Back in town and ready to battle — SEE SPORTS, B8 PortlandTribuneLPGA stars returning to Columbia Edgewater THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2013 • WWW.PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHED THURSDAY City water rate fi ght turns green ■ Ratepayer By JIM REDDEN took it over. board. The chief petitioners to qualify it for will form to oppose the mea- The Tribune And Fish says it also would “The City are lobbyist Kent Craford and the May 2014 sure if it qualifi es for the ballot. frustration fuels allow Portlanders to learn water bureau watchdog Floy primary elec- He predicts environmentalists ballot initiative to Commissioner Nick Fish about the watershed protec- Council Jones. They also are involved tion ballot. Fi- will oppose the measure be- end City Council welcomes the proposed bal- tion work being done by the cannot be in the ongoing lawsuit in Mult- nancial sup- cause it threatens to reduce or lot measure to take away environmental services bu- nomah County Circuit Court porters in- eliminate the watershed pro- control; foes control of the Water Bureau reau, which operates the city’s trusted charging the council has mis- clude such tection work being done by the say environment and Bureau of Environmen- sewer system and storm water with spent at least $117 million in large water environmental services bu- needs protection tal Services from the City management programs. ratepayer water and sewer ratepayer users as the reau. He says labor unions will Council. “I’m looking forward to funds during the past 10 years. Portland Bot- FISH oppose it because the new Fish, who is in charge of making the case for both bu- money.” “The City Council cannot be tling Co. and board could lay off the union- both bureaus, says such a reaus,” Fish says. — Kent trusted with ratepayer money,” the Siltronic ized employees of the two bu- campaign would give him a The proposed ballot mea- Craford, Craford says. manufacturing plant. reaus. And he says business chance to explain that the sure would amend the City lobbyist Petition backers have until Fish is confi dent a coalition leaders will oppose it because management of the water bu- Charter to place both bureaus January to collect 29,786 valid of environmentalists, labor reau has changed since he under the control of an elected signatures of Portland voters union and business leaders See BALLOT / Page 10

■ Money woes reduce program matching residents with language tutors

Janitor Marcelino Garcia (right) is tutored in English so ESL PROGRAM he learns to communicate with co-workers. Landscaper Ramiro Hernandez (below) needed to talk with his sons’ high school teachers without GETS CUT IN his sons having to translate. Janitor Lourdes Diaz (bottom) had no way to leave notes telling her boss she had completed her work. All three HARD BUDGET have relied on volunteer PCC tutors to improve their English, but the free tutoring program is being cut back. LESSON

Story by Peter Korn Non-English speakers Population Photos by Jaime Valdez age 5 and over Languages in with limited Portland area English profi ciency magine taking your 16-year-old Spanish 64,692 autistic son to doctors’ appoint- ments and teacher conferences Vietnamese 12,417 I — if you didn’t speak English. Chinese 9,036 Lourdes Diaz moved from Mexico Russian 7,105 to Beaverton 18 years ago but, like Korean 4,141 many immigrants, she has lived in a Ukrainian 2,609 world where Spanish was spoken and Japanese 2,608 learning English was deferred. Even- Romanian 2,232 tually, her lack of English became a burden. Tagalog 1,705 Diaz, 36, works at night as a janitor. Arabic 1,460 When her boss began leaving notes Hmong 1,420 about which offi ces needed vacuum- Somali 1,407 ing or dusting, she couldn’t read Cambodian 1,370 them. She also couldn’t leave a note Total 122,511 telling her boss she had fi nished the all non-English job. She couldn’t tell doctors or school speakers offi cials her concerns about her son. “I need to explain how he feels,” Source: Metro Diaz says. Portland Community College offers For these people, PCC’s Voluntary English as a second language classes Literacy Tutoring Program has been for those who want to learn the lan- the answer. It has been remarkable guage, but Diaz is among many who for its ability to deliver huge return can’t take those classes. Some don’t on a small public investment. Last speak English well enough to learn in year, more than 360 volunteers tu- a classroom; others don’t have the tored 1,476 students, including Diaz. time. And many can’t get into PCC’s waitlisted ESL classes. See ESL / Page 2 PDC cuts squeeze community input

■ Gateway By STEVE LAW borhood association leaders who The Tribune “It’s time to rethink how are willing to attend lots of meet- residents ings. The agency hopes to recruit Bob Earnest and fellow East we gather public input on say end of more people with business and Portland activists have served as our work and choose a lending experience, he says. citizen panels a local voice for Gateway resi- “It’s time to rethink how we gath- dents — and street-level eyes better model.” er public input on our work and hurts best and ears for city offi cials — — Patrick Quinton, choose a better model.” since the Portland Development PDC executive director The PDC will start by expanding interests Commission created an urban its centralized renewal district there in 2001. Neighborhood More inside But now the PDC is eliminating way advisory committee. “I hope to Economic Devel- See related stories its urban renewal advisory commit- goodness that somebody still has opment Leader- on pages 5 and 6. tee for Gateway, and similar panels our best interests at heart.” ship Group to in- in the Lents and Interstate urban The PDC, still undergoing clude at least two renewal areas. Those are billed as wrenching layoffs and budget cuts, people associated with each of the the PDC’s neighborhood-focused no longer has the staff to fan out Gateway, Lents and Interstate ur- urban renewal areas, where the into the community and attend so ban renewal areas. agency seeks a more grassroots ap- many meetings, says Patrick Quin- Mayor Charlie Hales, who has TRIBUNE PHOTO: JAIME VALDEZ proach to community development, ton, the city agency’s executive di- vowed to devote more attention to Mayor Charlie Hales (left) listens to senior planner Troy Doss (right) on in contrast to its traditional down- rector. Quinton also concluded the the city’s oft-neglected neighbor- a recent bike tour of the inner east side. Hales says dumping citizen town-style redevelopment. urban renewal advisory commit- hoods, isn’t enthused about dump- advisory committees for urban renewal areas may not be a good idea, “It just doesn’t feel right,” says tees are an “outdated model,” rely- but was necessary due to PDC budget cuts. Earnest, co-chairman of the Gate- ing on the same faces and neigh- See PDC / Page 7

“Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to Portland Tribune TOMMY THAYER GIVES FUNDRAISER A BIG KISS deliver balanced news that refl ects the stories of our communities. Thank you — SEE LIFE, PAGE B1 for reading our newspapers.” Inside — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN JR. OWNER & NEIGHBOR A2 NEWS The Portland Tribune Thursday, August 22, 2013 ESL: Program hard to sustain without tuition ■ At the Cully center more From page 1 than tutoring was going on. Af- ter a paid teacher was relocated Despite delivering incredible to another site, the actual ESL bang for the buck, volunteer lit- classes were taught by the vol- eracy tutoring is facing hard unteer tutors. times. Mt. Hood and Clackamas The goal of the workforce community colleges have dis- center is to help low-income im- solved their volunteer pro- migrants fi nd jobs and work to- grams, and PCC is cutting back, ward careers. Achieving that eliminating two of its four paid goal will be impossible for ma- coordinator positions and pro- ny if they don’t first improve posing to reduce the hours for their English skills, McKenzie the two remaining positions. says. And tutors went beyond PCC adminis- language instruc- trators, facing re- tion, taking stu- duced state and “They generally dents to the li- federal funding, brary and the com- say they have lit- get jobs, but munity garden to tle choice. But for a job that introduce them to budget con- the larger Port- straints aren’t the would support land community. only impetus for a family, you PCC administra- the cutbacks. tors say funding According to need a higher for ESL tutoring is PCC administra- level of English.” hard to justify, tors, the demand — Amy Youngfl esh, partly because for free English Cully Workforce Training they have no tutors has been Center director benchmarks to falling in recent prove students are years, especially making gains. from the metro area’s west side. McKenzie says the benchmarks Ten years ago, they say, their should include the number of TRIBUNE PHOTOS: JAIME VALDEZ volunteer tutors were serving his ex-students who have li- Landscaper Ramiro Hernandez hugs son Christian before heading off to his landscaping job in Cornelius. Hernandez has received ESL tutoring at more than 700 adult students in brary cards, plots in the com- PCC’s Willow Creek campus, and hopes to become profi cient enough in English to eventually get a factory job. the Beaverton/Hillsboro area. munity garden, entrepreneur- This year, only about 150 Wash- ial jobs and computers they’re ington County students such as trying to build following tutor- but for a job that would sup- Cuts keep coming Diaz are getting help, and dis- led trips to Free Geek. port a family, you need a high- Tanya Batazhan, adult basic trictwide, calls for ESL instruc- er level of English,” she says. skills manager for PCC, says tion are down. Demand still high Volunteers have told Young- community colleges suffered The drop-off is puzzling. PCC Amy Youngfl esh, director of fl esh that they’re ready to re- federal sequestration cuts officials say the migration of the Cully Workforce Training turn if the program is restart- which amounted to 5 percent new residents from Mexico has Center, says losing the 30 volun- ed. But she isn’t optimistic that this year and could double or slowed, and might be the cause. teers that McKenzie helped at- funding will be found to resus- triple next year. Given the de- tract and organize wasn’t a re- citate the program. clining enrollment numbers, Immigrant numbers up action to decreased demand. “It’s a tiny bit of money,” she cutting the tutoring program Still, Portland has had a The Cully center opened in says. “I think sometimes that’s simply makes sense. steady increase in the number 1998 and the majority of the the hard part. It’s not sexy or “It’s a great benefit to the of people who live in homes ESL students until recently new or innovative. A coordina- community, but faced with the where English is not the lan- were Hispanic or Southeast tor is seen as a little dull when budget cuts, programs that guage spoken, according to U.S. Asian, according to Youngfl esh. you’re raising money.” don’t bring in tuition are in the census data. The number of The past few years students Also, McKenzie’s coordina- most vulnerable place because Portland residents in non-Eng- from North African countries tor’s position, even at $12,000 a PCC vounteer ESL tutor Judy Lowder helps Marcelino Garcia with an they don’t pay for themselves,” lish speaking homes jumped including Somalia, Sudan and year, is not “sustainable.” English problem while Ramiro Hernandez, back left, and Lourdes Diaz Batazhan says. from 83,128 in 2000 to 102,790 in Ethiopia have entered the mix. There’s no assurance that if work on their English skills. The PCC Willow Creek tutoring program is Declining demand is not an 2011, according to the census. If money were found to contin- some foundation, nonprofi t or scheduled for cuts. issue at the PCC campus on But if PCC administrators are ue the tutoring program, public agency put up the mon- Southeast 82nd Avenue, where right, the last two years, not in- Youngfl esh is certain the four ey to continue the ESL tutor- coordinator Kathleen Holloway cluded in census data, refl ect a classes a day that had been of- ing program this year, the pro- primary instructor for a num- Forty-year-old Ramiro Her- has 40 volunteer tutors serving different dynamic. The Port- fered, as well as the computer gram would fi nd a way to sup- ber of those low-level English nandez, receiving tutoring 280 students this year. land area might be seeing the lab, would be fi lled. port itself in the future. The speakers over the past two from Lowder, is just such a stu- “We are overwhelmed,” Hol- arrival of fewer immigrants About 70 of the ESL students students pay no tuition. years. The Willow Creek vol- dent. He came to the Portland loway says. with low-level English skills. at the workforce center were unteer program also is sched- area 22 years ago from Mexico Holloway says budget cuts Diminishing demand was not required to study English as a Long-term payoff uled for cutbacks, with the and has worked as a farm- have forced the Southeast cam- evident in the Cully neighbor- condition of receiving state ben- Kay Talbot, who has served proposed removal of coordina- worker since. Growing up in pus to cut the number of lower- hood when PCC abandoned its efi ts. With no ESL staff or tu- as a part-time coordinator for tor Tracey Busemen’s 26 hour- Mexico he never went to level ESL classes at PCC, and volunteer ESL tutoring pro- tors, those clients meet the the PCC volunteer literacy per-week position. Adminis- school. Here, he has been sur- those classes that remain have gram at the Workforce Train- requirement by spending time program run out of the South- trators say they hope to re- rounded by people who speak long waiting lists. The free ESL ing Center on Northeast 42nd in front of the center’s comput- west Portland Sylvania cam- place Busemen with a less ex- Spanish. tutoring serves as “backup for Avenue. David McKenzie coor- ers, which have been outfi tted pus, says a longer view of pensive “casual employee.” Hernandez has four chil- the ESL department,” she says. dinated more than 30 volun- with a Rosetta Stone English funding might help. Aloha resident Lowder, who dren, and teacher conferences At the Southeast campus, teers there who tutored 130 stu- language program. The 60 Cul- Talbot is convinced that ESL writes computer manuals for where his 17-year-old son has Chinese and Vietnamese speak- dents last year before funding ly community members — tutoring indirectly pays off for corporations during the day, acted as translator have left ers have replaced Spanish ran out. mostly women — who were PCC in the long run if it is says many of her students him wondering if he’s getting speakers as the largest groups McKenzie, with a master’s voluntarily studying English viewed as the fi rst step in an don’t have the English skills to the teachers’ full messages. of enrollees, according to Hol- degree in education, says he with tutors no longer receive educational process for the take a formal ESL class. Some “They (teens) never want to loway. She says she could easily was paid about $12,000 a year instruction of any kind. lowest-level English speakers. don’t know how to take notes say the truth,” Hernandez says recruit more volunteer tutors for his work — basically the Most of the tutored students, “By helping people who can’t during class, or even how to with a smile. and help more immigrants. She cost of the program. But a city Youngflesh says, have been get into class, they will eventu- participate in simple class- Hernandez has been tutored simply doesn’t have the time, of Portland grant that had sup- able to fi nd only low-level jobs ally be able to get into class,” room activities such as match- in English for three years and but she recognizes the cost. ported the program expired, with their limited English she says. ing words with defi nitions. as his English has improved “Volunteer literacy tutoring and PCC officials say they skills. The tutoring was about At the PCC Willow Creek “It’s a skill to know how to he has begun to dream of is in many cases the friendly couldn’t fi nd the funds to con- helping them take a next step. campus in Beaverton, volun- learn that we just take for someday working at Intel in face to the community for PCC,” tinue McKenzie’s position. “They generally get jobs, teer Judy Lowder has been the granted,” Lowder says. Beaverton. she says.

