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Admiral art YOUR ONLINE LOCAL GiftedGifted athlete Sculptor Caswell honored to DAILY NEWS UO’s Liz BrennerB plans make Nimitz statue www.portlandtribune.com fourth collegecolle sport Portland— See LIFE, B1 Tribune— See SPORTS, B8 THURSDAY, JANUARY 24, 2013 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILY PAPER • WWW.PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COMRTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHED THURSDAYTHURSDAY ■ Under pressure to change, Jantzen Beach businesses add guards GO Box venture takes out the trash About 1,200 local subscribers take their food to go, sustainably By SAMANTHA SIGLER The Tribune Garrett Downen works in Old Town, a few blocks from a food cart pod in downtown Portland. At lunchtime, he likes to grab his food in a hurry and bring it back to his offi ce. But he hates hav- ing to throw away the disposable containers. That’s why six months ago he subscribed to GO Box — to cut back on Portland’s waste. “If it was GO Box, going to founded by Laura Weiss, work allows custom- anywhere, ers to pay for it’d work in reusable containers that Portland.” can be fi lled at — Laura Weiss, select food GO Box founder carts and ca- Reiley, a drug-sniffi ng German boxer, has been deployed along with several new security guards to deter crime at the “Lottery Row” strip mall on Hayden Island. fes. Six months in, the business is showing remarkable growth. Customers sign up at the par- ticipating businesses for $12 a year and immediately receive LOTTERY ROW their fi rst GO Box. Once they fi nish eating, they drop off their box to be cleaned at one of fi ve downtown drop sites. In ex- change, they get a token that can be swapped for another re- GAMBLES ON usable container. “I’ve always loved the food carts, but I’ve always hated the waste,” Weiss says. Weiss was a regular food cart customer who tried to SECURITY bring in her own reusable containers only to find county health regulations don’t allow amblers at the parking lot and posted that. “Lottery Row” Story by Steve Law signs warning patrons The idea for GO Box came to on Hayden Is- Photos by Christopher Onstott against prostitution, urinat- her in 2010 when Weiss learned Gland are en- ing in the parking lot and more about food containers countering a new cast of other unsavory acts. while at Aramark, a food-ser- characters this month at “We’ve put a lot of re- vice company. the complex of 12 lottery bars: a fl eet of sources to sort of fl ush out these bad apples,” GO Box containers are made armed security guards and Reiley the drug- says Julie Ramseth, Sondland’s property of No. 5 polypropylene and bi- sniffi ng German boxer. manager. sphenol A (BPA)-free plastic. Under pressure from Portland police and Owners of the lucrative lottery delis and They’re dishwasher and micro- state liquor inspectors, landlord Gordon bars also chipped in, in consultation with wavable, but Weiss still advises Sondland recently ordered a 20-day blitzkrieg Mike Leloff, Portland Police Bureau’s North people to avoid microwaving to reduce drug dealing and other crimes at Precinct commander. food in plastic containers. The Dotty’s at “Lottery Row” earned nearly $1.3 million in 2012 from the strip retail center opposite Jantzen Beach Dan Fischer, who owns the Dotty’s chain Costing about $4 each, the six state-owned electronic slot machines, with $244,160 going to the Center. Sondland deployed four nighttime se- containers are manufactured in retailer. It’s one of 12 lottery retailers at the strip center. curity guards, installed bright lights in the See LOTTERY / Page 2 Houston and used by other companies and colleges around the nation. Weiss has masters degrees in public health and business administration. GO Box is the fi rst business she’s created. “I felt I was at the right place at the right time,” Weiss says. Drug therapy for drug addiction? “If it was going to work anywhere, it’d work in Portland.” ing from depression and anxiety Wider medication were given medication. Conven- Getting rid of waste use could be the tional talk therapy was consid- When Weiss launched GO ered the most viable option for Boxes in July, five food cart future of treatment the most common psychiatric owners participated in the ven- problems. ture. Now there are about 1,200 By PETER KORN Today, a variety of pharma- individual subscribers and 13 The Tribune ceuticals are often prescribed as corporations that pay monthly a fi rst response. fees to have GO Box drop sites Tim Hartnett, the executive The driver of a new age of ad- in their offices. In addition, director of the oldest metha- diction therapy, Hartnett says, more than 50 food carts and