NOVEMBER 2014 / VOLUME 28, NO. 3 / FREE
***** SERVING PORTLAND’S NORTHWEST NEIGHBORHOODS SINCE 1986
Co-op Crash
City cleans out
I-405 crime nest
Camping problem
under freeway called
the worst in 30 years.
ALLAN CLASSEN
C
ity Commissioner Nick
Fish had been told about
increasingly aggressive
street people under the I-405
freeway, but seeing is believing.
After a walking tour between
Northwest Johnson and Lovejoy Saturday, Oct. 4, and talking
to affected neighbors, he characterized the problem as “less
about homelessness, and more
about illegal behavior.”
Some current and former Food Front employees predict the co-op’s financial ruin.
Bleeding red ink for six straight years and facing
a daunting new competitor, worker discontent
spills over at the co-op grocery.
ALLAN CLASSEN
S
ome Food Front Cooperative Grocery employees
find their working environment anything but cooperative. A total of ten current and
former co-op employees have
told the Examiner of autocratic
management, a disillusioned
staff and widespread fear that
speaking out leads only to
reprisal or dismissal.
The workers are also united
in believing that the co-op’s
future is in danger due to finan-
cial mismanagement.
Food Front General Manager Holly Jarvis and the coop’s board have made no secret
of their apprehension about
coming competition when
New Seasons is to open four
blocks away next year. Beyond
that, however, they present a
positive front. Jarvis explains
six consecutive years of operating losses as the consequence
of opening a second store in
Hillsdale in 2008 during the
recession and in consciously
deciding to plow resources into
long-range growth.
No employer endures
long without dissatisfaction in the workforce, and “disgruntled former employees”
are so common the phrase has
become a cliché.
Yet the number of dissidents and the consistency of
their stories should be troubling to an organization built
on communal values and a
higher social purpose. And the
co-op’s failure to entertain the
possibility that the chafing may
stem from internal failings warranting open discussion seems
unbefitting of a democratically
governed, member-owned
co-op.
Charges leveled by the seven
anonymous workers, who
withheld their names in fear
of dismissal, are harsh. They
describe Jarvis as a “dictator”
who ruthlessly punishes those who
challenge
her
authority
while
rewarding an inner core loyal
to her.
Many report going to work
for Food Front with high ideals and dedication to the people-before-profits cooperative
ethic. Although their co-op
wages are modest, most would
deem working for Walmart or
other corporate retailers akin
to “selling out.”
“We all want to feel that
what we do matters,” said one
worker, explaining that the idealism and dream of working
collaboratively soon turns to
cynicism after coming to Food
Front, causing many to quit. ▶
Continued on page 6
He called then Portland
Police Chief Mike Reese and
triggered a multi-agency mission that completely cleared the
Campers grew so bold about
their living arrangements under
the I-405 overpass that little
effort was made to hide drug use
or stolen property.
area of campers, waste, syringes
and stolen property by the end
of the weekend.
“This is the first time in 30 ▶
Continued on page 24
No beauty contest
Neighborhood campaign to save 1918 office
building from demolition linked to historic
connections, incompatibility of proposed
replacement.
T
he case against demolishing the Ballou & Wright
Building at 1727 NW Hoyt
St. is solid.
The three-story office building, also known as the BuckPrager Building, opened in
1918 as Women’s Hospital. The
maternity hospital was established by Mrs. A.B.Y. Spaulding,
a key figure in local medical
institutions in the early 20th
century.
According to Hillary Adam of
the Portland Bureau of Development Services, Spaulding
was “a woman whose passion
for training young women to
be nurses through the School
of Nursing at the Multnomah
County Hospital led to what we
now know as OHSU (Oregon
Health Sciences University).
“This building may not be
beautiful, but it is significant,”▶
Continued on page 26
Neighbors and other historic preservationists gathered at the Ballou & Wright Building to mark their
stand against demolishing the 1918 building. Photo by Vadim Makoyed
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Editor’s Turn
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allan@nwexaminer.com or 2825 NW Upshur St., Ste. C, Portland, OR 97210.
Letters should be 300 words or fewer; include a name and a street of residence.
Deadline third Saturday of the month.
Everett Street adds stress
I totally agree with Frank Warrens
about the change on Northwest Everett Street to one car lane, one bike lane
("Driving Out Cars," October 2014).
Whoever came up with the idea was
not thinking. In fact, I emailed Leah
Treat, director of the Portland Bureau
of Transportation, to tell her what I
thought. I have not heard back.
I've commuted home to Southeast
Portland from my work on Northwest Flanders for 13 years. Now with
this bike lane, my commute time has
increased as has my stress level. I told
Ms. Treat that I'm all for bike lanes,
but with this particular one I've hardly
seen any bikes using it since it was
installed. It's extremely underutilized
at the expense of the many who commute by car.
So now we have a traffic jam and an
empty bike lane. Good planning! You
can't force an agenda on people who
drive cars—they are taxpayers, too.
Susan Saito
SE 18th Ave.
The rest of the bike markings east
of Northwest 19th on Everett seem
logical.
Robert W. Bentley
SW Vista Ave.
Brain-dead idiots
I wanted to applaud publishing the
use of the phrase "brain-dead idiots"
in describing the folks who created the
recent changes to Northwest Everett
Street. I as well find myself using this
phrase often to describe a large portion of the population here. Whether
it's the aloof drivers, the aloof bike
riders and pedestrians or the horrible social skills of people here, it all
gets summed up concisely with this
phrase. When people say Portland is
a "weird" place, I often reply, "And
'weird' is a politically correct term for
something else!" … and this IS that
something else. Welcome to Portland!
Andrew Baird
NW 29th Ave.
It would seem to me the dedicated
bike lane from Northwest 23rd to 19th
isn't as critical, and the right lane
could be a shared "chevron marked"
bike and car lane on the north side.
Index
Still need cars
Many thanks to Mr. Frank Warrens
for “telling it like it is.” I admit I purchased a home in the Northwest District because of its proximity to public
transportation. But I was not foolish
enough to think that the bus would
replace my car.
I am a senior citizen who can’t walk
very far nor ride a bicycle. I rely on
my car for trips to visit friends who
do not live downtown or in the ▶
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This should reduce the traffic impediment without significantly compromising bike safety and still retain
important on-street parking.
Ideas for Everett
Even though I'm entering my 40th
year of recreational bicycling (and
23rd year cycling to work), I must
admit I agree with Mr. Warrens and
his frustration with the new Everett
Street bike lane. It was a brilliant move
to switch the bike pattern to the north
side and mitigate the motorist/bike
hazard at the right turn onto I-405 at
Northwest 16th Avenue.
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T
here are days when old and new
ways clash unforgettably. Polish cavalrymen ostensibly faced
German tanks in World War II, and
a Stanford collegiate revolutionized
basketball by defeating the nation’s
top team at Madison Square Garden in
1936 using a one-handed shot.
density) and go to battle.
I had one of those days when history
seemed to be on parade last month.
In the morning, hard-nosed developer
Marty Kehoe came to the Northwest
District Association Planning Committee with plans to build 124 apartment
units on Northwest Overton without
off-street parking.
That’s the key issue with micro
apartments. Most assume that many
tenants will bring cars and park them
on the street. Assurances that only 10
or 20 percent of such tenants own cars
aren’t believed. It’s an easy claim to
make, and if incorrect, the public bears
the consequences.
This is the same guy who bought the
historic Goldsmith House and adjacent property at Northwest 24th and
Quimby for $1.5 million this spring in
order to tear it
down. A group
of 20-plus
neighbors
begged him
to reconsider,
finally paying him $2.25
million for
the property.
A 50-percent
return on
investment in
just over two
months! There
is no truth to
the claim that
he invested
the money in
pound dogs, which he threatened to
shoot unless people sent him cash.
By the end of the evening, however,
the owner of Koz Development had
persuaded most neighbors that she
really would do everything possible
to ensure her
tenants did not
bring cars to the
neighborhood.
She would consider refusing
to let residents
obtain parking
permits, making car ownership highly
impractical. She
also promised
to warn tenants who want
to bring cars
that they will
not be happy
with their living
arrangement, nor will the community
be happy.
More likely, he saw the next golden
opportunity in erecting apartment
buildings unencumbered with the lowreturn requirement to provide parking.
Neighborhood representatives were
none too pleased. Most see this growing practice as burdening the community with a parking load while pocketing the savings.
We have to admire the progressive
approach. Rather than creating communitywide hardships that in time
trigger resentment and regulation, the
developer set out to prevent disharmony from the outset.
The same day, I went to a meeting
of the Goose Hollow Foothills League,
where another developer proposed a
48-unit apartment building with no
parking. Neighbors there also feared
the builders were saving costs by externalizing their parking costs.
"It may not
strictly qualify
as extortion, but
the thought is
there."
Kehoe never blanched. As he saw it,
he was doing what the code allowed,
and if the neighborhood wanted to
limit his prerogatives, someone would
have to pay to make it worth his while.
He suggested getting the city to lower
his system development charges. He
wasn’t set on the form of payment; he
would perhaps accept lower taxes or
expedited approval.
It may not strictly qualify as extortion, but the thought is there.
Kehoe fits in a long American tradition: entrepreneurs who see all forms
of resistance, even calls to take responsibility for environmental or social
harm, as unjustified infringement of
their rights. If their actions give rise to
political opposition, the practitioners
wrap themselves in the flag of jobs or
economic development (or in Portland,
We can’t know whether Koz will live
up to its goals, but if it does, the bar
will have been raised. It will show what
is possible. No-parking apartments
will never be the ticket for all, but they
offer serious benefits in the central city.
Scores of new residents eating in nearby restaurants and patronizing local
businesses without tying up limited
parking resources can improve livability and prosperity for all.
No-parking buildings have the right
answer to the urban issue of our time:
Why should people who live carless
subsidize those who drive?
The future belongs to those who
adapt to changing social situations and
find a better way. Rent-seekers intent
on milking dead-end propositions are
still with us, but the smart money is
going elsewhere.■
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 Obituaries
Mary Ellen Mogren
Jeanne H. McAlpin
Daniel Peski
Mary Ellen Mogren, a division
chair, clinical psychologist and
social worker for 30 years at
Boys & Girls Aid Society in
Northwest Portland, died Oct.
6 at age 89. She was born April
22, 1925, and grew up in St.
Paul, Minn. She received a
master’s degree in social work
from the University of Minnesota. She was a member of
the Mazamas and climbed Mt.
Hood and Mt. St. Helens. She
was also a downhill and cross
country skier, backpacker,
hiker and bird watcher who
traveled to Europe, Africa and
Guatemala. Her last residence
was at Terwilliger Plaza.
Jeanne H. McAlpin, a resident
of Portland Heights, died Oct.
12 at age 78. Jeanne Harper
was born Oct. 12, 1936, and
grew up in Dallas, Tex. She
graduated from Smith College,
Northhampton, Mass. She
lived most of her life in Portland, where she was a member
of Trinity Episcopal Cathedral,
Junior League of Portland and
Portland Garden Club. She
was a docent for the Portland
Art Museum and a master gardener through Oregon State
University Extension Service.
She married Craig Farrow; he
died. She married Jim McAlpin. She is survived by her
daughters, Patsy Keller and Jill
Farrow; and three grandchildren.
