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SPINNING A YARN Montavilla’s Knittn’ Kitten offers a unique and popular collection of vintage fabric. PAGE 12

VOLUNTEERS VALUED It takes 20 to 25 volunteers CAMPING IT UP The Northeast Community Center CONNECTING COMMUNITY Local to keep the Hollywood Farmers Market running smoothly offers neighborhood kids an opportunity to spend their seniors find volunteer opportunities

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Friday, May 1 Address MAY DAY CELEBRATION Live music & maypole dancers City [email protected] State/Zip APRIL 2015 WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO: SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS THE HOLLYWOOD STAR NEWS 3 HSTAR PEOPLE Tihanne Mar-Shall named as talent that annually filled the streets that made this event so Benson Rose Festival princess amazing. Giving children the opportunity Tihanne Mar-Shall is representing to showcase what they have been working Benson High School on the 2015 Rose long and hard on is an exciting privilege.” Festival Court. The 17-year-old senior, whose first name is pronounced Tie-Ann, Amber Shackelford gets is the daughter of Francine Mar-Shall. She nod as Madison princess has five older brothers. Tihanne plans to study psychology and Madison High School has named Amber then attend business or law school to Shackelford as its representative on the become a lawyer or a business owner. 2015 Rose Festival Court. Favorite place to visit in Portland? The 18-year-old senior is the daughter “Grandma’s house. When I think of my of Jennifer and James Shackelford. She has one sibling, Ally Shackelford. Grandma’s house, I recall noisy family Tihanne Mar-Shall, Olivia Berry, Kahedja Burley and Amber Shackelford will represent Northeast Portland as Rose Festival gatherings, my Auntie Lois’s protective princesses. (Portland Rose Festival) Amber plans to earn a master’s degree little lessons and Grandma’s care and love. in urban planning to become an urban or It is a place that has given me the courage double major in communications and Jefferson names Kahedja Burley disaster/emergency planner. to make productive life decisions.” political science in order to pursue a Favorite place to visit in Portland? Favorite Rose Festival event? career as a broadcast journalist in the as Rose Festival princess “ in Northeast Portland. I “Grand Floral Parade. Since I was five, political field. Jefferson High School has named often find myself at the top of this mini- the Grand Floral Parade has been my Favorite place to visit in Portland? Kahedja Burley as its representative on mountain after cross-country workouts and favorite event because it has always been “My favorite place to visit in Portland the 2015 Rose Festival Court. after a tough run. It’s an amazing feeling to associated with happy family memories. is the Davis Wright Tremaine offices The 17-year-old junior is the daughter be able to look across the city and see my neighborhood from a different perspective.” Several of my cousins and I camped at the Wells Fargo Center where I have of Mashavu Hicks and Rondale Burley. Favorite Rose Festival event? outside the night before, always outside of Constitution Team meetings. From She has one sibling, Tahir Burley. “Starlight Parade and Run. Last year I ran Wendy’s, to secure a good spot for the next the rooms we sit in, you can see all of Kahedja plans to attend a four-year in it for the first time, and it was very different day. I remember blowing bubbles, playing Portland, from the Fremont Bridge to university outside of Oregon to pursue a career in marketing. from any of the other runs I’ve done because with chalk and pretending to be in the Mount Hood to OHSU. Portland is a Favorite place to visit in Portland? of all the people there for the parade. It was marching bands.” beautiful city and it is fun to see the “Marine Drive. It’s the perfect place fun seeing all the people dressed in costume landmarks that Portland is known for.” to sit and think about your life, as you and getting to be a part of it with members of Grant names Olivia Berry Favorite Rose Festival event? stare into the distance, hoping to see the my cross-country team.” as Rose Festival princess “I have been going for as long as I other side. I’ve made several summertime Grant High School has named Olivia remember, it’s an event that brings my memories at Portland’s makeshift beach.” This year’s Rose Festival Queen will be Berry as its representative on the 2015 family together. I love seeing the pride Favorite Rose Festival event? named in a ceremony beginning at 8:30 Rose Festival Court. everyone has for their community “Junior Parade. I went to Beaumont, so a.m. June 6, before the Spirit Mountain The 17-year-old senior was born in and celebrating the diversity that this was a form of tradition. As a middle- Casino Grand Floral Parade at the Veterans Puerto Barrios, Guatemala and is the makes Portland special. The floats and schooler you were considered lame if you Memorial Coliseum. Each princess will daughter of Bill and Julie Berry. She has procession are always fun to see and each were still at school while the parade was receive a $3,500 scholarship for college or one sibling, Dominic Berry. year the parade is new and exciting, it is going on. The eligibility to skip school professional training. Each also will have a Olivia plans to attend a university and always full of surprises!” wasn’t the highlight of this event. It was the top woman executive as a mentor.

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Saturday, April 11 KIDS ACTIVITIES Eartha the Clown 11 am Mad Science 12 pm KC Puppetree 1:15 pm plus the Recycle Station Game, Puppet Making & Earth Day LLOYD CENTER Game Show. Located in the west mall, lower level. Go to lloydcenter.com for more details. 4 THE HOLLYWOOD STAR NEWS WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO: SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS APRIL 2015 summer schedule coming soon  HSTAR DEVELOPMENT NEWS Demolition mitigation group to hold fourth summit United Neighborhoods for Reform (UNR) issued invitations in mid-March, asking participating neighborhoods to send one or more residents to Demolition/ Development Summit IV. UNR, wanting wide public participation according to UNR steering committee member Al Ellis, “is looking for both neighborhood association board members and concerned neighbors to attend.” Summit IV is scheduled for Thursday BY PHILL COLOMBO evening April 9, 7-9 p.m. at Bethany [email protected] Lutheran Church, 4330 N.E. 37th Ave., and is aimed at reviewing progress made condos, the city’s Bureau of Development AGES 3 TO ADULT at two City Council hearings—one in Services has begun implementation of December 2014, the other in February • Pre-Ballet/Tap • Tap • Jazz/Tap • Adult Classes zoning code changes. Bureau Director 2015—on a resolution presented in Paul Scarlett said, “The same rules and • Ballet • Jazz • Hip Hop • Performance testimony to the Council. processes that applied to ASTR house • Pointe • Contemporary Troup e In the spring of 2014 at Summit I, small permits now apply to the broader groups of neighborhood activists from community of residents who live in around the city met to explore how they apartments and condos.” ASTR house might form a grass-roots organization operations have been allowed since Gift uniting neighborhood associations to August 30, 2014. persuade Portland’s City Council to ASTR permits are required in order to Certificates address problems associated with what operate short-term rentals within the was described as “a growing demolition City of Portland, i.e., when a resident Available! epidemic.” rents out up to two rooms in their While demolition of what Ellis described residence for fewer than 30 days. Portland as “viable, affordable homes—sometimes Commissioner Amanda Fritz, in charge of replaced by one or more expensive the Bureau of Development Services, said, structures” continued, neighborhood “Expanding accessory short term rental association leaders and concerned permits to residents of apartments and www.hollywooddancepdx.com residents from over 25 neighborhoods condo will allow more people in Portland ★ [email protected] ★ www.hollywooddancepdx.com ★ met in the fall of 2014 for Summit II to benefit from the sharing economy.” and Summit III. In these meetings, they Information on the permitting of short- resolved to foster building code reforms term rentals can be found on the BDS to stem the “drive-by demolition” tide and website at: www.portlandoregon.gov/bds. established UNR with this mission. A volunteer committee formed at New Beaumont restaurants Summit III drafted the resolution based on participants’ input, and work was expand business hours completed by November 2014 on a In March, both The Alameda Café, 4641 one-page resolution that the committee N.E. Fremont St., and Batter, Griddle referred to Portland’s 90+ neighborhood and Drinkery, 4425 N.E. Fremont St., associations for endorsement. announced and moved to expanded Committee members attended as many hours as wait staff and kitchen crews neighborhood meetings as possible to acclimated to increasing business. field questions and concerns, resulting in After beginning on curtailed hours in more than 30 neighborhoods endorsing February, The Alameda Café opened in the resolution and the City Council March Monday-Sunday from 8 a.m.-3 holding hearings on the issue. p.m. for brunch and Monday-Saturday 3 p.m.-9 p.m. for dinner. “We are excited Accessory short term to take the leap into service seven days rentals expand to apartment a week,” said co-owner Rosie McGown, “because with the extended hours, we are and condo residents also adding some new menu items.” Following the Portland City Council’s Patrons can expect a handful of January 14, 2015 approval to expand new sandwiches and breakfast dishes accessory short-term rental (ASTR) including a meatball parmigiana, an permits to residents of apartments and Italian sandwich, a ham melt, chicken- Ken Van Damme’s Automotive IT'S THE SERVICE THAT COUNTS Do you Automotive Get ready want to get for SPrING! better gas Headlights, mileage now? Come in for a Wipers, free vehicle Coolant, Belts inspection! and Hoses

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Alameda Cafe co-owner Rosie McGown extended the restaurant’s hours in March. The Northeast Fremont restaurant will now be open Monday- Sunday from 8 a.m.-3 p.m. for brunch and Monday-Saturday 3 p.m.-9 p.m. for dinner. (Jane Perkins) fried steak, and chicken and waffle on a cafeteria, 4043 N.E. Fremont St., will house-made cornbread and blueberry be the venue. Cynthia Plank and her waffle, according to McGown. Dinner will BMS band will provide short sessions also include more sandwiches and salads, of musical entertainment, adding but still have favorites: beef goulash, to the festive evening. “The event is turkey and dumplings, steamed mussels an opportunity to connect with old and more, she added. neighbors you may not have seen for Batter, Griddle and Drinkery’s early a while or a chance to extend a warm March soft opening took the staff welcome to Beaumont Wilshire new- and curious patrons by surprise as comers, Sandie added. Sunday, February 1 found the breakfast The neighborhood association shift “slammed” with dozens of new also uses the Taste of Beaumont as a patrons filling up the 50-seat eatery. Some demurred at the door when told backdrop for BWNA annual election they might have to wait as long as an of officers and board members. Sandie hour for service. Patronage tapered pointed out that anyone living within off the following week, allowing the the boundaries of the Beaumont staff gradually to meet customers’ Wilshire Neighborhood, as recognized expectations. By mid-March, the first by Portland’s Office of Neighborhood business in Beaumont Wilshire’s first Involvement (ONI), is eligible to vote on four-story building was opening with BWNA motions and proposals, as well as expanded hours (8 a.m.