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By David Krogh, income. Rodgers said, “Twelve of the tenants The artist communal living center, will need to relocate as their incomes are Milepost 5, in the Montavilla neighborhood above the qualification limit or they are at 850 NE 81st St., has been sold to CDP students who do not qualify for the reduced – Community Development Partners, a rates. CDP will, however, voluntarily help California- based business which develops those 12 tenants with relocation expenses.” and markets affordable housing projects in He indicated that CDP already has Oregon and California. 1400 affordable units in the Portland Milepost 5 began in 2007 with the area and will be proposing another 700 support of then Mayor Sam Adams who affordable units in the near future. Some of had the intention of providing low cost these will come from acquisition and rehab live/work accommodations for artists here. and others will be new construction. Rich Rodgers, Portland Development When asked about the possibility of Manager for CDP, stated, “The facility will new artist live/work type housing, Rodgers still provide for that need.” CDP purchased stated CDP is working on a new affordable the two older buildings at the site involved housing facility in North Portland (off Lyrin Murphy and Steve Day outside the Whidden and Lewis-designed structure on with artist housing/studios. The building Alberta St.) which will include 160 units, upper Belmont St. with the condo units, however, is still under some of which will be for homeless the ownership of the condo association that transition and others which are proposed Belmont’s Christmas House Lives continues to market the condos for sale. for artist units. There are currently ninety-five artist for Another Holiday units ranging from studios up to two Note: No other affordable housing bedroom units. These units all qualify as projects have been identified in Portland By Midge Pierce on several local projects. The Belmont affordable, according to Rodgers. Rents that would allow live/work for artists. house is Murphy’s eleventh restoration. will likely increase slightly as the building Many of the new apartment buildings being A once grand, century-old house With luck born of positive thinking and is older and in need of renovations, but constructed along transit streets (such as on upper Belmont is being meticulously a loyal construction crew, Murphy is are intended to still fall under the Federal Hawthorne, Belmont and Division) allow restored by a tour de force with the skill rescuing Portland one house at a time. affordable housing limit: renters cannot live/work, however, they do not fall into the and determination to save historically The handsome Jacob H. Cook House, earn more than 60% of the median family affordable housing category. significant architecture from the wrecking known by locals as the Christmas House ball. for its past profusion of holiday lights, lay Lyrin Murphy, a realtor with a self- abandoned for nearly a decade as squatters, described “really expensive passion,” graffiti, rodents and trash piled in. One Procedures Matter in Times of narrowly outbid developers seeking to auction morning, she said “I sat on the demolish the venerable Whidden and porch at the crack of dawn and pleaded, ‘If Lewis-designed structure dating from you want to be saved you will help me get Change the early 1900s. “We want to celebrate you’.” this wonderful house and honor the Since then she and her team have hit By Midge Pierce attending meetings in 2004. He says he neighborhood’s history and character.” the ground running, roughing in updated seeks RNA accountability for following Her financial partner, Steve Day, wiring and plumbing, preserving original A grievance filed within a SE process, not removal of anyone from the adds, “This house is a true work of art. You wall tapestries and turn-of-the-last-century neighborhood association may shed needed board. don’t tear down art.” He credits Murphy’s tubs, tuck-pointing foot thick rock walls, daylight on changing roles, responsibilities In a time of hotly divisive dedication, enthusiasm and eye for detail and straightening the original columns on and rules of NAs and their supporting issues – landuse, demolition, infill and for his confidence in investing in the the wrap around porch wherever possible. organizations. transportation – procedures matter. Field is project. “Lyrin is a master. When she falls Every item is being salvaged. Filed by a Richmond Neighborhood concerned about what he calls an almost in love with a house, she’s unstoppable.” Materials that need to be replaced such Association (RNA) board member two-year pattern of RNA Open Meeting She and Day have worked together as outdoor banisters on the upper balcony against another board member and the violations that could continue if the NA is will be repurposed as new balustrades are RNA, the grievance lands as the former not held to task. “This issue is important milled to meet code. Some days twenty or Office of Neighborhood Involvement to ensure the goals of transparency and more workers are on the project. (ONI) transitions to the Office of accountability that are at the heart of the At each step, Murphy undertakes Community and Civic Life (OCCL). With Open Meeting rules.” careful forensics to ensure work reflects “Neighborhood” no longer in OCCL’s RNA member Vivian Libson, a authenticity. “I love going to work,” name and the elimination of neighborhood grievance signatory, expressed outrage she says as the house reveals secrets coordinator positions, NA members over circumventing the election. “Our like writings from 1909 beneath peeling wonder if the agency will still support them votes were thrown away. We should not be bedroom wallpaper. Despite construction and function with the transparency they deprived of our right to vote. This is not and boarded up windows, the house is need to model in their own associations. Russia.” a solid “treasure,” according to a local Answers may come as the grievance One of the people appointed to the architect who says Murphy is doing plays out amid discussions of potential board is new chair Matt Otis, named in everything right to maintain the home’s process abuse and actions that effectively the grievance for violating Open Meeting integrity. overruled the RNA’s annual Board election. rules by emailing the board privately about Murphy, who names all the houses The grievance complaint filed by his plan to make a motion to cancel the By- she restores, calls this one Walter, perhaps Allen Field and signed by 30 members laws vote. because of rumored ties to Walt Disney’s alleges violations of Open Meetings rules, Otis declined to address the Portland family. set by still existing ONI standards and allegations specifically, saying he would “Walter never disappoints,” she says Code of Ethics, incorporated into RNA follow prescribed practices. He then offered pointing out 115-year-old arts and crafts bylaws. a measured summation of the imperfect fruit-sculptures that still adorn a mantel; The grievance stems from the nature of the all-volunteer organization. dining room pocket doors with oak on cancellation, without public notice, of a “Everyone here loves this neighborhood one side and mahogany on the other; Bylaws vote slated to go to the general and wants it to be better,” he said. leaded glass in perfect condition; earth- membership and the appointment of In August, RNA appointed a facili- toned tapestry beneath box beams; hand- individuals who had not received enough tator to select a committee to review the carved newel posts. The original parquet votes to be elected. Board members complaint for merit and report back to floors and elaborate woodwork is largely have always been elected, not appointed, the board. The committee will include a turn to page 19 according to Field, since he started turn to page 22 2 THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER SEPTEMBER 18 LE Letters to the Editor

Dear SE Examiner of the Portland City Council who us as a city, destroy so much of vote for it as defendants in the up- what we have built, why not use I realize the title of this coming lawsuits against the plan. our intellect to find another path? article is “Pushback Over Deposing these parties will Surely, in place of panic Parking Reform,” but perhaps force the truth to come out about mongering and strong arming, you could have found someone’s what special interests influenced we can calmly and methodically perspective that favors reform the R.I.P. and give Portlanders a solve the issues before us and besides PBOT’s to quote in your chance to “follow the money.” preserve the chronicle that is our article. This destructive idea, born architecture. The biggest employer from former developer lobbyist What is that alternative?. mentioned, Fred Meyer, and mayor Charlie Hales, and Science – which invented subsidizes a transit pass as an rammed through by the co- the cellphone, the jet plane, the option for employees. Paid conspirators at the Bureau of electric car, the drone, 3D printer Parking and permits will create Planning and Sustainability – the things we use to make our more space for customers cycling and the City Council, will not, lives better and safer and which through and would certainly not as experts have testified, solve make the world better to live in. put any employees or businesses the affordability issue touted by Surely there exists into the “dark ages.” R.I.P. supporters. technology that can “save” these For Hawthorne and other It will be shown that this structures without twelve months SE neighborhoods to promote issue has been purposefully of down time. themselves as truly green, they kept from public vote and that Surely there is a way to must embrace parking reform public testimony has been retrofit masonry structures from and incentivize employees and stifled. Portland’s liveability and the outside, that makes them customers to utilize other modes neighborhoods are at stake and impervious to seismic threats. to access their businesses when residents need to speak out at Surely there is an epoxy so possible. City Council meetings. Sign up strong as to render a one-story Kathleen Parker and testify. brick building impervious to Politicians, bureaucrats seismic attack and failure. Dear Editor: and developers come and go, but What a shame to lose Portland neighborhood residents countless vintage buildings Special thanks to Midge (owners and renters) have to live because we, as a city, in the Pierce for her excellent reporting here. Get this issue on the ballot moment of “crisis” failed to seek in The SE Examiner. and let the people decide. and locate a better option. As the legal challenges My buildings are not just continue to build against the Frank DiMarco brick and mortar. My buildings hopelessly corrupt developer- make a neighborhood. giveaway known as the Bricks, Mortars and My buildings house places “Residential Infill Project,” Memories where our citizens have an opponents need to consider tough experience; tactics such as naming members OpEd By Corey Brunish A graduation dinner, an of both the so-called Planning anniversary celebration, a first and Sustainability Commission Everyone wants the safest date; (PSC) who voted for the new possible city. Every building Finding the ideal gift for the over-reaching plan and members owner wants to know he has beloved daughter, son, brother, done everything in his power to sister, husband and wife; make his premises safe beyond The places we shop and eat reproach. form the very fabric of our lives. That said, are we doing the I don’t lease spaces, I build very best for our citizens and memories. I provide a venue for our city by imposing mandatory people to make a living. rehabilitation via seismic People who pay taxes -- upgrades? income, business, property and Are we serving our payroll taxes – the very definition population, our heritage and our of symbiosis is small business economy by forcing the vacating and the city in which they work. of hundreds of commercial Once these buildings are properties for twelve months at a gone, they are gone forever. time at a cost of lost revenue (for I say, “Not on my watch.” both the landlord and the business As the custodians of these in residence) and hard costs of classic and beloved structures, we more than $100,000 each? must do better. Are we preserving our We must serve and honor history and the art of our ancestors the history that was put in our by thus compelling owners to sell care. and demolish our legacy? As a resident of Portland for “We shape our buildings, 37 years and an owner of some 15 then they shape us” -- Winston buildings in town, rather than see Churchill

Publisher/Editor: Nancy Tannler Advertising: Nancy Tannler – 503.254.7550 Proofreader: Albert Q. Osdoe A & E: Brian Cutean Contributors: Don MacGillivray, Midge Pierce, David Krogh, Jack Rubinger, Peter Zimmerman Serving residents of Hosford-Abernethy, Kerns, North Tabor, Laurelhurst, Montavilla, Mt. Tabor, Richmond, Buckman, South Tabor, Sunnyside neighborhoods. Circulation 26,000 (including 21,500 mailed copies). Founded in 1990 Published the last Saturday of each month. PO Box 33663, Portland OR 97292-3663 Phone 503.254.7550 e-mail: [email protected] seexaminer.com ©2018 The Southeast Examiner THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER SEPTEMBER 18 3 It Takes A Village

