By JIM REDDEN The Hillsboro Tribune Attendance was down about 10 percent for both the 2013 Oregon Interna- tional Air Show and Washington County Fair this year. Because both events were held just across the street from each other for the first time this year, or- ganizers say the drop may have been caused by wor- ries over additional traffic congestion and noise from the air show interfering with the fair — issues that did not seem to actually oc- cur. “We’re disappointed that attendance was down and think it was caused by FRIDAY, AUGUST 2, 2013 • THE HILLSBORO LEADER IN NEWS • WWW.HILLSBOROTRIBUNE.COM • VOL. 02, NO. 25 • FREE Rise and fall Hops slip out of first place after hot second-half start — See Sports, Page A20 INSIDE Weather .................................. A5 Commentary ........................... A6 Obituaries ............................. A10 Classifieds ....................... A12-14 Education.............................. A15 Calendar ............................... A16 A&E....................................... A17 Sports .............................. A20-19 “Pamplin Media Group’s pledge is to deliver balanced news that reflects the stories of our communities. Thank you for reading our newspapers.” — DR. ROBERT B. PAMPLIN JR. OWNER & NEIGHBOR By JIM REDDEN The Hillsboro Tribune As Hillsboro begins ac- tively searching for its next police chief, recently-re- leased documents are shed- ding light on the turmoil within the department un- der its two previous leaders. Carey Sullivan unexpected- ly resigned March 9 after about 30 months as chief. In- terim Chief Ron Louie left June 14. He had previously served as chief from 1992 to 2007. Now documents related to a harassment complaint against Louie reveal the com- mand staff felt stressed by both of them. The most detailed docu- ment is an 84-page com- plaint filed against Louie and the city by police Lt. Mitch Radem- acher. It charged that Louie so de- meaned him at a May 6 management meeting that he had no choice but to resign his former po- sition as com- mander. A subse- quent internal investigation found that Louie violated the city’s anti- harassment policies against both Rademacher and Support Ser- vices Manager Cindy Bolek. Louie had already resigned by the time those rulings were made, however. Rademacher’s complaint covers far more than the May 6 meeting, however. It contains numerous references to stresses felt by the command staff — collectively called the Executive Team — when Sulli- van was chief. And it reveals that Rademacher believed Mitch Rademacher says former chief went on ‘tirade’ Documents reveal police tensions See POLICE / Page A7 LOUIE SULLIVAN “Chief Louie seemed to be focused on the health of everyone in the organization but his command staff, which was disappointing.” — Lt. Mitch Rademacher Council renames Northeast Campus Court Northeast Cherry Drive Street change rankles business owners By JIM REDDEN The Hillsboro Tribune An Oregon citizen pays around $110 to legally change their name. But to change a street name, each business involved could be looking at costs of $700 or more. Businesses on Northeast Campus Court aren’t happy their street was renamed Northeast Cherry Drive by the Hillsboro City Council July 16. “It would take us tons of ex- penses to reestablish our- selves to clients and suppli- ers when we are already an established company,” said Lesli Owens, assistant con- troller at Forest Dental Prod- ucts, Inc. at 6200 N.E. Campus Court. Representatives from the dental supply company were the only ones to speak against the change at the council meeting, and Dan Dias, Hills- boro’s planning supervisor, said the city hasn’t heard from any business since. City officials see the change as a way to minimize confusion, said Dias. On a map, Northeast Campus Court appears to be an exten- sion of Northeast Cherry Drive. To the west of North- west 231st Ave. is Northeast Campus Court, and just one By JIM REDDEN The Hillsboro Tribune The Hillsboro Parks and Recreation Commission Tuesday morning approved moving forward with a de- sign process for an urban plaza adjacent to the Oren- co MAX station. The plan includes keeping two of three oak trees in the area and bulldozing a third. One of the trees is consid- ered to be too unhealthy to survive the project safely. The commission’s decision came after some confusion over the condition of another tree — an expert had originally declared it posed a safety risk, but later said the test results were in er- ror and the tree is actually healthy. The proposed plaza is part of a larger plan by Holland De- velopment to build a new mixed-use community in the Orenco Station area. The com- pany is donating two parcels to the city as part of the proj- ect. One is a four-acre tract at Cornelius Pass Road and 231st Avenue. The other is a half- acre parcel to be acquired from TriMet just north of the MAX station. That parcel includes three large oak trees. They are grouped together at the north- east corner of the station. Ar- borists have said the northern one shows sign of root prob- lems and should be taken down. The southern one is considered healthy and should be retained. The commission agreed with both recommen- dations. The eastern one, which is the largest, has been the sub- ject of several tests. A recent test conducted with high-tech equipment by N.W. Tree Spe- cialists found the tree was un- healthy and posed a risk to public safety. But then the company realized the results were wrong because of inac- curate equipment settings. Re- vised results found the tree healthy. The commission rec- ommended it be retained in the plaza. Holland Development has agreed to fund whatever de- sign the city approves. A pub- lic forum has been scheduled for 6 p.m. Aug. 19 at Sonrise Church, 6701 N.E. Campus Way, located near the pro- posed plaza. The planned development is termed the Platform District. In addition to the plaza and park, it will include three new mixed-use buildings. Con- struction is expected to start this fall. Urban plaza design means getting an unhealthy oak out of the way Commission says one Orenco tree must go HILLSBORO TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHASE ALLGOOD The Hillsboro Parks and Recreation Commission decided Tuesday that two of three oak trees adjacent to the Orenco MAX station will be saved in the new public plaza. The northernmost one is unhealthy and must come down, though. See NAME / Page A9 By STEPHANIE HAUGEN The Hillsboro Tribune More than 100,000 people braved the heat and crowds last week and headed to the Washington County Fair Complex in Hillsboro. Annual attractions such as the draft horse show, tractor pull, demoli- tion derby and Saturday night live- stock auction drew plenty of people to the late-July event. Newer attrac- tions like The Olate Dogs, the 2012 America’s Got Talent winners, gath- ered gawkers throughout the fair’s four-day run with their trick-per- forming pack of show dogs, said Leah Perkins-Hagele, fair complex manag- er. Although attendance dropped by 9 percent from last year, animal exhib- its and competitions went smoothly even as jets roared over the airport across the street during the Oregon International Air Show. One 4-H volunteer who asked not to be identified said the Monster Truck Show at the fair on Saturday night disturbed the horses more than the air show. “The planes and fireworks add to the festivities. The Monster Trucks are just too loud,” said the volunteer. Although the small animal barn didn’t host the usual chickens and rabbits, all barns were full of horses, cows, pigs, goats — and even alpacas. Kids wandered starry-eyed through aisles of carnival games and animal shows, and flocked to the demonstration gardens — near the land products tent where the first an- nual scarecrow contest entries were displayed — for the chance to partici- pate in a scavenger hunt and pull up a carrot. Jim Redden contributed to this story. ■ Animals, demolition derby draw county crowd A FAIRLY GOOD show HILLSBORO TRIBUNE PHOTO: STEPHANIE HAUGEN First year FFA member Brittany Prouty, 15, of Hillsboro showed her cows Mary Ellen (back) and Andrea (foreground) at the fair last weekend. Andrea won first place in the commercial class. “People are like family here. There’s always someone here helping me and making sure I’m ready,” Prouty said. HILLSBORO TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHASE ALLGOOD Stunt pilot Jacquie Warda leaves smoke trails as she pilots her Extra 300 plane during the Oregon International Air Show. Traffic concerns keep some away from airport Air show has smooth landing See SHOW / Page A2
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By JIM REDDENThe Hillsboro Tribune
Attendance was down about 10 percent for both the 2013 Oregon Interna-tional Air Show and Washington County Fair this year.
Because both events
were held just across the street from each other for the first time this year, or-ganizers say the drop may have been caused by wor-ries over additional traffic congestion and noise from the air show interfering with the fair — issues that did not seem to actually oc-cur.
“We’re disappointed that attendance was down and think it was caused by
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By JIM REDDENThe Hillsboro Tribune
As Hillsboro begins ac-tively searching for its next police chief, recently-re-leased documents are shed-ding light on the turmoil
within the department un-der its two previous leaders.
Carey Sullivan unexpected-ly resigned March 9 after about 30 months as chief. In-terim Chief Ron Louie left June 14. He had previously served as chief from 1992 to 2007. Now documents related to a harassment complaint against Louie reveal the com-mand staff felt stressed by both of them.
The most detailed docu-
ment is an 84-page com-plaint filed against Louie and the city by police Lt. Mitch Radem-acher. It charged that Louie so de-meaned him at a May 6 management meeting that he had no choice but to resign
his former po-sition as com-mander.
A subse-quent internal investigation found that Louie violated the city’s anti-harassment policies against both
Rademacher and Support Ser-vices Manager Cindy Bolek.
Louie had already resigned by the time those rulings were made, however.
Rademacher’s complaint covers far more than the May 6 meeting, however. It contains numerous references to stresses felt by the command staff — collectively called the Executive Team — when Sulli-van was chief. And it reveals that Rademacher believed
Mitch Rademacher says former chief went on ‘tirade’
Documents reveal police tensions
See PolIcE / Page A7
louIE SullIvAN
“chief louie seemed to be focused on the health of everyone in the organization but his command staff, which was disappointing.”
— lt. Mitch Rademacher
Council renames Northeast Campus Court Northeast Cherry Drive
Street change rankles business owners
By JIM REDDENThe Hillsboro Tribune
An Oregon citizen pays around $110 to legally change their name. But to change a street name, each business involved could be looking at costs of $700 or more.
Businesses on Northeast Campus Court aren’t happy their street was renamed Northeast Cherry Drive by the Hillsboro City Council July 16.
“It would take us tons of ex-penses to reestablish our-selves to clients and suppli-ers when we are already an established company,” said Lesli Owens, assistant con-troller at Forest Dental Prod-ucts, Inc. at 6200 N.E. Campus Court.
Representatives from the dental supply company were the only ones to speak against the change at the council meeting, and Dan Dias, Hills-boro’s planning supervisor, said the city hasn’t heard from any business since.
City officials see the change as a way to minimize confusion, said Dias. On a map, Northeast Campus Court appears to be an exten-sion of Northeast Cherry Drive. To the west of North-west 231st Ave. is Northeast Campus Court, and just one
By JIM REDDENThe Hillsboro Tribune
The Hillsboro Parks and Recreation Commission Tuesday morning approved moving forward with a de-sign process for an urban plaza adjacent to the Oren-co MAX station.
The plan includes keeping two of three oak trees in the area and bulldozing a third.
One of the trees is consid-
ered to be too unhealthy to survive the project safely. The commission’s decision came after some confusion over the condition of another tree — an expert had originally declared it posed a safety risk, but later said the test results were in er-ror and the tree is actually healthy.
The proposed plaza is part of a larger plan by Holland De-velopment to build a new mixed-use community in the Orenco Station area. The com-pany is donating two parcels to the city as part of the proj-ect.
One is a four-acre tract at Cornelius Pass Road and 231st Avenue. The other is a half-acre parcel to be acquired
from TriMet just north of the MAX station.
That parcel includes three large oak trees. They are grouped together at the north-east corner of the station. Ar-borists have said the northern one shows sign of root prob-lems and should be taken down. The southern one is considered healthy and should be retained. The commission agreed with both recommen-dations.
The eastern one, which is the largest, has been the sub-ject of several tests. A recent test conducted with high-tech equipment by N.W. Tree Spe-cialists found the tree was un-healthy and posed a risk to public safety. But then the
company realized the results were wrong because of inac-curate equipment settings. Re-vised results found the tree healthy. The commission rec-ommended it be retained in the plaza.
Holland Development has agreed to fund whatever de-sign the city approves. A pub-lic forum has been scheduled for 6 p.m. Aug. 19 at Sonrise Church, 6701 N.E. Campus Way, located near the pro-posed plaza.
The planned development is termed the Platform District. In addition to the plaza and park, it will include three new mixed-use buildings. Con-struction is expected to start this fall.
Urban plaza design means getting an unhealthy oak out of the way
Commission says one Orenco tree must go
HIllSBoRo TRIBuNE PHoTo: cHASE AllGooD
The Hillsboro Parks and Recreation commission decided Tuesday that two of three oak trees adjacent to the orenco MAX station will be saved in the new public plaza. The northernmost one is unhealthy and must come down, though.
See NAME / Page A9
By STEPHANIE HAuGENThe Hillsboro Tribune
More than 100,000 people braved the heat and crowds last week and headed to the Washington County Fair Complex in Hillsboro.
Annual attractions such as the draft horse show, tractor pull, demoli-tion derby and Saturday night live-stock auction drew plenty of people to the late-July event. Newer attrac-tions like The Olate Dogs, the 2012 America’s Got Talent winners, gath-ered gawkers throughout the fair’s four-day run with their trick-per-forming pack of show dogs, said Leah Perkins-Hagele, fair complex manag-er.
Although attendance dropped by 9 percent from last year, animal exhib-its and competitions went smoothly even as jets roared over the airport across the street during the Oregon International Air Show.
One 4-H volunteer who asked not to be identified said the Monster Truck Show at the fair on Saturday night disturbed the horses more than the air show.
“The planes and fireworks add to the festivities. The Monster Trucks are just too loud,” said the volunteer.
Although the small animal barn didn’t host the usual chickens and rabbits, all barns were full of horses, cows, pigs, goats — and even alpacas.
Kids wandered starry-eyed through aisles of carnival games and animal shows, and flocked to the demonstration gardens — near the land products tent where the first an-nual scarecrow contest entries were displayed — for the chance to partici-pate in a scavenger hunt and pull up a carrot.
Jim Redden contributed to this story.
■ Animals, demolition derby draw county crowd
A Fairly gOOd show
HIllSBoRo TRIBuNE PHoTo: STEPHANIE HAuGEN
First year FFA member Brittany Prouty, 15, of Hillsboro showed her cows Mary Ellen (back) and Andrea (foreground) at the fair last weekend. Andrea won first place in the commercial class. “People are like family here. There’s always someone here helping me and making sure I’m ready,” Prouty said.
HIllSBoRo TRIBuNE PHoTo: cHASE AllGooD
Stunt pilot Jacquie Warda leaves smoke trails as she pilots her Extra 300 plane during the oregon International Air Show.
