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Despite declared opposition from
the Portland City Council, United
Grocers is proceeding with plans to
close one block ofNortheast Emerson
Street to build a Thriftway Market.
I he land the vacation would pro
vide is needed to build a new 40,000
square foot store at Northeast 33rd
Avenue and Killingsworth Street,
Roger Staver, United Grocers’ Real
Estate Development Manager, told
the Concordia Community Associa
tion at its October meeting.
A store o f this size, in turn, is
needed to com pete with other
large grocery stores in the area,
he said.
On Septem ber 25 City Council
approved a series of zone chang
es for the property . However, and
although the vacation was not
before Council, com m issioners
C h a rlie H ales and G re tch en
Kafoury both said they’d oppose
it when it did come before them.
Mayor Vera Katz appeared to
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IBEW Local 48 electrician Pfiefer of NECA-member Cochran/Broadway works on the electrical systems for the City o f Portland's new
Water Pollution Control Laboratory. The project has already won an award for its design. Tight coordination and intensive teamwork
between the architect, the general contractor, and the NECA/IBEW Local 48 electrical contractor is ennsuring that the results are not
only efficient and effective, but aesthetically pleasing as well.
Got a sense of humus?
Free local workshops this month
will show you how to compost lawn
and garden debris to improve your
soil, help control weeds, conserve
water and cut back on waste going
to a landfill.
Metro’s composting experts are
also available for special presenta
tions to interested com m unity
groups of 15 or more on a limited
basis.
Scheduled workshops focus on the
basis of composting yard debris and
vegetable scraps, choosing a com
post bin, trouble-shooting and worm
bin options.
One free garden center gift certif
icate and composting video will be
given away at each workshop, along
w ith free home composting packets.
Workshops are held Saturdays
from 9:30 a m. to 11 a.m. at Metro’s
agree, citing a Thriftway market
on N orthwest Glisan Street as an
example o f a successful store on
a standard-sized lot. If all three
maintained such stances, it would
kill any prospect for a street va
cation.
Staver said he felt it was inap
propriate for Council to take such
a position without first hearing
the case for a vacation UG has
gathered enough signatures from
nearby property owners to p ro
ceed with the vacation request,
he says, and what they consider
convincing argum ents that the
sort o f sm aller store Hales and
Katz described w ouldn't succeed
at this location
"W e want them to tell us to our
face that they d o n ’t want this,
and we want them to tell us that
in the face o f a neighborhood
that says they want it,” Staver
told C oncordia. " If not for your
support, we w o u ld n ’t still be
here.”
Conference on Housing Justice
four home composting demonstra
tion center.
Oct. 19 Clackamas Community
College
19600 S. Molalla Ave., Oregon
City
Oct. 26 Leach Botanical Garden
6704 SE 122nd Ave., Southeast
Portland
Call John Foseid at 797-1674 for
more information.
If you're concerned about the
shortage of affordable housing in the
Portland metro area and about the
continuing problem o f homelessness
here, there's a conference coming up
that will interest you The Interfaith
Conference on Housing Justice will
be held on Saturday afternoon. Octo
ber 26, at First United Methodist
Church in Portland. The conference
will feature interactive workshops
on ways individuals and religious
congregations can become involved
in starting emergency shelter pro
grams and participating in afford
able housing construction and repair
projects.
Speakers will address government
housing policies and how individu
als and congregations can advocate
together for change.
Speakers will include Linda Couch
of the National Low Income Hous
ing Coalition in Washington, DC.;
Portland City C om m issioner
Gretchen Kafoury;
I he Rev. Dr. F. Wayne Bry ant,
the Executive Director of Ecumeni
cal Ministries of Oregon; and Mark
Pavolka of the U S. Department of
Housing and Urban Development.
Child care will be available.
For more information and to reg
ister for the conference, contact the
Housing Justice Coalition at 693-
3261.
Architects, contractors coordinates award-winning efforts
Within the next couple of months
the City o f Portland will have a beau
tiful, new, state-of-the-art Water Pol
lution Control Laboratory in St. Johns
thanks to the highly coordinated ef
forts of the architect, building con
tractor, and the electrical contractor,
Cochran/Broadway. Cochran/Broad
way is a National Electrical Contrac
tors Association (NECA) and Inter
national Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers (IBEW) Local 48 contrac
tor.
O f course, when most people en
vision a laboratory, "beautiful” isn’t
often the first adjective that comes to
mind-particularly for a facility that
will be measuring the quality of sew
er and storm water samples, among
other things—but in this case, that’s
exactly what this lab will be.
This new lab is being built under
the St. Johns bridge, right by the
water and next to Cathedral Park.
The team at SERA A rchitects
and M iller-H u ll designed the
building to take advantage o f the
incredible view and park prox
imity, and to enhance the area by
adding more park-like features
with landscaping and water dem
onstration gardens.
In fact, their plans to make this
facility as aesthetically pleasing as it
is functional has already resulted in
an award from the Portland Chapter
of the American Institute of Archi
tects.
I his desire to balance appearanc
es with practicalities has also result
ed in a number of challenges for the
builder and electrical contractor on
the job.
For instance, most of the ceilings
in the building are open, meaning
there is nowhere to hide all the elec
trical wires and connections required
to provide lighting and power for the
lab.
To solve this dilemma, the project
team, made up of the NECA/IBEW
Local 48 contractor, Cochran Broad
way, the general contractor, U S.
Pacific Builders, and the architects,
incorporated much more up front
planning and team coordination than
usual.
“We had frequent coordination
meetings, we utilized coordination
drawings to make sure everyone was
on the same page, and everyone sim
ply worked together to come up with
innovative ideas for this project,"
says Jeff Holmes, project manager
for Cochran/Broadway.
"This approach resulted in much
better efficiency for the team along
with aesthetically appealing solutions
for the building.”
" I his was a real exercise in team
work,'' adds Becca Cavell, Job Cap
tain and Construction Administrator
at SERA. "It got everybody talking
and understanding the problems—and
it really helped.”
I his intensive teamwork approach
is unusual, and the result in a new
Water Pollution Control Laboratory
that is 'light years’ ahead of the tech
nological capabilities of the old fa
cility—and spectacular in its vision.
Perhaps best of all, the public will
also be able to enjoy the benefits of
this new building because it includes
multi-purpose rooms which may be
reserved for seminars, meetings, or
forums.
The St. Johns Water Pollution
Control Laboratory is scheduled to
open December 19.
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volving apartments in the United
States in 1994, resulting in $678
million in property loss. Even worse,
640 people died in these fires and
another 5,475 were injured.
“These National Fire Protection
Association estimates are sobering. In
addition, the recent apartment fire in
Portland left many tenants homeless.
This proves that most people still don't
understand renter's insurance,” says
Marianne Macina, CPCU, regional
manager for the Western Insurance
Information Service (WHS).
“What most people don’t realize
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smoke, lightening, vandalism, theft,
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age from plumbing. It also provides
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to any of the above calamities. In
addition, renters insurance will cov
er you if someone slips and falls in
you home or is injured by any of your
possessions and then sues. The in
surance will also include legal de
fense costs if you are taken to court.
• Take an inventory
• Shop around fo r insurance
• Ask alot o f questions
• Look fo r discounts
• Read your policy
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