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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

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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. Pecans here are rich, moist and buttery, so they affect the pies’ baking time. not be considered “local,” Da- vis explains the change: “Our ethos is for an ingredient we The seventh and latest cafe can’t source locally, let’s fi nd Bourbon Pecan Pie to open was in Beaumont this something special from a farm- ■ 1 U-bake pie shell, blind baked past summer, where sales have er we can connect to. We take (325 degrees, 25 minutes, fi lled been bustling but not yet near the middle man out as much as with dried beans or another weight) that of the city’s busiest stores, possible.” ■ 1 cup light corn syrup Hawthorne and Multnomah The new pecans’ moisture ■ 3/4 cup packed light brown Village. Sellwood and Irvington and freshness meant the bak- sugar are next busiest. ing time had to be adjusted, so ■ 2 T unsalted butter It’s Davis’ job to study the a taste-testing session was ■ 1/4 cup bourbon sales at each location and the ■ promptly organized. 1 t vanilla trends in that neighborhood to ■ The premium ingredient’s 3 eggs, room temperature try to order and produce just ■ cost and labor also meant a 1 1/2 cups pecan halves, lightly enough to sell without waste. price increase of $2 to $23.95, toasted Before Thanksgiving and Preheat oven: 325 degrees but most customers will appre- Christmas, they encourage and Prepare fi lling: Put corn syrup and ciate the difference, Davis says. brown sugar in a saucepan with a sell mostly through pre-orders. And, if they’d rather make heavy bottom. Cook over medium “It’s a lot of guesswork,” says their own pie from scratch, heat until sugar dissolves. Remove Langley, the retail manager. Grand Central is happy to help. from heat and add butter, bourbon “We could bomb completely.” The company sold about and vanilla. Allow mixture to cool. Just before Thanksgiving, 1,200 U-Bake pie dough and Whisk eggs into cooled fi lling. the walk-in freezers at North shells last year, about twice Fill pie and bake: Arrange lightly Fremont — the commissary their sales of fresh pecan and toasted pecan halves on the bot- and central kitchen — stood pumpkin pies. It also doesn’t tom of the blind-baked shell and full of U-Bake pie shells ready carefully pour the fi lling over them. regard its recipes as secrets: Place pie on the center rack of the to be fi lled with their pumpkin they’re printed on take-home oven and bake 45 minutes or until fi lling or “pecan goo,” as it’s Cranberry quick bread is another holiday specialty at Grand Central. The holiday blitz is like the Super Bowl for cards at the register, as well as fi lling is set. called. The pie assembly and local bakeries, but a big challenge is to avoid waste after the big day. Grand Central has it down to a science. the company’s website and the Courtesy of Grand Central Baking Co. baking happens at each cafe Grand Central Baking hard- site. cover book, co-written three The formula seems to be around here, but it’s solid,” Da- have popped up around town, erybody eating better baked years ago by Davis. ness in Portland, Grand Cen- working. The company’s sales vis says. “Portland prioritizes she says, it just raises the bar goods. We’re not slicing up a tral has taken a cautious ap- never bottomed out during the really good baked goods. It’s for quality products. single pie — we’re growing the Raising the bar proach toward expansion, Da- recession, just fl attened. stable, and it’s safe.” “I never worry about compe- pie. I want a bigger and better In its two decades of busi- vis says. “It’s not the rockin’ ‘90s Even as artisan bakeries tition,” Davis says. “I want ev- pie out there.”

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Lake Road [email protected] Portland, OR 97222 ©2012 Portland Tribune The Portland Tribune Thursday, November 22, 2012 NEWS A3 Westside Economic Alliance Are politics director ready for big issues safe to drink? Pam Treece uses her mas counties. It works to im- future expansions of the urban “Pam is well versed in the re- prove the local business climate, growth boundary that deter- gion’s economic needs, and she is We blame it on So the question is, how business experience to enhance livability and promote mines where new development respected by business and gov- the Fog of Politics would anti-fl uoride candidates economic development opportu- can occur, freight mobility prob- ernment leaders across the re- fare in the 2014 primary elec- boost regional group nities on the westside of the Port- lems that affect employers and gion,” said Norm Eder, the alli- Sources erred last issue tion? Fish and Saltzman both land region. areas where the alliance can ance’s president. “Pam’s deep when we said the fl uoride ref- say they do not believe many By JIM REDDEN Anchored by Intel and a num- work cooperatively with other experience and commitment to a erendum would appear on voters would support such The Tribune ber of other high- economic develop- healthy regional economy will the May 2013 ballot. In single-issue candi- tech companies, ment organiza- make the WEA an even stronger fact, it is scheduled dates, even at the The infl uential Westside Washington Coun- “We need to tions in the region. and more effective voice for the to go before same election Economic Alliance has hired a ty is the region’s build a spirit of “After every- westside.” Portland a full where the re- new executive director. — and the state’s thing we’ve been Metro Council President Tom year later, in ferral measure Pamela Treece, an economic — economic driver. collaboration, through with the Hughes also praised the choice the May 2014 is up for a vote. development consultant with ex- Its population not just on the economy in recent of Treece to run the economic primary elec- If they do perience in both the private and grew 1.2 percent in years, we need to group. tion. face such oppo- public sectors, replaces Johna- 2012, faster than westside but build a spirit of col- “I have worked with Pam at The City Council nents, Fish and than Schlueter, who was hired either Multnomah throughout the laboration, not just Regional Partners and Greater has the authority to Saltzman could be helped several months ago as Washing- County at 0.09 per- on the westside but Portland Inc. She will bring move the measure to an earli- by a campaign in support of ton County’s cent or Clackamas entire region.” throughout the en- knowledge, energy and a strong er ballot but is unlikely to do fluoridating the water. The government County at 0.08 per- — Pam Treece, tire region,” Treece collaborative spirit to the orga- so at this time. Commissioner same coalition that supported relations man- cent. Westside Economic says. nization. I look forward to work- Dan Saltzman plans to ask the the council vote is gearing up ager. He had Such growth is Alliance director Treece has been ing with her on issues that face council to place a measure re- to campaign in favor of uphold- worked at the creating both eco- active in regional our region,” says Hughes, for- newing the Portland Chil- ing the council’s action in May alliance since nomic opportunities and chal- economic development activities mer mayor of Hillsboro. dren’s Levy on the May 2013 2014. 2004. lenges. Unemployment is lower for many years. Most recently, Treece is a native Oregonian. ballot. Commissioner Nick “The West- in Washington County than the she served as a consultant to She received her undergradu- Fish is considering a Portland Plugging a hole side Economic rest of the region. But a new Greater Portland Inc., a public- ate degree from Portland State Parks & Recreation bond mea- in campaign funds Alliance repre- white paper on the Westside’s private economic development University and her master’s de- sure for the November 2013 TREECE sents the eco- transportation infrastructure organization. Before that, she gree from Lewis & Clark Col- ballot. The most recent campaign nomic engine predicts congestion will increase was the director of the Associa- lege. It goes without saying that fi lings reveal that the top three of the state,” Treece says. “We without additional road projects, tion of Regional Partners, an as- The Westside Economic Alli- Saltzman and Fish do not want candidates spent almost $3.8 must protect what we have and which are controversial. sociation of public offi cials work- ance was created in 1998 their measures on the same million in cash and in-kind con- grow it for the future.” Treece says she expects the ing on economic development through the merger of two eco- ballot where many Portland- tributions in the Portland may- The alliance is a business ad- Westside Economic Alliance will issues in the Portland area. nomic development-related or- ers are likely to vent their an- or’s race. vocacy group with both public take up land use, transportation Prior to that, Treece served as ganizations, the Sunset Corri- ger about the council’s deci- Winner Charlie Hales spent and private sector members in and regional cooperation issues vice president of Oregon Exter- dor Association and the Tuala- sion to add fl uoride to the wa- more than $1.45 million in the Washington and western Clacka- in the coming year. They include nal Affairs for Pacifi Corp. tin Valley Development Corp. ter system without a public primary and general elections, vote. barely outspending Eileen Brady, who spent slightly more No, seriously, could this than $1.4 million in the primary. hurt our chances? Jefferson Smith, who fin- ished second in the primary Damascus mayor foiled in email grab But sticking with the May and general, reports spending 2014 vote raises another issue slightly more than $937,000 in for Fish and Saltzman. Both both elections. pears to be a copy of any and all from getting any work done. posed language that would al- of them voted for the Both Hales and Brady Council rejects Mayor emails coming into or out of “It puts an extraordinary bur- low the council by a majority fl uoridation measure. are reporting that Steve Spinnett’s ‘odd’ City Hall. den on the staff,” Baker said, vote to appoint a presiding offi - And because both their campaigns are “I would like to be cc’d on all adding that he’s confused and cer to maintain order and deco- plan to seek re-elec- in the hole. Hales request for access city manager correspondence shocked by the email. rum in council chambers if the tion, their names has a defi cit of near- with any member of city coun- So was Helm. “Wow,” she mayor is not doing so. will appear on that ly $36,000, while By MARA STINE cil, code development, depart- said. “It’s insane. It’s paranoid. “We’re not trying to go ballot, too. Brady has a defi cit of The Tribune ment heads, CCI, councilor to It’s scary. I don’t even under- around the mayor,” Helm said. Contacted by Sourc- almost $340,000. councilor and any correspon- stand it. This is just one more “We want something more...” es, Fish and Saltzman Smith, in contrast, re- Damascus city councilors dence with other government hurdle. If they feel they’re going she continued, pausing to strug- say they are not con- FISH ports a surplus of about are getting closer to voting organizations such as ODOT, to fi nd a smoking gun, let them gle for the right word. “Func- cerned about the fl uo- $30,000. on new council rules that will DLCD, METRO etc.,” Spinnett go ahead and keep making pub- tional,” said Wescott, complet- ride issue derailing In the only seriously give councilors more authori- wrote. “I would also like all lic records requests. It’s repre- ing Helm’s sentence. their re-election contested City Coun- ty over how the government communications to and from hensible.” Comments from citizens have hopes. They noted cil race, Fritz was re- body operates. the city, city councilors and any The council determined the grown increasingly hostile in that Commissioner elected after being But a new issue popped up other citizen committee that in- mayor’s directive was against recent months and Spinnett is Amanda Fritz was outspent by Nolan during the Thursday, Nov. 15, cludes any communications council rules because it was failing to control the meetings, easily re-elected at by a margin of about work session. with the public.” made without consulting the councilors have said. In Octo- the November 2012 $309,000 to almost City Manager Greg Baker Spinnett was on vacation, so council. ber, two citizens’ comments election, despite also $630,000 in both elec- asked for direction on a Council President Diana Helm Damascus councilors are still were interpreted at threats, having voted to fl uori- SALTZMAN tions. Wednesday, Nov. 14, email from presided at the meeting. ironing out ways to maintain prompting six-month bans from date Portland’s water. Fritz has a defi cit of Mayor Steve Spinnett in which Baker explained to the coun- decorum during council meet- city property, including City Of course, Fritz’s opponent, about $128,000, while the Nolan the mayor directed Baker to cil that following the mayor’s ings. Hall. The city lifted the ban state Rep. Mary Nolan, sup- campaign is about $25,000 in have staff send him what ap- directive would prevent the city Councilor Mary Wescott pro- within about a week. ported fl uoridating the water. debt.