-midnight Tuesday seek election to BWNA positions. As in through Sunday, closed Mondays) and many neighborhood associations, every promising to add new items to the menu. year, half the at-large board positions and a couple of officer positions are elected Rose City Park to engage in or re-elected in addition to any open WIN TICKETS: WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO neighborhood visioning positions needing to be filled. The April 28 meeting of the Rose City Park Neighborhood Association (RCPNA) at the German American Society, 5626 N.E. Alameda St., will feature a 3939 NE Hancock St. • Located in the heart of performance by Portland blues icon Norman Sylvester and an opportunity for (503) 288-7757 Hollywood neighbors to share hopes and ideas for HOLLYWOOD • First-class facilities the future of Rose City Park. Doors will www.hpcpdx.com open and music begin at 6:30 p.m.; child Professional Center • Professionally staffed care will be available; and the meeting is open to the public. Legal Solutions to Laura Eye Paul J. 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[email protected] www.staceywillsellit.com porterbrauen.com Beaumont Middle School (BMS) 6 THE HOLLYWOOD STAR NEWS WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO: SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS APRIL 2015 HSTAR BUSINESS BUZZ Vintage toy store will open in Roseway Mark Pedersen, who ran Dr. Tongue’s 3D House of Collectible Toys on lower Burnside from 1993 to 2005, will be opening a re- imagined version of the store, Dr. Tongue’s I Had That Shoppe, in the Roseway neighborhood later this month. The store will be next to Papa Murphy’s at In addition to 7129 N.E. Fremont St., in the space formerly electronics and appliances, occupied by Adorable Doo’s Dog Wash. the Madeleine Pederson had planned on opening for April Parish Earth Day Fool’s Day – which would have been the ten- BY TED PERKINS E-Waste Recycling year anniversary of the closing of his previous Event will accept [email protected] block Styrofoam, store – but is now shooting for mid-April. household “Over the years, I have run into many Company, who bought the property in batteries and old friends and customers that have March 2014 for $7.25 million. household told me my store still lives on in their fluorescent lights. The hardware store is unlikely to go (John Robinson) memories,” Pederson said. “The legend of anywhere. Orchard Supply, which is Dr. Tongue’s has survived. The collectible owned by Lowe’s, has signed a 20-year food,” said Denise Breyley, Whole Foods will go toward environmental projects at community has grown and expanded and lease on the building. Market’s Local Forager in the Pacific the Madeleine School and Parish grounds. I feel it is time to re-launch Dr. Tongue’s Northwest. “This is one of the best parts According to John Robinson, one of into the next decade.” Whole Foods Market of my job – working with these amazing the event’s planners, the event has been promotes Better Bean Co. small food businesses and helping them getting bigger every year. Last year the Selling price of Hollywood make their brilliant ideas a reality.” team collected 3,500 pounds of e-waste Bowl site nearly triples At an event at its Hollywood store in March, and nearly filled a 24-foot box truck. They Whole Foods Market awarded Portland- Bagel Land changes hands also collected 250 pounds of household in less than a year based Better Bean Co. with a $75,000 low- After more than 30 years on Northeast batteries and more than 100 pairs of used The site of the former Hollywood Bowl, interest loan as part of the natural grocer’s athletic shoes. Fremont, Jackie Ferere sold the popular which has been redeveloped into an Local Producer Loan Program. “This is a fund raiser,” Robinson said. “But Beaumont Village Bagle Land in October. Orchard Supply Hardware that opened Founded in 2010 by Keith and Hannah the main goal is to make sure that people are The new owners, Xiao Yan Liang and Russ last month, has been sold again for $20 Kullberg, Better Bean produces ready-to- disposing of the waste responsibly. We also Haynie, plan to keep the same recipes and million – nearly three times the price it eat gourmet beans. hand out flyers where people can recycle all the same products that have made the sold for less than a year ago. “It’s so inspiring to meet people like of their waste year round.” shop a neighborhood favorite. Wilshire Lucas Investments of Keith and Hannah. They are passionate California purchased the 42,202-square- and work so hard to make it easier for the Renowned dance company foot property from Oppidan Investment rest of us to eat healthier, more nourishing Madeleine Parish to host Earth Day event sets up shop in Kerns The Northwest Dance Project, an The Madeleine Parish and School Care internationally recognized dance company, for Creation Committee, partnering with has moved its rehearsal space and Alameda Elementary School’s Green educational operations into an 8,500-square- Team and SBK Green Century Electronic foot space in the Kerns neighborhood at Recycling, will be hosting an Earth Day Northeast Tenth Avenue and Davis Street. E-Waste Recycling Event at the Madeleine According to Executive Director Scott Church, 3123 N.E. 24th Ave., on Sunday, Lewis, the company plans to hold a grand April 19 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. opening celebration in the new space on A team of volunteers will accept and May 30 and will host an open house with responsibly dispose of discarded e-waste free dance classes for the community items that include computers, monitors sometime in April. and all sorts of miscellaneous electronics The nonprofit dance company has been and appliances. Visit www.themadeleine. rehearsing at Portland State University since edu to see the complete list. losing its lease last summer on a smaller Other items that will be accepted studio space on North Mississippi Avenue. include athletic shoes, block Styrofoam, “The larger space, with access to two household batteries and household studios, will allow for multiple things to fluorescent lights. happen at the same time,” Lewis said. They will not take fluorescent lights and “We will definitely be expanding our batteries from businesses and will also be educational programs for children and unable to accept microwaves, refrigerators, adults and we’ll be able to make the space VHS tapes and non-block Styrofoam – like available for the community, which is packing peanuts and food containers. something we just weren’t able to do with Donations are encouraged, and money the Mississippi studio.”

New Bagel Land owner Russ Haynie, left, plans to keep the same recipes and the same products that have made the Beaumont Village shop a neighborhood WIN TICKETS: WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO favorite. (Jane Perkiins) APRIL 2015 WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO: SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS THE HOLLYWOOD STAR NEWS 7 HSTAR BUSINESS BUZZ We want your feedback!

TriMet is considering a 25-cent increase to the Honored Citizen fare Jeffrey Weissler, proprietor of the cozy and eclectic Please join us for a discussion: Pairings Portland store in Kerns, Wednesday, April 8 celebrated the two-year Urban League Senior Center anniversary of ‘Portland’s 5325 NE MLK, Portland weirdest wine shop’ in March. 1:30 p.m–2:30 p.m. (Jane Perkins) Served by Lines 6 and 72 Portland’s weirdest participating business. When children find the rabbit, a reward will be waiting. Alternative formats, sign language interpretation and wine shop celebrates Families can pick up a map at any communication aids are available. Call 503-962-2455 its two-year anniversary participating location. Participating merchants include: (7:30 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., weekdays) or TTY 7-1-1 at least Jeffrey Weissler, proprietor of the cozy and Adorn, Alameda Café, Amenity Shoes, The 48 hours before the meeting. eclectic Pairings Portland store in Kerns, Arrangement, Beaumont Florist, Beaumont celebrated the two-year anniversary of Hardware, Beaumont Village Market, To learn more about the proposal and submit your feedback, ‘Portland’s weirdest wine shop’ in March. Beaumont Vision, Concordia Chiropractic, After two years in the well-trafficked visit trimet.org/hcfare. Dee’s Golden Door, Fire & Stone, Gazelle, space at 24th and Glisan, across the street Green Dog Pet Supply, Jason Zwick (State from Kevin Cavenaugh’s micro-restaurant Farm), Mother of Pearl, Pizza Nostra, The consortium The Ocean, Weissler has made Refinery, Umpqua Bank, and Yo Choice. quite an impression on the neighborhood “This is a fun event that gets the whole with his wine shop, bar and classroom. family out to explore our great business And not just with the mirrored disco-ball district,” explained Kurt Sand, president hanging from the ceiling. of the Beaumont Business Association. “One of my favorite things about this “Businesses have a fantastic time welcoming shop is sticking my head out the door and young visitors, and see an opportunity to IT’S SPRING AND inviting neighbors to come inside and connect with the community.” try some wine,” Weissler said. “I like to surprise people with wine in ways that are New Seasons helps ALL OREGON IS fun and engaging. That light a spark. A lot of wine culture is steeped in pretension. neighbors plant trees This store’s mission is to totally blow up New Seasons employees joined about 150 STARTING TO DIG. that construct. To make pretension fun.” volunteers to help plant nearly 170 street Weissler, who developed a following as a trees in the Alameda, Hollywood, Irvington, Hopefully for our number. blogger at consciouswine.com – where he Grant Park and Sabin neighborhoods, preaches the gospel of organic, sustainably- during a family-friendly planting organized farmed wines – can pair literally anything by Friends of Trees on Saturday, February 28. with an appropriate wine. “Our thanks to New Seasons for If your spring chores involve breaking Lists of possible pairings that blanket the supporting this event and for providing shop’s colorful, chalkboard walls include breakfast, too!” said Andy Meeks, Friends ground, make sure to call 811 before you characters from The Game of Thrones, The of Trees development manager. Portland Trailblazer’s starting line-up and On Saturday, March 14, the organization dig. We’ll help make sure you’re clear of animals from the Chinese zodiac. held another successful planting in the On a recent visit, Weissler explained to a trio Vernon and Concordia neighborhoods. any buried lines. For more information, The Friends of Trees’ Green Space of guests how the wine they were drinking visit PortlandGeneral.com/OutdoorSafety. was perfectly aligned with the Depeche Mode Initiative provides homeowners with song he was about to play for them. discounted trees to plant at their Customers can purchase a pre-paired homes with their neighbors. Visit www. bottle from Weissler’s cellar or select from friendsoftrees.com for more information. daily by-the-glass offerings. Weissler also hosts regular events, including tasting classes, potlucks and dance parties. Visit pairingsportland.com for more information, or stop by the store to chat with Weissler. Beaumont’s Hip Hop into the Shop returns for third year Sponsored by the Beaumont Business Association and participating merchants, the Hip Hop into the Shop treasure hunt will return to Northeast Fremont Street from March 30 to April 5. The event gives children and families an opportunity to explore all that Beaumont Village has to offer. WIN TICKETS: WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO A small rabbit will be hidden by each (Friends of Trees) 8 THE HOLLYWOOD STAR NEWS WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO: SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS APRIL 2015 LOVE LOCAL Seniors connect with community By Kathy Eaton “My favorite volunteer is [email protected] one who’ll do anything Volunteers are more satisfied with and is unafraid to learn their lives because they’ve chosen to volunteer in ways that are meaningful and try new things.” to them, according to national program studies. Studies show volunteering – ITA LINDQUIST helps seniors maintain good brain Architectural Heritage Center function, and productive activity may slow down the aging process for seniors. volunteer and rentals manager Senior volunteers not only enjoy health benefits and