Traffic concerns keep some away from airport
Air show has smooth landing
See SHoW / Page A2
A2 NEWS The Hillsboro Tribune Friday, August 2, 2013
By NANCY TOWNSLEYThe Hillsboro Tribune
Three missing Aloha-area teens are back home after searches by the Washington County Sheriff’s Offi ce.
Sheriff ’s deputies were called to the 18800 block of Southwest Mobile Lane in Alo-ha on Friday, July 26, after sis-ters Catlin and Harlie Screws were reported missing. Catlin Screws, 15, was listed as a run-away; Harlie Screws, 18, is an adult.
Detectives were concerned
the sisters might be in the com-pany of two older men, accord-ing to a sheriff’s offi ce press release. But on July 28, both young women returned home, and their father arrived from Texas to take custody of them.
Meanwhile, at 11:30 p.m. July 26, deputies were notifi ed that 14-year-old Shai Jackson, 7330
S.W. 204th Ave. in Aloha, was missing. His father re-ported he’d last seen Shai, a developmen-tally-disabled yo u t h , a t home around 3 p.m.
Deputies notified business owners in the surrounding ar-ea and TriMet to be on the lookout for Shai and patrolled the area throughout the day. He was located at Patti’s Res-taurant on Southwest Yamhill Street in Portland around 4:30 p.m. Saturday, July 27, and re-leased to his father.
the perceptions of problems that didn’t happen,” said Leah Perkins-Hagele, director of the Washington County Fair Com-plex.
Air show spokesman Steve Callaway said the cancellation of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels may have undermined its at-tendance. The popular aero-batic team was forced to drop out because of federal budget cuts.
“It’s one thing to have never announced the Blue Angels. It’s another thing to have them and lose them. It’s more disappointing,” said Callaway.
According to Perkins-Hagele, the turnstile count at the fair was 100,096 people over its four-day run. That’s 9 percent less than last year, the fi rst drop since 2008.
Callaway said atten-dance at the air show was around 60,000 visitors over three days. The Friday show, which features a fi reworks dis-play, was the most popular day with 21,340 people in attendance. Saturday drew 19,425 and Sunday stands at about 17,000, a number that’s likely to in-
crease when all tickets are counted.
This year’s show was head-lined by the Patriots Jet Team, which has drawn around 75,000 visitors in the past, Cal-laway said.
Zack McDowall attended his fi rst Oregon International Air Show on Sunday. Munching on a sugary treat a full two hours before the show was set to be-gin, Zack said he was excited about “seeing all the different kinds of airplanes” that would be fl ying and on display at the
Hillsboro Airport.Zack was accompanied on
his walk through the displays by Steven Friese, a family friend. For Friese, 64, it was the 10th time he’d come to a show. A pilot with a small plane at the Scappoose Air-port, Friese said he keeps re-turning because, “They always put on a good show.” Although Freise was disappointed the U.S. Navy Blue Angels had cancelled because of federal budget cuts, he was still look-ing forward to other perform-ers. “I’m just interested in planes,” he explained.
Leo Lotito, a traffi c offi cer
with the Bend Police Depart-ment, agrees traffic was not particularly bad over the weekend. Lotito and three oth-er Bend traffi c offi cers came over Thursday to help man control stops at intersections and patrol around the airport. Lotito said the visit was part of a regular exchange with the Hillsboro Police Department, which sends traffi c offi cers to Bend to help out with the an-nual Bicycle Classic road race held around there.
“Hillsboro really knows what it’s doing. They’ve got the situation well under con-trol,” said Lotito.
Show: Bend offi cers help with traffi c control■ From page A1
Three missing Aloha teens found safeScrews sisters, Shai Jackson all home after sheriff’s offi ce searches
Harlie and Catlin Screws of Aloha were found safe last Sunday.COURTESY PHOTO
SHAI JACKSON
HILLSBORO TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHASE ALLGOOD
Mike Wiskus loops in his Lucas Oil Pitts plane during last weekend’s air show at the Hillsboro Airport.
“Hillsboro really knows what it’s doing. They’ve got the situation well under control.”
— Leo Lotito, Bend Police Department
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By JIM REDDENThe Hillsboro Tribune
Tiffany Burkey learned the importance of volunteerism early on. As a single mother working a minimum wage job, she was dependent on the Oregon Food Bank and other volunteer-supported organi-zations to help make ends meet.
“When you’re pinching pen-nies to pay the rent, a box of food really helps,” said Burkey.
Now, after slowly working her way into a project management job at Intel, Burkey is one of the most active employees in the company’s matching grant pro-gram. When employees volun-teer at qualified schools and nonprofi t organizations, the In-tel Foundation “matches” $10 per hour as grants after a mini-mum of 20 hours.
Burkey volunteered at a num-ber of locations last year, includ-ing Mooberry Elementary, a Ti-tle I school in Hillsboro, which received a grant of more than $8,300 from the foundation.
“I believe in giving back to the community, both the local and global community,” said Burkey, who also volunteered at organi-zations ranging from Volunteers of America to Meals on Wheels.
Thanks to volunteers like Bur-key, company employees gener-ated nearly $355,000 for Hillsboro schools and nonprofi t organiza-tions through the Intel Involved Matching Grant program in 2012. Statewide last year, Intel employees volunteered more than 300,000 hours, earning $2 million dollars in matching grants from the Intel Founda-tion.
Back when she was in need, Burkey had no idea she’d wind up working for a large company like Intel. She took practically every job she could fi nd, includ-ing working on a farm, at a gas station and at a restaurant at the Portland International Airport. She fi nally found herself work-ing for a company that sold com-puter hardware and software applications. It was bought by a bigger company, which gave her more exposure to the high tech world.
When she saw an online job posting at Intel in 2000, Burkey sent in her application and was hired. She now manages a lab and programs on the Jones Farm campus in Hillsboro.
Burkey was quickly drawn to the volunteer program, becom-ing involved in her second year at Intel and eventually chairing the committee that coordinates the program for employees at the Jones Farm campus. For her, the rewards of volunteering are immediate, whether it is helping the environment or seeing stu-dents becoming more proud of their school.
“Ultimately, the Intel Involved Matching Grant Program is the number-one benefi t Intel offers to me,” said Burkey, who is now 42 and has two sons.
Although the program has evolved over the years, Intel fi rst began providing monetary matches for hours volunteered in 1995. The foundation caps its grants at $10,000 for each eligible nonprofi t organization per year and $15,000 for each eligible school per year.
Despite the limitations, grant funds were widely distributed in Hillsboro last year. For example, more than 15,000 volunteer hours were spent at local schools
and educational organizations, generating $145,000 in grants.
Specifi c grants include: ■ Hillsboro Parks and Recre-
ation received $19,710 from pro-gram volunteers and $8,400 from maintenance volunteers.
■ The Jackson Bottom Wet-lands Preserve received $5,610 from Tualatin River watershed management volunteers.
■ The Hillsboro Senior Center received a $4,125 grant from vol-unteers who helped prepare and serve meals.
■ Hillsboro’s Community Emergency Response program received a $1,575 grant from the time the volunteers logged.
■ Century High School re-ceived a $15,000 matching grant, with its boys basketball, girls la-crosse and band, speech and de-bate teams receiving additional funding.
■ Hillsboro High School and its technology department re-ceived a $5,750 grant.
■ Home Plate Youth Services received a $10,000 grant.
■ The Hillsboro Soccer Club received a $10,000 grant.
■ The 4-H Youth Oregon State Extension Service received a $8,850 grant.
■ The Oregon International Air Show received a $9,470 grant.
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Talk about bad timing. The Joint Water Commission discovered that a main water transmission line into Hillsboro was leaking on Tuesday, July 23. It was buried along Northwest Evergreen Road between 273rd Avenue and Sewell Road — a major route to the Washington County Fair and 2013 Oregon International Air Show, which started just a few days later. But the line is so important it had to be fi xed right away anyway. Two of the four lanes on Evergreen had to be closed while workers dug down 20 feet to reach it. They replaced a leaky valve used to help maintain the 66-inch pipe. Repairs were not completed until 8 p.m. Saturday. But the road was repaved and reopened in time for the fi nal day of the fair and air show.
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A legislatively-mandated performance audit of TriMet is bound to fi nd problems with the regional transit agency.
That’s because a comprehensive audit of any organization as complex as TriMet is almost cer-tain to uncover ineffi ciencies, management missteps, work force concerns and instances of customer dis-satisfaction. Residents of Hillsboro and other com-
munities around the region should not be surprised, after the audit results are released in a few months, to discover
there is room for improvement at TriMet. The ques-tion they should be asking, though, is whether Tri-Met has strategies in place to address the issues that emerge.
This top-to-bottom audit of TriMet was ordered by the Legislature, on a near-unanimous vote, toward the end of the 2013 legislative session. Freshman Rep. Chris Gorsek (D-Troutdale), sponsored House Bill 3316 because of his concerns about TriMet’s ser-vice and practices. Gorsek earlier in the session had unsuccessfully sought to change the way the TriMet board is selected. (It will remain appointed by the governor.)
The performance audit will be conducted by the Oregon secretary of state’s Audits Division — led by Gary Blackmer, the former city of Portland auditor — and is supposed to cover operations, fi nances, gov-erning structure and the openness or transparency of TriMet’s decisions. Although the requirement for this audit was born of politics, the audit itself should not be viewed as a political tool to either protect or eviscerate TriMet and its management or employees.
TriMet already is a ripe target for critics of all po-litical persuasions. It has been locked in a very pub-lic battle with the union representing transit work-ers over issues such as health care costs. It has been criticized in other quarters for investing too heavily in light rail at the expense of bus service. Suburban residents complain of insuffi cient transit service in their communities. Safety on the system is an ongo-ing concern.
Perhaps the secretary of state’s audit can be con-structive in helping to identify not only problems, but also possible ways to address them. TriMet Gen-eral Manager Neil McFarlane said he hopes that is exactly what comes from the audit. McFarlane, who said the agency welcomes this audit along with other outside audits that already occur, also hopes to see a validation of TriMet’s fi nancial forecasts. Those pro-jections have led to the current showdown with the union over the sustainability of an extraordinarily generous health care plan.
Beyond fi nancial matters, we believe auditors also can increase public understanding by making it clear that TriMet alone is not responsible for many of the controversies surrounding it.
TriMet delivers this region’s transit service, but a host of other decision-makers help determine how the agency spends its money and when and where it expands. The Metro regional government does the long-range transit planning. The federal and state transportation departments provide (or infl uence) the money for system expansions. Cities and coun-ties within the TriMet service area have a hand in everything from transit safety to long-term planning.
To take one example, Metro is examining the southwest corridor to make a recommendation on whether light rail or bus rapid transit should serve the Tigard area. Whichever option Metro chooses will be based on input it has received from the com-munity, as well as information about operating costs and capital funding. Yet, when that recommendation ultimately is implemented by TriMet, it will be the transit agency — not the other parties involved to date — that will come under public scrutiny for its actions.
Any audit of TriMet must take this larger context into consideration. TriMet deserves some of the criti-cism it receives, but, in the end, most of the agency’s major decisions are infl uenced by outside forces. One of the problems TriMet faces is the ongoing disagree-ment among Portland-area residents about what the region’s transit future should be. That disagreement will never go away, which means TriMet will remain a focal point of controversy — audit or not.
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Sometimes in the Legislature it’s hard to know how to feel. When we fail to pass a “No cuts” schools budget, even though we
invested record dollars into our K-12 system, do you cheer or do you scratch your head? When we create new pro-grams to create jobs throughout the state that still will leave too many strug-gling to make ends meet, do you pump your fi sts and say “job well done” or do you just shrug your shoulders?
I don’t know how you’re supposed to feel after your fi rst session as a legisla-tor, but I can tell you I feel determined.
I’m determined to keep going, and do better. We haven’t fi nished the job, but we’re going in the right direction — and I’m optimistic we’ll get there.
After months of trying, an effort to create a $7 billion K-12 schools budget failed on the Senate fl oor. That means we’re still cutting 28 teachers in Hills-boro, and fi ve school days.
Those cuts made me vote “No” on the education budget, because it’s not enough. I kept working to make it better, and we’re making some progress. I en-couraged fellow legislators and leaders in Washington County and Hillsboro to use parts of the local government pro-gram called “Gain Share” to direct an additional $10 million to Washington County schools. This agreement will save teachers and school days.
Near the end of the session we passed a bill that will give school districts more fl exibility and autonomy with the money they receive through their education services districts, clearing the way for more precious resources to be directed straight to more teachers and days. An-
other small step.My goal was to make our schools bet-
ter. I believe they’re better off now than they were. I wish I could declare a great-er victory, but we haven’t solved our problems yet. Real progress will take nose to the grindstone work. We’ll keep working.
Fighting for our schools was job num-ber one, and our work there is incom-plete. So is the work on my other priori-ty: creating jobs especially by promoting our rural and agricultural economies.
We did have clear victories on this front. I co-sponsored and championed bills that will help our rural and agricul-tural economy. My fi rst-ever bill to re-ceive the governor’s signature was one that will expand the customer base for farmers by allowing more people to use their state food benefi ts at the market. This bill is important because Congress can’t pass the Farm Bill, which means we need to create our own local authori-ty for Oregon farmers.
Just this past week, we passed the “aggie bond” bill that will make it easier for startup and expanding farmers to get the loans they need. This will be a huge help in the capital-intensive world of startup farming. We also expanded the “farm to schools” program, and fully funded Oregon State’s extension servic-
es, which provide farmers and ranchers with critical technical assistance and in-novative research solutions for the com-plex problems they face.
These are all very positive steps, but it’s not as if the economic plates shifted and every person looking suddenly has a job, but that is the goal. Moving for-ward, we have to think bigger about how we use our unique Oregon advan-tages of land, water and resources to create a vibrant rural economy that complements our growing industrial
base — especially in Washington County.
I’ve learned a lot, made some progress, and I leave my fi rst ses-sion determined to do better. There were too many good ideas and proposals left on the ta-ble. There were cuts to classrooms we couldn’t afford. But there was more than a glimmer of hope that we can work together, and I’d love for you to work with me. Email me about your solutions and
It is my greatest honor to serve as the representative for all the good people of western Washington County. Let’s keep making this place better together.
State Rep. Ben Unger represents the 29th Legis-lative District, which includes parts of Hills-boro and Forest Grove, in the Oregon House of Representatives.
Washington County has in-vested more heavily in its roads than most of its peers — and the result has
been a level of economic development that hasn’t been duplicated elsewhere in the state.
