http://www.thebeenews.com/news/index.php Portland and surrounding area community news and information http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127856867043523800 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127856867043523800 en-us On Portland’s first sizzling-hot summer day — Wednesday, July 7th — a flood of water rolling down at street might normally be a refreshing sight. However, this particular rising brown tide shut down northbound S.E. McLoughlin Boulevard — and the southbound lanes, too, for ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127820949234052900 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127820949234052900 en-us In its second year back after a long hiatus, the 2010 Portland Rose Festival Milk Carton Boat Races regained its stature as a premier event on Sunday, June 13. “It's a great event because it brings so many families out to the Westmoreland Casting Pond,” said Portland Park & ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127822621551264900 2010-07-06 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127822621551264900 en-us The Pastor of St. Agatha Catholic Church in Sellwood, Father Slider Steuernol, collapsed and died of a reported heart attack, at the age of 66 – at Mount Angel Abbey on Wednesday, June 9, while attending a retreat. He had been pastor at St. Agatha’s since 2001, but had previously been ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127827974024247600 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127827974024247600 en-us Home businesspeople learn of expert help – available free Bill Rooney, formerly a public relations expert for Georgia Pacific and Louisiana Pacific, and now with SCORE, will discuss – at the July 15 meeting of the area-wide Association of Home Businesses – the various ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127822581807579000 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127822581807579000 en-us Editor, I’m the President of Sellwood Junior Baseball (a local volunteer-run youth baseball league of 460 kids in Southeast Portland). On Thursday midday, 6/10, we had our league cargo trailer (including a riding mower and field drags) stolen from in front of our fieldkeeper’s house ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127822440240617300 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127822440240617300 en-us The basis of civilization is law. Law is what sets the ground rules for people getting along with each other in a cooperative and trusting community. Laws give us many rights we would not enjoy without civilization; the price we pay is that other rights are taken away from us for the good of ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127822148161385300 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127822148161385300 en-us When Woodstock resident Charlene Makley takes her weekly jog around Woodstock Park, lately she’s noticed a trend that disturbs her — it’s what she describes as a takeover of the park’s entire 14 acres by unleashed dogs. Of the 32 Portland parks where areas are officially ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127822127890772700 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127822127890772700 en-us St. Agatha Catholic School in Sellwood inducted new members to the Junior National Honor Society in a ceremony on Tuesday, May 11. Seventh grade inductees at the Honors level (3.2 - 3.69 GPA) were Brennan Collins, Aislin Courtis, Melissa Clements, Jacob Dugan, Madeline Kruse, and Cameron ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127822102333008100 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127822102333008100 en-us Of the five awards bestowed by the Johnson Creek Watershed Council (JCWC) at their annual meeting at Reed College on May 27, the top honors, known as the Riffle Awards, went to honor the efforts of those who have been tending and cleaning Johnson Creek and its tributary Crystal Springs Creek, in ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821988990308300 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821988990308300 en-us The once-wooded area between the Waverly Landing Condominiums and Portland Rowing Club now looks like an industrial construction zone, as the Bureau of Environmental Services begins construction of its new Combined Sewer Outfall Pump Station. The new wet weather pump station in the Sherrett Street ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821943834869800 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821943834869800 en-us While the planners at the Portland Electric Power Company — the City’s pioneer trolley line operator a century ago — hoped that an amusement park at Oaks Bottom would attract riders and land development, they probably didn’t guess that their Oaks Amusement Park would still ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821887313528900 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821887313528900 en-us After securing funding from a variety of local sources, Winterhaven School now has installed a new array of playground equipment in the adjacent Brooklyn School Park. Winterhaven parent Diane Ehnes spearheaded the drive to acquire the funding, and Portland Parks and Recreation paid for the ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821844660104700 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821844660104700 en-us The Johnson Creek Watershed Council (JCWC) hosted a “charette” on Thursday, June 3rd, at their offices near the Sellwood-Milwaukie border near Milport Street. (A charette is a meeting that leads a group of people through a short, focused study.) The well-attended session focused on ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127820989360186000 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127820989360186000 en-us The Portland Public Schools (PPS) “High School System Re-design” plan, that was to have closed at least one high school – and was to have changed the use of other school campuses to yet-undefined educational programs – was put on hold by the school system’s Board of ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821505585138500 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821505585138500 en-us Two different groups gathered in June to discuss the aesthetics of the new Sellwood Bridge. On June 7, the Sellwood Bridge Community Advisory Committee met at SMILE Station in Sellwood, where they dined, listened