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Newspaper Page TextEDITORIAL 2 • The Southwest Portland Post The Southwest Portland Post 7825 SW 36th Ave Suite #203 Portland, OR 97219 Fax: (866) 727-5336 email: news@multnomahpost.com PCC Sylvania drives smokers into neighborhoods and parks while enforcing campus smoking ban I am not a smoker, and I do not par- ticularly like smelling smoke on my students’ clothes but here’s the scoop. I live on Southwest 60 th next to Lesser Park and Portland Community Col- lege’s Sylvania Campus and I work at PCC Sylvania. I walk between my home and the college and have started to see my tiny well-loved park getting trashed by my employer’s decision to put a punitive rule in place that drives smokers into the parks and neighborhoods. I plan to go to my neighborhood meeting and bring this topic up for dis- cussion, but I feel bullied by the college as its neighbor. I feel they are getting rid of their “problem” in my front yard. I also expect to see crime increase as more people are sent down in to the neighborhoods to smoke. I work with high school dropouts on campus and many now see this is as an opportunity to get “high” after class in the parks below. Many of these students of mine have been on parole or [are under the supervision of] probation officers and have committed property crimes. We are now sending them into small quiet neighborhoods. It seems unfair to the smokers, unfair to the neighbors and wrong that the college paints this “everything is fine angle” with The Oregonian when it is not. There are at least 50-100 people each day going out behind the campus to smoke and the neighborhoods need to know why this is happening. Did PCC talk this over with the neighborhood association? I have a call in to the manager of the West Region of Portland Parks and Recreation to see how they plan to ad- dress this. December 2009 Southwest has a wide variety of healthcare practitioners Numerous of our students and staff, and some friends in the neighborhood, have commented on Ms. Olsen’s No- vember Post article [“Multnomah-area school has trained massage therapists for 25 years,” by Polina Olsen, No- vember 2009] about Oregon School of Massage. We thought she did a good job in us- ing a variety of sources in presenting a balanced picture of our program. We like being a part of the community… the article will introduce us to more of our neighbors. It seems like this part of Southwest Portland has many, and a wide variety of, healthcare practitioners. I’d love to see more information about that pub- lished, and could probably enlist some students who would be willing to do some footwork (listing practitioners, and surveying them as to their special- ties and concerns) to develop it. Thanks for keeping the community informed. Ray Siderius Director Oregon School of Massage Marlo Urbina Southwest Portland Happy Holidays from all of us at The Post! Deeper Sedation Dentistry... Dr. Little at West Hills Family Dental Center now offers DEEP SEDATION DENTISTRY. It’s MORE EFFECTIVE than just a pill. Residential & Intermediate Alzheimer’s Care Its about what we can do, not what we can’t. well be … and well informed Bowman’s Hillsdale Pharmacy 6256 SW Capitol Hwy. Call and find out why West Hills Family Dental Center is different. 503-244-7582 • email: hdrx@pcez.com 503-291-0000 • www.fearfreedental.com •Walk-In Adult Immunizations •Flu Shots Available (503) 292-7874 7825 SW 36th Ave Suite #203 Portland, OR 97219 Phone: (503) 244-6933; Fax: (866) 727-5336 general email: news@multnomahpost.com web address: www.multnomahpost.com Editor & Publisher: Don Snedecor Reporters/Writers: Polina Olsen, Lee Perlman, Allison Voigts Retail Advertising Manager: Harry Blythe Graphic Design: Leslie Baird Design Printing: Oregon Lithoprint © 2009 by The Southwest Portland Post. All rights reserved. The opinions of the artists and authors contained herein are not necessarily shared by the publisher. Deadline for news and advertising is generally the 15th of the month prior to publication. Please call for current deadline information. Advertising rates are available upon request. The Post has a circulation of 10,000 in Multnomah Village and the surrounding neighborhood business districts including Burlingame, Capitol Hill, Garden Home, Glen Cullen, Hillsdale, South Portland, Raleigh Hills, West Portland and Vermont Hills. The Post is published on or about the 1st of every month. Subscriptions are $14 per year. Back issues are $2.50 each when available. All major credit cards accepted. The Post is printed on recycled newsprint using soy-based inks. 6630 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale Hwy. Portland, Oregon 97225 www.marquiscompanies.com •Experienced Compounding Pharmacists www.mygnp.com