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May 2008
Multnomah Farmer’s Market
Reading to the Dogs
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said Walsh,
who also
mentioned
the good
work of fel-
low Village mar-
ket advocates Ty
Steinbach, Beth Soren- son, and Chris
Dearth.
“The more we explored the idea, the
more it became clear that this would be
a great service to local citizens, a great
outlet for local farmers, and a great way
for Portland Parks & Recreation [which
owns the Multnomah Center] to sup-
port the community,” said Walsh.
When asked what might differentiate
the Village market from the Hillsdale
market, Molloy replied, “People shop
differently on a Thursday than they
do on a Sunday. It will take some time
for this new market to develop its own
identity.”
For more information and to vol-
unteer to help with the market e-mail
contact@hillsdalefarmersmarket.com.
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Head Start programs, and low income
housing projects. Twice each month
librarian Lisa Martin heads out to
Hillsdale Terrace with Angela Lowman
and her dog, Marilyn. “I feel like the
Pied Piper,” Lowman said, about the
children who run out to greet them as
they walk to the complex’s homework
room.
Lowman, who lives in Beaverton,
owns a pet sitting and dog walking
service. “The
kids benefit immensely from the read
aloud skills,” said Martin, who has
worked at the Hillsdale Library for 25
years. Although many of the preschool-
ers cannot read, they enjoy looking at
pictures in the variety of books Martin
brings. Sometimes older kids read to
younger ones as well as to Marilyn
the dog.
“It’s an interesting place,” Martin
said about the complex. “The families
are diverse, and a high percentage are
immigrants. One family is from Bosnia
and many are Spanish speaking.” Mar-
tin said she found several children at the
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complex initially feared animals but felt
comfortable around Marilyn. “It fosters
a love of animals.”
It’s the excitement of seeing Marilyn,
and maybe the novelty of reading to a
dog, Lowman says about reasons for
the program’s success. She also finds
children enjoy choosing books instead
of having them assigned. If children
ask Lowman how to pronounce a word,
she tells them. “There’s no judgment,”
she said. “I just let them read. If they
mispronounce a word, I don’t correct
them.”
When Sam Way finishes reading,
Fogerty asks if he wants a picture. All
sessions end with a Polaroid photo of
the reader and dog, and a certificate
stating the number of pages read that
day. Fogerty signs Sam Way up for his
next session before they say goodbye.
Sonja Haugen, who lives in Hillsdale,
laughed as she watched Sam Way and
Angie at the library. Her own mother
read to the dogs when she was well into
her 90s, she said.
“Mom had this idea that when you
grew old you forgot how to talk and
how to think,” explained Haugen. “So,
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she would read out loud constantly –
Wall Street Journal, Fortune, anything
she could get her hands on. My dog
would sit there the whole time and look
up with these adoring eyes.”
Haugen also owned an African Gray
parrot named Gracie. “Mom read to
Gracie as well. Gracie would sit and
look at her -- and then repeat things
back.”
For more information on Read to the
Dogs, contact the Hillsdale Library
503.988.5388, the Capitol Hill Library
503.988.5385, or DoveLewis Emergency
Animal Hospital 971.255.5910.
Building Bridges
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Museum of Science and Industry spoke
to the importance of the bridge in their
own development plans. Williams said
OHSU wants “very much” to have their
proposed new 19-acre South Waterfront
campus “within five minutes walk of
light rail.”
LaCross said that OMSI hoped to
double in size in the next 10 years, but
that they would still occupy less than
half of a 50-acre campus that could be
developed for other uses. A station at
Sherman would be 260 feet from the
museum’s front door, he said, and
would help them realize a goal of hav-
ing half their visitors come by transit.
Architect Greg Baldwin said the rail
route would provide a “unique op-
portunity” to link the two institutions
with each other and Portland State
University.