to public testimony, and saw a presentation on several water quality project ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821600349109600 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821600349109600 en-us Almost two months before a more-publicized 2010 Portland Rose Festival event takes place there – the Milk Carton Boat Races, this year held on June 13 – skippers from all over the Pacific Northwest converged on the historic Westmoreland Park Casting Pond – for what they say is the ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821744598879400 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821744598879400 en-us The 64-foot-long steel-hulled sailboat “Ocean Watch” made a one-day stop in Portland, tying up at the dock below the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry, on Friday, June 11. “The ship is in the process of circumnavigating North and South America,” said spokesperson Zeta ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821671676023300 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821671676023300 en-us Most people know that the 2010 Portland Rose Festival crowned its queen in Memorial Coliseum, from among representatives of area high schools, just before the Grand Floral Parade on June 12th. But in Sellwood, another Rose Festival Queen and King had been formally introduced a bit earlier — ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821625332622900 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821625332622900 en-us Nothing much about this mishap at S.E. 56th and Foster Road, westbound, in the afternoon of Saturday, June 26, was clear, except that the GMC was trying to get into the left lane — possibly even turn left from the right lane — and didn’t see the sedan already there. No injuries ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821552617236500 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821552617236500 en-us Since Helen Nolen started her career — teaching third grade students in Colfax, Washington, in 1971 —she’s seen many changes, in society and in her profession. Nolen, retiring Principal of Sellwood Middle School (SMS), talked with THE BEE as she turned over the keys to the ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821434572555900 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821434572555900 en-us It’s not the sort of an accident one would expect to see on a beautiful summer’s day at 10 am. But, on Thursday, June 24, a red SUV wrecked on S.E. 39th (recently renamed Chavez Bl), a half block north of S.E. Francis Street. A police officer at the scene said the driver reported that ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821362570044300 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821362570044300 en-us After first unveiling a new “Above the Influence” anti-drug use message at the Multnomah Athletic Club midday on Tuesday, June 8th, the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy (ONDCP) Director, Gil Kerlikowske, took an outing to the Meyer Boys & Girls Club in Westmoreland ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821330581014400 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821330581014400 en-us A lengthy repaving project closed S.E. 39th (recently renamed Chavez Bl.) northbound from Woodstock to Holgate Boulevards for more than a month. The street has now reopened — just in time to become a detour for S.E 28th. S.E. 28th Avenue, which separates the west edge of the Reed College ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821306557417900 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821306557417900 en-us Weather smiled on the annual Share-It Square street painting project held on Saturday, June 5. On what has proven this year to be a rare day of sunshine, some 200 friends and neighbors gathered at the iconic intersection of S.E. 9th and Sherrett Streets in Sellwood to redesign and refresh the ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127820673479809100 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127820673479809100 en-us Just in time for summer vacation, the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) has opened its latest major exhibit – called “Einstein”. “We’re proud to present the most comprehensive exhibit ever, on Albert Einstein,” smiled OMSI spokesman Lee Dawson. ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127820626203334300 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127820626203334300 en-us The commuter drive home on S.E. McLoughlin Boulevard came to a standstill on Monday, June 21 when the southbound lanes at Holgate were blocked by a Ford 4x4 Sport which had crashed, and rolled onto its top. “There was this big crash,” said witness Manny Gutierrez, who was waiting at ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821047797464900 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127821047797464900 en-us Steve Greenberg owns a World War II landing craft, commonly called a Duck. Such privately owned water craft could become critical links across the Willamette River in the event of a devastating earthquake. When the Big One hits, life as we know it will end in Portland. Scientists agree two ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127820724320704000 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127820724320704000 en-us A steady downpour didn’t slow down volunteers as they set up for the 104th Annual Multnomah County Fair. This historic annual event took place over the Memorial Day weekend at Oaks Amusement Park, on the east bank of the Willamette River just north of the Sellwood Bridge. Opening day, ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127820577744040700 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127820577744040700 en-us Nothing says “summer” like a dip in a cool pool on a hot summer’s day. And, since 1910, the Sellwood Pool, now operated by Portland Parks & Recreation, has continuously operated to the delight of kids and adults. “It was Portland’s first public pool,” ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127820533711748600 2010-07-07 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=127820533711748600 en-us Dr. Stuart Gordon Weisberg’s reported plan to open a Sellwood-area facility to accommodate terminally ill patients who wish to end their lives under Oregon’s “Death with Dignity” law has drawn a great deal of attention. Any legal resident of our state, who meets the ...