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BY ALLAN CLASSEN

Sue Lee’s long ordeal is over. The former 23rd Avenue mer-chant, who recovered from a

severe stroke in 2008 only to have her life and assets turned over to a court-appointed guardian, is at last free to live on her own.

She now lives in a Pearl District apartment, and as of June, her breakout became complete. Her only remaining connection to the probate court system is a financial conservator, a longtime friend who used to keep her books when Lee

operated the Orientale Motif Shop at 725 NW 23rd Ave.

Lee’s situation was first reported by the NW Examiner in February 2012. At that time, all decisions related to her assets, spending, residence and medical care were at the discretion of Nancy L. Mac-Donald, a professional guardian and conservator who billed Lee’s account for almost every service, errand or phone call at $85 to $110 an hour.

The efforts of Lee’s daughter, a dedicated cadre of friends and this newspaper to expose and

reverse her predicament only seemed to dig her hole deeper, leading to hourly charges as Mac-Donald defended herself against legal, administrative and public challenges. Although Lee’s income from Social Security and rent of her old store was more than $80,000 a year, it could not keep up with the expenses MacDonald rang up on her tab.

Two years ago, with cash reserves running low, MacDonald sought to sell Lee’s property to support that high cost of living.

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Parking meters delayed until fall or laterFurther investigation of bribery case may over-turn contract, require new bidding process BY ALLAN CLASSEN

Parking meters, last promised to be operating in the North-west District by September,

have been postponed again.

Due to revelations from a federal bribery suit involving former Port-land Parking Manager Ellis McCoy and Cale America, city officials have decided further investigation is needed to ensure the company has disassociated from persons responsible for the corruption.

Portland Bureau of Transporta-tion spokesperson Dylan Rivera said meters could be installed as soon as this fall if a two-step inves-tigation goes well. That process begins with an internal review by the Florida-based company. The city will then hire a law firm to scrutinize that report.

If either step uncovers ongoing problems, the metering project could be delayed indefinitely.

“I don’t know if it’s back to square one,” said Northwest Park-ing Plan manager Chris Armes, referring to a new competitive bid-ding process.

Armes said it may be possible to contract with the runner-up in the bidding process won by Cale in January.

“We share the community’s frus-tration,” Rivera said. “We know the community wanted the meters on the street yesterday.”

The need to rid all traces of the scandal is paramount, he said. “Public trust is really essential.”

“We were really surprised at what came out of federal court this spring,” he said. “Federal investi-gators had not shared any of that with us. We’re tired of being sur-prised.”

Grassroots discontent with per-petual delays had approached the breaking point even before the lat-est pitfall.

“It’s become chronic,” said Ron Walters, a member of the North-west Parking Plan Stakeholders Advisory Committee. “It’s almost a joke.”

Another member of the commit-

Partial demolition process underway may be extended to entire 11-building Centennial Mills complex, bringing 10 years of redevelop-ment plans to naught. Decision likely within 90 days.

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Sue Lee at home in her Pearl District apartment, surrounded by a few of her favorite things. Julie Keefe photo

Right: Centennial Mills is a collection of 11 buildings erected between 1910 and 1940. Photo courtesy of Portland Development Commission

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For four years I have been asked to explain how Sue Lee, the subject of this month’s cover story, has

been subjected to a court-appointed guardian and conservator against her wishes and despite ample evidence that she didn’t need this “protection.”

I found no satisfactory answers, even as I’ve learned more about the labyrinthine world of probate court. A growth industry has emerged around the care and protection of adults adjudged incapable of taking care of themselves, and many of the professionals on top of this system—attorneys, guardians, conservators, court visitors—bill for their time at $100 an hour and up.

Subjecting someone to this gantlet necessitates a finding of incompetence, which describes Lee’s state in 2008 after a near-fatal stroke. But how does one regain legal rights after recovery?

Just as with the Hotel California, she learned that getting in was far easier than leaving. Even as her condition improved markedly over the years, she was kept under state control on the recommendation of a court visitor, essentially a social worker who interviewed interested parties and decided whom to believe. But it would take a neuro-psychiatrist serving without compensation to get her out.

Experts working to challenge custodial care generally must work without fee because the conservator controls the client’s purse and can refuse to reimburse anyone attempting to break up what is a sweet deal for them, a permanent pipeline to their bank account.

If not actually permanent, it’s the next thing to it. Lee’s court-appointed attorney said that in 11 years of practice in this field, only one of his clients has “completely escaped the protective custody system.”

Since I started working on this story in 2011, many insiders have told me that the people who make their living in the custody world are honorable, diligent and have the best interests of the “protected one” at heart. These insiders know the norms, law and players better than I do, but presumptions about the motives of others are still just presumptions. If character witnesses had the final word, I suppose no white collar criminal would ever be convicted.

I am by nature and trade more skeptical. When a system looks

unbalanced, I suppose that people made it that way, and my suspicions turn to those who benefit from the imbalance. I also recognize that sometimes quirky things just happen and some degree of injustice in life is inevitable.

But everyone I’ve talked to, including the staunchest defenders of the system, agrees that it is inordinately difficult to end a custody arrangement.

“It’s a problem with the system that the courts tend to default towards a presumption that someone who needed

protection is going to need it forever,” one

custody attorney said. “By

and large that’s

true.”

In Lee’s case, more than a dozen professionals over the course of years insisted that she needed custody, many claiming that efforts to question Lee’s situation or the people responsible for it were unfair and harmful. For five years, Lee’s probate court file filled with evidence and decisions affirming the necessity of continued custody.

When an expert with medical and scientific credentials finally investigated, he found the opposite was true.

It was as if four umpires on a baseball field agreed with a particular call that a video replay showed to be utterly wrong. Any umpire, judge or court visitor can make a mistake, but the unanimity with which they affirm each other’s errors is deeply troubling. Mere incompetence might lead to being wrong half the time; to miss the boat almost every time suggests a broader problem.

Conflicts disappointingI offer my sincere appreciation to Allan Classen for bringing to the public’s attention the conflicts of interest involved in the development of the West Quadrant Plan (“Code of the West,” NW Examiner, July 2015). It was a story I read with disappointment in our city’s leadership and sadness for gradual erosion of our city’s promise and potential.

Once again you, our elected leaders, have made a mockery of the public process, packing 24 of the 33 seats on the Advisory Committee for development of the West Quadrant with individuals with a financial stake in development-related decisions.

In corrupt governments, this would

be called “crony capitalism”—giving those with an economic interest in a political decision the power to influence and make those decisions.

Is this an example of ethical leadership? Of government with integrity? Of prudent stewardship of the public’s interest and the trust they have placed in you? Is this the legacy you would be proud to leave our city?

William Newman SW Fairhaven Lane

‘Iron triangle’ advanced special interestsThe West Quadrant “process” described in the July NW Examiner exemplifies what policy analysts know as an “iron triangle,” where an interest

group (or groups), a bureaucracy and elected officials form the corners of a mutually supportive three-way alliance to advance the financial prospects of the first. They’re strong as iron because their power prevents the general interests of citizens from interfering with desired outcomes.

Portland may have carried this version of it one step further: It appears to have violated a city code of ethics ordinance.

For Co-chair Karen Williams to say the conflicted makeup of the Stakeholders Advisory Committee was “appropriate,” that their “acute insight [was] necessary for an informed outcome “and that it was not “misbehavior” is breathtakingly clueless. One may indeed say

of the West Quadrant triangle (Commissioner Amanda Fritz is an exception): They just don’t get it.

To expose apparent violation of city code may indeed “discredit” certain persons, but it is not “punish[ing] community service,” as Ms. Williams asserts. It is a wake-up call, an accountability moment.

The West Quadrant Plan recom-mendations should be invalidated and revisited.

Those in government responsible for aiding, abetting, overlooking and approving any gross violation of the code should be held to account.

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Gene R. BinkleyGene Russell Binkley, a long-time Northwest Portland resi-dent, died July 4 in Wallace Park at age 54. Binkley was born March 24, 1961, in Glen-dale, Calif. He worked for Hewlett-Packard for 10 years before moving to Portland in 1994, where he became a jour-neyman mason and installer of

floor coverings and countertops for Schonert & Associates and other companies. He married Theresia Guillow in 1979; they divorced in 2002. He is survived by his sons, Trevor and Gabriel; and daughter, Jennifer; mother, Mary Binkley; brother, Steven; and sister, Kimberly.

Eugene StillEugene Still, a Northwest Mor-gan Road resident, died July 13 in a farming accident at age 73. He was born Aug. 20, 1941, in Chicago and grew up in Sarasota, Fla. He had lived in Portland since his discharge from the Air Force in 1964. He graduated from Portland State University and was in local

broadcasting for 15 years, most notably hosting jazz shows on KOIN radio. He was a founding member of the Oregon Jazz Society. He later had a 30-year career in marketing. He is survived by his wife, Susan; sons, Gene, Sam, Justin and Spencer; brother, Peter; and five grandchildren. A memo-rial service will be held Friday, Aug. 14, 2 p.m., at Washington Masonic Lodge, 3612 SE 52nd Ave.

Madeleine FallerMadeleine Faller, a librarian, art and calligraphy teacher at Cathedral School, died July 2 at age 73. Madeleine O’Brien was born March 4, 1942 in Los Angeles. She moved to Portland in 1961 to attend the University of Portland, where she earned a master’s degree in library science in 1968. She was the first librarian at Sam Barlow High School in Gresham. She joined the Cathedral School faculty in 1983. She then was an adminis-trative assistant at the University of Portland. She became a painter later in life, holding her first solo exhibit in 2013. She married Thom Faller in 1969. She was a member of the Multnomah Ath-letic Club. She is survived by her husband; son, Tom; brothers, Mike, Paul and Emmett; and sister, Kathleen. She was predeceased by her son, Terry.

Patricia L. LaumandPatricia Louise Laumand, who volunteered for several North-west Portland nonprofits, died June 25 at age 83. She was born July 9, 1931 in Okmul-gee, Okla. She graduated from Wilder High School in Idaho in 1950. After high school, she moved to Portland and worked for Standard Insurance Co.

She volunteered for the Pittock Mansion, Boys and Girls Aid Society, the Oregon Convention Center and the Royal Rosarians. She met her hus-band, Ken in 1951; he died in 2004. She is prede-ceased by her son, Kenny. She is survived by her daughter, Karen; son, James; and brother, Jim Clark.

Nadine ‘Dede’ WilhelmNadine “Dede” (Honeyman) Wilhelm, who grew up in Southwest Portland, died July 17 at age 87. She was born July 28, 1927, and attended Ainsworth Elementary School, St. Helen’s Hall High School and Finch Junior College in New York. She married George M. Wilhelm in 1952 in Trinity

Episcopal Cathedral. They moved from Portland to Walla Walla, Wash., and later to Boise. She was active in the Junior League of Portland and Boise. Survivors include her sons, David, Peter and Ste-ven; brother, Ronald C. Honeyman; and four grandchildren.

Death NoticesSteven J. Case, 57, attended Cathedral grade school.

George W. Dewey, 91, Multnomah Athletic Club member.

Raymond A. Dodge, 89, Multnomah Athletic Club member.

Keith A. Kugel, 85, worked at Gunderson.

Robert J. Limperis, 67, Multnomah Athletic Club member.

Mary Peot, 69, Legacy Good Samaritan Hospital employee.

Kenney Simpson, 72, Portland Japanese Garden Society member.

John D. Starvaggi, 87, owner of Old Town Café.

Kaye A. Synoground, 72, art teacher at Mult-nomah Athletic Club.

