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reetings, cal consumers to include bringing us all together. The city of Tualatin turns 100 global markets. We don’t know what tomorrow holds or A years old on Aug. 18, 2013. I’m proud to say as a how folks in 2113 will look back on us, but I G On this special occasion, we look 32-year resident and long- feel it’s safe to say that Tualatin has always back from where we’ve come over the span time mayor, that the city of been and always will be a great place to live, message of a century, celebrate our community today, Tualatin offers high quality work and play. and dream of what tomorrow’s Tualatin service to residents and Please enjoy reading this special commem- might be. businesses. We have award- orative magazine about Tualatin’s colorful Tualatin has been built over the past cen- winning parks, a new li- past, present and future. I invite you to par- from the tury as a transportation link. First, ferries OGDEN brary, dedicated profession- ticipate in the 2013 Centennial Celebration and horses which transitioned to cars, trucks al staff, community police programs, activities and events throughout and an interstate freeway. We also grew from and a broad range of services and programs. the year. mayor corner shops to renowned shopping malls. Tualatin has strong citizen engagement, Happy 100th birthday, Tualatin! Our industries have evolved from serving lo- which supports fantastic community events — Mayor Lou Ogden Tualatin Tomorrow Q Tell us what the next 100 years should bring

he Centennial Celebration has The Tualatin City The community’s provided us with a look back Council and Tualatin To- new Gateway at the past 100 years in Tuala- morrow Advisory Com- tin and has given us a cause to sculpture at the mittee will be seeking T intersection of celebrate the great community that has your input this year for evolved during the last century. Tuala- Nyberg and updates to the Vision tin Tomorrow is a community visioning Tualatin-Sherwood Plan. “All great things effort which will gather community in- roads was unveiled start from small begin- put on what the community wants to this past June. The nings” is a great quote to see in the future. The Tualatin Tomor- 18-foot-high highlight where we will row Vision Plan is being updated in sculpture, which begin with the Vision. 2013, and we cannot think of a more ap- features life-size Sharing ideas, discuss- propriate time than during this Centen- Canada geese, was ing them and writing nial Celebration. As we refl ect on and done by Studio Art down a plan seem sim- celebrate the past, it is a perfect time to Direct, with the ple; however, from these say, “Well, what’s next?“ help of bronze simple beginnings, many Many wonderful new programs, facili- artist Rip Caswell great things will follow. ties and community amenities have as well as a team There will be many evolved from the Vision Process. Ideas of local ways to get involved and such as the farmers market, the dog contractors. share your input. There park, citizen involvement groups, a new SUBMITTED PHOTO will be community meet- Gateway Monument and many other ings, online forums, community improvements were all con- She looks a bit different than in the and games, recreational classes of all events and outreach of all types. We cepts in the fi rst Vision Plan adopted in beginning as you would expect. Don’t kinds for all ages, a diverse collection hope you will get involved and share 2006, which are now a real part of Tuala- we all after we get a few decades on of public art, the Art Walk and the Ice your ideas, thoughts and dreams for the tin! us? In Tualatin’s case the changes Age Tonquin Trail, the Ki’a Kuts community! More than fi ve years have gone by, seem to enhance her already good bridge, our fi rst dog park, health care For more information, please visit, and it is time to check back with the bones with Parks and Natural areas, providers Legacy, Providence and Kai- www.tualatintomorrow.org or email people who live, work and play here to plenty of good places to eat and shop, ser Permanente all right here in our Sara Singer, deputy city manager, at ss- ask the question, “Well, what’s next for an outstanding school system, a place city, and so much more. [email protected]. Tualatin?“ for our 50s-plus population to eat Tualatin is a special place with so At 100, Tualatin looks pretty good! lunch and enjoy each other’s company much to offer. — Candice Kelly, Tualatin Tomorrow 4 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL January 3, 2013 TUALATIN TIMELINE Tualatin’s growing pains

15,000 YEARS AGO — Cata- quor sales. This might have infl uenced strophic fl oods scoured the How liquor and the success of a petition that was circulat- valley as giantic dams broke Don’t miss the play ed throughout Tualatin to put incorpora- up during the end of the last The Tualatin Historical Society is tion on the ballot, collecting a supposed Ice Age, creating the Ton- local politics shaped sponsoring a play depicting the fi ght 69 signatures in favor of incorporation. quin Scablands as well as between the Anti-Saloon League and The petition then “mysteriously” disap- leaving rich fertile soil along the city’s identity incorporation enthusiasts, with a cast peared, according to many sources, but the Tualatin River. that includes some of the characters’ not before the results had been offi cially By SAUNDRA SORENSON descendants, as well as city offi cials. registered. 15,000 YEARS AGO — A fe- Pamplin Media Group The play was written, cast and di- The July 5, 1913, issue of The Portland male mastodon slipped into rected by Sandry Lafky Carlson and Oregonian recorded a spirited three- the bog, and its bones were ualatin’s decision to incorporate Loyce Martiniazzi. hour argument regarding the petition dug up in 1962. had little to do with organizing a The performance will be held Sun- in Washington County Court. Commis- local government or establish- day, Feb. 17, at 2 p.m. at the Winona sioner John Nyberg voted with the T ing a tax base. And the issue of Grange Hall, 8340 S.W. Seneca St., Tu- County Judge to permit the election to becoming an incorporated municipality of alatin. For more information, call 503- move ahead. A Sherwood Weekly News- Washington County didn’t exactly make 885-1926. heet article dated July 23, 1913, an- for polite dinner conversation. nounced Tualatin’s Aug. 18 election to The fact that Tualatin’s residents momentum largely through religious fac- decide on incorporation, characterizing were so sharply divided on whether to tions. But as Martinazzi points out, suf- it as “launched by the wet forces in that incorporate came down to one thing: fragettes had their own grievances: In community with the hopes that by in- the drink. 1913, the U.S. was seven years away from corporating they would be able to get The Temperance movement was in full Prohibition, and women would have to back the saloon that has been closed TIMES FILE PHOTO swing by 1913, and many in Tualatin iden- wait just as long to gain the right to vote. since June 3 on account of the law The mastodon exhibit at the tifi ed as members of the infl uential Anti- “They stayed home when their hus- passed by the legislation last winter.” Tualatin Public Library. Saloon League, which was by then a na- bands drank up the house’s income and Shortly after, the Argus questioned the tional political lobbying force to be reck- they didn’t have a vote” about whether to MIA status of the petition, in what was no oned with. If newspaper clippings and an- incorporate, or on anything else, Martin- doubt the industry-accepted purple prose 7,000 YEARS AGO — Native ecdotal evidence are azzi said. style for newspapers of the time: people called Atfalatis, a to be believed, in Tu- A vocal supporter of incorporation was “Just why it disappeared — just how it band of Kalapuya, were in- alatin, one wasn’t “The Anti- city father John L. Smith, an infl uential disappeared — and just when it was given habiting the Tualatin area, pro- or anti-incorpo- Saloon League player in Tualatin’s burgeoning logging its quietus so far as being in evidence is gathering bulbs and berries, ration. The two sides and sawmill industries. Smith has been concerned, remains enveloped in dark- hunting and fi shing in the of the argument ad- did not want to credited with serving as Tualatin’s fi rst ness as jet as the tomb of Elisha, or river. dressed what were incorporate major employer, and the entrepreneur whether it took wings and went up in a seen as the sinful ef- pushed for Tualatin’s status as an offi cial chariot of fi re, as another solution of its 1812 — Native Americans fects of alcohol ver- because they city just as the town was becoming a ma- absence, is mere conjecture,” the article encountered trappers from sus the benefi t of Tu- thought there jor thoroughfare for two railroad lines be- read. the Pacifi c Fur Company. alatin generating a li- tween Portland and Salem. The four-year A response written by the editor of the quor tax, which it would be more high school established in 1910 spoke to Hillsboro Independent Newspaper dem- 1841 — Charles Wilkes, a would as an incorpo- liquor sales.” Tualatin’s economic and social stability. onstrated an arguably more modern per- U.S. government scout sur- rated city. — Loyce Martinazzi, But later that year, Smith, one of incorpo- spective on the issue, explaining that his veyed the Atfalati, sketching As the debate over Local historian ration’s greatest supporters, would be publication opposed statewide prohibi- the people and their cus- whether to criminal- killed in an on-site accident. tion because “prohibition did not prohibit toms. ize alcohol raged na- While a 1904 statewide local option law in states already with a prohibitory law, tionally, a 1904 statewide legal option law granted each county of Oregon the right and we favored the open saloon rather 1850 — Edward Byron and was adopted to allow each county in Ore- to decide whether it would have wet or than the bootlegger, fake drug store and Zenas Brown sailed around gon to decide whether it would have dry status,” a 1913 revision stipulated joint.” the Horn and settled in the “wet” or “dry” status. Incorporated cities that, “No person shall be permitted to On Aug. 28, The Argus announced that Tualatin area. fell under their county’s regulations. sell, give, or in any manner dispose of any the county court had verifi ed election re- Washington County was, in 1913, a wet spirits, malt, vinous liquors, near beer, or sults that day, with 57 votes for and 47 1850 — Zenas Brown set county. fermented cider, in this state, outside of against incorporation. And so Tualatin up a ferry on his land claim “The Anti-Saloon League did not want the limits of any incorporated city or was declared a city. which connected the Terri- to incorporate because they thought town, etc.” Thadius Sweek became the fi rst mayor torial Road from Dayton to there would be more liquor sales,” said And so, a vote to incorporate would put of what was then fondly referred to as Oregon City. Loyce Martinazzi, respected local histori- Tualatin at the mercy of Washington “the city of two railways” — fi tting, as it an. “They were adamantly opposed to County’s stance on liquor; remaining un- was the Sweek family who had sold right 1850 — The Donation any consumption of alcohol and thought incorporated meant Tualatin would stay of way on their property to the Portland Land Grant was passed by it was very corrupt. They were a very an- dry. and Willamette Valley Railway Company Continued on page 6 gry people.” But by 1913, state law had also shifted as it established the fi rst railroad line The anti-liquor movement was gaining to allow incorporated cities to tax their li- through town in 1886. January 3, 2013 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL 5 346286.010313 TC 6 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL January 3, 2013 TUALATIN TIMELINE