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A new county clinic could help provide urgent care for low-income people. cern at Northwest Broadway and West Burnside Street, has fi ve exam rooms and cost near- ing will get you out of pain, and regular dental care. Medicare Public Health, says Portland’s ly $1 million to build. With its then within six to 12 months does not cover routine dental lack of fl uoridated water has electronic dental records sys- you need to have this root canal exams for most of the people it exacerbated the problem. tem and sinks that can be fi nished by somebody else,’ “ insures. “All dental disease is pre- turned on with the push of a she says. “A lot of people think Yet the cost of having so ma- ventable with the right policies, hip, the new facility is some- they can. Very often they come ny without dental insurance is unlike a lot of conditions,” Rad- thing county dentist Beverlee back a year and a half later, enormous, say Katz Cutler and er says. “We’ll never get heart Katz Cutler has lobbied for dur- they never did get it fi nished, others in the fi eld. Providence disease or cancer down to zero, ing the past decade. and I have to take the tooth out. Health Systems studied its but there’s no reason we Katz Cutler, who has main- And that’s frustrating.” emergency departments and couldn’t get the dental disease tained her private dental prac- found that dental pain is con- rate very low with some smart tice while working as a public Routine care missing sistently among the top mala- policies.” health dentist with Multnomah With little dental care avail- dies leading to emergency de- The Billi Odegaard clinic County since 1988, has con- able for those without insur- partment visits among the un- won’t be seeing children, other fronted on a daily basis the ance coverage, the few avail- insured and those on the Ore- than the homeless teens re- same conundrum Zepp has wit- able providers such as the gon Health Plan, according to ferred by downtown nonprofi t nessed annually. county’s new Priscilla Lewis, di- Outside In. Cutler Katz hopes “There’s no place for routine clinic are forced rector for commu- eventually she will be able to care for those who can’t pay,” to try to treat as “I think over nity services and provide more preventive care she says. many as they development. An- and less urgent care there, but The new county clinic should can. That often the next 10 nually, Lewis says, she knows such a day is well in serve about 1,500 patients a means limiting years we’ll see more than 7,000 the future. year, almost all of whom will be care to the ba- emergency depart- Providence’s Lewis says a dramatic TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT referred through one of the sics: taking out ment visits in the Dentist Beverlee Katz Cutler (left) and assistant Leslie Moreno look Portland will need many more nonprofi t agencies which serve teeth, fi lling cavi- impact. But it Portland area by over a patient’s records on the fi rst day of Multnomah County’s new dentists for that to happen, an the downtown-area homeless. ties and educat- will probably people suffering Billi Odegaard clinic, the fi rst permanent west side dental facility for unlikely scenario until there That means a heavy percent- ing patients on dental pain. those without dental insurance. are more people here with in- age will be in addiction treat- what they can do take a decade.” Almost all those surance to cover all their den- ment and mental health pro- to maintain den- — Priscilla Lewis, visits and more tal needs. Lewis is hoping that grams. tal health. Providence Health would have been munity health assessment last replacements, which can make health reform and the new Co- Katz Cutler guesses that Routine dental Systems unnecessary, Lewis year and discovered that oral it hard to fi nd or keep a job. ordinated Care Organizations, most will need urgent care, care? says, if people were disease was one of the top four Oregon children are faring which are supposed to manage such as extractions, but she’s “Frankly, I re- able to see dentists unmet health needs in the Port- even worse. According to data Oregon Health Plan enrollees hoping that with some she can fer people to the dental schools regularly for preventive care. land metro area. supplied by Chase, one in three as effi ciently as possible, get break the cycle of urgent den- to get their teeth cleaned and Oral disease and resultant in- Sam Chase, executive direc- Oregon children from low-in- the message on the importance tal care without routine care checkups for free,” Katz Cutler flammation contribute to tor of the Coalition of Commu- come families have what is of regular, preventive dental that ends up costing patients says. chronic heart conditions and nity Health Care Clinics, says called “rampant decay,” which care. That, she says, could start their health and taxpayers Zepp says dental care is of- pregnancy complications, she that adults unable to see den- means seven or more teeth reversing the cycle now frus- money. ten the fi rst thing cut from con- adds. Dental pain is the No. 1 tists often end up missing have suffered decay. Oregon trating public health dentists Katz Cutler is thankful for tracts when union negotiations cause of children missing work. And, Chase says, getting children have among the high- such as Cutler Katz. the gleaming new facility, but get tough because it is seen as school. teeth extracted at a free or low- est cavity rates in the United “I think over the next 10 also frustrated at continually less necessary than most medi- cost clinic can result in a gap- States. years we’ll see a dramatic im- providing urgent care. cal care. Few Oregon Health Smart policies toothed look if patients don’t Mel Rader, co-director of ad- pact,” Lewis says. “But it will “You tell them, ‘What I’m do- Plan enrollees get coverage for Providence completed a com- have the money for expensive vocacy organization Upstream probably take a decade.” 402765.112112 A6 INSIGHT { INSIGHT } The Portland Tribune Thursday, November 22, 2012 Counting blessings of ‘strength and vigor’

merican history buffs have acknowledged as with one heart and much to be thankful for this OUROPINION one voice by the whole American year, based on reviews that People. I do therefore invite my fel- Afollowed last week’s release low citizens in every part of the Unit- of Steven Spielberg’s latest fi lm. healthful skies. To these bounties, industry to the national defense, ed States, and also those who are at “Lincoln” focuses on the tumultu- which are so constantly enjoyed that have not arrested the plough, the sea and those who are sojourning in ous events leading up to the Emanci- we are prone to forget the source shuttle or the ship; the ax has en- foreign lands, to set apart and ob- pation Proclamation, issued by our from which they come, others have larged the borders of our settlements, serve the last Thursday of November 16th president in January 1863. And been added, which are of so extraor- and the mines, as well of iron and next, as a day of Thanksgiving and while that was certainly the most fa- dinary a nature, that they cannot coal as of the precious metals, have Praise to our benefi cent Father who mous document penned by Abraham fail to penetrate and soften even the yielded even more abundantly than dwelleth in the Heavens. Lincoln that year, it wasn’t the only heart which is habitually insensible heretofore. Population has steadily And I recommend to them that one. to the ever watchful providence of increased, notwithstanding the while offering up the ascriptions On Oct. 3, 1863, presiding over a di- Almighty God. waste that has been made in the justly due to Him for such singular vided nation, Lincoln issued a proc- In the midst of a civil war of un- camp, the siege and the battlefi eld; deliverances and blessings, they do lamation making the traditional equaled magnitude and severity, and the country, rejoicing in the con- also, with humble penitence for our Thanksgiving celebration a nation- which has sometimes seemed to for- sciousness of augmented strength national perverseness and disobedi- wide holiday. eign states to invite and to provoke and vigor, is permitted to expect con- ence, commend to His tender care all Nearly 150 years later, Lincoln’s their aggression, peace has been pre- tinuance of years with large increase those who have become widows, or- words are a timely reminder that served with all nations, order has of freedom. phans, mourners or sufferers in the our country’s current internal con- been maintained, the laws have been No human counsel hath devised lamentable civil strife in which we fl icts are, comparatively, quite man- respected and obeyed, and harmony nor hath any mortal hand worked are unavoidably engaged, and fer- ageable, while the blessings from has prevailed everywhere except in out these great things. They are the vently implore the interposition of our “fruitful fi elds” remain, indeed, the theatre of military confl ict; while gracious gifts of the Most High God, the Almighty Hand to heal the “extraordinary.” that theatre has been greatly con- who, while dealing with us in anger wounds of the nation and to restore tracted by the advancing armies and for our sins, hath nevertheless re- it as soon as may be consistent with The year that is drawing towards navies of the Union. membered mercy. It has seemed to the Divine purposes to the full enjoy- its close has been fi lled with the Needful diversions of wealth and of me fi t and proper that they should be ment of peace, harmony, tranquility blessings of fruitful fi elds and strength from the fi elds of peaceful solemnly, reverently and gratefully and Union.

