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Is fun
productive?
Offices resembling
playgrounds are actually
more productive
say designers and bosses
Will work for
food: Airbnb
staff get free
catered lunches
and coffee from
a proper
espresso
machine.
A
irbnb’s Portland office is
a glorified call center.
And it is glorious.
Scale models of popular rental homes dot the two floors
the company moved into at 34 NW
1st Ave in late 2014. Staff can take a
meeting in a yurt (no fabric, just
the woven slats) or work quietly in
a beach
house. They
can meet in
the Twin
Peaks boardroom, fitted
with red velvet curtains and a picture of Lara Flynn Boyle. Everyone
has a “standing landing” with a
BY JOSEPH
GALLIVAN
COURTESY AIRBNB
hook for their coat and a secure
space for their laptop. Staff work
with Mac Book Airs and headsets,
talking or typing as they solve
problems for vacationers and renters internationally. They move
around the room from bench desk
to armchair to quiet nook to standing desk as the mood (or the restless leg syndrome) grabs them.
It’s a bit like an elementary
school, all pale plywood, spider
plants and snacks. There’s a large
food island, free lunch and a bookcase that turns into a bar for celebrations. The idea is to help people
find quiet when they need it, or
space to collaborate. Standing
landings fit a team of 12, and there
are 16 of them.
Just a few blocks south at digital
ad agency Sq1, staff work under
the gaze of an Incredible Hulk
model, a life-size Army Man toy
and multiple big screens showing
basketball (the Trail Blazers are a
client) music videos, art and conference calls. There’s an authenticlooking video game arcade, a kegerator and multiple standing or
walking desks. Sq1 just expanded
into the floor above and is taking
the fun theme and running with it.
“Pretty much every day there’s
an Amazon delivery,” says partner
John Holmes, designer of much of
the décor. “A chair, a table, a
lamp...Gabe Winslow and I put a
lot of personal stuff in here. The
space changes a lot, the furniture
and color schemes. We like themes
— themes on steroids.”
But is all this fun productive?
Is there something to be said for
olive-green pendant files, grey
cubes and a break room full of
workers’ rights notices?
In 1995, Wired Magazine
CONTINUED / Page 4
COVER: Final four
pack: Staff at Sq1
agency take a meeting
in the company’s
flamboyant offices.
LEFT: Dog days:
Customer Experience
staff at Airbnb’s new
Portland office can
move around as they
deal with calls, chat
and email.
COURTESY AIRBNB
JAY CHIAT SPEAKS
TO WIRED
Jay Chiat of Chiat/Day, an
advertising agency in Los
Angeles, spoke to Wired
Magazine in 1995 about their
use of hot desking.
Chiat: The products I think will
be great successes in the next
few years are personal digital
assistants, wireless laptops you
can network with, cellular
phones, and almost anything
you don’t have to plug in to
use.
Q: How will you know in three
or five years whether Chiat/
Day’s reorganization has been a
success or failure?
Chiat: It’s a success right now
because the work hasn’t gotten
any worse, and some of the
work looks better. And we
haven’t destroyed the company.
I have a very simplistic concept
for evaluating risk. I first analyze the downside. What’s the
worst thing that can happen if
the project or enterprise fails?
How much money can be lost?
Image destroyed? Careers shattered? Empires lost? And if the
analysis isn’t too grim, we proceed.
4 Business Tribune Tuesday, January 20, 2015
■ From page 3
famously covered Los Angeles ad
agency Chiat/Day’s ambitious attempt at hot desking. Staff could
check out a cordless phone and
laptop for the day, had tiny lockers
and no desks. There were lots of
couches out in the open, but people gravitated to the boardrooms.
They soon hated it.
In 1999, Wired followed up detailing how it went wrong — there
was “private space, but not personal space” — and how people
camped in corners, hid their stuff
and used the trunks of their cars
as filing cabinets.
Founder Jay Chiat was right
about laptops, cellphones and the
virtual office but his minimalism
didn’t work at work. He sold Chiat/Day and the new boss brought
back corner offices, desks and
even cubes.
For Holmes at Sq1, the emphasis is less on having fun than on
feeling comfortable.
“I’m trying to set it up so it feels
like a high end condo, with couches, TVs and food. One of the
things I’m most proud of is our
people like coming to work,” says
Holmes, who has his own office in
the old police building on SW Oak.
“It makes people more relaxed,
COURTESY HB AGENCY
they show up on time and there’s
Looking good: Staff at the HB ad agency in Newton, MA, are encouraged to cook at work as a form of bonding.
a sense of camaraderie. They want
to take care of the space.”
He insists it not about trapping
tising.
We’ve never had anybody exploit
Like a prison environment.”
staff at the office.
His theory is that workers are
it — it’s a good group of people.”
He adds, “Unfortunately, offices
“I don’t want people checking
more focused when they are comThe designers of Portland’s
have developed around this idea of
their watch to see if it’s time to
fortable. They use play to regener- Airbnb office, Aaron Taylor Harthe desk.”
leave. But I don’t want people to to ate, get creative and bond, rather
vey and Rachael Yu, avoided the
The Airbnb staff needed hardstay late.”
than to goof off. This may
Chiat/Day pitfalls by spending
wired data ports, not unreliable
For example, he finds
be true, since opportunithree weeks asking the staff what
wireless. They liked hot desking
that if staff know a Blazties to goof off are these
they wanted in a workplace. (They but they needed more mobility.
ers game or Monday
days more likely to reside
lead the “Environment Team.”)
“Also, for a lot of people, to walk
night football is being
on a phone or PC screen
The San Francisco-based architec- in and have to choose a desk to sit
screened they stay and
than around the fabled
tural designers learned that staff
at is like walking into to a school
get work done until it
watercooler. The quaint
wanted a place to call their own —
cafeteria,” says Yu. “When people
starts, rather than leave
analog world seems conhence the standing landings.
are in meetings all day, leaving befor a bar.
trollable in comparison.
At Airbnb Portland, as the
hind desks with big monitors on
Holmes says clients ofStaff take turns picking
workers moved in they were enthem, that’s a waste of space. This
ten come in to Sq1 to
the music and choosing
couraged to decorate, and were
is grounded in the sharing econowork even if they don’t
the beer. “It’s fun to see
paid overtime to do it. The ergomy.”
have a meeting. “Clients
nomic solution the designers went
Aaron Taylor Harvey, the ecosystem interact,”
Ad Men Lead
love coming here, such
for was to get rid of the traditional
Airbnb Portland office says Holmes, much of
Ad agencies have always
as Hi-Tech Sports and
desk and replace with other surdesigner. whose job is taken up
tweaked their environments. WiePapa Murphy’s Portland
with expansion: hiring,
faces.
den + Kennedy’s space helps peoCoop.
real estate and bizdev.