a sense of accomplishment, “The worst day in the but volunteering also helps combat office is when I overhear depression brought on by isolation. The Oregon Humane Society (OHS), our dispatchers inform Metropolitan Family Services (MFS), clients that we can’t provide and the Architectural Heritage Center (AHC) are three local organizations where rides. Our turndown rate seniors volunteer and stay involved in is roughly 33 percent. their communities. If people only knew how Oregon Humane Society easy it was to volunteer, Three years ago, senior volunteers Marilyn Happold-Latham and her Oregon Humane Society volunteer Marilyn Happold-Latham, point person for K9 Nose Work, an enrichment activity for shelter dogs to we know they’d help.” seek and find smelly treats, works with Brogan, a nine-year-old Husky-Shepherd mix, recently adopted from OHS. (Judy Nelson) husband, Dale, brought the K9 Nose Work program to shelter dogs at OHS to help – DEBORAH SHIMKUS but less taxing assignments like data entry the dogs build confidence while providing Metropolitan Family Services or working in their retail store, the Best Metropolitan Family Services mental stimulation and fun, and With 2,200 volunteers serving in multiple Friends Corner, are available. volunteer recruitment coordinator alleviating boredom and anxiety. “Senior programs, MFS helps more than 30,000 “I solicited advice from senior volunteers, dogs are great noseworkers, who love people at home, in school, and in the many of whom were retired from rate is roughly 33 percent. If people searching for and finding smelly treats,” Portland area each year. Programs include: professional positions and possessed only knew how easy it was to volunteer, said Marilyn, who enjoys helping dogs by organizational skills,” said Bigler. Lou • Project Linkage, providing 28,000 rides we know they’d help,” said Shimkus. improving their chances for adoption. Volunteer drivers comprise about 12 Chapman, a retired Portland General annually to seniors and people with For the past five years, OHS has found percent or 400 rides per month. Most Electric customer care manager, served disabilities; homes for more than 11,000 animals volunteer drivers prefer to drive their as a sounding board and still volunteers • AARP Experience Corps with its adult annually, which is three to four times the own vehicles, however Project Linkage as a dog-walker and assists with monthly volunteers over age 50 who mentor and national average. The Oregon Humane provides fully equipped minivans and orientation for new volunteers. tutor school children; Society has a 98 percent save rate for all buses for staff drivers and volunteers’ use. Founded by 14 volunteers in 1868, today • Encore Consultant in which volunteers animals brought to the shelter. For more information: Visit metfamily.org use their professional skills for high “Baby boomers are my most reliable and OHS has approximately 1600 active adult or call (503) 232-0007. impact, short-term projects; and dependable volunteers; I can count on volunteers; twenty-five percent of them them to do their jobs,” said Kristin Bigler, are over age 55. At OHS, the retention • A variety of programs offering after- Architectural Heritage Center rate for all volunteers is 62 percent which school academic and enrichment Volunteer Resources Manager at OHS. “AHC volunteers, staff and board Bigler credits to investing in orientation, activities for more than 9,800 children Bigler initially volunteered at OHS, and members have a deep sense of training and mentoring volunteers before and youth annually in 2002, was selected for their volunteer commitment to preserve Portland history, they start. manager position. According to Bigler, Project Linkage matches clients who homes, and neighborhoods,” said Ita Carolyn Brock volunteers in the OHS senior volunteers are best at mentoring request ride services with drivers like Don Lindquist, AHC volunteer and rentals and training others; also at initiating cattery, showing cats to prospective Morin who volunteers his time two days a manager. Located at 701 S.E. Grand Ave., new projects and following through to adopters. Although she’s legally blind, week. The top priority for the ride service is the AHC opened in 2005 and currently ensure success. At OHS, volunteers have Brock uses devices on her home driving clients to medical appointments, but has about 350 volunteers, according to autonomy to find their niche and set their computer to study cat profiles so she’s Morin has also driven seniors and clients Lindquist. Because “life is limber and hours; schedules are flexible and successful able to share information about specific with disabilities to grocery shop and visit flexible,” the volunteers’ schedules are, volunteers are self-directed. Most volunteer cats with potential adopters. For more friends and family members. He recently too. “AHC volunteers include recent assignments require physical activity, like information: Visit oregonhumane.org or recalled providing rides to a blind man so he college graduates, but 45 percent of dog-walking, or showing cats to clients, call (503) 285-7722. could visit his wife in a convalescent home. volunteers are over age 55, and comprise “The wife was so appreciative; there was no the highest retention rate,” said Lindquist. way she’d be able to visit with her husband “People often call or visit the AHC in person,” said Morin. to learn about their home’s history. He’s also driven seniors to their Architectural plans are filed with city volunteer assignments at the hospital, archives, but AHC offers programs to senior centers, and Loaves and Fishes. guide residents interested in researching Formerly a highway engineer who their homes,” said volunteer Nancy Carr, oversaw a project on Highway 101 north who received AHC’s Volunteer Service of Lincoln City on the Oregon Coast, Award in 2014. In addition to responding Morin responded to an ad for drivers and to visitor questions at the front desk, Carr started volunteering for Project Linkage volunteers for home tours and the annual after retiring in 2009. “Volunteering gives AHC auction. She recently served on the me purpose, gets me out of the house and team to select homes for the Old House keeps me active,” said Morin, age 86. Revival Tour scheduled for April 11. Deborah Shimkus has served as Lindquist started out volunteering at volunteer recruitment coordinator for AHC and five years ago was selected as older adult programs at MFS for 19 years their Volunteer and Rentals Manager. and said intergenerational programs are She provides individual orientation to mutually beneficial, matching former volunteers to better match them with tasks schoolteachers and empty-nesters with to optimize their success. “My favorite students who need help. volunteer is one who’ll do anything and “The worst day in the office is when I is unafraid to learn and try new things,” overhear our dispatchers inform clients said Lindquist. For more information: See Project Linkage dispatcher Marcy Hughes, left, reviews the manifest with volunteer driver Don Morin following his shift. (Kathy Eaton) that we can’t provide rides. Our turndown visitahc.org or call (503) 231-7264. 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Summer 10 THE HOLLYWOOD STAR NEWS WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO: SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS APRIL 2015 LEARN LOCAL Schoolita Alegria celebrates 20 years By James Bash bother to come back to the states,” Cupit For the Hollywood Star News said, “but I missed my country; and I would have had to marry into the Mexican Some of us might drive along Northeast culture to open a business and stay there, 33rd Avenue and not notice the little and I didn’t want to do that.” house that’s home to Schoolita Alegria, a Cupit tried Seattle and Eugene before fun and creative preschool where children settling in Portland. She fell in love with receive a bilingual education with Spanish the city and taught Spanish to kids. She as a second language. then found work at Hollywood Dance The school’s staff has been teaching and Fitness, which had a preschool. After little tykes since 1995. Perhaps the success it closed, a number of parents asked her of Schoolita Alegria, located at 1814 N.E. to start her own preschool. That’s when 33rd Ave., is due in part to its small class she came up with the idea of Schoolita size (only ten students) and its convenient Alegria, found the cottage on Northeast location (just a couple of blocks from the 33rd Avenue and asked Franke, who also entrance to I-84). But the main reason worked at Hollywood Dance and Fitness, that Schoolita Alegria has lasted 20 years to assist her in teaching. stems from the dedication of its founder Schoolita Alegria incorporates and head teacher Alegria Cupit and Montessori and Waldorf ideas into its colleague Greys Franke. educational style. It also uses Reggio “I love teaching kids,” Cupit said. “The Emilio techniques in which the students age range of our kids is from three to five help to decide what to do. years. You just have to expose them to “With Reggio Emilio, you try to help Spanish, and they soak up everything like manifest what the kids would like,” a sponge. They see the thing and hear how explained Cupit. “They love that because you pronounce what it is, and by the next it empowers them. For example, we often time you say it, they put it all together. It use that technique on an art project.” goes that fast.” During July and August, Schoolita Alegria Singing is one of the main methods Alegria Cupit, that Cupit and Franke use to teach the offers a summer camp. According to Cupit, founder and a number of alumni come back. They are children. Cupit estimates that they use head teacher of approximately 40 songs over the course of Schoolita Alegria. attracted to summer camp because it offers a school year. They also involve the kids in (James Bash) more Spanish and is less academic. games and art activities. The kids always go “The kids get to do all of the fun stuff outside to the backyard when the weather parents can make arrangements to drop “All of the parents are jewels,” Cupit said. that they didn’t do during the school is nice to play or create something. off or pick up kids outside of those hours. “I’ve had the best of luck. Things always year,” said Cupit, “a lot of games, outdoor Schoolita Alegria’s school year runs The children bring their own lunches, and work out. Some families made shelves and time, and a lot of art.” from September to June. The class day snacks are provided by the parents on a built a fence in trade for tuition.” Schoolita Alegria has relied entirely on starts at 9 a.m. and ends at 3 p.m., but rotating schedule. Cupit grew up in a big family near word-of-mouth advertising to attract new Austin, Texas, and has a Bachelor’s of Fine students. Interested parents can contact Arts from Southwest Texas University. Cupit at [email protected] or She spent five years in Mexico, initially (503) 288-5574 to set up an appointment studying at an arts school in San Miguel, to take a tour. located in central Mexico. Then she got Cupit loves to stay in touch with the kids a job teaching English in Cuernavaca, who have studied with her. which is known as the “City of Eternal “Some of the kids who were in the Spring” because of its beautiful landscape very first preschool classes have now and climate. graduated from college,” said Cupit. “It’s “Some people wondered why I would pretty amazing!” Sunday, April 19th • 9am-1pm The Madeleine Church 3123 NE 24th Avenue E-Waste items will be Accepting: Computers Laptops • Monitors (CRT, LCD) Celebrate A NEIGHBOR WHO CARES, A REALTOR YOU CAN TRUST Printers/Scanners • Fax/Copy • Ink Cartridges Specializing in Close-in NE Portland Keyboards/Mice • Routers • Misc. 