http://www.thebeenews.com/news/index.php Portland and surrounding area community news and information http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133576470630455800 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133576470630455800 en-us Critters of all kinds come out of hibernation in the spring. On S.E. 57nd Avenue, just south of the Brentwood Community Gardens, “Lenny the Lizard” has emerged to entertain passersby. Lenny’s owner, a multi-talented artist named Phil, created the 12-foot-long wooden sculpture ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133592540026133700 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133592540026133700 en-us AHB offers program on "maximizing online presence" At this month’s meeting of the Association of Home Businesses in Sellwood, open to everyone, on Thursday, May 17th, the program brings back one of the organization’s most popular presenters — P.J. Rutan — who will ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133582903599319200 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133582903599319200 en-us Students at Brooklyn school excel with books Editor, Here is a photo of the “Winterhaven Book L.O.R.D.s” – from left: Ronan McCann, Dominic de Bettencourt, Bo-bae Yu, Luci Doherty, and Owen Lowe-Rogstad. They recently competed in the state “Battle of the Books” ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133582726803797000 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133582726803797000 en-us After over a decade and a half of starts and stops and diversions and restarts, the Inner Southeast MAX light rail line construction has finally begun — and, it’s begun in advance of the completion of the transit bridge near OMSI which will provide the actual link to get MAX trains down ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133576417498962900 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133576417498962900 en-us Part of what has kept the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry (OMSI) a premier family attraction in the Portland area are its employees. But, it’s the unpaid workers who make it possible for world-class science fun to be offered there, OMSI President Nancy Stueber commented, before the ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133576367414630800 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133576367414630800 en-us On April 16, the Southeast Portland Rotary Club made its annual community grants, using some of the proceeds from its annual auction on the first Saturday in December in Woodstock, in a rare “happy hour” meeting at the Eastmoreland Golf Course Grill. Recipients, shown in the ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133576211612138100 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133576211612138100 en-us The Cleveland High School auditorium rang with music on the evening of April 5, during the “Cluster Concert” — featuring the Hosford Symphonic Band, the Sellwood Advanced Band, and the Cleveland High Symphonic Band. Before the concert began, the three conductors each spoke with ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575893563950800 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575893563950800 en-us Ever wonder what your pets are really thinking, or would like to communicate to you, if only they could talk? Perhaps you’ve adopted your dog or cat without much history, and would love to know more about their lives, and why they behave the way they do. Maybe you want to better understand ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575828538691100 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575828538691100 en-us During a recent Toastmaster’s speech contest, hosted by the chapter at the Oregon State Penitentiary, Reed neighborhood resident Alys Allwardt was awarded second place for her inspirational speech entitled "Take the First Step." Allwardt, a certified Sufi dance leader, has visited ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575655599289600 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575655599289600 en-us Dressed in their formal finery, moms and dads transformed themselves into elegant ladies and dashing gentlemen as they attended the 13th annual Duniway “Black & White Ball” on March 2. Tracy Williams, one of the event’s organizers for the Duniway Foundation, explained that ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575585454970400 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575585454970400 en-us Governor Kitzhaber has appointed Paulann Petersen of Sellwood to a second two-year term as Poet Laureate of Oregon. Petersen is Oregon’s sixth Poet Laureate since 1921, when Edwin Markham first took the post, and she is only the second woman to hold the title. “Paulann Petersen is one ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575539917638800 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575539917638800 en-us The road for owners to open Casa Diablo, a new “gentleman’s club” just south of the Acropolis on S.E. McLoughlin Boulevard between Umatilla and Ochoco Streets, took another sharp turn at the Oregon Liquor Control Commission (OLCC) hearing for their liquor license application on ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575434456934900 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575434456934900 en-us Interest was high as skate enthusiasts gathered in the Cleveland High School library on April 5. They were there for the presentation of plans for a Powell Park “Skate Spot” — a mini skate park. “This is a citizen-initiated proposal,” observed Portland Parks & ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575340778875000 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575340778875000 en-us The student body of Reed College inaugurated a 10-watt noncommercial FM radio station, broadcasting from its campus, in May of 1958. The call letters were, and till now still are, KRRC. The station originally operated in the noncommercial part of the FM radio band — below 92 MHz — ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575320257181100 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575320257181100 en-us What should have been a pleasant late afternoon Easter drive turned upsetting in an instant, on April 8, at about 6 