“We have the same number of
ple circulate and bump into one
We like it because it’s
But all this beer and
people (as a call center this size)
another, whether they be staffers
less travel for us, and it puts us in
popcorn doesn’t cloud his view.
but because they are sharing reor non- profits and artists. The
line of sight with them.” He says it
“We’re a heavily analytical com- sources they can have all different
bleachers are still useful after 15
creates a true work partnership,
pany and project managers track
experiences in their work day,”
years.
rather than the ‘Us versus Them’
the bandwidth of every employee,
says Harvey. He has never worked
At ad agency HB in Newton, just
mentality sometimes found adverand how many hours are billable.
in a cube. “They look scary to me.
“I have never
worked in a
cubicle. They
look scary to
me. Like a
prison
environment.”
Business
Tribune
PRESIDENT
vice president
J. Mark Garber
Brian Monihan
editor and
associate publisher
Advertising Director
CIRCULATION
MANAGER
Vance W. Tong
creative
services manager
Cheryl DuVal
Harvey and Yu were the
design architects on Airbnb’s
Portland User Experience center project. Portland architecture firm Boora took their ideas
and made them a reality.
Airbnb benefited from
Portland’s strong fabrication
scene. “Within two weeks we
were meeting with all these
great fabricators,” says Yu. “We
had to invent a lot of furniture,
but it was more cost effective
than regular Herman Knoll or
Steelecase furniture.”
Then there’s Portland’s
famed cheapness. Taylor was
awed that The Good Mod could
have a whole floor above
Everyday Music on West
Burnside St.
“That kind of shop would be
unbelievably expensive in San
Francisco, like $30-$40,000 a
month.”
outside Boston Massachussetts
President & Creative Director
Kevin Hart believes that “People
are most productive when they’re
in a happy, exciting environment.”
The office has a full kitchen and
much of the bonding revolves
around food. They do potlucks and
people talk about what they
brought.
“Breakfast is a big thing, we’ll
send a note and people will go out
of their way to be in the office by
6:30 a.m. You come in, the place
smells like a diner. It’s fantastic.”
Hart says measuring its effect
on productivity is difficult, but he
believes it causes stickiness,
meaning staff attrition and turnover are low.
“Productivity is measured by
outcomes and profitability. We
have a robust infrastructure to determine that. The real value is in
creating the space to collaborate
and share time together. That creates a bond that’s difficult to
break.”
Prospects are impressed. “They
say ‘I wasn’t expecting this!’ In
our business, the unexpected creates an aura of attractiveness.”
Others have relied on food as
well. Kordell Norton is a consultant in Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio and
the author of “Business Charisma
— How Great Organizations Engage and Win Customers Again
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and Again.”
“You have to think in terms of
events now for employees — a
theme day, a beach party at the office, with prizes,” says Norton.
When he worked for CompuCom
he flew all over the country with
the CEO staging shrimp boils for
employees.
“We would meet the employees
at a park or someone’s home, cook
shrimp, potatoes, corn on the cob,
and beer for all. It was a morale
builder, they had a blast. With
happier employees turnover goes
down and insurance goes down
because people get sick less.”
He adds “Charismatic organizations understand that their employees who have fun are great
ambassadors to lower hiring costs
and drive word-of-mouth-buzz.”
Disney’s employees are cast members, Trader Joe’s are crew members, Starbucks’ are partners, Zappos’ are family.
He recommends break room
brag boards (like the ones at Cabela’s for shoppers and hunters) and
at Five Guys Hamburgers while
you wait in line.
“Most businesses think revenue
minus expenses equals profits.
The smart companies see employees as an asset, as a tool.”
Founded in February 2014, Venture Business Center has just
COURTESY AIRBNB
Swag: Airbnb staff were encouraged to be creative in decorating their office. Here they went with a nautical theme. Note
the standing landing with coat hooks, cubby and bike shoe rail.
opened its third Portland location,
at 707 Southwest Washington
Street. Founder Brandon Cannady
rents out desks or closed office
space to start ups and small firms.
Prices start at $225 a month for access to a desk two days a week.
Four days a week is $375. For $99 a
month you can sit at a couch using
the wifi. There’s free coffee and
beer, and 50 pages of printing a
month. They also offer Mimosa
Mondays at 10am, a networking
event in the lobby to which nonmembers are welcome.
“This is not coworking where
you sit at table with 10 people. I offer chance to be in a nice space
with bunch of professionals,” says
Cannady. There’s a Wii and an
Xbox One, which he says has never been abused. “There’s a super
level of honesty. People are genuinely really good, if you treat them
with respect they’ll respect your
space.”
This is another place where the
keg is the new watercooler, something to get people out of their
closed spaces.
“Beer is cheap. My friends own
the Uptown Market Brewery in
Beaverton so I get a deal.”
Back at Airbnb, where real time
data is king, can they say this office design is efficient? Productive?
“A lot of things are changing in
the workflow, like the protocol for
how they deal with callers,” say
Taylor. “You can’t measure the effectiveness of the space, but casually speaking, people say they feel
more productive.” Some even drop
in on the weekend to see their
friends.
So will soon every law firm and
medical office have a nap room, a
skateboard ramp and in house karaoke nights? Perhaps not. But
they could do well to reconsider
what motivates their staff, particularly those born after 1985.
Airbnb’s Taylor agrees. Fun
stuff, such as ping pong and video
games, “Feels retro, like the first
dot-com boom. We say if you give
people a way to do their work effectively and comfortably, that
makes them want to come to
work. You don’t need video
games.”
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6 Business Tribune Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Travis Noles,
left, and his
older brother,
Seth, have
opened a coffee
shop, Jet Set
Coffee, in Tigard.
Tigard company
hopes to bring
sophistication, class
back to suburban
coffee shops
S
porting a bushy beard, orange shirt and blue bow tie,
Travis Noles, 31, couldn’t
look more different from
his clean-cut brother, Seth. But the
two are in sync when it comes to
one of their biggest loves: coffee.
“I never thought I’d become a
coffee snob, but I totally am,” Travis said as he sipped coffee out of
a Captain America coffee mug. “I
am a total coffee snob.”
Seth and Travis know a lot
about coffee.
A lot.
The pair worked in the local coffee industry for years, and in December launched their own coffee
shop, Jet Set Coffee, located on
Better
living
through
coffee
culture
Southwest Nimbus Ave., as a
home for fellow coffee aficionados.
Tucked between a printer
supply company and a nail
salon, Jet Set aims to bring
an air of chic sophistication
to the suburbs, Seth Noles
said.
“Seth and I put our heads
together and realized that it
would be so easy to open up
our own place,” Travis said.
“We’ve worked in so many
places that we’d be efficient
and know how to get good
quality. We’ve done this for
so long, we knew that we
could make a go of it and do
something cool.”
Cool is the operative word.
Dave Brubeck plays over the radio as the brothers sip lattes in
1960s-inspired living room furniture. A 10-foot-tall photograph of
the John F. Kennedy International
Airport’s Terminal 5 — a classic
example of 1960s architecture — is
prominently displayed across the
back wall.
The airport theme is important,
said Seth Noles, 31, adding travel
and coffee go hand in hand.
