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JUNE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER 2017 southeastexaminer.com “Your Neighborhood News Source” Vol 28 No 6 Portland, OR Infill on Steroids Gains State Traction: Riles Residents

By midge pierce and old. But opponents say the Oregon A bill known as a “Build Baby Build” Home Builders Association (OHBA) legislative bill under the idea of addressing and others twisted it into a bill that over- emergency housing statewide is fueling rides local zoning and undermines city what critics call a widespread assault controls. The bill would allow building to on Oregon cities’ self-determination maximum density and heights potentially and livability. Adding insult, the bill is disregarding critical local planning tools barreling through the state legislature like discretionary design reviews. without adequate public hearing. As outrage mounted last month at House Bill 2007 would essentially an informational meeting in Salem, House Overview of the proposed cascading soaking pools between reservoirs 5 and 6. eliminate single family residential Speaker Tina Kotek slammed opponents as Designed by Jennifer Moran neighborhoods by making multi-plex infill racist NIMBYS. Arriving late to advocate housing mandatory across the state. The for the “high-yield” housing bill she Mt. Tabor Park Thermal Baths bill would permit duplexes and ADUs sponsored, she condemned “race-based everywhere in cities and towns of at least housing policies” and said opposition is An Idea for Preserving the Reservoirs, Creating 2500 residents. “grounded in Nimbyism” by well-heeled Energy, and Raising Revenue Critics call it a stealth bill that is residents using discriminatory practices Infill inflation modeled after Portland’s that restrict others from building wealth By Amy Peterson PSU School of Archi- in 2006, the city cannot use the open controversial Residential Infill Project and power. tecture student reservoirs for our water. The city has (RIP). A major difference is that HB 2007 The special hearing was convened built an underground reservoirs as a would extend dense Infill well beyond by Southeast Portland State Representative Since 1894, Mt. Tabor Park has replacement for the drinking water storage. the city’s current plans for Housing Alissa Keny-Guyer who chairs the Human hosted open air reservoirs for drinking Proposals for the defunct reservoirs range Opportunity Overlay Zones. Services and Housing Committee. After water for the City of Portland. As part of from burying them to creating skate-parks. Watchdogs are howling, “Wake up the meeting was scheduled she realized it the Long Term 2 Regulation invoked by Oregon. This is Infill on steroids.” lacked testimonial teeth because the bill the Environmental Protection Agency turn to page 19 As initially proposed, the bill would had already left her committee. speed approvals for affordable housing, a Apologizing for the snafu, Keny- move lauded by all who have witnessed Guyer said the sheer number of bills heartbreaking sagas of skyrocketing rents introduced to the legislature have made it Bio-gas / Poop to Power and rising property taxes displacing young turn to page 22 By Don MacGillivray byproduct of sewage treatment process. This summer, the Bureau of Environmental Portland will soon be processing the Services will begin an innovative effort that Reactions to HB 2007 City’s sewage and making a profit doing it. will capture 100 percent of the methane This is making “power from poop.” With gas from our waste water which will By midge pierce the City of Astoria and various Portland over seven billion of us on the planet and significantly reduce our carbon footprint. It grassroots organizations and neighborhood all of us creating waste on a daily basis, will convert this smelly, unattractive waste With astronomical rental and housing associations. there is a lot of potential in making it pay. product that we all produce into a valuable, costs, no one denies the need for affordable Proponents hail it as a fair and just And now, this Oregon city has found a way renewable natural gas that can be sold on housing. The question is whether HB 2007 emergency housing measure that will to do just that. the open market. is the solution. reduce obstacles for needed market rate and Every year, the Portland Bureau This will be Portland’s single largest Critics call HB 2007 a “statewide affordable housing. Proponents include of Environmental Services processes 28 climate action project. This clean, locally- attack on local controls”, “sweeping Oregon Home Builders Association, 1000 billion gallons of wastewater. Methane is upzoning”, “homebuilders’ goldrush” and Friends of Oregon, Portland for Everyone a potent greenhouse gas that is a natural turn to page 20 “land grab writ large”. Opponents include and AARP. Restore Oregon, Portland Coalition for Here is a sampling of reactions to HB Historic Resources, United Neighborhoods 2007 that may soon be law of the land: for Reform, League of Oregon Cities, Restore Oregon Executive Director SE Updates Peggy Moretti cites unfettered build-out in unaffordable San Francisco as proof that HB 2433 would allow school districts By midge pierce the “trickle down theory” of Build Baby to develop low income senior housing in Build will not result in low cost housing. Bills move forward at rapid pace exchange for classroom assistance. Rather it is good intentions degenerating Several bills address tax cuts for into bad outcomes. If the devil is in the details, as nearly rehabilitation of apartments and homes. The Architectural Heritage Center 3000 legislative measures move through HB 3192 establishes a $5 million calls the bill a proverbial wolf in sheep’s Salem, it’s understandable that lawmakers, fund to help first time, low income home clothing. It takes a “one size fits all” many of whom have additional jobs buyers. approach that encourages demolition of elsewhere, find it tough to keep up or dig HB 2724 guarantees rent to landlords smaller, less expensive homes and does into specific bills. Still, citizens, outraged who take chances on high risk tenants with specific harm to historic districts. by “stealth” aspects of HB 2007 that bad credit scores or criminal backgrounds. The McCulloch Foundation says the impose mandatory density on all but the The gist of these bills sound bill being rushed through the legislature smallest Oregon cities are now seeking laudatory. But citizens who have witnessed would “virtually negate Historic District greater transparency and opportunities for the past several years of unfettered growth demolition protection” and take away input on proposed legislation. have learned that vigilance should go hand local development regulation from Oregon A number of lesser known bills in hand with rubber stamping. towns and cities. intended to help address the housing With housing solutions dividing A member of the Historic Laurelhurst crisis have moved beyond the housing residents, tensions can be cut with a knife preservation group says, “The Oregon committee chaired by Southeast Portland’s during neighborhood gatherings. Home Builder’s Association is using the state representative Alissa Keny-Guyer. State Legislature to force residential infill Below is a partial description of bills that Rifts rise between renters and NAs - no matter how poorly designed - on every seem to have strong support: city in Oregon.” HB 2004 would limit residential rent At a Southeast Uplift Meeting to Portland Together (not be confused hikes to fair rates of return. introduce Commissioner Chloe Eudaly to with 1000 Friends of Oregon’s local HB 2010 would create a task force to local grant recipients including a tenants coalition Portland for Everyone) believes review racial and discriminatory lending turn to page 22 practices. turn to page 19 2 THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER JUNE 17 LE Letters to the Editor

To the editor: being such a popular destination, anticipated and accommodated housing prices soared beyond such as related to growth. So, After reading so many control. The City’s efforts to a pedestrian death occurs on recent articles on housing, the provide for additional housing upper SE Hawthorne and due to homeless, traffic problems, etc., are too limited and include bad publicity the City installs a I am amazed that these issues only a few hundred affordable crosswalk facility. And a self- are being dealt with in such a units, apartments and ADU’s, proclaimed anarchist group fills piecemeal fashion. Don’t you (the and unpopular density increases in potholes because the City editors, the media, the government in established Single Family can’t keep up with street repairs entities, the public) realize that all Residential (SFR) areas. The itself. Likewise, safety issues of these problems are interrelated City should step back and provide abound on many other streets, as a result of inconsistent growth more housing choice including most of them major arterials, management? moderate density housing, and the City’s response is Vision How many of you are aware duplexes, courtyard apartments, Zero, which reduces travel lanes that the Statewide Planning tiny home locations, innovative and speed limits. Again, these Goals call for comprehensive and housing complexes, and reduce are reactionary measures which integrated growth management? the focus on apartments, ADU’s, do absolutely nothing to deal Granted, 30 some years ago and changes to well established with the traffic increases and virtually everyone knew of the SFR neighborhoods. Likewise, congestion which have placed Goals when cities and counties reduce commercial use of SFR’s Portland in the nation’s top 10 all over Oregon were still in favor of residential. You for worse commutes for many developing comprehensive land can’t accommodate more needed years running. The mindset that use plans. The thing is, the housing in SFR neighborhoods everyone will ride transit or a Statewide Planning Goals are still if many houses are no longer in bicycle needs to be re-evaluated applicable when the plans need residential use (i.e. commercial and reality-based transportation to be updated or go through a day cares, offices, airbnb, etc.). planning implemented. Pointing periodic review. Unfortunately, Housing costs have fingers at ODOT for more lanes the implementation of the skyrocketed and are only recently on the freeways is not the answer. plans are happening piecemeal, starting to stabilize. Trouble is, Congestion is happening on City especially in the Metro area. The costs/rents are 10-50% higher streets as well. result is multiple disjointed efforts than they were two years ago. Responses to the homeless to deal with growth issues and And if demand continues to plight have been inconsistent problems rather than coordinated increase, so will the costs. As when in fact they need to follow and comprehensive growth the “well to dos” move into the a comprehensive approach. Not management as the Statewide City the “lower incomes” are only are more shelters needed, Planning Goals intended. being forced out. The City and but these need to be wholistic Let’s look at examples State need to proactively prevent and provide services (including of many of the problem areas. price gouging and do better at health care, counseling, training, The City of Portland pushed encouraging reasonable rents. etc.). The homeless should not gentrification in recent years Rent control is only one of many be scattering willy nilly on side causing displacement of many ways to create affordability. streets, under bridges, in public lower income residents. Since Encouraging less greed and parks, or in business doorways the City did not implement for reasonable, but not excessive, as now occurs. Specific areas housing choice (as required profit margins is another. And also need to be designated for by State Goal 10; Housing), a providing for real housing choice temporary and safe tent grounds shortage of affordable housing is even another. Similarly, the and RV parking locations with ensued. And with Portland City’s increases in fees due to an essential services and supervision inability to effectively manage provided. Public and private moneys, contributes to high partnerships can address much housing costs. of this until such time as the Traffic problems are problems can be reduced and the multifaceted and, again, are being homeless better served. The City dealt with piecemeal. Street and County have the resources and infrastructure upgrades now to locate such sites and were supposed to be occurring identify partners. This isn’t consistent with development. But rocket science, folks! instead we’re seeing substandard And the list could go and poorly maintained streets on. And what about new at the same time apartment neighborhood parks? What construction is booming. What’s about parking for apartments? just as bad is the City is reacting to safety issues instead of having turn to page 23

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Dear Readers:

The other day I was sitting in Monti’s Cafe, speaking with a writer about the newspaper. It’s places like this, one of our advertisers, that bring this publication into 26,500 homes and businesses every month. The advertisers pay our writer, all the other writers, the A & E person, the printer, the post office, the delivery guy and myself. Our mission statement of being “the community campfire, a place for everyone to gather”, is a good way to weave businesses and residents together. There are many other forms of advertising Newspaper Rock available these days, mostly for specific audiences. The 1964, when Canyonland was Ancestral Puebloans. The dry Southeast Examiner gathers the made into a park, did the writings high desert keeps things as they news of our neighborhoods, the cease. were a thousand years ago. stories, events, letters, opinion, Our slow-paced journey As is witnessed by the entertainment and wellness and through south central Utah gave security of their dwellings and the shares them with everyone in this me time to observe and learn skeletal remains, these early tribes community every month. about the Ancestral Puebloans were not a peaceful lot. Before In the age of social and to witness the effect a church- the white-man ever arrived, they media and instant everything, I influenced state like Utah has were busy bashing each others occasionally begin to doubt the over all the communities in the brains out and capturing slaves. relevance of the printed word, state. Still, they did have incredible except online, but then I realize I had skimmed Bryce building skills, agricultural that, like the campfire, the Canyon and Zion as a child but techniques, pottery and art, tool- newspaper is a place for both the never experienced first hand making abilities, community life young and older generations to the powerful presence of rock and some form of communication share stories, relay information, formations, color and expansive via the rock carvings. and directly connect us to each landscapes that make this state It still baffles archaeologists other. The symbolism of this was one of the most beautiful places why there was a mass migration never more profound than when I’ve ever seen. from this area and many others we stopped at the petroglyph/ So many artifacts, ruins, like it around 1300 AD. Still pictograph called Newspaper petroglyphs and pictographs are the preserved antiquity has a Rock in Utah last month. This still preserved from the early profound effect upon the tourist rock has been a recording place tribes – Utes, Paiutes, Goshutes, who is walking in the steps for the people of this region for Shoshone, Zunis, Hopis, of these early civilizations, thousands of years and only in Navajos–now described as the turn to page 8 4 THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER JUNE 17 Slower speed limits = less fatal accidents

