February 2012
CALENDAR/NEWS
The Girl Who Fell from
the Sky. Read this novel by
Heidi W. Durrow, then exchange
perspectives about characters and
plot and get to know your neighbors
at Pageturners, Capitol Hill Library,
10723 SW Capitol Hwy. Thursday,
February 2, 1:30-2:30 p.m. and Tues-
day, February 14, 6:45-7:45 p.m. Call
503-988-5385 for more information.
By Don Snedecor
The Southwest Portland Post
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Portland Mayoral Candidates
Forum on Active Transporta-
tion (featuring candidates Eileen
Brady, Charlie Hales and Jefferson
Smith) will be held Monday, Febru-
ary 6, at Portland State University,
Lincoln Hall auditorium, 1620 SW
Park Ave.
Doors open at 6:15 p.m. for light
refreshments. Forum from 7:00-8:30
p.m., followed by reception with
candidates from 8:30-9:00 p.m. For
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COMMUNITY LIFE
Read to the Dogs. Improve
your reading skills by reading
aloud to therapy dogs from the Del-
ta Society’s Pet Partners Program,
sponsored by DoveLewis.
Hillsdale Library, 1525 SW Sunset
Blvd. Saturdays: February 4, 10 a.m.
to 12 noon; February 11, 11 a.m. to
12:30 p.m.; and February 25, 10 a.m.
to 12 noon. Registration required;
call 503-988-5388.
The Southwest Portland Post • 5
Fifth Annual Sean-nos
Northwest Festival is being
held Saturday and Sunday, Febru-
ary 18-19 in Multnomah Village at
the Multnomah Arts Center and
the Lucky Labrador Public House.
You are invited to come and wit-
ness the remarriage of Irish Gaelic
music, song and dance during this
weekend-long celebration featuring
workshops, performances and ses-
sions open to the public. For tickets
and more information visit www.
seannos.org.
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Ty Boice and Adrienne Flagg star
in the Portland area premiere of
“Deadly Murder” at Lakewood
Theatre Company. Performances
continue through February 19. For
tickets or more infomation call the
box office at 503-635-3901 or visit
www.lakewood-center.org. (Photo
by Lake Oswego Photographers)
Odyssey Program at Hay-
hurst School. Parents seek-
ing an experiential and accelerated
learning curriculum for their incom-
ing 2012-2013 kindergartners, or for
transfer students up to eighth grade
are invited to information nights.
Enrollment selection is by lottery
and attendance at an information
night is mandatory. The next one
is Wednesday, February 15, 6:30 to
8:00 p.m. at Hayhurst School, 5037
SW Iowa St. For more information
visit www.odysseyprogram.org or
call 503-916-6300
The No. 1 Hillsdale Knitting
Society invites you to join them on
Saturday, February 18, 10 a.m. to 12
noon, at Hillsdale Library, 1525 SW
Sunset Blvd.
Learn basic knitting skills or get
help with an existing project. Cro-
cheters welcome too. For children
5 years and older as well as adults.
Call 503-988-5388 for more informa-
tion.
more information, contact Rebecca
Hamilton, PSU Planning Club, 503-
970-6283 or r.hamilton@pdx.edu.
Tierney votes to suspend proposed
Portland to Lake Oswego streetcar
By Lee Perlman
The Southwest Portland Post
Faced with a vastly reduced bud-
get for a proposed Portland to Lake
Oswego streetcar extension, the
Lake Oswego City Council none-
theless decided to pull the plug on
the idea.
The Lake Oswego City Council
voted to “suspend” the project for
the indefinite future. Last year, after
a contentious debate, the City Coun-
cil voted four to three to authorize
further study of the idea subject to
several conditions.
A report released in December
estimated that the cost of the ven-
ture, once estimated to be as high
as $480 million, could be done for
$200 million, with more than half of
this probably coming from federal
subsidies.
Despite this, Lake Oswego coun-
cil member Bill Tierney, part of the
majority that had tentatively sup-
ported the project, last month said,
“Until we are more united as a city,
as a region, and as a City Council,
I believe we should put this project
on a shelf.”
Tierney added that uncertainty
over funding in times of already
tight budgets was an issue. Later
Portland Mayor Sam Adams, the
project’s strongest advocate, an-
nounced that work on the project
was being “suspended.”
Earlier in the month project man-
ager Doug Obletz had told the South
Portland Neighborhood Association
that one element in the cost cutting
had been a plan to utilize a single
track through the Dunthorpe com-
munity.
A second was to terminate the line
in Lake Oswego three blocks north
of the original site. A third was to
order four new streetcars instead of
the previously planned six.
Obletz said that this last move was
accompanied by a new plan to have
a route running from Northwest 23 rd
Avenue through downtown Port-
land to Lake Oswego, thus utilizing
existing cars. Obletz at that time did
not specify what the frequency of
service on the route would be.
Asked whether the project might
some day be revived Obletz told The
Post, “You’ll have to ask the mayor
that.” He said he would complete
and publish a report on the pro-
posed route, saying, “No one has
told me not to complete it.”
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