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ultnomah County is named after? Hint: He Democrats, who control, the Chairman Jeff Co- owned much of a hill that’s go- Legislature, are against cut- politics, crazy gen has refused to ing to be connected to the ting PERS. Republicans are Msay if he will run bridge with an aerial tram. against raising taxes. Our Ore- for re-election next year if he gon, a labor-backed advocacy survives the scandal sur- Kitz wants to bang gavel groups, has fi led several po- is as crazy does rounding his affair with a for PERS, CRC tential ballot measures to county employee. raise taxes on the wealthy, re- But his campaign committee Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber ducing the need for Democrats just reported paying $200 to a is expected to decide whether to compromise with Republi- EDITOR’S NOTE: Fans of the the neighborhood. media fi rm to renew a domain to call a special session of the cans on PERS. Mark and Dave radio show, Zillow has it at $313,000. The name for a website. Although Oregon Legislature within Complicating the session which left the air in July, can homes next door are valued at the fi ling doesn’t say which days. If he does, it will be a will be the push by supporters stop wondering where the duo about $204,000 to $242,000, a one, it’s probably jeffcogen. high-risk affair charged of the Columbia River has landed. Starting this whopping $233,000 difference. com, his 2010 campaign web- TRIBUNE PHOTO: JONATHAN HOUSE with politically vola- Crossing to build a week, Mark Mason and Dave If you were to save $200 per site. It’s still up. Embattled county Chair Jeff tile issues. scaled-back ver- Anderson will write a column month in water and power The fi rm is Mandate Media, Cogen has renewed a website he Kitzhaber sion of the proj- for the Portland Tribune. costs, it would take you 97 which received $38,595 from used for his 2010 campaign. has been tour- ect. Although Mark and years to recoup the Cogen campaign in 2010 ing the state the Washington Dave spent 11 your investment. for management and advertis- talking about Legislature years hosting an Mark&Dave It’s keeping Port- ing services. That was the River, which are either named the need to in- failed to fund its afternoon talk UP IN THE AIR land weird, but year he was elected county after associated streets crease education share of the contro- show in Port- not in a good chairman. Although the cam- (Broadway, Burnside, Fre- spending and rein in versial project earlier land, which they way. Maybe it paign committee hasn’t raise mont, Hawthorne, Morrison), soaring Public Employee this year, supporters says plan to continue should renamed any money lately, it reports where they go (Sellwood, St. Retirement System costs. That Oregon and the federal gov- in the future. In their real the Sewer House? having $16,576 in the bank. Johns), what they go over means he is still hoping to sell ernment can build a $2.75 bil- lives, Mason is starting his ••• Meanwhile, still no word on (Ross Island), or what they’re lawmakers on a grand bargain lion version that ends in 18th season as the Portland the schedule — let alone out- made of (Steel). to raise taxes and reduce PERS Washington at State Route 14. Trail Blazers’ public address The Bikini Barista controver- come — of investigations into Does anyone really remem- benefi ts, which are paid for by Project critics still oppose it, announcer. Anderson is in his sy (covered here in the Trib) whether Cogen broke state ber who the Marquam Bridge state and local governments. however. 12th year as host of KATU has Forest Grove residents “ex- laws or county policies during TV’s AM Northwest. You can tra hot.” We had no clue of the his affair. follow the pair on Facebook at brew-ha-ha until everyone themarkanddaveshow. made a grande deal out of it. So Portland bridge names it forced us to drive to Forest for $400, Alex n a word, crazy. That is Grove to check things out for Choice, Independence and what the Oregon Republi- ourselves. We are happy to re- Sources has long accused can Party often looks to port there’s nothing to see TriMet of planning to name the I for leadership. Art Robin- through all those tattoos. We’ll new transit bridge over the Dignity – Legislators Set son is the latest example. He re- be happy to go back and grind Willamette River for former cently was elected to head the out more research if this story General Manager Fred Han- state party after Suzanne Galla- continues to percolate. sen. But now the regional tran- the Right Priorities gher stepped down as chair- ••• sit agency has announced a woman. lengthy election process for se- Robinson is pro-life, believes Did you see Elon Musk’s lecting the name that appears we should build more power plans for the Hyperloop? The to rule that out. It includes the Oregon’s long-term care system, plants, thinks man-made global futuristic $6 billion “Jetsons-like appointment of a Portland-Mil- Thank you: warming is a hoax, and public people-mover” would whisk waukie Light Rail Bridge Nam- welfare should be replaced by you from Los Angeles to San ing Committee, a public name with its home- and community- local charitable groups. And he Francisco in 30 minutes! Did submission period, and two Alan Bates lives in Oregon! Like it or not, you have the same feeling we rounds of public comments. of Medford the majority of Oregonians live had that this thing will be up The process kicks off Sept. 5 based services and supports, is a in the metro area — including and running long before the Co- with the initial committee liberal Multnomah County. If lumbia River Crossing? And, meeting. The fi nal selection Peter Buckley Republicans want to elect a yes, cost less. will be announced in Spring model for the nation. Its promise XXXX right-of-center politician to 2014. of Ashland statewide offi ce, they have to Follow Mark and Dave on Face- Let’s hope the name is more of choice, independence and support people who could at book www.facebook.com/TheMar- interesting than the other Richard Devlin least be part of a carpool in kandDaveShow bridges across the Willamette Multnomah County. dignity for Oregon’s seniors and of Tualatin Wishing Allen Alley was still chairman of Oregon’s Republi- Seattle Optometrist Helps can Party. Steady, calm, smart, people with disabilities has served Joe Gallegos pragmatic — a guy who could get centrist Democrats to step LEGALLY BLIND to See! of Hillsboro over the line. Was he just not its citizens – and taxpayers – well. unhinged enough for today’s Just because you have macular de- John Huffman GOP? generation, or other vision-lim- ••• of The Dalles iting conditions doesn’t always After struggling to maintain Good luck (dripping with sar- mean you must give up driving casm) to Washington County’s or reading. Bob Jenson proposal to charge a $22 annual A Washington optome- essential services during the of Pendleton car registration fee exclusively trist, Dr. Ross Cusic, is using Patient Driving with Bioptic to pay for roads. If it looks like a miniaturized binoculars or Telescopic Glasses tax, walks like a tax, and telescopes to help people who “In some states, including recession, Oregon’s legislators Nancy Nathanson squawks like a tax, how do you have lost vision from macular Washington, Bioptic telescopic of Eugene call it a fee? 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ute limits are intended to en- were not equipped with wheel- City panel asked for courage shoppers who make chairs. short visits and free up spaces “And I did notice that some of proposals to resolve for other shoppers. But those them were BMWs, so it was downtown issue with disabled placards are al- quite obvious that, A, at least lowed to park free for as long as some of the spaces were not oc- they want. cupied by people who had dis- By PETER KORN Downtown business owners abilities and, B, had no money to The Tribune for years have pay for parking.” complained that Disabled plac- Portland City Commission- people with dis- “If the task ards are provided er Steve Novick is getting abled permits to anyone with a serious about changing city parking all day are force can’t physician-signed policies governing use of costing them busi- come up with a form that says disabled parking placards at ness. As reported proposal, we’ll their mobility is re- on-street parking spots. in the Tribune sto- stricted. There is Novick, Portland’s transpor- ry, some cities have to come no standard for the tation commissioner, sent a let- have moved to a up with one disability. ter recently to the city’s Dis- policy that re- Novick says he abled Parking Task Force ask- quires drivers ourselves.” expects to hear ing for proposals to address with disabled plac- — Steve Novick, new proposals TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO: L.E. BASKOW the long-running downtown ards to pay for city commissioner from the task force problem. their parking. within the next A proposed city carbon tax could be used to repair roads, sidewalks and boost transit systems. Portland Novick told the Tribune Those cities have several months but city offi cials have not yet decided whether to seek approval for the tax idea that was fl oated last week. Wednesday that a few weeks found that the problem of all-day he intends to move ahead on the ago he walked about fi ve blocks parking at metered spaces virtu- parking problem whether the surrounding City Hall and found ally disappears when payment is task force is able to reach a con- more than half the on-street required. sensus or not. parking spaces were taken up by Novick says his tour with a “If the task force can’t come City fl oats carbon tax, vehicles with disabled parking bureau of transportation park- up with a proposal, we’ll have placards. ing enforcement officer was to come up with one ourselves,” As detailed in a July 11 Tri- more than eye opening. he says. bune story, most of those cars “I was just astonished,” Asked whether he expects a belong to downtown workers Novick says. “More than half of new policy to require drivers using benefi ts as hook who keep their vehicles parked the spaces were taken up with with disabled placards to pay for in metered spots all day. Parking ‘disabled parking’ cars and it parking, Novick says that is “em- pursues the idea. prospective ballot title, which is spaces with one-hour or 90-min- was obvious the vast majority inently possible.” Funds to fi x streets, “If the results come back a the measure description that resounding ‘no,’ then he won’t would appear fi rst on the ballot. sidewalk still face a go forward with something that Similar polls are routinely used doesn’t have a chance of pass- to gauge support for statewide tough political road ing. But if the results show sup- ballot measures. port for a carbon tax, then he’ll Haynes says public hearings Jack the cat returns home By STEVE LAW start talking to the other elect- will be held on the idea if Hales The Tribune ed officials in the building decides to pursue it. No election about it,” Haynes says, refer- date has been set. By CLIFF NEWELL around Christmas time, and set Mayor Charlie Hales may ring to Hales’ peers on the City Pamplin Media Group her sights on getting a job at try to tap Portland’s green- Council. State clean air fee New Seasons Market (she got minded voters to get more Potiowsky suggested the tax The idea of a carbon tax is Trish Watson loved Jack the job). Jack had been missing greenbacks for the city. at the level being discussed by gaining favor in Oregon since the cat. for a year. Chapter closed. Or so Hales teamed with the Ore- the city might be a way to “test PSU’s study was released, and She had originally wanted a she thought. gon Environmental Council to the waters” or introduce a new based on favorable early re- dog when she went pet hunting During the last week of poll Portland voters on a possi- tax at an acceptable level, sults of British Columbia’s car- at an animal shelter, but then July, Watson got a phone call ble “carbon tax” on motor ve- “rather than passing a carbon bon tax. The PSU study con- she saw a cat whose looks she from Laura Williams at New hicle fuel, electricity and natu- tax that would have a lot of cluded that a state carbon tax really liked. “I said, ‘I really Seasons’ corporate offi ce and ral gas. teeth.” would also help diversify the want this cat,’ “ Watson said. was asked, “Do you own a Portland voters were asked in The Northwest Economic Re- state’s revenue base, perhaps “He jumped right up to me.” cat named Jack?” Watson ex- the recent poll whether they’d search Center at Portland State, providing more money for pub- She named him Jack. ploded, “I do! Wow, I can’t support a 3 percent tax on their directed by Potio- lic schools and Life was a bowl of cherries believe it!” gas and electric bills and a 4.5 wsky, published a other services. when Jack the cat moved into Fate had brought Watson cent-per gallon tax on gasoline. study in March “It likely A bill to create a Watson’s home on 22nd and Di- and Jack back together. Fate That could raise up to $27 mil- analyzing a pro- wouldn’t have a statewide carbon vision in Southeast Portland. and smart thinking. Watson lion a year for public transporta- spective statewide tax, supported by Unfortunately, the situation PAMPLIN MEDIA PHOTO: VERN UYETAKE had the presence of mind to tion, improving sidewalks, re- carbon tax. His large impact on the Oregon Envi- ended after only a couple of Trish Watson is making up for a lost have Jack chipped by a veteri- ducing air pollution and energy team calculated it consumption ronmental Coun- months when Jack went miss- year in the life of her cat, Jack. narian a couple weeks before effi ciency programs. would require a 27 cil, failed in the ing. Watson took the loss of her his abrupt disappearance. Carbon taxes are designed to cent-per gallon in- patterns.” 2013 legislative beloved cat hard and started searching, Watson realized she When Williams took Jack to a reduce use of gasoline, coal, crease in gasoline — Tom Potiowsky, session. But law- putting up lost cat posters all would have to face life without vet for an examination, the chip natural gas and oil by making prices, plus equiv- Portland State University makers approved over her neighborhood. Jack. She moved on, made a was found and the two were re- them more expensive, because alent taxes on teacher Senate Bill 306, After several months of new home in Lake Oswego united. burning such fossil fuels is a other fossil fuels which requires leading source of carbon diox- to reduce current statewide the state Legislative Revenue ide emissions that cause global greenhouse gas emissions 2 Offi ce to prepare a report for warming. percent by 2015. A 55 cent-per legislative committees by De- Environmentalists and econ- gallon increase would lower cember that evaluates how a omists view carbon taxes as the emissions by an estimated 12.5 “clean air fee” would be struc- best available scheme to coun- percent, PSU economists esti- tured, how it would affect low- ter climate change, given lag- mated. They calculated it would income residents, businesses ging political support for a cap take a gas increase of about 94 and communities around the and trade system for carbon cents a gallon to achieve the state, and its impact on jobs credits. state goal of cutting greenhouse and greenhouse gas emissions. But the tax level being ana- emissions to 10 percent below It’s unclear if many Port- lyzed by the city might be more the 1990 level, by 2020. However, landers would drive less with a effective at raising extra money the state wouldn’t reach that new 4.5 cent-per gallon tax on for city coffers than causing a goal until 2030, 10 years late. gasoline, or use signifi cantly noticeable shift in Portlanders’ The Oregon Environmental less electricity and gas if rates use of fossil fuels. Council paid for the poll, go up 3 percent. Such increas- “It likely wouldn’t have a Haynes says. es occur regularly due to mar- large impact on consumption “There’s a national discus- ket conditions. patterns,” says Tom Potiowsky, sion going on about ways to re- For gas prices, consumers the former state economist duce carbon emissions,” says are “relatively insensitive to who teaches at Portland State Jana Gastellum, the OEC’s cli- price increases,” Potiowsky University. mate protection program direc- says. However, sometimes Hales promised to look for tor. “Economists agree the best when prices reach a certain new sources of revenue for way is to increase the cost of high level, people are more street and sidewalk projects carbon.” open to changing their behav- when he ran for mayor. His Polling was conducted by ior, he says. spokesman, Dana Haynes, says Fairbank, Maslin, Maullin, the results of the poll will help Metz & Associates. Pollsters Reporter Jim Redden contributed determine how hard the mayor asked voters to respond to a to this story. DON’T MISS A SINGLE COPY! PurchaseP a one-year subscription TODAY for just $ Regular 29 Price $34!

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ment success stories. But the Quinton says. Mayor wants rebuilt district also keeps $2.17 billion That would achieve Hales’ urban areas returned in property off the regular tax goal of putting more property rolls to finance continuing back on the tax rolls while en- to city’s tax rolls redevelopment. abling some funds for Old Town/ If the city were to close down Chinatown projects. By STEVE LAW the entire River District urban “Right now the highest priori- The Tribune renewal area this year, the PDC ty is to see how much land we could put the property back on can get back on the tax rolls,” Mayor Charlie Hales is toy- the tax rolls seven years earlier Quinton says. ing with pulling the plug on than planned, says Patrick Quin- The city could leave some of city urban renewal efforts in ton, PDC executive director. But the Pearl District in the River the Pearl District, which even- the city, county and schools still District urban renewal area, pro- tually would send $43 million would have to wait until 2018 to viding property taxes to pay for a year in added property tax- get an infusion of property taxes, urban renewal in less prosper- es to the city general fund and he says, because that’s how long ous Old Town and Chinatown. other local governments. the PDC expects it will take to Closing down the entire River That’s one of his early pay off bonded debt from the District also would eliminate city thoughts as Hales turns his at- River District. funds to redevelop the Centen- tention to the future of the Port- And shutting down the entire nial Mill site on the Willamette land Development Commission, River District would remove a River, buy the sprawling Post Of- the city’s slimmed-down urban funding source for redevelop- fi ce complex in Northwest Port- renewal and economic develop- ment in Old Town and China- land and other long-planned ment agency. town, Quinton notes. projects. “We ought to be able to de- Hales says he wants to con- Given the travails of the U.S. clare victory in the Pearl Dis- tinue urban renewal in Old Postal Service, Hales says it may trict, then run out the clock to- Town and Chinatown. He’d like, be a “ripe” time to buy its local ward the end,” Hales says. “It for example, to fi nd a new home facility, which some see as a po- has momentum even without for the Right 2 Dream Too tent tential site to host hundreds of PDC actively supporting indi- camp now on West Burnside new jobs. vidual projects.” Street and Northwest Fourth The PDC’s budget and staffi ng The glitzy Pearl District, along Avenue. levels have tumbled the past cou- with gritty Old Town and China- One option might be to ple years, and it projects a con- TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO: L.E. BASKOW town, constitute the River Dis- shrink the River District bound- tinuing slide, causing the agency Portland Mayor Charlie Hales thinks the Pearl District’s urban renewal area could be retired or shrunk as a trict urban renewal area, one of ary rather than terminate the to rethink how it operates. way to pump more property taxes to the city general fund and other local governments. the PDC’s biggest redevelop- entire urban renewal district, Hales granted himself over- sight of the PDC when he doled out bureau assignments in June. The PDC remains a “work in progress,” Hales says, but he still sees opportunities for it to en- gage in traditional urban renew- al projects. “There’s a lot of real estate that needs redevelopment,” GET READY Hales says. “Walk about the Rose Quarter if you disagree NOW PORTLAND with that. 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The PDC will need to experi- In contrast, the new commit- ment with new ways to involve tees will enable the PDC to neighbors who live in its urban pick citizens to advise the renewal areas, Hales says. agency. “We’ll see how that works.” In hindsight, the decision to Linda Robin- dump the citizen son, longtime advisory commit- member of the “It just doesn’t tees shouldn’t Gateway advisory come as a sur- committee and feel right. I hope prise. In the past several other to goodness couple of years, community-build- the PDC limited ing efforts, says that somebody the advisory com- the PDC never re- still has our mittee meetings to ally mastered the every three art of involving best interests months. Before the public. “And at heart.” that, the Gateway it’s going to get — Bob Earnest, committee met worse if it’s all Gateway advisory formally every downtown,” she committee co-chairman two months, plus says. sessions in-be- The Neighbor- tween meetings to hood Economic Development help frame agendas, Robinson Leadership Group is dominat- says. The PDC also started pre- ed by “downtown folks,” Robin- venting the committees from son says, and she’s unsure if fi lling vacancies. many Gateway-area residents In the past few years, citi- will want to drive downtown to zens on the committees attend meetings. seemed to lose their ability to set their own agendas, Robin- Committee limitations son and Earnest say. COURTESY OF PORTLAND DEVELOPMENT COMMISSION At its peak a few years ago, The PDC, for example, pre- Nearly 15 percent of Portland’s property is tied up in 18 urban renewal areas, the maximum allowed by state law. The PDC is eliminating seven the PDC had four people work- sented proposals for spending local citizen advisory committees for the districts and replacing them with two citywide panels. ing full-time on public involve- Gateway’s urban renewal mon- ment, plus one to two doing ey on the light-rail system and a will retain its stakeholder com- support work. ‘We are down to children’s receiving center, Ear- mittees when it has a special one full-time staff person,” nest says. “It was already a do- project going on that affects ur- Quinton says. ne deal before it was present- ban renewal areas, such as one Whenever the urban renew- ed,” Earnest says. “We lost a lot now focusing on improvements al area advisory committees of members because they were to Foster Road in the Lents ar- met, the PDC often sent three thoroughly disgusted and dis- ea. That project is using money to four staff members who had couraged,” he says. from the PDC and other sourc- various specialties. That In the past, Quinton says, es. “They’re a standard practice wasn’t sustainable given the citizens in the Lents, Gateway of ours, and they will continue PDC’s staff reductions, Quin- and Interstate areas took their to be,” Quinton says. ton says. concerns about all city matters Robinson says some activists The PDC is on a trajectory to to the urban renewal advisory are exploring ways to retain East Portland pare its staff to 95 employees committees, even if the con- the Gateway group apart from activist Linda by July, less than half its staff- cerns related to other city the PDC, perhaps as a subcom- Robinson ing level four years ago. The bureaus. mittee of the city-supported worries that the reductions are due to a variety “They became the place East Portland Action Plan. Ma- PDC will neglect of factors, including past over- where people went for all ny citizens turn to committee neighbor spending that fi nds the agency those issues as well,” he says. members to know what’s going concerns when it deploying most of its revenues “It became an imperfect on in the urban renewal effort, abandons citizen to paying off debt. conversation.” she says, and neighbors want advisory The PDC also will eliminate Quinton says the PDC will to continue to monitor what’s committees for its four remaining advisory work with the city Office of going on. the Gateway and committees for other urban re- Neighborhood Involvement to “We don’t just want to have other urban newal areas, Quinton says. help devise new ways for citi- things done to us,” she says. renewal areas. Then it will create a second zens to stay involved with ur- “Why do we need PDC to have TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO: group to advise the agency for ban renewal areas. And the city a committee?” JONATHAN HOUSE