Portland TWOVIEWS ● No one likes to get sick, but City Hall’s plan stirs business ire Tribune

FOUNDER Dr. Robert B. Pamplin, Jr. Paid sick days keep economy healthy PRESIDENT J. Mark Garber

MANAGING EDITOR/ By Kayse Jama, Workers of color are especial- WEB EDITOR ly affected. According to the In- Kevin Harden Midge Purcell and stitute for Women’s Policy Re- search, 42 percent of black VICE PRESIDENT Joseph Santos-Lyons workers and 57 percent of Lati- Brian Monihan no workers in the Portland ar- n Halloween, our col- ea’s private-sector workplaces CIRCULATION league Francisco Lo- do not earn a paid sick day — MANAGER pez, executive director compared to 39 percent of white Kim Stephens Oof Causa Oregon, Ore- workers. gon’s immigrant rights organi- More than 40,000 workers of CREATIVE zation, asked Portland’s city color in our “city that works” SERVICES MANAGER Cheryl DuVal commissioners to solve a scary earn zero paid sick days. So community problem that really when they’re sick or need to go PUBLISHING SYSTEMS hurts communities of color and to the doctor or have to care for MANAGER/WEBMASTER low-wage workers most: a lack a sick child, they’re confronted Alvaro Fontán of paid sick time at work. with an impossible choice of Francisco was joined by doz- working sick or foregoing pre- NEWS WRITERS ens of Portlanders whose lives cious income, and at times even Jennifer Anderson, and families are directly affect- face reprisals and unemploy- Peter Korn, Steve Law, ed by not earning paid sick time ment. Jim Redden when they work. That’s a situation we One woman shared a com- shouldn’t put any Portlander in, FEATURES WRITERS mon struggle: her husband has especially those least able to af- Jason Vondersmith, Anne Marie DiStefano worked for the same employer ford lost wages. The 27 percent for 15 years yet has never been of people of color in Multnomah SPORTS EDITOR allowed to earn a paid sick day. County who live in poverty Steve Brandon She described times when re- surely can’t afford it. People covering from the fl u or caring working minimum-wage jobs SPORTSWRITERS for a sick child led to fi nancial can’t afford it. Kerry Eggers, challenges — and fear of losing Job-protected paid sick days Jason Vondersmith, Stephen Alexander his job. are an important tool to enable TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT In the Portland area, four in our families to be responsible Cooks Matt Alspach and Tamara Edens prep food in the kitchen of Grain and Gristle. Employees at the SUSTAINABLE LIFE 10 private-sector workers do not employees, reliable providers, Northeast Portland restaurant will be accruing sick pay as of Jan. 1, implemented by the owners. EDITOR earn a paid sick day. When you and good caregivers. Steve Law focus on low-wage workers Some will say that supporting (those least able to afford un- our workers and protecting our ers support paid sick days and In this economy, Portlanders more equitable and healthy lo- COPY EDITOR paid time off when sick), an in- community’s health in this way remark that when they respond need fair and reasonable labor cal economy. Mikel Kelly credible eight in 10 nationally is anti-business. Quite the con- to the needs of their employees, standards that help them keep don’t earn a day. trary, in fact. A community they experience a more produc- their jobs, support their fami- Kayse Jama is executive director of ART DIRECTION Yet we all get sick. And work- standard for earned sick days tive and healthy workplace and lies, maintain their health, and the Center for Intercultural Organiz- AND DESIGN ing sick isn’t good for any of us would help businesses reduce turnover costs go down. stay out of poverty. ing. Midge Purcell is director of Pete Vogel — not our own health, not our costly turnover and improve The bottom line is that we all We add our voices to those of advocacy and public policy for the co-workers, not our customers, worker productivity, as we’ve get sick. But we don’t all have the workers who rallied at City Urban League. Joseph Santos-Lyons VISUAL JOURNALIST not school kids, not classmates, learned from San Francisco’s the time we need to recover Hall this week to ask city com- is development and policy director of AND PHOTO EDITOR the Asian Pacifi c American Network Christopher Onstott not teachers, not bottom lines, fi ve-year-old policy. from illness or see the doctor or missioners to take a small step not Portland. Many Portland business own- care for our sick children. — with big results — toward a of Oregon. INSIGHT PAGE EDITOR Keith Klippstein

PRODUCTION Michael Beaird, Valerie Clarke, Chris Fowler,

CONTRIBUTOR Rob Cullivan Keep politics out of sick leave policy WEB SITE portlandtribune.com

CIRCULATION It matters not that you never benefi t measure outweigh the clude people who don’t work in that have been providing sick 503-546-9810 By Joe Gilliam stopped in Portland. After all, entitlement it intends to estab- Portland but may drive leave voluntarily or through 6605 S.E. Lake Road their schools are more impor- lish. We all agree that workers through in the course of their their negotiated union con- Portland, OR 97222 et’s say, for example, tant than your take-home pay. without a sick-leave policy face jobs. tracts, and certainly one that 503-226-6397 (NEWS) that Portland is pro- Sounds fair, doesn’t it? a tremendous challenge when This is a classic case of does not create 200 more pages posing an income tax Shouldn’t the city of Portland they are hit with a cold or fl u, hunting a fl y with a shotgun. of regulations and a new bu- The Portland Tribune L for schools on any per- have the power to tax people but the policy being consid- The ultimate end to this meth- reaucracy to enforce. is Portland’s independent son traveling through Port- who don’t live in their city? ered isn’t as simple as giving od is the loss of other benefi ts For anyone in the food indus- newspaper that is trusted land. Although this proposal is fi c- sick leave to people. to pay for a new heavy-handed try, sick leave is important, but If you leave Gresham and tion, if some in Portland’s City Instead, it is a complex regu- government-ordained benefi t. it should not be used as a polit- to deliver a compelling, shop in Beaverton, you pay Hall have their way, it will be lation (more than 200 pages in The city of Portland has ical battering ram for special forward-thinking and Portland a tax on your income true in the form of a new sick- Seattle) intended to disrupt made a wise choice to post- interests to improve their accurate living chronicle on a pro rata share based on leave policy modeled after a and reopen existing union con- pone the discussion until next stake in labor negotiations at about how our citizens, how long it took you to get similar policy in Seattle. tracts, to override and double year when all parties affected the expense of others. government and down the Banfi eld (Interstate My apologies from invoking existing sick-leave policies, can come to the table and seek businesses live, work 84) and through the Sunset the “tax” word, but the com- create a new government sick- a workable solution — one that Joe Gilliam is president of the and play. The Portland tunnels (Highway 26). plexities of creating a worker leave police force and to in- doesn’t hurt the companies Northwest Grocery Association. Tribune is dedicated to providing vital communication and leadership throughout our community.

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MYVIEW ● Portland schools need to put funds into job skills, not charters Don’t gut Benson’s valuable training programs

By Lainie Block Wilker

enson Polytechnic’s successful program will suffer deeper cuts Bif Portland Public Schools approves another charter school on Nov. 26. Benson trains students for middle-class jobs in high-de- mand fi elds, yet PPS has halved Benson to 850 students to keep students at Jefferson, Madison and Roosevelt. Benson needs to build back toward 1,400-plus students to be able to offer full programs, given a projected fi scal cliff and spiking costs. PPS should deny the READY vocational-technical charter application and stop restricting transfers to Ben- son. Portland Public Benson’s 81 percent gradua- Schools is tion rate is second only to Lin- considering an coln High School, though ma- ny Benson students are eco- application for a nomically disadvantaged, and charter school it is the only high school to that could graduate more black and His- compete against panic than white students. Yet Benson this year, PPS cut engineer- Polytechnic High ing, computer technology and School, where health technology programs senior Phuong and turned away 200 appli- Tran works in cants to keep numbers up at the school’s new schools ranked in bottom 5 technology percent of academic perfor- multimedia lab. mance statewide. TRIBUNE PHOTO: Businesses such as Preci- CHRISTOPHER sion Castparts, Gunderson, ONSTOTT Tice Industries and Blount In- ternational want to work with The 2011 Oregon Business PPS can’t afford to operate from public schools. Studies our revenue base and gener- cation with job creation. Lead- Benson students and offer paid plan rates strengthening K-12 all nine high schools with full show one-third of charter ate more money for social ser- ers talk about Cradle-to-Ca- apprenticeships. As PPS education in technology, high- educational programs. If PPS schools do worse than public vices. reer, but have failed to take starves Benson, advanced man- tech, manufacturing and soft- next rebuilds Jefferson (415 schools and only 17 percent do Advanced STEM (science, meaningful action when pre- ufacturers such as Vigor Indus- ware as extremely important, students) or Madison, which it better. technology, engineering, sented with a strategic plan trial and Gunderson have had yet PPS is gutting the very appears to be planning, Ben- Strong public schools are math) education is critical to for linking K-12, career techni- to create their own welding programs that drive our eco- son will not have the students, vital to democracy, and the an economic turnaround. For cal education, higher educa- training programs due to a nomic engine. teachers or resources to offer push from the top for charter example, Germany has kept tion and economic develop- lack of skilled workforce in full programs. schools is troubling. manufacturing jobs and ment. high-demand fi elds that pay Wrong charter moves PPS should not approve an- While PPS pours money in- brought unemployment down PPS should reinvest in Ben- $45,000 per year. Businesses want to support other charter school when it to the achievement gap with to an astonishing 20-year low son’s historically successful Benson should be an eco- Benson, but PPS is redirecting can’t afford to operate exist- limited results, the skills gap in the midst of a global reces- program, not in drop-out fac- nomic development tool in them to Jefferson High School ing schools with core curricu- continues to grow. The sion by focusing on technical tories. partnership with our business through a partnership with lum. Charter schools have not achievement gap is largely a education and apprenticeship community with focus in target Self Enhancement Inc. Only 32 proven to be successful on a poverty issue. Programs like programs. Lainie Block Wilker is an attorney, job creation clusters. Advanced lottery applicants applied to large scale, are rife with fi - Benson provide students a ca- Benson’s demise speaks to a Portland Public Schools parent manufacturing jobs pay more Jefferson in 2012, compared to nancial mismanagement and reer pathway out of poverty larger leadership vacuum and education advocate. She also and offer economic equity. 400 applicants to Benson. siphon students and resources and support business to grow when it comes to aligning edu- is a founder of Smart Schools PDX. PortlandTribune Puzzles

