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TheTHURSDAY, July 25, 2013 • The Tigard/TualTimesatin Leader in news for 58 years • VOLUME 58, NO. 30 • 75 CENTS TUALATIN DEVELOPMENT Nyberg gets New Seasons and nearly nine acres set aside as landscape area. Market claims new location in New Seasons leaders said the company could open a more than 33,000-square-foot location on Nyberg Rivers development Nyberg Road as early as fall 2014, and expects to offer 150 new full- and part-time positions in the By SAUNDRA SORENSON store. The company also pledged 10 percent of its net earnings to community nonprofit organizations New Seasons Market confirmed Tuesday focused on promoting public education and sus- that it would open a store in Tualatin. tainability, as well as to organizations that fight The announcement came the day after Center- hunger. Cal Properties presented its master plan for its A development plan submitted to the city shows SUBMITTED PHOTO Nyberg River development to the City Council for plans for an approximately 30,000-square-foot new New Seasons Market provided a rendering of its newest location in the Nyberg Rivers development. The review. In August, CenterCal signed a 75-year lease building between the structure earmarked as a Ca- market is slated to open in fall 2014. on the more than 38-acre parcel, with about 307,000 square feet zoned for retail and restaurant space, See NEW SEASONS / Page A8 Corridor ■ Zoo opens its doors to visually impaired students plan chugs along Committee moves ahead with plans to potentially bring light rail to town Clara Johansen, By GEOFF PURSINGER 10, of Durham, The Times pets Nikki, a 235-pound With a unanimous vote Siberian tiger at Monday morning, plans that the Oregon Zoo. could bring a MAX light-rail The zoo offers line to Tigard moved one blind and step closer. visually impaired Meeting in front of a large students the crowd at the Tigard Public Li- chance to feel brary, the 14 members of Met- some of the ro’s Southwest Corridor Plan zoo’s most steering committee approved a exotic animals plan they had been discussing while they are for the past anesthetized two years. during medical Members procedures. agreed to study high-ca- SUBMITTED photo pacity transit in Southwest Portland and into Tigard and, eventual- McFarlane ly, Tualatin. Blind students encounter tiger Those plans could mean ei- ions and tigers and of 20/400, she is twice the so veterinarians could clean pletely blind, and this was their ther MAX bears, oh my! threshold to be considered le- Story by her teeth and take blood sam- first chance to feel what a tiger light-rail or That’s what you’ll gally blind. Geoff Pursinger ples. looks like, said Lisa McCo- bus rapid tran- Lfind at the Oregon Zoo For her, unless the animals While the big cat slept, stu- nachie, program administrator sit would move on any given day this summer. are near the glass, it’s difficult dents were able to feel her long, for blind and visually impaired into the area But for girls like 10-year-old to make out their shapes. ally impaired children for an sharp claws and teeth, run their services at Columbia Regional over the next Clara Johansen, the zoo isn’t But that wasn’t the case last experience few have ever had: hands across her rough, Program, which assists local several years. anything to get excited about. week, when she and her mom The chance to pet Nikki, one of scratchy tongue, listen to its school district in educating stu- The decision Johansen, a fifth-grader at got an up close and personal the largest cats in . heartbeat and pet her thick fur. dents with special needs. Dirksen was anything Durham Elementary School, encounter with a 235-pound Si- The tiger was brought in to “It’s not soft, like you would “Touch is such an important but unexpect- has a rare genetic disease berian tiger. the zoo’s veterinary medical think it would be,” Johansen sense for these kids,” she said. ed. Members known as Leber’s congenital On July 16, the zoo opened its center as part of her annual said. “It’s super coarse hair.” of the steering amaurosis. With a visual acuity doors to a dozen blind and visu- check up. She was anesthetized Many in the group were com- See ZOO / Page A6 committee have been dis- cussing the is- sue for months, and steering com- Hales mittee mem- Martinazzi to lead Crawfish Festival Parade bers were ex- pected to con- ■ Local By SAUNDRA SORENSON on Tualatin. With co-author Karen tinue studying both light rail The Times Lafky Nygaard, she chronicled Tual- and bus rapid transit as possi- historian atin’s origin story, tracing the narra- ble options. and lifelong It’s fair to say the grand mar- tive back to the Oregon Trail era and The committee is comprised resident will shal of this year’s Tualatin Craw- compiling the stories of the city’s Loyce Martinazzi of mayors from Tigard, Tuala- fish Festival is a somewhat reluc- founding families, whose names can serve as (fourth from tin, Sherwood, Durham, King tant figurehead. be found scattered around Tualatin left) was given City, Beaverton, Lake Oswego grand But who better to lead the city’s on street signs, in “Tualatin...from the Chamber of and Portland, as well officials marshal centennial year celebrations than the Beginning.” Commerce’s from TriMet, Metro, Oregon Loyce Martinazzi, a prolific local his- And Martinazzi has done her part Spirit of Tualatin Department of Transportation torian with family roots going back to mark the city’s 100-year anniver- award in April. and Washington and Mult- several generations in the region? Martinazzi literally wrote the book See MARSHAL / Page A7 SUBMITTED PHOTO See CORRIDOR / Page A6

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