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Expert:
Growth
plan too
costly
“Santa Claus is truly like a secret giver. Everyone has it
inside of them, and it’s just letting it come out.” — Tom Epler
PSU real estate professor says
Metro assumptions are flawed
By JIM REDDEN
The Tribune
Spirit
Santa
of
PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP: CHASE ALLGOOD
Santa and Mrs. Claus, aka Tom and Lori Epler of Forest Grove, look in the “Book of
Naughty and Nice” during a Halloween trick or treat event downtown as children
gather to see if their names are in the pages.
■ Tom and Lori Epler go all out
to bring magic to ho-ho-holidays
T
om and Lori Epler have
cal. So if kids ask their ages or how
been married for 828 years. long they’ve been married, they’re
supposed to tack on 800 years to
At least that’s what
they’re supthe answer.
posed to tell the kids.
That’s one of the
STORY BY
The Forest Grove
things that the Eplers
learned while attendcouple, who will be
dressing up as Santa
ing the Professional
and Mrs. Claus this
Santa Claus School of
holiday season, were taught in
Denver where each year aspiring St.
“Santa school” earlier this year
Nicks and Mrs. Clauses travel to
that if children can verify
something, it’s no longer magiSee SANTA / Page 2
JAKE THOMAS
Some immigrants might get
licenses despite measure’s defeat
President’s order could
open door to work
permits, legal status
By PETER WONG
The Tribune
President Barack Obama’s immigration order could open the
way for millions of undocumented
people in the United States to obtain driving privileges in 40 states
— including Oregon, where voters
just rejected a ballot measure to
do so.
State lawyers will study whether
the three-year federal work permits
planned under Obama’s order, which
he announced last week, allows the
Driver and Motor Vehicle Services
Division to issue driving privileges to
some of those immigrants.
DMV spokesman David House
says no conclusion is expected until
Department of Justice lawyers review the nature of the federal work
permits, applications for which will
be made available in the spring.
But there is a precedent.
Under a 2012 presidential order affecting an estimated 1.7 million immigrants who were brought to the United States as children, Oregon and
virtually all states concluded that
federal work permits issued to participants were sufficient proof of legal
presence for driver identification.
DMV estimated that under the federal program, known as Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, 17,000
Oregonians were eligible to obtain
driving privileges. House says DMV
did not keep tabs on how many actually applied.
Oregon voters earlier this month
rejected Measure 88, a law that would
have allowed four-year driver’s cards
for those who could not show proof of
legal presence in the United States —
the legal standard for licenses in at
least 40 states.
A national standard
Obama’s order would allow up to 4
million immigrants to obtain federal
work permits, which one national
group says would by definition confirm their legal presence in the United States.
Regional plans to increase density will
drive up housing costs, burden the poor
and cost local governments billions they
do not have, according to a new study by
a Portland State University real estate
expert.
The study analyzes the 2014 Urban Growth
Report released in September by Metro, the
elected regional government. The report
says cities within the region can accommodate all predicted residential growth during
the next 20 years by increasing density.
“This report deserves special attention by citizens and
professionals in the local
business community because
it distorts economic data and
will lead the region to make
decisions that will harm economic growth,” says the
study, which was written by
Gerard C.S. Mildner, academic director of PSU’s Center for
Real Estate.
State law requires Metro
to maintain a 20-year supply
of buildable land within the
growth boundary. The Metro Council must decide
whether to expand it every
five years or so, and the
next decision is scheduled
for 2015. The report was prepare by Metro staff to help
guide the decision. The Met— Gerard C.S.
ro Council will consider
Mildner, PSU
adopting it at 2 p.m. on
Center for Real
Thursday, Dec. 4.
Estate
Mildner’s “Density at Any
Costs,” the study is the first
independent housing analysis of the Metro report. Many of its findings
also apply to the draft comprehensive landuse plan update under consideration in Portland, which also envisions higher density.
The study was posted on the center’s website
on Monday.
The Metro report predicts a reversal of
historic home building trends during the
next 20 years, with most new housing being
multifamily apartments and condominiums
in urban centers and along transit corridors.
But Mildner’s study says that reversing the
housing mix would substantially increase
housing costs in the Portland region in the
next 20 years, making it the fourth most expensive metropolitan area in the country,
just behind San Francisco, Washington, D.C.,
and San Diego. Portland is the 15th most expensive metropolitan area in the county, behind Phoenix, Chicago and Denver.
And, according to Mildner’s study, local
governments would have to spend billions on
subsidies and infrastructure improvements
to support these new multifamily buildings,
including development incentives and new
mass transit lines.
“I feel that
the Metro
leadership is
forcing the
staff to
make more
extreme
assumptions
about supply
capacity.”
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Clean Energy Works taps smart market
Area homes sought
to take part in Nest
technology program
By JIM REDDEN
The Tribune
If you’re thinking about
making your home safer or
more energy efficient, Clean
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a deal for you — a free hightech thermostat that can reduce heating and cooling bills
by around 20 percent and normally costs about $250.
Marshall Runkel installed a
Nest Learning Thermostat in his
Northeast Portland home a few
months ago. It has mastered his
family’s routines and automatically turns the heat up when
they need it and down when they
don’t. He didn’t even need to upgrade his 15-year-old natural gas
furnace for it to work. And the
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“Now I’ve got a smart thermostat instead of a dumb guy programming my furnace,” says
Runkel, an energy efficiency contractor, who has upgraded his
large 1910 home over time.
Among other things, the thermostat — made by Nest Labs —
has a built-in sensor that moni-
Marshall Runkle
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Santa: Lessons in beard-grooming, gesticulation
■ From page 1
learn the surprisingly rigorous
art of playing Santa. But for
the Eplers, Santa isn’t just
about dressing up to give kids
a thrill. For them, Santa is, in a
sense, completely real.
“I truly believe inside of everyone there is Santa Claus,”
says Tom. “Santa Claus is truly like a secret giver. Everyone
has it inside of them, and it’s
just letting it come out.”
Tom, co-owner of the L-BarT Bison Ranch and EF Nursery along with Lori, says he
dressed up as Santa when his
children attended preschool.
Now that they’re all grown up
and have children of their own,
Tom decided to reprise his
role as Santa for the grandkids.
This time, however, he decided to go pro.
Tom graduated this fall from
the Santa Claus School, where
he spent five days learning
child psychology, beardgrooming techniques, correct
gesticulation, how to ho-ho-ho,
how to answer impossible
questions kids might ask,
learning some sign language
and Spanish and an array of
other skills.
Happy to the core
On Nov. 7, Tom started playing Santa at the Clackamas
Town Center, where he’ll hold
court as the Jolly Old Elf for
four to five hours every day
through Christmas Eve. Previously, Tom had only done a
handful of gigs, entertaining
20 children at the most. Lori
won’t be at the mall, but she
and Tom will be making appearances elsewhere as Santa
and Mrs. Claus throughout the
holiday season.
Lori says the births of the
couple’s grandchildren — the
Epler brood grew by three in
the last two years and one
more is on the way — prompted them to take up the roles of
Santa and Mrs. Claus. She also
says they wanted to counteract what they see as a growing
cynicism in society.
“Magic has been thrown
away to the side,” she says.
“And I think that’s where we
both are coming from and
that’s why we both wanted to
do this.”
Susen Mesco, founder and
director of the Santa Claus
School, says that since the
school opened in 1983 it has
graduated around 2,500 Santas
from across the country, as
well as a few from South Africa and South Korea.
Mesco calls her school the
“major leagues” for aspiring
Santas. Students spend five
days from early in the morning until late at night learning
the ins and outs of being San-
PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP: CHASE ALLGOOD
Tom and Lori Epler met with children and their families in late October during a downtown Forest Grove event.
ta. They are taught
bring love and comfort
stretching exercises
to people’s hearts?”
and what snacks to
She gave Tom her
eat during breaks.
Santa seal of approval.
They are taught how
“Tom epitomizes
to deal with a ramthat. He’s a very caring
bunctious, flirty secand happy-to-the-core
retary at a holiday ofkind of person, so he alfice party. They are
ready has the Santa
taught how to respirit.”
spond if a child asks
No longer grandpa
to have their deTom has had a beard
ceased grandmother
since he was 18. He cut
back for Christmas.
it once during his 28
Kids are brought in
years of marriage and
to test the Santas by
grew it back after Lori
pulling on their
insisted. But it’s not
beards and rummaging through their toy
— Susen Mesco, enough just to have a
sacks.
Professional beard. Tom has been
“Santa starts in the
Santa Claus steadily growing out his
heart,” says Mesco.
School of Denver beard since last Christmas, and he periodical“It’s not the real
ly bleaches it so that it
beard; it’s not the belly; it’s the intention of the per- turns from salt and pepper to
white. Tom, who is 57, says his
son who put on that suit. Do
they love people? Do they love white beard makes him look
older than his father and gets
children? Do they want to
“Tom
epitomizes
that. He’s a
very caring
and happyto-thecore kind of
person, so
he already
has the
Santa
spirit.”
him senior discounts.
Sometimes he’ll get looks
from kids who suspect he’s
Santa. Tom will look back and
put his index finger to his lips.
Lori will use horse-hair
products to get her husband’s
beard the right shade of white
this holiday season. Before he
dons the velvet Santa suit
sewed by Lori — an accomplished seamstress — Tom’s
beard needs to be fluffed,
curled and have sparkles added to it. Lori says no one wants
a hairy or stinky Santa, so
Tom will wear long, white
gloves to cover up his arm hair
and cologne that makes him
smell like sugar cookies or
peppermint.
It’s a lot of preparation, but
the results are magical, notes
Lori. She recalls their granddaughter watching in awe as
Tom made his transformation.
“He was no longer grandpa,”
says Lori. “He was Santa.”
Epler, in full Jolly
Old Elf regalia,
stands with
Susen Mesco of
the Professional
Santa Claus
School of Denver
after receiving
his Santa
certification.
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Street fee sunset may
not sway opponents
PDXBriefly
Christmas potluck moves to art
museum ballroom
Potluck in the Park’s annual
Christmas Dinner moves this
month to the Portland Art Museum Kridel Grand Ballroom,
1219 S.W. Park Ave.
Dinner will be served from
noon to 3 p.m. on Christmas Day.
Potluck in the Park volunteers
anticipate serving as many as
1,500 guests this year.
For 20 years, Potluck in the
Park has served free Christmas
Dinner in the YWCA gymnasium on Southwest 10th Avenue.
After the YWCA building was
sold, the group had to find a new
home for the annual dinner.
“We are ecstatic to have found
a new home right across the
street and with the bonus of a
much larger room,” said organizer David Utzinger.
The dinner is open to anyone
in need, or anyone who is without friends or family on the holiday. Guests will dine on a traditional holiday meal accompanied
by music by Portland jazz musicians. They also will receive
gifts, have their photos taken
with Santa Claus and make free
phone calls.
Donations to defray the costs
of the all-volunteer program can
be made at the Potluck in the
Park website, potluckinthepark.
org.
Beavercreek artist wins game
bird stamp contest
Beavercreek artist Shari Erickson’s painting of a gray partridge was among four winners
in the Oregon Department of
Fish and Wildlife’s 2015 Habitat
Conservation, Upland Game
Bird and Waterfowl Stamp art
contests.
Eickson was the Upland Game
Bird Stamp winner. She received
a $3,000 prize, and her painting
will be used to produce 2015 col-
COURTESY OF ODFW
Beavercreek artist Shari Erickson received a $3,000 prize for her
painting of a gray partridge in the state 2015 Upland Game Bird art
contests.
lector stamps and other promotional items to benefit Oregon’s
species and habitats.
Oregon’s Upland Game Bird
stamp art contest began in 1990
and each year features one of 10
upland game bird species found
in Oregon. This year, artists
were asked to feature Hungarian
(gray) partridge.
The sale of waterfowl and upland game bird stamps funds
game bird research, surveys,
hunt programs, habitat improvement and conservation projects.
Bikes for Humanity hosts
Gresham donation drive
Portland-area nonprofit service project Bikes For Humanity
PDX hosts its bicycle grant and
donation drive Saturday and
WebSurvey
In light of President Obama’s immigration
order, which could protect over 60,000 illegal
immigrants in Oregon from deportation, do you
support or oppose this action?
Yes, President Obama did the right thing.
150 PEOPLE
No, the president should not have acted unilaterally.
147 PEOPLE
Sunday, Dec. 6 and 7, at Centennial High School, 3505 S.E. 182nd
Ave., Gresham.
The drive is from 10 a.m. to 3
p.m. both days.
The group will provide 40 bicycles and accessories to students of Centennial High School,
Centennial Middle School, Lynch
Meadows and Lynch Wood Elementary Schools. Volunteers also will provide free public bicycle repairs and NW Bicycle
Safety Council will provide free
helmets.
Bikes for Humanity PDX also
is seeking donations of bicycles
and cash to help its mission.
For more information, go to
b4hpdx.org.
Benson ready to unveil chef’s
annual gingerbread creation
The Benson Hotel’s Chef David Diffendorfer is ready to
unveil his annual gingerbread
masterpiece.
Diffendorfer’s annual creation made from 200 pounds of
gingerbread, marzipan and
chocolate will be unveiled at
4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 3, at
the hotel, 309 S.W. Broadway.
For more than 40 years, the
hotel has hosted a gingerbread
house display. Diffendorfer
has used the ingredients to
create replicas of downtown
Portland or the Falkenstein
Castle.
This year’s creation took
more than 300 hours to build.
owns the Odango Hair Studio
and runs the No Portland Street
Fee Facebook page.
for maintenance and safety projects, minus administrative costs.
Fifty-eight percent of the available funds will be spent on mainPublic wants a say
tenance and 42 percent will be
Hales and Novick are insisting spent on safety improvements.
By JIM REDDEN
the council approve the fee withThe council will take public
The Tribune
out putting it on the ballot. They testimony on two proposed
have changed their proposal amendments on Dec. 3. One is
A sunset clause being addcompletely since it was first in- the sunset clause. The other is a
ed to the proposed street fee
troduced in May to address pub- guarantee that funding for pavemay please city Commissionlic criticisms. It now includes ment maintenance from noner Amanda Fritz, but it’s not
two ordinances. One creates a fund sources will not drop below
enough to derail the petition
progressive personal income tax current levels if the fee is apdrive planned
as the residential portion. The proved. This will ensure that
by opponents
other creates a sliding scale for passage of the fee will more than
to put it on the
businesses, governments and double the annual pavement
ballot.
nonprofit organizations as the maintenance budget from curMayor Charnon-residential portion.
rent levels.
lie Hales and
A recent poll found that the
If the council then approves
city Commisvast majority of Portlanders the fee without placing it on
sioner Steve
want to vote on the income tax the ballot, opponents will have
Novick have
portion, however. According to 30 days to collect signatures
ag r e e d t h e
the poll, 77 percent of voter be- from 20,897 registered PortNOVICK lieve the city creation of a new land voters for each one of
street
fee
should expire
city personal income tax to pay them — a total of 41,794 valid
after six years unless renewed for street maintenance and safe- signatures. If enough valid sigby the City Council. Fritz, the ty should be approved by voters natures are collected and subsupposed third vote to enact the before it is implemented.
mitted to city elections offifee without referring it to the
The poll among Portland-area cials, the proposal will not
voters, said she favored the pro- voters was conducted by Moore take effect unless it is apvision during the Nov. 20 council Information. It was commis- proved by the voters.
hearing on it.
sioned by employers and associNovick says most Portlanders
The change will require the ations, and coordinated by the understand the city needs new
final vote to be pushed back a Portland Business Alliance. The revenue to fix the streets, even
week until Dec. 10. But even phone poll of 400 voting age Port- though they might favor one
though it might finally be landers was conducted on Nov. source over another.
enough to win Fritz’s support, it 22 and 23.
