6 • The Southwest Portland Post
NEWS/BUSINESS
June 2011
Sewer work will close Multnomah Blvd / Interstate 5 access
By Lee Perlman
The Southwest Portland Post
The City of Portland’s Bureau of
Environmental Services (BES) will be
back at work on Southwest Multnomah
Boulevard this fall, and this time their
work will cut the neighborhood off
from Interstate 5.
According to bureau spokesperson
Stephen Sykes, they are about to replace
the existing 30-inch Burlingame Trunk
Sewer with a 48-inch replacement on
Multnomah Boulevard between South-
west 31 st Avenue and the freeway.
For this they will dig a trench as deep
as 30 feet on the north side of the bou-
levard, he said. However, BES hopes
to keep a lane open in each direction,
eliminating the need for flaggers or
detours, he said.
The biggest impact will be on the
Multnomah / I-5 access ramps, Sykes
said. The work, and the staging area
associated with it, will require these
THE COUNTRY STORE
By Don Snedecor
The Southwest Portland Post
Key Bank’s Skayhan named to
manage Raleigh Hills branch
Susan Skayhan has been selected
to manage KeyBank’s new branch
in the Raleigh Hills area of Portland.
The branch opened May 16 and is lo-
cated at 6620 SW Beaverton-Hillsdale
Highway.
Skayhan joined Key as a relation-
ship manager at the Greenway branch
in 2004, later becoming assistant vice
to be closed from the beginning of the
project (probably early October) until
November 18.
Out of consideration for local mer-
chants, the contract specifies that the
closures not continue through the holi-
day season.
In addition, Sykes said, the contractor
will be working 24 hours a day during
part of this period, and they have se-
cured a noise variance for this period.
“It will just be for a few days, but there
may be times when we’ll exceed the
City’s standards for night-time noise
generation,” Sykes said.
The project will remove several trees,
Sykes said. They will be replaced by
tupelo, maples, and “a variety of pines.”
Sykes said the City plans to designate
the Capitol Highway exit as an alternate
access to I-5, a route that would require
considerable out of direction travel
for northbound Multnomah Village
motorists.
At a meeting in late April Hillsdale
activist Don Baack said he feared mo-
president and
branch man-
ager for Key’s
Multnomah
branch in
Portland and
the Farming-
ton branch
in Aloha, Or-
egon.
She brings
to her new as-
signment 20
years of banking and insurance exper-
tise, serving both consumer and small
business clients. Active in the com-
munity, Skayhan is a member of the
Raleigh Hills Business Association and
is involved in launching RHBA’s first
torists instead would take Southwest
Bertha Boulevard and overload it.
Meanwhile, to the west, BES will
soon begin the repaving of Southwest
Multnomah Boulevard between 31 st and
45 th avenues following completion of an
earlier sewer project. This work should
begin in late June or early July, he said.
During a review of the project at a
community meeting, Southwest Neigh-
borhoods, Inc. Transportation chair
Marianne Fitzgerald was unhappy
that BES did not plan to improve the
sidewalks along Multnomah, even
though they are only five feet wide and
substandard.
Sykes replied that the City is not
obliged to do such work except where
construction work has damaged the
sidewalk and it must be replaced.
annual Community Fair on June 12.
Her team, representing 40 years of
combined banking experience, include
relationship manager Airto Zamorano,
business relationship manager Derek
Kirma, and customer service manager
Caralie Wright.
Medicine in
1997, and
completed
her resi-
dency at St.
John Detroit
Riverview
Hospital in
2000.
McHar-
ris is bilin-
gual; speak-
ing Spanish
with a Bach-
elor of Arts in Latin American Studies,
1991. Her practice is accepting new
patients and most major insurance
plans. Fanno Creek Clinic is located
at 2400 SW Vermont St.
Dr. HcHarris joins Fanno Creek
Clinic
Dr. Louise McHarris, DO recently
became associated with Fanno Creek
Clinic. McHarris is a Board Certified
Physician with special interests in
Internal Medicine, Primary Care and
Preventive Medicine.
McHarris graduated from Michigan
State University College of Osteopathic
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