“We want to harken back to a
time when traveling used to be an
event. We want to bring that to
people and imbue their travel
from point A to point B with the
importance that it has, and celebrate it. You can get what you
want and get out the door and
back on the road, or you can sit
and spend some time here and
there is still a liveliness and
an energy to the place.”
Portland is coffee Mecca,
with dozens of local coffee
roasters in the Rose City
alone. But the suburbs have
long been the domain of
drive-thru coffee kiosks.
“Look at the other coffee
(places) around us, there’s
Starbucks, Starbucks,
Dutch Bros. and Starbucks,” Travis said. “We
wanted to bring back real,
hand-crafted coffee to the
area.”
“We don’t see anything
like it happening here,” Seth
Noles added. “We wanted to
do something different with
the coffee shop format.”
The shop offers coffee and bagels from Spielman’s Coffee
Roaster and Bagels in Portland
and has an in-house pastry chef.
“You have to drive all the way
into Southeast Portland to get
these kind of bagels or good coffee,” Travis said. “We had a guy
who came in the other day saying
he didn’t have time to drive out to
Portland, and it was so good that
TIMES PHOTO:
JAIME VALDEZ
Jet Set Coffee
Where: 10115 S.W. Nimbus Ave.,
Tigard 97223
When: 7 a.m. to 3 p.m. Starting
in February, from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Contact: 503-430-1561
we were bringing these things out
here.”
The shop offers a limited menu
(“Coffee, bagels, pastries, done,”
Seth Noles says matter of factly)
so the shop can hone its craft to
perfection.
“It’s the difference between the
hand crafted and the punch-button lifestyle,” Seth added. “For us,
we wanted to cut away the excess
and focus on what works.”
This month is serving as a soft
open before the store officially
opens in February.
“We wanted to get the doors
open, let people know we’re here
and get to know the neighbors,”
Travis Noles said.
Seth Noles said that customers
are already making it a regular
stop on their morning commutes.
“It’s taken right off,” he said.
“Pun intended.”
BUSINESS TRIBUNE 7
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
TIGARD COOKIE COMPANY LANDS
‘SHARK TANK’
Leah Tutin, left,
and Taya Geiger,
are the owners
of Tigard’s
Scratch and
Grain Baking Co.
will appear on
the popular
reality series
“Shark Tank”
this season.
SUBMITTED PHOTO
Scratch and Grain Baking
grows even without TV exposure
T
he ABC reality competition “Shark Tank” will see
a few familiar faces this
season.
Leah Tutin and Taya Geiger, the
owners of Tigard’s Scratch and
Grain Baking Co., will
appear on the popular
reality series this season.
“It’s pretty awesome,” Tutin said.
“The experience was amazing. It
was the opportunity of a lifetime.”
No airdate has yet been set for
their episode, which was originally
scheduled to air on Jan. 13.
The company sells easy-to-bake,
single-serving cookie kits across
the country.
The kits come with pre-measured, all-natural ingredients and
simple instructions.
“Shark Tank,” which is in its
sixth season, brings entrepreneurs
in front of a team of investors.
Tutin and Geiger
are tight lipped about
the results, but said
that big things are in
store for the tiny
cookie company.
“It offered us a great platform to
grow, and it shows who is behind
this,” Tutin said. “It shows our personality. Our product requires
some explanation, so ‘Shark Tank’
was great. People could learn
about it without us doing a store
demo.”
BY GEOFF
PURSINGER
Tutin and Geiger applied to the
show on a whim more than a year
ago, when their company was only
a month old.
“We thought it was worth a
shot,” Tutin said. “But let’s be serious — we knew they were not going to pick us.”
But pick them they did. Producers said they were interested in
the business for the show’s fifth
season, and would work out a time
for the women to fly to Los Angeles.
That didn’t work out, but when
producers began working on Season 6, they knew exactly who to
call.
“It’s a lengthy, lengthy process,”
Tutin said. “They first contacted us
in January 2014 for this season. Because they had talked to us last
year. We were one of the first people they called. We filmed on June
16.”
Tutin was pregnant with her son
during filming. She gave birth June
17.
us talking. I watch reality shows
and feel like they are acting, but
they let us talk. It was very real.”
Scratch & Grain has come a long
way in a short time. The company’s
— Leah Tutin, Scratch and Grain Baking cookie kits are now sold in 400
co-owner stores across the country.
“Albertsons just picked us up,”
Tutin said. “That’s a massive pickup for us.”
The company has expanded to
“He was born 20 hours after they four full-time employees. They
filmed the episode,” she said. “He
moved into a 1,700-square-foot
was five weeks early. I convinced
building in Tigard, which they adLeah to take an earlier flight, and
mit they are already outgrowing.
then two hours after we landed, I
“Even without Shark Tank, we
found myself in the ER undergoing have grown exponentially,” Tutin
an emergency C section to save
said.
both our lives. Had we not taken
Scratch & Grain isn’t the only
that earlier flight, we would have
Tigard-area product to make its
been in the air when it happened.” way to Hollywood.
Geiger said that the experience
In 2012, Tualatin High School
on “Shark Tank” was better than
graduates Keeley Tillotson and Ershe could have expected.
ika Welsh successfully pitched
“The people that we worked
their company, Wild Squirrel Nut
with on the production staff were
Butter, to the sharks.
really nice. And the nice thing is
“Shark Tank” airs Fridays at 9
that it really isn’t scripted - it’s just p.m. on ABC.
“Even without Shark Tank,
we have grown
exponentially.”
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The State of Oregon has invested millions in
OTRADI. Any chance of a return to tax payers?
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nternationally, experts posit
that 70 percent of what we
know in medicine has been
learned since 2010.
Today, bioscience is 30 percent
of all new business. Jennifer Fox,
Ph.D., executive director at Oregon Translational Research and
Development Institute (OTRADI),
which is housed with the Oregon
Bioscience Incubator, agrees.
“Bioscience has grown by leaps
and bounds. There’s a lot of great
research coming out of the university system and a lot of spin-off
companies, and
that’s where
we’re poised to
help. We try to
bring ideas into
usable products
and companies, and help them locate and stay here in Oregon —
that’s our ultimate mission.”
In 2007, OTRADI initially became an institute with state funding. Fox was hired in 2008 as the
first scientist. She built out the
lab and helped to hire other folks.
At that time OTRADI was housed
at Portland State University.
Much of the lab equipment is hypersensitive and incredibly specific as to what it does. And stunningly expensive. It is the only
one of its kind in Oregon, and is
accessed by many university and
high school science programs.
In 2013, Fox and team moved the
OTRADI Bioscience Incubator to
Macadam Avenue with space to
take on six nascent bioscience
companies needing a place to do
specialized scientific work.
“They’re set up as businesses in
the OTRADI environment where
there is laboratory space and
shared equipment. They have to
be a formed, for-profit company.