Richard C. Thomas, 59, Multnomah Athletic Club member.

Zora (Rubich) Thompson, 90, attended St. Pat-rick’s grade school.

Richard J. Whittemore, 59, Multnomah Athletic Club member.

The Northwest Examiner publishes obituaries of people who lived, worked or had other substantial connections to our readership area, which includes Northwest Portland, Goose Hollow, Sauvie Island and areas north of Highway 26. If you have information about a death in our area, please contact us at [email protected]. Photographs are also welcomed. There is no charge for obituaries in the Examiner.

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interest should not again be chosen to bring their “expertise” to any similar city body. Contrary to Ms. Williams’ assertion, this would make Portland a greater city, not a “lesser” one.

Roger Leachman SW Vista Ave.

Redo without foxesThe West Quadrant Plan recommendations are a sham, devised and voted on by those who will benefit from them—not the citizens whose way of life will be daily affected by the changes. They seem to have utterly flaunted the city’s code of ethics, which calls for the city’s powers and resources to be used for the benefit of the public, rather than personal gain.

Let’s redo this one, this time with the chickens, not the foxes.

Karen Kirsch NW Irving St.

Real reportingReal reporting, rather than the “feature” blather that makes up much of the commercial media is a watchdog on our rights as citizens, and the behavior of our elected officials. Thank you for the time investigating and the space devoted to bringing this to light. This is my neighborhood, and I care about it.

Chris Neilsen SE 10th Ave.

SAC application rejectedI can appreciate West Quadrant Plan Strategic Advisory Committee Co-chair Karen Williams’ “strong experience with the technical issues,” “informed opinion” and “long commitment to Portland’s community development.” As a six-year member of the Downtown Neighborhood Association’s Land Use and Transportation Committee and a planning and urban design consultant, I share those traits. I too applied to be on the SAC, but my application was rejected. I have a file nearly an inch thick of

notices rating me qualified for jobs with various bureaus of the city dealing with land use—rarely resulting in even an interview. I figured that if I could not get a paid job with Portland, I could at least volunteer. I was so disappointed that I appealed for reconsideration to Planning Director Susan Anderson. All for naught.

I licked my wounds and attended some of the first meetings anyhow. It was hard to stay involved for several reasons. First, nothing was done to make the meetings more accessible to the hearing impaired like myself. Second, members of the audience were only given the opportunity to speak for two minutes—usually at the end of meetings.

Although advocates for lower building height limits made some good points—such as the greater vulnerability of tall buildings to earthquake damage and “bank accounts in the sky” for absentee owners—I felt that too much time (including press time) was devoted to that topic and not enough to other issues: e.g., the Burnside Couplet, highly inadequate tree plans, failure to protect (mostly low-income) residents from the air and noise pollution of I-405, and failure to integrate the groundbreaking Watershed Management Plan and Climate Action Plan.

I hope that if the citizen challenge succeeds, some of the above issues, not just building heights, can be better addressed too.

Mary Vogel SW 12th Ave.

Ethics missing in actionThose on the West Quadrant SAC decided (i.e. voted) between the public good and private return on development investment. Portland’s Code of Ethics was missing in action.

Robert Wright SW 10th Ave.

Who picked SAC members?I recently read an article in the July NW Examiner that I would have expected see covered in the other Portland area newspapers. The article was

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an investigative piece on the conflict of interest of a majority of committee members who made up the West Quadrant Stakeholders Advisory Committee. They all had significant actual or potential financial interests in the outcome of the committee.

Unfortunately, the NW Examiner was the only news organization who reported on the issue.

Thank you for your investigative report.

It is discouraging that “the property owners, builders, developers, architects, and others with a financial stake in the outcome of the West Quadrant Stakeholders Advisory Committee” didn’t recuse themselves from any vote and didn’t even acknowledge their potential conflict of interest.

What’s even more disheartening is that someone in government created a committee where “24 of the 33 seats” on the committee had a potential conflict because of their financial interests in the outcome.

I don’t know who appointed the committee members, but it appears that is where the problem began. Who is watching out for the interests of the ordinary citizens?

The West Quadrant Plan recommendations should be invalidated and a new committee appointed to revisit the entire subject.

Terry Duryea 1221 SW 10th Ave.

Breach of trustThank you so much for exposing this breach of trust. The public is being taken advantage of by those who everything to gain from this illegal process. No one on staff or the [Stakeholders Advisory Committee] seemed to be aware of conflict of interest rules.

You so aptly pointed out that this should have been brought up on day one. Why is the city allowing this to happen? No wonder the public is suspicious of the city’s process.

Denyse McGriff Oregon City

Tired of ‘stakeholders’“Tortured process,” the July NW Examiner editorial, is so right on.I am so tired of “stakeholders.”Stakeholders should be required to state if the meeting is part of their job or if they are receiving any compensation for attending, and that should include if they are on salary for the company they are representing. There should be full disclosure at the outset of all meetings and again before anyone speaks.The chair should be elected by members of the group instead of by the bureaucrats, which always seems to be the case. They should be required to explain how their business or financial interests affect their views. Stakeholder meetings are often stacked with hand-picked people who are on someone’s payroll. If you really talk to them, you may find that they may work for a Portland company but fly in for the meetings.

Pat Wagner NW Newbury Rd.

Giving elephants a voiceI just want to thank you for your interest, compassion and time spent in revealing news about the Oregon Zoo elephants. You have given them a voice as to how they are coping in captivity with so few natural pleasures

offered that would be available if they were released to an elephant sanctuary, where they would be free to roam and form social bonds with other elephants.

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Scouting co-founder namedYour article about the 22nd Wildwood was great (“Inclusive scouting thriving in the wild,” July 2015), but it omitted the fact that the organization was co-founded by Genevieve Fu.

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Reservoir demolitions approvedWith the support of Washington Park neighbors, Portland City Council voted unanimously last month to approve the demolition of Reservoirs 3 and 4 at Washington Park.

Council approval was an important step in the Portland Water Bureau’s ongoing compliance with federal law. The Water Bureau is replacing open reservoirs with covered storage at Washington Park and has built new storage at Powell Butte and Kelly Butte in order to comply with the Safe Drinking Water Act. The open reservoirs at Mt. Tabor will be taken out of service later this year, but kept full to maintain the historic look of the park.

Due to a legacy of careful planning and citizen engagement, Portlanders are fortunate to have access to two high-quality water sources. Both the Bull Run watershed and Columbia South Shore Wellfield meet or surpass all safe drinking water standards.

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In June 2013, Lee sought help from the Immi-grant & Refugee Community Organization, an East Portland nonprofit providing free legal consultations in conjunction with the Mult-nomah County Bar Association and Legal Aid Services of Oregon.

It was Lee’s good fortune to be assigned to Thomas Chow, like her a Chinese immigrant and successful entrepreneur, who had become a lawyer later in life.

“My community volunteering led me to decide to become pro bono lawyer in my spare

time to help those who have the least voice,” Chow said. “I graduated from the Lewis & Clark Law School evening section in June 2007 and was admitted to practice in Oregon in that same year.”

He volunteered at IRCO, taking on a variety of cases, but did not specialize in probate law.

“I am not one of the lawyers who regularly practice this type of law,” he said. “No one knew who I was.”

That is not quite true. In 2011, he received the Michael E. Haglund Pro Bono Award from the

Multnomah Bar Association Volunteer Lawyers Project.

By the time Lee came to see him, Chow already knew something about her story.

“I happened to see her story on Channel 2,” he said. “My initial thought was that as a Chi-nese American who had a similar background as Sue, I could offer my business and cultural experience to those involved in her case as an expert witness. Based on my own experience, I felt her case was more of a lack of cultural/lan-guage understanding, with perhaps a scintilla of prejudice, than legal.”

The impending sale of Lee’s real estate, val-ued at $850,000 by tax assessors, drew Chow in.

“It was one of my many reasons for taking the case,” he said. “Her house is like her goose that lays the golden eggs. It is in an excellent loca-tion. The lease will pay for her living expenses for a long time to come if she maintains control and ownership of it.”

After interviewing her, Chow had grave doubts about official reports in Lee’s file indi-cating she was incapable of communicating reliably or living on her own.

“I formed the opinion that Ms. Lee is of Chi-

nese Cantonese descent and most likely from Hong Kong,” he said. “I proceeded to commu-nicate with her in a combination of Cantonese mixed with English, a common verbal con-versational language spoken by most Chinese immigrants from southern China and Hong Kong. Ms. Lee was immediately more commu-nicative with me.

“I observed that she was able to write her Chinese name as if she was drawing a picture instead of following the formal Chinese charac-ter structures. This indicated to me that she had little or no formal Chinese education.”

To escape the communist regime, Lee’s fam-ily sent her to the United States when she was 14. She married a Portland man, and together they opened the Orientale Motif Shop in 1957. Lee was operating the shop at an age when her peers were attending high school.

“When I asked if her name was excerpted from part of an old Chinese poem which means ‘when the cloud parts, one can see the moon shining brightly,’ she was excited that I know the meaning of her Chinese name,” Chow said.

When Chow looked into her voluminous case file at the Multnomah County Probate Office, documenting a trail of futile efforts to challenge

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Sue Lee, holding a sign saying “I want to go home,” posed with friends in front of her old store and second-floor apartment in January 2012. Pat Dewald, her former bookkeeper and current conservator, is second from right. Her longtime friend and champion, Peggy Abernathy, is partially obscured to Lee’s left. Julie Keefe photo

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Lee’s status, he found no “there” there. The file was more notewor-thy for what it did not contain.

“Based on Ms. Lee’s court files and the March 2009 hearing on appointment of guardian and conservator, everyone assumed and alleged that their inability to communicate with Ms. Lee was because of her medical condition and her alleged lack of capacity,” Chow said. “The re-evaluation and the Court Visitor’s Report in July 2012 and the May 2013 Guardian’s Report continued to disregard Ms. Lee’s cultural and language back-ground and her lack of any formal education in any language.

“Sue had no formal education of any kind,” he said. “Unable to

read or write in anything compli-cated in any language even before her strokes, she was treated as an ‘average’ native English speaker by all the parties. In violation of the interpreter’s statute, she was never provided a Cantonese interpret-er. She never had her due process before everything was taken away from her.”

Chow knew what he had to do. Now working with Matthew Whit-man, Lee’s court-appointed attor-ney, Chow made a critical linkage. He recruited Paul Leung, a psy-chiatrist and the director of Inter-cultural Psychiatric Programs at Oregon Health & Science Univer-sity, who was willing to evaluate Lee without charge.

“Dr. Leung is also an immigrant from Hong Kong,” Chow said. “He is fluent in Cantonese, Mandarin

and Vietnamese, as well as Eng-lish. He has extensive professional experience with aging, especially Asian aging.

“He confirmed to me that immi-grant patients who suffered from strokes oftentimes revert to their native languages, and that Ms. Lee should have been evaluated in her native language of Cantonese, and with language and culture-neutral methodology.

“Dr. Leung expressed to me the opinion that Ms. Lee’s lack of any formal education in English and Chinese made any traditional test-ing result unreliable. Further, due to the significant education, lan-guage and cultural differences, it is Dr. Leung’s belief that almost all immigrants with little English language education will have dif-ficulty passing a standard medical capacity test.”

Leung said that Lee’s court testi-mony had been misinterpreted.

For example, “‘Yes’ or ‘no’ ques-tions always lead to erroneous and misleading diagnosis because in many Asian languages, there are no equivalent words to ‘yes’ or ‘no,’” he said. “These questions create further confusion on the patients when they attempt to answer those questions according to their own native language.

