A4 THE SPOKESMAN • TUESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2022
Redmond resident celebrates a century
BY LEO BAUDHUIN
Redmond Spokesman
Redmond resident Joanna Painter
celebrated her 100th birthday on Aug.
4, to the tune of jazz music, a sparkly
pink hat and a sheet cake.
Painter — known to fellow Juniper
Springs Senior Living residents as Jo —
is a U.S. veteran, former nurse and cur-
rent Scrabble star.
“She’s very inspirational,” said Juni-
per Springs recreation director Willow
Durant. “Because all of us look at her,
and she’s 100 years old super healthy,
still going strong.”
Besides her status as an “incredibly
good Scrabble player” — per Durant
— Painter enjoys beanbag baseball,
cornhole and participating in Juniper
Springs’ morning exercise sessions.
Originally from Wisconsin, Painter
and her late husband retired to Central
Oregon when he left the military. She
served as a nurse in both the U.S. Army
and Air Force, but left the service when
she got married in 1950.
Painter was one of 10 children and
has three kids of her own, along with
three grandchildren.
And although her centennial birth-
day marks a milestone for family and
friends alike, Painter said she felt “just
a day older.”
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Reporter: lbaudhuin@redmondspokesman.com
Fire &
Rescue
shows off
inspection
software
BY NICK ROSENBERGER
Redmond Spokesman
Photo by Leo Baudhuin/Spokesman
Juniper Springs recreation director Willow Durant lights the candles on Jo Painter’s 100th birthday cake.
TRUCK OF THE WEEK
Tite Knot Craft Coffee
Photo by Leo Baudhuin/Spokesman
Location: 706 SW 10th St., Redmond
Hours: 6 a.m. to 2 p.m. Monday through Saturday; 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sunday
Owner: Lauri Dahl
Opened: January 2021
Type of food: Coffee and baked goods
About the cart: Tite Knot operates out of a former Portland Public Schools
maintenance truck that Dahl found on Craigslist. The property includes
homey indoor seating and outdoor seating, with tables spread across the back
lawn. The cart is also renovating its bakery, which will allow Dahl and her
employees to make baked goods on site. Dahl estimated that the bakery will
open in about a month.
Your first order should be: Dahl recommended the shaken vanilla espresso
for summer — a mix of espresso, vanilla and heavy whipping cream — and a
homemade scone for earlier risers who makes it to the cart before they’re sold
out.
Fun fact: Before opening Tite Knot, Dahl ran Gimme! Coffee in Ithaca,
New York. She wanted to start a coffee shop in Portland when she moved
back to the west coast in 2008, but the recession stopped her. “But then when
the pandemic hit, it was like, ‘I gotta do it now or never,’” she said.
Under an excessive heat wave
crashing down on residents, in ad-
dition to drought conditions and
increased risk of fires, Redmond
Fire & Rescue tested their new fire
and light inspection system on
businesses on Monday, July 25.
Developed by ESO, a technol-
ogy company focused on software
for emergency services such as
EMS, fire and hospitals, the new
system will reduce the amount of
time it takes for local Fire & Res-
cue to complete on-site inspec-
tions.
In the past, inspectors would
complete a paper form at the
site, return to the office to print it
and return to the site to provide
the business with the report — a
costly and time-consuming pro-
cess that relied on old databases
and hard copy materials.
With Redmond Fire & Rescue
covering many rural areas and
businesses, it could take hours out
of an inspector’s day just to com-
plete a couple of reports and trans-
port back-and-forth to a site.
The new software, however,
will let inspectors complete the
entire inspection on a tablet and
send it to the owner’s email im-
mediately
“It’s an inconvenience,” said
Tom Mooney, fire marshal for
Redmond Fire & Rescue. “We
don’t want (inspections) to be a
negative for people.”
According to Mooney, the new
process will save about two hours
per inspection.
On July 25, Mooney and Dep-
uty Fire Marshal Wade Gibson
were able to complete about four
inspections in an hour at busi-
nesses off of SW Veteran’s Way in
Redmond.
With the new software, crews
“don’t have to interrupt your busi-
ness day,” said Mooney.