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These Hollywood Farmers Market volunteers Call (503) 255-7160 today to tour enjoy helping out. (Hollywood or attend a “Lunch & Learn” event. Farmers Market) Apartments with meal plans as low as $1,535 a month. www.ParkviewRetirement.org EQUAL HOUSING HOLLYWOOD FARMERS MARKET OPPORTUNITY Independent Retirement and Assisted Living Volunteer at the Seniors our concern ~ Christ our motivation! market this season By Ari Rosner places. According to a Project for Public Hollywood Farmers Market Spaces study, a customer has an average community volunteer coordinator of 15-20 social interactions at a farmers market, versus 1-2 at a grocery store. “Volunteering is the ultimate exercise in And for volunteers, that number is much democracy. You vote in elections once a higher. Even for the setup and breakdown year, but when you volunteer, you vote volunteers, who mainly just interact with every day about the kind of community each other, the camaraderie and sense of you want to live in.” shared purpose is strong. – Unknown On Saturday mornings, the mood at the HFM information booth (which is “We make a living by what we get; the home base for Market volunteers) is we make a life by what we give.” warm and inviting. New volunteers are – Winston Churchill welcomed heartily and quickly absorbed into the community, and returning Interested in volunteering at the volunteers are greeted as old friends. Hollywood Farmers Market this season? Some of the volunteers are people I’ve Come out to our annual Volunteer known for years, and every Saturday the OREGON’S FAVORITE SOCCER CAMP Orientation on Saturday, April 25 from Market is something we share with each Portland legend, Bernie Fagan, started the 11 a.m. to 12:30 pm, at the Rose City Park other and with the neighborhood. soccer camps following a successful career playing professional soccer in England and Presbyterian Church at 1907 N.E. 45th Ave. If you’re interested in learning more with the Portland Timbers. Girls and boys The Hollywood Farmers Market (HFM) about volunteering but can’t make it to have been celebrating soccer, summer, wouldn’t be possible without the help the orientation, contact me (Ari Rosner) and good times at the camps, making this the favorite soccer camp with players and BERNIE FAGAN of its volunteers. Every Saturday it takes at (503) 803-7279 or send me an email at parents since 1983! HEAD COACH 20 to 25 volunteers to keep the market [email protected] running smoothly. A few early-riser and we can schedule you and orient you volunteers show up at 7 a.m. to set up the on Market day. CAMPS AT EVERY SKILL LEVEL FOR BOYS AND GIRLS Market’s equipment (canopies, umbrellas, See you at the Market! tables, chairs and signage) before RECREATIONAL COMPETITIVE customers begin arriving. During Market The Hollywood Farmers Market is located Ages 5–12 Ages 10–14 hours, volunteers answer customers’ on Northeast Hancock Street between Beginner to Intermediate Intermediate to Advanced questions, pass out fliers about upcoming 44th and 45th avenues, one block south of Market events, allow vendors working Sandy Boulevard. It is open every Saturday solo to take breaks, do crowd counts and from May through Thanksgiving and the FIND OUR FULL SCHEDULE AND ONLINE REGISTRATION AT take care of anything else that comes up first and third Saturdays of the month WWW.BERNIEFAGANSOCCER.COM during the course of a busy Market day. from December through April. Market or call 503.284.4951 Then, at the end of the day, they take hours are 8 a.m.-1 p.m. from May to all the equipment down and put it in September and 9 a.m.-1 p.m. from October storage. Volunteers enable our Market to to April. Dogs are welcome in the Market function and they make it fun. after 10 a.m. For more information, visit WIN TICKETS: WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO Farmers markets are inherently social hollywoodfarmersmarket.org. 14 THE HOLLYWOOD STAR NEWS WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO: SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS APRIL 2015 HSTAR OUT AND ABOUT shops at Personal for her puppy supplies. In 2010, Anna Fickle opened Branch Birdie, 8021 S.E. Stark St., featuring women’s and kids’ clothes, handcrafted jewelry and specialty gift items. Montaville Neighborhood Association The Montavilla neighborhood spans Northeast and Southeast Portland, with dominating its geographic center. Although crime statistics reflected a decline in vandalism and drug-related crime, there were elevated levels of larceny and simple assaults in 2014, compared to bordering neighborhoods, according to Montavilla public safety chair, Benjamin Kerensa. Making a go in “The public still perceives 82nd Avenue as a negative place,” said Lew Scholl, Montavilla’s land use and transportation chair. In 2015, ODOT (Oregon Department of Transportation) plans to invest $7 MONTAVILLA & million in 82nd Avenue intersection improvements, according to Scholl. Montavilla neighborhood association chair Fritz Hirsch is optimistic about the redevelopment of 82nd Avenue, or Avenue of NORTH TABOR Photos by Judy Nelson the Roses: “In five to ten years, the public will Musician and artist Wesley Britt works be astonished at the results of redevelopment diligently on his current painting inside his along 82nd Avenue. It’ll be more than just apartment at Milepost 5. Lower rent costs rows of used car lots,” said Hirsch. Montavilla history allow him more time to pursue his art. Montavilla neighborhood is home to Originally named Villa, the an annual jazz festival featuring originally Montavilla neighborhood was platted in Stark St. is one of the oldest businesses composed music performed by local 1889 by H.C. Campbell, who represented on the street and offers traditional dishes musicians. The festival is sponsored by Neil a group of investors. Campbell also like falafel and shawarma, according Mattson, owner of Montavilla Guitar Studio, oversaw construction of the Morrison to manager Pascal Attar. On a sunny 1178 S.E. 86th Ave. The fourth annual street Bridge, which was completed in 1887 Saturday afternoon, the Coogan family fair on Southeast Stark is being planned and sold to the city of Portland in 1895 rode their bikes from Mt. Tabor to Ya Hala for August 2015, and summer months will for $150,000, according to Rod Paulson’s for lunch, then headed to the Academy see First Friday on Southeast Stark. The Portland Neighborhood Histories, Vol. 2 Theater, 7818 S.E. Stark St., to see the weekly Montavilla Farmers Market located (Community Press). For conversational movie “Paddington” with their two at Southeast Stark Street-Washington Street ease, settlers soon shortened the name BY KATHY EATON children and a neighbor’s child. Alley, opens in June. to Montavilla. Stark Street was originally [email protected] La Bouffee International Gourmet, 8015 Once predominantly farmland, North known as Base Line Road as all townships Tabor was originally part of Mt. Tabor and S.E. Stark St., offers a variety of local and north and south were measured from it. with other artists creating original work. was known as Center neighborhood. international products. La Bouffee is a By 1890, Montavilla boasted three grocery Jessica Joy, another Milepost 5 resident French slang term for “food,” according stores, a couple of meat markets, a livery and theater artist, returned to Portland to manager Bader Hamieh, who’s worked North Tabor: stable, a privately owned bank and two after living in New York City for 12 years. there for seven years. In addition to selling blacksmith shops. For more information: Four months ago, musician and oil Center of providence olive oil in bulk from Spain, the store offers See montavillapdx.org/overview. Today painter Wesley Britt moved to Milepost Platted in June 1889 by a group of “spices and rices” from all over the world. Montavilla offers affordable housing for 5 because of the low rent, allowing him investors, long-time Oregonian editor In 2009, Jett Wyatt purchased Personal artists to live and work in. to dedicate time to his artistry by doing, Harvey Scott once described Mt. Tabor rather than talking about it. Beast Pet Store, 8119 S.E. Stark St. as an area having “an atmosphere of the Milepost 5: artists in Montavilla Artists at Milepost 5 recently attained “Businesses have breathed new life into most healing and balsamic purity.” Mt. non-profit status. They’ve opened a cafe the neighborhood,” said Jess Theobold, Tabor crowns the summit of an extinct In 2009, Portland Mayor Sam Adams and manage a community events rental who’s worked at Personal Beast for more volcano, and was developed after the envisioned a campus with affordable space in the spot that formerly housed than three years. Jacklyn Arvin, co-owner street car line opened in 1892. living space and working studios for the Post 5 Theatre. Milepost 5 has three of Maven Collective, offering vintage In 1858, Archbishop Blanchet of local artists by repurposing the shuttered exhibit galleries, which are curated bi- antiques and decor at 7819 S.E. Stark St., Oregon City requested that the Sisters of 80-year-old Baptist Manor Nursing Home monthly and in which visiting artists are in Montavilla. Milepost 5 on Base Line invited to feature their work as well. Road near the intersection of Southeast Julie Thompson, a fashion and interior 78th Avenue and Stark Street, once marked designer who became the community the spot that was geographically five manager at Milepost 5 in August 2014, miles from the city’s center. Honoring said “Milepost 5 is on the upswing and the past by naming the buildings and finally realizing its potential.” For more campus Milepost 5, 850 N.E. 81st Ave., the information: Visit milepost5.net. community of artists pursue their passions whether it’s theater, painting, sculpture, Businesses thrive Tabor Tavern photography, music, writing or design. owner Ken ‘Zig’ The campus consists of two buildings: on Southeast Stark Naffziger, left, and The Studios. Includes 96 apartments, Today Southeast Stark Street is a waitress Rachel Slater share a (small, dorm-like rooms with community popular destination for residents who laugh during a kitchens and bathrooms). Rents range walk or bike to shops, restaurants and the busy lunch-time from $300 to $900 per month. . service. A large The Loft. A 54-unit condominium The , 7901 S.E. Stark vintage photo of a Tabor streetcar complex. Units are individually owned St., which opened in 2005, is a popular looms in the by artists who want to live and work in gathering place for coffee drinkers and background while proximity to other artists. pastry aficionados. Popular restaurants Zig holds a jar of James Halvorson, originally from South like Country Cat, 7937 S.E. Stark St, draw their signature bacon jam. The Dakota, is a mixed-media painter who’s large crowds on weekends for brunch and tavern is located lived at Milepost 5 for three years. He’s weeknights for dinner. Open since 1999, on East Burnside motivated and inspired by interacting Ya Hala Lebanese Restaurant, 8005 S.E. in North Tabor. APRIL 2015 WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO: SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS THE HOLLYWOOD STAR NEWS 15 HSTAR OUT AND ABOUT Providence, founded in Quebec, build a in May, Swift and Union, 8103 N. Denver, hospital in Oregon. Fifteen years later, is named in honor of the meat packing St. Vincent de Paul Society, a Catholic companies that founded the Kenton charitable organization, offered a block neighborhood in 1906. of land and cash for construction of a hospital that opened in Northwest North Tabor Portland in 1875. Mother Joseph led the design team and oversaw construction of neighborhood association the 75-bed hospital. A second St. Vincent “We may be the only neighborhood Hospital subsequently opened downtown, Maven in Portland without a school, park, or and the sisters built a school of nursing. Collective co- community center,” said Terry Dublinski- In 1941, the sisters opened a 448-bed owner Jacklyn Milton, North Tabor transportation Providence Hospital, known today as Arvin shops for and land use planning chair. In his pet supplies Portland Providence Medical Center for her new opinion, the top two issues facing the (PPMC), 4805 N. E. Glisan St. Two years puppy, Felix, at neighborhood association are lack of ago, the last remaining nun moved from Personal Beast affordable housing, and pedestrian and PPMC to Seattle; however, the hospital Pet Store. bike safety concerns, particularly east of still provides the former convent quarters Both shops Northeast 60th Avenue. are located for nurses interning at PPMC. on Southeast Dublinski-Milton is passionate about In 1945, the