ca- done clinic in Multnomah will be changing attitudes to- fes use GO Boxes. County, believes we are on ward medications such as meth- Weiss estimates that GO Box the cusp of a new age of re- adone. Increasingly, the goal of use has kept 15,000 disposable covery treatment addiction therapy containers out of landfi lls. The that will increas- SECOND OF will no longer be to city of Portland honored Weiss’ ingly rely on med- replace an opiate GO Boxes last year with an ications to help TWO STORIES such as heroin with award for sustainable business people deal with a drug such as practices. their addictions and stabilize methadone and then to wean Weiss is carrying the sus- their lives. the patient off, the experts say. tainability about as far as she That’s precisely what most “What will happen in the next can. She and a half-time em- worries Leonard Arnold. few years is that idea will with- ployee pick up locally made “We are where mental health er,” Hartnett says. “People will bags of GO Box containers in was 30 years ago,” says Hart- approach substance use disor- shipping boxes made locally nett, who heads CODA Inc., a ders like (they do) diabetes and from bamboo. The drop sites nonprofi t that specializes in ad- other chronic health condi- are inside businesses of GO diction recovery. tions.” TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT Box partners, such as the West Thirty years ago, before Pro- Patients pick up their doses from the methadone dispensary at CODA, a nonprofi t that specializes in zac, relatively few people suffer- See ADDICTION / Page 9 addiction recovery. See GO BOX / Page 7 “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to Portland Tribune Airport reports ■ In another sign of the recovering economy, 14.4 million passengers fl ew out of Portland deliver balanced news that refl ects the near-record International Airport in 2012, nearing the record 14.6 passengers in 2007, the year before the stories of our communities. Thank you Online service start of the Great Recession. Search: Airport. for reading our newspapers.” — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN JR. OWNER & NEIGHBOR A2 NEWS The Portland Tribune Thursday, January 24, 2013 Lottery: Neighbors see moves as PR blitz ■ From page 1 and six of the 12 Lottery Row businesses, deployed four ad- ditional security guards and the drug dog. “I basically com- mitted to the North Precinct we’re going to fix the problem,” Fischer says. He also of- fered police access to his exte- rior video camera stream, which is capable of reading li- cense plates in the bustling parking lot. Come Friday and Saturday nights, when the place is jump- ing with Washington residents lured by Oregon video lottery games, nine security guards should be on duty. “So far we’re pleased,” says Leloff, who launched a target- ed crime enforcement cam- paign at Lottery Row a couple months ago in tandem with the Oregon Liquor Control Com- mission. “I think the security guards are fi nding some of the criminal activity that we’ve been talking about,” Leloff says. In the first two days of stepped-up private security, two drug busts were made. In the fi rst couple weeks, 60 people have been cited for tres- passing and ordered not to re- turn to the premises, says Dustin O’Brin, head of the security company hired by Fischer. Fischer says most of the TRIBUNE PHOTOS: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT problems observed so far are Customers at Cafe Del Toro play state video lottery games. The former white-tablecloth restaurant is one of six lottery retailers at “Lottery Row” owned by Oregon Restaurant caused by non-customers, in- Services Inc. cluding transients and others in McDonald’s sprawling near- by parking lot, which is largely “Even if you make the secu- Cash cow empty during late nights. rity top-notch, it is a blight on Leloff says he’s still con- our community,” Schmidt says. 2012 earnings from state’s 72 electronic slot machines at cerned that Sondland commit- “And when that security goes Hayden Island’s “Lottery Row” ted to only a 20-day effort, away, the problem’s going to NET REVENUE* RETAILER SHARE which is winding down soon, come right back.” and didn’t agree to all the secu- Schmidt says the security Anchor Bar $886,631 $183,608 rity fi xes he recommended. blitz appears to be largely a Bradley’s Bar & Grill $1,066,320 $217,067 Sondland will keep the public relations effort in re- Cafe Del Toro $1,201,467 $234,911 stepped-up secu- sponse to in- CJ’s Deli $1,121,640 $223,105 rity “as long as creased heat from Dede’s Deli $863,368 $178,132 it’s necessary,” “Even if you police, liquor in- Ramseth insists.

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