Continued from page 4 Congress, giving 160 acres of land to each settler, and 160 acres of land to his wife.

1851 — The Provisional Government removed the Atfalati to Wapato Lake. The mix of uses around the Lake 1851 — John Preston sur- of the Commons veyed the Willamette Vall- includes ley Township 2 South Range combination 1 West and Range 1 East home-offi ces, were the Tualatin area. as well as such other 1852-54 — The Oregon businesses as Trail brought settlers from restaurants, a the East who took up land in hotel, Tualatin. professional offi ces and an 1853 — Sam Galbreath set assortment of up a ferry across the Tuala- residential. tin River on his land claim. SUBMITTED PHOTO The ferry connected the road from Boones Ferry north into Portland and Ore- gon City. Soon a blacksmith shop, store and inn were op- erating around the ferry crossing. The area was A community redefi nes itself called Galbreath. food — and then, after it was closed and Also fortunately for Tualatin, the down- 1854 — John A. Taylor Adversity, vision and urban torn down, all that was left was a huge con- town core area was a textbook example of built a ferry on his land crete slab where the dog food factory used urban blight. With the exception of a couple across the Tualatin River. renewal all contribute to to be. of public buildings and a smattering of busi- the centerpiece of Tualatin, Like city leaders in most small towns — nesses, the downtown consisted of crum- 1855 — The Atfalati ceded paid, elected and otherwise — there were bling streets and vacant lots — along with all claims to their land and the commons plenty of ideas about what it would take to the former Hervin Blue Mountain Dog Food were settled at Grand make Tualatin blossom into something plant. Ronde Reservation in the By MIKEL KELLY members of the community could be proud Although The Central Urban Renewal Coast Range. Pamplin Media Group of. Plan was approved in 1975, Simmons B. There was talk of outlawing cars in the Buntin wrote in 1999 in a piece on the Tual- 1855 — Many men left to t all began because there were prob- city core — something planners and dream- atin Commons on Terrain.org, “It was not fi ght in the Rogue River In- lems. ers often suggest, but which business peo- until 1983 that a concept for a ‘Village dian Wars. Tualatin, situated on a sharp bend ple almost never appreciate. Square’ was developed.” I in the river bearing the same name as Fortunately (it turns out), Tualatin lead- Prior to redevelopment, Buntin reported, 1855 — A log school was the town, had a tendency to fl ood way more ers had concluded in the early 1970s that the largest use of the area was the non-con- built along the Territorial often than every 100 years. Just in 1974 and one effective way to take on some of the forming dog food plant and “some older di- Road. Isaac Ball was the ’96, for example, the entire city center was city’s woes was to establish an urban re- lapidated buildings, and the entire site was fi rst teacher. under water. newal district. The City Council, which 3 to 6 feet below the 100-year fl oodplain.” Tualatin’s downtown also had troubles would adjourn as itself and reconvene as Between 1985 and ’87, the city purchased 1855 — Citizens built the with drainage, public right of way, increas- the Tualatin Development Commission, set the property under the auspices of the Tu- fi rst bridge at the Galbreath ing traffi c through the middle of town and, up the urban renewal district in 1975. alatin Development Commission. Two at- location and the area was perhaps most signifi cant, there really A line was drawn around 300 acres of the tempts by developers to breathe life into called Bridgeport. wasn’t much of a downtown. downtown area, and the property tax rate the project failed, and observers were be- There were some streets criss-crossing was frozen at its mid-’70s level. Then using ginning to think nothing good was ever go- 1857 — John A. Taylor between the freeway and the railroad the often-misunderstood tax-increment fi - ing to happen. buill a toll plank road from tracks, but the single most noticeable fea- nancing scheme which banks subsequent And that’s when local home builder Dayton across his ferry and ture in the city center was fi rst of all, a gi- taxes on the increased value of the area in Steve Stolze decided to run for mayor. He ant dog food factory that, when it was in question, a fund was established to solve campaigned, in fact, on the idea of getting Continued on page 8 full production, smelled like burning dog some of the city’s downtown problems. the redevelpment to move forward. January 3, 2013 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL 7

Spoiler alert: Stolze, who had never held public offi ce before, would be elect- www.legacyhealth.org ed and serve as Tualatin mayor from 1988 to ’94. But back then, he recalled, there were a lot of unknowns. “As the election came closer and clos- er, I was very aware of the old dog food plant and the area around it had become Happy 100, Tualatin. very dilapidated and outdated.” It was a safety hazard and an eyesore, he said. The fi rst couple of runs at redevelop- ing the downtown were probably misdi- rected, Stolze said, remembering that Helping you, too, community leaders had tried to get a Washington Square-type development built in the center of town, but that sim- live a long life ply wouldn’t fl y. The town wasn’t big enough to support that kind of project, and it just fi zzled. As a proud community member “I ran on the slogan ’it’s time for a change,’” Stolze said, pointing out that for 40 years, Legacy Meridian Park after he was elected, he was eventually Medical Center congratulates embraced by city leaders who weren’t so TIMES PHOTO: JAIME VALDEZ Tualatin on its centennial. sure at fi rst what this new guy was going Brent Savage of McMinnville paddles his to be all about. To help you live a long life, “I asked for a city meeting, and they way to victory in the pumpkin growers assured me that nobody would show up,” competition race during the ninth annual try our Know Your Numbers said Stolze, explaining that he arranged West Coast Giant Pumpkin Regatta at the health screenings. We take vital to get the huge Meridian Park Hospital Tualatin Lake of the Commons this fall. auditorium, which can hold a lot of peo- measurements and help you ple. sat down with the elected leaders and understand them so you can takeke “Six to seven hundred people showed discussed how to incorporate all of the steps to prevent heart disease. up,” he said. “It was the biggest thing ideas. that ever happened.” At a second meeting — also attended Please see www.legacyhealth.h. They spent the fi rst half-hour of the by hundreds of interested citizens — the org/classes. meeting discussing the urban renewal fi - idea of a lake was popular because it nancing method, Stolze said, and then would not only be a way to raise the ele- they started taking comments from the vation of the entire area above the fl ood Our legacy is yours. public. As ideas were thrown out for con- level, it could also serve to add value to For more information: sideration, they were all written down — the real estate and attract development. including a suggestion from developers Other decisions coming from the public 503-335-3500. that the area should include more strip were to scratch strip malls off the list and malls. Then city staffers and consultants not to put the police department and city hall on the lake. All through the plan- ning process there con- tinued to be opposition from business and de- velopment interests — including one of Tuala- tin’s newest elected 408348.010313 TC leaders: Lou Ogden. Og- den would eventually go 2 on to become mayor, but