In the coming months, county com-missioners will consider whether to en-act a $22-per-year vehicle registration fee that also would be dedicated to roads. We believe the fee is justifi ed and would be accepted by the public if com-missioners are able to link it clearly to economic development and livability.
The Oregon Legislature opened the door to a local registration fee in 2009, when it gave large counties the authori-ty to levy such a fee in addition to the state’s existing vehicle-registration fee. So far, only Multnomah County has walked through that door. It established
a local fee for the purpose of replacing the Sellwood Bridge. Clackamas County tried to follow suit, but its proposal — al-so targeted for the Sellwood Bridge — was shot down by citizens who referred it to the ballot.
Washington County’s fee has advan-tages over the fees that were proposed or adopted in its neighboring counties. In this county, the fee would not be dedi-cated to a solitary bridge, but would benefi t road maintenance projects throughout the county. Under the cur-rent proposal, 60 percent of the money raised would go to the county and the other 40 percent would be distributed to cities.
Commissioners now are testing the
concept with the public. A scientifi c poll will be conducted by DHM Research, and an online survey is available on the county website. County residents, we believe, are likely to support the fee if they are convinced that it will be used only for transportation, as is required by law.
We don’t necessarily see the need for a public vote on a fee of minimal size, but the input the county receives from the public will go a long way toward de-termining if such a vote is advisable. Members of the public can participate easily in this decision by signing up for the Westside Voices surveys at joinwest-sidevoices.org.
These surveys give residents a chance to infl uence many important decisions — including the matter of whether they want to pay a little more to register ve-hicles in return for better roads.
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I’ve learned a lot, made some progress, and I leave my fi rst session determined to do better.
The Hillsboro Tribune Friday, August 2, 2013 NEWS A7
JULY 18
■ A bike was stolen from the 1100 block of N.E. Park Edge Circle from a garage.
■ In the 2800 block of S.E. River Road, a two-year-old sus-tained head and arm injuries after a neighbor backed over the child. The child was trans-ported to OHSU by ambulance with serious injuries.
■ Items were stolen from an unlocked vehicle in the 300 block of S.W. 185th Avenue.
JULY 19
■ Freshly poured concrete near the intersection of N.E. Thomas Street and N.E. 21st Avenue was written in. Offi cers have potential suspect informa-tion and patrol offi cers are con-ducting follow-up.
■ There were traffic acci-dents in the 5900 block of N.W. Brookwood Park and near the intersection of S.E. 13th Ave-nue and S.E. Tualatin Valley Highway.
JULY 20
■ A fence and a utility box were tagged.
■ A 22-year-old man was caught stealing sunglasses and
cologne in the 7300 block of N.E. Butler Street.
■ A wallet was stolen from an unattended purse in the 18000 block of N.W. Ever-
green Road.
JULY 21
■ A customer tried to pay
with a counterfeit $10 bill at Hanks Thriftway in the 600 block of S.E. Baseline Street.
■ A PGE box near the inter-section of 18th Avenue and
Main Street was tagged. ■ A window was broken out
of a vehicle parked in the 3200 block of N.E. fi rst Avenue, but nothing was stolen.
■ A fence was tagged in the 600 block of N.E. Second Ave-nue.
■ A vehicle was damaged in the Home Depot parking lot af-ter being involved in a hit-and-run.
JULY 22
■ A gas-powered lawn edger was stolen from the 2500 block of S.E. River Road.
■ A woman reported graffi ti in her apartment complex in the 200 block of S.E. 12th Avenue.
■ A leaf blower was stolen from the 400 block of S.W. Oak Street.
JULY 23
■ Graffi ti was found in the 300 block of S.E. 39th Avenue and the 3900 block of S.E. Cedar Street.
■ A lawnmower was stolen from the 400 block of N.W. Freeman Avenue.
■ Gas was stolen from a ve-hicle in the 100 block of S.E. 39th Avenue.
■ A man was arrested at the
movie theater in the 2600 block of N.W. 188th Avenue after a disturbance broke out. One of the participants in the distur-bance resisted arrest and re-mained uncooperative.
JULY 24
■ In the 200 block of S.E. Ma-ple Street, a wallet, radar de-tector and medical marijuana card was stolen from an un-locked vehicle.
■ In the 200 block of N.E. Do-nelson Street, an unknown sus-pect tried to gain personal and banking information from a victim over the phone. The vic-tim refused to give out the in-formation.
■ A dance studio in the 29500 block of S.W. Cornelius Pass Road was broken into.
JULY 25
■ There was a burglary in the 5700 block of N.E. Orenco Gardens Drive. A homeowner reported that items were miss-ing from his garage after he returned to the country after a year.
■ In the 2100 block of N.E. Poynter Street, a package that was stolen several weeks ago was reported.
Louie set out to scapegoat the E-Team to resolve complaints voiced by rank-and-file offi-cers.
In the complaint, Rademach-er says he was fi rst hired by the department as an offi cer in 1985 and has worked there for 28 years. He is the third most-senior member of the depart-ment, having been promoted to corporal in 1997, sergeant in 2001, lieutenant in 2008 and commander in 2011. Radem-acher says he has never been the subject of an internal af-fairs investigation and has on-ly received a written repri-mand for losing a flashlight and a counseling memo for a traffi c accident in the 1990s.
Rademacher said he also helped department employees come to grips with the shock-ing January 2013 incident in which off-duty Officer Tim Cannon held his family hos-tage and exchanged gunfire with police at his Forest Grove home. Cannon is facing at-tempted aggravated murder and other changes.
“During and after that inci-dent all of Command Staff helped to work and lead our employees, help them heal and try to understand what had oc-curred,” Rademacher wrote.
‘Additional heads would roll’ Sullivan’s tenure as chief
was marked by labor problems caused, in part, by his aloof leadership style, offi cers have said. Rademacher writes that many employees were glad to see him go. However, after Louie’s appointment as inter-im chief, rumors started swirl-ing that “additional heads would roll.”
Rademacher originally thought Louie was allowing such comments at briefings and other meetings “to serve as a venting process for em-
ployees.” But he eventually came to believe that Louie was planning to replace him and other members of the E-Team.
Rademacher’s suspicions jelled after Louie drafted an employee survey on morale and other issues. According to Rademacher, the E-Team was not originally invited to take it.
“Chief Louie seemed to be focused on the health of every-one in the organization but his command staff, which was dis-appointing. We had to remind him that his Executive Team was also experiencing many of those same feelings and con-cerns under the leadership of Chief Sullivan,” Rademacher wrote.
The E-Team was then al-lowed to take the survey, which found low morale within the department. One-word re-sponses included such words as “discouraged,” “unsupport-ed,” “toxic” and “disconnect-ed.”
After the results came in, Rademacher notes that Louie seemed to meet with everyone except members of the E-Team to learn their concerns.
“While this gave a percep-tion that Chief Louie was the good guy coming to rescue the police department, I believe that this has a continuing neg-ative effect with the [remain-der] of the E-Team and is fur-ther straining relations,” Rademacher wrote.
When Louie discussed the feedback he was receiving from the E-Team, Rademacher said he was taking every com-ment as gospel. When E-Team members were criticized, they were not given opportunities to explain themselves, he wrote.
“As time progressed and Chief Louie continued his group meetings, we as an E-team asked when we can [clar-ify] or defend some of the ques-tions and accusations being directed at the Executive Team, either as a group or indi-
vidual issues being mentioned, even in the absence of Chief Sullivan.
“Chief Louie’s response and direction was that the depart-ment was angry and grieving and the members of the Execu-tive Team just need to basical-ly suck it up and serve as that venting mechanism for the or-ganization,” Rademacher wrote.
Lost his temperAfter months of escalating
tension, things came to a head for Rademacher at a May 6 E-Team meeting. According to the complaint, Louie came into the room after meeting with the investigations unit. Louie was clearly upset, Rademach-er wrote, and soon lost his temper.
“He was yelling at all of us stating we all had no account-ability or credibility. I believe he used mild obscenities, words similar to ‘goddamn,’ ‘damn’ or ‘pissed off,’ but I don’t recall for sure. Chief Lou-ie not only [expressed] his an-ger and rage with words, but also tone of voice, body lan-guage, facial expressions and posture,” wrote Rademacher, who said other employees in the office must have heard Louie’s tirade.
Like other E-Team meet-ings, notes on this one were being taken by Bolek. Accord-ing to Rademacher, Louie re-lieved her of her duties with the Records Division and Pro-fessional Standards Unit, then ordered her to stop taking notes from the meeting. Bolek began to cry, Rademacher wrote, because she did not un-derstand what she had done wrong.
Rademacher says he had lost all respect for Louie by then and walked out of the room. But he was ordered to return by Louie, who, Radem-acher writes, told him he had less than 10 percent credibility.
Rademacher felt he had no choice but to resign.
“At that point and time I had enough of Chief Louie’s lack of credibility, professionalism, hostile and unfair treatment and had no option but to re-move my Commander badge from my uniform shirt and told Chief Louie he could have my Commander badge and that I was now a Lieutenant and walked to the door to exit the room,” Rademacher wrote.
Rademacher says he then requested a meeting with City Manager Michael Brown, As-sistant City Manager Steve Greagor and Human Resourc-es Director Robby Hammond. He told them about Louie’s be-havior at the E-team meeting, saying it was unprofessional and alarming.
Afterward, Rademacher be-gan to suspect Louie intention-ally behaved badly at the meeting to provoke him and possibly other E-Team mem-bers to step down.
Confi dential memoBoth Rademacher and Bolek
then fi led complaints against Louie, which were investigated by the city. The investigations confirmed Rademacher’s de-
scription of Louie’s behavior at the meeting.
On June 11, Hammond wrote Bolek a confi dential memo say-ing Louie had violated the city’s anti-harassment policy. She was notifi ed that her job assign-ments had not been changed.
Rademacher received a simi-lar memo June 19. By then an-other commander, John
Schmerber, had also stepped down. Louie replaced both of them shortly before he re-signed.
Deputy Chief Mark Bonnett is running the department un-til a new chief is chosen. Gre-agor, a former police offi cer, is overseeing it.
The city settled the labor disputes before Louie left.
Police: City investigation corroborates complaint■ From page A1
POLICELOG
At about 5:40 a.m. Satur-day, July 27, Hillsboro po-lice offi cers responded to a call to Wat’z Up Music on East Main Street in downtown Hillsboro.
According to Lt. Mike Rouches, police believe two men smashed the glass front door of the business and stole guitars and accordions.
Business owner Ken Scan-dlyn said six or seven gui-tars and three accordions were stolen. Scandlyn and his wife have owned and op-erated their store for 24 years and they have never had an incident like this, he said.
A 61-year-old male wit-ness setting up for the Satur-day farmer’s market de-
scribed the suspects as two Hispanic males of medium build and about five-foot-eight in height.
The suspects allegedly ran from the store front to Third Avenue, where the got into a green 1990s BMW sedan and
sped away. Police attempted a canine
track but were unsuccessful. Investigators are asking
people to call 503-681-6175 with any information.
— Stephanie Haugen
Music store burglarizedThe front of downtown Wat’z Up Music was smashed last Saturday, and several musical instruments were stolen. COURTESY PHOTO: KEN SCANDLYN
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A8 NEWS The Hillsboro Tribune Friday, August 2, 2013
By KATHLEEN ROHDEThe Hillsboro Tribune
An initiative to encourage youth to discover their skills in art animation, computer programing and design has been a rousing success this summer in Portland, but its creator says he’s looking to expand to Washington Coun-ty in the future.
Game Education PDX, an ini-tiative led by Pixel Arts Game Education, let 39 students — the three from Hillsboro included Gavin and Hunter Proctor and Rebecca Dan — mix and match their interests in game develop-ment expertise through 14 hands-on learning modules at a camp July 27 and 28.
“We make an environment supporting exploration,” said Will Lewis, Pixel Arts Game Education co-director and co-founder. “Our goal is to get ev-eryone exploring.”
One girl who attended the camp was, at fi rst, overwhelmed by the idea of making an anima-tion scene, said Lewis. The art and animation track of the camp taught her the basics step-by-step. She made a ball bounce,
said Lewis, and by the end of the camp she had an animated person walking.
A friend of Lewis’s built a game that was intentionally too hard for the students to beat. A character would encounter a troll and it would “kill” their character with one swipe, said Lewis. The students were able to go into the code of the game and modify the numbers, ob-serving exactly how their
changes affected the game by editing it and rerunning the program. They would make rooms to go through that would give their character more “strength” before encountering the troll, said Lewis.
The game camp was the fi rst of its kind, but for Game Educa-tion PDX, the goals extend past the weekend.
“At a lot of our public school systems we don’t see much
about digital literacy,” Lewis said. He explained digital litera-cy as being able to use the Inter-net and the basics of a comput-er. Lewis said those basic skills combined with the ease to fi nd information on the web allows their students to “teach them-selves to teach themselves.”
To lower the barriers to ac-cess, the program is looking to locally implement art design tools and software in local li-
braries. They also want to host support workshops, classes and meetings to continue learning digital literacy.
“We hope to inspire a do-it-yourself attitude,” said Lewis.
The camp was a way for pro-gram organizers to fi nd what the needs are and where the in-terests lay. Students completed surveys about self-motivation and understanding before and after the camp. Lewis said the
numbers haven’t been crunched yet, but he thinks the portfolios each student created show the level of skill gained through the camp.
“A nine-year-old told me at the end ‘I’m all about coding!’ It was great to see him so com-fortable,” said Lewis.
In the future, the program will guide youths in a 48-hour game creation competition in late September and plans are in the works for a fi ve-day pilot of a similar camp in December at Rockwood Library in Portland.
“At the end, students were able to work independently,” said Lewis. “Based on the skill levels of the kids, we are confi -dent they learned a lot.”
By VICTORIA HARTThe Hillsboro Tribune
Shake, rattle and roll to Beyond 50 Radio while your dog leaps and bounds through an
agility course Saturday, Aug. 3, at Lincoln Park in Forest Grove.
Dog owners and non-own-ers from across the Metro area are invited to peruse booths, watch demonstra-tions and take a short jaunt for charity be-hind the skate park at the fi rst annual Paws in the Grove, a dog-gie dash and canine fair.
