Bunch of vagabonds YOUR ONLINE LOCAL In good hands Eclectic klezmer band celebrates its DAILY NEWS Wheaton, Cooks give 10th anniversary www.portlandtribune.com Oregon State 1-2 punch Portland— See LIFE, B1 Tribune— See SPORTS, B10 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2012 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILY PAPER • WWW.PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHED THURSDAY Lovejoy’s SCHOOL’S ARTS city work shines in GO A LITTLE new light Author brings to life ‘WILD’ an overlooked leader in Portland’s history By STEVE LAW The Tribune Bubonic plague struck San Francisco in August 1907, and Portland and other Pa- cifi c ports feared they’d be hit next. One month into her job as the nation’s fi rst big-city female public health officer, Esther Pohl Lovejoy moved quickly. Resisting calls to scapegoat Chinatown, Lovejoy enlisted the news media to expose rot- ting piles of garbage and open sewers at Portland waterfront businesses. She led a city crack- down forcing the use of en- closed garbage receptacles and screens to keep rats from stock- piles of wheat and other food- stuffs. And Buckman Arts she enlisted Focus “Lovejoy professional Elementary, a came to rat catchers and offered district-wide believe that residents a magnet school, inter- nickel bounty doesn’t get for every rat extra funding for national they brought their arts focus. health, in, dead or Third-graders social justice alive. enjoy music The plague class on Monday. and an end did spread to TRIBUNE PHOTOS: to war could Seattle that CHRISTOPHER only come fall, but Port- ONSTOTT land was from the spared. work of During ■ Lovejoy’s ten- Portland author Cheryl Strayed lends hand to Buckman program women ure as a pub- engaged in lic health offi - By JENNIFER ANDERSON signed the movie Minn. “I’ve given probably 200 talks, good were walking and being in the constructive cial here, The Tribune rights to portray but none of them have been to chil- wilderness, so I set out on this adven- Portland be- her in a “Wild” dren. ... I thought that keeping the at- ture.” resistance.” came the fi rst Cheryl Strayed was terrifi ed. movie set to film tention of a roomful of elementary- For the fi rst time in any of her pub- — Author Kim city in the na- She wasn’t facing a bear, or a rattle- next summer. school children, they can get easily lic presentations, she showed the chil- Jensen, tion to con- snake, or a scorching or snowy land- But Strayed distracted. What if I’m boring?” dren a slide show of photos, and on Esther Pohl duct govern- scape, as she chronicled in her New wasn’t sure if the Strayed somehow managed to keep brought her backpack and pitched the Lovejoy ment inspec- York Times bestseller, “Wild,” an ac- kids at Buckman the crowd at bay at Buckman, where actual tent she used on the trail back tions of meat count of her 1993 solo journey on 1,100 Arts Focus Ele- she’s sent her second-grade son and in 1993, when she was 26. markets — a miles of the Pacifi c Crest Trail. mentary School fi rst-grade daughter since kindergar- Strayed thinks they got something year before the release of Up- Strayed, a Northeast Portland mom, would think she ten. out of it. After hearing her talk, stu- ton Sinclair’s muckracking was thinking about what she’d say to PHOTO: JONI KABANA was all that cool. Despite the adult-only passages in dents returned to their classes to do book “The Jungle” and passage a bunch of grade-schoolers. CHERYL STRAYED Or if they’d listen. the book, “I actually did tell them a lot illustrated writing projects that will of the Federal Food and Drugs Sure, she was a guest of Oprah this “I’ve talked to of the story,” she says. “I told them my be on display the night of Oct. 29, Act. summer to talk about kicking off the thousands and thousands of people,” mom died and in my sorrow I just when she lends her star power to a Lovejoy went on to become a billionaire’s book club 2.0. 