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Saturday, June 20, 2015
A look at Tualatin River’s wild side
Hunt begins for bikes hidden at
Seven Wonders of Oregon
If you happen upon a green mountain bike on Mount
Hood’s trail system this weekend, you better grab it before
the next person does.
In its second year, Travel Oregon’s Seven Wonders
tourism campaign is hiding seven bikes at each of the state’s
wonders: Mount Hood, Smith Rock, the Painted Hills, the
Wallowas, the Columbia River Gorge, the Oregon Coast and
Crater Lake.
Each bike is valued at about $10,000, according to event
organizers.
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the bikes on Mount Hood’s Sand Ridge Trail System. The
single-speed mountain bike with a suspension form and
a drop seat post was custom made by Fred Cuthbert of
Wolfhound Cycles in Talent.
“I really hope it’s the right size for them, and I hope it’s
someone that will use it regularly and enjoy,” said Cuthbert.
“It’s meant to be up for anything, hopefully it’ll be very
versatile.”
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for the early morning. Travel Oregon spokesperson Judiaann
Woo said the bike will be hidden before tomorrow’s sunrise.
Despite its small town location, Wolfhound has built
bikes for people all over the world, even as far as Norway
and Austria.
The others will be hidden at the other six wonders of
Oregon over the next two months.
First U.S. vinyl record press in years
opens in Oregon
Three entrepreneurs have opened the newest record press
in the United States — and it’s just outside Portland.
The founders of the start-up Cascade Record Pressing are
all huge music fans with a big interest in vinyl. The music
industry’s demand for vinyl pressings has exploded over the
past few years. But the infrastructure to make new record
pressing machines was mothballed decades ago, when LPs
took a back seat to cassettes and then, CDs. Vinyl records are
now selling by the millions again.
Big record companies like Sony and Warner Brothers
have returned to the vinyl game, swamping a limited circle
of record-pressing plants with large orders.
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maintain them, Adam Gonsalves, Mark Rainey and Steve
Lanning have started taking orders at an industrial park in
Milwaukie.
They say they want to supply small- to mid-sized record
labels. Those companies have seen their orders sidelined as
the giants have re-entered the market.
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Northwest since Seattle’s Morrison Records stopped
production.
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Two motorcyclists
crash, one killed
BURNS (AP) — Oregon
State Police say a 71-year-old
California motorcyclist
has died in Eastern Oregon
after colliding with another
motorcycle apparently being
driven by his traveling
companions.
Lt. Bill Fugate said a
motorcycle operated by
Steven Gale of Montara,
California, collided Thursday
afternoon with the rear
of another motorcycle on
U.S. Highway 20 near
Burns, Oregon. The second
motorcycle, operated by
65-year-old Robert Resch of
Half Moon Bay, California,
crashed on the highway.
Resch and his passenger,
54-year-old Janet Kluzik of
Half Moon Bay, were both
ejected.
Police say that after
the initial crash, Gale’s
motorcycle veered head-on
into the path of a pickup
truck. Gale died at the scene.
Resch suffered minor
injuries. His passenger was
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serious injuries.
Fugate says preliminary
information indicates the
two motorcycles had been
traveling together and got
separated. He says it appears
Gale was traveling at a
high rate of speed when he
collided with Resch, who had
just pulled out of a rest area.
Warm water leads
to early spring
chinook deaths
SALEM (AP) — State
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warm water in the Northwest
for unusually high numbers
of chinook salmon carcasses
found in the Willamette,
Clackamas and Santiam
rivers.
The Statesman Journal
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say the rivers and some
tributaries are warmer than
the 60 degrees, at which
the species becomes more
susceptible to disease, injury
and stress.
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says salmon dying from
warm water before they can
spawn increases concern
for the species. Most spring
chinook fall off in the fall.
The warmer waters
have not stopped one of the
strongest chinook runs this
year into the Willamette
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counting station reported
about 9,000 more chinook
passing upstream than the
50-year average of 41,000.
Man gets 7 years
for giving cash to
suicide bomber
By DANA TIMS
The Oregonian
CHERRY GROVE — The Tualatin
River is the primary drinking water
source for hundreds of thousands of
Washington County residents. By
late summer every year, however, it’s
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Along some stretches, the river
drops only about an inch per mile,
giving it the look and feel of a warm,
dark soup. Hardly a body of water that
looks capable of slaking the thirst of
the fastest-growing county in the state.
By contrast, the upper reaches of the
Tualatin are something else entirely,
although most people would never
realize that because entry to those
mountainous stretches is restricted.
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sioners, accompanied by a dozen
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got a rare look at the upper Tualatin
recently and came away with renewed
awe for a river whose upper portion
could not be more different from the
sluggish, mile-per-hour slough that
most associate with the Tualatin.
“There are a lot of people who rely
on this little stream,” Commissioner
Greg Malinowski said. “It’s such a
precious resource.”