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he idea for a carbon tax in proposed so far looks like a revenue tax, or whether it truly has a connec- ty such as Portland General Electric, Portland — at least as it has measure dressed up in environmen- tion to global warming. Along the which already gets power from re- been described so far — has tal clothing. way, city leaders and others who newable sources such as wind and Tlittle to do with carbon, and a The poll asked voters if they would support a local carbon tax must be from hydroelectric dams that create lot to do with taxes. support “establishing a local tax on prepared to answer some obvious no carbon? A utility fee in that case Portlanders should be wary of add- producers of carbon pollution to help questions: would punish green energy on the ing to their gasoline and utility bills reduce the impact of climate change.” ■ Is it wise for a city to place itself same basis as coal-fi red plants. Keep without fi rst gaining a great deal Our guess is that a majority of at a competitive disadvantage by in mind, too, that PGE has agreed to more clarity from City Hall about the green-minded Portlanders would an- taking on a global concern and close its Boardman coal-burning likely conse- swer yes to that query, but the next thereby increasing costs for its resi- plant by 2020. quences of question in the survey was more tell- dents and businesses? The Oregon Beyond those questions, Portland- OUROPINION such a tax. ing. It included sample ballot lan- Legislature also is studying a carbon ers also should consider whether the Plans for a guage regarding a 3 percent fee on tax, yet many people argue that cli- city needs the money it is seeking. carbon tax became public last week utility revenues and a 4.5 cent per- mate change can be addressed only Hales’ offi ce says one possible use for when a polling fi rm called registered gallon gasoline tax. at the federal or international level. carbon-tax revenue is maintenance of Portland voters to ask them their In other words, the city wants to Any regulation by states and cities city roads and sidewalks. Indeed, a opinion of a “carbon pollution fee.” tack an extra fee on people’s energy might hurt their economic growth as local gas tax that’s dedicated to pav- Mayor Charlie Hales’ offi ce confi rmed bills and also create a local gas tax. people and businesses migrate to ing streets, fi lling potholes and build- the city was involved in the poll, That means those “producers of car- lower-cost areas. ing sidewalks could be justifi ed, as- which was paid for by the Oregon En- bon pollution” are in fact the resi- ■ Will a 3 percent tax on utility suming that Portlanders are willing vironmental Council. dents of Portland, who would be en- revenue or a 4.5 cent per-gallon gaso- to pay the price. Hales’ staff this week emphasized couraged through additional taxation line tax do anything to slow local car- Fixing local streets, however, is far the city is merely in the preliminary to change their carbon-generating bon production? Previous research removed from repairing the Earth’s stages of exploring ways to raise rev- habits. conducted at Portland State Universi- climate. Any tax proposal must be enue while also encouraging people The survey suggests the carbon is- ty indicates people won’t signifi cantly clear in its purpose. It cannot be ob- to change carbon-producing behavior. sue would not come before voters alter their behavior unless the eco- scured by dubious claims that it will The wording of the poll, however, until November 2014. We believe that nomic cost is much greater. rein in “polluters” — the people who gives a strong indication of what the gives Portlanders adequate time to ■ For that matter, does it make are just trying to keep their cars run- city has in mind — and what’s being evaluate whether this is just another sense to add a blanket fee onto a utili- ning and their homes heated.

Portland VIEW ● Tribune MY There is wide support for a waterfront display

FOUNDER Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. It’s time to honor city’s maritime history PRESIDENT J. Mark Garber

MANAGING EDITOR/ By Roger L. Gertenrich Ask most Portlanders what future greenway maritime dis- WEB EDITOR Kaiser Permanente is and they play, items would be there to see Kevin Harden will say a medical complex. But, and educate. Hopefully, along ortland’s maritime his- they likely will not know that with large items like ship an- VICE PRESIDENT tory needs to be more Kaiser evolved from the cradle chors, Liberty Ship bows and Brian Monihan respected. Presently, of the ship-building industry propellers, historic maritime P this history is mostly in during WWll. photos would be on display. CIRCULATION the minds of senior citizens and Present-day maritime activi- Enhancing Portland’s mari- MANAGER tucked away in fi les. ties come largely from the time history is popular. More Kim Stephens The maritime history of the Working Waterfront Coalition, than 20 local organizations have Willamette River begins with the consisting of more than 20 mari- pledged their support, and we CREATIVE Native Americans who were the time companies. These compa- are starting an individual sup- SERVICES MANAGER Cheryl DuVal area’s fi rst ship builders. Later, nies are responsible for hiring port list. On it, so far, are former as the Willamette Valley devel- 53,000 people. Mayor Vera Katz, local historian PUBLISHING SYSTEMS oped, the river was a major route Portland is an active river city. Chet Orloff, and Powell’s book- MANAGER/WEBMASTER for travel and transportation. We see all sorts of boats on it, store owner Michael Powell. Alvaro Fontán During World War II, about including tugs, barges, dragon Want to help? Do you have 100,000 people moved to Port- boats, kayaks, canoes, paddle any old maritime items to NEWS WRITERS land to build warships. Portland boards, fi shing boats, the Port- donate? Jennifer Anderson, was changed forever. land Spirit, etc. The Willamette As a mayoral candidate, Char- Peter Korn, Steve Law, How many people, especially River is where the action is in lie Hales was asked “Can a good Jim Redden younger ones, know about the Portland. idea come from the bottom up City of Vanport (population A small group of citizens are and succeed in Portland?” He FEATURES WRITERS 40,000), Oregon’s second-most advocating a grassroots effort answered “yes.” He liked the Jason Vondersmith, Anne Marie DiStefano populated city during the early for an outdoor maritime display outdoor maritime display idea. 1940s? This city housed many to celebrate, respect and restore Well, Mayor Hales, there defi - SPORTS EDITOR ship-building workers. About Portland’s maritime history. nitely is support. Where do we Steve Brandon 16,000 were African-American, The proposed site would be on go from here? and about one-third of the the west bank of the Willamette SPORTSWRITERS workers were women. Vanport River between roughly the Ross Dr. Roger L. Gertenrich, the former Kerry Eggers, was eliminated by a fl ood on Island and Marquam bridges. As mayor of Salem, is a retired dentist Jason Vondersmith, from Southwest Portland. Stephen Alexander May 30, 1948. people bike and walk along this

SUSTAINABLE LIFE EDITOR An old anchor from a World War II-era Liberty Ship rests near the tower of the battleship USS Oregon. The Steve Law smokestack is one of a collection of large artifacts that are to be saved for display when the Portland Maritime Museum fi nds a permanent location. Supporters of the museum hope to install artifacts in the South Waterfront area. COPY EDITOR TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO Mikel Kelly

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VISUAL JOURNALISTS Jonathan House Jaime Valdez Best forest practices must be the goal INSIGHT PAGE EDITOR Keith Klippstein our recent article sia, Sweden, Brazil and parts of The U.S. Department of Agri- and revolving-door consultants Wall Street is doing.” Portland about forest certifi ca- Canada. culture, the National Association in the matter of our water. I boasts many of those fi ne Oregon PRODUCTION tion (Pulp fi ction?, On conversion of forestland to of State Foresters and other au- know that you are well aware of breweries, and they depend on Michael Beaird, Valerie Sustainable Life, Aug. other uses, there is no signifi cant thorities have said the SFI, FSC the situation, and that you have the excellent quality of our Bull Clarke, Chris Fowler, Y 15) missed important facts difference between SFI and FSC. and other credible certifi cation stated that you will take no ac- Run water to make those beers. about the Sustainable Forestry Both require participants to ex- programs all can be accepted as tion over the heads of our city While we already pay some of CONTRIBUTOR Rob Cullivan Initiative (SFI). clude lands slated for develop- evidence of sustainable forestry. commissioners led by Mayor the highest water rates in the First, SFI is an independent ment from certifi ed areas. The reason that “academics and Charlie Hales. country, the planned unneces- WEB SITE organization governed with On chemical use, the SFI Stan- government foresters are avoid- However, on your website you sary construction projects will portlandtribune.com equal representation from con- dard requires use of chemicals to ing the fi ght,” as your article put reaffi rm your commitment to cost us 40 to 50 percent higher servation, economic and social be the least toxic and narrowest it, is that they know that the dif- Oregon’s rich and long tradition water rates over the next fi ve CIRCULATION stakeholders. You cited Forest spectrum pesticides and herbi- ferences between SFI and FSC of conservation, such as what years, by the bureau’s own pro- 503-546-9810 Stewardship Council’s support- cides to achieve forest manage- are insignifi cant compared with our Bull Run Watershed and jections. That must, just as with 6605 S.E. Lake Road ers, but did not report that SFI’s ment objectives and to use inte- the need to promote responsible, sustainable gravity-fed reser- the aluminum issue, result in Portland, OR 97222 board of directors includes rep- grated pest management wher- science-based forest practices, re- voirs represent. higher prices on our excellent 503-226-6397 (NEWS) resentatives of The Conservation ever feasible. Meanwhile, FSC gardless of the specifi c approach. Therefore, surely you ought to and noteworthy local beers. Fund, Ducks Unlimited Canada, has granted at least 74 exemp- Kathy Abusow balk at the very idea of construc- For these and many other rea- The Portland Tribune Bird Studies Canada, the tions for companies to use “FSC- Sustainable Forestry tion of the planned ultraviolet sons, we the citizens of Portland is Portland’s independent Manomet Center for Conserva- banned” chemicals, which leaves Initiative Inc. president/CEO treatment plant at the very head- are asking that you hold a town Washington, D.C. newspaper that is trusted tion Studies, the Theodore Roos- consumers in doubt about the water with its threat of mercury hall meeting in Portland in the evelt Conservation Partnership, veracity of FSC claims to forbid contamination. This is to say month of August to open up the to deliver a compelling, several academic foresters, and these chemicals. nothing of the blending of pure issue to constructive debate. forward-thinking and the state forester of Maryland. SFI also promotes responsible Merkley must keep Bull Run drinking water with In the past, I have been a accurate living chronicle Second, the notion that an forestry in many ways other than eye on abuse of EPA polluted water from the Willa- staunch supporter of the mission about how our citizens, FSC-labeled product indicates through the standard: through mette River and radioactive wa- represented by the EPA, but I now government and the product comes from land in our chain of custody and certifi ed This is an open letter to U.S. ter from the Columbia River, a have cause to question its legiti- businesses live, work which clear-cuts have been re- sourcing labels; by investing in Sen. Jeff Merkley: Superfund site. macy if such abuses go not mere- and play. The Portland stricted to “six acres” is inaccu- conservation research; by work- I, like many of my fellow Port- In a recent news release about ly unanswered but unquestioned. Tribune is dedicated rate. FSC actually has no clear- ing directly with communities to landers, am deeply troubled by aluminum speculation, you stat- Please do your just duty and act to providing vital cutting restrictions over at least promote sustainable practices; the use to which the Environ- ed, “Nothing gets an Oregonian in this grave and troubling matter. communication and 45 percent of the land certifi ed to and through the innovative For- mental Protection Agency has madder than messing with our K.S. Harkey leadership throughout that standard, including in Rus- est Partners program. been put by career politicians Oregon beer, and that’s just what Southwest Portland our community.

Portland Tribune editorial board Submissions The Portland Tribune welcomes essays on topics of public interest. Submissions should be no longer than ■ J. Mark Garber – president, Portland Tribune and Community Newspapers Inc. 600 words and may be edited. Letters should be no longer than 250 words. Both submissions should include your 503-546-0714; [email protected] name, home address and telephone number for verifi cation purposes. Please send submissions via e-mail: ■ Kevin Harden – managing editor, Portland Tribune [email protected]. You may fax them to 503-546-0727 or send them to “Letters to the Editor,” 503-546-5167; [email protected] Portland Tribune, 6605 S.E. Lake Road, Portland, OR 97222. The Portland Tribune Thursday, August 22, 2013 { INSIGHT } INSIGHT A9 TWOVIEWS ● Ex-Blazer has attitude, work ethic to succeed in the NBA after injuries Oden can fi nally leave past behind in Miami

