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2011-2012 North Clackamas County Chamber of Commerce Business Directory
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A Storage Place of Clackamas.....................39
ABC Roofing Company, Inc...........................27
Adventist Health............................................45
Allstate Insurance/Sally Wolfe. .....................31
Amicus Data. ................................................50
Beemer, Smith, Munro & Co. LLP................20
Bernard’s Garage, Inc...................................21
Bob’s Red Mill Whole Grain Store. ...............18
Burns and Olson Realtors.............................19
Canby Asparagus Farms/Casa de
Tamales......................................................... 18
Cascade Eye Associates...............................46
City of Milwaukie..........................................44
Clackamas Community College....................42
Clackamas County Office of
Sustainability........................Inside Front Cover
Clackamas County Tourism &
Cultural Affairs..............................................48
Clackamas County Water Environment
Services................................................. 29, 40
Clackamas Fire District #1 - Admin
Headquarters................................................29
Clackamas Pediatric Clinic...........................47
Clackamas Review.......................................56
Columbia State Bank....................................22
Community Solutions for Clackamas
County...........................................................42
Design Correspondence. ..............................20
Diesel Web Productions................................40
Divine Frozen Yogurt.....................................18
Edwards Enterprises.....................................35
Gentle Dental..................................................3
Gladstone Family Dentistry...........................26
The Grove Restaurant and Bar.....................18
Harmony Road Music Center........................33
Higgins Signs................................................49
Honest 1 Auto Care.......................................22
Kaiser Permanente.......................................46
Kellogg Bowl.................................................23
Kirkland Union Manors.................................37
Chris Ling, Financial Services.......................28
Metropolitan Pediatrics, LLC.........................46
Milwaukie Bowl. ...........................................23
Milwaukie Sunday Farmers Market. ............19
New Seasons Market Inc.....Inside Back Cover
Northwest Primary Care................ Back Cover
Omg! Onthank Marketing Group..................20
Oregon City Acupuncture..............................20
Oregon Institute of Technology.....................43
Oregon Pediatrics Happy Valley PC..............47
Oregonians Credit Union...............................49
Pietro’s Pizza.................................................18
Pioneer Pacific College.................................38
Providence Milwaukie Hospital.......................1
Rivermark Community Credit Union.............48
Royalton Place..............................................38
Stafford Smiles.............................................26
Stone Creek Golf Course. .............................51
Sweet Tomatoes...........................................18
Tim’s Automotive, Inc...................................22
To Your Home from Willamette View. ..........47
Waste Management of Oregon. ...................43
Westmoreland’s Union Manor......................37
Willamette View............................................50
Advertiser Index
It may be a little early to
be thinking about back to
school, but when students
return to Ogden Middle
ll, they will
and planting roses, a vine
maple and other greenery.
Small planter boxes were
filled with colorful annuals,
and artfully placed boulders
completed the handsome
look of the small plot near
the flagpole.
The Kiwanians chose to
said member
schools are in trouble
because of budget cuts, and
members felt that cleaning
up the area would “im-
prove the kids’ pride in the
school,”Wilfong added.
Chantell Bunker, who,
with her husband Steve, is a
new member of the Kiwanis
Club of Oregon City, said
the board allotted $300 for
they then
Making a difference,
one club at a time
Milwaukie's City Coun-
nimously passed a
his
the increase.
“It's frustrating that it
ends up stemming from
Metro and it all goes
downhill,” said Mayor Jer-
emy Ferguson.
going into effect
-
54-square-foot commercial
bin.
The city might have
had to adopt a larger rate
increase next year to
make up for falling short
of a mandated minimum
rate of return for garbage
es. Municipal and
rote,“We
have to let our com-
missioners know
that this is a project
that is important
to Oregon City and
we expect them to
get it done. If they
don’t, we will work
to remove them
from office. It is that
simple. If we have
commissioners who
won’t work for what the
majority of this community
wants, then we don’t want
them as our leaders.”
This past week, Fowler
noted his views haven't
changed. He said he plans
to support the recall effort,
not only for Nicita's opposi-
tion to the landfill-topping
shopping center, which de-
inesses
and they don't
support efforts to
bring 1,000 jobs
into town, it wastes
taxpayer money.”
Nicita responded
by pointing out he
campaigned and
won his 2008 elec-
tion with a public
vote on urban renewal
and criticism of The Rivers
project as two of his major
campaign promises.
“I've always been a very
rigorous observer and ana-
lyst of The Rivers,” he said.
Nicita argued that he's
always aimed to protect
taxpayers' interests as a
commissioner, and the
er-
formance issues that go
beyond the Rivers — it's
more of an attitude,” Fowler
said.“Ideally commissioners
would say, 'We're going to
be putting conditions on
a development agreement
that are going to be tough,
but we got to get this right,
and at the end of the day
we really want to see this
happen.'”
