Weinhart’s walkabout EDITION West Linn resident tackles Pacic Crest trail — SEE LIFE, B10 GREATER PORTLAND PortlandTUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2014 • TWICE CHOSEN THE NATION’S BEST NONDAILY PAPERTribune • PORTLANDTRIBUNE.COM • PUBLISHED TUESDAY AND THURSDAY Urban Where do most want vote key to live? In the suburbs to GMO Metro study sees population shift, critics say numbers skewed campaign By JIM REDDEN single-family detached home the Portland Region was under- The Tribune with a yard. And more people taken by Metro, the elected prefer the suburbs instead regional government. The Opponents see a The traditional American of downtown and close-in results are the most in-depth and Dream is alive and well in the neighborhoods. complete ever gathered in the tough time in some Portland area. Those are among the results metropolitan area. And they fly Despite all the buzz about tiny of the most comprehensive study in the face of national surveys PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP FILE PHOTO areas, but could win homes on wheels and apart- on housing preferences ever con- that claim most people prefer to More than three dozen new homes have been constructed in the ments with no designated park- ducted in Portland and sur- live in cities. Bronson Creek development on West Union Road in Washington County. By MATEUSZ PERKOWSKI ing, most Portland-area resi- rounding communities. The A new study says many people still desire the suburban lifestyle. Pamplin Media Group dents want to live in their own Residential Preference Study for See HOUSING / Page 6 The fate of Oregon’s geneti- cally modified organism la- beling initiative will hinge on whether heavy spending by “It is so deceiving where the creek goes into that water. I’m just wondering why — opponents can overcome the liberal leanings of urban vot- if we realize it’s an issue — why are we not addressing this?” ers, experts say. Dueling campaigns on — Jessica MacLean Measure 92, which would require labeling of foods containing GMOs, will soon be operating at full throttle now that Labor Day has passed, po- litical analysts agree. What’s far less certain is whether Oregon will buck the trend of biotech proponents de- feating GMO labeling initiatives with well-funded campaign ef- forts, as occurred in Washington DROPPING and California, experts say. Political analysts say it’s a foregone conclusion that oppo- nents of GMO labeling will out- spend the measure’s supporters, as in the other states. Urban vot- INTO ers, who have a powerful influ- Forest Grove ence over Oregon politics, may mother Robbie tend to agree with GMO label- Pock added ing, but experts have varying flowers to a perspectives on memorial at the how that demo- Sain Creek Picnic graphic will af- DANGER Area last week. fect the election. The flowers joined Russ Dondero, some Love Rocks, retired political a local craft and science profes- sor at Pacific University, says the outreach Portland area is a “built in yes phenomenon that vote” for Measure 92. Opponents sprang from the of GMO labeling face an uphill deaths of two battle because other communi- Forest Grove ties in Western Oregon — where sisters last year. most of the PAMPLIN MEDIA population GROUP: DOUG lives — also ap- “The BURKHARDT pear sympa- thetic to the la- question of beling mea- who will sure, Dondero says. actually Proponents show up of labeling have will decide also been Tragedy sparks local push for working for this issue.” about two — Len Bergstein, years to bring Northwest attention to the Strategies more warnings at popular site issue and col- lect signatures in favor of the ballot initiative, giving them a By JILL REHKOPF SMITH that four members of a Hillsboro family head start in shaping the discus- Pamplin Media Group were found drowned: A 42-year-old sion, he says. mother, her 25-year-old daughter and “If you can control the narra- PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP: NANCY TOWNSLEY In the wake of what may be the 13-year-old son, and her 3-year-old tive of the debate, you can win,” Michael Medill of Gaston pauses near a memorial to four members of a most horrific tragedy ever to occur grandson (the daughter’s son). Dondero says. Hillsboro family who drowned at Hagg Lake last month. He erected at Henry Hagg Lake, some people Two park visitors found the 3-year- Despite the demographic ad- are wondering why county officials old floating face down in the water Mon- unauthorized warning signs at the Sain Creek Picnic Area Saturday and vantage enjoyed by labeling pro- haven’t put warning signs at one of day night, Aug. 25, along with belong- was cited for criminal mischief. ponents, their victory is by no the most beautiful, popular — and ings apparently abandoned by his fami- means certain, says Len Berg- dangerous — swimming areas in the ly: cell phones, a cooler, beach towels, stein, president