“I am concerned that lack of cul-tural and linguistic competence by the examiners may have inaccu-rately informed the court, resulting in inappropriate restrictions on her personal rights.”

In his formal evaluation, “I saw no apparent effect on Ms. Lee’s cognition or reasoning,” Leung reported. “When questioned, she clearly understood what I asked her and oftentimes came up with

demonstrations of her still-intact mental and physical abilities. Ms. Lee was visibly frustrated with her inability to communicate and would mime actions, sign with her hands or use gestures to com-municate.

“Once I became more accustomed to how to communicate with Ms. Lee, it was readily apparent that she fully understood her health situa-tion and was making a conscious effort to take care of herself.”

He concluded that Lee under-stands her medical needs, manages her medications and knows how to seek help in an emergency.

Nancy MacDonald did not con-test the findings and agreed to relinquish her client.

Judge Katherine Tennyson, who has presided over all of Lee’s pro-ceedings since 2009, terminated MacDonald’s guardianship (gov-erning medical care and residence) in March, and in June replaced MacDonald with Pat Dewald as Lee’s conservator (controlling financial affairs).

“All the credit rightly belongs at Tom’s doorstep,” said Whitman, his co-counsel. “Frankly, I was not mak-ing a lot of headway in getting Sue the results she wanted and she deserved until Tom Chow showed up.”

Whitman also credits Lee for her “hard work in her own rehabilita-tion … showing that she had vastly improved.”

He knows how rare success can be in this field. In 11 years of practice in guardianship law, he has only once had a client “entirely escape the protective custody system.”

“It’s very rare,” he said.

Peggy Abernathy, who once oper-ated a 23rd Avenue store across the street from Lee’s and has remained her passionate advocate, thanked the Chow and the Examiner for helping achieve the rare result.

“Without them, Sue would never be free,” said Abernathy.

No one is more pleased with Lee’s newfound freedom than Eugene Montrose, who has known her since she took a business class from him at Portland State Univer-sity in about 1960.

“Sue is like a sister to me,” Mon-trose said. “I take her shopping, and she makes dinner every Sun-day night. She does all the food preparation.

“Nothing stops this lady,” he said. “She does not know the word defeat.” n

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BY ALLAN CLASSEN

The heralded expansion of the Portland Japanese Garden is—from the viewpoint of its resi-

dential neighbors—a contraction.

By adding 3.5 acres to the inter-nationally known tourist attraction in Washington Park, the surround-ing area buffering the garden from adjacent homes shrinks by the same amount.

The expansion will encircle a spur path from the Wildwood Trail that now snakes across a forested hillside before dumping onto the paved drive-way leading to the garden’s service entrance.

The Arlington Heights Neighbor-hood Association hasn’t liked much about the $33.5 million expansion project that will triple the size of onsite buildings from about 8,000 to 24,000 square feet as the PJG prepares for ever-increasing crowds of 500,000 a year.

The association swallowed its objec-tions to reach a compromise with the PJG before City Council last August that was to include a replacement trail. The trail location proposed was later deemed to be unworkable, and the two sides have been negotiating for a suitable alternative ever since.

“The public was given no details at City Council; just told it would be great,” said AHNA board member Hil-ary Mackenzie. “That was the basis for neighborhood association abandon-ing its appeal; we were going to get something better, so we dropped the appeal.”

On her own, Mackenzie unsuccess-fully appealed to the Oregon Land Use Board of Appeals.

The latest trail proposal has neigh-bors up against a wall—literally. A 3-foot-wide trail outside a solid wood-en wall would hug the edge of the driveway. The outer edge of the trail drops off abruptly at points along the quarter-mile route.

Japanese Garden representatives, along with Portland Parks & Recre-ation staff, have presented drawings to neighbors at two meetings this sum-mer without getting buy-in. The criti-cal complication in reconfiguring the spur trail has to do with preventing the path from becoming an unguarded back door into the garden beyond the ticket gate, which will be moved to the base of the access road.

The 8-foot fence is to keep peo-ple from climbing onto the grounds without paying, as well as to block headlights from shining into nearby homes. The narrow width of the trail

is intended to preserve as much of the roadway—which is on average about 20 feet wide—for vehicles.

Part of the road is devoted to 20 parallel parking spaces for garden employees, reducing the roadway to about 15 feet along that portion.

“It’s horrible to imagine people walk-ing on a 3-foot path because the Japa-nese Garden isn’t willing to take away a few parking spaces to get a wider path,” said Mike Dowd, a former Arlington Heights resident and architect.

The lower part of the pedestrian trail would have a series of stairs, an obstacle for wheelchairs and stroll-ers, and an additional maintenance burden.

PJG hired Doug Macy, principal of the Portland landscape architecture firm Walker Macy, to design the trail.

“We won’t allow it to be dangerous,” Macy said, characterizing the slope along the outer edge of the proposal path as “not a cliff.”

He said the path will increase safety by preventing people from walking down the middle of the road, a fre-quent occurrence today.

Rachel Felice, the trail manager for Portland Parks & Recreation, said 3 feet meets the bureau’s standard for wild areas.

Longtime AHNA board member Joe Angel offered this perspective:

“Many of us believe there is a design solution to keeping the [pro-posed] entry point and access to trail. In Europe and Japan, they travel by trails between venues. We are trying to achieve those things without creating hardship for the Japanese Garden.”

Angel, who also serves on the com-mittee overseeing Washington Park’s transportation and parking system, said that body also wants to promote walking within the park as an alterna-tive to driving and parking at each attraction.

Japanese Garden and Parks & Rec-reation officials have twice met with neighbors to present solutions they hope the community will buy, making slight progress each time.

Instead, Angel recommends collab-oration among all parties.

“We want to have a skunkworks [a loosely structured group seeking inno-vative solutions] that says, can we all get in a room and get ever smarter?” n

Talks over replacement trail necessitated by expansion stir further contention

See the statement from the Arlington Heights Neighborhood Assoc. on p. 12



Hilary Mackenzie uses a tape measure to show how narrow a 3-foot walkway would be.


BY REP. MITCH GREENLICK

The 2015 legislative session felt quite busy. There were 2,646 bills introduced in the

House and Senate, and 846 of them passed out of the Legislature to the governor’s desk. That means we voted more than 1,000 times on the floor and in committee during the course of the session.

And we probably had that many meetings, as there were people desperate to share their opinion with me on those bills.

Some bills passed after furi-ous partisan debates, but the vast majority of those 846 successful bills had at least moderate bipar-tisan support. Two bills that fit the former category were the clean fuels bill, which passed early in the session, and the gun sale back-ground check bill, which passed later. Each of these bills engen-dered about five hours of rag-ing, mostly partisan debate in the House. Each bill passed the House with a couple of Democrats voting no. They both passed the Senate after equally acrimonious debate.

We had many important success-es, including a number of excel-lent funding decisions. We passed the K-12 education budget early in the session, providing a record funding level ($7.3 billion) for the

schools, and we provided addi-tional revenue to the schools after an excellent May revenue forecast. That positive economic forecast also triggered the personal kicker.

We provided increased sup-port for our state universities and community colleges, increased resources for the Oregon Oppor-tunity grants and provided sup-port for full-day kindergarten. We funded a program to begin explor-ing free community college tuition for low-income students.

We provided $300 million to

improve school safety, including $170 million for school building seismic improvements, although we did not appropriate the $300 million needed for seismic upgrades for the Capitol building.

In one of the final bills of the ses-sion, we approved the $1.5 million bonding authority I requested for development of a Forest Park Visi-tor Center in my district.

The session produced some envi-ronmental successes beyond clean fuel standards. After working on bills for four sessions, we final-ly passed the toxic-free-kids pro-gram. This requires manufacturers to report to the Oregon Health Authority any toxic materials used in products sold for children’s use. It requires that after a few years the toxic material be eliminated from the production process if there is an economically feasible way to do so.

There has been increasing con-cern about oil train disasters. Con-sequently, we passed a measure to give the Oregon Fire Marshall’s office the authority and tools need-ed to develop response plans to protect communities from cata-strophic damage.

I was pleased with the ability of my office to move our legis-lative agenda. We introduced 37 bills and passed 15 of them. The

most important of these bills is HB 3100B, the public health modern-ization bill, which passed its final hurdle the last week of the session. This bill resulted from one I passed in 2013 to form a commission on the future of our public health sys-tem. The commission was formed, chaired by Deschutes County Chair Tammy Baney, and produced an extraordinary report outlining the shortcomings of Oregon’s govern-mental public health system and defining the fundamental public health services each Oregonian should expect.

The bill, which was modeled as closely as possible to the report, also outlines a plan to move Oregon to a new system. It was improved by suggestions from stakeholders and ultimately was supported by all. It ended up 84 pages long, causing Sen. Chuck Thomsen to declare on the floor of the Senate that he was voting no on the basis of his principle to oppose any bill more than 65 pages long.

I passed an important bill, HB 2551A, after trying unsuccessful-ly for four sessions. The bill is designed to improve the protection of personal health data maintained in hospital and health insurance plans. This is a growing problem as health data is increasingly vulner-able to hackers.

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While City Hall remains silent on the conflict of interest issues levied against 10 West Quadrant Plan Stake-holders Advisory Committee mem-bers, two impacted neighborhood associations have a clear response.

The Northwest District Association and Goose Hollow Foothills League have asked the city to shelve the plan, which is part of the citywide comprehensive plan update, until a pending ethics complaint is resolved by the city ombudsman.

Resolutions were passed unani-mously by the boards of both asso-ciations. A separate statement was approved by the NWDA Planning Committee.

“Most think it’s pretty egregious stuff,” said NWDA board member Ron Walters, describing the actions of SAC members who own or work for owners of property they proposed to up-zone as going beyond the mere appearance of impropriety.

“They are voting for increased zon-ing heights on property they own,” Walters said.

“The NWDA acknowledges the ombudsman’s current investigation of potential conflicts of interest and ethics violations occurring during the advisory process of the West Quadrant Plan’s Stakeholder Adviso-ry Committee,” stated a letter signed by NWDA President Tavo Cruz.

“We fully support this investiga-tion. While the city needs to seek the insights and consultation of experi-enced ‘stakeholders’ for its advisory committees, it cannot condone the fact or appearance of inappropriate influence or self-dealing on the part of individuals serving on these com-mittees.

“In this view, we respectfully request that the council table any further consideration of, or action upon, the West Quadrant Plan until this investigation is concluded,” the letter concluded. n

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to improve access to colorectal screening. This bill was stimulated by a research project at the Kai-ser Permanente Center for Health Research and was strongly sup-ported by the health and health insurance lobbies.

I worked on one of the most newsworthy bills of the session, SB 1A, with Sen. Laurie Monnes Anderson. It abolished Cover Oregon and transferred the health insurance exchange function to the Department of Consumer and Busi-ness Services. The transfer went smoothly, and now more than 110,000 Oregonians are enrolled in health insurance through the exchange.

Another of my bills directs the Higher Education Coordinating Council to work with the univer-sities to create a certification for students who have successfully completed two years in college. The community colleges award an associate of arts degree after two years. But if a student takes those same courses at Portland State University or Oregon State University and then has to leave college, he or she gets nothing to signify their achievement. That

really seems unfair.

Much of my work was related to my role as chair of the House Health Care Committee. Commit-tees have the authority to directly introduce bills. We were able to move several important health care

committee bills this session. Two bills (HB 2028A and HB 3879B) expanded the role of pharmacists in our health care system by giv-ing them clinical care responsi-bilities and by authorizing them to prescribe hormonal contraceptive products for women 18 years of age and older.