“We also know that about 67
won’t stop opponents from tryBut Novick bepercent of Portlanding to refer it to Portland voters. lieves the result
ers understand that
“It doesn’t make any differ- would be the same,
we need more money
ence. We believe that people regardless of the revfor transportation.
overwhelmingly want to vote enue source. “I’m 100
And that it is hard to
on it,” says lobbyist Paul Ro- percent certain that
get consensus on how
main, who is helping organize you’d get the same
to raise the money.
and fund the potential referral poll result no matter
Generally, though,
drive. His clients include the wh i c h
r eve n u e
people tend to asOregon Fuels Association, mechanism you
sume that everyone
which represents fuel and were talking about,”
else would support
heating oil distributors, retail- Novick says.
whatever they’d supers and marketers.
The proposal has
port. So people who
Another opponent, small- its supporters, howwant a gas tax say,
business owner Ann Sanderson, ever. Several advo‘yes, let’s have a vote,
also says the sunset clause cates for the elderly,
and what you should
hasn’t changed her mind. “While the environment,
really do is have a
a real sunset with a true end and low-income Portvote on a gas tax, and
date — and we don’t really know landers testified they
I bet everyone will
yet if it’s even a real sunset and are prepared to camjoin me in voting for
not just a toothless imposter — paign for it at the
it.’ But in fact it would
would be a move in the right di- Nov. 20 hearing. The
be pretty tough to get
rection, it certainly doesn’t fix organizations ina majority for the gas
the flaws in these new tax clude AARP, the Bitax. So it doesn’t surschemes enough to gain public cycle Transportation
— Steve Novick, city prise me that people
support. But if the Mayor and Alliance, the Coalicommissioner want to vote — but I
Commissioner think that this tion for a Livable Futhink many people asimproves their proposal enough ture and OPAL Envisume that a vote
to gain public approval, then ronmental Justice.
would result in their preferred
they shouldn’t be afraid of letRenamed the Portland Street alternative passing, because
ting the voters weigh in on elec- Fund, the revised proposal is in- they assume more consensus
tion day,” says Sanderson, who tended to raise $46 million a year than there is,” Novick says.
Council delays vote;
polls shows support for
opposition initiative
“It doesn’t
surprise me
that people
want to vote
— but I think
many people
assume that a
vote would
result in their
preferred
alternative
passing,
because they
assume more
consensus
than there is.”
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Street fee caught in political traffic
Forget the drama, fee Mayor should listen
is a good compromise and fix fee’s hot mess
TWOVIEWS
By Ruth Adkins
T
here’s been a lot of drama
around the proposed new street
fee. The reality is that with the
help of community stakeholders, Mayor Charlie Hales and city Commissioner Steve Novick have come up
with a solid, compromise proposal. The
proposed fees are fair and reasonable,
and will bring in urgently needed new
revenue for safety and maintenance investments across our city.
While no tax is ever popular, we elected our City Council to make the tough
decisions. We cannot wait any longer to
get started on fixing Portland’s backlog
of street maintenance and safety needs.
The council should vote to enact the
street fees immediately so we can start
fixing our streets as soon as possible.
Back in May, the nonprofit housing organization I work for, along with many
others in the community, opposed the
street fee proposal that was then on the
table. We’re in a very different place today. Here’s why I, along with many other
progressive advocates, strongly support
the street fee proposal before City Council.
During the summer and early fall, I
served as chair of an advisory committee
focused on low-income residents and nonprofits, with representation from an array
of nonprofit organizations. There was also
a business advisory committee as well as
an overarching citizen advisory group.
All together the diverse membership
of these committees represented more
than 60 organizations, businesses and
groups. With the help of hard-working
city staff, the volunteers on these committees dug into the complex policy issues, discussing multiple alternative options and coming up with a recommended new approach.
While no public process is ever perfect, the final proposal in my view is
vastly improved from the initial one
back in May. Our nonprofit advisory
group strongly supports it, and we hope
City Council does, too.
It’s a fair compromise in which no one
got everything they wanted. For example, many progressive advocates urged
that wealthier households should pay
more; and business advocates wanted a
bigger chunk of the money to go to
maintenance rather than safety.
Here’s some basic facts on the street
fee proposal currently before City
Council:
■ The monthly amount of both the
business and the residential fees are significantly lower than initially proposed
back in May.
■ The residential fee ranges from zero for the lowest-income households, to
$75 a month for the wealthiest. Middleincome households will pay a modest
amount (a couple making between
$60,000 and $75,000 a year will pay $7.50 a
month).
■ Businesses will pay between $3 and
$144 a month per location depending on
size, with a 50 percent discount for nonprofit organizations.
■ A new, dedicated Portland Street
Fund will allocate 56 percent of net revenue to maintenance, and 44 percent to
safety projects, including projects in every school district to help our kids safely
get to school.
■ Nearly 40 percent of the first three
years of safety improvements will be
made in East Portland, an area of our
city that has historically been neglected
and greatly needs safety and infrastructure investment.
■ There will be public oversight and
audits to ensure the funds are spent as
promised.
■ There could be a sunset provision
so that the council can formally review
and evaluate the program after it has
been in place for six years.
The past few months of public input
have resulted in a fair, equitable, compromise proposal that will begin to address the urgent safety and maintenance needs across our city. As an advocate for low-income residents — and as a
middle-income Portland homeowner — I
urge City Council to vote “yes” and
move us forward on making the investments our city needs in the safety and
maintenance of our streets.
Ruth Adkins is policy director at Oregon
Opportunity Network, a statewide association
of affordable housing and community
development nonprofits.
TWOVIEWS
By Eric Fruits
T
he Urban Dictionary defines a
“hot mess” as something that
is in “obvious disarray or disorganization, esp. while remaining attractive in spite of this.”
“Hot mess” also describes what is
known as the Portland street fee. The
proposal is in disarray and lacks any
coherent organization, yet is attractive
to Mayor Charlie Hales and city Commissioner Steve Novick in spite of this.
The initial street fee plan was fundamentally flawed. It was so bad, in fact,
that the mayor pulled the plan before
the City Council could vote on it. Despite its huge flaws, the original plan
had the advantage of being tied — very
loosely — to the number of trips associated with a property.
Now, fast forward through a summer
of “working groups” that met to find alternative funding sources and to improve the tax/fee structure. The work
groups represented businesses, low-income residents and nonprofits, but excluded the 85 percent of middle class
residents who don’t fall into one of
those groups.
The work group process produced a
plan that was worse than the original
proposal in almost every single way. Instead of a per-household residential fee,
the City Council is considering an income tax that exempts the city’s poorest, caps the amount paid by the city’s
richest and squeezes the middle class
the hardest.
Instead of a transportation fee on
businesses, the council is considering a
quasi-property tax that is based on a
complex mishmash of a property’s
square footage, revenue, number of employees and business type — but has
nothing to do with actual trips generated. Under the current proposal, the
Port of Portland with its airport and its
shipping terminals would pay about the
same as The Salvation Army.
If this tax is passed by the council, be
prepared for years of lawsuits arguing
that the tax violates the state’s property tax limitations. Instead of a fee tied
to the city’s existing water and sewer
metering and collection system, the
new proposal will require a huge new
bureaucracy to create, implement, collect and enforce the two new taxes.
On top of that, the city will require
residents and businesses to send in
their federal tax forms, and will work
with the federal Internal Revenue Service to audit Portlanders. The city’s revenue bureau estimates that in the first
three years, about 30 percent of the total tax bill will be spent on compliance
and administration. That’s millions of
dollars that will not repair a single road
and won’t save a single life.
Mayor Hales has repeatedly told the
people of Portland, “Our choices are do
this, do nothing or do something else.”
When told over and over that the city
should do something else, Mayor Hales
and Commissioner Novick complain
that they haven’t heard any alternatives. That is simply not true.
What is true is that many Portlanders have offered many alternatives. For
example, GoLocalPDX listed 11 alternative funding sources, including lobbying for a city gas tax, reforming urban
renewal and changing parking fees.
Others have suggested making the
Portland Streetcar self-sufficient or
turning it over to TriMet.
The Portland Development Commission sets aside 30 percent of its budget
for affordable housing. A similar setaside for streets would be reasonable
and would have the added impact of improving property values.
Portlanders have given the mayor
some great ideas, some good ideas and
some not-so-good ideas. But to say that
no one has offered any solutions is flatout wrong and offensive to the people
who have come forward on this and many other issues.
The proposal before the City Council is an unfair, invasive and wasteful
hot mess. It cannot be repaired with
tweaks, revisions or sunsets. It should
be tossed out entirely and the process
begun all over with input from all
Portlanders.
Eric Fruits is a Portland economist and
consultant who founded the website
NoStreetFee.com.
WEHEARDIT
“We also know that about 67 percent of Portlanders
understand that we need more money for transportation. And
that it is hard to get consensus on how to raise the money.
Generally, though, people tend to assume that everyone else
would support whatever they’d support.”
— City Commissioner Steve Novick, on an opposition plan to require
a public vote on a proposed city street fee
“Millions of people’s lives will be changed for the better.”
— Andrea Miller, executive director of Causa, an Oregon immigrant rights group, on President Obama’s
Nov. 20 executive order on immigration
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im was born in North Carolina to Margaret
and James G. Hood in 1931.
Jim grew up in Fairview Oregon, attended
Fairview Grade School and graduated from
Gresham High School in 1952. After high school,
Jim went into U nited States Army where he served
with pride. Jim married Shirley Forman and had
two beautiful children, Jan Walker and Julie Hood
Buckland. Shirley Hood passed away in June of
1988.
Jim was a successful businessman with John
Hancock for over 50 years were he made many
wonderful friends and personal relationships.
He enjoyed being a part of the local community
in Gresham where he was a founding member of
the Gresham Business Men’ s Club and was active
in the local politics.
He had a great sense of humor, infectious laugh,
and incredible memory and enjoyed nothing more
than being surrounded by friends and family.
Jim is survived by his wife Carol Nielson Hood;
and his two children; Jan Walker ( Dave) and Julie
Hood Buckland, seven grandchildren and one
great-grandchild, his two sisters Peggy Buck ( Bob)
and Betty Owens, and a brother Thomas B. Hood.
Services will be held at the Grace Community
Church, December 3, at 3: 00PM; 800 SE Hogan
Road, Gresham Oregon.
Eldon Korpela
March 17, 1927 to October 28, 2014
Eldon was born in Astoria,
Ore. He was a commercial
fisherman in both Oregon
and Alaska and a teacher. He
graduated from Oregon State
University in 1950 with a
fisheries degree. He received
his Master’s degree in marine
biology from the University of
New Mexico in 1964.
Eldon taught biology at
Astoria High School until
his retirement in 1985, while continuing to fish during
the summers. He started a fish hatchery program at the
high school, gathering support and funding from local
industry, friends and the community. In 2010, he was
honored for his dedication to the hatchery program with
the renaming of the building now known as the Eldon
Korpela Applied Science Center.
Eldon and his wife, Betty, moved to West Linn
in 1994 to be closer to their two grandchildren Kelly
and Matthew Glaser. They were devoted to the kids
and their activities both educational and sports. Eldon
never missed a Laker football game or practice until
Matt graduated in 2002. He was also a Beaver supporter
and lifetime alumni member. Eldon also enjoyed golf
- his claim to fame was three holes-in-one in one year.
He and Betty traveled with friends and family both in
the U.S. and internationally. They were also active at
the West Linn Adult Community Center. Betty died in
2003, after 52 years of marriage.
Eldon is survived by daughters Kathy Glaser
of Lake Oswego and Susan Korpela of Astoria;
grandchildren Kelly Glaser Schreiner of Olympia and
Matthew Glaser of Los Angeles; great-grandchildren
Lydia and Levi Schreiner.
Dad spent the last four years of his life in memory
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Dona Lee Koepke
May 9, 1932 to October 12, 2014
Dona Lee Koepke passed
away peacefully at her home
on Oct. 31, 2014 after a long
battle with leukemia. Born
May 9, 1932 in Garibaldi,
Ore., she was the middle child
of Wells and Juanita Foote.
After graduating from
Washington High School, she
married Denis Kidd and they
had three sons. Denis, a 2nd
Lieutenant in the Air Force,
was killed during a routine
training flight.
In 1959, Dona married Donald Koepke and together
they moved the family to Lake Oswego where they
had two more sons and lived until her passing.
After family, gardening, skiing and her favorite
charity, the Hemophilia Foundation of Oregon, were
Dona’s passions. Her constant smile, laugh and upbeat
attitude will be greatly missed.
She is survived by her husband, Don; her sons, Carl
Kidd, Dan Kidd (Janice), Bruce Koepke (Heidi) and
Paul Koepke (Carrie), seven grandchildren and three
great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her
parents, brother, first husband and first child.
A Celebration of Life will be held at Willamette
Christian Church, 3153 Brandywine Drive, in West
Linn at 1 p.m. Dec. 4, 2014.
Crown Memorial Center is in charge of arrangements.
In Loving Memory
Sandra “Sandy” Taylor
December 27, 1964 November 20, 2014
Sandra “Sandy” Taylor, passed away at home
in Gresham, OR on November 20, 2014, at the age
of 49.
She was born on December 27, 1964 in Salem,
OR. She graduated from Rex Putnum high school
in 1983. Sandy worked as an accountant in the
Real estate business for several years. She married
Gerald Taylor on June 27, 2003.
She enjoyed going to the Oregon and
Washington coast, deep sea fishing, sewing, and
being with her family and friends.
Survivors include her husband, Gerald at
home, children, Daniel Gambee of Portland, OR.,
Katherine Gambee, of Costa Mesa, CA., and
Nicholas Gambee of Demascus, OR., brother
Steve Buntjer of Milwaukie, OR., sister Kristen
Randall, of California, step-children, Nicholas
Taylor, of Eugene, OR., Megan Foster, of
Vancouver, WA, Jessica Hakins, and Erica Gambee
both of Lake Oswego, OR., Inlaws Richard and
Beverly Martin of Battle Ground, WA., and Butch
Taylor of Vancouver. 5 Grandchildren. She was
preceded in death by her mother Barbara.
A Celebration of Life Service will be announced
at a later date.
Arrangements are under the care of Davies
Cremation & Burial Service.
In Loving Memory
H e le n L am k e
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September 13, 1923 November 19, 2014
Longtime Sandy resident, Helen
Lamke died at her home on Wednesday,
November 19, 2014. She was 91.
A Funeral Service was held at Sandy
Funeral Home on Monday, November 24,
2014 at 1: 00 p.m. Burial followed at Cliffside Cemetery.
She was born, Helen Louise Kaemph to Peter and
Nellie Kaemph on September 13, 1923 in Green Bay,
Wisconsin. Helen was raised by her grandparents and at
the age of 10, they moved to Oregon. They made their
home in Oregon City where she received her schooling.
After graduating from high school, she furthered her
education at Mt. Angel Catholic Seminary. Due to the
war breaking out, she had to discontinue school and went
to work at the Oregon City Paper Mill. After the war,
Helen worked at the Oregon City Laundry and it was
during this time that she met her future husband, Albert
J. Lamke at a dance hall at Oaks Park.
On June 28, 1947, they were united in marriage.
They made their home in Oak Grove for a short time
prior to moving to Sandy in 1953 when her husband
began his dental practice. Besides caring for her family,
Helen worked beside her husband in the office. In 1986,
Albert preceded her in death. Helen continued working
and was employed at the Oregon Candy Farm and later
demoed food products at Fred Meyers in Gresham until
retiring at age 82 due to health issues.