By Midge Pierce “It takes a village,” she says, to keep things running. The $45 tickets cover gourmet treats Despite the City’s long- from Wonderland of Food, drink standing promise to establish a vouchers and entertainment from Harvest Festival nearby recreation and community jazz pianist Kerry Politzer. center, inner SE lacks city-funded Auction items range 9.12.18, 2-9PM resources comparable to other from multi-night getaways to parts of the City. As that broken a wine wall and fancy baskets promise lingers, nonprofits and that include baby layettes and FEATURING MUSICAL PEFORMANCES BY churches try to fill needs on pampering for pets. For the fun at limited budgets with varying heart, fairy hair will be available. edna vazquez success. For information see taborspace. TaborSpace, the historic, org/gala school of rock • papa maurice • red yarn 36,000 square foot so-called “Last year was our first real living room at effort to bring farmers’ market • zucchini racing • craft fair • SE 55th and the community prepared foods • beer garden • giant connect four Belmont, hosts To help offset the into our building events and preservation upwards of 3000 upkeep costs, Fundraiser effort,” says (503) ORGANIC 3029 SE 21st Ave. www.peoples.coop people weekly. Pitts. “The Some seek Event Chair Cecile Pitts outpouring of cool shelter, support has urges community mem- techies like been wonderful quiet workplaces bers to reserve spots for the and humbling. HawtHorne Gardens senior LivinG and grandmas People from all tag along with Nov. 3 TaborSpace Gala. over SE Portland offspring. The are reaching out JOIN US AT HAWTHORNE GARDENS FOR AN mindful attend Community members can to share what workshops and this lovely, quiet, HAWTHORNE GARDENS those in pain go donate items to be auc- sacred space SENIOR LIVING to heal hearts, means to them.” health issues and tioned and purchase spon- The need Oktoberfest marriages. for community sorships. & FORD MUSTANG CLUB CAR SHOW The role space grows of community even as nonprofit SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13TH Get up to anchor comes at revenues A.M. P.M. 1 month a cost though as and church 11:00 - 2:00 FREE rent in TaborSpace struggles to pay for congregations shrink. Enjoy Brats, Pretzels, Beer, & Cars! Sept. 2018! deferred maintenance to fix its Program Coordinator Josh $10 Suggested donation/person to leaky windows, repair roofs and Pinkston says TaborSpace fills a benefit the Alzheimer’s Association. deliver on good intentions of critical role. “We have an unheard replacing outdated lighting with of mix of families with kids, 2828 SE Taylor St. Portland, OR • 971.222.0396 • hawthornegardensslc.com more environmentally friendly professionals and those needing LEDs. shelter for a few hours.” To help offset the upkeep During the hot days of costs, Fundraiser Event Chair summer, TaborSpace became Cecile Pitts urges community a favored place to get in out of members to reserve spots for searing heat as well as for quiet the November 3 TaborSpace reflection, coffee and classes that Gala. Community members can range from music, art, language donate items to be auctioned and to holistic healing and spiritual purchase sponsorships. practices. ✓ More frequent buses

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Op Ed By David Krogh, AICP Commissioners. Since Portland banned in Portland because they has an antiquated commission take away rooms that could form of government (which no otherwise be available to help So much is happening in other large city in the nation has), alleviate the housing crisis. Portland lately in terms of land elected City Commissioners are Other cities in the world use, planning, and government assigned to run different City allow Airbnb style rentals with processes. Here is a summary Bureaus. restrictions. San Francisco and of several planning-oriented Elected officials do not Santa Monica, for example, situations the public may want necessarily have the knowledge require the hosts to be full-time to be aware of as they relate to or abilities to manage a large city occupants, a business license, and Portland’s eastside. department that has specialized occupancy taxes. • The Pilot Parking Program goals and directions, which is New York has similar for Sunnyside Richmond has been why Bureau assignments get provisions, but is having a shelved for at least 12 months. shuffled so much. horrendous enforcement problem Between the lack of interest by Of late, Mayor Wheeler has (similar to Portland) in that as residents and strong opposition come under fire from the Police many as 75% of operating short- from the Hawthorne Boulevard Union because of concerns over term rentals are illegal. Business Association (HBBA), his management of the Police Barcelona and Amsterdam only 35% of ballots issued were Bureau and his response to the allow Airbnb but have substantial returned. PBOT requires a 50% homeless crisis. fines for violations, which they return rate before consideration The Police Union president, are not lax in assessing. Berlin, of initiating a program can be Officer Daryl Turner, has on the other hand, has expressly made. suggested the Police Bureau banned Airbnb as it is facing • The proposed Vision Zero needs to be run by someone housing shortages too. improvements to SE Foster Rd. with police experience, not a One thing that appears (including pedestrian features, politician. He has been extremely obvious is that Portland City bike lanes, and a narrowing of critical of what he calls the City’s officials often appear to be travel lanes down from 4 to 2) “failed policies” in dealing with more focused on ways to make are well underway and creating the homeless. Perhaps it’s time money for the City rather than considerable daytime congestion. for Portland to reconsider its to effectively solve the City’s Foster Rd. has long been commission form of government. housing and other problems. utilized as an arterial street to • The City Auditor’s office City Commissioners need funnel high volumes of traffic has released a report suggesting to re-evaluate their priorities, between Powell Blvd. at SE the City is failing miserably in the especially in regards to Airbnb, 50th and the 82nd Ave./I-205 monitoring and enforcing of its housing, enforcement and corridors. By reducing traffic short-term stay provisions. These problem solving. capacity and incorporating Vision provisions require Airbnb style of • A recent article in the Zero facilities, this street project rentals to be licensed by the City. Portland Tribune discussed heat fitnessfor women will encourage land uses along The report (at tinyurl.com/ islands and the fact that Portland Foster Rd. to deviate away from y7nds2jf) states at least fifteen does not have any heat island an auto-orientation in favor of different companies are renting prevention measures in effect. In PERSONAL bikes and pedestrians. Airbnb style units here. Close fact, most other cities don’t either. TRAINING Because this project is to 80% of these are operating This is because the most effective New to fitness? Working through injuries? reducing traffic capacity by half, illegally. remedies cost money to both the Striving to attain your Foster will likely become heavily Only 1638 of the units are cities and builders. next fitness goal? congested in the future with much currently licensed, while Airbnb Because of the lack of heat K Fit Studio’s Certified of that spilling over onto Powell alone lists over 4600 Portland island prevention, temperatures Personal Trainers work Blvd. The City needs to include rental units on its website. The can get hotter as much as 20 with women of ALL LEVELS of fitness. traffic capacity management audit also indicated very few degrees or more depending on Contact us for a whenever it imposes Vision Zero rentals are receiving safety where one is at any given time. consultation and to set standards. inspections except via complaints. The West Hills are always an appointment to work • Once again Mayor A recent Willamette Week cooler than E. Portland because with one of our trainers. Wheeler is shuffling around article on the housing crisis of more vegetation and less Bureau assignments amongst City suggested Airbnbs should be paving. Likewise, a PSU student K FIT STUDIO once told me he had actually fried 2725 SE Ash Street an egg at Pioneer Square because 971-373-8499 of how much heat was being www.kfitstudiopdx.com absorbed by the red bricks during hot weather. Portland could address heat island prevention in a number of different ways including: require building roofs to be “green” or using heat reflective roofing materials, requiring more vegetative landscaping for new developments, and increasing the planting of trees to more than just along streets. A good layman’s overview of heat island effect is at this link: (tinyurl.com/y7szzfab). As global OPEN DURING CONSTRUCTION! warming increases, heat island Check out our website for great deals: reduction is going to become www.art-heads.com more of a necessity. 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By Nancy Tannler

After dealing with a lifelong weight struggle, Tammy Salvato eventually found a solution at a gym in NE Portland. It was here she met Mary Drinkhouse, a train- er at the gym who came to this profession because of the same is- sues. This was in 2011. This model for a women’s fitness program really worked for Chef Saied opened his first location in both of them. When the studio closed down in 2015, they were Portland in 2004. Aybla Grill's newest quick to see a need to fill the void and open Kinnect Fitness Stu- location is Now Open at 3003 SE Division dio (Kfit), Fitness for Women by Street. We have offer a full menu of fresh, Women. In February of 2016 they opened their studio at 2715 SE authentic Mediterranean food with multiple Ash St. in the Buckman neighbor- vegetarian, vegan and gluten free offerings. hood. Tammy Salvato and Mary Drinkhouse Tammy said, “I tried every can be if done right and what sup- fifty. She accomplished this goal We also offer catering services for types of kind of fad diet and exercise gym port and solidarity there is in train- by the time she was forty-five. “I and nothing really worked. Plus ing with other woman.” realized then that I needed more events with a choice of delivery or exercise regimes were boring and Mary was primarily a runner balance in my training.” mobile food truck. easy to lose my interest. That was whose goal was to run ten mara- That’s when she switched to before I learned how fun exercise thons (26 miles) before the age of the Kfit style program, eventually We look forward to serving you! becoming a professional trainer. Prior to opening the studio Mary [email protected] | [email protected] was/is a nurse. Becoming a per- sonal trainer was a natural exten- 503-719-5246 | ayblagrill.com SE Updates sion of her love of helping people. Kfit offers balanced training Innovative Pre-school hands. programs in a supportive atmo- “Early childhood is a time sphere. “We are mainly working Art, the outdoors and early of exploration. We want to en- in three categories; cardio, core- childhood education intersect at courage that by spending the ma- strength and resistance training,” Fiddleheads, a new program this jority of each day outside in our Tammy said. Sometimes classes rotate fall that will immerse young chil- backyard play area and garden around the gym working out doing dren in nature. or Mt. Tabor’s nearby forest. We set routines at different stations. Known as an urban forest play, sing, build, plant, and imag- “It’s easy to watch everyone that preschool, it is located at the foot ine.” way and help correct or encourage of Mt. Tabor in an 1890s Victo- The program focuses on their progress.” rian that could be a Disney movie mindfulness, awareness, obser- Other classes focus spe- set. Planters full of fruits, flowers vation and empathy toward each cifically on cardio training, core and vegetables fill the yard. other and the natural world along strength or resistance and any A short walk to Tabor Park with counting activities, literacy turn to page 23 with teacher, artist, mother Jessi- and activities like cooking. Fid- ca Rhys enables 3 - 5 years olds to dleheads, says Rhys, operates by explore old-growth-shaded trails, the motto, “Childhood is a jour- look for tiny critters that help ney, not a destination.” maintain forest health and learn Fiddleheads join a roster D R E A M · D E S I G N · B U I L D about the wonders that created of innovative early learning pro- Tabor’s natural amphitheater. grams with names like Tulip Tree, During a summer open Wildwood, Flower Drum and Lit- house, Rhys tended her garden tle Hands Garden School. B E A U T I F U L of strawberries, potatoes, squash, tomatoes and, of course, kale, in See fiddleheadsurbanforest- anticipation of harvest by little school.com for more. MP

