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By LISA K. ANDERSON
The Outlook
W
hen President John F. Ken-
nedy Jr. was assassinated
Nov. 22, 1963, the first bells in
East Multnomah County
tolled at St. Henry Catholic Church.
The church filled a few hours later for a
requiem Mass,
where Father Au-
gustine Meyer
said, “Only
through prayer,
love and charity
will we heal the
wounds.”
Today, the
church that be-
gan in January
1913 is home to at
least 1,500 fami-
lies and remains
a leader in the re-
ligious communi-
ty, with involve-
ment in numer-
ous ministries in-
cluding Zarepha-
th Pantry and St.
Vincent de Paul.
“There’s a mar-
velous core of
folks who form
the spirit of this
parish,” Father
Charles Zach
said. “It’s a very
special time to
highlight who we are.”
Sunday, Jan. 13, a 100th anniversary
Mass and open house drew 735 people, in-
cluding former priests and Archbishop
John Vlazny. The event featured a muse-
um display with decades of relics — pho-
tos, songbooks, baptism and wedding
gowns, newspaper clippings and devotion-
al items — including artifacts unearthed
from a 1988 time capsule.
“People were very taken with seeing
themselves as children — seeing the lega-
cy of the parish and how it connects to the
whole Gresham community,” Father Zach
said. “This is a church of volunteers.
There are a lot of fingers connected with
the community.
“It was important for people to see so
many returning pastors and clergy. You
really don’t see it as a work force, you see
it as family,” he said.
Early beginnings
The first St. Henry service was held
Jan. 1, 1913, above the Gresham Drug
Store at the site of the current Jazzy Ba-
gels on the northeast corner of Main Ave-
nue and Powell Boulevard, led by the new-
ly appointed Rev. Henry Bruenagel. Its
first church, on Northwest First Street,
which cost $800, was blessed Sept. 21, 1913.
A succession of additions came when
the 1,378-pound bell tower arrived in 1914,
when the sanctuary and sacristy were
added in 1915 and when the parish house
was constructed in 1918.
“I sense the same zeal and commitment
that moved your parish founders to build
and sustain a place of worship for the
community still prevails,” Vlazny, the
archbishop of Portland, wrote in a letter
to St. Henry before the 100th anniversary
event.
Al and Ben Olbrich, now St. Henry
members in their 90s, were baptized by
the original Rev. Bruenagel and are
among the members of six founding fami-
lies who remain involved in the parish to-
day.
“It’s rather impressive to look back,”
said Father Zach, the 10th pastor at St.
Henry who came to the parish in 2009
from Junction City. “In 1912, Gresham was
a town of 500. By the time we got to build-
ing our school and new church, the popu-
lation was between 5,000 and 10,000. To-
day, our population is upwards of 100,000.”
From the 90-somethings down to the in-
fants, St. Henry is now a largely multieth-
nic parish with members from Indonesia,
Samoa, Nigeria and Kenya. Father Zach
A
CENTENNIAL
CELEBRATION
By MARA STINE
The Outlook
Gresham is the proud own-
er of a missing 3-acre link in
a 2-mile stretch of largely
publicly owned land that hap-
pens to be prime salmon hab-
itat.
City councilors on Tuesday,
Jan. 15, agreed to pay $112,500
for the 2.87 acres of land at 1835
S.E. Liberty Ave. along Johnson
Creek.
The city plans to use the
property to improve the creek’s
water quality, which will im-
prove the already impressive
fish habitat there, said Steve
Fancher, Gresham’s director of
environmental services.
The property is between Ho-
gan and Reneger roads near the
Springwater Trail, and is the
missing link in a stretch of near-
ly 2 miles of property along
Johnson Creek that is almost
entirely publicly owned by
Gresham, Metro or both.
“This particular property is
significant because it helps fill a
bit of a gap,” Fancher said. “And
this particular stretch has some
of the best salmon habitat on it.”
“This is exciting,” said Matt
Clark, executive director of the
Johnson Creek Watershed
Council. The council’s water-
shed action plan 10 years ago
identified this area of the creek
as having the highest quality
salmon habitat of all of Johnson
Creek.
Volunteers in recent years
have found coho carcasses in
the creek in Gresham and near
the city’s western edge.
“We know that there are
spawning salmon being found
around this section of Johnson
Creek, so protecting it is very
important,” Clark said.
Plus, steelhead and rainbow
trout have been found in other
parts of Johnson Creek and its
tributaries, including one near
Reed College, he added.
“Salmon are using the site,
and juvenile coho salmon do use
it year-round,” Fancher said.
“So it’s providing good habitat
now. It has potential to be even
better, and it happens to be in
this 2-mile stretch of prime
salmon habitat in Gresham.”
Owning the property also
makes it easier for the city to
maintain a nearby section of the
Springwater Trail.
The creek, as creeks do, has
moved or meandered over time.
“And in a couple places it has
gotten very close to the Spring-
water Trail on this property,”
Fancher said. Any closer, and
the creek will erode soil next to
and possibly under the trail, cre-
ating a scenario in which the
trail could collapse.
“We try to identify those be-
fore they happen and do some
geo-engineering along the creek
banks to help keep the creek
from moving closer to the trail
and move it away from the trail
a bit,” Fancher said. But in order
Water quality should
improve due to purchase
City buys land
to improve creek,
fish habitat
Q
St. Henry Catholic Church rings in its 100th anniversary
St. Henry’s
10 a.m. Mass
Sunday
overflowed the
sanctuary with
generations of
church
members. The
afternoon
luncheon and
museum display
drew 735 people.
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PHOTOS:
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Archbishop John Vlazny presides over the Jan. 13 100th anniversary Mass at St. Henry. Many
former priests and clergy attended the celebration.
St. Henry’s
100
TH
ANNIVERSARY
CALENDAR
OF
EVENTS
Events held at the
church, 346 N.W. First
St., Gresham:
Q
Feb. 9 —
Valentine’s
Dance by the Knights of
Columbus
Q
Feb. 10 —
Ladies Tea
Q
March 16 —
St.
Patrick’s Corn Beef
Dinner by the Catholic
Daughters
Q
April 13 and 14 —
Catholic Daughters State
Conference
Q
May 12 —
Mother’s
Day Family Mass
Q
May 19 —
Pentecost
Sunday Ethnic Food
Potluck
Q
June 16 —
Father’s
Day Breakfast by the
Catholic Daughters
Q
July 14 —
St. Henry’s
Feast Day Mass and
Picnic, the 100th anni-
versary closing
Construction begins at View P i t I
ROBERTS AVE
Johnson
Creek
9TH ST
HOGAN RD
graphic by Josh Bradley
Newly acquired land
1835 SE Liberty Ave
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