, March 9, at the Hollywood Theatre in Port- How Do You“I like reading. That’s Spell probably the main S-M-A-R-T K-I-D-S? land. A total of 43 participants from middle reason that I won, because I read a lot of and elementary schools, each the champi- novels above my age level,” Chang said. “It on of an earlier schoolwide bee, appeared Locals participate in feels really great.” before a panel of three judges. Proud parent Elleanor Chin said her If you believe that an informed community is a strong Oregon Public Broadcasting journalist daughter has “always had a great vocabu- regional spelling bee Dave Miller served as the official annuncia- lary.” Along with the trip to D.C., Chang tor, offering up definitions, alternate pro- earned year-long subscriptions to several By ZANE SPARLING nunciations and etymologies. When one online dictionaries as well. student asked for the meaning of “angst,” Regal Courier Lake Oswego Junior High eighth-grader community then we need your support -- now, more than ever. Miller recited a sentence expounding phi- Alana Penoyer landed in second place, and She might have started out with the losopher Martin Heidegger’s dreary views will serve as alternate if Chang drops out. on the topic. last number in line, but when the dust In third place was Namrata Venkatesan, and definitions settled, contestant No. The bee is also a bit of a world tour, lexi- a Beaverton eighth-grader attending 43 was the final speller standing — and cally speaking. Some students heard the Stoller Middle School. bell (and were eliminated) after being chal- the winner of the Regional Spelling Bee. Venkatesan, who was the second-place Portland’s own Agatha Chang, a sev- lenged by words such as samovar, a Rus- PMG PHOTO: JAIME VALDEZ finisher in last year’s contest, said it’s fruit- enth-grader at Winterhaven School, now sian water kettle; babushka, a grandma; less trying to learn every word in the book. heads to Washington, D.C., in May for the serdab, an Arabic word for cellar; and back- HERE’S THE DEAL – HELP US CONTINUE TO So she focused on common spelling rules Local spellers Rylee McMillin of Hazelbrook Middle School and Mason Van Scripps National Spelling Bee. stein, a German cheese. instead, and studied Sanskrit, Spanish and Doren of Fowler Middle School competed in this year’s regional Spelling Her winning word? P-E-R-S-I-A-N. Other students stumbled on the layout Greek and Latin roots. Bee, hosted by Pamplin Media. In an interview with the Pamplin Media “There’s just too many words in the dic- See SPELLING / Page 2 Group, which has sponsored the bee for the tionary,” Venkatesan said. “You can’t last 16 years, Chang credited her love of memorize them all.” GENERATE MORE LOCAL NEWS! fantasy and romance novels as the key to Pamplin Media Group builds stronger her success. communities through excellent local journalism ...... 503-620-9797 CONTACT US Circulation 971-204-7774 503-636-1281 Advertising ...... Of ce ...... 503-620-7355 For a limited time the Pamplin Media Group is offering our Classi ed ...... ALL-ACCESS STORY PASS for only $99 a year (value of $460). This gives you UNLIMITED access to more than 4,400 local stories from 25 Pamplin Media Group websites, as well as their Your best source for local news and information. corresponding electronic newspapers. PAGE A1 As a local news reader, this gives you a MASSIVE 250% Best ofschool high INCREASE in the amount of local news available to a typical athletics coverage. See Page 18 Winemakers subscriber but for less than $2 per week. go solar - but not without clashes See page 6 Your on-going support will not only keep you more informed about local issues, but it will also afford us the opportunity to Issue 7 • sherwoodgazette.com Vol. 25 continue to robustly serve Oregon with quality local news. July 2019 • House OUR BEST DEAL! RULES n Student labor is the secret sauce behind home construction “ … approximately 175 to PMG PHOTO: SCOTT KEITH • UNLIMITED ACCESS to all 200 kids who have a hand By SCOTT KEITH — Jon Dickover For Sherwood Gazette in it.” Several industrious Sherwood the satisfaction he experiences from Pamplin websites High School students were on - helping build the Bowmen House. hand May 24 to show off the “It’s really a fun project that we there were approximately 175 to 200 - fruits of their labor at the un- that there are high-paying, living- did, working with a team,” Quaglio kids who have a hand in it,” Dick veiling of the fourth Bowmen wage jobs out there where you don’t said. “We really became like a family over said, noting Gaston High Sherwood High School students who helped build the fourth Bowmen House stand outside the structure. House. have to go to college to be a success- working with this. 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Construc 30 different kids who actually build The Bowmen House project pro- event, Samuel Quaglio, described tion began December 2017, and with the home in my Bowmen House vides a chance for students to learn the help of community donations, class.” Pamplin electronic newspapers The Bowmen House has several about various trades. students finally celebrated their - “Our society is starting to realize achievement by conducting public amenities, including a central vacu- tours at the Open House. um system that will allow the home- Jon Dickover, construction in- owner to keep dust away. 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The experts expect it won’t It was a seminal moment for “I see him hitting 30 to 35 take long before Rutschman, the junior catcher of Oregon homers (a season) in the big 21, makes his mark with the State, who hopes to parlay the leagues and being a multiple- See RUTSCHMAN / Page 4 occasion into further growth as time All-Star,” said Casey, a player and greatness as a Rutschman’s coach his first big-leaguer. two years as a Beaver who was That’s exactly what the man brought in as an analyst by who recruited Rutschman to OSU — Pat Casey — predicts will happen. • UNLIMITED ACCESS to all PMG PHOTO: SCOTT KEITH The 65th annual Robin Hood Festival is coming up July 19 and 20, Pamplin websites including Old Town Sherwood sure events,bet a community Sherwood Saturday Market runs from May through September in Cannery Square in Old Town Sherwood. parade and the archery tournament. See our Market-goers will find local special section inside farmers who offer fresh this edition of the produce. 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