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Star t your dream here: (503) 251-9900 6 THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER SEPTEMBER 18 CN Community News Historic Renovation of Towne Crier 5G awareness Pollution problems worsen You are invited to the red ribbon cutting ceremony to kick-off the Grassroots Communica- Town Hall Specifics historic renovation of the: tions, a branch of Grassroots En- Wednesday, September 26 – 7 pm Towne Crier & Portland Treasury vironmental Education, is build- Sacred Heart Dining Hall in Brooklyn, 3925 SE Milwaukie Ave. Saturday, September 8 ~ 2 pm ing the first national coalition to 4515 SE 41st, corner or 41st and Holgate oppose the massive buildout of With growing highway congestion, diesel exhaust is a growing 5G technology across this coun- concern for residents. A coalition of neighborhood associations and try. civic groups is focusing on the impact of the Brooklyn Rail Yard and Americans For Responsible surrounding neighborhoods directly impacted by the intensifying Technology is based on a set of concentration of diesel activity. The group organized out of frustration shared principles. The purpose with both local and state officials who have refused to address the of the coalition is to help amplify pollution. lobbying power in Washington This Diesel Pollution Town Hall features Dr. Paul Lewis, as they advocate for technology Multnomah County Health Officer, and Mark Riskedahl, Executive solutions that do not impact the Director NW Environmental Defense Center at Lewis & Clark. Both health, safety, security, privacy or will speak to health concerns and what can be done to mitigate diesel property values of citizens. pollution. The most impactful thing to do right now is call your rep- River Plan / South Reach development resentatives and raise funds to launch a nationwide 5G aware- City planners are getting se- Reach project staff will host a se- In the spirit of an old school Webb, the former owner of ness campaign. rious about the southern portion ries of public meetings to cover a barn raising, SE neighbors are long-running Hawthorne Blvd.’s Below is the contact infor- of the Willamette River. They’ve variety of topics; then we’ll inte- invited to help paint the old vintage clothing store Red Light mation for all Oregon reps that sit prepared an online survey and are grate the input received into east- Towne Crier building. and a Portland business woman on the U.S. Commerce Commit- scheduling a series of meetings to side and westside discussions and In return, a community with a passion for restoration and tee. Encourage your friends and explore the future recreation op- culminate this phase of work with BBQ is offered, featuring Otto’s preservation of historic buildings, family to make as many calls as portunities and natural resources a public open house in December. sausage and beers by WhiskyBack and vintage furnishings. She also possible before we head down in the South Reach. The first discussion is Riv- Brewing, a company owned by wants to foster community. to lobby in Washington the first They have hosted a Vision- erside Recreation – Access to the Crier partner Stuart Ramsay. It is Webb fell in love with the week of September. ing Workshop, attended neigh- river/riverfront, trails and scenic hoped that the whole community Crier (then known as Grandma’s) Cathy McMorris Rodgers borhood meetings and walked views held Thursday, September will join in and be part of the when she moved here in 1999. Congresswoman Member the river. Fill in the online sur- 13, 6 pm at SMILE Station, 8210 before and after story, Intrigued by the unusual mission Republican • 202.225.2006 vey, to let them know what you SE 13th Ave. Amid the rapidly changing statement on the original menus, Greg Walden Congressman think at: portlandoregon.gov/bps/ cityscape of SE Portland, there is Webb learned of the ghost stories Chairman Republican article/690283. Questions? Contact Debbie a corner that is moving in a unique and legends of secret passages 202.225.6730 Now it is time to figure out Bischoff, Senior Planner, Debbie. direction. The former Ye Olde associated with the building since Kurt Schrader Congressman details of the key challenges and [email protected] , Towne Crier, a beloved family it opened in 1953. Member Democrat opportunities. River Plan / South 503.823.6946 dining spot from Portland’s past, She has partnered with 202.225.5711 is being brought back to life, Ramsay, a spirits expert and craft rechristened The Town Crier, just beer pioneer, to provide quality Time to replace CO alarms in time for its 65th anniversary. beers and spirits, paired with Leach Series: Tea Big things are happening updated versions of The Crier’s From Astoria to the High Desert, Oregonians have been protected Minto Island Tea Co. is one for years, thanks to The Lofgren and Zander Memorial Act of 2010 around the space, with plans classic menu items. The emphasis of the few farm-scale tea plots in (House Bill 3450), which expanded the scope of carbon monoxide rolling out to restore the dining will be on local, homestyle food, the United States and it thrives room, the subterranean bar, and consistent with the original menu. here in the Willamette Valley. (CO) protection throughout the state. add a new feature – a coffeeshop Prime rib, yorkshire Tea grower Elizabeth Miller This groundbreaking bill phased in requirements for CO alarm called The Portland Treasury. pudding, dutch babies for brunch, shares her story and insights on installation in residential properties, beginning with rental properties in The Treasury will feature with a crock of Crier blueberry growing, processing, and brewing 2010, and expanding to new single and multi-family dwellings, as well furnishings and fixtures from jam on each table are a few items tea at the Leach Garden Summer as existing dwellings upon sale or transfer, in 2011. Since then, Oregon beloved Portland institutions that featured from the original menu. Sippin’ Lecture Series, September has led the country in protecting its residents from the dangers of this have closed. For those who would like to 12, at 7 pm at the Botanical invisible, odorless and potentially fatal gas, with dozens of other states Garden, 6704 SE 122nd Ave. The artifacts include: contribute to the proceedings, the following suit. Processing tea is an art form. original chandeliers from The two are using crowd investments; CO is a colorless, odorless gas that is impossible to detect Even avid tea drinkers are often without a sensing device. According to the Journal of the American Rhinelander; signage from The a new way to invest in local unaware that all teas derive from Medical Association, CO poisoning is a leading cause of accidental Overlook; leather chairs with businesses, where contributors the same plant: Camellia sinensis, celebrity name plates from The eventually receive both the return in cultivation for more than 2,000 poisoning in the United States and responsible for an average of 450 Fernwood Inn; silver chafing on an investment and a dividend. years. What makes the different deaths each year. Any fuel-burning appliance, including heaters, dishes from Amadeus; a wooden Find out more at: nextseed.com/ types of tea is how the leaves are fireplaces, furnaces, appliances and cooking sources using coal, wood, booth from Sweet Tibbie Dunbar; offerings processed. or petroleum products, are all potential sources of CO. leaded glass windows from The Webb has events planned to Learn about the creation of CO poisoning can cause symptoms such as nausea, headaches, Embers; and bricks from The celebrate her victory in keeping green, black, and oolong teas as dizziness, chest pain and vomiting that mimic those of many other Lotus Card Room. this unique Portland building off well as biochemical changes that illnesses, making it difficult to diagnose. In severe poisoning cases, take place in the tea leaf over the It’s the brainchild of Tacee the demolition list. victims can experience disorientation, unconsciousness, long-term harvest season. Taste the difference neurological disabilities, cardio/respiratory failure or death. between teas made from the spring However, alarms don’t last forever, and seven years after this EVER WILD: A Lifetime on Mount Adams – Darryl Lloyd flush and those made from leaves legislation was fully enacted, health and safety officials have issued a will present his lifetime of Mount Adams stories and photographs plucked later in the summer. timely reminder to the public of the need to replace CO alarms as they at a variety of venues in the Portland and SW Washington region. Doors open at 6 pm for approach expiration. Events are free and open to the public and will include a narrated refreshments and strolling. “If you can’t think of the last time you installed a smoke or carbon slide presentation. Admission is $15, $40 for the whole series. monoxide alarm, chances are, it’s time to replace your old ones,” Wey Thurs. Sept. 13, 7:30 pm. – Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, 3723 Advance registration is said. “Installing new alarms, testing them regularly and having and SWE Hawthorne Blvd. (In Conversation with Christina Colasurdo, required. Go to leachgarden. practicing an escape plan are important measures you can take to help author of Return to Spirit Lake.) org (click on “learn”) or call protect your family and home. 503.823.1671. For information on carbon monoxide safety, visit firstalert.com. THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER SEPTEMBER 18 7 CN Community News FMTP Stewardship Fund Growing Civic Education Program on Juvenile Justice: Are we improving outcomes for youth? The League of Women Voters of Portland invites you to the first of their Civic Education programs, Septem- By Mary Kinnick, Chair, FMTP Stewardship Fund Steering Com- ber 11, at 7 pm in the Multnomah County Building, 501 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Panelists include Kimberly mittee and FMTP Board member McCullough, Policy Director for ACLU Oregon, Babak Zolfaghari, Community Healing Initiative Program, The Friends of Mt. Tabor Park campaign to raise $100,000 is and DeAnna Horne, Oregon Criminal Defense Lawyers Association. They will review the history and im- going gangbusters. This fund ensures the future of the Weed Warrior pacts of Measure 11 on the juvenile justice system. According to Multnomah County information, “Oregon volunteer effort to restore and maintain native habitat in our beloved voters approved Ballot Measure 11 in November 1994 to apply mandatory minimum prison sentences to park. Donations have now reached $80,000. certain crimes against persons committed on or after April 1, 1995, with no possibility for any reduction in We are thrilled to have established an Endowment Partner Fund sentence such as for good behavior. Measure 11 mandates that juveniles age 15 and older, charged with felo- with the Oregon Community Foundation and to have deposited our first nies be tried as adults. For information contact Marion McNamara, [email protected] or 503.228.1675. check. Its annual accrued interest payments will provide two-thirds of the funds needed to support our part-time Weed Warrior Stewardship The Sunnyside Neighborhood Association Crime and Livability Committee Coordinator position. FMTP will contribute the remaining third every will meet 6:30 pm the first Tuesday of each month beginning September 4. The meeting will be held in the year. The Coordinator plans and supervises volunteer events that Community House at 3520 SE Yamhill St. and will include a discussion of homelessness in the neighbor- annually involve thirty trained volunteer crew leaders and over five hood. All are welcome. hundred other volunteers. This “one-time donation ask” campaign will be completed this VIKING PANCAKE BREAKFAST – September 9, 8:30 am to 12:30 pm. Delicious all-you-can-eat Vi- year. Donations, from $4 to $5000, have come from thirteen major king pancakes, scrambled eggs, sausage, fresh fruit, strawberry compote, lingonberries, orange juice and donor business partners and two hundred individuals. This month we coffee or tea served in the charming Bergen Dining Room at Norse Hall, 111 NE 11th Ave. Adults $8, Chil- will make a final push to reach our goal. A special fundraiser event is dren ages 5-12 $4, Children under age 5 are free. Parking is free. coming up at end of the month. Right now, we are looking for any and all park lovers willing to serve as a co-host. Contact Mary Kinnick at Portland Catio Tour 2018 – a showcase of Portland-area cat patios September 8, 10 am - 2 pm. [email protected] or 503.287.6959 for more information. The Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon & Audubon Society are sponsoring a tour of ten cat patios located in the Go to taborfriends.org/stewardship to learn more about the Portland metro area. The cost is $10 (12 years and under are free). The Feral Cat Coalition of Oregon and habitat restoration needs of the park, the work of the Weed Warriors, the Audubon Society of Portland are the first bird and cat organizations in the country working together to and how you can donate to the Stewardship Fund. The names of our increase awareness of keeping cats safe at home. Registration: CatsSafeAtHome.org. business partners and individual donors may be found there as well. A special thanks to the remarkable efforts by FMTP Stewardship Portland Sings! The community sing along is back from summer vacation and at a new location. Fund Steering Committee members: Jeff Anderson, Amelia Caldwell, They still meet the third Sunday of the month, September 16, from 2:30 – 4:30 pm at Artichoke Music, 2007 Jackie Dingfelder, Kari Easton, Tom Kohler, Cristen Lincoln, Kate SE Powell Blvd. Sliding scale $8 - $15. For more info PortlandSings.com Raphael, Tim Raphael, and Diane Redd. A special thanks to FMTP Board members who have volunteered even more of their time and to Creative Writing Class for Women – Write from prompts that may lead to new stories, the Portland Parks Foundation for a grant that is supporting marketing poems or essays. Mondays, 10 am., September 17 – November 5, at TaborSpace, 5441 SE Belmont. $12 materials and other supplies. to drop in for a class or $80 for all 8 weeks. All experience levels are welcome to join this encouraging group. 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CEIC security pilot project the 8th Annual Arab Festival – presented by the Arab American Cultural Center of Oregon (AACCO). Celebrate Arab heritage with live music featuring the amazing Raid Alasmar and other musi- The Central Eastside This ambitious project cians from the Arab world, dabka, a Souq (bazaar), Middle Eastern cuisine, henna, games, dance, poetry, Industrial Council (CEIC) is requires continuous attention and networking opportunities and much more. Kid friendly environment: Carnival games, face-painting and initiating a security pilot project proper implementation so the much more. All are Welcome! Oaks Park 7805 SE Oaks Park Way, Saturday, September 1, 11 am - 7 pm. to support neighbors and service quality of life of everyone in the providers in the Central Eastside sector is improved. around St. Francis Church and All officers are unarmed Which Cart to Use? Recycling tips for September City Team Ministries. and, if any situation should By Bonita Davis, Master bins are sorted, baled, shipped More excellent resources for In response to the area’s escalate, the patrol has been Recycler and Sunnyside Resident and sold to manufacturers for businesses are at portlandoregon.gov/ desire for a greater feeling directed to contact the police and reprocessing into new products. sustainabilityatwork. of security, the CEIC has disengage. “Recycling right” has Compostable items break Lastly, there The Grey Cart contracted a security team CEIC has gathered a become a popular topic after down and are not designed for is for garbage/waste/landfill. This is reprocessing. If you are a backyard where compostable products are to from Northwest Enforcement, network of valuable partners shifts in the market have impacted what can be collected beyond composter, the temperature of be placed. Several have shared the chosen because of their years of to shape this project. This curbside programs in the local your home composter may not be belief that compostable items might experience working for Central includes individuals from service area. Looking more closely at enough for the material to break assist the landfill in breaking down Eastside property owners. Their organizations and City, County what can and cannot be recycled, down. materials. approach to maintaining order and local law enforcement many of us encountered surprises. The Green Cart for lawn Actually, modern operations, is compassionate, respectful, who meet monthly to help with Frequent surprises are that debris is designated for table such as the Columbia Ridge Landfill, and helpful to the vulnerable referrals and services, exchange pizza boxes go into the green scraps, grass clippings, and used are anaerobic, or without oxygen. houseless population. ideas and information, and share rollcart if you have one, or in the pizza boxes. The landfill is sealed daily, holding They will work in tandem best practices. trash if you don’t because of food Compostable plastics are materials in a safe and sanitary with the Central City Concern The organization is working contamination. Boxes holding not accepted as part of Metro’s system that is not intended to break Clean Start program to identify to establish an Enhanced Services foods that are refrigerated or curbside rollcart program for down. residential customers. These Materials can remain intact and address hot spots for trash District which would provide the frozen are plastic coated, as are white coffee cups. All of these products may require additional for decades. Liquids and gases and needles, as well as graffiti. resources to eventually expand paper/plastic items go into the sorting and time to break down in from decomposition require special The goals are: to help this program throughout the garbage bin. the composting process. management tools. To learn more, houseless individuals access entire district. People have asked if (Note: some businesses may see the YouTube video on landfill at resources; to reduce criminal switching over to compostable use specific products and compost tinyurl.com/y7kcfm5q activity in the area and to reduce The next Security Advisory paper products might be a resources that make it possible hazardous debris and deter graffiti Committee meeting is September better choice. From just one for them to use compostable Eliminate the “which bin” As of August 1, Northwest 11, 9 am at the St Francis Park perspective, what do you with do products.) question altogether by using durables Enforcement has begun patrolling Apartments Community Room. a compostable product after using Compostable plastic liners for enjoying food and beverages, the area in the evenings. Its entrance is on the corner of SE it? designed for counter top compost and save some money in the process. Patrollers offer guidance, help, 11th and Stark St. Compostables do not go pails are allowed into the green Reduce and Reuse first. rollcart. For more information, There is more great information referrals and, most importantly, This and all future meetings into the curbside blue rollcart for recycling. The Blue Cart is go to portlandoregon.gov/bps/ at recyclingadvocates.org, the BYOC communicate and coordinate will be public. To get on the for clean paper items, accepted article/402972. 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By Gabriel Frayne Jr.

