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2013 CRAWFISH FESTIVAL
Thursday, August 8, 2013
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Soaring to the series
Tualatin City claims the District 4 crown
— See Sports, A14
Reaching for the sky
Tualatin stunt pilot makes 15th air show
appearance
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Police Log
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B2
Religion
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Clara Johansen,
10, of Durham,
pets Nikki, a
235-pound
Siberian tiger at
the Oregon Zoo.
The zoo offers
blind and
visually impaired
students the
chance to feel
some of the
zoo’s most
exotic animals
while they are
anesthetized
during medical
procedures.
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ions and tigers and
bears, oh my!
That’s what you’ll
find at the Oregon Zoo
on any given day this summer.
But for girls like 10-year-old
Clara Johansen, the zoo isn’t
anything to get excited about.
Johansen, a fifth-grader at
Durham Elementary School,
has a rare genetic disease
known as Leber’s congenital
amaurosis. With a visual acuity
of 20/400, she is twice the
threshold to be considered le-
gally blind.
For her, unless the animals
are near the glass, it’s difficult
to make out their shapes.
But that wasn’t the case last
week, when she and her mom
got an up close and personal
encounter with a 235-pound Si-
berian tiger.
On July 16, the zoo opened its
doors to a dozen blind and visu-
ally impaired children for an
experience few have ever had:
The chance to pet Nikki, one of
the largest cats in the world.
The tiger was brought in to
the zoo’s veterinary medical
center as part of her annual
check up. She was anesthetized
so veterinarians could clean
her teeth and take blood sam-
ples.
While the big cat slept, stu-
dents were able to feel her long,
sharp claws and teeth, run their
hands across her rough,
scratchy tongue, listen to its
heartbeat and pet her thick fur.
“It’s not soft, like you would
think it would be,” Johansen
said. “It’s super coarse hair.”
Many in the group were com-
pletely blind, and this was their
first chance to feel what a tiger
looks like, said Lisa McCo-
nachie, program administrator
for blind and visually impaired
services at Columbia Regional
Program, which assists local
school district in educating stu-
dents with special needs.
“Touch is such an important
sense for these kids,” she said.
Blind students encounter tiger
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New Seasons Market provided a rendering of its newest location in the Nyberg Rivers development. The
market is slated to open in fall 2014.
By SAUNDRA SORENSON
The Times
New Seasons Market confirmed Tuesday
that it would open a store in Tualatin.
The announcement came the day after Center-
Cal Properties presented its master plan for its
Nyberg River development to the City Council for
review. InAugust, CenterCal signed a 75-year lease
on themore than 38-acre parcel, with about 307,000
square feet zoned for retail and restaurant space,
and nearly nine acres set aside as landscape area.
New Seasons leaders said the company could
open a more than 33,000-square-foot location on
Nyberg Road as early as fall 2014, and expects to
offer 150 new full- and part-time positions in the
store.
The company also pledged 10 percent of its net
earnings to community nonprofit organizations
focused on promoting public education and sus-
tainability, as well as to organizations that fight
hunger.
A development plan submitted to the city shows
plans for an approximately 30,000-square-foot new
building between the structure earmarked as a Ca-
Nyberg gets New Seasons
Market claims new location in
Nyberg Rivers development
TUALATIN DEVELOPMENT
See NEW SEASONS / Page A8
Committee moves
ahead with plans
to potentially bring
light rail to town
Corridor
plan
chugs
along
By GEOFF PURSINGER
The Times
With a unanimous vote
Monday morning, plans that
could bring a MAX light-rail
line to Tigard moved one
step closer.
Meeting in front of a large
crowd at the Tigard Public Li-
brary, the 14 members of Met-
ro’s Southwest Corridor Plan
steering committee approved a
plan they had been discussing
for the past
two years.
M e m b e r s
a g r e e d
t o
study high-ca-
pacity transit
in Southwest
Portland and
into Tigard
and, eventual-
ly, Tualatin.
Those plans
could mean ei-
t h e r
MAX
l ight-rai l or
bus rapid tran-
sit would move
into the area
over the next
several years.
The decision
was anything
but unexpect-
ed. Members
of the steering
c o m m i t t e e
have been dis-
cussing the is-
s u e
f o r
months, and
steering com-
mittee mem-
bers were ex-
pected to con-
tinue studying both light rail
and bus rapid transit as possi-
ble options.
The committee is comprised
of mayors from Tigard, Tuala-
tin, Sherwood, Durham, King
City, Beaverton, Lake Oswego
and Portland, as well officials
from TriMet, Metro, Oregon
Department of Transportation
and Washington and Mult-
MCFARLANE
By SAUNDRA SORENSON
The Times
It’s fair to say the grand mar-
shal of this year’s Tualatin Craw-
fish Festival is a somewhat reluc-
tant figurehead.
But who better to lead the city’s
centennial year celebrations than
Loyce Martinazzi, a prolific local his-
torian with family roots going back
several generations in the region?
Martinazzi literally wrote the book
on Tualatin. With co-author Karen
Lafky Nygaard, she chronicled Tual-
atin’s origin story, tracing the narra-
tive back to the Oregon Trail era and
compiling the stories of the city’s
founding families, whose names can
be found scattered around Tualatin
on street signs, in “Tualatin...from
the Beginning.”
And Martinazzi has done her part
to mark the city’s 100-year anniver-
Martinazzi to lead Crawfish Festival Parade
Loyce Martinazzi
(fourth from
left) was given
the Chamber of
Commerce’s
Spirit of Tualatin
award in April.
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Q
Local
historian
and lifelong
resident will
serve as
grand
marshal
STORY BY
GEOFF PURSINGER
Q
Oregon Zoo opens its doors to visually impaired students
DIRKSEN
HALES
See CORRIDOR / Page A6
See MARSHAL / Page A7
See ZOO / Page A6
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