It’s not all sun and games Oregon native pens Hawaii surfi ng exposé — SEE LIFE, B1 PortlandTribune THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2013 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILY PAPER • WWW.PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COMCOMM • PPUBLISHEDUBLISHED TTHURSHURSDAY Island wary of Lottery Row shuffl e Departing gaming director touts Hayden Island changes By STEVE LAW surviving lottery bars. “It’s not gambling mecca for Clark be deemed illegal casinos. The Tribune the same place it used to be.” County residents, with all 12 Niswender touted a deal he Oregon State Lottery Direc- shops selling alcohol and host- struck in May with the owner Todd, a Clark County, tor Larry Niswender agrees. ing the maximum six state- of the Dotty’s lottery deli chain, A closed sign Wash., resident who works And he took pains last week to owned video lottery terminals. which agreed to close three of denotes one of on Hayden Island, headed to let the public know he’s ad- Washington doesn’t offer the the 12 Lottery Row establish- the four lottery the island strip mall known dressed community outrage electronic slot machines. And ments, and commit to employ- bars that have as Lottery Row after work about the once vice-plagued Lottery Row retailers also offer ing two security guards during been shut down last Thursday to celebrate strip mall, as he prepares to re- cheap beer and cigarettes to peak evening hours. Crime is at Hayden his birthday. tire at the end of this month. lure gamblers, and to meet a down at the strip center and se- Island’s Lottery “It used to be a lot more fun,” When Niswender assumed state requirement that more curity is improved, Niswender Row. said Todd, gesturing to four his job in 2010, the tiny strip than half their sales come from TRIBUNE PHOTO: empty storefronts amid eight center had morphed into a nongambling sources, lest they See LOTTERY / Page 4 JONATHAN HOUSE ■ New ideas about nutrition bring Dick’s Kitchen back to basics Former Laughing Planet owner Richard “Dick” Satnick started serving emu at his new diner, DIck’s Kitchen, last year. When it was no longer available, he decided to buy a farm in Clackamas County and raise them himself. Emu burgers will land on the menu in about a year’s time. hey look funny, sound funny and act funny. But they taste great, Richard “Dick” Satnick says. T Satnick is an accidental emu farmer, as well as a Portland restaurateur, toy shop owner, trend- STONE setter and meat enthusiast. He’s especially passion- ate about the phenomenal Story by health benefi ts of emu meat: Jennifer Anderson nearly as high in omega-3 PHOTOS BY JONATHAN HOUSE fatty acids as salmon. So when his meat pur- AGE veyor told him he’d have to take emu off his menu due to the limited supply, Sat- nick decided he’d have to raise the critters himself. “Once people try it and we put it on our (burger) rotation, it’s going to be hard to keep up with demand,” says Satnick, the 62-year-old founder of Laughing Planet Cafe who sold the chain last year to start a CHOW protein-focused diner called Dick’s Kitchen. Now with two locations, on Southeast Belmont The dino kale salad is a popular dish at Dick’s Kitchen, which celebrates its one-year See FOOD / Page 2 anniversary this month. City police watchdog wants more bite ■ Accountability By PETER KORN interviews with the investigators. quired to sit for to interviews, independent investi- the Police Bureau had an account- The Tribune In Chicago, the citizen agency interviews and gators only talk to them with a po- ability problem. Griffi n-Valade is at issue in that investigates complaints can be terminated lice bureau liaison in the room. pressing for changes to the review struggle to alter In San Francisco, the city of- against police can file charges if they refuse. And discipline, when warranted, system. Portland’s police fi ce that watchdogs the police against offi cers — independent of Not in Portland. is ultimately left up to the chief of Nearly every major city in the has a $5 million annual budget the police internal affairs division Here, com- police, who doesn’t have to explain country has a civilian police over- review system and a paid staff of 35. When — with the assistance of the state’s plaints against his decision to the city’s watchdog sight offi ce, and virtually each is someone complains about a po- attorney. police are han- agency — the Independent Police confi gured differently, says Brian lice offi cer, the Offi ce of Citizen Even in Los Angeles, where the dled by an offi ce Review