that will give him the best chance for success. great defense. It will be, “If you can score, great, By Brian Grant I worked with Greg during the summer of but don’t worry about it, because we have LeBron 2009. The Trail Blazers sent me to Columbus, James and Dwyane Wade.” The weight being reg Oden is a member of the Miami Ohio, for personal workouts. I was there two to lifted off Greg’s shoulders will be something he Heat. three weeks. It was just Greg and me. hasn’t yet experienced in his NBA career. At 25, he is hopeful of restarting a Let me tell you something, it was the fi rst time He deserves an opportunity to come back and GNational Basketball Association career I’d banged around on anybody since I’d retired try to make it in the league. I hope his body holds that was shelved with a thud when, in Decem- (after the 2005-06 season). After our workouts, I up this time. He has had some injuries that would ber 2009, as a Portland Trail Blazer, he went was super sore. I’d go to my aunt’s house and tell seem to be career-ending. If he stays healthy, he’ll down on the Rose Garden court, holding his her to get the ice bags out. be able to make his mark in the league. knee and causing a lot of people to write him off That kid was big and strong, agile and quick. I Fans in this city should embrace Greg and be forever. was impressed with his work ethic. He just con- nothing but happy for him and pull for him to I’m happy for Greg. He’s the one player I can tinually got after it, and it wore me out. make a successful comeback. He gave it all he look at and say he has really had a tough go Greg’s a nice guy. He was a kid, though. When could when he was in Portland. with the injuries he has sustained without it be- you look at him, you think he’s an old man, a vet- When he comes back to face the Blazers at ing in his control. He is in a great place. If there eran. But when I talked to him, it was, “Yes sir, Moda Center during the Heat’s visit in Decem- is any team he can make a comeback with and no sir.” I was like, “Dude, I’m not a sir.” But he ber, I hope the fans welcome him with open be successful, it’s Miami. was very respectful. His attitude was great. arms. He deserves it. The dude has been The Heat are going to give him top doctors through a lot of rough stuff. I’ll be there, stand- and a fi rst-rate training staff. Pat Riley is there Standing and cheering ing and cheering with everyone else. to oversee things, and Erik Spoelstra (a former Miami is a great situation for him. In Port- Portland resident and starting guard for both Je- land, Greg was supposed to be the savior of the Brian Grant, 41, played 12 years in an NBA uniform. suit High School and the University of Portland) franchise, the fi nal piece to a championship. He was with the Blazers from 1997-2000 and with the — who has done a wonderful job as coach — will In Miami, he’ll be just another player to fi t in- Heat from 2000-04. Grant lives in West Linn, runs the be there to bring him along. They’ll expect a lot to a role. They’ll need him to give 10 to 15 min- Brian Grant Foundation and serves as an ambassador from him, but they’ll bring him along at a rate utes of big-man play, blocking shots, playing for the Blazers. If the Heat are rollin’, will we boo Greg Oden? By Aaron Sass ber of the Miami Heat. If Oden can stay healthy and make ing for something or someone to when they signed him a few years As a Blazer fan, I’m confl icted. A it to Dec. 28, that’s when he’ll make blame for the franchise’s failures, from back. part of me doesn’t want to see him do his return to Portland. It will be in- owner Paul Allen to former coach Na- Don’t get confused, I still love the s a Blazers fan, the past well in another uniform. But another teresting to see how the fans will re- te McMillan to Oden to the referees. team, but over the past three years several years have been part of me wants him to shut up all of act. I have a feeling that they’re go- Somehow, even Roy was blamed at I’ve become disgusted with those frustrating when you con- the people who have been calling him ing to boo him, but I don’t feel that one point for being too selfi sh. types of fans and nearly the entire Asider that by now they were a bust. they should. I also don’t think that I’m not sure if Blazers fans are the organization. It’s embarrassing to supposed to be a Western Confer- No one is sure what to expect from they should cheer him either. best in the NBA, but they defi nitely are listen to a Blazer broadcast, whether ence powerhouse led by the trio of Oden this season. I know that when I think the reaction to him should be the most obsessed. I do look at them it’s on television or on the radio. LaMarcus Aldridge, Brandon Roy he’s healthy and on the court, he’s one of indifference. He didn’t hurt the with disdain because most of them are My outlook on the Blazers team is and Greg Oden. very effective. He can control the Blazers franchise at all. In fact, fans illogical or they’re gullible and buy in- positive. I love the direction in which Oden and Aldridge were supposed paint like few players in the league should be proud and excited about the to the ridiculous hype provided to they’re headed and I’m confi dent that to be the new age “twin towers,” with can. If he can bring that to the Heat, team’s bright future with Aldridge, them by the team’s announcers. Lillard will lead the Blazers in the Oden providing the power and post they’ll be completely unstoppable. Damian Lillard and Nicolas Batum. For many years I used to be one right direction. With a little luck they presence while Aldridge provided fi - Like me, a lot of Blazers fans are But if Blazer fans do boo Oden of those fans I just described. I re- could be a playoff team this year, and nesse and post offense. With those confl icted, and some are even angry when he returns in a Miami uniform, member getting angry that the I’m very much looking forward to two in the post and one of the about it. I’m not, but I would say I’m it’ll be because they’ll think he be- Blazers’ preseason games weren’t that. league’s most elite players in Bran- worried about it. trayed them or that he’s the reason being televised, I would tune in to As for Oden, the fans should be don Roy at shooting guard, it seemed that the Blazers aren’t where the Trail Blazers Courtside every Mon- happy for him. I wish him the best of the Blazers could have achieved a de- Reaction to non-news fans want them to be. day night and listen to two hours of luck, although I am a bit worried that cade of dominance in the National When I say a part of me wants I believe that Blazers fans are ob- nothing, and I’d watch every sum- he’ll be too successful in Miami. Basketball Association’s Western Oden to do well, that doesn’t mean I sessed to the point where it’s annoy- mer league game. If he is, I won’t be angry at him, I’ll Conference. want to see him become an all-star ing. I’ve read fans post threads on on- But one of the most ridiculous just be a disappointed Blazer fan. Instead they were plagued by inju- caliber center. I just want to see him line forums like, “who should be the things I did was sitting down to ries, and Brandon Roy’s career is be able to stay healthy and contribute. 15th man?” and I see an actual de- watch a team scrimmage that was Aaron Sass has been a Blazers fan most of over. And now we’ve learned that If he comes back and becomes one of bate among fans about who that shot on a camera phone and actually his life. He vividly remembers the 2000 West- Oden’s going to give his career one the league’s best centers, I do think should be. Their reaction to non- taking it seriously. Another ridicu- ern Conference fi nals against the Lakers, more shot. On Aug. 6, he said he that will be a dagger in every Blazer news is astounding. lous thing was debating the impor- which is one reason he describes himself as would return to the NBA as a mem- fan’s heart. On top of that, they’re always look- tance of the signing of Michael Ruffi n a very frustrated, but passionate, fan. PortlandTribune Puzzles

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MISERABLE AFFLICTION AFFLICTION MISERABLE Cryptoquip solution: Cryptoquip A10 NEWS The Portland Tribune Thursday, August 22, 2013 Ballot: Union, PBA still mum on stance ■ From page 1 Plan’s critics have ties to city of the uncertainty it will create. Most of the 11 environmental leaders who signed the state- “There will be a lot of opposi- ment against the proposed ballot measure belong to organiza- tion to the measure,” Fish says. tions that have received money from the Bureau of Backers point to the success- Environmental Services or partnered with the city on projects. ful initiative drive that over- turned the council’s plan to According to city records of BES grants and contracts during the fl uoridate the city’s water sys- past fi ve years: ■ tem as proof the voters don’t Friends of Trees is being paid more than $7.9 million to plant trust City Hall, however. The thousands of trees to enhance watershed health in Portland. plan was unanimously sup- ■ The Audubon Society is receiving more than $43,290 to con- ported by the last council and duct a bird count on Mount Tabor as part of a restoration project. supported by a well-fi nanced ■ Depave received $10,000 to remove asphalt in a church park- campaign that received contri- ing lot. butions from many business ■ The Urban Greenspaces Institute received more than $4,417 leaders. Despite that, it was re- for a mural project. jected by around two-thirds of ■ Friends of Gateway Green received $4,200 for events related the vote. to the east Portland project. Petitions cannot be circulat- ■ Jeri Williams, who identifi es herself as an equity activist, is a ed until two legal challenges to city employee. the ballot title written by the ■ The Trust for Public Lands partnered with the bureau to buy the city attorney’s office are re- Riverview Cemetery. solved, however. One was fi led ■ The Oregon Environmental Council is partnering with Mayor by the measure’s backers, Port- Charlie Hales on a public poll about whether Portlanders will sup- landers for Water Reform, who port a carbon tax. say it has minor factual errors. “I expects those groups who are supported by the city will want to The other was fi led by Vanessa maintain the status quo,” says co-chief petitioner Kent Craford. Keitges, the chief executive of- Commissioner Nick Fish does not believe the payments and part- fi cer of Columbia Green, a local nerships represent a confl ict of interest, however. eco-roof company. The chal- “It’s no more a confl ict of interest than large water users support- lenges could take a few weeks ing the measure who want to see their rates cut,” Fish says. to resolve. The Portland City Club re- cently announced it would study the proposed measure rates and to high levels of ac- want to see the city build upon, and why Portland’s combined countability and transparency.” not abandon, its most impor- water-sewer-stormwater rates Fish promises there will be tant environmental programs.” are so high and issue its fi nd- other changes in coming weeks Those signing the statement ings in March, two months be- that help demonstrate the new include Friends of Trees Execu- fore the May election. direction he is taking, too. tive Director Scott Fogarty, Fish, who is up for re-elec- Craford does not believe Audubon Society of Portland tion next year, also will be on Fish will substantially change Conservation Director Bob the ballot. the direction of either bureau, Sallinger, Depave board mem- TRIBUNE PHOTO: JAIME VALDEZ however, saying he voted for ber Ted Labbe, Urban Greens- Controversies get spotlight Spending critic Kent Craford stands outside the Water Bureau’s maintenance facility project, which he all of the rate increase that paces Institute Executive Di- Fish accuses the measure’s thinks is too expensive. funded the questionable spend- rector Mike Houck, Trust for supporters of playing a game of ing in the past. Craford says Public Lands Senior Project bait-and-switch. He says they that includes a new million- Manager Don Goldberg and Or- repeatedly bring up the high- “If you just came down from Case for watershed that have been happening,” dollar water bureau mainte- egon Environmental Council profi le controversies in the wa- Mars, you’d think this was a fi ght According to Fish, preserv- Fish says. nance facility near North Inter- Legislative Director Angela ter bureau — like the millions about water, but it’s a fi ght about ing and enhancing watersheds Then last week, Fish an- state Avenue and Tillamook Crowley-Koch. spent on public toilets, the Wa- the environment,” Fish says. is a cost-effective way of reduc- nounced that the bureau would Street that he describes as a Employees at both bureaus ter House and the new Rose Many of the environmental ing polluted water that would sell the Water House. It was “Taj Mahal.” are represented Festival headquarters — when programs are funded with otherwise need to be piped to pushed by Leonard as a dem- Bureau offi cials by Local 189 of the it was run by former Commis- storm water management rates expensive treatment plants. onstration project on how a defend the project “If you just American Federa- sioner Randy Leonard. But applied to the impervious sur- “The bureau has not done a well-designed house can save as replacing a came down from tion of State, Fish says they do not talk very face areas of homes and busi- good job making the business water and energy. He told the multipurpose County and Mu- often about the more popular ness. They are projected to case for such programs so far, council it would cost around building built in Mars, you’d nicipal Employ- environmental services pro- raise $92 million this fiscal but that’s what we’re going to $200,000 in bureau funds to 1925 that would think this was ees. Union offi cial grams, such as those to en- year, roughly one-third of the start to do,” Fish says. build the house in far East collapse during Rob Wheaton says hance the health of the water- environmental services bu- And Fish says Portlanders Portland, with local businesses an earthquake. It a fi ght about the local has not sheds that feed into local reau’s $277 million total budget. need to know that he and May- donating much of the rest of serves as the bu- water, but it’s a yet taken a stand creeks, streams and rivers. Craford says it’s the local me- or Charlie Hales are taking the the cost. Instead, an audit reau’s main ware- on the measure, According to a city analysis, dia, not him, who have focused criticisms of the water bureau found it cost nearly $1 million, house and would fi ght about the but many of its the lawsuit targets $117 million on the water project. He agrees seriously. Fish said the first including city administrative hinder emergen- environment.” members have in ratepayer spending. Water the environmental services bu- step was when the council re- salaries. cy repairs concerns about it. bureau programs only account reau is responsible for most of duced the rate increase re- The bureau is listing the throughout the — Nick Fish, They include for about one-third of the dis- the spending being questioned quested by the bureau from house for $475,000, meaning city if it fell down. city commissioner whether AFSCME puted spending in the current in the lawsuit. 14.8 to 3.6 percent in the budget the city could lose up to The building will 189 would contin- lawsuit. Two-thirds of the “We’ve continuously com- that took effect July 1. $500,000 on the deal. Fish said be replaced by an earthquake- ue representing them if it spending are for environmen- plained about sewer spending, “That’s a serious reduction it’s important to deal with the proof warehouse and separate passes. tal programs. too,” Craford says. from the double-digit increases issue and move on, however. offi ce building. The project is “We’ll take a close look at it, “The Water Bureau is under expected to cost around $50 but right now there are some new management,” he says. “We million, including engineering real concerns,” Wheaton says. are committed to stabilizing and architectural fees. There Likewise, the Portland Busi- was no opposition when the ness Alliance has not yet tak- Come see Clark Howard council approved it in May 2011. en a stand on the measure. 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By RAYMOND RENDLEMAN The Tribune David Spears Ever wondered if you make goes undercover, as much money as someone hiding his notes who begs for a living? behind a Now, one of your neighbors handmade sign, has taken the time to fi nd out to study how much you could expect to panhandling at make by standing outside with a the Interstate homemade cardboard sign. 205 off-ramp Last week, Oregon City resi- into downtown dent David P. Spears II released Oregon City for “Exit Ramp: A Short Case Study his book “Exit of the Profitability of Panhan- Ramp.” dling.” Through an undercover SUBMITTED PHOTO study done at the Interstate 205 off-ramp into downtown Oregon people driving through the exit friend’s concrete-cutting com- City, his 98-page book mixes eco- ramp gave money to him. Men pany, and a fellow former mili- nomic research and investigative and women gave to him about tary man offered him a ride to a journalism to make conclusions equally, shattering his percep- veterans’ job-training center. about modern urban charity. tion that women would shy away “Taking 60 seconds of our Spears, 33, served for a year in from his scruffy appearance and daily commute to give a dollar to the U.S. military’s Iraq opera- be more hesitant of “stranger a total stranger is nothing more tions before using the 9/11 G.I. danger.” than the economic equivalent of bill to pay the costs for earning Middle-age people, estimated a drive-by shooting — not exact- Evan Schreurs | Wrestling and Rugby an economics and political sci- between 25 and 49, gave to ly a strategy to win the war on ence degree from George Fox Spears much more than those poverty,” he wrote. University this spring. Standing he perceived to be older or His inspiration for “Exit for 80 hours on the OC exit ramp younger. Although Ramp” sprang PACIFIC UNIVERSITY LEGENDS started as a project to satisfy his they account for from reading popu- own curiosity during summer only 39 percent of “I was surprised lar economics HOSTED BY TOMMY THAYER break before his senior year. insured drivers in books by authors With his eye-opening findings Oregon, middle- by how often like Paul Collier, recorded, he successfully raised age drivers made people gave and Jeffrey Sachs and Legends 2013, our end-of-the-summer gala, $5,000 through an online Kick- up 80 percent of how much they Esther Duflo. He is a star-studded evening of celebrities, music starter campaign to launch his his donors. was struck with literary career. After 12 days of gave.” the idea that he al- and fun — all supporting student-athletes. To prepare for his experiment work, Spears — David Spears, so wanted to pub- last July, Spears grew his beard found that he aver- author lish an economics for two months and pulled the aged $11.10 an book but realized Waverley Country Club | Aug. 25, 2013 rattiest garments out of his clos- hour, more than he didn’t yet have et. After some brainstorming, he Oregon’s minimum wage of $8.95 the experience to write the un- pacificu.edu/legends wrote “Iraq Vet, Anything an hour. authorized biography of Ben Helps” in black Sharpie on his “I was surprised by how often Bernanke or the history of infl a- cardboard canvas. people gave and how much they tion in pre-industrial Europe. Spears admitted that he suf- gave,” he said in conclusion. “I Then he remembered his long- fered an internal “dilemma” was also disheartened by how standing curiosity about pan- about accepting money that he often it amounted to nothing handlers. didn’t need. He’s had a part-time more than an exchange of mon- “I don’t think I’m the only one job, but has been paying his ey from one random individual that’s had this curiosity,” he said.