Daniel Peski,
a Northwest
Upshur Street
resident 200103, died Oct. 7
at age 81. He
was born April
15, 1933, in Detroit, Mich. He
worked for 40 years in the
General Motors Fisher Body
factory in Livonia, Mich., retiring in 1996. He was a Korean
War veteran. Two of his anecdotes of daily life in Portland
were published in “Our Portland Story,” a community story
project founded in 2008. He
made masks from recycled
palm bark and sold them in
Portland stores. He married
Mary Finlay in 1980. He is survived by his wife; daughter,
Dawne; sons Jeff, Tony, Brian
and Eric; and seven grandchildren.
Foster D. Finch
Foster Davis
Finch, a Multnomah Athletic
Club
member who
was active in
Trinity Episcopal Cathedral, died Oct. 15
at age 88. He was born Dec.
8, 1925, in Raleigh, N.C. He
attended Virginia Polytechnic
Institute until joining the U.S.
Army Air Corps near the end
of World War II. After his service, he graduated from the
University of North Carolina in
Chapel Hill. He also attended
UNC School of Law. He began
his career with Merrill Lynch
in Raleigh in 1953, managed
the company’s office in Orlando, Fla., and then moved to
Portland, where he managed
the Merrill Lynch office until
retiring in 1994. He chaired
the Endowment Committee
at Trinity Episcopal. He married Virginia "Giny" Polk in
1952. They lived on Council
Crest. He is survived by his
wife; daughters, Molly Jones
Foster and Meg Bishop; and
four grandchildren.
Richard E. Lucey
Richard Edward Lucey,
a
resident
of Portland
Heights and
Multnomah
Athletic Club
member, died Oct. 2 at age 86.
He was born June 6, 1928, in
Brooklyn, N.Y., and grew up in
Fair Lawn, N.J., where he graduated from high school. He
graduated from Notre Dame
with a mechanical engineering
degree. He served as an officer
and pilot in the U.S Navy from
1951-55. In 1964, he moved to
Portland, where he worked for
Cascade Corporation. Later he
became sales manager for CB
Equipment. He was a member of the Multnomah Athletic
Club, Rotary Club, Notre Dame
Club of Portland, West Hills
Racquet Club and the Irvington Club. He married Lois Gibson in 1955. He is survived by
his wife; son, Kevin; daughter, Robin Dunleavy; brother,
John; and three grandchildren.
Death Notices
Carol L. (Feltz) Bluhm, 52,
employed by Consolidated
Freightways.
Norman C. Crowe, 73, former
resident of Sauvie Island.
Neil Farnham, 97, member of
Multnomah Athletic Club.
Franklin C. Hardin, 78,
employed by Montgomery
Ward.
James O. Norton, 83, volunteered at Hoyt Arboretum for
20 years.
Grace “Gaye” Stewart-Moore,
85, Lincoln High School graduate.
Dascha Scott Tursi, 75, graduate of Catlin School in 1956.
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Northwest District, to bring
20-pound jugs of cat litter home
from the store and to avoid waiting 40 or so minutes for the bus
at night to get home from theaters and restaurants. Thanks
to our tree canopy, it can be
rather scary walking home alone
at night.
Yes, there are alternatives,
but they are either costly or
very inconvenient. And, I like to
invite friends to my home who
must travel by car and need a
parking space when they arrive.
What I don’t understand is
why the city has no interest in
compromise or in balancing the
needs of a diverse population.
Decisions like eliminating one
lane on Everett Street, the elimination of parking spaces for outdoor eating and bicycle parking, and the permitting of apartments with no off-street parking support the anti-car claim.
Unfortunately, there seems to
be little interest in addressing, or
even acknowledging, the needs
of car drivers. I foresee a time
when privately owned vehicles
will be banned from the Northwest District.
Lewellyn Robison
NW Upshur St.
Agrees with Warrens
I have to concur with Mr. Warrens’ assessment of Northwest
Everett Street. My criticism is
threefold. First and foremost,
Everett is an arterial meant to
move traffic through a neighborhood and is not appropriate for
bike conversion.
Second, if you convert it, the
current setup is designed to
"door" riders. If you place the
bike lane directly next to the
curb then angled parking and
then cars, you could separate
traffic without using the buffer
lane as wasted space. Either way
it is a bad idea.
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Third, there is a much better
way. We should mix bikes and
busses on one road and car and
trucks on another. This mixes
the largest and smallest vehicles
with aware professional drivers.
You make the smaller streets all
one way so it alternates, bus and
bike, cars north and east, cars
south and west, then arterials.
Parking could still happen on
bus/bike streets with angled or
even right angle parking. The
bus traffic is rare enough that
you could give them absolute
priority so if someone is trying
to park they must quit and make
way for the larger vehicle. This
also prevents the rage of seeing someone park in Northwest
using two spaces because they
have no idea what the dimensions of their car are. Curitiba,
Brazil, is a far better model than
this death by annoyance the
"urban planners" are adopting.
Rhys Morgan
SW Davenport St.
Don’t alienate cyclists
Bad business move, Mr. Warrens. I guess he doesn't know
that most cyclists also drive. And
even more people who drive
support cycling improvements.
In the area where his shop is
located, the best he can hope
for is to alienate about half of
his potential client base. I would
hate to think what he has to say
about skateboards!
Cory Poole
SE 47th Ave.
Thanks from Slabtown
On behalf of the Pesky boys
and the Slabtowners, I want to
thank Don Nelson and the chief
operator of the Examiner for
all the good quotes and reminiscences of the old days of St.
Patrick's Church, the ice arena,
Vaughn Street ballpark and all
the old Slabtowners that are still
alive today. ▶
CORRECTION
We omitted the name of a former
co-owner of Pettygrove Physical
Therapy & Sports Rehabilitation,
Jim Weggenman, in last month’s
story about the business.
Tom Leach Roofing
45 years roofing
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Thank you, thank you, thank
you.
Vince “Pesky” Paveskovich
Beaverton
MAC angers neighbors
Thank you for publishing the
story about Multnomah Athletic Club General Manager Norm
Rich pulling my “Portland’s
Goose Hollow” book from the
MAC gift shop in retaliation
against me for having a different opinion on a zone change
[“City Council weighs MAC
garage issue,” October 2014].
Since then, many MAC members have expressed their shock
and outrage to me. One elderly
MAC member asked me: “Why
would the MAC want to be
seen as the mafia of Portland,
where, if you oppose their general manager, you will be beat
down?”
That’s a good question.
It has been encouraging
to hear from so many MAC
members who are appalled
at this censorship and bullying. Throughout the Block 7
process, we have seen such
aggressive behavior repeatedly. MAC’s attorney sent city
commissioners a letter about
alleged “community outreach.”
The reality is—after months
of meetings where Rich heard
rooms full of people objecting
to a zone change, he pitched
a fit and threatened attendees,
telling them that he could outvote them by getting many of
his 20,000 MAC members to
register as Goose Hollow Foothills League members. He then
spent months using the MAC
magazine, emails and mailings to MAC members trying
to convince them to join GHFL
and vote to “help the neighborhood” with this zone change.
Likes editorial
effort to stack the deck. But he
was incredibly successful at
infuriating Goose Hollow residents. We formed Friends of
Goose Hollow and plan to fight
the MAC on this for years if we
have to.
Thank you for your October editorial, “No Umbrellas,” about increasing building heights. Many of us are no
strangers to density, but there
are issues with livability when
buildings go up sky-high, as
you point out.
As an upstanding citizen
and MAC member who wrote
a historically accurate op-ed
against rezoning Block 7 in
The Oregonian, I feel that the
MAC should make right this
retribution against me. However, as a member of Friends of
Goose Hollow, I see that Rich’s
behavior has helped tremendously with our neighborhood
resistance and our fundraising.
Perhaps it’s best letting him
imagine that he is the mafia of
Portland and can shut down
people who disagree with him.
You make many good points
about the effect of super-tall
buildings on affordable housing and neighborhood diversity. As realty markets adjust
to the new reality, modest
rents are lost. I lived in Northwest Portland for 35 years, but
recently had to move to North
Portland after my apartment
building was sold and rents
increased outside my range.
There is a critical shortage of
housing affordable to the average person. For that reason, I
support the new buildings on
Thurman Street with rooms for
rent, utilizing a shared kitchen
space.
The cost of on-site parking also drives up the cost, so
I’m OK with having no parking spaces at those locations. It
reminds me of my college days
when I stayed at a place called
Rooms for Women in 1978.
Safe, secure, clean housing
trumps all else, and if it must
be minimal to keep it affordable, that’s OK. We have good
transit options and workability in Northwest, so it’s a good
place to have very small rental
options as well as deluxe ones.
Caroline Skinner
N. Portland Rd.
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small and affordable property.
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Anonymous charges are easy
to make, subject to hyperbole and difficult to corroborate
without revealing the source.
Told of the number and nature
of the complaints, Jarvis said
it was difficult to respond
due to worker confidentiality restraints, but she was surprised to hear so many workers
were “pessimistic.”
“It was stressful when we set
ourselves to bring our labor
costs in line,” she said, and she
understood why employees of
the Northwest store resented
the financial drag created by
launching the Hillsdale store
in 2008. Interruption of service at the Northwest store was
dampened by a long remodeling project completed last year.
But those difficulties had been
surmounted, she believed.
“Overall the employees are
feeling a lot better,” she said. ▶
Alexa Petroff (left) and Tyra Lynn say they would still be happy to work for Food Front if not for General Manager Holly Jarvis.
Photo by Vadim Makoyed
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“We’re paying people jack,
and then we have this insane
turnover,” said this worker.
Many sources described the
work environment as toxic and
ruled by intimidation.
They say Jarvis’ business
decisions are erratic and arbitrary, and shortcuts are taken to
staunch the financial bleeding.
“I wouldn’t even buy our
meat anymore,” said another
worker. “We don’t know what
we’re doing.”
As a result, “We are teetering
on the edge of going under. All
our reserves are gone.”
Another common complaint
is that the weak board gives Jarvis carte blanche latitude.
Co-op Crash
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“The board doesn’t know the
half of what’s going on,” said
this worker.
In the six years coinciding with the opening of the Hillsdale store, Food Front has accumulated more than $1 million in losses.
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Ex-finance man
speaks out
The Examiner became a
listening post for Food Front
dissidents last year after the
co-op’s chief financial officer from 2011-13, Joe Bailey,
approached the newspaper
with a broad and deep critique
of the organization’s predicament. He brought financial
documents to bolster his interpretations.
They included the five consecutive years of operating
losses (now six), ranging from
a $441,000 loss in 2013 to an
$82,000 hit in the most recent
fiscal year. He also shared Food
Front documents showing the
co-op was failing to meet its
goals for net asset growth, level
of debt and cash on hand.
Bailey was also reluctant at
first to speak publicly. In February, he stepped forward and
addressed the board during a
brief member comment period. He also handed out a onepage summary of financial figures and issues.
“There is a grave situation
that this has been going on for
six years and hasn’t been rectified by current management,
and it needs to change,” he said.
He suspected the co-op was
only able to meet its cash-flow
obligations because of new
borrowing.
He warned the board to
change its “passive, hands-off
approach” to operations and
stop “hiding behind” arcane
governance practices.
Above all, he advised co-op
leadership to be more open
about its predicament.
“The owners have the right
to know the financial condition, the health of the business,” he said.
Despite these matters so
central to the co-op’s health
and performance, the board
had no questions of him. He
was not surprised. During his
tenure, Bailey had reached out
to several board members with
similar warnings, but gained
no traction. He suspects these
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contacts were threatening to
Jarvis and led to his firing.
Without skipping a beat, the
next agenda item at the February board meeting was a report
by Jarvis, who presented an
altogether different financial
picture.
