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Library site to be announced June 11 By Salomeh Moadab visibility, accessibility, parking and Developers turned in their final appearance. proposals in March, which were May’s Kenton Neighborhood The winning location will be reviewed by the county’s facilities Association meeting focused on announced on June 11 at a KNA and libraries team along with the hotly anticipated proposal for general meeting and open house. Cogen. A third site that did not a new library in Kenton. Residents had an opportunity make the final cut was situated Multnomah County has to hear presentations from site at the edge of on narrowed down the possible developers, as well as weigh in on North Brandon Avenue and Willis locations to two: 8226 N Denver the proposed locations, at a final Boulevard. Ave. and 2133 N Argyle St. public meeting hosted May 29 by Kenton Neighborhood Association (otherwise known as the TriMet County Commissioner Jeff Cogen meeting and open house: 7 p.m. June site). The county views both sites and Director of Libraries Molly 11 at the Historic Kenton Firehouse, It’s “business time” in the bushes. David Buck recently became aware of what goes as competitive in terms of cost, Raphael. 8105 N Brandon St. on in some parts of . He and his girlfriend, Kristina Kropf, are frequent park users. “I always see guys coming out of the bushes early in the morning.” Photo by cornelius swart Hanky Panky Park Roosevelt puts new Police poo-poo pesky park pleasures field ideas in play By Mara Grunbaum and Cornelius Swart various stages of undress, he said, Volunteers to spruce up campus on June 21 and he’s come across a pair of red David Buffington has walked his underwear and an abandoned sex By Roger Anthony At the end of the June event, dog in Kelley Point Park for seven toy on the park’s winding trails. Roosevelt Principal Deborah years. In that time he’s seen a few “Once you’ve had an orgasm According to school officials Peterson is expected to make an too many wieners. under the sunset, you’re kind of Roosevelt’s track and football field announcement about new playing “Most people, I think, who go partial to doing that again,” says may get a new, all-weather playing fields for the school. out there every day have at some a 40-year-old gay man dressed surface, perhaps as early as this The athletic field renovations point encountered naked men in shorts, baseball cap and summer. would also include new or men engaged in sex with each sunglasses. On June 21, volunteers from grandstands and a new press box. other,” said Buffington, 58, who He is sitting on a log on a washed- around will gather at There are also plans to obtain a new lives in Portsmouth. out trail along the Roosevelt to spend a day working surface for the school’s baseball Buffington said he’s been in St. Johns’ Kelley Point Park. to clean and repair the school’s field, though that would likely be a running into paramours for as The man, who did not want to be grounds and facilities. RHS was Phase 2 project. long as he’s been visiting the 104- identified, said he enjoys having selected as one of the venues acre North Portland park. He and for Portland’s Season of Service his wife have both seen men in See Kelley Point / Page 16 campaign. See Roosevelt / Page 3 $PMMJTJPOSFQBJSBMMNBLFTNPEFMT &VSPQFBO+BQBOFTF"NFSJDBO 37DPMMJTJPOSFQBJS %FUBJMJOH AUTOAUTO BODY,BODY, INC. 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All signs area seems to be considering only Metro and the region should move vehicle traffic should be kept in point to more transit in America’s the blandest, utilitarian spans. foward with a new Columbia perspective. The current Interstate future. Bike and pedestrian The proposed designs are flat, River bridge, one that has fewer bridges were built for horse-drawn access is also important for a day featureless clones of the Glenn auto lanes, guarantees a light rail carriages. The new bridge will when more people live in North Jackson Bridge. Such a design crossing and has a monumental outlive the current peak oil crisis Portland/Hayden Island and would be an insoluble symbol of design befitting the bridge’s place and global-warming scare and downtown Vancouver. (And in low civic self-esteem. This is the as the signature span for the Queen most likely see a day when oil is that vein, a new bridge is the best grand gateway to both Oregon’s River of the West. not used for vehicles at all. way for Hayden Island to realize its largest city and one of the nation’s The region should have faith The region needs to look beyond dream of reconnecting its east and most spectacular rivers. Almost that a new bridge can move the the distractions of the day. If we west sides, by way of a new bridge 100 years ago, the people of St. area forward economically while have the momentum and the design that allows more people Johns had the audacity to grab a retaining and even enhancing our opportunity to build a bridge that to travel beneath — rather than spectacular bridge for themselves. will last us another 90-100 years, around — the current structure.) It’s time Portland and the rest of improvement there. Instead The dare we delay? We say, no. Last but not least are the aesthetic the region got one too. we should move confidently, But build the new bridge for the concerns: This region deserves not Our leaders should resist optimistically and judiciously into future, not the present. Whatever only a bridge to the future, but a impulses to delay or withdraw from the future with a new bridge. Sentinel is built should have more capacity grand monument to the inspiring the current bridge process, and This must be a bridge that will than today’s twin spans, but the beauty of the Pacific Northwest. dismiss a capricious approach to span generations and eras, not merely a river. The For information, call one proposal calling for as many While the junior city of Tacoma building the region’s infrastructure as 12 lanes for cars and trucks is has recently completed a soaring in some piecemeal fashion — a Crossing should connect Portland 503-287-3880 probably too much. new 9,000-foot-long suspension transit bridge here, a phased and Vancouver to one another — Published by and to the future. SydHonda Media, LLC Managing Editor Cornelius Swart News Editor LAST MONTH: Politics, parades, putts and CDs Roger Anthony Arts & Calendar Editor From the blog at www.portlandsentinel.com BLOG Vanessa Nix Copy Editor LIBERTARIANS GONE WILD (wink). The second annual St. Right now, that fight shapes up It won’t be long before we see our Michele Elder Last month, overly indulged Johns Bizarre drew a large crowd as a contest to see whether Lewis Roughriders on “American Idol.” Assistant Editor publisher Cornelius Swart attended with over 75 vendors (up from 50 can get his feet on the ground and If so, you better watch what you Salomeh Moadab the Libertarian Party National last year) and a slew of musical show Portland he knows how to say, Simon! You’ll have all North Art/Production Convention. This was a carefully acts, including the “totally bizarre” govern, and whether Fritz can get Portland to answer to. Colleen Froehlich planned follow-up to The Sentinel’s Miss Massive Snowflake. her nose of out the spreadsheets For more info or to hear a Taisha Atkin earlier coverage of (relatively) local “We had a great time at the St. and articulate a vision for Portland podcast sample of the songs go to Photographer businessman Mike Jingozian’s bid Johns Parade and Bizarre,” said beyond her role as new Process portlandsentinel.com/podcasts Jason E. Kaplan for the LP presidential ticket. (See one reader on portlandsentinel. Police for City Council. Contributors COLWOOD GETS A REPRIEVE Nov. 2007 Sentinel.) com. “Thank you to everyone who William Crawford RHS IN THE RECORD BIZ In mid-May, City of Portland Amber McKenna Jingozian fell short of the helped make the events possible.” goal, stampeded in a last-minute Even the bizarre’s official In other high school news, Hearings Officer Gregory Frank Sarah Poulter Roosevelt High School’s Deep ruled against a zone-change request Mara Grunbaum bum-rush by former Georgia spokesman, the Kompletely Krazy Congressman (R) Bob Barr. Barr B-Czar of St. Johns, got a thank- Roots Music Project came out that would have cleared the way for Liz Scott with its second annual CD last paving Colwood National Golf Laura Parisi helped lead the congressional you gift in the mail: a 1986 re-edited month, this one titled “St. Johns Course on Northeast Columbia Caitlin Moran drive to impeach Bill Clinton, and Falco vinyl single. “Ouch! Rock Poetry Session: Volume 2.” Boulevard. Roland Haertl of Polina Olsen authored the Defense of Marriage me, Amadeus!” said the B-Czar for ad information, call Act that forbids the federal from his underground bunker and The CD is being sold for $5, and Haertl Development Co., a Camas, Charlotte Johnson government from recognizing toy shop. “This will make for krazy includes professional musicians Wash., firm, was seeking the zone gay marriage (too bad California dance party for B-Czar and all who received poetry written by change to allow the property to 503-706-7190 and Taxachusetts). However, hobgoblins in the toy shop while we Roosevelt students, and interpreted be converted for industrial uses. and coordinated the meanings into Residents of the adjacent Cully and The Sentinel Jingozian, who represents the make ‘Wet Beer Belly Contest: The songs. nearby Woodlawn neighborhoods PO Box 3316 • Portland, Oregon 97208 liberal wing of the party, did get Board Game’! See you next year portlandsentinel.com elected vice chair of the party itself. — spasibo!” Chris Gragg, program director fear that would clear the path [email protected] of the Deep Roots project, for the site to be used as a new Let’s see who’s smoking medical ELECTION SCORES marijuana and laughing now! approached RHS last year to runway for Portland International Mi s s i o n : t o p r o m o t e e x c e l l e n c e in n o n -f i c t i o n , p r i n t Last month Charles Lewis just For LP coverage text and video start the partnership. Everyone Airport. a n d p h o t o j o u r n a l i s m in t h e s e r v i c e o f c o mm u n i t y . edged out John Branam, Jeff blogs go to portlandsentinel.com/ who attends Roosevelt’s Arts, Frank wrote that the open space t h i s n e w s p a p e r is p u b l i s h e d t h e f i r s t w e e k o f e a c h m o n t h Bissonette, Mike Fahey and Chris libertariansgonewild Communication and Technology represented by Colwood “is a a n d is c i r c u l a t e d f r e e in t h e m a i l . l i m i t e d e x t r a c o p i e s Smith for a distant second place Academy has the opportunity to practically irreplaceable asset.” By a r e a v a i l a b l e u p o n r e q u e s t . a l l advertising , a r t i c l e s to Amanda Fritz in the race for th th a n d p h o t o s a r e d u e b y t h e 15t h o f e a c h m o n t h f o r t h e PARADE DAY be part of the project. this he surely means the 12 , 13 City Council Seat No. 1. North th n e x t m o n t h s i s s u e . a l l p h o t o s , a d s a n d a r t i c l e s a r e t h e Last month’s St. Johns Parade Roosevelt has no plans for and 14 holes on the course’s back p r o p e r t y o f s y d h o n d a m e d i a , l l c . c o mm u n i t y c a l e n d a r Portland fielded an impressive four was a big hit with families and slowing down. Next year’s theme nine, all of them short for their par i t e m s a r e p u b l i s h e d f r e e o f c h a r g e a n d a r e d u e b y t h e candidates with strong hometown freaks. This year the parade has already been selected. It and extremely birdie-able, to coin 15t h . Al l s u b m i s s i o n s a r e s u b j e c t t o c h a n g e a t t h e ties. Lewis is the executive director will be civil rights and equity, a verb. e d i t o r i a l t e a m 's d i s c r e t i o n . subscriptions a r e a v a i l a b l e dragged a whole weekend of events of Ethos Music, located on North with a planned trip to Southern The matter next goes to Portland f o r $20 p e r y e a r (12 i s s u e s ). n o n e o f t h e c o n t e n t s m a y along with it, bringing a lively Killingsworth, will face Fritz in the b e r e p r o d u c e d in w h o l e o r in p a r t w i t h o u t t h e c o n s e n t street scene and lots of happy faces Alabama. City Council. o f t h e p u b l i s h e r . runoff this November to downtown North Portland

