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TriMet budget holds line on services 

■ Future 

fare hikes, 

route cuts 

could hinge 

on state 

employment 

contract 

ruling 

By JIM REDDEN 

The Tribune 

TriMet General Manager 

Neil McFarlane released a 

proposed $485 million operating 

budget Wednesday morning 

that may — or may not — 

provide a couple years of relief 

from fare increases and 

services cuts. 

The difference is expected to 

be determined soon by the state 

Employment Relations Board, 

which is considering a challenge 

to TriMet’s current labor contract 

with Amalgamated Transit 

Union 757. 

That contract was imposed by 

a state arbitrator last year. It includes 

health benefit reductions 

sought by TriMet but strongly 

opposed by the ATU 757. The 

union has challenged the legality 

of the arbitrator’s action with 

ERB. 

If the ERB sides with TriMet, 

McFarlane says the next two 

TriMet budgets can be balanced 

without fare increases or service 

cuts. That would be a dramatic 

reversal from last year, 

when the board increased fares 

and cut service to close a $12 

million budget gap. 

In fact, McFarlane says Tri- 

Met can make some service improvements, 

including increasing 

frequencies on a few overcrowded 

lines. 

But if the ERB sides with ATU 

757, the previous contract will 

be reinstated. If that happens, 

McFarlane says TriMet will 

McFARLANE 

probably need to cut an additional 

$7 million to $9 million 

from its 2015 budget, with service 

reductions hitting in September 

of that year. 

Even if the ERB sides with 

TriMet, McFarlane says the relief 

is only temporary, however. 

Without additional health bene- 

See TRIMET / Page 5 

PPS post 

hopefuls 

focus on 

new ideas 

Two candidates tap 

local experience in 

race for SE zone post 

By JENNIFER ANDERSON 

The Tribune 

Serving on the Portland 

School Board is an unpaid, 

endlessly time-consuming, often 

emotionally tolling and 

thankless job. 

Yet two serious candidates are 

vying for the open Zone 6 seat in 

the May 21 election. 

Both are Mt. 

“I thought 

I couldn’t 

be a 

teacher 

because 

I wasn’t 

white.” 

— Consuelo 

Saragoza, PPS 

Zone 6 candidate 

Tabor residents 

and 

neighbors of 

the current 

Zone 6 board 

member, Trudy 

Sargent, 

whose fouryear 

term expires 

June 30. 

Sargent will 

step down after 

serving two 

terms. 

Two other 

board seats are also up, but no 

one has filed to challenge incumbents 

Martin Gonzalez and Pam 

Knowles. The filing deadline is 

March 21. 

In the open seat, both candidates 

are parents at Cleveland 

High School and whose children 

attended Atkinson’s Spanish immersion 

program and Hosford 

Middle School. 

Both candidates want to bring 

a fresh perspective to the board, 

which more often than not votes 

unanimously on matters big and 

small. 

Both bring community organizing 

experience to the table; 

both know the issues and have 

even taken critical looks at the 

work the board is doing. 

On Monday evening, for example, 

candidate Tom Koehler 

put on his hat as PPS parent and 

testified at the School Board in 

support of lifting the enrollment 

cap at Benson Polytechnic High 

School. 

For the second year in a row, 

the district’s enrollment and 

transfer office is limiting the 

number of students Benson may 

admit, despite its popularity. 

For this fall, there are 425 

freshmen applying for 250 slots 

at Benson and another 16 sophomores 

applying for 20 slots, according 

to Principal Carol Campbell. 

See BOARD / Page 4 

■ Rose City’s early black leaders stand as monuments to struggle 

COURTESY OF THE OREGONIAN NEWSPAPER AND OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY 

Beatrice Morrow Cannady was a crusading Portland newspaper editor and 

pathbreaking civil rights leader. PSU students are shining a light on Cannady and other 

early-20th century African-American women from Portland who are little-known by 

the public. Verdell Rutherford, at right, led an effort to push for a 1953 civil rights law 

in Oregon. 

State says mum’s the 

word on medical errors 

■ Commission: 

Hospitals’ 

reluctance 

to report 

problems 

makes fixes 

difficult 

By PETER KORN 

The Tribune 

The Oregon Patient Safety Commission 

held its annual awards 

breakfast three weeks ago to honor 

hospitals that had met goals for 

confidentially reporting adverse 

events or medical errors. 

But there were a number of notable 

absentees among the hospitals singled 

out for their transparency — not one 

Portland-area hospital received recognition 

for meeting the modest standards 

set by the commission. 

The commission was set up by the 

2007 Legislature to help reduce mistakes 

made at health care institutions. 

It gathers the hospitals’ error reports 

and sends to all institutions advice on 

how not to make the same mistakes. 

With a 2010 U.S. Department of 

Health & Human Services report noting 

that one in seven hospital patients 

experiences some sort of adverse 

event, few doubt there are incidents to 

be reported. But six years into the Oregon 

program, Portland hospitals 

have been reluctant to fully participate. 

The state commission doesn’t release 

the number of reports each hospital 

submitted, so the only thing for 

certain is how many they didn’t submit. 

Each hospital had a report submissions 

goal: OHSU’s was 29, Providence 

St. Vincent Medical Center’s 

was 25, Providence Portland Medical 

Center’s was 20 and Legacy Emanuel 

Medical Center’s goal was 16. None hit 

the target. 

Bethany Walmsley, executive direc- 

Walking with 

CIVIL RIGHTS 

PIONEERS 

In 1928, Beatrice Morrow 

Cannady and her two sons 

went to a movie at Portland’s 

Oriental Theatre, where an 

usher tried to steer them upstairs 

to the “Negro section” in the balcony. 

Cannady refused and sat 

down in the center aisle — 27 

years before Rosa Parks sat down 

on that Montgomery, Ala., bus. 

There are no public monuments 

to honor Cannady, a crusading 

newspaper editor who some consider 

Oregon’s top civil rights 

leader of the early 20th century. 

But Portland State University 

students, in a senior capstone 

class called Monumental Women, 

are trying to shine more light on 

Cannady and some of her contemporaries. 

They’re researching influential 

but often neglected African-American 

women in early- 

20th century Portland history, and 

are compiling the information to 

create a self-guided historical 

walking tour. 

In a public program Sunday, the 

See PATIENT / Page 9 

STORY BY 

STEVE LAW 

COURTESY OF PSU 

students will unveil the map that’s 

the culmination of their work, 

which they call “In Her Steps: African 

American Women, 1900- 

1940.” The walking tour, consisting 

of 15 stops downtown and in 

inner North/Northeast Portland, 

will capture a slice of life that was 

ignored by mainstream media at 

the time and still isn’t taught in 

area schools. 

“We’re actually naming these 

people; we’re recognizing their 

lives — the normal things they did 

and the amazing things they did,” 

See HISTORY / Page 2 

COURTESY: RADIOLOGICAL SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA 

Retained surgical instruments such as this Kelly clamp represent a 

common medical mistake, but are not always reported to the Oregon 

Patient Safety Commission by local hospitals. 

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says Sarah Huddleston, a student 

in the class. 

Kara Zambricki, another student 

in the class, says she especially 

appreciated learning 

about the women’s sacrifices 

and struggles to build community 

in the face of many obstacles. 

When students — and the 

public on walking tours — can 

see where the women lived and 

carried out their work, it helps 

them relate more to their history 

and appreciate it, says Janice 

Dilg, a historian and adjunct 

PSU instructor for the Monumental 

Women capstone series. 

Senior capstone projects, required 

for most PSU graduates, 

are six-credit explorations involving 

inter-disciplinary and 

community-based learning. 

Last year, Dilg led a capstone 

class that created a walking 

tour in conjunction with the 

centennial celebration of women’s 

suffrage in Oregon. 

The study of women’s history, 

she says, is largely about 

“making the invisible women 

visible.” 

Rediscovering Cannady 

It doesn’t take much reading 

into Cannady’s life to realize 

she went unappreciated far too 

long. University of Utah professor 

Kimberley Mangun began 

researching Cannady’s life several 

years ago, and her preliminary 

findings were featured in 

a 2007 Oregon Experience video 

documentary aired by Oregon 

Public Broadcasting. Mangun 

completed her full biography, 

“Beatrice Morrow Cannady and 

the Struggle for Civil Rights in 

Oregon, 1912-1936,” in 2010. 

As Mangun relays it, Cannady 

moved to Portland in 1912 

— the same year 

Oregonians approved 

women’s 

right to vote — to 

marry Edward 

Cannady, the cofounder 

and publisher 

of the Advocate, 

a newspaper 

serving Portland’s 

small black community. 

This was 

a time when black 

women were 

largely confined 

to jobs as maids, 

nannies and menial jobs at hotels 

and trains — even those 

like Cannady who were collegeeducated, 

Dilg says. 

Cannady soon became an 

editor and later ran the Advocate, 

using its pages to argue 

passionately for civil rights and 

call attention to racial discrimination. 

She protested Portland 

showings of the racist film 

“Birth of a Nation” and championed 

the cause of the Scottsboro 

Boys, nine Alabama teenagers 

wrongly imprisoned for 

COURTESY OF PORTLAND STATE UNIVERSITY 

The Culture Club, shown here in 1924, was one of several women’s clubs that were vital to black community life in Portland during the first half 

of the 20th century. Shut out of women’s clubs formed by white women, African-American women started their own. 

sexually assaulting two white 

girls. 

Cannady cofounded the Portland 

chapter of the National Association 

for the Advancement 

of Colored People in 1914 and 

became its vice president and 

regional branch organizer. 

Known as a bridge-builder between 

the white and black communities, 

she held interracial 

teas at her Irvington home and 

frequently lectured on race relations 

at Reed College and Lincoln 

High School. Cannady also 

presented her views on the new 

medium of the era: 

radio. 

In 1916, she sued 

“We’re 

recognizing their 

lives — the 

normal things 

they did and the 

amazing things 

they did.” 

— Sarah Huddleston, 

PSU student 

the Portland 

School Board to 

protest blacks being 

relegated to 

separate swimming 

hours at the 

publicly owned 

Couch Street pool, 

in the basement of 

present-day Metropolitan 

Learning 

Center in Northwest 

Portland. She 

lost the lawsuit but went on to 

attend law school at night at 

what is now Lewis & Clark Law 

School. In 1922, Cannady became 

Oregon’s first African- 

American woman to graduate 

law school and go on to practice 

law. Mangun says Cannady 

flunked the bar exam five times 

but nevertheless continued 

practicing law here. 

It wasn’t until 1960 — 38 

years later — that Mercedes 

Diaz became the first African- 

American woman to pass the 

TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT 

Portland State University professor Jan Dilg leads a senior capstone class dedicated to highlighting the 

achievements of long-forgotten African-American women of the early 20th century in Portland. 

Oregon bar, Mangun writes. 

To research notable African- 

American women of the early 

20th century, Dilg’s students 

combed through back issues of 

surviving copies of the Advocate. 

There was little coverage 

of the black community in The 

Oregonian or other daily newspapers 

in those days, Dilg says. 

Students also delved through 

the personal papers and other 

materials collected by another 

of the Monumental Women, 

Verdell Burdine Rutherford, 

which include numerous boxes 

recently donated to PSU’s archives. 

Find out more: 

■ PSU students in the 

Monumental Women senior 

capstone project will present 

their fi ndings and walking 

tour guide on Sunday, 2:30 

to 4:30 p.m., at the university’s 

Multicultural Center, 

Room 228 in Smith 

Memorial Building, 1825 

S.W. Broadway. 

■ The walking tour should be 

available online by late 

March at woh.pdx.edu. 

Early suffragists 

Hattie Redmond and Katherine 

Gray are two other largely 

forgotten African-Americans 

who played important roles in 

the fight for women’s suffrage 

in Oregon. Their contributions 

came to light partly through 

the work of historians such as 

Dilg and Western Oregon University 

professor Kim Jensen, 

who researched the suffrage 

movement to prepare for last 

year’s yearlong centennial celebrations. 

Redmond and Gray cofounded 

the Colored Women’s Equal 

Suffrage League, drawing members 

from five Portland African- 

American churches, Jensen 

says. Redmond became president 

of the league, which was 

part of a broad-based coalition 

that finally secured passage of 

the suffrage amendment on the 

sixth try on the statewide ballot. 

The early-20th century years 

marked the Progressive Era, a 

time when everyday citizens 

mobilized to promote many 

causes. Women were forming 

settlement houses and lobbying 

for public health measures and 

other causes. But black women 

were excluded from white women’s 

clubs, so they formed their 

own. 

At the time, Redmond was a 

janitor at the federal courthouse 

in downtown Portland, 

and Gray was an attendant at 

the public park bathrooms 

downtown. 

Gray worked alongside Cannady 

to protest “Birth of a Nation” 

showings in town and to 

organize the local NAACP 

chapter, Dilg says. 

She went on to become the 

president of the Oregon Federation 

of Colored Women’s 

Clubs, Jensen says. 

When African-American 

women and girls in Portland 

felt unwelcome at the downtown 

YWCA, they petitioned 

the national YWCA to form 

their own. In 1920, a new “Y” for 

the African-American community 

was erected at the corner 

of North Williams Avenue and 

Tillamook Street. 

This was the period when the 

Ku Klux Klan rose to prominence 

in Oregon and become a 

dominant force in state politics. 

Portland, dubbed by some 

blacks to be the most racist 

large U.S. city outside of the 

South, adopted some of the 

South’s Jim Crow segregation 

policies. Some stores posted 

signs saying blacks and other 

minorities weren’t welcome. 

The Y became a focal point of 

the African-American community, 

hosting children playing in 

the gym, lectures and musical 

performances, and providing 

office space for the NAACP. 

The Y, which survived into the 

1950s, hosted “Negro history 

week” long before February 

was adopted nationally as black 

history month, Dilg says. 

Along with the Y, the Monumental 

Women walking tour 

will highlight the work of Kathryn 

Bogle, Willie Mae Hart, Marie 

Smith, Rutherford and others. 

Rutherford was a leader of 

the NAACP and instrumental 

in winning state passage of the 

Oregon Public Accommodations 

Bill in 1953. That made 

Oregon the 21st state to outlaw 

racial discrimination in public 

accommodations, 11 years before 

the passage of the landmark 

national Civil Rights Act. 

Such post-1940 events will be 

covered in a future senior capstone 

class, Dilg says. 

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IN CHARACTER 

A conversation with an interesting Portlander 

NEWS A3 

Fluoride fight 

stirs strategy 

Matt Webber 

and Courtney Dillard 

By PETER KORN 

The Tribune 

Last July, Northeast 

Portland residents 

Matt Webber and 

Courtney Dillard followed 

their marriage by embarking 

on a six-month honeymoon 

odyssey. They drove 

across the country, taking 

strangers to breakfast for a 

book titled, appropriately 

enough, “Breakfast With 

Strangers.” In Character talked 

to Webber and Dillard before 

their journey. Now they’re 

back, and definitely worth a 

second helping. 

PORTLAND TRIBUNE: So what 

was your best breakfast 

MATT WEBBER: There’s no 

way I can narrow it down to 

one person. 

TRIBUNE: No, no. The best 

breakfast. I don’t care about 

who you interviewed. 

WEBBER: The deluxe French 

toast at the Tower Cafe in Sacramento. 

They soak it for a 

day, then they double bake it. 

It’s like eating a piece of 

French toast covered in custard 

and fried. 

COURTNEY DILLARD: I’m not as 

big an eater. My favorite was 

actually a drink. It was in Milwaukee, 

Wis., and it was a 

beermosa, which is the workingman’s 

version of a mimosa: 

OJ and light beer. 

WEBBER: I can tell you what 

the worst was. It was in Honea 

Path, S.C. 

TRIBUNE: Is that like a sweeter 

version of a medical community 

WEBBER: I think if you 

dropped the phrase homeopathic 

medicine anywhere 

within a 50-mile radius of Honea 

Path you’d get a blank 

stare. We were having breakfast 

at this diner, and I ordered 

something I’d never seen before. 

Fatback. And (the waitress) 

asked me how I wanted 

it. 

TRIBUNE: Lean 


Matt Webber and Courtney Dillard have returned from their honeymoon with plenty of “eggsperiences” and 

one adopted chicken. 

WEBBER: She gave me the option 

of crisp or soft. Thinking 

of bacon I figured crisp is what 

I’d want. When it came out, 

imagine a solid piece of bacon 

fat the density of a pencil and 

the flavor of horribleness. 

DILLARD: In that same place I 

tried ordering a vegetarian 

version of a potato dish by 

keeping the meat out and leaving 

everything else in. The 

first time it came back to the 

table it had only ham with the 

potatoes, nothing else. I sent it 

back, and it came back with all 

the vegetables, and sausage. 

TRIBUNE: They just couldn’t 

imagine breakfast potatoes 

without some meat. Did you 

send it back again 

DILLARD: No. Our breakfast 

that day was with a Civil War 

re-enactor so I didn’t feel comfortable 

putting too fine of a 

point on being vegetarian. 

For me, the most compelling 

breakfast was with a man who 

was a former Hindu monk. We 

had a juice breakfast with him 

for two and a half hours. 

TRIBUNE: Just juice 

DILLARD: Yep. He was on a 

cleanse. 

TRIBUNE: How many bathroom 

breaks 

WEBBER: When Ananda talks 

you don’t want to get up from 

the table. 

DILLARD: We all cried at the 

breakfast. 

TRIBUNE: Well, drinking juice 

and not going to the bathroom 

for two and a half hours. ... 

DILLARD: He had had a stroke 

so he was very slow, which 

was in line with his philosophy 

of being slow in the world unless 

he was on Rollerblades. 

He said something along the 

lines, “The more you slow 

down, the more you wake up.” 

TRIBUNE: Did a lot of people 

try to give you bits of advice 

DILLARD: The most ridiculous 

advice came from my mother: 

“Don’t go because you’ll end 

up dead in a gutter.” 

TRIBUNE: So you’ve learned a 

great deal about breakfasts 

across America. Can scrambled 

eggs be ruined 

WEBBER: You can screw up a 

poached egg pretty easily. 

DILLARD: Matt didn’t have a 

Southern diner awareness. 

There aren’t a lot of diners in 

the South that regularly serve 

poached eggs. 

WEBBER: In egg news, we 

adopted a chicken. There’s a 

place in upstate New York 

called the Farm Sanctuary 

where they have rescued factory 

farm animals. 

DILLARD: People drop animals 

on their doorstep. Matt 

had the idea of adopting a 

chicken to offset our egg consumption. 

WEBBER: Kind of like our carbon 

offsets. 

DILLARD: We went out for 

breakfast with the curator of 

the National Mustard Museum 

in Middleton, Wis. 

WEBBER: So the curator 

brings his own mustards with 

him from the museum. And 

when the waitress asked, “Is 

there anything else I can get 

you” Courtney said, “Can I 

get some ketchup, please” 

The look on the curator’s face 

when he heard the K word. It 

was shock and disbelief and 

disgust. 

DILLARD: I always have ketchup 

with my eggs. 

The campaign supporting 

the fluoridation 

of Portland’s 

drinking water 

is raising 

more money 

than the opponents. 

But perhaps 

more important, 

supporters 

also appear to be 

mounting a sophisticated 

get-out-the-vote operation. 

Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland 

supports Measure 26-151, 

which will appear on the May 

21 ballot. It has reported a 

$5,000 contribution to Our Oregon 

for the progressive 

advocacy organization’s 

“voter activation 

network.” That 

is a sophisticated 

database of registered 

voters that includes 

such information 

as who is most 

likely to vote in May 

special elections held 

in odd-numbered years. 

Healthy Kids, Healthy Portland 

reports raising $56,715. 

The measure’s opponents, 

Clean Water Portland, has reported 

raising $21,849. None of 

it has gone for voter registration 

lists. 

Then again, the opponents 

collected signatures from 

43,236 Portland voters to refer 

the measure to the ballot. Just 

getting them to vote might be 

enough. Only 38,861 Portlanders 

voted in the May 19, 2009 

special election in which La- 

Vonne Griffin-Valade succeeded 

Gary Blackmer as city auditor. 

Wyden continues reaching 

out to the other side 

Oregon U.S. Sen. Ron 

Wyden is continuing to embrace 

some of his Republican 

counterparts, despite the heat 

he has caught for it in the past. 

Last week, Wyden was the 

only Democrat to visibly support 

libertarian-oriented Republican 

U.S. Sen. Rand Paul 

during his 13-hour filibuster 

against CIA nominee John 

WYDEN 

Brennan. The focus of Paul’s 

ultimately unsuccessful 

protest was the Obama 

Administration’s increasing 

use of 

drones in the 

war on terrorism 

— and its 

reluctance until 

then to rule out domestic 

strikes. 

Wyden has successfully 

pressed for the release of 

the legal justification for the 

U.S. government targeting 

American citizens abroad. 

Some Democrats criticized 

Wyden for working with Republican 

Congressman 

Paul Ryan on a version 

of Medicare 

reform after Ryan 

was picked as Mitt 

Romney’s vice presidential 

nominee. 

Wyden eventually 

issued a series of statements 

explaining that 

Ryan’s proposal was 

different than the one the two 

men had discussed. 

On the other hand, 

Merkley, not so much 

Oregon’s other Democratic 

U.S. senator is continuing to 

burn his bridges with Republican 

lawmakers, however. For 

example, in a March 12 press 

release, Jeff Merkley used the 

release of Ryan’s proposed 

budget to attack House Republicans 

for favoring millionaires 

and billionaires instead of Oregon 

families. 

“As we lay out our economic 

policy ideas in a budget, the 

top priority needs to be helping 

the middle-class families in 

Oregon and across the country, 

so many of whom are currently 

struggling to make ends 

meet,” Merkley said in the release. 

“Unfortunately, the 

House Republicans are offering 

up another warmed-over 

plan to have the middle class, 

the vulnerable, and our children 

foot the bill so the very 

wealthy and well-connected 

special interests can feather 

their nests at taxpayer expense.” 

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Koehler, a father of three who 

runs his own renewable fuels 

consulting firm, joined a group 

of Benson alumni and industry 

leaders to denounce the enrollment 

cap. 

“(Career-technical education) 

allows students to see a clear 

pathway to living-wage employment 

after high school and can 

turn students on to the possibilities 

of a two- or four-year college 

education in a specific field,” he 

told the board. “If we are serious 

about equity, we need to be serious 

about CTE.” 

He and the others acknowledged 

the board’s efforts to try to 

boost the comprehensive high 

schools that are under-enrolled 

— namely Roosevelt, Madison 

and Jefferson. 

“While I understand past decisions 

and the need for enrollment 

balancing in order to create 

strong neighborhood schools 

as well as choice programs, I am 

uncomfortable with stifling success 

and ignoring demand,” 

Koehler said. 

The board did not take any action 

on Benson’s enrollment 

Monday night because there was 

no formal proposal before it. District 

staff could bring the issue to 

the board in the future. 

Robb Cowie, a PPS spokesman, 

says there are no immediate 

plans to discuss changes to 

the enrollment and transfer policy. 

But the situation at Benson is 

“not fixed in stone,” and the role 

of CTE at the school and districtwide 

may be reexamined as high 

school enrollment picks up and 

as resources become available. 

The other candidate running 

for the Zone 6 school board seat, 

Consuelo Saragoza, feels similarly 

about the cap on Benson’s 

enrollment. 

“(The cap) needs to be looked 

at; I think we’re missing an opportunity,” 

Saragoza told the 

Tribune in an interview before 

her campaign announced via 

Facebook that her father passed 

away, and she had to leave town 

to be with her family. 

Saragoza, a senior adviser of 

Public Health & Community Initiatives 

for the Multnomah 

County Health Department, says 

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She’s been following the 

board’s efforts to boost enrollment 

at Jefferson, where a large 

chunk of Benson students transfer 

from. 

“I think there will have to be 

hard decisions made,” Saragoza 

says. “We have two incredible 

programs we should capitalize 

on.” 

Importance of education 

For Saragoza, running for the 

board isn’t a new idea: someone 

approached her with the idea 

eight years ago, she says, but she 

felt her daughter was too young 

for her to make 

such a time 

commitment. 

Now Saragoza 

says she’s 

ready to put in 

the time, and 

wants to push 

the envelope on 

the district’s equity 

discus- 

SARAGOZA 

sions. 

“Using my public health hat, I 

try to look at the root cause of 

problems,” she says. 

Born and raised in a small 

town in Nevada, she says her family 

was one of a dozen or so Mexican-American 

families. “My parents 

didn’t have any education, 

but knew the importance of education,” 

she says. 

While growing up, Saragoza 

says she was told by people in her 

community such things as, 

“You’ll never make it in college.” 

At one time, she says, “I thought I 

couldn’t be a teacher because I 

wasn’t white.” 

Saragoza went on to earn a 

bachelor’s degree in education 

and Spanish from Southern Oregon 

University, and a masters of 

public administration from the 

City College of New York. 

For most of her career, she has 

held management positions: she 

began as a teacher in Ashland, 

then directed a program for migrant 

and English Language 

Learners. 

She ran an alternative learning 

center in Woodburn for students 

at risk of dropping out of school 

and joined the Portland group 

now called Impact Northwest to 

supervise work with Native 

American and Latino students. 

Since 2000, Saragoza has been 

a director at the county; she’s also 

been program director and executive 

director of the Oregon 

Council for Hispanic Advancement. 

In 2010, she was appointed to a 

four-year seat on the TriMet 

board, but since 

her school board 

campaign began 

she’s taken a leave 

of absence from 

the board. 

Saragoza has secured 

endorsements 

from Oregon 

House Speaker 

Tina Kotek, former 

Multnomah County 

Commissioners 

Serena Cruz 

Walsh and Maria 

Rojo de Steffey, as well as six of 

the Portland School Board members. 

Board member Bobbie Regan 

is endorsing both Saragoza and 

Koehler; Sargent, the retiring 

board member, says she likes 

both candidates but hasn’t yet 

decided whom to endorse. 

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Catalyst for change 

Koehler, for his part, has secured 

a line-up of big-hitters in 

Portland’s circle of influence including 

endorsements from congressman 

Earl Blumenauer, Rep. 

Jules Bailey, Sen. Jackie Dingfelder, 

Gretchen Kafoury, Eileen 

Brady, Tom Walsh, Nancy Hamilton, 

Jefferson Smith, Liz 

Kaufman and others. 

He’s built connections with 

many of those leaders from his 

past work. 

Born and raised in Portland, 

the last of six boys, he attended 

Catholic school and earned a degree 

in economics from Oregon 

State University. He served a 

two-year term on the Corvallis 

City Council, starting at age 24, 

while he was in school. 

In Koehler’s early career he 

worked as a community organizer 

in Nicaragua for the national 

grassroots group Neighbor to 

Neighbor, then on Gretchen Kafoury’s 

first City Council campaign 

and as transportation outreach 

coordinator for Blumenauer. 

Koehler wants parents and 

teachers to be at the forefront of 

reform. To see gains in the graduation 

rate and closing the 

achievement gap, he wants to 

make sure the district invests 

wisely and focuses on key priorities 

like having topnotch 

principals in 

every building. 

Koehler also 

wants to build a culture 

of innovation. 

For example, he 

cites an online resource 

called the 

Kahn Academy, 

which offers free 

learning technology 

that teachers 

could use to “differentiate” 

their lessons 

to their students’ wide range 

of abilities. 

Koehler, who fashions himself 

as a “catalyst for change,” says he 

began having discussions with 

people about a year ago about the 

future of the school system. 

Those talks morphed into a 

run for the board seat when it became 

open. He has a son and 

daughter at Cleveland; his older 

daughter graduated from Cleveland 

last year and is at the University 

of Oregon. 

Besides the Benson enrollment 

cap, both candidates have a 

slightly different take on another 

recent board matter. 

Koehler isn’t satisfied with the 

Jefferson cluster enrollment balancing 

process that resulted in 

the merger of Chief Joseph and 

Ockley Green schools. 

“In hindsight, it was not well 

done,” he says. “The process 

stirred up the whole community, 

and all that controversy didn’t 

have to happen.” 

Saragoza, however, saw the 

dialogue as an improvement on 

past public processes. “I would 

hope it’s a beginning the district 

will take seriously, to make sure 

people are coming to the table 

before, not after,” she says. 

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could turn agency into ‘ghost’ 


fit reductions, McFarlane says, 

TriMet will have to begin increasing 

fares and cutting service 

again in the 2017 fiscal year. 

If that continues, McFarlane 

says the regional transit system 

will be a ghost of its already diminished 

self by 2025. 

Union officials strongly disagree 

with that assertion. ATU 

757 President Bruce Hansen 

says TriMet should instead cut 

management salaries and stop 

expensive new rail projects. The 

union has taken its case to the 

public with press releases, 

newspaper advertisements and 

a website. The ATU 757 campaign 

is being funded by a temporary 

monthly dues increase 

approved by its members. 

Despite the campaign, the 

four TriMet board members at 

Wednesday’s briefing all expressed 

support for McFarlane’s 

proposed budget. The TriMet 

board has scheduled a March 27 

public hearing on the budget, 

and could approve it then. 


TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane presented his proposed budget to the agency’s board of directors 

Wednesday, including vice chair Tiffany Sweitzer (seated). 

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McFarlane’s presentation 

came two days after the release 

of an internal TriMet budget 

document that showed 47 agency 

managers received salary increases 

totaling just under $1 

million during the current fiscal 

year. The document had been 

obtained by ATU 757 through a 

public records request. Hansen 

says he only recently became 

aware of the increases and was 

shocked by them. 

“They prove management is 

making secret decisions that 

contribute to TriMet’s budget 

problems,” Hansen told the 

Portland Tribune. 

McFarlane had previously 

stressed that management pay 

has been frozen for 3 1/2 years. 

In fact, TriMet had revealed in 

a May 12, 2012, memo that it 

planned to increase some management 

salaries. It was presented 

to a transit rider advocacy 

group called OPAL Environmental 

Justice Oregon during 

negotiations on the current budget. 

The eight-page memo included 

a breakdown of $10 million 

in proposed contingency 

funds that listed $830,466 for 

“Non-union wage increases.” 

Nevertheless, McFarlane 

apologized to the board Wednesday 

morning for not publicly announcing 

the increases when 

they occurred. Three of the four 

directors said they supported 

the increases, calling them long 

overdue. 

The spat was just the latest 

clash between TriMet and ATU 

757. The union is still refusing to 

negotiate its next labor contract, 

charging that TriMet will not 

conduct the talks in open meetings 

as required by state law. 

TriMet argues the 

law does not require 

its labor negotiations 

to be 

conducted in public. 

The question is 

before Multnomah 

County Circuit 

Judge Leslie Roberts, 

who could issue 

a ruling any 

day. 

In the meantime, 

TriMet and 

ATU 757 officials 

have been sparring 

over the safety 

of the MAX 

light rail system. 

Last month, Hansen 

issued a press released accusing 

TriMet of endangering 

public and employee safety by 

failing to properly maintain the 

system. After the accusations 

were reported in the press, the 

Oregon Department of Transportation 

inspected portions of 

the track. Although inspectors 

found areas where routine 

maintenance was required, they 

found “no safety concerns.” 

Health care costs 

The $12 million reduction in 

TriMet’s current budget produced 

the most dramatic fare 

and service changes in years. 

The traditional three-zone system 

was replaced with a single 

fare, which amounted to an increase 

for most regular riders. 

In addition, the board eliminated 

the Free Rail 

Zone in downtown 

“Our collective 

bargaining 

agreement is a 

joint agreement. 

Management 

agreed to 

everything they 

are now 

complaining 

about.” 

— Bruce Hansen, 

ATU 757 president 

Portland, eliminated 

a number of 

underperforming 

bus lines and reduced 

the frequency 

on some bus and 

MAX routes. 

As painful as the 

cuts were, they 

were only the most 

recent round that 

began when the 

Great Recession 

took hold in the 

Portland metropolitan 

area. It significantly 

reduced 

payroll tax revenue, 

TriMet’s single largest 

source of funding. According to 

TriMet officials, since 2009, the 

regional transit agency has cut 

spending by $43 million and service 

by 14 percent. More than 

200 positions have been eliminated 

and non-union employees 

have had their wages frozen for 

more than three years. 

Despite the multiple causes 

for TriMet’s budget problems, 

McFarlane has continued to focus 

on union employee health 

benefits as the greatest threat 

facing the agency’s future. He 

brought them up again in a Feb. 

13 State of TriMet address to the 

board. The contract imposed by 

the arbitrator required ATU 757 

members and their spouses to 

pay a percentage of their health 

care costs for the first time. The 

budget proposed by McFarlane 

for the next fiscal year raises 

that amount from 10 to 20 percent, 

the same share paid by 

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Using charts and graphs, Mc- 

Farlane argued that unless ATU 

757 members and their spouses 

start paying a bigger share of 

their health care costs, the 

agency will face $19 million in 

additional cuts in 2017, precipitating 

a service crisis. If nothing 

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Hansen responds that TriMet 

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the backs of its union employees. 

“Our collective bargaining 

agreement is a joint agreement,” 

Hansen told the Tribune. “Management 

agreed to everything 

they are now complaining 

about.” 

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Keep light shining on public’s business 

No one appreciates the gift of 

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comes to sunshine of a different kind 

— the type that illuminates the dark 

corners of government — Oregonians 

too often have been willing to surrender 

the tools that make close inspection 

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You won’t necessarily be able to confirm 

this with a glance out the window, 

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OUROPINION This is a time to 

celebrate not just 

the First Amendment, but also the 

laws that empower journalists and citizens 

to attend public meetings, review 

public records and generally know 

how their tax dollars are used. 

Oregon once was a leader in government 

openness, having adopted a 

strong transparency law in 1973. In the 

past four decades, however, special interests 

have chipped away at the law 

in an attempt to protect their particular 

agency, industry or constituency 

from having to reveal information to 

the public. To date, the Legislature has 

created more than 400 exemptions to 

the law — exceptions that give government 

officials more than 400 reasons 

to withhold records that otherwise 

would be available for inspection. 

Public losing its rights 

The assault on the public’s right to 

know continues this legislative session. 

Lawmakers are considering more 

than two dozen bills that would, 

among other things, make private the 

names of people receiving benefits 

from the Public Employees Retirement 

System and that would limit the information 

released from Oregon Health 

Licensing Agency investigations. Other 

bills would keep information about 

bedbug infestations secret and would 

block release of transcripts from juvenile 

court hearings. 

These aren’t just issues of significance 

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Wouldn’t you want to know the details 

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Pamplin Media Group journalists 

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important stories to our readers: 

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Korn used TriMet disciplinary records 

two years ago to find out how a bus 

driver with repeated customer service 

problems and complaints continued to 

work for the regional transit agency. 

Months later, the same driver was 

fired after another serious issue involving 

a family in Washington County. 

■ Tribune reporter Steve Law used 

public records from the Oregon Lottery 

and the Portland Police Bureau 

for a series of news stories on continued 

problems at Jantzen Beach’s Lottery 

Row. Law’s reporting spurred 

both state lottery officials and local 

lawmakers to demand changes in the 

way lottery restaurants operate. 

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mayor’s conduct. 

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within the police department, a rift 

that resulted in the police chief’s early 

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While public records are the raw 

material for volumes of good reporting, 

public officials too often are able 

to use exemptions to stall or even prevent 

information from becoming public. 

In the case of the Cornelius police 

chief — who was given a $10,000 severance 

check on his way out the door, 

amid charges of corruption — city officials 

now are trying to keep the results 

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Because the once-expansive ability 

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The public’s business must be done 

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MYVIEW ● Anti-gun legislation would create more problems than it solves 

Gun control advocates off target 

By Dave Lister 

In Rudy Crew’s opinion 

piece (Think Big to Help 

Our Children Succeed, 

March 7), when he says, 

“While funding is important, 

human spirit and drive are invaluable, 

and the only limit is 

our imagination,” he is dodging 

his responsibility to advocate 

for adequate, equitable and stable 

funding for all public 

schools. 

He makes it sound as if we 

have only to click our heels together 

and believe, and our 

schools won’t need actual dollars 

for teachers and books and 

science labs. 

This is called magical thinking 

and it will not get us anywhere. 

What if we addressed 

the issue of starvation in this 

way “While food is important, 

Portland Tribune editorial board 

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Even though state Rep. 

Mitch Greenlick (D- 

Portland), the chief 

sponsor of the Ceasefire 

Oregon-inspired gun control 

measure known as House 

Bill 3200, has admitted the proposal 

is dead on arrival, lawabiding 

Oregon gun owners 

have reason for great concern. 

HB 3200 illustrates not only 

how far anti-gun legislators are 

willing to go in trampling a citizen’s 

civil rights to achieve 

their end, but also their ignorance 

about firearms in general. 

HB 3200 would have outlawed 

nearly all the most common pistols, 

rifles and shotguns owned 

by Oregonians by classifying 

them as “assault weapons.” A 

firearms owner would, within 

120 days of enactment of the 

measure, have to either sell his 

firearms to a licensed dealer or 

surrender them to a law enforcement 

agency. 

There was an exception for 

an owner to keep one weapon, 

but only by undergoing another 

background check for the firearm 

they already own and registering 

the firearm with the 

state. 

The act of registration would 

have been considered implied 

consent for the Oregon State 

Police to enter their home to inspect 

the firearm and its storage. 

Not satisfied with simply 

violating the Second Amendment 

of the U.S. Constitution, 

the bill’s backers would not 

hesitate to violate our Fourth 

Amendment protection against 

unreasonable search and seizure 

and our Fifth Amendment 

protection of due process. 

Gun control advocates are 

fixated on what they call “assault 

weapons.” To them, these 

military-looking rifles are 

somehow more dangerous than 

others. But the fact is they are 

mistaking form with function. 

Any firearm that has the look 

of an AR-15, regardless of caliber 

or origin, is in their crosshairs 

to outlaw, even though 

functionally equivalent rifles 

without the military look are 

not. If you put the same barrel 

and receiver used by the AR-15 

on a wooden stock without a 

pistol grip it is suddenly somehow 

no longer an assault weapon. 

The expired 1994 federal assault 

weapons ban and most of 

the proposals being floated now 

focus on cosmetic features in 

the mistaken belief they make 

that firearm more lethal. 

Gun control proponents frequently 

put forth a technological 

argument for their position. 

They insist that the founders 

could never have envisioned 

modern firearms so perhaps the 

human spirit and drive are invaluable, 

and the only limit is 

our imagination.” 