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something of an outside AD-0820AD-0 ©2012 agitator looking to rep- resent the business community — and, it turns out, a swing vote on the merits of the commons project. It was an all-night talk between Stolze and Og- PHOTO COURTESY OF CITY OF TUALATIN den — during a trip to a An aerial view of the Tualatin Commons shows how well development has occurred around the manmade lake. See COMMONS / Page 9 8 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL January 3, 2013 TUALATIN TIMELINE An educational Odyssey Continued from page 6 The history of Tualatin into Portland. schools show countywide 1858 — The “Hoosier,” a collaboration small steamboat. plied the Tualatin River for a short By SAUNDRA SORENSON time. Pamplin Media Group

1860 — Many settlers hen Tualatin High School cel- went to the Idaho mines. ebrated its 20-year anniversa- ry at the start of the school 1865 — The Little Red W year, the Timberwolves had a Schoolhouse was built on lot to be proud of: a record of extensive the corner of Avery and community service, 16 state championships Boones Ferry Road. in athletics, a drama and a music depart- ment that could boast several tours nation- 1865 — The steamboat ally and internationally. Facilities also “Yamhill” plied the river de- looked as fresh as they did in 1992. livering farmers goods to But it was hardly the fi rst Tualatin High market. School. The original Tualatin High School was 1867 — Washington Coun- established during a boom time in the city’s ty erected a toll bridge to re- development. Historically, a rising demand TIMES FILE PHOTO: JONATHAN HOUSE place the old free bridge at for educational facilities is a great economic Tualatin High School math teacher Mark Bridgeport. indicator, and this was especially true in Dolbeer grabs homework assignments Tualatin, where John L. Smith’s 1890 arrival from his students. He retired last spring 1868 — The steamwheeler in town further propelled Tualatin’s status after 29 years of teaching. At left, “Onward” navigated the riv- as a fi nancially viable place to live and Tualatin Grade and High School was built er. work. His Tualatin Mill Company venture in 1900 and closed down in the 1930s combined the town’s relocated saw mill 1880 — A fi erce storm with logging and lumber businesses, pro- raged through the Valley, viding steady salaried work for an increas- toppling trees like tooth- ing population. picks. Farming families and the families of skilled laborers had produced a school- 1880 — Farmers began aged population which, according to school From that point on, teenage Tualatin stu- The old three-story schoolhouse then be- draining the swamps and records of the time, was then at around 90. dents were given the choice to attend one of came an apartment building before being groving products, especially This was not an exponential increase the far more spacious nearby campuses: ei- demolished some years later. onions, on the rich beaver- from 30 years before, when Washington ther Sherwood or Tigard high schools. (By Although the city’s sons and daughters dam soil, and found some County School District 25’s sole one-room the time the younger Art Sasaki was in completed their education in surrounding huge bones, thought to be schoolhouse was overfl owing with 38 chil- school, the split happened as early as sixth towns, they held fast to their Tualatin roots. from a prehistoric animal. dren. A new, larger red frame school was grade. He opted to attend Sherwood, he said.) Farmer’s daughter Nellie Wesch worked built around 1863 on Boones Ferry Road, This opened up the top two levels of the tirelessly as a caddie at the Tualatin Coun- 1887 — Chinese laborers forming districts 25 and 26 — until a fi re Tualatin schoolhouse. Even so, primary try Club and ended up fi nancing her way laid a narrow gauge railroad claimed the older log cabin school in 1866. school grade classes had to be held at City through college not through her earnings through the area. John The newer structure that remained Hall. on the green, but through a collection put Sweek platted out a new standing was put up on jacks more than 30 By the time the younger Art Sasaki was together by regular golfers such as Julius town site around the new years later in order to add a new fi rst fl oor in school, he said the split happened as ear- Meier. Wesch Returned from what was train station, naming it “Tu- — and a complete four-year high school ly as sixth grade. He opted to attend Sher- then Oregon Agricultural College and be- alatin.” program. In 1911, the building was once wood schools. came a popular teacher at Tigard High again raised to meet the changing needs of With Tualatin’s remaining students still School. 1889 — The fi rst east-west the student body, and toilets and a central scattered round town, the school board de- “She taught business education, typing, railroad train came through, heating system were added. cided to modernize with a building large accounting, book-keeping. In fact, several of and a store and hotel were Incoming Tualatin Heritage Center presi- enough to give each grade its own room — our members here had her as a teacher. built close by. dent Art Sasaki identifi es his father, also and to invite students from the much small- They attribute their success in their ca- Art, as one of eight members of the Tuala- er nearby Tonquin and Malloy districts to reers to her,” said Larry McClure of the Tu- 1892 — John L. Smith tin High School graduating class of 1927. attend. The project used premade plans alatin Heritage Center. brought his extended family Until Tualatin High School reopened as from another school and was funded in part The Tualatin side of the school district Continued on page 12 we now know it in the early 1990s, 1936 was by the Public Works Program, in part grew to include three elementary schools, its fi nal graduating class. through land sales. Tualatin, Byrom and Bridgeport. It wasn’t January 3, 2013 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL 9 until 1992, however, that Tualatin fi nally had its own Commons: middle and high schools. ’a classy center’ needed According to Susan Stark Haydon, director of com- munity school relations for the Tigard-Tualatin School very rare in today’s suburbs: the chance to shape the District, during the late 1980s and early 1990s, the Ti- Q From page 7 center of their city. In most rapidly growing suburbs, gard and Tualatin communities were growing at a rapid prime central locations disappeared long ago to shop- rate. The need to provide additional classroom space conference in New Orleans on the eve of the big, fi nal ping centers or offi ce parks. Tualatin still has the gave the district the additional opportunity to examine make-or-break vote on the commons — that the pendu- chance to shape the future of its central city.” how to best educate students. A decision was made to lum fi nally swung in the favor of the project. Stolze had There were some snags along the way, of course. Be- move sixth-graders from the elementary schools into to almost talk himself to death, but he fi nally convinced tween 1986 and ’89, the site was tied up with two devele- grade 6-8 middle schools and to move ninth-graders into Ogden that the tax-increment fi nancing method of pay- lpers, both of whom eventually backed out. a four-year high school program. ing for urban renewal was not going to adversely affect “We knew we wanted a really nice restaurant in “The grade level change, combined with the fact that Tualatin taxpayers or businesspeople. Once the council there,” Stolze said. “Charlie Sitton and his father-in-law existing schools were already overcrowded, led to the reached agreement, the necessary votes were taken, stepped in and said ’we’ll build a hotel there.’” That be- decision to build a new middle school and high school in and the project began to move forward. came the Century Hotel, and the attached restaurant, Tualatin,” Stark Haydon said. “Voters in Tigard and vot- Community surveys were conducted, and the ideas Hayden’s Lakefront Grill, has never faultered. ers in Tualatin approved the bond measure to build were fl ying. Little by little, plans came together. Ground was bro- these new schools. Splitting one high school into two “Tualatin needs a classy center that separates us ken in the summer of 1993, “in the fi eld between South- schools was a major event for the whole community.” from Beaverton and Tigard,” said one survey respon- west Seneca Street and Nyberg Road, at the site of the The move to middle schools was also a big change. dent.” Hervin Co.,” according to the notice on the front page of Hazelbrook was designed from the start to be a middle “I’d like to see a European-style town or village the Tualatin Times. school with a classroom “pod” structure so that the square, where people could meet for a cup of coffee to For almost a year, the downtown was even more of a teachers could have easy communication with each oth- play checkers, chess, dominoes or just visit in a relaxing mess than normal. Then, in May of ’94, the offi cial dedi- er, know what the other teachers were teachiing and area without occupying a space that someone is waiting cation took place, on a drizzly day beside the new lake. take that into consideration as they planned lessons.” for,” another wrote during the site visioning process. Stolze was fl oored by the huge crowd that turned out for Now, Tualatin’s school system can boast an Interna- Much credit for the project’s success has been given that event. He was, after all, a builder, not a professional tional Baccalaureate Program and distinguished gradu- to Janet Young, who served as Tualatin’s economic de- politician or speaker. ates that have gone on to attend prestigious schools velopment director during that formative period, and The city has had visitors from all over the world to such as Harvard, Stanford and Julliard and become doc- she did her share of advocating on behalf of the com- see how urban renewal can be used to accomplish such tors, lawyers, engineers, musicians, entrepreneurs and mons. great things, said the former mayor. teachers. It’s a far cry from the original one-room school In a 1992 opinion piece in the Tualatin Times, Young “It’s been a very big success,” Stolze recalled. “I am house — but not from Tualatin’s general spirit. wrote, “Tualatin citizens have an opportunity which is very proud of that project.”