Daniel Da-vis of Beyond 50 Radio will emcee the event, where highlights
will include an agility-course demonstration by members of the Columbia Agility Team — and a chance to let your own dog try the course when they’re done.
Wild Child Pet fashions will
trot the runway, the dogs of K9 Nose Work will demonstrate their sniffi ng skills, and Bark-zone will test and evaluate your dog’s temperament.
Additional demonstrations will join specialty food booths and 40 canine healthcare, day-care and service providers.
“When I do things, I like to do things in a big way,” said Cheri Burghardt, founder and event coordinator.
Jing Qi Shen, Burghardt’s 16-pound standard shitsu, made his modeling debut as a Paws in the Grove spokesdog just six months after joining her family. Cheri and Michael Burghardt adopted Jing Qi Shen — “Body Mind Spirit” in Chinese — from Bonnie Hays Animal Shelter in Hillsboro last January and dove into local dog culture.
Cheri, 55, decided to orga-nize Forest Grove’s fi rst doggie dash two months ago.
“I want it to be a great expe-rience for everybody — the whole community, whether you have a dog or not,” she said.
Participants can check out resource and vendor booths at no charge, or donate $15 to walk or run the one- or two-mile tracks.
Donations support the For-est Grove Senior and Commu-nity Center, which relies on donations for 80 percent of its funds, Michael said.
Sponsors have already com-mitted more $1,150, Cheri said, plus giveaway items for raffl e prizes. She’s also signed up 16 volunteers and 35 participants, but she hopes for more of both before race day.
“My goal is 75 runners and walkers this year,” she said. “In
two to three years, I want Paws in the Grove to be the biggest doggie dash in Washington County.”
Her daughter Michelle Todd, 31, updates the event’s Face-book page and monitors other online business while Cheri serves as event coordinator
and Michael sits on the com-munity center board. Jing Qi Shen has yet to be very helpful in planning, Cheri said, but he is a reminder of her purpose and the community Paws in the Grove will serve.
“Within the dog community, which is so popular here, there’s a huge compassion for animals,” Cheri said. “People are just so giving of themselves
— so selfl ess — in their care for an animal.”
Saturday’s Doggie Dash and Canine Fair goes all out for ‘man’s best friend’
‘Paws’ for a cause, dash for cashCheri Burghardt poses with her beloved pet Jing Qi Shen, the fi rst dog she and her husband, Michael (left), have ever owned. Mark Barrett (right) helped organize the event.COURTESY PHOTO: CHERI BURGHARDT
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The Hillsboro Tribune Friday, August 2, 2013 NEWS A9
By JIM REDDENThe Hillsboro Tribune
TriMet has unveiled the fi rst of 70 new diesel buses it will put into service this year.
The six 40-foot-long buses are part of an accelerated re-placement program approved by the TriMet board of direc-tors in 2012 to address the transit agency’s aging fleet, which has become less reliable and more expensive to main-tain over the years.
“One of my top priorities during my tenure is to reinvest in our system. Accelerating the bus purchase schedule fur-thers TriMet’s mission to pro-vide valued transit service that is safe, dependable and easy to use,” said TriMet General Manager Neil McFarlane.
The unveiling came days af-ter the state Employment Rela-tions Board upheld the labor contract requiring union em-ployees to pay more of their health care costs. The contract had been imposed by a state-appointed arbitrator in 2012 after negotiations between Tri-Met and Amalgamated Transit Union 757 broke down. Al-though ERB ordered TriMet not to collect back health care payments from the union members, the contract will re-main in effect until a new one is approved.
The ERB ruling means Tri-Met will not have to cut service or raise fares this year. McFar-lane said the agency will face a financial crisis within a few years if the union does not agree to additional health care concessions, however. Union leaders dispute that. Negotia-tions on the next contract are scheduled to begin in Septem-ber.
TriMet had delayed buying replacement buses for several years because of its fi nancial problems. As a result, some buses in the fl eet are more than 18 years old. The industry stan-dard is eight years. TriMet plans to meet that standard by 2016 — and to have replaced all older “high fl oor” buses with newer “low fl oor” ones that are
easier for the handicapped to access.
The new buses are referred to and numbered as the 3100-series. They are manufac-tured by Gillig, which is based in Hayward, Calif. The buses cost $413,000 each and will be distributed between two Tri-Met garages, Merlo Garage in Beaverton and Center Street Garage in Southeast Portland.
The new buses will replace buses that are highest on the retirement priority list.
TriMet will take delivery of three to fi ve buses per week from Gillig for roughly 18 weeks this summer and fall. It will take TriMet staff two weeks to get each bus ready for service, including securing the Oregon Department of Mo-tor Vehicles title, license and registration.
As part of the accelerated replacement program, TriMet purchased 51 new diesel and four new hybrid buses last year. The 70 buses to be pur-chased this year is the largest order in the program. TriMet will purchase 184 more buses over the next three years.
The new buses are being purchased with a mix of federal grants, general fund resources and payroll tax-backed revenue bond proceeds. The exact mix will depend on availability of federal grants, strength of pay-roll tax revenues and other bonding requirements.
In addition to the buses be-ing newer and less expensive to maintain, TriMet offi cials say they have several advantaged over most existing buses. Among other things, they get better mileage and have lower fl oors for easier boarding, stan-dard air conditioning, automat-ic stop announcements, easy-to-clean vinyl seats and interi-or surfaces, larger windows, improved windshield visibility for drivers, next-generation GPS dispatch and tracking sys-tems, and higher quality digital cameras, with better image quality, hard drives and im-proved positioning.
The drivetrain includes a 2013 EPA compliant Cummins diesel engine that features a low-emission package de-signed to reduce tailpipe emis-sions. It incorporates Selective Catalytic Reduction technolo-gy, which scrubs nitrogen ox-
ides and other hazardous par-ticulates from the exhaust. Like all TriMet buses, it runs on a mix of 5 percent biodiesel blend and 95 percent ultra-low sulfur diesel.
The transmission has a load-based shifting program that can tell when the bus is on a hill with a lot of riders, and shifts accordingly to match conditions. Testing has shown improved fuel economy.
Exterior features include a bright, easy-to-read LED over-head sign on the front of the bus, electric starters for quiet-er starts, automatic drop-down snow chains, brighter, energy-effi cient LED headlights with cornering lights and turning signal lights on the mirrors for safety.
The new buses also have an innovative cooling system that
was fi rst tested and later re-fi ned at TriMet that improves fuel effi ciency by 5 to 10 per-
cent. Already in use on many of TriMet’s other buses, it uses an electrified subsystem in-
stead of a hydraulic or me-chanical fan, so it draws less power off the engine.
block north and east, running parallel, is Northeast Campus Way.
“There are some confusing names in that area,” said Di-as.
But two other businesses on the soon-to-be Northeast Cherry Drive told the Hills-boro Tribune they are also d i s g r u n t l e d ab o u t t h e change’s potential financial fallout.
“The only thing we don’t like is the cost it’s going to take to reprint labels and business cards and such,” said Bill Swift, owner of Preci-sion Components Inc. at 6110 N.E. Campus Court. He esti-mates it will cost his company $700 to $1,000 dollars to do so.
Sheryl Meyer, an employee
at Gatewood, 6100 N.E. Cam-pus Court, worried that changing the address on let-terhead and the like is “going to be quite costly.”
Dias said the city does not financially compensate busi-nesses for the change, but that they try to make the tran-sition as smooth as possible.
For example, the street will
be double-signed with North-east Campus Court and North-east Cherry Drive starting Aug. 16 until the following year.
“This will allow residents and businesses to adjust,” said Dias.
An address manager will work with each business to coordinate with the post of-fice, he said.
“It’s a joint effort between the city, the post office and the business,” said Dias.
The post office will deliver mail to the businesses for the next year, whether the ad-dress is listed as Campus or Cherry.
So far, the potential posi-tives related to the change don’t seem clear to business owners.
“I don’t see any reason for the change,” said Swift.
Name: ‘Joint effort’ between city, post offi ce■ From page A1 “It would take us tons of
expenses to reestablish ourselves to clients and suppliers when we are already an established company.”
— Lesli Owens, assistant controller, Forest Dental Products, Inc.
TriMet rolls out changes to fl eet
New, improved buses to hit the road
Left, TriMet spokeswoman Mary Fetsch and training supervisor Ken Jenson demonstrate a new generation of “low fl oor” buses that are replacing the older, harder-to-enter ones.
Below, a new 3100-series bus is put through its paces at TriMet’s Powell Garage on Monday.PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP PHOTOS: JONATHAN HOUSE
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A10 NEWS The Hillsboro Tribune Friday, August 2, 2013
By KATHLEEN ROHDEThe Hillsboro Tribune
Without the volunteer drivers at Meals on Wheels, one elderly wom-an might have starved to death.
“If we don’t stay in the house and open the meal and sit with her, she won’t eat,” said Theresa Carter, manag-er of Forest Grove’s Meals on Wheels program.
The program offers nutri-tion and a familiar face to homebound seniors in Forest Grove or Cornelius.
But it depends on volun-teer drivers to deliver the meals, and right now it’s sev-en drivers short.
Each driver takes a set route or routes, Carter said, so they get to know the se-niors on their route: “It’s like having all kinds of grandmas and grandpas.”
Each route serves 10 to 12 people aged 60 or over and takes about two hours to cov-er. Seven routes, fi ve days a week, adds up to 35 slots for volunteers.
“Delivering meals is a proj-ect many parents do with their children to have their children learn what it’s like to give back to the community,” said Elly Ritchie, manager of Hillsboro’s Meals on Wheels program.
Ritchie currently has one parent-child pair delivering meals this summer. Unless a family homeschools, howev-er, “the trouble is when school starts. Then we need more drivers again,” she said.
With the driver shortage in Forest Grove, volunteer Bob Evans is busy every day.
Evans, 73, likes delivering, which he’s been doing since 2004. “It’s for me as much as it is for the seniors,” he said. “You get a lot of companion-ship from volunteering. You’re surrounded by good people.”
Evans has stories from ev-ery route, as he drives them all.
He had been delivering to two clients near Hagg Lake and helped them make a con-nection.
“I introduced them to one another and now they are dating!” Evans exclaimed.
He’s delivered to retired Pacifi c professor, a burn vic-tim, an alcoholic — and the list goes on. The drivers also hang out together after rounds, he said. They grab dinner and a movie together occasionally and Evans de-scribes them as a little family.
Evans’ dedication to Meals on Wheels goes beyond the wheel. He donated to the pro-gram by entering his car into a car show fundraiser on July 20. Every month, $30 is auto-matically deducted from his paycheck and goes straight to Meals on Wheels.
And while Meals on Wheels offers 40 cents per mile for drivers, Evans choos-es to pay out of his own pock-et.
“I’ll dig a little deeper into my wallet if I have to,” said Evans, who hopes new volun-teer drivers will join him soon.
“I don’t usually drive this often, but I’ve been driving every day and have been for several weeks,” he said. “We are always looking for more drivers.”
By KATHLEEN ROHDEThe Hillsboro Tribune
An automatic $85,000 fed-eral cut to The Meals on Wheels People didn’t hurt Hillsboro’s program be-cause counties and gener-ous donors made up the dif-ference, but fundraising seems to be a double-edged sword. While they were able to continue serving Washington, Clark and Multnomah counties this year, that consistency isn’t certain in the future.
“We are shooting ourselves in the foot. Our luck in fund-
raising is exactly what Repub-licans are going to point at and continue cutting,” said Julie Piper Finley, director of marketing and communica-tions for the Meals on Wheels People. “I can’t guarantee that we can raise that again. It was a huge struggle.”
The fundraising efforts this year were heightened because of the cuts.
Washington, Multnomah and Clark county donations brought the $85,000 gap down to $28,000. Private donations made up the rest.
“We are really good at beg-ging,” said Finley.
The program promotes healthy nutrition and ending hunger by providing meals to homebound seniors over 60 and their spouses or depen-dent, disabled adult children.
Meals on Wheels raised money by calling past sup-
porters, holding meetings with large corporations and hosting a Spring lunch-in. Fin-ley said the lunch, held in May, is their largest fundrais-ing event.
“When you explain to peo-ple ‘seniors will starve if you don’t help’ they are pretty generous,” said Finley.
Hillsboro has done its own fundraising too. The group made more than $9,000 by sell-ing Japanese maple trees do-nated by Fisher Farms. In Oc-tober they start another fund-raiser selling soap. The soap is donated from the Oregon Soap Company and the fund-raiser will run through De-cember.
“It’s not affected us directly yet,” said Elly Ritchie, Meals on Wheels center manager for Hillsboro, where the program serves about 140 lunches a day. “Our budget this year is
approximately the same.”But next year might not be
as smooth.“Not everyone is able to fun-
draise like that county did,” said Mike Morosi, communica-tions director for Congress-woman Suzanne Bonamici. “At some point these federal cuts will affect them.”
More cuts are coming, and Finley worries for each pro-gram in every county.
“To be honest, the govern-ment has said the cuts could be 5.5 percent of our funding. That’s $100,000,” said Finley. “I hope this is a one time deal. I can’t ask our donors for $85,000 or more every year.”
Hillsboro has eight routes that go from one side of the boundary to the other with 60 to 70 volunteers.
“This isn’t just a meal, but the human contact with hav-ing that meal,” said Bonamici, who has talked with volunteer drivers who’ve noticed se-niors in need of medical care. They’ve even found seniors who have fallen and can’t get up in their homes.
Bonamici is trying to repeal the sequestration cuts and re-authorize the Older American Act to protect seniors. “We should not be addressing the deficit by taking away food from those who are most vul-nerable,” she said. Automatic cuts due to sequestration will mean 7,000 fewer meals served in Clackamas and Columbia counties.
For every Meals on Wheels dollar, 86 cents goes toward purchasing food and the rest goes to administration, said Finley. Sixty-five percent of the budget is fundraised with-out government help. “We are very transparent with our fi -nances because we serve such a vulnerable population,” said Finley.
Ritchie said future cuts are looming, and in order to pre-pare, Hillsboro’s program has already cut back on mileage this year. The program has in-vested in one driver who deliv-ers meals for them every day.
“This is the best way I can put this. It’s like an earth-quake with all the ripples,” said Ritchie. “The ripples haven’t effected us yet, but they could. They might hit us next month or the month after that. We just don’t know yet.”