We passed HB 2300B, a rela-tively controversial bill supported by politically conservative and politically liberal groups. The so-called Right to Try bill provides a mechanism for patients with fatal illnesses to access drugs that have not yet cleared the FDA’s clini-cal trials process. Two physicians in the Legislature, Rep. Knute Buehler and Sen. Elizabeth Stein-er Hayward, worked very hard to craft a bill that would stand up to legal and ethical challenges. It then passed easily in both houses.

We left enough work to continue in the short session next February. And I have begun work on issues for the 2017 session, including the extraordinarily high cost of pre-scription drugs and the state of our mental health system. n

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The 3.4 acres that Portland Parks has given to the Portland Japanese Garden has been public park land that will be fenced and removed from public access. This land has been given away without adequate public input or public process, and Portland Parks has been surprisingly tone-deaf to the concerns of the resi-dents that it is supposed to represent.

To mollify the public and persuade the City Council to approve this vast expansion, the PJG made a commit-ment to the Arlington Heights Neigh-borhood Association and City Coun-cil that it now deems inconvenient to honor, namely the retention of the Wildwood Trail access into Washing-ton Park from the Rose Garden.

Presently, access to the Wildwood and to the trail system that connects Hoyt Arboretum and Forest Park, runs through land that will become part of the Japanese Garden’s fenced compound. As soon as approval for the PJG expansion was obtained, the trail replacement became problemat-ic, and while Portland Parks and the Japanese Garden both stated that the proposed trail was viable during the approval process, it has now been abandoned.

An alternate trail proposal, which was falsely heralded by the PJG direc-tor as an amicable solution between the Garden and its neighbors, was never presented to the AHNA and was conceived with no meaningful public process. The neighborhood association has been told that the only viable solution for access to

the Wildwood Trail is a narrow trail that will run along the property lines of neighbors on Southwest Fairview Boulevard, and bring hundreds of walkers and runners right behind the homes of residents. The PJG’s refusal to accede any portion of their “gift-ed” 3.4 acres to enable a proper trail, or follow through on the trail prom-ised on their land-use application, is appalling—and, yes, unneighborly.

The Japanese Garden is subsuming part of Washington Park while evad-ing the upcoming park-wide master plan that the new parking meter rev-enue will fund. With 300,000 visitors per year, the garden should be seek-ing to mitigate the stress that the traf-fic and congestion is already placing on the surrounding neighborhood, not vastly expanding their offerings. The south end of Washington Park is already home to the Oregon Zoo, the Forestry Center and the Children’s Museum, complete with many acres of paved parking. Neighbors of the garden are rightly concerned about changes this massive expansion will bring, precisely because the garden has avoided a thorough public pro-cess during its expansion plans.

The AHNA does not object to the expansion, per se. We object to the methods the garden has used to obtain its ends and its failure to take the concerns of Portland residents who use the trail system into consid-eration, as well as the significant loss of privacy of neighbors whose homes will now abut the expanded garden grounds.

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Japanese Garden neighbors claim foultee, Phil Selinger, said Cale should have been disqualified as soon as bribery was confirmed.

In mid-July, Rick Michaelson, chair of the advisory committee, sent Steve Novick, the commis-sioner who oversees transporta-tion, a strongly worded letter on behalf of the committee.

“We, the members of the North-west Portland Parking SAC, were extremely surprised to learn from The Oregonian that the date for installation of Northwest parking meters was once again pushed back. As the citizen body respon-sible for implementing the North-west Parking Plan, we deserved a heads up from the city before this news reached the newspaper.

“It has been three and a half years since the parking plan was adopted by council, and we have had nothing but delays since then. Resolving the issues and getting the meters installed must become one of your top near-term priori-ties, and we need a firm timeline from you for the completion of the review and the installation of the meters.

“The delay in the project and the ridiculously long time it has taken to rebid the contract, as well as the city’s lack of communication, has certainly eroded the public trust among the Northwest Port-land residents.

“This additional delay … will

cost the city in additional notice requirements, in a delay in work for the additional staff already hired to administer the program and in the significant lost meter revenue.

“We have been working on Northwest parking issues for more than 20 years and finally thought that we were underway with the adoption of the plan in December 2012.

“Now your spokesperson says, ‘It could take weeks. It could take months.’ That is not acceptable.

“Please do not drag out the deci-sion on whether to continue with Cale or not. And if you decide to select a different vendor, please expedite the process as much as you can and please have PBOT develop a schedule that we can count on.”

The letter included the follow-ing timeline:

August 2013: City suspends con-tract with Cale.

January 2014: Original promised installation date.

May 2014: Request for proposals goes out.

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Bea was rescued from the Oregon Humane Soci-ety, and she was put to work to give her more socialization. “Needless to say, it worked, and she is now a regular employee,” Chambers said.

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They work like dogs and never complain. These Northwest Portland canines join their owners on the job, providing comfort, security, reception services and reminders when break time is near. Then they go home and continue their duties until at last falling asleep. Here’s to our neighborhood’s working dogs (and their owners, who do their publicity work and submitted these profiles).

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Pamela Crutchfield is a licensed thera-pist who sees children and families in her office in the Pearl District, where she also lives. “I take my 1-year-old toy Aussie to work with me,” Crutch-field said. “She is a therapy dog and we walk to work. … Petunia loves working with my clients.” After a day at the office, Petunia likes to unwind by meeting her friends at The Fields dog park.


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That’s the message Hales’ aide, Jillian Detweiler, deliv-ered last month to the Pearl District Neighborhood Associ-ation, the group that persuad-ed City Council to preserve the structures 10 years ago.

Detweiler said there is only $20 million in the River District Urban Renew-al Area budget, far short of the $36 million requested by Jordan Schnitzer of Harsch Investment Properties, the firm chosen by the Portland Development Commission two years ago to redevelop the site.

In March, PDC hired a firm to remove all but the two main buildings, but the mayor now thinks even those two should go.

Asked whether it would be prudent retain the flour and feed mills, Detweiler said no, that would only ring up additional costs before

reaching the inevitable con-clusion. She said past may-ors had “kicked the can down the road” and Hales did not want to dodge the responsibility.

“It would just waste money to decide later. That’s where his head is,” she said. “The mayor is in support of turn-ing it into a park.”

PDNA President Patricia Gardner, the person most responsible for quashing PDC plans to replace the mills with a park in 2005, did not take the news calmly.

“We’re not happy,” said Gardner. “For $18 million, we get nothing.”

She was referring to the latest estimate for demolish-ing the entire complex.

“We’re back to where we began 15 years ago when then Commissioner Hales asked us to come up with a plan,” she said.

Gardner said many plans were produced, including a bold preservation scheme by LAB Holding LLC of Costa Mesa, Calif., which won out over two national firms in 2008 after a robust public involvement process.

She blamed PDC for derail-ing that deal.

“That plan had been approved, but they changed the rules on [LAB CEO Sha-heen Sadeghi] and they gave him a month to respond,” she said.

“After all the public involvement, we have to ask, What do we end up with? What the hell is going on?”

Dave Dysert, a member of the PDNA Planning Com-mittee, said, “We’re tearing down buildings that have

historic significance. … We need exceptional leadership, and we’re not getting it.”

Another committee mem-ber, Richard Graham, recom-mended leaving the build-ings standing until an oppor-tunity arises.

“Many buildings like this around the world have been left as ruins and developed later,” Graham said. “Some-one with creativity can make it rise again like a phoenix.”

“Demolishing just ends all opportunities,” added committee member Andy Steinman, “and leaves us with something pathetically mediocre.”

Detweiler said Hales will ask PDC to consider total demolition within 60-90 days. A steering committee will be formed to decide the fate of the flour and feed mills with-in that time frame. n

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Kung Pow! More Like Kung PopMirroring Portland Chinese food standards, only a few dishes rise above average

BY MICHAEL C. ZUSMAN

With a population nearing 1.5 billion, you’d think China could have spared

Portland a few more great cooks. Though Puddletown has been home to a decent-sized Chinese population for more than a cen-tury, few Chinese restaurants have crested the peak of critical acclaim.

When I was growing up in 1970s Portland, the usual Chinatown sus-pects—The Republic, Fong Chong, Tuck Lung, Hung Far Low—served what I imagine local Chinese fami-lies had been dishing up to white folks for generations: bland repre-sentations of Cantonese cuisine, often adapted to resemble foods more familiar to pale-skinned locals: sweet-crusted, roasted-to-well-done sliced pork loin, eggs scrambled together with whatever scraps happened to be lying around the kitchen and heavily battered, deep-fried chunks of beef, pork or chicken slathered with cloying, electric crimson “sweet and sour” sauce.

Of course, there have been happy

exceptions, most on the downtown side of Burnside during the 1980s. Uncle Chen’s and its successor, the original Chen’s Dynasty, were the most prominent of notables, trailed by a handful of less-renowned dar-lings. If you were here, strain your brain to recall Yen Ching, Hunan, Pot Sticker and Sizzling Rice all long vanished into the maw of his-tory.

Their notoriety sprang from their introduction of region-specific Chinese dishes, many boasting bold flavors, unusual ingredients and plenty of heat, and minimally compromising venerated culinary traditions. Out went the chicken stock, cheap steak and corn starch. In came black bean sauce, pig ears and chilies. And then, it seemed, they were all gone. I don’t know why, but rumored family squab-bles, ill-health and rising rents may have had something to do with it.

More recently, out around 82nd Avenue and in the western sub-urbs, dim sum has seen a hit-and-miss resurgence, and a hand-ful of Sichuanese restaurants have proven a worthwhile journey. But, the traditional Northwest Portland

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Given the sad state of neigh-borhood Chinese food affairs, it was a genuine thrill to learn this spring that Henry Liu, whose family operates Shan-dong restaurant in Northeast Portland, planned to open a new operation at the corner of Northwest 21st and Glisan

with a spicier attitude. The idea was to kick up Shan-dong’s menu of standards with more adventurous options.

To emphasize his intentions, Liu decided to name the place Kung Pow! (exclamation point included) after the eponymous Sichuanese spicy chicken dish with peanuts. It was an even bigger thrill when Liu invit-ed me over to Shandong for preopening samples and the offered dishes were just as

billed: muscular, spicy and uncommon.

These same dishes have highlighted the menu at Kung Pow! since it opened in May. The one that draws me back is lamb bao bing, minced lamb with plenty of chili power and the incomparable sharp-numb-ing bite of ground mah lah berries (also known as Sich-uan peppercorns). The allur-ing presentation includes mu-


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shu pancakes, similar to thin flour tortillas, and tiny dishes of hoisin sauce and a chili relish. Smear a pancake with a little hoisin, drop a spoonful of lamb and some of the chili on half, then channel your early 20s skills to fold and roll the pancake like a fat edible doobie that’s actually a one- or two-bite improvised internal incendiary device. There is enough lamb to make six of these spicy bombers. Why the dish is only served with enough pancakes and hoisin for four remains an unsolved mystery. For those unfamiliar with the mah lah berry, beware its slight gritty texture. Consider it part of the adventure.

Another simple and delicious appetizer is the steamed wonton in Sichuan chili oil, which is not nearly as scary hot as it sounds. The wontons are, to all appearanc-es, the spitting image of the Italian ear-shaped pasta called orecchiette stuffed with a lump of mildly sea-soned ground pork and immersed in the mah lah berry-infused oil. Hardcore chiliheads may find the heat too muted. They will have to content themselves with the sup-plementary bottle of chili oil on the table or suffer the lightweight’s indignity of a night without heart-burn.