By Don MacGillivray accidents marking just the second Regional Transportation Safety time since 1998 that over 40 Action Plan as part of the 2018 Over the last three year people died in a single year. In Regional Transportation Plan. Vision Zero has grown to become the same year 492 people died in It is their desire to eliminate one of the most popular new Oregon road accidents. This is a transportation related fatalities polices within Portland local 10% increase over the 2015 total and serious injuries for all users government and it is becoming and a 57% jump from the 313 of the region’s transportation known to the state and federal lives lost to traffic accidents in system by 2035. government, possibly even more 2013. Road safety is becoming an Metro has a great video that than road repair and transportation even bigger public concern than explains the situation they are infrastructure. Deaths and serious road repair and maintenance. addressing. It notes that 586 people accidents are now seen as The correlation between are killed or severely injured each preventable through government excessive speed and serious injury year in the Metro area. Then it and community action. or death is clear. Therefore the asks how many people killed per The first Vision Zero Portland Bureau of Transportation year is acceptable? And the last resolution was passed in Portland has requested lower speeds on question is how many people in 2015. The first Vision Zero twenty-one roadways in Portland. in your family would be an Policy Plan followed a year Those streets where accidents acceptable loss? The intent is to later and it was adopted late last occur are the main target. Many illustrate that there should be no year. It is quickly changing the of them are in East Portland and acceptable traffic fatalities. Since local transportation priorities. only a few would affect the Inner the violence is indiscriminate you The work is the result of a task Southeast. The most notable or your family may be victims. force made up of 26 community is the change to 20 mph on Rob Nosse, State advocates and city staffers from Hawthorne Boulevard from SE Representative from House a diverse range of interests and 30th to SE 50th Avenue. Another District 42, in the inner southeast organizations. Vision Zero will is on Woodstock between SE 57th has introduced HB 2667 that will especially work to equitably Avenue and SE 91st Avenue. establish a 17 member statewide address the safety needs of SE Division Street to the Vision Zero Task Force to study low-income and minority east of SE 82nd Street seems to and draft strategies that will communities and ensure that they be getting much attention. Over address, reduce, and eliminate are not inappropriately the focus ten years, SE Division Street has traffic crashes, particularly of law enforcement. There are had more crashes with fatalities those with auto, bicycle and currently 32 specific items from or serious injuries to drivers than pedestrian injuries and fatalities. the Vision Zero Action Plan being any other corridor in the city. This legislation is supported by: implemented. There have been a total of 13 The Street Trust, Oregon Walks, The basic strategy of deaths and 117 serious injuries and Oregon and SW Washington Portland’s Vision Zero Action in that period of time. It had the Families for Safe Streets. Plan is to decrease traffic speed fourth highest total of injuries for Congressman Earl through: lowering the posted people walking, and the second Blumenauer is also attempting speed, improved street design, highest total for people riding to lead the nation toward Vision posting reader boards, increasing bicycles. Zero policies. He descries the automated enforcement, and by Outer SE Division Street is need for national assistance to providing multi-cultural traffic on the designated High Crash list end the “American carnage” on safety education. due to the high rate of accidents the roadways across the county. In This work was made and deaths on the street. These fact there are other cities just like more important in 2016 with an accidents on Outer Division Portland that are implementing exceptionally tragic year where Street greatly affect the diverse Vision Zero plans and policies. 45 people died in local traffic communities in the Jade District, Congressmen Blumenauer’s the Division Midway Alliance bill would address both plans and others in East Portland. and their implementation by Therefore on SE Division Street providing a limited number of between SE 82nd Avenue and grants to local government. 174th Avenue the speed limit With all the attention given will be decreased by 5 mph from to automobile safety along comes 35 mph to 30 mph. The street the specter of driver-less cars. is also being redesigned with Portland is in the midst of many center medians and pedestrian plans on how to accommodate islands. There will be educational this new wrinkle on local programs and outreach for the transportation. Autonomous many diverse groups in the area. vehicles will take human error out Other locations are also receiving of the equation, but what about minor speed limit reductions. the driver operated vehicles that Speed cameras are being installed remain. The public has a right to at those intersections where expect that appropriate safety speeding is most frequent. standards are adopted and met. Safe Routes to School is Driverless cars should not only also getting educational and help us meet safety standards, outreach attention. This year five but also help with our equity, high crash intersections will be climate change, and economic upgraded by the Portland Bureau goals. In the end we must ensure of Transportation and the Oregon that all streets are safe for people Bureau of Transportation. walking, biking, rolling, or Metro is including a driving. THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER JUNE 17 5 NN Neighborhood Notes South Tabor By Sandra Hay Magdaleno

We had a very informative, worthwhile Emergency Preparedness Workshop in May. We appreciate the Red Cross, the City of Portland and NET team leaders and of course our President, Duane Hanson for putting it all together. We hope to bring more of this information to our neighborhood in the coming month/ years and encourage people to become volunteers or NET trained and volunteers. Please follow this link to learn how to complete the training or become a volunteer as well as how to be prepared at home, in your car or at work at: www.portlandoregon.gov/pbem/58587. Additionally email: [email protected] for ways to become prepared or to work with the Sustainability Committee for the preparedness of yourself and neighbors. We meet the Tuesday before the monthly board meetings. The “Litter Clean Up” this year is Saturday, June 10 from 10 am to 2 pm. We will be doing street clean up on Division from 52nd to 82nd and SE 71st from Division to Powell. Headquarters will be at Division Dental at 7600 SE Division Street so meet you there. A pizza party to wrap up the Litter Pick Up will take place afterwards. It is best to bring your own gloves although most tools and supplies will be provided. The annual Harvest Festival with live entertainment, plant and tool swap, crafts, our famous apple cider and corn on the cob, plus much more will be Sunday, September 10 from noon to 4 pm. The General Election took place at the annual meeting in May. We’ll be reporting the new board members in the next SE Examiner or go to SouthTabor.org website after June 5 to look up and congratulate your board. We called an emergency meeting to respond to the developer for the 62nd and SE Powell proposed 900 unit Storage Facility. The letter/email to the developer agreed with and built upon recommendations from the city as well as our own requests from our neighbors and the land use committee. We will continue to monitor this situation. You may email: [email protected] for more information or to participate at our Land Use Committee Meetings held the Tuesday directly before our monthly board meetings which are the 3rd Thursday of the month. The Communications Committee is still in the process of testing a pilot program for a more useable and beneficial website. We’ll let you knows once it is up and running for your use. If you would like to help please contact: [email protected] and/or attend our Communications Committee Meetings the Tuesday directly before our 3rd Thursday board meetings. Board members, Tina Kimmey, John Carr, Duane Hanson and Sandra Hay Magdaleno all attended the last Mt Tabor Yard Planning Group. They discussed the proposed art design concept and additional plan changes primarily along the long block entrance off of SE 60th. A heated discussion ensued. There is more work to be done. Our next STNA Board Meeting is Thursday, June 15 at 7 pm. The Land Use Committee Meeting, The Communications Committee Meeting and The Sustainability Committee Meetings will be held two days prior on Tuesday, June 13 from 7 – 8:30 pm at Trinity as well. (2700 SE 67th with entrance from parking in the rear.) See you there! Richmond By Brendon Haggerty

The Richmond Neighborhood Association held its May meeting on May 8th. The board moved to request that the city exercise its option to purchase land adjacent to Washington High School to be used as a community center. It also voted to create a graffiti task force. Following a presentation from Portland Tenants United, the RNA voted and to issue an open letter supporting the repeal of statewide ban on rent stabilization and an end to no-cause evictions. RNA will hold elections for 8 open seats at its next meeting on June 12 from 7 to 9 pm. The meeting agenda will also include votes on proposed amendments to bylaws. RNA meetings are held in the Waverly Heights Church basement (SE 33rd & Woodward) on the 2nd Monday of the Month, except January. Enter from the east-side door. The RNA’s website is richmondpdx. org. The next RNA meeting will be Monday, June 12th. Buckman By Susan Lindsay

Buckman Community Association Board Elections will be held Thursday, June 8th at the regular monthly general meeting, 7-9pm in the Multnomah County Board Room, 501 SE Hawthorne Blvd. The Board consists of nine positions and five are up for election. The term is two years. Residents and/or those with strong ties to the neighborhood are welcome to serve. Board member expectations include attending monthly meetings and serving on a committee or helping with a project. To find out more about the BCA, visit our website: buckmanpdx.org. Contact the board anytime: [email protected] Due to construction in Colonel Summers Park for the installation of a summer splash pad and water stream, the annual Buckman Picnic in the Park, normally held the second Sunday in August, will be on Sun- day, September 17th, 3-7pm. Volunteers are needed to help coordinate the event, serve food and help with set up/clean up. Contact the BCA directly for more information and to volunteer.