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City of The Tualatin Discovery Challenge: Tualatin A Family Centennial Project Compile your own Tualatin Discovery Journal noting the date of the place you visited and documentation of the following activities (written and photo). Some information is available on websites. Bring your journal to Tualatin Historical Society (THS) by December 1, 2013 for entry to win a $100 gift card from Bridgeport Village and 12 free Regal Theatre tickets and other great prizes. A panel of judges will select the most complete electronic or hard-copy journal with the winner announced at the 2013 Starry Nights. Finalists will receive prizes as well. If you have questions related to this Centennial Challenge, call the Tualatin Heritage Center, 503-885-1926.

1. Hike or bike the Tualatin ArtWalk: 10. Tualatin Community Park: Find the marker near the middle of the south Interview someone who lived in Tualatin Photograph yourself at each inter- interpretive sign describing the fence. What’s unusual about the at least 25 years ago: Ask them to pretive sign; what historical facts 1996 flood. shape and décor of this marker? describe a major employer located at to- did you learn at each stop? Who is buried there? How long did day’s Lake of the Commons and Century 11. Tualatin City Operations Center this person live? Find the grave- Hotel. Take your photo with any likely 2. Ibach Park: Who was it named for on Herman Road: What happens stone for someone buried in the consumer of that product if that factory and their background; take your here? What services do they provide past decade. Who was it and what were still here today. group or individual photo at one for local residents? was their life span? of the historic replicas in the play We hope you learned more about areas 12. Lafky Family: Mark Lafky made Tu- 19. Pohl Family: These Tualatin leaders Tualatin’s rich and colorful history by alatin history among flower lovers for are remembered in two locations: completing the Centennial Challenge! 3. Atfalati Park: How many interpre- propagating a first-ever white Dutch Tualatin High School and the Juanita tive signs do you find? What did you Iris he named for his wife Manette. Pohl Center at City Park. What did learn about native uses of plants; The Lafky name appears on two city they contribute to our city? Take list some examples and take photo landmarks: Lafky House and Lafky your picture at the memorial flag 346193.010313 TC of one plant mentioned. What was Park. Visit them. (To see these white pole at Juanita Pohl Center. one family name on memorial trees irises in bloom, visit Winona Cem- at the park (look for stone at ground etery in April-May growing in planters 20. Tualatin Heritage Trees: Find one level)? near the entry kiosk. Some also grow of the more than 30 Heritage Trees in front of Lafky House at Community (one tree or a stand of trees) des- 4. Jurgens Park: What’s the theme Park and at the Heritage Center). ignated because of their historical of this park representing a major or botanical significance. See City Tualatin industry for many years? 13. Winona Grange, 8340 SW Seneca: of Tualatin website for a list. What What was one interesting memo- What is its history and role in the makes your choice unique? rial tree marker you saw along the city today? sidewalks? 21. Browns Ferry Park. Stroll the 14. Interactive Meridian Line Interpre- pathways and count the number of 5. Lake at the Commons: Carefully ex- tive Exhibit on the Tualatin River interpretive signs. How long did Ze- amine the wording on granite blocks Greenway Trail at 65th Ave. and nas Brown operate his ferry? What around the fountain and lake. What Nyberg Lane: Parking is available are the ecological zones covered were the early names and spellings nearby at Browns Ferry Park. Why is along this trail? for our city? Write down a line or that instrument located there? What two of the etched poetry about the did you learn by operating it? 22. Tualatin High School: Visit the natural history of our area. display case near the main 15. Sweek House (by WES station): office. What did you learn 6. Tualatin Library: What’s showing in Who were the Sweeks? What’s about the first Tualatin High the THS exhibit case? What did you special about this house? (Please School? What sports were learn? no trespassing!) big in that time?

7. Tualatin Library: What books on 16. Glacial erratics (between police 23. Bridgeport Village: Tualatin history are available for station and Heritage Center): How What was located at reference? Find a book or DVD on heavy are these boulders? Where this site before it Tualatin or the Ice Age floods to did they probably originate? How did became a major review with your family and describe they wind up in Oregon? shopping and of- something you didn’t know before. fice destination? Photograph the Tualatin mastodon. 17. Robbins Rose: There are two moss What natural rose bushes at Tualatin Heritage force created it 8. Tualatin Heritage Center: Visit dur- Center named for the Robbins thousands of years ing open hours Monday-Friday, 10 family. They have some physical earlier? a.m.-2 p.m. What was your favorite differences from modern roses (no exhibit and why? sharp thorns, for example). What is significant about the family and this 9. Ki-a-Kuts Bridge: Photograph your- rose. (best time to see blooms and self at the brass sign. Who was this smell: May-June). leader and what kind of bridges did he build? What creek flows into the 18. Winona Cemetery: When was it Tualatin River at that confluence? established? Find the oldest grave 12 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL January 3, 2013 TUALATIN TIMELINE

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to the area and set up a saw- mill, providing the fi rst pay- roll. He built a company store and a row of homes for his family and workers.

1893 — The Congregation- al Church was built north of the new depot.

1895 — Winona Grange was organized.

SUBMITTED PHOTO The Winona Grange Band, circa 1910.

1900 — Winona Cemetery was organized. RITA BARNGOVER CONOVER COLLECTION, COURTESY OF TUALATIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY Tualatin Rural Fire Protection District members (from left) Floyd Berning, Dutch Maxwell, Chief Bill Barngrover, Wendell Heald and Cliff Floyd 1900 — A new school was built for both grade and stand in front of the fi re district’s fi rst aid car, a Chevrolet panel sedan, which was purchased in 1949. The photo was selected for the cover of high school. Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America book, “Tualatin Valley Fire & Rescue.”