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The Hawthorne p.m. It is the 28th year for the Friday, Nov. 23, through Sunday, The Broadway, Burnside, Bridge tree-lighting ceremony, which Nov. 25, from 1 to 7 p.m., buses Hawthorne and Morrison bridg- (pictured), along this year features a 75-foot will not serve the Clackamas es were named to the federal with the Douglas fi r donated by Stimson Town Center Transit Center list of historic properties in late Lumber Co. of Washington and the Clackamas Town Cen- Broadway, October. They are all owned by County. ter Mall stops near the movie Morrison and Multnomah County and are on The ceremony’s organizers theater. Burnside a 1.5-mile stretch of the Willa- also ask that people attending Instead of driving through mette River running through bridges, have donate canned goods to the Or- the parking lot, the buses will downtown. been named to egon Food Bank. travel on Monterey Avenue and “Listing four of Portland’s the National serve a temporary stop on Mon- bridges in the National Register Register of Don’t forget to feed terey near the entrance by the of Historic Places recognizes Historical movie theater. Temporary stops just how important these struc- Places. meters on Friday will be posted in both direc- tures are for their engineering TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO Black Friday could be busy tions. and for their role in the city’s downtown, but don’t expect Signs will be posted at the rich history,” said Robert Had- cause of the way they were The Hawthorne Bridge, built George Kramer of Heritage Re- parking to be free just because Clackamas Town Center Tran- low, a senior historian for the built, their design and their im- in 1910, is the granddaddy of the search Associates, the four it’s close to the Thanksgiving sit Center, directing waiting rid- Oregon Department of Trans- pact on the region’s develop- Willamette River bridges. It was bridges were built as “free Day holiday. ers to the temporary bus stop. portation. ment. the fi rst built across the river in bridges,” meaning the city es- Portland’s Bureau of Trans- The four oldest county bridg- Hadlow said that in 1999, the the modern era of construction chewed tolls to pay for their portation says that people Author lectures es were nominated to the na- National Park Service’s Historic that stretched for 63 years, from construction and maintenance. parking in downtown, the tional register in February. American Engineering Record 1910 to 1973, when the Fremont Each of the four bridges was de- Lloyd District and the Mar- on the Quran at OES The bridges are part of a mul- documented the historic signifi - Bridge was erected. signed and built by nationally quam Hill area will have to pay Michael Sells, one of the na- tiple property listing that hon- cance of the 10 Willamette River According to nomination re- prominent engineers and con- meters on Friday, Nov. 23. tion’s pre-eminent authorities ored their historic status be- bridges. ports by Eugene historian struction fi rms. Street parking on Thanks- on the Quran, will discuss the giving Day, however, is free be- Islamic holy book during a Nov. VETERANS cause it’s a national holiday. 30 lecture at Oregon Episcopal What can you do if you've been diagnosed with School, 6300 S.W. Nicol Road. STOP PAYING RENT! 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So has the sta- 6-2), noon Saturday. bility of the coaching staff, A lot of eyes in our state will which includes veterans Steve be on Reser Stadium in Corval- Greatwood, Gary Campbell, lis, with the Ducks looking to Nick Aliotti, Don Pellum, John win a fi fth consecutive game in Neal, Tom Osborne and the rivalry and the Beavers hop- strength/conditioning coach ing to continue their resurgence Jim Radcliffe. and knock Oregon out of the “You can’t just put it on (Kel- Pac-12 title and BCS pictures. ly),” running back Kenjon Barn- The Ducks are still riding er says. “He’s a huge part of it. high, predominantly because of You have to give credit to the football — feeding off the work rest of the coaching staff, and started through the success of James Harris our nutritionist, coach Rick Brooks’ teams in the and the players. Without Coach late 1980s and early ‘90s. Kelly, we don’t have this system, The Ducks then made big don’t have his attitude. But strides when Nike founder/pre- there’s a lot of credit that goes mier donor Phil Knight, then- around to a lot of different peo- athletic director Bill Moos and ple.” Brooks’ successor, Mike Bellotti, It’s like a perfect storm. Bet- ramped up the program. Oregon ter yet, Barner adds, “it’s like jumped into the na- Chex Mix, a big tional football pic- bowl of every- ture with QB Joey “It’s got a thing. You have to Harrington from thank everyone.” 1999 to 2001, earned different feel Seniors such as routine bowl ap- about it here, Barner, Nick pearances with Bel- Cody, Dion Jor- lotti at the helm and for sure. This dan, Michael Clay TRIBUNE PHOTOS: JAMIE VALDEZ then reached na- place has and Jackson Rice University of Oregon fans (above) will pack into Reser Stadium Saturday for the Civil War game, where head coach Chip Kelly (below) will try to tional champion — and injured hold on to a possible Pac-12 title bid. contender level un- unlimited John Boyett and der Charles “Chip” potential.” Carson York — Kelly. — Mark Helfrich, are enjoying quite as placeholder for the depart- No doubt, the Ducks’ offensive a stretch of suc- ment. There have been multiple crowning achieving changes in other administrative coordinator cess: three BCS would be a national bowl games and positions, and the Ducks inked a title. The Ducks playing for a deal with IMG Sports Market- had their chance in January fourth this season. ing — like many other colleges 2011. Auburn outplayed them, “It’s just the mindset of this — that has allowed Oregon to but had to squeak out a 22-19 group,” says Taylor Hart, a ju- think more nationally. And, the win in the championship game. nior defensive tackle from Tu- league’s contract with ESPN “But only one team gets to do alatin. “ ‘Win The Day,’ it’s that and the addition of exposure it every year,” says Director of simple. We’re not going to get from the Pac-12 Networks cer- Athletics Rob Mullens, who is in ahead of ourselves. We come to tainly helps. his third year after leaving Ken- work each day. It’s a fun envi- Moos once said that it was im- tucky. “The last two years we’ve ronment.” perative that the Ducks contin- been right there. We’re right When Kelly took over, he ue to win in football, or he there knocking on the door.” brought in offensive coordina- feared empty seats in Autzen Pintens and Mullens say the tor Mark Helfrich, an Oregon Stadium and problems with the same thing: Kelly is the “best native, as well as position athletic bottom line. coach in the country.” coaches Scott Frost and Jerry Season-ticket renewal was 90 Kelly has a long-term con- Azzinaro to complement the percent this season, down from tract, but he fl irted briefl y with veteran guys. 96 percent; Oregon had raised fl eeing to the NFL’s Tampa Bay “It’s got a different feel about its ticket prices. But all tickets Buccaneers last offseason, and it here, for sure,” Helfrich says. this season were sold, Pintens public discussion recently has “This place has unlimited po- says. The Stanford game was him being one of the NFL’s hot- tential.” the 89th consecutive sellout. test coaching prospects. “With success breeds higher and enjoys the ride. To use a the following includes “band- “I know a lot of longtime fans “We’re fortunate to have Bandwagon fans expectations,” says Pintens, cliché, stand back and smell the wagon” fans. say, ‘Hey, there’s all these John- him,” Mullens says. The administration has had who oversees marketing, public roses.” “We’ve become a national ny-Come-Latelys.’ You know The Ducks have won 44 of 51 some shakeups along the way. relations and the UO’s arrange- Pintens says national sales of brand in college athletics, and what? There’s enough room for games under Kelly, who quickly Mullens succeeded Bellotti as ment with the Pac-12 Network Oregon merchandise online we want to be THE brand in col- everyone. We’ll build that band- points out that “good players” athletic director, after Bellotti and IMG. “We want to make compares favorably to that of lege athletics. No. 1,” Pintens wagon as big as we possibly can have been the reason for the took over from donor Pat sure that we have a fan base Alabama and Notre Dame. says. “To do that, you need and take as many people on team’s success. Kilkenny, who basically served that is also realistic about things He understands that much of bandwagon fans. board as we want.” FAITH DIRECTORY UPCOMING EVENTS

