http://www.thebeenews.com/news/index.php Portland and surrounding area community news and information http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120949211301779400 Marketing for small and home businesses May’s speaker at the monthly Assn. of Home Businesses meeting in Sellwood is local marketing guru Neal Lubow, of Ideas By the Hour, who facilitates an interactive discussion of current marketing strategies for small and home-based businesses. ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120935374842290700 After its first project – cleaning bus stops on Woodstock Boulevard -- the Woodstock-centered “Green Team” met to plan its next activity. The team was then composed of Dan Steigerwald, Lonnie Port, Carey Collins, and Bill Steimer. Someone suggested that the team and the spouses ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120943893531399700 Dr. Beth Louise Schmidt Dr. Beth Schmidt, ND, of Portland, died on March 27 after what her family described as “a courageous fight with Alzheimer’s”. She was born June 11, 1920, to Rosetta and Henry Schmidt, and was 87 years old. She was a lifetime resident of Oregon, born in ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120943858065920100 Deplores loss of art program Editor, After I heard that Sellwood Middle School wasn’t going to have an art program next year, I was furious and disappointed. I was a three-year student, and the best memories of middle school for me were art. It was an escape for me. I suffered in math and ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120943811911639200 In a series of editorials in the last couple of years, THE BEE has pointed out that the Inner Southeast light rail plans — so often derailed, but now back on track supposedly — had originally included a station at the north end of Westmoreland, that the station had completely ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120942426855866100 Sitting in at the Creative Chair exercise class at the Sellwood Community Center was more of a workout than this reporter expected. At the end of the class the youngest person in the group commented, “This was not wimpy.” Exercises for limbs and body parts from head to toe, performed ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120942347755999000 Samantha Dekker, a student at Grout Elementary School, is one of 44 students recognized at a March 21st school assembly -- as the latest recipients of the “Eagle Spirit Award”, given three times a year. Each teacher acknowledges four students for academic excellence and citizenship ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120942312738350100 When property owners allow immigrants and refugees to farm their land, through a program run by Mercy Corps Northwest, often the only incentive is the knowledge that they’ve done a good deed. “A lot of our landowners donate because they know about Mercy Corps, and they want to help by ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120942243974497700 The Southeast Rotary Club presented a check for $2,500 to the Meyer Boys and Girls Club on S.E. Milwaukie Avenue in Westmoreland at its Woodstock meeting at Country Bill’s Restaurant, April 14th – and added a $500 check from the Milwaukie Rotary Club as well. Rotary District 5100, ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120942226107917800 It's springtime. And, even squirrels, like this one recently seen lounging in Woodstock, are entitled to stretch out in the sun for a little lie ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120942208885807700 18-year-old Ashley Turner, for 6 years a member of the Meyer Boys & Girls Club on S.E. Milwaukie Avenue in Westmoreland, has been named the “Youth of the Year” for the State of Oregon by Boys & Girls Clubs of America. In addition to winning the prestigious title, Ashley will ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120942124179080100 Each week a volunteer for All Saints’ Episcopal goes around collecting donated food from local grocery stores for the church’s Hot Meals program. Consequently, the cooks, who are also volunteers, never know beforehand exactly what they’re going to prepare. But one thing they can ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120940586757212200 Remember the “drive-through meth stop” on S.E. Division Street that was busted, closed, and all set to become a community center? From the rooftop above to the tanks below, it’s still going to take some doing before the former “Drive-thru Wake-up and Deli” is finally ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120940568324656700 If you have a Driver’s License which expires on or after July first of this year, you may be in for a bit of a surprise. You’ve probably heard about that the February legislative session in Salem took some steps to make it harder for illegal aliens to fraudulently obtain a ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120940541586284900 Neighbors near the intersection of S.E. 60th Avenue and S.E. Lexington Street are still wondering about the one-car accident that took place there on March 30th. The vehicle ended up facing westbound in the intersection, after crashing into a utility pole — breaking it in two. So badly ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120940458479559600 Although the new track system might take a decade to approve and build, streetcars could one day again be running up and down streets here in Inner Southeast Portland. After the Streetcar Corridor open house sessions across the city last fall, planners from the Portland Office of Transportation ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120940411172408600 Woodstock’s Sharon Streeter has many interests and talents. One interest that has been of great benefit to the Woodstock neighborhood — an interest that might more accurately be described as a passion she cannot resist — is gardening. Many in Oregon know this irresistible urge. ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120935444060157300 A portion of S.E. Powell Boulevard, near Cleveland High School, was shut down for several hours on Thursday, April 17th, while Portland Police Bureau officers investigated yet another car-versus-pedestrian accident there. “At 2:20 pm, Southeast Precinct officers were dispatched to the 3000 ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120932756620574000 If you have ever been to the Goodwill outlet “bins” at 1740 S.E. Ochoco Street, across the street from Sellwood in Milwaukie, you know that a lot of recycling goes on there. Each day 80,000 pounds of used items are either sold or recycled at this location. Spread out over the 14,300 ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120925948750618500 Arrests by a joint law enforcement task force may have solved a wire theft from Portland Memorial Mausoleum which took place in November of last year. On April 11th, the Oregon State Police announced that the prior arrests of a Southeast Portland resident, Hannah Elizabeth Holmes, age 23, and a ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120925908516625300 An innovative program to connect kids with nature has taken root in the Brooklyn neighborhood, at 5040 S.E. Milwaukie Avenue. Trackers NW is a cooperative organized four years ago by Tony Deis, who was then working at the Portland Audubon Society. “There was clearly a need to reconnect ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120925861656167600 Shortly after putting the kids to bed for an afternoon nap about 2:12 pm on April 14, their parents heard commotion at the house next door to them, in the 4400 block of S.E. Center Street. They looked out the window to see a battalion of Portland Fire & Rescue trucks and firefighters swarming ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120925842704580700 In the December BEE, we reported on the annual “What Will Winter Be Like” forum by Oregon members of the American Meterological Society and open to the public at the OMSI Auditorium. Most of the forecasters believed there would be more snow this past winter than the previous one; the ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120925788455496300 The third grade students in Peggy Garcia’s class at Winterhaven Elementary School looked surprised to see two prominent characters for Portland’s past walk into their classroom. It was as if a history book came to life when Georgiana Pittock and Dr. Harry Lane strode in among the ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120925743005325200 Firefighters from Portland Stations 20, 10, 23, and 25, plus a Clackamas County mutual aid engine, responded in the 5 pm hour of April 16th to a fire in a second-story apartment at 1642 S.E. Ellis Street. They found thick black smoke in the structure when they arrived, and quickly knocked down ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120925692529623100 The Willamette River was calm and peaceful, as Captain “Mad Jack” Stiles maneuvered the tug Chipper, the wedding barge lashed to its bow, up to the dock at Sellwood Riverfront Park on Thursday, April 17th. “A perfect day for a pirate weddin’, don’t you think?” ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120925649301947900 Late in March, a majority of the Multnomah County Commissioners publicly indicated that they would vote to close the Sellwood Bridge. That came after the Commissioner serving Inner Southeast Portland, Maria Rojo de Steffey, told the press that she was scared to cross the bridge because of its ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120925614593843500 Due partly to the popularity of the PBS TV show, “Antiques Roadshow”, three Inner Southeast businesspeople decided to throw their own “Antiques Party” in Eastmoreland on April 9th. “We wanted to have an event that would promote our neighborhood, and be open to the ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120916117691024100 “I am deeply saddened to report the tragic news that Alejandro (“Alex”) Lluch, a first-year Reed student, died on Saturday, April 5, in his dormitory room in Naito Hall. The cause of death, according to the medical examiner, was an accidental heroin overdose.” With those ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120916097531790400 It was the then-President of the Portland Rose Festival, Dick Clark, who pushed the Portland Parks and Recreation Department to find a way to get the Westmoreland Casting Pond refilled, so that the longtime Rose Festival event in Inner Southeast — the Milk Carton Boat Races — could be ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120915990067933900 For the City of Portland to meet its state-mandated deadline to keep raw sewage from flowing into the Willamette River when it rains, it may be necessary for as many as four homes in Sellwood to be condemned to make way for a new sewage pump station. That’s what about 70 community members ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=120907325935229700 As the Portland Public Schools budget winds its way toward approval Monday, parents, teachers and principals across the district are dreading some of the program and staffing losses their schools will feel next year. In the Sellwood Middle School community, the outrage is over the school’s ...