You will stay pretty hungry if 

your meals are imaginary. 

Wendy Swanson 

Southwest Portland 

TAG program is 

not a ‘failure’ 

I take issue with Margaret 

DeLacy’s opinion piece (TAG 

Failures Squander Students’ Potential, 

March 7). I beg to differ 

with Ms. DeLacy’s dismal assessment 

of Portland Public 

Schools’ TAG program as a failure. 

My eldest child attended the 

ACCESS school at Sabin, and 

his potential was certainly not 

READERS’LETTERS 

squandered. With only the most 

meager resources, the ACCESS 

teachers did their level best, 

helping foster the development 

of students at a level up to three 

years above their nominal age/ 

grade level. I would describe the 

teachers as “inspired.” 

Jan Chciuk-Celt 

Northeast Portland 

More money into all 

classroom programs 

The “TAG crisis” (TAG tries 

to find a way out of ‘crisis,’ Feb. 

21) reminds me that no matter 

how many students we cram into 

our classrooms to save money, 

people still want their child 

to get an individualized educational 

experience. 

protections of the second 

amendment should exclude 

semi-automatic weapons or certain 

types of ammunition, or 

maybe even limit citizens to 

owning muskets and shotguns. 

But the founders could not 

have envisioned radio, television, 

the movies or the Internet. 

Should our First Amendment 

free speech protections 

be excluded from those media 

because they didn’t exist in 

1789 

Besides, our Second Amendment 

rights are already technologically 

limited. The congressional 

firearms acts of 1934 and 

1968 effectively prevent citizens 

from legally owning state-ofthe-art 

military weapons. 

The state Legislature is dealing 

with a last-minute rush of 

proposed bills that their sponsors 

would like to get through 

committee and onto the floor. No 

less than seven of those propose 

new forms of firearms restrictions. 

From requiring firearm 

owners to carry mandatory liability 

insurance to prohibiting 

concealed weapons in the state 

Capitol, there is no end to the 

creativity of the gun control 

crowd. 

Nevertheless, I have heard 

from several legislators, some 

identifying themselves as members 

of the Democratic Gun 

Owners Caucus, that they will 

Differentiated instruction, 

IEPs, TAG pull-out programs: 

they all cost money. The more 

students we put in each class, 

the more we need programs 

that remedy the negative effects 

of that overcrowding 

Edward Sage 

Southeast Portland 

Weapons are ‘unintended 

consequences’ 

Don Evans shows a 

customer a militarystyle 

rifle at the 

Northwest Armory 

gun shop in 

Southeast Portland. 

If adopted, House Bill 

3200 would outlaw 

nearly all the most 

common pistols, 

rifles and shotguns 

owned by Oregonians 

by classifying them 

as “assault 

weapons.” 

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CHRISTOPHER ONSTOTT 

not consider any new firearms 

restrictions. 

Still largely rural, Oregon is 

gun country. Thankfully, most 

or all of these bills will never be 

heard. 

It’s ironic that Greenlick, who 

has also proposed requiring a 

doctor’s prescription to buy tobacco 

products, doesn’t see that 

his gun control ideas have been 

largely self-defeating. 

With the talk of new restrictions, 

gun and ammunition 

sales are through the roof. 

Dave Lister is a Tigard business 

owner, a sport shooting enthusiast 

and a former member of Portland’s 

Small Business Advisory Council. 

Imagination won’t make our schools better 

Gun owners and NRA members 

are always quick to cite 

their rights under the Second 

Amendment any time a gun controversy 

erupts. 

Few would dispute that the 

Second Amendment gives people 

the right to own firearms. It 

doesn’t specify what kind of firearms. 

At the time our Constitution 

was written and approved, 

the only firearms were muzzleloaders 

and single-shot pistols. 

The Founding Fathers could not 

possibly have imagined the 

weapons available today. 

The only way to describe the 

situations and problems with 

firearms in our society today 

and their relationship to the 

Second Amendment is that they 

are “unintended consequences” 

of the Second Amendment. 

Judging by their other actions 

in the formation of our country, 

there is no way that the Founding 

Fathers would have ever intended, 

or approved of, the gun 

violence occurring in our country 

today. 

Bruce Hamilton 

Milwaukie 

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MYVIEW ● Clean Air Corridor could lead to healthy students, community 

PSU ready to stub out campus smoking 

By Dr. Howard K. Koh 

and Jackie Balzer 

For many of us, our college 

years are a time of transition 

and experimentation. As we 

made the leap from our teenage 

years to adulthood, we weren’t 

necessarily aware of the dangers of 

smoking. 

However, while smoking rates are 

decreasing among many age groups, 

the college years have been identified 

as a time of increased risk for smoking 

initiation and transition from experimental 

to regular tobacco use. 

Of the nearly half-million Oregonians 

who smoke, more than 20 percent 

are between 18 and 24. The Surgeon 

General’s 2012 report, “Preventing 

Tobacco Use among Youth and 

Young Adults,” notes that 90 percent 

of all smokers start before 18, and 99 

percent start before 26. 

That’s why we are so proud that recently 

we helped launch the 2013 

Fresh Air Campus Challenge here in 

Portland. The challenge tasks colleges 

and universities in Alaska, Idaho, Oregon 

and Washington to commit to 

protecting the health of their students 

by adopting tobacco-free or smokefree 

campus policies. 

This challenge can protect students, 

staff and faculty from secondhand 

smoke, and encourage a social 

norm change that will reduce tobacco 

use. Smoking remains the single most 

preventable cause of death in the 

United States. Through the adoption 

of the Clean Air Corridor and the recent 

ban on smoking in the Urban Plaza, 

Portland State University is building 

the momentum to become a Fresh 

Air Campus. 

The PSU process will continue, and 

will include campus discussions. To 

date, more than 1,100 higher education 

institutions have gone tobacco- or 

smoke-free. And on July 1, 2011, the 

U.S. Department of Health and Human 

Services instituted a 100 percent 

tobacco-free policy to protect the 

health of its 80,000 employees who 

work in dozens of facilities across the 

country. 

We hope the launch of the 2013 

Fresh Air Campus Challenge will encourage 

all institutions of higher 

learning to take similar action. 


Portland State University student Alexander Bersani smokes outside a campus building before heading to class. PSU plans to ban smoking on campus as part of a national 

movement. 

Regardless of age, those who stop 

smoking and using tobacco can substantially 

reduce their risk for disease. 

We encourage anyone who is interested 

in quitting to seek help with 

a smoking-cessation program, such as 

the Oregon Tobacco Quit Line, or 

through their health insurance plans. 

Many people may not be aware 

that, as a result of the Affordable Care 

Act, most private health insurance 

plans must cover the cost of cessation 

interventions for tobacco users. 

BeTobaccoFree.gov is also an invaluable 

resource that includes general 

information on tobacco, federal 

and state laws and policies, health 

statistics and evidence-based methods 

on how to quit. 

The most important thing we have 

in this life is our health. With the 

Fresh Air Challenge, we can begin, at 

Portland State University, to improve 

public health through tobacco-free 

and smoke-free environments. And 

PSU students can use their knowledge 

of the dangers of smoking to 

protect their health and those around 

them. 

Dr. Howard K. Koh is assistant secretary 

for health for the U.S. Department of 

Health and Human Services. Jackie Balzer 

is vice president for Enrollment Management 

and Student Affairs at Portland 

State University. 

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Tuition debt proposal ‘pays it forward’ 

PSU students focus 

on idea to take slice 

of future income 

By RACHEL SEIGNEUR 

The Tribune 

What if you didn’t have to 

pay anything up front to 

study at a university or community 

college Sounds too 

good to be true, right 

The times are calling us to 

rethink how we fund college 

education, says Steve Hughes, 

state director of the Oregon 

Working Families Party. “We 

need to turn on its head debt 

for education,” Hughes adds. 

That’s why the party is teaming 

with the anti-poverty group 

Jubilee Oregon and students in 

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a Portland State University 

class to promote a new “Pay it 

Forward” approach to funding 

higher education. 

Under the Pay it Forward 

plan proposed to the Legislature 

as part of House Bill 2838, 

Oregon students would pay no 

tuition to attend a public university 

or college. Instead, they 

would pay a small percentage 

of their income for a set number 

of years after they graduate. 

The House Committee on 

Higher Education held the first 

public hearing on the bill last 

month, and the idea has support 

from the influential committee 

chairman, state Rep. 

Michael Dembrow, D-Portland. 

It’s an innovative approach to 

the student debt crisis that our 

country faces, Dembrow says. 

“It is a great program because 

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there is a kind of shared responsibility 

component to it.” 

Across the country, students 

have amassed more than $1 

trillion in outstanding college 

loan debt — surpassing the nation’s 

total credit card debt. 

How would Pay it Forward 

help alleviate that growing 

mound of student debt Under 

the plan, university graduates 

who land a job and, say, make 

about $30,000 a year would pay 

3 percent of their annual income, 

based on a fiscal analysis 

by the Oregon Center for Public 

Policy, a progressive think 

tank. That’s $900 a year, or $75 

a month, for an estimated 20 to 

24 years. 

Students earning two-year 

degrees in the same scenario 

would pay about half that 

amount, or 1.5 percent of their 

income. 

Grassroots options 

The Pay it Forward idea 

came from research by John 

Burbank at the Economic Opportunity 

Institute in Seattle. 

Oregon is one of several states 

considering the proposal, and 

is the first out of the gate with 

a bill before a state legislature. 

Many options are still under 

discussion, and details need to 

be sorted out. 

Under the bill being pioneered 

by Oregon, the proposal 

is to start with a pilot program, 

say by testing the idea in a few 

smaller colleges and universities. 

One idea is to launch an 

experiment with incoming students 

at Portland State for five 

years. Then a task force would 

use the experience to iron out 

some of the details 

for a permanent 

program. 

PSU is in the 

mix because the 

impetus for the 

bill took root in a 

senior capstone 

project at the university 

called 

“Student Debt 

Economics, Policy 

and Advocacy.” 

Students inspired 

by the class decided 

to push the idea to help 

future generations of students. 

They formed the group Students 

for Educational Debt Reform 

and joined with coalition 

partners. 

“It moved fast — we started 

this class in September and 

here it’s March already and we 

have already had a legislative 

panel in December and a hearing 

on it,” says Tracy Gibbs, a 

PSU student who is a member 

of Students for Educational 

Debt Reform. She testified last 

month before the House Committee 

on Higher Education. 

“I think for a lot of them it is 

really restoring their faith in 

the system,” Dembrow says of 

the students involved with the 

lobbying campaign. 

The PSU capstone class examined 

parallels with developing 

nations’ debt and the mortgage 

and credit card debt crises. 

Students also 

investigated various 

policy options 

“I think that is 

the beauty of 

Pay it Forward. 

It’s for 

everyone, by 

everyone.” 

— Tracy Gibbs, 

Students for Educational 

Debt Reform 

and grassroots 

advocates’ options, 

with help 

from the Working 

Families Party and 

Jubilee Oregon. 

That’s where 

they came upon 

Burbank and the 

Economic Opportunity 

Institute’s 

Pay it Forward 

proposal, then being prepared 

for consideration in the state of 

Washington. Other states that 

are jumping on the Pay it Forward 

bandwagon include California, 

Vermont and New York. 

Backers hope the option 

would be open to students of all 

majors and all socioeconomic 

backgrounds. 

“I think that is the beauty of 

Pay it Forward,” Gibbs says. 

“It’s for everyone, by everyone.” 

Hughes sees other benefits 

from alleviating student pressure 

to pay for college. “It gives 

students an incentive to do 

jobs that help society, for example 

becoming a teacher,” he 

says. 

A work in progress 

To get the ball rolling, advocates 

are seeking private 

grants along with state bonding 

to pay for start-up costs. 

That would fund the first 

round of students, with the 

money ultimately repaid, making 

the program self-financing 

in the long run. 

Supporters of the bill have 

been in contact with State 

Treasurer Ted Wheeler to get 

his support for the bonding capacity. 

Wheeler is the prime 

backer of another proposal to 

expand need-based financial 

aid, the Oregon Opportunity 

Grant program, via $500 million 

in state bonds. 

Students taking part in Pay 

it Forward could be tracked 

through the Internal Revenue 

Service if they were to leave 

the state or country, to assure 

the money gets repaid. 

It’s still a work in progress, 

Hughes says. “It’s the first step 

on a fairly long road.” 

Hopes are high that the pilot 

program will start in summer 

2014, though Dembrow says 

winter 2014 is more realistic. 

“I think what’s going to happen,” 

Dembrow says, “is that it 

will remain in the mix over the 

next year, which is pretty exciting.” 

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September 10, 1921 

February 24, 2013 

Starting next year, workers 

inside Portland city limits 

can’t be fired for taking a 

day off with the flu or staying 

home with a sick child, 

and most will get at least a 

week’s paid sick leave. 

On Wednesday, Portland 

City Council unanimously approved 

a new sick-leave mandate 

for employers doing business 

in the city. 

The ordinance won’t go into 

effect until next year, which 

was designed to pressure state 

lawmakers to enact a statewide 

version this legislative session. 

Companies, nonprofits and 

governmental employers with 

five or fewer employees won’t 

have to provide paid time off, 

but could no longer fire workers 

who phone in ill. Those 

with six or more employees 

must offer at least five days’ 

paid sick leave to full-time 

workers, though other paid 

time off benefits may suffice. 

An estimated 40 percent of 

private sector employees in the 

Portland area lack sick leave, 

and the rate is much higher 

among lower-paid workers. 

The Portland Business Alliance, 

the Northwest Grocery 

William G. Dady of Sun City West, Arizona 

passed away at 91 years of age on Sunday, 

February 24th, 2013 with his wife Charlene E. 

Dady and family by his side. Bill, as he preferred to be 

called, was preceded in death by his father William Eugene 

Dady and mother Hope Dobyne, his sister Grace 

Fitch and his oldest son William. Bill was born on September 

10th, 1921 in Chicago, Illinois where he grew up 

and studied Geology as a bachelor’s degree graduate of 

the University of Illinois. He was a member of the esteemed 

Phi Delta Theta fraternity. Unable to join many 

of his beloved fraternity brothers in the allied fighting in 

WWII due to a childhood illness that rendered his right 

arm movement very limited, Bill went to work for Pan 

American airlines. His first employment was as a flight 

attendant on the famous Pan Am Clipper flying boats. 

Bills admiration of the mountains and his mapping of 

the geologic formations that created them led to extensive 

explorations into the Teton Mountain area of Wyoming. 

Bill met and married his lovely wife Charlene Erkins 

(Dady) in 1948 in Jackson Hole, Wyoming at Our 

Lady of The Tetons Catholic church. The two of them 

savored each and every day of their 64 magnificent years 

together. 

Bill was thrilled and challenged by many employment 

endeavors over his lifetime. He was established across the 

states of Nebraska, Montana, Wyoming, Idaho, Washington, 

Colorado, Arizona and Oregon as a very well 

known, highly respected and much sought after consulting 

geologist, oil-gas-mining exploration specialist and 

petroleum engineer. Bill and Charlene lived in Nebraska, 

Wyoming, Montana and Colorado before settling the 

Dady family sequentially in Lake Oswego, West Linn 

and Wilsonville, Oregon in the 1960’s. Bill graciously 

volunteered his time weekly for the Wilsonville planning 

commission and was an important asset to the incorporation 

and management of Wilsonville in 1969. The development 

of the Charbonneau District in 1972 was also 

one of Bill’s participating achievements. Charbonneau 

is an award winning private planned community within 

the city limits of Wilsonville and has been emulated as 

a model for many northwest communities henceforth. 

Bill ‘unofficially’ never announced his retirement, instead 

continuing to research and compile information for volunteer 

consulting from Bill and Charlene’s retirement 

home in Sun City West, Arizona from 1998 to 2013. 

While employment was a fiscal necessity, community 

services his passion, and Bill’s devotion to his traditional 

Roman Catholic faith unshakeable, his principal delight 

in daily life was his family. He is survived by his beloved 

wife Charlene and daughters Shawn Koellermeier 

(husband Robert), Lorin Clasen (husband Rick), Patty 

Dady, Sharon Harrell, Anne Whalen, and sons Robert 

Dady (wife Kelly), Michael Dady, and John Dady (wife 

Kristy). In addition there are currently 22 Dady grandchildren 

and 11 great grandchildren, with one more presently 

on the way. 

Bill will be laid to rest at the base of the majestic 

Grand Teton mountain range near Wilson, Wyoming at 

the Elliot Cemetery on Saturday, March 9th at 1:00 PM. 

Contributions may be given to Hospice of Arizona at 

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Association and the Oregon 

Restaurant and Lodging Association 

opposed the bill. Representatives 

of the groups argued 

that it’s too costly, will lead to 

job losses, interferes with collective 

bargaining and is inappropriate 

on a citywide level. 

Commissioner Amanda 

Fritz, who spearheaded the issue 

through the City Council, 

acknowledged “there are costs 

to business from this ordinance.” 

However, the former 

nurse said, “Real change does 

not come without sacrifices.” 

Family Forward Oregon, the 

Oregon Working Families Party 

and other groups brought 

the issue to the council, devoting 

much of last year to grassroots 

lobbying. 

“To me this is a matter of 

whether we are going to live in 

a civilized society,” said Commissioner 

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understands that hospitals are 

busy with a number of quality 

improvement programs. The 

commission, she says, has tried 

to accommodate the hospitals 

by letting hospital administrators 

decide which adverse 

events they are going to report, 

and by moving two years ago to 

a simplified online reporting 

system. 

“I have no intention of saying 

you have to tell us about every 

single thing that happens, but 

you are community partners 

and we’re extremely hopeful 

that the reporting will continue 

in a positive direction,” Walmsley 

says. 

Walmsley notes that overall 

there were 160 events reported 

in 2012, up from 146 in 2011. A 

number of smaller hospitals 

around the state are meeting 

their reporting goals. The most 

common preventable mistake 

reported was leaving a foreign 

object in a patient after surgery, 

which was reported 27 

times. 

“We’ve whittled 

it down that 

you should be 

able to report this 

information to us 

in no more than 

10 to 15 minutes,” 

Walmsley says. 

“But there’s a perception 

that that’s 

the problem. ‘It’s 

one more thing 

for us to do.’ “ 

Walmsley says 

local hospitals already 

are tracking 

their problems 

in-house, so 

she’d simply like 

them to share 

what they know. 

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not be the case, 

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Gallagher is convinced that 

many adverse events are never 

reported up the line of authority 

within a hospital, especially 

at large urban hospitals. 

“A lot of it has to do with a 

culture of fear,” says Gallagher, 

who paints a picture of nurses 

fearful of recrimination if they 

report a mistake made by a 

physician, and physicians fearful 

of punishment by hospital 

administrators if they report 

their own mistakes. In that atmosphere, 

he says, nobody 

feels as if they are part of a 

team and everyone tends to 

look out for their own self-interest. 

Gallagher says that might 

help explain why Oregon hospitals 

aren’t making many reports 

to the commission even 

though they are promised confidentiality 

when they do. 

“It just shows you how pervasive 

that fear is,” Gallagher 

says. “It’s been woven into the 

fabric of the way health care 

providers and organizations 

operate. It’s not always rational.” 