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Artists Rep The theater company re- turns with its holiday show, crafted by Seattle veteran playwright John Longenbaugh and directed by Jon Kretzu, “Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Christmas Carol.” Dr. Watson rallies to cheer Sherlock, our favorite quirky, Scrooge-infused inquisitor, who’s forced to deduce the facts and solve the most impor- tant mystery of his life. 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays-Sun- days, 2 p.m. Sundays, assorted other times/dates, Nov. 23-Dec. 30, Artists Repertory Theatre, 1515 S.W. Morrison St., artist- srep.org, $25-$50, $20 students Tommy Chong “Dave’s Not Here!” Who could forget Tommy Chong, along with partner Cheech Marin, spinning off from ‘60s hippies in their own counter- culture, marijuana-themed way. He’s also an actor, writer, director, activist and musician. 7:30 p.m., 10 p.m. Friday- Saturday, Nov. 23-24, Helium Comedy Club, 1510, S.E. Ninth Ave., heliumcomedyclub.com/ portland, $25-$30 Daniel Tosh The star of Comedy Cen- tral’s “Tosh.0” returns to Port- land in the “2nd Annual Tosh Saves The Day World Comedy Show.” 7 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 25, Ar- lene Schnitzer Concert Hall, 1037 S.W. Broadway, pcpa. theBOSS com, $69.50, $86 COURTESY OF FRANK STEFANKO “Princess and the Pea” Theater company Jane cel- ebrates “The Hullabaloo!” fea- ■ Author Peter Ames Carlin peels back tures an interpretation of Brit- COURTESY OF SPRINGSTEEN FAMILY ARCHIVE ish Panto and fractured fairy Bruce Springsteen and sister Ginny stand on the New Jersey tales, with songs by award- the layers of Bruce Springsteen’s life shore, circa 1955. In “Bruce,” Springsteen’s childhood was winning songwriter Greg Paul described as tough, because of splits within his family, author and book by Kim Bogus. without a lot of spin for ‘honest’ biography Peter Ames Carlin says. 7 p.m. Fridays, 2 and 4 p.m. Saturdays-Sundays, Nov. 30- Dec. 23, Theater! Theatre!, 3430 S.E. Belmont St., boxoffi cetick- nvy? where I shared some of the chapters ets.com (for reserve free tickets) Oh yeah, Portland author STORY BY with Bruce, and eventually the manu- Peter Ames Carlin under- JASON VONDERSMITH script before the fi nal form. I did it Estands there might be some largely for fact-check reasons, and he MUSIC envy out there these days, with people repeated again and again, he didn’t knowing what he has done with his expect me to make every change that life for the past three years. What made researching and writ- he asked for. If anything was factually Boz Scaggs “The reason I’m the envy of peo- ing the book enjoyable was the fact wrong, he’d let me know; if he had a He’s known for playing with ple,” he says, “is because of my pecs that Springsteen, and his longtime different interpretation, he’d let me the Steve Miller Band in the and bench-pressing.” agent Jon Landau, wanted the full know. 1970s, and as a successful solo He laughs, realizing the self-depre- truth and only the truth in the book, “One serious request he made, he artist he continues to write cating humor fails to cover up the Carlin says. said very specifi cally on the phone, if and record music and tour — pure excitement of a man who has Springsteen made suggestions, but there was anything found along the at age 68. written what many critics consider told Carlin to write what he wanted to way that I didn’t want to use because 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 23, Spirit the best biography of music icon write. he thought it would make him uncom- Mountain Casino, Grande Bruce Springsteen. It was like winning the lottery, writ- fortable, he said, ‘Put it in.’ I quoted Ronde, spiritmountain.com, “Bruce” went on sale in early No- er-style. him the three worst things people had starting at $15 vember and, by Nov. 18, it had landed “One of the main things they val- said about him, in each instance he on The New York Times bestseller ued was my indepen- said, ‘Put it in.’ ” Glen Campbell list. dence,” says Carlin, The legendary 75-year-old Like many famous musicians, 49, a Seattle native Tribute to honesty country star who was diag- Springsteen doesn’t just share his who attended Lewis Portland will be center stage for a nosed with early stage Al- story with anyone. Carlin, a former & Clark College and Bruce fest next week. The Boss Man zheimer’s, has put out “Ghost Portland resident Peter Ames Carlin’s features writer for The Oregonian, also served as a se- himself plays with the E Street Band On the Canvas,” an album de- book, “Bruce,” examines the great stayed patient and worked it, inter- nior writer for “Peo- at the Rose Garden on Nov. 28. The scribed as a portrait of his life Bruce Springsteen and the E Street viewing anybody and everybody who ple” magazine. night before, “Bruce — A Musical Cel- — with beauty, power, heart- had been part of Springsteen’s life, “They did not want it ebration of Bruce Springsteen and felt emotion and deep spiritu- Band, who hit the big-time with “Born from toddler to titanic legend at age to look like an inside Peter Ames Carlin’s New Biography” ality. He’s on “The Goodbye to Run” album and tour in 1975. 63. CARLIN job. They were very takes place, 8 p.m. Nov. 27 at Missis- Tour.” Above: From left to right, it’s And, he worked it some more, even- consistent, they ex- sippi Studios, 3939 N. Mississippi Ave. 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. Springsteen, Garry Tallent, Danny tually getting the seal of approval to pected no infl uence in what was going Reviews have been terrific for 28, Arlene Schnitzer Concert Federici, Steve Van Zandt, Roy Bittan, do the full authorized biography of to be in the book. Hall, 1037 S.W. Broadway, Max Weinberg and Clarence Clemons. “The Boss.” “That continued up to the point See BOSS / Page 2 pcpa.com, $31.50-$74.50 The Killers The heartland rockers have sold more than 15 million al- bums worldwide, and roll into town for this show in December. Rimes keeps family, career in balance 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, Rose Garden, rosequarter.com, $29.50-$59.50 has sold more than 40 million a very young age? County singer feels albums, won two Grammy RIMES: I don’t remember a good about life as awards (the youngest ever to time when I wasn’t on stage. I MISC. win, at 14), three Academy of started at 5. I’m glad I started tour rolls into Oregon Country Music awards and 12 that young. I had no fear Billboard Music awards. whatsover, and I still don’t. Oh, The Grotto By KERRY EGGERS She has had 13 top-10 country there have been moments It’s Christmas carols and The Tribune hits, including “Can’t Fight the where I’m anxious and ready lights galore as the 62-acre Moonlight,” which went No. 1 in to go, but as soon as I hit the Catholic shrine and botanical Life hasn’t started anew at 11 countries. But the crossover stage, it’s, ‘OK, I got this, I know garden celebrates the season. age 30 for LeAnn Rimes, who hit “How Do I Live?” — a great what I’m doing.’ It’s almost like 5 p.m. each day, Nov. 23-Dec. will stage a pair of concerts at song in any genre — is her call- breathing for me. 30 (closed Christmas), 8840 Chinook Winds Casino in Lin- ing card and one of the most suc- I make fond memories every N.E. Skidmore St., thegrotto. coln City on Dec. 1 and 2. cessful songs ever, having spent night. I have such a great band org, $9, $8 seniors (65-older), $4 But it has signaled an awak- a record 69 weeks on the U.S. and crew. We have fun. I love children (3-12) ening for the country-singing top-100 charts. performing. It’s a high. I went superstar, a new refl ection on a On her current tour, Rimes through a period of many years Holiday Ale Festival life that suddenly has even more taps into her vast repertoire and where it was just exhausting. The 17th annual event offers to offer than before. also performs songs from her Now with this tour, it’s actually one of the nation’s fi nest gather- Her April 2011 marriage to ac- upcoming album, “Spitfire,” COURTESY OF SARA HERTEL coming back around where I’m ings of winter beers — from Bel- tor Eddie Cibrian (despite the scheduled for released next LeAnn Rimes, a veteran country singer at age 30, feels reinvigorated truly enjoying the whole process gians, barleywines and CDAs to controversy surrounding the spring. The fi rst single off that this year, working on upcoming album “Spitfi re,” and being on tour, of it. winter warmers, porters and fact that their affair began be- album, “Borrowed,” came out on which stops at Chinook Winds Casino, Dec. 1 and 2. TRIBUNE: You have had some stouts. Organizers work with fore either were divorced from a I-Tunes recently. crossover hits — “How Do I breweries to make sure they fi rst spouse) and a month-long Rimes spoke to the Portland over Oregon. It’s one of my fa- sat around the last two weeks Live?” is one of my favorite send a beer that has either been stint in rehab for anxiety and Tribune via telephone recently vorite states. We always look and talked about that we’re go- songs ever — and performed a made or blended for the event, stress early this fall have from Winchester, Va., where she forward to playing there. I love ing to establish a commune wide variety of songs over the or is a rare or vintage beer. changed Rimes’ perspective in a was in the midst of her tour: the people; I love Portland itself. there and hide from the rest of years, but it would seem you are Noon Wednesday, Nov. 28, good way. TRIBUNE: Nice to have you It’s so beautiful up there. The the world. a country singer at heart. Why? 11 a.m. Thursday-Saturday, Rimes, who turned 30 in Au- playing Chinook Winds. How of- family of my bass player’s wife is TRIBUNE: Your fi rst hit, “Blue,” RIMES: I’ve dabbled in every- Nov. 29-Dec. 1, 11 a.m. Sunday, gust, was a child sensation who ten have you played shows in from Oregon. My husband’s came at age 13. By then, you’d thing — it would have been sad Dec. 2, Pioneer Courthouse had her fi rst hit single, “Blue,” Oregon? family and grandparents used to been singing for more than a de- if I hadn’t — but classic country Square, holidayale.com, $30, when she was 13. Born in Missis- RIMES: Many times. They have live in Oregon. Eddie and I and cade. Do you have fond memo- $65 sippi and raised in Texas, Rimes great fans there. I’ve played all all of the guys in the band have ries of your times performing at See RIMES / Page 3 B2 LIFE Portland!Life The Portland Tribune Thursday, November 22, 2012 Boss: Family, singer open up during interviews ■ ing Springsteen, both in person and the “darkness” that has fol- tour. He worked nonstop for had a back or knee operation album, it sounds like a pop re- From page 1 — back in his native New Jersey, lowed him throughout his life, years. All that happened after he again. He had a lot of parts taken cord, they sound like party songs, in the recording studio, on the stemming from the “psychologi- started taking anti-depressants.” in and out. He was going to phys- but they are dark and grim.” “Bruce,” and Carlin has been road — and on the phone. Car- cal scariness and twisted” child- Springsteen became comfort- ical therapy twice a day. He Springsteen’s concerts are leg- humbled by the feedback. lin’s own self-admitted “fan boy” hood. His parents and grandpar- able with Carlin, who would go looked very tired, difficult for endary. He has toured extensive- “It was a labor of love to the attitude left him and journalist ents lived together. He became on to interview intimate family him to move around. His eyes ly and exhibited such energy and extent that it was a tribute to took over. attached to his grandparents, members — a sister, his mom, an were very bright, he was excep- endurance on stage, fans go crazy Bruce,” says Carlin, who had pre- Clearly cooperative, Springs- who didn’t want him to go to aunt. Carlin says tionally intelligent for him. It isn’t unheard of for viously penned biographies of teen told him of an early child- school. Springsteen want- and sensitive, very Bruce to play four-hour shows. the Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson hood trauma of being split be- “They were working people, ed the full account “Early in his life, funny, larger-than- Carlin does write that Springs- and (unauthorized) Paul McCart- tween loving grandparents and not intellectual people, and a lit- of his life told with he had nowhere life character.” teen has such energy, because he ney. “I knew the sort of tribute he his parents, mental illness in his tle crazy,” Carlin says. “his mother’s gen- Clemons died doesn’t do recreational drugs and deserved was honesty. The only family and the use of anti-depres- “When his mom insisted they