Another of the menu’s small dishes I’ve been wanting to love but

cannot is the steamer basket full of “XLB Soup Infused Dumplings.” The inscrutable initials stand for xiao long bao, the call sign for the greatest Shanghainese dish of all times. The ultimate Shanghai soup dumplings boast delicate, thin skins of dough miraculously (and intricately) folded around a squirt of piping hot soup and nugget of ground pork, with a dish of red vinegar served on the side. Making them so that the liquid remains intact with the just the right dough/soup/meat ratio is a rare and pecu-liar sorcery. The ritual of eating them without burning one’s mouth or making an ungodly mess is a story on its own.

The problem at Kung Pow!, which Liu reportedly knows about and is attempting to address, is that his XLB skins are too thick, but still break in the steamer basket, leaking out their precious payload of soup. If you’ve had great XLB, you know these don’t measure up. I’m ecstatic, however, that Liu is giving them a go and am hoping that practice eventually makes per-fect.

Liu’s fried fish balls, made with a mild-tasting Vietnamese fish called swai, are delicious, if bland, on their own. After a quick hot dunk in the fryer, they receive a drizzle of sauce that defines the flavor of the dish. The balls have a springy

texture similar to a dense matzo ball and a lightly crisp, nongreasy exterior. With piquant chili sauce or intriguing curry, these are an inoffensive offering, if not the stuff of epicurean dreams.

The same goes for the chicken wings. They are battered and deep fried. For some, you could stop right there with a fan base guaran-teed. But the anticipated synergy from the combination of wings with any of the three offered sauces was awkwardly absent. The zhen bang version, including finely chopped chilies and garlic, orange zest and mah lah berry, picked up little from any of these assertive flavors, leaving me puzzling over what exactly is going on in the Kung Pow! kitchen.

The remainder of the menu result-ed in an even deeper doubt about the kitchen’s capabilities and Liu’s commitment to pioneering a bolder path. Kung pao beef was docile, and the beef itself had a muddy texture, fishball noodle soup was unfathomably underseasoned, and the “house made” noodles were soft and insipid. With cherry pork came a shuddery flashback to those disagreeable sweet and sour dishes of bygone days. Twice in five vis-its, white rice was gummy with sizeable clumps.

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Southern comfortEthan Powell and Tobias Hogan, the Louisianans who brought Portland New Orleans oyster culture with EaT: An Oyster Bar on North Williams then The Parish, at the corner of Northwest 11th and Everett, have expanded their realm. Not physically. Instead, The Par-ish space, which has struggled, has been subdivided and half is now the Palmetto Cafe. Named for a palm tree adopted by South Carolina as its official nickname (as opposed to the bug that’s kin to the cockroach), the café has been quietly open for just a few weeks, slinging southern brunch and an afternoon happy hour menu offering a few attractive oddities. including spicy boiled peanuts and Nachtitoches meat pie billed as a “Southern empanada.” Dinner service is slated to start in the near future. It will be interesting to see how it differentiates itself from its cousin next door. Palmetto Cafe, 231 NW 11th Ave., on Northwest Everett next to The Parish.

Spanish lesson From acreage down the valley in Dayton, Manuel and Leslie Recio gained a nationwide reputation for cultivating Spanish produce rarely seen in the United States: mild, sweet (but occasionally spicy) padrón peppers, which are now common, succulent ficoïde glaciale (glacier lettuce) and piquant pimentón. But their decade-long run at Viridian Farms ran its course. The couple’s new venture, Conserva, occu-pies a closet-sized space on Northwest Lovejoy Street positively crammed with Spanish delicacies. In addi-tion to seasonal padróns (the season is now), there are jars and tins full of boquerones (mild cured white anchovies), white asparagus, cassis jam and other goodies familiar to gastro-travelers who’ve made their way to the Iberian peninsula. There is the green wine of Basque country, txakoli, and apple cider from the countryside. Best of all, indulge in the famous Spanish ham, jamón ibérico de bellota. From pampered hogs who feast on acorns, this rare treasure is long-cured, nutty and luxurious. Conserva is offering it presliced and packaged or, for jamón fanatics, by the whole haunch on the hoof. Conserva, 1720 NW Lovejoy St., #107, viridianfarms.com/conserva

preferences of conservative Cauca-sian palates. Some of my acquain-tances have said that the Sichuanese items they tried were too spicy. Oth-ers were drawn to the menu’s back page of Americanized “classics” such as lemon chicken, shrimp with snow peas or broccoli beef.

And therein Liu’s problem lies: reconciling the wishes of its domi-nant clientele with a desire to dig deeper into the regional Chinese cuisine is Kung Pow!’s challenge and possibly its curse. As it current-ly stands, Kung Pow! is struggling to meet the challenge and its future path is cloudy. n

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Book clubFriendly House Book Club will discuss “The Jump-Off Creek” by Molly Gloss Aug. 10, 2-3 p.m., at 1737 NW 26th Ave. Join facilitator Martha Stewart in a discussion of the story of widowed homesteader Lydia Sanderson and her struggles to settle in the mountains of Oregon in the 1890s.

Ice cream socialLinnton Community Center will host an ice cream social Wednesday, Aug. 5, 6-8 p.m., at Linnton Community Center, 10614 NW St. Hel-ens Rd. Free ice cream provided; bring your own toppings. There will be kid-friendly activities. Volunteers are needed; to help contact Pat Wag-ner at 503-475-3731 or [email protected].

Neighborhood socialA neighborhood social sponsored by the North-west District Association will be held Tuesday, Aug. 4, 6-8 p.m., at Lucky Lab, 1945 NW Qui-mby St. NWDA board members invite neighbors to learn about local issues, such as parking, air quality and the proposed Slabtown square over beer and food. One free drink and snacks will be provided.

Concerts at hostelNorthwest Portland Hostel, 415 NW 18th Ave., presents free concerts every Tuesday through Sept. 1, 6:30-9:30 p.m., in the Secret Garden. Traditional German barbecue items, along with vegetarian options and beverages, are available for sale.

Aug. 4: Mindy Dillard

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Concerts in the ParkThe annual Northwest Portland Concerts in the Park conclude this month with two Thursday night programs at Couch Park. The free concerts are organized by Portland Parks & Recreation with donations from local businesses, institutions and individuals. The Aug. 6 concert is presented by the new New Seasons Market in Slabtown. All concerts begin at 6:30 p.m. Food and beverages are available for purchase.

Aug. 6: The Wanderlust Orchestra (cabaret swing band).

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Rural Living Field DayThe annual Rural Living Field Day at Howell Ter-ritorial Park on Sauvie Island is Saturday, Aug. 22, 8:30 a.m.-2 p.m. West Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District will provide instruction on invasive weeds; improving crops and soil health; attracting birds and pollinators; meadowscaping; septic systems; healthy forests; orchard manage-ment; riparian area improvements; and rainwater

Lloyd Jones, the Portland singer/songwriter who has shared the stage with B.B. King, Roy Orbison, Bon-nie Raitt and Robert Cray during his 30-year career, will wrap up the Northwest Concerts in the Park series at Couch Park Aug. 13.


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Industrial area socialThe Northwest Industrial Neighborhood hosts an evening of neighborhood comradery at Port-land Brewing, 2730 NW 31st Ave., Aug. 4, 4:30 p.m.-7 p.m. Light appetizers and one drink ticket per attendee will be provided courtesy of Portland Brewing. Raffle prizes.

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This snow scene from around 1930 includes siblings Tony, Johnny and Millie Paveskovich on North-

west 20th Avenue. Tony is wearing a sweater with a Portland Beavers logo. Johnny later became a major league base-ball player and changed his last name to Pesky.

The oak tree on the left was adjacent to the Paveskovich home on Northwest Upshur Street. Beyond the tree is the Hamel Apartments. On the street level was a grocery store operated by Johanna “Johnny” Horton circa 1927. According to Catherine Ivison, Horton liked her brother Johnny and had him come over for ice cream many times.

The 1928 Morning Oregonian told of boys and girls playing ball, climbing cherry trees and climbing on houses, which had kept police on the alert the day before. One complaint about boys playing ball came from “643 Upshur,”

the address of the apartment house above the store directly across from the Paves-kovich house. Perhaps Johnny was one of the suspected ballplayers.

The apartment building was torn down in the early 1930s. In the 1940s, the block was occupied by wartime housing. By the mid 1950s, the temporary hous-ing was replaced by the warehouse that today is occupied by Reed/Harris Direct Marketing Inc.

In the background on the right, across from the Hamel Apartments, is a portion of Arnold Blitz’s Portland Brewing Co. The company became Blitz-Weinhard Plant B when the companies combined in 1928. In the 1930s, Vince and Johnny Pesky practiced their fielding skills by throwing a baseball against the building and curb. Today, that corner of the build-ing is occupied by DragonFly Chai.

Let it snowAs we head into August, let’s cool down a bit with a frigid blast from the past

Tony, Johnny and Millie Paveskovich at North-west 20th Avenue and Upshur Street circa 1930. From Donald R. Nelson collection

The same intersection, now under the I-405 Freeway ramp, on a warmer day this summer. Donald R. Nelson photo

A pillar supporting the Vaughn Street offramp is located on the former site of the Paves-kovich residence. Catherine and her brother

Vince remember that their father, Jakov, told them that there would be a bridge one day across the river near their home.

As early as 1925, there was talk of need for a bridge. A bond measure to underwrite the project failed in 1930. In the late 1960s, after years of talks and nego-tiations among various agencies, plans were in place for bridge construction.

According to Sharon Wood Wortman in “The Port-land Bridge Book,” the Fremont Bridge, including approaches, was built in seven segments between 1968 and 1973.

The connection of Northwest Thurman to Vaughn Street blocks Upshur Street at 20th. Last month, a camper’s enclosure occupied the spot where the Paveskoviches stood in the old photo.

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“The Oregon Zoo’s elephants have long been plagued with chronic arthritis and infec-tion of their feet, which has often led to euthanasia. ... In his chapter on foot disorders in ‘The Biology, Medicine, and Surgery of Elephants,’ Dr. Mur-ray E. Fowler, the world author-ity on zoo and wildlife medi-cine, noted that a study of 379 zoo elephants found that 50 percent were affected with foot disorders.

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from standing in their own excreta are major contributors to elephant foot problems.”

Feet are pumpsThe quandary begins with

the anatomy of an elephant and the particular challenge

of pumping blood back to the heart of a 6-ton, 10-foot-tall beast. Pushing blood upwards is a challenge, and for that pur-pose elephants have thick pads above the soles of their feet that compress and expand to create a pumping action. A standing elephant or one that doesn’t

walk enough suffers from a fluid build-up in its extremi-ties that leads to infections in addition to overgrown nails and other serious maladies of the feet.

Elephants in zoos receive almost daily foot treatments to

cope with the cascading disor-ders. Endless research on more forgiving surfaces, including one at the Oregon Zoo test-ing rubber, has been conducted without finding the magic for-mula.

The answer is more exercise, the thing that keeps wild ele-phants’ feet in form. Elephants in the wild may walk 10 or 20 miles a day as they forage, typi-cally for shrubs, grass, leaves and twigs. While an elephant in captivity could theoretically pace around its enclosure non-stop to track up mileage, they tend not to move without a pur-pose, and in the wild that pur-pose is finding enough to eat.

Oregon Zoo head elephant keeper Bob Lee told the Exam-iner that space isn’t a prob-lem for captive elephants, and even when they have broader expanses to roam they tend to hang around in one spot.

(A spot near their source of food deliveries, no doubt.)