Sisters of Providence Stark Street. pursuing a park for the neighborhood. founded the Providence Child Center “Rosemont Bluff, a 2.11-acre natural area (PCC) which includes a center for patients and their families. Guest housing across the street from the Laurelhurst at Northeast Hassalo and 68th Avenue, medically fragile children. The Swindells will include private rooms with common Cafe, 4611 E. Burnside St., a popular acquired in 1995 as a protected area, will resource center at PCC supports areas and kitchens. For more information: neighborhood restaurant. remain undeveloped,” said Dublinski- parents and caregivers of children with See oregon.providence.org. In 2012, Ken “Zig” Naffziger stumbled Milton. But he’s hoping a few parcels special needs, developmental delays or into the North Tabor neighborhood located near East Burnside and Northeast disabilities. For more information: Visit Good neighbor agreement and established Tabor Tavern, 5325 E. 52nd Avenue will become available for oregon.providence.org/our-services/s/ thing • a • ma • bob, (thing-ŭ-mă-bob)Judy Kennedy n. 1. andUsed her to husband, describe Jim, items Burnside. “The Tabor burger and fish and Portland Parks and Recreation to acquire swindells-resource-center/. that either you can’t rememberhave the livedname in oftheir or North that don’tTabor homeactually chips are popular with diners, and we and develop a park. Comments on the sell six-ounce jars of our signature bacon exist. since 1970; Judy has actively participated 2015 Comprehensive Plan from the North Portland Providence on PPMC’s Good Neighbor Agreement jam,” said Naffziger, who plans to open Tabor neighborhood association are Medicaldoo Center • dad , today(doo-dăd) n. 1. An un-namable(GNA) committee. gadget Comprised of some of two sort, a second restaurant in Kenton. Opening posted to their website, northtabor.org. Part of Providencepossibly highlyHealth & technical. Services, representatives each from Laurelhurst PPMC is a not-for-profit network of and North Tabor neighborhoods, Kennedy hospitals,Our health knowledgeable plans, physicians, team cansaid help PPMC you is findresponsive the tothingamabob neighbors’ or clinics anddoodad affiliated you health need. services, concerns. Providence Voice, a 1974 PPMC Beaumont Hardware with 3,111 employees and 1,200 medical publication, showed no parking structures Maintaining our community with care staff members. PPMC is recognized for on campus. “The neighborhood issues excellence in patient care and research in were the same back then: parking and Plumbing Beaumont Hardware for all your traffic,” said Kennedy. Most recently Electrical Paint • Tools areas such as cancer, heart, orthopedics, Housewares home and garden needs PPMC sought neighborhood input women’s health and rehabilitation services. Lawn & Garden Everything to help you get the job done, in Spring Jean Powell Marks, PPMC’s Public Affairs on the exterior design of the guest We Cut & Thread Pipe Manager, highlighted recent milestones: housing project, to ensure conformance Cut Glass • Cut Keys and throughout the year. 2008: established the Providence with neighborhood architectural Rescreen Knowledgeable staff • Natural garden supplies styles. Residents appreciate PPMC for Cancer Center, 819 N.E. 47th Ave. Dr. EARTH FRIENDLY products Walter J. Urba spearheaded Providence’s implementing a telephone hot line, (503) cancer research efforts and today is 215-0615, for neighbors to report parking Locally-owned internationally recognized as a leader and smoking violations to PPMC security. and pioneer in immunotherapy, which is 4303 NE Fremont St. based on the premise that the body’s own North Tabor 503-281-4406 • www.beaumont.doitbest.com immune system can fight cancer. businesses then and now Open 7 Days a Week! Mon - Fri 8-6 • Sat 8-5 • Sun 9-4 2013: opened a neonatal intensive clinic Kennedy recently recalled when Hill’s for its tiniest patients. Market occupied the building where 2014: established My Little Waiting Room. Starbucks is located now, at 4500 N.E. This free childcare service is provided by Glisan St., and American Dream Pizza, professional child caregivers on a daily basis. 4620 N.E. Glisan St., opened in 1985, was We’re doing retirement Our Way. 2015: projected opening of a 30-unit guest formerly a shoe repair shop. Portland’s housing project located at Northeast Police Bureau Traffic Division, Northeast What’s your plan? Glisan Street and 46th Avenue to be 47th Avenue and East Burnside Street, a home away from home for visiting replaced a former Safeway, and is located

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Events are listed in the order in which they will take place, followed by ongoing and upcoming events. To be considered for inclusion, entries must be submitted Calendar by e-mail to [email protected] by the 15th of the prior month. APRIL 2015 If possible, follow the format used in the calendar. Cafe shows photographer’s work First Friday features four artists Brueghel at the Museum Cafe,” was selected as one of Learn about, make a pinata April 1. 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Photographer Michael Laus, a April 3. 6-9 p.m. First Friday reception featuring four 150 outstanding books by Oregon poets. Free. (503) April 11. 3-5 p.m. Learn the meaning and tradition of the Laurelhurst resident, shows work through May. Cafe hours: artists. Artists’ reception 2-4 p.m. April 12. The four are 284-1726. www.broadwaybooks.net. Broadway Books, Mexican pinata with instructors Nelda Reyes and Geraldo 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday to Friday, 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Lee Ann Slawson, photographs; Raymond Keller, paintings 1714 N.E. Broadway. Calderon. Create your own from cardboard and decorate Saturday and Sunday. Free viewing. (503) 546-1833. The and collages; Richard Enger, black and white prints; Carol Eat at Binks for Alberta with colored papers. Free. (503) 988-5370. Kenton New Deal Cafe, 5250 N.E. Halsey St. Basch, oil stick on paper. www.12x16 gallery.com. (503) library, 8226 N. Denver Ave. April 8. 6-10 p.m. Binks will host April’s “Eat for Alberta 432-3513. 12X16 Gallery, 8235 S.E. 13th Ave. No. 5. Guardino exhibits varied art Street,” one in a series of fund-raising events for Alberta Chorus to sing 1860s music April 1. 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Exhibit includes Becky Busi’s Storytellers to swap tales Main Street, a volunteer-driven non-profit organization. April 11. 7:30 p.m. The Satori Men’s Chorus, with artistic Duralar drawings and Rick Gregg’s metal and other April 3. 6:30 p.m. Portland Storytellers’ Guild story swap Brinks will donate 25 percent of the evening’s proceeds director Susan Dorn, will commemorate the 150th materials through May 28; Bridget Benton’s encaustic and potluck. Listen to or tell a 5-minute story in a safe to the community. Information: albertamainst.org. Binks, anniversary of the end of the Civil War and Abraham and mixed media through April 26. Hours: 11 a.m. to 5 environment. For newcomers and experienced tellers. 2715 N.E. Alberta St. Lincoln’s assassination. Music of the day and later, with p.m. Tuesday; 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Wednesday to Saturday; Feedback upon request. Free. Information: Ken Iverson NE Village meeting set songs from the North and the South. Adults $12 in 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. www.guardinogallery.com (503) 631-2167. , 5736 N.E. 33rd Ave. advance at Satori message phone: (503) 242-4244. $15 April 8. 7-8:30 p.m. A general meeting for Northeast (503) 281-9048. Guardino Gallery, 2939 N.E. Alberta St. at the door. Youth under 18 $7; children under 3 free. Center plans family yoga Village PDX, an organization to help people age in their Drama slated at Playhouse April 3. 6:45-7:30 p.m. Yoga for the entire family, ages 3 own homes. Free. Information: Margaret Baldwin (503) Library slates Latin film series April 1. 7:30 p.m. “The Other Place,” a psychological and older. Reduce stress, gain balance, get limber, enjoy 895-2750. [email protected]. Rose City Park April 13. 6-8 p.m. La pantella de oro: Peliculas en drama by Sharr White, features a successful pitchwoman a peaceful night’s sleep. Free for Northeast Community United Methodist Church, 5830 N.E. Alameda. espanol -- Spanish films. Las peliculas demostrarles una Center members; non-member drop-in rates: $10 variedad de temas y talentos en el cina Latino Americano for pharmaceutical companies specializing in Club slates Anna Webber dementia drugs . She discovers she may be suffering adults, $5 youth. Information and registration: www. contemporaneo. The film series highlights the talent and April 8. 7:30 p.m. doors open; 8 p.m. Gavin Castleton from a similar medical condition. Hours: 7:30 p.m. necommunitycenter.org or (503) 284-3377. Northeast topics in contemporary Latin American cinema. (503) band; 8:45 p.m. Anna Webber Trio; Blue Cranes band 10 Wednesday to Saturday; 2 p.m. Sundays through April Community Center, 1630 N.E. 38th Ave. 988-5394. North Portland library, 512 N. Killingsworth St. p.m. Advance tickets $10 at ticketfly.com; $12 at door. 12. Tickets: $20-$36. Box office: (503) 488-5822. Market extends seasonal hours Age 21 and older. The Secret Society, 116 N.E. Russell St. NE Village PDX plans meeting www.portlandplayhouse.org/the-other-place/ Portland April 4. 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Shop for produce, meat, fish April 13. 7-8:30 p.m. Learn how to age in place in your Playhouse, 602 N.E. Prescott St. and other food products in a year-round farmer’s market, Shop invites two writers to read own home with help from a supportive community of Micah & Me to visit Smallfry which continues every Saturday in spring and summer. April 9. 7 p.m. An Oregon Book Award finalist, Lisa friends and neighbors through Northeast Village PDX. April 2. 10:30 a.m. Songs for kids of all ages with Micah www.hollywoodfarmersmarket.org. Northeast 44th Avenue Ohlen Harris, author of “The Fifth Season,” and Jared Free. Northeast Baptist Church, 6701 N.E. Prescott St. and Hancock Street. John Smith, author of “Rabbit:(a novel?)” will read & Me. $5 suggested donation. smallfrypdx.com/events . Saving? Serving? Intervening Smallfry, 4107 N.E. Tillamook St. and talk about their works. Harris’s book recounts Adoptable pets to visit shop her years as a caregiver for her mother-in-law while April 14. Noon. “From Saving to Serving: On Students to read to therapy dogs April 4. Noon to 3 p.m. Shop & Adopt event with Oregon raising young children. Smith’s book is a meditation Intervening in the Lives of Others,” facilitated by April 2 and 16. 5:30 p.m. Kids and teens may improve Humane Society showing animals looking for loving on the meaning of love and family that writer Steven Adam Davis. Free. Part of the Oregon Humanities’ reading skills by reading aloud to a therapy dog from Pet homes. Information: (503) 416-5026. Furever Pets, Allred calls a “mind-bending trek through the Conversation Project. Portland State University School Partners. Free. Registration required: (503) 988-5362. 1902 N.E. Broadway. disordered shards of a 21st century life.” Free. (503) of Social Work, 1800 S.W. Sixth Ave. Albina library, 3605 N.E. 15th Ave. Learn about retrofitting homes 284-1726. www.broadwaybooks.net. Broadway Lick a cone, back the dogs Books, 1714 N.E. Broadway. Church plans Tenebrae service April 4. 1-3 p.m. Learn about seismic retrofitting. Topics April 14. Noon to 8 p.m. Enjoy a free cone and learn April 2. 6 p.m. Maundy Thursday Service of Tenebrae, include the goal of retrofitting, basic load conditions, Eco-Film Fest at Hollywood about the Oregon Humane Society’s May 9 fund-raising exploring the history of the Seder and Service of Tenebrae. earthquake insurance, features to avoid in next home April 9. 7 p.m. “How to Change the World,” the opening Doggie Dash. Ben & Jerry’s Ice Cream Shop, 301 N.W. Remember the Last Supper in a progressive, inclusive purchase, permits, assessing foundation quality, tools. of the Portland Eco-Film Festival. It continues to April 12 Tenth Ave. Free. Registration required: (503) 988-5234 or in the Christian community. Dinner provided. (503) 258-0992. featuring 14 films covering such topics as protecting wild Film fest plans ‘Harvest of Empire’ Bridgeport United Church of Christ, 621 N.E. 76th Ave. Hollywood library, 4040 N.E. Tillamook St. salmon, ending food waste, reconnecting with nature, April 14. 