of Northwest huge western Washington County shoes, the family car and a little dog still Strategies and a political County signs go up park. dragging its leash. The Clackamas analyst. Sain Creek Picnic Area has a pictur- County Dive Rescue Team pulled the The 2014 election will not de- the Sain Creek area of Henry esque grove of giant Douglas firs and a remaining three family members from cide a presidential contest, so Homemade placards Hagg Lake, county officials beach featuring a shallow wading area the bottom of the lake around 1 p.m. the outlook for voter turnout is at site of Hagg Lake reversed their position and that seems ideal for people who don’t Tuesday, Aug. 26. ambiguous, he says. In such a said official warning signs know how to swim. “We don’t know if signs could have drownings lead to ticket would be posted immediately. But of 18 drownings at the nearly prevented this, but they might have,” See GMO / Page 7 Temporary signs went up 900-acre lake since August 1980, 11 were Bilderback told KOIN 6 News. “At least if By NANCY TOWNSLEY Monday. Permanent signs are in the relatively small and intimate Sain the signs had been there you could have Pamplin Media Group planned later this week. Creek inlet, according to Gaston-area thought, ‘Well, we did all we could.’” The signs in English and resident Ken Bilderback, who helped Rescuers speculate that one or two of Two days after Washington Spanish will warn visitors to Eagle Scout Kyle Giesbers install and the family members accidentally County sheriff’s deputies cited wear a life vest and caution them maintain the site’s free loaner life jacket stepped over a steep dropoff in the wa- a Gaston man for posting kiosk in 2009. See SIGNS / Page 2 homemade warning signs in See CITATION / Page 2 It was at Sain Creek in late August “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to Portland Tribune deliver balanced news that reects the DUCKS’ RALLY PUMPS UP SEASON stories of our communities. Thank you ” — SEE SPORTS, PAGE B1 for reading our newspapers. Inside — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN JR. OWNER & NEIGHBOR 462866.090914 The Portland Tribune Tuesday, September 9, 2014 NEWS A3 CLACKAMAS State report: Tech Lawmakers, family give Atiyeh bypasses county a sendoff with laughs, tears Aug. 7 business meeting. “So McCall in 1983, when Atiyeh Dolores and said ‘I have a Clackamas County we have lost opportunities and Farewell highlights was governor, and at the memo- problem,’” Thompson said. we have lost employers simply rial service for former Gov. Bob Jackie Winters, then the looks for solutions to because we don’t have the land life of governor who Straub in 2002. state ombudsman under Ati- inventory that the other coun- has ‘gone shing’ He was one of four former yeh, recalled a 1979 roast for lagging economy ties do.” governors in the chamber for the Salem-Keizer NAACP in The most recent urban the memorial service of Mark which she was the roastee — By SHASTA KEARNS MOORE growth boundary draft report By PETER WONG Hatfield, former governor and and he was one of the roast- The Tribune released in July from Metro The Tribune senator, in September 2011. ers. If farmers complained to says Clackamas County doesn’t him about the lack of rain or Clackamas County is lag- need to add any more land to SALEM — Vic Atiyeh’s A tough eight years wives complained about hus- ging far behind its regional its buildable inventory. There nine decades of life and 28 Atiyeh led Oregon during the bands, Atiyeh said, “I tell counterparts in terms of job are about 50 sites region-wide years of public service — worst economic downturn since them to go see Jackie.” growth. That’s according to available for large industrial including his eight years as the Great Depression of the Winters, now a Republican a new report on Oregon’s businesses, so Metro planners Oregon’s 32nd governor — 1930s. In 1982, when he called state senator from Salem, said economic forecast from suggest the focus should be on were recalled Wednesday, three special sessions, he and it wasn’t all in fun. When a state economists. making the sites ready for Sept. 3, with laughter and Democratic legislative majori- PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP FILE PHOTO change in federal food stamps While Multnomah and business. serious words. ties — with a few Republican The life of former Gov. Vic Atiyeh, threatened to deprive people Washington counties have re- “Existing sites typically re- The famous, the familiar and votes — balanced the state bud- here in 2010 speaking at Chinook of their benefits, Winters said, covered all of their jobs lost quire actions such as infra- the family all paid tribute to Ati- get by cutting spending and in- Landing Marine Park in Fairview, she and Atiyeh helped orga- during the recession, Clacka- structure provision, wetland yeh in the House chamber, creasing taxes.