BY Joan
brown
They have between two and 10
employees, and they pay fair market rent,” Fox explained. “It does
not cost us money to run the incubator. I am very proud of that.”
A large part of the opportunity
provided by OTRADI is a network
of mentors — pro-bono professionals, including lawyers, accountants, human resource, marketing and public relations people,
and business advisors. Promising
bioscience companies are helped
scientifically as well as in other
ways, such as in writing business
grants.
OTRADI Bioscience Incubator
is a place for growth.
“The national average for a
company at a bioscience incubator
is two to four years,” Fox said.
“Bioscience development takes a
lot of money and time. We work
with each of our companies to develop a graduation plan: ‘What
are your goals? Let’s work with
you and a business advisor to figure out how much money you
need to save’.”
Fox has been working with
some of these companies for six
years — long before they were admitted into the incubator.
“They have to be a bioscience
company — life sciences, pharmaceuticals, medical devices, diagnostics, veterinary medicine —
any sort of medicine that advances bio health. We have to believe
their scientific work is sound.
We’re trying to get people in here
who have great ideas but need
this last step of help.”
The State of Oregon is a tough
taskmaster.
“They have some specific metrics they hold us accountable to.
This biennium we have two million dollars from the state. We
TRIBUNE PHOTO: JOAN BROWN
Incubating startup science companies is the business of Dr. Jennifer Fox at the
Oregon Translational Research and Development Institute — and business is good.
have helped to bring in more than
$20 million of grants to researchers at the universities and startup companies we work with. So
there’s already a ten-to-one return
of money coming into the state.”
Justification of OTRADI’s
budget is required by the state.
They are measured on the num-
ber of companies they work with
and how many jobs those companies produce. “The state expects
us to show company rolls of employees and payroll taxes. So the
taxpayers get benefit there. Also, when a company gets private
investments that also gets captured.”
There is a substantial waiting
list of companies who really
need help. Recently the governor’s Strategic Reserve Fund
gave OTRADI $325,000 to build
out four more spaces in the Macadam Avenue building. We expect to grow from six companies
to ten companies in the beginning of 2015,” Fox said.
Currently, Oregon is not the
home of any large pharmaceuticals company.
“Our greatest challenge is that
it’s a long timeline to get these
products to market, and it requires a lot of money. It’s a big
win but it takes a long time and
a lot of money.”
OTRADI’s key goals for 2015
are to accelerate what they’ve
been doing. “For companies on
our waiting list, or who are perhaps too early to be able to pay
rent, we are developing a biomentoring network. We meet
many brilliant professionals who
want to help.” They have about
50 bio-mentors.
“We’re also trying to open facilities around the state. We’d
like to leverage all the growth
we’ve had here to try and draw
more companies, larger companies to have a branch here, or
draw in venture capitalists to
have offices here.”
BUSINESS TRIBUNE 9
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
TROUTDALE BUSINESS
BREAKS INTO THE
VAPE INDUSTRY
TRIBUNE PHOTO: TROY WAYRYNEN
Derek States, left, Vice President of River City Vapes, and Adam Cuddeford, President of River City Vapes, hold authentic vape mods in Gresham.
River City Vapes makes
increasingly popular
products for consumers
D
espite being the owners and operators of
River City Vapes, Adam Cuddeford and
Derek States don’t smoke.
“We don’t vape. That’s the
ironic part of us making vape
products,” Cuddeford said.
“It’s actually
kind of hard
for me to advocate for it
because I’ve
never
smoked cigarettes and I don’t vape but
(consumers) love my product.”
Cuddeford started River
City Vapes in December,
quickly joined by States. The
company — based out of
Troutdale and Happy Valley
— manufactures battery
BY KATY
SWORD
packs and mods for electronic
vaporizers.
“The owner of a local vape
shop contracted us to design a
mod for them, and then his financing fell through,” Cuddeford said. “We realized, you
know if we were able to do it
for someone else, we’re able
to do it for ourselves. It’s just
blown up from there.”
River City Vapes recently
formed a partnership with
Source Code Vapor, which has
already placed an order for
1,500 mods.
“We’re going to make an exclusive line for them,” Cuddeford said.
Part of the rapid interest in
River City Vapes was sparked
by attendance at the 2015 Oregon Vape Festival.
“They referred to the quality of pieces as art,” he said.
“We’re considered artisans in
the mod making industry.”
So far, they produce four
different sizes of mods ranging from the large Columbia
River 26650 model to the pocket size Snake River 18350.
Cuddeford said they were surprised at the reaction to the
smallest mod.
“It’s actually really popular.
It’s just something we came up
with to show our capabilities,”
he said. “But several store
owners over the weekend at
the show have really liked it
and requested it. At the show it
went crazy, so we have to start
making more of those now.”
While production space is
limited at this stage, Cuddeford
said he expects the need to expand will come quickly.
“By the end of the year we’re
probably going to need a 5,000
square-foot space,” he said. “It
is all kind of risky right now.
To add that kind of overhead is
scary really.”
Especially, Cuddeford said,
as many cities are looking to
ban e-cigarettes, which would
hinder his business.
“Our goal is to use this industry to earn enough money
to acquire a larger manufacturing facility where we can
manufacture other things that
weren’t vape related,” he said.
“We plan to put most of the
money into the company to acquire larger, better machines.”
Unlike other producers in
the vape industry, Cuddeford
said he doesn’t expect to make
these products forever.
“Everybody in the vape industry is like do this, do this,
do this, like it’s going to pan
out forever,” he said. “I don’t
vape so I don’t have tunnel vision on just vaping. I want a
facility that I can make everything for everybody.”
This might include firearms, which he said parts are
easy to manufacture.
“Anything that anybody
wants to bring us, is what I’m
really looking forward to getting in to,” Cuddeford said.
For now, he’ll enjoy expanding River City Vapes as the
company moves through 2015.
TRIBUNE PHOTO: TROY WAYRYNEN
Adam Cuddeford, President of River City Vapes, holds
authentic cape mods manufactured by River City Vapes.
10 BUSINESS TRIBUNE
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
NEW
LIFE
FOR THE OLD MOUSE?
PAMPLIN MEDIA GROUP
Jeff Burlingame, above, is hoping to revitalize the Macheezmo Mouse brand with a new restaurant in Beaverton, taking the place of the old Hollywood Video in
the Beaverton Town Center. Jeff and his wife, Danell, at left, hope to open the restaurant in one of the city’s busier commercial districts in 2015. COURTESY PHOTO
Beaverton couple confident people clamor for Boss Sauce and the rest of the old menu
T
he way Jeff Burlingame
sees it, all that’s blocking
Beaverton residents from
chowing down on a Macheezmo Mouse burrito slathered
in Boss Sauce is a quarter million
dollars.
But the Beaverton resident and
his wife, Danell, who first met working at one of the restaurants, have no intention of letting dollar signs ruin their
dream of bringing the
once-thriving restaurant back to life.