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remembered for helping to Finally, the deal also has to The only hotels within walking with Metro to dedicate the county Metro Council chief recruit Genentech and Solar- meet the needs of the private de- distance of the center are small room taxes collected at the new World to Hillsboro, and for veloper and Hyatt Hotels, which and aging. Convention planners hotel to pay off a $60 million con- privately tries to woo the construction of the Hills- will own and operate the hotel. have long advised struction bond to be county, city offi cials boro Civic Center, which is “Government does not always building a hotel issued by Metro. contributing to the revival of understand the needs of the pri- with a guaranteed “Government During last By JIM REDDEN the historic downtown. vate sector, and private busi- 500-room block week’s hearing, The Tribune In fact, the plaza at the center nesses do not always understand and additional does not always Chase said the rev- is named after him. the public sector. We need to all meeting rooms understand the enue won’t be Tom Hughes gained a repu- Now Hughes is pushing an- be on the same page for this and restaurants. available unless tation as an economic devel- other project as president of the work,” Hughes says. The project calls needs of the the hotel is built opment dealmaker when he Metro Council. He is helping to for a 600-room private sector, and can’t be spent was mayor of Hillsboro. revive the plan to build a Support for Hughes hotel with the on other govern- Among other projects, he is 600-room headquarters hotel Hughes ran on a platform of amenities. and private ment programs, next to the Oregon Convention creating jobs when he was elect- The Portland businesses do like schools or so- Center in inner Northeast Port- TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT ed Metro president in 2010. The Development cial services. Op- land. Last week, the council Metro President Tom Hughes has campaign was unusual for the Commission and not always ponents argued unanimously and enthusiasti- thrown his political weight behind elected regional government, the Metro Council understand the the hotel might not cally endorsed the tentative fi - the Headquarters Hotel project. which is better known for land- both considered generate enough nancing and development plan use planning decisions and buy- such a project in public sector.” business to pay for the $197.5 million project that One is the need to win the sup- ing natural areas throughout the the past. Their — Tom Hughes, back the bond, and was put together during the past port of the Portland City Council region. But the message reso- plans collapsed be- Metro Council president said the public will Quality Fabric since 1918 18 months. and Multnomah County Com- nated with voters who chose cause the public be at risk if it fails. our passion is “This is a project that will help mission. Neither has endorsed Hughes instead of Bob Stacey, a subsidy requested for the extra In fact, under the current fi nanc- the entire region, and the vote the project yet. former director of the 1000 rooms and features was consid- ing agreement, room taxes col- shows the council understands “In Hillsboro, we could do a lot Friends of Oregon land-use ered too high. Metro would lected at other hotels would that,” says Hughes, who thinks it of things by ourselves. With this watchdog organization. have owned the hotel under the probably make up the difference. will bring additional national project, there are lot of other Stacey was elected to the plan that failed during the The Portland City Council and conventions to Portland. elected offi cials involved. We’ve council in 2012. In a sign of the Great Recession. Multnomah County Commission The project is strongly sup- assured ourselves this is a viable council’s unifi ed agreement on must consider such issues. Port- ported by Portland’s two repre- project, but they have to do their the project, Stacy was among Financing hurdles land Mayor Charlie Hales al- sentatives on the council, Sam due diligence, too,” Hughes says. the project’s strongest support- In contrast, most of the cost of ready has talked about setting a Chase and Bob Stacey. Chase, Another obstacle is organized ers at last week’s meeting. the current project would be paid fl oor for the room rates at the whose district includes the cen- and well-funded opposition from Councilors Kathryn Har- by the developer, Mortenson De- new hotel to prevent it from un- ter, said at the meeting that he some Portland hotel owners rington and Carlotta Collette al- velopment. They have pledged dercutting existing ones. Com- started out suspicious of the proj- worried about the competition. so were very supportive. They $119.5 million. The 2013 Oregon missioner Steve Novick has ect but is convinced it is viable. They have hired lobbyist Len are the only members of the Legislature approved $10 million asked whether only the taxes Bergstein and political consul- council who were serving when from Oregon State Lottery funds. paid by convention-goers could Roadblocks emerge tant Paige Richardson, who are the project was last considered. Metro and the PDC have commit- be dedicated to the bond pay- Despite Hughes’ track record, orchestrating a campaign They both said it addressed the ted $4 million each. ments. The members of the success is far from certain with against the hotel plan. problems that had crippled ear- The fi nal amount is the most Multnomah County Commission the hotel plan. It faces obstacles “We are already having to an- lier efforts to get the project off controversial. It also is the one have yet to publicly express that he did not have to deal with swer the same questions over the ground. that needs the approval of the opinions on the plan. in Hillsboro. and over again,” Hughes says. Metro owns and operates the Portland City Council and Mult- “I’m feeling optimistic, but Oregon Convention Center. A nomah County Commission. you never know. It could go specialized hotel adjacent to the They need to amend an existing down. But at least I’m learning center has long been discussed. 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And, of course, there’ll be wine — more than 200 varieties from around the world. 6 p.m.-10 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 22; 4-10 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23; 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Satur- day, Aug. 24; 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 25; Esther Short Park, Vancouver, vancou- verwinejazz.com, $25 Friday and Sunday, $30 Saturday, three-day advance pass $60 Homegrown DocFest It’s all-new locally made documentary fi lms, food, beer, conversations with fi lm- makers and a live square-dance perfor- mance as the NW Documentary presents its highlighted event. The festival is part of the Mission Theater’s weeklong Summer Documentary Series, which wraps Aug. 30 KISS guitarist with award-winning documentary director Tommy Thayer Ondi Timoner and screening of her docu- heads the Pacifi c mentaries “DIG!” and “We Live in Public” University (see mcmenamins.com for complete info). fundraiser 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, Mission Theater, Legends, bringing 1624 N.W. Glisan St., nwdocumentary, $7 in notable musicans and Oregon Encyclopedia thrilling boosters The topical “History Night” at McMe- with music. From namins Edgefield features the timeless Beaverton, Thayer subject of intrepid explorers in “Confl ict at didn’t attend the Cascades: Lewis and Clark in the Co- Pacifi c, but he lumbia River Gorge.” enjoys lending It was in the gorge in 1805-06 where they support to the encountered Sahaptian and Chinookan, private college in who controlled the complex system of fi sh- his home area. ing sites and river navigation. Historian Bill Lang demonstrates through images PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP: CHASE ALLGOOD and journal excerpts the travails of the Corps of Discovery. 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 27, McMe- LOCAL namins Edgefi eld Power Station Theater, 2126 S.W. Halsey St., oregonencyclopedia. org, free Portland Film Festival The six-day festival features more than GUITAR HERO 80 fi lms and 54 hours of indoor and outdoor programming, including the Portland pre- miere of “Romance,” “Without A Net” and ommy Thayer never tires of big of shows as ever,” he says. “It’s “Growing Cities.” Question-and-answer putting on the makeup, don- extremely rare for a group like KISS sessions (more than 60 fi lmmakers attend- ning “The Spaceman” en- to continue for 40 years. I can count ing), workshops and networking are part Tsemble, playing the classics the number of bands on one hand of the activities. “Without A Net,” about nightly and touring seemingly every who’ve done that. We’re playing are- Rio de Janeiro street kids who work in an year with an American institution, nas and stadiums and selling out, acrobatic circus, opens things at 6:30 p.m. rock band KISS. with an onslaught of new kids follow- Tuesday, Aug. 27 at Cinema 21. The lead guitarist Thayer, 52, gets ing us. It’s multigenerational. It’s like Tuesday-Sunday, Aug. 27-Sept. 1, vari- excited for any performance, wheth- a tribe.” ous theaters and Fields Park, Northwest er it be in Winnepeg, Manitoba, or But, Thayer, who lives in suburban 11th Avenue and Overton Street, portland- Tokyo’s Budokan arena. Los Angeles with wife Amber and fi lmfestival.com (see for complete info) “You can never forget how fortu- maintains another residence in Can- nate you are to walk up on stage be- non Beach, has never forgotten his Salsa en la Calle fore 14,000 people,” the Beaverton roots. The son of a successful busi- The ninth annual “Dancing in the native and Sunset High nessman and a musi- Streets” features the turns, spins, shim- graduate says. “With cian mother, Thayer STORY BY mies and shine of salsa. It has become an this band and its amaz- serves on the board of end-of-the-summer tradition in Portland, ing history, great per- JASON directors of Pacific the largest one-day outdoor celebration of sona and characters University in Forest Latin music and culture in the Pacific and show, how can you VONDERSMITH Grove. Northwest. Beginning salsa lessons, dance lose sight of how great A rural private col- performances, music, Latin foods, a chil- that is? We’re fl ying on lege and a hard-rockin’ dren’s percussion tent and a beer garden private jets and staying at Four Sea- guitarist? Yeah, it’s an odd match, as are part of the activities. sons and Ritz Carlton. ...” Thayer has dutifully helped the 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Sunday, Sept. 1, East- KISS celebrates its 40th year to- Washington County school raise bank Festival Plaza, Southeast Main Street gether next year, and Thayer has funds for athletics through his Leg- (next to Hawthorne Bridge), salsaenlacal- played alongside juggernauts Gene ends event and golf tournament. The lepdx.com, $20-$25 COURTESY OF TOMMY THAYER/ASH NEWELL Simmons and Paul Stanley for the golfi ng part has been shelved for the Tommy Thayer has played with epic rock band KISS for 11 years, and past 11. We’re talking epic longevity year, as Legends leans on the musical he and the boys celebrate the band’s 40th anniversary next year. “We for one of the hardest-working aspect with another star-studded MUSIC basically take it one day, one month, one year at a time,” he says. groups in music. lineup for the dinner-auction-concert “It’s a lethal, viable, legit rock ‘n’ fundraiser, Sunday, Aug. 25, at Wa- roll band, and we’re playing just as verley Country Club in Portland. Drake Scheduled to appear with Thayer One of the more popular rappers of the in a concert are: Bill Champlin, for- day comes to Portland to kick off his merly of Chicago, a two-time Gram- “Would You Like A Tour?”, uh, tour. Special “We’re always able to get outside the box. That’s the cool thing about it, the spirit of my Award winner; Danny Seraphine, guest is Miguel. Tickets are on sale. His an- Chicago’s original drummer; Billy ticipated “Nothing Was The Same” album what made KISS unique from the very beginning. A lot of people thought it was a joke, Kimball, former lead singer of six- comes out later this year, with the song — Tommy Thayer “Started From The Bottom” creating buzz. but KISS always trumped the norm.” See THAYER / Page 2 7 p.m. Wednesday, Sept. 25, Moda Center, 1-877-789-7673, $49.75-$99.75 Passion Pit Indie synth-pop band Passion Pit rolls into town, bringing its blend of electronica, psychedelia and dance music. Festival pours on saké, culture 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 19, Moda Center, rosequarter.com, $35 saké, the girl- Annual Forest Grove friend com- The Pacifi c Rim STAGE event puts NW Asian mented how the Festival drink was aw- When: 11 a.m. to connection on display ful. After sever- 7 p.m. Saturday, Flight 64 al attempts, her Aug. 24 The low-cost print studio celebrates 10 By KATHLEEN ROHDE boyfriend fi nal- Where: SakéOne, years in nonprofi t business, with music Pamplin Media Group ly coaxed her to 820 Elm St., Forest and comedy, including comedians Nathan try one sip of Grove. Brannon and Shane Torres. Drag star La The words “this isn’t saké” are Moonstone, Cost: Tickets are $7 and can be Tina Turner is the emcee. normal coming from fi rst-time SakéOne’s fruit- customers at SakéOne brewery in purchased at the 7 p.m. Friday, Aug. 23, Alberta Rose The- infused saké. door or online at atre, 3000 N.E. Alberta St., fl ight64.org, $12 Forest Grove. She was baffl ed Shop.SakeOne. With the fourth annual Pacific and stubbornly com. ‘Anything Goes’ Rim Festival on Aug. 24, the company demanded Tak- Tickets are on sale for the winner of the prepares to show doubters and lov- abayashi pour 2011 Tony Award for “Best Musical Reviv- ers that its saké is the best of the another glass so she could see it al” of Cole Porter’s timeless classic, the lat- best. come straight from the bottle. Taka- est version of the 1934 musical comedy Last week, a couple walked into bayashi complied and laughed that about lovers, liars and clowns on a transat- the tasting room, a well-lit open SakéOne had converted another lantic cruise performed by Roundabout room with colorful bottles of saké nonbeliever. COURTESY OF SAKEONE Theatre Company. lining the walls. Joann Takabayashi, “It happens all the time,” says The Pacifi c Rim Festival, Aug. 24 in Forest Grove, celebrates all things Asian and 7:30 p.m. Wednesday-Friday, Oct. 2-4; 2 the tasting room manager, could tell Takabayashi with a smile. “They Polynesian, including drumming and dancing. Saké — an acquired taste? — and 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct, 5; 1:30 and 6:30 the young woman needed persua- came back an hour later and bought takes center stage. p.m. Sunday, Oct. 6, Keller Auditorium, 222 sion to try some of the evolving Japa- a bunch of bottles.” S.W. Clay St., 503-241-1802, starting at $29 nese drink. Her scrunched-up face Takabayashi was born and raised “There’s a lot of culture, you just There isn’t another event that repre- gave it away. in Hawaii and is second-generation have to look for it,” Takabayashi sents all the cultures together. And While the young man tested the Japanese. When she moved to Port- says. “It’s all spread out and I wanted company’s Ginjo, or premium-grade land, it was a culture shock. to bring the little pieces together. See FESTIVAL / Page 3 B2 LIFE Portland!Life The Portland Tribune Thursday, August 22, 2013

LiveMusic! First in folk Portland guitarist-songwriter Cal Scott By ROB CULLIVAN recently took fi rst Pamplin Media Group place in The Great American Song Contest for his tune “Paid Too Much For the Diamond.” Aug. 24 The song can be found on his newest CD “Carved Wood Box,” Snow Blight and the Deadly which he released earlier this Chords year on his own Tamarack label.

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425792.061213 Thayer: Event benefi ts athletics ■ From page 1 cionado, played all the classics at weeks (ending Aug. 18 in Holly- 22nd Annual Festa Italiana Portland home, the great show tunes. wood). We’ll go to Japan in Octo- She’s now 89, just a ball of energy. ber. Thankfully, we carved out a time Grammy winner Toto; Ed Mom and dad live in Lake Os- weekend we could do this. We’re Roth, producer and keyboardist wego. Growing up hearing great still doing a golf tournament, but with California Transit Authori- music in the air, so to speak, it’s more exclusive. ty; and Patrick Lamb, Oregon’s makes a difference. My older TRIBUNE: Musicians like to Grammy-nominated jazz saxo- brother, Jim, too — he’d play swing the sticks? phone player. Beatles records, pop music. THAYER: They do. A lot of art- Also making appearances will Then I got involved in music pro- ists and musicians like to play Italiana be rock manager Doc McGhee, grams in school. golf; a lot of pro golfers like to who helped launch the careers TRIBUNE: It’s probably not a play music. ... (The best) would of KISS, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, stereotypical story, a rocker probably be somebody like Alice AugustAugust 2223 toto 2425 || 11am11am toto 11pm11pm The Scorpions, Hootie & The coming from a great family? Cooper or Justin Timberlake. Blowfi sh, Diana Ross and James THAYER: A lot of guys come I’m decent, not quite as good as PioneerPioneer CourthouseCourthouse SquareSquare Brown, and several prominent from lousy families. Not that we the best. athletes. THAYER haven’t had our problems, every TRIBUNE: What’s Gene Sim- FREEFREE ADMISSION!ADMISSION! For more information, go to family has their issues. There’s a mons like? pacifi c.edu/legends. back to the area I grew up, get- good foundation there. Especial- THAYER: Like what you see on The Tribune caught up with ting involved, helping out. It’s ly with my parents, they’ve al- (reality show) “Family Jewels.” Thayer, co-founder of Oregon been a real gratifying experi- ways been supportive of what I He’s got a persona and exterior Pioneer Courthouse Square becomes “Piazza Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ence. What I can bring to the ta- or we wanted to do. Never heard, that can be a little abrupt and group Black ‘n Blue: ble is fundraising and profi le. “Can’t do that; shouldn’t do abrasive. He’s a good guy with a Italia” for 3 days of nonstop Italian Entertainment TRIBUNE: Few bands rival KISS TRIBUNE: The university want- that.” It was great (support), es- kind heart, believe it or not. The featuring Food, Dancing, Wine/Beer Garden, Raffl e, in longevity and appeal. Key to ed your father, James, to serve pecially when it started popping most ambitious and tenacious & Childrens Activities. Music by Ray Massa’s success? on the board, and he recom- for me. person I’ve ever met. Defi nitely EuroRhythms, Mbrascatu, Roberto Bonanni and THAYER: A lot of people are mended you? They wanted me to get a col- a workaholic. He goes all the critical about over-promoting, THAYER: He was a community lege education. But I got in- way back to producing Black ‘n

The Hot Frittatas. Also, Opera on Thursday. 421802.080813 going in many different direc- leader and military hero (former volved with groups, and then I Blue records, and we toured Check our website for a full list of Festa Italiana Week events! tions with sponsorships and li- U.S. Army brigadier general). was on my way to California with KISS in 1985. He’s like an censing. But, with a band like He’s 91 now, has done great ser- with Black ‘n Blue. ... I just read older brother. KISS, you can do that. Some vice for our community. They a book, “Talent Is Overrated.” TRIBUNE: And, Paul? groups can’t do that kind of stuff, were interested in getting some- It’s more about how much per- THAYER: More private, very because they’d be accused of body from the Thayer family, and sistence you have. How hard you creative, very smart. He and selling out. We’re always able to he said, “How about Tommy?” want to work. Gene are like yin and yang. www.Festa-Italiana.org get outside the box. TRIBUNE: Your family has been TRIBUNE: You’ve avoided the That’s what makes it a great That’s the cool thing about it, quite successful? trappings of a rock star? combination. Not to say they the spirit of what made KISS THAYER: Dad and mom (Patri- THAYER: With Black ‘n Blue, haven’t had disagreements, but unique from the very beginning, cia) started the J. Thayer Co. in we’d go on the road and have a they look beyond that. the early ‘70s. A lot of people 1955 and it became the largest good time. But, I never got into TRIBUNE: How about the thought it was a joke, but KISS offi ce products company on the drugs; never felt compelled to do drummer? always trumped the norm. You West Coast. My brothers Mike that. My tenure now with KISS THAYER: Eric Singer is one of always have detractors, but and John were involved. A large — I’m not in my 20s, and you my great friends, amazing guy. KISS is about entertaining and conglomerate bought it in the look at things differently and Best rock ‘n’ roll drummer out exploring new things. It contin- 1990s and, when John’s noncom- more responsibly. It’s a big busi- there in my book. Perfect for ues to baffl e people, even us. You pete (clause) fi nished, he started ness we’re in; you have to be a KISS. see these teenagers — how do another J. Thayer Co., a Web- professional to make it, to get TRIBUNE: Will KISS be playing they get turned on to KISS? based company in Lake Oswego through it. It’s not like it was in music and touring forever? TRIBUNE: How’d you get in- that’s expanded into California, the ‘60s — sex, drugs and rock THAYER: We basically take it volved with Pacifi c University? Washington and Denver. ‘n’ roll, where drugs are part of one day, one month, one year THAYER: I didn’t go to school TRIBUNE: Your mother served the culture of rock ‘n’ roll bands. at a time. People always specu- there, even though it’s a univer- as your inspiration? That’s long since past. late what KISS will be up to in sity literally in our backyard. THAYER: She was a classical TRIBUNE: Golf had to be fi ve years. KISS will be up to They approached me, and I musician, violinist, playing dropped from the Legends event something. We have a new thought about it, it set me back through her time in college at because of your schedule? Arena Football team (an- for a second. “What?” It’s cool Washington State. She brought THAYER: We toured Australia, nounced last week), and peo- that they’re thinking outside the music and creative arts to the had a full European tour and ple are scratching their head, box. I liked the idea of coming family. She was a great music afi - North America for about six “What?” Create the Bed of Your Dreams Select IN 3 EASY STEPS ... your style, your size, your fi nish.