Nevertheless, Gallagher says 

the Oregon Patient Safety Commission’s 

confidential and voluntary 

reporting model is 

probably better than a more 

punitive model he sees in place 

in Washington state. There, he 

says, surgeons who have more 

than once left a foreign object 

in a patient after surgery have 

had the state medical board 

threaten to revoke their licenses. 

“Surgeons know it,” Gallagher 

says. “They’re less likely 

to report mistakes.” 

Center builds culture of trust 

Tina Caster, executive director 

of the Center for Specialty 

Surgery on Southwest Barnes 

Road, says her staff has no 

problem reporting mistakes. 

The center was 

“The thing about 

mandatory 

(reporting) is, if 

it’s going to be 

effective you’ve 

got to have 

teeth, and we’ve 

tried to keep 

that negative 

tone out of 

there. We don’t 

want to be 

regulatory.” 

— Bethany Walmsley, 

Oregon Patient Safety 

Commission executive 

director 

the only Portland 

area hospital or 

surgical center to 

meet its reporting 

goal. 

Dr. Rolf Sohlberg, 

Center for 

Specialty Surgery 

chairman, says it’s 

easier for a small 

facility to build the 

type of culture 

that encourages 

doctors and nurses 

to admit to 

problems. In a hospital, 

he says, layers 

of bureaucracy 

make it harder for 

people to trust 

that they won’t get 

into trouble. 

Caster says 

building a culture 

of trust starts with 

the hiring process. 

“Every person hired was interviewed 

with the notion that 

their opinion matters and their 

input was valued,” she says. 

“That is how this place 

evolved.” 

Caster says she’s puzzled as 

to why more specialty surgery 

centers haven’t opted into the 

patient safety program (a little 

more than half have). Reporting 

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but onerous, she says. 

“It’s been a rather easy process 

for us to follow,” she says. 

Caster recalls a minor mistake 

that was revealed by a 

staff member — a diabetic patient 

in for surgery wasn’t 

given a glucose test as scheduled. 

The staff, she says, rallied 

to make sure that would 

never happen again, even 

making their own signs to remind 

themselves precisely 

when the tests were to be administered. 

Large hospitals do face more 

obstacles to reporting, says 

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Other safeguards in place 

But Kilo says OHSU contributes 

to a number of patient safety 

programs, some of which 

yield more helpful data than the 

Oregon program. For instance, 

OHSU submits patient safety 

data every month to a consortium 

of 110 academic medical 

centers and gets back data that 

compares OHSU to other academic 

medical centers. 

“We know from things like 

that where our primary efforts 

need to be,” Kilo says. “We have 

so much input on safety issues, 

it’s not like we need additional 

information on where our gaps 

are.” 

Last year, Kilo says, OHSU 

made a decision to only report 

to the Oregon program what 

are known as sentinel events 

— the most serious, sometimes 

life-threatening cases. 

Some states are more specific 

than Oregon on what 

events must be reported, and a 

number of states have gone to 

mandatory reporting systems. 

Jesse Wayne Lott, 

U. S. Army (Retired) 

January 3, 1945 - 

September 27, 2012 

But Walmsley isn’t convinced 

requiring Oregon hospitals to 

report their events would increase 

the overall number of 

reports significantly. 

“The thing about mandatory 

(reporting) is, if it’s going to be 

effective you’ve got to have 

teeth, and we’ve tried to keep 

that negative tone out of there. 

We don’t want to be regulatory,” 

Walmsley says. 

On the other hand, she acknowledges 

the value of the 

commission — helping hospitals 

learn from the mistakes 

and corrections made at other 

hospitals — is limited when 

hospitals make few reports. 

“I can’t give you something 

back of high quality if the active 

participation does not occur,” 

Walmsley says. “I think 

we’ve met them halfway as 

much as we possibly can.” 

California’s Center for 

Health Care Quality administers 

that state’s adverse event 

reporting program, where hospitals 

are required to report 

serious events, and fines can 

be issued if they don’t. In addition, 

when reports to the California 

program result in fines 

for medical errors, the names 

of the hospitals are made public. 

Last year, the California program 

resulted in 1,558 reports, 

a substantial body of data from 

which to make recommendations. 

But more than 450 California 

hospitals were required 

to submit reports. On a perhospital 

basis, the mandatory 

California program is getting 

about the same number of reports 

as the voluntary one in 

Oregon. 

State Rep. Mitch Greenlick, 

D-Portland, says he isn’t 

pleased that no Portland hospitals 

are meeting the reporting 

goals, but he is confident that 

legislation approved last week 

by the state Senate could help 

make a difference. 

Senate Bill 483 is focused on 

medical malpractice, but will 

give $1.6 million to the patient 

safety commission to develop 

a program to bring together 

doctors and patients willing to 

discuss and potentially resolve 

their serious events. Greenlick 

hopes the legislation, should it 

become law, will encourage 

more physicians to voluntarily 

report adverse events and 

even apologize directly to patients. 

“That’s going to be kind of a 

breakthrough,” Greenlick says. 

Surrounded in love by his family and friends, 

Jesse Wayne Lott, 67, died of cancer in 

Holcomb, Mississippi on September 27, 

2012. Born in Pascagoula, MS on January 3, 1945, 

he was the only child of Jessie P. and Katherine Pate 

Lott. He attended local schools in Grenada and Carroll 

counties and Holmes College where he majored in Pre- 

Law and Political Science. He continued his education 

throughout his 22 year military career. 

Between semesters while in college, Jesse married 

Joy Stallings of Cascilla, MS on January 21, 1966. He 

later joined the Army and served in Viet Nam where his 

exposure to Agent Orange eventually contributed to his 

death. Jesse’s duty assignments included Washington, 

Georgia, California, Germany, and Portland, OR, where 

he retired and has resided for the past 28 years. 

Jesse was a member of Oak Hills Presbyterian 

Church in Milwaukie. He was passionate about many 

things, particularly his patriotism, politics and helping 

anyone in need, especially veterans and the elderly. He 

was a former candidate for Oregon State Senator and 

was active in civic and political organizations. 

Jesse was predeceased by his father, Jessie P. Lott of 

Holcomb and two long-time close friends, Bob Crane of 

Glenns Ferry, Idaho and Col. (Ret) Kenneth Reusser of 

Portland, OR. Survivors include his mother, Katherine 

Pate Lott of Grenada, MS, wife, Joy Stallings Lott of 

Milwaukie, OR, daughter Jessica (Chris) Corbett and 

their son Jace, all of Grenada, MS, and daughter Atlantis 

Baron and her son, Carter, of Rohnert Park, CA. 

A Memorial Service to Celebrate the Life of Jesse 

Wayne Lott will be 2:00 p.m. Saturday, March 16, 2013 

at Oak Hills Presbyterian Church, 5101 S. E. Thiessen 

Road, Milwaukie, OR. 

In lieu of flowers, the family requests that donations 

be made to, Wounded Warrior Project, P.O. Box758517, 

Topeka, KS 66675 or the Oak Hills Presbyterian Church 

Building Fund, 5101 S. E. Thiessen Road, Milwaukie, 

OR 97267. 

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Intel growth fuels county road projects 

As Hillsboro booms, 

Portland strains for 

transportation funds 

By JIM REDDEN 

The Tribune 

As he struggles to find 

money for street maintenance 

and sidewalks, Portland 

Mayor Charlie Hales 

must look in wonder at Hillsboro. 

The largest city in 

Washington County currently 

has 44 major street projects 

slated during the next 

few years, including rebuilding 

major thoroughfares and 

intersections. 

A recent audit has faulted 

the Portland City Council for 

not spending enough money on 

road repairs. Hillsboro is arguably 

doing better for two reasons 

outside the council’s control, 

however. First, it is able to 

tap funding sources not available 

in Portland. And second, it 

is able to take advantage of the 

tremendous growth of big employers 

like Intel. 

In a few years, many Hillsboro 

residents and commuters 

will get to their homes and jobs 

a little bit quicker. 

Northwest Cornelius 

Pass Road 

from the Sunset 

Highway to Ronler 

Drive will be 

widened from 

four to six lanes. 

The intersection 

at Northwest Evergreen 

Parkway 

will be improved 

for bike lanes. 

And the ramps to 

and from U.S. 26 

will be improved, 

including the addition 

of a second 

southbound off-ramp. 

Most of the work will not be 

funded or done by the city. It 

will be paid for and overseen by 

Intel, the semiconductor manufacturer 

with around 17,000 

workers in Washington County. 

The company will hire and pay 

a contractor to do the work according 

to city standards. 

The improvements will help 

many Intel workers get to their 

jobs at the company’s Ronler 

Acres campus. But it also will 

help others who use the road. 

They will include hundreds of 

new Salesforce.com employees 

who will be moving into the for- 

’13 

mer Synopsys Inc. software 

company offices to the south, 

and the 130 additional employees 

that Oracle Corp. has promised 

to hire at its nearby hightech 

manufacturing plant. 

The city is requiring Intel to 

do the improvements as part of 

its construction permit to build 

a second D1X manufacturing 

facility and office building at 

the Ronler Acres campus. 

Washington County is also assessing 

Intel’s approximately 

$6.7 million in Transportation 

Development Taxes for the 

project. The amount will be 

credited against the money Intel 

spends on the improvements, 

which is likely to be 

much more. 

Intel is not complaining, 

however. The company knows 

that its growth in Hillsboro is 

unprecedented in Oregon. 

“This is new territory and 

everyone is trying to figure out 

how to manage it correctly,” 

says Jill Eiland, the company’s 

Northwest regional corporate 

affairs manager. 

Conditions put on projects 

This is not the first time the 

city has required Intel to do 

street improvements as a condition 

of a building permit. For 

example, Intel was 

required to build 

Washington 

County is the 

only county in 

the state that 

dedicates a fixed 

portion of its 

property tax 

revenues to 

transportation 

projects. 

Ronler Drive from 

Northwest Cornelius 

Pass Road to 

the campus as a 

condition of its 

permit for the first 

D1X facility. Intel 

officials say the 

project cost 

around $3.5 million. 

The company 

then deeded the 

finished road to 

the city. Intel also 

is installing a traffic 

circle and making 

other improvements at the 

Southwest Butler Street and 

65th Avenue entrance to its 

campus. The estimated cost for 

that work is more than $2 million. 

Residential developers also 

pay for transportation improvements 

related to their projects. 

For example, the Holland Partners 

development company is 

paying for a traffic signal and 

other upgrades on the streets 

around its new housing and retail 

complex at Northeast 231st 

and Cherry Avenue. And the 

developers who built the more 

traditional, suburban-style 

neighborhoods near Orenco 

Station paid for the residential 

streets, which were then deeded 

to Hillsboro. 

Many cities charge new developments 

to help offset additional 

infrastructure costs. But 

Hillsboro is going much further 

than most by requiring specific 

projects for the biggest ones. 

The practice helps explain how 

Hillsboro has mitigated some 

of the problems normally associated 

with fast growth — and 

how it plans to keep pace with 

its increasing population and 

employment base. By some estimates, 

Hillsboro is expected 

to grow from around 92,000 to 

about 150,000 people by 2035. 

Designated 

transportation funds 

Only eight of the 44 projects 

scheduled in Hillsboro will be 

financed by developers. The 

rest rely on federal, state, county 

and city sources. 

Washington County is the 

only county in the state that 

dedicates a fixed portion of its 

property tax revenues to transportation 

projects. The Major 

Street Transportation Improvement 

Program began as a 

series of serial levies approved 

by county voters in 1986, 1989 

and 1995. But when Oregon voters 

approved the state’s complicated 

property tax limitation 

system in the late 1990s, the 

current levy became part of the 

county’s tax base. 

All of the spending must be 

approved by the Washington 

County Coordinating Committee, 

which is composed of representatives 

from the commission 

and cities in the county. It 

receives and considers funding 

Construction is starting up again on Intel’s Ronler Acres campus. A 

parking garage is being built near the recently completed D1X 

manufacturing facility, which soon will double in size. 

requests from the various governments. 

By the end of this year, 2013, 

MSTIP will have helped fund 

111 multimodal transportation 

projects, totaling $555 million. 

Major projects completed to 

date in Hillsboro include sections 

of 170th Avenue, 185th 

Avenue, Baseline Road, Brookwood 

Avenue/Parkway, Cornelius 

Pass Road, Cornell Road, 

and Evergreen Parkway/Road. 

Like other cities in the county, 

Hillsboro also assesses a 

fee on residents and businesses 

to help maintain its streets. 

The citywide Transportation 

Utility Fee was approved by 

the City Council three years 

ago. The fees appear on the 

monthly utility bills that also 

include water and sewer 

charges. The fee for singlefamily 

homes currently is 

$3.18 a month, while the business 

fees range from $2.87 to 

around $1,300 a month. The 

TUF is projected to generate 

$1.75 million this fiscal year. 

Washington County also 

has a 1 cent-per gallon gas tax 

to help maintain its roads. 

Hillsboro receives some of 

this revenue, too. 

Big changes in store for road 

In the middle of the day, 

Northwest Cornelius Pass 

Road from U.S. 26 to Ronler 

Drive does not look like it 

needs much work. Traffic 

flows smoothly along its four 

lanes, helped by turn lanes at 

major intersections, like 

Northwest Evergreen Parkway. 

But during the morning and 

evening rush hours, the situation 

is different. It clogs with 

traffic from Highway 26, 

Northwest Evergreen Parkway 

and Imbrie Drive. When 

portland 

Intel officials started talking 

about expanding the Ronler 

Acres campus again, city planners 

knew it was time for a 

major upgrade. Intel agreed 

and committed to four projects 

related to the road. The 

city agreed to take responsibility 

for a fifth one. 

The projects Intel agreed to 

fund and undertake will completely 

transform the function 

and appearance of the road. 

They will add additional 

northbound and southbound 

lanes, construct an eastbound 

turn lane from Butler, construct 

a westbound turn lane 

at Evergreen, and add pedestrian 

islands to the median at 

key intersections. Intel also 

will add a second westbound 

to southbound off-ramp from 

the Sunset Highway. And it 

will add bicycle lanes on both 

Cornelius Pass Road and some 

connecting streets. 

Intel officials do not yet 

know how much all this work 

will cost. They suspect it will 

be more than the $6.7 million 

in TDTs charged to their most 

recent expansion project. The 

company will look to partner 

with the city and county on 

some of the work if possible, 

but is ultimately responsible 

for completing it. 

As part of the deal, Hillsboro 

has agreed to build a new 

right-turn lane from Cornelius 

to the Sunset Highway. 

But that is not the end of Intel’s 

investment in Hillsboro 

as part of its most recent expansion 

permit. The company 

also will build an additional 

eastbound lane to Ronler 

Driver. And it will modify signals 

and make further improvements 

on Northwest 

229th Avenue, just north of its 

campus. 

Intel will pay 

millions of 

dollars to 

expand this busy 

stretch of 

Northwest 

Cornelius Pass 

Road to six lanes 

in the next few 

years. 

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Portland!Life 

SECTION B THURSDAY, MARCH, 14 2013 

STAGING 

A BOLD MOVE 

■ Artists Repertory 

Theatre’s new artistic director 

sees good things ahead for 

Portland stalwart 

Allen Nause (above, left) leaves his post as longtime artistic director at 

Artists Repertory Theatre, as edgy, aesthetically renowned Dámaso 

Rodriguez, 38, takes over. Rodriguez (right) doesn’t envision major changes, 

saying Nause, 68, built a strong foundation at the 30-year-old company. 


Already the paragon 

in Portland, 

the longest-running 

outfit in the 

business, Artists Repertory 

Theatre has been undergoing 

an artistic leadership 

change for the first time in 

25 years. 

And, while new Artistic 

Director Dámaso Rodriguez 

wants to implement things, 

hoping to galvanize and 

broaden Artists Rep’s standing 

in innovative, cuttingedge 

theater, he won’t stray 

too far from the foundation 

built by Allen Nause. 

“I think we have similar 

tastes,” says Rodriguez, 38, 

STORY BY 

JASON VONDERSMITH 

whose reputable resume 

comes from co-founding Furious 

Theatre Company and 

Pasadena Playhouse in 

Southern California in the 

past 14 years. “I’m not going 

to be radically different. The 

difference between he and I 

amounts to the writers I’ve 

been working with through 

the years, and gotten to 

know and that had links to 

Los Angeles. I know that’ll 

result in a different set of 

plays. 

“But, I see more of a continuation, 

furthering the 

many things that have been 

built up through the years, 

more than huge changes.” 

The 68-year-old Nause 

won’t bow out as much as 

step aside from his duties at 

1515 S.W. Morrison St., resuming 

the freelance acting 

and directing career he left 

to take over Artists Rep 25 

years ago. Rodriguez joined 

the company in January, culminating 

an eight-month 

search for Nause’s successor, 

and he and Nause have 

worked collaboratively to 

make the transition smooth. 

Nause will direct and act 

in “The Gin Game,” which 

starts its month-long run 

March 26, and Rodriguez 

has been working on his 

first Artists Rep production, 

“Ten Chimneys,” which 

starts April 23. 

Scores of candidates were 

considered for the artistic 

director position, but Rodriguez’s 

name kept moving up 

See REP / Page 3 

STAGE 

“Rinaldo” 

The first Italian opera created 

for the British stage catapulted 

Handel to fame in London in 1711, 

and Portland Opera presents an 

all-new production about love, 

battle and redemption during the 

First Crusade, in collaboration 

with Portland Baroque Orchestra 

and artistic director Monica Huggett. 

The companies first worked 

together on “La Calisto” in 2009. 

Rinaldo, the Christian knight, overcomes 

tricks of sorcery, magic, seductions 

and evil before defeating 

the Saracen king and his queen, 

captures Jerusalem and wins the 

hand of his beloved Almirena. It’s a 

familiar cast of singers, and making 

Portland Opera debuts are 

stage director Chas Rader-Shieber, 

conductor Gary Thor Wedow and 

set/costumes designer Jacob A. 

Climer. 

7:30 p.m. March 15, March 19, 

March 21, March 23, 2 p.m. March 

17, Newmark Theatre, 1037 S.W. 

Broadway, 503-241-1802, starting at 

$53 

Live Wire! Radio 

Author David Shields, podcaster 

Luke Burbank, author Mykle 

Hansen, singer-songwriter Crystal 

Bowersox (“American Idol”) 

and the Tezeta Band are part of 

the next radio variety show. 

7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 16, 

Alberta Rose Theatre, 3000 N.E. 

Alberta St., livewireradio.org, $20, 

$25 day of show 

MUSIC 

“Jugapalooza” 

The new event celebrates jug 

band music, with Eagle Ridin’ Papas, 

Smut City Jellyroll Society, 

How Long Jug Band, Jacob Miller 

THE SHORT LIST 

and the Bridge City Crooners, Tevis 

Hodge Jr. and Federal Cigar 

Jug Band the performers. 

9 p.m. Friday, March 15, Secret 

Society, 116 N.E. Russell St., jugapalooza.com, 

$8 

Keller Williams 

The singer-songwriter recently 

released “Keys,” a collection of 

Grateful Dead covers featuring 

the performer only on piano. 

9 p.m. Friday, April 12, Aladdin 

Theatre, 3017 S.E. Milwaukie Ave., 

503-234-9694, $23, $25 day of show 

Sustainability 

takes center 

stage for the 

folks at the 

Better Living 

Show, March 

22-24 at the 

Expo Center. 