Recreating the natural ele-phant environment involves not only hundreds or thou-sands of acres but vast, replen-ishing plant life. Needless to say, no urban zoo can approach these prerequisites. Expanding the Oregon Zoo elephant facil-ity fourfold is a step in the right direction, but only a small one.

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Samubra, left to mingle with the female herd during the Examiner photo shoot last month mounted one of them, raising a question about unrestricted sexual access and potential inbreeding. “We determine when to put the animals together to promote social interactions. Regular access is not intended to imply unrestricted access," said the zoo’s head elephant keeper, Bob Lee.

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Business

BY ALLAN CLASSEN

What’s in a name? In the case of a new business

group formed in Goose Hollow, more than a little intrigue.

The Stadium District Busi-ness Guild is backed by sev-eral people disaffected by a housecleaning of the neigh-

borhood association’s board in last fall’s election.

Former Goose Hollow Foothills League President Dan Petrusich, former board member Stephan Lewis and Tina Wyszynski, the spouse of a former board member,

identify themselves as volunteers for the new organization.

The only two people on record as having controlling authority are Tim Block, general manager of Hotel

deLuxe on Southwest 15th Avenue,

and Brian Bacon, general manager of Eye Department on Southwest 16th Avenue. Block and Bacon registered last October with the Oregon Corporate Division as incorporators of Goose Hol-low Business Guild, an earlier name apparently changed this year.

An online search of stadiumdis-trictpdx.biz links to the Goose Hollow Business Guild website. The group’s identity remains muddy because no one is willing to speak for the orga-nization.

Bacon confirmed that “we are mem-bers” but referred all other questions to Block: “He is the man.”

Block, however, cast himself as an arm’s length observer in an email to the NW Examiner.

“I’ve been involved with the group for a number of years and commend their efforts,” Block wrote. “They are still in the early planning stages, and my understanding is that they will be meeting again in the fall. We look

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If he’s telling the truth, some-one else is running the organiza-tion, someone preferring to remain anonymous.

The Business Guild may be short on answers, but it’s already proven proficient at raising money. The group received grants totaling $2,750 from Venture Portland to get started and to produce a tri-fold guide map of the area highlighting local businesses. That’s according to Wyszynski, who serves on the board of Venture Portland and sold ads for the map.

Wyszynski said guild members paying dues of $100 received a free listing in the guide. The guide mentioned more than 50 busi-nesses and institutions, including well-known companies in and just beyond boundaries of the “stadium

district,” such as Whole Foods, Goose Hollow Flowers and Ring-Side Steakhouse.

From a count of members and advertisers in the guide, the orga-nization may have raised about $6,500 from local sources.

Wyszynski has so far provided the most detailed description of the guild’s status. “The Stadium District group is still in the early stages of being formed and has not named any officers yet,” she told the NW Examiner. “I’ve been help-ing as a volunteer to bring the map to life and bring the first member businesses on board.”

Rachel Clark, co-owner of per-haps Goose Hollow’s best known business, Goose Hollow Inn, said she recently attended a meeting of the 20-year-old Goose Hollow Business Association, and when she heard about the guild, she assumed it was the same organiza-tion.

“Having two business associa-tions is pretty ridiculous,” Clark said, “and I very much resent call-ing it the Stadium District.

“It’s a slap in the face,” she added, calling guild founders disrespectful for not first clearing their plans with the Foothills League and the Goose Hollow Business Association.

Angela Crawford, president of the Goose Hollow Business Asso-ciation, said she talked to Wyszyn-ski about the fledgling group’s goals two years ago and concluded

that it intended to promote high-density development and was not interested in collaborating with residents.

“Why is this organization around?” asked Goose Hollow resident Joanna Malaczynski at the July GHFL meeting. “It just doesn’t make any sense. I just do not understand what you are doing and why. You owe it to Goose Hol-low to sit down.”

Lewis, sensing that the remarks were directed at Wyszynski and himself, replied, “Not today, though.”

The discussion followed intro-duction of a motion to approve a letter condemning the rebranding of the area as the Stadium District. The motion passed unanimously, and the letter was sent to City Council, Venture Portland, the Office of Neighborhood Involve-ment, the Bureau of Planning & Sustainability and the Portland Development Commission, which funds Venture Portland, a coalition of neighborhood business associa-tions.

GHFL President Tracy Prince is passionate about the issue.

“ONI code requires new busi-ness or neighborhood associations to receive permission from the affected neighborhood associa-tion,” Prince said. “Venture Port-land should be required to follow this logical code. As the commis-sioner who is the city’s liaison to Venture Portland, Commissioner

[Nick] Fish should require Ven-ture Portland to adhere to Portland law.”

The message has so far fallen on deaf ears.

“Commissioner Nick Fish’s office expressed strong interest in protecting the rights of businesses and powerful developers and no interest in protecting the rights of the neighborhood association and preserving Goose Hollow’s historic neighborhood name,” Prince said. “My hope is that Commissioner Fish has a different opinion than his staff member has expressed.”

Paul Leistner of the Portland Office of Neighborhood Involve-ment threw more cold water on the complaint.

“The city of Portland does not have any particular requirements or regulations that apply to exist-ing business district associations or that establish formal require-ments that apply to BDA boundar-ies or the creation of new BDAs,” Leistner said.

“Although the ONI Standards (2005) provide a formal mecha-nism by which business district associations can apply for formal recognition by ONI, no business district association ever has cho-sen to apply to ONI for formal recognition. Given this, the ONI Standards requirements for busi-ness associations do not apply to any of Portland business district associations.” n


Stephan Lewis turned down an opportu-nity to defend the new business group’s activities.


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BY ALLAN CLASSEN

Parking meters are at last coming to the Northwest District

this month, but the citygave retailers a reprieve by delaying meter installationon Northwest 21st and 23rd avenues until September.

Solar-powered “smartmeters” will be installed on east-west streets betweenNorthwest 18th/20th, 24th, Burnside and Pettygrove streets from July 21 untilthe end of August. Resi-dents and employees pur-chasing permits may parkin metered residential blocks without paying, but others will be subject to a$1.60 an hour charge.

Chris Armes, who manages the project for the Portland Bureau of Transportation, decided to cut businesses some slack and hold off on metering the main com-mercial corridors until after Labor Day.

“Chris Armes contact-ed us advising us [meters] could begin to be installed at the end of July,” said Pat Fiedler, president of the Nob Hill Business Association.

“Since this was much later than originally planned, she asked if we would preferearly September.

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mittee questioned the unilat-eral staff decision on a mat-ter that should have come before the committee.

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Armes said she emailedcommittee members beforeacting and got only oneresponse. n

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BY ALLAN CLASSEN

Conflicts of interest permeated the citi-zen body that advised

the city on land-use poli-cy in the inner Westside. This charge was levied in a 60-page complaint filedwith the Portland Auditor last month.

Property owners, build-ers, developers, architectsand others with a financial stake in development filled 24 of the 33 seats on the West Quadrant Stakeholders Advisory Committee, andthey voted their interests.

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bers who voted to approve a plan increasing heightlimits and relaxing develop-ment restrictions had real or potential conflicts of inter-est, the complaint asserted. The authors say enactment of the West Quadrant Plan “will dramatically increase property values and create significantly more work for the related professions asso-ciated with real estate devel-opment.”

Where committee mem-bers stood on the proposed plan had a lot to do with their affiliations. Only one of the eight committee

Ethics complaint says stakeholders who approved West Quadrant Plan had conflicts of interest

Code of the West

ESCO ‘end run’ nixedBid to piggyback on update of citywide plan thwartedBY ALLAN CLASSEN

ESCO Corp., the 102-year-old foundry and heavy manufacturing company on Northwest Vaughn Street, wants out of the industrial sanctuary.

ESCO approached Mayor Charlie Hales in May with a proposal to rezone thecompany’s main plant from industrial to mixed-use or general employment, cat-egories that would allow offices, retail and perhaps housing.

ESCO President and CEO Calvin Collins wrote to Hales asking for the rezon-ing as part of the city’s

2035 Comprehensive Planupdate. By seeking to slip the changes into the later stages of the citywide plan rewrite, the company could have avoided a costly zone change application involv-ing an independent trans-portation study.

But Portland Planning& Sustainability DirectorSusan Anderson told theNW Examiner the request will not be considered in the current update process due to lack of sufficientneighborhood involvement.

John Bradley, chair of the Northwest District Asso-ciation Planning Commit-tee, called it “an attempted end run by ESCO [that]was thwarted” through the attentiveness of activistswho reacted to the com-

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ESCO wants flexibility to consider options other than heavy industryfor its main plant and headquarters north of Northwest Vaughn Street.

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New Businesses

Zenality Yoga2377 NW Westover Rd., Ste. 503503-376-7300 • zenalityyoga.com

Erica Belfiore, who recently moved to Portland from Hawaii, has opened a yoga studio in The Westerly Condominiums building. Her training was in dance, but after taking a Bikram yoga class, she decided to become a yoga instructor. Her emphasis is the art of movement and posture restoration. Six-week courses include Mindful Meditation, and she offers a three-week Yoga for Runners course. Drop-ins are also welcome.

Soltesz Fine Art1825 NW 23rd Ave. • 971-276-9097 • solteszfineart.com

Melissa Soltesz has turned the former Westside Pattern Works building on the edge of the industrial district into a light and airy art gallery. Soltesz recently arrived in Portland from Park City, Utah, where she was involved in the art field for 15 years, eight of them as an art appraiser. Her focus is on contemporary art works by a variety of artists, so far featuring Paul Lorenz, Heather Patterson, Heinrich Toh, Chris Trueman, Danielle Wyckoff, John Wentz and Zin Lim.

Several longtime Northwest District businesses are gone. • Gina’s CaterinG, 901 NW 21st Ave, began in the early 1980s as Gina’s Café in the space that is now Ling Garden. • EXIT real World closed its Salem store last August, when it stopped selling snowboards, and its Northwest 23rd Ave-nue store closed Memorial Day. • MinuteMan Press, at 2340 NW Thurman St. since 1991, closed last month. Steve Ryan and Walter Sofko, who bought the franchise in 2003 and sold it last Decem-ber, continue to operate Minute-man Press on Southeast Powell. • Owners of the Bitter end pub at 1981 W. Burnside St. changed the name to The St. Helens in April, but to little avail, and landlord Drew Prell is now looking for a new tenant.

Mill Creek Residential Trust sold the Cordelia, a two-building apart-ment complex at Northwest 19th and Johnson streets completed last year, for $48 million recently.

Two Pearl District pioneers, Al Sol-heim and Robert Ames, are remod-eling what is believed to be the district’s oldest building, the staGe-Craft BuildinG at 1302 NW Kear-ney St. The two-story warehouse was built in two stages beginning in 1894. They plan a full seismic and systems upgrade of the brick-and-heavy-timber building, hoping to find full-floor commercial tenants.

Another Pearl industrial structure, the PreMier Press building at 1400 NW Hoyt St., will be remodeled and expanded with a six-story office tower on its eastern half.

deskhuB, a national company leas-ing flexible office space for primar-ily small entrepreneurs, is leasing 18,000 square feet at 334 NW 11th Ave., the former Ziba building.

The 1881 Mariners BuildinG at 203 NW Third Ave., will open in October as soCiety hotel after a total renovation. It will have 38 rooms, with bunk spaces starting at $35 up to suites for $135.

CannaBliss & Co. opened at 2231 W. Burnside St. recently. Another marijuana store, la Cannaisseur, has opened in Linnton at 10700 NW St. Helens Rd.

tender lovinG eMPire, featuring handmade goods and its own music label, is opening soon at 519 NW 23rd Ave., the chain’s third Portland store.

talula’s shoe salon located at 820 NW 23rd Ave. has closed.

