2 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL January 3, 2013 r"QSPVEIFSJUBHFPGHPMGUSBEJUJPOTJODF r$IBOEMFS&HBO%FTJHO(PMG$PVSTFGFBUVSFT ZFBSSPVOEQMBZBCJMJUZBOEBXBMLFSGSJFOEMZ MBZPVU r$BUFSJOHGBDJMJUJFTXJUIFYDFMMFOUGPPEBOE TFSWJDFGPSZPVSGBNJMZPSDPSQPSBUFFWFOU r0VS%JOJOH3PPN 'JSFTJEF(SJMMF BOE $BSESPPNPGGFSFOKPZBCMFEJOJOHBUNPTQIFSFT r'VMMTJ[F4XJNNJOH1PPM r"DUJWF+VOJPS(PMG1SPHSBN Enjoy the privileges and benefi ts of private club membership for the entire family. Call today for a tour of our beautiful facilities or information on golf and social memberships. TUALATIN COUNTRY CLUB 9145 SW Tualatin Rd PO Box 277 Tualatin, OR 97062 503-692-1122503-692-1122 www.tualatincountryclub.com 408302.010313 TC January 3, 2013 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL 3 reetings, cal consumers to include bringing us all together. The city of Tualatin turns 100 global markets. We don’t know what tomorrow holds or A years old on Aug. 18, 2013. I’m proud to say as a how folks in 2113 will look back on us, but I G On this special occasion, we look 32-year resident and long- feel it’s safe to say that Tualatin has always back from where we’ve come over the span time mayor, that the city of been and always will be a great place to live, message of a century, celebrate our community today, Tualatin offers high quality work and play. and dream of what tomorrow’s Tualatin service to residents and Please enjoy reading this special commem- might be. businesses. We have award- orative magazine about Tualatin’s colorful Tualatin has been built over the past cen- winning parks, a new li- past, present and future. I invite you to par- from the tury as a transportation link. First, ferries OGDEN brary, dedicated profession- ticipate in the 2013 Centennial Celebration and horses which transitioned to cars, trucks al staff, community police programs, activities and events throughout and an interstate freeway. We also grew from and a broad range of services and programs. the year. mayor corner shops to renowned shopping malls. Tualatin has strong citizen engagement, Happy 100th birthday, Tualatin! Our industries have evolved from serving lo- which supports fantastic community events — Mayor Lou Ogden Tualatin Tomorrow Q Tell us what the next 100 years should bring he Centennial Celebration has The Tualatin City The community’s provided us with a look back Council and Tualatin To- new Gateway at the past 100 years in Tuala- morrow Advisory Com- tin and has given us a cause to sculpture at the mittee will be seeking T intersection of celebrate the great community that has your input this year for evolved during the last century. Tuala- Nyberg and updates to the Vision tin Tomorrow is a community visioning Tualatin-Sherwood Plan. “All great things effort which will gather community in- roads was unveiled start from small begin- put on what the community wants to this past June. The nings” is a great quote to see in the future. The Tualatin Tomor- 18-foot-high highlight where we will row Vision Plan is being updated in sculpture, which begin with the Vision. 2013, and we cannot think of a more ap- features life-size Sharing ideas, discuss- propriate time than during this Centen- Canada geese, was ing them and writing nial Celebration. As we refl ect on and done by Studio Art down a plan seem sim- celebrate the past, it is a perfect time to Direct, with the ple; however, from these say, “Well, what’s next?“ help of bronze simple beginnings, many Many wonderful new programs, facili- artist Rip Caswell great things will follow. ties and community amenities have as well as a team There will be many evolved from the Vision Process. Ideas of local ways to get involved and such as the farmers market, the dog contractors. share your input. There park, citizen involvement groups, a new SUBMITTED PHOTO will be community meet- Gateway Monument and many other ings, online forums, community improvements were all con- She looks a bit different than in the and games, recreational classes of all events and outreach of all types. We cepts in the fi rst Vision Plan adopted in beginning as you would expect. Don’t kinds for all ages, a diverse collection hope you will get involved and share 2006, which are now a real part of Tuala- we all after we get a few decades on of public art, the Art Walk and the Ice your ideas, thoughts and dreams for the tin! us? In Tualatin’s case the changes Age Tonquin Trail, the Ki’a Kuts community! More than fi ve years have gone by, seem to enhance her already good bridge, our fi rst dog park, health care For more information, please visit, and it is time to check back with the bones with Parks and Natural areas, providers Legacy, Providence and Kai- www.tualatintomorrow.org or email people who live, work and play here to plenty of good places to eat and shop, ser Permanente all right here in our Sara Singer, deputy city manager, at ss- ask the question, “Well, what’s next for an outstanding school system, a place city, and so much more. [email protected]. Tualatin?