HAND By Jill Riebesehl

Summer is here, and the Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Association Board is gearing up for sunny days, with one event specializing in free ice cream and another involving a parade. At our annual meeting May 16, we elected four new board members and heard a fascinating pre- sentation by Steve Dotterer on the history of transportation in Portland, from native people’s trails to the unexecuted Mt. Hood Freeway. On the agenda for our June 20 meeting, we will hear about two major ongoing citywide projects: the updated Central City Plan 2035 and Portland Bureau of Transportation’s Transportation System Plan, Stage 3. The Central City Plan 2035, after much work and collaboration with citywide partners, was enacted in 2012 with the goal of developing a prosperous, educated, healthy and equitable city. We are eager to hear about progress made and updates to the plan and related policies for the downtown and central areas as Portland and its partners address ways to keep the urban area vibrant and unique. www.portlandoregon. gov/bps/47907 The Transportation System Plan 2035 was adopted as part of the Central City Plan in 2016. Testi- mony is being taken until July 21. Implementation could begin 2018. We will hear components of this third stage that include emergency response, transit and traffic classifications. With the plan’s adoption in September, further attention will focus on connectivity, transportation strategy for people movement, streets as public spaces, greenways and trails and more. https://www.portlandoregon.gov/transportation/63710 Also on our agenda is a brief visit from the Bureau of Environmental Services about progress on the sewer/stormwater project where it affects with our neighborhood. Elections for board officers will be held at this meeting. On July 22, we are looking forward to visiting with our neighbors at the Division-Clinton Business Association’s Street Fair at our HAND booth. A vibrant variety of vendor booths will pop up around SE 26th and Clinton, and between Clinton and Division on avenues between SE 25 and 28th. Some area busi- nesses will be participating. A parade will take over Division Street heading west from SE 50th beginning at 10:45. HAND will hold its annual Ice Cream Social, recognizing National Night Out, the first Tuesday in turn to page 23 6 THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER JUNE 17 CN Community News grocery store. By reconnecting Southeast school shines Smart water use: graywater gardens our backyards to the natural Asking struggling water cycle, we can build greater readers to compete By Jen Cole and costs, and support a thriving resiliency in our communities. in a national reading Almost half the people on landscape. (4) Become toxics aware. contest used to be our planet do not have water piped 5 things you do when you When you reuse graywater unheard of at southeast into their homes. They have to go send water from your laundry and in your garden, your plants Portland’s Bridger find their daily supply and carry household sinks into your yard: become a litmus test for how School. But now that it back for drinking, washing and (1) Save a stream. toxic the chemicals are that you Bridger kids with bathing. If Oregonians had to do Even with the proliferation use in your home on a regular learning challenges that, we might find ways to use a of water-efficient appliances and basis. Switch out cleaners that like dyslexia, ADHD, lot less than our current average water-wise landscaping, water contain salts, boron or chlorine and autism have access 52 gallons (416 pounds!) per day. use by residential customers in in favor of gentler products to to audiobooks specially As it stands, our city Portland typically surges two- ensure that your plants do not wilt designed for their water systems do a great job of to three-fold during summer or turn brown. print disabilities, the delivering a seemingly abundant months. When your plants are (5) Set the next trend. Wildcats are electing supply of water to our faucets and the most thirsty, so are our rivers, Although reuse of graywater to compete with their showerheads. But, guess what? native fish and wildlife that has been legal in Oregon since peers across the country … and succeeding! In parts of Oregon, wells and depend on them. 2012, there are only 26 residential Bridger recently placed in the top 13% nationally for the number streams are going dry, and people (2) Turn pollution into plant systems permitted in the state. of pages read in Learning Ally’s Great Reading Games. More than have been promised more water food. Jackson County is leading the 1,200 schools read 5.3 million pages during the seven-week games, than nature can provide. Even in Graywater systems not only pack with more than half of with Bridger placing 175th for pages read. western Oregon (often thought water your yard—they also feed these home systems, and there Third grader James loves books, but decoding words takes effort of as the “wet” side of the state), it. The nutrients in water from is only one residential system in due to a print disability. But with the audiobooks, James can make the drought and water scarcity are your sink and laundry (traces Portland, delivering water from typeface larger, highlight sentences in yellow so the letters stand out, growing concerns. of food scraps, dirt, grease) act Ted Labbe’s washing machine to and use the technology to repeat words with which he is unfamiliar. It’s time to rethink how to as fertilizer for your plants, and a row of raspberries thriving in his “I like reading,” said James. “My reading has gotten better using ensure that our water system is in return, plants and soil filter backyard. Who will be Oregon’s the audiobooks.” resilient to change. And when it water before it trickles back into next green leader to harness the Bridger Speech Language Pathologist Betsy Shaughnessey loves comes to conservation, it’s time the natural water cycle. When power of water reuse? audiobooks as a way for students to keep up with their peers. Experts to get more creative than just the same nutrients end up in our PDX Graywater Partnership say audiobooks help build students’ access to content and vocabulary, shutting off the water while you rivers and lakes, they add up to is hoping you will be! Even a enhancing their reading comprehension, and building the confidence brush your teeth. pollution that causes dead zones, simple household system, costing and skills to help them progress to print text. This summer, the PDX encourages harmful algal blooms, less than a hundred dollars, can “I love the audiobooks, especially for students whose strength Graywater Partnership (including and kills fish. provide a reliable water source is auditory,” said Betsy. “It’s another tool for students to get excited our friends at Recode) is hosting (3) Let your yard absorb the for bushes, trees and large about learning.” workshops, courses and tours bills. plants. This summer, Depave, The audiobooks were provided by The Shadow Project, as Besides what goes down Graywater Action, Recode and part of Portland Public Schools’ Read Together program designed to that will help people make big strides to lighten their water load. the toilet, most of the water that other local groups are teaming up boost third grade literacy achievement. The Shadow Project is a local goes down the drain is essentially nonprofit that helps public school students with learning challenges The idea is to deliver gently-used to introduce curious homeowners water from laundry, showers or wasted. Giving graywater a and installers to real installations, gain access to the tools they need to set goals and succeed in the second life before sending it away classroom. sinks”—graywater—to backyard help simplify the permitting bushes, trees and gardens. By can cut your total water usage – process, and educate on where to Additional southeast Portland schools participating in The and water bill – significantly. If Shadow Project include Abernethy, Buckman, Harrison Park, and putting graywater to good use, we find appropriate parts. can help reduce stresses on water you’re a gardener, that means Find out more about Pioneer. For their efforts, the Bridger readers received certificates of more food at home and more accomplishment, and a SubZero Mad Science party. supplies, lower home water usage summer workshops and tours at money in your pocket at the greywateraction.org.

Look to retail outlets Recycling tip– Check Before It Goes such as Habitat’s ReStores By Bonita Davis, Master at a low price to the public. (www.pdxrestore.org/donate,) Recycler and Sunnyside resident Resale of donated items helps Goodwill (www.meetgoodwill. Parting with our possessions keep useable items out of the org/who-we-are/donations,) and can be tough. Sentimentality, landfill and generates money to the ReBuilding Center (www. memories, and longevity can support their mission of building rebuildingcenter.org/donation) all factor into how we prize an new homes. ReStores, like other for excellent detailed websites item and assign it value. Experts resale outlets, incur a cost from that outline by category what can suggest that some of us will time, labor, space and disposal be accepted. Every day at The devalue an object because it is fees when handling unsaleable ReBuilding Center, eight tons of “used,” while others will value it items. building materials pass through more because of our experiences A test to see if an item is The ReBuilding Center every with the object and the possibility appropriate for donation; if you day, diverting useable materials it may now be a collectible, can’t sell it, and you can’t give it from the landfill and providing antique or now a rarified object away, you probably can’t donate the community with a great that someone else would want. it either. Sometimes, it is hard to resource. After all, we wanted it, right? face the reality that an item we Consult with an expert at A friend in a nearby have used even recently no longer the Metro Recycling Hotline at community expressed surprise on is desirable to others. Reasons 503.234.3000, or visit their Tools- FaceBook when his truckload of for not accepting items might be for-Living at www.oregonmetro. Sons of Norway’s Grieg Lodge recently celebrated its 107th birthday with a that they pose a health or safety donations were not all accepted gov for a solution for those hard special Viking Pancake Brunch and Scholarship Awards Ceremony. Fifteen for donation. To him, it was great hazard (lead and asbestos for to “re-home” items, including scholarships of $2,000 each were awarded. stuff, but he learned that many example,) have been recalled or finding haulers who make it a Scholarship recipients were Jannike Allen, Raymond Baldwin, Nathan items would not be resalable. banned, are in poor condition, not priority to recycle when possible. Bergfelt, Sophia Caesar, Chelsea Davis, Laura Gifford, Millie Hobaish, Shel Mae, Habitat’s up to code, or are of insufficient After searching very hard Nissa Jensen, Nicole Kister, Chad Lipka, Tyler Pederson, Elizabeth Portland Retail Director, offered quantity. Non-profits depend on to find a new home for several Solheim, Ian Schipper, Robert Stoddard and Logan Wahlstrom. In addition an explanation of how this might our donations to support their items, I now ask myself; What a $500 Bernhard and Johanna Fedde Grant was awarded to The Portland happen. Habitat for Humanity mission and at the same time, am I going to do with this item Scandinavian Chorus, which will be performing on tour in Sweden and Norway this summer. ReStores offer quality materials look out for our safety. when I no longer need it? THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER JUNE 17 7 CN Community News HUGE BOOK SALE – Montavilla United Methodist Women will be having a HUGE book sale June 24, Seeking historic photos, documents 2017 in the church parking lot at 232 SE 80th Ave. between Stark and Burnside. The hours are 9 am – 3 pm. and stories The price is $5 per bag filled with as many books as can be packed in one brown grocery bag. There will be The Mt. Tabor Neighborhood Association (MTNA) seeks several hundred books to select from. your historic photos, documents, and stories about Mt. Tabor Park’s historic open reservoirs. Kenyan peace activist and social change agent Getry Agizah will make two presentations in June We are interested in collecting photos, stories, documents about: at the Multnomah Friends Meetinghouse, 4312 SE Stark in Portland. Sunday, June 11 at Noon “Overcoming Mt. Tabor’s open reservoirs, from construction to today; Election Polarization: Lessons from Kenya”; Friday, June 16 at 7 pm “Healing and Rebuilding our Com- The Bull Run watershed, from the late 1800’s to today; munities: A Kenyan Perspective.” Getry Agizah is the Director of Transforming Communities for Social The original engineering and construction of the Bull Run Change and the Friends Church Peace Teams Coordinator in Kenya. She will tell the stories of peacebuild- system, from the watershed to the city. ing organizations working together to prevent violence in the August 2017 Kenyan Elections and of the Mt. If you have materials in your own personal collections, Elgon Community Peace Center working to heal and rebuild communities damaged by trauma and violence. please consider sharing them with our team. You can There will be a potluck at 6 pm before the presentation on the 16th. Both presentations are sponsored by the email: [email protected] with your digital files. Peace and Social Concerns Committee of Multnomah Friends Meeting. For more information contact Ron Or, if your materials are not digitized, send us a note to that same Marson at [email protected] address with a description of what you have and a way to contact you and someone will get in touch. HAWTHORNE DIABETES GROUP: “Taking a Vacation with Diabetes & from Diabetes” - Thursday, As you may remember, the land use review for the disconnect June 15, 7 – 8:30 pm, 2828 SE Stephens St. Ahhh…Vacation time…Taking a break from the daily routine construction project at the Mt. Tabor reservoirs mandated that the keeps us feeling fresh. But what does time away mean for your diabetes care? How can you take a vaca- Portland Water Bureau capture some of the story of Mt. Tabor’s tion with and from diabetes? Is that even possible? Join us for the June gathering to discuss practical ways reservoirs, and their role in the Bull Run water delivery system. This you can take a diabetes vacation. Sunshine awaits! $10 donation requested. No one will be turned away. story is to be made available through on-site educational materials. This RSVP through http://www.meetup.com/Hawthorne-Diabetes-Group/ or by contacting Julia Hanfling at kind of effort is known as an “interpretive program.” MTNA is part of [email protected] / 503.504.5050. the joint team (which includes professional historians and PWB staff) that will help craft this interpretive program over the next 2 years. Vacation Bible School at Holy Cross Lutheran Church, 8705 E Burnside is July 10-14, from 9 am – 12 pm. Ages 4 to 5th grade welcome! Register at www.hclcpdx.org or call 503.254.8705. If you register Business Beat before June 26th, it’s FREE. Registering after June 26th is $5/per child. BB Oregon Bicycle Racing Association (OBRA) Bicycle Circuit Races Every Wednesday eve- ning at Mt. Tabor. River City Bicycles and OBRA host this popular annual racing series. The first race is at Super Natural, an eco-boutique lovingly curated by the ladies of the PDX based organic line, Tinctoria. Originally located in the Alberta 5:45 pm. For a complete schedule, visit mttaborseries.com. Other Mt. Tabor events: June 18, Sunday - Free Arts District, are newly relocated to 3435 Hawthorne. We feature a Tree I.D. walk. Join Bob Rogers on the third Sunday of every month as he leads visitors on a tour of some large selection of organic clothing and accessories by Indie designers of the park’s most notable trees. Meet at the Visitor Center at 2 pm rain or shine. June 24, Saturday - Weed from the West Coast and beyond. We’ve done the shopping for you, Warriors Habitat Restoration, 9 am – noon. Join us on the last Saturday of the month from May–October so you can be sure that every item is super stylish and super natural. as we restore health to the park by removing invasive plant species. Meet at the Visitor Center by the main supernaturalpdx.com [email protected] parking lot, and wear durable long pants and long sleeve shirt. Join the Weed Warriors on facebook.