eration aging. ... else to go. It June 18, 2011, of drinks “like a normal person.” way I could really honor his work sants for the past 10 years. Carlin fi nally leave, he was devastated, What I kind of was the only complications from “It’s how he’s wired,” Carlin was to be as honest and unspar- witnessed and wrote about an being taken away from his pri- gleaned from that a stroke. says, of the long shows. “Early in ing as he is, to acknowledge but unappealing tantrum by “The mary caregivers. ... He was treat- was he felt this healthy thing his life, he had nowhere else to to understand the darkness, and Boss” during the fi rst stop on the ed like a god by his grandpar- heavy responsibil- happening in his Dark days go. It was the only healthy thing make the connection between current “Wrecking Ball” that ents.” ity, the early stuff Carlin writes happening in his life, making mu- the darkness and horror and made him look like an (exple- Springsteen struggled to about Bruce’s fam- life, making about Springsteen’s sic and playing on stage. He’d beauty of what he does.” tive); Carlin wrote about it, and break free from the cycle of men- ily, father, grand- music and affinity for song- hang on, desperately.” Carlin talked with about 150 his subject and his agent stayed tal illness within his family, parents, previous writing, from “Born Springsteen was briefl y mar- people for the book — friends, silent about it. throughout his career, which generations, he playing on stage. To Run” to “Nebras- ried in the early 1980s to Julianne band mates, relatives, etc. — in- “Bruce knows that’s who he eventually led to him to start wanted something He’d hang on, ka” (the most auto- Phillips of Lake Oswego. He later cluding longtime saxophone is,” Carlin says. “He’s also a nice taking anti-depressants after the recorded before biographical album married bandmate Patti Scialfa. player Clarence Clemons, before guy, and a great artist.” “Rising Tour” in 2003. stories faded away. desperately.” he ever made, Car- “Bruce is very much a family he passed away, for about 18 “His pattern was to fall apart I felt a sense of re- — Peter Ames Carlin, lin says) to “Born in person,” Carlin says. months before concentrating on Weakness for mythology after tour,” Carlin says. “He’d do sponsibility.” author of “Bruce” the U.S.A” to his Carlin writes about it all, the Springsteen interviews. A large emphasis in the book an album, do a one- or two-year Carlin realized 17th album, fi rst writer to pen a Springsteen Carlin spent hours interview- was Springsteen’s upbringing, tour, with all the emotion and en- that Springsteen was infl uenced “Wrecking Ball.” He has sold 120 book with the star’s permission ergy that goes into putting on by “angers and demons,” but million albums worldwide, and in 25 years. shows. Then, suddenly all that thoroughly enjoyed the man’s taken home 20 Grammy Awards. “You move past 60, you’ve been NOV. 10 structure and work and energy company. 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COMMUNITY NEWSPAPERS PORTLAND TRIBUNE AM860 KPAM Always the best local news 410666.030112 The Portland Tribune Thursday, November 22, 2012 Portland!Life LIFE B3 Rimes: Singer writes inspirational book ■ like there was something very Everything I have been through From page 1 relatable about that song. LeAnn Rimes this year, he has been incredibly When we put it out and people ■ Date: 8 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 1, supportive. He has been there for music is what I love. There is started to hear it, there were so and 5 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 2, at me through everything. something about it is so real and many people who grabbed me Chinook Winds Casino, Lincoln City TRIBUNE: What are you most honest. It’s a lost art form, that’s after a show and said they had a ■ Tickets: $30-$45 at chinook- proud of that you’ve accom- for sure. Telling a true story is story to tell me. It was amazing windscasino.com or 1-888-MAIN- plished in your career so far? where country music comes in. to hear those stories. There’s ACT. RIMES: My longevity, especially On my album “Lady & Gentle- something there that I think peo- with starting out as a child star. It men” last year, we recorded so ple needed. It touched me so wasn’t as much novelty when I many of the songs I grew up on. deeply, I wanted to put it out TRIBUNE: Why your recent started. I’ve always had the voice There is such an honesty about there in book form. It’s a cool stint in rehab? Was there a posi- to back it up and the maturity those songs. thing to be able to write some- tive result? came as I started to grow. I wasn’t That’s what I’m most proud of thing like that that connected RIMES: I call it “intensive care just that little girl with a big COURTESY OF DETHLOK on the new record. I feel like with so many people who were therapy.” I checked myself in the voice. I feel very settled in where “Metalocalypse” creator Brendon Small says Roseland Theater fans there is something very deep ... a willing to share things they nev- day after my 30th birthday. I said I’m at right now, very confi dent (Nov. 24) will enjoy the live “animated piece” by his band, Dethlok. humanity to the album that’s er would have otherwise. it would be the best birthday in the future. More than I ever hard to fi nd these days. There’s a TRIBUNE: Your new single, present I could give myself. It have. truth I know I haven’t had in my “Borrowed,” was released this was like, 30 days after 30 years, TRIBUNE: What are your goals Sixth Ave. $35, $50. Info: 503-224- music until now. There’s some- week. What’s it about? let’s see what this can do for me. as you look toward the future? LiveMusic! 8499, (8499), roselandpdx.com. thing about storytelling and RIMES: I spoke the truth on the I had a reason for going in. I had RIMES: To be satisfi ed and con- great singer/songwriters that I upcoming album at no one else’s a sense of humor about it. I en- tent and happy with where I’m By ROB CULLIVAN Trio set to ‘Rohr’ fi nd myself falling into and fi nd- expense but mine. The song is joyed it. I could deal with things at, whether personally or profes- Pamplin Media Group Rohr consists of Karen ing my artistry. about my relationship with Ed- privately that I’ve needed to deal sionally. To be authentic in ev- Kindler Rohr on electric man- TRIBUNE: You’ve authored four die, which is great now, but it with since I was a child. erything I do. I would love to dolin and vocals, her mother books, including the latest, an in- was a very dark moment. It It was to learn to live amongst write more books, to act more, to Nov. 23 Gail Kindler on bass and Chase spirational book, “What I Can- comes from a darkness that I the craziness that is my life and take on things that challenge me. Watkins on drums. The group not Change.” What is the theme had through my life, a feeling of enjoy it again and not it let it af- And to continue to make good Flat abs have feelings too plays progressive alternative there? full abandonment. It speaks fect me as much as it has in re- music. I’m always thinking, Tattooed muscular hard rock rock with a dash of pop appeal RIMES: The book title is taken about where I was at that mo- cent years. It was very good for “What’s next?” I’d love to do a bands like Halestorm and In and occasionally bluesy under- from a song off my last studio al- ment in my life. We’ve all had to me. I’m enjoying touring now. I’m bunch of stuff. I love being cre- This Moment (both female tones that appeal to fans of Ver- bum, “Family,” which was the give up on a love in our lives. If taking a fresh breath of new ative. It doesn’t stop at music, al- fronted, the latter by Maria Brink, uca Salt, Soundgarden, Rush beginning of me starting to write you’ve been in that situation, you things. It feels good. I have a though that’s my fi rst love and who has a scarily amazing and other hard rock, metal or about my life experiences. It know it sucks. There’s nothing peace I haven’t had in a long time. passion more than anything. The voice) as well as Eve to Adam grunge fl avored acts. Rohr adds came out of a really hard time ... happy or nice about it. It’s some- TRIBUNE: How is your marriage whole world’s opening up for me play the kind of direct, primal, that her electric mandolin experiencing myself with my thing a lot of people will relate to, with Eddie? all of a sudden. Maybe it’s be- anthemic music that cuts bridges the worlds of acoustic parents, struggling to under- something I am incredibly proud RIMES: We have a great rela- cause my mind and heart are so through all the baloney and and electric sounds. “I think stand life at the moment. I felt of. tionship, a wonderful family life. open now. says, “I’m mad as (insert fa- people who play guitar would vored profanity) and I’m not go- notice the difference, but with ing take it anymore!” Turn off distortion it sounds like a gui- the Ultimate Fighting Champi- tar,” she says. “The patterns are Visit onship and prepare to party. different, and you think of dif- Our Health Halestorm, In This Moment, ferent combinations than you & Beauty Eve to Adam, 7 p.m. Friday, would with guitar somewhat.” Nov. 23, Hawthorne Theatre, Rohr, 7-9 p.m. Saturday, Nov. Department! 1507 S.E. 39th Ave. $16. All ages. 24, Park Place Coffee, 1288 S.E. Info: 503-233-7100, hawthornet- 182nd Ave, Free. All ages. Info: heatre.com. 503-808-1244, parkplacecoffee. Hello com. Nov. 24 Nov. 26 Cartoon carnage Brendon Small may have the One-party rule Beaverton! coolest job on earth. Creator of Karl Wallinger, the man who the Adult Swim dark comedy is World Party, broke into the series “Metalocalypse” and charts in the mid-1980s after de- leader of the virtual band parting The Waterboys, and has Dethlok, he’s been both mock- penned some of the most intel- ing and loving metal in animat- lectually pleasing yet complete- We’ve Moved! ed form for years. He adds ly danceable rock ‘n’ pop music that Dethlok fans will enjoy “a ever, from “Ship of Fools” to completely original animated “Put the Message in the Box.” Come see what all the excitement is about. piece built for live playing” this Wallinger is one of those song- Saturday. writers you can listen to end- “It’s a really incredibly fun lessly, because he’s fun AND show,” he says. “It’s built for educational. He’s touring to pro- music, but it’s also a place for mote his new fi ve-CD set “Arke- comedy.” The show will run a ology,” which contains all kinds little more than an hour, involve of old and new stuff, including the audience, feature fake com- live versions of his hits. The mercials and offer advice for Windsor Player, a wonderfully metal dudes on how to deal listenable act, with members with those somewhat rare from Snow Patrol, Dandy War- sights at death metal shows — hols and Freak Mountain Ram- women. blers, joins the show. Small adds that he’s as sur- World Party, 6 p.m. Monday, prised as anyone his “fake” Nov. 26, Music Millennium, band, so to speak, actually re- 3158 E. Burnside St. Free All ag- leased the highest charting es. Info: 503-231-8926, musicmil- death metal record of all time, lenium.com; With The Windsor 2009’s “Dethalbum II.” So how Player, 9 p.m. Doug Fir, 830 E. did that go over with the seri- Burnside St. $22 in advance, $24 ous death metal community? day of show. Info: “I’m sure that there are some 503-231-WOOD, dougfi rlounge. who don’t really care for that com. information,” he says. However, don’t get him wrong — Small is ‘Round town a true believer who absolutely ■ Portland folk popsters loves theatrical over-the top Alialujah Choir join Y La metal, and if your band plays it, Bamba and Shy Girls for a put on those stern faces and go show at 8 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 24, for the melodrama, he says. in the Aladdin Theater, 3017 “As an audience member I S.E. Milwaukie Ave. $15. Parent/ want my favorite metal bands guardian must accompany mi- to take themselves as serious- nors. 