COURTESY OF 

BETTER LIVING SHOW 

The Postal Service 

The band is reuniting for its 

10th anniversary “Give Up” tour, 

and stops in Portland in July. Ben 

Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello 

are joining Jenny Lewis, who 

played with the band in 2003. Tickets 

are on sale. 

8 p.m. Wednesday, July 17, Rose 

Garden, 1-877-789-7673, $29.50- 

$44.50 

MISC. 

St. Patrick’s Day 

Some highlight events: All-Ireland 

Cultural Society, 72nd annual, 

noon-8 p.m. Sunday, March 17, 

the Ambridge Event Center, 376 

N.E. Clackamas Ave., oregonirishclub.com, 

$10, $5 ages 12-20; Paddy’s, 

three-day extravaganza, 

starting at 11 a.m. Friday-Saturday, 

March 15-16, 8 a.m. Sunday, 

March 17, 65 S.W. Yamhill St., paddys.com, 

$15; Thirsty Lion Pub, 

concerts starting at 6 p.m. Friday, 

March 15, noon Saturday, March 

16, 11 a.m. Sunday, March 17, 71 

S.W. Second Ave., thirstylionpub. 

com, free; Kells Irish Restaurant 

and Pub, activities starting at 6:30 

p.m. Friday, March 15, noon Saturday, 

March 16, 11 a.m. Sunday, 

March 17, 112 S.W. Second Ave., 

kellsirish.com, $25; Sellwood-Moreland 

15th parade, St. Agatha 

School, 11 a.m. Saturday, March 

16, 7960 S.E. 15th Ave.; Northeast 

Neighborhood 24th parade, Northeast 

33rd Avenue and Hancock 

Street, noon Sunday, March 17, 

Fernwood/Cleary School. 

A good resource for more 

events: pdxpipeline.com. 

Better Living Show 

The gardening and lifestyle 

show allows shoppers to peruse 

sustainable products, eco-chic 

fashion, electric vehicles and cutting-edge 

green technologies, and 

get tips from sustainable experts. 

Noon-8 p.m. March 22, 11 a.m.-8 

p.m. March 23, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 

March 24, Expo Center, 2060 N. 

Marine Drive, betterlivingshow. 

org, free, $8 parking 

Fiddler has made 

a good life from 

jiggin’ ‘n’ giggin’ 

Kevin Burke brings 

the Emerald Isle’s 

music to Portland 

By ROB CULLIVAN 

Pamplin Media Group 

Irish fiddler Kevin Burke recalls 

meeting Paul Butterfield, the famous 

blues harmonica player 

whose band helped Bob Dylan go 

electric in 1965. 

“I remembered I played a rather 

minor slow jig for Paul,” Burke says. 

“He was like, ‘What’s that! It must be 

the Irish blues!’ ” 

In a way, Butterfield was onto something. 

Then again, Burke is used to 

folks not knowing all that much about 

Irish music. However, if they do know 

something, it’s because Irish music 

has exploded in popularity since 

Burke began playing it professionally 

in the 1960s — and observers would 

contend he’s one of the reasons. 

Since the 1960s, Burke has steadily 

plied his trade as one of the best traditional 

fiddlers on the planet, playing in 

humble pubs and gilded concert halls. 

He has played with the noted Irish 

songwriter Christy Moore in one outfit 

and was a member of the seminal Irish 

roots group the Bothy Band. He also 

has lent his talents to such groups as 

Patrick Street, The Crossing and Celtic 

Fiddle Festival. And he’s received a 

National Heritage Fellowship from the 

National Endowment for the Arts, our 

country’s highest honor for excellence 

in folk and traditional arts. 

Yet despite his roots in Ireland and 

England, it’s Portland that the Oregon 

COURTESY OF KEVIN BURKE 

Kevin Burke started to forge his worldclass 

Irish fiddle playing in the 1960s, 

and he soon moved to Portland on the 

advice of late songwriter Hoyt Axton. 

Music Hall of Fame member has called 

home for three decades. He moved 

here on the advice of the late songwriter 

Hoyt Axton, who repeatedly 

told him he’d love it here. 

“I think the weather is perfect,” 

Burke says. 

“I like the four different seasons — 

and none of them life-threatening, 

even the rain,” he adds with a chuckle. 

See BURKE / Page 3

B2 LIFE 

By ANNE MARIE DISTEFANO 

The Tribune 

Apple juice is sweet. Hard 

apple cider is not, necessarily. 

It can be dry, tart, fruity, subtle, 

spicy or musky. In Oregon, 

hard cider is just starting to 

come into its own, which is a 

little surprising. It seems like 

an obvious fit for a state rich 

in apples and artisans. 

Granted, Salem’s Wandering 

Aengus Ciderworks has fermented 

specialty ciders with 

heirloom apples since 2000 

(originally under a different 

name). A handful of other cideries 

have popped up in the Pacific 

Northwest since then, including 

two in Portland: Bushwhacker 

and Reverend Nat’s. 

There are enough hard ciders 

from the region to fill a sampler 

tray, and the Portland Hophouses 

are obliging. March is cider 

month at the Hawthorne Hophouse 

and 15th Avenue Hophouse, 

with rotating taps of local 

ciders and tasting events 

with local cider makers. 

Traditionally, cider is associated 

with the harvest season. 

On the other hand, notes Kristin 

Seitz, a Hophouse manager, 

spring is a good time to turn to 

lighter, fruitier beverages. She’s 

seen a lot more effort, lately, being 

devoted to craft ciders, and 

consumers are responding to 

the drier, more champagne-like 

products. Like craft beer, craft 

cider veers away from fizzy, 

one-note drinks. These ciders 

can be aged for extended periods 

of time, so the best time to 

drink them is, basically, whenever 

they’re ready. 

Nat West, of Reverend Nat’s 

Hard Cider, says his best-selling 

Hopricot goes from apple to bottle 

in about two months. His 

winter seasonal cider comes 

from apples pressed the previous 

winter, and his signature 

Revival Dry, which is sold out, 

may or may not be ready to 

drink this coming June. June also 

is the projected opening of a 

Reverent Nat’s taproom, but 

West says it’s more important 

right now for his business to 

keep up the production end. 

Hard cider sales are up 

across the country, so much so 

that small local producers are 

having trouble keeping up. 

West says that he and his fellow 

cider-makers don’t need to compete 

for market share right now, 

but they do compete for apples. 

There’s a big demand for older, 

heirloom varieties that make 

distinctive ciders. Wandering 

Aengus, for instance, makes two 

ciders, Golden Russet and 

Wickson, that are “single varietal” 

ciders, similar in concept 

to a “single origin” chocolate 

bar. 

On the other end of the spectrum, 

Boston Beer, which makes 

Samuel Adams, is expanding its 

line of Angry Orchard ciders. 

And Anheuser-Busch has introduced 

something called Michelob 

Ultra Light Cider, which 

they’re marketing as a sporty, 

natural alternative to beer that 

is also, crucially, gluten-free. 

Seitz says the increase in the 

number of people who are 

avoiding gluten correlates with 

the increased popularity of cider 

at the Hophouses. Demand 

is high enough for the 15th 

Street location to keep three ciders 

on tap year-round (out of 

26 taps total) and a minimum of 

one on tap at the Hawthorne location. 

During March, each bar offers 

a rotating selection of six 

ciders each on tap. A sampler 

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Last week at Hawthorne, I 

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was a subtle, light, fruity drink. 

Corvallis-based 2 Towns’ Cherry 

Poppin’ Cider had a bright, 

tart, cherry flavor, while the 

Wandering Aengus was extremely 

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due to the addition of hops. 

Hopped cider is a very nontraditional 

Northwest innovation, 

but in general, traditionalists 

are much more comfortable 

adding various ingredients to 

cider than they are to beer. It’s a 

thrifty drink, after all, meant to 

extend the life of surplus or substandard 

fruit, so why not add 

some pears, cherries or apricots 

It can also be a very sophisticated 

drink. One of the best ciders 

I’ve tasted is Carlton Cyderworks’ 

Trapper Hard Cyder, 

from McMinnville. It’s aged for 

nine months in whiskey barrels, 

and it’s still, rather than bubbly, 

although there’s a faint effervescence 

to it. The apples are 

there, but it’s closer to a white 

wine than anything else, and 

definitely calls for a wineglass 

rather than a pint. 

I got it at BeerMongers (1125 

S.E. Division St.), which has a 

good selection of bottled ciders; 

Carlton will be featured at the 

15th Street Hophouse on March 

28. See the bars’ websites for a 

complete schedule of tastings 

leading up the main event, Cider 

Fest, on Saturday, March 30, 

from 2 to 8 p.m., featuring 16 cideries, 

with a total of 40 hard ciders 

to compare and enjoy. 

Hawthorne Hophouse, 4111 

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Cast members of “Grimm,” 

including Bree Turner, will 

take part in HOOPS for Hope, 

a 12-hour endurance basketball 

event to raise funds to 

provide health care for Cambodia’s 

poor, 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. 

Saturday, March 16, at Sunnyside 

United Methodist Building, 

3520 S.E. Yamhill St. Turner 

and The Portland Church 

are co-hosting the event. Admission 

is free, donations are 

requested. 

Dancin’ in China 

The Jefferson Dancers are going 

to China. 

The 22-student acclaimed 

dance troupe, led by artistic director 

Steve Gonzales, has been 

invited to perform at prestigious 

venues in Tianjin, Xuzhou, Nanjing 

and Shanghai from March 21 

to April 1, as guests of the Portland’s 

Chinus Cultural Productions 

and its Chinese partners. 

Organizers hope to raise Portland’s 

profile with the Chinese. 

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Erin Go Party 

It’s that time of year again, 

when Portland bars and pubs 

go all green to mark St. Patrick’s 

Day: 

■ Kells Irish Restaurant & 

Pub, 112 S.W. Second Ave., will 

host the biggest Irish party in 

town, Friday through Sunday, 

March 15-17. Highlights include 

music in both the pub and a gigantic 

tent. You can catch 

U.S.A. vs. Ireland boxing in the 

big tent starting at 5 p.m. Friday. 

Admission is $25. If you 

prefer to wait for the end of the 

fights, come for the 21-and-over 

party starting at 8 p.m. $5 admission. 

Then on Saturday, the pub 

opens at 8 a.m. At 4 p.m. you’ll 

be charged a $25 cover. The tent 

is open to minors until 4 p.m., 

and will feature plenty of family 

friendly activities. 

On Sunday, festivities begin 

at 7 a.m. in the pub (no minors) 

and 9 a.m. in the tent (minors 

welcome till noon). At noon, the 

cover is $25 again. Performers 

during the weekend include 

Cronin, Crazy Folkers, Liam 

O’Riordan, Pass the Whiskey, 

the Kells Pipers and Sami. Plenty 

of local Irish dancers also will 

perform. You also can hear music 

at Kells Brewery Pub, 210 

N.W. 21st Ave., all weekend. Info: 

503-227-4057, kellsirish.com. 

■ Biddy McGraw’s, 6000 N.E. 

Glisan St., will have plenty of 

great music from noon to closing 

time on Sunday, March 17. 

Performers include The Stomptowners, 

Felim Egan, Anton 

Emery, the Bob Soper Trio, The 

Old Yellers and The Chancers. 

Info: 503-233-1178, biddymcgraws.com. 

■ The All-Ireland Cultural 

Society’s Annual St. Patrick’s 

Day Celebration is from noon 

to 8 p.m. Sunday, March 17, in 

the The Ambridge Event Center, 

aka Rosary Hall, 376 N.E. 

Clackamas Ave. Admission is 

$10 for 21 and older; $5 for 12-20; 

11 and younger, with paying 

adult, free. Performers include 

TVF&R Pipes and Drums Band, 

Tir Eoghain Ceili, Mikey Beglan 

and the County Cavan Ceili 

Band, An Daire Irish Dance 

Performance, Peter Yeates and 

the Molly Malone Irish Dancers. 

For more information, call 

503-286-4812, or 503-691-2078, or 

visit oregonirishclub.org. 

Non-Irish activity 

■ A year ago, several Portland 

musicians collaborated on 

a show to benefit singer Candye 

Kane, who is battling cancer. 

Out of that show emerged 

“Tell Mama Etta James Tribute” 

CD. A concert marking 

the CD’s release takes place at 

8 p.m. Friday, March 15, in Alberta 

Rose Theatre, 3000 N.E. 

Alberta St. Performers include 

Duffy Bishop, LaRhonda Steele, 

Lady Kat, Amy Keys, Rae Gordon, 

the DK Stewart Sextet, 

Chris Carlson, Bobby Torres 

and Louis Pain. $15 general admission, 

$25 front center reserved. 

Info: 503-764-4131, albertarosetheatre.com. 

■ Seattle pop-party rockers 

Ben Union combine synthesizer 

and techno beats, Euro-pop, 

folk, jam and guitar rock, and 

mark the release of their sophomore 

CD “This Blessed 

Union” with an 8 p.m. show 

Sunday, March 17, at Doug Fir 

Lounge, 830 E. Burnside St. $10 

in advance or $17 gets you a 

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Rep: Nause plans reduced roles 

as he ‘transitions’ to retired life 


the list, “especially after we met 

him,” Nause says. 

“I remember seeing Dámaso’s 

application early on and, on paper, 

I thought, ‘Wow, this guy is 

a great fit,’ ” he adds. “He had 

started a company, an ensemble 

company (Furious) that had done 

some edgy new work down in 

Los Angeles, which got a lot of 

notice. A lot of people said they 

were doing some of the best 

work in L.A. 

“And he worked in a very 

large regional theater (Pasadena) 

under the mentorship of one 

of the most highly respected directors 

in the business (Sheldon 

Epps), who spoke of him in glowing 

terms. Not only his work directing 

at the theater, but with 

donors, having vision, casting ... 

that was all really appealing to 

us.” 

At Furious, which he cofounded 

with wife Sara Hennessy 

in 2001, Rodriguez became 

known for his daring, socially 

relevant plays with a visceral 

aesthetic. Furious staged at 

Playhouse, where Rodriguez 

served as Epps’ protege from 

2007 to 2010. Among his accolades, 

he earned the Los Angeles 

Drama Critics Circle Award, 

and Furious made L.A. Weekly’s 

list of “Best Theatres of the Decade.” 

Cooks in the kitchen 

Rodriguez, who has two children, 

sees big things ahead for 

Artists Repertory Theatre, 

which he wants to make the epicenter 

for creative Portland theater. 

It has an actors residency program 

already, but Rodriguez 

wants to expand to where “the 

COURTESY OF OWEN CAREY 

Allen Nause’s long acting resume includes a role alongside William Hurt 

(right) in Artists Rep’s 2007 “No Man’s Land.” Nause plans to continue 

to direct and act on a freelance basis, after his retirement. 

best acting and directing and 

writing and producing and designing 

talent works at Artists 

Rep. ... I want to figure out how 

we can do a residency program 

for the different theater disciplines.” 

There’ll be new works, by local 

as well as national playwrights, 

but also works by writers 

who might have been part of 

the “World Premier-itis” trend, 

fading after one or two runs. 

Artists Rep has always 

brought in fine playwrights, and 

some have gone on to big things. 

Nause reflects on his time, and 

he recounts some outstanding 

playwrights who have worked 

there, including Tracy Letts 

with “Killer Joe” in Nause’s early 

days. 

“They said, ‘Who’s she’ ” he 

says, laughing. “Then, of course, 

we did another one of HIS plays, 

and he went on to win a Pulitzer 

Prize,” in 2008 for “August: 

Osage County.” 

Other notable names: Michael 

Hollinger, on Artists Rep’s stage 

with “Red Herring,” as well as 

Suzan-Lori Parks and Sarah 

Rule. 

“So many people ask you 

what your favorite show is,” 

Nause says, “and it’s always the 

one you’re doing at the time. 

Looking back, I’m most proud 

about just the kinds of playwrights 

we brought to Portland, 

playwrights we discovered before 

anybody really knew about 

them. Nurtured them.” 

Associate Artistic Director 

Jon Kretzu has already departed, 

entering the freelance business, 

citing the end of an era 

working alongside Nause. But 

Nause doesn’t use the word “retiring,” 

although he and wife 

Frances plan to do some travellng 

and retiree-type things. 

Directing and acting are still in 

his blood. 

“I’m transitioning,” says 

Nause, who moved to Oregon in 

1975 to act with the Oregon 

Shakespeare Festival and joined 

Artists Rep in 1989; the company 

formed 30 years ago, but languished 

without artistic direction 

until Nause came on board. 

Nause has also taught at Lewis 

& Clark College, Portland 

State University and University 

of Portland. He has also appeared 

in movies and TV shows, 

most recently “Portlandia.” Rodriguez 

had heard of Nause and 

Artists Rep, mostly during his 

time working plays in Seattle. 

“When this opportunity came 

up, I was really intrigued,” he 

says. “This specific artistic aesthetic 

matched my own.” 

On Nause, Rodriguez says: 

“He’s this incredibly generous 

person. As artistic director, 

you’re opening up your kitchen 

and letting somebody else cook 

in it. Particularly with directors, 

hiring directors, one of the great 

skills as an artistic director has 

to have is to empower other artists. 

Allen is that kind of person. 

I really like him. I’m grateful to 

have this five months while 

we’re both here, learning from 

him, seeing him at work while 

I’m learning about the plays.” 

Rodriguez joins Artists Rep 

administration, with the company 

enjoying an upswing, 

Nause says. 

Dramatic turnaround 

The recent recession has hurt 

performing arts, and Artists Rep 

had to trim budget, institute furloughs 

and the company felt the 

hurt at the box office. 

“The last couple years, we’ve 

seen a dramatic turnaround,” 

Nause says. “The economy is 

getting better, but it’s also in response 

to some of the adjustments 

we’ve made. We’ve seen 

an uptick in subscribers, and 

contributed income is up. We’ve 

just done a renegotiation of our 

mortgage, which helps, and we 

also have a new tenant coming 

in (Profile Theatre).” 

Nause also says Portland theater 

remains creatively healthy. 

“I think Portland theater is as 

strong as I’ve ever seen,” he 

says. 

A city known for its beer 

will be dabbling in something 

from the top shelf — whiskey. 

The first WhiskeyFest North- 

West will take place Saturday, 

May 11, featuring scores of national 

and international whiskeys 

and scotches and signature cocktails 

among a bevy of activities at 

the massive space at Northwest 

11th Avenue and Northrup Street 

in the Pearl District. 

The Luna Foundation has organized 

the event to benefit CA- 

SA for Children. It’s deemed the 

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Northwest, and it goes from 11 

a.m. to 10 p.m. Tickets are $20 

with early purchase and $25 general 

admission, and it’s clearly an 

over-21 event (info: whiskeyfestnw.com). 

Eclectic music, fine cigars, 

restaurants, vendor booths, education, 

Prohibition- and bootlegging-themed 

lounges and 

more are part of the festival. 

The Luna Foundation, a nonprofit, 

helps children and families 

affected by illness or poverty 

through arts and music. 

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Burke and his pal, guitarist 

Cal Scott, will perform at 7:30 

p.m. St. Patrick’s Day, Sunday, 

March 17, in the Alberta Rose 

Theatre, 3000 N.E. Alberta St. 