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Donations partially offset federal cuts, but more funding challenges loom
Meals for seniors face snag
HILLSBORO TRIBUNE PHOTO: CHASE ALLGOOD
Bob Evans (right) loads up every day in the Forest Grove Community and Senior Center parking lot with lunches to deliver to the homebound seniors on his Meals on Wheels route.
Joe Lovato Services have been held Joe
Jerry Lovato, 82, of Cornelius, who died Saturday, July 20, 2013.
He was born on May 7, 1931, in Walsenberg, Colo., one of nine children born to Cipriano and Sadie (Duran) Lovato. He
was raised and educated in Walsenburg.
He moved to Oregon in 1980. Survivors include his daugh-
ters, Wanda Diaz of Hillsboro and Vicki Weaver of Sacramen-to, Calif.; four grandchildren; and one great-grandchild.
Dave Richards Dave Richards, 72, of Hills-
boro, died Sunday, July 21, 2013.Services will be held. He moved to Oregon in 1966
and opened and managed Os-born & Ulland sporting goods
store. He worked as the accoun-tant executive for the last 20 years at Comcast.
He enjoyed growing grapes and making wine.
Survivors include his wife, Vicki; children, Chris Richards, Dawn Richards, Virginia Rich-ards-Davis, Shelly Costello, and Tracy Rugloski; and seven grandchildren.
The family suggests dona-tions in his name be made to the Hospice and Palliative Care of Washington County, 900 S.E. Oak St., Suite 202, Hillsboro, OR 97123.
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In 2004, a TriMet bus that was turning left struck and killed a man in a crosswalk.
The investigation that followed determined that the design of the bus itself was
partly to blame. The 8-inch windshield pillar was so wide that it effectively blocked
the operator’s vision during left-hand turns. For small stature operators, the risk
was even greater. Further analysis of accident statistics showed that the wide-pillar
buses were responsible for over 36% of all crosswalk accidents, even though that
model made up just over 10% of the TriMet fleet at the time.
SUBSEQUENTLY, the Union presented TriMet with videos, diagrams and expert witness testimony to demonstrate that this particular model of bus was inherently dangerous to pedestrians. The Union went on to request that TriMet provide special training to drivers, especially small stature drivers, so that morepeople would not be killed during left-hand turns. Lastly, the Union asked that those buses not be used on routes that had left-hand turns.
TRIMET IGNORED BOTH REQUESTS AND DID NOTHING TO FIX THE PROBLEM. Fast-forward eight years to 2012, when TriMet signed a contract for 365 new buses. Operators were horrified to learn that the windshield pillarof the new buses is even wider. As shown in thephotos on the left, a wide pillar like that on the new bus can “hide” as many as six adults, two children and a baby in a stroller – all at the same time! When the side mirror is added to that width, the
blind spot becomes enormous, especially for short stature operators.
While there is no question that TriMet needs new buses, it is unbelievable that the agency wouldcompromise public safety with such a significant purchase. What’s even more unbelievable is that each of these 365 buses is getting an $11,000 “nose job”.
That’s right. TriMet has decided to add a custom-fabricated “snoot” to each bus in order to match the look of the new Max trains. The expense alone seems questionable, but there’s more. The snoot further compromises safety by creating yet another visualobstruction near the windshield pillar.
At a time when TriMet is blaming workers’ benefitsfor its financial problems, the agency is spending over $4 million on cosmetic surgery for 365 new buses. It appears that TriMet not only has a blind spot on bus safety, but also has a blind-eye for prudent spending.
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By SHANNON O. WELLSPamplin Media Group
To say Janel Joseph-son sought to capture the essence of the Aloha-Reedville area
in her new illustrated book would be a stretch.
Truth is, the Portland-area native kind of fell into creating “Aloha-Reedville,” part of Ar-cadia Publishing’s “Images of America” series.
“This was kind of by acci-dent,” says Josephson, 60, an Aloha resident since 1998. “I didn’t set out to do a book. When I was working 40 hours a week, I was hard-pressed to see the insides of my eyelids I was working so hard. Once I wasn’t working that full-time job, I started looking for things out in my community.”
Josephson will be signing her book during First Friday on Aug. 2, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Beaverton Substation, 12448 S.W. Broadway St.; at the Tigard Costco, 7850 S.W. Dartmouth St., on Aug. 3; and at the Aloha Community Li-brary, 17683 S.E. Farmington Road, in conjunction with the Aloha Days event on Aug. 17.
She got involved in commu-nity and Neighborhood Asso-ciation Committee meetings in
Cedar Mill, which led her to the committee working on the Aloha-Reedville study, a three-year effort to address future growth, transportation and other quality-of-life issues.
Wanting to know more about the area whose future she was addressing sent her to the Washington County Mu-seum in Hillsboro and the Bea-verton Historical Society. The research reminded her of a job she had at a land title company while in high school.
“I couldn’t figure out why anybody would be interested in this land,” she says. “It got me thinking back to high school, how things were back then and how they are today.”
Inspired by Colleen Med-lock’s Arcadia book on Bea-verton pub-lished last August, Jo-sephson morphed from a dab-bling dilet-tante to the unoffi cial scribe of Alo-ha-Reedville’s history.
“It was one of those ‘jump into the deep end of the pool’ mo-ments,’” she says with a laugh. “The challenge was lining up pho-tographs and negotiating rights to use them for the book while being able to
tell enough of the story. You’re pretty limited on what you can write. The photo and the caption have to tell the story.”
Founding familiesThe book traces the area’s
evolution from the earliest known inhabitants, the North-ern Kalapuyan band — known as Tualatin, Faladin or Alafati — settling near the Tualatin River, to the Lewis & Clark Ex-pedition’s Northwestern explo-rations, to the gradual attrac-tion of European settlers by the mid-1800s, to the vast ex-panse of rich farmland.
With the Donation Land Claim Act of 1850, which desig-nated 320 acres of free land to unmarried white males 18 or older, the white population continued to crowd out natives as the encroaching Southern Pacific Railroad further in-creased the farmland’s value.
“Aloha and Reedville are near the geographical center of Washington County,” Jo-sephson observes. “For gener-ations it’s been a crossroads. This area has always been a center of transportation.”
Josephson found ample in-formation on prominent farm-ing families — Buck, Huber, Wheeler and Ladd among them — whose names and memories still reverberate in the area. Among her personal surprises were the connection of the Ladd family and Reed-ville’s namesake family to the development of Southeast Portland’s Reed College.
When Amanda Reed — the wife of family patriarch Sime-on Reed, who died in 1895 — passed away in 1904, her will
endowed a board of trustees to establish a Reed Institute. The college was established on Crystal Springs Farm land the Ladd family donated.
“When (Amanda Reed) died, she gave each of her heirs $25,000, which is a pretty signifi cant amount of money,” she says. “But she left so much more to charities.”
On a more personal level, Josephson, while researching real estate transactions in the Reed College archives, stum-bled upon ties to her own fam-ily tree.
“I mentioned to the histori-an that my great aunt gradu-ated from Reed in 1914,” she says. “She said, ‘What was her name?’ I told her. She walked about 20 feet, and there’s my great aunt’s thesis from 1914. That one still sends chills up and down my spine.”
Cooperative communityJosephson was further re-
minded of her childhood as she talked with Hazeldale resi-dents reminiscing about wheat threshers and early farming life in the Tualatin and Willa-mette river valleys.
“It was like listening to my mother’s family tell stories,” she says. “It was like, ‘Oh, I know where this one is going.’ When you sit and talk to older people and they start recol-lecting and coming alive with memories they hadn’t (dis-cussed) for years, they really started to enjoy themselves. People sharing their stories is that really special part of it.”
From clearing heavy timber and stumps to building a rail-road to establishing lasting
learning institutions, Joseph-son remains awed by the sheer gumption, perseverance and foresight it took just to survive and make a go of it from little more than soil, streams and vegetation.
“It’s hard to wrap your head around some of the people and the stuff they did,” she says.
“The railroad was financed with private money. What peo-ple would be able to accom-plish that today? People really cooperated together to get things accomplished. The gen-erosity, supporting of educa-tion and philanthropy — those themes really stood out to me.”
Author gets to heart of Washington County in Aloha-Reedville book
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Author Janel Josephson in the front yard of her Aloha home. Her book, “Images of America: Aloha-Reedville” is out now in paperback.
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Author Janel Josephson in the front room where she writes at her Aloha home. Her book, “Images of America: Aloha-Reedville” is out now in paperback.
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Janel Josephson’s book “Images of America: Aloha-Reedville”
Aloha photo historyWHAT: “Images of Amer-
ica — Aloha-Reedville,” an illustrated history of cen-tral Washington County
WHO: Author Janel Jo-sephson, an Aloha resident since 1998
PUBLISHER: ArcadiaBOOK SIGNINGS: Fri-
day, Aug. 2, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the Beaverton Substa-tion, 12448 S.W. Broadway St.; at the Tigard Costco, 7850 S.W. Dartmouth St., on Aug. 3, from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; and on Aug. 17 at 1 p.m. at the Aloha Commu-nity Library, 17683 S.E. Farmington Road
TO PURCHASE: Visit Jan’s Paperbacks, 18095 S.W. Tualatin Valley High-way, other area bookstores or visit arcadiapublishing.com
“Aloha and Reedville are near the geographical center of Washington County. For generations it’s been a crossroads. This area has always been a center of transportation.”— Janel Josephson, author of “Images
of America — Aloha-Reedville”
■ Aloha resident traces evolution of farmland into busy bedroom community with vintage photos
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Lost & Found
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Business Opportunities
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Antiques/Collectibles
S A L EEVERYTHING
MUST GO!Only 60 days left!
Quality antique furniture.Lots of misc glassware, clocks, pictures, etc.
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RIDING LAWNMOWER:John Deere, 36’’ cut, model #LT155, $475/obo. Call
503-543-7777.
Miscellaneous for Sale
ROTOTILLER: Manta w/accessories, $100.FLOOR JACK: Hydraulic, brand new in box, $50.
503-645-0170 or 503-708-1501.
Miscellaneous Wanted
COIN COLLECTORBuys U.S. & foreign
coins & small collections and accumulations.
(503)407-7269(503)545-6163
COMIC BOOKS WANTED Private collector seeks
comics from the ‘40s-’70s.Appraisals given, cash pd.
(503) 528-1297
LIFELONG COLLECTORpays cash for GERMAN &JAPANESE war relics.Helmets, swords, flags etc.(503)288-2462 | Portland
Wanted small older Crawler (bulldozer), any
model/condition running or not or related equipment,
Skidsteer farm tractor. Any old small track machines.
Also wanted old gas pumps, advertising signs, vending machines, ciga-
rette, candy slot machines.Any old novelty items. ‘37 chevy parts. Private Party
Cash. (360) 204-1017
WANTED:DIABETIC TEST
STRIPSCan pay up to $20.00 per box. Call Sharon -
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Food/Meat/Produce
Food/Meat/Produce
BLUEBERRIES !U-Pick $1.50 /lb
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10 lbs for $22, or100 lbs. for $200.
▲▲▲Sweet Blueberries for
Juicing or Drying -$1.20 /lb
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U-Pick: 80¢ /lbOrdered “Fresh-Picked”:
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503-651-2622Sat. - Sun., 8-4p
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U-PICK BLUEBERRIESDON SMITH’S TREE
FARM22509 S Stormer Road
ESTACADA 97023(Off Springwater)
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M-S 7a.m. to 5 p.m.Closed
Sunday. $1.25 lb u-pick.HEAVY CROP THIS
YEAR!503-668-5552
Hay/Straw/Feed
HAY FOR SALEPremium 2nd cutting Timo-thy. New crop, first cutting -Timothy. Two string bales.No rain. ALFALFA -second cutting. Delivery available.(503)349-5853 | St. Paul
Pets & Supplies
Allison is a beautiful brown tabby young cat. She is outgoing, friendly, and very sweet to her people. She enjoys gentle petting, grooming, and being talked to. She greets me at the door, follows me every-where, and sleeps quietly nearby when I work in the home office. As a young cat, she is active and quite playful. She gets along with other cats but needs a little time to get used to them. Want to know more about this sweetheart or pay a visit at her foster home? Contact her foster mom at [email protected], or call 503-312-4296.
AUSTRALIANLABRADOODLES
NEW PUPPY LITTER!!Chocolate & Cream.
Price - $2,500Free standard, Australian Labradoodle! - Check out our Guardian Home pro-
CHIHUAHUAs: 3 Fe-male, 1 Male. Tan w/black muzzles, white chests &
paws. 7 wks old, $200ea.(503)397-2937
Pets & Supplies
FLUFFY:
I’m just a fluffy ball of love – I guess that’s how I got my name. I’m a super friendly guy who loves to play, whether it’s with you or with feline friends. I’m looking for a forever home where I can share my love with everyone! Please call 503-292-6628 and ask for Fluffy or visit our website:www.animalaidpdx.org for more information.
Pets & Supplies
HelixHelix is a good-natured
cat who would make alovely best friend. Quiet,mellow, and not at all shy,she’ll help herself to yourlap and stay as long as you let her. She’s a sweet, so-cial girl who prefers to bewith her people as muchas possible—what elsewould you expect from abest friend? Meet Helix atthe Tualatin PetSmart orlearn more at CAT; (503)925-8903 catadoptionteam.org
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Attorneys/Legal Services
DIVORCE $155. Complete preparation. Includes chil-dren, custody, support, property and bills division.No court appearances. Di-vorced in 1-5 wks possible.
Mending, Alterations & Garment Reconstruction.Over 30-yrs exp. Save the Planet & upcycle your en-tire wardrobe! Near DT Hillsboro. By appt only.Miss Ruby, 503-250-2966
Building & Remodeling
James Kramer Const.
Locally since 1974!Kitchen, bath, walls, ceilings, additions,counters, cabinets, decks, drywall, tile,granite, windows and
doors, etc.Reasonable.
CCB#11518. Jim503-201-0969,503-625-5092.
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Cleaning/Organizing
HOUSEKEEPING,Reasonable, Sr. Discount
Carol, (503) 312-4823
SPRING CLEANING“Green” House Cleaning1-time, regular, move-out$25/hr (503) 608-0407oregongreenclean.com
Electrical
TESLAElectric
CompanyFull Service Electrical
Fair Rates, FastResponse
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Electrical
HEBERLEELECTRIC,
INC . CCB#152342.
Service changes & re-modeling. Serving
Portland /Metro area since 1983.