SE Portland has a new street of dreams. The entire Belmont St. corridor from Grand Ave. to the foot of Mt. Tabor is presently in the throes of a residential and commercial building boom that is changing the face of the Central Eastside Industrial District and, to a lesser extent, the Buckman and Sunnyside neighborhoods. For apartment hunters, there can be little doubt which New apartments at SE 44th & Belmont demographic the boom is targeting. The Modera Belmont, The boom is epitomized along the Belmont corridor are a block-long brick building at by SunnysideBelmont, a sixty- showing few or no vacancies. SE 6th that opened earlier this five unit four-story opus with The new Comprehensive year, informs its website visitors two buildings connected by a Plan has most of Belmont now “The Buckman neighborhood in pedestrian bridge located between zoned as “commercial mixed Central Eastside is every bit the SE 43rd and 45th where three use” in order to implement the hip Portland neighborhood… funky wooden rentals once stood. city’s “Centers and Corridors” There’s a distinct indie-spirit in “More than just a stylish new strategies, according to the Bureau the air, shouldered by the Portland apartment community located of Planning and Sustainability creative class.” on Portland’s bustling Belmont website. Available apartments at Street,” the home page croons, However, this zoning in Modera range from $1,520 for a “Sunnyside is in the epicenter of itself creates no requirement for studio up to $3,155 dollars for a good vibes and inspired design in affordable housing. The only two-bedroom. SE Portland.” mandate currently in effect is the At the corner of SE 11th, These apartments are inclusionary zoning ordinance a spanking new complex of four moving fast and there remains that took effect in February of apartment and retail buildings one studio available for $1,495. 2017. Perhaps, coincidentally, appropriately named the Goat The Belmont boom brings all of the new large residential Blocks offers a total of 347 to the fore many of the complex projects on Belmont submitted apartments and townhomes. issues that have roiled Portland’s their permit applications before The website advertises the neighborhood politics over that date. complex as “a sprawling, creative the past two decades: will all The Belmont boom also vision designed to bring people (or at least most) of Portland’s raises issues of livability for together, share stories and make neighborhoods be accessible to both residents and visitors to the connections.” all socioeconomic classes? area. There are presently three The cost of sharing stories Can the city create housing sidewalk closures between Grand and making connections at the for the workforce of the 21st and SE 12th Ave as well as two Goat Blocks is $1,243 for a studio Century without displacing long- street closures: Yamhill at the and up to $4,000+ for a two- time residents, younger creatives corner of Grand and the section bedroom. who are not as well-known as of Belmont between Grand and Jean-Michael Basquiat, and MLK. persons on fixed incomes? Will Farther up Belmont, the the urban forest of the future street was closed down to one include neighborhood trees? lane for almost a year and a half “Belmont has become during the construction of the healthy again…[it] will once upscale Urbanaire apartments. again be a streetcar commercial Family Owned and Operated While all this may not rise to property,” says Peter Finley Fry, Since 1984 the level of Louis Napoleon’s local land use planner who is makeover of Paris, it has clearly the current CEID land use chair. become more than a temporary He claims it is “just going back inconvenience. Frequent Buyer to the future,” e.g., emerging Still, many residents as a re-energized commercial and workers in Buckman and Programs Available corridor, but serving 21st Century Sunnyside do not hesitate to industries rather than the blue- express a more sanguine appraisal collar industries of the past. of the redevelopment taking place FEATURED THIS MONTH: Finley Fry’s optimism around them. might find a sympathetic ear Mike Clark, the former among new residents of Belmont, owner of the legendary Movie but for others there are a few Madness at Belmont and 44th, Stella & Chewy’s sobering facts. says, “I do know that business only the good stuff To start with, according has increased” at the store since to the real estate data base zen the SunnysideBelmont building ro For your Dog provided by Trulia.com, the opened in April. Median Household Income Peter Finley Fry has a ble/Fe Dried 00 Off Small Kib $3 (MHI) for Buckman is $33,288. broader view. “Gentrification reez F 00 Off Medium For Sunnyside it’s $45,395. in itself is not a bad thing,” he $4 That means for a $1,500 one- says, because it is the opposite $500 Off Large bedroom apartment at, say, the of “ghettoization.” (In 1965 the Goat Blocks, the percentage of federal government designated For your Cat Treats $2 Off $3 Off Raw and Freeze Dried MHI paid for rent would be 54% Buckman a “pocket of poverty.”) Expires Sept 30, 2018 and 40% respectively. The U.S. He also cautions that when Department of Housing defines planners “go out there and create “affordable housing” as 30 urban renewal and make it a percent of gross income. better place for everyone,” but Secondly, though Portland fail to pay attention to real estate has seen a “flattening out” of market forces, “the people who Canidae Ancestral rents at the top end in the past live in the area being gentrified For Dogs & Cats On Sale! year or two, the trend does not are often the losers.” 4lb - $5 Off (reg. $19.99) seem to hold much promise for The boom goes on. At the 3 Great Flavors lower-income tenants. corner of SE 28th and Belmont 9lb - $10 Off (reg. $36.99) “Those who can least afford a derelict laundromat, empty and $2 Off Small bags up to 7lbs 20lb $20 Off (reg. $75.99) rent increases, they’re still seeing tagged-up for years, will soon $4 Off 11-23lb Bags rent increases,” Mike Wilkerson, give way to a multi-story, forty- Expires Sept 30, 2018 Expires Sept 30, 2018 economist at ECONorthwest, six unit apartment building. recently told Willamette Week. Mon-Fri 9:30am - 7pm, Sat 9:30am - 6pm, Sun 11am - 5pm The down side? The permit Meanwhile, many of the older, application was submitted in May 4242 SE Hawthorne Blvd. 503.233.3866 no-frills apartment buildings of 2016. THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER SEPTEMBER 18 9

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Summer, 2018: The day we served up ice cream cones for our neighborhood at Piccolo Park was the k hottest so far, but we had a lot of fun treating families and talking over neighborhood issues with folks out E for the afternoon and evening. Every first Tuesday in August we honor National Night Out, as do other neighborhoods around this time of the year, each in its own way. Noon~4pm 68th & SE Clinton In the good-weather months, our neighborhood association is tasked with approving group uses of the Eastbank Esplanade. Portland Parks approves the first three requests, but asks HAND and two other Mark your calendars neighborhoods to approve subsequent requests. We decided to follow Buckman in not approving Portland for our family -friendly, 9th Thorns request, as it was the fifth such and competes with another for the weekend they wanted. The annual, neighborhood party! esplanade is becoming increasingly popular and these larger group uses compete with the use by the general E $1 raffle tickets (buy 5 get one free)! public. Veggie plant tool & seed swap! New Day School on SE Clinton asked us for any help we could give in keeping the tiny adjacent Free fresh-pressed apple cider! neighboring Avalon Park from being misused by houseless campers. We spent a lot of time with them Free face painting & kid's crafts! brainstorming solutions for a problem that has become endemic in cities across the nation. $1 Barbeque corn on the cob! Shop handmade local craft vendors! Live Music In other issues, Environment Oregon asked us to support its push for reducing diesel and increasing the use of electric buses and we agreed to support their effort. Regarding the Gideon Street Bridge, funding for which has somehow reappeared after the bridge and Hosted by the funding was removed by the MAX Orange Line, work by Tri-Met is on schedule to start next year, finishing k South Tabor in early 2020. The bridge will run from where SE 14th dead ends over the tracks to SE 13th Pl. on the south Neighborhood side and will have elevators and stairs. The bridge is greatly needed by bicyclists and pedestrians to cross Association safely over the Union Pacific and MAX tracks at the bottom of Clinton St.  k On another transportation project, the Portland Bureau of Transportation is ramping up a project, To volunteer or sign up for a free booth: [email protected] Central City in Motion, that affects our neighborhood from SE 12th Ave. to the river. HAND’s input is focusing on the dual streets SE 11th and 12th, which have long been a main concern, as traffic there runs through our residential neighborhoods and is fast and dangerous. We will hear more in September. Mt. Tabor By Laura Smith

The Bureau of Planning and Sustainability is undergoing the Environmental Overlay Zone Map Correction Project. Environmental overlay zones, or e-zones, and the regulations that accompany them, are a tool used by the City to help protect important natural resources in our neighborhoods. Examples include rivers, streams, wetlands, floodplains, forests and woodlands, unique habitats (like large meadows, oak groves and other features in the city) providing habitat and respite for wildlife. The goal of the Environmental Overlay Zone Map Correction Project is to produce accurate and consistent mapping throughout the city. Visit the website to find out more, portlandoregon.gov/bps/e-zone, and use the interactive map to see e-zones in our neighborhood. The house at 5631 SE Belmont (locally remembered as the “Christmas house”) has been purchased by a Portland resident via auction, outbidding developers who wanted to tear the house down. Restoration has begun, and work is being done to obtain historic designation for the house. Would you like to volunteer time to help organize and plan the 2019 joint neighborhood cleanup turn to page 22