For Paws has moved! We’re so grateful to our SE neighbor- Portland’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement reports that a new web-based ver- hood family for supporting us these past eight years. We look for- sion of PBX Reporter has been launched that replaces the existing IPhone and Android app. The new ver- ward to continuing to help keep your cats and dogs happy, healthy and sion is available at http://pdxreporter.org . Important: You cannot report crime using PDX Reporter. Use spoiled rotten in our new location at 3340 SE Division Street. See you the following tools to report crime: For emergencies call 9-1-1 • For non-emergencies call 503.823.3333 soon! • Use the online reporting tool to report car prowls, theft and vandalism (except graffiti) if an incident ohhoneycookery.com - offering cooking classes around SE meets the criteria for online reporting. Use the PDX Reporter to report the following complaints: • Graf- Portland. Relaxed, hands-on, sign up now for June and July classes. fiti • Campsite Reporting-Please note that the online reporting template at www.portlandoregon.gov/camp- Gumbo 101, Jambalaya, Quick Italian pasta sauces, meatballs two site asks more detailed questions about problems at a campsite. • Street lighting • Abandoned Autos • ways, $45 per 2-hour class. Thursdays from 11 - 3 pm come by the Ea- Illegal parking • Potholes • Debris in the roadway • Work zone concerns • Park maintenance • Plugged gle Aerie at Hawthorne and 50th for Jambalaya, pecan pie, and more. storm drains • Sidewalk vegetation • Sidewalk trip hazard Mention SE Examiner for lagniappe! See website ohhoneycookery. com to order quarts and gallons of made-from-scratch gumbo, craw- Richmond Graffiti Task Force that the sooner graffiti can be fish etoufee, shrimp creole, red beans, jambalaya, pies and more. Con- removed, the less likely that By Adam Meltzer had its share of homelessness, tact Bonnie at Oh Honey Cookery for details. 503.432.1021 or email location will be tagged again. [email protected]. drug use and criminal behavior, About two years ago, Here is what you can do it about but graffiti can be particularly I moved to Portland and the graffiti: Join a local team or form Beginning Calligraphy Instruction in SE Portland. damaging psychologically and Richmond neighborhood. At your own team; learn about how Fun and relaxed classes in one of the most adaptable lettering forms. physically to the community. the time I was wearing my to remove graffiti and what the You will be learning to draw letters (a different dynamic than your I decided to do something everyday writing). After mastering the alphabet we will work on your rose colored glasses: I saw the graffiti means on the city’s graffiti about it. I posted on Nextdoor particular interests such as place-cards, envelope addressing, poems, dog park and playground at abatement program website. asking for help to clean up the gardening stakes, and more. We will also try out different kids of pens Sewallcrest Park, and restaurants, https://www.portlandoregon. graffiti in our neighborhood. at the final class. All supplies are furnished. 3 two-hour classes. $75. bars, a supermarket and a movie gov/oni/32420; get a graffiti Immediately people responded Call to register or for more information. 503.432.1021. theater were all within walking removal kit for free from the and I knew I had to organize. distance – I was in love with our city by contacting the program I contacted the Richmond Karuna Contemplative Living, 1725 SE Hawthorne will new home. What I did not see was coordinator; download the PDX celebrate it’s Two Year Anniversary on June 7 at 6:30 pm. Karuna will Neighborhood Association the tagging and graffiti. Reporter app and start reporting offer a 10% discount on all products which includes cushions, cloth- (RNA) and the Graffiti Abatement Recently I started graffiti that you cannot remove ing, jewelry and books. This party also coincides with a showing of Program of Portland. noticing the tagging and graffiti Let’s take our paintings from local artist, Mary Garvey. See her art at www.shim- Richmond now has a small everywhere. It’s like someone neighborhoods back! meringsisterhealingarts.com. Over 40% of Portlanders say they are re- team of volunteers and we had ligiously unaffiliated and yet, with a city brimming with yoga studios turned on a light and all of a For more information, our first graffiti removal day on and meditation groups, there seems to be an immense interest in seek- sudden I could see. The specific contact: Juliette Muracchioli, March 19. When we could not ing meaning through these ancient traditions. Karuna owner, Anandi incident that set me off was the Graffiti Abatement Program remove all the graffiti, we used Gefroh, hopes to encourage the “mindfulness movement.” While there tagging of Edwards Elementary Coordinator, juliette. PDX Reporter app to report the is increased interest in meditation, there is also an all time high in dis- with Trump themes and clear muracchioli@portlandoregon. graffiti so that the city would tractions stemming mainly from our modern devices. Anandi says, signs of ignorance and uncaring. gov or Graffiti Abatement come to remove the graffiti. take a pause and contemplate your life. What motivates you? How do Richmond, like most Program (https://www. you relate to your life and those in it? How do you feel? www.karunas- It is common knowledge neighborhoods in Portland, has portlandoregon.gov/oni/32420) tore.com 971.229.0565.

Open Mon – Fri 10 – 7 Sat, Sun 9 - 6 8 THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER JUNE 17 money on expensive chemicals Growing revolution to help grow their crops. At the Hugh-logy Dakota Lakes Research Farm, By Jack Rubinger degradation has caused farmers which uses no-till methods to to abandon more than 400 million grow corn and soybeans, farm Bagpipes Geologist/Author David acres of farmland around the expenses went down and harvests echoed off Mt. Montgomery discusses “Growing world.” went up. Tabor’s hillside as A Revolution” At Powell’s Books Montgomery outlined ways At one farm, the farmer also the celebration of to practice agriculture that have used cattle as a restoration tool. life came to a close Geologist/author David R. long-term benefits to the soil At another, the farmer planted for Hugh Winchester Montgomery believes that the based on visits to farms in the radishes in between cash crops Ewart, Concert plow is the major culprit in the United States, Latin America, and and let them rot in the field to Master for the Oregon help build up the soil. This farm degradation of the world’s soil. Africa. Symphony for three Why? The plow exposes the Montgomery and his wife in Ohio has been no-till for more decades in the ‘90s. top layer of soil to the elements also restored the soil in their than 40 years. The year before leaving the earth bare and own backyard by adding organic Montgomery visited, this farmer Hundreds of vulnerable, causing erosion and matter, using labor (their own) generated a profit of $400 per acre mourners filled Stark degrading soil organic matter. and getting assistance from while neighboring conventional Street’s over-flowing Montgomery came to microbes. farms lost $100 per acre. Tabor Heights Powell’s Books on Hawthorne A soil rich in organic matter “This approach makes Methodist Church to in May to talk about “Growing provides plants with a diet that economic sense,” said pay final respects to a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil promotes extensive root growth. Montgomery. “You use fewer the kind, generous, Back to Life,” his new book. Unfortunately, most farms today chemical inputs and wind up talented man revered Montgomery shared the “roots” rely on cheap oil and cheap driving your tractor less thereby by musicians decreasing your gas bill.” of his story. fertilizer to grow abundant nationwide. “Soil erosion is an crops. But rebuilding soil will be The benefits of conservation Born near environmental crisis and has essential to feeding a post cheap agriculture include comparable Peter Pan, wiley Willy Wonka and played a role in the demise of oil and fertilizer world. or increased yields with less Glasgow, Scotland in many ancient civilizations,” The question that inspired chemical and fossil fuel use, 1924, he came to America with loving Christopher Robin was said Montgomery. “Back when this new book — can we replicate increased soil carbon and crop his mother and grandmother, followed by a rendition of Annie our country was new, George what we do in our backyard on resilience, and higher farm overcoming childhood hardships Laurie and Danny Boy, sung by Washington expressed concerns large farms? And the answer is profits. to graduate from Juilliard School Emily Delph that left nary a dry about improving the quality of “yes.” So how do you promote this of Music and become a beacon of eye. the soil.” In the 1930s, President Montgomery calls this new way of doing agriculture? Portland’s community with his Hugh is survived by wife Franklin D. Roosevelt said, approach a soil health revolution In addition to telling the story of ever-present violin, easy laughter Esther (“Essie”, known as the glue “A nation that destroys its soil and it is based on three principles: farmers who successfully adopted and twinkling eyes. Over the that kept him on track with his all three principles, Montgomery destroys itself.” • Minimize soil disturbance course of 65 years, he mentored schedule and family), sons David Soil degradation is a major • Plant cover crops, suggests some additional steps: and taught young people as and Duncan, daughter Barbara, problem on par with climate including legumes, to always • Reform crop insurance eight grandchildren and one great change. That’s the bad news. The keep the ground covered and establish subsidy programs an adjunct professor at Reed, good news is that there are ways to • Deploy a diverse crop • Establish demonstration Multnomah College, Pacific grandchild. In lieu of flowers, fairly quickly and inexpensively rotation to maintain soil fertility farms University and at his own music gifts to the Oregon Symphony or reverse the trend. and break up pathogen carryover • Provide transition studio. to Young Musicians and Artists “Soil is a strategic Most of the farms assistance In her “Hughlogy”, friend are encouraged in memory of resource,” said Montgomery. Montgomery visited initially For more information about Sandra Hyslop spoke of his Hugh Ewart. “Unfortunately, over the past changed their ways because the Montgomery, his thinking and his perpetual good humor and Cha bhithidh a leithid ami 40 years, soil erosion and farmers couldn’t afford to spend books, visit www.dig2grow.com. indomitable spirit. Son David’s riamh. His equal will never be description of his father as a magic among us again.

ON On the Streets Where We Live By Nancy Tannler, Editor

from page 3 baby boomer generation, we tried twenties was disappointed communal idealism but eventually with the Portland business and marveling at the beauty. morphed into “normal” – every financial community. They In Utah, one can’t help but person for themselves. We didn’t were cautious about growth and be motivated to learn about early consider sharing with anyone that did not want to borrow money pioneers who settled here. Back wasn’t family unless we were from outside investors or tax the in the early days, settlers were exhibiting acts of charity to the people. Consequently they did predominantly of the Mormon less fortunate. not grow like LA did during the faith, today 62 percent of the The idea of a sharing 20’s and 30’s. Lloyd thought it population still has an affiliation community seems to be getting a was because they felt inferior with the church. new start again here in Portland and were insecure about the There is physical evidence with organizations like the Tool potential of the area. everywhere of the prominence Library, Rooster that organizes Lloyd eventually returned of the church in all the cities and shares resources amongst to California with his dreams of and communities with the the people, yard sharing, house a downtown area on the eastside recognizable spires that identifies sharing, Kailash Ecovillage – never realized. If he were around the congregation. It was sad to the intentional community that today, he would see that it was 3848 SE DIVISION ST see that in Salt Lake City the shares living space, garden and only a matter of time before PORTLAND OR 97202 main temple is being obscured kitchen close in SE. We all know Portland got its stride. In ways 503.445.9470 by progress. I read that this state of the different ways people are I think it was the fact that our is the third fastest growing in the reaching out so the burden of predecessors developed the land United States. Everything seemed doing and owning everything more slowly that has added to new in the hour and a half that it doesn’t have to be just on one the charm factor that attracts so took to drive from the northern person or family. many of the newcomers today. outskirts of SLC to the southern. Perhaps this cultural shift What I find most The people I have known is one of the reasons our City has contrasting while perusing this over the years who are Mormon become so popular with the young old book is the architectural do tithe faithfully and see – an intentional community that designs from yesteryear and themselves as responsible for helps one another. How cool is today. The modern apartments their fellow parishioners. This that? that are all glass, steel, concrete philosophy was very visible in I am currently reading and very angular almost have a all the small towns we traveled excerpts from a book titled primitiveness compared to the through. Instead of being all The Growth of a City –Power older structure. There’s no extra down at heel like we are used to and Politics in Portland, frills either inside or out. It’s like seeing in some small towns in Oregon 1915–1950. It was were back to the settlements of America, there was a neatness and the infrastructure immediately the Anasazi with strictly function pride of place despite being in the following this era – fifties-sixties– as the prime directive. middle of nowhere. [It might have seventies that most imprinted my I am sure that is why something to do with the dry air sense about our Portland. It’s neighbors are practically that keeps old buildings looking interesting to realize that we have strapping themselves to houses good through the years.] had our share of boom and bust in front of the wrecking ball The idea of how this group periods in the past. in order to save some of these of ideologically-connected people Ralph B. Lloyd, the oil graceful old details. support each other made me think magnate from Ventura, CA We do indeed live in about some of the phenomena of who wanted to develop the interesting times–a blessing a shared community happening Lloyd Center area and Irvington and a curse according to Asian here in Portland. As a part of the neighborhood back in the philosophy. THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER JUNE 17 9 RS Representatively Speaking