Page 2 • The Sentinel • June 2008 June 2008 • The Sentinel • Page 3 feature stories This place is for the birds 850 Words: The very The Macaw Landing Wildlife Refuge grew model of out of a pet owner’s guilt a modern

By Polina Olsen musical

Parrots of every color nuzzle, screech comedy and beg for a nut in North Portland’s finest aviary. The Macaw Landing Wildlife Refuge By Roger Anthony (located east of I-5, just off Marine Drive) sits on 14 wooded acres with horses, a donkey, Mock’s Crest Productions, now in its 19th goats and over 90 magnificent birds. summer of bringing culture and comedy to This wildlife sanctuary, which dedicates North Portland, didn’t begin with a big flash proceeds to projects that protect the Amazon of artistic resolve. The way Roger O. Doyle rain forest and stop the capture of wild birds remembers it, the muse that gave birth to for the pet trade, was established in 1992. Mock’s Crest was a gentle one. Its founders were a man named Jack Devine “Actually,” says the longtime music and a beautiful macaw named Scarlet. professor at University of Portland, “it evolved In 1986, Devine was a real estate agent from a conversation with David Shear” (then living on a Jantzen Beach houseboat when a provost at the college). The two of them he spotted Scarlet in a downtown Portland were walking past the school’s Mago Hunt pet shop. He fell in love with the brightly Center. “He was saying that it was too bad colored Greenwing Macaw. Scarlet’s head Who’s a pretty boy? Who’s a pretty boy? The birds not bad either. Jack Devine saves the day for that lovely little theater was sitting unused and breast were bright red, her wings pretty birds at his Macaw Landing Wildlife Refuge. during the summer,” Doyle continues. “He turquoise and deep gold. The owner put the being a G&S fan, I said, ‘Well, we ought to bird on Devine’s shoulder. Devine wrote out terrible pets,” Devine explains. “It’s like Scarlet hangs out in a black walnut tree try a production of The Mikado.’” a check. having a two-year-old child for the rest of during the day. “One night I forgot her and G&S, for the uninitiated, is W.S. Gilbert Scarlet became Devine’s constant your life. They’re noisy, messy, and way too heard this tap, tap, tapping,” says Devine. and Arthur Sullivan — the 19th-century companion, remaining by his side for the demanding.” All 90 of the birds in the refuge “She was knocking on the door with her British team that created such enduring next four years. Then Devine left for a week- are macaws, and it’s deafening inside the beak.” musicals as The Mikado and HMS Pinafore. long trip to Hawaii. When he returned, aviary. The birds get jealous when Devine Scarlet eats formulated food, like all the Those two staples, and many of the 16 other everything changed. says hello to anyone in particular. refuge macaws, but also gets to sample G&S musicals, have been staged on the “Scarlet thought I had deserted her “In the wild, they spend a year looking for Devine’s dinner. “Macaws are social eaters,” bluff every summer since 1990. This time and started pulling feathers out,” he says. a suitable partner and another year dating he says. “And, evening is our usual playtime. around, from June 6-29, the company will be Eighteen years later, she still does; her once- to make sure it’s the right one,” Devine We play peek-a-boo and silly stuff —he same performing The Pirates of Penzance. red breast is now bare. Devine shouldered continues. “They fly, eat, sleep and spend things you would do with a two-year-old Doyle’s recipe has been to bring in the guilt: “What I’d done to this beautiful 24/7 with each other. Now, think about this child. When I laugh, Scarlet makes the same professional actors and musicians — he has bird broke my heart.” He retired from real bird sitting alone in a cage.” noise.” a full orchestra for every show — and use estate and created the Macaw Landing Although Devine strongly discourages The refuge operates as part of the Macaw them to season a complement of music and Foundation. taking macaws as pets, he feels it’s too late Landing Foundation, a non-profit dedicated drama students from UP’s Performing Arts “Getting Scarlet as a pet and seeing what for Scarlet. She lives with Devine in a 1950 to the preservation of macaws through classes. With those pieces in place, he counts had happened due to my ignorance got me ranch house at the refuge, which also serves research, public education and ecotourism. on Messrs. Sullivan and Gilbert to bring in started working to save macaws,” he says. as the headquarters and education center. The Macaw Landing Wildlife Refuge Admission is the audiences and crank out the laughs. Macaws, which are a species of parrot, “She doesn’t go into the aviary because she $5 per person. Call 503-286-0882 for reservations come to the refuge when people realize they fights with everyone,” he explains. Twists of tongue and fate A perch with toys suspends from the and directions, www.macawlanding.org/refuge. made a mistake buying one. “Parrots make Ernie Casciato, a UP graduate who now living room ceiling and, weather permitting, html. teaches theater at LaSalle High School in Milwaukie, was featured in that first production of The Mikado. One of the goals, A project on the scope of the one proposed he says now, was to put North Portland Roosevelt for Roosevelt would likely cost around $2.5 on the cultural map. Toward that end, the From page 1 million. company began serving catered dinners on Artificial turf would open up the Roosevelt the lawn outside the theater. “It adds a little fields for much heavier usage than the school As The Sentinel went to press, Peterson class to the neighborhood.” can presently accommodate. Lincoln’s field was playing it cool, saying only “Our goal is Doyle recalls making that point in is in use year-round, with Pop Warner to make the Roosevelt campus a welcoming conversation with an Oregonian theater critic football games, lacrosse matches and a steady and important place for school-age kids of all prior to the first show. The idea of culture stream of soccer contests. The track is also ages to enjoy. There are some very generous in the rough-and-tumble Fifth Quadrant heavily used by the public, thanks in part to alumni and community members who share was a tough sell, he remembers: “So on the the school’s proximity to the Multnomah that vision.” very first opening night in 1990, I drove out, Athletic Club. She was much more forthcoming about pulled off the freeway, and there was a big Such community use is one of the selling the June 21 Season of Service day. “We police blockade on Interstate. I remember points for fund-raisers working on behalf of are thrilled to have guests on our campus thinking ‘This isn’t a good sign.’” Roosevelt. Indeed, one of the preliminary anytime,” she said. “This event will be an As it turned out, Mock’s Crest built itself an artist renderings of the new fields carries incredible statement of community and audience that brings a Timbers Army-level of the label “St. Johns Athletic and Activity caring. Our students already sparkle – dedication to the theater. “It’s an interesting Complex.” now our building and grounds will do the bunch of people,” says Doyle. “They’re really Organizers from the Luis Palau same.” aficionados. If I leave out a line or cut a song, Association are predicting that more than The event is one of numerous similar I hear about it.” 600 volunteers will show up to work on activities being held this summer as part of Casciato is a comic actor who’s been in Roosevelt’s campus service day. They have the buildup to the Portland CityFest Festival, numerous Portland shows. With Mock’s already arranged for Nike employees and to be held at Waterfront Park Aug. 22-23. Crest, he usually ends up sing-songing one members of the congregation and choir of Both CityFest and the Season of Service of the “patter songs” such as “I’ve Got A West Linn’s SouthLake Foursquare Church are sponsored by the Luis Palau ministries. Little List” or “Modern Major-General” that to participate in the fix-up work and host Palau is a Portland-based evangelist who are the highlights of G&S productions. In a volunteer thank-you party and concert at stages evangelical “crusades” in the United “Modern Major-General,” the patter song the end of the day. States and Latin American. His outreach from Pirates of Penzance, the actor has to North Portland residents are welcome to campaigns often include a secular, service- wind his way through a lyric that includes participate and take part in the post-work based component, such as sprucing up local lines such as, “I quote, in Elegiacs, all the festivities. Organizers ask that volunteers schools. crimes of Heliogabalus!/In conics I can floor contact them to ensure that there are plenty Currently, only two of the 10 high schools peculiarities parabolas …” of refreshments. Work will go on rain or in the Portland School District have artificial “Last time I played it I did blow up on a shine, as many of the projects volunteers turf fields – Lincoln and Cleveland. Though verse,” admits Casciato. “I did them in the will be working on are inside the school there is an organization called Ten Great wrong order. The trick then is how you buildings. Fields working with the School District, to recover. RHS teacher Ryan Gleason shares the court date the only fields built have been through To sign up go to the Portland CityFest website “Any actor who plays the major-general with cracks and weeds during May’s teacher/ at http://www.portlandcityfest.com/season_of_ had better be ready, just in case. I did some student tennis match. New tennis courts, track, the fund-raising efforts of parents, volunteers and contributors to the two schools. service. Roosevelt is located at 6941 N Central cheesy shtick — that’s probably why they fields and bleachers may soon be coming. Ave. Photo by Cornelius Swart wanted me.” See 850 Words / Page 18

June 2008 • The Sentinel • Page 3 Page 4 • The Sentinel • June 2008 feature stories Can I quote Woman in 90s keeps on giving you on that? As a volunteer for the Red Cross and Good Samaritan Food Bank, Ella Thomas lives life to the fullest What is your By Amber McKenna Ella Thomas wakes up at 6 a.m. every dream vacation? morning and catches a bus. She leads a busy life filled with volunteering, crafting, reading, spending time with family and going to church. Ella Thomas is 94 years old. “It beats sitting at home rocking,” Thomas said of her active lifestyle. “I decided I have to get with it.” Thomas got with it 22 years ago when she started volunteering for the American Red Cross Blood Center and at the Good Samaritan Food Bank in St. Johns. Thomas is a dedicated volunteer, working five days Deanne Moskal a week. She volunteers for the Red Cross Age: 31 because she thinks that everyone should Location: Fresh Pot on North Mississippi know the value of blood. “Venezuela. It’s beautiful there. And the Bill Frawley, manager of the food bank, president has a TV show; Bush hates him.” and other volunteers call Thomas a true asset to the community and a cheerful person to be around. Yougogirl! 94-year-old Ella Thomas has been a volunteer for the American Red Cross Blood Center Whether her task is caring for those who for 22 years! photo by Jason E. Kaplan have just given blood or putting together a box of food for a hungry family, Thomas has ferry,” Thomas said. “I remember playing Thomas is the mother of three children, a heart for helping those in need. She has basketball against Scappoose — I think they grandmother of nine, great-grandmother always been helping others; years ago she won.” of 30 and great-great-grandmother of three. took care of foster children, which she said After the death of her husband in 1985, Her youngest descendant is a one-year-old was an emotional thing to do. Thomas moved to Woodburn Senior Estates, girl named Ella. “I have a deep feeling for people,” she said. but it didn’t take much time until she was In November, Thomas will be 95 years “I enjoy meeting people even if they have sad back in North Portland. old. She’s still in good health and has the stories.” “I didn’t fit in there,” Thomas said. “I papers to prove it: She was chosen for an Andy Rassmussen Although she was born long ago on Nov. didn’t want to hear about the high cost of aging survey done by Oregon Health and Age: 32 14, 1913, Thomas’s memory remains sharper funerals.” Science University, in which they test her Location: Gravy on North Mississippi than ever. She remembers meeting the Once she moved back to St. Johns, Thomas memory and coordination several times a “Madagascar, to see the lemurs.” man who would become her husband at a started regularly volunteering and has year. Thomas said she doesn’t mind being Halloween party when she was 13. She also become a fixture at the Red Cross and in the used as a geriatric guinea pig. recalls walking six and three-tenths miles community. Additionally, for 20 years she “When I was a young mother, if people each day to Roosevelt High School, from has been crafting “pregnant owls” — knitted were 30, I thought they were old,” she said. which she graduated in 1932. owls with a plastic egg inside that carries “Now, I’ll shoot for 100.” “I remember when they built the St. Johns a baby owl — which she now offers at the ~30~ Bridge in ’31, and I came to school on the annual St. Johns Bizarre. Police to launch 5th Quadrant