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pearances by principal dancer Burbank’s fi rst show will be Bits&Pieces Alison Roper after 18 years Sept. 7 at the Alberta Rose with the company, and princi- Theatre. pal dancer Artur Sultanov, who By JASON VONDERSMITH The Tribune is coming out of retirement to Save 99W Drive-In perform with Roper in “Bole- ro” in February. A campaign to help the Tempest returns Irving has staged “Por Vos drive-in theater in Newberg Muero” at other companies. has begun — the theater needs Burlesque legend Tempest Duato, highly sought-after, to raise money to convert to Storm was all the rage back in serves as artistic director for digital projection, or else own- the day — she performed at the companies in St. Petersburg, ers could close it. Honda is Star Theater in 1953. She left Russia, and Berlin. Work be- spearheading a national cam- the Star to work at husband gins when OBT stages “OBT paign, “Project Drive-In,” and John Becker’s Capital Theater. Exposed,” Aug. 26 through 29 will fund the digital conversion The new owner of the Star at Director Park (see obt.org for the fi ve drive-ins that get brought in Becker’s ex-wife, ri- for info). the most votes. val burlesque star Arabelle An- Pickett serves as choreogra- For info and to vote for 99W: dre, as “John’s Other Wife.” pher in residence at Atlanta projectdrivein.com. This sparked a “burlesque war” Ballet. Her “Petal” will be part COURTESY OF PORTLAND PARKS & REC that was featured in the Nov. 30, of OBT’s April performances, Portland Parks & Recreation’s Dive-In Movies series, which opened Wednesday at Montavilla Pool, Oregon’s Toastmaster 1953, issue of Life magazine. as will Duato’s “Cor Perdut.” continues for the next four nights. “The Lorax” will be shown on big screens at poolside at 8 p.m. each night Sixty years later, Storm re- at Creston Pool (Aug. 22), Wilson Pool (Aug. 23), Sellwood Pool (Aug. 24) and Grant Pool (Aug. 25). It’s $5 Portland has the reigning turns, leading a show of more Bigfoot! for adults, $3 for children ($4 at Wilson). Pools are heated. champion in the World Cham- than 25 burlesque, cabaret and pionship of Public Speaking — circus performers. If you’re into a road trip and tary Intelligence Service (MIS), Write Around Portland runs Ryan Avery. Details: 9 p.m. Saturday, Bigfoot, the sixth annual Big- Make way! It’s a Smithsonian exhibit, community-building writing This year, during the Inter- Aug. 24, Star Theater, 13 N.W. foot Bash and Bounty in Ska- open Aug. 24 and going through workshops in hospitals, national Toastmasters Con- Sixth Ave., startheaterport- mania County, Wash., might be The Hood to Coast Relay, Sept. 29 at the museum, 1200 schools, homeless youth shel- vention in Cincinnati (Aug. 21 land.com, $20 general admis- for you. 1,050 teams and 12,600 runners S.W. Park Ave. (ohs.org). Also, ters, senior centers, low-in- to 24), Ronda Holdridge of St. sion, $35-$50 VIP. It starts with a pancake strong, cuts through Portland the museum will feature anoth- come housing, prisons, treat- Helens hopes to duplicate Av- breakfast at 9 a.m. Saturday, on Friday, Aug. 23, extending to er exhibit, “What If Heroes ment facilities and social ser- ery’s accomplishment as the OBT highlights Aug. 24, at Home Valley Park, Seaside on Saturday, Aug. 24 on Were Not Welcome Home?” It vice agencies. District 7 representative in just off Washington State its 198-mile trek. Watch for tells the story of the Nisei sol- The group’s latest book is the contest, against 87 other Oregon Ballet Theatre has fi - Route 14, after which “bounty runners! Also, the “Hood to diers from Hood River who “Concrete/Concreto.” For info: speakers. nalized its artistic team, hiring hunters” head off in search of Coast Movie” is on sale (see were not treated with respect writearound.org. Avery, a director of marketing Jeffrey Stanton as ballet mas- the massive beast. Life-size ply- hoodtocoast.com). when they returned to Oregon. for Special Olympics Oregon, ter. He joins Lisa Kipp, rehears- wood silhouettes of Bigfoot will Eric K. Shinseki, U.S. Secre- Live Wire! Radio host became the youngest champion al director, and Kevin Irving, be strategically placed in Car- Big exhibit tary of Veteran Affairs, plans ever last year, at age 25. artistic director. son and Home Valley, and par- to attend the opening luncheon The radio variety show Live Stanton was the principal ticipants earn prize money for The Oregon History Muse- Saturday (see oregonnikkei.org Wire!, which opens its 10th McMenamins special dancer with Pacifi c Northwest fi nding them. um, in partnership with Ore- for info). season in September, has Ballet (1994-2001) and also A carnival, beer garden, ex- gon Nikkei Endowment, will be hired Luke Burbank as its full- If you like McMenamins, the works at the PNB School. pert stories and live music are host to a signifi cant exhibit in Writer uniter time host. distinctively Oregon series of Meanwhile, Irving has an- part of the day. the next month, hosting the Burbank fi lled in during last watering holes, check out nounced OBT’s 2013-14 season Skamania County takes its Congressional Gold Medal, Write Around Portland plans season and has a substantial “Growler Mondays.” You can lineup. It includes a fi rst-ever Bigfoot mystique seriously. awarded in 2011 to Japanese- its 42nd book release and pub- background with NPR. He’s a buy a growler jug and get a fi ll- production of a Nacho Duato There are actually two ordi- American Nisei veterans who lic reading, 6:30 p.m. Wednes- panelist and fi ll-in host of “Wait up of beer on Mondays for only ballet (“Por Vos Muero,” Oct. nances in place regarding served our country in World day, Aug. 28, at First United Wait ... Don’t Tell Me” and has $7. McMenamins locations offer 12-19), a show that includes dy- Bigfoot. War II — of the 100th Infan- Methodist Church, 1838 S.W. appeared on “All Things Con- different beers all summer. 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There is taiko drumming Rim’s collision of cultures. 411849.011013 ■ From page 1 group Portland Taiko and you SakéOne is the original Amer- Locations can feel the energy in the drums ican operated saké brewery in Yamaha JR-2 saké makes it happen.” pounding, Takabayashi says, the country and the only one lo- 3/4 Size Acoustic Guitar $159.99 The brewery transforms into patting out a rhythm on her cated in Oregon. The next clos- a cultural extravaganza for the chest. An Obon dance group is est saké brewery that has mass annual Pacifi c Rim Festival. Per- back-to-back with a Tahitan production for consumption — formers, food and drink repre- dance group right before anoth- not cooking — is Texas. After sent Hawaiian, Japanese, Kore- er hula exhibition. Then there’s that, Minnesota is closest for a www.portlandmusiccompany.com an, Chinese and Tahitian cul- a kung fu demonstration. saké fi x. tures here in the Northwest. The “Who doesn’t like kung fu?” SakéOne is one of the leading represented nations make up Takabayashi says. producers of Ginjo saké, which the Pacifi c Rim and the festival There’s also a traditional Jap- isn’t what you’d fi nd served hot demonstrates the individuality anese dance and a Korean fan at a local sushi joint. SakéOne of each culture. dance, both with elaborate out- produces premium Oregon Craft Four large tents are hoisted fi ts. Drumming group Takoha- saké, intentionally served cold. up to shade seating, host demon- chi Taiko will amp up the energy Momokawa and G are two of its strations and house vendors like before Kama & The Back Line labels, but the company also pro- Abbey Creek Vineyard and non- Band play live Hawaiian and reg- duces Moonstone, which is in- profi ts for the day. gae music getting everyone on fused with flavors like Asian But the focus is on entertain- their feet dancing — or is that pear, coconut lemongrass, rasp- ment. Performances are as fresh the saké? berry and plum. Moonstone as the saké because Takabayas- “Kama is so popular that we makes for delicious and popular hi refuses to let groups come are fl ying him out from Hawaii sakétinis — martinis made with back unless they alter their to be here,” Takabayashi says. saké, Takabayashi says. show each year. The more hands-on individual “We want to break people of The first performer scares demonstrations of Japanese ka- the myth that saké gives you the away evil spirits, she says. Giant rate and Tahitian dance will be worst hangover,” she says. red and yellow lion heads swing held throughout the festival. She explained that while saké about for the lion dance, a Chi- Lessons in origami and lei-mak- is 80 percent water, gluten-free nese ritual by Lee’s Association. ing will be available. and sulfate-free, there’s still a There’s a hula performance by The food is diverse, with Ha- stigma. “Some folks are scared Keiki & Wahine Hula in which waiian-style poké bowls and of it, but there’s not a huge differ- the women dress in traditional spam musubi, Korean BBQ and ence in alcohol content than outfi ts. Japanese-style snow cones. wine. It’s a fi ghting battle.” “A true expression of culture Takabayashi decided that the Takabayashi feels like she’s is through dance and dress,” brewery in Forest Grove was the winning that battle when they Takabayashi says. ideal place to meet for the Pacifi c host the Pacifi c Rim Festival. 346462.081513

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Stored in garage Supplies ST. ALOYSIUS Redeemer Lutheran STORAGE during winter. Retails for CATHOLIC CHURCH Church 11480 SW 90th AVE PROBLEMS?? $1,665, will sell for $800. ANNUAL SALE 795 E Powell (off Greenberg Road) BBQ Grill: Seller will pay to have the FRI & SAT, 9 - 5p Call Gas w/lid, 2 side burners, cap mounted on buyer’s 297 N BROADWAY truck by a Leer profes- Computer, printer, golf Community Classifieds stone briquets & starter, FRI-SAT: 9-5 GRESHAM: and place a Marketplace smoker pan, tank, $100. sional dealer. Gresham - Some proceeds go to ser- balls & much more! Call Nancy, 503-538-4397 (503) 667-4060 vices in our community. Multi-Family Yard Sale ad to sell your overstock Lots of miscellaneous for Clear Creek Church NEWSPAPER items - sale at good prices and TIGARD: DELI FOOD CASE: New, Maytab Washing machine, 4100 SE 182nd Ave some crafts. INSERTER FAST counter top, never used, Minkota electric trolling 3 axle flat bed FRI & SAT, 9 - 4p PRE-ESTATE SALE OPERATORS -Reasonable Rates call for price & info. motor. 220 volt electric air trailer FRI/SAT & SUN: 10-5 Seeking experienced - Quality Readers McMinnville. 503-917-1590 compressor. $50 each all 18 ft x 8 ft, recent brakes GARDEN HOME 7615 SW Chestnut St Muller newspaper inserter -Quick Results in good working order. and bearings. $1995. GARAGE SALE LAKE OSWEGO operators for part-time (503) 357-5463 (503) 829-8525 GARAGE SALE positions at the Outlook in Auctions 7740 SW MAYO ST TUALATIN Gresham. These posi- (Off Oleson) 14543 PFEIFER WAY HUGE SALE tions will be day-time, Call (503) 620-7355 FRI-SAT: 9-5 SAT-SUN: 9-3 FRI/SAT & SUN: 9-4 usually only one day a www.community- Window AC, lawn mower, NO EARLY BIRDS week, and will involve COCA-COLA APPAREL/JEWELRY 9167 SW SILETZ DR classifieds.com power washer, home Small injection molding working 10-12 hours. MEMORABILIA health items, large Japa- machine, tools, Stanley Furniture & home decor, Must be able to stand for & DOLL AUCTION nese China set, Corning desk with detachable clothes, lots of Great Stuff! long periods, and lift Over a thousand ware, Kurig coffee maker, hutch, armoire, Fischer 30-pounds. Please send Need a new employee? Coca-Cola items. Lot’s of kitchen and household cross country skis, poles, WEST LINN resumes to Paul Wagner, dolls still in origninal boxes. WE BUY GOLD items. boots, women’s size 9, [email protected] Advertise it in the Sterling Flatware -Silver-Pocket Watches men’s 10.5, sports equip- MOVING SALE or to PO Box 747, AUGUST 24th at 2 p.m. classifieds. Call now! PREVIEW at 1 p.m.. GRESHAM ment, Lax Heads, photo 3925 GLEN TERRACE Gresham, OR 97030. 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Regular Woodburn part-time (primarily Friday, Saturday & Sunday). Hourly wage plus commission. Sales experience preferred. Provide own transportation & ability to lift up Firewood/ to 25lbs. Background check & drug screen required. Heating Supplies Please submit resume to: DRY FIREWOOD [email protected] or Alder, Maple, and Fir. $200 fax to 503-546-0718. per cord delivered. (503) 829-6114

COMMUNITY CLASSIFIEDS ✵ YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD MARKETPLACE ✵ 503-620-SELL (7355) ✵ 8:30AM - 5:00PM ✵ WWW.COMMUNITY-CLASSIFIEDS.COM The Portland Tribune Thursday, August 22, 2013 LIFE B5 Pets & Supplies Condos/Townhouses Manufactured Business/Office Cars For Sale Cars For Sale Motorcycles RVs & Travel For Sale Homes/Lots Space for Rent Scooters/ATVs Trailers