Tickets are $20 in advance, $25 

at the door, and parents or 

guardians must accompany minors. 

For more information, 

visit albertarosetheater.com or 

call 503-719-6055. 

London town 

Burke grew up in Southeast 

London, UK, the son of a County 

Sligo couple from Ireland. His 

extended family in Ireland often 

took care of him when he was 

growing up, and exposed him to 

Irish music at an early age. 

“My mother’s uncle was a 

great fiddle player,” he says, 

adding other relatives played as 

well. However, he credits a classical 

music teacher his parents 

hired, Jessie Christopherson, 

for giving him the tools that 

shaped his distinctive sweet 

tone. 

“I can still remember her 

shrieking instructions at me, 

‘Up bow!’ ‘Sharper!’ and so on” 

— but behind her strict manner 

was someone who genuinely 

loved music.” 

Meanwhile, from the Irish 

players, Burke learned to treat 

the printed page as a guide 

and to add grace notes and 

triplets “more or less when I 

felt like it. 

“They also had a list of terms 

that I hadn’t heard in my violin 

classes — shakes, rolls, crans.” 

A “cran,” for example, is “like 

a rattlin’ sound,” Burke says. 

“I do it by hitting the strings 

quite lightly but fast with my 

fingers.” 

He credits his tone to his 

method, which involves using 

“smoother, longer strokes with 

the bow.” 

From the older Irish musicians 

he also learned about 

“nyaah” which loosely translates 

as “soul.” Burke knew he was on 

his way to becoming a real player 

the day one of the older musicians 

told him he had it. 

Meeting Arlo 

In his teens, Burke played 

with a ceili, or party band, 

known as the Glenside, which 

jammed nearly every weekend 

at various dance halls around 

London. In 1966, his group took 

top honors at the All-Ireland 

Fleadh (festival). 

At the same time, he started 

listening to such American singers 

as Dylan and Woody Guthrie, 

the latter whose son would 

change Burke’s life. One day, 

Burke walked into a pub in 

County Clare, where some 

American visitors were playing. 

Spotting his fiddle case, they 

asked Burke to play. Turns out 

one of the Yanks was none other 

than Arlo Guthrie. 

“I had probably heard ‘Alice’s 

Restaurant,’ ” Burke says, recalling 

the younger Guthrie’s 

signature tune, but he says he 

didn’t know much else about the 

younger Guthrie. 

However, some time later, 

Guthrie sent him a letter inviting 

him to his Massachusetts 

home. The folk singer then flew 

Burke out to Hollywood, where 

he recorded and/or played with 

Guthrie as well as such musicians 

as Ry Cooder. Burke also 

got to finally meet his idol, 

Dylan, in a bar when the singer 

came in during a break from 

filming the 1972 movie “Pat Garrett 

and Billy the Kid.” 

“He seemed quite shy, and he 

wasn’t enjoying the attention,” 

Burke says, recalling the onlookers 

crowding Dylan. “He 

had a big broad-brimmed hat he 

kept pulling farther and farther 

over his face.” 

Burke’s visit to Hollywood resulted 

in his inclusion on Guthrie’s 

1973 album “The Last of the 

Brooklyn Cowboys.” 

In Portland’s fair city 

Along with fellow Bothy Band 

member, the late great Micheal 

O Domhnaill, Burke formed an 

act following the breakup of 

their group. The two gentlemen 

eventually settled in Portland, 

and even recorded an album 

named for the city. 

In the late 1990s, Burke 

teamed up with soundtrack 

writer Cal Scott of The Trail 

Band, and the two men have 

worked together extensively 

since then. Their 2007 CD, 

“Across the Black River,” was 

called “... one of the top 12 world 

music releases of the year,” by 

The New York Times. 

Scott adds that the duo also 

recorded 2010’s “Suite,” and 

notes that the two also plan to 

teach traditional music together 

in Maine this summer. 

“He’s one of the very best 

Irish fiddlers that there is — he 

has a fantastic sense of time and 

an economy of movement with 

the way he uses his bow,” Scott 

says. 

Burke is married now, with 

two teenage children, and has 

no plans to stop making “a joyful 

noise,” as he says. He says he 

knows many of his audience 

members don’t have the same 

background that makes him feel 

nostalgic for Ireland when he 

plays, so it’s his job to connect 

them to the Emerald Isle 

through his fiddle and bow. 

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Antiques/Collectibles 

STORE CLOSING! 

Last chance to buy 

quality furniture at a low 

price! We have dining 

rm & bdrm sets, china 

cabinets, secretary bookcases, 

hall trees, highboys 

& dressers, drop 

front desks, coffee, end 

parlor, & marble top tables, 

night stands, beds, 

sofas, 2 pc. carve settee, 

sets of chairs, rockers, oil 

paintings, pictures, wall 

mirrors, chandeliers, table 

lamps, carbe pumporgan, 

fireplace mantel, round 

oak & mahoganey tables, 

lots of odd leaves & mirrors, 

floor lamps, oak & 

mahogany sideboards. 

50% off on mantels and 

wall clocks. 30% off on 

all glassware. Come by 

while supply lasts. 

~ OPEN SUNDAYS ~ 

Pony Express Antiques 

6712 N.E. Sandy Blvd. 

Bazaars/Flea 

Markets 

31st ANNUAL DOLL 

SHOW & SALE 

Sat, March 23rd, 2013 

10 am - 4 pm 

(Early Bird Show 9-10am 

for $6 Admission) 

Polk County Fairgrounds 

Rickreall (Hwy 99W) 

130 SALES TABLES! 

Admission $3.00 

Vendor Tables $30.00 

Info: (503) 581-1206 

SANDY FLEA 

MARKET 

(Downtown Gresham) 

Open year round, 3 days a 

week: Fri: 10-5 Sat & Sun 

8-3. Vendors wanted. 

online @ 

sandyfleamarket.com 

211 NE Roberts, 97030 

Indoor swapmeet 

503-665-2222 

Cemetery Lots 

CEMETERY PLOTS, Riverview 

Cemetery. Prime 

location, with Mt. Hood 

view. 3 side-by-side lots 

available at $2000 each. 

(503) 880-0204 

Firewood/ 

Heating Supplies 

GRADE ‘A’ 

FIREWOOD 

Seasoned, mixed 

Fir & Alder, cut, split 

and delivered. 

$200/cord - Gary, 

(503) 839-5474 

HELP WANTED 

Furniture/ 

Home Furnishings 

$295 

NEW PILLOW TOP SET 

Queen Mattress Set ONLY 

Call for Info: 503.775.6735 

www.applecrate.net 

QUITTING BUSINESS 

SALE 

BASIC PLATFORM BED 

Made of hardwood. ALL 

NEW! $199 Queen only, 2 

colors. Mattress extra. Call 

for info. 503-775-6735 


SALE 

COUCH & CHAIR 

SET: 

$250 For the Pair. 

Call for Details, 

503-544-8257 

COUCH 

2009 Pier One tan couch 

with 2 pillows, 6 ft long, 

$125. Call 503-544-8257 

DINING SET: Drexel table 

& 6 ivory colored 

upholstered chairs, 

2 table leaves & pads, 

china hutch & side cabinet. 

Beautiful Condition! $1,800 

(503) 642-1165 

Beaverton area. 

MOVING ON OUT! 

Matching coffee, sofa, & 

end tables, corner curio 

cab, Secretary desk, refrigerator, 

stackable W/D, 

Matching couch & chair 

and television. Prices are 

negotiable. 503-632-3856 

NEW BUNK BEDS 

All hardwoods, twin/twin, 

Cherry finish, $288. Twin 

mattresses, $99 each. 

(503) 775-6735 


SALE 

GET 

FAST 

RESULTS 

THROUGH 

THE CLASSIFIEDS 

CALL NOW! 

CALL 

503-620-SELL 

Advertising Sales Representative 

Beaverton Area 

Come join the Pamplin Media Group, the area’s largest 

newspaper organization. We are seeking a seasoned 

newspaper advertising sales representative to sell print 

and digital advertising and services in the 

Beaverton market. 

We’re looking for a sharp individual with prior sales 

experience, preferably media sales. The selected 

person will manage a defined sales territory, working 

with large and small businesses on marketing strategies. 

Must be able to manage multiple priorities is a 

fast-paced environment. This is a developed territory 

with existing business. 

This position requires strong interpersonal skills, a knack 

for organization, math ability & computer skills. Reliable 

transportation and proof of insurance are required. 

If you’re looking for an exciting job with a growing 

company, consider this opportunity. We offer salary plus 

commission, paid holidays and sick days, a variety of 

insurances and 401k. For more information, forward a 

resume with cover letter to: 

cmoore@commnewspapers.com 

International Sales Position 

For manufacturer of mobile heavy equipment. The position 

would be located in the Spokane, WA area. Applicant 

must be at least bilingual and key 2nd language(s) 

would be Russian, Hindi, French, Italian, Spanish or German. 

An engineering or technical background is highly 

encouraged & the applicant must be comfortable around 

large mobile equipment, construction sites and not be 

afraid to get dirty. Travel will be up to 50% of the year in 

1-3 week intervals. Familiarity with Microsoft CRM a plus. 

We offer excellent pay, great benefits, profit sharing and 

are a family owned, family oriented company. This is a 

full time position. We are a Drug Free workplace. 

Send a resume via mail at: Bay Shore Systems, Inc, 

14206 N Ohio Street, Rathdrum ID 83858 or 

e-mail to: cmoruzzi@bayshoresystems.com 

Please visit or website: www.bayshoresystems.com 

NO PHONE CALLS PLEASE! 

Lifestyle Support Specialists Needed! 

23 Locations in Washington & Multnomah Counties. All 

shifts available providing direct care for adults 

w/developmental disabilities. Company paid training, no 

experience required. Must be 18+yrs, pass criminal history 

check, pre-employment drug screen & English proficiency 

test.Must apply in person at our Business Office 

located at 1982 NE 25th Ave. Ste #1 Hillsboro, OR 

97124 between 9:00 am — 4:00 pm. 

$10.53/hr. + .35/hr night shift differential, annual anniversary 

bonus, sick & vacation pay. Pay increases and 

promotions available, pay incentive for approved drivers. 

Benefits at 6 months, $100 training bonus, medical, 

dental, life. 401k Retirement plan at 1 yr. EOA/AA Employer 

Please call with any questions 503.615.8515 

Garage/Rummage 

Sales 

PORTLAND SW: 

Annual Book Sale 

First Unitarian Church 

Sat, March 16th & 

Sun, March 17th 

10:00am to 2:00pm 

1011 SW 12th Ave 

PORTLAND SW: 

ESTATE/MOVING SALE 

9545 SW Washington Pl 

Fri: 9-6, Sat:9-4 & 

Sun: Noon-4 

Books, collectibles, furniture. 

Indoors: Rain or shine 

WEST LINN: 

HUGE MOVING SALE 

FRI: 9-3 & SAT: 9-1 

1853 Churchill Terrace 

Snowbabies, children’s 

books, patio furniture, furniture, 

workmate, tools, 

Noritake China set, window 

A/C, household items. 

No early birds!!! 

Health Care 

Equipment 

MOBILITY SCOOTER: 

Go-Go Elite Traveller Plus, 

new Oct ‘12, 4 wheel, 300 

lb capacity, easy 

disassembly/assembly, w/ 

manuals, red &/or blue 

fenders, charging cable 

etc. Owner needs larger 

model. $1,250 new, Now, 

$975. C&C, 503-968-8734, 

leave message. Tigard. 

Hot Tubs/Spas/Pools 

OUTDOOR GRILL: 

Charbroil Patio Bistro, like 

new (used twice), grill type 

BBQ, new, full propane 

tank, cover, instructions, 

etc. $85 (cash only). Call 

afternoon, evenings or 

weekends. 503-579-4041. 

Lawnmowers 

AL’S MOWERS 

Guaranteed used Gas, 

Hand & Electric mowers, 

& Chainsaws 

Tune-ups & Repair 

Trade-Ins Welcome! 

Call 503-771-7202 

8828 SE Division Street 

Machinery & Tools 

GENERATOR: 7,000 watt, 

Homelite, 13HP, Honda 

motor, 32.5 hours, excellent 

condition, electric start, 

cost over $1000, sell for 

$750! 503-397-1968 or 

503-410-1550 for info. 

Miscellaneous for 

Sale 

BF Goodrich radial tires 

(4), Like New!, with aluminum 

rims, 24560-15: 

$250 set 

Like new bassinet! With 

hood - $60. Throw rugs 

(3), 30”x55” - $35 each. 

Two gowns (1 pink, 1 lt. 

green), size 8, $20 

each. Women’s clothing 

- large & X-lrg, $3-$15. 

(503) 256-2000 

(503) 348-0368 

New WHEELCHAIR up to 

450 lb limit, $95. 2 tier pie 

crust table, $125. Collectibles, 

china, vases, 

paintings & more! 

503-327-9037 for appt. 

Miscellaneous 

Wanted 

COIN COLLECTOR 

Cash paid for older U.S. 

or foreign coins. 

Fair prices paid. 

(503) 407-7269 

LIFELONG COLLECTOR 

pays cash for GERMAN & 

JAPANESE war relics. 

Helmets, swords, flags etc. 

(503)288-2462 | Portland 

Stereo equipment 

speakers amp etc, ham 

shortwave antique radios 

vacuum tubes and records. 

Always buying Heathkit, 

Marantz, McIntosh, JBL, 

Altec, EV, dynaco, Western 

Electric, tubes Mullard 

Telefunken etc + unique 

collections/collectibles 

503-244-6261 

APPAREL/JEWELRY 

WE BUY GOLD 

Sterling Flatware -Silver-Pocket Watches 

The Jewelry Buyer 

20th N.E. Sandy PDX 503-239-6900 

www.jewelrybuyerportland.com 

M-Fri. 9:30-5 Sat 10-4 

HEALTH 

& FITNE SS 

Diabetes & Obesity 

OPTIONS 

nutritionalinsurance.tsfl.com 

Making Diabetes into a positive lifestyle! 

Eating different, making a difference 

*Reduce Insulin Surges 

*Reduce Lbs & inches 

*Reduce Cravings 

Bruce 503-523-7478 


Miscellaneous 

Wanted 

WANTED: 

DIABETIC TEST 

STRIPS 

Can pay up to $20.00 

per box. Call Sharon - 

5 0 3. 6 7 9. 3 6 0 5 

WANTED: Local buyer 

interested in stereo equipment, 

old receivers, tuners, 

amplifiers, pre-amplifiers, 

record players, speakers, 

vacuum tubes and records. 

N Ptld - (503) 267-5873 

Musical Instruments/ 

Entertainment 

Fender Acoustic Guitar: 

New, only $79.95 ~ while 

they last!. Come try one at 

Portland’s homegrown 

music store: 

Portland Music Company 

5 Portland area locations 

503-226-3719 

www.portlandmusiccompany.com 

Sewing Machines 

Vacuum Cleaners 

44 used and new 

Industrial Sewing 

Machines 

Priced from $250 and up 

Guaranteed 1 full year 

Rooster Roc Sewco 3427 

NE 72nd Ave, Portland 

503-284-7290 

Sporting Goods 

PORTLAND N: 

“Original” Rose City 

GUN SHOW 

March 16th, 9am-6pm 

March 17th, 9am-4pm 

Portland EXPO Center 

Admission $10 

503-363-9564 

wesknodelgunshows.com 

Pets & Supplies 

Albin 

Albin is a confident, curious, 

people-oriented 

cat—he’ll jump into your 

lap for attention and tag 

along with you around the 

house, because he finds 

you that interesting. He’s 

hoping for an active, adult 

home without other 

cats—is there room in your 

house for a cat to run 

Then please meet Albin at 

Tualatin PetSmart or learn 

more at CAT; (503) 

925-8903/ 

catadoptionteam.org 

AUSTRALIAN 

LABRADOODLE 

PUPPIES ARE HERE!! 

We now have Mini and 

Medium puppies available. 

We have Chocolate, 

Carmel & Apricot, as well 

as parti colors. Calm, 

well socialized training 

started. Two year health 

and genetics guarantee. 

Reserve yours now! 

Price - $2500 

If you’re interested in a FREE DOG, 

see our Guardian Home program at: 

http://trailsendlabradoodles.com/ 

(503) 522-5210 

facebook.com/trailsendlabradoodles 

trails.end.labradoodles@gmail.com 

Buying or 

Selling 

Let 

Community 

Classifieds 

help you close 

the deal! 

Call us today! 

503-620-SELL (7355) 


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Pets & Supplies 

Susanna 

If Susanna meows at you, 

it’s because she’s hoping 

for your attention—yes, 

yours. She really likes people—they’re 

way more interesting 

than toys—and 

will purr to prove it. Because 

she’s a curious girl, 

if you give her a window for 

bird watching, she’ll likely 

be content to entertain herself 

while you’re at work. 

She’s waiting to meet you 

at CAT’s Sherwood shelter; 

14175 SW Galbreath 

Drive/503-925 

8903/catadoptionteam.org/CAT’s 

Sherwood Shelter 

hours are: Tuesday-Friday, 

12 pm — 7 pm and 

Saturday-Sunday, 12 p.m 

– 6 pm. 

TOY POODLE PUPPIES, 

Purebred, 5 males: 3 multicolored, 

2 apricot, $250 ea 

Dew claws removed, tails 

docked, & first shots. 

Cloverdale area (will meet 

1/2 way). 

(503)398-5196, lv msg 

Twinkle is a beautiful girl 

from the Island of Maui. 

She is part of a shelter 

transfer program to help 

save more lives. She has 

a china doll face, a 

kitten-like personality, and 

a twinkle in the biggest 

eyes ever. Twinkle and her 

friends (including more Hawaii 

cats) will be at the 

Gresham and Lake Oswego 

Petcos to celebrate 

St Pat’s Cats Sale. All 

adult cats are just $17, all 

day March 14-17. Adoption 

fee includes 

spay/neuter, microchip, vax 

to date. Go to: 

TheOregonCat.Org 

KRISTA & MISTY: Meow! 

We would like to introduce 

ourselves. I’m Krista the 

strikingly lovely black and 

white lady and Misty, my 

daughter, is the beautiful 

and colorful calico princess. 

We’ve been together 

our entire lives when we 

were abandoned at a kill 

shelter. It was scary! Fortunately 

we’re now safe but 

we still need a home. Even 

though we love each other, 

we really love people and 

miss haveing our own to 

love and cuddle with. 

We’re looking forward to 

your visit. Please call 

503-292-6628 or visit: 

www.animalaidpdx.org for 

more information. 

NIGERIAN DWARF 

DAIRY GOATS 

23’’ tall. Great backyard 

pets. Super friendly and 

easy to care for. 

chambermistcottage.com 

503-668-5387 - Sandy,OR 

Samuel is a cocker spaniel 

in search of a home. He 

has impeccable house 

manners and a joy to be 

around. This gentleman is 

a mature little man who 

knows the finer points of 

living with humans. He 

likes to lay by your feet, go 

for short walks and most of 

all is a loyal and loving 

companion. Please call 

503-292-6628 or visit our 

website: 



SHITAKE: Everything 

about Shitake is big! This 

charismatic guy likes to be 

in the middle of everything, 

and when he’s not, he’ll try 

to talk you into it. He’s a 

fun-loving companion – 

grab a string toy, dangle it 

in front of him and you’ve 

made a friend for life. 