Daphna Kohn CRIME neighbors split Age: 33 Location: Mississippi Studios anti-gang patrols over streetcar “Lake Atitlan, Guatemala. It keeps calling By Caitlin Moran are typically responsible for less-serious me. It says, ‘I’m a magic place of magical activities such as tagging and intimidation. By William Crawford adventures, come enjoy me.’ ” Although Portland experienced an In general, Corno said, gang activity is unusually high level of gang activity earlier more prevalent in outdoor areas where Last month, members of the Boise this year, police do not expect gang-related people congregate in large numbers. “We Neighborhood Association voiced shrill incidents to be more frequent than usual pay extra attention to city parks,” he said. skepticism about the planning process this summer. Even though warmer weather brings more for the Portland Streetcar Master Plan. “We had a spark of activity at the beginning people outside, an increase of sunshine Between two strongly worded letters to the of the year,” said Officer Russ Corno of the doesn’t necessarily foreshadow an increase department headed by mayor-elect Sam Portland Police Bureau’s Gang Enforcement in gang activity, according to Corno. Adams, the neighborhood met with PDOT Team. “Since then we have seen it return “Statistically, it usually doesn’t match up representatives and plans to meet with back to normal.” to the weather,” he said. Adams himself on June 15. Police reported 22 incidents of gang Even so, this summer the PPB will “You are not being fair and you are not violence during the months of December, introduce a new task force of 10 officers and being honest!,” one resident fumed to January and February. The previous winter, two sergeants dedicated to preventing gang PDOT representative Patrick Sweeney at a John Englund 10 incidents were reported during that same activity — the Hotspot Enforcement Action neighborhood meeting on May 12. Age: 59 three-month period. Team (HEAT). The group’s main strategies The appearance by representatives of the Location: Anna Bannanas The tally includes nine North Portland will be maintaining high-visibility patrols city’s transportation department followed “I’m retired, so I’m on vacation.” shootings — two in St. Johns near Pier and interacting with large groups of people a May 9 letter in which the neighborhood Park and seven between Interstate 5 and at parks throughout the city. Through this association outlined concerns and suspicions Northeast Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. approach, HEAT will strive to be preventive over what they see as an accelerated time line, Despite these numbers, Corno said he rather than reactionary, Corno said. a lack of public access to information and an doesn’t believe any specific neighborhoods Despite this additional outreach, Corno “ad hoc” approach to public involvement are more problematic than others. notes that PPB has faced significant cuts in that seems to bypass the city’s system of Tonya Dickens, a gang outreach worker resources and now includes about half as neighborhood organizations. for Brothers & Sisters Keepers, agrees and many gang-enforcement officers as it did in But Matthew Denton, Land Use Chair of said spikes of activity often rotate from the 1990s. the Portsmouth Neighborhood Association, neighborhood to neighborhood as gangs LaShanda Hurst, a crime prevention disagrees, saying he doesn’t believe PDOT’s change their locations. coordinator dedicated to the North Portland DWG’s are an affront to the current “They get pushed to another area and then area, believes one of the most effective ways neighborhood system. “Approximately 80 they come back,” Dickens said. to combat gang activity is to provide young percent of our District Working Group David Williams The type of gang activity has also people with safe gathering places, such as members are members of the boards of Age: 58 remained consistent, according to Corno. community centers and Boys & Girls Clubs. neighborhood associations along the route,” Location: Anna Bannanas Older gangs like the Crips and the Bloods “If we can have activities around that he said. “It isn’t really a conflict with the “I’m going to Poland in two months. I don’t are predominantly the ones responsible for kids can easily access, that helps, that’s a know if it’s a dream vacation though – it’s the major assaults, he said, and Latino gangs preventative measure,” Hurst said. with the in-laws.” ~30~ See Streetcar/ Page 8

Page 4 • The Sentinel • June 2008 June 2008 • The Sentinel • Page 5 St. johns Cathedral Park . Rivergate New artists say yes, yes to No.Fest By Liz Scott you want to visit for specific bands, or just do a rotation cycle and get a taste of all the Three thirtysomething “avant-garde” types of music. friends got together and decided to put Aside from the prospect of a sun-kissed Quality Foods Leashes together a festival for St. Johns. Saturday, No.Fest has three other things Beds Collars One of them, Jeffrey Helwig from the St. going for it: a) it’s free, b) it’s music, and c) Coats Toys Johns confectionary palace Legong Gelato, it’s local. says, “It’s an experiment in bringing music Grand Opening Proper Eats will host a mix of music genres, Celebration June 21st and art to St. Johns and celebrating the depending on the size of the band (and size *Drawings*Prizes*Gourmet Treats summer solstice with joyful noise.” of the sound they create). Legong Gelato for Dogs and their humans The result — bursting forth this month — Shoppe will feature electronic beats, mellow is No.Fest, a new music at arts festival being musicians and films on the wall. At St. Johns Hours held in several downtown St. Johns venues. Booksellers, there will be elegant spoken- Tues - Friday 10am -7pm Sat - Sun 10am - 6pm “It’s the right time,” he continues. “St. word pieces. And finally, in the historic Johns hasn’t had a new-artist festival, Town Square, bigger bands will perform, ...downtown next to the Tulip Bakery. and the community seemed interested in such as those featuring experimental rock 8326 N Lombard 971-255-0772 participating.” and jazz. The support has been fantastic, according Vendors are welcome and there will be art to the trio, with the event being completely installations for show and for sale. The trio is booked on schedule. “Many of the artists expecting a couple hundred music-seekers, that we were thinking of were mutual friends “maybe,” Helwig adds, hoping to guess or acquaintances,” explains co-collaborator conservatively. Sean Ongley. “Thus, collaborating on the No.Fest is being advertised on their festival seemed to make sense.” Myspace page as a performance that “will The festival is happening on the summer expose this old-fashioned neighborhood to solstice, which, for those not moon-in-tune, the first-ever progressive arts fest! Outside is Saturday, June 21. It’s an all-day event, there will be an art walk and stage, inside from noon to 10 p.m., with 24 performances, there will be performances ranging from meaning anyone can find some space in spoken word to noise, peppered with all their schedule to swing by for some sound things new in between.” bytes (pun intended). It’s a bit like Warped Tour, only with super-shrunk stages and For more information, check out http://www. egos. You can pick and choose which venues myspace.com/stjohnsnofest.

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Lucky number: The $2.1 million MTIP project is buying 13 traffic-calming devices in downtown St. Johns. Graphic by Colleen Froehlich MTIP moving forward By William Crawford completion point and then again at 60 percent completion. The St. Johns MTIP Project is under way Improvements within a budget of $2.16 after having received the final endorsement million include the following: of the Citizen Advisory Committee (CAC) Pedestrian: Signalize the Richmond/ at a May 15 meeting, says Rich Newlands, Ivanhoe intersection; interconnect the project manager with the Portland signalized intersections to improve Department of Transportation. efficiency at Richmond/Ivanhoe, The original draft plan had been contested Richmond/Jersey/Lombard, Lombard/ by some members of the CAC because they Oswego; curb extensions with striped felt the draft did not meet their concerns crosswalks at Ivanhoe/Charleston, Ivanhoe/ Maintenance & Landscaping about posting a 25 mph speed limit on North John, Ivanhoe/Leavitt, Ivanhoe/New York, CCB# 168515 Fessenden Street and banning trucks from St. Louis/Lombard, St. Louis/Central and Licensed • Bonded • Insured the street altogether. However, Newlands (pending budget allowances) Lombard/ says the final draft was passed unanimously Leavitt; median refuge island with striped “We add value to your property!” by the CAC without the amendments crosswalk at Lombard/Reno. addressing these concerns and without any Freight – Upgrade traffic signals at • Painting (Interior & Exterior) further changes. Lombard/St. Louis and Ivanhoe/Baltimore; * Mention this ad A memorandum from Newlands to interconnect the signalized intersections • Rental Maintenance and Turnover from The Sentinel the city engineer outlines these concerns at Lombard/St. Louis, Ivanhoe/Baltimore, • Hardwood Install and Refinish and receive a as “remaining issues” to be handled at a Ivanhoe/Philadelphia; construct “truck later date, with assurances that PDOT is corners” and provide traffic calming at • Pressure Washing 5% Discount! committed to the St. Johns Truck Strategy, Ivanhoe/Philadelphia (southwest corner/ a plan designed to improve freight traffic Our Daily Bread site); Lombard/St. Louis • Tile on North Lombard Street and Columbia (southwest); Ivanhoe/St. Louis (southeast/ • Finish Carpentry 503.265.9145 Boulevard. Multnomah County Health Clinic). 8660 N Olympia St. As the design moves forward, it will • Decks and Fencing email: [email protected] be presented to the CAC at the 30 percent ~30~

