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Gwendolyn Marie Goods Sunrise Nov 28, 1950 - Sunset July 1, 2009
G w en d o ly n M arie G o o d s
w as born G w endolyn M arie
Williams (the eldest o f 14 chil
dren) to O sw ald W illiams and
M other M ildred W illiam s in
Kansas city, M O on N ovem ber
28, 1950. The family thean relo
cated to Portland, OR in 1967.
She married her first husband
M ichael M cC linton in 1970.
th ey had th re e c h ild re n to
gether, Michael Jr., Latashia and
Jerald. She later had her fourth
child Quiana in 1980. In 1984 she
remarried.
She married her present hus
band, Dee G oods and they had
tw o c h ild r e n , D ee Jr. and
N a’eem . She gave her lifeto
C hrist at an early age at M t.
Calvary C.O .G I.C. and later be
cam e a m em ber o f H ighland
A
O .C.C. G w en w as a certified
n u rsin g a s s is ta n t fo r m any
years. She w orked for a few
nursing hom es and hospitals.
Her last place o f em ploym ent
was Kaiser Hospital in Portland,
OR. She has a passion for tak
ing care o f people. In her walk
with Christ G w en taught Sun
day School, was an usher and
was also in the choir.
G w en bow led on a bowling
In Memory
Joseph Phillips, Jr., was bom in Birmingham,
A labam a on June 20, 1924, and passed away
on July 9,2009, in Portland, Oregon. He worked
for many years at Sears as a stock foreman.
He is survived by his wife Evelyn J. Phillips;
daughter, W illmette J.
Carrier; son, Joseph Phillips III; 9 grandchil-
league for 11 yrs. She also did
hair in her spare tim e. Gw en
loved music and dancing. But
after G od her fam ily was her
second love. She was the old
est o f 14 children. G w en was at
every childbirth, her sibling’s
her n ie c e ’s and n ep h e w ’s, it
w asn’t right unless G w en was
in the delivery room.. Gwen was
like 'B ig M am a’ in the family,
everyone would always go to
her for advice, help or ju st a
laugh. G wen was outgoing and
loved her fam ily and friends.
She was alw ays straight for
w ard, she n ev er b eliev ed in
‘sugar coating’ anything. If she
hurt you or even thought she
did, she was quick to ask for
forgiveness. G w en had a giv
ing heart. She would give her
dren and 12 great grandchildren.
A pubic viewing will be 4 to 7 p.m. on Thurs
day, July 16,2009, at Terry Family Funeral Home,
2337 N. W illiams Ave, Portland, OR. Funeral
services will be held 11 a.m. Friday, July 17,
2009, at Mt. Olivet Baptist Church, 8501 N.
C hautauqua Blvd., Portland, OR followed by
interm ent with military honors a, W illiamette
National Cemetery at 1 p.m.
Arrangements by Terry Family Funeral Home
las,. She loved the spending
holidays with her family. Gwen
lead a full loving and forgiving
life. She loved so many people.
Gwen preceded in death her
father, sister and two nephews.
She leaves her tw o daughters
Latashis Lewis and Quiana Wil
liams; sons M ichael McClinton
Jr., Je ra ld M c C lin to n , D ee
G oods Jr., and Na;eem Goods.
Her sisters Patricia Stricland,
Linda Isadore, Karen Williams,
L oretta Jack, K athy Lincoln,
D an n ielle B u ffo rd ; b ro th ers
Eugene Williams, Michael Will
iams, Paul W illiams, Edw ard
W illiam s, W endell W illiam s,
Tyrone W illiams and a host of
n ie c e s , n e p h e w s, c o u s in s ,
other relatives and friends.
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Max Infill Stalls Again
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lapse, the market for similar resi
dential projects has been poor.
A c c o rd in g
to
H ousingtTracker.net, the total
inventory o f condos and single
family hom es in Portland has
risen to nearly 18,000 units, up
from 8,000 in 2006. The median
price o f a hom e in the city has
d ro p p e d by o v e r 9 p e rc e n t,
which puts hom e developers in
a less-than-ideal position for a
project o f this nature.
Collier recognizes that there
is a glut o f sim ilar properties,
and said that Killingsworth Sta
tion “w ould be ready to break
ground if it weren’t for the down
market.”
T here’s also questions as to
whether or not this is the right
project at the right time..
“I think that it’s ju st another
to o l to g e n trify ,” sa id Ju lie
M etcalf-Kinney, an affordable
housing advocate and member
of the Interstate Urban Renewal
Advisory Committee-which ad
vises the PDC.
M etcalf-K inney is also un
happy about the project’s long
delays, and questions the ben
efits to the community.
“None o f it's affordable,” she
said. “T he project is n 't even
worth supporting.”
T h e c r e a tio n o f h o u s in g
aim ed at people at 30 to 50 per
cent o f median incom e would
be a better use o f the land and
money, she argues.
Calls to other mem bers of the
IURA C w eren't returned.
Jim Winkler, the president of
W inkler D evelopm ent, is still
enthusiastic about the project
Star Struck?
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an indu stry to the state that
spends m illions o f dollars and
generates jobs. But detractors
c la im th a t the sta te is sta r
struck, arguing that it’s a bad
use o f p ublic m oney d uring
hard times.