By Representative Rob Nosse

Revenue the cost burden on students. When I first ran for office This initiative would to be the state representative for generate new revenue with a Southeast Portland in 2014, one of new business tax. Here is how it the things I ran on was progressive would work: tax reform. It has been sorely If a company makes more needed since I moved here in than $5 million in sales, they will 1992, two years after Property pay a 0.95% tax on all receipts/ Tax Measure 5 was enacted. I revenues above $5 million. endorsed Bernie Sanders in his If a company makes less primary for that reason as well. than $5 million in sales during the Representative Rob Nosse Because of our state’s $1.6 year, they will only be required billion budgetary shortfall, his to pay the state’s minimum legislative session has presented corporate tax of $250, a $100 us a rare opportunity – a fiscal increase from our state’s current crisis that illustrates and demands minimum tax. a long overdue solution to our tax Lastly, if a business makes structure and revenue problems. $150,000 or less in sales during To that, the beginning the year, they would pay nothing. of May, leadership from my I like this proposal for a few chamber in the House of reasons. First and foremost, this Representatives introduced the is a reliable source of revenue. It Education Investment Initiative. will not fluctuate with the ups and We hope it will attract bipartisan downs of the economy like our support, and finally solve some income tax does. of the structural issues with our While not quite as robust underfunded education budget as Measure 97 in terms of the and in the way our state raises amount of money it raises, it revenue, particularly from does generate needed revenues businesses in a way that many businesses This initiative would find more palatable. It also finally generate $2 billion in revenue per addresses the reality that business biennium. 75% of that revenue tax contributions to our state’s would be dedicated to funding budget are the lowest in the our public schools. With that nation. revenue, we could hire more Lastly, I believe this is teachers to reduce class sizes, a smart, balanced approach to properly fund programs such as raising revenue that will stave off special education or English as a further cuts to our schools and to second language, add two more the Oregon Health Plan. On the Streets Where We Live weeks of school, and improve As I stated in the beginning Happiness is not in the mere possession of money; it lies in the joy of achievement, in the thrill of our graduation rates. We could of this column, I moved to Oregon creative effort. also fully fund Ballot Measure in 1992 after college. The entirety Franklin D. Roosevelt 98 – a measure that passed in of my time in this state, the the last election, but lacked a entirety of my two kids’ academic funding mechanism to pay for the careers, I have seen nothing additional career and technical but budget cuts and constraints. education classes and educational I don’t want that educational support services it requires. The experience for another generation funds that are not dedicated to of Oregonians. schools could help cover some Should this come to pass, of the cost of the Oregon Health Oregon will have a reliable, Plan, services to the elderly and long-term solution to our money help get our child welfare system troubles for the first time in three stabilized. decades. It’s a bold solution, In addition to better funding but I believe we are facing a for K-12 education, these funds budgetary crisis that calls for could go to higher education as bold action, and I plan to support well. We know that the biggest this legislation, and all of the barrier to entry for students improvements to state programs, seeking a college degree is the schools, and universities that cost of tuition. This proposal also would come with it. I hope voters gives us an opportunity to invest in Southeast Portland will support in our universities and bring down it as well.

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KARUNA BRAND CUSHIONS MADE IN PORTLAND! 10 THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER JUNE 17 GO Going Out Restaurants By Nancy Tannler Bravo Mountain 960 SE Madison St. (503) 238-5915 Mon – Sat 8 am – 6 pm Sunday 1 am – 4 pm Food Delivery Services

Eric De La Sienna and Timothy McGill

Two long time hiking bags of chip, crackers and cook- chickens, grass fed beef, lamb friends, Timothy McGill and Eric ies.) Fortunately Eric found that and pork, wild caught fish and De La Sienna, decided to become he enjoyed cooking and what he organic whenever possible. The business partners too. They re- made his family liked too. He names of the menu include such cently opened Bravo Mountain eventually became the main fam- famous outdoor experiences as: restaurant that features what they ily meal planner. Wahtum Cobb Salad, PCT Salm- term the new American cuisine. Even with this knowledge, on Hash, Bonneville Halibut Fish Their decision to spontaneously when it was time to begin a for- and Chips, Home Valley Carlton go for this opportunity was helped mal career Eric started at the Farms Pork Chops, Trail head, along by finding a space with a bottom working for the Francis Grotto Bread Pudding (the best great kitchen, some seating both Cruise Lines as a bus boy, server, in Portland they say) and Spring- indoors and out and parking. sous chef and eventually chef. field Migas are a few of the lo- After years of hiking the Cooking for hundreds of people cally themed recipes. The menu great hikes of Oregon together– is way different than a family. items are labor intensive and fla- the PCT trail, Bachelor to Bridge, “I did an internship at Merri- vorful so the menu is short and Mt. Jefferson–they had plenty weather’s Restaurant and Skyline succinct with offerings for almost of time to discuss what type of Farm. And I trained with Edward every dietary proclivity needed. restaurant they would open, the Tippel, a famous chef, at the Bravo Mountain offers the menu and what the theme would Bonneville Hot Springs,” he said. popular beverages of the day and be. Two months ago they decided Timothy is a self-made en- will soon serve beer and wine. In to go ahead with the endeavor and trepreneur and currently runs his the dessert category they’ve taken they’ve been in motion non-stop own business, Portland Home into consideration the non-dairy S.E. 47th & Hawthorne www.pdxdeli.com ever since. Inspect, as well as managing the people too with North Sister, non- Timothy and Eric come business of Bravo Mountain. dairy ice cream and Crater Lake from opposite career paths but “This is all new to me and I am Flourless Cake. their expertise on the different out of my comfort zone but I be- The ambiance is just start- aspects of the business makes a lieve in the quality, quantity and ing to evolve with lovely pho- good balance. Eric is from Mex- satisfying food we are serving,” tographs that Eric has taken on ico City where he learned to cook he said. the wall, maps–don’t hikers love at five years old. As a growing The menu is thoughtfully those–and using the technology boy he was always hungry so his created to bring the very best of of rotating photos of some of the mother told him the best remedy the Pacific Northwest to diners. delicious-looking menu items 821 SE 34th for that was to learn to cook. (Ob- “The food is not simple but slow- to tempt you. Timothy and Eric 503.231.7646 A FULL SERVICE SALON viously their larder didn’t contain cooked, haute cuisine of gen- want to capture the essence of the erous portions and reasonably northwest and their hiking experi- priced,” Eric said. They called it ences through the depth of flavors the new American cuisine/com- in the menu. Their idea of soul fort food with emphasis on all food. natural ingredients, free range Bravo Mountain also deliv- ers.

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Going Out Restaurants y ancy annler GO B N T Seven Virtues Coffee Roasters Hawthorne

3538 SE Hawthorne Blvd Seven Days 8 am – 6 pm ing and that the name fits.) sold them the beans has family in They began to make prog- Vietnam who own the farm. “We ress and thought of other ways can’t always guarantee the same to make the Seven Virtues better. variety everytime a customer Sometime in each of our Misa has a flair for cooking and comes using this type of system lives we’ve been warned about she began to experiment with the because the coffee comes from all the seven cardinal sins so when recipes. “We used to buy all the over the world. We do make con- Michael Blair and Misa Kawada pesto, hummus, sauces, dressings sistently good coffee,” Mike said. decided to open a coffee shop ten and pastries, but now we make Another special feature is years ago they decided to honor them ourselves,” Blaire said. their chai that is house made by the counterpoint of these vices by There are kitchens at both Glisan a gentleman from India. They’ve naming their first place the Seven and Hawthorne, so they have adjusted the spices for the expec- Virtues Coffee on Glisan. Mike, space to make their own food. tation of the American palette but in recognition of his years of Now all three locations it is made fresh and not packaged. studying Buddhism, yoga, medi- serve a selection of breakfast The Hawthorne Seven Vir- tation, theology and alternative bagels (bought fresh daily), pa- tues Coffee Roasters just opened healing, named them: humility, nini sandwiches, pastries, salads, and they are serving coffee made honesty, kindness, forgiveness, hummus plate. The coffee is a in their new espresso machine– gratitude, compassion and pa- little more serendipitous because the pride of gadgetry in the shiny tience. A good set of mantras to when they go to buy coffee they coffee bar area. The blonde wood live by. try to use direct trade as much as paneled walls brings warmth to Only in the past five years possible. The day The Southeast the industrial black and white did Seven Virtues Coffee add the Examiner was interviewing we theme of Seven Virtues. A com- Roasters to their name. It was one drank a coffee from Vietnam they fortable place to try for your next of the additions to their business had roasted. The woman who breakfast, lunch or coffee break. plan that helped them grow Seven Virtues to the three locations they now have. The most recent ad- dition is at 3538 SE Hawthorne Blvd. “We opened just as the re- cession was starting to hit Oregon so it was hard to know how we were doing,” Blair said. Mike’s former occupation was as a social worker counseling juveniles and Misa was a student and worked restaurants. She knew about the work but running your own busi- ness is a whole other ballgame. During the early years the were at the coffee everyday, their daugh- ter was born in the first couple of years and was raised in Sev- en Virtues strapped to her mom while she served the customers. “We were uncertain what to do next when we found out about a nationwide volunteer program called SCORE–who offers free advice to small businesses,” Mike said. They had the good fortune of having a former accountant for Coca Cola as their sponsor. He taught them how to lighten the ship, look at the books and de- velop a system for growing Seven Virtues. They added a lunch menu Michael Blair to the breakfast bagels and pas- tries they were already serving, joined a coffee collective and New Hours to Serve You Better! began roasting their own beans– La Bamba things started to move ahead. Opening for Early Dinner from 2 pm They were offered an opportu- Mexican Restaurante & Cantina and closing at 10 nity to open a second location in The Zipper building over at 28th Great regional fare from: 95 % of our menu is gluten-free! & NE Sandy. (If you’ve driven down Sandy you’ve probably no- Veracruz • Oaxaca We will serve lunch to groups or large parties ticed this unusually shaped build- Yucatan • Puebla upon reservation After nine years,this is Mole Manchamanteles what our regulars are saying: Cochinita Pibil, Calamari al Ajillo • “Best MEX in PDX . . . Excellent” Cactus Salad After• “right 10 years out wethe will best be Cadillac Margarita 15 Vegetarian meals available! in town” CLOSING MONDAYS Come See Open Tuesday - Sunday • “We love the authentic to give menu all our . . staff. a day off Frida Kahlo 2 pm to 10:00 pm Chilaquiles, Mixiotes, Pipián and Art Work 220 different bottles of TEQUILA & MEZCAL lots of sea-food” 4908 SE Powell www.labambarestaurantes.com 503.445.6341 12 THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER JUNE 17 The Caplener Group–a team effort