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The Linnton, Forest Park to undergo vegetation clearing Body FormerlyBistro Cookie’s Park neighbors can get free assistance from the city By William Crawford The project aims to eliminate invasive Specializing in: weeds such as Himalayan blackberry, Scot’s • Hair Just ask the president: There’s always a broom, canary grass and clematis that reason to clear brush. Beginning in June, blanket the ground. This vegetation not • Waxing three city of Portland bureaus – Parks & only increases the risk of forest fires, but • Spa Manicures Recreation, Fire & Rescue and Environmental also makes fire fighting more costly and Services – will team up to clear vegetation in complicated. • Spa Pedicures Forest Park. The overall Wildfire Risk Reduction and Nails Mark Wilson, a staff ecologist at Portland plan identified fire-prone areas in Oaks Parks, said that the project is an effort to Bottom, the Willamette Bluffs, reduce the very real risk of a serious fire in and Forest Park, based on the buildup of the park. flammable materials and their proximity 503.285.4980 As a by-product of the clearing campaign, to commercial and neighborhood areas. some lucky Linnton residents with property According to the project’s website, the 7338 N Baltimore bordering the 5,000-acre park will receive project’s total area encompasses over 8,000 help from the city in reducing unwanted homes and businesses valued at more than vegetation in their own yards – free of charge. $2.5 billion. He says he hopes to start work in that area in The project, which began its planning Celebrating Two Years the late summer. phase in 2006, will run through 2009 with Wilson explained that the Linnton funding from the Federal Emergency Thanks, North Portland! neighborhood section covers about five Management Agency (FEMA) and Oregon’s acres of the Forest Park project. He hopes Office of Emergency Management. to hear from residents with land adjacent to the park and to offer assistance, including For more information visit: portlandonline.com/ access to chippers, trucks and labor for the wildfire. Property owners with land adjacent to difficult work. Forest Park can reach Mark Wilson at (503) 823- 6736 or [email protected]. Linnton retains the wall By William Crawford below. The severity of the problem accounts for the swiftness of the project, explained The Oregon Department of Transportation Miller. “This does resemble emergency will soon replace a collapsed wall along repair.” Highway 30 in the Linnton neighborhood. However, the project still requires a Ted Miller, ODOT District 2B manager, finalized plan and must also be put out for told a neighborhood meeting in May that a contract bid. Miller estimates the project KOHLHOFF & WELCH the project has a tentative completion date of could take up to three days to complete, with Attorneys at Law A Mother Daughter Partnership as early as July 1. varying days of street closures. Project costs The problem stems from the widening could range from $70,000 to $130,000. of the highway during the 1930s. Miller Whatever the final design, the new wall says that the walls currently set against the will be built to support the hillside and will Join Us for Free Seminars crumbling hill originate from the 100-year- include the planting of low-maintenance old business’ structures that were removed shrubs adept at growing on slopes. Materials Guardianships and Conservatorships during the road-widening project. “They include Geoweb (honeycombed, reinforced Saturday, June 28th were built as foundation walls, not retaining layered grids filled with granular material) walls,” Miller said. and other rockery for both structural and Consequently, there is significant cosmetic improvements. Bring Your Oregon Law Questions subsidence on First Street and a clear hazard Saturday July 26 to the homes on the hillside and the traffic ~30~ All seminars run from 10AM to noon. There are 10 available spaces for each seminar. Call 503-286-7178 for reservations. These seminars are informational only. Hayden Island Future legal representation is only upon mutual agreement.

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By Salomeh Moadab European-style coffeehouse, deli and small market is reminiscent of what one would Community activist and green developer find in East Coast cities like Boston and Mark Kirchmeier has added another line to New York. The exterior is arty and modern his resumé. with a halo neon sign. Yet the interior Kirchmeier, who ran for state has a relaxed, old-world ambiance that is representative in 2006, unveiled his new enhanced by framed artwork and photos of residential building, The Overlook, last Eastern Europe. January. This month, he’ll add “café owner” Kirchmeier is especially proud of the to his repertoire, as the 30-unit, four-story photos. “We’ll have a framed photo of a condominium structure becomes the home jubilant Lech Walesa knocking down a glass for the Krakow Koffeehouse and Market, of bubbly,” he says, pointing out that the which Kirchmeier co-owns with Chris Nobel Peace Prize-winning Walesa visited Gniewosz. this same block of Interstate in 1996. The Koffeehouse’s Polish theme reflects yet In addition to head barista Mike Smith, another of Kirchmeier’s passions, the annual whom Willamette Week named last year’s Polish Festival. It should be a perfect fit for a best coffee person in Portland, Krakow offers neighborhood that has long been a center of local and organic products, vegan cookies, the Polish community in North Portland — specialty European pastries, select Polish the site lies next to Polish Library Hall and beers, Kielbasa sausage, a variety of pierogis St. Stanislaus Church, which is home to the and even Wi-Fi. festival. Kirchmeier also promises to keep the Celebrating our The Overlook is part of a new wave of Koffeehouse close to the community. “We’re higher-density buildings that are now flinging our doors wide to sponsor benefits allowed on Interstate Avenue due to for NoPo public, parochial and private th rezoning. Located along the light rail schools, youth soccer, softball and grassroots Anniversary at North Interstate Avenue and Shaver 6 community groups,” he promises. Street, the building is transit-oriented and with special new menu items environmentally friendly while reflecting a Krakow Koffeehouse and Market, inside The modern European design. Overlook at 3970 N Interstate Ave. Weekday Consistent with this European theme hours: 6:30 a.m.-8:30 p.m. Saturdays: 7:30 a.m.- is Krakow Koffeehouse and Market, the 8:30 p.m.; Sundays, 8 a.m.-6 p.m. Sat., June 14th building’s sole commercial space. The Residents clash over height-limit proposals By Mara Grunbaum But some Overlook residents are balking at the prospect of high-rise development, An inter-neighborhood scuffle over especially after a May 1 hearing with building height has emerged in the last stages Portland’s Design Commission, where of the city’s Interstate Corridor rezoning several commissioners suggested raising process. height limits even further to allow 12- or 15- The rezoning proposal, which has been story buildings. under way for 15 months, aims to encourage “I think it’s mostly fear of the unknown ... high-density, transit-friendly development we don’t know what’s going to go in there,” along the four-year-old Interstate MAX line. said Claire Paris, co-land-use chair for the Italian Bakery & Cafe City planners identified a triangular area Overlook Neighborhood Association and a just south of the Prescott MAX station, member of the rezoning project’s community “Specializing in Italian Traditions” in the Overlook neighborhood as an advisory group. “The worst-case scenario is Interstate “focal point” ripe for mixed-use that someone’s going to come in and build a Come enjoy our beautiful development. They want to raise height 10-story building that’s crappy-looking.” limits for new buildings in that sector from Most of the Overlook Neighborhood 65 feet – about six stories – to 100 feet, about Association is warily resigned to the 100- garden seating! 10 stories. foot height limit, Paris said, but one vocal Letting buildings rise higher allows for contingent has advocated that heights be more flexibility in construction, explained capped at 65 feet along the entire corridor. Open 7 Days a week Julia Gisler of the city’s Bureau of Planning. Some of their Arbor Lodge neighbors to Taller buildings can include underground the north, meanwhile, are agitating in the 1936 N. Killingsworth St. • 503-283-5936 parking structures and leave more room on opposite direction. the ground for greenspace. Tall structures www.DiPrimaDolci.com also give developers more inventory to sell. See High stakes / Page 14

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Put that pitchfork down, Richard, and walk away slowly. Gadfly Richard Ellmyer’s campaign to get on the Housing Authority of Portland’s board of directors highlights the fact that HAP has a lot of vacancies and, so far, few takers. photo by Dave Sharp Two seats, lots of waiting Portsmouth activist ready to fill vacant HAP spots By Mara Grunbaum the time commitment sometimes gets the better of them. Fernandez, an affordable- Multnomah County officials are taking housing developer who held the now-vacant longer than usual to fill a vacancy on the seat, resigned his term early due to personal Housing Authority of Portland’s board of obligations. The replacement process can commissioners, where a position has been stall, Marchesi said, because county officials open since January. The board, which makes have to find appropriate candidates, evaluate policy and budget decisions for public and them and familiarize them with HAP before affordable housing programs, seats four putting forward a nominee for the mayor to representatives from Portland, two from confirm. At least one candidate turned out Gresham, two from Multnomah County and to be uninterested in the position. one who lives in HAP housing. “It’s all a little Byzantine, in terms of the One county seat has been vacant since Rick process we have to follow,” Marchesi said. Fernandez stepped down nearly six months The process is mostly confidential in order ago. Late in May, a second seat opened when to protect candidates’ privacy, according Katie Such resigned from the board in order to Rhys Scholes, a spokesman for county to become HAP’s new Deputy Assistant chair Ted Wheeler’s office. Scholes said he Director. Such was one of the four Portland hasn’t heard complaints about shadiness representatives on the board. from anyone but Ellmyer. If anything, he The delay in filling the county seat has said, the public is far less interested in civic raised the hackles of local activist and self- participation than the county would hope. proclaimed “HAP nemesis” Richard Ellmyer, Neither Marchesi nor Scholes could who in March decided to announce his comment on whether Ellmyer — who own candidacy for the board seat. Ellmyer, in April declared himself the “de facto who believes public housing projects are Multnomah County HAP nominee” — unduly concentrated in his Portsmouth has an actual shot at the board. “I honestly neighborhood, says HAP’s appointment don’t know if he’s somebody who’s been process is too secretive for a body that spends considered,” Scholes said. public funds. Ellmyer, who sends frequent emails to “I am challenging Multnomah County to long lists of government employees, seems bring the whole process into the public light,” genuinely baffled that he hasn’t heard back Ellmyer said. “Five months is an outrageous about the job. “I have no explanation for why amount of time not to be able to fill a simple they have been so remiss in fulfilling their position ... What are these folks doing?” duty,” he said. An empty seat on the board isn’t abnormal, Scholes said the county hopes to put said HAP spokeswoman Shelley Marchesi. forward a nominee by early June. HAP commissioners are volunteers, and ~30~

Boise residents who have attended streetcar Streetcar planning meetings still feel that the deadline From page 4 set by the city for their input – June 16 – does not allow sufficient time for neighborhood existing neighborhood association system; consideration. The second letter, dated May it’s meshing in with what we do anyways.” 14 and co-signed by BNA Board Chair Paige Denton says the Portsmouth Board has not Coleman and Land Use Committee co- yet taken a position on the streetcar, but will chairs Christopher Sahli and Ellen Cusick, Wood Waste Management host a public forum on the subject on June said “The timeline for the district working th 7315 NE 47 Ave, Portland, Oregon 10; the event will take place from 7-8:30 p.m. groups to assemble, understand the complex in Columbia Cottage, 4339 N. Lombard. issues involved and respond to the city with Only 10 minutes from St. Johns Still, one Boise resident, speaking for informed recommendations is too short.” PDOT maintains that process is not as Drive East on Columbia Blvd Left on 47th Ave himself, but nevertheless identifying himself rapid as the residents seem to believe. After Hours: Monday – Saturday 8 am to 6 pm ✧ Sunday 10 am to 4 pm as an employee of ODOT, compared PDOT’s dissemination of information to the way the public District Working Groups conclude, “There will be further public open houses in LANDSCAPE PRODUCTS! Bush Administration won public support for the U.S. invasion of Iraq. the fall and a separate implementation study 4 Grades of Bark ✧ Playground Cedar Chips ✧ 2 Types Compost “The information reads like a huge sales for each corridor,” Emily Lieb, a PDOT Pea Gravel ✧ Mason Sand ✧ 2 Sizes River Rock ✧ 1/4 & 3/4 Minus Crush piece with huge biases,” said the resident. representative, explained later. She said that 3/4 Minus Recycle Concrete ✧ 2 Types of Soil Mix “This is propaganda!” a typical streetcar/corridor planning project PDOT countered that the department’s takes about 48-60 months. WE RECYCLE! intentions are pure. “These [routes on the Lieb said that the June 16 deadline We Accept for a Fee: Yard & Wood Debris ✧ Grass ✧ Leaves map] are only potential, and we still have a was established to coincide with Concrete ✧ Asphalt ✧ Clean Dirt ✧ Sod long way to go,” Sweeney said, trying to allay two other studies—one regarding fears that the process is being forced through economic development potential and We Deliver To All Portland Neighborhoods without proper public input. “We are not the other regarding ridership potential. Call for prices & deliveries: 503-493-3370 trying to hide anything.” ~30~