6-7:45 p.m. Jefferson High Multicultural Film disconnecting with technology. Tickets and schedule Poet to read from chapbook Communion set for Easter service Festival features “Harvest of Empire,” followed by a at portlandecofilmfest.org or hollywoodtheatre.org. April 2. 7 p.m. Poet Melissa Madenski will read April 5. 9 a.m. free breakfast. 10:30 a.m. Sing Hallelujah discussion. Free. (503) 988-5394. North Portland library, Hollywood Theatre, 4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd. from her new chapbook, “Endurance,” described by and receive Holy Communion on Easter in a progressive, 512 N. Killingsworth St. inclusive Christian community. Hear a blend of traditional writer Kim Stafford as “poems in a musical key rarely ‘Whiplash’ film on schedule Improve sleep naturally encountered but indelibly remembered.” Madenski, and contemporary music. Childcare provided. (503) April 10. 1 p.m. View “Whiplash,” a film about a young April 14. 7-8:15 p.m. A free workshop to learn natural who has taught throughout the Northwest, also has 258-0992. Bridgeport United Church of Christ, 621 N.E. drummer who enrolls in a music conservatory where solutions to improving sleep, which is essential to health received a Literary Arts fellowship in non-fiction. Free. 76th Ave. his instructor will stop at nothing to realize a student’s and wellness. www.shiftwellnesspdx.com/events. (503) (503) 284-1726. www.broadwaybooks.net . Broadway Joyous service planned potential. Includes Academy Award winner J.K. Simmons 841-6079. Shift Wellness PDX, 8040 N.E. Sandy Blvd., Books, 1714 N.E. Broadway. April 5. 11 a.m. All ages are welcome to attend a joyous in supporting role. Free but donations appreciated. (503) Suite 100A. Easter service. (503) 232-9129. Presbyterian Church of 288-8303. Hollywood Senor Center, 1820 N.E. 40th Ave. Comedy to play at Sandy Plaza Tots learn yoga with music April 2, 3, 4. 7:30 p.m. “Jewtopia,” a play by Bryan Fogel Laurelhurst, 935 N.E. 33rd Ave. NE Village plans meeting April 15. 9:30 a.m. Yoga Tots introduces toddlers, 18 and Sam Wolfson, features a gentile boy who wants to Learn about eating fresh foods April 10. 2-4 p.m. Learn how to age in place in your own months to 3 years, to yoga through music, rhymes, stories marry a Jewish girl and a Jewish boy who wants to marry April 6. Noon to 12:30 p.m. Join Teri Sprouse, a holistic home with help from a supportive community of friends and play with Yoga Continuum teacher Jacquie Hill. $5 a Jewish girl to please his parents but can’t get a date. nutritionist, in a conversation on benefits of building and neighbors through Northeast Village PDX. Free. suggested donation. Smallfrypdx.com/events. Smallfry, They form a pact and stereotypes collide, cultures clash meals around newly harvested foods. Information: (503) Hollywood library, 4040 N.E. Hancock St. 4107 N.E. Tillamook St. and chaos ensues. Tickets $15-$35. Box office: (503) 284-3377 or www.necommunitycenter.org. Northeast 239-5919. Www.trianglepro.org. The Sanctuary@Sandy Home tour to show adaptations Community Center, 1630 N.E. 38th Ave. Seminar focuses on brand Plaza, 1785 N.E. Sandy Blvd. April 11. 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. On spring tour of vintage April 16. 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. A small business Legal clinic offered for seniors homes, see great kitchens and other spaces that Easter House features sugar eggs seminar, “Look Where You Throw, Throw Where You Look,” April 7 and 21. 9:30 a.m. to noon. The Senior Law demonstrate Portlanders living in older houses and will outline why a brand is important. Presented by Kurt April 3-4. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Rose City Park Easter House Project legal clinic offers free services, for Multnomah paying respect to the past while making the homes Saberi of Counterform. Register at rsvp@albertamainst. offers a show and sale of panorama sugar eggs, Ukranian County residents age 60 and older, through Legal Aid their own. Tickets $25 general, $20 members. (503) org. Alberta Main Street, 1722 N.E. Alberta St. eggs, lightly scented candles, polymer clay food to wear Services of Oregon and affiliated attorneys. Thirty-minute 231-7264. Val Ballestrem [email protected]. Architectural and home decor and more. Bring a camera to take a appointments required: Michelle Wilson (503) 288- Heritage Center, 701 S.E. Grand Ave. Cully neighbors plan clean-up photo “inside” the gigantic egg. sugarkeepsakes@gmail. April 18. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Cully Association of 8303. North Portland Senior Services at Charles Jordan Artist to teach basket making com. 1904 N.E. 56th Ave. at Hancock Street. Community Center, 9009 N. Foss St. Neighbors plans Earth Day clean-up and donations, April 11. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. The whole family may join Puppies learn friendly manners including food, furniture, clothing, reusable appliances. Learn to make phad thai noodles papercraft artist Sarah Fagan to make baskets from Also limited yard debris, lawn mowers, block Styrofoam, April 3 or 18. 4:30-6 p.m. In “Puppy Romps,” expose April 7. 5:30-7 p.m. Learn to make phad thai noodles. recycled cardstock, road maps, old sheet music and tires on rim $3, tires off rim $2. Fees for vehicle loads. your puppy to new dogs when he is young to help prevent The group will prepare the dish together then sample the magazines. Free. (503) 988-5394. North Portland library, Residential households only. No hazardous waste. behavioral problems as he matures. For puppies 5 creation. Free. (503) 988-5391. Hollywood library, 4040 512 N. Killingsworth St. Information: www.cullyneighbors.org/newsdetail. months or younger. Trainers will answer questions about N.E. Tillamook St. Library hosts ceramic painting asp?NewsID=24. Collection at Trinity Lutheran Church potty-training, play biting and more. Free but donations and School, 5520 N.E. 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(503) 232-9129. Presbyterian 5182. Warehouse Theatre, 512 N.E. Schuyler St. -- Children’s day and day of the books, including music, his ego and attempts to recover his family, career and Church of Laurelhurst, 935 N.E. 33rd Ave. crafts and special activities. Free. (503) 988-5370. himself before his Broadway play opens. Free but Tell stories with photos, drawings Acupuncture offered vets Kenton library, 8226 N. Denver Ave. donations appreciated. (503) 288-8303. Hollywood April 16. 2:30-4:30 p.m. Continues Thursdays to May 21. April 1. 5-8 p.m. Continues April 8, 15, 22 and 29. Free Laurelhurst to view tree care Senior Center, 1820 N.E. 40th Ave. “Visual Storytelling” offers a way to tell your story through acupuncture for veterans in community-style setting. photography, drawing, simple writing. Share stories and April 18. 3-5 p.m. The Laurelhurst Tree Team and Portland Square dance to aid team Available for active, inactive or retired U.S. military hear those of others. 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Glisan St. for 5 and younger. www.eventbrite.com/e/family-square- Tai chi class slated Volunteers offer tax aid dance-tickets-15916569889. April 28. 6-7 p.m. Tai chi continues for seven sessions. Labyrinth walk, healing time set April 2. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Continues noon to 4 p.m. April 18. 4 p.m. Walk a candlelight labyrinth in the second Catholic women to confer Improve balance, tone, strength and flexibility in a relaxed Mondays and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesdays and Thursdays class with experienced teacher Dr. Arn Strasser. $15 each floor Great Hall. At 5:30 p.m. a healing and wholeness April 25. 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. Portland’s Archdiocesan to April 14. AARP tax aid volunteers will help with class. Pre-registration required: www.pdxchiropractor.com service, with music in the Taize tradition, begins in the Council of Catholic Women will hold its 2015 conference simple tax form filing. Come early to fill out registration or (503) 287-2800. Irvington Tennis Club, 2131 N.E. sanctuary. www.westprespdx.org. (503) 287-1289. with the theme “Fix Your Gaze on Mary.” Registration fee of forms. Appointments required: (503) 833-8303. Free. Thompson St. Westminster Presbyterian Church, 1624 N.E. Hancock St. $40 includes continental breakfast and lunch. The Grotto, Hollywood Senior Center, 1820 N.E. 40th Ave. 8840 N.E. Skidmore St. UPCOMING Dawes to perform at Millennium Learn to operate your device April 18. 6 p.m. Dawes, a quartet of musicians and Fellowship plans plant sale April 2, 9, 23 and 30. 9:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. John Fund-raiser set for school songwriters working in folk, country, indie, rock and April 25. 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Plant and garden sale. Lucas gives guidance for understanding your electronic May 2. 5-8 p.m. “Viva Las Vegas!” is an auction and Americana, performs in “record store day.” (503) 231- Information: (503) 281-0324. Wheelchair accessible. device. Free but donations appreciated. Appointments dinner to raise funds for Holy Cross School. Cindy Scheel 8926. Music Millennium, 3158 E. Burnside St. Wilshire United Methodist Native American Fellowship, required: (503) 288-8303. Hollywood Senior Center, with Exuberance Catering will serve a gourmet meal Dinner to fund counseling center 3917 N.E. Shaver St. 1820 N.E. 40th Ave. including organic and local food. Tickets $35 each before April 15, $50 afterward. Information: Eva Varga (971) April 18. 7 p.m. The annual “Swing into Spring” dinner, Vegan baked goods for sale Story, music set at book store 219-9720 or the school (503) 289-3010. Holy Cross with music and prizes, raises funds for the non-profit April 25. 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. House of Dreams cat April 2. 10:30 a.m. Continues Thursdays. Story time Parish Hall, 5202 N. Bowdoin St. Northwest Catholic Counseling Center, which provides shelter has its annual sale of vegan baked goods and with music. achildrensplacebookstore.com/. Free. (503) mental health services to about 1,200 people each year. plants, pots, garden art. Proceeds benefit the no-kill, 284-8294. A Children’s Place Book Store, 1423 N.E. Musicians to raise funds Tickets $45 each or a reserved table for 8 at $275 at free-roam shelter in Northeast Portland. kittydreams.org. Fremont St. May 9. 7 p.m. An evening of fun and song to help www.nwcounseling.org or call (503) 253-0964. Riverside [email protected]. 1923 S.E. 58th Ave. custodian Mike Richardson with medical bills. Golf and Country Club, 8105 N.E. 33rd Drive. Music slated for Fridays Beanstalk to mark third birthday Performances by The Sirens singing group, Praise Band April 3. 10:30 a.m. Continues Fridays. Music with musicians and Miss Kita Montgomery. Free-will offering. Tribute to support Siren Nation April 25. 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Beanstalk children’s Micah & Me. Free. achildrensplacebookstore.com/ (503) 281-1229. Rose City Park United Methodist April 18. 7 p.m. doors open, 8 p.m. “Lady Sings the Blues consignment shop celebrates its third birthday with a (503) 284-8294. A Children’s Place Book Store, 1423 Church, 5830 N.E. Alameda. -- A Tribute to Billie Holiday.” Proceeds to benefit the 2015 party and shopping event. The public is invited to festivities N.E. Fremont St. Siren Nation Festival. Musicians of many genres pay tribute including face painting, prizes and a sidewalk sale with Bike fest films scheduled to jazz singer Billie Holiday. Tickets $12 advance, $15 at special discounts. A portion of proceeds will benefit the Writer plans writing class May 22-24. 5 p.m. Program A, 7 p.m. Program B. “Filmed by door. , 3000 N.E. Alberta St. Portland Public Schools’ clothing closet and Insights Teen April 2-June 4. 6:30-7:30 p.m. Creative writing class Bike” Festival includes films from around the globe. Programs Library sets programming class Parent Program. No cost to attend. http://beanstalkpdx. for adults and school-age students of all experience vary, discussions follow some showings, some directors com/ . 