By Jack Rubinger

Jan Caplener and SE Portland go back a long ways. He’s seen the good and the bad. But no matter how you look at it, Jan Caplener/Realty Trust is a family affair with son Kevin, brother Jim and sisters Caroline and Chelsie all involved. Even if they’re not all related, it feels like family when you walk in the office with its cushy couches and art work, including many historic black and white photos of the area. Approaching his 40th year in the SE Portland real estate community, Jan Caplener is starting to wind things down, mostly helping close friends and

Kevin and Jan Caplener

neighbors with real estate. Kevin are important, real estate has is now tackling most of the daily gotten more complicated over the routines. Jan hopes to travel more years, that’s why it pays to teach and more with wife Jill. Father and learn. You have to be a good and son will continue to work technician, knowledgeable and closely together for many years proficient.” to come “My classes have no “We’re always only a phone fluff,” said Jan, who teaches real call/text/email away for clients estate classes to new agents that and each other,” said Kevin. join Realty Trust. “We teach “My dad has been an agents about how to deal with amazing mentor,” said Kevin. “I very complicated real estate started as an assistant to him over transactions.” 12 years ago, and now he’s the With over 2,000 sales one helping me out. I’m lucky to in his career, it still seems that have him!” something new can pop up in any Kevin, who grew up in given transaction. 3200 SE Hawthorne 503.236.0921 the neighborhood and used to Along the way, there have be a Honda mechanic, has taken been quite a few milestones and on more of a leadership role in memorable moments. A good Hours: Mon. - Sat. 10-6, Sun. 12-5 www.rocksoftfuton.com the past several years. Kevin friend bought a home in Mt. Tabor was president of the Hawthorne in 1987 for $179,000. At the time Business Association and no home had ever sold in Mt. continues to reach out to the local Tabor for more than $150,000. Jan business community. assured them that this purchase Jan Caplener has earned was a wise investment. The home the time off with a family-like is now worth approximately $1.4 dedication to the community. To million. say he knows the area well is a bit “I have a huge passion of an understatement. He owns for Mt. Tabor and close in SE the building where The Caplener Portland,” said Jan. “This market Group is located, at 50th and never ceases to surprise me, Hawthorne, and he knows the especially in a time like this. The history. It was a pharmacy years 97215 and 97214 zip codes are ago that was owned by the Geiger two of the hottest zip codes in all family. Roughly seven years ago of Portland. We’re now routinely he moved the real estate office to seeing million dollar houses the ground floor, and completed in little old SE Portland of all a renovation that at the time, places! ” was the most sustainable real Realty Trust uses their estate office in Portland. This real office as a community center for estate team has a huge devotion local schools and non-profits, like to green and sustainable building the Franklin High School poker practices. tournament. The team believes “Real estate is all about that supporting local schools is problem solving and teaching,” very important. The Capleners said Jan. In fact, Jan Caplener in also showcase the work of local an earlier life taught 7th grade artists by hosting artist receptions history at Robert Gray Middle and supporting the Mt. Tabor Art school. Walk. “Teaching gave me a solid “It’s fun and it’s good base for human understanding,” business to support the said Jan. “While relationships community,” said Jan. THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER JUNE 17 13

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from cover from cover to the site a year to bathe in the through turbines to generate therapeutic aqua water. The electricity. When only the steam rights group, a longtime renter broached dismay at feeling unwelcome These solutions completely lagoon was created in 1976 from is used in the system, it is called at her own Neighborhood Association. transform the character of the the over-spill of the Svartisengi a dry steam power plant. A flash Eudaly spoke of the morale hazards of homeowner “Nimbys” historic infrastructure. Many geothermal power plant. The system releases the pressure on and said she wants to delve into NAs to determine who has a voice and community members would like geothermal brine, or seawater, is remaining separated super-heated who doesn’t. She also said she would like to look at NA boundaries to give renters a fairer shake. “We’re using old school district boundary them to remain filled with water pumped up from 200 feet below water to generate more steam maps. It doesn’t make sense.” to maintain the historic character. ground at 460°F and used to to repeat the process. A binary The renter said she was reluctant to run for her NA chair because This option requires significant create electricity and hot water system transfers the heat from the if she’s elected, then gets a rent increase, “I’m out of here”. Eudaly annual maintenance and the costs for the surrounding towns on the super-heated water to a secondary encouraged her to run, responding that it might cause enough stir that that go along with it. Reykjanes Peninsula. The water fluid, isopentane, pro­pane or her landlord might reconsider raising her rent. Graduate students from is then pumped out onto an old ammonia, with a lower boiling the PSU School of Architecture lava field creating the lagoon. point through a heat exchanger Fake new fails to halt historic progress propose an alternative plan for Sutro Baths, a similar scaled to power the turbine. A binary Just when you think the rift between preservationists and infill the future of the reservoirs. attraction as Blue Lagoon, was system can be used after a flash urbanistas can’t get any deeper, word comes of an attempted coup of the Eastmoreland Neighborhood Association which has supported Mt. Tabor Park could support a the largest saltwater swimming system or with lower temperature designation as a National Register Historic District. small geothermal power plant. facility when it was opened in water making the system more An impeachment attempt of all board members during ENA’s In addition to power, the plant 1896. Located in what is now efficient. May elections failed because it was not in compliance with state and would produce large amounts in Lands’ End of Golden State Geothermal Power Plants city bylaws, according to longtime resident Rod Merrick. The attempt of hot water and steam. These National Park in San Francisco, are relatively economical. was made by HD opponents who Merrick predicts will continue to try by-products could be used to fill CA, this swimming facility The energy created through to stop designation. and heat one or more reservoirs became a popular attraction geothermal resourc­es is a The slate of candidates to gain nine open seats were supported to create the Mt. Tabor Thermal for people of diverse economic renewable energy source and is by pro-HD group Historic Eastmoreland Achieving Results Together Baths. These baths would provide backgrounds, who accessed not effected by environmental (HEART). Founder Derek Blum says that new members are expected year round, hot water swimming the site from inexpensive circumstances such as other to continue pursuit of National Historic Register status. The nomination is on track for designation despite what Merrick and soaking. This proposal passenger steam train offered sustainable energy production calls erroneous reports that the state had withdrawn its support. “It’s generates low cost energy for as part of the experience. The as with wind and hydro-power. fake news. The state advisory council on historic preservation sent in the park and community; keeps swimming facility was divided There are two geothermal power all supporting documentation for the nomination pending a final count the reservoirs filled with water; into six saltwater pools that plants in Oregon, Neal Hot of objections.” creates a remarkable bathing were supplemented with water Springs in Malheur Country and Merrick explains that the headcount confusion stems from the experience; and generates revenue from tides or pumped in at low OIT Geo-Heat Center in Klamath state’s abundance of caution in tallying property owners, some of for the park and city. While a tide. The largest pool was kept Falls. The plants are small quiet whom are tied up in estates. community thermal bathing at the natural temperature of the and only emit hot water and As of this writing, notarized objections had still fallen short of the facility would bring something seawater with the five other pools steam. percentage needed to stop the nomination. In addition, HD supporters call a much heralded but non-binding poll of homeowner objections new to the city it is hardly a new heated to varying temperatures While there is still a inconclusive. (It did, however, cause high profile HD proponent Robert idea. for the visitor. great deal fact-finding to do McCullough to vote against advancing the nomination in order to keep The Blue Lagoon, a large The proposed Mt. Tabor (geothermal viability, cost, and a community promise.) An ENA majority voted for nomination to geothermal bath in Iceland, Baths would be heated as part of revenue) the idea to keep the proceed. (McCullough said he remains a fervent supporter of HDs as shows the potential cultural and a small geothermal plant located reservoirs filled and provide a a “potent deterrent to demolition”). economic value of a similar within the park. Geothermal wonderful community amenity While many outside looking in, seem to love to hate stately facility at Mount Tabor. The power plants produce energy by a remains a provocative one. Eastmoreland, it’s hard to ignore it has historic and architectural lagoon is Iceland’s most visited process of pushing a combination significance for the City. And what happens in Eastmoreland will tourist attraction with hundreds of steam and super-heated water, Source: U.S. Department of surely set a precedent for what happens in Laurelhurst and other neighborhoods with historic homes. of thousands of people traveling pumped miles underground, Energy Eastmoreland resident and 1000 Friends of Oregon’s Mary Kyle McCurdy declined to comment for this article.