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Bar- ra — who worked as a checker surgery to repair three verte- bara wanted to go, and since he at stores such as Fred Meyer, brae. It has given him a new is being honored, it would have Owl Drugs and Sears — to raise lease on life. been hard to turn down the invi- the boys alone “without any “It had gotten to the point tation. help whatsoever from any other where I could only walk four or “They’re going to make some- source,” Terry says. fi ve blocks without the pain get- thing extra out of it,” Baker Laura Baker never owned a ting to me,” he says. “I told the says. “They make a charitable car, never had a paid vacation, surgeon I wanted to be able to contribution in your name if you never saw her son play a game play golf and walk a little bit, attend. until he got to college, largely and I can do that now. Barb and “They are bending over back- because she was always work- I do a little loop on the Vera ward to make this a wonderful ing late and had no transporta- Katz Esplanade, about 3 1/2 experience. They do a fabulous tion to and from games. TRIBUNE PHOTOS: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT miles, pretty regularly. If I can job, really. I have more time Terry is very much his moth- Retired attorney Terry Baker, a Portland native from Jefferson High who went on to win the Heisman Trophy do that, I’ve accomplished my these days, so it’s a good chance er’s son. It’s the proverbial rags- as quarterback at Oregon State, says the 50 years since he was named college football’s outstanding player objective. to get back there again. I’m real- to-riches story of a kid who rose have gone by quickly. Baker and his wife, Barbara, will be in New York Dec. 8 for the 78th annual Heisman “I’m not going to run a mara- ly excited about it.” from humble beginnings to the presentation and for a 50th anniversary tribute. thon. I’m not going to play ten- • • • Heisman and two Sports Illus- nis anymore. You just do the trated covers to the No. 1 pick in my house the day we left. He re- best you can, and my best is to It has been an eventful year the NFL draft to a lucrative law cruited me a lot more than Slats play golf and walk a little bit.” for Baker. He is now fully re- career. Gill (the basketball coach). He Retirement and improved tired after a 40-year career prac- The story behind Baker being recruited the hell out of me, health have helped Baker’s golf ticing business law, having gone a right-handed baseball pitcher took my mother and I to dinner game. inactive from the Oregon State is legend, but it’s true. There several times. “My handicap is lower than Bar in January. wasn’t enough “Once we got there, we had a ever,” he says. “It’s a 9 now, but In September, his money in the fam- nice weekend. On Sunday, (foot- it was 7.8.” 1962 Liberty Bowl “I think I came ily for a new base- ball coach) ‘Cactus’ Jack Curtis The Bakers are members of team entered the ball glove. Older got us around a table with a Waverly Country Club. Barbara OSU Athletic Hall 50 years too brother Gary was bunch of their coaches and said, — a pert, can-she-really-be-70? of Fame. During early. The game right-handed. ‘Can we announce you guys are type of woman — walks, works the weekend, he Terry got the coming?’ I said, ‘We’ll let you out at the Multnomah Club or was reunited with has evolved. It’s hand-me-down. know after we get back to Ore- plays golf every day. The Bakers more than 60 changed so “I’m not ambi- gon.’ have a place at Indian Wells, Ca- coaches and team- dextrous,” Baker “Jack just blew up. I’d never lif., where they spend three to mates, including much. The West insists. “I’m left- seen anything like it. ‘Do you four months every winter. Vern Burke, the Coast style used handed. I can on- know how much trouble we had “I’m enjoying this time in my All-America end ly throw a base- to go to to get you two guys ad- life,” Terry says. “There’s a lot whom he hadn’t by so many ball with my right mitted? We had to go to the At his home in of freedom.” seen in more than teams today is hand. I can only board of trustees, and you’re Southwest Baker owns season tickets to 45 years. throw a football telling me you haven’t made up Portland, Terry OSU football, attends most Last week, the more my style.” with my left. your mind?’ ” Baker keeps games with Barbara and has be- Liberty Bowl team — Terry Baker “I write and eat Baker and Pauly promptly some mementos come friends with Mike Riley, was enshrined in left-handed. I drove the Stanford-billed rental of his regularly giving books to the the Oregon Athletic Hall of bowl right-handed and kick a car across the Bay to Berkeley, outstanding coach — like Baker, an avid Fame — another chance to re- football right-footed. I play golf where they spent a couple of career at reader — the past four or fi ve live good ol’ times. right but batted left in baseball.” days allowing Bears coaches to Oregon State. years. Now a reporter is making a Kind of sounds ambidextrous, show them around. On the drive Baker has been too successful withdrawal from the memory but don’t tell Baker that. home to Portland, Baker was grin. style. I could throw the 5-yard and well-rounded in life to be bank of Baker from that trip • • • pulled over and ticketed for Soon enough, Baker was. Pro- pass — probably still could. defi ned by the Heisman Trophy, east a half-century ago. speeding. thro enticed him to take part in “But I don’t think I was as but the association with college One of the highlights was the The state of Oregon wasn’t “When I applied for a Califor- spring practice his freshman good a drop-back passer as was football’s premier award is per- company of his mother, Laura fertile recruiting ground for col- nia driver’s license after I went year, and Baker wound up never required in those days. It was manent. He seems to have Baker, who raised Terry and his lege athletes in the ‘60s, but to play for the (L.A.) Rams, playing baseball. He split time sink or swim, and I sunk. And grown more comfortable with it two older brothers, Richard and scouts found Baker, who ulti- there was a warrant out for my with veteran Don Kasso at tail- we were the worst team in the as the years have gone on. Gary, in a single-parent house- mately chose Oregon State to arrest,” Baker says. “I guess I back as a sophomore, then took league.” “It’s like a tattoo on your hold in North Portland. It was play both basketball and base- never paid the ticket.” over the team at quarterback Baker was switched to half- head,” he says. “Everybody as- Laura Baker’s fi rst airplane ball — but not football. By September, Baker had de- when Prothro switched from back by coach Harland Svare sociates you with it. People in- fl ight. A limousine picked her As a junior, the three-sport cided on Oregon State. Pauly single wing to T formation as a his second season in L.A. troduce me as, ‘Terry Baker, up at the airport and was at her star for the Democrats made a still wanted to check out Wash- junior. “I had some good games,” Heisman Trophy winner.’ beck and call through the week. recruiting trip to Stanford. Ore- ington. The pair went on a visit His senior year, Baker be- Baker says. “Caught a touch- “And that’s fi ne. It seems like “They took her shopping, gon, Oregon State, Washington, to OSU the week of registration came the most-decorated ath- down pass that beat Chicago. it’s bigger than if you won an took her sightseeing, showed Washington State and Califor- for school. OSU coaches and ad- lete in college sports history — Then I started getting beat up Oscar or an MVP. There’s only her the sights of the city,” Baker nia were also in pursuit for both ministrators convened for a the Heisman Trophy winner, and injured.” one person who gets it (a year). says. “She was treated like a football and basketball. Even meeting with them at the Phi the guy who ran for 99 yards for When George Allen took over And it’s gotten bigger over the queen.” Air Force got into the picture. Delta Theta fraternity house. the only score in a 6-0 Liberty as coach in 1966, Baker was years. I get stuff in the mail vir- Baker can offer only a few Coach Pepper Rodgers fl ew to Someone told Baker and Pau- Bowl win over Villanova, an all- waived in the preseason. He had tually every day wanting me to nuggets from the trip. Portland in an Air Force jet and ly they had arranged for some- tournament selection as the a chance to sign with the New sign something related to the “It was just a wonderful took Terry and Barbara, his thing for them to do that week- Beavers reached the Final Four York Giants at midseason after Heisman.” time,” he says. “The main thing high school sweetheart, to din- end when the Beavers played at in basketball, the Sports Illus- Y.A. Tittle got injured, but had Baker never ran for public of- I recall is the banquet and Bob- ner at the Ringside. Texas Tech — a salmon fi shing trated Sportsman of the Year. already enrolled at the South- fi ce, something many of his by Kennedy’s speech, which was “It was like, ‘Wow,’ ” Barbara trip, which not coincidentally “It was phenomenal,” Baker ern Cal Law School. He played friends and acquaintances — hilarious.” recalls. would keep Pauly away from says. “It doesn’t happen like one year in the Canadian Foot- Bobby Kennedy among them — Baker and Kennedy became Shortly after his senior base- the clutches of the Huskies. that in real life.” ball League, then went full-time pushed him to do. Now is the friends, and Baker wound up ball season, Baker played in a “Well, Steve doesn’t like to • • • at his new career. time for Baker to reap dividends stumping for Kennedy during pair of national all-star football fi sh,” Baker told the group. “I would have liked to play from the fruits of his toils. the the 1968 presidential cam- games in Louisiana and Penn- Asked what they would pre- Baker’s pro career was less football a couple of more years “I enjoy my life now,” he says. paign. sylvania. There were plenty of fer to do, Baker said, “Neither idyllic. The NFL’s top draft pick and have had more success,” “Barb and I get to do a lot of “I remember spending time college coaches sniffi ng around one of us has ever been to Tex- started the fi rst game of his ca- Baker admits, “but that’s not wonderful things. I like to stay with him in the bar at the Ben- both places, but Baker still as.” reer with the Rams, “and I the way it worked out.” active. We enjoy playing golf. son Hotel,” Baker says. “I sat hadn’t made up his mind. The next morning, Baker and shouldn’t have,” he says. “I • • • We enjoy our kids and grand- next to (wife) Ethel on a fl ight Then he returned to Oregon Pauly were at the airport, fl ying wasn’t ready.” kids. during the campaign. She was a for the Shrine Football Game in to Texas with the team. Two It was the only game Baker Baker married his college “I feel good about what has white-knuckled fl ier. Her fi nger- June and became fast friends days later, they had both com- was to start in the NFL. He squeeze, had two children, set- happened in the past. I’ve been nails were in my arm the whole with another multi-sport ath- mitted to become Beavers. played in only 18 games in his tled in with Tonkon Torp LLC, fortunate and blessed. A lot of way. lete, Beaverton’s Steve Pauly. • • • three years with the Rams, and made a good life in Port- good things have happened. “The night he was (assassi- They decided they’d be a pack- rushing for 210 yards and a TD, land. He divorced and remar- Having an abbreviated pro nated), I would have been there age deal and made several re- Baker wasn’t going to play catching 22 passes for 210 yards ried, becoming one with Barba- (football) career was a hiccup in but for the fact I was leaving the cruiting visits together that football at Oregon State. Pro- and two TDs and completing 12 ra, who had been widowed a the road, but Mo Tonkon getting next morning back to Oregon summer, including an unforget- thro, sly dog that he was, kept of 21 passes for 154 yards and no few years earlier. They wed in me to go to law school and go- and my wife and I were having table trip to Stanford, which had tabs on the eventual superstar, TDs with four interceptions. 1996 and the next year moved ing into practice with him and dinner with my in-laws that offered an academic scholarship using Baker and Pauly as ball- “I think I came 50 years too into their three-bedroom, split- what happened after that has night.” to Baker but not quite the same boys to fulfi ll work-study obliga- early,” he says. “The game has level 4,000-square-foot house made up for it tenfold.” Not everything was wonder- deal to Pauly. tions at home games. evolved. It’s changed so much. with a scenic view of Portland. ful about Baker’s Heisman trip “Stanford furnished us with a “I worked the home side, and The West Coast style used by so In the basement are an indoor [email protected] to New York. rental car — a new Buick — and I’d be throwing footballs to Pau- many teams today is more my driving range and a well- Twitter: @kerryeggers “There was a big press con- a credit card, and we drove ly on the other side, and fans ference before the event,” he down from Portland,” Baker were yelling down from the says. “I was like the bumpkin says. “Ironically, (OSU football stands, ‘Why aren’t you playing from Corvallis dropped into coach) Tommy Prothro was at football?’ ” Baker recalls with a BUILDINGBUILDING STRONGSTRONG COMMUNITIESCOMMUNITIES