503-628-2095
Fences
Homer’s Fences / DecksCustom-built • Repairs
• FREE Estimates ccb#185531 503-359-3576
Handyman/Handywoman
HANDYMAN MATTERSLocally owned, nationally
recognized. Specializing in small to medium jobs
#191473WestPortland.HandymanMatters.com
503-621-0700
Landscape Maintenance
BEST GREEN • Full Serv-ice: Cleanup, pruning, lawn care, haul-away, bark dust.Insured. 503.707.2600.
EMCS LawnsResidential lawns, small
acreage, REO care,immediate needs
service.9 am-9 pm
503-655-5588888-316-6859
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Painting & Papering
MB PAINTING
*Interior /Exterior
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Call Matt @ 503-640-0632
Precision Exteriors &
Construction, LLCExterior & Interior painting, siding replacement, pres-sure wash. Repaint Spe-cialist - Professional Work-manship. 15 Years Experi-ence! Call today for a free estimate 503-710-0508.
MOVE IN READY!Possible owner financing.Call Ann 503-577-4396
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Pets & Supplies
Minky
A Home to call her own!Minky is a 6 year old spayed female tan and white Chihuahua mix, mi-crochipped and up to date on all her shots. At first meeting Minky is shy and timid but given time and patience her endearing personality emerges.. She bonds deeply once she feels safe and is very af-fectionate and loving with her person; looks forward to walks;does well on leash, loves rolling in the grass and sniffing along the way, playful, loves to cuddle on the couch while you watch TV or read.Adults only home. For more information call 503.625.4563; e-mail [email protected]
MO:Yo! Mo here! I’m a wee bit of a dog with the classical look of a Chihua-hua. I have a lot of love to offer and I’m a great play-mate – I just love to play fetch. I enjoy my canine foster brothers and the res-ident kitty. Ready for some serious love and devotion, call me! Please call 503-292-6628 and ask for Mo or visit our website:www.animalaidpdx.org for more information
Pets & Supplies
MONIQUE: My name is Monique, and I am quite unique! I am a torti-point Siamese mix with plushy soft fur and a sweet and quiet demeanor. I would love a quieter home with people who wish me to lay on their lap and brush me.Doesn’t that sound lovely? I’m calm and cuddly. I will be more than happy to keep your feet warm at night, and you will happily dote on me! I’m waiting for your visit at Animal Aid’s Show & Tell Saturday from 12PM to 4PM. Please call 503-292-6628 option 3 or visit our website:www.animalaidpdx.org for more information.
PENELOPE:
I’m a shy little gal who’s looking for love. I’ve spent some time out on the mean streets, so I really want someone to love and care for me. I know that with just a little tenderness, I’ll be your tiny purr machine.Come visit me soon at Ani-mal Aid. Please call 503-292-6628 and ask for Penelope or visit our website:www.animalaidpdx.org for more information.
TASH“Just an old fellow with
nowhere to go”
Tash is a neutered senior male 80 pound loving black and white Aussie mix whose disabled owner re-cently lost his home. He has been at a busy shelter since mid May.. His owner is looking for a dog friendly affordable apartment or housing where he can keep Tash who serves as his therapy dog. So far he has had no luck in finding a home for both of them.Seeking foster care; sup-port provided. Rescue in-volved for more information telephone 503.625.4563 [email protected]
Acreage/Lots
PUBLISHER’SNOTICE
All real estate advertised herein is subject to the Federal Fair Housing Act, which makes it ille-gal to advertise any pref-erence, limitation or dis-crimination based on race, color, religion, sex, handicap, familial status or national origin, or in-tention to make any such preferences, limi-tations or discrimination.State law forbids dis-crimination in the sale, rental or advertising of real estate based on factors in addition to those protected under federal law. Oregon State law forbids dis-crimination based on marital status. We will not knowingly accept any advertising for real estate which is in viola-tion of the law. All per-sons are hereby in-formed that all dwellings advertised are available on an equal opportunity basis.
Manufactured Homes/Lots
AURORA: Single wide 2 bdrm/1 bath, with adjoining 145 sq ft family rm, 114 sq ft attached shop, 121 sq ft second bdrm & 100 sq ft laundry/storage rm w/separate water heater.Covered 10x44 RV/carport, new Energy Guard win-dows, recently recondi-tioned electric furnace, wood stove, kitchen applces, & is semi fur-nished w/loveseat, end ta-bles, & chairs in living rm,a queen sized bed & dressed in main bdrm & dining ta-ble & chairs in family rm.100x150 fenced lot. New membrane roof on rear side of building. Outside has new paint. Asking $75,000. Will not carry contract. Call 503-266-9753 for more info. Ask for Cheri or Mary.
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Manufactured Homes/Lots
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CITY OF HILLSBORONOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGS
Case Files No.: Zoning Ordinance Amendment 3-13, andHillsboro Comprehensive Plan Amendment 2-13
SOUTH HILLSBORO COMMUNITY PLANNING AREA
TRANSPORTATION PLAN AMENDMENTS
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that two public hearings will be held before the Hillsboro Planning Commission at or shortly after 6:30 p.m., on Wednesday, August 14, 2013, in the auditorium of the Hillsboro Civic Center, 150 East Main Street, Hillsboro. At the hearings, the Planning Commission will consider proposed text amendments to the Hillsboro Zoning Ordinance No. 1945, as amended, and the Hillsboro Comprehensive Plan, Ordinance No. 2793, as amended, to implement transportation improvements for the South Hillsboro Community Planning Area.
The proposed amendments to the Hillsboro Zoning Ordinance will adopt a new Section 93A: Tualatin Valley Highway High Capacity Transit and Intersection Upgrades Setbacks and a new Section 95A: Access Management onto a State Transportation Facility, as identified in the South Hillsboro Focus Area Plan. The proposed amendments to the Hillsboro Comprehensive Plan and Transportation System Plan are to implement transportation improvements identified for the South Hillsboro Community Plan through the Tualatin Valley Highway Corridor and South Hillsboro Focus Area Plans. The proposed text and map amendments to the Hillsboro Comprehensive Plan and the City of Hillsboro Transportation System Plan Update, January 2004 (TSP), would reclassify or create new alignments for roadways located within the South Hillsboro Community Plan area and make revisions to the TSP’s project lists for motor vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians to add the transportation improvements.
The procedures by which amendments are processed can be found in the Hillsboro Zoning Ordinance, Sections 112 – 116 and in the Hillsboro Comprehensive Plan, Section 1 (III). The staff reports on the proposed amendments will be available on Wednesday, August 7, 2013 at 4:00 p.m. Staff reports and associated materials are available for inspection at no cost or copies can be provided at reasonable cost. Materials can be reviewed from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays, excluding holidays, at the Hillsboro Planning Department, 150 East Main Street, 4th Floor, Hillsboro, Oregon 97123. The Zoning Ordinance and the Comprehensive Plan may also be viewed online at www.ci.hillsboro.or.us/Planning.
All interested persons are invited to attend this meeting and will be given an opportunity to be heard concerning the proposal. Oral testimony should avoid repetition of issues, and should be based on the text amendments or the procedures listed above. ORS 197.763 provides that under certain circumstances, the record may remain open or a continuance may be granted upon the request of a participant. If you are unable to attend the hearing, you may submit a written statement to the Planning Department at the address above, on or before the hearing date. Please reference the Case File No. on all written testimony. Telephone conversations cannot be accepted as testimony. Pursuant to ORS 197.763, failure to raise an issue at the final evidentiary hearing, or by close of the record, in person or by letter, or failure to provide sufficient specificity to afford the decision maker an opportunity to respond to the issue precludes appeal to the Land Use Board of Appeals based on that issue.
For more information contact Jeannine Rustad at (503) 681-5321 or by email at [email protected].
Publish 07/26, 08/02, 08/09/2013. HT1013
CITY OF HILLSBORONOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARINGCase File No.: Conditional Use 3-13
Swallowtail School Expansion
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held before the Hillsboro Planning and Zoning Hearings Board, at or shortly after 6:30 p.m., on Wednesday, August 7, 2013 in the auditorium of the Hillsboro Civic Center, 150 East Main Street, Hillsboro. At this hearing, the Board will consider a request for conditional use approval to operate an early childhood school program for up to approximately 46 students in 2 - 4 classrooms within the existing Christian Church of Hillsboro. This location would take the place of the school’s early childhood classrooms currently housed in a modular building at the Hillsboro Friends Church directly across the street. The modular building is scheduled for removal. The new location would also allow for expansion of the early childhood program, to serve up to 46 students ages three to six years, with up to seven staff. The new location is also to be used for occasional school events such as plays and assemblies. The property owner is Christian Church of Hillsboro and the applicant
is Swallowtail School.
The subject property is generally located on the south side of NE Edison Street, between NE 5th and 6th Avenues. The property can be specifically identified as Tax Lot 100 on Washington County Assessor’s Tax Map 1N2-31CA. The property is zoned SCR-LD Station Community Residential – Low Density. As stated in the Hillsboro Zoning Ordinance No. 1945, Volume II, Section 136, IV., Table 2, schools are allowed as conditional uses in the SCR-LD Station Community Residential – Low Density zone. The applicable approval criteria for a conditional use may be found in the Hillsboro Zoning Ordinance No. 1945, Volume I, Sections 78-83. The Zoning Ordinance may be viewed online at www.ci.hillsboro.or.us/Planning/PlanningCodes.aspx or in the Planning Department office.
The staff report on this matter will be available on Wednesday, July 31, 2013 at 4:00 p.m. The staff report, the application materials, and the applicable criteria are available for public inspection at no cost, or copies can be provided at reasonable cost, from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays, excluding holidays, in the Planning Department at the Hillsboro Civic Center, 150 East Main Street, 4th floor, Hillsboro, Oregon. For more information, contact Genny Bond, Urban Planner III, at (503) 681-6246 or by email at [email protected].
All interested persons are invited to attend this meeting and will be given an opportunity to be heard concerning the proposal. Oral testimony will be taken in the following order: applicant; other proponents; opponents; and applicant’s rebuttal. Oral testimony should avoid repetition of issues, and should be based on the application or on the approval criteria listed above. ORS 197.763 provides that under certain circumstances, the record may remain open or a continuance may be granted upon the request of a participant. If you are unable to attend the hearing, you may submit a written statement to the Planning Director at 150 East Main Street, Hillsboro, Oregon 97123, on or before the hearing date. Telephone conversations cannot be accepted as testimony. Please reference the Case File No. on all written testimony.
Pursuant to ORS 197.763, failure to raise an issue at the final evidentiary hearing, or by close of the record, in person or by letter, or failure to provide statements or evidence sufficient to afford the decision maker an opportunity to respond to the issue precludes appeal to the Land Use Board of Appeals based on that issue.Publish 08/02/2013. HT1016
CITY OF HILLSBORONOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
SIMILAR USE INTERPRETATIONINT 1-13: HOSPICE IN THE M-P
INDUSTRIAL PARK ZONE
NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a public hearing will be held before the Hillsboro Planning Commission, at or shortly after 6:30 p.m., on Wednesday, August 14, 2013 in the Auditorium of the Hillsboro Civic Center, 150 East Main Street, Hillsboro. At this hearing, the Planning Commission will consider a request for a similar use interpretation from Hospice and Palliative Care of Washington County who wishes to locate a hospice facility in the M-P Industrial Park zone with a potential specific location at property located at the northwest corner of NW Amberwood Drive and NW Aloclek Drive. The Hillsboro Zoning Ordinance does not specifically define the proposed use within the M-P zone; therefore the applicant is requesting a similar use interpretation that the use is similar to a “commercial support service”, which is a permitted use in this zone. Should the Planning Commission approve the requested interpretation, a hospice facility could be located at this site and/or in this zone.
The staff report on the proposed similar use interpretation will be available on Wednesday, August 7, 2013 at 4:00 p.m. The staff report and other related documents are available for public inspection at no cost, or copies can be provided at reasonable cost. Materials can be reviewed from 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. weekdays, excluding holidays, in the Planning Department on the fourth floor of the Hillsboro Civic Center, 150 East Main Street, Hillsboro, 97123. Information may also be obtained by calling Ruth Klein, Urban Planner III, in the Planning Department at 503-681-6465, or by email at [email protected].
All interested persons are invited to attend the public hearing on this application and will be given an opportunity to be heard concerning the proposal. Oral testimony will be taken in the following order: proponents; opponents; and proponent rebuttal. If you are unable to attend the hearing, you may submit a written statement to the Planning Director on or before the hearing date at 150 E Main Street, Hillsboro, Oregon 97123. Telephone conversations cannot be accepted as testimony.Publish 08/02/2013. HT1017
PUBLIC AND LEGAL NOTICES FOR 073113
These notices give information concerning actions planned and implemented by attorneys, financial institutions and
government agencies. They are intended to keep you and every citizen fully informed.
Space-reservation deadline for all legal notices is Thursday at 5:00pm prior to publication.
Please call Louise Faxon at 503-546-0572 or e-mail [email protected]
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THIS WEEK NOTICES ARE:
Vacation Property
CARSON (near), WA:
One-half share in cabin avail. Adjacent to Trapper Creek Wilderness in Washington State. Beauti-ful, quiet, protected, old growth forest. 90 mins.from Portland. | $60K
14’ FISHING BOAT: Alumi-num MirroCraft w/trailer.Battery powered Mini Kota electric motor w/deep cycle RV battery. 3hp Johnson outboard motor. Inc’l: 2 swivel seats, 2 lifejackets, 2 anchors & a large dip net. $1,695/OBO.
100th Anniversary Edition.Excellent condition, less
than 900 miles, silver and black. $14,000/OBO.
503-410-6675
HARLEY DAVIDSON, Heritage Springer, 2001.
31K mi., new brakes, levers, grips, tires. Reg-
ular service. Asking $9,975 OBO.
(503)533-0225
TRIUMPH Sprint ABS 2006: 24k miles, Sunset Red, Factory luggage, Heated Grips, TOR pipe, Much more, Never Down, Always Garaged. $5,800.
503.781.2529
Pickups
‘96 GREEN CHEVY198,000 miles, 20” alloy rims. Stereo system w/ 10”spkrs & amp, both good condition. Truck is lowered.503-983-4135 or 503-983-4132. Si habla español.
