July 2013
BUSINESS
The Southwest Portland Post • 5
Hillsdale holds annual pancake breakfast and book sale
THE COUNTRY STORE
By Erik Vidstrand
The Southwest Portland Post
It’s all about customer appreciation
as fresh blueberry pancakes share the
spotlight with used books and art at the
annual Hillsdale Pancake Breakfast and
Book Sale on Sunday, July 28, from 9:00
a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
Pancakes and other breakfast favor-
ites can be found at the Casa Colima
parking lot.
Longtime Hillsdale community activ-
ist Rick Seifert is coordinating the eighth
annual Book Sale along the sidewalk
on the south side of Capitol Highway
and at the Watershed Building (at the
viaduct).
This year, artwork is being requested
for the sale. The sale is benefiting the
Hillsdale Community Foundation and
Main Street Program.
Books and art can be dropped off
every Sunday in July from 10 a.m. to 2
p.m. at the north side of the Hillsdale
Farmers Market.
Donations will also be accepted at the
Hillsdale Main Street offices (1509 SW
Sunset Blvd., Suite 2B) located behind
McMenamin’s Hillsdale Pub weekdays
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Donations are tax
deductible.
“Please, no text books, outdated man-
uals or references,” Seifert said. Also,
no early admission will be allowed for
professional book buyers.
The foundation’s first funded project
was the bike plaza between Baker &
Spice and the Food Front Cooperative.
For more information, go to www.hill-
sdalemainstreet.org.
Portland Ballet announces
expansion
If you haven’t seen any ballerinas
lately in the windows of The Portland
Ballet don’t worry, it won’t last.
The entire troupe will be locating
temporarily to the studios of the Dance
Academy building, 4620 SW Beaverton-
Hillsdale Hwy, just west of 45th Avenue
in the Glen Cullen community. The
phone number, website, email will all
remain the same.
After 12 years in the current space,
growing enrollments at TPB has reached
capacity. The Academy and Company
need a third studio; more dressing
rooms; space to stretch and warm-up;
and a larger, more comfortable lobby
and offices.
A first-time grant from the M.J. Mur-
dock Charitable Trust, in the amount of
$70,000 will be used to advance Build-
ing the Future, the capital campaign
supporting a 75 percent expansion of
the ballet studio in the Hillsdale Town
Center.
Building the Future seeks to raise
$170,000 for interior tenant improve-
ments. So far, the campaign is at 73
percent of its goal.
Hillsdale
Business
and Professional Association
37th Annual Customer Appreciation
Blueberry Pancake Breakfast
Sunday, July 28th, 9am-2pm,
Casa Colima Parking Lot
$6 Adults, $4 Children, Plus... Our annual
Hillsdale Benefit Book (and Art) Sale 9am-2pm
It’s not the Latin Quarter in Paris, but the 8th Annual Hillsdale Book (and Art) Sale prom-
ises some great finds. (Photo courtesy of Rick Seifert, Hillsdale News)
Ardys Braidwood, long-time Port-
land Ballet landlady, owner of the Hills-
dale Shopping Center and other nearby
properties, is lowering TPB’s rental rate
to aid the nonprofit ballet academy in
recovering its costs from the expansion.
Located at 6250 SW Capitol Hwy, in
the former Fulton Dairy garage built in
1919, the ballet company began reno-
vating the space in 2000, opening its
6320 SW Capitol Hwy 503-293-3146
Hillsdale Town Center, next to Paloma
We’ve moved!
across the street
starting 7/9
expanded menu
extended hours
more seats
more pairings & food
more fun!
... same friendly wine help, live music,
quality bottle
picks & reasonable prices.
KorkageWine.com/move
doors on June 21, 2001.
The new Portland Ballet Studio will
be 75 percent larger, expanding to 6,100
square feet from the current 3,500.
“The brisk support for Building the
Future,” commented artistic director
Nancy Davis, “speaks to a clear under-
standing of how important the expan-
sion is to the talented young dancers we
train every day.”
At time of this printing, groundbreak-
ing was to begin on June 24 and to be
completed by September 16, the start
of the Ballet’s 2013-14 curriculum year.
At the local Hillsdale Business As-
sociation, project organizers assured
business owners of very little disrup-
tion of business in the area.
“Only three parking spaces will be
lost on the east side of the building,”
said Jim Lane, managing director.
For more information on the project,
please contact Cynthia Kirk at 503-330-
1886 or cynkirk@syntaxpdx.com.
Construction begins on new
Wilson High School roof
At one point during the rainy
weather of the last week of school,
there were 10 buckets scattered
throughout Wilson High School hall-
ways collecting water dripping from
the school’s leaking roofs.
But no worries: Wilson is getting a
new roof this summer!
Wilson High School will receive
three acres of new roofing that will
include roof-level seismic strengthen-
ing and the replacement of skylights
and rooftop mechanical equipment.
Accessibility to the school for
people with disabilities will also be
improved.
The building will be closed for
construction until August 28. The
Wilson Pool and track/field will
remain open all summer.
Neighbors can expect increased
traffic, noise and dust from construc-
tion. Work may at times go as late as
8 p.m. for no more than 20 days this
summer, and may also include three
Sundays.
For more information visit the
Portland Public Schools bond web-
site: www.pps.net/bond or call
503-916-2222.
--Erik Vidstrand