Helen was passionate about her family, putting
everyone first! She had a giving heart and faithfully
collected toys year around for the Sandy Kiwanis
Baskets for over 35 years. Helen was an avid fisherman,
bowler and golfer. She also enjoyed playing games and
cards. Helen and her husband enjoyed doing these things
together along with their children and grandchildren.
Surviving are her children, Nola Leibrand of Colton,
Ned Lamke and Lynne Fischer both of Sandy; her sister,
Mary Jenkins of Phoenix, Ariz ona; her brothers, Fred
and Ed Gluntz both of Phoenix, Ariz ona; 5 grandchildren
and 10 great grandchildren. She is preceded in death by
her son, Brian Lamke and great-grandson Kevin Fischer.
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Thelma Winters Buswell, Molalla,
OR, died at 101 years old on
November 21, 2014.
Thelma was born to William and
Lulu ( Pickens) Winters, Holbrook, OR,
June 12, 1913.
She married Edwin Buswell 1932.
Thelma, a three pound preemie,
amaz ed all to become a happy, beloved wife, mother, friend and
homemaker.
Descendant of Oregon pioneers, she was Sandy Pioneer
Q ueen of 1993.
Thelma resided in several communities before marriage,
then settled in Sandy, 1934-57; relocated to Willamina, 1957-64;
then Molalla, 1964 to present.
Thelma is survived by offspring Edwina Logan ( Brice) ; Guy
( Beverly) ; Steven ( Joella) ; and Jud ( Stephanie) ; sister Genevieve
Mabane; nieces Loretta Hubbell and Haz el Olsen; nephew Roger
Davidson; 16 grandchildren, 21 great grandchildren and 5 greatgreat grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by husband Ed; son Lyle; great
grandson Logan; sisters Marjorie Davidson and Leila O’ Leary.
A celebration of her life for family and friends:
Molalla Naz arene Church Thursday December 4th at 1pm;
Pastor Larry Bingham, officiating.
For more, please visit Thelma’ s tribute website,
www.anewtradition.com, and click on “Obituaries and Tributes”.
Eric GlenAlan Egland, age
64, of West Linn, Ore., passed
away on Nov. 23, 2014. He was
the beloved husband of Sally
Egland of West Linn.
Eric was born in Portland,
Ore. on Nov. 17, 1950, son of
the late Glen and Esther (Janz)
Egland. Eric graduated from
Washington High School in
Portland in 1968 and Portland
State University in 1972 with a
Bachelor of Arts degree.
The majority of Eric’s professional career was in
food industry sales and marketing for Kraft General
Foods, Good Humor-Breyers Ice Cream and Oregon
Ice Cream. Eric also worked for the Boy Scouts of
America, Lifeline First Aid, the Portland Tribune and
AmeriCold Logistics.
Eric is survived by his wife of 43 years, Sally
(Swinford) Egland; four children, Aaron (Alina) Egland,
Adam (Elizabeth) Egland, Ben Egland and Abby
Egland; two grandchildren, Luke and Elliot Egland;
brother, Bruce (Sonjia) Egland; brothers/sisters-in-law,
Bennie (Karen) Swinford, Jack Swinford, Susan (Guy)
Elliott and Craig (Anne) Swinford and numerous aunts,
uncles, cousins, nieces and nephews.
A funeral Mass will be held at 10 a.m. Friday, Dec. 5
at Resurrection Catholic Parish in Tualatin, Ore. In lieu
of flowers, the family requests that donations be made
to the West Linn Lions Club Foundation Scholarship
Fund, 19363 Willamette Dr., West Linn, Ore. 97068.
Funeral arrangements by Cornwell Colonial Chapel.
NEWS A7
The Portland Tribune Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Neighborhood groups say city
demolition changes need work
Compromise seen as
good start, falls short
of needed reforms
An Eastmoreland
home was
demolished to
make way for a
new house.
Portland
neighborhood
leaders want the
city to tighten
rules governing
residential
demolition and
infill projects.
By JIM REDDEN
The Tribune
who oversees BDS, wants the
council to consider the recommendations before the end of
the year.
The activists complain the
demolition and infill projects
are destroying the character of
Portland neighborhoods. The
number of demolition permits
issued by BDS is expected to increase from 279 in 2013 to more
than 400 this year. Thousands of
permits are also being issued
each year for major remodeling
projects where most of the
houses are demolished.
Falling short
Some of the activists praised
DRAC’s work.
“I think this is excellent
progress. No negotiation is
ever perfect, but I see a real
benefit to the community in
these changes,” says Robert
McCollough, chairman of the
Eastmoreland Neighborhood
Association, where some of the
most controversial demolitions
have occurred.
One exception is the pro-
“Nobody
thinks
they’re
perfect, but
they’re
pretty good,
considering
we were
under time
constraints.”
Growth: Land-use decisions loom
But Metro spokesman Jim
Middaugh dismisses Mildner
as one of several “libertarianminded activists” in the region
working to repeal Oregon’s
land-use planning laws. He
says the region does not have
enough available land to support even a 50/50 mix of single
family homes and multifamily
housing in the future.
“The kind of development
Mildner and his supporters espouse would require adding a
minimum of 4,000 acres to our
UGB every six years,” Middaugh says. That’s the equivalent of a parking lot with more
than a million spaces — an area
three quarters the size of Forest Park. A million cars would
form a bumper-to-bumper line
from Portland, Oregon, to close
to Portland, Maine.”
According to Middaugh,
“Metro’s goal is to work with
local cities and towns to make
sure that wherever new growth
happens, it’s well-planned, efficient for taxpayers and good
for our local economy. That’s
what voters in this region value. That’s what local cities are
asking for. That is what Metro
is doing.”
Mildner denies the accusations, saying he is only trying
to understand the implications
of Metro’s land-use planning
decisions.
According to PSU, the Center
for Real Estate was formed in
2004 as a partnership between
the Schools of Urban Studies and
Planning and Business Administration to manage the real estate
programs at the university and
serve as the link to the real estate community. Mildner has a
B.A. in Public Affairs from the
University of Chicago and a
Ph.D. in Economics from New
York University. His research is
focused on the economics of local government, including
growth management, rent control, municipal sports stadiums,
housing markets, land-use regulation and urban transportation.
Mildner has written or cowritten numerous papers raising questions about land-use
planning policies like those in
Oregon and the Portland area.
He has consistently said government efforts to restrict
where growth can occur frequently have unintended consequences, including higher
housing costs and additional
taxes required for mass transit
systems to move urban dwellers around.
Taller buildings?
Metro planners prepared the
Urban Growth Report to help
guide the council’s growth
boundary decisions. They are
based in part on an in-house
computer modeling program
called Metroscope and an analysis of land-use plans adopted
or under consideration by the
cities within the boundary.
Mildner says he received several Metro staff briefings on
the 2014 report while serving
on a number of local land-use
groups in his official capacity.
“Most of the business leaders were concerned about
land availability for industrial
supply. My expertise is housing policy and no one was
looking at that section of the
report. The more I looked at,
the more I was appalled,” says
Mildner.
Among other things, Mildner
says the projected increase in
multifamily housing will double rents during the next 20
years. That is partly because
the taller buildings envisioned
in the report are the most expensive to build.
This will be especially true in
Portland, Mildner says, where
the report predicts that 60.2
percent of all new residential
construction will happen. Ac-
cording to the report, 92 percent of that construction will be
multifamily housing — and 37.9
percent will be the same density as the Pearl District. That
will require many of the new
buildings to be more than five
stories high, which require
steel construction and underground parking.
“The amount of the increases in prices required by the Metroscope model is staggering ...
In terms of income inequality,
the large projected increases in
housing costs work greatly to
the disadvantage of low-income
households,” according to the
study.
But Mildner’s study says the
government housing subsidizes required to achieve such
density levels are also staggering — almost $3 billion in developer incentives. They range
from $10,000 per unit in Tigard
to $50,000 per unit in central
Portland.
“While the report says that
there subsidies are, ‘based on
existing programs,’ none of
these programs are currently
producing housing on this
scale,” according to the study.
“Moreover, nothing in the Urban Growth Report suggests
where these subsidy dollars
will come from.”
Mildner’s report can be found
at pdx.edu/realestate/sites/
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‘Small intangibles’
The thermostat offer marks
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rooms. Runkel has also installed into the most advanced form of
the company’s smoke and carbon improved housing performance,
monoxide sensors, which moni- the so-called smart home. Techtors movement in other parts of nology exists to maximize the
the house and are connected to efficiency of homes with devices
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Good, but not good enough.
That was the reaction of
neighborhood activists to
reforms by a city committee to
address some of the complaints
about residential demolitions
and infill projects.
The Development Review Advisory Committee approved the
recommendations developed by
a subcommittee on Nov. 20. The
committee, which is comprised
primarily of developers and
neighborhood representatives,
advises the Bureau of Development Services, which issues demolition permits.
The recommendations include a new 35-day delay for all
residential demolitions, a new
category for “major alterations”
that requires a 35-day notification, expanded requirements
for neighborhood notifications
of pending demolitions, and replacing the 120-day delay available to neighborhood association with a voluntary 30-day extension. They will be drafted
into a proposal to be considered
by the City Council on Dec. 17.
“We think the recommendations are a good compromise.
Nobody thinks they’re perfect,
but they’re pretty good, considering we were under time constraints,” says Jeff Fish, a developer who leads the DRAC.
Commissioner Amanda Fritz,
address all of their concerns,
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nizations, including
achieve its goals. In
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clude requiring that
provision of the DRAC
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recommendation that
obtain for any remodeliminates an imporeling project that retant provision for demoves 50 percent or
molition delay that has
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bestos and lead paint,
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for eliminating the abil- Advisory Committee preservation organiity of developers to
zations have endorsed
take out a demolition
the proposal so far.
and building permit on the The group could present it to
same day, however.
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the recommendations do not hearing, if not sooner.
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Immigration attorney Leslie Martinez of Hillsboro speaks with Rosalba Avila, a client who became a citizen prior to 9/11. Rosalba and her
husband Juvenita have five children who are American-born and attend Hillsboro schools.
Immigrant advocates warily
celebrate Obama’s decision
Martinez can trace the tree
of her own Mexican family in
Washington County back more
than 50 years.
“My father was a migrant
farmworker with his nine siblings in the ‘60s,” she said.
“They worked in the fields outside Forest Grove.”
“My grandparents helped
form Centro Cultural,” she added — an organization founded
in 1972 by immigrant families
who had made permanent
homes in Washington County.
Martinez’s first husband and
father to her children (a
19-year-old daughter and
15-year-old son) was an undocumented Mexican, and her first
legal case was 21 years ago.
She and her husband moved
to Arizona to immerse their
children in Spanish, so they
would grow up bilingual.
“We were right near the border,” said Martinez, “and I saw
the border become very militarized after 9/11.”
When she heard Obama’s
speech last week, the portions
about children were particularly emotional for her.
“It struck a chord with me,”
she said. “Children who are
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might be deported, they can’t
qualify for health care. They
live in the shadows.”
“Millions of people’s lives
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Not all of the estimated 11 million people in the United States
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Some immigrants will qualify
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Three of Martinez’s clients
planned to discuss their cases
for this story, but one, an undocumented Washington
County resident, got cold feet
and left before the conversation started. “This is the most
legally complex case I have,”
Martinez said of the woman
who decided against talking
about her case. “The lady is
from El Salvador and the father
of her young child was an undocumented Mexican.” He
bought a house for them and
put the home in his name only.
“The dad went back to Mexico and was killed. The lady has
been making payments since.
Another client, 46-year-old
Rosalba Avila of Hillsboro,
married her husband, Juventino Avila Estrada, and came to
America one week after they
wed. Her husband, now 47, was
just 14 when he came to work
in the U.S.
“Twenty years ago, it was
more easy” to get legal status,
said Avila. “My husband had
amnesty from Ronald Reagan. I
went to get my forms in Portland, and they said, ‘OK, you
are married, you can get a
green card.’”
The couple’s five children —
ages 23, 22, 17, 12 and 4 — are
U.S. citizens, but have never
met their grandparents from
Mexico. Avila’s parents, who
she hasn’t seen in 25 years, are
in their early 70s.
“I have been trying to get my
parents here for seven years,”
said Avila. “We’re having trouble for them to come and visit.”
“It’s difficult for my family.
My parents only see pictures”
of their grandchildren, said
Avila.
“Many families can’t go to
funerals in Mexico because
they may not be able to get
back home,” said Martinez.
When Avila heard Obama’s
address on the radio Thursday
evening, she said it offered undocumented residents more
hope.
“I think the decision by the
president is a chance for jobs
— good jobs,” she added. “It’s a
good opportunity for families
and a benefit to the country.
They can buy houses, have opportunities for school and careers, to make a business.”
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After six years of often bitter back-and-forth with congressional
Republicans over the issue of immigration reform, President Obama
announced Nov. 20 that he will temporarily shield up to 5 million unauthorized immigrants from being deported from the U.S. Most of these
would be people who were brought to the United States as children or
who are family members of legal, permanent residents. The action does
not include a path to citizenship, and felons will still be deported.
Some are erroneously calling the move an executive order when it is
actually an executive action. Unlike executive orders, which are legally
binding, executive actions are more like informal proposals calling on
Congress — or in this case, administrative leaders — to take certain
actions. Both orders and actions can be reversed by the courts or by
legislation passed in Congress.
SW Teton Ave.
Hillsboro immigration attorney Leslie Martinez, a
U.S. citizen of MexicanAmerican descent, saw a big
change coming as she
watched President Obama’s
Nov. 20 immigration speech.
In her small practice behind
a Mexican import store she
owns with her husband, Martinez and her legal assistant
tuned in to Univision to watch
the address in Spanish.
Neither knew what to expect.
“We were thrilled,” said
Martinez. “I felt like crying a
number of times. This is a big
change for a lot of people —
friends, family and my clients.”
For at least one-quarter of
her caseload, she said, “this
should make a difference.”
However, Martinez and her
clients know the heartache
that can come from promised
action that doesn’t materialize.
Their enthusiasm for Obama’s
words is tempered by the reality that “coming out of the
shadows” still may be unwise.
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But the house is not in her
name, but her child’s name,”
said Martinez. “The child is a
U.S. citizen.
“The mortgage company is
after her to get the title
straight. The homeowner’s insurance has gone through the
roof.
“Obama’s executive action
means that if she can prove
she’s been here since 2010, is a
parent of a U.S. citizen, she can
request deferred action,” said
Martinez — as well as employment authorization in a new
“Deferred Action for Parental
Accountability” program. But
there are no guarantees.
SW Teton
Attorney, clients say
executive actions will
‘make a difference’
“The threshold for (licenses
in) most states is lawful or authorized presence in the United
States, and usually one of the
documents that states accept is a
work authorization document,”
says Tanya Broder, senior staff
attorney for the National Immigration Law Center.
Broder adds, however, that undocumented immigrants will
first have to wait to obtain federal work permits before they can
apply for driving privileges.
“We do not know how long it
will take afterward for someone
to get relief,” she says.
Oregonians for Immigration
Reform, whose leaders played a
key role in gathering the required signatures to force an
election that ended in a 2-to-1 defeat of Measure 88, decries
Obama’s overall action as “executive amnesty.”
Though representatives could
not be reached for comment, the
group says on its website that
Congress should use its budget
power to block Obama. “Opponents of amnesty would lose the
one tool that is available to them
to stop President Obama’s amnesty before millions more illegal aliens get work permits,” according to the group.