“ for our 50s-plus population to eat Tualatin is a special place with so At 100, Tualatin looks pretty good! lunch and enjoy each other’s company much to offer. — Candice Kelly, Tualatin Tomorrow 4 TUALATIN CENTENNIAL January 3, 2013 TUALATIN TIMELINE Tualatin’s growing pains 15,000 YEARS AGO — Cata- quor sales. This might have infl uenced strophic fl oods scoured the How liquor and the success of a petition that was circulat- valley as giantic dams broke Don’t miss the play ed throughout Tualatin to put incorpora- up during the end of the last The Tualatin Historical Society is tion on the ballot, collecting a supposed Ice Age, creating the Ton- local politics shaped sponsoring a play depicting the fi ght 69 signatures in favor of incorporation. quin Scablands as well as between the Anti-Saloon League and The petition then “mysteriously” disap- leaving rich fertile soil along the city’s identity incorporation enthusiasts, with a cast peared, according to many sources, but the Tualatin River. that includes some of the characters’ not before the results had been offi cially By SAUNDRA SORENSON descendants, as well as city offi cials. registered. 15,000 YEARS AGO — A fe- Pamplin Media Group The play was written, cast and di- The July 5, 1913, issue of The Portland male mastodon slipped into rected by Sandry Lafky Carlson and Oregonian recorded a spirited three- the bog, and its bones were ualatin’s decision to incorporate Loyce Martiniazzi. hour argument regarding the petition dug up in 1962. had little to do with organizing a The performance will be held Sun- in Washington County Court. Commis- local government or establish- day, Feb. 17, at 2 p.m. at the Winona sioner John Nyberg voted with the T ing a tax base. And the issue of Grange Hall, 8340 S.W. Seneca St., Tu- County Judge to permit the election to becoming an incorporated municipality of alatin. For more information, call 503- move ahead. A Sherwood Weekly News- Washington County didn’t exactly make 885-1926. heet article dated July 23, 1913, an- for polite dinner conversation. nounced Tualatin’s Aug. 18 election to The fact that Tualatin’s residents momentum largely through religious fac- decide on incorporation, characterizing were so sharply divided on whether to tions. But as Martinazzi points out, suf- it as “launched by the wet forces in that incorporate came down to one thing: fragettes had their own grievances: In community with the hopes that by in- the drink. 1913, the U.S. was seven years away from corporating they would be able to get The Temperance movement was in full Prohibition, and women would have to back the saloon that has been closed TIMES FILE PHOTO swing by 1913, and many in Tualatin iden- wait just as long to gain the right to vote. since June 3 on account of the law The mastodon exhibit at the tifi ed as members of the infl uential Anti- “They stayed home when their hus- passed by the legislation last winter.” Tualatin Public Library. Saloon League, which was by then a na- bands drank up the house’s income and Shortly after, the Argus questioned the tional political lobbying force to be reck- they didn’t have a vote” about whether to MIA status of the petition, in what was no oned with. If newspaper clippings and an- incorporate, or on anything else, Martin- doubt the industry-accepted purple prose 7,000 YEARS AGO — Native ecdotal evidence are azzi said. style for newspapers of the time: people called Atfalatis, a to be believed, in Tu- A vocal supporter of incorporation was “Just why it disappeared — just how it band of Kalapuya, were in- alatin, one wasn’t “The Anti- city father John L. Smith, an infl uential disappeared — and just when it was given habiting the Tualatin area, pro- or anti-incorpo- Saloon League player in Tualatin’s burgeoning logging its quietus so far as being in evidence is gathering bulbs and berries, ration. The two sides and sawmill industries. Smith has been concerned, remains enveloped in dark- hunting and fi shing in the of the argument ad- did not want to credited with serving as Tualatin’s fi rst ness as jet as the tomb of Elisha, or river. dressed what were incorporate major employer, and the entrepreneur whether it took wings and went up in a seen as the sinful ef- pushed for Tualatin’s status as an offi cial chariot of fi re, as another solution of its 1812 — Native Americans fects of alcohol ver- because they city just as the town was becoming a ma- absence, is mere conjecture,” the article encountered trappers from sus the benefi t of Tu- thought there jor thoroughfare for two railroad lines be- read.