FORD 250 4WD SUPER-CAB, 1997. 65k miles.Very clean. Must sell ASAP due to divorce. PS, PW, ABS, Canopy. $6,500SOLD
RVs & TravelTrailers
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The Hillsboro Tribune Friday, August 2, 2013 NEWS A15
By NANCY TOWNSLEYThe Hillsboro Tribune
Pull on your sneakers and your brightest T-shirt, and get ready to Race for the Arts.
This brand-new run will take
place Saturday, Sept. 14 at Hills-boro’s Liberty High School and benefi ts Young Audiences of Or-egon, a Portland-based nonprof-it. The Race for the Arts features a 10K run, 5K run/walk and a 1K kids’ dash.
Strollers are welcome on the course. This family-friendly event includes live music, a kids’ Art Zone hosted by the Portland
Children’s Museum, free post-race refreshments and on-course aid stations.
“We are thrilled to put togeth-er this day of family fun to cele-brate and support art, commu-nity, and physical activity,” said Young Audiences Executive Di-rector Denis Hickey. “There’s nothing more fun than gathering friends and family for running,
music, and arts projects.” Day-of-race registration opens
at 7 a.m. The 10K run begins at 9 a.m., the 5K at 9:20 a.m. and the 1K dash at 10:15. The Art Zone will open at 9 a.m.
Advance registration is avail-able at ya-or.org/race. All regis-trations include a technical T-shirt and goodie bag. Advance packet pick-up will take place
Sept. 12 at Sports Authority Clackamas and Sept. 13 at Sports Authority Beaverton.
Awards will be announced at 10:30 a.m. with prizes given to the top-finishing male and fe-male in the 10K and 5K races.
This first Race for the Arts event builds on the success of Young Audiences’ in-school Run For The Arts, which has raised
more than $14 million for in-school arts programs since its inception in 1977.
Proceeds work to inspire young people and expand their learning through the arts.
EDUCATION
By DEEDA SCHROEDERThe Hillsboro Tribune
When Marina Rael signed up for the Hello Neighbor project earlier
this year through her art class at South Meadows Mid-dle School, she really just wanted to learn more about photog-raphy.
But after interviewing and getting to know several Hillsboro resi-dents who have contrib-uted to the community, she was in-spired herself.
“I never re-ally paid at-tention to it before,” Rael, 14, said. “This program really opened my eyes.”
At about a dozen schools across Oregon, photographer Julie Keefe has put fancy digi-tal cameras in the hands of middle school students since 2008 and given them an as-signment: get to know your neighbor.
The project brings together students and everyday com-munity members for an in-person interview and a photo shoot. The resulting giant por-traits have been hung on Main Street in Hillsboro.
The process helps the young people feel connected to their community at a criti-cal moment when relation-ships with others can make the difference in jobs, school and social interactions down the road, Keefe said.
“As you head toward middle school and high school, that disconnect can happen,” she said.
Hillsboro students’ work will be in the spotlight along-side Keefe’s on Tuesday, Aug. 6, at the Walters Cultural Arts Center. On exhibit will be por-traits of students’ neighbors and the students’ portraits, along with work from another Hillsboro photographer, Pa-mela Brown Wilkinson.
Students’ insights Thirteen students from
South Meadows Middle School worked with Keefe from early spring through the end of June in a series of afterschool sessions and Saturday excur-sions. This was the second year Keefe has done the proj-ect in Hillsboro, and she’s been impressed with students’ insights like Rael’s.
“I love that Hillsboro has so much diversity in it — once you do this program you real-ly realize how beautiful it is — before I did this program I
never really paid attention to the people or the environment that I lived in but after inter-
viewing so many people with different cultures and differ-ent occupations I realized that there are still some good peo-ple out there,” Rael said.
They kicked off with a three-hour session that fo-cused on the nuts and bolts of using the SLR digital Nikon cameras — from focusing to zooming and a handful of oth-er techniques.
Many of the students be-came savvy in a short time, Keefe said.
“Once you got used to the camera it was pretty easy to use,” Rael said. Getting a great picture took a little more fi nesse and a lot of repetition, she added.
“You have to take a lot of pictures to get a good one.”
Interviewing adultsThe interviews took place
as a group, and all 13 students interviewed an adult for about 30 minutes, Keefe explained. At the end, they decided to-gether on a quote for the ban-ner that refl ected the person’s character.
Then the students took the person’s picture.
In the beginning, Keefe was surprised that the students weren’t interested in knowing which one of them had taken the photo she chose to use for the banner — none of them asked.
“It really doesn’t come up,” she said. “I’ve done this with 200 to 300 kids and it really does not come up.”
Keefe thinks the students feel a strong sense of group investment in the effort, a true form of community art.
“The beauty is that all of them claim ownership for it.”
Photo mentorship program brings youth, neighbors, cameras together
Students ‘shutter’ to capture neighbors’ portraits
Liberty High hosts Sept. 14 benefi t
Community, kids to race for the arts
Above, students gather around “neighbor” Jaime Miranda, trying to catch the perfect photo after interviewing him.COURTESY PHOTO: WALTERS CULTURAL ARTS CENTER
Left, the 13 students in the Hello Neighbor program held half-hour group interviews with each “neighbor,” then chose a single quote that refl ected the person’s character and put it on their photo banner.COURTESY PHOTO: JULIE KEEFE
See the showA group of Hillsboro stu-
dents — all of whom were part of the Hello Neighbor project — will exhibit their photographic work from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6 at the Walters Cultural Arts Center’s First Tuesday re-ception. Entertainment will be provided by The Darlin’ Blackbirds, a Port-land country/Americana duo. The display continues through Sept. 24. For more information, call 503-615-3485.
“I never really paid attention to it before. This program really opened my eyes.”
— Marina Rael, age 14
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A16 NEWS The Hillsboro Tribune Friday, August 2, 2013
NEXT WEEKAUG. 2 TO 3, 8 TO 10, 15 TO 17
THEATER l Bag&Baggage the-ater company presents Shake-speare’s Julius Caesar with an all-female cast. 7:30 p.m. Tom Hughes Civic Center Plaza, 150 E. Main St.
AUG. 9
FILM CLUB l The Foreign or Independent Library Movie (F.I.L.M.) group meets the sec-ond Friday each month at the Main Library, 2850 Brookwood Parkway. A short film will screen at 5:45 p.m., followed by a meeting. Call 503-615-6500 for more information.
AUG. 9 TO 11
GARLIC FESTIVAL l In down-town North Plains it’s “Chic to Reek.” Head to the garlic festi-val for live music, arts and crafts vendors, and all things garlic. Noon to 11 p.m. Friday, 7 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturday, and to 7 a.m. 6 p.m. Sunday.
AUG. 10 AND 11
AIR SHOW l Oregon Miniature Aircraft Squadron will host an RC airshow and food drive at the flying fields in Forest Grove, 46100 N.W. Strohmayer Road. Amateur to expert air-craft and watercraft demon-strations. Swap meet and raf-fl e. Bring a can of food for the Oregon Food Bank. 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Visit omas-rc.org.
AUG. 12 TO 16
MUSEUM l The Washington County Museum will host a
week-long camp for girls inter-ested in exploring engineering careers, leadership skills, goal setting and underwater robot-ics technology. 9 a.m. to 2 p.m.
AUG. 13
POETRY NIGHT l Poetry lovers gather every month for good verse and conversation. 7 to 8:30 p.m. Walters Cultural Arts Center, 527 E. Main St.
AUG. 14
OWL CLASS l Owl pellets are masses of bone, teeth, hair, feathers and exoskeletons of various animals preyed upon by raptors, or birds of prey. Learn about raptors and dis-sect a pellet. Washington County Museum. 1 to 2 p.m. $6 for adults; $4 for youth, se-niors, students and active mili-tary.
FAMILY THEATER l Theater Per-formance with Kevin Muir, di-rector of Alice in Mathland, and his crew will get the crowd laughing with their show. North Plains Library. 1 p.m.
AUG. 15
CONCERT l Head to Hillsboro’s Shute Park, 953 S.E. Maple St. for a free concert. Norman Syl-vester will bring his rockin’ blues to get the crowd dancing. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
ART NIGHT l Head to the Wal-ters Cultural Arts Center for a family art night. Create proj-ects using a variety of medi-ums such as clay, paint and collage. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
THIS WEEKAUG. 2
CONCERT l The Omazing Con-cert Series presents Jesse Ter-ry, an award-winning singer-songwriter. Doors open at 7 p.m. Tickets $25. Price includes com-plimentary drink. For ages 21 and older.
AUG. 2, 9, 16, 23 AND 30
FREE CONCERT l There will be free Friday night concerts in North Plains’ Jessie Mays Com-munity Park, 30975 N.W. Com-mercial St. Aug. 2, the Corey Mitchell Project will play; Aug. 9, the Garlic Fest Out West stage will be jamming all night; Aug. 16, Sambafeat will groove; Aug. 23 Responsible Party will serenade the crowd; Aug. 30, the Garcia Birthday Band will have everyone dancing. 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
AUG. 2 TO 4
OUTDOOR FUN l The Tillamook Forest Center hosts outdoor learning programs. A naturalist will lead a walk through the for-est and demonstrate how lichen produce their own food, shelter and moisture at 11:30 a.m. Aug.
2 and 3 and 1:30 p.m. Aug. 4. Naturalists will provide the equipment and show attendees the world of underwater insects at 12:30 p.m. Aug. 2, 2:30 p.m. Aug. 3, 12:30 p.m. Aug. 4. Dis-cover bats that live in the forest at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 2 and 3, and 11:30 a.m. Aug. 4. There will be a forest walk that shows partici-pants the diverse tree popula-tion of the Tillamook Forest at 2:30 p.m. Aug. 2 and 4, 12:30 p.m. Aug. 3.
AUG. 3
DOG FUN RUN l There will a doggie fun run at Lincoln Park, 2725 Main St. in Forest Grove. Free demonstrations and booths; $15 per dog for those participating in a Doggie Dash event; registration includes a pet goodie bag, numbered bib and custom doggie bandana. 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Registration starts at 8:30 a.m. For informa-tion, call 503-357-2021.
AUG. 3 AND 4
MUSEUM l The Rice NW Mu-seum of Rocks’ Summer Festi-val and Gem Fair includes jew-elry, fossils, gems, minerals and
more. Food and live music, ge-ode and thunderegg cutting, games, face painting and gold panning. Adults $3, kids 17 and younger are free.
AUG. 5 TO 9
CONCERT l The Hillsboro Com-munity Youth Choir will hold a musical performance camp that explores vocal performance skills for solo tunes and work-ing together in an ensemble. 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Walters Cultural Arts Center. $125 Hillsboro resi-dent, $175 non-resident. ci.hills-boro.or.us/ParksRec.
AUG. 6
CONCERT l Portland perform-ers Lindsie Feathers and Olivia Duffy recently launched this acoustic duo country-folk proj-ect, The Darlin’ Blackbirds. Walters Cultural Arts Center. 6 to 8 p.m.
EXHIBIT l Photographer Julie Keefe designed her project “Hello Neighbor” and Hillsboro-based photographer Pamela Brown Wilkinson captures na-ture images. See story on Page A17.
NIGHT OUT l The Hillsboro Po-lice Department is participating in National Night Out, along with other surrounding com-munities. Host a safe party with neighbors and invite the Hills-boro police to come. Visit ci.hill-sboro.or.us/police/Divisions/NationalNightOut.aspx for more information.
ART SHOW l Sequoia Gallery + Studios, 136 S.E. Third Ave. in Hillsboro, will feature artists Jose Smolensky’s stylistic wood sculptures, Gayle Pedemonte’s oil paintings, Christy Perrine’s pastel paintings. Reception 6 to 8 p.m. Show ends Aug. 30. Hours: 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday to Saturday. Show also includes work by 30 additional artists and 13 on-site studios will be open during the reception. se-quoiagallerystudios.org.
AUG. 7
BASEBALL DAY l Simulate a day at the ball park. Look inside a baseball, make baseball card scrapbooks and play baseball trivia. Ages 8 to 12. Washington County Museum. 1 to 2 p.m. $6 for adults; $4 for youth, seniors, students and active military.
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The Northwest Permaculture Convergence will immerse western Washington County in sustainable learning this weekend.
The annual 2013 Northwest Permacul-ture Convergence will be held at Pacifi c Universi-ty and B Street Farm in Forest Grove starting Friday, Aug. 2. There will be hands-on workshops, classes, lectures, networking groups, children’s activi-ties, live music, demonstrations, ven-dors and more during this year’s “Hands On Where We Live” festivities.
Special guests include best-selling author Carol Deppe, along with local favorites such as Rudy Marchesi, Peter Hayes and Charlene Murdock.
Friday night, there will be a special “Introduc-tion to Permaculture” event to present easy tech-niques for sustainable living that can be incorpo-rated into average yards and homes. The Friday special is $25 and the full three-day conference is $75. There will also be a screening of “Dirt: The
Kitchen will be operating all weekend at B Street Farm.
Learn to garden in the winter, preserve pro-duce, practice Tai Chi, grow fruit, use mushrooms, compost and more.
Kindle Cascadia will put on demonstrations about making fi res, baskets and stone tools throughout the weekend. On Sat-urday night, the Olympia, Wash.-based band Camp Wisdom will play an acoustic set outside.
There will also be off-site events and work-shops, including the Friday morning professional-level clinic on building solar showers. Register on campus at Pacifi c’s University Center (Wash-burne Hall) before coming to B street. For more information, schedules and registration, visit northwestpermaculture.org.
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The Hillsboro Tribune Friday, August 2, 2013 news A17
Springville Road will be closed between Oats Ter-race and Kaiser Road for two-and-a-half weeks begin-ning Monday, Aug. 12.
The closure by Washington County’s Department of Land Use and Transportation is nec-essary in order to install a wa-ter line and perform a pave-ment overlay within the closed section of roadway.
During the closure, all traf-fic, including pedestrians and bicyclists, will be detoured to Kaiser, Laidlaw and West Union roads. Detour signs will be provided along the desig-nated detour route. Local ac-cess to driveways within the closure area will be available at all times.
The road is scheduled to re-open by Aug. 27.
As a home health nurse, Gayle Pedemonte of Gaston spends many hours driving through the countryside to reach her patients. Along the way, she finds inspira-tion for her agricultural-themed oil paintings of vine-yards, farms, u-pick and flowers (near right). These will be on display this month at Sequoia Gallery and Studios, 136 S.E. Third Ave.