Leaders of the Republicancontrolled House and the incoming Republican majority in the
Senate have vowed to oppose
Obama’s order. But they have
shied away from using a forthcoming spending bill, which
would fund operations through
the end of the 2015 budget year,
as a threat to shut down the
government.
Obama’s programs will be paid
for from fees paid by applicants
to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, so congressional
approval is not required. The fee
is $465 per applicant; there are no
waivers or exemptions.
projected to qualify in addition to
the 1.7 million originally projected under DACA.
As of June, U.S. Citizenship
and Immigration Services reported 581,000 applicants accepted and 24,000 rejected under
DACA. Of the total, about 75 percent are from Mexico, and 10 percent from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras.
But the bulk of the affected
people under Obama’s latest order, estimated at around 3.7 million, are undocumented immigrants who are parents of U.S.
citizens or lawful permanent
residents. They also would qualify for deferred deportation and
three-year work permits, although they would have to undergo background checks and
pay taxes.
The new program will be
known as Deferred Action-Parental Accountability.
Erik Sorensen, a spokesman
for Oregon immigrant-rights
group Causa, says he understands that the new program
will mimic the existing DACA
program.
“There’s no question that
Oregonians who are eligible for
deferred action under President
Obama’s order for administrative relief are eligible for driver’s
licenses if they meet the requirements,” Sorensen says. “His action is an extension of a program
that has been in place for two
years.”
Sorensen says Causa, which
backed Measure 88 and the 2013
law that was overturned, will
await what state lawyers come
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AVENGING
ARIZONA
ON SPORTS
Ducks plot strategy
for rematch
PSU has
football
coaching
options
back that will be a big part of
what we do.”
The Beavers have transitioned
into using shotgun at about a 5050 rate with the direct snap from
center. They ran out of the shotgun more than ever before this
season, though they still almost
always huddled. That could
change next season. No-huddle,
at least at times? It could happen.
“We’re going to study the tempo thing,” Riley said. “It wouldn’t
be hard for us to (no-huddle)
with the way we call plays.”
Riley wants the offense to play
Notes, quotes and anecdotes
about those involved in the Portland sporting scene ...
■ Changes are brewing at
Portland State. At some point in
the next few weeks, PSU is expected to hire an athletic director to replace Torre Chisholm,
who departed in September and
was replaced by Valerie Cleary
on an interim basis.
After that, the Vikings will
address the football coaching
situation.
Nigel Burton
was fired last
Wednesday after five years
as head coach.
In his place is
interim coach
Bruce Barnum,
Burton’s
offensive
COURY
coordinator.
Hiring an AD comes first. A
selection committee, headed by
PSU faculty representative Bob
Lockwood, has pared a list of
candidates to three who will be
interviewed over the next two
weeks. Cleary, the Vikings’ associate athletic director/senior
woman administrator, is wellrespected, but not interested in
becoming a candidate. She is
expected to move back into her
previous post once a permanent
AD is named.
School President Wim Wiewel will also meet with the candidates and have the final say on
the hire. It’s possible, though,
that the committee will choose
to re-open the process and mull
other candidates, pushing back
the timing on the hire.
It’s also possible that, because
of the AD situation, Barnum
keeps the job for at least a season on a look-see basis. The
thinking is, that would provide
some stability and give the new
AD time to assess the situation,
rather than
make a rush More online
hire of someRead other
one
who
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ready be be- the week at portland
hind in the tribune.com
recruiting
process.
■ Once the Vikings are ready
to hire a football coach, four candidates who would be worthy of
selection:
— Tim Walsh, Cal Poly’s head
coach the past six seasons and
Portland State’s head coach for
14 years (1993-2006). Walsh is 3-0
against the Vikings during his
time at San Luis Obispo.
“I’ve had a lot of calls (from
friends and alums) concerning
both positions (AD and coach),”
Walsh says. “Portland State always will have a huge place in
my heart and my life, but as far
as going back, I’d have to know
more about the situation.”
— Steve Coury, longtime head
coach at Lake Oswego High.
Coury coached professional
football (in the World League)
and at the FBS level (Pittsburgh)
early in his career and has an
outstanding football mind with
strong in-state recruiting ties.
His son, Stevie, was a redshirt
freshman wide receiver for the
Vikings this fall.
“I’d take a look at the job, for
sure,” Coury says.
— June Jones, the one-time
Portland State quarterback who
quit as Southern Methodist’s
head coach two games into the
2014 season. Jones was twice a
head coach in the NFL (Atlanta,
San Diego) and resurrected a
moribund SMU program in 2008,
taking the Mustangs to four
straight bowl games, and three
bowl victories, from 2009-12.
Jones has local ties and has
been living in Oregon since his
resignation.
“I’ve thought about it, I’m interested, and I’m always rooting
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The high points of Oregon’s 11-1 season have revolved around Heisman Trophy favorite Marcus Mariota, who gets a lift from offensive lineman Jake Fisher and congrats from teammates
including receivers Darren Carrington (left) and Devon Allen after one of the six touchdowns he had a hand or feet in during the Ducks’ 47-19 victory Saturday at Oregon State.
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n a game lost by just one
touchdown, the smallest
mistakes get magnified.
Each failure becomes the
difference between winning and
losing.
When the Oregon Ducks look
back at their 31-24 loss to Arizona
on Oct. 2, there is plenty for the
players to lament.
Receiver Byron Marshall
dropped a sure touchdown pass
early in the game.
“I could’ve scored,” Marshall
says. “I hate going back and looking at the game and thinking that
if I had been better, or I had done
that, or if I had caught that ball ...
we’re all tired of thinking like
that.”
Linebacker Tony Washington
had a bonehead taunting penalty
on a sack late in the fourth quarter that allowed the Wildcats to
score the winning touchdown.
That play still makes Washington
bristle.
“I’m looking forward to the opportunity to play in the (Pac-12)
championship game,” Washing-
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ton says. “Doesn’t matter who it’s
against.”
The conference title game is
an Oregon-Arizona rematch.
Kickoff is 6 p.m. Friday at Levi’s
Stadium in Santa Clara, Calif.
Even Oregon quarterback
Marcus Mariota, the Heisman
Trophy favorite, has to look back
at the Arizona game and know
that he fumbled away the ball —
on a a great play by star linebacker Scooby Wright — as the Ducks
were trying to march down the
field to tie the game with time
running out.
The Wildcats (10-2) won the
Pac-12 South to earn their spot in
the championship game.
Friday will be Oregon’s opportunity for vengeance, not only for
this season, but also for the 42-16
thumping the Wildcats handed
the Ducks last season, when they
knocked Oregon out of the Pac-12
title game.
It is the rematch the No. 2
Ducks (11-1) have been hoping
for.
“You want to play the team
that beat you,” cornerback Ifo
Ekpre-Olomu says. “Our one loss
was against them. It’s only right
that you have to beat the team
that beat you to get to the next
place.”
Says Marshall: “I wanted to
play them. We just laid an egg
when we played them. We did not
play like ourselves at all. Just to
know that you lost to somebody,
it kind of sits there and sits there
and sits there. You move on, but
you don’t forget. Now we have
the time to right our wrong.”
The 2014 regular-season game
was a fairly low-scoring affair between two high-powered spread
offenses. Oregon led 7-3 at halftime. The Wildcats outscored the
Ducks 21-7 in the third quarter.
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The low point of Oregon’s season came in a 31-24 loss at home to
Arizona on Oct. 2, when quarterback Marcus Mariota was sacked five
times by the Wildcats. The Ducks have protected Mariota better since
then, although Oregon State got to him a few times last week at Reser
Stadium.
Mike Riley has points to make
Receivers, tempo,
mobile QB all likely
part of plan for 2015
By KERRY EGGERS
The Tribune
Beaver Nation is up in arms
about Oregon State’s 2014
football season, and the head
coach feels the same way.
“A definitive statement from
me: We have to make changes,”
Mike Riley said Sunday, a day after his team got rolled 47-19 in a
Civil War mismatch with secondranked Oregon at Reser Stadium. “We’re going to explore the
best way to do it. We won’t do it
overnight and without a lot of
discussion within our staff, but
there have to be changes.”
Specifically, what changes?
For now, Riley isn’t sure. There
will be no knee-jerk reactions.
But the OSU coach is willing to
offer glimpses of what will be different next season.
For instance, on offense.
“We have to score more points,
that’s the bottom line,” Riley
said. “In this era of the Pac-12,
you have to score 35 or 40 points
to win. We had a hard time doing
that this year.”
Oregon State’s senior-laden
defense started the season well
but bogged down in the second
half, as the Beavers lost six of
their last seven games. Riley believes there was a carryover effect from an offense that was
sporadic.
“We weren’t as stable defensively as I thought we would be,”
he said. “I thought it would be a
Coach Mike Riley
ponders the flow
of the Civil War
game Saturday
at Reser
Stadium. The
47-19 loss to
Oregon that
figures to
prompt some
internal changes
for Oregon State
before the 2015
season.
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year where the defense would
carry our team, and it was like
that for a time. “Maybe diminishing returns played into that. We
never really were very dynamic
offensively. When it goes on like
that, it puts a bigger burden than
is bearable with the defense.”
As has been done in recent
years, there will be a computer
statistical analysis that will evaluate every play from the past
season, organized by graduate
intern Nick Halberg.
“It will be a total breakdown of
everything we ran,” Riley said.
“We’ll see what worked and what
didn’t work in every single situation.”
Sean Mannion departs after a
record-setting career, and his
passing and leadership skills will
be missed. But Mannion’s exit
will signal a new era of Beaver
signal-callers. The leading hopefuls — redshirt freshman Luke
Del Rio and two freshmen who
redshirted this fall, Nick Mitchell
and Marcus McMaryion — all
have more running ability than
this year’s incumbent.
Riley won’t abandon the pro
style offense he has used through
his 14 years at the OSU helm.
“The pro style still works,” he
said. “Alabama is at the top of the
heap, and (the Crimson Tide)
take a lot of snaps underneath
center. They’ve also morphed into some interesting stuff that
translates into what we want to
do.
“Making good choices for our
offense moving forward is going
to be really important. How
much we do with the quarterback running the football is
something we’ll study. We’ll have
a different skill set at quarterback next year. We’ll put a plan
together with the new quarter-
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History
Dec. 3, 1952
Central Catholic High honors its
state championship football team
with a school assembly. The Rams
went 11-0 and defeated the
Portland Interscholastic League’s
Benson Mechanics 7-6 in the final.
Benson scored in the fourth quarter
but missed a two-point conversion
pass. Central Catholic came from
behind and kicked the decisive
extra-point at Multnomah Stadium
(now Providence Park).
The only time all season that
Central trailed was in the championship game; the Rams outscored
their opponents 274-53, and quarterback Vince Altenhofen completed 76 of 149 passes, for a lofty (in
that era) 51.0 percent.
■ Meanwhile, in Corvallis,
Oregon State College President Dr.
A.L. Strand says he would like to
see the Beavers’ football season
shortened — and especially wants
no more than two games a year
against the powerful California
schools.
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Central Catholic’s Ronnie Rust has the ball and a touchdown as he celebrates with Rams linemen (from left) Blanke Blandel, Joe Wilson and TJ
Salu in last week’s win against Sheldon.
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games have come down to the
wire, though. Tigard escaped with
a 42-41 triple overtime win
against Jesuit, then edged West
The Central Catholic football
Salem 17-14 in last Friday’s semiteam is just one game away from
finals.
repeating as the Oregon School
A year ago, Central Catholic
Activities Association Class 6A
demolished Tigard 83-49 in
champion.
the semis. Pyne expects to be
All that stands in the way of the faced with a battle this
No. 1 Rams now is No. 2 Tigard
Saturday, however.
High.
“They’re big and physical and a
The Rams come into the 1 p.m. fast football team,” Pyne says of
Saturday state final at Hillsboro
Tigard. “They’re extremely wellStadium 12-1 and undefeated in
coached. They’re balanced offenOregon, with their only loss comsively. Even though people look at
ing in September against powerful them and say they’re a run-first
St. John Bosco in California.
team, they have the ability to
The Mt. Hood Conference
throw the ball very well. They’ll lull
champs have been on cruise con- you to sleep running the football,
trol throughout the playoffs. The
and then they’ll throw.”
Rams have won four blowouts
The Rams will be without highly
against, in order, Thurston (70-19), touted senior running back
West Albany (59-16), West Linn
Cameron Scarlett, who went down
(42-7) and Sheldon (65-21) in
with a knee injury two weeks ago.
the semifinals last week.
Central Catholic has plenty of
“The timing is good,” Central
depth, though. Last week, the
Catholic coach Steve Pyne says of Rams rushed for 449 yards, mosthow the Rams appear to be
ly with Ronnie Rust, Tyson Cooper
peaking late in the season. “We’ve and JJ Wells toting the ball.
gotten better each week in the
“Ronnie had 18 carries; Tyson
playoffs.”
and JJ each had eight,” Pyne
The Tigers (13-0) had a much
notes. “It’s a nice luxury to have
more trying road to the state
that kind of depth in the backchampionship game. The Three
field.”
Rivers League champion won its
Rust had 236 yards and four
first two playoff games handily
touchdown runs against Sheldon,
against David Douglas (70-49)
the 2012 state champion, as the
and Sunset (42-20). The last two
Irish finished 11-2 for 2014.
Cooper ran for 91 yards and
scored three TDs on the ground.
Wells rushed for 93 yards and one
score.
One of the reasons the Rams
are so devastating on the ground
is their offensive line, comprised
entirely of seniors, including three
starters from last year’s team:
tackles Blake Brandel and Riley
Galant and center T.J. Salu.
“Our offensive line is playing
really well,” Pyne says.
The Rams also have the ability
to keep teams off balance with
quarterback Sean Dack slinging
the ball.
“It’s a nice luxury to have, with
Sean and our receivers, to mix it
up and keep people honest,” Pyne
says. “So far, we haven’t really had
to throw the ball to win. But if we
have to, our kids will be able to
produce.”
As good as Central Catholic’s
offense is, the defense might be
even better.
“Our defense is playing outstanding,” Pyne says. “There is
great team speed on our defensive unit. They’re a veteran group.
They play extremely smart. They
communicate very well. They feed
off each other. They create turnovers, which has been huge for
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Cam Volker makes a tackle on QB Kellen Strahm for Central Catholic in
Friday’s 65-21 Class 6A semifinals triumph over Sheldon at Hillsboro
Stadium.
Central Catholic’s Kirt Achterman jumps onto teammate Sam Gomez’s
back after a sack against Sheldon, with Jacob Doyle on hand as well.
defenses do.”
With the haggling between the
OSAA and the Portland Timbers
over use of Providence Park
about as successful as attempts
to work out a payment plan with
the mafia, the high school neutral site playoff games have been
played at Hillsboro Stadium
instead of the now almost exclusively MLS/soccer stadium. While
Hillsboro Stadium is where the
Rams play their home games in
the regular season, Pyne says he
does not believe the field provides a big edge for Central
Catholic.
“I don’t know that it’s that
much of an advantage,” he says.
“It’s not like we’re walking out of
our home locker room at our
school. We have to get on the
road every week and play. It is
what it is. It’s a field. It doesn’t
matter where we play.”
Pyne also is reluctant to cite
many of his players having already
played in a state championship
game as an advantage. But he is
hopeful that it turns out to be
helpful on Saturday.
“I don’t think it hurts us,” Pyne
says. “The kids know what the
expectations are. They’ll know what
the atmosphere is going to be like
and the pressure of it. Hopefully it
can help us because we’ve been
there. But I don’t think it gives us
that much of an advantage over
Tigard.”