Currently film and television
producers who plan on spend
ing more than $750,000 in O r
egon are eligible to have 20 per
cent of the goods and services
they purchase in the state reim
bursed by the G overnor’s O f
fice o f Film and T elevision.
They can also get a rebate good
for 10 percent o f the wages paid
to their crew. Producers willing
to drop a m illion get 16 percent
o f wages paid back by the state.
Film producers are also eli
gible for lucrative tax credits,
w hich have been particularly
contentious.
“Some very wealthy O rego
nians are making a lot of money
off a tax break that they ought
n o t m a k e ,” sa id C h u c k
Sheketoff, the executive direc
tor o f the O regon C enter for
Public Policy.
Film producers can buy a tax
credit by paying into the O r
egon P roduction Investm ent
Fund. The tax credit is worth
$l(X )for every $90 paid into it.
So if a producer paid in $45,000
they would get $50,000 back.
The
b ig g e s t
p ro b le m
Sheketoff has with the incen
tive program is the tax credits,
which he characterizes as over
generous, and benefitting pri
marily the wealthy.
A ccording to an analysis o f
tax rec o rd s o b ta in ed by the
OCPP, three-quarters of the tax
benefits from the program go
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to people in the highest-incom e
1 percent o f households.
Sheketoff also has harsh criti
cism s fo r how g en e ro u s the
state film office has been with
the tax credit program.
The film office has the dis
cretion to determ ine how gen
erous to be with the tax credits,
and S heketoff charges that it
has been overly generous, and
is calling for an audit by the
Secretary o f State.
Vince Porter, the executive
director o f the Oregon Film O f
fice, admits that his office hasn't
given much thought to the tax
credits, but his office is consid
ering adjusting it for the first
tim e since 2(X)3, after it was
brought up during the last leg
islative session.
Porter still claim s the subsi
dies are necessary in order to
pull in film and television pro
ducers who drop big bucks. He
so ld th e le g is la tu r e on the
sw eeteners last session, which
p assed a bill e x p a n d in g the
fund from $5 m illion to $7 m il
lion.
“We try to look at it as w e're
try in g to b e n e fit O re g o n 's
ec o n o m y ," said P orter, w ho
worked for years in the film in
dustry in Los A ngeles before
com ing to Oregon. He added
that during that time no com
pany he worked for would film
in a state that d id n 't offer some
sort o f subsidy.
A c c o rd in g to a stu d y by
consulting firm Eco Northwest,
the film industry generated $709
million in 2007. Between 2005
and 2007 out-of-state spending
in the film industry more than
doubled, bringing in over $41
m illion to the state.
T h e sa m e stu d y a lso r e
despite the dour market. He an
ticipates that Killingsworth Sta
tion will eventually help snag
more investment into the neigh
borhood.
H ow ever, W inkler said he
still needs $8.5 m illio n in fi
n a n c in g to c o v e r a sc a le d -
back $14 m illion price tag, and
h a s r e c e iv e d j i t t e r y r e
sp o n s e s fro m le n d e rs w ho
have been relu ctan t to m ake a
lo a n on a n y th in g w ith the
w o rd s “ c o n d o m in iu m " o r
“resid e n tia l” attach ed to it.
A PDC report also finds that
the com m ission is at risk o f a
prolonged holding if financing
d o esn 't trickle in fast.
But W inkler and the PDC re
main undaunted.
“We see this as an opportu
nity to be a catalyst in the neigh
borhood," he said.
vealed that the film industry
brought just over $3 million into
state c o ffers, w hich d o e s n ’t
cover the $5 million in doled out
in incentives. S h ek eto ff also
argues that the study d o esn ’t
prove the incentives do an y
thing. Film pro d u cers m ight
com e to the state for the scenic-
beauty, proxim ity to L.A., and
lack o f sales tax.
“ We d o n ’t n e e d to pay
Harrison Ford to com e to O r
egon," said Sheketoff, referring
to “Crowley,” a m ovie starring
Ford slated to be filmed in the
state.
In April, Kearie Peak, a part
ner w ith E le ctric E n te rta in
m ent, testified before a le g is
lative co m m ittee co nsidering
upping the state film subsidy
that the sw eeteners offered by
O regon w as a big reason why
h e r c o m p a n y c a m e to th e
sta te to film “ L e v e ra g e ,” a
TN T dram a about a form er in
surance in v estig ato r w ho ex
acts ju s tic e on c o rp o ra tio n s
that v ictim ize people.
“ It was a very tight race; it
was a very difficult decision,”
she told legislators.
Proponents of the film subsi
dies argue that it’s not ju s, the
film industry that benefits, but
local businesses, as well.
G eoff Thom pson, the owner
o f the View Point Inn near the
Columbia Gorge, told legislators
that he saw an uptick in visi
tors after part of “Twilight" was
filmed there.
“ I'm the quintessential small
business that has capitalized on
this,” he told legislators.
Porter sold the legislature on
the incentives. It passed a bill
that increased funding to the
Oregon Production Investment
from $5m illion to over $7 m il
lion, which the governor is ex
pected to sign.
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