Page 8 • The Sentinel • June 2008 June 2008 • The Sentinel • Page 9 NORTH END WEST ALBINA & Mississippi After a rocky year, Northeast Coalition looks forward to change By Laura Parisi address community needs collectively. It Laster says this process is likely to continue Despite the quick leadership turnover encompasses 12 neighborhoods. for several months. and other recent personnel changes within Four months after the board of the The Coalition’s 34 years of service would In February, to accommodate the lack of a the NECN staff — including outreach Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods voted seem to confer stability. But the NECN director, the NECN created a board liaison coordinator Robin Denburg’s departure in to terminate their executive director, Joseph has suffered a quick turnover of leadership team that works directly with NECN staff. April — Laster, who has served as board Santos-Lyons, the organization continues to in recent years. Santos-Lyons was fired When Lipscomb joined in April, the board president for two years and has been work toward finding a replacement. after only seven months, and the previous liaison team brought him up to speed with involved with the NECN for close to two “We’re being very thoughtful and careful,” director, Willie Brown, left after a short reign the organization’s programs and is now decades, remains positive. He says the last board president Ron Laster says of the search to establish the Black Citizens Coalition of working with him to determine what the few months have helped build an interactive, process. “Finding an exact fit is not easy.” Portland Neighborhoods. next steps will be, such as setting the criteria collaborative organization. Founded in 1974, the Northeast Coalition The Northeast Coalition brought on a the board will use to find a new director. “Hopefully we’ll be stronger because of was formed to provide a structure in part-time interim director, Paul Lipscomb, “We have not made any decisions at this this,” he says. “Let’s move forward.” which individual neighborhoods can in April to help find a permanent leader. But point,” Laster says. ~30~ Don’t be a victim CRIME Reduce neighborhood crime DESIGN CENTER IN STOCK: by following these simple tips • Laminated Flooring • Carpet & Vinyl Remnants By Sara Poulter • Ceramic Tile • Natural Stones Summer is here and you probably have a list of projects • Hardwoods ready to tackle. But there is one more thing you should add “Don’t Cuss-Call Us” to the list: home security. • Bamboo/Cork Here are a few simple reminders on how you can reduce & • Area Rugs crime in your neighborhood and keep from becoming E M MAYTAG Also Available: a victim. 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June 2008 • The Sentinel • Page 9 Page 10 • The Sentinel• June 2008 art&community Calendar June Picks The Pirates of Penzance presentation and Q & A. To read venue). Admission: $3 kids, $5 University of Portland more, visit The Northwest Green adults. Two shows by Penny’s Mago Hunt Center Theater Home Primer’s website, www. Puppets & Mudeye Puppets. GreenHomePrimer.com. 7:30pm 10am 5000 N Willamette Blvd. Now Open! For tickets call: (503)943-7287 28th To celebrate three years in Impetuous Spirits: Sculptures in 6th-8th, 12th-15th, 19th-22nd business, St. Johns Booksellers autoclaved aerated cement by Carole Murphy and mixed-media paintings by & 26th-29th Gilbert and Sulli- will donate 10% of this day’s Anna Lancaster van’s comic operetta The Pirates sales to Sisters of the Road, of Penzance, a beloved classic an organization supporting Onda Gallery tale of pirates and police, is this community-driven solutions to 2215 NE Alberta St. summer’s professional produc- the calamities of homelessness 503-493-1909 and poverty since 1979, in an tion at the University of Portland. www.ondagallery.com The classic operetta, directed by atmosphere of gentle personal- Greg Tamblyn, opens on Friday, ism and nonviolence. 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Freedom Socialist Party of Mago Hunt starting an hour Twenty wilderness hikes within 819 N Killingsworth St. prior to each performance. The twenty miles of downtown Port- cost of the dinner or the pre- land less than a half hour’s ride For information, rides or childcare, call theater Sunday brunch is $10 from the city. Adventurers at all 503-240-4462. per person. skill levels will be surprised by Email: [email protected] the remoteness and remarkable All ages, free North Portland’s First-Ever Really, beauty of these easy woodland th Discover the stolen history of Really Free Market escapes. Just take this pocket- 4 defiant organizing by farm work- sized companion and slip down ers, students, Chicana feminists a hidden trail to emerge on 7th Residents of North and and Chicana/o lesbians and vistas with eagles soaring over- Northeast Portland would like gays in a newly published book head. Each hike description in- to invite you and everyone you that tells the dramatic story of cludes a map, bus access, basic know to the area’s first-ever the national Chicano movement. conditions, length, and grade, as Really, Really Free Market. Feel This nine-week reading circle well as flora, fauna, geology, and free to bring something you’d will begin on Wednesday, June local history. After meeting up at like to share with other members 4 at 7pm and continue through St. Johns Booksellers for a brief of your community or just show June 25. introduction of the book, guests up to meet new friends and are invited to join Thayer on one neighbors and partake in the Harmony Korine’s new film of the hikes from the book, start- festivities. Expect to see people Mister Lonely ing at the bookstore. 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Page 10 • The Sentinel • June 2008 June 2008 • The Sentinel • Page 11 art&community Calendar Twilight Room presents St. Johns resident and Celebrate the grand re-opening • • 5242 N Lombard St. photographer Jason Lucey show- of North Portland’s Patton Square ing his collection of St. Johns Park 503-289-5091 industrial area imagery. Exhibit Patton Square Park, North Interstate and the www.myspace.com/thetwilightroom begins at 7pm. Emerson St. All shows start at 9:30pm, 21+, free All ages, free th A Taste of Broadway presented by 6 Fresno-based singer-song- For more information visit “Projects” at parlour Ockley Green Theatre Company st.johns writer Julia Dawn is a performer www.portlandparks.org. with nothing to hide. With forays Jefferson High School Auditorium th into rock, roots, funk and punk, 5210 N Kerby ave. 14 Join the Overlook Neighbor- Julia Dawn paints with sound, For information call 503-998-3907. hood for the grand re-opening using whatever style or genre is of the newly improved Pat- th For the second year in a row, necessary to communicate her 7 ton Square Park, featuring the Ockley Green Theatre Com- For Hair and Tattoos song in any given situation. www. performances, story sharing, pany will be presenting their gala myspace.com/juliadawnmusic and activities for children and musical A Taste of Broadway. families. The improved park has Open Tuesday-Sunday The event will be held at Jefferson paths, lighting, play equipment, Mayor Potter invites you to the High School on June 7 with two benches, picnic tables, landscap- By appointment Portland Plan: Leadership Summit shows. The Ockley Green Theatre ing and more. Performances by Walk-Ins Welcome Oregon Convention Center Company is the creation of direc- the Trillium School Drummers 777 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. tor Kimberly Knight as an after- and the Portland Theatre Brigade school program and provides 503-235-7575 are part of the celebration fun, as drama and dance for students well as children’s arts and crafts Register at www.oregonline.com/port- who do not have access to such and games from Portland Parks & landplan. classes during the school day. Recreation’s popular Van Go and 503.289.0830 6th & 14th The Portland Plan: Shows at 2pm and 6pm. Tickets tree activities from PP&R’s City Leadership Summit is one of are $5. Nature program. Refreshments 7327 N Charleston Ave. several events the Bureau of available for purchase. 11:30am Monday Movie Night at Pix Patisserie Planning is hosting to inform and to 2:30pm (ceremony at 1:00pm) • • engage Portlanders about the Pix Patisserie long-range planning and develop- 3901 N Williams Ave. Proper Eats Market and Café ment of our city. Following the 503-282-6539 8638 N Lombard St.. Leadership Summit, two more All ages, free 503-445-2007 Community Summits will be held th www.propereats.org on Saturday, June 14 (one on the 9 Parenthood th Free SCAPPOOSE east side and one on the west) so 13 To Have and Have Not that those who could not attend 23rd Indiana Jones and the Last 17th Why Democracy? The Death the June 6 event can partake in Crusade of Dilawar, an Afghani Driver: COLUMBIA th Cinema the program. Please register at 30 American Graffiti This film examines America’s COUNTY’S your earliest convenience so that policy on torture and interroga- we can make your experience at Author Readings tion. The opposition to the use 7 NEWEST MOVIE the Summit the best. In Other Words, Women’s Books and of torture from its political and THEATRE! 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Soul Truth Shamanic Center th OPEN challenges our notions of All Stadium Don’t Mess with the Zohan 7 Make your bike SCRAPtacu- 5400 NE 30th, Suite 102 • what traditional marriage looks Seating lar! Come join us at SCRAP for a 503-347-3966 6/13-19 Hulk full day of bike-accessory-making! like, and presents one woman’s www.soul-truth.com From spoke decorators, to noise journey down an uncertain path • All Highback The Happening makers, to bike baskets! This that ultimately proves that open 21st A free event open to the Rocker Seats 6/20-26 Get Smart workshop is in honor of Camp marriage is a viable option. community. Ceremonies give Scrap!! A week of creative reuse us the opportunity to honor the Love Guru th The Brides of March: Mem- • $6 for adults activities for kids! Three ses- 17 work of the previous interval and oir of a Same-Sex Marriage by before 6pm 6/27-7/3 Wall-E sions happening this summer! set intention for the new interval Beren deMotier. Portland’s own Register your crafty kids now as of work. These are times of Wanted Beren deMotier will read from her $6 ALL DAY for workshops fill up fast! Call 503- welcoming all and everyone to our • book, the true story of a giddy 7/2-8 Hancock (Wednesday opening) 294-0769 or stop by the store. center as well. Ceremony begins Seniors and Kids leap through a legal window, 11am-5pm, $5-10 at 6pm, followed by a potluck. 11 and under 7/11-17 Journey to the Center of the Earth straight onto the barbeque pit Hellboy 2 Encaustic Painting Workshop of public debate in Multnomah Portland Sunday Parkways $8 for Adults County. Lively discussion and a • st in North Portland Meet Dave 21 Come learn the timeless art swapping of stories will follow. after 6pm 22nd Everyone is invited to walk, of encaustic painting! 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Cirque Du Cycling By Vanessa Anthony Self Enhancement’s award-winning creations such as double-high tall bikes, program started out in 1981 as a partnership choppers, antique penny farthings, unicycles, Instituted this year, Cirque Du Cycling between Portland Public Schools and the sculptural bikes, and other “freak” bikes. is the brainchild of Laughing Planet owner Albina Ministerial Alliance. SEI helps to Finally, the day will close with a street Franz Spielvogel, who has a location over on support at-risk youth and their families in race ($10 entry fee in advance; $15 day-of) Mississippi. According to the event organizer, North and Northeast Portland through beginning at 6:30 p.m., with riders from Ayleen Crotty of Good Sport Promotions, outreach, counseling, tutoring, case around the region competing for $4,000 in Spielvogel is and always has been “extremely management and facilitating community prizes. enthusiastic about bikes.” In fact, as Crotty services and aid. According to SEI, “On This hyper-local event has even lured tells it, Laughing Planet’s burritos were average, SEI participants graduate from members of the defunct Northeast Alberta originally designed to fit conveniently in the high school at a rate of 98 percent, while Clownhouse (now called Blood Sugar Circus) water-bottle holder of your bicycle. only 48 percent of students graduate from and their friends the Sprockettes Bicycle The Cirque Du Cycling story goes the primary neighborhood high school. Dance Troupe back to perform. They will something like this: Spielvogel was looking In addition, over 85 percent of SEI high be joined by the SEI Soul Choir and Drum to create an event for the community: school graduates go on to pursue a college Corps to entertain the crowds as they visit something to bring people together, education.” Mississippi Avenue shops and restaurants, something fun for the whole family, Thus Cirque Du Cycling: A Mississippi some of whom have donated prizes to the something that could also give back to the Street Celebration was born. The June 14 event, or a percentage of their proceeds community in which it was held through event, being plugged as “part family cycling that day to SEI. The event will also feature donations to a local charity. event, part street fair, and part circus fun” exhibitors such as event sponsor Rapha (a Cirque Du Cycling And something, of course, that will feature a three-mile family bike ride cycling apparel company), who recently WHEN: Saturday, June 14; 4-9 p.m. included bikes. starting at 4 p.m. from and returning to SEI relocated its headquarters to Mississippi. SCHEDULE: Family ride starts at 4 p.m. at 3920 But first he had to find a charity. Turns headquarters, with a rest stop at Peninsula Cirque Du Cycling is all the things N Kerby Avenue, Bike Parade on Mississippi Park; and a one-mile parade of bikes down Portlanders love about this city and out that wasn’t too hard — he found one Avenue begins at 5 p.m. in his own backyard: Self-Enhancement, Mississippi Avenue featuring clowns, candy promises to be the summer event North and Portland bike clubs. To up the ante Portland needs. RACES: Criterium-style Category 3/4 race Inc. (SEI), located nearby on North starts at 6:30 p.m., Professional 1/2/3 for the bike clubs and spectators, many Kerby Avenue. race at 7:30 p.m. club members will be brandishing biking For info go to CyclingCircus.com