Come visit Shitake during 

Animal Aid’s Show & Tell 

Saturday from 12PM to 

4PM. Please call 

503-292-6628 or visit: 



SOPHIE: I’m sweet and 

flirtatious. I will act coy and 

shy but as soon as I see 

your hand coming towards 

me, I will do a flop and roll. 

Or I will hide underneath 

my pillow and pop out once 

I see you coming. I love 

petting, I’m very affectionate 

and I have a feminine 

purr. I like to brush up 

against legs too! I’m a 

Maine Coon kitty and my 

name is Sophie. Come 

visit me during Animal 

Aid’s Show & Tell Saturday 

from 12PM to 4PM. I’ll be 

waiting. Please call 

503-292-6628. For info: 

www.animalaidpdx.org 

FAX 

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Acreage/Lots 

PUBLISHER’S 

NOTICE 

All real estate advertised 

herein is subject to the 

Federal Fair Housing 

Act, which makes it illegal 

to advertise any preference, 

limitation or discrimination 

based on 

race, color, religion, sex, 

handicap, familial status 

or national origin, or intention 

to make any 

such preferences, limitations 

or discrimination. 

State law forbids discrimination 

in the sale, 

rental or advertising of 

real estate based on 

factors in addition to 

those protected under 

federal law. Oregon 

State law forbids discrimination 

based on 

marital status. We will 

not knowingly accept 

any advertising for real 

estate which is in violation 

of the law. All persons 

are hereby informed 

that all dwellings 

advertised are available 

on an equal opportunity 

basis. 

Farms 

SE WASHINGTON: 

WHEAT FARM 

900 acres, 645 cropland. 

Close to town, state highway 

frontage. 15 miles 

from sea port. $1,600,000 

(208) 791-7919 

Manufactured 

Homes/Lots 

CLACKAMAS 

2 bdrm, 2 ba. $995 down, 

$289 mo. New carpet and 

vinyl. Cat OK. 

503-793-0191 

Clackamas Or Premier 

Park 

INDIAN BLUFFS 

3 homes 32k-45k 

call Ann 503 577 4396 

JandMHomes.com 

J&M Homes 

FACTORY SPECIAL 

New Home, 

3 bdrm, 1296 sq ft, 

$54,900. 

Finished on site 

JandMHomes.com 

(503) 722-4500 

NEWLY RENOVATED! 

3BR/2BA home 

Over 1,800 SQ/FT 

Only $52,375 - WOW 

Community Features: 

Community center, 

billiards room, pool, 

and fitness center. 

Cal-Am Homes at 

Riverbend 

(888) 329-4760 

www.Cal-Am.com 

(EHO) Exp.3/31/13 

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Manufactured 

Homes/Lots 

TIGARD: 

HOUSE HUNTING 

Eldorado Villas 

(55+ community) 

$49,995 

3 BR/2BA home, 

fplce, vaulted ceilings, 

garden tub. 

Cal-Am Properties 

866.980.0705 


EHO 

Expires 3/31/13 

WrightChoiceHomes.com 

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Pictures & details 

Oregon’s friendliest and 

Most informative website 

Huge selection of 

MANUFACTURED & 

MOBILE HOMES. 

Family Owned Since 1992 

503-652-9446 

www.wrightchoicehomes.com 

Apartments for Rent 

ESTACADA 

Spacious Apartments! 

2 bd/1ba (808 sq.ft) 

$720 +deposit 

W&D in unit. All appliances 

W/S/G paid. No pets 

Move-in Special ~ $200 

OFF 2nd Month’s Rent. 

Call for a tour today! 

Section 8 accepted 

On-site manager, Jessica 

503-630-2330 

MANUFACTU 

CTURED HOMES/LOTS 

OREGON CITY: 

HALL RENTAL 

MISCEL LANEOUS RENTAL 

ALS 

NEED A 

NEW HOME 

Ask about specials! 

Apartments for Rent 

PORTLAND NW: 

1 Bed: $700 2 Bed: $895! 

Free Water/Sewer/Garb! 

Spacious open floor plans 

include full size W/D. Professional 

on-site mgmt. 

Lush landscaping, Outdoor 

Pool, Year round spa, 

LARGE Patio w/storage. 

*Income and Student 

Restriction Apply. 

*Pets Welcome! 

Westridge Meadows 

18476 NW Chemeketa Ln 

503-439-9098 

www.gslwestridge.com 

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Community 

Classifieds 

The rental market is 

moving again! 

Call Sherry Carsten 

503-546-0755 

for information, rates, 

special promotions or for 

help in writing an ad. 

We can help! 

scarsten@commnewspapers.com 

Wilsonville 

Timber Creek Village 

Ask About Our Specials 

Washer/Dryer Facilities 

On Busline & Close to the 

Community Walking Path 

30195 SW Brown Road 

2 Bedroom, 1 Bath, 

CALL TODAY 

503-682-5754 

www.jkmanage.com 

Business/Office 

Space for Rent 

MILWAUKIE 

Available, convenient 

3150 sq. ft. first floor 

office/6720 sq. ft. warehouse; 

Loading dock. 

$5,830 includes utilities. 

503-794-7100 

Weddings • Concerts • Parties • Birthdays 

Meetings • Fund Raisers • Dances • Reunions 

Amenities incl: 4000sf Hall Area, Bar/Lounge, Kitchen, 

Stage, P.A. System and On-site Parking 

VFW, POST #1324, MEMORIAL BUILDING 

104 South Tumwater Drive, Oregon City 

Contact us at: 503-655-6969 | vfw1324@gmail.com 

Own your own 3/bdrm 

2 ba home from 

$59,900 

Community features: Pool, Playground, Billiards 

Room/ Gym 

CAL-AM HOMES AT 

HERITAGE VILLAGE 

123 SW Heritage Pkwy 

Beaverton OR 97006 

(888) 313-6331 


(EHO) EXP 3/31/13 

Houses for Rent 

ESTACADA 

1, 2 & 3 Bdrm , Laundry 

Hook-up, Kitchen 

appliances, Storage 

Shed. Includes water & 

sewer. Ask about our No 

Deposit Option! 

Sec 8 OK 

emv2007@usa.net 

email for details 

503-630-4300 

NORTH PORTLAND 

2 bdrm + 2 large bonus 

rooms. Fenced yard, cat 

OK. $975. New carpet 

lower level, new vinyl 

503-793-0191 

Manufactured 

Homes/Lots for Rent 

ONLY 1 LEFT $899/MO 

ELDORADO VILLAS 

55+ COMMUNITY 

Brand new 2 bdrm, 2 ba, 

1060 sq ft. 

1 month free rent if leased 

before March 31 

Cal-Am Homes 

www.cal-am.com 

866-478-0249 

TIGARD: 

Senior Citizen 

Housing 

$795 Select Units 

55+ Independent Living 

2 bdrm, 2 bath, 1,052sf, 

FREE Water/Sewer/Trash 

& Parking! 

503-639-7409 

Service Directory 

Home & Professional Services 

Attorneys/Legal 

Services 

DIVORCE $155. Complete 

preparation. Includes children, 

custody, support, 

property and bills division. 

No court appearances. Divorced 

in 1-5 wks possible. 

503-772-5295 

paralegalalternatives.com 

divorce@usa.com 

Building & 

Remodeling 

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Community 

Classifieds 

Bring Quick Results!!! 

Whatever service you 

offer, I have the 

readers to call you. 

Call Sherry Carsten 

at 503-546-0755 

for information, rates, 

special promotions or for 

help in writing an ad 

(from 3 lines to a display 

ad). 

I can help! 

scarsten@commnewspapers.com 

JAMES F. 

WIEDEMANN 

CONSTRUCTION 

Remodeling, Windows, 

& Doors, Decks, 

Fences, Sheds. 20 yrs 

exp. L/I/B CCB 

#102031. 

5 0 3 - 7 8 4 - 6 6 9 1 

James Kramer 

Const. 

Locally since 1974! 

Kitchen, bath, walls, 

ceilings, additions, 

counters, cabinets, 

decks, drywall, tile, 

granite, windows and 

doors, etc. 

Reasonable. 

CCB#11518. Jim 

503-201-0969, 

503-625-5092. 

jameskramerconstruction.com 

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intent of your ad. Your ad 

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your ad. Call us today at 

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Vacation Rentals 

ARCH CAPE 

1675 sq ft, 2 story. 2 bdrm 

+ sleeping nook, two full 

baths, ocean view, 1 minute 

walk to beach. Pets 

OK, $175 per day with a 4 

night min. + cleaning & tax. 

Joe Amspoker @ 

503-320-4120 

MANZANITA 

Cabin for 4 

2 blocks from beach 

SPRING & SUMMER 

DATES 

Available. Call to 

reserve 503-636-9292 

Antique & Classic 

Autos 

CHEVROLET 

El Camino 1980: 

350 cubic inch V-8 

w/LT1 heads, custom 

exhaust w/hooker headers, 

magna-flow mufflers 

and catalytic converter, 

Edelbrock intake, Ford 

9” rear-end w/custom 

axles, turbo 350 transmission. 

Aluminum 

Mags w/Goodyear Eagle 

GT Tires. 

Will pass DEQ. 

$7,000. 

503-0543-2141 

Monday - Friday or 

503-543-3277 Evenings 

& Weekends. 

CLASSIFIEDS CAN help you 

with all your advertising needs. 

Whether it is hiring, selling, 

buying or trading, call us today! 

Call 503-620-SELL. 

Chimney Services 

BIRDS CHIMNEY 

SERVICE 

1-800-CHIMNEY 

Cleaning & Repairs 

503-653-4999 

CCB# 155449 

DGC CHIMNEY SERVICE 

Cleanings, safety inspections, 

covers, dampers & 

repairs. (503) 768-3151 

CCB#125141 

Cleaning/Organizing 

Debi’s Personal 

Cleaning & Organizing. 

26-Years!!! 

Thorough, Honest & 

Reasonable. 

Due to Economy, 

Need WORK!I 

503.590.2467 

Concrete/Paving 

CONCRETE FLATWORK 

Everything Concrete 

Excavation/Retaining Wall 

ccb#158471 503.297.6271 

www.PDXconcrete.com 

Electrical 

TESLA 

Electric Company 

Full Service Electrical 

Fair Rates, Fast 

Response 

CCB#189699 

www.teslapdx.com 

503-724-1175 

Handyman/ 

Handywoman 

HANDYMAN MATTERS 

Locally owned, nationally 

recognized. Specializing in 

small to medium jobs 

#191473 

WestPortland.HandymanMatters.com 

503-621-0700 

Hauling 

3-WAY TRUCKING 

971-282-6395 

Sand, Rock, Gravel, 

Top Soil, Wall Rock 

Small Loads (5-7 yards). 

MC738351/DOT/2118428 

Gerry Dean’s 

Cleanup 

(503) 244-4882 

BUILDING AND REMODELING 

CONTRACTORS NW 

Decorative Etched or Stamped & Beyond 

•Pools •Decks •Patios •Retaining structural walls 

•Driveways 

Since 1978 

CCB#31044 

503-760-2997 

www.cnw-inc.com 

Antique & Classic 

Autos 

DODGE CHARGER, 1970, 

R/T 440 Magnum, automatic, 

BLACK ON BLACK, 

factory A/C. Asking $8,500. 

grymes8@juno.com 

541-937-5814 

FORD F-250 3/4 ton 

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It’s not something Lillard 

spends much time thinking 

about. The Blazers’ point man 

has focused on the task at hand 

— playing his best basketball. 

What a job he has done with 

that. 

Lillard enters tonight’s game 

with New York leading NBA 

rookies in scoring (19.0), assists 

(6.4) and minutes played (38.5) 

and ranks among the top 10 in 

field-goal percentage (.431, 

ninth), 3-point percentage (.358, 

fifth), free-throw percentage 

(.860, second) and steals (1.0, 

second). 

The Oakland native is a 

shoo-in to become the fourth 

rookie of the year in Portland’s 

43-year history, joining Brandon 

Roy (2006-07), Sidney 

Wicks (1971-72) and Geoff Petrie 

(1970-71). And Lillard seems 

destined to become only the 

second unanimous ROY winner 

(along with the Clippers’ Blake 

Griffin in 2010-11) since San Antonio’s 

David Robinson in 1989- 

90. 

Winning the award, Lillard 

allows, “would mean a lot. I’ve 

never been big on individual 

stuff. I really mean that. I’d be 

happy about it, but if I didn’t 

win, it wouldn’t bother me. I 

wouldn’t feel any less of a player.” 

The award would be validation 

for all the hard work put in 

by the kid from a rough part of 

his hometown, “where most 

kids don’t get a chance to go to 

college, let alone play in the 

NBA,” he says. “To come from 

where I came from and a 

mid-major school, with so 

much doubt through my whole 

career ... “I mean, I didn’t get 

recruited until the summer before 

12th grade,” he says. “To 

be rookie of the year That 

would mean a lot to me and to a 

bunch of other people that have 

been a big part of my life. 

“If somebody asked me that 

five years ago, I’d have said, 

‘What, you trying to clown, you 

trying to mess around’ Not 

that I didn’t believe I could.” 

Lillard has made believers of 

all those around him in the 

Portland organization. 

“Every game he is getting 

better and better — every day, 

really,” small forward Nicolas 

Batum says. “He was good already. 

To be better than he was 

on day one is scary for the rest 

of the league. 

“We knew he could score, he 

could pass. But as a rookie, he 

has had to run the team. It 

takes time to figure things out, 

but he has been a really quick 

learner. He’s doing a great job.” 

Already, Lillard is the leader 

of the Blazers, even more so 

than two-time All-Star Aldridge. 

“It’s unusual for a rookie, but 

he has pulled it off,” Batum 

says. “He has been so good in 

the clutch. Sometimes when we 

don’t know what to do, it’s like, 

‘Just get him the ball, he’ll do 

something well.’ 

“We can’t say he’s a rookie 

now. He’s a rookie because he 

grabs some bags on the road 

trip, but that’s it. On the court, 

he’s not a rookie anymore.” 

Lillard had 22 points and 11 

assists in a brilliant debut on 

opening night against the Lakers. 

He hasn’t gotten those 

numbers every time out, but he 

is an even better player now. 

“It’s hard to quantify how 

much he has improved,” says 

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Trail Blazers rookie point guard Damian Lillard has impressed teammates with his consistency, improvement 

and ability to lead the offense. 

Portland’s first-year coach, Terry 

Stotts. “It’s been subtle. 

What he did at the beginning of 

the season was out of sheer talent. 

Since then, he has studied 

the game. He has able to gauge 

what he wants to get done better. 

He has a better comfort 

level with teammates. He has 

been able to read defenses and 

maintain a patience about 

when to go for a shot. He picks 

his times when to be aggressive 

well.” 

Before Tuesday’s loss to 

Memphis at the Rose Garden, 

Stotts pinpointed Lillard’s transition 

defense as his biggest 

area of improvement. As if on 

cue, the 6-3 rookie displayed it 

against the Grizzlies, breaking 

up a 3-on-1 fast-break by deflecting 

a pass out of bounds. 

“With his halfcourt defense, 

he is navigating screens better, 

getting better with what he 

needs to do on the ball and as a 

help defender,” Stotts says. “All 

of that is the nuances of the 

NBA game. He had a lot thrown 

at him, He has absorbed it all.” 

Lillard was the Western Conference 

rookie of the month in 

November. And in December. 

And January. And February, 

joining a handful of players ever 

to do it four consecutive 

months to start their career. 

“That consistency is what I 

like best about him,” Stotts 

says. “He’ll have a sub-par 

game now and then, but his 

month-to-month consistency 

has been impressive, particularly 

when more is being asked 

of him and as defenses are 

making him a more of a priority.” 

The kind of person Lillard is 

plays heavily into his performance 

as a player, Stotts theorizes. 

“It may not be undervalued, 

but character sometimes is 

overlooked,” the Blazer mentor 

says. “It’s gotten him to this 

point and has been important 

in his growth this season. 

“To come from Oakland and 

then go four years to Weber 

(State) speaks a lot to what 

type of person he is and how 

he’s had to work so hard to get 

everything he has at this point. 

He doesn’t know anything but 

to keep working and keep improving. 

That desire has not 

waned.” 

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the playoff race, which has surprised 

most preseason pundits. 

“A lot of people didn’t expect 

us to be in the position we’re at 

right now,” he says. “Some people 

thought because of the level 

I played at, I wouldn’t be able to 

do the same thing at this level, 

and that our team wouldn’t be 

good. I’ve been able to defeat 

that idea. We’ve had a really 

good year. We’re still in position 

to make a final run for the 

playoffs. That’s what I’m most 

proud of. 

“We’ve had our growing 

pains, where we’ve lost some 

close games, some games we 

should have won. But our team 

has bounced back when we’ve 

needed to several times. We 

have a young team, with a lot of 

rookies playing. Everything 

we’ve done has been on the fly.” 

Lillard genuinely enjoys a camaraderie 

with his teammates. 

“I’ll put my money up that we 

have as good a group as there is 

in the league,” he says. “We 

have a bunch of all-out good 

guys. We don’t have one (jerk) 

on the team. Nobody is selfish. 

Everybody likes everybody. It 

wasn’t like we forced ourselves 

to be around each other. It just 

happened.” 

Portland, too, has been a 

good fit for Lillard, who rents a 

home in Lake Oswego but ventures 

into the city every chance 

he gets. 

“I enjoy it,” he says. “It’s a 

great city. I love the way people 

treat you. When I’m at the mall 

and somebody doesn’t recognize 

me, there’s still respect.” 

At first, Lillard wasn’t recognized 

much. Now, it’s all the 

time, “which makes it more of a 

hassle,” he says. “But it’s good. 

i don’t mind meeting people, 

taking the time to shake a 

hand, sign an autograph, take a 

picture. I’m out all the time, going 

out to eat, to movies, to the 

mall — everything.” 

Lillard has few peers among 

point guards at the offensive 

end, even as a rookie. Not so on 

defense, where such as Cleveland’s 

Kyrie Irving, Oklahoma 

City’s Russell Westbrook and 

others have taken him to the 

cleaners at times. But Lillard is 

growing there. 

“My defense was not good at 

the beginning of the season,” 

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At this level, guys are so 

good at scoring, at getting to 

spots, it was new for me. 

“It takes time to understand 

how you need to guard, what 

you can get away with. I always 

beat myself up about defense. I 

don’t want to be a guy who gets 

scored on. But I compete. I can 

improve. I will improve. I’ve 

gotten a lot better at it through 

this year.” 

Every NBA player is given 

the opportunity to support a 

charitable organization or a 

cause. Lillard has chosen something 

unusual — an anti-bullying 

campaign. 

“The idea was brought up, 

and it was something that hit 

home with me, not for publicity 

or show,” he says. “I wasn’t bullied 

as a kid, but have been 

around guys who were picked 

on. I was a guy who stood there 

with him and wouldn’t let it 

happen. 

“I realize how much it can affect 

people. It can lead to low 

self-esteem, even suicide. As an 

NBA player, if I can behind it 

and get people to support it, I’m 

all for it.” 

Lillard’s long-term goal is to 

become the premier point 

guard in the NBA. 

“I think I could be that some 

day,” he says. “I have to keep 

getting better and keep believing. 