3528 N.E. 15th Ave. at Fremont Street. levels. Write from prompts to create ideas for poems, to visit. VIP festival pass $42 for all showings. Details: April 19. 2:30-4:30 p.m. Get a taste of programming, stories and personal essays. A supportive class led filmedbybike.org/fest-schedule/. Velocult, 1969 N.E. 42nd learning how to use it, the difference between Market seeks volunteers by poet and fiction writer Linda Ferguson. $47 for Ave., and Hollywood Theatre, 4122 N.E. Sandy Blvd. programming and coding and where you can learn more. April 25. 11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Learn about volunteer Beaumont SUN School area residents, $65 non- Free. Registration required: (503) 988-5234 or at the opportunities at the year-round farmers market. Free. residents. Register online at www.PortlandParks.org, Walk, run for lung cancer group Gregory Heights library, 7921 N.E. Sandy Blvd. (503) 803-7279. Www.hollywoodfarmersmarket.org. course #1022762 or call (503) 916-5615. Beaumont June 20. 7:30 a.m. Registration opens; 9 a.m. start time Mississippi Studio slates Rumer Rose City Park Presbyterian Church, Northeast 44th Middle School, 4043 N.E. Fremont St. at , Southeast 39th Avenue and Stark Avenue and Sandy Boulevard. Street. A 5K run/walk affiliated with the Lung Cancer April 19. Doors at 7 p.m., concert at 8 p.m. Rumer Control Fido positively Alliance to help those diagnosed, at risk and those who performs. Age 21 and older. Tickets $17.50 advance, Music to aid Parkinsons group April 4 - May 16. 9:30-10:30 a.m. Dog owners learn love them. Register at LungLoveRunWalk.org/Portland. $20 day of show. TicketFly.com. (503) 288-3895. April 25. 7 p.m. doors open, 8 p.m. concert begins as positive training techniques to gain better control of their Information: [email protected] or 1-800- Mississippi Studios, 3939 N. Mississippi Ave. a tribute to singer Linda Ronstadt, recently diagnosed dogs and make walks more enjoyable. Fee: $180 per 298-2436. — Janet Goetze Musicians to play for seniors with Parkinsons, and to raise funds for Parkinsons dog. Register at www.oregonhumane.org/pet_training or Resources of Oregon (www.parkinsonsresources. April 21 and 28. Noon to 1 p.m. MusicianFest call (503) 285-7722. Oregon Humane Society Manners org). Musicians include Ara Lee, Anne Weiss, Nancy            Performance Series presents a program for seniors. In Hall, 1067 N.E. Columbia Blvd. Devine and The Get Ahead band performing work partnership with the National Council on Aging, the Music from Ronstadt’s repertoire. Tickets: $20 general, $25 Market offers cider tasting Performance Trust Fund and Musicians Union Local 99. reserved seating. www.albertarosetheatre.com. Alberta April 4. noon to 2 p.m. Continues Saturdays in April. Free. Registration: (503) 288-8303. Hollywood Senior Rose Theatre, 3000 N.E. Alberta St. Hop-inspired beer and cider tasting. Learn about the Center, 1820 N.E. 40th Ave. producers in casual tasting. Free. www.wholefoodsmarket. Peek behind the scenes at OPB Party planned for NE Center com/stores/sandy. (503) 284-2644. Whole Foods April 26. 2-3:30 p.m. Storybook party and book swap for April 22. 12:15 p.m. Ride a 14-person van to tour Market Hollywood, 4301 N.E. Sandy Blvd. all ages to celebrate 10th anniversary of the Northeast Oregon Public Broadcasting, seeing behind the scenes Community Center. Refreshments, door prizes, games, Tai chi classes slated and learning about OPB’s history and favorite programs. crafts. Bring one book in good condition and take home April 6 and 8. 10-11 a.m. Tai Chi: Moving for Better Registration required: (503) 288-8303. Free but donations two books. Free. Information: (503) 284-3377 or www. Balance progresses from easy to difficult . Continues appreciated. Hollywood Senior Center, 1820 N.E. 40th Ave. necommunitycenter.org. Northeast Community Center, Mondays and Wednesdays. Free but donations are 8:00pm Baseball players to gain honors 1630 N.E. 38th Ave. appreciated. Information and registration: (503) 288- 8303. Bridge Meadows, 8502 N. Wayland Ave. April 23. 4:30 p.m. The Grant High Athletic Hall of Fame Neighborhood looks to future will announce new baseball members at the Grant-Lincoln Exercise for flexibility game: Pete Williams and Jim Ruggles 1951; John Keller April 28. 6:30 p.m. Rose City Park Neighborhood April 7 and 9. 11 a.m. to noon. Hollywood Senior Center and Jerry Exley 1952 ; Larry Hoffman and Jim Rice 1955; Association opens with performance by blues Exercise Program for joint flexibility, muscle strength, Jack Riley 1956; Jim Sandsness 1958; Bumper Wilson musician Norman Sylvester. Speakers outline endurance, coordintaion and cardiovascular conditioning, 1959; Mark Hardin 1960; Artie Wilson 1970; Darryl livability issues and facilitate discussions then gather designed to accommodate those with arthritis. Continues Motley 1978; Joe Gerber 1996; Paul Raglione 2005, and ideas for how to shape growth and development to Andre Broadous 2008. Grant High School baseball field, benefit residents and business owners. For child care Tuesdays and Thursdays. Free. Register: (503) 288-8303. Northeast 33rd Avenue and U.S. Grant Place. contact Chloe Carter at (503) 933-9150 or nate. Leaven Community Center, 5431 N.E. 20th Ave., at [email protected]. Information: chairwoman Tamara Killingsworth Street. ‘Repair cafe’ to fix items DeRidder (503) 706-5804 or SustainableDesign@ Depression relief offered April 23. 6-8:30 p.m. Repair PDX plans a free repair tdridder.users.panix.com. German American Society, cafe that brings volunteers who like to fix things together 5626 N.E. Alameda. April 7. 6:30 p.m. A depression and anxiety support with people who have items needing fixing, such as group through Recovery International. Symptoms may small appliances, electronics, bikes and garments. www. Learn how to relieve muscle pain include stress, anger, sleeplessness and other mental repairpdx.org/. Bike Farm, 1810 N.E. First Ave. April 28. 7-8:15 p.m. Free workshop to learn effective health issues. Continues Tuesdays. Free-will offering. www.

and money-saving techniques to relieve muscle pain and recoveryinternational.org. (503) 810-2789. St. Michael Hollywood neighbors to meet discomfort. www.shiftwellnesspdx.com/events. (503) 841- & All Angles Episcopal church, 1704 N.E. 43rd Ave.,            April 23. 7-8:30 p.m. The Hollywood Neighborhood 6079. Shift Wellness PDX, 8040 N.E. Sandy Blvd. Suite 100A. between Sandy Boulevard and Broadway. 20 THE HOLLYWOOD STAR NEWS WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO: SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS APRIL 2015 SHOP LOCAL Knittn’ Kitten shop spins a great yarn By Janet Goetze For the Hollywood Star News The Knittn’ Kitten Address: 7530 N.E. Glisan St. The Knittn’ Kitten is more than a yarn Telephone: (503) 255-3022 shop. It also carries a large selection of fabric, including vintage material. Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday Vintage means it is at least 30 years Website: www.knittnkitten.com old, explained Ethel Stark, who owns the Facebook: www.facebook.com/knittnkitten 10-year-old shop with her daughter, Rome Etsy: www.etsy.com/shop/TheKnittnKitten Church. They don’t have used fabric, Stark quickly pointed out. “It is pre-owned,” she explained. “We likes the feel of the fabric, which often is buy from the public. Usually it’s people all cotton rather than a cotton blend. who are moving, downsizing or have “It’s unique,” she said. “People aren’t someone who has died. They have fabric buying the same fabric at the same store they aren’t going to use. Somebody brings in the same colors.” it in and we buy it. We don’t take anything Because Stark and Church have on consignment.” relatively low prices, some of their The small shop at 7530 N.E. Glisan St., frequent customers are beaders, quilters also has a collection of patterns for sewing and knitters who make items for charities. styles from the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. Next to the patterns is a collection of craft “They can walk in here and find magazines for crocheting, knitting and materials at a price that fits their budgets,” other needle arts. Sometimes tailoring Stark said. tools come into the shop, too, but they sell If someone has questions about a yarn quickly, Stark said. or fabric, Stark said she and her daughter In addition to selections of yarns, the Ethel Stark examines ruffled trim in The Knittn’ Kitten, a shop opened by her and daughter, Rome Church, in 2005. They sell may have answers. Over the past decade, shop has buttons, beads, thread, zippers, pre-owned fabric, yarns, notions and items for crafters. (Janet Goetze) she said, they have undertaken research laces and ribbons. Not all are vintage, said to learn more about items associated Stark, who detects age by packaging and during open hours. said, “Bring it in and we’ll buy it from you.” with knitting, sewing and other crafts that content of the materials. A few weeks ago, the sign drew in Tana A periodic customer is Kadie Maller, come into the shop. Wittwer, who was moving from North who recently drove from Banks with her Collectors come to the shop seeking Besides offering a range of materials at packaging for old snaps, buttons, yarn Portland to a home near the shop. The mother, Renee Maller, to pick up vintage reasonable prices, Knittn’ Kitten is listed and other items, Stark said. They want words “Vintage Fabric” caught her eye, fabric she makes into bags, wallets, as a Metro “green” business. the drawings made by artists before Wittwer said. aprons, zipper pouches and other items. computer-generated designs became During the 1970s, her family lived Like others who buy materials from the “We really are recycling and making common on packaging. in Nigeria and Kenya where her father shop, she sells her finished products on sure stuff doesn’t go to the dump,” Stark “As far as we know, there’s no other store taught in American international schools. Etsy, the online site for artists and crafters. said. “We will treat things with respect. like ours in the Northwest,” she said. They returned to the United States The colors and color combinations Staff at some of the non-profits (taking The shop owners receive notes from with material in the colors and designs from past decades, Kadie Maller said, are donations) don’t always know what it is customers who move and complain characteristic of each country. different from current fabric. She also and don’t know to treat it with respect.” they can’t find another outlet like Knittn’ Wittwer said she and her mother framed Kitten. The business also gains attention some of the batiks. However, she doesn’t sew from across the country on the Facebook and simply hung onto the remainder of the page, Stark said. Two magazines in Japan material. With her move, Wittwer decided it also have written about the shop. was time to get the authentic African fabric However, the business gains customers to someone who would appreciate it. locally by word of mouth and the “The sign caught my eye,” Wittwer said, sandwich sign displayed on the sidewalk explaining what she had with Stark, who

Collectors seek packaging with pictures created by artists rather than a computer. (Janet Goetze)