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Page 12 • The Sentinel • June 2008 June 2008 • The Sentinel • Page 13 Restaurant review It’s a wild ride at Wild Spice By Vanessa Nix

There’s a new kid on the block. No, silly, I’m not referring to the reunion tour of the Choi’s Martial Arts late-’80s/early ’90s boy band. Great hobby for kids and adults I’m talking about the unassuming new to learn self-defense and it Thai restaurant on North Killingsworth that is a great way to get in shape. you may have driven by in your haste to get to PCC on time. We offer Olympic style Taekwondo. Owned and operated by James and Noo We have a three month summer special. Gerritsen, the husband-and-wife team that $6.00 gave us Thai Ginger on Rosa Parks Way, not Daily Specials Try free for one week only is Wild Spice’s new location easy to miss, to see if you like it!! but their eatery’s description is equally coy, calling itself “Asian Inspired.” With a menu • Introducing Comfort food For more information chock full of offerings such as tom kha, larb, and Jimmy Chan on class times and prices pad Thai, Panang curry, drunken noodles • Breakfast Buffet, Sat & Sun 503-283-8556 and Thai iced tea, this is basically a Thai All You Can Eat! $6.95 [email protected] restaurant, save for a few items such as the Located @ 2015 N. Kilpatrick Chinese-inspired kung pao and Japanese- • 12 oz. Prime Rib, Fri & Sat $12.95 www.choistkdnorthportland.com influenced yakisoba. • Handmade 1/2 lb Burger Located where the now-defunct Harold’s James Gerritsen serves up some delicious Basket $5.25 BBQ used to fill steam tables with house- Asian-themed Crunchy Cashews at Wild Spice. smoked BBQ ribs, pulled pork, brisket, corn Photo by Cornelius Swart bread, beans and rice, and sweet potato appealing. But when you add the smokiness (503) 286-2815 fries, Wild Spice has been thoughtfully of bacon juxtaposed to tart lime — well, all I transformed by the Gerritsens. The space can say is this dish is wrong. has a warm and inviting Thai vibe, complete Wild Spice does have some solid dishes with dark wood tables, soft lighting and Thai here ($8.50-$11.25, depending on meat Buddhist idolatry. choice). The pad Thai is nicely balanced The service is friendly and information — not too peanutty sweet, the noodles are about the dishes and the restaurant itself neither dry nor mushy and the saucing is just flows easily as James runs the tables while right. They’re also generous on the shrimp, Noo (a native of Thailand) works the kitchen. giving you more than the industry standard Since it had been open only two weeks at my of one for garnish. The drunken noodles (or first visit, I am giving Wild Spice the benefit pad kee mao) are deliciously replete with of working out some kinks when it comes the flavor of hot Thai basil leaves, with a to the food (especially in light of their past generous filling in the pork potstickers. history of success with Thai Ginger and Thai Though Wild Spice is ambitiously trying Grill in Southeast). to be something more than the Thai One of their more adventurous dishes restaurants the Garritsens have been known (recommended as one of their best) is for in the past, their strengths lie in the basics 8728 N. Lombard the Wild Spice Fried Rice. This dish may of Thai cooking, not in the re-imagined or just be suffering from the old axiom that Asian-inspired dishes. It’s obvious that the Portland, oR sometimes more is not better. It’s stir fried fresh ingredients, careful preparation and with everything in the kitchen including cooking skill are in place to make this one of rice, chicken, beef, shrimp, egg, tomatoes, the best Thai joints around. carrots, green peas, onions and — wait for I for one will be back, rooting them on to it . . . bacon!?! The result is something less eschew the trendy and dive headlong into savory and more off-putting than one might Thai basics. imagine. The Thai flavors used to infuse this dish are the requisite banter between sweet Wild Spice, 902 N Killingsworth St., and stringent that usually make Thai food so (503) 289-0509. ESP: Fighting apartment crime Program expands to Northeast Precinct CRIME By Sara Poulter to keep illegal activity off their property by implementing screening practices and The Enhanced Safety Properties (ESP) maintaining minimum requirements for program began in North Portland as a crime-prevention such as locks, lighting, way to combat drug and gang activity by landscaping and cleanliness. Property owners offering training to landlords and apartment are encouraged to maintain membership, dwellers. Now in its third year, the program which allows them to post ESP logos and was recently expanded to Northeast and East signs that could also deter criminals. Portland, and is expected to be citywide by Participants are notified almost the end of the year. immediately by police of crimes such as “We have had some very impressive drug dealing or vandalism reported on the successes with this program,” reported property. Citywide ESP Coordinator Havilah “We’ve seen a huge difference — a huge Ferschweiler. decrease in calls for service,” noted North In fact, the program has been nationally Portland Officer Barry Hosier, who helped recognized for helping crime at participating initiate the program in 2005. “It opens the Friday & Saturday Night properties. Designed for multifamily lines of communication and lets landlords Live Music apartments and single-home rentals, know what’s going on in their complexes the program currently has 14 properties instead of relying on complaints from participating in North Portland – the largest residents.” being New Columbia. 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Coin of the realm. John Poling holds currency used by the Cascadia Hour Exchange. Photo by Jason E. Kaplan Fixer! $650,000 Cute Ranch $214,500 2332 NW Hoyt 8973 N. Berkeley Grand Victorian needs Hardwoods, Updated The art of the barter to be renovated. Kitchen, Covered Patio, Garage Cascadia Hour Exchange marches to the Reduced! Updated 6 plex $500,000 beat of its own currency 2 BR+ 1 Bath, New Kitchens By Mara Grunbaum VHS tapes to home-cooked Indian food. At Baths, Carpet & Paint. Off-Street Parking the May 10 meeting, a brushed metal desk Need a quick wedding? A tub of worm lamp auctioned for 3 1/2 CHE hours, and a castings? Advice on that meddlesome rash? paper shredder fetched 1 3/4. The cinnamon Members of the Cascadia Hour Exchange, Competitive Seller Commission rolls were free. a Portland-area bartering network, trade “We’re more of a club than an economic FREE Home Warranty Protection Plan for all our Sellers and Buyers goods and services with each other in a local system,” Poling said. “That’s why we have Professional and Dependable Service economy independent from the U.S. dollar. potlucks. The Federal Reserve never has any The group’s online directory lists, among potlucks.” others, artists, auto mechanics, computer Founded in 1993, the Exchange now boasts Jeanne Cullen Realty, LLC consultants, a nurse, a hypnotist and a over 100 participants, according to Poling e-mail: [email protected] writer-editor-matchmaker. — and they’re recruiting. Anyone with www.Jeannecullen.com Traders use their own paper currency, something to offer is welcome to join, Poling 7019 N. Chase Ave. Portland, OR 97217 called CHE (pronounced “chi”), with bills said, but they’re especially interested in Fax: 503-287-5560 representing hours of labor. For material adding restaurants and other food providers goods, one CHE hour is valued around $10. A to the mix. landscaper might trade an hour of gardening This Company Supports The Portland Women’s Crisis Line Pennie Burns, who has been trading with for a 60-minute massage. A knitter could sell the group for about 10 years, expects the “Women Helping Women” a scarf for half-a-CHE and use that to buy network to keep growing, especially as the some worm fertilizer. national economy falters. The idea behind the Exchange, according “It’s just a matter of people catching on and to co-founder John Poling, is that keeping saying, ‘Hey, I don’t need to use the almighty #&--"%0//"#&"%4 wealth local is key to a sustainable dollar to get what I need anymore. I’ll barter community. “Today we run the risk of a chicken.’” being isolated,” he said. “You never see your neighbor.” But with a barter system, “You’re The Cascadia Hour Exchange meets the second looking the other person in the eyeball.” Saturday of the month at noon at the Southshore At monthly meetings held on Hayden Clubhouse, 12221 N Westshore Dr. on Hayden Island that are half swap meet, half social Island. For more information, see http://www. hour, members display and auction off their cascadiahourexchange.com. wares — everything from jewelry to old

