UndercoverU boss YOUR ONLINE LOCAL 50 years ago PeterP Ames Carlin delves DAILY NEWS Terry Baker being honored intoin music icon’s life www.portlandtribune.com as Heisman winner Portland— See LIFE, B1 Tribune— See SPORTS, B8 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2012 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILY PAPER • WWW.PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHED THURSDAY Duh! Poll ■ Grand Central Baking says most digs into sustainability as voters Thanksgiving blitz heats up unhappy Hold the celebration, pollsters say electorate wants problems fi xed By JIM REDDEN The Tribune Not so fast, Oregon Demo- crats. Your mandate is not as big as you think. ina Langley eyeballs haven’t yet experienced what That’s one conclusion drawn about four cups of they call the “Thanksgiving from a sobering post-election dried beans and blitz.” poll by Fox 12 and Oregon Pub- Gpours them into a The two or three days before lic Broadcasting. large coffee fi lter, completely Thanksgiving each year are by Despite the big gains made fi lling the unbaked pie shell. far the busiest time for Grand by Democrats in November’s She pops it in a 350-degree Central and most other baker- general election, the poll found oven and retrieves it 25 min- ies, as they sell hundreds of that most Oregon voters were utes later: a golden, fl aky shell, pies, specialty breads and oth- not enthusiastic about the par- the perfect vessel er items for the ty’s candidates and believe the for bourbon pe- family dinner ta- entire political system is bro- can goodness. Story by ble. ken. “See how nice- Jennifer Anderson As anyone who “I have never seen the vot- ly it comes out?” works in the food ers so negative. They believe she asks the six Photos by industry knows, the entire political system bakers watching Christopher Onstott it would be easy needs to be fi xed,” says Adam as she gently lifts to end up with a Davis, co-founder of Davis, the coffee filter lot of waste in the Hibbitts, Midghall Inc., the full of beans out, to use again process. Portland fi rm that conducted for the next pie. “Butter’s a But Grand Central — which the poll. wonderful thing.” began in Seattle in 1972 and ex- It is easy to assume most Langley, the tattoo sleeved, panded to Portland 20 years Oregon voters rallied behind ponytail-braded retail manag- later — has made its mission to behind the er for Portland’s seven Grand eliminate as much waste as Democratic Central Baking Co. stores, led a possible. “People are Party on quick workshop last week to “It’s a tricky science,” says election the half-dozen lead bakers who feeling night. Presi- are new to the company and See PIE / Page 2 overwhelmed dent Obama by problems beat Repub- lican chal- that never lenger for- seem to get mer Gov. Mitt Rom- solved.” ney, all state- — Adam Davis, wide and pollster with Davis, Congressio- Hibbitts, Midghall nal Demo- Inc. crats on the ballot were re-elected and Demo- crats ended the even split and took control of the Oregon House of Representatives. News coverage of election night reinforced the impres- Kaylyn Hacklander, a baker at Grand Central’s new Beaumont cafe, prepares a batch of sion of enthusiastic Democrat- pumpkin pies for the store’s holiday rush. The company doesn’t hoard its recipes: both sweet A test batch of pecan pies comes out of the oven last week as bakers ic support. Televisions crews and savory recipes as well as baking tips and video tutorials are posted online. prepared for their pre-Thanksgiving rush. Grand Central Baking has descended on the downtown new pecans in stock this year, having eliminated the middle man to buy Hilton Hotel when the state a fresh crop directly from a farmer in North Carolina. party and its backers held their celebration on the eve- ning of Nov. 6. But most voters were appar- ently not celebrating the elec- tion, according to the poll of 500 voters conducted between Ducks’ national goal Nov. 9 and 12. The poll found the majority — 58 percent — agree that: “The political sys- to create UO ‘brand’ tem is broken and really needs Dennis Cooper, a to be fi xed.” fi rst-day patient A full 46 percent “strongly What happens on the at the Billi agree” with that statement. Odegaard Dental Only 38 percent agree that: football fi eld is just “Our political system may not Clinic, gets a part of a grand effort be perfect but it works pretty cancer screening well as is.” from dentist Four percent did not answer Beverlee Katz By JASON VONDERSMITH the question. Cutler. The Old The Tribune A huge chunk of Oregon vot- Town clinic is run ers were disappointed by the by Multnomah EUGENE — The University election. Asked to describe