Duck encore? YOUR ONLINE LOCAL Bankable food De’Anthony Thomas has Farmers share harvests DAILY NEWS to feed hungry risen to star status www.portlandtribune.com — See SPORTS, B10 – See SUSTAINABLE LIFE,, inside PortlandTHURSDAY, AUGUST 16, 2012 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILY PAPERTribune • WWW.PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHED THURSDAYe YOU KNOW YOU’RE AN OREGONIAN WHEN . ■ Welcome to Oregon. Stick around Poll: We (mostly) like long enough, we might just accept you our neighborhoods something, the better you feel achel Berry would just as soon let the matter rest. Ber- Nation doesn’t fare about it,” says fi rm co-founder ry is the 24-year-old Aloha resident who won the Miss so well in Metro Adam Davis. “People live in Oregon pageant title June 30, then had it taken away neighborhoods and they feel Rwhen pageant offi cials determined she did not meet Opt In survey good about them.” the competition’s six-month Oregon residency requirement. According to the survey, peo- Berry, who grew up in a small town in Indiana, calls herself “a By JIM REDDEN ple feel equally positive about hard-working, All-American girl” who thinks of herself as an Or- The Tribune their neighborhoods in all three egon resident. Portland-area counties. On a “I was really looking forward to represent- No matter where you live scale from zero to 10, the mean STORY BY ing Oregon at Miss America,” Berry says. “I in the Portland area, chances rating was 8.2 in Clackamas PETER feel like I embody the spirit of Oregon.” are you feel better about your County, 8.1 in Multnomah Coun- Berry’s unfortunate situation has briefl y neighborhood than you do ty and 7.9 in Washington County KORN rekindled a discussion that has captivated about your city, the region, — a difference of just 0.3. (and enraged) people here, on and off, since the state — and especially the The biggest surprise, Davis the Oregon Territory became Oregon in 1859. TRIBUNE PHOTOS: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT nation. says, is how good the respon- How long do you have to live here before you’re considered an Yes that is Rachel Berry’s Aloha home (top), but Miss Oregon That’s just one fi nding of Met- dents feel about Oregon. The Oregonian? To some people, it still matters. offi cials claim it wasn’t her home for long enough. Berry had to ro’s recent online Opt In survey. state ranked higher than the Although six months is the answer if you’re asking the Miss hand back her crown over a residency dispute. Yet Portland It was managed by Portland’s combined cities in Clackamas Oregon pageant offi cials, the Regional Arts & Cultural Council settlers Francis Pettygrove and Asa Lovejoy hadn’t lived here all research fi rm of Davis, Hibbitts and Washington counties, and says applicants for its annual $20,000 arts fellowships have to that long themselves when they fl ipped the Portland Penny & Midghall Inc. higher than the region in all (above, now on display at the Oregon Historical Society) to decide “That’s consistent with all See OREGONIAN / Page 2 if their adopted home town would be called Portland or Boston. surveys, the closer you are to See OPT IN / Page 3 ThisWeek Girl’s wish puts new Online Gordon Brinser, president of Local stories that you SolarWorld focus on foundation read about first at Industries www.portlandtribune.com America, says Make-A-Wish chapter the $27 million marks its anniversary ■ NEWS — Council to investment in consider uoridation in the company’s with a photo assignment September — Role of Port- Hillsboro plant land Water Bureau’s whole- will help the By JENNIFER ANDERSON sale customers not yet de- solar cell and The Tribune cided. (Posted Tuesday, Aug. panel 14) Search: Fluoride. manufacturer If you had one wish, what ■ Oregon’s unemploy- keep its lead in would it be? ment rate ticks up to 8.7 the turbulent An exotic cruise? Lunch with — Rate increases slightly industry. your favorite movie star? A week TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT at a theme park? even though economy added TRIBUNE PHOTO: Maria Anderson, 18, has a cancer about 1,800 new jobs. CHRISTOPHER When Maria Anderson con- ribbon and the word “Strength” (Posted Tuesday, Aug. 14) ONSTOTT sidered that question, she knew tattooed on her wrist. She is Search: Unemployment. right away what she wanted. It recovering from a rare form of was nothing big or fl ashy, just cancer that was diagnosed during ■ FEATURES — something she’d always wanted her senior year of high school. 