1906 — Local farmers blew up the dam on the Tu- alatin River. It all began with volunteers 1906 — Oregon Electric Railroad came through, elected as chief of the Tualatin Fire De- on major defense duties as World War II north and south, and stores Where there’s smoke, partment (and later Tualatin Rural Fire raged on and volunteer fi remen were were built around the new Protection District) in a career that would deputized as part of the Civilian War Ser- depot. reasoning went, you span the next 30 years, according to the vice Act. Tualatin Historical Society’s book, “Tual- “Led by Chief Barngrover, the Tualatin 1907 — John L. Smith need a fi re department atin Fire Protection History 1937-1989” Fire Department provided 24-hour watch- built a brickyard and manu- By RAY PITZ compiled by Yvonne Addington and a fi re es at Tualatin City Hall,” according to the factured bricis. Pamplin Media Group history committee. historical society book. “(Note: City Hall did not open for city business until 1967.) 1910 — Congregational hile Tualatin’s modern fi re $200 borrowed from a road fund Some of those who had not already been Church burned; Methodists service is provided by a dis- A short time after being activated, the called up for war service worked on the built a church. trict that spans more than new department requested a place to civil defense day shift.” W 210 square miles, its origins house its fi re trucks and a 14-foot-wide Addington, who also served as Tualatin 1912 — Old store was can be traced to the a small group of Tu- “lean-to” was constructed on the north city manager (and whose father Ted Saa- moved east and a new brick alatin Volunteer Fire Department mem- side of Tualatin City Hall, which was then rinen was an early volunteer fi re captain) store was built, and tele- bers who gathered for an informal meet- located on Boones Ferry Road. Mean- noted in her book that when City Hall phones and electricity in- ing on Feb. 2, 1935, to discuss the forma- while, hoses, ladders and sirens were was offi cially open for business, remnants stalled. tion of a department. purchased by using $200 borrowed from a of the 1941-45 wartime night watch were Continued on page 15 Within two years, the organization was city road fund. still on the walls along with bed frames, up and running with Bill Barngrover By 1942, the fi re department had taken equipment hooks and an old hand- January 3, 2013 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL 13 cranked telephone still in place. boys to ’shut up and listen’ for an explosion or noise. I counted to 8, The largest disaster maybe a little hurriedly, from the Eventually fi nding the need to expand fi re services time the craft disappeared until beyond the city’s borders, the Tualatin Rural Fire we heard a loud and long stifl ed Protection District was formed in 1946, with Barngro- roar. A few minutes later, black ver again elected chief of the district. The new district smoke appeared just a wee bit to covered 81 square miles, and in addition to Tualatin, the left of where we last saw the provided contract services for the city of Wilsonville. plane before it went out of sight. By 1948, the district had its fi rst paid fi remen (six in This smoke rose very high and all), who by then had been joined by a new compan- lasted approximately three min- ion, Dottie, a Dalmatian and the district’s mascot. A utes before it grew faint.” year later, the district was able to purchase a Chevro- By 1946, the old station at City let panel truck that served as a fi rst aid vehicle. Hall was becoming too small, and While the district responded to numerous fi res, ac- a new fi re station was built by vol- cidents and citywide fl oods in its early years, the unteers at Southwest 84th Avenue largest disaster occurred on Oct. 8, 1952, when 11 air- and Seneca Street. The iconic sta- men died after their B29 Superfortress collided with a tion was later torn down, and to- F94 Starfi ghter near Wilsonville. The collision scat- day a parking lot sits in its place tered the wreckage throughout several fi elds (some with the Winona Grange behind it. concentrated where the Wilsonville Toyota dealer- In 1989, Tualatin Rural Fire Pro- ship is now located) and there were many witnesses tection District merged with to the falling debris. Washington County Fire Protec- The disaster was part of training simulating how to tion District No. 1 to become Tual- fi ght off a head-on attack by a jet fi ghter but the pilot atin Valley Fire & Rescue. The of the jet fi ghter apparently misjudged his attack with Beaverton Fire Department offi - RITA BARNGOVER CONOVER COLLECTION, COURTESY OF TUALATIN HISTORICAL SOCIETY his wing tank hitting the wing of the B29, according to Residents gather inside the bay of the Tualatin fi re station in 1952 to celebrate cially followed suit several years Addington’s book. later to create the second largest the 15th anniversary of the formation of the Tualatin Fire Department. fi re department in the state. ’Shut up and listen’ Today, fi re service to Tualatin Donald Sempert, who was a Tualatin Grade School the crash as recounted in the history book: residents is provided by Station 34, located at 19365 football coach at the time, later told authorities about “When the plane (the B-29) disappeared, I told the S.W. 90th Court.

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Times75 CENTS Check Visa MC DISCOVER AmEx The • VOLUME 57, NO. 13 • THURSDAY, MARCH 29, 2012 • AN EDITION OF TIMES NEWSPAPERS venting them from contributing to possible MAX light-rail lines. pected to open in 2015. John Kuzmanich, a spokes- Opponents of Petitioners in Washington man for the petitioners, called MAX light rail County are unhappy with the the initiative a “true grassroots Petitions take aimhope to putat the way TriMetrail and Metro arefunding focus- movement” saying voters de- - measure before ing transit dollars on rail sys- serve a voice when it comes to Light-rail opponents voters in Tigard, tems throughout the region, and these multimillion-dollar proj Tualatin, hope to put the issues on the ects. Card No. ______- open a new front Sherwood and Sept. 13 special election ballot, - “This way voters and the peo- King City in letting voters in Tigard, Tuala ple can have their way,” he said. in political battle September. tin, Sherwood and King City de “But putting it on the ballots in cide whether they want their tax TIMES PHOTO: (Tigard), Tualatin, Sherwood By GEOFF PURSINGER CHRISTOPHER dollars to support the project. and King City we can allow peo- If approved the petitions The Times ONSTOTT See MAX / Page A3 would create four separate mea- sures — one for each city — to Exp. Date ______Start Date ______TIMES PHOTO: JAIME VALDEZ Four initiative petitions quire county officials to back off were filed Friday in Tigard, amend the cities’ charters pre- providing funding for a new Living Savior Lutheran Church Tualatin, King City and Sher- Lenten The petitions are similar to $1.49 billion MAX line there, ex- Rev. Nathan Brandt offers a wood that could, if approved, - blessing at the end of a two filed in Clackamas County force a public vote on financ- and Milwaukie that could re service that was held in the ing for any new rail systems church’s parking lot. in those cities. Singer’s Youths journey Mail to: Community Newspapers ends in await battle Attn: Gini Kraemer arson Justin Hopkins ends show with ‘Faithfully’ PO Box 22109 By GEOFF PURSINGER trial The Times Offer for local It was touted as the “bat- Congregation finds tle you had to see to be- lieve.” a new home for its Monday’s episode of the Portland, OR 97269 NBC singing competition “The preschool, services Voice” saw Tigard native Jus- subscribers only tin Hopkins eliminated after a By ALANA KANSAKU-SARMIENTO battle against teammate and The Times friend Tony Vincent. In February, the 31-year-old The two 13-year old boys singer/songwriter from Tigard accused of setting a March Phone: 503-546-9816 rocked his way to securing one 19 fire that heavily damaged TIMES PHOTO: JAIME VALDEZ of 12 seats on musical coach Tualatin’s Living Savior Lu- - Cee Lo Green’s team. The real- theran Church appeared tte, at Tigard United Methodist ity show has singers from separately before a Wash d away. across the country compete for ington County Judge this - 09TCS3 a $100,000 recording contract week. with the help of celebrity men The judge ordered that the [email protected] tors. teens be held in separate loca- Self-described “pastorista” Staci Lieuallen is serving up more than just coffee at her new coffee shop, Jubila Singers must “battle” other tions until their next appear- Church. Below, suggested donations for coffee and pastries range $1 to $3 at Jubilatte. No customer is turne singers in duets and the win- ance, May 2, at which time they ners move on to the next round will enter pleas to several of the competition. - charges. - On Monday, Hopkins had to The Harkins House Juvenile face Vincent, a singer and for