“Sales have been going really well,” she said. “Overall the
Northwest store’s performance
has been great. … Everything
is falling into place and really
clicking.”
The strikingly disparate
assessments caused one board
member, Tom Mattox, to push
Jarvis for an explanation. He
referred to a document in the
board packet noting that the
Hillsdale store was out of compliance with sales projections.
The general manager said
this characterization of the
Hillsdale store’s performance
was “not entirely true” because
sales goals had been “really
hard to estimate” and therefore just “a shot in the dark.”
Furthermore, she was not the
person who made those projections. The result was “over-budgeted” targets that shouldn’t be
taken at face value.
Eventually Jarvis conceded
there were some sore points on
the financial front.
“Our labor costs are a huge
reason we are not making
money,” she said, adding that
Food Front’s spending on labor
has been “far above co-op
norms.”
Mattox worked in marketing for the co-op from 2006-11
before joining the board.
“I don’t always understand
what causes us to be out of
compliance,” he told Jarvis.
“You’re giving us these reports,
but I’m not completely understanding them.”
“I’m reporting the facts,” she
replied. “What doesn’t come
through are the trends.
“The trend we see in this
financial statement is really
encouraging. For the Northwest store, we’re breaking even,
and should begin to enter profitability. We’re very close to that
point.”
As for the item identified as
the co-op’s Achilles heel, even
Joe Bailey, who served as Food Front’s chief financial officer 2011-13, tried in several ways to warn the
co-op’s board of directors that its financial course was not sustainable. Photo by Vadim Makoyed
that was being remedied.
“Both stores have done a
fantastic job of reducing labor
costs,” she said.
Listening to this exchange,
Bailey weighed in.
“I understand what Tom is
saying. My expectation is that
the board would understand
the financial situation.”
Bailey said he had asked for
better reports without success.
“It would be good to report
the numbers I asked for. What’s
the net income year-to-date?
What is the customer count and
transaction size? What is the
bottom line?”
He said such figures could be
compared with year-ago data
to give a better picture of where
the co-op is heading.
Policy governance
If the board is in the dark
about the inner workings of
management, it could be traced
to a concept introduced by Jarvis when she became general
manager in 1993. Policy governance is a management system
in wide use by co-ops and nonprofits around the country. As
she applies it, the system distances the board from personnel and operations details. The
board deals with broad policies and tracks progress toward
goals.
Complaints by staff about
management are beyond
their scope. The last resort for
employees who feel the general manager has given them a
raw deal is a private consultant
Jarvis may hire to settle the dispute.
The board sees budget figures, but its analysis is at the
30,000 foot altitude.
A Frontlines newsletter
article under board President
Bandon Rydell’s byline claimed
success in restoring Food Front
“reserves to a level consistent
with comparable co-ops.”
Asked to provide particulars
behind the statement, Rydell
told the Examiner he was
unable to do so and said the
general manager would have
the answers.
As for the relative success
of the co-op’s two stores, he
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comparison. Still, he defended
the decision to open the Hillsdale store as necessary to prevent “being squeezed out” by
supermarket chains.
Rydell was confident that
another Food Front gamble,
investing in a $900,000 remodel
to add a deli and meat department to brace for the coming
New Seasons Market, has been
“definitely successful” because
sales increased thereafter. But
asked whether sales had risen
enough to justify the investment, he again referred us to
Jarvis.
“Nothing has gone exactly
as planned,” he said of these
investments, “but the co-op
would have been in worse
shape had we done nothing.”
Rydell was accompanied in
that interview by David Richardson, the former Food Front
treasurer. Richardson wasn’t
able to provide the missing
data either. Asked to comment
on the string of deficit spending years, he quibbled about
whether taxes should properly
be called expenses and noted
that “it’s complicated.”
On the record
After Bailey contacted
the Examiner, two other exemployees have lent their
names to the call for reform.
One of those became an exemployee after talking to us.
Tyra Lynn, raising four children on her Food Front wages,
husband’s disability payments
and food stamps, had been at
the co-op eight years. She made
about $15 an hour at various
jobs, including cashier, wellness clerk and merchandiser.
Whatever security her household enjoyed was shattered last
month when she was fired for
theft. She said she was accused
of putting a higher-priced item
in a soup carton at the Food
Front hot foods bar and taking
it through checkout at the price
of soup. She calls the accusation “ridiculous,” but said she
was given no chance to defend
herself or appeal the decision.
She admitted to “a battle
of wills” with Jarvis over the
years so was not shocked that it
ended badly.
Finally, the pair was asked
whether the co-op had borrowed in 2014 to meet operating expenses. They concurred
that this was protected information potentially useful to
Food Front’s competitors and
therefore could not be released.
Even before her dismissal,
Lynn was candid about her
views and willing to be named
in this story.
In a later news interview with
Rydell and Jarvis, the general
manager fielded the difficult
questions and provided particulars as the board president
affirmed support for her work.
Lynn said two workers
showed her anonymous letters complaining about Jarvis
that were sent to the board, but
received no response.
“I have encouraged others to
speak up,” said Lynn, “and she
(Jarvis) may well have heard
about my involvement.”
She faulted the Hillsdale
store for stocking Coke, Hershey’s Chocolate and Doritos,
Food Front General Manager Holly Jarvis has been at the helm 21 years. Photo by Jan Sonnenmair
unhealthy products made by
multinational corporations.
pretense of respect for employees.
“How can you stand behind
those business practices?” she
asked.
Other workers are similarly disillusioned. At one point
last summer, she said, “in two
weeks, eight people put in their
notice and said I’m not doing
this anymore.”
“I’m willing to try anything
to get people into the store,”
said Hillsdale store manager
John Conlin. “I need Coke to
get them in the aisle. … It’s not
perfectly aligned with what we
want to do, but it gets people in
the aisle.”
“The mission and values
have changed,” said Lynn. “It’s
all about cutting costs.”
Workers aren’t valued.
Cheaper
products
that
wouldn’t be sold on Food Front
shelves are used in the deli,
where labels aren’t attached,
she said.
Working at a Walmart, she
suggested, at least entails no
Examining history
In 1995, when Jarvis was
new in her job, she insisted
on prescreening an Examiner
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“This is a sinking ship, and
you’re all going to go down with
it,” is her message to current
employees.
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Petroff said she brought her
concerns to board president
Rydell in 2010, but he was of
no help.
Alexa Petroff, who worked in
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satisfaction.
We
refused. In retaliation, she tried to
cancel Food Front’s
monthly advertisement in the Examiner.
Food Front board President Brandon Rydell does not review personnel or
operations decisions. Photo by Jan Sonnenmair
Although considering this attempt
a breach of ethics
and extreme case of
heavy handedness,
I thought we could
iron things out with
a personal meeting.
When she still didn’t
budge and insisted
that I not contact the
board, I reached out
to a director, asking
him to deliver a letter reflecting
my disapproval to the board of
directors.
Only after I printed an editorial condemning the general
manager and board did I learn
that he never showed the letter
to the board: That would have
been a violation of the policy
governance system that kept
matters of this type exclusively
in management’s domain.
zation attempts to control editorial content.”
Jarvis apparently learned
that lesson. She has never
attempted to influence Examiner stories again, and Food
Front resumed advertising.
I asked Jarvis what she
learned from that debacle 20
years ago.
But there was another lesson
she might have drawn from the
long ago confrontation: Issues
of broad and profound importance to the organization should
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Committee to iron out parking plan details
Hoffman noted that attitudes and economics related
to parking are changing. When
the plan was passed, no one
was predicting that apartment
buildings would be built without provision for parking.
Commissioner Novick
will call the shots if
residents and businesses can’t reach
agreement.
In reaction to these new
residential buildings without
parking, some members of the
Northwest District Association
are floating the idea of denying parking permits to tenants
of such buildings. The aim is
to discourage developers from
“socializing” their parking burden by making it more difficult
to appeal to tenants who own
cars.
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or the fourth time in 20
years, the city of Portland
has convened a citizen
advisory body to guide parking
policy in the Northwest District.
Hoffman said such a policy
is theoretically possible, though
it would run into “very complicated equity and policy issues.”
And for the fourth time, the
divide between residential and
retail interests is evident.
The difference now is that the
process isn’t dependent on the
two sides finding accord. If consensus fails to emerge, binding
decisions will be made by the
city commissioner in charge of
the Portland Bureau of Transportation, Steve Novick.
That was the word from
Bill Hoffman, the PBOT planner who engineered an earlier
stakeholder advisory process
that resulted in city adoption
of the 2012 Northwest Parking
Plan.
Those parameters include
respect for the Parking Plan and
other overarching city policies.
One of those critical policies is reducing the demand for
parking.
“We are very, very committed to going there with this
committee,” he said. “Where
possible, city policy is to move
people away from using vehicles.”
Given those qualifications,
the committee can set on-street
parking rates and direct a possible annual revenue stream of
up to roughly $1 million toward
transportation projects, such
as transit incentives, modifications to West Burnside Street
and parking structure feasibility studies.
Committee recommendations will tend to be approved
unless the 13-member committee splinters.
the influx of residents and jobs
means an increase in parking
capacity is necessary.
“I agree with Rick wholeheartedly,” said committee
member Don Singer, whose
family gained approval in 2008
for a controversial commercial
parking structure at Northwest
23rd and Irving streets.
The garage was never built.
Singer’s brother Richard
announced at a public forum
in 2011 that “you won’t see a
garage built in my lifetime”
due to zoning regulations and
financial infeasibility.
The parking plan, which
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Rick Michaelson,
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parking in this district within
certain parameters,” Hoffman
told the current advisory group,
which held its first meeting last
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Lincoln Cardinals Fall Focus
Forum on LHS future
Welcome to the NW Examiner’s new Lincoln High
School page. As the school year unfolds, we will be
providing news, photos, schedules and announcements of school activities and sporting events.
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incoln High School will host a community forum Nov. 24, 7 p.m., in the
school cafeteria to discuss education, facilities and the future. All families in the Lincoln cluster, community
members and business owners are welcome to attend. The event is organized
by the Lincoln Long Term Development
Committee, which is chaired by Eleni
Kehagiaras.
Speech and debate team
earns national recognition
Student of month
Pearl Rotary honored Lincoln senior
Lukas Schwab as the September student of the month. Schwab spoke to
the club on coding, programming and
opportunities that inspire learning and
innovation.
Dance clinic
Game Changer
Lincoln student Emery Roberts was
selected as the fall 2014 Timbers Game
Changer for her work with Decoding Dyslexia and the Dyslexia Student
Union at Lincoln High School. She was
honored at a Timbers game last month.
The Lincoln Cardinal Dance will hold
clinics at West Sylvan Middle School
Monday and Tuesday, Nov. 10-11, 9
a.m.-4 p.m. The cost is $100. Contact
Vicki Crow at Crow184@comcast.net
for registration and information.
Students published
Lincoln senior Liubov Zolotilova was selected to read her piece, "Grandparents," at the annual Writers in the Schools event at Bluehour last month. WITS
brings professional writers to
work with public high school
students. Other Lincoln students published in the WITS
latest anthology include Random Renga, Zoey Dickson,
Julianna Mazziotti, Rachel
Lutz, Katie Lower, Aoci Watambela, Liz Gazzola, Kimberly
Kuhn, Sophia Mautz, Nikki
Tena, Gavin McMahon, Marjorie Sherman, Sarita Cronyn,
Yvonne Nguyen, and Henry
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Expanding the food frontier
Food Innovation Center helps entrepreneurs
turn home recipes into marketable products.
KC COWAN
H
as anyone said you make
a really great spaghetti
sauce, and you really
should sell it?
