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August 15,2001
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Portland Kids Meet Washington Elite
P hoto by M ark W ashington /T he P ortland O bserver
Northeast Portland kids question Illinois Republican Dennis Hastert (center), the Speaker of the U.S.
House of Representatives and third in line to the U.S. Presidency, along with U.S. Sen. Gordon Smith, R-
Ore. (left) and U.S. Rep. Greg Walden, R-Ore., during a visit Thursday to Friends of the Children, an adult
mentoring program at 44 N.E. Morris.
Three Congressional power bro­
kers. including the Speaker o f the
U.S. House o f Representatives in
Washington, D.C., were in Port­
land Thursday to see first-hand
how Friends of the Children is uti­
lizing one-on-one relationships
between trained adult mentors and
at-riskchildren.
The organization, founded in
Portland in 1993, with chapters
across the country, is hoping to
build federal support for its pro­
grams that provide help to kids
who need nurturing.
Friends o f the Children strives
to make a difference with the prob­
lems of youth violence, drug abuse
and teen pregnancy.
The vision is to provide at-risk
kids with a sustained relationship
with an adult role model who
teaches positive values and has
attainable expectations for each
child.
Accompany ing Speaker Dennis
Hastert, R-lll. at the Portland
Friends o f the Children building,
44 N.E. Morris, were Sen. Gordon
Smith and Rep. Greg Walden, both
Republicans of Oregon ’ s Congres­
sional delegation.
P hoto by D ave G iezyng /T he P ortland O bserver
Portland is Bike City
The Providence Bridge Pedal, an event to promote
bicycles and cancer research drew a whopping
20,000 people to the Portland waterfront Sunday.
Several bridges were closed for the celebration.
Neighborhood Gets
Lesson in Condemnation
their old one. T enants w ho are
forced to pay higher rent can
cards right, they could come out
have the difference paid for up to
pretty well,” Humboldt president
42 m onths.
Susan Erickson said.
In addition, the college m ust
The assistance could give rent­
pay
all m oving expenses, includ­
Light Rail Tunnel on South­ e rs a c h a n c e to becom e
in g a p p lia n c e an d u tility
west Jefferson; Phase IV at homeowners, she said.
reco n n ectio n fees, tem porary
With property purchases, the
Northwest Flanders from 19th
storage and transportation in­
to 24,h to West Burnside, from process starts with an appraisal by surance. If you do the m oving
24lh to Barnes Road; Phase V the college.
yourself, you can get paym ents
Owners may also secure their
marks the end, with a pipe
ranging from $300 for one room,
installed from N.W. Lovejoy own appraisal. A fair sales price is $825 for four rooms, with another
determined by the appraisals and
to Naito Parkway.
$125 for each additional room.
negotiations. If no agreement is
At a cost o f $13 million,
Sean Brow n o f No Fish Go
reached, the parties would go to
plans are in the works to build court and a purchase price would Fish, a restaurant in the path o f
the expansion on K illingsw orth
an enorm ous underground be established there.
Street, says Right o f W ay has
pump station on Swan Island
Homeowners who have lived in
to accommodate the increased their homes for at least 180 days been helpful in providing infor­
westside flow to the plant. and tenants who have lived there mation.
“The college told us nothing
That’s equivalent in size to a at least 90 days, may also be en­
before, but that was then and
titled to additional money to pay
14-story building downtown.
this is now ,” he says. “T h ey ’ve
Because the Columbia Bou­ for housing that is “comparable”
only hinted at providing more
levard W astewater Treatment to what they were living in, is safe
than the letter o f the law calls for
Plant is limited in its capacity and sanitary, and is “affordable.” and for com m ercial people that’s
Homeowners can get money to
to handle the combined sewer
nothing - a couple of burly guys
purchase
a com parable hom e
overflow problem, expanding
and a U- H aul.”
above w hat they w ere paid for
the facility is a necessity.
But D eA nn Frank o f Right o f
W ay, says com m ercial tenants
are paid for all m oving expenses
AFFORDABLE
and can receive either a paym ent
equal to their average annual
income up to $20,000 or payment
for im provem ents to their new
LOCK & KEY
business site up to $10,000.
503-284-9582
H um boldt board m em berC arl
Flipper says the com pany’s in­
FULLLOCKSMITH-SERVICE
formation somewhat differs from
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a college brochure that show s a
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cap for rep lacem en t housing
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costs o f $22,500 for homeowners
and $5,250 for tenants.
“The governm ent c a n ’t force
you to m ove unless they can
show th e re ’s housing available
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th at’s com parable in size, safe
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and sanitary, and affordable.
Som etim es th ere’s no w ay to
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achieve that unless you extend
the caps,” F lipper says.
7618 N. Interstate Avenue
He adds that this m ost often
One block north o f the Lombard Fred Meyer
happens
w ith very low income
503-285-9500
people w ho are living in sub­
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standard and cheap housing.
Stan Jones, a form er reloca­
tion m anager for the Portland D e­
velopm ent Com m ission says if
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the
sales price or benefits pack­
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age dispute goes to court, and
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the property ow ner w ins, the
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college could be forced to pay
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court costs as well.
Flipper adds, “It is extrem ely
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im portant that people not move,
Comer ofN.E. Shaver and Martin Luther King, from
not sign anything, until they
10:30 a.m.-3:30p.m.
know w hat the total com pensa­
tion package th e y 're entitled to
can be. T hese aren ’t benefits as
PCC says, th ey ’re legally re­
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quired com pensation.”
T here is no requirem ent that
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people be relocated into the same
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neighborhood, and often it isn ’t
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possible.
DRY ROT. CERAMIC TILE.
Brown says his chance for
staying in H um boldt is “pretty
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S tory C ontinued F rom P age 1
River Cleanup Soars to $1 Billion
S tory C ontinued F rom P age 1
age as well as other pollutants
in the storm w ater. W hen
m ixed with rain, it overflow s
directly into the W illam ette
River.
The Clean River Plan calls
for diverting clean water from
T anner Creek, which origi­
nates in the W est Hills, from
sewage, preventing the pollu­
tio n fro m e n te r in g th e
W il^ m e tte River. The city
piped the creek into the sewer
system decades ago, and to­
day the w ater contributes to
the com bined sewer overflow
problem.
The second phase is already
u n d e rw a y , w h e re W e st
Burnside, from Southwest 14th
to Southeast 19th will rem ain
c lo se d fo r the n ex t th ree
m onths so that construction
crew s can bore tunnels for
the installation of 2,000-feet
of six-foot-diam eter sew er
pipe. A $ 10 million grant from
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the Army Corp o f Engineers
is being allocated for com ­
pleting this second phase of
the Clean River Plan. Users
will be expected to foot the
rem ainder of the bill through
gradual, sewer rate increases
- an average o f $70 a month
by 2011.
A fter the second phase of
construction, similar work will
be done throughout the city:
Phase III will be along H igh­
way 26, from the zoo to the
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