pm, along S.E. 82nd Avenue near Malden Street. “It looked the black car was trying get around a slow truck in the middle lane,” said witness Ashlee Montgomery. “But ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575176034561100 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575176034561100 en-us Bringing with it all the excitement of big-league car racing, the annual Southeast Portland Cub Scout “Pinewood Derby” again roared into Eastmoreland on Saturday, March 17th, in the Holy Family Catholic Church’s Celebration Hall. “The boys build model cars, all starting out ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575115156790900 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575115156790900 en-us Dredging for a deep-water port in Coos Bay might seem irrelevant to Reed neighborhood, and other neighborhoods in Inner Southeast Portland. But if “unnamed coal companies” get their way, the environmental activist group The Sierra Club warns, mile-long freight trains laden with coal ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575007044493300 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133575007044493300 en-us Heavy smoke and fire leaped from a triplex unit at 6307 S.E. 72nd Avenue near Tolman, on Wednesday, April 18, at 1:36 pm, as Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R) firefighters rolled up to the scene four minutes after the fire call went out. “The initial 9-1-1 call was by a neighbor who ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133574917160028500 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133574917160028500 en-us After fully two years of planning, groundbreaking for the Grout School rain garden commenced on April 14. Project coordinator Johanna Colgrove directed a backhoe and a crew of volunteers, including some from Reed College and OHSU, in preparing the 1,800-square-foot site just north of the school. ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133574872519461500 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133574872519461500 en-us Between March 26 and March 30, TriMet bus stop glass-shattering vandals were at it again in Inner Southeast Portland — this time damaging a total of 21 shelters along Powell Boulevard, S.E. Division Street, and S.E. 82nd Avenue of Roses. “This damage brings the total number to 41 ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133574825895598400 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133574825895598400 en-us The Sellwood Bridge replacement project continues to move along, albeit slightly behind schedule — slowed primarily due to the permitting process, as it enters its “90% Design” phase. The Sellwood Bridge Community Advisory Committee (CAC) met on Monday, April 2, at SMILE Station ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133572683114866500 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133572683114866500 en-us On Tuesday, April 17, a Multnomah County jury convicted 62-year-old Ralph Turner, of the Brooklyn neighborhood, of numerous felony crimes related to Turner’s shooting of a Portland Police officer and shooting at numerous other police officers, on March 6th, 2011. He was convicted on 12 ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133572553227757900 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133572553227757900 en-us From bagpipes to balloons, Frank Springer's 100th birthday parade on March 24th gave Brooklyn a chance to celebrate Portland's oldest retired police officer. Springer worked at the Portland Police Bureau from November of 1938 until August of 1973. A longtime Brooklyn resident and now a recognized ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133572494406262500 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133572494406262500 en-us On April 24, Oregon Attorney General John Kroger announced he will resign this summer to take a job as president of Reed College in Southeast Portland. He will be Reed’s 15th president. He succeeds Colin Diver, who plans to retire after 10 years in the position. “I’m very excited ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133572382413892000 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133572382413892000 en-us Flames leaping high into the darkness of a summer sky on June 21, 2009 made a terrifying sight – both for neighbors, and for those associated with The Dougy Center itself, at 3903 S.E. 52nd Avenue, just south of Foster Road. As reported in the July, 2009, issue of THE BEE, a still-unsolved ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133572313410799200 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133572313410799200 en-us On Friday, April 20, at about 1 pm, a First Student school bus was returning a group of 21 St. Ignatius School students home from a week at Camp Namanu when the bus slid off the wet road near Sandy, leaving it teetering on an embankment. Clackamas County Sheriff Deputy Alan Alderman, arriving at ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133572254317757800 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133572254317757800 en-us Even after the City of Portland made its sewage treatment plant operational in 1952, it didn’t take much rain to cause Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) into the Willamette River in the Sellwood area. For sixty years, it’s happened every time rain fell here. But that’s all changed, ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133572148522538300 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133572148522538300 en-us After introducing you to the 2012 Portland Rose Festival Princesses from Cleveland and Franklin High Schools in the April issue of THE BEE, we were alerted that a third Inner Southeast Portland high school student is vying for this year’s Queen of Rosaria crown. Katherine (Kate) Sinnott, an ... http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133572094473514300 2012-05-02 00:00:00 http://www.thebeenews.com/news/story.php?story_id=133572094473514300 en-us For more than an hour, Portland Fire & Rescue (PF&R) crews battled a blaze that ravaged a home at 1136 SE Bidwell Street on the morning of Saturday, April 14. The first concern, for firefighters from Westmoreland Fire Station 20, who arrived at 9:58 am, were initial reports that one or ...