Petitioner Rex Parks Jr.
did not respond to tele-
phone or email requests for
comment last week. Both
Fowler and Nicita claimed
they have no previous ac-
quaintance with Parks.
Klenia Moscoso (right), an eighth-grader at Rowe Middle School in Milwaukie, helps a
colleague ground a wire so they can safely install parts inside a personal computer. They
were among dozens of kids ages 10-17 taking part in the Geek Squad Summer Academy
July 19-20 sponsored by North Clackamas School District and Metropolitan Family
Service at Lot Whitcomb Elementary School. Participants learned about the latest
technology through four courses: PC Hardware, Digital Video, Digital Photography and
Digital Music. For more information on the Geek Squad and on the academy, visit
http://geeksquadacademy.com or call 503-353-5672.
leading this
great project
in every way
they can.”
Milwaukie City Council
approves garbage hike
Fee increase goes into effect Monday
The federal government dealt a blow last week to local
politicians andWillamette Falls sport fishing by revoking
Oregon's authorization to kill California sea lions.
Advocates fro Oregon City ndWest Linn had hoped
that legal trapping and euthanizing of sea lions would
spread from Bonneville, but the National Marine Fisheries
Service has at least delayed killing of sea lions in Clackamas
County following lawsuits filed by the Humane Society of
the United States and theWild Fish Conservancy.
Rep. Dave Hunt (D-Gladstone) expects the federal agency
will approve a renewed Oregon
Department of Fish andWildlife
application to euthanize sea lions
in time for the 2012 fishing season.
During the next two seasons,
ODFW will continue nonlethal
hazing of sea lions at Willamette
Falls, but Hunt and his supporters
see legal hurdles at Bonneville as
preliminary to fulfilling Clackamas
County interests.
Meanwhile, wildlife protection
groups celebrated a new lease on
life for hundreds of sea lions who
eat primarily endangered native
salmon and other fish. Environ-
mentalists won a previous appeal
by pointing out that sea lions eat
4.2 percent of adult salmon and
steelhead runs, while fishing ac-
Blaming sea lions is just a “distraction” from more politi-
cally difficult ways to protect salmon, according to Kurt
Beardslee, executive director of Wild Fish Conservancy, who
wants a focus on dam operations, over-harvesting, hatchery
practices and stocking non-native fish.
“Addressing a single one of these pervasive problems
would help salmon far more than killing sea lions at Bonn-
eville,” Beardslee said.
Hunt pointed to millions of dollars spent on hatchery and
fish-ladder technologies that would be wasted if sea lions
were ignored.
“Again, it's not a distraction at all, and there are and will
continue to be very aggressive measures taken to improve
hatcheries
and dams,”
Hunt said.
“My ap-
proach, and
most reason-
able people's
approach, is
to focus on
everything:
fisheries, hy-
dro and these
(sea lion)
predators.”
HSUS of-
ficials point
out sea lions
have been
part of Ore-
gon's natural
battle: Feds, 1; state, 0
Hunt mulls political future
Dave Hunt is mulling whether to run for re-election in Or-
egon House District 40. He's also considering a challenge to
Charlotte Lehan as chair of the Board of County Commissioners
or a run for state labor commissioner.
Hunt has represented Gladstone's district at
the state level since 2003. He's led his party
and served as House Majority Leader but was
recently replaced by Tina Kotek (D-Portland).
Labor Commissioner Brad Avakian opened up
his position in April by launching a run for Or-
egon Congressman DavidWu's seat in Congress.
Hu t said he doesn't expect any other pos-
sibilities for his political future and joked that
he could certainly rule out moving toWashington County to
submit y t another bid for Wu's seat.
Don’t call it
‘Blue Heron’
It's official: Don’t refer to the 22 acres of bankrupt
paper mill property in Oregon City as “Blue Heron.”The
real-estate bonanza will now be known as the “Willa-
mette Falls opportunity” by City Manager David Frasher
as he works with a bankruptcy trustee's marketing
team.
At a commission meeting last month, Mayor Doug
Neeley joked that he would hit a buzzer anytime he
heard a reference to Blue Heron, and Frasher offered
him a can of silly string to help enforce the language.
Joking aside, the property has become serious
business for Oregon City,West Linn and surrounding
Clackamas County, as government agencies prepare for
redevelopment of the site according their various goals
of public access, economic development and taking
advantage of natural resources.
“We've got to dream big, because you can always win-
now it down, and in my mind it’s one of the premiere
development sites in North America,” Frasher said.“I get
really compelled by that site because there are so many
years of American and Native American history — it’s
the American dream of interplay between industry and
Willamette River separates
views of bankrupt mill site