PuBliC Bikes and Gear has opened a pop-up shop at 828 NW 23rd Ave. behind Marine Layer.

terraMere desiGner JeWelry, designer Terri Nowak’s second store, opened at 629 NW 23rd Ave.

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Casey Jo Ailes, a painter and photographer, offers free art classes for children ages 4-8 every Saturday morning (preregistration required). “The studio is a place where young artists can learn about making recycled art and create images about conservation,” Ailes said. Environmental values shape her work. She protested the arrival of the Shell Oil rig headed for the Arctic and has children draw polar bears to learn about their endangered environment. She plans to begin classes for adults this fall.


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BY ALLAN CLASSEN

ESCO Corp. is finding that break-ing out of its industrial zoning box is harder than it might have imagined when its CEO sent a letter to the mayor in May.

Not only has it missed the train represented by the city’s pending 20-year update of the comprehen-sive plan, but also it might not have the opportunity to seek rezoning again until the plan is revised again in about 2035.

Steve Kountz, in charge of industri-al planning for the Portland Bureau of Planning & Sustainability, said the city’s current thinking is that no industrial land should be rezoned at the request of the landowner. While other zoning designations can be changed through comprehensive plan amendments initiated by prop-erty owners, the necessity of protect-ing scarce industrial land warrants freezing the lines until City Council approves a new citywide plan.

Kountz was speaking last month to the Northwest Industrial Neighbor-hood Association, of which ESCO is a member.

ESCO President and CEO Cal-vin Collins advised Mayor Charlie Hales that policies to retain a buffer around heavy industry have failed as “a mosaic of office, restaurant, retail and housing” has grown up south of Vaughn Street.

The company prepared a large dis-play map with overlain photographs showing non-industrial uses north of Vaughn, the current boundary between industrial and mixed-use zones.

“The buffer has not held,” said Shannon Huggins, ESCO’s public affairs manager.

ESCO officials told Northwest

District Association representatives last month that the rezoning request comes from a desire to adapt to pos-sible changes on the horizon rather than a known course or shift in the operations.

“We want to be nimble and flex-ible,” said Huggins.

In April, ESCO advised a neigh-borhood advisory committee that production in Portland declined 10-15 percent in 2014 and one of the main plant’s two foundry lines was shut down last November.

“We’re trying to look long range,” said ESCO Senior Vice President Kevin Thomas. “If we shut the plant down in 10 years, don’t want a clus-ter of empty buildings.”

The implication was that indus-trial facilities would be easier to repurpose if they could be converted into offices and other uses.

Roger Vrilakas of NWDA, describ-ing himself as “implacably for the steel curtain” surrounding the industrial sanctuary, said a transi-tion to other uses would “inevitably bring more cars” and congestion to the wider area.

That transition is inevitable if zon-ing is relaxed, he said, “The lure of turning that land into money is inescapable.”

The slide from purely industri-al zoning also worries some NINA members. The organization’s June minutes note that “Greg Madden reminded the group that NINA has always advocated for the industrial zoning sanctuary and pointed out that this requested zone change rais-es the question of possible erosion of that sanctuary. … This may create a conflict between our stance on the industrial sanctuary and recognition of ESCO’s needs.”

City says not so fast to ESCO rezoning proposal

You never know what you have until it’s gone.

That’s the impression the Oregon Zoo created about its elephant ivory stockpiles, which were the subject of a proposed Oregon Senate bill to outlaw the sale of ivory.

Instead of one tusk held for dis-play purposes, it turns out the zoo stockpiled much more, a fact con-firmed in June, when 250 pounds of ivory from the Oregon Zoo were included in a one-ton crush of ivory conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in New York.

While that bill stalled in the Ore-gon Legislature—along with the zoo’s attempt to seek an exemption from it—the Examiner wanted to know how much ivory the zoo held and how it was obtained.

Hova Najarian, media officer for the zoo, was not able to help.

“This is not information I have at my fingertips, and most of these

questions would take quite a bit of research to answer (if answers could even be found),” said Najarian. “If it is still something you require, I sug-gest submitting it as a public records request.

“But if you prefer me to go with the information I have at hand, I’ll do my best.”

Examiner: Were tusks removed from elephants after they died?

Najarian: One of Thonglaw’s tusks was removed when he died back in 1974.

Examiner: Has that practice stopped?

Najarian: I don’t think you could call it a practice. As far as I know, Thonglaw’s was the only one.

Examiner: What was the intent in stockpiling tusks?

Najarian: No stockpile of tusks, just the one. It will be included in an educational display at the new Ele-phant Lands.

Size of zoo’s ivory stockpile revealed


Photo by Dina Avila

September 2010

Neighborhood columns are the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Neighbors West-Northwest

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NWDA Summer Mixer

Date: Tuesday, August 4thTime: 6:00 - 9:00 pmPlace: Lucky Labrador Beer Hall, 1945 NW QuimbyMeet your Neighborhood Associa-tion Board and learn about neigh-borhood issues such as parking, air quality, and Slabtown Square, while we celebrate National Night Out with beer, food, and good conver-sation!Each attendee will receive 1 drink ticket, and snacks will be provided.

National Night Out EventsNational Night Out is celebrated across the country to strengthen com-munity cohesiveness and crime resistance. It’s a great first introduction to your Neighborhood Association and good way to create a more connected and safer community. Not to mention the ice cream, food and drinks!

Linnton Ice Cream SocialDate: Wednesday, August 5th Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PMPlace: Linnton Community Center, 10614 NW St. Helens RdBring the kids for free ice cream to celebrate National Night Out!Ice cream provided. - Bring your own toppings. Kid-friendly games and activities. Several volunteers are needed at the event. Please contact Pat, [email protected]. Sponsored by Linnton Community Center.

OTCTCA Ice Cream SocialDate: Wednesday, August 5th Time: 5:00 - 7:30 PMPlace: Floyd’s Coffee Shop Patio, 118 NW Couch Together, we are making our neighborhoods a safer, better place to live. Join us for the Ice Cream Social with music by MC Shoehorn: www.shoehornmusic.com

NINA Happy Hour

Date: Tuesday, August 4thTime: 4:30 - 7:00 pmPlace: Portland Brewing, 2730 NW 31st AveJoin us for our 1st annual National Night Out celebration! Your Northwest Industrial Neigh-borhood Association (NINA) has partnered with Portland Brewing to host our very first National Night Out. This is the perfect opportuni-ty to see your neighbors, meet new people in the community and enjoy the beautiful Portland summer. This is also a great time to learn more about NINA, our upcoming events and how you can get involved in our unique industrial community. Portland Brewing is providing light appetizers at no cost and one drink ticket per attendee. There will also be a raffle and door prizes. We look forward to seeing you there!

Portland Japanese Garden Plansby William H. Newman, Sylvan HighlandsIn response to June 27th Oregonian op-ed piece from Stephen Bloom: Portland Japanese Garden Will Replace Trail SpurIn this perspective on the expansion of the Japanese Garden it is important to relate the experience of the one constituency whose participation was nearly absent: that of Portland’s public. The city’s policy makers jointly developed these ex-pansion plans with the Garden’s leadership, yet the public was only minimally involved at the last moment. Shortly prior to a City Council hearing to approve a finished expansion plan in-cluding enlargement of parking and transportation infrastructure, expansion of event and administrative space, annexation of acreage within Washington Park, elimination of a well-used connector from the Wildwood trail to the Rose Garden – and yet virtually no expansion of the Garden itself! – only neighbors immedi-ately abutting the Garden and the parkland to be annexed were notified. Due to the energy of an Arlington Heights citizen this was brought to the attention of the larger public who on short notice mobilized and attempted to make their voices heard at City Hall. While it would be convenient to discount these efforts as a case of the humble, genteel Garden being opposed by elitist NIMBYs, this would be dishonest. The Japanese Garden is truly a jewel of Portland and its park system, and the public is as much a stakeholder as the City or the Garden itself. In this matter the public deserves a say: the Garden is 1) receiving public land, 2) at no cost, 3) for private use, 4) for expansion of revenue-generating infrastructure, and 5) the public is losing parkland and access. As one commentator noted, “shouldn’t the public and the Garden have developed these plans jointly and then presented them to the City for approval, instead of the City and the Garden finalizing plans in private before attempting to move forward with as little public process as possible?” Furthermore, if the Japanese Garden is truly a jewel of the City, a major tourist attraction and source of international repute, then why wouldn’t a fair exchange for the Garden’s no-cost use of public property for revenue-generating activities include, at a minimum, free access for Portland residents to their Garden?

Goose Hollow Foothills League Annual Picnic & Timbers Match

Date: Saturday, Sept 12th • Time: 6:00 pmPlace: Providence Park, entrance by Sports Care Center, 909 SW 18th Ave The first 100 GHFL members to show up will receive a ticket to the game, food, and two drink tickets. To become a member go to NWNW.org/get-involved/join-now/

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Lovejoy Summer Concert SeriesTime: 6:30 pm • Place: Lovejoy Fountain Park, SW 3rd & HarrisonDates: Fridays, August 7th, 14th & 21st Aug. 7: NNO Party with Redray Frazier: Amalgamation of Rock & Soul Aug. 14: Curtis Salgado: Blues-soaked R & B Aug. 21: Portland Community Wind Band: Celebration of American Music

City Council Considers Noise Ordinance Revisions

by Stan Penkin, Pearl DistrictInitiated last year by Pearl residents concerned about the incessant noise of con-struction pile driving, the City Office of Noise Control and the Noise Control Review Board developed proposed revisions to the City’s Noise Ordinance. July 9th, City Council heard proposed revisions including: reductions to pile driving by one hour a day and prohibiting it on Saturdays, that noise appeals be brought to the Noise Control Review Board for resolution, rather than to City Council. The proposal further recommends changes to noise regulations in cer-tain commercial zones that are in essence residential.Testimony was heard on both sides: opponents claiming that these revisions would add to construction cost, advocates insisting that the noise is harmful to people’s health and that acceptable alternatives include the significantly quieter auger cast method.The hearing will have continued on July 29th (after publication). All residents and businesses with concern about this issue from across the City are encouraged to testify in writing to the City Commissioners.