The Rams are looking to match
the feat of their 1952 and ‘53
football teams, which won backto-back state titles.
A win over Tigard would give
Central Catholic a sweep of all
three boys sports this fall season.
CC won state titles in boys cross
country and boys soccer.
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Marcus Mariota’s dual threat, to pass or run (as he did in sometimes dramatic fashion against Oregon State last week), has helped the Ducks offense click and put Oregon into the
Pac-12 championship game with a shot to be in the first college football playoff.
UO: ‘We have to win the game on defense’
And while Oregon had a 10-7 advantage in the fourth quarter, it
was too little, too late.
“Last time we played them, we
dominated the first, second and
fourth quarter,” Ekpre-Olomu
says. “But the third quarter, we
give up 21 points, and that was
the outcome of the game. We
didn’t execute to the best we can,
and when you play a good team,
they’re going to beat you.
“You have to learn from past
events. You have to know the little things it takes.”
The Wildcats finished that
game with 495 yards of total offense. Arizona rushed for 208
yards behind 115 yards and one
touchdown by Terris Jones-Grisby and 92 yards and two touchdowns by Nick Wilson. Quarterback Anu Solomon, showing
poise as a redshirt freshman
playing at Autzen Stadium, threw
for 287 yards and one TD.
Oregon defensive coordinator
Don Pellum says he believes the
Ducks are playing their best defense of the season.
“These last two or three games
we’ve gotten closer to what we really want to be,” Pellum says.
“Can you improve? Absolutely.
We’re still finding ways to improve.”
Pellum says both the Ducks defense and the Arizona offense
have changed and grown over the
last two months, but there will be
things to take away from the first
game.
“We’ve evolved as a defense,”
Pellum says. “I’m sure (their offense) has changed, too. But,
there will be some carry over
from the first game.”
Pellum’s plan will be to put just
a few defensive packages in place
that Oregon can handle and get
his players ready to read their
pre-snap keys.
“What we try to do is put in a
defense they can handle for three
or four different scenarios,” Pellum says. “Then we go with the
best defense. So it’s a run, pass,
whatever that play is, we want to
have the best thing in there for it.
Then we want our kids to be
wired into the indicators. When
you see this formation, you know
exactly, by their alignment, what
plays are coming. That’s how we
try to build it.”
Ekpre-Olomu says the Ducks
must be ready to try to win the
game on the defensive side of the
ball.
“They’re a good defense,”
Ekpre-Olomu says of the Wildcats’ defense. “They get a lot of
turnovers and sacks. We have to
know we have to win the game on
defense.”
The Oregon offense would like
to give its defense some breathing room. In the game in October,
the Ducks had 446 yards of total
offense. Mariota threw for 276
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caught a TD pass from Royce
Freeman. Oregon rushed for just
144 yards, though, and did not
score a rushing touchdown.
A big part of that was the play
of the offensive line. With tackle
Jake Fisher out with an injury,
the Ducks had difficulty runblocking and gave up five sacks.
Oregon has Fisher back now,
though.
Offensive coordinator Scott
Frost says that Fisher being back
is a big plus for the Ducks, but
adds that the line has improved
as a whole.
“A bunch of guys are playing
well on the line,” Frost says. “Our
line’s improvement kind of coincided with Jake’s return. Not all
of that is a coincidence. But credit
goes to all of those guys. A lot of
guys really stepped up in the last
six or seven games.”
Says offensive line coach
Steve Greatwood: “It was a collective effort against Arizona. It
wasn’t one particular player’s issues. I just went back and looked
at the film (the morning of the
Civil War game). Will it be good
to have Jake back? Absolutely.
But we’ve all got to play better
against Arizona. They did a heck
of a job against us. I’m sure
they’ll be ready for us again.”
In the Pac-12 title game, Oregon may be without center Hroniss Grasu, who has not played
the last two games and was
walking on crutches with a boot
on his left foot after Oregon’s
win against Oregon State. Greatwood played it close to the vest
when talking about whether
Grasu would be ready to play
against Arizona.
“We’ll see,” Greatwood says.
“Day-to-day. We’re just keeping
our fingers crossed every day.”
Even with the line at full
strength, though, Arizona’s defense will pose challenges for the
Ducks. The Wildcats play a three
odd stack with three down lineman and three linebackers creating a six-player box.
“They’re a really active
group,” Oregon offensive lineman Hamani Stevens, who has
played center in Grasu’s absence, says of Arizona’s front six.
“They move around a lot.
They’re able to take up blocks,
free up their linebackers to go
make plays. They’re really active. They’re good with their
hands. The first time this season
we played them they were able
to do that really well, and that’s
what got to us.”
To combat that, Stevens says
the Ducks “need to focus on our
fundamentals, technique, being
able to take on blocks and sustain them and not fall off. We
have to make sure we stick to
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“We’re excited to have a
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playoff yet, and we have a
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Men’s basketball: The innercity rivalry game with the Portland
Pilots is 7 p.m. Wednesday at
Chiles Center — and it features
two teams off to good starts.
The Vikings are 4-1 after their
loss Sunday at Oregon; the Ducks
(4-2) won 81-59, blocking a
school-record 12 shots.
The Pilots are 5-1 and also
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the final of the Challenge in Music
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Sunday.
Portland has
held foes to
42.2 percent
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rebounding
advantage. The Pilots are 4-0 at
home this season and have scoring threats, led by senior guard
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any player who will be in
Wednesday’s nonleague showdown.
Portland State has been shooting better from 3-point distance
(.425, 88 of 122) than 2-point
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relied on their scoring balance (six
players averaging from 8.0 to 15.8
points per game), steals (45-28
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The Pilots lead the all-time
series 34-17 and have won the
last three meetings.
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5 p.m. Saturday at UC Riverside
(3-3).
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7 p.m. Friday home game against
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average of 11.4 points and are
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field.
Emily Easom, a 5-10 junior
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Guard Lariel Powell, a 5-8
senior, is at 11.2 points per
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The Viks got a lift last Saturday
when 6-3 junior transfer center
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points and 11 rebounds in a
62-58 home loss to Long Beach
State.
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win streak (George Mason, UNC
Greensboro and Grand Canyon).
The Vikings’ other game this
week is 2 p.m. PT Sunday at
Gonzaga (3-2).
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■ From page 1
faster. He wants balance, but he
also wants the passing game to
be the bread-and-butter of the offensive attack.
“We were down this year from
the way we’ve been throwing the
ball,” he says. “That can’t be the
case again.”
Oregon State’s stable of returning receivers is deep and talented, led by sophomore Victor
Bolden and redshirt freshman
Jordan Villamin and including
redshirt freshman Hunter Jarmon, sophomore Rahmel Dockery and freshman Xavier
Hawkins. Junior Richard Mullaney, who missed much of the
season with a shoulder injury,
will be back. And mark down the
names of Datrin Guyton (6-5, 180)
and Tanner Sanders (6-4, 200),
true freshmen who opened eyes
on the scout team this fall.
Could that mean going with an
empty backfield at times? Yes, it
could.
“I’m thinking about the ability
we will have to use at least four
receivers at times,” Riley said.
Tight ends have been a staple
of Oregon State’s offense through
the Riley era, and the Beavers
employed two and sometimes
three tight ends at the same time
often this season. Connor Hamlett and Jacob Wark — two of the
top four players at the position
— will depart. Juniors Caleb
Smith and Kellen Clute will be
Storm Woods,
scoring against
Oregon last
week, will give
Oregon State a
top returning
running back
next season, as
the Beavers
revamp their
offensive
approach.
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back, but they could be split out
at times, too.
“That’s very possible,” Riley
said. “We’re recruiting tight ends
who are versatile players, and
they’ll blend into the new stuff
we install. We can do a lot of stuff
from the shotgun and have fun
with it.”
The tailback spot is in good
hands, with junior Storm Woods,
sophomore Chris Brown and redshirt freshman Damien Haskins
topping the depth chart. Then
there is promising true freshman
Ryan Nall, 6-2 and 240 and from
Central Catholic High, who will
join the group this spring.
“Right now, he is a running
back, but Ryan is versatile,” Riley
said. “Don’t be surprised if you
see him at slotback or H-back at
times, too. He could play linebacker or defensive end, too, but
we’re going to use him on the offensive side. He wants to be an
offensive player, and we want
him there, too.”
The only senior starters on offense are Mannion and Hamlett.
The entire line returns, and center Isaac Seumalo — who redshirted while rehabbing from a
pair of foot surgeries — will bolster the group.
The defense will be almost totally revamped, with only two
starters — end Jaswa James and
cornerback Larry Scott — coming back.
“The lack of experience is a
concern,” Riley said, “but I’m ex-
cited about the players waiting in
the wings.”
The biggest need on the defensive side, Riley said, is in the line.
End Scott Crichton — who departed for the NFL after his junior season in 2013 — was greatly
missed. Tackle Jalen Grimble —
who missed most of his junior
year with a knee injury — could
be that kind of player. Tackle
Kyle Peko, still trying to gain his
academic eligibility, is another
player capable of being a difference-maker.
“It would be nice to see what
we look like with both Jalen and
Kyle at tackle,” Riley said. “You
have to be good up front.”
The linebacker rotation will be
keyed by Darrell Songy, Rommel
Mageo, Caleb Saulo and Kyle
Haley, all players with talent and
some experience. The safeties
will likely be Justin Strong and
Cyril Noland-Lewis, youngsters
who played in nickel and dime
packages this season. Scott will
be joined by promising true
freshmen Dwayne Williams and
Kevin Hayes and redshirt freshman DaShon Hunt at cornerback. The Beavers have also
lined up at least a pair of juniorcollege corners who will figure
into the equation immediately.
“We should have more competition at corner with guys who
can play than we’ve had in a long
time,” Riley said.
The Beavers redshirted 20
freshmen this fall — every firstyear player except Hawkins, who
was forced into action due to injuries early and played sparingly.
Many of them will figure into the
two-deep next season. Connor
Kelsey, a freshman, will take over
long snapper duties from the departing Michael Morovick.
“We love that group,” Riley
said. “It feels good going through
the names.”
Has Oregon State fallen behind its Pac-12 brethren?
“We have right now, for sure,”
he said. “The difference this year
is we didn’t win enough of the
close games. Win at least one of
those and you go to a bowl game
and leave with a better feeling.
“I can’t guarantee anything,
but we’ve been here before. You
have good years and bad years.
(In 2011) we were 3-9, and came
back and had a 9-3 year. That’s
our focus now, to get back to
where we should be.”
Riley’s contract runs through
2021. Does he want to coach until
then?
“I do,” he said. “I have no intention of not coaching. I’m more
excited that ever. I feel better
than ever. I have a strong belief
I’m the right guy for Oregon
State. I know what we have to
do.”
Riley won’t talk specifics, but
he could make one or more
changes to his staff. He said he
will address the possibility in the
coming weeks.
For now, he is focusing on recruiting. He’ll be in California
and Hawaii this week, talking
with prospects.
“We’re disappointed by what
happened this year,” Riley said.
“We’re spurred to do better. We
have to do a great job of evaluating where we’re going and what
we’re doing. It starts with recruiting, which we have to put
our energy into now and finish
off this class.
“It continues with how we expand. Every area will be thoroughly looked at to find a better
way. We need to do that, and we
need to fit our players into that.
Everybody has ideas about
schemes, but it mostly has to do
with what your players can do.”
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for Portland State to do well,”
Jones says. “But I don’t know if
the timing is right. Right now, I
have my eye on a couple of other
situations.”
One report has Jones as a potential candidate to replace Bobby Hauck at Nevada-Las Vegas.
— Robin Pflugrad, a former
Portland State receiver with a
wealth of college coaching experience, including two years as
head coach at Montana (2010 and
‘11). Pflugrad, who also played at
North Eugene High and Mt.
Hood CC, was an assistant at
Arizona State, Washington State
and Oregon and was Big Sky
coach of the year in 2011, taking
the Grizzlies to the FCS semifinals. He was out of coaching this
fall and is living in Phoenix.
“I would love to come back
and coach my alma mater,” Pflugrad says. “I’m extremely interested. It’s a place that’s always
been dear to my heart. I’ve always followed the Vikings. Other
than the team I’m coaching, the
next score I’m looking for in the
newspaper is Portland State.”
■ Early prediction on Friday
night’s Pac-12 championship
game at Levi’s Stadium in Santa
Clara, Calif.: Oregon 42, Arizona
21.
The Wildcats have won the
last two meetings, beating the
Ducks 31-24 on Oct. 2 in Eugene.
I just think the third time will be
the charm for Oregon, which is
on a roll and will be more than
emotionally prepared for the rematch.
There’s another factor: The
Ducks have Marcus Mariota,
and the Wildcats don’t.
■ Recently, as the Cleveland
Cavaliers were off to a slow start,
San Antonio coach Gregg Popovich was asked by media about
LeBron James.
“You guys always have something to say,” Popovich said. “If
LeBron went right, you said he
should have gone left. If he shot
it, he should have passed it. If
he passed it, he should have
shot it. I always thought that
was all baloney.
“He’s a great player. He’s not
just athletic; he’s incisive. He
understands the way Magic
(Johnson) did, the way Larry
(Bird) did, the way (Tim) Duncan does. He knows a whole lot
more about what he’s doing
than you all. He’s a character
guy, he’s good people, he has a
great heart.
“So I’m happy for him, whether he went to (Cleveland or)
Timbuktu. He should do what’s
best for him and his family, and
everybody else can go swim in
the lake. You all do what you
want to do; LeBron should be
able to do what he wants to do.”
Comment: What, you thought
Popovich would take the side of
the media over a player?
I don’t think James has taken
an excessive amount of media
criticism through his career.
He’s a four-time MVP and already considered one of the
greats ever. I applauded his return to Cleveland, as did many
others who were critical of the
way he left to take his talents to
South Beach.
I love Pop, but players and
coaches always defend players
— sometimes, even when defending is unnecessary.
■ One of those advanced NBA
statistics, per Basketball-Reference.com — is of particular interest on a local level:
LaMarcus Aldridge’s “usage”
rate — the times the ball goes to
him per offensive possession —
is 27 percent, while the Trail
Blazer power forward’s turnover
rate is five percent, best in the
NBA. According to Bleacher Report, no player has ever finished
a season with such a proficient
rate.
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Gino loves to chase string
toys and to receive chin
scratches. Gino is waiting
at Cat Adoption Team’s
Sherwood shelter: 14175
SW Galbreath Drive
503-925-8903
catadoptionteam.org
Tuesday-Friday, 12-7 pm;
Sat-Sun, 12-6 pm;
Closed Monday
Pets & Supplies
**Just an old girl who
has no one**
5 0 3. 6 7 9. 3 6 0 5
Announcements/
Notices
2014 Winter
Rickreall Gun Show
Sat. Dec 13: 8am-5pm
Sun. Dec 14: 9am-4pm
Adults $6,
Kids under 12 FREE.
FREE Parking!
Polk County
Fairgrounds
Rickreall, Oregon
503-623-3048
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Antiques/Collectibles
COMIC BOOKS WANTED
Private collector seeks
comics from the ‘40s-’70s.
Appraisals given, cash pd.
(503) 528-1297
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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, cigarette, candy slot machines.
Any old novelty items. Private Party Cash. (360)
204-1017 or e-mail:
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Sewing Machines
Vacuum Cleaners
FOR SALE: Elna Sewing
Machine w/ instruction bk
&
attachments.