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Community and Civic Life expands Neighborhood Associations (NA) All of this was political its scope to be an integral part of the to Community Involvement to and controversial, but Mayor successful evolution of the many Civic Life suggest an expansion of Goldschmidt saw the value of varieties of community groups mission. having a better way to communicate that work to improve the ways Neighborhoods are necessary with other interests besides those of Portlanders engage in partnership because local government responds local business. with local government and with better to groups rather than The new office began with a each other. individuals. There have always director, a secretary, and a budget of The system is expanding been people that did not feel NAs $275,000. Opinions were all over recognition and support of non- were not responsive to the wide the map and some neighborhoods geographic organizations. It is variety of issues brought forth by thought the ONA was created to important to strengthen the civic neighborhood residents. spy on them. engagement of diverse populations While NAs are open to Others thought it was a while keeping and strengthening everyone, the volunteer leaders waste of money while the city Portland’s system of neighborhood choose the important issues, but bureaucracy thought it would just associations. there are limits to the capacity of complicate matters and make their In addition to the new office the system. work more difficult. Since the reorganization, a committee is In the spring of 1974 the City 1970s, Portland’s neighborhoods being formed to rewrite the city of Portland made the controversial are a significant part of Portland’s charter so that it speaks to a broader step to create the Office of nationally- recognized commitment range citizenry that will be involved Neighborhood Associations (ONA) to citizen participation. in the decision of local government. under the leadership of Mayor The primary reason for ONA Currently the various Neil Goldschmidt. Before this, was to improve communications programs of the office are comprised a few neighborhoods had social among the city, community, and of: the Livability Program clubs that were the forerunner of neighborhood interests. that includes neighborhood neighborhood associations. The two issues of greatest associations, the Crime Prevention During the depression and concern were community safety Program, the Community after, there were neighborhood issues involving the police and Neighborhood Involvement Center, committees of social service staff those issues regarding land use City/County Information and that worked to address the needs planning and development. Both of Referral, the Disability Program, of low-income neighborhood these remain as controversial today and the Cannabis Program. residents, but this ended in the late as they were then. Many drastic The OCCL wants to 1950s. land use changes were prevented increase inclusion of the diverse In the 1960s, President from happening then such as the communities and people into the Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society Mt. Hood Freeway. decisions that can improve their program initiated the Model Cities The current central office lives. This will build and strengthen program in Portland. This program supports seven district offices to partnerships and relationships by directed funding to low-income serve coalitions formed from the investing in a broader spectrum of neighborhoods and their residents, cities ninety-five neighborhoods. Portland residents. but the city was chagrined when They provide support to nonprofits Too often the groups that they found out that recipients must such as the Latino Network, represent these people are not as have a voice in how this money was the Immigration and Refugee open, accessible, transparent, and Community Organization and the accountable as those involved with Urban League. a neighborhood system. Neighborhood offices in the Everyone is welcome in Check Out future are likely to become more neighborhood associations, but fitness for women, Our New involved with non geographic often they don’t attract as diverse LUNCH HOUR organizations and diverse group of people as one would Classes: populations. These offices are like. 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By Peter Zimmerman intricate traditional designs and “I feel as good selling these Abbasi Fine Rugs was vibrant colors; deep reds along rugs as the person who buys them, born out of tradition and opened with shades of blue yellow and knowing they’ve gone to the right in May of 2017 by owner Omar orange. Each one has its own home” he says of his inventory. Abbasi, the son of a rug dealer lineage. He strives to match each and descendant of one of Persia’s Omar takes the time to customer to the perfect rug for most famous collectors. research and know each piece he them. Most of the rugs are Persian He brings both his family sells, understanding that there is and Turkish and come from heritage and the cultural tradition more than just an aesthetic to the Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, and of handwoven rugs to the rugs. Each one has a unique story; Turkey. Omar travels the world, Belmont district. from the men who herd the sheep working directly with sellers to Abbasi is passionate about and shear the wool, to the women find his rugs, having spent time in the rugs he sells. To him they who weave them. The designs on some of the most dangerous parts are much more than just woven the rugs represent generations of the Middle East and Central Asia threads. “I believe there is a cultural art and are rarely written to retrieve these cultural artifacts. soul to these rugs,” he says. The down, rather passed down over The small shop has a cozy, collection features rugs with generations in an oral tradition. turn to page 21

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By now, you’ve probably ‘Best of’ lists, and is considered keeps Horse Brass going after heard the story behind Horse one of the best bars in America. over forty years. “We keep up the Brass. Bought forty-two years Horse Brass has helped usher Old Portland vibe” she said, “It’s ago by Don Younger during a in the new era of craft beer. It’s a place where you walk in the midnight deal where he doesn’t the first place where many of door and you feel comfortable.” really remember the sale the biggest breweries in the She’s right indeed; you do feel happening, with the bill of sale Northwest got their start, and comfortable there. written on a napkin. Despite, or still a spot where new breweries Rough hewn wood tables maybe because of, its groggy can showcase their stuff, as flanked by benches, dim lights, beginnings, Horse Brass became preference is given to local beers the buzz of conversation, a Portland’s premier English style of course. welcoming bar, and there’s beer. pub. I asked Joellen Piluso, Tap upon tap of every style of It’s bestowed with laurels, owner of the pub since Younger’s beer you could imagine. IPA’s, Visit us on facebook an award, is featured on multiple death in 2011, what it is that turn to page 21 14 THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER SEPTEMBER 18 Mai Thai A couple of entrepreneurial staple in SE not only for the and courageous young women sit-down restaurant but as a from Thailand independently delivery service too. Over made their way to Los the next few months they are Angeles, California to look for planning to do a makeover opportunities to improve their inside to create a whole new lives. look for their customers. “It’s Aor (pronounced awe) time after ten years.” Potchanalawan graduated from These are two women Chiang Mai University and who are on the move and worked as a reporter for ten years they decided to expand their in Bangkok before immigrating business by opening a Taste to the United States. of Bangkok. This expansion Lily Narveponsirakul, also went smoothly and offers the from Bangkok, had the same residents of NE Portland a place aspirations – a chance to make a to get their Thai food. this new space back in 2016, the new life for herself in America. “Using my mother’s recipes new administration was starting The two met while working in a in the restaurants has made the to crack down on green cards Thai restaurant in Los Angeles. food consistently authentic, fresh for people to work in the United This experience got them and flavorful,” Aor said, plus they States. “We need four full time thinking about opening their own both love to cook. Over the past chefs for this restaurant because restaurant and, after three years, several years, they have added a of the size, we have two,” decided why not. Aor’s mother smaller Street Food menu. “What Aor said. When they pleaded had a restaurant in Bangkok, so has become the popular Bangkok their case to the immigration she had access to some really street food here in the US was authorities, their suggestion was good recipes. The question was what we ate everyday” – kind of to “hire Americans.” where to go. One trip to Portland like their fast food. “This is not so easy, we back in 2005 and they were In Thailand, the main dishes are cooking Thai food using old decided. “We loved Portland.” don’t change much from north to recipes from my mom. Not too They moved here and south or east to west, and usually many Americans can read Thai or opened the first Mai Thai on only in the degrees of the spices. understand the subtleties of our SW 18th. “It was a very smooth With the two inner city cooking.” process working with the restaurants thriving, Aor and Lily They went on to explain government and getting all our decided to take the business one that they are not the only ones paperwork in order and obtaining step further and open a larger fine experiencing these difficulties; green cards for our Thai chefs to dining venue to showcase more many other businesses are being come here and work.” of the culinary arts of Thailand, affected by changes in the US Both Aor and Lily were especially the presentation of immigration policy. becoming citizens. “After being the food. “I brought a beautiful In the meantime, they both in SW for a few years, we decided pavilion from Thailand to decorate work double time to keep things we really liked SE Portland and the space and we remodeled to moving ahead. They are thankful decided to close the downtown create a nice atmosphere,” Aor to be celebrating ten years into location and move over here.” said. their second century here – ten on That was ten years ago. Unfortunately just as they Belmont St., where the people of They quickly became a Thai food were signing the paperwork on Portland have been so welcoming and supportive. NT

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Hoda’s restaurant will be eleven years. All the produce at people and a good nightlife.” She celebrating their 20th anniversary Hoda’s is locally-sourced, and the is happy to continue to bring the in March, and they’ve been meat is local too. most authentic, locally-sourced serving up delicious, authentic “We are always trying to Lebanese food to the Belmont Lebanese cuisine at the same come up with new dishes. We District. location on Belmont since try to have our dishes reflect the For this year’s street fair, the beginning. Named after season,” she says of the menu, Hoda will bring a piece of the restaurateur Hoda Khouri, Hoda’s which changes according to the old country to the neighborhood. is a family affair. Hoda followed seasons, reflecting local produce. Hoda’s will have a booth outside in her father’s footsteps and shares Today she is roasting a batch of the restaurant, where they will be ownership of her restaurant with freshly picked peppers for the serving Saj bread. her husband Hani. night’s special. Usually found in Lebanese Hoda was born in Beirut Hoda travels to Beirut when villages, this thin, Mediterranean where she developed a passion she can, and is a part of all steps style flatbread is cooked on a for traditional Lebanese cuisine. of the cooking process. She has traditional domed grill and is In 1984 she immigrated to the created the recipes, picks out the usually done with herbs and United States with her family and ingredients, and is there to make cheese landed in Portland. In November sure every dish is done right, even No stranger to the Belmont of 1998, She and Hani began to after all these years. The kitchen Street Fair, Hoda has shared her build their restaurant, opening staff has been with her for years culinary arts with the festivities the doors in March of the next and they know how to make sure for years. This year, Hoda’s will year, along with their young every dish is done to perfection. have a beer garden and will serve family. Their twin daughters were “We love what we do, it up Mediterranean standards like only three months old when the comes from the heart,” Hoda falafel and chicken shawarma. business started. says. The family is proud to be You can usually find Hoda able to provide for the Belmont The restaurant is located at at the local farmers market – community. “This is a good 3401 SE Belmont St. and is open they’ve had a stall there for neighborhood,” she says, “good daily. PZ THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER SEPTEMBER 18 15 Along with farm work, she supported herself by working at a dress shop in town. After a few years, a RATES ARE STILL LOW! friend told her about the opportunities in As a little girl growing Portland. She moved up in Bluff City, Tennessee, here and managed the Audra Fleming, of Twill, 3352 Rupert Cornelius store SE Belmont St., didn’t realize at the corner of SE what a voguish little girl she was 36th & Hawthorne for thanks to the beautiful clothes her an absentee owner. seamstress mother made for her. Things went well Like most young kids, she just and she learned more wanted to look like everyone else about trade as the store’s buyer/manager. and was a little embarrassed by “What makes this business her unique clothes. When the store closed, she was ready to launch her own clothing work is my loyal customers, 20 In retrospect, she knows many of whom have become my the lavender pants and vest store. She had become more familiar with what the women friends over the years.” with a matching shirt and other When asked about what’s handmade items only encouraged of Portland were looking for in clothing. “If any one word would the news in fashion, Audra says her lifelong love affair with the this year is all about jumpsuits 3o YEAR FIXED = 5.00% (5.14% APR)* fashion industry. describe Twill’s clothing it would 15 YEAR FIXED = 4.625% (4.865% APR)* be classic,” Audra said. “That’s and she was excited about a By the time she was couple of styles done in black seventeen, Audra had her first job what my customers prefer.” She opened her own from NooWorks, a woman-owned working at Dillard’s Department business out of California. Store in Nashville. She fancied clothing shop on SE 60th & Division St. in 2006 and the hard She just returned from a having a music career, but wasn’t buying trip to Las Vegas, spending having much success in the part was finding the right name. “I must have written down hundreds hours everyday going from rep to grind of Nashville’s competitive rep making her selections for the market. of names before the name Twill – which means textile weave – next season. She’d always envisioned “There’s so much to herself living on the West Coast, became the right one.” With a piano in the shop, consider and choose from. Now so when a family member I need to sift through all the suggested she move to their farm she could practice and play during slow times, and she worked with selections making sure I order in Sebastopol, it seemed like the what I think is the best for my perfect opportunity. several bands here. When a space became available further down customers.” There she lived with goats, “Belmont has gone through ducks, horses and a garden – a Division at SE 21st, Twill moved there and then moved again to some changes since I moved here fitting place for a country girl six years ago. I am excited about with a soft, barely discernable Belmont six years ago. This is Twill’s home now. the opening of H Mart, it will be southern drawl. good for our community.”NT