SPONSORED THIS MONTH BY: DCBA Pres.: Jean Baker HBBA Pres.: Hilda Stevens BABA President: email [email protected] [email protected] Constance Ihrke Meetings: 3rd Tuesday Meetings: Second Weds. at 8 am Email: [email protected] OHSU Family Medicine at Richmond Western Seminary classroom Meetings: Second Thur. 9 am NextHome 7:30 am 5511 SE Hawthorne Blvd. Historic Belmont Firehouse, NW Realty 3930 SE Division hawthornepdx.com / 503.775.7633 900 SE 35th divisionclinton.com belmontbusiness.org 4506 SE Belmont St. Our street is full of potholes. You can report Welcome to our newest business- them by email at [email protected] or On Sunday, August 27th the Boulevard will es in the Belmont District being added to by using the PDX Reporter App. You can also call be closed to cars and parking from SE 30th to Cesar this year’s Belmont Walking Map coming . PBOT’s 24-hour maintenance line at 503-823-1700. Chavez for the Hawthorne Street Fair. The Kid’s Stage out in July: Edward Jones Investments While there is speculation about the future of Gem Gem, Go Green Tax, Never will be at Kids at Heart, at SE 35th Avenue and the Coffee, NextHome NW Realty, Prism Kevin Fisher healthcare, the current system will remain as is until Main Stage will again be located at SE 38th. There will congress and the president agree and the bill becomes Health, Serra, Tetra, Worn 4111 SE Division law. Even then, it will take a while to put in place. also be businesses holding special activities both above June 1st is the deadline for all new Nothing at the Richmond Clinic or the walk-in clinic and below Cesar Chavez with music, games, items for 503.239.5404 and renewing businesses from 12th to will change in the foreseeable future. sale, coupon offers, and more, so plan on checking out 60th on or near Belmont, Morrison and Making Sense of Investing DC Vegetarian will soon replace Mi Mero Mole Hawthorne from the Bridge to the volcano. There will Stark to list in the Belmont Walking Map. at 5026 SE Division. With one new apartment build- also be some surprise events that day – watch for the Member businesses with either brick and ing across the street and a couple more under con- news!! mortar locations in the district or on call struction, they should have lots of customers. A cou- businesses serving the district are listed in OHSU ple of blocks further north, Bleeding Hearts Kettleball Coffee lovers! Have you checked out the two new the map. Home bases businesses are wel- Family Medicine Club opened at 2043 SE 50th, the corner of Lincoln coffee shops on Hawthorne? Peaks Coffee PDX is at comed and encouraged to list. at Richmond and 50th. 3340 SE Hawthorne and Seven Virtues is at 3538. For an additional cost above Welcoming All The red brick building at 2800 SE Division, We are very excited that the new Hawthorne Dis- BABA membership, advertising space New Patients can be purchased on the Belmont Dis- formerly the Shanghai Company, is still for lease. For 3930 SE Division St. Paws pet supply store moved three blocks up Divi- trict Map will be out very soon. Several District busi- trict web site and to sponsor the Belmont 503.418.3900 sion, from 3029 to 3340. Their new sign is up. Virtu- nesses have listings and/or are on the Map. There will Street Fair coming up the first Saturday of ous Pie, pizza and ice cream, is still hiring as of May be another printing very soon so catch us next time for September. Vendor spaces are already fill- 16th. They will open at 1126 SE Division, Suite 200, sure if you didn’t make it this time! ing up and the passport purchase program for prizes is being organized for the month Hawthorne Vision Care facing 11th Avenue and next to The Baker’s Mark. Thank you to returning HBBA members: Haw- Simply Vintage is around the corner at 1100 SE Divi- before and week after the fair. thorne Fish House, 4343 SE Hawthorne, Hawthorne 4704 SE Hawthorne Blvd. sion suite 102. Simply vintage offers curated clothing Contact BABA marketing and 503.235.6639 from the 40s, 50s and 60s. Serenity Shop, 3212 SE Ghost Tour, www.tourhawthorner.com. ; Dr. Brian communications rep, Karen Hery at [email protected] 503-407- “Personalized Vision Division moved to 6063 NE Glisan. Duby, D.C., 1125 SE Madison and Ben & Jerry’s Ice 2667 to join the Belmont Area Business Care” An update on more night lighting in the busi- Cream, 1428 SE 36th Ave. Greetings and welcome Association and to become a Belmont www.hawthornevision.com ness district. Some of the streetlight poles belong to to Holiday’s Health and Fitness Yoga, 3942 SE Haw- Street Fair sponsor. PGE and some to the City of Portland. No additional thorne; Pomegranate Pet Boutique, 3562 SE Hawthorne Monthly BABA business meet- lighting can be requested until the owner of the pole Rivermark and Toffee Club, 1006 SE Hawthorne. ings are the second Thursday of the month is identified. That requires research into the most ef- 9-10:30am at the Belmont Firehouse: Community ficient places to add sidewalk light, the owner of the Thank you also to article Sponsors: Hawthorne 35th and Belmont. BBB events - Bel- pole, and installation and maintenance costs. Vision Center, 503-235-6639 and Rivermark Commu- mont Business Beverage gatherings - at Credit Union The Richmond/South Tabor Sewer repair Proj- nity Credit Union and to 2017 Benefactors: Jiffy Lube, different locations around the district are ect starts this July and continues for a year. There Fred Meyer Hawthorne and New Seasons Market. announced on our Belmont Business As- “Always On” will be work on Chavez between Powell and Brook- sociation Facebook page. Early Hawthorne Street Fair (Sunday, August lyn and on Division between 58th and 60th. For more More details about the fair 503.626.6600 information about repairs in the neighborhood, go to 27th) Platinum Sponsors: Fred Meyer Hawthorne and and business memberships/sponsor- rivermarkcu.org https://www.portlandoregon.gov/bes/68185. Rivermark Community Credit Union. ships at www.belmontdistrict.org. 20 THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER JUNE 17 Making Methane into Renewable Energy from cover Roofing Company for use in their The positive reuse of manufacturing process. Portland’s sewage is one example This project will allow of an environmental solution that produced fuel will be distributed the City to recover 100 percent can, if copied, help to change in Portland and elsewhere with of its methane and end the the world and it has the benefit the help of the NW Natural Gas regular flaring of it in the open of paying for itself. American network. The project will: atmosphere. By increasing businesses are finding many ways Cut greenhouse gas revenue, addressing climate to address the challenge of climate emissions by 21,000 tons change, and providing cleaner air change, from innovative electric annually, this project is a triple-win for the cars to state-of-the-art solar Generate between $10 and City of Portland. The Oregon’s manufacturing. These proven $3 million in revenue a year for residential ratepayer watchdog, technologies will transition the the City thereby reducing sewer the Citizen’s Utility Board, United States to 100 percent clean costs, and replace1.34 million has endorsed this project as an and renewable energy by 2050 gallons of dirty diesel fuel with example of good environmental while also creating millions of clean Renewable Natural Gas stewardship for others to emulate. jobs if we have the will to do so. which will fuel 154 garbage A compressed natural Oregon Senator Jeff trucks for a year. gas fueling station will be built Merkley has introduced a new The resulting methane gas and finished by the end of this bill called the “100 by ’50 Act” will become a Renewable Natural year at the Columbia Boulevard that will build on these facts. It Gas gas that will be used to power Wastewater Treatment Plant will advance the bold policies vehicles. Because this product is where the methane will be sent to that are necessary to deploy a renewable fuel and not a fossil Northwest Natural Gas. The $12 these technologies rapidly and fuel, it commands from five-to- million in construction costs will cost-effectively. The bill lays out ten times the price of the other be paid back within about four how to move to 100% clean and products on the renewable energy years. Renewable Natural Gas is renewable energy while ensuring market. the lowest-carbon fuel option for an equitable transition for workers For years, the City has medium and heavy-duty vehicles. in low-income and disadvantaged been capturing a portion of Large trucks with new natural gas communities. this methane gas to produce engines can produce 90% fewer The scientific community electricity. Seventy-seven percent nitrous oxide emissions compared knows the devastating impacts of of the city’s methane is already to the cleanest diesel engine. By climate change must be addressed. being re-purposed at the city’s using Renewable Natural Gas, This bill will encourage local wastewater treatment plants. that same truck’s greenhouse gas governments, businesses, and Currently about half of the emissions can drop by 80 percent communities to develop their plant’s waste methane is already below diesel. own plans to use 100 percent reclaimed to heat and power the Portland also uses the solids clean and renewable energy by treatment plant. The remaining portion of the waste to make an 2050. This builds on the work 23 percent of the 600 million organic fertilizer that is used in Portland and Oregon to solve cubic feet of methane, bio-gas, in commercial farming. This these challenges. produced by anaerobic digesters includes an extensive process to This sewage recycling is burned off in a process called insure that the product is free from project is a key step in the pledge “flaring” where it becomes heavy metals and various organic made by Mayor Ted Wheeler to carbon dioxide which is another compounds. It meets the standards obtain 100 percent of Portland’s potent greenhouse gas when set by the Oregon Department of energy from renewable sources released into the atmosphere. Environmental Quality and the by 2050. In 2009 the City adopted This proposed project would U. S. Environmental Protection the “Climate Action Plan” and eliminate flaring and convert all Agency. So the Portlanders who is well on the way toward its the methane into reusable gas. pay their water-sewer bill every implementation. There will be Some of this energy is used onsite year are actually going to see a very real challenges, but the for heat and to produce electricity, return that will allow the utility future of our nation and the world and some is sold to Malarkey costs to become more stable, is at stake. THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER JUNE 17 21 Clever Cycles celebrates ten years with a family ride

The staff: Dean Mullin, Tim O’Conner, Eva Frazier, Justin Miles (holding Anna Olen on the ipad) Jeremy Scholz and in the Bakfiets Todd Fahrner

By Michelle Frost leading the fun ride. Meet Anna are not already riding a bicycle before 2pm and join her for the around town, Fahrner states that ride. safety is the main reason they In a bike-friendly city When asked about the store’s hear about why people are not like Portland with 17,000 beginnings Fahrner mentions this riding. “If you’re not afraid of bicycle commuters, according about the competition, “There walking or driving, then you can to the Portland Bureau of were 80 bike shops in Portland at ride a bike,” Fahrner says “A bike Transportation PBOT website, that time.” The shop has changed is something everyone can use.” there is no shortage of places to addresses three times, remaining Also, to the community, Fahrner find a bicycle. Starting a business in the same location, as it grew says, “Thanks! It’s been a real in this competitive market and to expand into the front of the adventure. We’ve put everything keeping the doors open for ten building and finally filling up into this.” To read more about years is reason to celebrate and the entire corner to become the bicycling adventures in-store Clever Cycles invites everyone to roomy retail space you find today. and around the state, check out their 10 Year Anniversary Party Clever Cycles offers Fahrner’s blog at the store’s on Saturday, June 10, 4 – 8 pm bicycles designed in Toronto, website www.clevercycles.com. with a family fun ride at 2pm. All London and Holland, to illustrate Highlights of the party are welcome to meet at the store their variety. Among the selection, include a Koi Fusion food cart at 900 SE Hawthorne. customers will find folding and beverages by Base Camp Clever Cycles is a team of bikes, city bikes, kids’ bikes, Brewing. “You don’t have to eight people (all wearing many electric bikes, as well as helmets, be an active cyclist to come hats) according to Todd Fahrner, accessories, and clothing. enjoy the ride,” says Anna, partner and owner. This bike shop Customers are encouraged to test encouraging any and all to join Open Mon – Fri 10 – 7 Sat, Sun 9 - 6 focuses on offering a selection ride any of the bikes. Rentals are in the celebration. For details: of bicycles built specifically for another option. The back of the https://www.facebook.com/ transportation. “Most commuters store offers a full-service repair events/688008484723841/. are not just a guy with a shop. Anyone is welcome to bring Fun Facts from the Portland briefcase,” Todd explains, “but in their bike for a tune-up and to Bureau of Transportation they’re taking trips with the kids, test ride any bike on the floor website (updated 2016): running household errands, etc. while they wait. 7.2% of commuters are We really specialize in commuter Bikes built for bikes, which is 17,000 bicycles, bikes.” transportation, including box the highest % of bike commuters One staffer is Sales bikes and front loaders or ‘long for a large American city. Associate Anna Olsen who has johns’ can haul much more weight Nationally, 0.5% commute by extensive experience working in than a standard bicycle. “They can bike. Also, 238% more people bike shops and became a certified haul 350 to 400 pounds of cargo biked to work in 2017 than in bike mechanic when she relocated before the handling gets wobbly,” 2000. to Oregon from Oklahoma nearly Fahrner says, “and electric 80% wear helmets. 35% three years ago. Her easy smile assist is an increasingly popular are female. and good cheer greet customers feature” especially for those trips 17 miles of bikeways have as they enter and her knowledge over Mt. Tabor. Another bicycle been built to physically separate and expertise help them learn offering is the long tail which can bikes from cars. about the variety of bikes on the carry 2 to 3 children and 6 bags 28 Sunday Parkway events sales floor. Busy with work and of groceries. “A longer wheelbase = 691,000 people attending and school, she has admittedly not means better handling,” Fahrner 90% of attendees ride bikes, been involved with much of the explains. since 2008 when the event party planning but will likely be Regarding Portlanders who launched.