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Portland Thorns time in Miami shaped skills FC standout Alex Morgan ■ From page 8 statement through the team: $50,000 to launch an annual col- tablished themselves. They’ve celebrates her “I’d like to apologize to my fam- lege scholarship in the name of been playing well the past few goal against ily, fans and the Heat organiza- Wright’s childhood friend, the years. (The Blazers) struggled Seattle in the Wright says. “Neil did a great tion for this embarrassment. late Khelcy Barrs III. because they didn’t have a season opener. job. We have a nice mix of The photos were taken roughly “It’s the biggest thing we’ve strong bench. I don’t think that Morgan hopes to young talent and older guys to one year ago in done so far,” will be the case this season.” recover from a help the young guys out.” what I thought Wright says. “I’m Wright says his versatility knee injury in Wright signed a letter-of-in- was a private con- “I’m a point very proud of the will pay off for the Blazers. tent with DePaul out of high versation. I lacked work we’ve been “I’m a one (point guard) time for forward. I make Saturday’s school but went directly to the judgment and doing. I’m humbled through four (power forward), NBA after being drafted by the was naive about by the help I’ve re- to tell you the truth,” he says. playoff game at plays for my Heat. the Internet. I re- ceived from so ma- “I’m a point forward. I make FC Kansas City. “Not too many 18-year-olds alize this is not an teammates. I can ny people in reach- plays for my teammates. I can TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO: have the opportunity,” he says. excuse, but it is ing our goal.” shoot the 3. I can be an under- CHRISTOPHER shoot the 3.” ONSTOTT “It was a dream I’d set years something I truly (See dwright- sized four, pick and pop and put earlier.” regret. I realize — Dorell Wright wayfoundation. pressure on the defense with Wright hardly played his fi rst this affects my en- org.) outside shooting.” two seasons, but became a tire family and I am embar- In 2010, Wright signed a free- Wright hopes his experience member of the regular rotation rassed by it.” agent contract with Golden will be an asset for the Blazers. Thorns batten his fi nal four years in a Miami On Tuesday, Wright revisited State and had his best NBA sea- “Having a lot of knowledge uniform and was a member of the moment with regret. son under coach Keith Smart, and wisdom of the game will the Heat team that won the 2006 “I was a young man, and I averaging 15.4 points and 4.9 help with a lot of the younger NBA championship. learned you have to protect rebounds and leading the guys,” he says. “It’s about how “I made the right decision,” yourself in this business and league while making 194 3-point to conduct yourself in practice, down hatches he says. “I learned from the best not let people take advantage shots. Wright was third in vot- before games ... a lot of little — Pat Riley, Stan Van Gundy of you,” he said. “It was embar- ing for the NBA’s Most Im- things. You don’t become a and Erik Spoelstra. I played rassing, but I learned from proved Player Award behind leader by talking a lot. You do it with Hall of Fame players in that. You always have to pro- Minnesota’s Kevin Love and by leading by example. With Shaq (Shaquille O’Neal) and tect yourself. It’s all about pro- Portland’s Aldridge. myself and Mo and Earl and La- heading to KC Dwyane, played with Antoine tecting your name. You don’t Wright started again the next Marcus and some others, we’ll Walker and James Posey — want anybody to mess that up. season but saw diminished time help the younger guys learn play with a fast pace. I’m hoping those guys took me under their Be smart.” under new coach Mark Jack- how to become professionals.” Alex Morgan hopes that I’ll be 100 percent, but if I’m wing. I learned what hard work Wright has worked hard to son, then was dealt to Philadel- Wright isn’t settling for just a not, I will be for the fi nal.” was all about as well as the repair his reputation since then phia. Coming off the bench un- better record for the Blazers, to overcome injury, Kansas City won the regular- NBA game. It was a way better through the D Wright Way der coach Doug Collins, Wright who went 33-49 a year ago. He’s play in semifi nal season series 2-1-1, behind mid- situation than had I gone to col- Foundation, now in its fourth averaged 9.2 points and 3.8 re- thinking playoffs. fi elder Lauren Holiday (former- lege for a year or two.” year. He recently staged his bounds in 22.6 minutes last sea- “No doubt,” he says. “Look at ly Lauren Cheney). Of her It was during his fi nal season third annual “Skate Party” in son, shooting .396 from the fi eld, the talent. We have a stronger By STEPHEN ALEXANDER league-leading 12 goals this sea- in Miami, 2009-10, that Wright Northridge, Calif., where sever- .374 from 3-point range and .851 bench now. It’s going to be so The Tribune son, four came against the endured his darkest hour in the al NBA players and other pro from the foul line. competitive in practice. People Thorns. NBA. In a situation oddly simi- athletes gathered to help raise In Portland, Wright says he are going to really want it. The On Tuesday afternoon, “Maybe we haven’t done lar to one experienced by for- funds for the foundation. will be comfortable in a reserve playoffs will be the goal from Portland Thorns FC striker enough to change our tactics mer Blazer Greg Oden, Wright “It has been a great success,” role. day one. We’re going to protect Alex Morgan dribbled down against her,” Thorns defender emailed or texted a photo of his Wright says. “We target inner- “I want to come off the our homecourt and go out there the pitch at Jeld-Wen Field. Rachel Buehler said. “Between private parts to a woman, who city kids who need our help.” bench,” he says. “When train- to win a lot of games.” Her touch and quality on the the midfi eld and back line, we eventually passed the photo In April, the foundation part- ing camp starts, I’ll get in there ball was apparent. Morgan’s have to be aware of where she is along to the world via Twitter. nered with the United Negro and compete, but the guys who [email protected] heralded speed was not. in that space.” Wright later submitted a College Fund, contributing have been here have already es- Twitter: @kerryeggers With the thick knee brace on Portland coach Cindy Parlow her left leg glimmering in the Cone said the Thorns cannot fo- sun, Morgan looked a long way cus on shutting down Holiday to from being ready to play at 100 the point where they forget about percent in Saturday’s 11 a.m. PT the other dangerous players. UO: OSU: road playoff match against FC “Kansas City is a great team, Armstead has hoop skills Kansas City. both on the attack and on de- Morgan is desperately trying fense,” Cone said. “The combi- ■ From page 8 team this season than he did him to play. He remembers his to recover from the medial col- nation of Holiday, (striker Me- last year. fi rst days in training camp. Injury lateral ligament sprain she suf- lissa) Henderson and (midfi eld- “I expect to be an impact “I feel like a vet now, but fered against the Boston Break- er Erika) Tymrak is lethal. Then Grove High in Sacramento. Ex- player on this defense and fl y coming into camp last year, it ers on Aug. 7. But time is run- you add in (midfi elder) Court- pectations were high for him to around and make a lot of plays was kind of hectic. I was con- ning out for the Thorns’ co-lead- ney Jones and (midfi elder Mer- come in and be a star right and help any way I can,” he fused, didn’t know the plays,” sidelines ing goal scorer. ritt) Mathias ... we’ve got to away. He says that didn’t both- says. he says. “I was that nervous, “Today was the fi rst day that make sure we don’t give up the er him. Buckner also played in all 13 scared freshman. I got a year I tried to participate in the counterattack. We have to make “There really wasn’t any games last season, making 29 under my belt, got some experi- Alexander warm-up, did some dribbling, sure we’re always aware and pressure,” Armstead says. tackles, 15 unassisted and 2 1/2 ence in big games. I feel good some juggling, a little of pass- alert and communicating.” “People expected things from tackles for a loss. now, after it seemed like every- ■ ing,” said Morgan, who tied KC outscored Portland 9-7 in me, but the type of person I am, The 6-7, 265-pounder from thing was being thrown at me a From page 8 teammate Christine Sinclair the four games. I expected more from myself. I Punahou High in Waianae, Ha- million miles per hour last year. with eight goals during the Na- “The last three times we’ve put more pressure on myself waii admits playing as a true Everything has slowed down.” pare his teammate for the tional Women’s Soccer League played them, we’ve given up at than anybody else did. I want to freshman was challenging, but Aiken will likely stick with a starting role. season that ended last weekend least two goals a game,” Sinclair be more successful than any- says former defensive line rotation, and he likes to train “I’m not worried about Jabral and scored twice against KC. said. “We’re not going to win one else thinks I can be.” coach Jerry Azzinaro prepared guys to be versatile in Oregon’s at all,” Alexander says. “He’s do- “Five days ago, I couldn’t re- any playoff games doing that. Last season, Armstead him well. multiple front. ing a good job in practice. He’ll ally run,” Morgan said. “Having We have confi dence that we’re played in all 13 games, making “It was a big transition for Balducci understands his do fi ne.” it progress that quickly in fi ve going to score a goal or two, but 26 tackles, 11 unassisted tack- me,” Buckner says. “But, I felt role, it’s to hold the middle in a Locker mate Dylan Wynn, the days, I’m feeling like it’s a good you can’t count on scoring four les and two tackles for a loss. like I was ready before every defensive tackle situation — starting D-end, offers an en- possibility (that I’ll play). But goals in a playoff game.” Armstead, 6-8, 280 pounds, game because Coach Az men- when he gets on the fi eld. dorsement, too. we’ll have to assess it the day The Western New York Flash also redshirted on the Oregon tally got me in that mind-set With more than enough candi- “He’s stepping into the role before the game and make a (10-4-8) also finished with 38 basketball team. that I could compete at this dates for the D-line rotation, Bal- quite nicely,” Wynn says. “I have last-minute decision.” points, forcing the use of tie- “It was a different role from level. The way we practiced ducci understood the pressure to full confidence the transition Morgan said she was not too breakers to determine the top football,” he says. “My contri- helped me feel comfortable be- perform in training camp. will be almost seamless.” worried about her long-term three playoff spots. New York bution to the basketball team fore games.” “I think we’ll keep rotating, Alexander’s absence thrusts health if she takes the field will play host to Sky Blue FC (10- was helping them as much as I Buckner says the playing because we have so much tal- true freshman Darrell Songy in- when the third-seeded Thorns 6-6, 36) at 5 p.m. PT Saturday in could in practice and being a time will help him be more nat- ent. That’ll be a key part of our to the third outside linebacker (11-6-5, 38 points) take on No. 2 the other semifi nal. good teammate.” ural on the fi eld this season. success,” he says. “We’ll play to spot, meaning the 6-1, 220-pound KC, who had the same record in “It ended up the way I thought Armstead plans to continue “I know my plays a lot better, the strength of our defensive Austin, Texas, native could see the regular season. it would — very tight,” Cone playing both football and bas- and I’m more comfortable exe- line. If you have talent, you action behind either Johnson or “I know that long-term, I’m said. “It’s frustrating because all ketball while he is at Oregon. cuting those plays and not wor- have to use it. Doctor in the opener. probably not going to be able to we needed was one (more) point “I love them for different rying if I mess up,” he says. “We can all move, too. That’s “Darrell is doing a lot of things walk when I’m 50,” Morgan said, to win the league.” reasons,” he says. “They go “Now, I’m able to have fun and good — got to be agile. We well,” Bray says. “He is on all our smiling. Wins by Portland and Sky hand-in-hand. If I didn’t have play football.” don’t have any guys who are personnel groups (including Being in top shape is the crite- Blue would give the Thorns one, I wouldn’t be good in the Balducci, a 6-4, 290-pound stiffs. Everyone can roll.” nickel and dime packages), so he ria for Morgan to play. “I don’t home fi eld in the championship other. Basketball helps me in sophomore from Central Cath- Balducci has bonded with his has had a lot to learn. He has think it would be smart to put match. football, and football helps me olic High, also fi nds himself in fellow defensive linemen. He highs and lows like any young me on the fi eld if I’m not 100 per- “We haven’t talked about that in basketball. It’s a good bal- the deep mix of Oregon defen- rooms with Buckner and says guy, but he does a lot of good cent, especially with the way I once,” Sinclair said. “Our focus ance for my life.” sive linemen. “me and (converted tight end) things. We just need to get him play,” she said. “I need to cut, I is Kansas City and getting a re- Armstead expects to contrib- He played in the final four T.J. Daniel are real good to the level where he’s consistent need to accelerate, de-celerate, sult there.” ute even more to the football games last season, after being friends and me and Arik are in what he does. inserted into the California good friends.” “If we don’t redshirt him, we’re game in an emergency situa- Typically, younger players going to use him. He has the po- tion. He doesn’t regret break- like to hang out with guys their tential, and if he keeps growing, ing his redshirt season for lim- age, although Balducci says he he could help us this year.” Hundreds of Airports. ited play. talks often with Hart, Keliikipi Johnson says he can’t wait for “I gained a lot of experience and Havili-Heimuli. Eastern Washington. Millions of Passengers. out of it,” he says. “I wanted to Even with Armstead, Buck- “I’m stoked,” he says. “It will play, even though I was red- ner, Balducci and many others be a great experience. Hopefully, shirting, no matter the circum- who can play on the D-line, Ai- I’ll make all the plays I picture in One Mission: stances. When I got my name ken would like to see more my head when I watch (video). I called, I never looked back.” players step up. am envisioning great things.” A training camp and nearly “We would like to have an- three months of practice dur- other guy step up and join that [email protected] Keep Them All Safe. ing the season helped prepare group,” Aiken says. Twitter: @kerryeggers