$125
503-902-0402
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Jellybean:
Seeking options for senior
black and grey Chow
Chow found near a commercial greenhouse on
SE 60th Avenue in late October. At local crowded
shelter where she is terrified and shaking in a noisy
loud unfamiliar setting;
nevertheless she will
come to you for hot dogs,
cannot thrive here, seeking
foster or foster adopt. Rescue involved; support provided. For more information call (503) 625-4563
or
e-mail
[email protected]
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Malone is a big bundle of
energy and movement
wrapped in a tiny cat package. An active, busy
household where he can
get lots of attention and exercise would be the best
match. Malone is playful
and tolerant with children
over the age of ten; however, he doesn’t much like
other animals (especially
cats) and would be best as
the only pet in the home.
Malone will be an energetic, affectionate, and
talkative companion. Malone can’t wait to meet you
at Cat Adoption Team’s
Sherwood shelter: 14175
SW Galbreath Drive
503-925-8903
catadoptionteam.org
Tuesday-Friday, 12-7 pm;
Sat-Sun, 12-6 pm;
Closed Monday
ROBIN
A home for the holidays
Robin believed he was finally at home but
life
changed quickly. His new
owner must travel now, is
often gone from home on
business, and no longer
can take care of
him.
Robin must find a new
home or foster by December 03. He is a young,
healthy, 70 pound, neutered, American Bull dog,
handsome,
loving,
extremely personable and
athletic. He knows multiple
commands, is crate trained
and is continuing his training lessons. He is best as
an only dog until his training is completed. Seeking
committed, kind, experienced individual to adopt
or foster to adopt. His training resources come with
him. We all love him. For
more information call (503)
625-4563
or
e-mail
[email protected]
HILLSBORO:
Modern Downtown
Hillsboro Apartment.
W/D in unit. Free
Water/Sewer/Garbage,
across from MAX. *Income
Restrictions Apply.
City Center Apts,
160 SE Washington St.
503.693.9095
Gslcitycenter.com
NEWBERG
Haworth Terrace
Apartments
2700 Haworth Ave
Newberg, Oregon 97132
503-538-2922
T.D.D. 800-735-2900
[email protected]
Haworth Terrace is now
accepting applications for
one and two bedroom
apartments.
If you would like to
receive an application,
please call, or come to
the office.
Office Hours are:
Mon. Wed. Fri.
1:00 pm to 4:30 pm
Tue. & Thu.
8:00am to 12:00pm
Haworth Terrace is a
low-income family
housing complex.
This institution is an equal
opportunity provider.
PORTLAND NW:
1 Bed: $767, 2 Bed: $913!
Free Water/Sewer/Garb!
Spacious open floor plans
include full size W/D. Professional on-site mgmt.
Lush landscaping, Outdoor
Pool, Year round spa,
LARGE Patio w/storage.
*Income and Student
Restriction Apply.
*Pets Welcome!
Westridge Meadows
18476 NW Chemeketa Ln
503-439-9098
www.gslwestridgemeadows.com
PORTLAND NW:
Located near MAX,
Portland Streetcar & Bus.
Beautiful courtyards,
downtown view,
close to Waterfront Park
and the Pearl District.
Great amenities!
The Yards at
Union Station
815 NW Naito Pkwy
503-478-1695
gsltheyards.com
TUALATIN:
1 bdrm/1ba: $767
2 bdrm/2ba: $913
3 bdrm/2ba: $1051
Water, sewer, garbage
paid. Full size W/D in
every apt. Pool, hot tub,
fitness center & clubhouse.
Professional on-site mgmt.
Beautiful, quiet, residential
neighborhood. $35 App
Fee. Call Today!!!
Wood Ridge Apartments
11999 SW Tualatin Rd
503-691-9085
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Condos/Townhouses
For Rent
SCAPPOOSE, Oregon
SW 1st Street
Manufactured
Homes/Lots
NEW FACTORY
SPECIAL
NEW HOME 3 bdrm, 2 ba
$52,900 finished on site
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WOODBURN:
CASH for DIABETIC
TEST STRIPS
Help those in need.
Paying up to $30 per
box. Free pickup.
Call Sharon:
Are you looking for a kitty
who will be your new best
friend? Then look no further! This gorgeous boy is
a great companion – he
loves playtime, snuggles
and conversations. One
look into Leo’s eyes and
you’ll know you have found
your soul mate. Come visit
Leo at Animal Aid’s Show
& Tell Saturday or call
503-292-6628 for more information.
Clementine:
Are you looking for a gentle lady to complete your
home? That’s me, Clementine! I’m a sweet girl who
adores chin rubs and ear
scratches. My gentle personality means I can be a
little reserved at first, but I
love being pet! I’ll even,
politely, ask for more by
rubbing my cheeks on your
hand. Come visit me at
Animal Aid’s Show & Tell
Saturday
or
call
503-292-6628 for more information.
Furniture/
Home Furnishings
Reefer Drivers
WANTED!
TRUCK DRIVERS
Brown, red & black- male
& females available,
Ready Now! $1100
Go to our Web site:
www.ourpoeticpoodles.net
or call (509)582-6027.
Alder. $200 cord.
Free delivery within 20
miles of Molalla.
*Cash Only*
503-829-6114
CLASS A DRIVERS
FOR SALE: E-Commerce
website & wrestling singlet
mfg. business. Included:
singlets.com domain
name, 5 ind. sew mach. 3
Juki over seamers, 2400 &
3600 series, Kansai
cover-stitch. Pegasus
binder, Chickadee hand
held cutters. Inv. of 300+
completed singlets, 250 +
yds fabric, patterns &
thread, as well as 30 yr client list, art work & vendors.
Call Kim @ 503-577-6657
[email protected]
AKC Standard
Poodle Puppies
DRY FIREWOOD
FOR SALE: Oak Buffet
Upper glass doors, lower
drawers w./ storage $350
503-902-0402
Business
Opportunities
Apartments for Rent
Stereo/TV/Video
Help
Wanted
Company & Owner Operators. Must have CDL Class
A w/OTR experience.
Competitive wages & benefits. Dedicated-Portland,
OR to Tulsa, OK and return! $5000 sign on bonus
for O/O and ask about sign
on bonus for Company
Drivers!
Miller Truck Lines, LLC
Call 918-447-2103
Leo:
COIN, STAMP & POST CARD
SHOW
Help
Wanted
FT/PT Class A Drivers
needed for US Mail Contractor. Portland to Jerome,
ID layover then return.
The PT position is unscheduled and ideal as a
second income or to supplement
retirement.
20.54/hr+ 4.96/hr benefit
pay. Must have Class A
CDL & a clean MVR with a
minimum
2
yrs
tractor/trailer exp. Apply at
www.hoovestol.com or call
800-373-7181 x 246.
Pets & Supplies
LOVELY
MOBILE HOME
FOR SALE BY
OWNER
2 BD, 1 BA
Lovely clean double-wide,
updated,
has gas fireplace, new fridge, a lot of
storage and handicap accessible. In The Estates
Mobile
Home
Park.
$26,000. 971-983-1311 or
503-982-0889
WrightChoiceHomes.com
New Townhomes, 3 Bdrm,
2½ Bath, Single Car Garage, W/D Hookups. $1095
per month, includes Water/
Sewer/Garbage & Landscape Maintenance,
$1200 sec dep. Quick
and easy commute to
Portland Metro area.
Call 503-543-8985
Houses for Rent
ESTACADA
ASK ABOUT OUR
NO DEPOSIT
OPTION
Beautiful 1, 2 & 3 bdrm,
laundry hook-up, kitchen
applces. Storage shed.
Includes water & sewer!
Sec. 8 OK
[email protected]
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503-630-4300
NEWBERG/Bald Peak:
1 bdrm, 1 bath, view, W/D,
1300 sq ft, carport, storage, no smoking, no pets,
$850/month. 503-538-1737
A P PAR E L / J EW E L R Y
Jellybean isn’t just my
name, it describes my personality! I’m a sweet,
friendly cat and I’m ready
to bring something special
to your home. I have beautiful emerald colored eyes
that will gaze at you lovingly and gratefully when
you take me home. Come
visit me at Animal Aid’s
Show & Tell Saturday or
call 503-292-6628 for more
information.
8:30 AM - 5:00 PM
WE BUY GOLD
Sterling Flatware -Silver-Pocket Watches
The Jewelry Buyer
20th N.E. Sandy PDX 503-239-6900
www.jewelrybuyerportland.com
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The Portland Tribune Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Service Directory
Home & Professional Services
GARCIA
James Kramer
Const.
Automotive Services
RV
NORTHWEST
Located in Tigard
RV Northwest rents,
sells, buys and consigns
RVs and travel trailers.
We have been in
business since 2004
and have a 5 star rating
with the
Better Business Bureau.
We have a full service
department and a new
parts department and
have recently added a
sales department. We
also provide temporary
housing if you are
remodeling your home,
are between residences,
or have suffered some
sort of natural disaster
(often with your
insurance company
covering the costs).
We also rent for remote
job sites, events etc.
Check out our website:
rvnorthwest.com
for more details or call
us at 503-641-9140.
Locally since 1974!
Kitchen, bath, walls,
ceilings, additions,
counters, cabinets,
decks, drywall, tile,
granite, windows and
doors, etc.
Reasonable.
CCB#11518. Jim
503-201-0969,
503-625-5092.
ameskramerconstruction.com
Remodeling all phases.
Over 30-years of service.
503-658-7012.
CCB#37169
Chimney Services
BIRDS CHIMNEY
SERVICE
1-800-CHIMNEY
Cleaning & Repairs
503-653-4999
CCB# 155449
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Landscape
Maintenance
Debi’s PROFESSIONAL
HOUSECLEANING
REASONABLE!!!
Experienced
•TLC Pet Care
•Honest & Reliable
•Senior Discount
•SW Area
503.590.2467
Handyman/
Handywoman
HANDYMAN MATTERS
Locally owned, nationally
recognized. Specializing in
small to medium jobs
#191473
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503-621-0700
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C L EAN I N G & O RGAN I Z I N G
Building &
Remodeling
MAINTENANCE, LLC
Mowing, weeding, trimming, blackberries, hauling, year-round maintenance.
One-time cleanups for all seasons. E-mail:
[email protected]
503-774-2237
I can help with all
of your yard care
needs!!!
Gutter Cleaning
Plumbing &
Drainage
CPRplumbing
www.CPRplumbing.info
Senior Discount
Complete preparation.
Includes children, custody,
support, property and
bills division. No court
appearances. Divorced in
1-5 weeks possible.
503-772-5295
Windows
& Doors
Owner-operated. 13-yrs
exper. Call Laura,
503-803-9284.
IT’S TIME FOR
FALL & WINTER
CLEAN-UPS!!!
YEAR AROUND
SERVICE
•Mowings $25 & up.
•Trimming •Pruning:
Hedges, shrubs, fruit &
ornamental trees.
•Bed work •Fertilize •Bark
•Maintenance programs
Affordable rates!
Call Dave, (503) 753-1838
HOLIDAY LIGHTING!!!
MOW •CUT •EDGE
•LEAF CLEANUP •MORE!
Average Price, $30. (503)
550-8871 / 503-708-8770.
YARD DEBRIS HAULING
•Rototilling •Trimming
•Bark Dust •Gravel •Yard
Maintenance. Free est,
7 days. (503) 626-9806.
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Whatever service you offer, I have the
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Call Mindy Johnson
at 503-546-0760
for information, rates, special promotions or for help in
writing an ad (from 3 lines to a display ad).
I can help!
[email protected]
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10’ EAVE
$4,765
$5,513
$6,575
$6,219
$7,399
$8,313
$9,644
12’ EAVE
$5,201
$5,978
$7,140
$6,709
$7,998
$8,889
$10,255
14’ EAVE
$5,636
$6,476
$7,644
$7,191
$8,536
$9,556
$10,951
16’ EAVE
$6,060
$6,967
$8,390
$7,834
$9,396
$10,434
$11,985
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36x48
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60x120
10’ EAVE
$2,279
$2,770
$3,457
$3,266
$4,191
$4,934
$5,992
$17,848
12’ EAVE
$2,333
$2,830
$3,539
$3,338
$4,261
$4,995
$6,099
$18,065
14’ EAVE
$2,394
$2,916
$3,635
$3,426
$4,357
$5,142
$6,241
$18,516
16’ EAVE
$2,564
$3,118
$3,747
$3,776
$4,617
$5,599
$6,793
$18,927
C AR S F O R S AL E
Low (57,500) miles very well maintained & equipped.
2nd local owner. Perfect CarFax & maint records since
June 1998 delivery. Combines responsive performance,
luxury and economy.
3.2L V6 5spd A/T w/traction & cruise control. New
Michelin Pilot Sport AS3 tires on original alloys custom
polished & painted by Skips Wheelwerks. Beautiful emerald black (blue/green metallic) paint. Electric moon
roof, grey leather interior, heated power front seats w/3
memory settings. Bose sound system, dual climate control heating & A/C. Bluetooth for cell and more. None
nicer in this vintage. Recent service (57,195 mi) at Star
Motors in Tualatin. MSRP new $47,250 Offered at
$7,995/obo. Michael Freeman, [email protected]
(503) 636-1201, cell (503) 680-5449.
Newer 2 bedroom
Mobile home. Very clean.
Large storage shed, covered deck, heat pump,
washer/dryer, etc.
Garbage, water, sewer provided. Wunder Mobile Park
$775 plus deposits.
Non-smoking, no pets.
Background check.
503/668-3715 or
503/317-6245
1969 WINNER
BOAT
TOYOTA Avalon
2000
17’ 2”, Newer Full Canvas
Top & Interior & 120 Merc
Cruiser. Set up for fishing
or water skiing. These
boats are very, very rare.
Many extras- fishing related gear.
Has trolling
motor with it, if you wish.
Cheaper if you don’t. Nice
trailer. Heath forces sale.
$4300 OBO or trade equal
value for dual axle wood
trailer.
503-538-6884
Auto Services
CAR NUTS
Car Storage $140/mo.
Mechanic Shop $25/day.
Paint Booth $150/car-2
days. Located in Newberg.
Dale 503-267-2991
86,250 miles, good condition, well-maintained, clear
title, tags through April
2016. Comes with 4
mounted
snow
tires.
$6,000. Gresham area.
503-661-2962.
VOLKSWAGON
BEETLE 1971
SUPER
Restored ground up.
$25,000 invested. All work
done by specialized VW
classic mechanics.
$12,000 OBO
503-435-7268
Motorcycles
Scooters/ATVs
Motorcycles
Scooters/ATVs
RVs & Travel
Trailers
CHRISTMAS
SURPRISE!!!
WHY STORE YOUR
RV ~ LET US TURN IT
IN TO $$$$$
2015 VESPA Primavera
150; Red, practically new,
300 miles, great for
commuting. Price includes
destination fee, setup,
fresh 4 year tags, high
friction brake pads, aux
12V outlet and euro
luggage compartment
(holds full-face helmet).
$4,399
Call 503-344-4473 or
503.781.2529
Pickups
Cars For Sale
1975 FORD F-250
REDDING FLATBED
20,000 lb PTO winch, 390,
4x4, $4750 503-266-2319
CHEVROLET CAMARO
Z28 2001: Black 6 spd,
10,000 miles, Best Offer
503-786-2943.
RVs & Travel
Trailers
MECHANIC
SPECIAL
‘97 Acura CL 3.0, local,
one owner, needs
transmission repair,
Asking $2350.
(503) 543-7918
2009 KAWASAKI Ninja
250r: with 16,757 miles on
it. I am the second owner,
well maintained and runs
great. This is a great
starter bike and allows you
to learn at your own speed
while getting use to the
mechanics of a motorcycle.
Call or text 503-419-8748.
West Linn. Price: $2,800.