44-year-old Strayed said by phone this didn’t know what to do with myself. pivotal leader in the 1912 cam- Sure, Reese Witherspoon has week from a hotel room in St. Paul, The two things that made me feel See BUCKMAN / Page 2 paign that fi nally granted Ore- gon women the right to vote, after five failed ballot mea- sures. In 1920, she became the fi rst woman to run for Congress in an Oregon general election. And for nearly five decades, North Plains: Stinkin’ plant hurts Lovejoy was a pioneer in inter- national medical aid, inspiring ■ Small By JIM REDDEN Nature’s Needs, a large composting whether the facility can continue owns the Corner Deli less than a groups like Doctors Without The Tribune facility that accepts much of the accepting food waste before the end mile away, says the odors have driv- Borders. shops say Portland’s commercial food waste of the year. A work session on the en customers away. Now Lovejoy, relatively un- many driven Portland’s aggressive com- and residential yard debris mixed issue has been scheduled for Oct. “I’ve seen people drive up out- known in Oregon, is getting her away by posting policies are raising a with residential food waste. It is 23. side, get out of the car, wrinkle due, with the release this stink in North Plains — and crit- just east of North Plans, the small Many residents and business their noses, get back in the cars and month of Kim Jensen’s new bi- compost ics there are afraid the problem community north of Hillsboro along owners charge that offensive odors drive away,” Peterson said last ography, “Oregon’s Doctor to pile stench will spread if other cities adopt Highway 26. frequently waft from the facility week. “They’re not going some- similar policies. The Washington County Board through neighborhoods and com- See LOVEJOY / Page 9 The controversy revolves around of Commissioners must decide mercial areas. Ruth Peterson, who See COMPOST / Page 4 Pssst! What’s inside has real mysterious appeal A couple walks No sign? No problem for pubs, eateries that like plate of fries with O’Connell on passed the this Wednesday evening, learned Moonshine Patio the pull of ‘mystique’ marketing on customers about Moonshine from friends and Bar & Grill now she’s a two or three times a before turning By PETER KORN west 17th Avenue, noticed the light week customer. back around and The Tribune on inside and what looked like an “I think it’s quirky,” Fontaine going in, missing interesting group of patrons out- says of the sign. “It adds to the the store front Megan O’Connell never no- side. charm of the place.” due to a lack of ticed that the sign outside Now a regular at Moonshine, Moonshine — full name Balls signage. Moonshine advertises a busi- O’Connell likes the misleading the Cat’s Moonshine Kitchen & TRIBUNE PHOTO: ness machine company. sign. Lounge — is among a growing CHRISTOPHER She was just driving past the “It feels elite,” she says. ONSTOTT Northwest Portland pub on North- Rebecca Fontaine, enjoying a See SPEAKEASY / Page 5 “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to deliver Portland Tribune Experts expect ■ Oregon’s timber industry should see growth as national housing starts pick up, say balanced news that refl ects the stories of our experts who spoke Wednesday morning. Search word: timber. communities. Thank you for reading our housing to help ” Online Read it fi rst at portlandtribune.com newspapers. timber rebound — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN, JR. OWNER & NEIGHBOR A2 NEWS The Portland Tribune Thursday, October 18, 2012 Buckman: Arts magnet, but no extra funds ■ From page 1 fundraiser called “The Arts Have Strayed plans Strayed.” “My 7-year-old son wrote a poem based on an anecdote she told about ‘Wild’ vacation a chipmunk,” says Sarah Bowen In her pre-”Wild” success, Cheryl Shea, a Buckman mother of three, a Strayed could usually be found at fellow writer and co-founder of the any of her favorite Portland stomp- blog “Another Mother Runner.” ing grounds — Powell’s Books on Hawthorne, Broadway Books, Lau- Starving artists relhurst and Mt. Tabor Park. It was Bowen Shea who came up These days, she’s in and out of with the idea for the fundraiser, town, and still surprised when people and Strayed was quick to agree. recognize her on the street. Recently, As her readers know, Strayed — she was in a parking lot in Northwest who gained a cult following for her Portland when a man pulled his car “Dear Sugar” advice columns on a up next to her and rolled down his blog called The Rumpus — infuses window. “He says, ‘Hey Cheryl, how her life with the arts. you doing?’ “ she says. “I said, ‘Oh, I’m “I’ve wanted to be writer since I great, how are you?’ I said, ‘I’ve for- was a little kid,” she says. “For me gotten your name,’ just assumed I it was those teachers that talked knew him. He said, ‘Oh, we’ve never about artists and writers, shared met. Congratulations for your suc- those lives with me — that was the cess. We’re all so proud of you.’ “ first spark in me that I could be a Usually, Strayed says, people will writer too.” just say, “I loved your book.” When it came to her own chil- Then there was her recent trip to dren, Strayed says she and her hus- Minnesota.