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A prize-winning watercolorist, Cohen stud- This gifted ensemble will of- ied painting at the California College of the Arts, fer Ragas that manifest in the late receiving her BFA from Pacific Northwest Col- summer/early autumn evenings. “An exquisite atmosphere manifests in lege of Art and a MA from Marylhurst University. this celestial sound”.and all are wel- “I was influenced by the photorealist move- “Surf Fishing” come. Admission is by your generous ment of the 1970s and continue to pursue the donation of any size. craft of watercolor because I love how it reveals light and has a mind of its own. Like any Michael Stirling and Tambura This offering takes place Sep- good relationship, it continually challenges me to get to know it in deeper and more inter- tember 7, at 8 pm at Nritya Man- esting ways. Painting opens my heart and mind to the beauty, the mystery, the diversity and dala Mahavihara, 1405 SE 40th St., (½ block North of Hawthorne delight all around us. My hope is that you will also see and feel that spark.” Blvd.) in the middle of the West side of the street. A many faceted artist, Connie Cohen is a renowned and beloved songwriter too Stirling is a vocalist in the Kirana Gharana style and a Disci- ple of Pandit Pran Nath, the late master of Indian Classical Music. whose very original songs filled with connection, spirit, clarity, and perspective have been He is a student of Nath’s Senior Disciple, Maestro Terry Riley and a part of the Northwest music scene for many years. The focus in both her visual art and has performed with many international artists. Lucy Stirling and music is a process of capturing the light. She is currently working on a new recording of Joss Jaffe are both gifted performers as well. her songs at Montbrae Studio. Hear him sing at michaelstirling.bandcamp.com TaborSpace is a community gathering place and the coffeehouse exhibit is open For performance info, call 503.577.7528. weekdays 8:30-3 pm and Saturdays 8:30-1 pm. To learn about the venue, see dancemandal.com. Take a tour through Connie Cohen’s creations via her website at flashmonkey.com. Vox Academy Milagro’s Ingenio – Four New Plays Mollie O’Brien Want to sing for Vox Academy’s Fall Milagro presents its second season of Ingenio; a New Works Project for the term? The group hosts its annual Sing-a- Thon, September 29 at The Community Latino Soul, funded by the National New Play Network. The project was created to & Rich Moore Church for Joy, 8051 SE 16th Ave., in provide new and upcoming playwrights with an interactive lab in which to grow Sellwood. Admission is free and every- their works. one’s invited to share a song. A national call for submissions resulted in four unproduced plays by Latino There are continuing workshops too. authors who were invited to Portland. This year’s finalists come from Texas, Califor- Vox offers two choirs emphasizing healthy nia, and New York. Each play is assigned a director and cast and rehearsal time in vocal techniques and honoring each in- the week leading to the festival week, September 21- 23. At the end, the plays are dividual’s experience. Both choirs meet presented to an audience, followed by moderated feedback conversations. weekly at the Church. The Ingenio weekend begins with guest playwright and teaching artist Diana The Empowered Voices Choir, is Burbano conducting Writing for Justice, a three-hour workshop with a focus on informal and a perfect place for beginning singers, meets Thursday evenings at 7:30 writing plays and monologues using storytelling, empathy, and humor from per- pm beginning October 4. sonal experiences. photo by Amos Perrine The Healing Voices Choir features The four plays presented are: Friday Sept. 21 at 7 pm – Tara by Brian Otaño, directed by Maggie Carrido Adams; Saturday Sept. 22, 1:30 pm – Casta by Adrienne Portland FolkMusic Society four part harmonies Wednesday evenings opens a new season of acoustic at 7 pm beginning September 12 for a De- Dawes, directed by Yasmín Ruvalcaba; Saturday Sept. 22, 7 pm – World Classic by cember 16 concert. All are welcome to this Nelson Díaz-Marcano, directed by Francisco García; and Sunday, Sept. 23, 11:30 am concerts with the duo of Mollie O’Brien and Rich Moore, Sep- non-audition choir and experience read- – CJ – A Trilingual Play by Mercedes Floresislas, directed by Diane Englert. ing music or singing with other choirs will tember 21 in the Society’s new lo- All Ingenio events are free and presented at Milagro Theatre, 525 SE Stark St. cation at the Reedwood Friends be helpful. See milagro.org for more. Register at voxacademy.org. Church, 2910 SE Steele St. O’Brien and husband/gui- tarist Moore explore an impec- How to Talk to (Almost) Anyone cable choice of material and about (Almost) Anything, is a book by Port- originals transmitting energy and land author Elaine Cogan, and it’s perfect for emotion directly to the audience. those who suffer from dry mouth or sweaty hands O’Brien’s fluid voice is like when faced with public speaking. no other and knows no boundar- With back to school time here, it is a timely ies. She makes herself at home in topic too. The slim, sixty-eight page book is a other writers’ material with pow- short read, and packed with plenty of ideas. It’s er and grace, always respecting appropriate for students as well as teachers too, the deepest essence of a song. preparing for debates, mock trials and speeches. Moore is a deft and tasty Mixing humor with facts, Cogan puts an guitar player who colors O’Brien’s anxious reader at ease. She quotes a Chapman twists and turns from blues to tra- University Survey: ‘Public speaking was the most Elaine Cogan ditional folk to jazz and creates a frequently cited fear, ahead of heights, drowning, and flying,’ and adds with band with a single guitar. a wink, “We all have butterflies. My job is to help yours fly in the right direc- The concert begins at 7:30 tion.” pm and advance tickets are $21 GA, $18 PFS member, $11.50 The author has been a sought-after trainer, a weekly radio host, a col- ages 12-18. Advance tix at port- umnist for The Oregonian and other papers, and a television political com- landfolkmusic.org/concerts.php. mentator. She also is the only woman to chair the Portland Development Commission. Order her book online at tinyurl.com/y8eqm64r. Millennium In- store with Sidestreet Arts Walter Salas- an artists collective Humara 140 SE 28th Ave. Portland 503 327 8064 Walter Salas-Humara, frontman of 80s band The Si- los celebrates the release of a new solo recording, Walte- rio, with an instore appear- ance Wednesday, Septem- ber 29 at Music Millennium, 3158 E. Burnside St. begin- ning at 6 pm. For years, Salas-Huma- Jacqueline McIntyre ra has split his time between making music and visual art, and this album contains big September group show! imagery in his lyrics as well some of the most creative and exciting as on his cover painting. art being made in Portland today... Salas-Humara was made in Cuba, but born in September 5 through 30 Opening party Sept. 7 from 6 to 9 America and the album’s ti- tle is his Hispanic nickname. Gallery hours: Wednesday-Thursday 11 to 6 Friday-Saturday 11 to 7 Sunday 11 to 5 closed Mon. & Tue. THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER SEPTEMBER 18 17

arts & performance Tribute to ANN ANN, an affectionate tribute to the legendary former Texas Gover- Short takes nor, Ann Richards is the twenty-ninth season opener from Triangle Pro- ductions. This intimate portrait of Richards, whose heroic and humane voice is still sorely needed and strikingly relevant today, was written by ...arts news of note Holland Taylor and directed by Donald Horn. Portland’s own Margie Boule’ brings Richards to life with humor, ESPACIO FLAMENCO’S 2ND ANNUAL EMERGING ARTISTS grace and grit, embodying the fiery, outspoken woman who became SHOWCASE is a family friendly event. Five artists will perform solo Texas’ 45th Governor. As keynote speaker at the 1988 Democratic works. The show is an opportunity for students to develop material Convention, Richards proclaimed “George Bush [Sr.] was born with a into solo performances and group pieces under the guidance of co- silver foot in his mouth.” directors Lillie Last and Brenna McDonald. Discover the excitement The show brings us face to face with a complex and colorful and diversity of Portland’s flamenco community Sunday September character who was “bigger than the state she hailed from” and a 16 at Imago Theater, 17 SE 8th Ave. beginning at 6:30 pm. Tickets: tireless “sensible progressive.” Advance $12, Door $15 | All Ages, Kids 12 and under free. On sale As Oregon General Elections take place this November, being Margie Boulé as Ann now at espacioflamenco.brownpapertickets.com. captivated by this true story of Richards and inspired by what it means to be a leader is a fine way to prepare for this important voting season. HYSTERIA, a 2002 film by Antero Alli, screens Tuesday, September ANN runs September 6-23 at The Sanctuary@SandyPlaza, 1785 NE Sandy Blvd. Thursdays- Saturdays at 7:30 pm, Sunday matinees at 2 pm All seats are reserved. For tickets and information: 11 at 7 pm, at Clinton Street Theater, 2522 SE Clinton St. It’s a 503.239.5919 or see trianglepro.org. fundraiser for the premiere of Escape from Chapel Perilous, a new ParaTheatrical ReSearch performance performed Nov.29-Dec.2. The film was made in the months immediately following the 9/11 attacks to find other ways of seeing the catastrophe beyond the mainstream media. Songs for my Child, Songs for Myself The film is set during the Serb-Croatian war as Ikar - a young Catholic Songs for my Child, Songs for Myself is a new se- soldier - unwittingly drinks hallucinagenic datura tea, triggering a full- ries of paintings by Jolyn Fry. It opens Saturday, Sep- blown visitation from the Holy Virgin Mary who gives him a “special tember 29 at Ford Gallery, 2505 SE 11th Ave. at 6 pm. mission”. The show will be on the walls through October 24. Originally from Pennsylvania, Fry has exhibited WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE’S THE TEMPEST by Speculative a continually evolving body of work in group and solo Drama presented at The Steep And Thorny Way To Heaven, a private shows here since the late 90s. She depicts literal, club at SE 2nd & Hawthorne Blvd., Thursday-Saturdays September physical landscapes as well as those of a more per- 13-October 6 at 7:30 pm each night. The legendary play is directed sonal, emotional nature. This show of new large scale and reimagined by Mary McDonald-Lewis. Chris Porter is Prospero paintings about the body were created in relation to with a cast of magicians, misfits, and brave monsters. There is NO healing from post trauma dissociations. LATE SEATING and you must RSVP before or purchase advance Fry says, “Surrendering to my artistic process tickets at rsvpdx.com/tempest. Tickets are $22, $10 standing-room. grants me the kindest perspective of myself and the life See thesteepandthornywaytoheaven.com. that moves around me. These paintings are about my own experience of heartbreak and vulnerability. They THE CONCERT FOR IMMIGRANT RIGHTS supports Project are an embracing of myself as I reach out to hold those by Jolyn Fry Voice, an immigrant rights program of the American Friends Service parts I thought so broken I had to bury them away Committee. The event features music from Mark Babson, Anna Fritz, from being seen. They are an effort to move again after having been frozen for so long.” Jill Townley, and Bajo Salario, Saturday, September 22 at 7 pm at “The results of this are a storyline of paintings reflecting my experience of being a First Congregational UCC, 1126 SW Park Ave. The proceeds will woman in present day time, a child in the past, and a human being with an ancestral lineage both extensive and world based.” See jolynfry.com for more. help communities in Oregon and Washington create Rapid Response Jolyn Fry also works as an Art Educator for Radius Community Art Studio in SE Teams and Know Your Rights trainings to empower immigrants and Portland. Her new round of classes begin September 4, on Tuesdays or Wednesdays their allies to advocate for just immigration policies. Tickets are $20 6:30-9 pm in six week sessions. Lessons are individually tailored for each student. Reg- in advance, $25 (cash or check only)at the door. Donations at afsc.org/ ister at radiusstudio.org. projectvoiceconcert. THERE’S NO BUSINESS LIKE SHOW BUSINESS – a musical Peyroux’ Anthem at Revolution Hall revue created and directed by Deanna Maio, and presented by Portland Live Music Madeleine Peyroux is on tour with her eighth al- Musical Theater Company, celebrates the Golden Age of Broadway. at Artichoke bum, Anthem, and is in concert at Revolution Hall, Presented September 8 - October 7 at Peninsula Odd Fellows 1300 SE Stark Street Sunday, September 16 at 8 Lodge, 4834 N. Lombard St., It’s a two-hour romp through the great pm. Broadway musicals of the 1940s and 50s, including Guys & Dolls, Peyroux’ new songs were written during the 2016 election cycle and the stories are subtly topi- West Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Music Man, Oklahoma, South cal, outwardly irreverent and her characters are Pacific, The Sound of Music, and more. All ages are welcome, but vivid. Her cinematic storytelling “faces the chasm it is recommended for ages 6 and up due to its duration. Tickets are of the world.” $12-$24 at portlandmusicaltheater.org/tickets or at the box office at 971.225.7469. Madeline Peyroux Speaking of the new song “On My Own”, a song about loneliness, Peyroux said “I feel a little odd, too small, too big, WAKEY WAKEY, written by Will Eno, is an extended meditation out of place and alone, but the world around me is also strange, full on life and its mysteries. It’s presented September 26 to October 21 of all sizes, all perspectives, constantly changing. So, perhaps I, too, at Portland Playhouse, 602 NE Prescott St. “Is it now? I thought I had can change.” more time.” These first words in Eno’s play are spoken by Guy, a man Tickets available online at tinyurl.com/y983jh8b. Minors are who knows, like all of us, on some level, that he is about to die. The welcome accompanied by an adult. The Gossamer Strings - moving and funny play asks: What are we here for? Is time a friend or an enemy? Do we all eventually end up in the same place, but take photo by Athena Delene Sidestreet Arts different routes to get there? It’s thought-provoking and challenges the Concerts resume in Septem- Group Show notion of what really matters. Directed by Gretchen Corbett. Tickets ber at Artichoke Community Mu- ...features many artists are $19 - $44. portlandplayhouse.org/503.488.5822. sic. Saturday concerts begin at 8 who have previously shown pm and Sunday at 7 pm. Tickets there and their new works. ARTICHOKE SCHOOL OF MUSIC’s fall term of classes begins are $15 and available at Brown Pa- September 10 including many instruments, songwriting, rhythm and per Tickets. The show includes Ame- drumming, piano for children, Jazz ensemble and more. Classes are Saturday September 15 – lia Opie and her whimsical an- seven weeks. Monthly events are Song Celebration on the 1st and 3rd Tribute to Victor Jara and Latin thropomorphosized animals, Thursdays of the month (for folks to perform a song of their choosing);. American New Song A celebra- Eugene artist Christopher St Acoustic Village hosted by Jon Lee the 2nd and 4th Thursdays features tion of Chilean musician, political Johns’ wonderful and strange new and cover tunes exploring a weekly theme. Both at 7 pm and $5. activist and singer Victor Jara, one works on paper, and fourteen of Latin America’s most influen- other artists displaying a scin- tial singer songwriters tillating collection of paint- Sunday September 16 – The ings, sculpture, jewelry and Portlanders Kate Power, Steve other mediums to share. Einhorn, Mick Doherty and Kevin The show runs through Shay Johnson perform each 2nd September 30 at 140 SE 28th Sunday of the month, serving up Ave. Opening reception is Fri- “Tea Time” by Amelia Opie inspired songwriting with gui- day, September 7. Artist talk tars, banjo, hammered dulcimer, and meet is Sunday, September 16, beginning at 11 am. harmonica, upright bass, ukulele, The gallery is closed Monday and Tuesday. Sidestreetarts.com. accordion, bodhran, and four rich voices. These folk have crossed strings together since the 1970s. Sunday September 30 – The Gossamer Strings & The Lark and the Loon The Gosssamer Strings are Kyle McGonegle and Liat Lis, an old-time folk duo with new- time sensibilities, rich harmonies, guitar, banjo and mandolin and haunting original songs (gossa- merstrings.com). The Lark and the Loon are the husband/wife songwriting duo, Jeff Rolfzen and Rocky Steen-Rolfzen who explore the etymology of many American musics. See artichokemusic.org. 18 THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER SEPTEMBER 18 AS At Your Service