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COMMUNITY CLASSIFIEDS
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TRADE OR SELL OUR
MOTORHOME for
For Pick-up, SUV or car.
Owners Age forces sale.
WINNEBAGO ITASCA
Landcruiser, Class A, 38’,
1989 model, purchased
new, well maintained & upgraded. 105K mi, good
cond, 2 A/Cs, 2 furnaces,
newer refrig, & water
heater, hydraulic air ride
system, generator, leveling
jacks, $9,500 or trade.
503-961-5377 or
503-539-2032.
YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD MARKETPLACE
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of the best consignment
programs around. We
have an outstanding
reputation for being #1 at
customer service.
Our specialty is -
Selling your RV!
We sell all types of RV’S.
Call about our consignment program. There are
no hidden fees.
We will get you
the most for your RV!
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have a large budget for
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Salem, OR 97305
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OVERHANGING
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Community Classifieds
Exceptional 1998 Mercedes Benz E320 sedan
SANDY
To place your
Community Classified
advertisement,
call 503-620-SELL(7355).
CHECK US OUT!
www.litkie.com
Cars For Sale
Dan Gilbride, MA/MRC
Treatment & Service
Specialist since 1985.
503-367-3630
strandswindowanddoor.com
CCB 147 28
503 668-8000
Boats/Motors/
Supplies
Teens/Adults.
Consultation/Counseling
Support Service planning.
HIGHEST QUALITY at the
LOWEST PRICE!
•Vinyl and Wood Windows
•Quality Craftsmanship at
an Affordable Price
•PlyGem, Milgard
Therma Tru Doors
Call Keith(503)667-4114
or (503)643-4114
BBB -CCB 545 5
B U I L D I N G M ATE R IAL S
The LATCH system makes it easier to be sure your
child’s car seat is installed correctly every time. Just
clip it to the lower anchors, attach the top tether, and pull
the straps tight. To find out more, visit safercar.gov.
Counseling
Award Winning
Exteriors
Flawless Interiors
Painting Finer Homes in
your area for 40+ yrs.
FOB Hubbard, Or. Subject to code requirements.
Price subject to change without notice.
PO Box 407, Hubbard, OR. 97032
OR CCB#86204 WA CCB# PARKEB1071D6
Manufactured
Homes/Lots for Rent
DIVORCE $155
CCB#194308
Painting & Papering
JAMES F.
WIEDEMANN
CONSTRUCTION
Remodeling, Windows,
& Doors, Decks,
Fences, Sheds.
20 yrs exper.
L/I/B CCB #102031.
503-784-6691
Attorneys/Legal
Services
503 867-3859
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Building &
Remodeling
LEARN TO
RECOGNIZE
WILDFIRE
HAZARDS
IN YOUR COMMUNITY
A single ember from a wildfire can travel over
a mile to your home or community. Learn how
to reduce wildfire damage by spotting potential
hazards at fireadapted.org.
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CLASSIFIEDS B9
The Portland Tribune Tuesday, December 2, 2014
BANKS
OREGON CITY:
St. Nicholas
FAIRE
73rd Ban s Union
Point Cemetery
Community Dinner
& Ba aar
Sat Dec 6.
Ba aar: 10am-7pm
Dinner: Noon-7pm
Ban s Elementary
School
NW Trellis Way
Dec 5th & 6th: 10-4
St. Paul’s Episcopal
Church
822 Washington Street
outique
Popular theme basket
raffle benefits Clackamas
Children’s Center.
20 Vendors, lunch, bake
sale. St. Nicholas will be
here; bring your camera for
photo ops.
German
PORTLAND
Christmas Imports
Ch
GRESHAM:
Wholesaler open to public
Nutcrackers • Pyramids • Ornaments
28863.11261
PORTLAND SW:
St. John Fisher Altar
Guild Annual
Christmas Bazaar
December 6: 4-7pm &
December 7: 8am-1pm
Church Hall
SW 46th Avenue &
Nevada Street
Fun for the whole family!
Games for the children,
café with homemade soup
and free coffee, Christmas
greenery, handmade
collectibles, delicious
baked goods and a special
visit from Santa on
Sunday!
SELLWOOD
TIGARD:
TUALATIN:
Supa Fresh
Holiday Bazaar
13th
Annual Snowfla es
in Sellwood
Holiday Ba aar!
2 Big Days!
Dec 6: 9-4pm &
Dec 7: 10-3pm.
Sellwood CC
1436 SE Spo ane
Many handmade & unique
gifts! 503-823-3195
SAT, December 6th: 9-3
9055 SW Locust St.
(at Bethlehem House
of Bread)
Handmade local arts and
crafts, food and live
music. Proceeds benefit
the Supa Fresh Youth
Farm & Food Pantry
www.supafreshyouthfarm.org
SELL your unwanted items in
the classifieds. Call today.
503-620-SELL
Winona Holiday Market
Dec. 6th from 9am-4pm
8340 SW Seneca St
Bring canned food for our
food drive and you’ll be
entered to win a drawing!
Sell it today
in the
Classifieds.
GARDEN HOME
RECREATION CENTER
7475 SW Oleson Road, Portland
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Don’t let the weather Choosing the right hospice
get you down
Seasonal Affective
DavidLipschitz
Disorder is a common
cause of depression
T
hanksgiving has
passed, the days are
cooler and shorter,
and Christmas will
soon be upon us.
For many of us, this time of
year is filled with special occasions, each one celebrating
friends, family and community.
But with these holidays
comes an aggressive assault on
our health. We eat too much, exercise too little, and simmering
family conflicts often lead to
stress, high blood pressure and
an increased risk of heart attack
and stroke. Unfortunately, this
time of the year is accompanied
by a dramatic increase of depression.
For some, the dreary, cloudy
winter days lead to a high incidence of a condition called seasonal affective disorder, or SAD,
which manifests with insomnia
and significant declines in
mood. It can also be accompanied by a sense of increased
hunger, a craving for carbohydrates and weight gain. Most experts believe SAD is caused by
lack of sunlight, which interferes with our sleep-wake cycle
or circadian rhythm. This
causes many adults to lose the
ability to distinguish night from
day and sleep poorly. A decline
in serotonin, a chemical released from the brain, affects
mood and leads to depression.
The diagnosis of SAD is suspected if a person has symptoms of depression at least
twice during winter, particularly if symptoms are present in
more than one family member.
Depression during the
Thanksgiving and Christmas
holidays is more common in older people, particularly those
who live alone, have lost significant loved ones or no longer celebrate in their own homes. We
often reminisce and long for beloved parents, spouses or
friends who are no longer with
us. And feelings of loss, whether
it is loss of a loved one or loss of
a tradition, are more acutely felt
during this time of year.
A depressed older person will
LIFELONG HEALTH
often feel unwanted and unnecessary, shrinking into the background and avoiding the hustle
and bustle of winter festivities.
And sadly, many of us can easily
get wrapped up in the frenzy of
planning and miss the warning
signs of a depressed friend or
loved one.
So how should we approach
the winter blues? First and foremost, it is important to understand the fundamental reasons
why many people feel sad and
depressed. Remember, depression is not a weakness, an intrinsic mental flaw or a nuisance that can be easily wished
away. Baby boomers have a particularly important responsibility to understand the plight of
their parents who may not feel
engaged in the party preparations or can become particularly
upset by family spats.
In addition to the lifestyle
changes that can improve depression, there are many medical treatments to address the
winter blues. SAD can be readily treated. Many physicians prescribe light therapy to improve
symptoms. The patient can sit
in front of a bright light, usually
from a light box, for at least half
an hour a day.
Never downplay the sadness
that can come at even the happiest of times. Depression is a serious medical condition that can
lead to disastrous outcomes if
ignored. Be understanding, seek
help, and Thanksgiving and
Christmas can truly bring the
joy, happiness and contentment
we all deserve.
Dr. David Lipschitz is the director of
the Dr. David Health and Wellness
Center in Little Rock. To find out
more about Dr. David Lipschitz visit
the Creators Syndicate Web page at
www.creators.com. More information
is available at: DrDavidHealth.com
care for your loved one
T
he decision to enter
hospice care can be
emotional and often
bewildering.
Hospice care is provided to
people facing a terminal illness
or condition with anticipated
death in the next six months,
often creating a difficult and
trying time for patients and
their families.
If your loved one is facing
failing health and considering
hospice, there are many programs and end-of-life care considerations to take into account
before making a decision. The
big question is: how do you
know if the services provided
offer a good match for your ailing mother or father or friend?
Remember foremost that going into hospice doesn’t mean
you’ve given up on a loved one
or that he or she has given up
either. It just means one form
of treatment isn’t working and
it’s time to take a new approach. Hospice becomes an alternative care method that provides a relaxed, nurturing environment for a patient who’s
battling the disease.
Patients and their family
members can never ask too many questions before entering
hospice care. What is hospice
care? What’s provided, and
what’s not? What are the commitments? These kinds of queries will help ensure your loved
one’s smooth transition into hospice and that everyone is on the
same page from the beginning.
“It’s important to ask ques-
Going into
hospice doesn’t
mean you’ve
given up on a
loved one or that
he or she has
given up either.
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ADVENTIST HEALTH
tions and find the right fit for
your loved one because every
person will have their own
unique experience and needs.
When interviewing companies
and hospice caretakers, patients should feel a sense of
support, understanding and
trust,” says Tim Shatzel, Administrative Director of
Homecare Services at Adventist Health in Portland. “This is
not a science, so find a program with caretakers who
demonstrate personality, compassion and empathy.”
Adventist Health Hospice is
one example of a local program
helping people on their journey
through the final stages of life.
Like many area hospice care
providers, Adventist Health’s
program centers on in-home
care, which consists of home
visits by on-site physicians and
nurses who are available 24
hours a day, seven days a week.
The main focus is helping
patients become as comfortable as possible, and the athome component is a key factor. Caretakers help with
household tasks to make
things easier for patients, such
as grocery shopping, laundry
and cleaning. Additionally,
chaplains who are dedicated to
providing emotional and spiritual support are available to
patients, as are physical therapists, medication delivery couriers, social workers and music
therapists. One unique service
offered by Adventist Health is
its “Defining Moments” program that offers hospice volunteers who record patients’ life
stories as keepsakes for their
families and friends.
While the most important
thing to consider is that your
loved one feels cared for and
respected, remember that the
decision to enter hospice affects family members and
friends too. Support services
and grief healing groups for
loved ones help ensure that no
one has to cope with loss alone.
As for paying for hospice
care, a number of healthcare
providers already recognize its
value and it’s a covered benefit
on most insurance plans. The
pricing formula is based on a
maximum six-month timeframe for care. The insurance
money is typically pooled together as a lump sum and that
money is then drawn from to
pay for care.
Ultimately, hospice care exists for people who want guidance and support through their
final moments in life. Hospice
staff should bring thoughtfulness and stability to their patients.
“Find a place focused on
high-quality patient care first
and then consider other factors,” said Shatzel. “The goal is
that no one should have to die
alone or in fear or in pain.”
Recognizing early signs of stroke
Stroke is the third
leading cause of
death for women
A
t least once per day,
firefighter medics at
Tualatin Valley Fire
and Rescue respond
to a person suffering from a
stroke.
When a stroke happens, a
heart stops, or a serious injury
occurs...seconds count. Given
TVF&R’s network of 23 strategically located fire stations,
the same response time advantage that exists for fires al-
so applies to medical emergencies. Firefighter medics will
respond with medication and
equipment that can save a life.
In the case of a stroke, quick
medical intervention can reduce long-term disability.
It’s important to know the
warning signs of stroke so that
9-1-1 can be activated early
and responders and physicians can seize the critical
window of treatment time:
■ Sudden numbness or
weakness of the face, arm or
leg, especially on one side of
the body
■ Sudden confusion, trouble
speaking or understanding
■ Sudden trouble seeing in
one or both eyes
■ Sudden trouble walking,
dizziness, loss of balance or
coordination
■ Sudden, severe headache
with no known cause
Last year, TVF&R responded to a higher number of women suffering strokes; 204 compared to 173 men. According
to the American Heart Association, stroke is the third leading cause of death in women.
While women have many of
the same risk factors for
stroke as men, such as diabetes, high blood pressure,
smoking, and high cholesterol,
they can also face separate issues such as high blood pres-
sure during pregnancy, the
use of birth control pills and
other hormonal and lifestyle
factors.
This past spring, the American Heart Association and
American Stroke Association
released new stroke prevention guidelines specifically for
women (my.americanheart.
org/professional/ScienceNews/
Guidelines-for-the-Preventionof-Stroke-in-Women_
UCM_459842_Article.jsp). Oregon Health Sciences University also has a nationally recognized Stroke Center which
provides critical care for patients, and prevention education.
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last month at Montgomery Park.
Honored for her generosity
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founding member of the Women of Good Samaritan, which
began in 1977 and remains a
thriving group committed to
supporting vital programs
that bring hope and healing to
patients. The event also raised
more than $130,000 for Emergency Services at Legacy
Good Samaritan.
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Laura Meier and
Pete Mark (from
left to right) at
the 2014 Wistar
Morris Award
ceremony.
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well as a keynote address on
transformations of emergency
care in Oregon by Jennifer
Aponte, M.D., medical director
of Legacy Good Samaritan’s
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The Portland Tribune Tuesday, December 2, 2014
Last week
“Horrible Bosses 2”; “Penguins of Madagascar”
This week
No notable releases; (“Wild,”
based on the adventure and
book by Portland writer Cheryl
Strayed and starring Reese
Witherspoon, comes out soon;
see below for more)
Next week
Dec. 12 — “Exodus: Gods
and Kings”; “Top Five”
Home rentals
The top 10 digital movie purchases based on consumer
transaction rate, by Rentrak:
1. “Maleficent”
2. “A Most Wanted Man”
3. “22 Jump Street”
4. “X-Men: Days of Future
Past”
5. “Live Die Repeat: Edge of
Tomorrow”
6. “Sex Tape”
7. “How To Train Your
Dragon 2”
8. “Let’s Be Cops”
9. “Mr. Peabody & Sherman”
10. “Captain America — Winter Soldier”
Other favorites recently:
“Neighbors”; “Hercules”; “A
Million Ways to Die in the
West”; “Deliver Us From Evil”;
“Godzilla”; “The Fault in Our
Stars”; “Transformers: Age of
Extinction”
Source: Rentrak Digital
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■ A “Critic’s Choice” film series will be shown at the Hollywood Theatre, 4122 N.E Sandy
Blvd. Four local movie critics
— Erik Henriksen (Portland
Mercury), Marc Mohan (The
Oregonian), Shawn Levy
(KGW) and Andy Kryza (Willamette Week) — were invited
to choose an underrated movie
they wanted to share; the cavaet being the films couldn’t
be well-known or recently
screened in Portland. The lineup: “Cronos” (Henriksen),
Guillermo del Toro’s film febut
about a mysterious life-extending device resurfacing, Dec. 4;
“Little Murders” (Mohan), a
black comedy about a girl introducing her boyfriend to her
dysfunctional family amid
community incidents, Dec. 11;
“Bang the Drum Slowly”
(Levy), the story of two baseball players, including a halfwit catcher played by Robert
De Niro, as one deals with terminal illness, Dec. 12; “The
Tenant” (Kryza), a psychological horror film about a man
down a rabbit hole of paranoia
in Paris, Dec. 17. Each are
screened at 7:30 p.m. Tickets
are $8 (hollywoodtheatre.org).