Assuming you took the
advice to heart, would you
know how to begin?
The answer may lie at the
Food Innovation Center on
Northwest Naito Parkway. A
joint venture between Oregon
State University and the Oregon Department of Agriculture,
the center offers the budding
food entrepreneur everything
needed to bring a product from
idea to market.
Sara Masoni, product development manager at FIC gets
nearly 30 contacts a week from
people who want to sell a new
food product. And while she
never turns anyone down, she
often suggests a few things first.
“Sometimes we take a phone
call and we recommend they
contact the Small Business
Development Center, because
it’s better for them to build
their business concept first to
see if it’s really something that
is feasible,” Masoni said. “And
we always encourage people to
have some kind of a business
plan.”
For beginners, FIC offers a
seminar that covers the basics.
For $110, the seminar addresses product formulation, nutritional labeling, packaging, shelf
life and even food safety fundamentals such as pH testing.
If a client still wants to continue, the FIC has a wealth of
services and tools to assist. For
example, the Product Development Lab has every kind of
starch, flavoring, acid, leavening and sugar needed to adjust
a homegrown recipe into a sellable product.
“We created a library here
so when a food entrepreneur
comes in we can help them
change their barbecue sauce
from their home recipe to one
that can be used in a commercial grade. Maybe they’re using
cornstarch, and (the sauce) is
not staying nice in the bottle
or the water is separating. We
would help them find another
cornstarch,” said Masoni.
People rent space in the lab
to perfect their recipe. The FIC
also has an industrial kitchen
with limited rental space. The
day we toured, Susan Hall was
baking her cheddar cheese
snacks called Chedz. Hall and
her husband started their food
business in their own kitchen,
but needed to grow.
“Sara said this facility was
opening in a week, so we decided to use it instead of investing a lot of money in a leased
Susan Hall puts a tray of her Chedz snacks into the oven at the Food Innovation Center. Three local
market chains carry the product. Photo by KC Cowan
space,” Hall says. “We wanted
to test out the market and see
how our product would sell.”
in 2013, Hall has placed her
snacks at New Seasons, Whole
Foods and Food Front, and has
interest from other grocers. She
hopes to go national. But with-
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And when we have questions,
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So it’s been wonderful. I don’t
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didn’t have this landing spot.”
ics to try out.
“We’re catering mostly to
large multinational companies
who say, ‘We want to know
what Portland thinks about our
food product.’”
Yes, Portland’s reputation is
that good. And the Food Innovation Center is that unique.
Creating the perfect product is one step. Will it still be
tasty after sitting on the shelf
for a few weeks? That’s where
the FIC Quality Assurance Lab
comes in. Food is locked into
big machines with elevated
heat and humidity.
“Every week in the chamber is equal to a month on the
shelf,” says Masoni. “So after
three months in the chamber,
we have a pretty good idea of
what the food would be like
after a year. When it comes out,
a trained panel tests it for ‘off’
flavors, color and texture.”
Key to good shelf life is the
packaging. Dr. Quingyue Ling
is the expert in that area, teaching why packaging matters.
“Let’s say you have a cookie,
and you are wondering why it’s
getting hard. It’s because you
haven’t selected the right packaging. The moisture is lost,”
Ling said. “Or, in a humid environment, the moisture can be
absorbed into the cookie, and
it becomes soggy. If you don’t
have the right packaging, you
can’t deliver the same quality
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“We actually have people
come from all over the world to
visit us,” said Masoni, “because
they don’t understand what
we’re doing. We’ve had people from Spain, Costa Rica and
France coming and spending
time to see what we’re doing.”
Masoni is of the opinion that
any food product can be marketed and sold.
The Food Innovation Center on Northwest Naito Parkway helps entrepreneurs large and small develop
food products that will succeed in the marketplace. Photo by Vadim Makoyed
of product to the consumer.”
Recently, Ling worked with
Jacqueline Alexander on her
snack, Pear Puffs—freeze-dried
pieces of pear. Alexander says
it’s minimally processed and
retains 98 percent of the nutritional value of a fresh pear. Dr.
Ling even went with Alexander
to China to help her source
equipment for the factory she
is building in Cascade Locks to
produce Pear Puffs.
“I would say the Food Innovation Center has been my
partner the entire way,” Alexander said. “In everything from
doing the feasibility study, the
economics, the technical, the
taste test, traveling with me to
China, designing my production line … everything.”
The services FIC offers are
diverse. Sometimes, a client
just wants a short consultation,
a specific test, help to calculate
the nutritional label or even
to have the FIC itself develop
a food product from an idea.
A candy company in Southern
Oregon now sells two candy
bars that the FIC helped develop for them.
The FIC not only tests foods
in development, it also tests
national brands already on the
market. There are regular focus
groups where food is given to
people in specific demograph-
“There’s really no shortage
of good ideas, it’s just the actual implementation, the scaling
up, the investment of time and
money. You figure out, ‘yeah I
can make the stuff,’ and then
you start to make bigger and
bigger orders and then you’re
catapulted into the next level.”
And the Food Innovation
Center is there to help at every
level.
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is located at 1207 NW Naito
Pkwy. For more information,
contact fic@oregonstate.edu. ■
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 Going Back
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PEARLANDIA
History
Mansion linked Portland pillars to present age
Family donated the
house to the Oregon
Historical Society for
use as a museum, but
demolition followed a
few years later.
DONALD R. NELSON
B
etty Leadbetter Cronin
Meier confesses she’s
become forgetful. At 110
years of age, she’s had a lot to
remember.
Spend some time with her
and you can hear stories of
Portland’s elite who still had
direct ties to the city’s pioneer
pillars.
Meier, the granddaughter
of famed Oregonian publisher
Henry Pittock, was born July
26, 1904, in a house at 2407 SW
Park Place, though in the street
numbering system at the time
it was known as 795 Park Ave.
"My nurse was Annie, who
also became my governess,”
she said. “And then we had a
French governess.
Circa 1910 photo of the Leadbetter House guarding the eastern entrance to Washington Park. Courtesy Bubby Cronin
“Mother and father always
had servants. I don't remember
the cooks' names. They didn't
like us children in the kitchen,
so we didn't see much of the
cooks. They wouldn't let us in.
We had a maid, an upstairs girl
and then the girls who would
wait on the table. They definitely all wore uniforms—cotton dresses with blue and white
stripes for the daytime, and for
dinner it was always black with
a white apron."
ington Park, in about 1903. It
was built in the early 1890s for
Julius Loewenberg, a hardware
merchant, founder of Northwest Fire and Marine Insurance
Company and president of the
Merchants National Bank.
The 1910 federal census
listed eight members in the
household, including Leadbetter's mother and sister, and
three servants. Their part-time
chauffer was a Mr. Elde.
Her parents bought the
house, located at the top of the
Park Place entrance to Wash-
Loewenberg met financial
reversals after the depression
of the 1890s. Two years after
his death in 1899, his wife and
daughters had to move out,
selling the house in 1903 to
Betty’s parents, Frederick and
Caroline (Pittock) Leadbetter.
"The house, a copy of a Prussian Castle that he remembered from boyhood, was outfitted with marble baths and
sinks and the finest furnishings," according to Steve Lowenstein's “The Jews of Oregon.”
Meier said her father “put
in a back stairway, from out of
his dressing room, and had his
own apartment upstairs from
there. He loved sleeping on the
porch outside.”
Meier remembers the marble bathtub.
The Leadbetters had been
living in Camas, Wash., where
he was involved in paper mills
and banking with his fatherin-law Henry Pittock. Leadbetter was also on the board of
directors of The Oregonian.
According to the Who’s Who for
Oregon 1942-44, he served ▶
"Oh yes, you never got warm
when you went to the bath and
you put the hot water on,” she
said. “You kept putting the
water on; it was so cold. It (the
tub) was narrow, very, very narrow.”
The grand stairway and banister were in fine form in about 1950,
but they would barely survive the decade. Courtesy Bubby Cronin
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in the Oregon National Guard
during WW I and later went on
a special assignment overseas
and was discharged from the
military as a major in the U.S.
Army in 1918.
Over the course of his life in
Portland, he was a member of
the Multnomah Athletic Club,
Waverly Golf Club, Arlington
Club and the Portland Rowing Club. He was a horseman
and had a polo field adjacent to
his property in Santa Barbara,
Calif. Leadbetter also owned a
large parcel of wetlands at the
confluence of the Willamette
and Columbia rivers for duck
hunting. Much of it was later
developed into the Rivergate
industrial area of North Portland.
Caroline Leadbetter was a
member of The Town Club.
“We had big parties on
Halloween,” said Meier. “We
bobbed for apples.”
The Leadbetters hosted
Christmas dinners for their
extended family, which included the Pittocks. The adults sat at
a table having space for 14 people. Every year they had a large
Christmas tree that extended
through the second floor circular balcony to the ceiling. The
trees would come from Leadbetter property in Camas, and
Meier estimated that they were
about 40 feet tall.
“One year I got a doll,” she
said. “My dolly was bigger than
me, and my sister Dotties’s
Betty Leadbetter Cronin Meier and son Bubby Cronin sat for a recent
interview. Photo by Donald R. Nelson
dolly was bigger than
mine. She didn't like
dolls very well, so I got
two. I remember looking
down over the banister
on that round circle and
seeing those big dolls
on the couch next to the
fireplace.”
As a young girl, she
used to roller skate on
the sidewalks around
reservoirs 3 and 4 at
Washington Park.
"We went to see the Caroline Pittock Leadbetter and daughter
animals at the zoo all the Betty in 1914. Courtesy Bubby Cronin
time,” she said. “What
we loved to do best was
put our cousin’s house
a summer house named Fern
guests on that side of the
house (closest to the zoo) so Lodge on Lacamas Lake near
they (the animals) would make Camas and a winter home in
a lot of noise and scare them, Santa Barbara.
and they certainly did.”
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Elizabeth (Betty) Leadbetter in 1928 on the day she married
Ambrose M. Cronin Jr. Courtesy Bubby Cronin
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Paris.
Cronin Jr. at the family home
on Park Place in 1928. Her cascading dress accentuated her
height as she posed on the
grand staircase (see photo).
“They taught you how be to
be a lady,” she said. “It was the
same for all my friends; they all
had to go to finishing school.”
After their honeymoon,
they lived with her parents
until the home they rented in
Lake Oswego was ready for ▶
Meier married Ambrose M.
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Painting of Frederick W. Leadbetter wearing jodhpurs.
2393 Park Place Condos, built in 1964, now fill the former site of Leadbetter house. Photo by Donald R. Nelson
Continued from page 15
occupancy. They later moved to Southeast Riverwood
Road and then to Torr Lane in 1931.
Her parents moved to Santa Barbara in the early
1940s. Frederick died in 1948. Caroline gave the Park
Place house to the Oregon Historical Society for use
as a museum in the early 1950s. But OHS found it
unsuitable for that purpose, selling it about four years
later. In 1960, it was demolished.
"Repeated vandalism made it a headache to maintain and it would be too costly to repair it to city code
standards and operate it as an apartment house,"
agents of its last owners, Commerce Building Inc.,
told The Oregonian.
In April 1960, the public was allowed to tour the
house. Bids were taken for fixtures that remained. No
mention of history was made when the dismantlers
placed a classified advertisement for "used brick,
stone and lumber, 2407 Park Place.”
Leadbetter family members today regret that the
house was razed and say that Caroline Leadbetter
would not have donated it to OHS had they known it
would not be maintained as a museum.