In time, I think it’s possible.” 

Lillard hopes Portland management 

keeps the Blazers’ 

current nucleus intact. Big 

things could happen, he believes. 

“It’ll just take time,” he 

says.”Oklahoma City is a perfect 

example. (The Thunder) 

won 23 games their first year 

(2008-09). The next year, they 

made the first round of the 

playoffs, the next year the conference 

finals, the next year the 

finals. 

“I’m not saying we have a 

(Kevin) Durant or a Westbrook. 

But who’s saying we can’t all up 

our games this summer and 

next summer If we all get better 

and believe, I don’t see why 

we can’t be a contender. We 

have a lot of good pieces on our 

team. It could happen with this 

group.” 

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Ryan Johnson (left) and the Portland Timbers are taking an optimistic approach that the club can shake its 

road doldrums and post some impressive road victories this season. 

Timbers: Wider home 

pitch may help on road 


points over the next two games 

is important. 

Porter is taking a different 

approach to playing Seattle 

than did John Spencer, the 

Timbers’ first coach. While 

Porter admits that the match is 

important for the fans, he is 

preaching a very Chip Kellylike 

“faceless opponent” mindset. 

“The games are the games,” 

Porter says. “Every game is important. 

Seattle is a derby. It’s a 

rivalry game. But for me, it’s no 

more important than any other 

game. Certainly for the supporters 

it is and we want to get 

a result. But we want to get a 

result every game.” 

Miller agrees with Porter’s 

logic, but also says that each 

player will react to the rivalry 

in his own way. 

“At the end of the day, they’re 

just another team in MLS,” Miller 

says. “Seattle has traditionally 

been a good team and 

they’re our neighbors and you 

never want to lose to your 

neighbors ... but different guys 

will just approach it different 

ways.” 

Timbers striker Ryan Johnson 

hopes that the Timbers will 

also view Seattle as a faceless 

city and CenturyLink Field as a 

faceless stadium. He hopes the 

team plays on the road as it 

does at home. 

“I hope we don’t change anything 

at all,” Johnson says. “I 

hope we always go for the win 

no matter what — whether it’s 

home or away. We have such 

talented players, it doesn’t matter 

where we play, we can do 

the job. I expect us to win some 

good away games this year.” 

Defender Andrew Jean-Baptiste 

agrees. 

“We need to go into the road 

games with the same mentality 

we do when we’re home,” he 

says. 

Besides a new roster, a new 

coach and a new philosophy, 

the Timbers also have a revamped 

home pitch, which they 

hope can help them on the road. 

Last season, the Jeld-Wen Field 

surface was 110 yards by 70 

yards. This season, the pitch is 

74 yards wide. The narrower 

pitch might have been one reason 

the Timbers struggled so 

mightily on the road. 

“A lot of teams can’t go from 

small fields to big fields,” Jean- 

Baptiste says. “Their fitness is 

set to small fields because that’s 

what they train on. When they 

get put on a bigger field, they’re 

like, ‘Oh my gosh.’ ” 

Jean-Baptiste later backtracked 

and said that the narrower 

home pitch did not affect 

the Timbers last season. The 

general consensus around the 

Timbers locker room, though, is 

that playing home matches on a 

pitch that is four yards wider 

will make going on the road 

easier this season. 

“When you’re on a pitch 

that’s normal, that’s very helpful,” 

Miller says. “It’s not as big 

of a change when you go to another 

field that’s bigger or 

smaller. It’s definitely an advantage 

for us.” 

Of course, the only thing that 

truly matters is whether Portland 

puts more goals on the 

scoreboard than the other side. 

“We want a shutout, and we 

want to score the first goal,” 

Jean-Baptiste says. “Once we 

accomplish both of those, I 

don’t see any reason why we 

won’t win any game the rest of 

the season.” 

Hawks: 

Chicago 

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in future 


Green once told Carruth that he 

was the most self-critical person 

on the team. Carruth took it to 

heart, and went one step further, 

and started not listening to critical 

fans — “some fans who don’t 

really know the game adding on 

that (self-criticism),” he says. 

“It’s just kind of frustrating 

because you can’t say anything 

back to them. ... I’m way more 

relaxed, realizing it’s just a 

game. Fans chirp at you. It’s not 

that big of a deal.” 

In his fourth season, Carruth 

has elevated his play, and entered 

weekend play with a 2.06 

goals-against-average (second in 

the WHL), .929 save percentage 

and a 30-7-0-2 record. His career 

numbers have placed him among 

the elite goalies in Portland franchise 

history. 

The 6-3, 180-pound Carruth became 

the Hawks all-time leader 

in victories (117) and shutouts 

(11) and ranked second in games 

played (176). When Carruth led 

Portland to victory against 

Prince George on Jan. 9, he surpassed 

Darrell May, Sr. as the alltime 

wins leader among Winterhawks 

goalies. May attended the 

game and congratulated him. 

Carruth had 42 wins last season, 

a franchise high for a season, 

and already holds the Portland 

records for playoff wins (33), 

games (54), saves (1,744) and minutes 

(3,193). With 12 playoff 

games, he’ll set the WHL record 

for most played (Cam Ward, Red 

Deer, 2001 to ‘04). 

The Shorewood, Minn., native 

takes the records, including the 

shutouts, in stride. 

“I’m more proud of the wins 

column as a squad,” he says. 

“That’s what gets us banners at 

the end of the year.” 

Franchise records are an indication 

of longevity, and if the 

NHL hadn’t suffered through a 

lockout this season, chances are 

Carruth would have been playing 

in the Blackhawks’ minor-league 

system. He says the organization 

had five goalies for too few minor-league 

spots, and he still had 

junior eligibility, so he went back 

to juniors. More time with the 

Hawks allowed Carruth to make 

his mark in the record book. 

He thanks Mike Johnston, the 

suspended Hawks general manager 

and coach, for giving him 

the opportunity to play for the 

team in the 2009-10 season and 

“I’m thankful they kept me 

around all these years.” 

The 17-year-old Burke, son of 

former NHL goalie Sean Burke, 

has sat patiently as Carruth 

plays out his junior career. But 

Burke, during his NHL draft eligible 

season, has been solid as a 

backstop himself with a 2.61 

GAA, .909 save percentage, four 

shutouts and a 21-5-1-0 record. 

“He’s having a great year,” 

Burke says, of Carruth. “He 

wanted to be at the next level this 

year; he’s good enough to (be 

there). But with the lockout and 

everything and how the season 

started, it wasn’t in the cards for 

him. 

“You can take that two ways — 

you can come back and pout, 

think you’re too good to play 

here and really not improve at 

all, or you can come back and 

work hard and try to have a good 

last year in juniors. I think he’s 

taken the positive route.” 

Burke has noticed that Carruth 

has been less volatile, which 

has steadied his approach and 

play. Carruth simply got a year 

older, and he has played like an 

experienced overage player. 

“Every year you grow, especially 

at this level,” Burke says. 

“It’s not like the NHL. This is a 

Brendan Burke 

has been a 

reliable backup 

to Mac Carruth 

in goal for the 

Portland 

Winterhawks, 

who will have 

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developmental league, and every 

year people grow. Everybody 

knows he’s a fiery guy, and sometimes 

he can lose his temper. Especially 

this year he’s been really 

good in control of it.” 

Carruth admits that once he 

was sent back to junior hockey 

he was starting to think about 

the WHL playoffs. After all, 

thanks in large part to Carruth, 

the Hawks have played in the 

past two WHL finals. Not reaching 

the Memorial Cup this year 

— the Hawks have been ranked 

No. 1 or close to the top in junior 

hockey all season — would be a 

disappointment. It has made his 

final year with the Hawks more 

enjoyable. 

Burke, 6-3 and 175 pounds, 

hopes to be drafted in June, and 

then it’ll be his job as starting netminder 

on what could be another 

strong Hawks team next season. 

Carruth has been impressed. 

“He’s gotten a lot stronger, 

physically and mentally, and 

more confident,” Carruth says. 

“Obviously, he’s a student of the 

game. And, that’ll be huge for 

him later.” 

Burke has been happy to earn 

four shutouts and more than 20 

wins in his second year in the 

WHL, and he credits teammates 

for helping him attain success. 

“We had more star power last 

year, but overall we’re a better 

squad this year in a lot of different 

areas,” he says. “Makes my 

job a lot easier.” 

He expects to be Carruth’s 

backup throughout the playoffs, 

but, as he points out, “playoffs 

are crazy, and you have to stay 

ready.” 

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years as a starter at Duke, 

Singler played for two teams 

— Lucentum Alicante and Real 

Madrid — in Spain last season. 

“It was 100 percent due to 

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says. “I didn’t want to wait 

around that summer. I wanted 

to play, and my agent was 

able to sign me to deals that 

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those games with Real Madrid, 

which won the coveted 

midseason Spanish King’s 

Cup, then lost 3-2 in the 

league finals to Barcelona. 

“It was a great experience,” 

he says. “I was out of my comfort 

zone, being in a different 

country with the language 

barrier and cultural differences. 

For basketball, it was 

really good — competitive, 

with really good players over 

there, and I got to play a lot. I 

improved as a player, and 

that’s what I wanted.” 

Singler has been a role 

player even as a starter for 

Detroit thus far, but he is seeing 

more court time than every 

rookie except Portland’s 

Damian Lillard, Washington’s 

Bradley Beal and Cleveland’s 

Dion Waiters. 

“I’m real happy that I’ve 

been able to step in and start 

and get a lot of minutes,” Singler 

says. “As a rookie, you 

can’t ask for more.” 

Good thing, in a way, that 

the Pistons’ season will end 

April 17 with no playoff run. 

It means he will be in Medford 

on Mother’s Day Weekend 

for the fifth annual Kyle 

Singler Open, a basketball 

clinic run in conjunction with 

the Chad Cota-Kyle Singler 

auction and the E.J. Singler 

Skills Challenge. The event 

benefits Kids Unlimited, a 

non-profit children’s program 

in Medford. 

“We’ve raised as much as 

$100,000 through the auction,” 

Kyle says. “I’ve formed a good 

relationship with the director, 

and I can see the benefit kids 

could have from what he does 

and promotes. It’s a chance to 

change a lot of kids’ lives. 

That’s why I do it.” 

The Pistons’ foundation is 

mostly young, with Singler, 

big men Greg Monroe (22) 

and Andre Drummond (19) 

and point guard Brandon 

Knight (21). 

“We have young pieces with 

talent,” Singler says. “Our future 

is bright. We haven’t had 

a full team throughout the 

whole year. We’ve had some 

injuries, especially toward the 

end of the year. I’m really 

hopeful we’re moving in the 

right direction.” 

There is much work to be 

done in Detroit, the NBA’s 

version of Alcatraz. Regardless, 

Singler — one of the best 

kids ever out of this state in 

terms of a combination of talent 

and character — has 

proved this year that he’ll 

have a spot in the league for 

years to come. 

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THURSDAY, MARCH 14, 2013 

■ Portland’s improving point guard the next ROY 

Lillard 

drives 

toward 

trophy 

While he has helped the Trail 

Blazers win games and stay 

on the fringe of the playoff 

race en route to an inevitable 

rookie of the year award this season, Damian 

Lillard has also built his personal 

brand on both a local and national level. 

Portland’s high-profile point guard has 

made fans and friends with his outstanding 

play, humble style and classy demeanor this 

season, and it is reaping dividends for the 

former Weber State standout off the court. 

Lillard signed a three-year endorsement 

contract with Adidas during Las Vegas 

Summer League and has the standard rookie 

trading-card deal. Agent Aaron Goodwin 

is working on several more endorsement 

STORY BY 

KERRY 

EGGERS 

Mac Carruth has 

put together a 

strong season in 

goal for the 

Portland 

Winterhawks, 

setting records 

and helping the 

team post the 

best record in 

the Western 

Hockey League 

TRIBUNE FILE PHOTO: 

JON HOUSE 

Carruth shutting out 

criticism of his game 

Hawks’ veteran 

goalie matures 

throughout career 

By JASON VONDERSMITH 

The Tribune 

opportunities that 

should come to fruition 

after the season. 

“The sky is the limit 

for Damian” in terms of 

endorsements, says 

Goodwin, who reps Lillard 

along with his 

brother, Eric Goodwin. “He’s a different 

type of athlete, a new genre — a blue-collar 

guy most people didn’t know about a year 

ago. He relates to the common man. People 

identify with him as opposed to somebody 

who was a superstar from day one. 

“Damian has played really well and established 

himself, so the market has been created 

for him. The next stage is the building 

of a real career. We’re looking for new opportunities 

for him, with the Cokes, the Gatorades, 

the McDonalds of the world. Those 

are the next step. It’s a process — and he 

realizes it’s a process — to build a portfolio 

that matches his personality.” 

That sounds good to Lillard, who, unlike 

teammate LaMarcus Aldridge, embraces 

the idea of helping to promote products and 

companies. 

“I hope to have some endorsements,” he 

says. “I’m a people type of guy. I’m a marketable 

guy. I have fun with that type of stuff. In 

a bigger market, there might be more money 

in it, but I’m not motivated by dollar 

signs. I just enjoy those type of things. I’d 

He has tuned out the noise 

and kept the mind right, and 

Portland Winterhawks goaltender 

Mac Carruth has enjoyed 

his final season in the 

Western Hockey League. 

It could be the 20-year-old 

Carruth’s best season, as he has 

posted seven shutouts and 

eclipsed many franchise records 

for the league-leading 

See LILLARD / Page 6 


Damian Lillard is reaping some rewards from his outstanding play as a rookie with the Trail Blazers, but he says his focus 

remains on winning games, getting better and the future of the team. 

Hawks. He has 

been steady and 

stellar on the 

ice — playing 

too well to allow 

young stud 

Brendan Burke 

more time in 

net — and, 

more importantly, 

steady in 

CARRUTH 

the head. 

You see, Carruth has displayed 

a bit of a temper and been 

a tad too hard on himself in previous 

years. He has paid attention 

to opposing fans and, when 

he hasn’t played well, even 

hometown fans have given him 

flak. 

As the WHL playoffs approach, 

Carruth 

can confidently 

say he has matured. 

“I’ve stepped 

up and become 

professional, I 

guess you can 

say,” says Carruth, 

a Chicago 

BURKE 

Blackhawkssigned 

player who, because of a 

glut of goalies in the Blackhawks’ 

organization, had to be 

sent back to juniors. “I’ve had a 

few hiccups here and there, but 

as an athlete, you’re going to 

have them.” 

Portland head coach Travis 

See HAWKS / Page 7 

Timbers look for 

answers to road 

woes of the past 

Players set goals for 

2013 away games: 

score first goal, win 

By STEPHEN ALEXANDER 

The Tribune 

Since joining Major 

League Soccer in 2011, there 

have been many truths for 

the Portland Timbers. Perhaps 

the most frequent 

truth, and the most difficult 

for the organization to stomach, 

is that the Timbers 

stink on the road. 

In 2011, Portland managed a 

meager 2-9-6 record away from 

Jeld-Wen Field. 

That was bad, but the 1-12-4 

mark in 2012 was even worse. 

First-year coach Caleb Porter 

says this club can be different, 

because, well, it is basically 

entirely new. More than half 

the roster from last season is 

gone. 

“It’s a new team,” Porter 

says as the Timbers prepare 

for their 5 p.m. Saturday 2013 

road opener at Seattle. “I’ve 

not dwelled on the past or talked 

about the past because a lot 

of these guys know nothing 

about the past. They weren’t 

here. That can be played up too 

much —the past. I’m really trying 

to focus on the now and trying 

to move forward. The way I 

look at it, we’re 0-0 on the road 

TRIBUNE PHOTO: NICK FOCHTMAN 

First-year Portland Timbers 

coach Caleb Porter isn’t making 

an overly big deal of the rivalry 

games, including one on the road 

Saturday, against Seattle. 

with this new team and under 

this new regime.” 

The Timbers will need to 

bond on the field, though, if 

they want to pick up points, especially 

on the road. 

“It’s all about the team being 

comfortable with each other,” 

defender Ryan Miller says. “If 

you have a strong camaraderie 

and knowledge of each other, 

then it’s going to take the pressure 

away when you’re on the 

road.” 

After playing the Sounders, 

the Timbers will play at Colorado 

on March 30. With Portland 

off to a 0-1-1 start, getting 

See TIMBERS / Page 7 

KerryEggers 

ON SPORTS 

Singler 

part of 

Detroit 

rebirth 

The phone call arrived 

from Alcatraz (Alcatraz). 

The occasion: 

an off-day excursion 

for members of the Detroit 

Pistons, including Kyle Singler, 

the rookie from South 

Medford High. 

“We’re actually on the boat 

riding back (to the San Francisco 

Bay wharf), looking at 

the prison,” Singler said, 

with the hoots 

and hollers of 

teammates 

sounding in 

the background. 

“Rodney 

Stuckey, 

Jose Calderon, 

Charlie Villanueva, 

all the 

rookies — just SINGLER 

something to 

do together. 

“First time I’ve been out 

here. It’s a really cool thing.” 

Such is life in the NBA for 

the 6-8, 230-pound Singler, 

who visits the Rose Garden 

Saturday night to face the 

Trail Blazers in the first instate 

appearance of his pro 

career. 

Some cool things have happened 

for Singler with the 

Pistons. Also some not-socool 

things, the not-so-coolest 

thing being 

Detroit’s 

sorry 23-43 

record going 

into Wednesday’s 

visit to 

Golden 

State. The 

Pistons had 

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lost six in a row and nine out 

of 10 and, as Singler puts it 

diplomatically, “we’ve not 

been playing all that well.” 

Losing is something new 

for Singler, who led the Panthers 

to the Class 6A championship 

over Lake Oswego 

High and Kevin Love as a senior 

in 2007, then was most 

valuable player of the Final 

Four as Duke won the NCAA 

title as a junior in 2010. 

While Detroit hasn’t been 

a prison sentence, it’s not 

been a day at the beach for 

Singler, who nevertheless 

isn’t complaining. 

“It’s been a great place to 

play,” says the older brother 

of Oregon standout E.J. Singler 

and the son of ex-Oregon 

State quarterback Ed Singler. 

“The arena (Palace of Auburn 

Hills) is nice. You have 

to win for fans to come out 

and support you big-time. 

But we do have dedicated 

fans who support us through 

thick and thin. 

“Our season so far has 

been ups and downs — mostly 

downs.” 

One of the “ups” has been 

the performance of Singler, 

who earned a starting spot at 

shooting guard the first 

month when Stuckey went 

down to injury, then moved 

over to small forward when 

the Pistons sent Tayshaun 

Prince to Toronto for Calderon. 

Singler ranks among the 

NBA’s top 10 rookies in nearly 

every statistical category, 

including scoring (8.7, 

eighth), rebounds (3.9, 10th), 

field-goal percentage (.430, 

ninth), 3-point percentage 

(.366, fourth), free-throw percentage 

(.810, fourth) and 

minutes (28.1, fourth). 

“It’s gone pretty well,” says 

Singler, 24. “I really didn’t 

know what to expect. As a 

rookie, you want to try to 

help the team as much as 

possible, to be a positive influence 

on the team. I’ve done 

a decent job of that.” 

The 33rd pick of the 2011 

NBA draft after serving four 

See EGGERS / Page 7

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