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February 17, 2016 Page 7 Black History Month Showdogs is a full service salon. We do baths, all over hair cuts, tooth brushing, nail trims, soft claws, lea treatments, mud baths, and ear cleaning. We also have health care and grooming products to keep your pet clean in between visits. Show Dogs Grooming Salon & Boutique 926 N. Lombard Portland, OR 97217 503-283-1177 Tuesday-Saturday 9am-7pm Monday 10am-4pm There’s a proposal to move Kevin J. Duckworth Memorial Dock located on the Eastbank Esplanade, downtown, to another site downstream at Swan Island. Public comments on the plan are now being taken. Duckworth Dock May Move City department wants out of dock upkeep by m iChAel l eighton p ortlAnd o bserver editor The downtown core may be losing its public dock on the Willamette River with a proposal to move it to Swan Island. The Oregon State Marine Board is soliciting public comment on the proposed re- location of the Kevin J. Duck- worth Memorial Dock from its current location on the East- bank Esplanade, upstream of the Steel Bridge. The dock was dedicated as a memorial for Kevin Duck- worth after his death from heart failure in 2008. The be- loved former Portland Trail Blazer was fan favorite who loved to boat and ish for salmon in the downtown core. It was constructed a few years earlier as part of the Oregon Convention Center as a short term and day-use facility for recreational boaters. Manage- ment of the dock was by Port- land’s Department of Trans- portation. Now PDOT is facilitating a request by Daimler Corpora- tion to move the dock to a gre- enway along the Willamette River near where the company plans to build a new headquar- ters on Swan Island, according to John Brady, PBOT commu- nications director. Brandy says the city’s trans- portation department doesn’t want to be in the dock business, and under the proposal, main- tenance and security would be transferred to Portland Parks and Recreation at the new site. Upkeep could eventually be assumed by Daimler, the Swan Island truck maker, depending on future negotiations, but the dock would still be maintained for public use, Brady said. The proposed new location would connect to the North Portland Willamette Green- way trail about 2.75 miles downstream from its current location. The site would in- clude a 200 foot slow-no wake zone and allow short-term overnight and day use tie-up for recreational boaters, ofi- cial said. Daimler is building its wa- terfront headquarters on Swan Island, a $150 million project that the German-owned com- pany says will result in 400 new, high-wage, white-collar jobs. It will receive $20 mil- lion in public support for the project. The Marine Board will host a public meeting on the dock moving proposal on Tues- day, Feb. 23 from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Portland Build- ing, Room C, 1120 S.W. Fifth Ave. to receive oral and writ- ten comments from interested parties. A submission deadline for written comment is also on Tuesday, Feb. 23 at 8 p.m. You can email Janine.belle- que@state.or.us or mail your correspondence to Janine Belleque, Boating Facili- ties Manager, 435 Commer- cial Street NE, Suite 400, P.O. Box 14145, Salem, OR 97309-5056. Yo dawg is gonna look like a show dawg and your kitty will be pretty.