- 346631.121312 TC Shelter, where one of the de Soul chats brew at coffee shopmer Broadway star, serenad- fendants will be housed, is in ing audiences with their rendi Hillsboro, just a few blocks See for yourself tion of Journey’s “Faithfully.” from the juvenile courthouse. Café fills hunger for comfortable place to talk aboutWHAT: Jubilatte spirituality coffee shop Cee Lo Green said he was The remaining defendant has Q at Tigard United Methodist impressed and moved by Hop- been placed under house ar- il the next court date,h e RSINGER Church S W Walnut kins’ performance,e on but to the chose next January 3, 2013 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL 15 TUALATIN A little Q&A TIMELINE

Q City leaders talk about Tualatin’s development Continued from page 12

Mayor Lou Ogden coming century. Tualatin will surely be a ceding him. I was merely fortunate to be in HOW DO YOU SEE TUALATIN DEVELOPING AND center for high-paying jobs, close-knit offi ce when it came to fruition. We have 1913 — Tualatin was in- CHANGING IN THE NEXT 100 YEARS? neighborhoods and great amenities, much opened four parks during my tenure: Ibach, corporated, mayor and al- A century is clearly a long time into like today. The phrase, “a great place to Browns Ferry, Jurgens and North End of dermen were elected, two which to gaze and garner a glimpse of what live, work and play” will still be our credo. Community Park, as well as placed artifi - saloons were soon operat- might occur. To that point, the Tualatin of WHAT’S YOUR FAVORITE PIECE OF TUALATIN cial turf at Tualatin High School, making ing, coal oil, street lights in- today surely could not have been imagined TRIVIA? that fi eld available for general public use stalled. in 1913. That said, it is inevitable that we There are many, and of course, though I year-round. All of those occurred because will be a much larger city. Our 30-year pro- have served on our City Council now for 20 of the willingness of our citizens to invest 1914 — Tualatin Country jections are to grow by about 50 percent years, and lived in Tualatin more than 30 by passing bond issues. Similarly our citi- Club, an executive golf and in 100 years we will be perhaps three years, I know most trivia only by the re- zens voted to build a state-of-the-art police course, was laid out. times our current size. It is curious to won- porting of such historical guardians as facility and thanks to unwavering determi- der about technology since probably the Loyce Martinazzi. So the fact that our main nation by various city councilors and oth- 1918 — Many young men biggest infl uence on our past growth, that thoroughfare downtown was named for the ers, we enjoy a new library. went off to World War I is, cars and trucks, weren’t even a part of ferryman on the Willamette River who was Tualatin boasts a vibrant business sector while polio and fl u epidem- our culture a century ago. We may not be a the grandson of Daniel Boone, and the mys- with many high-paying jobs and renowned ics hit Tualatin hard. “Jetson” community with airborne, single- tery murder of Helen Jennings, the town shopping. A large portion of our outstanding occupancy vehicles or a “Star Trek” com- “hottie” in 1916, are of great intrigue. neighborhoods have been developed since I 1925 — Methodist Church munity with teleportation and rematerial- During the 1960s, upon hearing on a na- have been in offi ce. We have made substan- burned, new church built ization. tional TV show that the Tualatin Crawfi sh tial transportation improvements, including next year. However, I think it is safe to say that ve- Festival was the best in America, a New Or- both of our Interstate 5 interchanges being hicular congestion as we know it today will leans Voodoo queen cast a hex on our festi- rebuilt, Tualatin-Sherwood and Tualatin 1926 — First city hall be very much a passé thing of the 21st Cen- val. A major biker gang brawl at the festival Road rebuilt and the addition of WES. built. tury. In that case, our community will be the following year was perhaps more than a Perhaps the biggest is yet to come and more accessible, and I predict, more inter- coincidence. In my personal experience, the that is the extension of 124th Avenue south 1935 — Volunteer Fire De- connected, person to person. While various trivia I most starkly recall is the motto on and east around Tualatin to I-5. After years partment organized and the forms of communing via technology will be the side of the trucks owned by the dog of work, that connection is fi nally moving city dug a well. the norm, the need for people to associate food company previously located at the in- the point that it will defi nitely be built, with people face to face will never become tersection of Martinazzi Avenue and Tuala- though it will take several more years to 1936 — High school stu- antiquated. Social gathering places will tin-Sherwood Road: “Going to the Dogs.” complete. We have a revitalized recreation dents went to Sherwood or abound in myriad formats, much like today. We’ve come a long way, wouldn’t you say? program for all ages and an active Youth Tigard high schools. Parks, natural areas, commercial attrac- WHAT IS ONE OF YOUR PROUDEST ACCOM- Advisory Council. Most recently, through tions and the “town square” will still be an PLISHMENTS AS MAYOR OF TUALATIN? the efforts of dozens of dedicated citizens, 1937 — Overfl ow of the integral part of our society, and I predict Certainly the completion of the Tualatin we have the beginnings of a city-wide Citi- Tualatin River caused mas- Tualatin will be able to maintain that Commons is a high point during my time, zen Involvement Organization. The last 20 sive fl ooding. “small town sensation” even in light of the though that project was largely the fruit of percent of this century has been good for technological marvels that await us in the the labors of Mayor Stolze and those pre- Tualatin. 1939 — New brick elemen- tary school opened as old school closed. I see our history being Although I was in offi ce for only 6 years, Steve Stolze, mayor of Tualatin 1988-1994 preserved, but I see much we grew from a sleepy town of about 6,000 1940 — Veterans of For- HOW DO YOU SEE TUALATIN DEVELOPING AND different ways to defi ne people to a city of over 19,000 during my eign Wars organized. CHANGING IN THE NEXT 100 YEARS? wetlands, conservation term, and the management of that growth, I am hoping that our biggest issue, which lands, etc., and how they the concept and development of the Com- 1940 — 4-H programs pro- is transportation, is fi nally manageable, are managed. mons, the centerpiece of our city and the vided learning experienes with perhaps one jurisdiction (Tualatin) WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE most used area of the city, seems to have for youth. having not only the control, but the ability PIECE OF TUALATIN TRIVIA? been the reason I ran, but also I was able to to pay for street improvements for the I have always thought it bring many large companies into our city in 1941 — Many local men whole city, not the current cookie cutter was interesting that our the Leviton Property area, creating thou- and women joined the control that now exists. STOLZE city council, prior to my sands of new jobs for our area. I was able to armed forces for World War I believe our mayor and council will have running, had both Roy raise the funds to build the grandstands at II; others worked in ship- a different look, in that technology and so- Rogers and Charlie Brown on it. Tualatin High School as chairman of the yards. cial media will change the way business is Also, I delivered the groundbreaking fundraising group and saw the opening of done and governance itself will take a whole speech at the Oki Semi-conductor plant in the state-of-the-art high school. 1948 — Melville and Jes- new approach to things. Japanese, without the knowledge of anyone I am particularly proud of the Com- sie Chase Eastham donated I sincerely hope our schools regain the else until I began speaking . . . that was in- mons, and the way it has brought this 6 acres to the city of Tuala- stature we once had, and that our children teresting. community together and the city staff and tin for a park. will feel and believe it is worthwhile to com- WHAT IS ONE OF YOUR PROUDEST ACCOM- consultants that helped make it come to Continued on page 18 plete their education. PLISHMENTS AS MAYOR OF TUALATIN? fruition. 16 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL January 3, 2013 A brief history of Tualatin’s park system and library hen Tualatin residents collection had grown to 7,000 items are asked what they and circulation was 20,000 per year. love about their home In 1983, voters approved a 15-year Wtown, at the top of ma- construction bond for $500,000. An- ny people’s list would be the parks other $200,000 in funding came from and the Tualatin Public Library. the Federal Library Services and Modern history of the city’s parks Construction Act. Construction and library system begins in the started in May 1984 and was com- 1970s. pleted in March 1985. Tualatin had In 1975, the public library in Tual- its first building designed specifical- atin consisted of two shelves of do- ly to be a library. nated books on the second floor of In 2004, Tualatin voters approved the Van Raden Community Center the passage of a bond measure, inside Tualatin Community Park. In which in combination with urban 1976 Washington County loaned the renewal funds, provided the oppor- city a book van, which was open 36 tunity to remodel the Tualatin Pub- hours a week and staffed by volun- lic Library for modern use and a teers. That same year the official Li- larger population. The new building brary Advisory Committee was opened in August of 2008. formed to advise City Council on the The library first got its first com- management and operation of li- puters in 1987, and in1998 there brary services. were 17 computers connected to the In 1977, the City Council estab- Internet. In 2003/04 the library lished a city-funded library, and the checked out 457,000 items. Today library was set up in the Manlove the Tualatin Public Library has a House also in Tualatin Community collection of 90,000 items and offers Park. The walls of the 920-square- the public access to the world via 38 foot building were lined with books, computers. It circulated 766,848 PHOTO COURTESTY OF CITY OF TUALATIN and it had chairs for just six read- items last year and over 315,000 peo- A family takes a moment to study the posted information at an interpretive panel in Atfalati Park. ers. By the following year, the book ple visit the library last year. Thank You

