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NOVEMBER 2012 A SPECIAL PUBLICATION OF THE LAKE OSWEGO REVIEW SHOWCASING EVERYTHING LOCAL IN Big and bold LAKE OSWEGO On the run Add some drama this Pacer cross country holiday season teams head to state — See LO, inside — See Sports, A20 Add some drama This holiday season, go big and bold fashion drinks around town Quinn Nieland sports a coat for all outings Pages 4-5 The perfect wine blend will complement your Thanksgiving feast Page 12-13 With a tree lighting, art and a reunion market, there is plenty to do Pages 14-15 THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 2012 • ONLINE AT LAKEOSWEGOREVIEW.COM • VOLUME 99, NO. 47 • 75 CENTS Foothills Don’t forget to vote urban Lake Oswego, starting with the two local ballot be part of the city’s proposed North Anchor proj- City, county issues round measures. ect, a mixed-use development with the library, public parking and retail and residential spaces renewal plan out election; ballots due by Measure 3-405 — Lake Oswego Public Library downtown. Measure 3-405 asks voters whether the city Supporters of the plan say the existing library 8 p.m. Tuesday should issue up to $14 million in is too small. An average 1,000 general obligation bonds to help people visit each day, and offi cials approved By KARA HANSEN MURPHEY pay for a new public library. The say the library increasingly The Review roughly 60,000-square-foot build- struggles to provide a quiet space ing, planned at First Street and B for researching and reading Public projects include B Lake Oswego voters will weigh in on two Avenue, would replace the existing while also fulfi lling its growing local bond measures, mayoral and city coun- 27,000-square-foot building built in role as a community center, offer- Avenue extension and cil candidates and future county commission- the early 1980s at Fourth Street ing the free use of computers and ers in addition to state and national races in and D Avenue. programs such as concerts and affordable housing aid the Tuesday general election. In addition to bond proceeds, author readings. By KARA HANSEN MURPHEY Ballots are due by 8 p.m. Tuesday. You can the city would fund the new building with other Proponents say the library needs more room The Review submit them at various drop boxes throughout resources, including county library district and for books and other materials, and it needs dedi- Clackamas, Multnomah and Washington coun- city capital funds, profi ts from selling the existing cated spaces to separate events and groups of The Lake Oswego Redevelopment Agency ties, including at the Lake Oswego Public Li- library property, donations and urban renewal visitors — including busloads of schoolchildren on Tuesday approved a $43.2 million urban re- brary. funds. While the bond measure would only fund newal plan aiming to transform the 58-acre, Following is a rundown of the biggest issues in the library part of the plan, the new facility would See VOTE / Page A3 largely industrial Foothills area into a thriving neighborhood. Made up of the mayor and city councilors, the LORA board voted to forward the plan to the plan- ning commission, which will pass along its sugges- tions to the city council for adoption. The Foothills urban renewal plan includes 21 Weathering infrastructure and development projects intended to attract private investment and spur redevelop- ment, ultimately bringing a mix of retail, housing Sandy: Former and commercial spaces to the area between the Willamette River and downtown. It is the third urban renewal district approved in Lake Oswego; others include the East End district, Review reporter created downtown in 1979, and the recently ad- opted Lake Grove district. The projects range from an extension of B Ave- rides out storm nue across State Street, with a large staircase lead- ing toward a new public plaza by Foothills Park, to relocated sewer and stormwater mains and land- scaping enhancements. in New York City The plan also provides for $8.8 million in assis- tance to developers working to build affordable housing. ■ Winds, rain cause havoc The projects would be constructed over a 22-year period. By CLAIRE OLIVER At the Tuesday meeting, Lake Oswego Develop- For The Review ment Project Manager Sidaro Sin said the plan is considered a “higher level” document — one that hen I started doesn’t attempt to dig into too many site develop- Editor’s note grad school at ment details. New York Uni- “What (it) does is set the stage, the fi nancial With the after- versity this fall, W See FOOTHILLS / Page A5 math of superstorm I expected to have a lot of Sandy continuing to new