Division. Buchner, president of the National Complaint Investigators con- civilian oversight agency operates that cannot com- GRIFFIN-VALADE Portland’s independent police Association for Civilian Oversight ducts its own investigation. under the authority of the city’s pel officers to review process was challenged of Law Enforcement. Some cities Every police offi cer, from the police commission, every police of- meet with them. Even when offi - two weeks ago by city Auditor La- chief on down, must submit to ficer, including the chief, is re- cers accused of misconduct submit Vonne Griffi n-Valade, who claimed See POLICE / Page 9 “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to Portland Tribune deliver balanced news that refl ects the WHY PORTLAND BECOMES A GLUTEN-FREE MECCA stories of our communities. Thank you Inside — SEE SUSTAINABLE LIFE SECTION INSIDE for reading our newspapers.” — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN JR. OWNER & NEIGHBOR SATURDAY NOV. 16 1:05 PM KGW DISCOUNT DAY PORTLAND STATE COLUMBIA RUTH’S CHRIS vs. SAC STATE SPORTSWEAR SAVINGS! FIELD GOAL at Jeld-Wen Field 2 FREE TICKETS Earn 1% OFF retail when you buy 2 at regular price for each Viking point scored GIVEAWAY GOVIKS.COM 456839.111413 A2 NEWS The Portland Tribune Thursday, November 14, 2013 Food: Farm to include more livestock, trees ■ From page 1 meat — and skipping grains and other infl ammatory foods — can go a long way toward prevent- Street and Northwest 21st Ave- ing and reversing heart disease nue, Dick’s is attracting more and arthritis, among other con- than just the paleo crowd. ditions. (Paleo, of course, referring to It’s personal for Satnick, who the “caveman” diet of just meat, had a quadruple bypass 18 seafood, fruit, veggies and nuts.) months ago. Although it was a Vegans — who don’t eat meat preventative measure, he took or meat products — love eating his condition as a “slap in the at Dick’s because of the heaping face” he says, since he’d already plates of greens, house-made begun down his new path. His kimchi, salad dressings and sig- typical lunch is a burger on a nature “not fries,” air-baked plate with a side of kale salad. rather than fried. “My doc says I should’ve Vegans just avert their eyes started Dick’s Kitchen 10 years from the meaty part of the earlier,” Satnick says. His heart menu, which includes a lineup surgery was life-changing in yet of 100-percent grass-fed Car- another way: His doctors told man Ranch beef burgers from him to stop putting off things he Eastern Oregon and a rotating wanted to accomplish in life. menu of “guest” burgers: elk, He’d always been curious venison, wild boar, lamb and the about farming. But he’s lived in “Dork” burger, an apartment made with half above Laughing duck and half “Food has been Planet on Belmont pork. The emu for the past 15 burgers will rejoin the source of a years, an urban them in about a great number of dweller to the year’s time. core. For Thanksgiv- health issues, So it was a dra- ing, the diner will but it can also matic change last feature an organic, year when he pur- gluten-free turkey be the solution.” chased 60 acres in burger, dressed — Dick Satnick Clackamas Coun- with a sage and ty, adopting a fl ock TRIBUNE PHOTOS: JONATHAN HOUSE caramelized-onion topping and of emu, four donkeys (to protect Dick Satnick chats with customers at his Northwest 21st Avenue restaurant location. “The goal is to nourish you, not to sell you food,” he often says. cranberry chutney on the side. the emu from coyotes and bob- A restaurant serving eclectic, cats), one horse, a bunch of fresh, seasonal and hyper-local chickens and rabbits. that crowd — complete with food is nothing special in food- He put down roots at the burritos that rolled up in foil obsessed Portland. In fact it’s farm, moving into a large cabin and handily fi t in water-bottle become a cliché. overlooking a pond where he holders. But for Satnick, it’s about finds solace in canoeing and The business took off and he much more than just food. taking walks in the woods. brought it to Portland in 2000, His quite literal interpreta- Satnick makes the 45-min- after two years of fl ying back tion of the farm-to-table move- ute commute to the city sever- and forth to scout out neighbor- ment is part of a lifelong odys- al times a week; he also works hoods. He landed on Belmont, sey, an intersection of his stud- out of the apartment he rents which was just beginning to ies and ventures in food, nutri- on Northwest 21st Avenue so he turn, he says. tion, health, evolutionary sci- can get to know the neighbors.