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2 Portrait: SMALL BUSINESS — BIG IMPACT * March 17, 2011

PUBLISHER Steve Clark

ASSOCIATE PUBLISHERS Kevin Hohnbaum, Christine Moore

EDITOR Mikel Kelly

EDITORIAL CONTRIBUTORS

Kate Chester, Scott Keith, Mikel Kelly, Jessie Kirk, Christina Lent, Glennis McNeal, Polina Olsen, Gail Park, Ray Pitz, Geoff Pursinger, Rebecca Ragain, Barb Randall, Barbara Sherman, NancyTownsley and AngelaWebber.

PHOTOGRAPHY

Polina Olsen, Gail Park, Jaime Valdez and Vern Uyetake

PAGE DESIGN Mikel Kelly

COVER DESIGN Pete Vogel

CREATIVE SERVICES MANAGER Cheryl DuVal

CREATIVE SERVICES ASSISTANT MANAGERS Chris Fowler Gail Park

DIGITAL COORDINATOR Chris Fowler

DIGITAL PREPRESS SPECIALIST Valerie Clarke

ADVERTISING DESIGNERS

Dan Adams, Valerie Clarke, Cheryl Douglass, Cheryl DuVal, Mirena Oberg, Gail Park, Kathleen Riehl, Debra Kirk Rogers, Jonah Schrogin, KathleenWelsh

ADVERTISING MANAGER Christine Moore

ADVERTISING SALES

Lanette Bernards, Wendy Beyer, Sally Brallier, Deanie Bush, Patty Darney, Ralph Fuccillo,

Patty Mullen, Irene Pettengill, Claudia Stewart, Jill Weisensee

ADVERTISING ASSISTANTS

Michael Beaird, Beth Caldwell, Mary Maleta, Michael O’Shaughnessy

ONTHE COVER

Small business operators come in all sizes and shapes, as seen in this sample, which includes forestor Scott Ferguson of Raleigh Hills (cen-ter), who is surrounded by (clockwise, from upper right) Ben Chang, owner of the

Beaverton Seafood Market, Sherwood photog-rapher Angela Smith and Sharon Sands, who operatesTigardWine Crafters with her husband Joe.Times photographer Jaime Valdez took all of the pictures.

HOWTO GET COPIES

This publication appeared in the March 17, 2011,

Beaverton ValleyTimes and TheTimes serving Tigard,Tualatin and Sherwood. Copies can be obtained at theTimes office, 6605 S.E. Lake Road, Portland 97222, or by calling 503-620-9797.

A salute

to small business

All businesses start out small (and don’t try to confuse us with talk of mergers and takeovers, because whatever is being merged or taken over was once small). Even theTeks and Nikes and Intels began in somebody’s garage or at a kitchen table. Often it involves a family that’s committed to a common vision, but there is always an idea, a glimmer in somebody’s eye that, given some financial backing, a good plan and some hard work might eventually turn into something people want to spend their money on. In this edition of Portrait, we offer a few dozen stories about local busi-nesses that illustrate this. Some have got-ten big, some continue to be tiny.That’s not important.The key thing, in this day and age, is that they survive. And for that, we should be grateful. Enjoy.

—Mikel Kelly