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.",&:06308/ The neighborhood brought the number of #FBEJOH$MBTTFT)BQQFOJOH/PX Chris Duffy, chair of the Arbor Lodge condemned trees down to 59, which will be Neighborhood Association, said the $"--UPSFHJTUFS removed later this summer. As part of their neighborhood has not yet taken an official settlement, PEN2 will pay over $100,000 to /4U-PVJT"WFJO4U+PIOT position on height limits, but there is a group replace the cottonwoods, poplars and elms that believes the higher limits proposed they remove with 265 smaller ornamental by the design commission are a great idea. trees that fit the COE’s standards. Duffy believes that allowing developers to “At this point, literally every tree that’s build 120 feet and higher will give them more being removed has been discussed ad enticing options. nauseam,” said Alise Goforth, a Bridgeton “If we’re ever going to really get toward resident who served on the BNA’s tree transit-oriented development in this city ... committee. “We’re kind of the prototype for this is the type of thing we have to do,” Duffy a levee-compliant vegetation plan. I suspect said. “This is really planning for the future.” this will be used as a standard for the rest of Gisler explained that the planning bureau the state.” is trying to keep building heights low At the BNA meeting Valenta said the along most of the corridor in response to neighborhood may be able to use some neighborhood concerns. Raising limits at of the PEN2 money to make other street specific points, such as along the freeway improvements. At the intersection of North and in the Overlook triangle, “strikes a really Bridgeton Road and Gantenbein Street, where good balance, and that’s the key here,” Gisler a landmark cottonwood has to come down, said. he proposed building a planter that serves as The Bureau of Planning is scheduled to a “memorial piece for the loss of the trees.” present its final recommendations to the City Of course, Valenta said, it will take time Council July 16. The council will also hear for the new trees to approach the majesty of public testimony before deciding whether to the old ones. adopt the plan. “Even if we have a nice row of trees,” he ~30~ said, “it’s going to be 20 years before it looks worth a damn.” ~30~

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By William Crawford is listed at 36,667 square feet (0.84 acres) and is expected to include 153 units. Calvert Farms The new property will add a tree alley for North Macrum Ave. and Fessenden St. privacy to existing houses and green spaces Lot subdivision between the three new buildings of varying This new development lies within heights. The eight-story building, the the triangle of land outlined by North largest, will have a patio section two stories Fessenden Street, North Macrum Avenue up, according to the plans. The remaining and the rail cut. Being built by Sentaur Inc. two are shown to be five and four stories and marketed by Oregon Realty Company, tall. Additional parking will be added along the triangle will be divided up into 22 lots. the alley that abuts the freeway wall. The A previously existing home on the property alley will be paved along the entire property has been demolished for the construction length and a one-way drive space will be project, said Wanda Brouse, Oregon Realty built along the property’s southern edge. broker for the project. Eekhoff says the north building will have Each new lot will include two-story, 9,000 – 20,000 square feet of retail space, and three-bedroom homes with 2.5 baths and while the higher levels will be generally more 1,386 square feet. The new homes will come expensive, Eekhoff named a ballpark figure in two styles with two different floor plans of $200,000 average price for each unit. each — both available with either front or rear master bedrooms. Each home promises a host of amenities including a one-car garage, Internet ports and hardwood floors. The properties are advertised in the mid- $200,000 range. So far, five houses have been built, but only one has sold. The homes have been tax abated for people earning less than $66,000 a year, explained Brouse. That means property taxes can be as low as $700 a year. “It’s a great opportunity to live in a high-quality new home,” she said. Brouse would not release a firm completion St. Johns Lofts coming soon. date, but said that the project is ongoing. Photo by William Crawford

Unnamed Single-level Condos St. Johns Lofts 8216 N Edison St. 8110 N Willamette Blvd. Project completed Town home and condo structure This four-unit development was built A 12-unit condo structure with two by ARN Construction on a vacant lot. town homes is taking shape on a previously Marketed by Mark Connelly of Connelly vacant lot in St. Johns with views of the St. Realty, it boasts views (for the moment) of the Johns Bridge, the Willamette and St. Helens. Willamette and the St. Johns Bridge. The lot The design will reach up to four stories in behind the development has been approved one building and include an underground for a seven-lot subdivision with a maximum parking facility for residents. “It was built height of 65 feet. The completed units originally supposed to be fully completed by BEST FRIENDS BATH & MORE include granite countertops, oak hardwood August,” said Jean Crane, the development’s floors, and, in two units, vaulted ceilings. broker for Remax. “But it doesn’t look like SIX YEARS IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD Buyers making less than $66,000 will that is going to happen.” qualify for a tax abatement plan that will Crane said the first phase of construction allow for 10 years of taxation on only the will only tackle the two-floor town homes, Professional Grooming land itself and not the improvements. attached in a gleaming glass structure Each unit has two bedrooms and two designed by architect Tim Merrill and being bathrooms and 1,200 square feet. So far, built by E.J. Cassella and Associates. After one unit is pending sale for $239,000 and these are completed, workers will begin (BY APPOINTMENT ONLY) another for $250,000, said Connelly. construction on a separate glass building in the same style to house the condo units. The Montanas Crane estimates the two town homes will North Montana Street be completed by July. As of mid-May, the (503) 283-0327 New Development Plans windows of the town homes are in place, HOURS: and buyers can select carpets and other SELF-SERVICE BATHING Tues-Sat 9am-5pm Though still very early in the process, Jerry materials for the interior. Senior citizen & physically-challenged Eekhoff of We Develop, LLC has submitted Prices will range from $295,000 – $325,000 pick up and delivery for pets Sun 10am-4pm last bath one hour before closing a preliminary design advice application for for the town homes and $295,000 – $310,000 a large development in the Arbor Lodge for the two-bedroom condo units. So far Neighborhood. Although the designs have none have been sold. 2148 N Killingsworth • Portland • Oregon • 97217 approval from the neighborhood association, Eekhoff says he won’t submit a formal work Coffeehouse-5 application until the City Council has 740 N Killingsworth St. decided on rezoning the Interstate Light Rail Conversion and remodel Corridor. [See “High Stakes on Interstate,” page 7] First-time business owner Baxter Nelson “The rezoning project needs to have says he’s in the process of reworking the office flexibility to accommodate the whole space on the corner of North Killingsworth corridor,” Eekhoff said, referring to the Street and Albina Avenue, across from PCC Overlook Neighborhood Association’s Cascade, into a coffeehouse. He described opposition to rezoning. the 1,000-square-foot space as “just a Designs by Myhre Group Architects, Inc. shell” requiring extensive remodeling by indicate the property will combine six lots contractor B.D. Mack. The site previously on North Montana Street into one 333-by- housed the Cascadia Behavioral Healthcare 110-foot lot, just south of North Buffalo services. Nelson says the space did not even Street near I-5 and Fred Meyer. Eekhoff says have plumbing until he and his co-owner that his group is attempting to move rather brother, Wesley, began their project. than demolish the six existing houses on “My brother and I just went crazy,” said the property. Nelson. “We wanted everything custom, but The proposed project consists of three it takes awhile to get everything just right.” separate buildings connected by an Nelson says he does not have a specific underground parking garage, according date when construction will be completed, to the design advice application submitted but he estimates another couple months. to the city. A two-way access ramp will be The project began in March. It will include a placed at the northeast corner on Buffalo. patio area outside. The total square footage of the development ~30~

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good drive-up access make it a popular discourage people from using them as Kelley Point rendezvous point. romantic hideaways. “A lot of it’s driven by the weather,” Park rangers have at times intercepted From page 1 Warrington said. “It’s something that people “behaving inappropriately” and happens in all large parks around any city asked them to leave the park, Warrington sex outdoors and claims to have witnessed in the country. We try to manage it, but it said, but “We’re limited on patrol resources countless sex acts along this park’s secluded does exist.” ... it’s hard for the park rangers or the police trails and rivershores. “Things happen in the park, and that’s one to be out there all the time.” “This parking lot is more for younger, of them,” said Warrington, who stressed that hipper types,” he said, referring to the public indecency is just one of the various Matters of time trailheads often used as launching pads kinds of misbehavior that large parks like If a park user witnesses some “private for “romantic interludes.” He claimed to Kelley Point host. “Dogs off leash and people have seen straight couples having sex in the time” and calls 9-1-1, it’s unlikely that an drinking in the park ... that kind of thing is officer would be dispatched, said Sgt. Brian western reaches of the park. “That parking very normal,” he said. lot [at the west end] is more for heterosexuals Schmautz, spokesman for the Portland Police “If there’s any pattern to park misuse, Bureau. Since public hanky-panky isn’t and families.” regardless of what the park misuse is, we Barrington, however, thinks it’s an imminent threat to person or property, inappropriate for people, straight calls about it aren’t a priority, and even if an Keeping secrets officer were eventually sent, it would take in the dark of the park or gay, to have sex in public. But so far his concerns have fallen on time to reach the distant park. Kristina Kropf and David Buck, in “The only times when we can make arrests deaf ears. Kelley Point Park with their off-leash are when an officer is able to physically Though he’s tried to talk to police and dog, Lofa, said they didn’t know the arrive fast enough in order to catch someone park officials over the years, Buffington said, park was a popular hookup spot. in a position where we can make an arrest,” They visit the park two or three times nothing seems to have changed. “I don’t To see a video of Team Schmautz said. “It’s not like people will be a week, and they’d never seen any- know if I’m being, like, a jerk for reporting having sex for two hours — most people.” one getting frisky. this,” he said. “I know there are places for Sentinel’s sex quest in Though he couldn’t speak to Kelley Buck did say that he often runs into gay men to find each other, and I just don’t Kelley point park go to Point specifically, Schmautz said that there people emerging from trails alone, think that public parks are appropriate.” have been times in the past when officers who, when asked, say they’ve been Two Wikipedia links, squirt.org and portlandsentinel.com/videos were discouraged from cracking down on “picking mushrooms.” cruisingforsex.com (warning: explicit consensual sex in parks, especially at night. He wondered if the mushroom line content), offer directories of hookup “You don’t need to go out there and stick might be masking something steam- spots that list Kelley Point as a place to try to get park rangers and/or police to deal your nose in,” he said of that attitude. ier. “It’s always guys that say they’re go. Personal ads on craigslist.org also hint with it.” Kristina Kropf, David Buck and their dog picking mushrooms,” Buck said. “I’ve at the park’s goings-on. Between May 12 Cruising in public places has long been Lofa are frequent park visitors, who only never seen a mushroom here.” and 17, five different craigslist personals an aspect of urban gay culture, Deborah became aware of the “riparian delights” There are, in fact, mushrooms in referenced Kelley Point Park and alluded to Heath, director of Lewis and Clark College’s going on in the park through The Sentinel’s the park – morels and other edibles sexual activity. One ad, posted to the “casual gender studies program, explained in an investigations. Now that they know, it grow in early spring, according to encounters” section on April 16, sported the email. It’s “probably not unlike straight guys doesn’t seem to bother them. Judy Roger of the Oregon Mycologi- headline “Kelley Point Park walkabout” and cruising certain ‘meat market’ bars,” she “I find it oddly exciting,” said Kropf. “I cal Society. Many mushroomers hunt read, “I’m taking my big 8-inch wiener out alone, she said, “so no one else knows wrote, except that social stigma and laws don’t find it gross or anything.” for a walk around 4:30-5PM.” about their spot.” targeting homosexuals once drove gay men Neither does the 40-year-old “hiker” Roger uses a basket and waxed Patrols and priorities “underground.” sitting on the log. He claims he doesn’t have bags to collect specimens – but Buck Public safety officials say Kelley Point Outdoor trysts are prohibited under sex in the park, but uses it as a place to meet said none of the supposed mush- has been a sexual meeting spot for years. public decency laws, but enforcement isn’t men. “I feel for people who do. There should room-gatherers he sees ever have a Mark Warrington, public safety manager always stringent. Warrington said that be a place where people can go to have sex bagful of fungus with them. for Portland Parks & Recreation, said the park maintenance staff try to keep bushes outside.” trimmed back — a “crime prevention by ~Mara Grunbaum park’s size, relative isolation (it’s about four miles from the nearest residential area) and environmental design” technique — to ~30~ FWTaTfX[[h^dÃ]S\^aTcWP]h^dTg_TRcTS.