Meier’s first husband Ambrose “Cronie” M. Cronin
died in a crash of the Oregon Journal’s helicopter in
1947. She later married Jack Meier.
In 1964, the 2393 Park Place Apartments (now
condominiums) were built on the former site of the
Leadbetter residence.
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Dining & Entertainment
Going
Dutch
Oregon-grown coffee
chain to make Northwest Portland debut
in December.
This Dutch Bros. Coffee drive-through is Southeast Belmont and Grand Avenue at the end of the Morrison Bridge.
Photo by Vadim Makoyed
MICHAEL C. ZUSMAN
C
offee is practically religion
around here, and the rising star in the Church of
the Great Brown Bean is Dutch
Bros.
Two new branches are
slated to welcome acolytes in
Northwest Portland. The first
is set to debut in early December at Northwest 23rd Avenue
and Wilson. The other, which
is still mired in city red tape,
will eventually open along
West Burnside in a former Key
Bank branch. If all goes according to plan, it will be the first
Dutch Bros. outlet to offer both
the usual Dutch Bros. drivethrough service and a full sitdown coffeehouse. This will
take the total number of Dutch
Bros. stores to 235 in seven
states (Oregon, Washington,
California, Idaho, Arizona, Col-
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orado and Nevada).
In hindsight, the ascent of
this Grants Pass-based chain
should have come as no surprise, though it escaped my
notice until my daughter hit
her mid-teens and joined the
cult along with many of her
teenage Dutch Head contemporaries. After her fifth or sixth
“can we go to Dutch Bros.?”
request, I figured it was high
time to investigate.
Everyone knows that Starbucks was birthed in that bigger city to the north we Portland natives love to loathe. As
in Portland, the long gray, cool
and damp season in Seattle
was the ideal breeding ground
for mitosis-like reproduction of
coffee shops.
Before the mermaid held
sway, Mrs. Olsen had spun
her web of lies, convincing the
entire post-World War II gen-
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eration that Folger’s was the
“richest kind.”
Starbucks coffee shops
belied that myth, offering a
wide variety of coffees from
places Mrs. Olsen never imagined in a heretical departure
from home percolator orthodoxy. Starbucks gave America
and then the world its own
peculiar argot of sizes, styles
and flavors such that consumers were empowered to order
without shame a “quad halfcaff, almond milk vanilla latte
with two extra pumps, and
make it extra hot.”
But with Starbucks’ locomotive-like inertia toward ubiquity came a well-deserved
reputation for serving basic
coffee at least as crappy as its
industrial antecedents. Burnt,
sour, bitter and over-roasted
are the terms that come most
readily to my mind, though the
legion of Starbucks fanatics
who are reading this will surely
demur and send angry letters
to my editor. Save the rage: My
Starbucks shares are the best
investment I’ve ever made.
Quibbles over quality aside,
there’s no questioning that
Starbucks spawned a reaction
among young coffee cognoscenti who knew there were
great beans out there and the
technology to convert them
into sweet, pure wonderful brews. The micro-roaster,
artisan coffee shop revolution
was centered right here in Puddletown. Stumptown Coffee
Roasters was the undeniable
vanguard of this transformation of coffee consciousness,
but the list of other names such
as Barista (with two Northwest
Portland branches), Heart and
Coava, is long and still growing.
And this is where I naively
thought coffee culture stood
today—Starbucks for mass
appeal and the little artisanal
shops for hardcores like me
(plus the fancy home machines
for hidebound DIY types)—
until the kid started in with
her pleas to take her to Dutch
Bros. Now I know that Dutch
Bros. has established a firm
and growing niche between
the artisan and corporate cups.
How did I miss it?
Dane and Travis Boersma
founded Dutch Bros. in the
early 1990s. The brothers,
third-generation Grants Pass
dairy farmers of Dutch heritage, knew it was time to sell
off the family herd of Holsteins
and do something else. Travis,
now 42, had discovered coffee
drinks as a student at Southern
Oregon College. Dane, who was
17 years older and had owned a
successful Dairy Queen franchise in the ’70s, initially ▶
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IPHONE, THEREFORE I AM
The newest Dutch Bros. Coffee outlet, which will have drive-up windows on either
side, will open soon at Northwest 23rd and Wilson streets across from Jack in the
Box. Photo by Vadim Makoyed
turned up his nose at fancy coffee, but
experienced his caffeine-fired epiphany
over a vanilla latte at a barefoot hippie
stand called Western Express in Grants
Pass.
The due diligence that followed led
them to Paul Leighton who imported
roasted beans and sold his bean-tobarista coffee at the Coffee Corner
in Eugene’s old Fifth Street Market.
Leighton set up the brothers with their
first espresso machine, a propanefired manual pull model, and became
their first roaster, creating a blend of
three coffee bean varietals from Brazil,
Colombia and El Salvador that Leighton
still sources for Dutch Bros. Early on,
they decided to base all their drinks on
espresso shots to avoid the inconsistencies they saw with brewed coffee.
With their background in dairy, Dane
and Travis were understandably preoccupied with the milk that went into their
coffee. Tinkering with formulations for
a mocha everyone would love, they settled on chocolate milk they bought from
the now-defunct Valley of the Rogue
dairy.
Dutch Bros.’ mocha is one of their
top-three-selling drinks, and they still
use the same cocoa powder/dairy blend
they used to get from Valley of the Rogue.
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Service is fast and friendly, provided by teens and early twenty-somethings
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eventually confessed it was a secret.
Some of the other notable drinks at
Dutch Bros., also in the sweet milky
range, include The Kicker, flavored
with boozeless Irish Cream; the Caramelizer, mocha with caramel; and
my daughter’s favorite, the Cocomo,
with chocolate, coconut and, oh-bythe-way, a couple shots of espresso.
In fairness, I tried a traditional macchiato, which was way better than any
I’d had from Starbucks, and a friend
admitted he likes their simple herbal
green tea.
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service is lightning fast and countryneighbor friendly, provided by teens
and early twenty-somethings who
seem absolutely ecstatic to be working for Dutch Bros. All by design, I
learned.
company culture is 28-year-old Kevin
Murphy. He started working for Dutch
Bros. when he was 17. He told me that
once he started working at the Oregon
City store, he knew it was what he
wanted to do. He told me about the
feeling of working within a close-knit
family and how Travis (or “Trav” as
he’s universally known) is his mentor.
He also insisted that Dutch Bros. “is
not a coffee company serving customers. It’s a customer service company
serving coffee.”
I might throw this off as mere sloganeering by a loyal employee, but
Kevin’s earnest sincerity could not
be shaken, even by the cynical barbs
from a skeptical writer. It also reinforced everything Travis later told me.
What most impressed me about
Kevin, though, is that after working
his way up the ranks for five years, he
was awarded ownership of the Dutch
Bros. franchise in St. Helens and now
owns several others, including both of
the soon-to-open Northwest outlets,
and will soon be up to 120 employees.
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“cool” a lot. We talked about his older
brother, who was both sibling and
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December, according to co-owner Patrick Fleming. Fleming has found the
path to locating the right equipment,
such as dim sum carts, and experienced
dim sum chefs to be more difficult than
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Dim sum fans will have to wait a
little longer for Boke Bowl to debut
this Chinese midday staple. Likely date
Fleming has had little trouble coming
up with all sorts of ideas to populate a
dim sum menu that will initially comprise 10-15 items and grow from there.
He’s found a source for sheets of fresh
rice noodles, which may envelope curried squash in addition to more common fillings. Catering to modern tastes,
Boke Bowl’s dim sum service will feature an ample selection of vegetables,
including a veggie shiu mai he’s developed as well as hum bao fillings relying
on seasonal vegetables. Fleming plans
to play Boke’s dim sum service by ear as
experience dictates. Customers should
expect the unexpected rather than strict
adherence to Cantonese tradition. Keep
your eyes and ears open as the month
ticks along. This one could hit big.
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From a reliable source, those ethereal sweet rounds from Blue Star Donuts
will not be coming to Northwest 23rd
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landlord recently rejected Blue Star’s
letter of intent indicating a preference
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Neighbors of 1727 NW Hoyt St. and other historic preservationists oppose demolition of the 96-year-old commercial building. Its owners intend to replace it with a six-story
apartment building. Photo by Vadim Makoyed
Continued from page 1
said Adam. “It is an irreplaceable asset that contributes to the
story of this city’s heritage.”
No beauty contest
The building is designated
as a contributing structure to
the Alphabet Historic District,
creating a high presumption for
preservation. The city of Portland has only once allowed a
contributing structure in a historic district to be demolished,
and in that case the loss was
mitigated by a social purpose—
construction of the new Blanchet House providing food and
shelter to the indigent. That
demolition was also supported
by the neighborhood.
1900 SW Fourth Ave., Room
2500A. City Council will make a
final decision Dec. 10.
Opposition may also be coming from residents of other Portland historic districts.
The fact that the developers
are moving the case forward
despite seemingly long odds has
leaders of the preservation effort
worried. They wonder if Gerding
Edlen CEO Mark Edlen, recently
appointed to the Portland Development Commission, and Tim
Ramis, a prominent land-use
attorney, have high-level political support that might transcend
rules and evidence.
Allowing this demolition
would set a precedent for
replacing contributing historic
structures across the city with
new apartment buildings.
Adam recommended denial
of the demolition request made
by Gerding Edlen, which intends
to build a six-story apartment
building on the western half of
the block that includes the Ballou & Wright Building.
Wendy Chung, an NWDA
board member and Hoyt Street
resident, is surprised the applicants did not modify the design
of the proposed apartment
building after negative feedback
from neighbors and the city last
spring. The long delay fed hopes
that the whole project would be
abandoned.
Adam considered the mitigation offered—“a new building
[that] staff believes is out of scale
and character with the Alphabet
Historic District”—insufficient.
Furthermore, the demolition
is opposed by the Northwest
District Association and many
nearby residents.
“This is the most strongly
worded negative response to
a demolition application that I
have read in my tenure here,”
said John Bradley, chair of the
NWDA Planning Committee. “If
we view this as a boxing match,
the applicant is on the ropes.”
Nevertheless, Gerding Edlen
and owners of the building,
attorneys Tim Ramis and Mark
O’Donnell, are pushing ahead
with a Portland Historical Landmarks Commission hearing
Monday, Nov. 17, 1:30 p.m., at
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Chung now believes the
applicants were lobbying City
Council during that time.
Even if the applicants
approached councilors first,
neighbors believe they have a
mightier cause.
Jessica Richman, a former
city of Portland planner and
neighbor of the site, is one of
many immediate neighbors
organizing opposition. A petition was signed by 49 neighbors,
and a fund drive has begun to
hire an attorney for the coming
procedural showdowns.
“We’re expecting to get a
flood of people to write and
testify,” said Richman. “Making
City Council feel it would be
political suicide is our goal.”
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“If we can’t protect this building, we are in trouble,” said
Richman.
“If this building can be
demolished, there’s no use in
even having a historic district,”
added Chung.
The applicants say the building has been so drastically modified that it no longer “conveys
historic values.”
been modified with modern
walls, doors, ceilings and floors.
So severe were the alterations
that the nomination inventory
form failed to see the building
as a hospital.”
The maternity hospital closed
in 1928, and in 1938 the building
became a convalescent home
and boarding house. From
1944-59, it housed the Portland
Osteopathic Hospital. In 1967, it
became the home of the Arts &
Craft Society.
Adam considered those factors in preparing her report.
“The building has seen many
alterations over the years, all of
which had occurred prior to its
listing in the National Register
as a contributing resource to the
Alphabet Historic District,” she
said. “While it may not appear
to be significant, based on looks
alone, this is most certainly not
the case.”