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Continued from page 15 on as one of city’s fi rst marshals still meets on Martinazzi Avenue. 1948 — Winona Grange Tualatin swore in fi rst police In the early 1990s, the department moved sponsored larger youth chief on Dec. 29, 1986 to its second home in space next to what is group for degree work, now the Hot Seat Sports Bar. dancing, drama and music. By RAY PITZ One of the unique challenges Winegar Pamplin Media Group discovered when he helped create the de- 1951 — Crawfi sh Festival, partment (the former chief had formerly sponsored by VFW, raised hile the origins of early law en- been one of those Washington County depu- funds for park development. forcement efforts in Tualatin ties who patrolled the city) from scratch are sketchy, several facts are was discovering there was no organized cul- 1954 — The I-5 freeway Wclear: The city had no formal ture or institutional knowledge to draw cut a swath through Tuala- police department with the day-to-day du- from. tin. ties of upholding the law undertaken by a Still, he said he had a great career with a town marshal. supportive city manager and city council- 1962 — Columbus Day William “Bill” Barngrover was one of ors. He retired in 2003, and Chief Barker Storm’s, 116-miles-per-hour those early town marshals, according to his took over. winds left utter destruction. daughter, Rita (Barngrover) Conover, and Tualatin voters eventually passed a bond she has an old Tualatin police chief badge to build a new police headquarters, which 1962 — A 15,000-year-old her father once owned as proof. offi cers have occupied since 2000. The build- mastodon was unearthed in Conover said she’s not sure how long her ing's architecture, especially its interior a bog by geology student father served as marshal (his tenure most confi guration, is often held up as a state-of- John George. likely occurring in the 1930s) and it would the-art facility that is often toured by police be more than 40 years until the Tualatin Po- PHOTO BY DONALD S. ADAMS from other cities who hope to build a similar 1963 — Old farms sold off lice Department was formed. This badge, believed to be from the 1930s, structure, said Barker. for subdivision. Although she can recall belonged to Bill Barngrover, the father of Rita As part of the celebration of Tualatin’s Law and order little from her father's days Conover Barngrover and the great- fi rst 100 years, a new centennial badge will 1965 — Ramada Inn in law enforcement, grandfather of Donald S. Adams, who shot this be issued to offi cers in 2013. opened. Tualatin Police Conover does remember photo. Barngrover was an early town marshal, Department by Crime in Tualatin the numbers that he helped investigate keeping law and order in Tualatin’s early days. 1969 — Tertiary Sewage the murder of a Tualatin He would go on to establish two fi re Although major crimes in Tualatin have of- Q POPULATION: Treatment Plant built. 1987: 11,690; resident, who she believes departments. ten occurred few and far between, the city 2012: 26,400 was killed along Tualatin- has had its share of them dating back to a 1972 — Van Raden donat- QCALLS FOR Sherwood Road in the 1930s. partment in 1970 to provide police services, 1916 double murder involving a 41-year-old ed estate to city of Tualatin. SERVICE: 1987: “I remember that an arrangement that continued until Jan. 1, Tualatin woman and a Portland taxi driver. 4,709; 2012: (from) when I was a kid,” 1987. That was the date that the newly According to the book “Tualatin... from the 1973 — Meridian Park 28,016 she said. “That was a big, formed Tualatin Police Department offi cial- Beginning” by Loyce Martinazzi and Karen Hospital opened. QTRAFFIC CITA- big thing. I don’t think it ly began patrolling a city that had grown to Lafky Nygaard, the woman (who offi cials be- TIONS: 1987: was ever solved.” almost 12,000 residents. Steve Winegar be- lieve was murdered with an 11-pound ham- 1976 — The old brick store 989; 2012: Later, an author would came the department's fi rst chief, sworn in mer) and the taxi driver (who was discovered 4,031 became Rich’s Kitchen res- write about the murder in during ceremonies at the Tualatin-Durham in a ditch with a crushed skull) were front- QMEMBERS: taurant. 1987: 12 sworn a detective book, she said. Senior Center on Dec. 29, 1986. page fodder for both the old Portland Orego- offi cers, one pro- The organizational Earlier this year, during the Tualatin Po- nian and the Oregon Journal for several 1976 — Saarinen Wayside fessional staff; structure of Tualatin law lice Department's awards and appreciation weeks as details of the case emerged. Eventu- Park opened. 2012: 38 sworn enforcement prior to 1970 ceremony, current Police Chief Kent W. ally, Bennett Thompson was convicted of the offi cers, eight appears to have included Barker praised Winegar and the original murders and sentenced to life in the state 1977 — Stoneridge Park professional staff volunteer patrols, accord- members of that department, likening their penitentiary. and Little Woodrose Park ing to an ad hoc police accomplishments to constructing a house. Meanwhile, former Police Chief Steve opened. protection committee that issued a report in “It took 12 sworn offi cers to build a foun- Winegar recalls two terrible crimes that oc- August 1981. However, such patrols no lon- dation for that home,” Barker said. “We all curred while he was chief. The fi rst oc- 1978 — Senior Center ger were working effectively as the city know that without a strong foundation, the curred in the late 1980s, an execution-type opened. grew larger. house will collapse.” homicide that occurred at the Baskin Rob- “Finding qualifi ed volunteers proved to All those offi cers, one of whom has since bins in Tualatin. The suspect in that case is 1979 — Lafky Park be diffi cult, and city offi cials eventually con- died, received a special commemorative still in jail. opened. ceded that this type of approach to law en- badge celebrating the 25th anniversary of The second case happened in the 1990s forcement had the potential for creating the department. when the dismembered body of a man was 1979 — Tualatin began more problems than it would solve,” accord- Winegar recently recalled that when the discovered stuffed in a container in a local getting Bull Run water. ing to the committee's report. new police department was established, of- storage facility on McEwan Avenue. That Continued on page 22 As a result, the city signed a contract fi cers worked out of the second fl oor of the was a case where his department “solved with the Washington County Sheriff's De- building where the Tualatin City Council the unsolvable,” Winegar said. January 3, 2013 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL 19 A different kind of Oregon trail, a unique industry