The couple’s new goal is to team
with a small number of investors to
open a modest Macheezmo Mouse
later this year, allowing them to
prove on a small scale that customers still crave healthful foods that
became wildly popular two decades
ago but almost as quickly faded.
The Burlingames raised hopes
among Macheezmo’s diehard fan
base in mid-2013 when they
launched a campaign on the crowdfunding website Indiegogo and had
their sights set on a large building
that once housed a Hollywood Video.
A year and a half later, Jeff Burlingame describes that tactic of trying to kick-start the campaign with
many tiny investors as the wrong
approach for their type of business.
Financial pledges fizzled out at less
than $5,000, far short of the $75,000
target aimed at developing their concept
for a larger investor.
Now, the Burlingames hope that one
or a handful of larger
investors will join
them in putting up a total of the
$250,000 they figure is necessary to
simply get a small location up and
running before reaching for loftier
goals. The Sexton Mountain neighborhood couple continues to speak
with potential investors and also
are willing to pitch in $50,000 to
$100,000 of their own money, Jeff
Burlingame said.
“My wife and I are calling it the
‘hole in the wall strategy,’” he said,
adding that they’ve considered food
carts, but are more likely to open in
BY ERIC
APALATEGUI
a small storefront with good access.
“Ideally, (their investors) would
be somebody whom remembers
and was passionate about it,”
Danell Burlingame said.
Judging from continued enthusiasm of potential customers — one
woman commented on their Facebook page last month that she
would drive 200 miles for Macheezmo — there remains a market for
healthy Mexican food that the late
entrepreneur William “Tiger” Warren and a partner first brought to
the Portland area in the early 1980s.
“It’s going to make it so much
sweeter when it all comes together,” Jeff Burlingame said of the encouragement they get from people.
“The amount of good will is just
amazing.”
Burlingame joined Macheezmo
as a management trainee in 1990
and was in charge of the restaurant
chain’s Tanasbourne location in
what he describes as the company’s
heyday in the early to mid-1990s. He
credited Diane Hall with polishing
Warren’s struggling concept and
developing the menu that most peo-
ple consider quintessential Macheezmo.
And it was Hall who the Burlingames eventually convinced to sell
them the restaurant’s trademark,
operations manual and best recipes,
including the secret to the beloved
Boss Sauce.
“It’s not Macheezmo without it,”
said Jeff Burlingame, who believes
it was often the sauce that brought
customers in but the rest of the
healthy menu and top-notch service
that kept them coming back.
“We’re bringing it back from the
heyday, from when the food was
good, when the service was good,”
he said. “We would see people at
our locations sometimes two or
three times a week.”
Jeff Burlingame, now 52, left Macheezmo in the mid-1990s for a career change, prompted in part because he needed a sit-down job after knee surgery. But he said he also could see the company starting
to falter. Warren changed management and tinkered with the menu,
even committing the sin of irking
loyal customers by changing the
signature Boss Sauce to cut the cost
of ingredients and labor.
“It had peaked,” he said of the
mid-1990s restaurant chain.
Then, in 1999, Warren was piloting a private plane that crashed into the Columbia River, killing him
and his three sons. His restaurant
chain survived a few more years before closing more than a decade
ago.
Burlingame long ago changed his
career focus to technology and now
works for Nike, while Danell is a
personal trainer. Both expect to
keep their day jobs while helping
nurture their first small restaurant
location. They will hire a professional manager to oversee daily operations at their first “hole in the
wall,” he said.
“We would want them to run it
the way we would like to run it,”
added Danell Burlingame, 36, who
said she has a roster of fitness clients just waiting for Macheezmo’s
menu.
“It’s something I believe in healthy, nutritious,” she said. “So
many people want it back.”
Business Tribune 11
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
Proactive measures to avoid embezzlement
M
any people give back to
the communities where
they live and work by
volunteering with nonprofit organizations.
When our kids are in school, the
opportunities are limitless — sports
teams, arts and
music organizations, church
programs. More
over there are
organizations
— Kiwanis,
Elks, Masons,
Rotary International and veterans groups —
where people
join in, raise
money and do- smart Money
nate to good
causes because
they like the comraderie and the
opportunity to do good works.
Along with all of these volunteer
clubs and groups comes the responsibility of keeping track of the money from dues, fundraisers and donations. Unfortunately we regularly
read about a club or nonprofit that’s
been ripped off by a trusted mem-
Julia
Anderson
ber. Everyone is shocked because
the person involved seemed like
such a good person.
Last year, the Masons in Vancouver experienced such a set-back.
Over a six-year period, a member
Mason who served as local board
treasurer embezzled $800,000 from
the organization. The money from
dues and fundraisers generated by
four Masonic lodges was supposed
to pay for among other things the
upkeep, insurance and property
taxes of the Vancouver Masonic
Center where all of them gathered
for meetings and events. The Masons built and had owned the building since 1967.
The theft is forcing the Masons to
sell the property and regroup. They
are hoping to use money from the
sale to find a new site and construct
something smaller. Stories such as
this one regularly show up in the
news when wayward volunteers are
caught.
Stealing money when no one is
watching may start small with the
person thinking that somehow
they’ll pay it back and not get
caught. As time goes by, they become entitled or do not expect to
Portland’s
ever be found out. Or maybe they
are feeding a gambling problem or
a drug-use problem.
Personality traits of those who
steal
According to top national CPA
firm, Mayer Hoffman McCann, people who are tempted to embezzle often have certain personality traits.
They may go to extremes in their
consideration of fellow club members or volunteers. They like to be
involved in everyone’s personal
business and want to be everybody’s friend. This do-gooder involvement and consideration may
be intended to foster a sense of
trust in order to create an opportunity for fraud, say the MHM advisors.
Many of the traits are found in
conscientious and reputable people
said the CPAs. But all too often
these traits assist “people in committing and concealing fraud by
eliminating or circumventing internal controls and checks and balances,” they said. Those who put in
long hours balancing the books
while refusing help may be trying
to prevent others from taking a
look at the figures.
How can organizations guard
against embezzlement? Nonprofit
volunteer groups are particularly
vulnerable to this kind of theft. It’s
easy to trust someone and let them
handle the money. But it can be
very tempting to start tapping the
account and juggling the books.
Preventing fraud
To prevent embezzlement, organizations should:
n Always have two people together counting the money and overseeing the books.
n Invoices should be checked
against orders.
n Rules must be in place for credit card use and for expense reimbursement.
n Always receive bank statements directly from the bank.
n Create a basic environment
where honesty is brought up and
practiced by the board of directors
and club officers.
n Use an outside accountant to
annually check the books.
In some cases, nonprofits might
not want to prosecute an offender
for fear of public embarrassment or
compassion for the person who
stole money. There’s a big downside
to taking that route, experts say.
Such a precedent could lead to
additional fraud or create a lack of
respect and credibility within the
organization, advises the Virginiabased Nonprofit Risk Management Center.
With internal controls spelled
out, everyone knows someone is
looking over their shoulder. The
temptation to steal won’t be there.
