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2 • The Southwest Portland Post EDITORIAL The Southwest Portland Post 4207 SE Woodstock Blvd #509 Portland, OR 97206 Fax: (866) 727-5336 email: editor@multnomahpost.com New sidewalk on Vermont Street at 37th Avenue built with a defect I contacted you some weeks ago with my concern about the trough left in the new sidewalk on Southwest the sidewalk. The first downpour of the season (Aug. 30) filled that trough with two inch- es of mud and gravel, for a distance of between two and three feet (my guess). It’s a mess! Attached is a photo, which you may publish. There is a similar prob- lem at Vermont and 36th, but on a smaller scale. Mud covers the new sidewalk at the corner of Southwest Kyle Chisek, the person 37th Avenue and Vermont Street after a two-hour in charge of sidewalks for cloudburst on Sept. 1. The ground is higher than the the City of Portland, as- sidewalk in that area. (Photo courtesy of Rose Florek) sures me that once grass is Vermont Street at 37th Avenue. established, the ground will not wash The contractor installing the side- onto the sidewalk. walk made one modification to the There is no hope that grass could be slope of the walk, but didn’t correct established there before this coming the “trough” problem, which results rainy season. A short curb was in- from the ground being higher than stalled next to the sidewalk to protect it from just this thing, but it doesn’t go far enough. It is my belief that the only solution to the problem is to extend that short curb along both sides of the walk where the ground level rises above the sidewalk. I suspect that the city has already released the contractor, and may have trouble getting him back. If you could do an article to help us apply pressure, it might help to save all users of that sidewalk from this messy inconvenience for the next 50 or more years! Rose Florek Multnomah Celebrating 22 Years in Business! 4207 SE Woodstock Blvd #509 Portland, OR 97206 Phone: (503) 244-6933; Fax: (866) 727-5336 general email: news@multnomahpost.com web address: www.swportlandpost.com Editor & Publisher .........Don Snedecor Reporters/Writers ...........Lee Braymen-Cleary, KC Cowan, Janet Goetz, Erik Vidstrand Copy Editor ......................Rich Riegel Advertising Sales ...........Don Snedecor, Harry Blythe Graphic Design ..............Leslie Baird Design Printing ............................Oregon Lithoprint Circulation .......................Ambling Bear © 2014 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 20th of the month prior to publication. Please call for current deadline information. Advertising rates are available upon request. The Post has a circulation of 7,000 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. October 2014 Editor’s Note: A whole different kind of air traffic control The Post received a phone call Sept. 17 from reader Lee Ashe who thought cartoonist Jesse Springer was unfairly picking on Republican nominee Dr. Monica Wehby in her campaign against Democratic Sen. Jeff Merkley. “Don’t forget to give Merkley a kick in the butt as well,” said Ashe. He was referring to the airliner cartoon in the September 2014 edi- tion of The Post that implies the Koch Brothers were pouring millions into the U.S. Senate race. I asked Springer if he would like to comment. “I have done a couple of Koch Brothers cartoons—the one you men- tion doesn’t reference (Monica) We- hby at all, so I am a little confused,” said Springer. “That cartoon simply criticized wealthy out-of-staters try- ing to influence an Oregon election.” – Don Snedecor