Ian Johnson of the State Historic Preservation Office advised
neighbors that even unattractive
factories have been awarded federal landmark status.
“It’s not the National Register of beautiful buildings; it’s
the National Register of historic
buildings,” said Johnson.
Neighbor Rich Miller doesn’t
concede the aesthetic argument.
“This is a beautiful structure
with splendid turn-of-the-20thcentury arches and other features soon to become a heap
of bricks, a hole in the ground
and then exorbitantly expensive
and sterile housing,” said Miller.
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 Community Events
1989 battles revisited
A panel discussion featuring
five people involved in the 1989
campaign to Save the Good
Old Houses in Northwest Portland will be held Tuesday, Nov.
18, 7 p.m., at the Architectural
Heritage Center, 701 SE Grand
Ave. A total of 23 neighbors,
including two of the panelists,
were arrested attempting to
block bulldozers from demolishing seven historic houses
on Northwest Overton and
Pettygrove streets. The panel
includes Frank Dixon, Joleen
Jensen-Classen, Rick Michaelson, Nancy Nesewich and Ruth
Roth. The free event is sponsored by History of Social Justice Organizing and coordinated by Sandy Polishuk.
Willamette Speaks
The Willamette Speaks Storytelling project hosts a session
Sunday, Nov. 16, 4-6 p.m., at
Linnton Community Center,
10614 NW St. Helens Rd. The
event includes stories from
those who played and worked
on the Lower Willamette River,
including a Native historian.
Artisan Fair
The 10th Annual Trinity
Cathedral Artisan Invitational
Fair, featuring the work of 30
local artists, is scheduled Saturday, Nov. 8, 10 a.m.-4 p.m., and
Sunday, Nov. 9, 9 a.m.-3 p.m., at
147 NW 19th Ave. Items include
blown glass, bonsai, brooms,
bags, calligraphy, cards, felted
toys and ornaments, woven
scarves, fiber art, fiber art clothing, fused glass, garden art,
graphic illustrations, jewelry,
journals, knitted toys, metal art,
notebooks, wood-carved ornaments, photography, quilts,
soaps and stained glass. Admission is $2 or two cans of food.
For information, visit trinityepiscopal.org/08TrinitySite/
sections/music_arts/artist_
faire.html.
Holiday Arts Fair
Skyline Artisans present
Holiday Arts Fair Saturday and
Sunday, Nov. 22-23, 10 a.m.-4
p.m., at Skyline Grange, 11275
NW Skyline Blvd. About 20
booths featuring book arts, jewelry, home décor and accessories, pottery and glass by local
$10 charge includes breakfast.
For information, contact Randy
Vogt, vogt4me1@icloud.com
or 503-228-9858. This month’s
programs are:
artisans will be on sale. Baked
goods, pickles and other foods
will also be available for purchase. For more information
(including inquiries about vendor spaces), contact Ken Pincus at ken@pincuspotterystudio.com.
Nov. 4: “Unintended Consequences and Oregon Property Tax,” Lou Ogden, mayor of
Tualatin.
Nov. 11: “The Great Oregon
Coast Subduction Earthquake,”
Sheila Alfsen, Chemeketa Community College faculty.
Emergency team
Nov. 18: “What to Do About
Childhood Obesity,” Ogie Shaw,
executive director, Community
Fitness Leaders.
Northwest Heights/Forest
Park NET Team will meet Monday, Nov. 10, 6:30 p.m., at Forest Park School, 9935 NW Durrett St., to begin developing an
emergency preparedness plan
for the neighborhood. Barry
Newman, team leader of the
project, invites all interested
persons to attend. He can be
reached at nwheights.net.pdx@
gmail.com.
Nov. 25: “Nanny State Norway,” Randy Vogt, attorney.
Dec. 2: “A Global Peace
System is Evolving,” Patrick T.
Hiller, Department of Conflict
Resolution, Portland State University.
Job hunting
Sisters celebrates
Sisters of the Road celebrates
its 35th anniversary with a
community-wide party Friday,
Nov. 7, 6-9 p.m., in Sisters' Cafe,
133 NW Sixth Ave. Nationally
recognized co-founder Genny
Nelson will tell the story of the
founding, and guests of the restaurant over the years will share
their stories. Casey Neill, who
has toured the United Kingdom
and Japan, will perform “Sisters
of the Road,” which he wrote.
Dinner will be provided. The
event is free and open to the
public.
Aid to refugees
Portland recently became
home to 90 unaccompanied
minors who were forced to
flee the violence of their home
countries in Central America.
A group of volunteers is forming at Friendly House to make
blankets and quilts
for these youths and
children. The group
meets at Friendly
House, 1737 NW 26th
Ave., on Mondays, 9
a.m.-noon, except
holidays. All equipment and materials are provided. No
experience necessary. We speak English and Spanish. For
information or to
donate supplies, call
Carol Beals at 503224-2640, ext. 151.
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Northwest Library, 2300 NW
Thurman St., hosts three free
workshops for job seekers.
Understanding Job Descriptions: Sunday, Nov. 2, 2-3 p.m.
First Impressions: Sunday,
Nov. 9, 2-3 p.m.
Interview Success: Sunday,
Nov. 16, 2-3 p.m.
Aztec dancers will help celebrate the Day of the Dead at Linnton
Community Center, 10614 NW St. Helens Rd., Sunday, Nov. 2, 2-7
p.m. Bring a dish to share.
Holiday train event
Staver Locomotive’s annual
holiday train event, featuring model steam locomotives
in action, live music, a raffle,
refreshments and kids’ play
area, will be Sunday, Dec. 7,
2-5 p.m., at 2537 NW 29th Ave.
Donations to Friendly House
will be accepted. Warm dress
is recommended; the space is
unheated.
Rotary speakers
Portland Pearl Rotary Club
meets every Tuesday at 7:25
a.m. in the Ecotrust Building,
721 NW Ninth Ave., second
floor. The public is invited. A
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Tribal history
Northwest Library presents
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2-3:30 p.m., at 2300 NW Thurman St. The presenter is Tracy
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years that my street has been
clean and safe and free of needles,” said Joyce Vowell, who
lives and operates a business
on Northwest 16th Avenue
across from the heart of the
problem area.
Vowell, who became the
featured source in a lengthy
KGW news segment, described
drugs cooking every morning,
open dealing, stolen property,
harassment of pedestrians, 18
makeshift shelters and tents
covering the grass and side-
cleanup, several campers had
returned.
Solheim thought he had
made a breakthrough two years
ago when the firm he hired,
Pacific Patrol, had remarkable
success removing encampments and persuading trespassers to move along.
“We couldn’t be more
thrilled,” he said at the time. “A
more comprehensive approach
seems to have been successful.”
Now he isn’t sure of anything.
A man shoots up in his leg
(above) after giving a woman an
injection in the neck (right). These
stills were taken from a home
video that played on KGW.
Although he kept Pacific
noting that nearby workers
would come there for lunch,
but that seldom happens now.
One day they picked up
about 20 needles in the garden.
People unload used mattresses
for the campers. The shelters
grow so elaborate she can’t
even tell if someone is inside.
Joyce Vowell watches the debacle daily unfolding across the street from her home and business. After
30 years, she is selling her property and moving to Oklahoma. Photo by Vadim Makoyed
walks, and garbage everywhere.
“I’ve had to clean up any
manner of human waste and
anything else you can imagine,”
said Vowell. “I’ve seen them
drop their pants and just use
the bathroom right here on the
sidewalk.”
Before the all-out cleanup
mission, she said the situation
was “the worst it’s ever been.”
The KGW segment included
a videotape made by her brother showing a man injecting
himself in the leg after doing
the same to a woman’s neck.
Fish’s tour came at the invitation of Al Solheim, who rents
the two blocks under the freeway between Johnson and
Lovejoy for commercial parking. Solheim was pleased with
the prompt attention from City
Hall, but he’s under no illusion that the effects will be permanent. Two weeks after the
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Patrol on the job, their politely persistent tactics stopped
working. Solheim said the current band defies anything less
than police action. They have
threatened at least two people
he knows of with knives.
“It’s a war down there,” he
said. “In the last six months or
year, the more passive homeless have been replaced by people with an aggressive lifestyle
who are very difficult to work
with.
“It was really out of control a
couple of weeks ago. It was by
far the worst it’s ever been.”
Solheim believes more
police resources would help.
Assistance to those unable to
find housing is also needed.
But there are too many subsets
of the homeless population to
believe that more housing is
the remedy for all.
“I’m a pretty sympathetic,
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liberal guy,” he said. “But this
is a different problem in my
opinion.”
Fish’s Oct. 4
tour included
background
commentary by
volunteers dutifully tending the
community garden amid all the
chaos between
Johnson and
Kearney.
Mary Anne
Pastene, who
heads the garden project, said
the three other
volunteer gardeners work as
a group because
they don’t feel
safe alone.
“It used to
be a very nice
place,” she said,
After the television crew left,
the weekend “festivities” under
the freeway continued. Bill
Dolan, chair of the Pearl District Neighborhood Association
Livability and Safety Committee, saw what he believed to be
stolen bicycle parts as he was
walking under the freeway. As
he was calling the police on his
cell phone, he was confronted
by a man gripping a knife and
demanding that he hang up.
The police responded quickly
and arrested the man, who had
a criminal record.
In another incident under
the freeway that weekend, a
man maced another, bringing
out police cars once again.
Dolan is helping organize a
citizen patrol to provide ongoing
oversight of this and other parts
of the Pearl District. Central Precinct Commander Robert Day
promised Fish that he was beefing up police patrols and homeless outreach in the area.
Vowell is also doing her part,
networking with neighbors, taking pictures, posting homemade
signs warning campers to move
out and calling the police. She
won’t have her front row seat
much longer, however. She’s
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Goose Hollow residents seize opportunity to vote
Landslide vote may make board’s position
irrelevant as City Council decides Block 7
zone change.
ALLAN CLASSEN
F
inally given the opportunity
to cast ballots, members of
the Goose Hollow Foothills
League came out in large numbers to register their disapproval
with the proposed apartment
building and MAC parking facility on Block 7. The count for the
motion to oppose was 109 yes
votes and seven nos.
The special Oct. 8 membership meeting was called by
members eager to put their
neighborhood association on
record against the project. After
two years of debate and contention, the GHFL board has
been unable to pass a resolution either for or against the
development.
“From my perspective, it was
about demonstrating that the
board's votes ignored the six
months of work by the Block 7
Committee, and that the ‘nonposition’ in no way reflected
the views of people living in
the neighborhood,” said Tom
Milne, secretary-treasurer of
Friends of Goose Hollow, a
nonprofit formed to fight the
project. “I also believe the vote
demonstrated the very strongly held view that residents are
tired of the MAC leadership's
long pattern of not keeping
its promises and bullying the
neighborhood.”
GHFL President Bob Arkes
had contended that the league’s
board of directors controlled all
decisions of the organization,
and that votes taken at a membership meeting merely advise
the board. By the end of the
meeting, however, that was less
clear. A motion directing Arkes
to send a letter to City Council members informing them
of the membership vote was
approved. He later complied
with the directive.
In the process, members had
bypassed the board in attaching the GHFL letterhead to a
public policy resolution.