In volunteer nonprofits such as
the Vancouver Masons, it’s easy to
get lax. These groups are usually
organized and run by people who
have full-time jobs and family responsibilities. But when someone
steps up to take care of the money,
everyone is responsible for keeping it all on the up and up and preventing temptation. The $800,000
lost by the Masons over six years
was a lot of money.
The guy — by the way — is in
jail.
Julia Anderson is the founder and ongoing contributor to sixtyandsingle.com
where she writes for women about money, investment and retirement planning.
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coffee
shop
S
hortly after receiving his official orders to separate
on Jan. 20, Sergeant Tyler Owens, a 25-year-old recently-retired U.S. Marine, is moving back to Portland where he was born.
After five years of service, Owens is campaigning for the
chance to start up his dream coffee
shop before starting his first year of
college this Fall.
He’s been roasting and grinding his
coffee at home and hopes to fuel sponsors with enticements of free coffee —
and for $1,000 contribution, naming a
coffee after you, to be permanently on
the menu. Yes Portland, the coffee
beans will be Fair Trade, harvested
from the islands of Kona and Oahu
with connections in the coffee industry Owens made in his time in Hawaii
smart
at Marine Corps Base Kaneohe.
“I want Portlanders to help create
sourcing
and shape Coffee Hi,” says Owens,
whose campaign’s Facebook page calls
for input on location as well as coffee
and what to name it.
Owens isn’t expecting to produce revenue until the shop’s
second year, but plans to employ two workers.
During his time in Hawaii at Marine Corps Base Kaneohe, Owens transitioned out of the military by taking a
“Boots to Business” class sponsored by the U.S. Small Business Association that teaches veterans how to start their
own businesses. This Fall, he plans to double major in business and political science at PSU to pursue international relations interests sparked by his time serving in the military.
“I’m not too worried about juggling school and work; I
have become pretty good at time management throughout
my military career,” says Owens. “I’m extremely excited —
albeit, I’m very anxious and nervous as
well ... I think the
hardest part of openGoal: $50,000
ing a business is
Deadline: Feb. 22
simply the uncerSo far: $0
tainty of its success.”
Coffee Hi’s location is yet to be
With a crowdfunddetermined, so add your opinion
ing campaign offerto the Facebook page: facebook.
ing an uncertain
com/coffeehiportlandoregon.
amount of financial
investment, planning is challenging
particularly for the competitive coffee shop field in Portland.
“I have a couple small business aspirations, but my coffee
shop venture is being driven as a passionate hobby versus
simply chasing revenue,” says Owens. “Okay, revenue
would be splendid as well.”
Jules
Rogers
Coffee Hi
@JulesJayRogers.
Tuesday, January 20, 2015
January PDX projects to watch
1. Wine Verser: Automatic wine pouring machine
Goal: $50,000
Deadline: Feb. 21
So far: $674
Richard Bishel, an electrical engineer with a talent
for robotics, designed a robotic wine dispenser that
includes setting for pouring a perfect 5 oz. glass, or a
half-pour 2.5 oz. glass for toasts and wine tastings.
It’s adjustable to accommodate wine bottle shapes,
and its motor runs on batteries.
Five backers have donated so far, claiming discounts
if the campaign is successfully funded on Kickstarter.
com. According to Bishel’s time frame, a prototype
will validate quality assurance in March and the first
shippings are scheduled for June.
2. Multnomah ARES and PARC: Portable Amateur
Radio Station.
Goal: $10,000
Deadline: Jan. 19
So far: $2,480
For situations including disaster, education and recreation around the county, nonprofits Multnomah
County Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES)
leadership team and the Portland Amateur Radio
Club (PARC) are campaigning together for funding to
equip a standard cargo trailer to be used as a portable command station.
A great resource during field training exercises and
public events, it would also serve the city as a communications station if disaster struck. The total cost
is $22,000, which the nonprofits hope to partially
fulfill via an IndieGoGo.com crowdfunding campaign.
3. NW Black Book Exposition.
Goal: $3,000
Deadline: Feb. 7 So far: $160
Black Rose Books, a huge African American literature
collection in the Pacific Northwest, hopes to invite
national and local authors, vendors, chefs and musicians to take part in an exposition. Owner Michael
Hicks is campaigning to put together this exposition
in September, which he is planning to be the largest
ever in the Pacific Northwest. Offering T-shirts with
the Black Rose brand as incentive, Hicks’s campaign
already has seven funders.
COURTESY: TYLER OWENS
Sergeant Tyler Owens served five years in the marines and is now crowdfunding
for his dream coffee shop.
December Campaigns Updates:
Portland Community Toolbank —
Failed.
Total raised: $420 of $30,000
goal.
Sorcery 101 — Success!
Total raised: $26,048 of $22,000
goal.
Yellow Scope — Success!
Total raised: $33,141 of $25,000
goal.
Instigate Clothing — Success!
Total raised: $16,695 of $15,000
goal.
Howling Sun Expansion — Failed.
Total raised: $160 of $8,000 goal.
Dichotomy — Failed.
Total raised: $92 of $10,000 goal.
4. Handmade Papermaking Studio: Pulp and
Deckle
Goal: $9,900
Deadline: Jan. 30
So far: $455
This 2012-established studio holds seminars and
creates sustainable paper pulp from recycled paper,
plants and natural rag fibers. Because this is the
only public papermaking studio in the city, they need
a new pulp beater to speed the process, servicing
more memberships and community members.
Pulp and Deckle is hoping to increase their availability of memberships, offer a woodworking class and
fabricate moulds for students. The studio will be
hand-making Valentines next month to fulfill sponsor
rewards.
5. GigPDX(.com)
Goal: $30,000
Deadline: Feb 16.
So far: $635
Mav Kohns, a student software developer at ITT Tech
and a musician, is campaigning for funding to build
a networking website aimed at connecting professional musicians and filmmakers in the city.
This campaign is Kohns’s third on Kickstarter.com.
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015
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Construction begins
anew at Nike campus
New offices and
parking meet growth
demands
COURTESY: OREGON HISTORICAL SOCIETY
With the redesign of the restaurant at the Hilton Hotel’s Bistro 921, the Hilton
has donated the iconic painting of Portland personalities to the Oregon Historical
Society, where it is currently on display in the museum’s North Wing Gallery.
Hilton donates painting to
Oregon Historical Society
In the wake of a redesign of the
restaurant at the Hilton Hotel’s
Bistro 921, the Hilton has donated
the iconic painting of Portland
personalities to the Oregon Historical Society, where it is currently on display in the museum’s
North Wing Gallery.
Originally commissioned by
Serge D’Rovencourt, former General Manager of the Portland Hilton, the painting was the work of
the late Bill Papas, who first
gained fame as the political cartoonist for The Guardian, The
Sunday Times, and Punch Magazine in London. Featuring the likenesses of individuals including
Mark and Antoinette Hatfield,
Phil Knight, Gert Boyle, Gerry
Frank, Arlene Schnitzer, and Vera
Katz, the painting was a favorite
of Portlanders who loved to guess
how many of these notable Portlanders they could identify.
