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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!
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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