Patterns from 1950s to 1970s are available at The Knittn’ Kitten along with vintage fabric and notions. (Janet Goetze) APRIL 2015 WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO: SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS THE HOLLYWOOD STAR NEWS 21 HSTAR BRIEFS Reading buddies seek books Parkways with the Portland Bureau of Transportation. Along the routes, the for Rigler School students family-friendly event includes music, Volunteers are teaming with second- vendors and special activities. and third-graders at Rigler Elementary Maps and additional information are School, 5401 N.E. Prescott St., to help the available at www.PortlandSundayParkways. students improve their reading skills. org or call (503) 823-7599. The Hollywood Neighborhood “Sunday Parkways has become a beloved Association and the Hollywood event series in Portland with strong Senior Center are working on the community support,” said Leah Treat, intergenerational project to gain director of the transportation bureau. volunteers and donors for the Central Other city bureaus, non-profit agencies Northeast Reading Initiative Book Drive. and businesses support the events, which The reading buddies are seeking new may help Portlanders find enjoyable and used books in good condition to outdoor activities bringing health benefits. provide reading variety for the students, Dr. Timothy Jacobson, a cardiologist said Amber Johnson, executive director of with Kaiser Permanente, said, “The idea the Hollywood Senior Center. A collection that every day can be Sunday Parkways box is at the center, 1820 N.E. 40th Ave. supports what we recommend to patients Especially needed, she said, are board – incorporate activity into your daily life books, Spanish language books, rhyming by walking your kids to school, taking a books, alphabet and numbers books, The Hollywood Lions’ first picture books and chapter books. The short stroll during lunch, or taking your annual food drive was dog for a walk. Most importantly, find reading buddies don’t need activity, held at Grocery Outlet in coloring or textbooks, she said. the Hollywood district. something – like biking – that you enjoy, Currently, 53 percent of Rigler’s third- (Hollywood Lions) and you’ll be more likely to stick with graders are behind in reading, Johnson said. it, especially if you have support from a The Portland Public Schools’ goal is to have Members of the club, formed in 1928, congregations in Oregon, Washington family member or a friend.” all students reading at grade level by third recently arranged the food drive at the and Alaska, she said. The building was Five Parkways routes, free of traffic, grade to assure later educational success. Grocery Outlet, 4420 N.E. Hancock constructed in 1912 by German Evangelical are planned. The first will be in East Volunteers also want to help Rigler St. Members also received monetary Lutherans and was purchased in 1961 by Portland between 11 a.m. and 4 p.m. students raise their reading level because donations to help purchase toiletries and Allen Temple, then led by the Rev. Othal H. May 10, Mother’s Day. The 7-mile route in middle school they will meet with peers additional items. Lakey. He later became a bishop and now is will highlight natural areas, including the from Alameda Elementary, where 90 percent Lion Mel Trotter organized the event a retired Episcopal prelate. newly finished Foster Floodplain. Also of third-graders are reading on track. and arranged for club volunteers to work The church’s ministries include the on the route are the Lents, Ed Benedict, in four-hour shifts. They used flyers, a Resurrection Drug Abuse Program, an Glenwood and Bloomington parks. Milagro gains funds for sandwich board and the Grocery Outlet’s emergency food center, the Allen Temple The 9.5-mile North Portland Parkway is programs, to help with reader board to advertise the food drive a HIV/AIDS Education Project, the Allen planned from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. June 21, week before the event. They also handed Temple Homeless Ministry, the One Father’s Day and first day of summer. The Church-One School mentor program, a neighborhood issues out flyers on the day of the drive. route includes the scenic Willamette Bluff, social justice ministry and its ongoing The Miracle Theatre Group, also known Members assisting included Jack the Rose Gardens, Harper’s Alvord, Greg Arntson, Mary Ganon, Christian ministry. as Milagro, a Northwest Latino arts Playground at Arbor Lodge Park plus Arlene Halverson, Ray Howard, Dan The congregation is organizing and culture organization, has received activities at Kenton, Columbia Annex and Norton, Melinda Palmer, Allison Stoll, Bill fund-raising events, Harper said. The grants totaling $3,750 to support the McCoy parks. Stout and John Tarver. Alyssa Adcock of church webpage outlines opportunities: organization’s artistic programming and The Northeast Portland 8-mile Parkway, Housing Services assisted club members facebook.com/meetmeatthetemple. It has community engagement. open 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. July 26, will include with distribution. a PayPal account: www.ninethdistrictcme. Southeast Uplift awarded $1,500 from the Northeast Neighborhood Greenways In addition to the food drive, Hollywood org/allentemplecmefirefund.htm/. the Neighborhood Small Grants Program, and Woodlawn, Alberta and Fernhill Lions have provided American flags and Checks, payable to Allen Temple CME and Oregon Humanities granted $2,250, parks. Festive music and activities are according to Sarah Fitzsimmons, a flag education for first graders, toys for Church Restoration, may be deposited Shepherd’s Door and sight and hearing with Bank of America or mailed to the planned at Rigler Elementary School. Milagro development associate. The Southeast 7-mile route, from 11 For 30 years, Milagro has presented screening for children in local schools. church at 3519 N.E. 15th Ave., PMB #357, a.m. to 4 p.m. August 23, will include Latino theater, culture and arts education The club’s next project will include Portland, OR. 97212. Laurelhurst, Colonel Summers, and provided a home for artists and screening for about 20 community Sewallcrest and Ivon parks. Music, food audiences seeking authentic Latino residents who may need eyeglasses. Sunday Parkways to and dance will be part of activities. cultural experiences. Information is open in May, clearing The final 7-mile parkway, from 11 a.m. available at www.milagro.org. Fire damages Allen Temple; traffic for fun in city streets to 4 p.m. September 27, will include The neighborhood small grant will fund-raising starts for repairs support a series of meetings for inner- Sunday Parkways, traffic-free streets travel on the new Tilikum Crossing Allen Temple CME Church was Southeast residents and business people. where Portlanders may bike, walk, run Bridge of the People and the Sellwood severely damaged by fire in February, but The goal is to continue conversations or roll to see communities and parks, area. Participants will see Westmoreland community members are rallying to raise about how Milagro can help direct changes will begin May 10 and continue monthly and Sellwood parks plus the Brooklyn funds to restore the building at 4236 N.E. 8th affecting the future of the neighborhood. through September 27. School park with music, food and fun Ave. Southeast Uplift, which administers Kaiser Permanente presents Sunday activities. – Janet Goetze The Portland Fire Bureau and insurance small grants from the Portland Office investigators determined that an electrical of Neighborhood Involvement, was fire ran through the basement and part established to assist citizens and of the sanctuary about 5 p.m. February 7, neighborhood associations on livability and community development issues. said the pastor, the Rev. Dr. LeRoy Haynes The Oregon Humanities grant will Jr. Firefighters suppressed the fire but were support post-play conversations with called back about 10 p.m. by flames that audiences, scholars and local experts severely damaged the church roof, he said. about personal identity and how it affects A preliminary reconstruction estimate is livelihoods and social interactions. $300,000 to $400,000, the pastor said, with Oregon Humanities is an independent, work expected to take up to six months. non-profit affiliate of the National A final bid is expected to be selected in Endowment for the Humanities. April, he said. In the meantime, the congregation Hollywood Lions gather food meets at 1 p.m. Sundays at Maranatha Church, 4222 N.E. 12th Ave. to help local people in need The congregation, organized in 1949, The Hollywood Lions Club has collected was the first in the Christian Methodist nearly 750 pounds of non-perishable food Episcopal denomination in the Northwest, for local residents in need, said event co- said spokeswoman Michelle Harper. It has chair Sandy Woolverton. been the “Mother Church” for other CME 22 THE HOLLYWOOD STAR NEWS WWW.STAR-NEWS.INFO: SERVING NORTHEAST AND NORTH PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOODS APRIL 2015 HSTAR BUSINESS NEWS Albina Community Bank and our customers in the Beaumont and release from the exposition. The Wet Spot classic, close-in neighborhoods. Portland Rose City communities will truly benefit was recognized as a retailer who excels in Monthly Magazine placed him on its Top names new service manager from her expertise.” sales, promotion, display and knowledge Ten Real Estate Agents list. Albina Community Bank has named Albina Community Bank is a local, of a dedicated live animal category. Grippo, with Windermere Stellar for more Josephine Downey as customer service full-service, independent community The news release continued, “It brings than 20 years, has been among the top 3 manager for the Beaumont and Rose City bank committed to investing in together a passion for aquatic friends, percent in company sales for 17 years. He branches. individuals, families, businesses and local has created deep roots within the local also has been a member of the Leadership Downey is responsible for overseeing neighborhoods. More information is at community and has a loyal following due Advisory Council, providing input and the daily operations at the branches. www.albinabank.com or (503) 287-7537. to their amazing staff and great products.” advice in setting the company direction. Beaumont is at 4020 B N.E. Fremont St. This award was the second the business Moran, a Portland resident for 29 years, Rose City is at 5636 N.E. Sandy Blvd. Hollywood’s Wet Spot has received in recent months. The strives to understand neighborhood Downey also represents the bank in the Wet Spot received a silver award for intricacies on both sides of the Willamette community to support the bank’s mission shop gains national award “Best Aquatic Retailer” from Pet Age River. She is a certified negotiation expert and community focus. The Wet Spot Tropical Fish Shop, a publication. and also certified by Earth Advantage. She “We are pleased to have Josephine Hollywood district business for 15 years, was a United States Professional Tennis overseeing the day-to-day operations received a retailer excellence award at the Four Windermere brokers Association teacher for 15 years. of the two branch locations,” said Linda Global Pet Expo in Orlando, Fla. are honored for services Merrill, senior vice president and chief The shop, at 4310 N.E. Hancock St., Windermere Stellar has given special New senior VP named for operations officer. “Josephine excels at received the award for “Best Live Animal recognition to four real estate brokers in Albina Community Bank delivering exceptional customer service, Specialty Retailer,” according to a news the Northeast office. They were among Linda Merrill has been named senior the company’s top 10 percent for 2014 vice president and chief operations officer production, according to a news release. of the Albina Community Bank. 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A native “We honor these brokers because Oregonian, she has more than 30 years they embody the spirit of Windermere of local commercial banking experience Stellar — that of helping to make our local including management roles at Unitus neighborhoods thrive,” said Joan Allen, co-owner of the company. “Their success Community Credit Union, Bank of the comes from providing their clients with Northwest and First Security Bank. high quality and personalized service.” “Linda is a key member of the bank’s They also participated in Windermere senior leadership team, and has Stellar’s charitable giving program by recently taken on additional duties and donating a portion of each transaction to responsibilities,” said Cheryl Cebula, a fund supporting agencies aiding low- president and chief executive officer. income families and children, Allen said. “This new position more accurately Griggs was cited for a critical role in describes the job she is doing at Albina.” Commercial • Residential • Apartments • Carpets developing the Windermere Modern Concorde students CargniFurniture • WindowFloors • Windows • EverythingCleaning Else Homes Program. 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