“We are delighted that the Hilton has chosen to donate this oneof-a-kind painting to the Oregon
Historical Society,” said OHS Executive Director Kerry Tymchuk.
“The painting is a unique representation of the personalities who
were and are some of the biggest
‘movers and shakers’ in Portland’s
history. Special thanks to former
Hilton General Manager Serge
D’Rovencourt and current General Manager Tracy Marks for ensuring that this historic painting
would continue to be seen and enjoyed by the public.”
Free real estate workshop
set for Jan. 28
At least 150 real estate industry
professionals are expected to attend a free workshop that Wells
Fargo Home Mortgage will host
Wednesday, Jan. 28, at the Lloyd
Center DoubleTree Hotel in Portland.
The event from 9 a.m. to 12:30
p.m. will feature Rich Casto, who
will speak about how to generate
30 clients in 90 days.
Those interested in attending
should register at: wellsfargo.
com/events. The RSVP deadline is
Jan. 27. Free parking and a continental breakfast will be provided.
At the workshop, Casto will offer advice to real estate pros
about finding active buyers and
sellers in the current real estate
market.
“Our specific strategies and tactics are tried and proven. We don’t
teach theory,” said Casto. “Agents
walk away with a detailed plan to
grow their business.”
By ERIC APALATEGUI
Pamplin Media Group
Hard hats wer e in fashion
on the main Nike campus
last week as crews began
construction on a $150
million expansion that will
produce new office and parking structures and a fitness
facility.
The buildings will help Nike
accommodate its growth, including the addition of more
than 2,000 employees to the
large campus along Southwest
Murray Boulevard since 2012.
As previously reported, the
construction will occur near
the Tiger Woods Center and
collectively will add more than
1 million square feet of office
space, almost a quarter million
square feet of “accessory”
space, and about 3,000 additional parking spaces.
8589 SW Robert Burns Dr. in Argyle Square is the first standalone Café Yumm! Restaurant designed and built to Café Yumm!
Standards, which include LEED
Silver certification.
“Growing by doing the right
thing is a wonderful way to conduct business,” says Mark Beauchamp, co-founder.
Lake Oswego Albertson’s
to close in February
COURTESY: CAFE YUMM
Cafe Yumm recently opened a new
location at Argyle Square in
Wilsonville.
Café Yumm! Opens in Wilsonville
With recent openings in Salem,
Wilsonville, and Lake Oswego, Café Yumm! Now operates 15 restaurants throughout the Pacific
Northwest.
The Wilsonville restaurant at
Albertsons is closing its store
on South State Street in Lake Oswego, the company said last week,
leaving only one supermarket in
Lake Oswego’s downtown core.
The grocery store, which has
been in operation since 1990, will
close its doors on Feb. 18, according to Dennis McCoy, communications and public affairs manager
for Albertsons’ Pacific Northwest
territory.
“The store has not been profitable for quite some time,” McCoy
said, “and despite the best efforts
“Our expansion efforts are
designed to provide Nike employees and teams with a work
environment that inspires creativity and collaboration, and
experiences and services that
can support Nike’s workforce
of the future,” Reggie Borges,
the company’s corporate communications officer, said in a
news release announcing the
start of construction.
Nike’s expansion plans got a
boost from Gov. John Kitzhaber and the Oregon Legislature, which agreed in 2012 to
freeze the company’s tax rates
if Nike hired at least 500 fulltime workers by the end of
next year. Nike already has
met that requirement four
times over and is the Beaverton area’s largest employer,
pumping some $2.5 billion into
Oregon’s economy each year.
Nike’s property includes
parcels inside and outside the
city of Beaverton, and officials
from both agencies have
worked with the company on
issues involved with planning,
permitting and zoning.
of the company and our associates, we have not been able to reposition it to better compete in the
marketplace.”
The closing will affect 65 employees at the store. McCoy said
Albertsons is seeking new positions for them at other locations.
News of the store closing comes
on the heels of Albertsons’ announcement in December that it
will convert its Boones Ferry Road
location into a Haggen Food &
Pharmacy store later this year.
Nineteen other Albertsons and
Safeway stores in Oregon — including the Albertsons location on
Blankenship Road in West Linn —
also were acquired by Haggen following a review by the Federal
Trade Commission of the merger
between Safeway and Albertsons.
In addition to the Lake Oswego
and West Linn locations, Haggen’s
aquisitions in Oregon include
stores in Ashland, Baker City, Beaverton, Bend, Clackamas, Eugene,
Grants Pass, Keizer, Klamath
Falls, Milwaukie, Sherwood,
Springfield and Tigard.
With the closing of Wizer’s in
2013 and the pending closure of
Albertsons’ State Street location,
there will be only one grocery
store left in downtown Lake Oswego — Safeway, located on A Avenue between Fourth and Fifth
streets.
For Lake Oswego resident Nancy McAvoy, Wednesday’s news
was disconcerting.
“I can always depend on the Alberstons on Boones Ferry Road to
be open, friendly and have things
easy to find. Please don’t change it
too much and get so big that one
gets lost and gives up,” she said.
“As to the State Street store, I can
hardly remember a time when it
hasn’t been there and been of
good service whenever I entered.”
NW Natural donates
$10,000 to Oregon Parks
NW Natural is making a $10,000
donation to the Oregon State
Parks Foundation in honor of new
customers who enrolled in its
Smart Energy program between
May 1 and Oct. 31, 2014.
The program, which began five
years ago, now has more than
25,000 participants. Customers
who sign up for Smart Energy offset the carbon from their natural
gas consumption and help reduce
carbon emissions in our region.
“We are heartened by the
strong support provided to us by
NW Natural Smart Energy customers, which has allowed us to
reach more park visitors and have
a greater impact than ever before,” said John Hoffnagle, executive director of Oregon State
Parks Foundation.
OSPF is the only statewide nonprofit organization dedicated to
preserving and enhancing Oregon’s unique state park system.
Since its creation in 1995, the
Foundation has provided more
than $8.5 million on behalf of Oregon state parks through the generous support of private donors
and foundations. These contributions have:
n Restored the Vista House at
Crown Point
n Maintained Oregon’s lighthouses
n Provided interpretive signage
at historic locations
n Purchased land to create and
expand multiple state parks
This is the fourth consecutive
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year that NW Natural has made a
contribution to OSPF on behalf of
the Smart Energy program. The
donation comes from NW Natural’s Corporate Philanthropy
Fund supported by shareholders.
PBA receives grant from
Rockefeller Foundation
The New York-based Rockefeller Foundation offered support to
the Portland Business Alliance to
help small businesses recruit and
train young, local talent who lack
resources to develop relevant job
skills.
Through this grant, small businesses can learn how to offer employment-based skill training
programs as a new way to cultivate the very best future employees. In turn, area youth recruited
into the programs will learn valuable, marketable skills while
earning a living wage.