its way through the Tualatin Valley by Ice Age Tourism could be way of Lake Oswego. Flood waters made new resource for city it as far south as Eugene. In Tualatin, waters reached depths of 400 feet. By SAUNDRA SORENSON This massive natural disaster explains Pamplin Media Group a lot about Oregon: Why Willamette Val- ley has soil fertile enough to sustain its ith the sawmill long closed own renowned vineyards, for example. It and agriculture on the de- also explains Tualatin’s rich geological cline, a new kind of indus- heritage — why, for example, so many W try is emerging in Tualatin. non-indigenous rock formations have In addition to semiconductor manufactur- turned up in the city. Like the large piece ing, the city is poised to become an impor- of granite that now sits outside the Tual- tant destination in a new, unusual kind of atin Heritage Center. The rock originated travel experience: Ice Age Tourism. in Missoula, Mont. As president of the Lower Columbia Although the Omnibus Public Land Chapter of the Ice Age Floods Institute Management Act of 2009 designated the Rick Thompson explains, Tualatin is at Ice Age fl ood path between Missoula, the crossroads of a route as signifi cant as Mont., and the Pacifi c Ocean as part of the Lewis and Clark Trail: the Ice Age the National Wild and Scenic Rivers Sys- Floods Trail. tem, lack of funding leaves it to cities like During massive fl oods that happened Tualatin to play up the region’s role in about 15,000 years ago, an ice dam in the this unique period of pre-history. Idaho panhandle gave way and sent the Grants approved to the city and Cham- 500 cubic mile Lake Missoula on a two- ber of Commerce offer Tualatin a chance day deluge from what is now Idaho to highlight its role as a point of geologi- through Washington and the Gorge. It cal and prehistoric interest — although PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP PHOTO: PATRICK COTE was as though two of the smaller Great the locally unearthed mastodon skeleton Yvonne Addington wants people to be more aware of the mastodon exhibit at the Tualatin Lakes had emptied, and the fl ood made on display in the library is a great start. Public Library. The City of Wilsonville congratulates our neighbors in Tualatin on celebrating the 100th anniversary of their city

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22 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL January 3, 2013 TUALATIN TIMELINE A different kind of Continued from page 21 1979 — Edward Byrom El- ementary School opened.

1982 — Bridgeport Ele- cultural consciousness mentary School opened. Tualatin's track record 1985 — Tualatin Commons on race and culture Park opened. By SAUNDRA SORENSON 1992 — Hazelbrook Middle Pamplin Media Group School opened. hen World War I 1992 — Atfalati Park broke out in 1914, opened. Art Sasaki said, it Wwas replicated on 1992 — Tualatin High the playground almost every School opened. day where his father went to school: “People of German de- 1994 — Tualatin Com- scent had it out with people of mons, a community gather- English descent.” ing place, opened with lake His father, who lived in the and fountains. Tualatin area from 1914 on, 1996 — Ibach Park opened. “Tualatin was asked if he SUBMITTED PHOTO would fi nd it Camp Minidoka Block 39 Barrack 12 in Jerome County, Idaho, in 1943. 1997 — Brown’s Ferry was tough to go Park opened. incredibly home and porting and tin was not a community that speak a differ- accepting of made a point of alienating oth- 2000 — Jurgen’s Park supporting ent language our family, ers. opened. and at home, and despite the “And on the fi rst day he’s accepting he said no, the conditions walking to school, and the guy 2004 — New Tualatin Ele- majority of that pre- that lived on the corner asked mentary School opened as of our kids he went to vailed,” he him if he had a name. And the old brick school closed. family, grade school said. “We guy said, ‘Do you have an with were of a made a liv- American name?’” 2005 — Old Methodist despite the German, Polish ing raising When Ojiro said no, the man Church was moved, refur- conditions or Swiss/Ger- strawberries, replied, “I’m Arthur. You can bished and opened as Tuala- that man base — which is la- use mine.” tin Heritage Center. the vast major- bor-intensive Years later, the younger Art prevailed.” ity of kids that during har- Sasaki would use his heritage 2008 — The old brick store — Art Sasaki, he went to vest season. to his advantage. was moved east and refur- school with SUBMITTED PHOTO It wouldn’t “Sherwood High School was Born in an A family snapshot in 1944 shows Art and Nami Sasaki bished. internment camp were the fi rst have been 253 people total my senior year, born American along with children Joyce, Sue and Art. possible if when I became student body 2008 — New library was children of for- we didn’t president. I made it a point of built. eign immi- where Sasaki himself was born have pickers during harvest knowing every kid’s fi rst name. grants.” — might have marked them as season.” Long story short, not only were 2009 — WES commuter When Sasaki himself attend- pariahs in other towns or coun- “A lot has to do with the fact we well accepted, I used it to rail line opened, running ed Sherwood High School from ties. Not in Tualatin. When that the people who came here my advantage. If you want to from Beaverton to Wilson- 1958 through 1962, his class- they returned home in 1944, not got dumped on somewhere get noticed, just look different. ville. mates had mostly German or only was the farm and house in else, so why dump on anyone We were the only Asians Italian last names. good repair, but the crop had here?” there.” “When I was in high school, been harvested, all thanks to But at a time when those of He points out, too, that when if you took out the people who the Michaels family, who the Western European descent he was growing up, there were were axis countries in World Sasakis had employed in the strove to set themselves apart only two clubs in the entire War II — Italy, Germany, Japan past. in distinctive groups, didn’t Sa- state where Jewish golfers — you wouldn’t have much of a “We had a means of income saki — or his father — ever feel were welcome. One of them student body left,” he said. when we came back” from the like “The Other?” was the Tualatin club, which, TIMES FILE PHOTO The Sasakis’ two-year expul- camp, Sasaki said. When he did, Sasaki said, he he points out, “they started The WES train shows its face. sion to an internment camp — “Tualatin was incredibly sup- used it to his advantage. Tuala- from scratch!” January 3, 2013 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL 23 Congratulations Tualatin! We are proud to celebrate with you and proud to bring you the following events:

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Nellie Wesch, shown in 1915, caddied at the club before A club going on to become a well- respected teacher. ahead SUBMITTED PHOTO of its time Tualatin Country Club celebrated its own centennial this past year

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ualatin had its own country club before it had elected offi - cials. T In 1912, a group of Portland- area professionals purchased 100 acres from the Sweek family in order to estab- lish a golf course and weekend getaway. A few of the founders’ names are still easily recognizable today: Julius Meier of Meier & Frank, as well as members of the Tonkin family, famed for their chain of car dealerships, were largely respon- sible for founding a club for Jewish members barred from other such golf and leisure organizations. The Tualatin Country Club celebrat- ed its own centennial this past year. Its membership has been all-inclusive since the mid-1960s, and has had many local luminaries pass through. Former golf caddie Nellie Wesch went on to become a well-loved teacher at Tigard High School, educating many current mem- bers of the Tualatin Historical Society. The hard-working farmer’s daughter might not have made it to college had it not been for her involvement with the country club, however: Future governor of Oregon Meier “passed the hat” to en- sure Nellie, a farmer’s daughter, could attend what was then known as Oregon Agricultural College. The centennial celebrations stack up when you consider that another former caddie, Curtis Tigard, hit his own centu- ry mark in 2009. Tigard was welcomed as one of the fi rst fi ve non-Jewish mem- bers of the club, and for nearly 50 years, January 3, 2013 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL 25 played golf at the Tualatin Country Club weekly (in addition to applying his farm boy skills as a deft mole-trapper on the greens). Tualatin Country Club may be 100, but “We put a it has kept up with large the times by apply- ing cutting-edge con- centennial servation efforts to clock out maintain its beauti- ful lakes, which are front. That's supplied by Tualatin the one item Clean Water Servic- we added that es. Meanwhile, the club’s lush greens will serve in part as a commemorate testing ground for PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP FILE PHOTOS the U.S. Department the centennial of Agriculture and for the next the Oregon grass seed industry as hundred they try out newer years.” strains of sod. SUBMITTED PHOTO That’s not to say — Greg McMurray, The Tualatin Country Club clubhouse General manager the Country Club isn’t acknowledging (above), shown in 1920 before it its own history. burned down. Above right, Curtis “We put a large centennial clock out Tigard joined the Tualatin Country front,” said General Manager Greg Mc- Club shortly after it opened its Murray. “That’s the one item we added membership to everyone. Right, the that will commemorate the centennial clock is a new addition to the club to for the next hundred years.” help celebrate its 100th year.

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And in 1913, by a vote of 57 to 47, the townspeople chose to incorporate and Tualatin, Oregon came to be. Rail to roads, horses to cars. Farms and families, floods and onion flats. Schools, churches, and businesses. City hall and public library. Police and parks. Rural past to urban present. Tradition and change. People.

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