July 2016
FEATURES
The Southwest Portland Post • 5
Hillsdale book sale needs donated books and volunteers to sort and sell them
By Erik Vidstrand
The Southwest Portland Post
The eleventh annual Hillsdale Book
Sale takes place on Sunday, July 31,
at the Watershed building (Southwest
Bertha Court and Capitol Highway)
and along the sidewalk nearby. Sale
hours are 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The book sale is a benefit for the
Hillsdale Community Foundation
and is sponsored by Food Front and
OnPoint Community Credit Union.
Book donations can be made the two
Sundays prior to the sale: July 17 and
24 at the Hillsdale Farmers Market
(Rieke School parking lot) during the
hours of 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Donations can also be made from
3 p.m. to 5 p.m. on the Tuesdays and
Thursdays prior to the sale, July 19,
21, 26 and 28. The mid-week drop-off
site is at the Watershed building.
People can park at the southbound
curb on Bertha Court and drop
off their donations which are tax-
deductable. Request a donation form
when dropping off books.
“We get a lot of really neat kids’
books which we sell bundled at
ridiculously low prices,” said Rick
Seifert who has headed up this event
for the last 10 years. “The book sale is
a literary Rorschach for Hillsdale and
all of Southwest Portland.”
Seifert insists on no books without
value like textbooks, almanacs,
encyclopedias, dated reference books,
and catalogs. Digital video discs and
compact discs are welcome.
The sale benefits the non-profit
Hillsdale Community Foundation
which in the past has provided money
for construction of the pedestrian
and bicycle plaza next to Food
Front Market, street shrubbery, and
technical equipment for Wilson High
School.
Seifert is seeking volunteers to help
on collection days, book sorting, and on
the day of the sale. The sale coincides
with the annual Hillsdale Business
and Professional Association’s annual
blueberry pancake breakfast.
For more information contact Rick
Seifert at wfseifert@gmail.com.
Browsers review the stacks at the Hillsdale
Book Sale in July 2011.
(Photo courtesy of Rick Seifert)
Hillsdale appreciates customers with 40th annual Blueberry Pancake Breakfast
a.m. to noon at the Key Bank/Casa
Colima plaza.
Sponsors include OnPoint Credit
Union. Verde Cocina (Café Hillsdale)
brings in their Portland farmers
market cook stoves and tortilla
griddles, saving over $400 in rental
fees and enables the event to keep
prices down.
T he M e x i c an re s t au r a n t C a s a
Colima allows use of their kitchen to
wash the blueberries and make the
The Hillsdale Business and
sausage.
Professional Association will hold
Unlike the annual Multnomah Days
its 40th annual Blueberry Pancake
pancake breakfast that is staffed by
Breakfast on Sunday, July 31 from 8
Kiwanis Club members, the Hillsdale
breakfast is prepared
by the business
owners, managers
and employees of
Hillsdale.
According to
Mike Roach, co-
chair of the business
association, the
original blueberry
pancake breakfast
[in 1976] was the
brainchild of the late
Tony Scuito, owner
of the Hillsdale Shoe
Repair.
Scuito owned the
shop from the early
The biggest event of the year for Hillsdale, the Blueberry Pancake Breakfast, takes place on Sunday, July 31 50’s until he sold it
from 8 a.m. to noon. (Post file photo by Erik Vidstrand)
in the late 80’s.
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“He called it a ‘Customer
Appreciation Pancake Breakfast’,”
recalled Roach. “His idea was to
have all the merchants thank their
customers by cooking them breakfast
on a Sunday morning and charging
only enough to recover costs.”
“We probably charged just a few
bucks back at the beginning,” Roach
said. “Over the years we upped
the quality of the breakfast, adding
blueberries to the pancakes, sausages,
and real maple syrup (donated by
Baker and Spice Bakery).
The pancake breakfast is one of
the longest, uninterrupted annual
events for a business district. Over
1,200 pancakes are consumed each
year with an average attendance of
500-600 participants.
Complete with the local fire truck,
musicians, the book sale, not to
mention the Hillsdale Farmers
Market, this day is Hillsdale’s
premiere event.
For more information or to
volunteer, please contact Mike Roach
at 503-224-3096.
Our knowledgeable and helpful staff
will assist you with both medicinal and
recreational products.
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(Expires 7/31/16)
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that have supported
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