“We’re proud to support small
businesses in their efforts to hire
and train youth — particularly
those who are too often overlooked or undervalued,” said
John Irons, managing director for
Global Markets at the Rockefeller
Foundation. “We’ve seen that
young people can deliver real
business value to companies and
look forward to seeing the Northwest’s business community grow
and thrive by replicating or
adapting innovative practices.”
With support from the Rockefeller Foundation, Portland Business Alliance will host a Forum
Breakfast event, Feb. 18, in downtown Portland. The grant also
will fund a small business advisory program that teaches businesses how to adapt innovative
new job training tools into their
own talent recruitment efforts.
“Small businesses make up a
large part of the Portland economy as well as the Alliance’s membership,” said Sandra McDonough, CEO and President of
the Portland Business Alliance.
“The Rockefeller Foundation
grant strengthens our community, while enabling our mission to
grow private-sector jobs, provide
quality educational resources to
residents, and spur economic vitality in the region.”
Blaker named executive
director of Bienestar
Bienestar’s Board of Directors
is pleased to announce the ap-
pointment of Ann Blaker as Executive Director.
Karen Shawcross is retiring following seven years of leadership
at Bienestar. Ann Blaker is a
longtime friend and supporter of
Bienestar, having served as
grants consultant
for eight years,
and serving on
the Board of Directors for three
years. Her nonprofit career began at the American Cancer Society where she was
blaker
Executive Director for the Portland tri-county area.
As Executive Director of the
Community Housing Resource
Center in Vancouver, she learned
the importance of secure housing
in the lives of low income working families. Her interest in housing has grown out of a strong appreciation of the value of “upstream” approaches to stabilizing
the health of residents and community. She has served as Interim Executive Director during
transitions of leadership for the
Susan G. Komen Foundation, the
Housing Resource Center, and
the Rinehart Clinic.
City of Beaverton to host
job fair this week
Economic growth in the City of
Beaverton — as determined by
permitting activity, land use, and
building applications — is close to
surpassing pre-recession levels.
The city is adding more positions
to help accommodate new development and will host a Job Fair
on Jan. 22, at The Beaverton
Building (12725 SW Millikan Way)
from noon to 6 p.m.
“The economy is in a steady upswing and there is a need to move
quickly in order to take advantage of the current economic conditions,” said Beaverton’s Mayor
Denny Doyle. “We must provide
timely services to support the robust commercial and residential
development we’re now experiencing.”
The job fair will focus on recruitment for community development, but also includes open
positions in finance, public works,
library and the mayor’s office.
The city is seeking applicants
with experience in public involvement, development review, land
use or transportation planning,
and proactive engagement with
the development community. The
city is also seeking applicants
with an understanding of regional development issues, concerns
and opportunities.
The city is strengthening its capacity to serve because of the
various new development projects throughout Beaverton, such
as Peterkort, South Cooper Mountain, old-town housing, and Timberland, as well as supporting the
Beaverton School District’s new
capital building program.
“When we looked at staffing
levels and permit activity compared to pre-recession levels and
comparable sized cities, Beaverton is understaffed for the volume
of work we’re doing today,” said
Cheryl Twete, director of community development. “The city’s
growing economy is propelling
development and is bringing good
jobs to our community.”
Erickson awarded first off-shore
oil and gas transport contract
Erickson Incorporated announced recently that the company will expand its relationship
with HRT Participações em
Petróleo, S.A. (“HRT”) with a twoyear contract beginning Q1 2015.
This signing furthers the partnership between HRT and Erickson and demonstrates Erickson’s
strong market position in the
South American oil and gas industry.
Two Sikorsky S-76C+ helicopters will be used to transport
HRT’s personnel to their off-shore
rig 60 miles from Rio de Janeiro.
Brazil is expected to lead the
global growth of the oil and gas
market over the next several
years and is anticipated to see the
highest increase in ranking of the
world’s oil reserves between now
and 2020.
Air Amazonia has been HRT’s
trusted aerial service provider
since 2011, and Erickson has a
reputation of expertise, strong
past performance and safety. This
combination of attributes reinforces the company’s growing
reputation within the South
American oil and gas industry.
“This contract builds on our
work being executed in Ecuador,
Peru and Brazil and solidifies our
strategic presence in South
America,” said Udo Rieder, Erickson President and CEO. “This is
our first win in the off-shore oil
and gas market and we look forward to continuing to expand our
presence.”
VANGUARD
BREWING
Owners: Lin and Don Anderson
Where: 27501 SW 95th Ave.,
Wilsonville
Web: facebook.com/
vanguardbrewing
Did you know: Many Portland
area breweries — Vanguard
to be included — use
equipment custom built by
Global Stainless Systems in
Canby.
For the love
of the beer
By JOSH KULLA
Pamplin Media Group
Beer has a way of bringing
people together. And that’s
the whole idea behind a new
brewing company coming to
Wilsonville.
“I love beer, I love to talk beer,
I love to make beer and I love to
share it with people,” said Don
Anderson, who, along with his
wife Lin, has plans to open Vanguard Brewing.
The Andersons aim to have a
15-barrel brewery and tap house
up and running in a warehouse
space on S.W. 95th Avenue by
summer.
“We’ve always wanted to be
our own boss, be in charge of
our own destiny as much as we
can,” Don Anderson said.
Vanguard would become Wilsonville’s second brewery after
the McMenamin’s Old Church.
The recently opened Neighbor
Dudes Tap House in west Wilsonville also has plans to add a
brewery.
While the Andersons have secured the space in which to operate, the rest remains in the
works — a dream on paper, at
this point.
“We’ve been working on this
for a year now,” Lin Anderson
said. “I’ve been more involved
with the business end and finances and getting everything
collected together to make this
happen. All the pieces are lined
up, we’re just waiting for signa-
tures on the dotted lines at this
point.”
Don Anderson will be the
lead brewer. Starting as a home
brewer in 1990, he has turned
his hobby into his profession.
Currently, he works as the fulltime brewer at Stickmen Brewery in Lake Oswego.
“We’ll hire folks for the tap
room, and we’ll self-distribute
beer to start with,” he said.
“We’ll try to build a customer
base. It’s not going to be bottled
or canned, we’ll have keg sales
only, and we’ll just kind of build
the business from there.”
The brewing world in Oregon,
the Andersons say, is more collaborative and less competitive
than most people would suspect.
Brewers from well-known companies regularly share recipes,
techniques and generally have
gone out of their way to cultivate a thriving community in
the Portland metro area and beyond.
They hope to continue and expand on that with Vanguard
Brewing. At the same time, Don
Anderson also wants to buck a
recent brewing trend toward
the use of more and more exotic
ingredients, such as habanero
peppers and other products not
normally associated with ale.
“Back to the basics,” he said.
“We’re going to have a giant IPA
— it’s the Northwest — maybe
we’ll have one batch of experimental stuff on the side, but the
main line will be the basics.”
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