Neighborhood Notes from page 5 August in Piccolo Park. There will be lots of ice cream and non-dairy frozen desserts to all who drop by. We’ll hope to have a giant sprinkler for the children, and maybe a couple of friendly Portland Police officers will drop by to visit and enjoy the cones. In September, some of our more ambitious board members are planning a late-season neighborhood clean-up, probably on the Cleveland High parking lot. Stay tuned for more information on time and place. HAND meetings are held in Carvlin Hall on the St. Philip Neri campus, SE Division St. The land-use committee meets at 6:30 p.m.; the main meeting at 7 p.m. Meetings are every third Tuesday of the month, except August. The public is welcomed and encouraged to participate in discussions. North Tabor By Gabe Frayne

North Tabor residents surely have no memory of a crime spree as prolific as that which took place in our vicinity this past Memorial Day weekend. On Friday, a white nationalist on a MAX train approaching the Hollywood Station murdered two good Samaritans who came to the defense of a Muslim woman and her friend when they became the targets of the assailant’s anti-Muslim vitriol. Then, early Sunday morning, a man carrring what was later determined to be a bb gun, forced police to cordon off more than a dozen blocks of the Laurelhurst neighborhood near Cesar Chavez Boulevard. The lockdown lasted almost the entire day. In light of these disturbing events, North Tabor residents may be interested in joining Susan Pi, a resident of NE 60th who recently had her car stolen, for a gathering of neighbors to discuss “prevention/ turn to page 23 22 THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER JUNE 17 - a statement critics call self- (P4E), popular for its free food perpetuating. during happy hours at local HB 2007–housing at all costs The sole preservationist brewpubs to lobby activists invited to the meeting was and house-hungry millennials. from cover the Oregon Home Builders high income homeowners Restore Oregon’s Peggy Moretti The group’s Infill Everywhere Association is poised to move condone exclusionary practices who charged special interest position is pack density into city through House Ways & Means like historic designations to groups with hijacking emergency cores near jobs and services to impossible to hold public hearings and on to the Senate for approval keep diversity and density out housing legislation. “HB 2007 accommodate future growth. within submission deadlines. before the legislative session’s of neighborhoods. “Misuse of has become a “Frankenstein On its website, P4E Though she called preservation as targeted end this month. national districts push (diverse monster of pieced together denounces “jurisdictional important as affordable housing, The bill is supported by populations) to the edge and provisions” that weaken historic downzoning”, praises the explanation did not clarify 1000 Friends of Oregon. While prevent change.” The comment protections in the name of contingencies for religious why 7 of 9 invited speakers were 1000 Friends support is ostensibly was considered a slap at efforts housing at all costs. Emphasizing organizations to build housing bill supporters. based on protecting the urban in Eastmoreland, Laurelhurst Restore’s mission to preserve and on their land and hails walkable Given the lack of public growth boundary by steering and Peacock Lane to establish re-use, Moretti said 1000 Friends neighborhoods that encourage input and concerns about the density into city centers, Deputy National Historic Districts. “was forgetting who their friends new residents to move here bill’s potential impact, the League Director Mary Kyle McCurdy’s McCurdy also said are.” without cars - an aspiration daily of Women Voters is among those focus at the Salem meeting amendments to the bill for market Rip, Replace, Rebuild disputed by Southeast traffic withholding support. mirrored Kotek’s admonishments rate housing reflect changes in Everywhere spells environmental clogs as new arrivals rush in with With little public awareness about equality, justice and race- socio-economic and demographic Ruin, according to attendees, 4-wheels. and flawed process, the Kotek based motives. backgrounds that indicate more unable to testify, who report some “Not everyone can live bill deemed the lovechild of According to McCurdy, singles move here than families 100 million pounds of demolition close in,” fumed a longtime SE waste hauled to landfills in resident stuck at a Division Street recent years. They also claim intersection. that because of high construction Everyone agrees affordable and land costs, newbuilds are housing is critically needed. considerably more expensive The how, what and where than existing houses - a reason are flashpoints. While SE developers use for tearing down neighborhoods are increasingly one modest home to replace with divided, others from Beaumont three pricey ones. and Multnomah Villages to Goose At the Salem meet, Hollow, are pushing back on what sustainable urban development they consider underhanded tactics international consultant Michael that began when RIP planners Mehaffy confirmed that more disallowed demolition as a housing supply does not lower topic for its citizen stakeholder costs if the supply is more advisers. Planning consultant expensive than what it replaced. Eben Fodor, who has filed Demolition alternatives objections with the City for RIP’s proposed by Restore and other failure to disclose the “nature, preservationists include internal magnitude and consequences” of conversions, tax breaks for up-designation, thinks HB 2007 home and apartment rehabs “seems like another developer and construction focused on wish list, compliments of a undeveloped areas of Southeast developer-funded legislature”. and Gateway that have sufficient Even citizens outside capacity and transient options. Portland attack HB 2007 for “The greenest house is an legislative over-reach. During the existing house,” is a frequent Salem meet, a generally pro-bill mantra heard at Portland landuse architect from southern Oregon meetings since HB 2007-like said towns did not want Portland- concepts were first introduced style development policies foisted by Portland’s controversial on them. Residential Infill Project (RIP). The Homebuilder’s Like HB 2007, RIP is Association had not responded backed by 1000 Friends and its to an interview request at this local arm, Portland for Everyone writing. Views on HB 2007 from cover known as one of the RIPSAC 7 asserts, “Density does not equal the bill is massive de-regulation affordability.” for the benefit of for-profit developers. Proponents respond: United Neighborhoods House Speaker Tina Kotek for Reform says the bill told Salem meeting attendees negates “decades of careful that historic districts rationalize landuse planning and local inequities that create barriers to determination”. building both market rate and A blogger posts, “Follow affordable housing. “HB 2007 the funds. There’s a lot of money gets rid of loopholes that allow at stake here funneling straight neighborhoods to self segregate.” to the grassroots through the Portland for Everyone former environmental group supports HB 2007A because 1000 Friends of Oregon and the “it will help ensure that every ironically named Portland for Oregonian has a safe and Everyone.” affordable place to live”. A member of the Portland 1000 Friends of Oregon Coalition for Historic Resources says HB 2007 streamlines local reports the bill is driven by heavy government procedures and money profiteering without strengthens requirements for promises of affordability. clear and objective development HEART (Historic review standards that make it Eastmoreland Achieving Results easier to provide housing to Together) says HB 2007 is more people “of all ages, ability, driven by Tina Kotek’s social income and backgrounds in all engineering. Founder Derek Blum neighborhoods”. says it’’s “pretty disgusting that Deputy director Mary an elected official characterized Kyle McCurdy cites “misuse homeowners seeking to preserve of national historic districts single family neighborhoods as to prevent change. Walled off NIMBY elitists. “ communities contribute to A grassroots objector exclusionary zoning.” blasts 1000 Friends of Oregon On its webpage, the as a “former environmental Homebuilder’s Association says organization that sold out to that HB 2007 limits the ability developers”, adding “Tom of cities, counties and historic McCall would roll over in his districts to reduce density or grave.” prevent infill and redevelopment. A member of Portland’s The AARP promotes Residential Infill Project housing options that serve Stakeholder Advisory Committee citizens at all stages of life. THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER JUNE 17 23 achieved by using plexi-glass would do very well to abolish, Letters panels, of course. absolutely and with finality, the I would not allow any ugly practice of inflicting the from page 2 vending up there, but reserve that death penalty. What about apartment designs for retail space on floors below. including landscaping? Etc., etc., I would also encourage the Frank W. Goheen etc. Metro and LCDC need to do water filtered from the (organic, better in requiring implementation of course!) rooftop garden to To the editor: of plans in accordance with be stored and reused to water the Statewide Planning Goals. landscaping below during The Portland Parks and Likewise, the City of Portland Summer months, at the very least, Recreation is at it again--trying with its antiquated commission and better still, for flushing toilets. to find a way to take public land form of government needs to Also, nice water-feature(s): away from the public. Not long overcome bureau fiefdom issues perhaps ground-level woodland ago they tried to sell it out right. and promote better interbureau stream and fountain for kids to Today they’re turning a field coordination and public play in, or just as landscape décor. where kids and families play involvement in dealing with These are better options baseball, football, and soccer into growth issues. than just Solar Paneling; new a gravel parking lot with only buildings would be better built vague promises that it would be David Krogh from scratch for Rooftop Garden temporary. It’s a slippery slope, Retired planner in SE Space rather than retrofitting another attempt at a land grab away from the public. Portland old buildings, leave the Solar Metro has reported that Paneling for those. more than 100 people a day are Dear Editor: Ok, those are my thoughts, moving to Portland. With more just tossing them out there! and more people, more and more My comment, thoughts, families moving to Portland, about Nancy Tannler’s article Stephanie Schulz shouldn’t we be doing everything front page of SE Examiner, May, we can to protect what park land 2017 : “Citizens Plead case to To the editor: we have left? Keep 1.31 Acres As Open Space.” Portland Parks and Although it is truly necessary No matter how diligently Recreation says they have no to be able to ‘ground’ oneself by it is packaged in terms of public money to enact the Master Plan. being able to walk on Mother relations and legal rationalization Fine. Then leave the Long Block Earth, a sort of compromise can and regardless of the very as it is--a flat, accessible park be attained, if in the event that emotional arguments that are for families to enjoy. For some space is sold for more building put forward on its behalf by reason, it seems like they keep space, and that is an agreement victims rights groups, it must trying to find a use for it other than by the purchaser to turn the roof be affirmed that the ongoing what was originally intended. top (s) into open green space, practice of capital punishment How can we trust Portland with public allowed free access. in America speaks to a spirit of Parks and Recreation? They Perhaps organized for specific grim primitivism at large in the have a long history of backroom uses for: dogs, sport, events. If country that places it in the same deals, bait-and-switch tactics, and this was mandatory in the sale dubious league as Saudi Arabia, simply ignoring or outright lying contract, the owner would have to Pakistan, China, Iran and Iraq. to the public. It’s park land, not maintain the building part for the Extensive employment of the parking land, not storage land. roof top garden, the city would death penalty has the effect of If they want to grow trees there, pay do the actual gardening/ surrounding America’s proud fine. Turn it back into a nursery maintenance. The owner of the rhetoric about humane values with growing trees that would building would maintain the with a thick aura of hypocrisy. also be accessible to the public. public elevator, in exchange The U.S. is absolutely alone in would be realizing cost/tradeoff the North Atlantic community Jocelyn Goodall for the fact that rooftop gardens in its stubborn unwillingness to Roger Andrews benefit by adding insulation, and dispense with the death penalty. the fact that there would be more We Americans are, in effect, foot traffic in the area from the stuck in a past century in terms garden to benefit sales of retail of our appetite for applying the shops there. We would lose one Supreme Penalty. big beautiful space, but perhaps it Capital punishment is a could become 2, with a sky bridge miserable and horrifying blemish between them. The top to the on the reputation of any nation Classic and Contemporary actual planned community center that continues to practice it, and also would have greenspace. that somber assessment of things Tile & Stone Very good artificial turf has to include the U.S. The is offered now, and lightweight overwhelming preponderance soil mixes. There are lightweight of executions carried out in Retail Showroom, Factory & options for hardscaping, and America today occur in the Outlet Store volunteer community efforts to states that constituted the 1861 build faux rocks, planting boxes to 1865 Confederacy. Widely 1201 SE 3rd Ave and the like would be good applied capital punishment projects, as well as public art in our Southern states carries Portland, OR 97214 projects. into modern time the fierce Of course, when dealing and draconian spirit that once Open Monday-Saturday with the pubic, safety would animated the Confederate States have to be a priority, with fencing of America. This situation, applied around the top, it may quite simply, is sordid and 503-231-9464 already be on the property and monumentally sad. perhaps can be reused, therefore The United States of www.prattandlarson-or.com not increasing costs. A more America, and in particular this appealing view would be nation’s southern tier of states, Neighborhood Notes from page 21 raising awareness, proactive strategies, safe response to events [and] political action” to counter the recent uptick in auto thefts, car prowls and break-ins in N. Tabor. No time or place has been set yet, but Susan can be contacted via Nextdoor.com. A 1922 cottage at the corner of NE 56th and Glisan will be the latest N. Tabor rental to have a date with the wrecking ball, in keeping with the city’s push to bring greater residential density to the neigh- borhood through zoning changes. Plans call for demolishing the cot- tage and building four attached units with garages. Owner John Reilly agreed to meet with residents to go over the plans, but then canceled for various reasons over the past month. The Land Use and Transportation Committee has set up a meet- ing with Sara Wright of the Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustain- ability on June 28 to discuss the zoning changes in N. Tabor mandated by the Comprehensive Plan. A venue is yet to be determined but will be announced on the NTNA web site. The NTNA is still seeking volunteers to join a Neighborhood Emergency Response Team to assure that North Tabor is better pre- pared to withstand a major earthquake or other disaster. Contact Joshua Carey, [email protected], on the NTNA board if interested. 24 THE SOUTHEAST EXAMINER JUNE 17

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