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SCORESHEET Running legend has a message he was the fi rst Olympic women’s marathon champion (“my biggest Swin”). She made it to those 1984 Los Angeles Games with a stirring victory at the Trials in Olym- pia, Wash., 17 days after knee surgery (“the race of my life, because on paper there was no way I should have been able to run that race”). But one of Joan Benoit Sam- uelson’s most memorable mar- athons came April 16 of this TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT year, one month before her 55th Terry Baker, former Oregon State star quarterback and 1962 Heisman Trophy winner, enjoys some down time at home in Portland with his wife, Barbara. birthday. She returned to Bos- ton, site of her world-record 2:22:43 triumph in 1983, and ran ■ near her daughter, Abby Sam- Anniversary of 1962 honor comes soon after Civil War clash uelson, 25, who fi nished in 3:28:08. “She really ran her heart out. It was an honor for me to accompany her,” Benoit Samuelson says. Abby lives in Portland and Heisman redux for works in marketing for Nike. Her famous mom, a Maine native who lives in Free- port, will travel Terry Baker to the Rose City on Wednesday to speak at a St. he banquet was held on a Heisman festivities of today, but still Mary’s Acade- Wednesday evening at the heady stuff for Baker, the schoolboy my fundraiser Downtown Athletic Club in from Portland’s Jefferson High who be- BENOIT that Friday and New York City nearly 50 years came the fi rst Heisman winner from SAMUELSON T attend the Nike ago. the West Coast. Cross Nationals It was Dec. 5, 1962, the night the 28th Memories will surely come fl ooding the following day. Abby is head- annual Heisman Trophy was bestowed back as Baker and his wife, Barbara, fl y ing up the annual cross-coun- upon Oregon State quarterback Terry to New York for the 78th annual Heis- try race at Portland Meadows. Baker as the outstanding col- man presentation Dec. 8 at the “I’m a longtime Nike athlete lege football player in the Unit- Best Buy Theater in Times and advocate for many things,” ed States. Kerry Square. Benoit Samuelson says, prepar- There was no live television Baker, 71, will be honored ing for the trip. “I’ll do whatev- coverage, but the event was Eggers with a tribute to the 50th anni- er they ask me to do, or my broadcast on radio from coast versary of his award. daughter asks me to do.” to coast via the Mutual Broad- Fifty years? Can it really be? The appearance for St. casting System. “It has gone by quickly,” Bak- Mary’s is dear to her heart. It’s There was a cocktail recep- er says, resting in an easy chair the 19th annual Food for tion and dinner and then the of the family room in the Coun- Thought Tuition Assistance awards ceremony in the DAC’s cil Crest home he shares with Luncheon, 11 a.m. on Nov. 30 at gymnasium, with closed-circuit Barbara. “I was 21 when I re- the Hilton Portland. “I was in viewing available on the club’s ceived the Heisman. If you had high school when Title IX seventh and eighth fl oors. The O N told me I’d be back there 50 passed 40 years ago,” she says. keynote speaker was the hon- SPORTS years later, I’d have bet you ev- Benoit Samuelson’s many orable Robert F. Kennedy, ery dime I had that I wouldn’t. current missions include bring- younger brother of the presi- Just to live to be this old is Terry Baker ing awareness to health and en- dent and the country’s attorney gener- something.” warms up at vironmental issues. “I’m a hu- al. He smiles, then adds drily, “I don’t quarterback for man barometer for climate There was a post-awards reception think I’ll be back there for the 100th an- Oregon State, en change, having logged about and autograph session followed by a niversary.” route to winning 150,000 miles since I started party in the third-fl oor cafe, with music Past Heisman recipients are invited the Heisman running 40 years ago,” she says. provided by Skip Strong and his Dixie- back each year, but Baker has attended Trophy in 1962. “Conservation is to the environ- land Band. COURTESY OF OREGON ment what prevention is to A little primitive compared to the See BAKER / Page 7 STATE UNIVERSITY health.” She will bring a message to the SMA fundraiser. A bunch of messages, actually. She recites them like she is putting one foot ahead of the other. “Live your dreams. Follow your heart. Anything is possi- Instincts guide UO linebackers ble with hard work and dedica- tion and most importantly pas- sion. Run your own race. Be- If Clay and Alonso are not One cannot say the same lieve in yourself.” Alonso, Clay push named to the Pac-12 all-league thing about Clay, who has been team, it’ll be an upset. front-and-center as one of the Happy birthday away distractions, Alonso’s past off-fi eld trans- Ducks’ ambassadors since he Nov. 25, 1957 — Terry Stotts thrive as Ducks gressions, both earned playing time during his (age 55) alcohol-related true freshman season of 2009. Nov. 26, 1960 — Harold By JASON VONDERSMITH in 2010 and ‘11, He loves to talk. Reynolds (age 52) The Tribune likely have And, in Clay and Alonso, the Nov. 25, 1963 — Chip Kelly something to Ducks have two senior pillars (age 49) EUGENE — Everybody has do with his along the lines of Casey Mat- Nov. 26, 1968 — Shawn heard Kiko Alonso speak. We tight-lipped- thews and Spencer Paysinger, Kemp (age 44) know he can speak. ness. When he themselves good friends and Nov. 25, 1981 — Jared Jeffries After all, the physical and ath- does talk, teammates on the Rose Bowl (age 31) letic Oregon linebacker inter- whether it’s in team of 2009 and national cham- cepted Wisconsin’s Russell Wil- an ESPN inter- CLAY pionship game team of 2010. Oregon sports history son in one of the key plays of the view or to It certainly amounts to an ad- Nov. 24, 1993 — Portland In- Rose Bowl in January, won de- some other na- vantage when two guys bond off terscholastic League coaches fensive MVP honors and then tional outlet, the fi eld, linebackers coach Don are reeling at a proposal by Su- talked with reporters afterward he’ll likely Pellum says. perintendent Jack Bierwith to — the fi rst time he had shared share quite a “They’re awesome,” he says. phase out funding for high thoughts with media during the compelling sto- “They’re like brothers. They’re school sports in the district by 2011-12 season. ry — not the extremely close, and they’ll be September 1995. Athletics “I knew I could play like this,” rags-to-riches close the rest of their lives. would be among $75 million in he said. “I’ve been waiting for a type, but one “There’s me communicating cuts needed to offset decreased game like this.” of redemption. with Kiko or Michael on things, ALONSO property tax revenue. Now a senior, Alonso has cho- Clay says it’s but on the fi eld, it’s the two of Nov. 20, 1995 — The Trail sen not to be interviewed all Alonso’s per- them working together. The Blazers announce that their season, but his play has done sonality not to say too much, un- closer they are, the better at sellout streak of 814 games has lots of talking. He and longtime less he visits the apartment of communication, the better the come to an end, as 20,381 people friend Michael Clay have Clay and roommate/defensive whole process works.” attend a game against the Los teamed to be a steady and often back Brian Jackson and asks to Adds Clay: “Being together so Angeles Clippers at the Rose starring duo at linebacker for TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO: JAIME VALDEZ play video games or watch pay- much, we feed off each other. He Garden (then capacity 21,401). the No. 5 Ducks, as they head The last time the Oregon Ducks were at Reser Stadium, in 2010, backup per-view. makes a big play, you want to Nov. 26, 2006 — Bill Moos an- into their fi nal Civil War game linebacker Michael Clay broke through the arms of Oregon State’s “He’s a quiet guy,” Clay says. make a big play. It’s a comforting nounces he will step down as Saturday at Corvallis against Jordan Poyer during a 64-yard fake punt run as Oregon won 37-20 to “Maybe he takes time to get situation.” University of Oregon athletic 16th-ranked Oregon State (noon, clinch a spot in the national championship game. Clay, now a senior comfortable with someone. He’s director. Pac-12 Networks). starter, and the Ducks return to Corvallis on Saturday. a quiet guy, keeps to himself.” See UO / Page 6