So will the soft pastels from Christy Perrine, whose memo-ries of her Minnesota child-hood used to be colored by monotone, foreboding hues. In
the light of middle age, Perrine sees her past in the more color-ful, kaleidoscopic tones that characterize her current art-work, (above).
A reception for them and other artists will run from 6 to
8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6.At Summa Gallery, 231 E.
Main St., Jackie Woodward is the featured artist this month, (above). A Hillsboro resident, Woodward not only paints acrylic but also does ceramics, sculptures, fabric art and con-temporary jewelry.
The Washington County
Museum is currently featuring some of Woodward’s jewelry. An opening reception for art by Woodward and two others — LeeRoy specializes in hand-carved wine stoppers and Ju-dy Dials in oil paintings — will run from 6 to 8 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 6, with hor d’ouervres, wine and music by Randy Mor-rison.
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A senior infi elder, Lamotte hit for a .367 average to go along with 29 hits, 21 RBIs and 14 runs scored. Mason and Wruble were both senior out-fi elders. Mason batted .324 and
produced 22 hits, nine RBIs and 18 runs. Wruble went .232 at the plate and accounted for 19 hits, 15 RBIs and 22 runs.
Geisbers, a senior infielder, produced 29 hits, eight RBIs and 16 runs. She batted .345 for the season. Flores, a senior, earned her honorable mention status
despite being able to play in just nine games this spring. Flores, who has signed with Portland State, suffered a foot injury ear-ly in the season but was able to return to the fi eld late in the sea-son. She batted .500 in 28 at-bats, posting 14 hits, seven RBIs and six runs in her limited action.
Liberty: Eight players earn All-NWOC honors■ From page A20
Blaze: Successful trip to national tournament
In that last game, Firecrack-ers Blanco jumped out to a 2-0 lead in the bottom of the fi rst, but the Blaze rallied to tie it up in the third on a two-RBI triple by Partain. But the designated home team scored three more runs in the next inning and then cut off a Blaze rally at two runs in the seventh to escape with the win and advance.
“I think it’s one of the tougher tournaments we’ve been to, but I think it’s great to play the best teams,” Besuyen said. “You know how much harder you need to work to get to that level, and it
was just a great experience to play against those teams.”
Across all eight tournament games, Meeuwsen went 5-for-23 at the plate with a double, a triple, two runs scored, seven RBIs and two walks. Partain also batted 5-for-23 with two triples, three runs scored, fi ve RBIs and two walks.
Besuyen batted 4-for-20 with three runs scored, three walks and three stolen bases. Soper, who hit a home run in one of the squad’s pool play contests, went 3-for-15 in the tourna-ment, scored two runs, and had four RBIs and three walks.
The Blaze qualifi ed for both the PGF and ASA national
championships this summer but opted to attend the PGF tournament only. The ASA na-tional tournament for 16U teams is being staged this week in California.
With the PGF tournament, the Blaze wrapped up its sum-mer schedule, but the experi-ence should serve the return-ing players well, as this year was their fi rst at the 16U level, giving them one more year in the age division.
Said Besuyen: “The fi rst year in a different age level is some-times intimidating, but I think we did pretty good and hope-fully we’ll do good next sea-son.”
■ From page A20
Esquerra has been another of the Hops’ most consistent bats. He posted a .276 average through 41 appearances be-fore being placed on the disabled list ear-lier this week with an obliques strain. Esquerra had 45 hits through Tuesday, and his home run (fi ve) and RBI (26) to-tals were both tops on the team.
A Cal Baptist product and California native, Esquerra will not participate in the all-star game, opting to rehab his in-jury instead.
Locante, a left-handed reliever, has made 15 appearances and thrown 18 1/3 innings for the Hops this summer. A Ten-nessee native, he has gone 2-1 for Hills-boro, giving up just 10 hits and six runs (three earned). He also has walked 13 and fanned 25 and sported a 1.47 earned run average as of Tuesday.
He is joined on the North pitching staff by Gibson, another southpaw who was drafted in the seventh round this year out of Florida. Through Tuesday, Gibson had pitched 17 innings over 11 appear-ances and he was 1-0 in decisions. He boasted a miniscule 0.53 ERA and had yielded 15 hits, four runs (one earned) and seven walks while striking out 20.
In addition to the all-star game itself, Tuesday’s festivities will include a fan fest, home run derby and a lunch at which Seattle Mariners general manager Jack Zduriencik is scheduled to be the featured speaker.
All-Stars: AquaSoxwill host NWL’s bestnext week in Everett■ From page A20After recording 50 hits and 24
runs through the first five games of the second half, clearly Hills-boro struggled at the plate during the Everett skid. Not only did the team miss its offense during the final three games against the AquaSox, but also the presence of outfielder Zach Esquerra.
Esquerra has been one of the Hops’ biggest weapons at the plate all season. As of Tuesday, he led the team in RBIs (26) and home runs (five), was second in hits (45) and runs (18), and third in batting average (.276). But he missed the final three games of the AquaSox series because of a strained obliques muscle on his left side. In the first five games of the second half, Esquerra was pretty consistent in terms of his batting average, going 6-for-22 (.273) for three runs and one RBI.
Esquerra said he injured the muscle during batting practice on Sunday, when he felt some tight-ness on that left side develop into soreness.
“Now, it’s hard to turn and twist, but hopefully I’ll be good Aug. 8,” Esquerra said, mention-ing when he hopes to return to the lineup.
Between now and then, Esquer-ra is resting and receiving treat-ment. Though he was one of four Hops players named to the South
division squad for the Northwest League All-Star Game (see story on page A20), he will not make an appearance in the contest, slated for Tuesday in Everett, Wash.
Instead, he will return back to Hillsboro from Vancouver, B.C., after Hillsboro wraps up a five-game stint against the Canadians on Sunday. Overall though, he seemed quite logical about miss-ing the all-star game.
“I think the hard part was actu-ally making it, and so I think I was happy that I made the team,” Es-querra said. “I don’t think you can do anything at the all-star game that’s going to make headlines. To not go sucks, but I’d rather be healthy.”
As for his teammates, they have been trying to get back on track in a five-game series against the Canadians that kicked off on Wednesday and might help estab-lish whether the Hops are going to turn the tables on a tough first half or resemble their old selves.
“It shows that we can win,” Bradley said about the Hops’ re-cent winning run. “A lot of guys, it’s their first year, so they’re go-ing to have really good days and they’re going to have bad days with it. So it’s just kind of like learning how to mentally deal with things and then physically.
“I think everybody has the tools to do it. It’s just staying locked in and being able to get it done on a daily basis.”
Hops: Homestand ends with three more losses■ From page A20
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Hillsboro Hops shortstop ryan gebhardt fouls off a pitch during Tuesday’s 6-0 home loss to the everett aquasox in a northwest league baseball game.
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Hillsboro Hops outfielder Yogey perez-ramos tries to leg out an infield single after hitting a short chopper in front of the plate during Tuesday’s northwest league baseball game against the everett aquasox.
by amanda milesThe Hillsboro Tribune
For a program with high stan-dards, the 2013 season was another excellent one for Liberty softball.
Playing in a tough league this spring, the Falcons posted an 8-6 Northwest Oregon Conference record — good for fourth place — along the way to a 16-12 year. With a 16-6 play-in round victory against Silverton, the Falcons qualified for the 16-team Class 5A playoff field and then proceeded to knock off top-ranked Pendleton 9-2 in the first round.
Having to make their second trip to eastern Oregon in three days, the Fal-cons fell 3-1 to Hermiston in the quar-terfinals to conclude their season.
But those were not the only high-lights. For her superlative play at short-stop, Kelly Meeuwsen was tabbed as the NWOC Player of the Year, and she was also a first team all-state selection.
Ashley Driscoll, Paige Smotherman, Sierra Lamotte, Karolyn Mason and Kylie Wruble all earned second team all-conference nods, while Brittany Geisbers and Alex Flores received honorable mention.
Just a sophomore, Meeuwsen batted a sparkling .568 at the plate. She to-taled 50 hits, 27 RBIs and 38 runs. Her batting average, hits and runs scored were all team highs.
Driscoll, a junior and the team’s pri-mary pitcher, posted a .209 batting av-erage and accounted for 14 hits, 12 RBIs and seven runs. Smotherman, the team’s sophomore catcher, recorded a team-best 35 RBIs this season. She bat-ted .393 at the plate and produced 35 hits and 33 runs. Her six home runs on the season were also a team high.
Hops’ hot streak cools offby amanda milesThe Hillsboro Tribune
A sign of better things to come or re-gression toward the mean?
Eight games into the second half of the season, it’s difficult to tell with the Hops. Hillsboro kicked off its second-half do-over with some of its best and most consistent play of the season.
The Hops took two of three games from Salem-Keizer on the road last week and then the first two contests in a five-game series against Everett that concluded on Tuesday. Significantly, those teams led the South and North divisions of the North-west League over the first half of the sea-son with identical 23-15 records. (The Hops meanwhile, went 11-27 through 38 games.)
Among the highlights in that run were a four-RBI outing by George Roberts in a 9-6 win against the Volcanoes on July 23 and a walk-off RBI single by Yogey Perez-Ramos in the bottom of the 11th inning for a 4-3 victory to open the Everett series last Friday.
But Hillsboro wrapped up the series with a trio of 6-0 losses to the AquaSox, managing just eight hits across the three games. The losses dropped the Hops to 15-31 overall and 4-4 in the South division, tied with Boise and Salem-Keizer and one game back of Eugene.
“It’s just one of those things where we got hot for a couple games and beat guys, and now, you know, maybe their guys are getting hot and they just beat us,” said J.R. Bradley, who came on in relief to pitch a scoreless eighth inning for the Hops on Tuesday. “I don’t think it’s anything to be worried about.”
As they have been wont to do at times this season, the Hops fell victim to the big inning on Tuesday at Hillsboro Ballpark. They coughed up six runs in the fourth in-ning of an otherwise scoreless ballgame and never threatened to make a dent in Everett’s lead.
The AquaSox scored their first three runs on an RBI single by Justin Seager and a two-RBI single courtesy of Christian Carmichael. Three batters later, Phillips
Castillo accounted for the final three runs of the game, adding insult to injury by smashing a ball into the family berm in left field for a three-run homer.
The Hops did not get their first hit of the night until the seventh inning, when Perez-Ramos finally broke up Everett starter Lars Huijer’s no-hitter. Huijer threw eight scoreless innings of one-hit ball to pick up his seventh win of the season.
Ryan Kinsella accounted for the Hops’ other hit of the night, against reliever Ty-ler Wright, with a leadoff single in the ninth, but Hillsboro could not muster any more offense with which to rally.
“I think it was just our bats,” second baseman Randy McCurry said. “Our bats haven’t really came around yet. Hitting’s kind of contagious, it seems like with this team. If one person’s hitting, then every-body does, but then if nobody’s hitting, then it just seems like all the time that no-body does.”
For Hillsboro, Ross Gerdeman went sev-en innings on the mound, yielding five hits and all six runs. He also walked two and struck out six. Bradley gave up just one hit in his outing, as did Daniel Gibson in the scoreless ninth.
A three-game winning streak gives way to a three-game losing skid as Hillsboro’s offense fizzles against Everett
by amanda milesThe Hillsboro Tribune
Four Hillsboro Hops have been named Northwest League all-stars.
Outfielders Yogey Perez-Ramos and Zach Esquerra and pitchers Daniel Gibson and Will Locante were all selected to the South Division team for the Northwest League All-Star Game, which is slated for Tuesday, Aug. 6 at Everett Memorial Stadium in Everett, Wash. The league an-nounced roster selections last Thursday.
In addition to Hillsboro, the South team consists of play-ers from the Eugene, Boise and Salem-Keizer clubs. Play-ers from Vancouver, Tri-City, Spokane and host Everett make up the North side.
Perez-Ramos, who will be a starter for the South team, has emerged as Hillsboro’s most consistent hitter. The Cu-ban native was batting .324 through Tuesday. In 44 appear-ances, Perez-Ramos recorded 55 hits, 20 runs and 15 RBIs. He has three separate hitting streaks of at least five games, with the longest being eight contests. He also has drawn a team-high 19 walks.
Four Hillsboro players selected to participate in NWL all-star game
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Liberty softball rewarded with all-state, all-conference honorsFollowing a fourth-place finish, Falcons nab eight All-NWOC selections
Tourney run ends for northwest blazePremier girls FastPitch national chamPionshiP
by amanda milesThe Hillsboro Tribune
Not a bad run.After dropping its first game in
bracket play last week at the Premier Girls Fastpitch National Champion-ships, the Northwest Blaze 16U softball team rattled off three straight wins in elimination games before a one-run loss ended its tournament run last Thursday in Huntington Beach, Calif.
Four players from western Wash-ington County play on the Beaver-ton-based Blaze, which draws top players from throughout the Port-land metropolitan area. Glencoe’s Macy Besuyen plays outfield for the Blaze, and Liberty’s Kelly Meeuwsen is the team’s shortstop. Banks’ MaKenna Partain (pitcher, third base) and Madison Soper (catcher) also are members of the team.
“It was definitely a good tourna-ment,” said Besuyen, who has played for the Blaze for five or six years. “There were a lot of good teams there, and I think it was good for our team to get the exposure and play those better teams.”
All four western Washington County players had roles in the squad’s success at the 64-team dou-ble-elimination tournament, which started with pool play on July 21 and concluded last Friday. After going 1-2 in pool play last week, the Blaze dropped a 4-1 decision to the KG Hit-ters, a team from California, to fall into the losers bracket.
The Blaze stayed alive last Wednesday with three victories — 5-3 against the Corona Angels, 4-1 against the Lady Lightning Gold Elite and 6-5 against the Birmingham Thunderbolts.
Then they faced a tough proposi-tion on Thursday. Just to advance to the final in their half of the bracket,
the Blaze needed to rattle off five wins, and all on the same day. Instead, the Blaze fell 5-4 in a tight con-test against Firecrack-ers Blanco — a team that advanced to the final game in the bot-tom of the bracket — in the first game of the day to conclude their California run.
“It was a lot more intense,” Partain said about the tourna-ment. “It was like a whole different atmo-sphere, so I think that
maybe scared us a little bit. I thought we did really good. We beat a lot of good teams that a lot of people didn’t think we’d beat.”
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