Whether the organization’s
Sherry Salomon proudly casts a yes ballot at the special Goose Hollow Foothills League called by
members to register a position on the proposed Block 7 development. Photo by Nic Clark
board and membership can
hold separate positions may
become moot. First, any resolution coming from a neighborhood association has only as
much weight as policy makers
give it. If City Council believes
a 109-7 vote of members is a
better guide to neighborhood
sentiment than a deadlocked
board of 11 people, that’s their
call. They don’t have to follow
the recommendation of either
bloc, after all.
seats are up for election (the
board size was reduced from 14
to nine slots last month), and
a new majority unsympathetic
to the Block 7 project could
be in place before City Council
resolves the issue.■
Secondly, a new GHFL board
will be elected Nov. 20. Five
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City Council postpones
decision on Block 7
Councilors must decide if 1995 zone change wiped
out earlier agreement to not seek additional parking.
ALLAN CLASSEN
T
he
path
to
approval of a
Multnomah Athletic Club parking
facility and apartment building grew
longer and more
complicated
last
month as City Council postponed further
deliberation until
Nov. 20 (2 p.m.).
Issues raised at
an Oct. 1 public
hearing had council
members asking for
more information
as they consider a
request to convert
residentially zoned
Block 7 into a commercial designation.
The Multnomah
Athletic Club and
development partner Mill Creek Residential Trust intend
Tom Milne, secretary-treasurer of Friends of Goose Hollow, was one of about
30 citizens who testified against the Block 7 proposal. Photo by Vadim Makoyed to build a sevenstory
apartment
building with four
levels of underground parking,
the bottom two of which will
be for MAC members. The 225
MAC parking stalls would be
accessed through a tunnel from
the club’s main parking garage
immediately north. The structure will also have 14-16 motel
units for MAC visitors.
Officer Kenneth Helm and city
staff asserted.
The city code used to justify this interpretation refers to
removing restrictions tied to
earlier city approvals but does
not apply to master plans, she
said.
Bragar also attacked the
MAC’s transportation study for
failing to consider the impact of
adding vehicle trips associated
with the proposed underground
parking and motel units—added
trips that may push already congested intersections into failure.
The zone change is complicated by the fact that the city’s
long-range Comprehensive
Plan calls for residential use on
the block, which is bounded by
Southwest 19th, 20th, Main and
Madison streets. All amendments to the Comprehensive
Plan map require City Council
approval.
MAC’s contention that more
parking stalls will draw no more
vehicle trips was challenged by
Bragar and several neighbors.
The council could have relied
on a city Hearings Officer decision in July in support of the
rezoning.
“As a result of more parking availability, members that
would otherwise choose not to
drive will now opt to drive,” she
said.
But Jennifer Bragar, attorney
for Friends of Goose Hollow, a
group formed by neighborhood
residents to challenge the project, introduced evidence that
had council members seeking
more time to absorb legal interpretations.
Many opponents of the proposal described the increasing
array of special events in which
nonmember groups rent MAC
facilities.
“The MAC never provided
information about the extent of
special events held at its facilities and the impact on traffic
and parking demand,” said
Bragar. “These uses exceed a
sports club use and allow the
MAC to behave like a convention center, [while] the city has
never conditioned the number
of events to alleviate traffic and
parking impacts on the neighborhood.”■
“The record contains numerous letters from the applicants’
legal counsel and other MAC
representatives that the MAC
would abide by the master plan
for development of Block 7,” she
said. “Now, conveniently, the
MAC claims the master plan no
longer applies.”
Bragar said a 1993 MAC
master plan prohibiting club
parking facilities south of Main
Street was not voided by a 1995
zoning decision, as Hearings
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Beautiful stones, glass swirls and precious metals on display make owner
Hall Boyer’s point: “I am basically a
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horn, jade, garnets, diamonds, agates
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steel. Boyer said this is the only piercing shop in Oregon to dispose of every
needle after one use. Soul Fire offers
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Silver Dollar Pizza II planned to open
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recently vacated by Hamburger Mary’s.
Owner Phil Olsen, who bought the business from the owner of Silver Dollar
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Silver Dollar Pizza II is a sports bar with
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loss, anti-aging therapies, Botox and
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Named for Archaeopteryx Lithographica, the first reptile to develop the
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The store stocks jackets, fleeces, shells
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Complimentary Arc’teryx bags will be
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Fat Head’s Brewery will open at 131 NW 13th Ave., the former Sherman
Clay Pianos space, Nov. 3. It will be the third out-of-state location for the
Ohio-based brewery.
A Changefunder campaign to help save the Gasco Building on Northwest St. Helens Road had collected only $2,000 by Oct. 27, well short of
its goal of $50,000 by Nov. 2. Friends of GasCo is negotiating with building owner NW Natural to halt demolition plans and protect the 1913
structure from further deterioration. To contribute, visit changefunder.
changexchangenw.org/campaigns/gasco.
Child's Play Toys, 2305 NW Kearney St., will donate 20 percent of sales
Saturday, Nov. 8, to Chapman Elementary School. A Star Wars Meet &
Greet will be held at the store 10 a.m.-noon on that day.
Coldwell Banker SEAL is moving its Northwest 23rd and Burnside
office into a long-vacant two-story space at 636 NW 21st Ave. The move
is expected to be completed next month.
The opening of the 10 Barrel Brewery at 1411 NW Flanders St. has been
postponed to January or later due to delays in obtaining city permits.
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Kyoto Boutique & Gallery, 618 NW Glisan St. until the company’s new
main store in downtown is ready.
Urban Green vegetarian deli is opening soon at 927 NW 14th Ave.
MadeHere PDX, a 3,000-square-foot gallery featuring products made in
Portland, opens at 40 NW 10th Avenue this month. The owners are John Connor, Bob Davis of Lizard Lounge, and Chris Elkins and Paul Herring of Sterrins
Group.
The New York, a six-story flex industrial building at 2104 NW York St.,
is nearing completion. Realtor John Bowman said several major leases
have been signed. Spaces ranging in size from 1,080-10,000 square feet
are advertised at $14.40-$16.80 per square foot.
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Join us during November to celebrate a bountiful harvest and the holiday
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enjoy festive events and support our local community in a valley-wide food
drive. Willamettewines.com for details.
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September
2010
November
2014
Talkabout: Neighborhood Archives
Date: Thursday, November 6, 2014
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
series of walking tours and infor�ational talks
Place: Portland’s Archives & Records Center
1800 SW 6th Ave., Suite 550
RSVP: PARC@portlandoregon.gov or 503 865-4100 (Space is limited.)
You are invited to an Open House at the City of Portland Archives & Records Center!
PARC is working with several neighborhood associations to collect, preserve, and
provide access to association records. See what the archivists have been doing with
the donated records, and learn how to use the cataloged records in Efiles, the City’s
online database. Then join us for a tour of the facility for a behind-the-scenes look at
where the City’s archives live. PARC is on the transit mall accessible by bus, streetcar
and the Yellow and Green lines. Paid street and lot parking is available nearby. RSVP
by Wednesday, November 5, 2014.
Coffee Klatch: Park Safety
Date:
Time:
Place:
RSVP:
Wednesday, November 19, 2014
9:00 -10:00 AM
Elephant’s Deli, 115 NW 22nd Ave.
angela@nwnw.org, 503 823-4211 (space is limited)
How can local neighbors, businesses and City programs work together
to promote public safety and livability in the Portland Parks System?
How might these efforts compare when working in urban parks versus
natural areas? Join your neighbors at the upcoming Community Policing
Coffee Klatch for a casual conversation. Jenni Pullen, Crime Prevention
Coordinator from the Office of Neighborhood Involvement, and Bob
McCoy, Park Ranger, will attend to serve as community resources. This
event is sponsored by Neighbors West-Northwest, the Portland Crime
Prevention Program and the Portland Park Ranger Program.
NW Heights Emergency Prep Workshops
Northwest Heights Neighborhood Association and Forest Heights Homeowner Association present a
series of free workshops focusing on preparedness and dealing with a subduction zone earthquake.
Date: Wed., November 19, 2014 Place: Forest Park Elementary, 9935 NW Durrett St.
Time: 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Topic: Preparing your family and home
the date: Wednesday, December 10, 2014 Time: 6:30 - 8:00 PM
Our
SHNA SavePlace:
Forest Creek Apts Community Rm, 1940 NW Miller Rd.
Topic: Tools & Resources, Getting Involved
ZooLights
Streets
RSVP to office@fhhoa.com
Date: Thurs., December 4, 2014
Date: Wed. November 5, 2014
Time: 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Time: 6:30 - 8:30 PM
Place: Oregon Zoo
Place: St. Philip Neri Church
4001 SW Canyon Road
2408 SE 16th Avenue
Sylvan-Highlands neighbors – gather Sign-up to receive community
The
Portland
Bureau
of
at our ZooLights Cookie Exchange relevant stories mid-month through
Transportation invites you to
& Food Drive! Bring canned our electronic newsletter at
an open house to learn how the
meats, canned and boxed meals, www.nwnw.org. Questions? Email
funds from the proposed street
peanut butter, boxed pastas, rice,
newsletter@nwnw.org.
tax could be spent. Currently, the
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Bank and scrumptious baked
maintenance. Questions?
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classrooms near the
On Saturday, November 29, 2014, from 9:00 a.m. to noon,
This is the only
orangutans.
the Linnton Neighborhood Association will be hosting an invasive
open house
removal event as part of the Ma Olsen's Garden extension project. We'll be pulling
location.
ivy, vinca and blackberry directly across from the Lighthouse Bar on St. Helens Road
in Linnton. The terrain is difficult so be prepared! Gloves, tools and refreshments provided.
NWNW e-news
Linnton Ivy Pull
W-NW Collective
Memoir Project
The W-NW Memoir Project is a community
storytelling project – capturing personal
stories and voices of the past. Do you have a
neighbor that has lived in the community for
a great long time? Does your boss have great
stories about starting the family business
decades ago? Do you know someone that
tells interesting stories about their past in
inner-West and Northwest Portland? Maybe
you would like to share about your work as
a community activist, explore the history
of your home or share a family story that’s
been passed down for generations.
We need your help to capture local history
and little known stories to create a legacy
for the future! If you would like to tell us
your story or nominate a storyteller, please
contact Angela Southwick, 503 823-4211,
angela@nwnw.org. Stories will be shared
in a culminating community event and
storytellers will be helping interns meet
their school requirements. We look forward
to hearing from you!
Neighborhood Meetings & Elections
nortHweSt HeigHtS
Sylvan-HigHlandS
Date: Tuesday, November 11, 2014
Time: 7:00 PM
Place: Sylvan Fire Station, 1715 SW Skyline Blvd.
Join your neighbors at the upcoming SylvanHighlands neighborhood meeting with guests
speaking about a development on the corner
of Montgomery and 58th Avenue. SHNA will
also host a question and answer period with the
Washington Park Transportation Management
Agency executive director, Heather McCarey.
Learn more about TMA accomplishments and
goals, funding, and the shuttle.
HilSide
Date: Tuesday, January 13, 2014
Time: 7:30 PM
Place: Hillside Community Center
653 NW Culpepper Dr.
Join you neighbors for the Annual Meeting
& Elections of the Hillside Neighborhood
Association. HNA is now meeting
quarterly and the volunteers would love to
see you there!