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Standard Messaging and Data Rates Apply. text “TSA” to 95495 or call . 426834.080813 The Portland Tribune Thursday, August 22, 2013 SPORTS B7 Project pays tribute to Rovello PDXSports Thursday, Aug. 22 Seattle’s Rain of Terror in a bat- t wasn’t that long ago when SteveBrandon for Alex.” lot of junior players come and tle of B travel teams, 8 p.m., passersby routinely saw a The Sept. 15 kickoff at Berke- go. But what made Alex differ- Hops — The Hillsboro Hops Oaks Park Hangar. young boy not much bigger ley Park, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., ent was his attitude on the are on the road against the I than his racquet hitting will be the kind of event Rovello court and toward his oppo- Eugene Emeralds in Class A Sunday, Aug. 25 tennis balls with his father for would have loved. It will be an nents, his easygoing style, how Northwest League baseball, 7 hours on end at Southeast Port- informal gathering of friends, pleasant he was to be around. p.m., PK Park. Timbers — Portland’s MLS land’s Berkeley Park. tennis offi cials and others who He was unique, and he was cer- College volleyball — Warner regular season, which began The boy grew into one of the love the game, including his for- tainly the best player to come Pacifi c begins a six-match, three- March 3, swung into its fi nal greatest champions and sports- mer coaches from the Eastmo- out of Portland in a lot of day season-opening run at third this week and still has two men in Oregon high school his- reland area and U of O. Jim years.” Spokane, facing Montana State- months to go. The Timbers travel tory. And his love for tennis — SCORESHEET Rovello will serve as a disc Portland Parks has 105 out- Northern at 1 p.m., and Carroll to Seattle for a 7 p.m. match not only for playing the game jockey, playing music, and peo- door courts, a number that is College at 5 p.m. ... Concordia with the Sounders (ESPN2). It’ll but also for who he played with ple can just mingle, or hit balls, relatively low per capita, and also begins its season on the be game 25 of 34 for Portland. or against — continued to grow ships will be played Sept. 6 to 8 with giveaways and other activ- “the courts around the city are road and in a tourney. The Hops — Game two of three until May 11 of at three sites — the Portland ities also in the mix. not in great shape,” Stone says. Cavaliers will play today and between Hillsboro and Boise this year, when Tennis Center, Grant Park and “Ho loved to “Other facilities al- Friday at La Mirada, Calif., open- starts at 1:30 p.m. at Hillsboro 21-year-old Al- Gabriel Park. play,” says Ruth so desperately ing at 11 a.m. versus Cal State Ballpark. ex Rovello Then, on Sept. 15, the public Turner, director “I think it’s need upgrading.” San Marcos and then meeting College soccer drowned in a is invited to an afternoon of fun, of community ten- all been The Portland Vanguard University at 7 p.m. — Marquette’s women take on cliff diving ac- tennis and remembrances at nis for the United Tennis Center, in the PSU Vikings, 10 a.m., cident not far Berkeley Park, where his par- States Tennis As- driven by the Northeast Port- Friday, Aug. 23 Hillsboro Stadium, while UP vis- from Eugene, ents, Jim and Geri Rovello, will sociation’s Pacifi c love for Alex.” land adjacent to its Oregon, 5 p.m. ... The where he was serve as hosts and raise both Northwest sec- — Mike Rosen Benson High, Hood to Coast — The 32nd Concordia men open their sea- starring for the money and awareness for the tion. “But he plans to convert annual Hood to Coast Relay son at home against University ROVELLO University of fund in his name that will even- wasn’t just about four of its outdoor begins its 198-mile journey College of the Fraser Valley, Oregon. tually pay for vast improve- tennis. He was really adored, a courts to indoor by next sum- from Timberline Lodge on Mount 4:30 p.m., Tuominen Yard. Rovello’s memory lives on, ments. breath of fresh air, salt of the mer to help provide more year- Hood to the turnaround at Running — Willamette Park especially in the vicinity of About $50,000 already has earth, very mature and posi- round play opportunities and Seaside. The event has 1,050 in Portland is the base for a Berkeley Park, a few blocks been committed to the Alex tive. I feel honored to assist in generate revenue that will go to teams of 12 runners and 3,600 Back to School Fun Run, which from the family home. Rovello Memorial Fund, this any way I can.” helping refurbish outdoor volunteers. The fi rst wave of includes a 5K run/walk, a one- The tributes to his life are fo- through individual donations The Portland City Champion- courts around the city. competitors starts at 6:30 a.m., mile kids run and a half-mile cused on raising money to im- following his death. ships will be a unique event. “Tennis in Portland is boom- with the event continuing kids dash. The second annual prove the two public courts To do all the work desired on “There will be no entry fees ing,” Stone says, “and our ju- through Saturday. For informa- event raises money for back- where the undefeated, four- the Berkeley courts — resurfac- — we will let everyone decide nior programs are full.” tion, go to hoodtocoast.com. packs and school supplies. Go time state champion from ing them, trimming the over- what they would like to donate, For more information on the College soccer — The to globalbackpackproject.org for Cleveland High honed his hanging trees, putting up new tax-deductible, to the memorial Berkeley Park renovation proj- Portland Pilots welcome information. skills. The goal is to make the fencing, fi xing the retaining fund,” says Mike Stone, recre- ect, visit the new website, Marquette to Merlo Field for a 7 Horse racing — Post time is courts so playable that other wall, installing new nets and ation coordinator for Portland AlexRovelloMemorial.org. p.m. women’s match, and the 1:45 p.m. at Portland Meadows young boys and girls can learn posts and benches, adding elec- Parks & Recreation. “There al- Contributions may be made Portland State women play at in North Portland. the game there with their fa- tricity for ball machines and so will be no prizes, no rank- tax-deductible through the Oregon, 5 p.m. thers or mothers, aunts or un- other purposes, making the ings at stake — nothing. This is Commerce-Cleveland High Hops — Hillsboro wraps up a Monday, Aug. 26 cles or other family and friends, courts ADA-compliant, etc. — just for the enjoyment of tennis School Alumni Association-Al- three-game series at Eugene and and enjoy the sport that be- could require about $175,000. and in the memory of Alex. ex Rovello Memorial Fund an eight-game road trip, facing Hops — Hillsboro concludes came Rovello’s passion. “We’re making good prog- “Everybody who knew him (make checks out to CCHSAA- the Ems at 7 p.m. at PK Park. a three-game home series with Two events in September ress,” says Mike Rosen, a fami- recognizes that it was a huge Alex Rovello Memorial Fund), Roller derby — The Wheels of the Boise Hawks. First pitch is 7 will honor Rovello and generate ly friend who is helping make loss to our tennis community. or at any Wells Fargo Bank (not Justice — the travel team of the p.m. at Hillsboro Ballpark. funds for this cause. this dream a reality. “I think I’ve been involved in tennis for tax-deductible) or online (also Rose City Rollers — has a home College volleyball — Warner The Portland City Champion- it’s all been driven by the love 20-plus years, and we’ve seen a not tax-deductible). bout against Seattle’s Rat City Pacifi c plays host to Simpson All-Stars, 8 p.m., at the Oaks University, 6 p.m. Park Hangar. Golf — Bob Gilder’s Platt Golf Challenge, a fundraiser for the ship in September. Saturday, Aug. 24 Cystic Fibrosis Foundation/ LPGA: Also back is Mika Miyazato, Oregon Chapter, is hosted by who shot 13-under 203 at Ghost Thorns — Portland opens the the Corvallis Champions Tour Creek to win last season. Britta- National Women’s Soccer pro at Pumpkin Ridge Golf Club ny Lincicome and Park tied for League playoffs on the road. The in North Plains. Lexi Thompson, second at 205. Thorns, who fi nished third in the gauging the Safeway’s This year’s Safeway Classic regular-season standings, take Tuesday, Aug. 27 has been moved back a week to distance needed on No. 2 FC Kansas City, 11 make room for the Solheim Cup, for an approach a.m., at Shawnee Mission Golf — Caddy for a Cure has played last week at Parker, Colo. shot in last District Stadium in Overland a 5 p.m. fundraiser at The future role year’s LPGA The Canadian Open, held at Ed- Park, Kan. KC is coming off a Oregon Golf Club in West Linn. monton, Alberta, this week, as- Safeway Classic, 2-1 home loss to Chicago, while sumes the slot the Safeway is 18 and one of Portland’s last outing was a 2-1 Wednesday, Aug. 28 unknown Classic has held in recent years. the tour’s rising win at Seattle. Both teams were The problem with that is the stars. 11-6-5, with the Thorns trailing Hops — After a day off, Safeway event now bumps TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO: 1-2-1 in the series. Hillsboro launches its fi nal ■ From page 8 heads in Saturday’s third round JONATHAN HOUSE Hops — The Boise Hawks home series of its fi rst Single-A with the football season openers world-class talent. Carner, Nancy Lopez, Annika visit Hillsboro Ballpark to begin season. The Hops take on the chain that has put millions of for Oregon and Oregon State, C-E’s tight, tree-lined course Sorenstam and Lorena Ochoa. a three-game NWL baseball Eugene Emeralds at 7 p.m. dollars of support into the event both at home. places a premium on accuracy. Maletis and the TGI offi cials series, 7 p.m. Horse racing — Portland over the years. The purse has “I’’m concerned a little bit “It’s going to take someone do a splendid job of running a Roller derby — Axles of Meadows’ race card begins at shrunk a little — from $1.5 mil- about it,” Maletis concedes. “It who can drive and keep the ball fi rst-class tournament. About Annihilation play host to 1:45 p.m. lion a year ago to $1.3 million — would have affected us a lot in the fairway,” Maletis says. 80,000 fans came through the but most of the world’s top play- more if we still had a three-day The Safeway Classic has huge turnstiles to watch last year’s ers will be here. As of last week- event, though. A lot of times, our cred on the LPGA Tour. With event, evidence there is plenty end, nine of the top 10 money- biggest day is Friday. By having the Kraft Nabisco Champion- of interest among our state’s winners, and 90 of the top 100, four days of tournament proper, ships at Mission Hills, Calif., it is sports fans. are on board. we still have three days of op- tied for the longest-running I worry that Safeway will pull That includes Inbee Park, the tions for football fans who want event on the circuit. sponsorship after this season of 25-year-old South Korean who to watch the tournament. In the I covered my fi rst LPGA tour- the tournament that has raised has taken the LPGA circuit by overall picture, we’re going to nament in Portland in 1975, the more than $17 million for chari- storm during the past year and get more people out there.” event’s fourth year. Jo Ann ties through the years. If that a half. Park, the top money-win- There’s no better sports bar- Washam won what was then happens, I’m hopeful Maletis ner and Vardon Trophy winner gain for the state’s sports fans. billed as the $30,000 Portland La- and Co. will come up with an- a year ago, won the fi rst three A one-day ticket costs $10 — a dies Classic at Portland Golf other sponsor that deems it a majors this year before losing at two-for-one deal makes it $5 a Club, taking home $4,500. worthwhile endeavor. It’s an the recent Women’s British ticket — and a season pass is Since then, I’ve witnessed event the sports fans in this Open. She still can become the $25. That’s affordable to anyone most of the events and have state can’t afford to lose. fi rst woman to win four majors interested in watching world- seen all of the game’s top in a calendar year when she class talent. 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Wright hopes Blazers’ depth is good fi t TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT By KERRY EGGERS LPGA RETURNS TO The Tribune

He has a condo rented in Lake Oswego, jersey No. 4, a long relationship with the general manager and a role CLASSIC as a veteran presence off the Trail Blazers’ bench. Now all Dorell Wright has to do is follow it with perfor- mance. That’s what Portland GM SETTING Neil Olshey fully expects after signing the 6-9 small here is plenty of “new” to what I real estate availability (at C-E). forward to a SCOTT HALLERAN/GETTY IMAGES consider, next to Civil War football, “But Safeway has cut back its needs in two-year, $6 the greatest annual sporting event that regard. There will still be vendor tents, million free- Tin our state. but not of the magnitude of the past. agent con- There is a new venue, an ex- It gave us an opportunity to look tract this panded number of holes and per- Kerry again at Columbia.” summer. haps a greater sense of urgency The LPGA, which has only one WRIGHT Wright for success at the box offi ce in the Eggers other 54-hold event on tour, has been has plenty of Inbee Park (top) of South 42nd annual LPGA Safeway Clas- pushing TGI to increase to 72 holes cred. At 27, he is entering his Korea blasts out of a sic Aug. 29 to Sept. 1 at Columbia for years. It’s a good change that will 10th NBA season, having bunker during the 2012 Edgewater Country Club. allow fans to see one more counting signed with the Miami Heat Safeway Classic, in which After four years at Pumpkin day of play and offer more drama at straight out of high school as she tied for second. Park Ridge, the Safeway Classic re- Columbia, a course with a storied tra- the 19th pick in the 2004 draft. is the runaway choice for turns to Columbia Edgewater for dition that Maletis says is popular During a Tuesday phone player-of-the-year the fi rst time since 2008. And for with the women pros. Maletis says in interview from his native Los honors in women’s golf the fi rst time in its history, the 2008 — the last time the Safeway Angeles, Wright says he has this season. Sweden’s event will be four days and 72 O N Classic was held there — LPGA play- had an “awesome summer, Anna Nordqvist (above) holes instead of three days and ers voted it their favorite course on but my family and I are excit- helped Europe to a 54 holes. SPORTS the tour. ed about heading up to Port- resounding Solheim Cup The move back to Columbia “I’ve been at four (LPGA) events land and getting started.” victory over the United Edgewater coincides with the bump up to since we made the decision to come back to Family includes girlfriend State last week, but 72 holes, meaning what was a two-day Columbia,” he says. “I’m amazed at how Mia Lee and 5-year-old son former University of pro-am at Pumpkin becomes a one-day many positive comments the golfers had Devin Quentin Dwyane Arkansas star Stacy pro-am at C-E. about it. Nothing against Pumpkin Ridge — Wright, the latter name hon- Lewis (left) is second to “When we had two days of pro-am it’s an excellent course, and they were very oring teammates Quentin Park on the LPGA money while at Columbia, we were using both good to us. But the players really like Co- Richardson and Dwyane list in 2013 and recently Riverside and Columbia, which was diffi - lumbia.” Wade from Dorell’s time in won the Women’s British cult logistically,” says tournament direc- Safeway returns as title sponsor for the Miami. Open. tor Tom Maletis of Tournament Golf Inc. 18th year, a great statement by the grocery “My job was to find the “And with all its vendor needs and tents TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO: See LPGA / Page 7 middle names,” he says. JONATHAN HOUSE and displays, Safeway had outgrown the “Those two guys I looked up to. They took me under their wings my fi rst years in the NBA. They are people I ad- mire, both professionally and personally.” Young Devin, incidentally, is a fan of University of Ore- Johnson thrust gon football and De’Anthony Thomas. “I’m a big-time football player on X-Box,” Dorell says. into OSU spotlight “I play a lot of Madden. I’m a USC Trojan fan, but I like to Beaver to make fi rst “They run 4.3s and 4.4s (in the play with the Oregon Ducks. 40),” Johnson says. “Unfortu- Every time I ask him, Devin career start fi lling in nately, I can’t do that. But as far tells me he’s going to Oregon as the mental game goes, I’m University to play football for injured linebacker pretty smart. It allows me to get and basketball. He loves to the right position at the right De’Anthony Thomas.” By KERRY EGGERS time.” Wright chose Portland The Tribune Johnson played some special over Oklahoma City, Mem- teams as a true freshman in phis and Utah this summer CORVALLIS — Oregon 2011 and as a sophomore last largely on his relationship State junior Jabral Johnson season, but has very little game with Olshey, with whom he is majoring in sociology, experience at linebacker. Those goes back prior to Olshey’s with an emphasis in crime within the OSU program who time with the Los Angeles and justice. have watched him progress over Clippers. “I’d like to do something with the last year, though, have been “I was still in high school, the FBI when I’m done with impressed. and I think Neil was coaching football,” Johnson says. “He’s a really high school ball, probably 13 Since he was a youngster, smart kid, a TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT years ago,” Wright says. “He Johnson has been a fan of “The good kid who Arik Armstead is one of several Oregon Ducks prepared to take turns and make an impact in the defensive worked me out with (Tim First 48,” an A&E TV series of- played his best line this season. Grgurich) a few times. That fering an inside look at homi- football in the was pretty cool, being able to cide and crime-scene investiga- spring and car- get great workouts in with an tions. ried it right in- NBA coach and some NBA “That’s interesting to me,” to (training) Ducks’ platoon D-line players. Johnson says. camp,” OSU “Neil is a great guy, very up For now, though, Johnson will coach Mike Ri- front. He lets you know what be attempting to create trouble JOHNSON ley says. “I hate is real. When you’ve known for opposing defenses. the circum- someone for so long, the trust He’ll get his fi rst career start stances, but I like that he is tak- strength runs deep and communication is there. I in Oregon State’s Aug. 31 season ing advantage of the time to get trust Neil. I trust the situa- opener against Eastern Wash- better and has done a good job.” tion. He sold me on every- ington at Reser Stadium, but “He’ll do fine,” linebackers The Ducks will have senior and Alex Balducci. thing as far as the city and the not under preferred circum- coach Trent Bray says. “He has Mix of older, younger leadership at defensive tackle Armstead grew up in a team. Being able to play with stances. grown a lot since last fall. I’m players keeps UO with Taylor Hart, Ricky Havili- household where his brother Damian (Lillard), Wesley Junior D.J. Alexander will very excited about Jabral. He Heimuli (who added Havili Aaron and his sister Alexis (Matthew), Nic (Batum), La- miss at least the fi rst two games works hard and he takes coach- opponents stirred up this year to pay tribute to his were not athletes. But Arm- Marcus (Aldridge) ... I felt like with a knee injury, opening the ing — he’s not sensitive about it. mother’s maiden name), Wade stead’s other brother, Ar- I’d fi t in with all those guys. i door for Johnson to move into You can coach him hard. He de- By STEPHEN ALEXANDER Keliikipi and Jared Ebert. Red- mond, was a talented football had a feeling in my gut that it his outside linebacker spot. mands a lot from himself. You The Tribune shirt sophomore Sam Kamp player who went to USC. Arik was the right situation for my- “It’s an unfortunate opportu- can count on guys like that. can play either defensive tack- decided to follow in Armond’s self and my family.” nity,” Johnson says, “but I’m go- “He runs well. He’s not Mi- EUGENE — The Oregon le or defensive end. Junior footsteps. With Olshey’s offseason ing in there with the mind-set chael or D.J., but he’s a tough Ducks do not lack for depth Tony Washington will likely “My parents are fans of us moves, a bench that was one that I’m going to produce and kid. He’ll stick his nose in there. in the defensive line. Head- see time at defensive end, and and anything that we tried to of the weakest in NBA history make plays for the Beavers.” The biggest thing for J.J. is he ing into the season, the true freshman Torrodney Pre- do or any path that we would last season appears deep. When Alexander was hurt, “it has been consistent and has Ducks have nine or more vot could play the “drop end” have chosen, they would sup- Suddenly, coach Terry Stotts was a sad moment,” the Lawton, been in the right spots. Any time players who can step into a role, although he seems head- port us,” Arik Armstead says. has center Meyers Leonard, Okla., native says. “But it was you do that, good things will hap- game and be a force in the ed to move back to a lineback- “My older brother was a huge forwards Wright and Thomas pretty much understood it was pen.” trenches. er position. help for me. I watched him go Robinson and guards Mo Wil- my time to step up.” “The one thing I focus on is “We’ve got some older guys Oregon also has three soph- through his recruiting process liams, Earl Watson and C.J. Johnson is a much different not making the same mistake and some young guys who omore defensive linemen, all and watched him play in col- McCollum to call upon. type of player than Alexander twice,” Johnson says. “That played last year,” fi rst-year de- of whom played as true fresh- lege. We’re kind of walking “I applaud the organization and the other starting outside could cost the team.” fensive line coach Ron Aiken men, all of whom can play any the same path.” for the moves they’ve made,” ‘backer, Michael Doctor. The 6-1, Since the injury, Alexander says. “We’ve just got to keep position on the defensive line, Armstead was a fi ve-star re- 230-pound Johnson has consid- has spent time helping pre- everybody rolling and work- all of whom could be poised cruit coming out of Pleasant See BLAZERS / Page 6 erably more size but not as ing hard. That’s what they’ve for monster seasons: Arik much speed. See OSU / Page 6 been doing so far.” Armstead, DeForest Buckner See UO / Page 6