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BOARD MEETINGThurs., Aug. 13th & Sept. 10th 6:00 pmPREM Group, 351 NW 12th AveExecutive CommitteeWeds., Aug. 5th & Sept. 2nd 9:00 amUrban Grind, 911 NW 14th Livability & Safety CommitteeWeds., Aug. 5th & Spet. 2nd 5:30 pmPortland Center Stage 128 NW 11th AvePlanning & Transportation Comm.Tues., Aug. 4th, 18th & Sept. 1st 6:00 pmPREM Group, 351 NW 12thCommunications CommitteeTues., Aug. 25th, 6:00 pmLRS Architects 720 NW Davis, Ste 300Emergency Prep CommitteeMon., Aug. 10th, 6:00 pmEcotrust Bldg, 2nd Floor 907 NW Irving

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BOARD MEETINGTues., Sept. 8th, 12:30 pm Forest Heights HOA Office 2033 NW Miller Rd

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www.linnton.com TOWN MEETING & BOARD MEETINGWeds., Sept. 2nd 7:00 pm Linnton Community Center, 10614 NW St. Helens Rd NNO Ice Cream SocialWeds., Aug. 5th 6:00 pm Linnton Community Center

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BOARD MEETINGMon., Aug. 17th, 6:00 pm (LGS) Northrup, 2282 NW NorthrupExecutive Committee Weds., Aug. 5th & Sept. 9th, 8:00 amNWNW Office, 2257 NW Raleigh Air Quality CommitteeMon., Aug. 10th, 7:00 pmSilver Cloud Inn, Breakfast RmNW 24th Place & Vaughn StPlanning CommitteeThurs., Aug. 6th, 13th, 20th, 27th, Sept. 3rd & 10th, 8:00 amCoHo Theater, 2257 NW RaleighCall to confirm, 503.823.4212 Public Safety & Livability Committee Tues., Aug. 11th & Sept. 8th 6:00 pmLGS, Wilcox B, 2211 NW MarshallTransportation Committee MeetingWeds., Aug. 5th, 6:00 pmLGS, Wilcox A, 2211 NW Marshall2nd Saturday Clean-upSat., Aug. 8th & Sept. 12th, 9:00 amFood Front Co-op 2375 NW Thurman3rd Saturday Clean-upSat., Aug. 15th, 9:00 amElephants Deli, 115 NW 22ndSummer MixerTues., Aug. 4th, 6:00 pmLucky Lab, 1945 NW Quimby

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BOARD MEETING Weds., Sept. 9th 5:30 pmLGS Northrup Building 2282 NW Northrup

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BOARD MEETINGMon., Aug. 10th, 6:00 pmSylvan Fire Station1715 SW Skyline Blvd

Northwest DistrictAssociation

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GENERAL MEMBERSHIP followed by BOARD MEETINGTues., Aug. 25th, 5:30 pm & 7:00 pm Meals on Wheels Elm Court 1032 SW Main St Land Use & Transport. Comm. Mon., Aug. 17th, 5:30 pm 1900 Building, Room 2500 B 1900 SW 4th Public Safety Action CommitteeWeds., Sept. 9th, 12:00 pmPortland Building, Room B 1120 SW 5th AveSummer Concert SeriesFri., Aug. 7th, 14th, 21st, 6:30 pmLovejoy Fountain, 1990 SW 4th Ave

Portland DowntownNeighborhood Association

Northwest Heights Neighborhood Association

Find calendar updates at: www.nwnw.org/Calendar

www.oldtownchinatown.org

COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MTGWeds., Sept. 2nd, 11:30 amCentral City Concern 232 NW 6th AveBOARD MEETING Weds., Aug. 12th & Sept. 9th 11:30 amUniversity of Oregon, Room 150 70 NW CouchArt History and Culture Committee Weds., Aug. 26th, 11:30 am Non Profit Center, 221 NW 2nd Ave 2nd floor front conf roomBusiness Committee Thurs., Aug. 27th, 10:00 am Davis Street Tavern, 500 NW DavisLand Use Design & Rvw CommitteeTues., Aug. 18th, 11:30 amUniversity of Oregon, Room 152 70 NW CouchLivability & Public Safety CommitteeTues., Aug. 18th, 3:30 pmOregon College of Oriental Medicine, 75 NW Couch St Hospitality SubcommitteeThurs., Aug. 20th, 6:00 pmLocation TBANational Night Out Block PartyWeds., Aug. 5th, 5:00 pmFloyd’s Coffee Shop, 118 NW Couch

Old Town ChinatownCommunity Association

www.sylvanhighlands.org

MEMBERSHIP & BOARD MEETINGTues., Aug. 11th & Sept. 8th7:00 pm Sylvan Fire Station 1715 SW Skyline Blvd

Sylvan-HighlandsNeighborhood Association

[email protected] MEETINGWeds., Aug. 19th, 8:30 amHoliday Inn Express 2333 NW Vaughn

Nob Hill Business Association

Pearl DistrictNeighborhood Association

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NINA MEETINGTues., Aug. 11th & Sept. 8th, 7:00 amHoliday Inn Express2333 NW VaughnNNO Happy HourTues., Aug. 4th, 4:30 pmPortland Brewing, 2730 NW 31st Ave

Northwest IndustrialNeighborhood Association

Forest ParkNeighborhood Association

www.forestparkneighbors.orgBOARD MEETINGTues., Sept. 15th, 7:00 pm Willis Community Center 360 NW Greenleaf

www.goosehollow.orgNEIGHBORHOOD MEETINGThurs., Aug. 20th, 7:00 pmMultnomah Athletic Club1849 SW Salmon StPlanning & Zoning CommitteeTues., Aug. 4th & Sept. 1st, 7:00 pmFirst United Methodist Church1838 SW JeffersonPublic Safety, Parking, and Transportation CommitteeTues., Aug. 18th, 6:30 pmFirst United Methodist Church1838 SW JeffersonAd hoc Bylaws CommitteeWeds., Aug. 19th, 7:00 pmThe Legends Condominiums1132 SW 19th AveAd hoc Duty of Loyalty CommitteeTues., Aug. 11th & Sept. 8th 7:00 pmThe Legends Condominiums1132 SW 19th Ave


Linnton: a unique village of historical & environmentalsignificance, bringing forest, river and people together in a spirit of community stewardship within the Portland urban design.

The City of Portland is making a large mistake in giving Linnton short shrift in its 2035 Comprehensive Plan. Linnton personifies large problems the Comp Plan hasn’t the nerve to address, prob-lems soon to impact the larger city: massive traffic jams on arteri-als (Germantown, Newberry, Cornelius Pass) designed for covered wagons; the prospect of the hydrocarbon economy that drives Or-egon melting into the river in the Cascadia earthquake; the ever increasing parade of commuters roaring up and down St Helens Road; the disappearance of affordable housing, and employment forever far from where we live; the burned out hulks of the tank farms, monuments to climate change.

This is just the beginning of the list, but Linnton’s Neighborhood Association only asks for two small changes in the Comprehensive Plan: to designate Linnton’s downtown a neighborhood center, and Commercial zoning (EX) instead of Heavy Industry (IH) zoning from Front Street to the Willamette River, and NW 107th to NW 112th Streets.

1. Create complete communities• With a rich historical presence, beginning in 1843, Linnton had or-

chards and farms, then five mills and ship building, and is now theenergy hub of Oregon and a growing recreational locus.

• With views of the Cascades and four volcanoes from its precipitoushills, Linnton is restoring its green slopes and stairs to enhance a uniqueneighborhood walking experience.

• To help create more places for our community to walk to, we want ourdowntown to be recognized as a neighborhood center, to encouragedevelopment and more flexibility in the zoning of the center’s adjacentlands, fostering creative planning and design.

• Linnton was once a vertically integrated community with more than 20family businesses, and is still a tightly knit network of neighbors whocare about the river and forest and future. What is left of our downtownneeds to be recognized as a center to support the envisioning of a newvillage core.

• We need to ensure a clean and healthy river, re-connected to the forest,a goal now within reach as three new Superfund mitigation sites, withfive creeks flowing from Forest Park through Linnton, are being de-signed.

• A prosperous working harbor with higher worker/acreage ratios.• A river front that is truly “Portland’s front yard,” in all its mixed-use

diversity.• An appreciation of our responsibility to wild nature, given Forest

Park’s role of ecological corridor between the Portland Metro area andthe Coast Range’s flora and wildlife.

2. Design compact neighborhoods that offer walkability• Linnton has more than a dozen trail heads into Forest Park, seven of

them accessible from a variety of #16 bus stops.• With the intense traffic on St Helens Road, pedestrian safety is a big

concern. New development will be carefully designed to both encour-age walking and separate walkers from traffic.

• Linnton’s downtown was sacrificed to vehicular traffic. If the city is truly committed to walkable communities, it will designate Linnton a neighborhood center, and help it develop into the hub our hillside stairs and sidewalks once radiated from, fostering walking and tempering the soulless strip mall imposed upon us.

3. Employment Flexibility• Currently the 20 acre industrial site east of Front Avenue (where we

would like the zoning change), supports a small handful of menial jobs, as it’s essentially a storage yard.

• Industrial or commercial businesses that offer a better job/acreage ratio would be a better fit for river frontage land.

• Virtually no one living in Linnton works in Linnton. While the industry may be heavy, it’s light on jobs. A hundred years ago, when Linnton had twice its current population nearly everyone in town worked along the river.

4. Transit• Linnton’s #16 bus is crucial service for many in relatively isolated

areas of Sauvie Island and Linnton; also offering access for folks throughout the city to many trails into Forest Park and biking on Sauvie Island; a lifeline to the many who frequent the Tuesday food bank at the Linnton Community Center; or need transportation to the day care at LCC; a commuter line for workers and school kids downtown; or grocery shop-ping and medical services in St Johns, amenities not found in Linnton.

• If Linnton were a neighborhood center, with the attendant hope of evolving, the parade ofone commuter in each ofthe 30,000 cars that passthrough each day mightfind themselves relaxingin a trolley, as they didin 1911, when the trolleymade 17 stops a day inLinnton on its way to andfrom Hillsboro, by way ofCornelius Pass.

Time Line for the 2035 Comprehensive Plan: July 14, 2015: Planning & Sustainability Commission vote to recommend the plan to City Council or not Mid-August 2015: Transmittal of PSC’s Recommended Draft to City CouncilSeptember – October 2015: City Council holds work sessionsNovember – December 2015: City Council holds public hearingsJanuary 2016: Council adopts the plan (goals, policies and land use map) 2016: Oregon Department of Land Conservation & Development reviews adopted plan2017: Effective date

Neighborhood columns are the opinions of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the opinions of Neighbors West-Northwest


BUSINESS

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Animal advocates and a 7-foot chicken with a broken wing and open wounds protested animal

abuse by Foster Farms outside the Stadium Fred Meyer store. Mercy For Animals obtained undercover

video of cruelty to chickens at a West Coast plant operated by Foster

Farms, a Fred Meyer supplier. The video, narrated by former television

host Bob Barker, can be seen at AmericanHumaneScam.com. A Fred Meyer spokesperson said, “We take

this seriously,” and referred to a Foster Farms statement defending its

practices.

Sonja Johanson, daughter of Goose Hollow residents Van Le and Aaron Johanson, has qualified for both the U.S. and Canadian rock climbing

teams. She will compete in the International Federal of Sport Climbing World Youth Championship in Italy Sept. 4. She trains at the Multnomah

Athletic Club under Drew White, the club’s head climbing coach. Photo by Christian J. Stewart

This 115-year-old house at 1450 SW Jefferson St. may be gone by Aug. 4, when a demolition permit expires. VWR Development LLC has design approval for a 61-unit apartment building with no off-street parking on the 10,500-square-foot lot. The Goose Hollow Foothills League supported the design and elected not to oppose the demolition, although by a narrow margin. “It’s not a historic house,” said GHFL planning co-chair Jerry Powell, “and we give away some of our leverage if we jump up and down for everything.”

Pearl activist Patrice Hanson testified at City Council last month on an ordinance to reduce the disruption of impact-hammer pile driving. “Most

of us were in agreement that limiting hours, providing adequate notice to affected residents and perhaps changing the zoning are good first

steps, but are not enough.” She prefers a proposal requiring builders to demonstrate that quieter methods are not feasible.

Portland Parks & Recreation kicked off a program to rid Forest Park of invasive species with a media tour last month. The first project involves herbicide use on 155 acres in the Balch Creek watershed. “PP&R staff and volunteers have worked tirelessly over the last 20 years to remove and prevent the spread of ivy and other invasive species in Forest Park,” said bureau spokesperson Mark Ross. “Unfortunately, such plants are resilient and will continue to spread unless we are able to accelerate our restoration efforts. Fifty years ago, invasive species were rare in Forest Park. Today, Forest Park is at risk.”

A MAX train collided with a car at Southwest 18th and Yamhill streets last month. Robert Butler, who owns property near the intersection, said this type of accident is common at this intersection.


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