Date: Wednesday, November 19, 2014
Time: 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Place: Forest Heights HOA Office
2033 NW Miller Rd.
CONTINUED
Time: 5:30 - 7:00 PM
Place: Forest Park School Cafeteria
9935 NW Durrett St.
Northwest Heights Neighborhood Association will hold its annual elections for directors of the board. There are
three (3) open directors positions. The ballots will be available for voting at the Forest Heights Homeowners
Association during the day. Balloting will continue at Forest Park Elementary School in the evening. (See above for
details.) Membership is free and open to residents and business representatives in the NW Heights Neighborhood
Association area. Membership application forms will be available at the balloting locations or you may register
online: http://bit.ly/1u4EJHd
If you are interested in serving on the board, please submit your intent to mark@nwnw.org by Friday,
November 14, 2014. Questions? Call 503 823-4212. More information about the neighborhood is available at
www.nwnw.org/neighborhoods/northwest-heights.
gooSe Hollow
Date: Thursday, November 20, 2014 • Time: 7:00 PM • Place: MAC, 1849 SW Salmon St.
The Goose Hollow Foothills League is preparing for the yearly election of its Board of Directors. This year there are 7 open
positions – 6 for 2-year terms, 1 for a 1-year term. All interested candidates are encouraged to submit their names and a brief (100
words or less) statement of qualifications and interests to the board via the website at info@goosehollow.org.
The Board approved a list of candidates at the October 16, 2014 Board Meeting, however, candidates may also be nominated at the
Annual Meeting from the floor. Qualified candidates must be members of Goose Hollow Foothills League. Deadline for submitting a
membership application is November 13, 2014. This is the last day for those interested in becoming a member of GHFL and voting
for this year’s Board. Look for additional details about election night online at www.goosehollow.org.
At the next regular board meeting on December 18, 2014, the newly elected Board will elect officers for 2015.
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Arlington Heights
Neighborhood Association
www.arlingtonheightspdx.org
BOARD MEETING
Mon., Nov. 10th & Dec. 8th
5:30 pm
Sylvan Fire Station
1715 SW Skyline Blvd
Forest Park
Neighborhood Association
www.forestparkneighbors.org
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Nov. 18th, 7:00 pm
Willis Community Center
360 NW Greenleaf
Northwest District
Association
Northwest Industrial
Neighborhood Association
Portland Downtown
Neighborhood Association
northwestdistrictassociation.org
www.nwindustrial.org
www.portlanddowntownna.com
BOARD MEETING
Mon., Nov. 17th, 6:00 pm
Legacy Good Samaritan (LGS)
Wilcox ACR 102, 1015 NW 22nd Ave
NINA MEETING
Tues., Nov. 11th & Dec. 9th, 7:00 am
Holiday Inn Express
2333 NW Vaughn St
Air Quality Committee
Mon., Nov. 10th & Dec. 8th, 7:00 pm
Silver Cloud Inn, Breakfast Rm
NW 24th Place & Vaughn St
Old Town Chinatown
Community Association
Executive Committee
Weds., Nov. 5th & Dec. 3rd, 8:00 am
NWNW Office, 2257 NW Raleigh
Planning Committee
Thurs., Nov. 6th, 13th, 20th, Dec. 4th
& 11th, 8:00 am
CoHo Theater, 2257 NW Raleigh
Call to confirm, 503.823.4212
Goose Hollow
Foothills League
www.goosehollow.org
Safety & Livability Committee
Tues., Nov. 11th & Dec. 9th, 6:00 pm
LGS, Wilcox B, 1015 NW 22nd
NEIGHBORHOOD ELECTIONS
Thurs., Nov. 20th, 7:00 pm
Multnomah Athletic Club
1849 SW Salmon St
Planning Committee
Tues., Nov. 4th & Dec. 2nd, 7:00 pm
First United Methodist, Chapel
1838 SW Jefferson
Vision Realization Committee
Tues., Nov. 6th & Dec. 4th, 7:00 pm
Providence Park Community Room
909 SW 18th
Hillside
Neighborhood Association
www.hillsidena.org
Transportation Committee
Weds., Nov. 5th & Dec. 3rd, 6:00 pm
LGS, Northrup Building
2282 NW Northrup St
2nd Saturday Clean-up
Sat., Nov. 8th & Dec. 13th, 9:00 am
Food Front Co-op
2375 NW Thurman
3rd Saturday Clean-up
Sat., Nov. 15th, 9:00 am
Elephants Deli, 115 NW 22nd
Northwest Heights
Neighborhood Association
Contact: Charlie Clark,
503 459-3610
BOARD MEETING
Weds., Nov. 19th, 11:30 am
University of Oregon, Room 150
70 NW Couch
BOARD MEETING
Mon., Nov. 3rd & Dec. 1st, 12:30 pm
Forest Heights HOA Office
2033 NW Miller Rd
ANNUAL ELECTIONS
Weds., Nov. 19th
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Forest Heights HOA Office
2033 NW Miller Rd
www.linnton.com
TOWN MEETING
Weds., Nov. 5th, 7:00 pm
5:30 - 6:30 pm
Forest Park Elementary School
9935 NW Durrett
BOARD MEETING
Weds., Nov. 5th 8:00 pm
Land Use Committee
Weds., Nov. 12th, 7:00 pm
Disaster Preparedness Workshops
Weds., Nov 19th, 6:30 pm
Forest Park Elementary School
9935 NW Durrett
Ma Olsen’s Garden Clean-up
Sat., Nov. 29th, 9:00 am
St. Helens Rd Litter Patrol
Sat., Nov. 15th, 9:00 am
All meet at: Linnton Community
Center, 10614 NW St. Helens Rd
Weds., Dec. 10th, 6:30 pm
Forest Creek Apartments Community Room, 1940 NW Miller Rd
Nob Hill
Business Association
Cornell Road
Sustainability Coalition
info@nwpdxnobhill.com
GENERAL MEETING
Weds., Nov. 19th, 8:30 am
Holiday Inn Express
2333 NW Vaughn
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Nov. 25th, 7:00 pm
Meetings held at:
Meals on Wheels Elm Court 1032
SW Main St
Land Use & Transport. Comm.
Mon., Nov. 17th, 5:30 pm
1900 Building, Room 2500 B
1900 SW 4th
Public Safety Action Committee
Weds., Jan. 14th, 12:00 pm
Portland Building, Room B
1120 SW 5th Ave
Sylvan-Highlands
Neighborhood Association
www.sylvanhighlands.org
Business Committee
Thurs., Nov. 20th, 10:00 am
Davis Street Tavern, 500 NW Davis
Marketing & Communications Comm.
Thurs., Nov. 20th, 3:30 pm
One Pacific Square, 11th floor
220 NW 2nd
Land Use & Design Rvw Committee
Tues., Nov. 18th, 11:30 am
University of Oregon, Room 150
70 NW Couch
Livability Committee
Tues., Nov. 18th, 3:30 pm
Oregon College of Oriental
Medicine, 75 NW Couch St
www.pearldistrict.org
Linnton Neighborhood
Association
No scheduled meetings
COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION MTG
Weds., Nov. 5th & Dec. 3rd
11:30 am
Central City Concern
232 NW 6th Ave
Pearl District
Neighborhood Association
ANNUAL ELECTIONS
Tues., Jan. 13th, 7:30 pm
Hillside Community Center
653 NW Culpepper Drive
www.cornellroad.org
www.oldtownchinatown.org
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MTG
Tues., Nov. 25th, 5:30 pm
GENERAL MEMBERSHIP MTG
Tues., Nov. 11th, 7:00 pm
BOARD MEETING
Tues., Nov. 11th, 8:00 pm & Dec. 9th,
7:00 pm
Meetings held at:
Sylvan Fire Station
1715 SW Skyline Blvd
Zoolights & Canned Food Drive
Thurs., Dec. 4th, 6:00 pm
Oregon Zoo, classroom across from
orangutans, 4001 SW Canyon Rd
Neighbors West-Northwest
Coalition
www.nwnw.org
Note: NWNW office will be closed on the
11th, 27th, and 28th of November.
BOARD MEETING
Thurs., Nov. 13th & Dec. 11th
6:00 pm
PREM Group, 351 NW 12th Ave
Executive Committee
Thurs., Nov. 6th & Dec. 4th, 8:00 am
Urban Grind, 911 NW 14th
Livability & Safety Committee
Weds., Nov. 5th & Dec 3rd, 5:30 pm
Cupcake Jones, 307 NW 10th
Planning & Transportation Comm.
Tues., Nov. 4th, 18th & Dec. 2nd
6:00 pm
PREM Group, 351 NW 12th
Communications Committee
Mon., Nov. 17th, 6:00 pm
Cupcake Jones, 307 NW 10th
Emergency Prep Committee
Mon., Nov. 10th & Dec. 8th, 6:00 pm
Ecotrust Bldg, 2nd Floor
907 NW Irving
Finance & Fundraising Committee
Weds., Nov. 26th, 5:00 pm
Realty Trust Pearl District Office,
1220 NW Lovejoy
BOARD MEETING
Wed., Nov. 12th, 5:30 pm
LGS, Wilcox B, 1015 NW 22nd Ave
Dec. 10th, 5:30 pm
LGS Northrup Building, 1st Floor
Conf Rm, 2282 NW Northrup
Walkabout/Talkabout events
Neighborhood Records
Openhouse
Thurs., Nov. 6th, 6:00 pm
Portland Archives & Records Cntr
1800 SW 6th Ave, Ste. 550
NW Portland Parks & Recreation
Technical Advisory Committee
Mon., Nov. 17th, 7:30 am
CoHo Theater Lobby
2257 NW Raleigh
Community Policing Coffee Klatch
Weds., Nov. 19th, 9:00 am
Elephant’s Deli, 115 NW 22nd
Find calendar updates at: www.nwnw.org/Calendar
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Oregon’s oldest bridge, the Thurman Street Bridge, reopened last month. The $3.8 million project, which
was 90-percent funded by the federal government, makes it possible for fire trucks to cross the bridge for
the first time in about 20 years, cutting four minutes from their response time to Willamette Heights.
The recently restored Lelooska Centennial totem pole,
originally carved by Chief Don “Lelooska” Smith during the
1959 Oregon Centennial, is reinstalled at the Oregon Zoo.
Photo courtesy of Michael Durham of the Oregon Zoo
Windermere Stellar presents a $500 check to Portland YouthBuilders, a
nonprofit providing schooling and career training to low-income dropouts. In
the photo are (L-R) YouthBuilders students Anthony Vincent and Erin Greene,
Portland YouthBuilders executive director Jill Walters and Windermere Stellar
brokers Jennifer Thompson and Cary Perkins.
Young volunteers helped
at Portland Parks &
Recreation’s 11th annual
No Ivy Day Oct. 25 and
then were treated to a
celebration at No Ivy
League headquarters at
Lower Macleay Park.
Sahomi Tachibana Dancers, shown at an Oregon Buddhist Temple dance recital last
June, will perform at the showing of “Hidden Legacy: Japanese Traditional Arts in the
World War II Internment Camps,” Sunday, Nov. 30, 2 p.m., at the Hollywood Theatre,
4122 NE Sandy Blvd. This critically acclaimed documentary film is the first major
presentation of traditional music, dance, and drama in the WW II internment camps.
Admission is $22, $18 for seniors and students and $15 for Friends of Oregon Nikkei
Endowment, which is sponsoring the event.
Photo courtesy of Sahomi Tachibana
Funds are being collected
through Nov. 2 to save
the Gasco Building on
Northwest St. Helens Road
To contribute, visit
changefunder.
changexchangenw.org/
campaigns/gasco.
Laura Meier, a cofounder of Women of Good Samaritan in 1977, received the
2014 Wistar Morris Award last month for her contributions to Legacy Good
Samaritan Medical Center. The awards event, held at Montgomery Park,
raised more than $130,000 for Emergency Services at the hospital. She is
accompanied by Richard Keller (left) and Pete Mark.
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