experiences. Weathering pound the eastern “Frankenstorm” wasn’t one portion of the United of them. States, we caught up Truthfully, with former reporter I was pretty Claire Oliver, who is insulated now attending grad- from the uate school in New worst of Hur- York City. While ricane Sandy. more than 8 million I live in a people were without basement electricity across the apartment of region, the city was a brown- OLIVER eerily quiet with vir- stone in tually no car, train, Brooklyn subway or air trans- Heights, about two blocks portation occuring. from the East River just The death toll south of the Brooklyn Bridge. reached 62 by mid- All of the AP photos of a dark day Wednesday. lower Manhattan were taken This is a report from from the promenade at the New York City fi led end of my street. Our apart- SUBMITTED GRAPHIC by Oliver. ment wasn’t in a fl ood zone, Daylight saving time ends Sunday. At 2 a.m. that but because of this proximity day, citizens should turn their clocks back one hour I decided to stay with a friend at her apartment near the as most of the nation returns to standard time. We NYU campus in Greenwich Village. return to daylight saving time at 2 a.m. on the For the past two days we’ve just been huddled inside, second Sunday in March 2013. The net result as we waiting to see what would happen. (Monday) night, when head into the darker winter months is that there will the storm made landfall, we were sheltered from the SUBMITTED PHOTO: CLAIRE OLIVER be an hour more of daylight in the mornings and an See STORM / Page A5 A downed tree takes a street sign with it in New York’s Washington Square Park. hour less of daylight in the evenings. Lake Oswego Deputy City Deputy city recorder to retire Recorder Jane McGarvin stands McGarvin is last charter Garvin’s past associations and preserve the “honor and dignity and Administrators) Internation- outside of city accomplishments at the meeting. established by our predeces- al, which named her Oregon hall. After member of municipal “In 47 years, Jane has quite a sors.” The job entails serving a ARMA’s member of the year in working for the career history,” Moncrieff said. broad cross section of municipal 2008. She oversees publication of city for 18 years, recorders association McGarvin, who lives in east government, including elected the ARMA chapter’s newsletter, McGarvin will Multnomah County, is the last lawmakers, city administrators which has won best newsletter of By KARA HANSEN MURPHEY working charter member of the and department heads, and citi- the year from the international retire at the end The Review Oregon Association of Municipal zens. It requires attention to de- professional association the past of December. Recorders. tail and accuracy and often in- four years in a row. REVIEW PHOTO: After more than four de- She was appointed member- volves long hours. She also recently received a VERN UYETAKE cades spent working for vari- ship chairwoman of the associa- In Lake Oswego, McGarvin special merit award from the mental Services and the cities of Bull Mountain. ous governments, Lake Oswe- tion at its charter meeting in has a range of duties, among ARMA chapter for her decades Sandy, Gresham and Tigard. She “Many people have asked ‘how go Deputy City Recorder Jane 1983. She has served in various them overseeing recruitment for of service to the Oregon Associa- has worked for Lake Oswego will the city manager’s offi ce op- McGarvin is retiring. offi ces for the organization since all of the city’s boards and com- tion of Municipal Recorders. since 1994. erate without you because you McGarvin accepted a distin- then. As the head of the group’s missions, which are made up of “I have great memories of all She noted that in 2004, she do so much and know so much?’” guished service award to a stand- Internet committee in 1999, she volunteers. my positions,” McGarvin said, was “loaned” to the city of Ti- McGarvin said. “My response is ing ovation at a council meeting created its fi rst website. She also “That in itself is quite a task,” noting one of her biggest accom- gard to fi ll in there as city re- to quote something from ‘The In- Oct. 23. She plans to stop working helped document the associa- Moncrieff said. plishments was working to up- corder, a job requiring her to dispensable Employee.’ It states: for the city at the end of Decem- tion’s history. McGarvin received an award date Multnomah County’s code, a serve as recording secretary and When you put your hand in a ber. The title of city recorder, city in 1996 for putting together the process that took two years to the city’s elections offi cer. She bucket of water, swish it around.