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Kelley Point Park NEWS FOR GREATER NORTH AND FAR NORTHWEST PORTLAND THE JUNESENTINEL 2008 FREE! PORTLANDSENTINEL.COM FIRST WEDNESDAY OF EVERY MONTH INTERSTATE DEBATE NEIGHBORHOODS CLASH OVER BUILDING-HEIGHT RESTRICTIONS PAGE 7 JUNE JAMBOREES GET THE LOWDOWN ON CIRQUE DU CYCLING AND NO.FEST PAGES 5 AND 12 NO CASH? NO WORRIES TIME REALLY IS MONEY FOR LOCAL BARTER SYSTEM PAGE 14 SOME THAI TO TRY FUSION EVOLUTION OF THAI FOOD AT WILD RICE PAGE 13 TRANSIT TALK NPOD NEIGHBORHOODS DIFFER OVER STREETCAR PROPOSALS PAGE 4 THE OLDEST ACTIVIST ELLA THOMAS SPENT 22 OF HER 94 YEARS VOLUNTEERING AT BLOOD BANK PAGE 4 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 Kenton Park 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 Kelley Point Park. 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 Oregon will gather at There are also plans to obtain a new lives in Portsmouth. out trail along the Willamette River 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. INC ]/'FTTFOEFO1PSUMBOE03 VOLUME 8 ISSUE 6 JUNE 2008 PORTLANDSENTINEL.COM 503.287.3880 Page 2 • The Sentinel • June 2008 PUBLISHER’S PAGE An ounce of crime prevention ... Every year we dedicate a investigation into, shall we say, be made out and mailed to The include stories and information month, we plan to roll out a new summer issue to public safety. “illicit romances” occasionally Sentinel, P.O. Box 3316, Portland, submitted by readers, podcasts format and design for the paper, a North Portland still has an unfair taking place in Kelley Point Park OR 97217. Subscriptions are a that include music and news, and Sentinel 3.0, if you will. With luck, reputation as a high-crime area. (see page 1). We hope you find these way to both receive the paper video reports. the new paper design will also But I can tell you, after doing a featured items useful, entertaining and help to support your local The Sentinel’s paper edition is accompany the sunsetting of The “Crime Issue” year after year, it’s or at least mildly scandalizing. news service in these challenging becoming an organ of the website. Sentinel’s current “beta” website, getting harder and harder to justify economic times. Web postings submitted by you and a new, more user-friendly skin them. SENTINEL evolves However, we will soon start the reader will increasingly make and navigation system will launch The reality is that crime does rise In other news, things continue offering more news-box sites to up the content in our print edition in July as well. in the summer. But crime in nPod to evolve here at The Sentinel. compensate for reducing direct sections, such as the community We hope that you’ll continue has been at a relative low for years To that end we are increasingly mail services. Or you can go online calendar, classifieds, and even to read along with us — and now (see Police to launch anti- growing our circulation eastward to the daily multimedia news some story sections. Now more read, watch and listen online — gang patrols, page 4). We’ll knock to expand our range of story available at portlandsentinel.com. than ever, it will pay to go online as we give it our all to bring this on wood and continue to present opportunities and market depth. to portlandsentinel.com: What community’s newspaper kicking articles that will help empower Regrettably, a small percentage THE NEW, INTERACTIVE SENTINEL you post online today may be read and screaming into a new-media people to address crime before of you may not be getting The Like many papers, The Sentinel in print by tens of thousands of century. it happens (see Don’t be a victim, Sentinel’s free delivery service any sees the web as a cost-effective North Portlanders tomorrow. page 9; ESP: Fighting apartment longer. To those who experience a publishing medium that offers All of this will help the paper See you in the neighborhood. crime, (page 13). shift in service, we encourage you exciting potential to deliver new sustain itself economically and That said, we do feature this to subscribe to The Sentinel. It’s types of news and informational underscore its role as a community- Cornelius Swart month Mara Grunbaum’s playful only $20 a year — checks should services. These new online features driven local news service. Next Publisher/Managing Editor EDITORIAL: A new bridge to the future The Portland region should not progressive values. Concerns about Light rail transit, however, is bridge, the Portland/Vancouver be afraid of progress, or the future. global warming and increased a non-negotiable must. 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.
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