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INSIDE Portland’s
Music Community
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Musicians Rally
for Cherished
Friend Fighting
Leukemia
Last Christmas, longtime
Portland music scene veteran
Tony Hilsmeier received an un-
welcome surprise.
At 54, the 15-year employee
of Serratto restaurant on North-
west 21st Avenue (where custom-
ers' children know him as "Uncle
Tony") had just purchased his first
house. As he packed up the rent-
al apartment he'd called home for
25 years, he noticed a swelling
in his feet that didn't seem right.
An emergency room visit turned
into an extended stay at Oregon
Health & Science University’s
(OHSU) Knight Cancer Institute.
Before Hilsmeier had unpacked a
single box at his new Cully neigh-
borhood fixer-upper, he was diag-
nosed with Acute Myeloid Leuke-
mia (AML), one of the deadliest
forms of blood cancer affecting
bone marrow.
After several rounds of che-
motherapy, in June 2023 Hils-
meier received a potentially
life-saving bone marrow trans-
plant. He continues to receive in-
fusions from his OHSU medical
team multiple times each week.
“This cancer fight for my life
has taken me to some dark plac-
Doctor at ‘The Knight Cancer Institute’ and Tony Hilsmeier
es, but I believe in miracles,” said
Hilsmeier. “I keep myself positive
with the help of my incredible
medical team at OHSU and the
love and support of my friends,
loved ones and community.”
Hilsmeier has the strength
of the Portland music commu-
nity in his corner. His family
of friends, bandmates and col-
leagues have begun to raise
the funds needed to cover his
mortgage, medical and life ex-
penses thus far. However, as
he continues to recover from
his transplant and fight for his
life, Hilsmeier needs addition-
al financial support. His health
and ongoing hospital stays have
left him unable to work since
December 2023. A GoFundMe
for Hilsmeier has been set up.
Please consider contributing so
Hilsmeier can focus his full en-
ergies on fighting his leukemia.
Hilsmeier has been a loy-
al supporter of local music for
three decades, and is the found-
ing singer, songwriter and gui-
tarist for Portland rock band Go
Fever, among many other musi-
cal collaborations.
Blazer’s G League Head Coach!
Former
assistant coach
returns home
Find Progressive News at
The Portland G League team,
the official NBA G League affiliate
of the Portland Trail Blazers, has
announced Jim Moran as the fran-
chise’s first head coach.
Moran returns to the Pacific
Northwest as the head coach of the
Portland G League team after he be-
gan his NBA coaching career with
the Portland Trail Blazers in 2014-
15, where he first served as the
team’s associate video coordinator.
Moran was promoted to an assistant
coach in 2015 and served in the role
through the 2020-21 season.
Most recently, Moran spent the
past two seasons (2021-23) as an as-
sistant coach for the Detroit Pistons.
His coaching career started in 2013
Trail Blazers face the Indiana Pacers on October 29, 2018. Bruce
Ely / Trail Blazers
as a player development coach with with 2,060 points, 802 rebounds and
the Maine Red Claws of the then 321 assists.
NBA Development League.
A native of Syosset, NY, Moran
Moran played his entire profes- played collegiately at William &
sional career with CB Gran Canaria Mary where he was named to the
in the Spanish ACB League from All-Colonial Athletic Association
2001-11. He was the first player to Team in both his junior and senior
have his jersey number retired by seasons. He also played for the Irish
the club, and he finished his career Men’s National Team from 2001-06.