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By Liz Scott ($7). For those vegan-conscious individuals, Cena will soon provide vegan desserts. When Chevella Del Rosario, owner of All you need to do is call (503-236-2246) the new Cena To Go meal-prep company, or go to their website, www.cenatogo.com, says this is a place for the community, she to place your order one or two days ahead means it. Single parents, families with of time. It usually takes only 20-30 minutes new additions, busy folks (who isn’t?), to cook. vegetarians, vegans, carnivores and the In opening her first business, Chevella health-food conscious can all find a diverse didn’t want to slack off on the nutritional selection to choose from. value of the meals being prepared, nor the Cena’s should not be thought of as a community bond. This bond, formed while restaurant, but rather as a place that prepares living in the Arbor Lodge neighborhood for made-to-order meals that you pick up and three years prior to moving to St. Johns a take home. The only sitting down should year ago, is what drove Chevella to open her be in your vehicle, on the way to pick up business in the Fifth Quadrant. the food, and at your dinner table with the In the spirit of giving back to the family. This is fast food to go — but without community, Cena donated a portion of all all the hydrogenated fat. sales during the opening month of May to Cena (pronounced “say-nah”) means the Children’s Relief Nursery. “dinner” in Spanish and Italian. The outlet There are also some plans in the works to on North Ivahoe isn’t the only Cena’s, though involve the community in a more hands-on it is Oregon’s only Cena’s. It’s a franchise, but From left to right, Cena owner Cheville Del Rosario, Kari Seals and Morgan Grundstein-Helvey (of Dovetail approach, for instance holding “how to prep a relatively small one: The next closest Cena’s Bakery). Cena will now feature baked goods from Dovetail which is located in the same building. and cook food” sessions for kids aged 7-12. is in Spokane, which enables the stores to photo by corneilus swart They won’t be holding knives and the food maintain a level of individuality. Chevella’s will be pre-cut. They’ll just get to whisk away menu items can be altered and tweaked to are two serving sizes available — one for 2-3 personal approach to the business, she says, until mom says otherwise, or until the food your heart’s (and stomach’s) content. Maybe people and another for 4-6. You’re certainly is to “provide families or individuals with becomes more appetizing than the prep — a you can’t grind up the chicken piccata not limited to how many servings you can nutritious and delicious food without having likely outcome to say the least. to compromise the quality.” for baby Anna, but she probably wouldn’t order, though. Cena’s also offers sides such as Vegetarians can substitute any meat with appreciate it anyway. garlic-roasted asparagus with lemon butter 8401 N Ivanhoe St., Monday-Friday, 10 a.m.-6:30 a protein-rich alternative. Likewise, many All of these are viable alternatives thanks ($8), or raspberry/white chocolate scones p.m.; Saturday 10 a.m.-2 p.m., (503) 236-2246. to Cena’s seemingly endless options. There The Sentinel Business Directory & Classifieds

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Mikado that Casciato can flawlessly recite off NeodyminumForA NewHome 850 words the top of his head: To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock A man walked into my store one day and told From page 3 In a pestilential prison with a lifelong lock me, “We just moved into our dream house and Awaiting the sensation of a short, we have a problem. My wife and son cannot sleep. Both of them are prowling the rooms at Enduring and evolving sharp shock 2AM. We never had this problem before in our Casciato survived. So the question now From a cheap and chippy chopper old home. A friend told me that you may have becomes: Can the archaic charms of on a big black block some lights that can help.” The man told me he had quartz lights live theatrical shows that use the word Doyle’s also looking far enough into the in ceiling cans all over the house. I invited the “Heliogabalus” survive in a world filled with future that he’s also scheduled a matinee family to come in that Saturday and I showed audiences raised on Eminem? performance for kids with the Portland- them the different lights. The family took some Doyle thinks so. “The situations are so different bulbs home to try. based pirate band Captain Bogg & Salty. Three days latter the man came back and ridiculous, the turns of phrase are so clever Beyond that, his focus is squarely set on bought a large box of NEODYMINUM lamps. … they’re much funnier than TV sitcoms.” June 6 — opening night for Pirates. He’s Since then his son and wife have been able to Yet the comedic setups, often lampooning go to bed at 10pm and sleep well. given no thought whatsoever to Mock’s th Different lights do different things. Come bureaucratic confusion or misinterpretation, Crest’s 20 anniversary show next summer. to the playroom to fi nd out what lamps you ring true today. Pirates revolves around an But Casciato has. He’s imagining an all- need any Saturday 11am-4pm. infant who was indentured until the age of UP production next year. 21. But as his day of emancipation nears, it’s “I think they should invite all the alumni discovered that he’s a Leap Day baby, born - back,” he says. “And put in a patter song Kay the Light Bulb Lady on Feb. 29 — leaving him 16 “birthdays” for me.” short of freedom. Absurd? Or just like our Sunlan Lighting, 3901 N. Mississippi Pirates of Penzance, June 6-29, 7:30 p.m. 503-281-0453, Mon-Fri 8-5:30pm Sat 10-5pm healthcare system? Thursdays-Saturdays; 2 p.m. Sundays: Tickets, And for what it’s worth, Doyle suggests $21-$25, available by calling (503) 943-7287. that there’s a thin line between rap and the Mago Hunt Center, University of Portland G&S patter songs, such as this one from The campus, 5000 N Willamette Blvd.

safety concern that they have such as a drug Crime tips house or a burglary in the neighborhood.” From page 9 CALL IT IN: Don’t be afraid to call the police if you suspect a crime is taking or is “These kinds of petty crimes are popular about to take place. Too many times people because they are quick and easy,” noted see or hear something suspicious but are Havilah Ferschweiler, North Portland hesitant to report it to the police because Crime Prevention Program Coordinator. “It they are not sure if it is criminal activity or only takes a moment for someone to take a something benign. valuable while you are in another room.” “People tell us they feel like they’re bugging the police, but calling in gives us an idea of KNOW YOUR NEIGHBORS: The what’s going on and a chance to catch them best way to protect yourself from crime is in the act,” noted Zajac. to talk to your neighbors. Let them know KNOWLEDGE IS POWER: Learn more your schedule so they know when no one is tips about how to keep safe by contacting supposed to be hanging around your home. the Crime Prevention Program at (503) 823- Join a Neighborhood Watch group. 4064 or visit online at www.portlandonline. Currently, there are 47 operating block com/oni. watches in North Portland west of I-5. You can download the Home and Vehicle Ferschweiler explains that block watches Security Guide, which features specific are organized for a number of reasons: information on properly installing locks and “Sometimes neighbors want an opportunity alarms as well as other useful tips. Or, find to find out more information on public safety. out how to protect yourself from other crimes Sometimes people use it as a reason to bring such as identity theft, magazine subscription neighbors together to meet one another. sales fraud and illegal drug activity. And, others organize because of a specific ~30~ Business Bulletin By Liz Scott an opportunity to have another restaurant down the street, and gave it a shot. Walsh Chiropractic – There aren’t many Southwestern NEW OWNERSHIP restaurants in North Portland, so Herrera 7305 N Alta Ave. is bringing more diversity to the taste buds. (503) 977-5171 Loco BBQ slow-smokes their meat so you can Monday, Wednesday and Friday: 2 - 6 enjoy the taste, and they’re fast: just call in p.m.; Tuesday and Thursday: 9 a.m. - 2 p.m.; and your order can be ready in 10 minutes. Saturdays by appointment from 9 a.m.-noon While it is take-out only, there is a picnic Dr. Mark Walsh relocated to his new office table outside, so on sunny days one can enjoy on June 1, moving over from the southwest hot weather and hot food. side to take over the old St. Johns Chiropractic Refind Fashion – NEW (2nd Location) office. He wanted to move closer to his home 9022 N Newman Ave. here in St. Johns, where he has lived for (503) 445-4374 about three years. He has been practicing as Monday-Friday: 7 - 3 p.m.; a chiropractor for 24 years. Saturday: 7 - 1 p.m. He’s a family practitioner, but also specializes in sports medicine, automobile Having just opened in mid-May, Refind accidents and exercise programs. A massage Fashion is a branch of Refind Vintage Home therapist will most likely be hired soon, to & Garden. Both are owned by Kimberly ease any stress. Shults. She has lived in the St. Johns/ Dr. Walsh welcomes new patients and Portsmouth neighborhood for nine years accepts all insurance types. He works six and says she’s “trying to do something for days a week and the hours are based on the the community.” new clientele’s needs, so call to make an She accomplishes this by buying her appointment with this left-handed magician inventory locally. The clothes for sale are of the body’s structure. modern and chic, not vintage. In addition, they’re green-friendly, since resale is an Loco BBQ – NEW unsung hero of the sustainability trend. 7123 N Lombard St. Shults says she’s “into reusing and shopping (503) 517-0243 green.” Prices range from high-end to Monday-Saturday: 11 a.m. until the “working on a budget,” meaning that there’s food runs out (usually 7:30 p.m.) something for everybody. There are also Big Kahuna’s BBQ owner Gary Herrera one-of-a-kind pieces at a good price. Now has recently opened a TexMex take-out you can strut around town knowing you’ve restaurant called Loco BBQ. Herrera saw got change in your pocket and a unique piece and feel totally green at the same time.

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Skyline Memorial Gardens Photo Contest

Send us your photos of a Sunrise or Sunset Taken from our panoramic location high in the West Hills. Focus on the beautiful landscape, flowers, garden statues & features for your photo subject.

Please send your digital photos & contact information to: Photo Contest Skyline Memorial Gardens 4101 NW Skyline Blvd Portland, Oregon 97229

Deadline for entry is August 8th, 2008. The photos we feel capture the essence of our park will be included in a showing at Skyline Memorial Garden’s Open House Thursday, August 21st, 2008. Please keep in mind photos will not be returned. FOR INFORMATION PLEASE CALL 503-292-6611 OR EMAIL TO: [email protected]

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