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Adding a permanent tax loophole Measure 102 (YES): for select profitable businesses Measure 102 is the only to our constitution makes that 25% off statewide ballot measure I’m harder. I will definitely be voting your Custom Framing planning to vote yes on (spoiler no on Measure 103, and I urge Measure 106 (NO): Since I purchase alert!). The measure allows local you to do the same. first ran for office, I have always or if you bring in 3 or more pieces governments to partner with Measure 104 (NO): In a said that I would fight for a we’ll give you 30% o businesses and non-profits to similar vein, Measure 104 also woman’s right to choose, and May not be used on E-series Poster Package or Readymade frames. May not be combined with other o ers. build affordable housing using amends the constitution. It would to ensure that Oregonians have Coupon must accompany order. require a super-majority (three access to safe and affordable Chauncey P. Gardner bond money. Under current law, looks forward to seeing you! 2805 SE Holgate Blvd. reproductive health services. It’s local jurisdictions must keep fifths of the legislature) for votes www.portlandpictureframe.com 503.236.1400 money raised from bonding and that increase fees and close tax why I voted “yes” on last year’s check us out of facebook Mon-Sat 10am to 5pm money for housing from the loopholes, including routine Reproductive Health Equity Act, federal government in separate and necessary fees, and getting and why I will be voting “no” pools. Measure 102 simplifies rid of wasteful tax breaks that on Measure 106, which would the process, so we don’t end up refund millions of dollars to big restrict Oregonians’ ability to leaving money on the table. With corporations or the wealthy that access safe, legal abortions. much of Oregon still in a housing are not needed. We already have By targeting public crisis, this measure is a good idea. a super-majority requirement employees and Medicaid It will help local governments to for bills that raise revenue. This recipients, this measure would build more affordable housing measure is unnecessary, and will hurt the women and families faster. only create more gridlock in that need access to reproductive Measure 103 (NO): This Salem. healthcare the most. That means Measure may sound good at first Measure 105 (NO): This low-income Oregonians who blush: no tax on groceries, but measure was brought forward may receive coverage through the when you dig deeper, you realize by the nationally recognized Oregon Health Plan would not that’s just a misleading campaign hate group Oregonians for have access to abortion through slogan. For starters, there is no Immigration Reform. Measure their insurance. We should not be tax on groceries, nor is there one 105. If passed it would throw cherry-picking which healthcare being proposed (at the ballot, or out Oregon’s sanctuary state services are and are not covered by members of the legislature); law, which has been on the by insurance, and certainly not even states that have a sales tax books for 30 years, and open by how much money you have or exempt groceries. the doors for racial profiling how you are insured. Second, the language of this and civil rights violations. I’ve That’s what will be on your measure is so vague, there’s a good strongly opposed the inhumane ballot this November. Right- chance it wouldn’t be applied and immoral practices of ICE wing groups are definitely on just to grocery stores, but also to under this federal administration. the offensive this year, so it’s trucking companies that transport Measure 105 would bring those important to start talking to your food, slaughterhouses, processing same policies to Oregon. By friends and family now, so we plants, fast food restaurants, and voting no, we can show that can push back on these harmful any other business in the food Oregon is a welcoming state that measures. supply chain. wants no part in inhumane anti- I hope to see you out on the On top of that, it would immigration policies. campaign trail this fall. Dogs feel very strongly that they should always go with you in the car, in case the need should arise for them to bark violently at #saving walter account. I need your help. Please help me nothing right in your ear. Belmont house A few passers-by have bring you in under budget and Dave Barry from cover shared horror stories of cost- on time’.” untouched by vandals. overruns and jousting with the If her timelines and In the massive rec room, City to get approvals and permits. positivity prevail, holiday lights spray paint points out the On frustrating days, Murphy says, will sparkle again on the grand craftsmanship of the wainscoting. “I sit back down and say, ‘Walter, house this December. Murphy credits “squatters with a conscience.” Rescuing old houses requires recouping expenses. The City is not making it easy, Insuring your according to Day who says in Portland’s “rush to create life helps density,” it ignores preservation. Specific uses may depend protect their on the City’s convoluted future. permitting process, but one option is adaptive re-use as a traditional bed ‘n breakfast and event venue. “Our goal is to create shared space that is a source of Locke Insurance Agcy Inc It can also provide for today. community pride,” says Murphy. Mariko Locke ChFC, Agent 5048A SE Hawthorne Blvd I’ll show you how a life “But it seems like it’s easier to Portland, OR 97215 insurance policy with living tear a house down than to save it.” Bus: 503-232-2444 benefits can help your family As work progresses, streams with both long-term and of neighbors and curiosity- short-term needs. seekers visit daily. GET TO A BETTER STATE.® She’s heard from a family CALL ME TODAY. that has some of the home’s monogrammed silver. Even police stopped by with encouragement because the abandoned house had become such a problem. Despite distractions, she says Walter handles it well. “It’s strange to State Farm Life Insurance Company (Not licensed in MA, NY or WI) State Farm Life and Accident Assurance Company (Licensed in NY and WI) go from dark years to constant Bloomington, IL activity,” she writes on her 1203087.1 20 THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER SEPTEMBER 18 WW Wellness Word Editor's note: Wellness Word is an informational column which is not meant to replace a health care professional's diagnosis, treatment or medication. Spinal Manipulation May Help You Avoid Surgery By Hari Dass Khalsa, DC

Spinal surgery, called microdiscectomy, is not an uncommon procedure for patients with sciatica. Sci- atica often starts suddenly with pain in your lower back that radiates down from your buttock to one thigh and into your leg. You may have pain when you sit, sneeze or cough. You may also feel weakness, “pins and needles,” numbness, or a burning or tingling sensation down your leg. Sciatica symptoms may result from general wear and tear, plus any sudden pressure on a disc. Most commonly, this occurs when a protruding or herniated disc irritates the sciatic nerve. Sciatica is a major source of disability and impairment of daily living activities. About twenty percent of those with sciatica experience symptoms for more than six weeks. The surgeon performing a microdiscectomy makes a small incision on the back and removes the offending disc tissue. Although the success rate is generally good in the short-term, long-term effects remain largely unknown. Additionally, some patients develop recurrent disc herniation, dural tear, nerve root The school is the last expenditure upon which America should damage, or bowel or bladder incontinence. Moreover, death and paralysis occur in about one per thousand be willing to economize. operations. Franklin D. Roosevelt Fortunately, new evidence published in a scientific periodical, Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, identifies an effective treatment for sciatica that reduces the need for spinal surgery. The research team was composed of three spinal neurosurgeons, a senior health care researcher and a chiropractor. In this study, patients with chronic back pain and sciatica with disc herniation and having failed treatment with analgesics, physiotherapy, massage therapy, and/or acupuncture were randomized to spinal manipulation or surgical microdiscectomy. Spinal manipulations were administered by an experienced chiropractor for up to eight weeks. Surgery was performed by one of three experienced spinal neurosurgeons. Patients were allowed to cross over to the alternative procedure after three months. Chiropractic spinal manipulation delivered a significant benefit. Sixty percent of patients with sciatica who other medical management had failed benefited from spinal manipulation to the same degree as if they underwent surgical intervention. Of the patients that failed spinal manipulation, subsequent surgical intervention conferred excellent outcomes. Delay of the surgical procedure did not adversely affect outcomes. Additionally, a study by another medical team demonstrated that chiropractic spinal manipulation can deliver a large, clinically important pain reduction with no adverse events in a patient population with acute symptoms. These impressive findings have important implications for the treatment of sciatica. Patients with symptomatic disc herniation failing medical management should first consider spinal manipulation. Practitioners managing patients with chronic back pain and sciatica with protruding discs should also consider chiropractic care as a first option.

Dr. Hari Dass Khalsa is a chiropractor specializing in the non-surgical treatment of spinal conditions with offices located in the Hawthorne District at 503.238.1032