it, County. of Oregon has two Southeast- 39 percent of voters said the TRIBUNE PHOTO: ern Conference-infl uenced election was a “disappointing CHRISTOPHER movers-and-shakers at the failure” that left them with a ONSTOTT top of the athletic depart- “negative impression.” Only 21 ment, and they have one big TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT percent said it was “great” or goal for the Ducks. With the support of Nike, the “fantastic” and left them with “The amount of support we University or Oregon football a “positive impressive.” have nationally is comparable program is among the most The rest used terms like County’s dental clinic to any school in the country,” recognizable in the nation. “long,” “boring,” “uneventful” says Craig Pintens, senior asso- or “close.” A few said “success- ciate athletic director for mar- ful” or refused to answer the keting and public relations, who wonderful relationship with question. fi lls a big gap in care joined Oregon from LSU. Nike. They’ve built much of this Most voters were not “That’s why our goal is to not brand, they’ve put us on the thrilled by the candidates on only be a national brand, but be map. the ballot. A majority — 54 per- last in Portland — volun- cavities fi lled. THE national brand.” “With the amount of atten- cent — agreed that: “For most Dentists worry their teers provided more than A survey of patients at the Thanks to Nike, a self-sus- tion we get, it’s the natural political races it was a choice $1.2 million in free dental event revealed that 78 percent taining $93 million budget this thing to want to be the best. between the lesser of two limited work won’t care to more than 2,000 peo- had no regular dental care, and year and the sustained, high That’s something we strive for evils.” Only 40 percent chose, be enough for many ple. about the same number had no level of success by Oregon’s in our department. From a pure “Most political races offered us Thousands more showed up dental insurance. well-dressed football team, Pin- marketing standpoint, we think good choices.” The remaining By PETER KORN to the Oregon Convention Cen- As far as Bill Zepp, executive tens believes the Ducks are we can get there.” 6 percent did not answer the The Tribune ter event, but had to be turned director of the association, is very close to being the most- Oregon fell from No. 1 in na- question. away. Some had slept in line concerned, those people will recognized college athletic pro- tional polls, losing to Stanford After the election, a number At the Oregon Dental As- outside overnight, unwilling to likely show up at the next Mis- gram in the country. 17-14 in overtime last weekend. sociation’s annual two-day take a chance at not getting “We have such a unique op- See POLL / Page 4 dental clinic in 2011 — the their painful teeth pulled or See DENTAL / Page 5 portunity,” he adds, “given our See DUCKS / Page 9 “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to Portland Tribune City cobbles together ■ Portland’s City Council will take up next week a revived $31 million public-private deliver balanced news that refl ects the redevelopment plan for the Veterans Memorial Coliseum area. Search: Coliseum. stories of our communities. Thank you Online new coliseum plan for reading our newspapers.” Read it fi rst at portlandtribune.com — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN, JR. OWNER & NEIGHBOR A2 NEWS The Portland Tribune Thursday, November 22, 2012 Pie: Bakery reaches out to local suppliers ■ From page 1 Piper Davis, daughter of Grand Central’s founder and the com- pany’s cuisine manager. “The better ingredients we use, the better we have to be about con- trolling waste.” Fresher pecans Ingredient-wise, Grand Cen- tral has been one of the pio- neers in local and sustainable food sourcing. The company “I want is constantly on the lookout everybody for better- eating quality, tastier better and more sus- tainably baked grown prod- goods. I ucts, Davis says. want a Nuts used in bigger and the 200 or so better pie pecan pies sold last year, out there.” for example, — Piper Davis, were ordered Grand Central through a Baking cuisine standard bulk manager shipment from Texas, since they aren’t na- tive to the West Coast. This year, however, Davis had come into contact with a pecan purveyor in North Caro- lina, “Farmer Elbie,” and his boutique company called “The Nut House.” The nuts are “buttery tasting and super fresh,” Davis says. “It’s this year’s crop. Most (oth- ers) are last year’s crop.” TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT While North Carolina might The quality of an ingredient is everything to bakers at Grand Central.