Behind him, a torrent of swirling
whitewater cascaded over the naturally
formed basaltic spillway of seldom-
seen Haines Falls. The water crashes
into a deep pool below before heading
downstream for a similar tumble over
Upper Lee Falls.
It’s also here that efforts were
underway more than a century ago to
create power for the county’s early 20th
Century residents. Remnants, partially
buried in riverside soils, still exist of
the metal boiler built near the top of
Haines Falls. Water taken from the falls
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The steam, in turn, ran a generator that
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In a June 9 photo, basaltic outcropping forms seldom-seen Upper Lee
Falls not far from the headwaters of the Tualatin River. The river, slow
and plodding in its downstream areas, is fast-flowing in the mountain-
ous area of its upper reaches.
produced electricity, which ran through
wires to the burgeoning valley below.
“It was one of Oregon’s earlier
long-distance electrical transmission
lines,” said Tom VanderPlaat, Clean
Water Services’ water supply manager.
“Quite a marvel of its day.”
Nearby, at the top of a small hill
ringing a placid, three-acre lake, an
18-inch-wide pipe sucks water that
is then conveyed by pipe to a nearby
treatment facility. It is one of the city
of Hillsboro’s two main drinking-water
intake pipes.
“It’s an impressive system they have
up here,” Commissioner Andy Duyck
said, peering down into the intake.
“You really have to see it to understand
how impressive the whole system is.”
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Fernhill Wetlands in Forest Grove,
where the planting of more than
750,000 native shrubs, plants and trees
over the past year is furthering efforts
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River water.
More than 1 million gallons of
partially treated water daily is pumped
out onto the wetlands from pipes
leading to Clean Water Services’ Rock
Creek treatment facility in Hillsboro.
Locals refer to the concrete structure
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champagne bubbler.”
The native plants now taking root
here will, in turn, mature to the point
that they will eventually send millions
of seeds coursing into the downstream
reaches of the Tualatin.
“That this area will act as a native
seed bank is a pretty stunning thought,”
Commissioner Dick Schouten said.
“That, all by itself, is quite a takeaway
from this trip.”
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After late fees and collection costs,
the state says Witter still owes $9,669
for 36 unpaid tickets, putting him
PORTLAND — Two years ago, on the short list of Portland’s worst
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Devin Witter had racked up so many
parking tickets that the city towed his manager who owes $12,565 and a
road-worn Hyundai Accent from a Maserati owner with a $11,539 tab.
But even if those debts were paid
downtown street.
When Witter went to pick up his off tomorrow, they would barely make
car, the attendant told him he could a dent in $32.4 million in unpaid
get it back, but only if he paid off his tickets owed to a City Hall reluctant
citations. “The car wasn’t even worth to get more aggressive with parking
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As the city struggles to dig up
Witter said. “So I just left it there,
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off the tickets and that would be that.” to huge regional commitments like
the new Sellwood Bridge, more than
That wasn’t that.
By JOSEPH ROSE
The Oregonian
190,500 parking citations from the past
10 years are still listed as unpaid.
The dilemma isn’t unique to Port-
land. But the city’s approach to getting
repeat offenders to pay up is decidedly
less draconian than other large U.S.
cities.
Chris Warner, chief of staff for Port-
land Commissioner Steve Novick, who
oversees the Bureau of Transportation,
said there have been some discussions
about exploring new ways to go after
parking revenue that’s owed.
“But we don’t really have the
resources to go there and collect it on
our own,” Warner told The Oregonian.
“This is something we should probably
be getting better at.”
PORTLAND (AP) — A
former Portland city worker
who provided money to a
terrorist who carried out a
deadly suicide bombing in
Pakistan has been sentenced
to seven years and three
months in prison.
Reaz Khan pleaded guilty
in February to being an
accessory after the fact to
the 2009 bombing that killed
about 30 people and injured
an additional 300.
Prosecutors say Khan
arranged for Ali Jaleel to
receive $2,450 before Jaleel
participated in the attack. He
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and advice to Jaleel’s wives
after the bombing.
Khan did not speak at
Friday’s sentencing before
U.S. District Judge Michael
Mosman.
Mosman said the
sentencing presented a
challenge because the
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Khan’s knowledge of what
Jaleel was planning was
murky.
Suit asks insurance
for disabled
homeowners with
pit bulls
PORTLAND (AP) — A
federal court lawsuit in
Oregon has raised a new
question in the long-running
argument over pit bulls:
Should an insurance
company be able to deny
homeowner coverage to a
disabled person who has one
for a service dog?
The lawsuit from the Fair
Housing Council of Oregon
says undercover testers
called Travelers insurance
and a Portland agency four
times last year and couldn’t
get price quotes after saying
they were disabled and
used pit bulls for assistance
animals.
The lawsuit says that
violates the federal Fair
Housing Act. A lawyer
for the organization says
insurers can deny coverage
if they can show a particular
dog’s history of aggression
demonstrates a threat, but
they can’t discriminate
against all pit bulls.
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