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By Karen Oehler members enjoy a monthly hike the last Saturday of every month. lunch when the women presented At a special luncheon in Membership is free, and open to the agency with their checks. August, NorthStar Clubhouse, anyone 18 and over with a mental Members prepare a nutritious a mental health recovery health diagnosis. lunch daily, and lunch that day community, received checks The donation from 100 featured Vietnamese spring rolls, totaling $6000 from 100 Women Women Who Care will support tofu rice bowls, salad, and fruit. Who Care, an organization that NorthStar’s mission empower The women received a donates money to non-profits in people in mental health recovery 6040 SE Belmont Street tour of the building, including Portland, Oregon 97215 the Metro area. to thrive personally, in the the adjoining resale shop, The members of 100 community and in the workplace. The Next R, which supports ph 503-231-7166 Women Who Care pledge to give “NorthStar has changed my NorthStar financially and offers fax 503-230-9858 Post Acute Rehab a $100 check every quarter to a life,” said Deborah K. “I went opportunities for members to different non-profit the group through a bad patch for several participate in the store. marquiscompanies.com selects. years, due to suffering several 100 Women Who Care was After a presentation by losses, and due to my mental started in November of 2006 in NorthStar members Deborah K. health symptoms. I was very Michigan, as a simple way to raise and Michelle C., and a parent of isolated, depressed, and anxious. money efficiently and quickly for another member, the organization “After joining NorthStar local charities. voted for NorthStar to receive in 2013, I gained confidence to There are now nearly six your complete practice their donation. volunteer in the community, and hundred chapters of 100 Women NorthStar group follows eventually got paid employment Who Care nationwide, including 6833 SE Belmont the guidelines from Clubhouse for the first time in several years. I Portland’s which meets quarterly International, an evidence-based, was also trained as a Peer Support September Events at the Old Spaghetti Factory in non-clinical model focusing on Specialist through NorthStar and Clackamas. All Ages & Family Kundalini Yoga with Laurel strengths and skills rather than got a job doing that. In order to be eligible, an Sat Sept 8 • 7-8:30pm diagnoses. Members actively Member Matt S. says, organization must serve people Sonic Journey with Curtis & Signa participate in running all aspects “NorthStar’s Nutrition and in the Portland metro area and be Fri Sept 14 • 8-9:30pm of the program and make Wellness Program for me has non-political. Great Women Gather with Wah Khalsa decisions by consensus. been an amazing adventure in Fri Sept 21 • 7-9pm The group operates on becoming more mindful of what For more information, see: Crystal Sound Bath with Shalom Mayberg a work-ordered-day, Monday foods are important not only for 100womenwhocareportland.org Sat Sept 22 • 7:30-9pm through Friday, 9 am-5 pm. The physical health, but mental health NorthStar Clubhouse was The Way of Love with Jai-Jagdeesh work is divided into two units, as well. I volunteer in the kitchen started in 2010 and is located at Thur Sept 27 • 6-8pm or teams: Nutrition & Wellness helping to prepare amazing meals 5600 NE Glisan, Suite B. Suite A is and Employment & Operations, Restorative Yoga Nidra with Angelle St.Pierre with like minded colleagues, the location of The Next R Resal e Sept 28, 7:30-9pm which includes running a retail in a good humored and always Shop. The website is: www. store in the NorthStar building at exciting environment.” northstarclubhouse.org A warm and beautiful community space 5600 NE Glisan St. NorthStar hosted three Clubhouse International can be Social time is held every members of the 100 Women found at: clubhouse-intl.org/ www.MandalaYogaPDX.com Friday from 3-5 pm, and Who Care group for a celebratory Belmont stories from pages 13 here and wanted my store to be in “It’s a little quirky, a place Southeast Portland.” He started where anyone can sit down, enjoy KOiPod cont. the store to bring his heritage to a pint, a good meal, and good Belmont, to add what he could to conversation” Piluso says. Don’t Skin and Laser Clinic self-cut and it ended up get- the neighborhood. worry about your conversation ting too short. “I know we are do- You won’t have to spend being interrupted by emails or 3751 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. ing amazing things with hair these an arm and a leg to own a piece social media – at Horse Brass Now open in new location! days but growing hair back isn’t of tribal art. Omar, a student, there is no Wi-Fi. The attention is Services include but are not limited to: one of them.” His solution was to understands that a lot of people on good beer, good company, and go on kicking yourself or have a live on a budget, and feels that a good time. LASER HAIR REMOVAL drink and call him in a month. is important that the rugs end up The pub feels, as Don HEMICAL EELS When the big migration to with the right person. Because he Younger used to say, “like C P CNE R E A T MENT Portland began to be noticeable works directly with the sellers, he it’s a second living room,” a A T about seven years ago, he said is able to offer them for affordable place where you’d be just as S K IN R E JUVENATION that at first it was hard not to feel prices. They are pieces of art that comfortable cozying up to a good ODY ONTOURING a little bitter. “The hidden gem are meant to be shared. B C book as you would throwing a PIDER EINS was discovered.” Rather than Stop in and see the collec- couple back during a game of RINKLE EDUCTION S V complain because the city was tion for yourself, Abbasi Fine darts. It’s all you want from beer W R growing, he decided it was better Rugs is at 3150 SE Belmont St. culture, without the pretension. TATT O O REMOVAL to be positive. Many businesses Open Thursday through Sunday, Despite the old time feel, the new are booming and he has hopes for 11 am-5 pm. PZ age is welcome at Horse Brass 503-297-0782 the future. too, as these days, they have craft eosskinandlaserclinic.com At this year’s Belmont Horse Brass Pub Cont. Kombucha on tap. [email protected] Street Fair KOiPOD will be No matter the generation, celebrating their tenth year in red’s, lagers, stouts, bitters, everyone should have a place this space. Kahala’s daughter you name it, and they’ll put it in where they can go and just chill, Kalia will be giving away free a pint for you. Couple that with and this cozy corner of Belmont lemonade for donations to the some traditional English fare like is the perfect place to do that. families of the Puna area of bangers, meat pies, and Scotch Horse Brass is located at Hawaii who have lost their homes eggs, 4534 SE Belmont. PZ due to the volcano. They want to help their Obana (family) come back stronger than before. Look for 25 percent off all hair products the day of the fair. “We look forward to seeing you at our space. Cheers and Ma- halo for all these years of support from our Ohana to yours,” says Kahala. The appointment book- ing is done online at koipodpdx@ gmail.com. NT

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homey feeling to it, one that Omar has cultivated. “I live in this neighborhood,” he says, “I love it 22 THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER SEPTEMBER 18 NN Neighborhood Notes from page 9 with Mt. Tabor and North Tabor Neighborhood Associations? Activities related to the cleanup include re- serving the middle school parking lot, making arrangements with hauling and recycling companies, setting prices, soliciting volunteers, publicity, gathering supplies for the day of the cleanup, post-cleanup paper- work and reimbursements. An MTNA neighborhood cleanup committee will be created at the September 19 meeting of the Oregon’s Best Cupcake Shop! MTNA. Attend and volunteer at the meeting or email MTNA at [email protected]. The next meeting of the MTNA is Wednesday, September 19 at 7 pm at Mt Tabor Presbyterian Church at SE 54th and Belmont, with social time and homemade cookies starting 6:50 pm. For information, visit mttaborpdx.org. Montavilla By Amanda Rhoads

We’re heading into a busy fall in Montavilla and hosting our annual elections on Monday, October 8. Only current members can vote, so we’re encouraging everyone to contact us to verify their membership 36 Flavors Every Day! status. This is especially important since our membership list was only recently rebuilt. If you attended a 3557 SE Hawthorne Blvd. meeting more than a year ago, we may not have your data. If you live within our boundaries, but are not currently a member, make sure to attend our Monday, Free parking in our own lot. September 10 membership meeting at 6:30 pm at Montavilla United Methodist Church, 232 NE 80th St., in 503-764-992l order to become eligible to vote prior to our October election. See our menu at We need folks to step up and run for the board! Email [email protected] to check on the www.ToadstoolCupcakes.com status of your membership or talk through responsibilities. September 29 Neighborhood Cleanup: We didn’t host our cleanup in the spring, so we welcome everyone who missed their neighborhood’s cleanup to come to ours Saturday, September 29, from 9 am to 3 pm. The Montavilla Baptist Church at 9204 SE Hawthorne Blvd. is hosting us. Clear out your bulky waste while supporting the neighborhood association. New Website: We’ve got a new website up and running, and adding more content every day. We hope to have all our archived files moved over soon, and bring us up to date on all the latest about the orga- nization. Check us out at montavillapdx.org. Procedures Matter

from cover ing majorities in some neighbor- be time for those who have never hoods and new common interests been marginalized to feel what board member, a neutral commu- evolve. it’s like. nity member, a representative of Sunnyside and Montavilla A concern raised by Field neighborhood coalition Southeast NAs have largely rallied around is whether OCCL will change Uplift. Molly Mayo of SE Uplift support of renters’ rights, afford- neighborhood meeting processes. has acknowledged the grievance ability and compassion for the Field claims that, “OCCL Direc- S.E. 47th & Hawthorne www.pdxdeli.com is a public record, but cautioned houseless. Homogeneous neigh- tor Suk Rhee told him she does against its publication because of borhoods like Laurelhurst tend not think Open Meeting rules the harm it might do to individual to focus on crime prevention and should apply to NAs.” reputations. community preservation. As a Field responded: “Suspend- Richmond boasts that it whole, SE Uplift has become sig- ing Open Meeting rules would has one of Portland’s most active nificantly more diverse as special allow NAs all over the City to neighborhood associations – a interests a pundit labels “commu- become private cliques of people mix of camaraderie, activism and nities of identity” take charge. proposing policy and land use and the challenges of change. Stand- The transformation of the transportation changes under the ing room only crowds are fre- former ONI (established as a link façade of ‘representing’ this com- quent. between NAs and the City), into munity.” No stranger to controversy, OCCL is intended to engage a Eastside resident Rod Mer- RNA has been accused of elec- broader range of community part- rick, a preservation advocate and tion irregularities in the recent ners. In the process of becoming frequent participant in citizen ad- past. This summer, a resident read more inclusionary, some long- visory committees, says OCCL’s aloud a multi-point plea for civil- time stakeholders feel excluded recent staff and process upheavals ity. Given the rapid densification by what they see as a reversal that are “all in the name of equity”. and demographic shifts along subtracts rather than adds voices. He adds, “For many Port- Division St., Richmond has be- They fear cohesive neighbor- landers, using equity as a means come a poster child for debates hoods are losing clout beneath a to increasingly exclude them about the pros and cons of future heavy-handed bureaucracy with a does not seem consistent with the growth. social engineering mission. idea or ideals that have sustained Richmond is hardly alone It didn’t help that during a neighborhood associations and with transition tensions. As old SE Uplift meeting some months sense of local accountability and Portland becomes Next Portland, ago, an agency official made an civic participation for the last 40 groups in the minority are becom- offhand comment that it might years.” La Bamba Mexican Restaurante & Cantina Serving regional fare from: Veracruz • Oaxaca • Yucatan • Puebla

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focusing on clean and mindful Kfit eating. from page 5 “We are not nutritionists per se but we have a lot of practical number of combinations of these knowledge,” Mary said. classes. Not only has Kfit created a “We try to make it so that if gathering place for women with someone wants to come every day, a mutual goal, they have contrib- we will be rotating the areas we uted to the community with their are strengthening,” Mary said. She charity of the month program sup- called it periodization, only for the ported by the gym members. body and not time, where you cat- So far they have helped egorize muscle groups in the body Dove Lewis, Children’s Book and work on them specifically. Bank, Bradley Angle House, Their great names for class- Friends of the Gorge and the es: The Spark, The Kinnect, The Food Bank. They’ve held a blood Foundation, The Groove (a dance drive and currently are doing the class) are sure to get your heart School Supply Drive. thumping – and a whole lot more. “We do mostly local and The word kinnect is what they some larger charities depending chose for their business name be- on the need,” Tammy said. cause it is a fusion of connect and Even though it is a commit- kinetic – energy due to motion. ment of a little time and energy, Mary shared an interest- the rewards can change a person’s ing piece of information about life. People look better, feel bet- the heart. She said that we can ter, are more organized and better strengthen and build heart muscle equipped to deal with the daily and stamina up until the age of grind. They sleep better and the seventy-five. “All hearts are finite endorphin boost can really give but we can do a lot to keep them a lift. There’s also the opportu- strong until then and beyond.” nity to meet other women in your Classes at Kfit serve women community. in their late twenties to their sev- enties. Along with exercise and fit- For a complete list of class- ness classes, they have a program es and pricing, see: kfitstudiopdx. called Eat Healthy/Feel Healthy, com or call 971.373.8499. 24 THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER SEPTEMBER 18

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Belmont Street Fair Sept 8th 10 am – 6pm

Bring your families, friends and pets to the annual Belmont Street Fair! Support your community neighborhood by shopping, dining, rocking out and drinking locally with the hundreds 1928 SE Elliott Ave. $829,900 605 SE 70th Ave. $619,500 of vendors helping to make the fair 1923 Side by Side Duplex Each Unit: 2 BD, 1 BA 1930 English 4 BD, 1.5 BA 3773 Total Sq. Ft. 1965 Sq. Ft. 2511 Total Sq. Ft. possible.

Grand Tasting at Feast Portland Sept 14, 1 – 5 pm feastportland.com

The Grand Tasting is Feast’s city-block- sized celebration of eating and drinking in the heart of Downtown Portland, where you get up-close and personal with more than 80 vendors, including 7032 SE 65th Ave. $339,900 905 SE 50th $529,900 some of the best chefs, vintners, 1930 1-Story 3 BD, 1 BA 1906 Duplex Unit 1: 2 BD, 1 BA 1344 Total Sq. Ft. 2310 Total Sq. Ft. Unit 2: 1 BD, 1 BA brewers, bakers, cheesemakers and food artisans from the Northwest and across America.

Widmer October Fest September 29, 12-11pm

You don’t want to miss this beer lover’s paradise, featuring all of your favorite Widmer brews. Bring your family & enjoy an array of FREE activities before the ticketed evening concert, including 1912 NE 61st Ave. $629,900 1719 SE Cesar E. Chavez $475,000 face-painting, pretzel necklace building, 1941 English 3 BD, 2 BA 1922 Bungalow 3 BD, 2 BA palm/tarot card readers, Classy 2758 Total Sq. Ft. 2080 Total Sq. Ft. Camelids Llama and Alpaca (in German attire) and a photobooth!