■ The Northwest Film Center’s “Japanese Currents” series highlights recent film,
ranging from anime to samurai epic, documentary to family melodrama, while exploring
issues important to contemporary Japanese society. The
schedule: “Neko Samurai,” 7
p.m. Dec. 5, 4:30 p.m. Dec. 7;
“Fuku-Chan of Fukufuku
Flats,” 2 p.m. Dec 6, 7 p.m. Dec.
7; “Patema Inverted,” 4:30 p.m.
Dec. 6, 7 p.m. Dec. 8; “The
Kingdom of Madness and
Dreams,” 7 p.m. Dec 6 and 9;
“Uzumasa Limelight,” 8 p.m.
Dec. 10, 1:30 p.m. Dec. 13; “My
Man,” 7 p.m. Dec. 11, 4 p.m.
Dec. 13; “Disconcerto,” 7 p.m.
Dec. 12, 1:30 p.m. Dec. 14; “The
Tale of Iya,” 7 p.m. Dec. 13 and
14; 2014 Sapporo Shorts Program, 4:30 p.m. Dec. 14. Screenings will take place at the Portland Art Museum/Whitsell Auditorium, 1219 S.W. Park Ave.
Tickets are $9 general, $8 students, $6 children. For info:
nwfilm.org.
■ The Found Footage Festival of New York, a touring
showcase of odd and hilarious
videos co-hosted by Joe Pickett
(The Onion) and Nick Prueher
(“Late Show with David Letterman” and “Colbert Report”)
will be bringing an all-new
show to Portland. It’s the 10th
anniversary of FFF, and showings will include “How to Have
Cybersex on the Internet” and
a fake chef prank and the debut of outtakes from KOIN TV.
It’ll take place 7 p.m. Dec. 6 and
7 at Hollywood Theatre, 4122
N.E. Sandy Blvd. ($12 tickets,
foundfootagefest.com).
■ “Wild,” the movie starring
Reese Witherspoon, based on
the book by Cheryl Strayed
(“Wild: From Lost to Found on
the Pacific Crest Trail”) and
her Pacific Crest Trail hike,
comes out soon (check your local theaters). It’s rated R and
115 minutes long, and filmed
partly in Oregon, and it chronicles Strayed’s 1,100-mile solo
hike that she went on after going through divorce, the death
of her mother and years of bad
behavior. For more info:
foxsearchlight.com/wild.
JJ Bittner lands in Guinness book for having the largest ‘mouth gape’
S
herwood resident JJ Bittner first
became aware he had a big
mouth, ahem, rather an enormously large mouth gape, while
in dental school when fellow students
were practicing examinations on one
another.
That’s when someone saw just how
wide Bittner, who now specializes in pediatric dentistry, could actually open his
mouth.
“We actually measured it and (it was)
twice as big as everyone else’s,” he says
of the discovery made in 2003. “One of
them suggested I see if there’s a record.”
Bittner did, and discovered no one
had claimed such a record.
So in 2005, he took the next logical
step, submitting documentation to the
Guinness Book of World Records publishers after someone measured his
mouth from the incisal edge of his upper
front teeth to the incisal edge
of his bottom teeth.
At 3.3 inches, Bittner’s
gape was a world record,
and the Guinness folks first
placed his name in the
widely popular book in
2006. The problem was they
didn’t include a photo.
That all changed with the
publication of Guinness
World Records 2015 when a
large full-color photo of
Bittner was featured in all of
his wide-open-mouth glory.
“They try to make you look creepy,”
he says.
The photographers assigned by Guinness pointed out that they had just come
from a photo shoot in California where
they had photographed the world’s
shortest cat.
“They said I was just shy of fitting the
cat in my mouth,” he said. “I was like, ‘I
don’t think I want his paws in my
mouth.’”
At least once, the gregarious dentist
has had to defend his title.
Several years ago, a potential
record-breaker entered the fray,
a man who had the widest stretch
of his mouth.
But as Bittner pointed out,
“Amazingly he doesn’t have the largest
(vertical) gape.”
— Ray Pitz
JJ Bittner (right)
compares his own wide
mouth with that of his big
model teeth that he uses
to teach children how to
brush. (Left) Bittner
shows off his place in the
new Guinness World
Records 2015 book.
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RAY PITZ
Elwes: Film holds nostalgic Szabo: He has a full
schedule of gigs
place in people’s hearts
■ From page 12
up with Elwes to talk about
his journey since being cast in
his unforgettable role as the
Farm Boy turned Dread Pirate
Roberts:
PMG: In the book, you talk
about how people who worked
on the movie held William
Goldman’s original tale in
high regard, including yourself. What was it about the
book that you loved when you
first read it?
Elwes: Well, I loved the way
Bill Goldman writes, first of all.
He writes in a very conversational way. So when you’re reading it, it’s very immediate, and
you feel like you’re in the room
with him. He’s very good. It
would seem like he doesn’t edit
himself, but of course he does. I
re-read a lot of his books to get
into the mindset of that frame of
mind when I was writing this
book. I wanted it sort of to be an
homage to his style, even though
I’m obviously nowhere near as
good of a writer as he is.
PMG: Why was it that you
felt like you needed to write
this book?
Elwes: Myself and the rest
of the cast always get asked,
“Was it as much fun to make
the film as it looked?” And I always tell folks it was more fun
than it looked. I wanted to
share with the fans what a fun
time we all had.
PMG: How was it writing
about events that happened so
long ago and that were so influential in your life?
Elwes: As you say, the memory was definitely a challenge to
begin with. But it was very joyful for me to go back and remember this period in my life.
Because as I say, the film had an
enormous impact on my career,
obviously. It was my first big
Hollywood movie, and it was
such a joyful experience.
PMG: The book features
musings and anecdotes from
the cast and filmmakers. How
did you go about collecting
this information?
Elwes: I asked them all if they
wanted to be a part of it, and
they all graciously agreed,
which is just wonderful, really.
PMG: You talk about it in
the book, and it seems like ev-
Cary Elwes and
Mandy Patinkin
constantly
practiced for
their infamous
sword-fighting
scene and were
trained by the
same men who
choreographed
the lightsaber
scenes in “Star
Wars.”
COURTESY PHOTO
erybody who worked on the
film became very close very
quickly.
Elwes: It was really Rob
(Reiner). He set the tone for the
piece, you know? He’s just a
wonderful guy and a wonderful
director. Being an actor is always a wonderful thing when
you’re working with actors who
are directing. He’s a very magnanimous guy, and he loves to
direct, he loves actors obviously,
and so he wanted to make it a
very special journey for all of us.
And he did.
PMG: You talk a lot about
the sword fighting and how
long you had to train and
practice for that. It seems like
you threw yourself in and really dedicated yourself to every aspect of the film that was
required of you.
Elwes: Oh, absolutely. I love a
challenge. It was Rob who said
he didn’t want any stunt doubles. He told Mandy (Patinkin)
and myself and Chris Guest,
who had to fight Mandy, he told
us all he didn’t want any standins. So we launched into a very
healthy training with two of the
best sword masters in England
at the time — Bob Anderson,
who was an Olympic trainer for
Great Britain in the ‘50s, and Peter Diamond, who was a great
sword master at the time — and
they both choreographed the
lightsaber scenes for “Star
Wars.” They trained us eight
hours a day for five days a week
in prep. Then once we started
shooting, they would just grab
us between scenes. So we never
really had any downtime, Mandy and I. Not much.
PMG: Did that affect your
overall filming experience?
Elwes: Well, sure. You know,
when the rest of the cast were
hanging out, laughing and joking around between scenes
(laughs), we we were up in a
field somewhere, just training
nonstop. We had to learn each
other’s parts, as well. So we
didn’t just learn our own moves,
we learned each other’s moves.
PMG: And left-handed,
right?
Elwes: My left-handed moves,
and then I had to learn Mandy’s
left-handed moves! And I had to
learn my right-handed moves
and his, and he had to do the
same. So it was a lot of work, but
we got into it.
PMG: You also talk about
how many people toyed with
the idea of making this movie
prior to it actually being
made. Why do you think you
guys were the only ones who
could make it happen?
Elwes: That has to do with
Rob’s shear determination. He’s
a formidable person when it
comes to what he wants to get.
He’s just so magnanimous, as I
say. He just doesn’t let up; he’s
very passionate. And he just
wouldn’t accept”‘no” as far as
this project was concerned ...
And his mentor, Norman Lear,
who financed “Spinal Tap” and
“Sure Thing” and “Stand By
Me,” just stepped up to the
plate and said, “Absolutely, I’ll
back you 100 percent.”
PMG: People hold the movie in a very nostalgic place in
their hearts. Why do you
think that is?
Elwes: I think it’s just one of
those rare films that whole
families can watch together,
and enjoy it for what it is.
That’s a rare thing today. It’s a
sweet film, and it’s got a great
sense of humor. If I could put
my finger exactly on it, I would
be making millions.
■ From page 12
receiving his flyer.
“He said, ‘Thanks, Felicia.
No foster homes have gotten
back to me,’” Barza says.
She was glad she did.
“As soon as Joe got here, he
started singing and playing,”
Barza says. “He is very nice
with the people and he always
asks for their favorite song. He
tries to make everyone happy.”
It also impressed Barza that
Szabo is half Hungarian (and
half Scottish).
“I like it best when I trigger
something in people,” Szabo
says. “They get to sing along
and clap along. Especially
wheelchair-bound people.
When I see tears welling in
their eyes I know I’ve trig-
gered something from their
past.”
Szabo even won a talent
contest recently. A series of
performers played at one adult
care home, and the residents
got to select the one they
wanted to return as a regular
performer. The winner was
Szabo.
The Accordion Man’s playing calendar is chock full, and
since it is the holiday season
he is in more demand than ever. To accommodate his public,
Szabo says he will try to pry in
a few more appearances.
“I’m told that what I do really does uplift people,” Szabo
says.
For more about Joe
Szabo and his music, go to
joeszaboaccordionman.com.
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‘THE
ACCORDION
MAN’
PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP PHOTOS: VERN UYETAKE
As soon as clients of adult care homes see Joe Szabo perform, they want him to come back. As he says, “The accordion sells itself.”
■ Joe Szabo’s music makes you laugh, cry and dance
By CLIFF NEWELL
Pamplin Media Group
L
ast year, Joe Szabo lost his
job and then went to work.
The first incident happened when the Lake Oswego man’s real estate company went
out of business.
The second came when he picked
up his accordion and became a
strolling musician throughout Lake
Oswego and the surrounding area.
Joe Szabo may soon be playing at
a house near you — or even at your
house. He could well eventually
play there because Szabo gives 60
performances a month; some festivals, some restaurants, but mostly
individual care homes for senior
adults. Many only have four or five
residents, but it’s a receptive audience. Especially if some visitors
show up and a party breaks out.
“This has succeeded a lot better
than I anticipated,” Szabo says.
“The accordion sells itself. Once
people saw me play, they wanted me
back twice a month or once a week.
I’ve really been blessed by this.”
Szabo has a gigantic repertoire
of 400 songs, and chances are that
if you call out a song, he will know
it. He plays and sings especially
well playing at birthday parties,
where the enthusiasm of the occasion ignites him. Just a sampling of
songs: “My Bonnie Lies over the
Ocean,” “Let Me Call You Sweetheart,” “In the Good Old Summertime,” “Pop Goes the Weasel,”
“Springtime in the Rockies” and
“Blue Danube.”
One of Szabo’s specialties is polkas, and when he launches into
“The Beer Barrel Polka,” some of
his audience members usually get
up and start dancing, accompanied
by laughing and cheering.
Yet Szabo can also make you cry
It is easy for Joe Szabo to get his audience involved, such as this one in the adult
your eyes out with “Amazing
Grace” and “Danny Boy.” His listen- foster home operated by Felicia Barza in Lake Grove.
ers experience a real mixture of
emotions.
on. However, Mrs. Szabo didn’t
encouraged me in my accordion
Now 60 years old, Szabo’s musiwant to take lessons by herself. She playing and made it fun.”
cal career started with a knock on
thought about which of her 11 chilSo, little Joe dutifully practiced
the door of his Coos Bay home 54
dren would be most amenable to
on his 12-button beginner’s accordiyears ago. A door-to-door salesman this idea and picked 6-year-old Joe. on. He kept on playing and got
was selling accordion lessons, and
“I was her most obedient child,”
good. At age 11, he finished third in
Szabo’s mother was eager to sign
Szabo says. “But my mom always
the Western States Accordion Fes-
GOING BACK IN TIME WITH
‘DEAR, SWEET WESTLEY’
Actor Cary Elwes
shares tales of
‘The Princess Bride’
in new book
By CAITLIN FELDMAN
Pamplin Media Group
Growing up, my family had
a recorded version of “The
Princess Bride” on VHS.
To get to the movie, we had to
fast-forward through the credits
of whichever movie had ended
right before — it was always
worth it.
I watched that movie until I
knew every line, and to this day,
I still have the best “Mawage,
mawage is what bwings us togeva today” impression out of anyone I know. I taught “as you
wish” to all my crushes in high
school, but somehow they were
never quite as charming as Cary
Elwes was as Westley. In elementary school, I decided that
buttercups were my favorite
flower, and it was no coincidence
this was also the name of the
film’s leading female character,
played by Robin Wright. The
other day, my father and I got into a legitimate spat as to whether it’s Westley, Inigo or both who
declare they’re not left-handed. I
was right, it’s both.
If you’re a fan of the cult classic, you probably have similar
stories. You’ve shared the 1987
movie with your kids, your parents and your friends, and
you’ve been utterly confused on
the rare occasions when people
tell you they’ve never seen it.
That’s because for those of us
who love the film, it’s something
more than a cinematic achievement. It’s what we watched
when we were sick, just as Fred
Savage’s character was read to
by his grandfather; it’s what we
awkwardly sat on the couch and
watched on first dates; it’s what
we quote with our families
around the dinner table.
For those of us who love it,
there’s something different
about this film, something
Hear from Cary Elwes
WHAT: Q&A with Elwes and sign-
ing of “As You Wish: Inconceivable
Tales from the Making of The
Princess Bride”
WHEN: 7 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 4
WHERE: Powell’s Books at Cedar
Hills Crossing; 3415 S.W. Cedar
Hills Blvd., Beaverton
NOTE: Elwes will not be signing
other memorabilia, such as DVDs
and posters
we can’t quite name. Don’t
worry, we’re not alone — Cary
Elwes can’t quite figure it out,
either, but he recounts his experience of making the movie in
his book, “As You Wish: Inconceivable Tales from the Making
of The Princess Bride.” Since its
October release, it’s made the
New York Times Bestseller list,
and on Dec. 4 at 7 p.m., he’ll be at
Powell’s Books at Cedar Hills
Crossing in Beaverton to talk
about it.
Pamplin Media Group caught
See ELWES / Page 11
COURTESY PHOTOS
When Cary Elwes was cast for the role of Westley in “The Princess Bride,” he was one of the newest
members of the cast to the film business. The role was what launched his career.
tival contest, and at age 12, he finished first. Through the years he
progressed, taking lessons from
outstanding accordion players and
performing at Octoberfests, Italian
and German restaurants, and family celebrations. However, the accordion was always an avocation.
Then Szabo’s company closed
last year, and now he is “The
Accordion Man.”
“This was a new opportunity to
do something I enjoy doing,” he
says. “I mailed flyers to adult care
homes, and one thing led to another. New doors of opportunity
opened to share my music.”
Szabo was delighted to discover
that the Lake Oswego area has many adult care homes operated by
Romanians. And “Romanians love
accordion music,” he says.
One Romanian accordion fan is
Felicia Barza of Lake Grove. It was
she who opened the door to his
popularity in adult care homes because she was the first foster home
operator who contacted him after
See SZABO / Page 11