2012 BMW 650i review to experience: to be a profession- — A sports coupe for SolarWorld sees bright al photographer for a day. adults. (Posted Friday, Aug. “Being able to capture a mo- ing surgeries for a rare type of 10) Search: BMW. ment in time and be able to look bone cancer, osteosarcoma. back on it physically, and re- She was diagnosed in October ■ SPORTS — Denmark’s future, despite uncertainty member how you felt in that mo- 2011, a month into her senior Bjorkstrand scouts his ment, is so cool to me,” the year at Fir Ridge Campus, an al- future with big move to ■ Company By JIM REDDEN World’s leading edge technology and bet- 18-year-old says. ternative school in the David Winterhawks — Import invests big The Tribune ter positions the company to remain As as wishes go, it’s a pretty Douglas School District. draft pick Oliver Bjorkstrand competitive in the future,” says Gordon modest one among the 179 wish- After landing at Doernbecher heads to in Hillsboro SolarWorld is investing $27 million Brinser, president of SolarWorld Indus- es Make-A-Wish Foundation of Children’s Hospital, she and her Portland’s plant as it in its Hillsboro manufacturing plant, tries America Inc. Oregon will grant this year, in- family were thrilled when Make- hockey months before learning the fi nal res- SolarWorld is leading a coalition that cluding the 24 this month, the A-Wish staff approached her training challenges olution of its unfair trade complaint supports its complaint accusing China of foundation’s busiest time of year with that magical question. camp. Chinese against China. illegally dumping government-subsi- because it is peak travel time be- Their mission — to help chil- (Posted The investment will replace compo- dized solar panels on the U.S. market. fore school starts. dren with life-threatening medi- Wednesday, nents in the four lines that produce fi n- Preliminary fi ndings issued by the U.S. Maria, who lives in outer cal conditions — has made the Aug. 15) ished photovoltaic cells, increasing their Department of Commerce agreed with Southeast Portland with her organization one of the state’s Search: power output. The work is expected to SolarWorld that Chinese companies are mother and grandmother, was most wide-reaching philanthro- BJORKSTRAND Bjorkstrand. continue through the first quarter of violating international trade agreement. declared cancer-free last month pies since 1983. 2013. after spending the past year and “The investment reaffirms Solar- See SOLAR / Page 9 a half in treatment and undergo- See WISH / Page 4 A2 NEWS The Portland Tribune Thursday, August 16, 2012 Oregonians: We don’t tan actually, we rust ■ From page 1 have lived in state for five years. And you need a year of residence to qualify for in-state tuition at one of the state’s colleges or uni- versities. If you’re looking to get di- vorced in Oregon, you or your spouse must have lived here at least six months. Portland attorney Dan Margo- lin, who handles divorces, says he’s never known anyone to move to Oregon to get a divorce. In fact, he says Washington state has no residency requirement for divorce. If Oregon’s residen- cy requirement was longer, we might lose some unhappy cou- ples to Washington. Jason Renaud, executive di- rector of Compassion & Choices Oregon, says he’s not aware of any people at the end of their lives moving to Oregon to use the state’s Death With Dignity Act, which only requires that pa- tients be legal Oregon residents. But Renaud says he has spo- ken to a number of people, espe- cially in Southern Oregon, who made the decision to retire in Oregon at least partially because someday they might want to make use of physician-assisted suicide. Which raises the question, if you move here to live as well as to die, does that make you more, or less, a true Oregonian? triBUne PHotos: cHristoPHer onstott ‘i was born here’ native oregonian James cloutier started s.n.o.B., the society of native oregon Born, and sold 5,000 memberships with certificates, shirts and car decals. Metro’s recent Opt In survey asked more than 1,300 Portland- area residents how many years Bouneff, tongue firmly placed in born across the border in it took for someone to be consid- cheek. We hope. Washington. Since it was his ered an Oregonian. More than Bouneff and his wife spent a mother who helped put togeth- half said the answer was one to few years in California after col- er and mail the S.N.O.B. certifi- five years. One in five said the lege in the 1990s, which netted cate packages from Cloutier’s answer was more like six to 10 California license plates on his at-home business, he knew he years. One in 10 people said it car, and then Idaho for a while had to mollify her somehow. So should be less before moving he developed a special category than a year.