Former Tualatin Historical Society (THS) president Jack Broome, 97, died June 17 after colon cancer surgery a few days before. Jack left his mark on Tualatin in many ways. His architectural firm designed Meridian Park Hospital in the early 1970s. The City called on him to help create its first urban renewal master plan. When Jack married Althea Pratt and joined her at Sweek House, his architectural skills turned to historic preservation as he worked to restore the 1858 building where Althea still lives with caregivers.
Althea and Jack together founded the Wetlands Conservancy out of concern for the wetlands adjacent to their property and around the city. The Conservancy is now working to restore and maintain wetlands all around Oregon.
For THS, Jack’s finest legacy was guiding us through the design and approval process for restoration of the old Methodist Church as Tualatin Heritage Center. Until leaving Sweek House became more difficult, Jack enjoyed sharing memories and attending programs at the Center. He first suggested the Society’s scholarship program which has helped Tualatin High School seniors take their next steps in lifelong learning. No services are planned, but donations to the THS scholarship fund would be appropriate.
I was in my own world, trimming busily with my shears against the bright red new growth of Eugenia. These plants were supposed to be in a razor-sharp spiral but had instead grown the plants’ version of long hair and beards. This, despite them being front and center in the nursery and along a path I walk on a dozen times in a day.
I had to shake my head in my current quest for mindfulness. These plants had quite literally, grown in front of me.
But it was Bill’s voice across the nursery that brought me back to reality. I smiled instantly when I heard him because he’s a fairly loud talker but also because he’s funny.
“That’s just the thing with you!” I heard him talking to Ryan. “You’re always so happy to take my credit card and any other money I might have. If I had a real question, I’d know you’d hesitate. If I offer my credit card? Not a second of hesitation from you.”
I snickered under my breath. Bill was a short, stout man with a round face and eyes that gave away instantly his underlying mischievousness. I had to double-check on Ryan, though. We get serious questions from gardeners of all personalities and I wanted to be sure he knew what he was up against.
Like many things that come up on my radar, it was a wasted worry. I could tell by Ryan’s grin that he too was enjoying time with Bill.
I instinctively scanned the nursery, however, looking for Bill’s wife, Karen. Over the years, I noticed while the pair always came in together, they shopped for their garden quite separately. It interested me because often in a day I’d find myself in-between spouses, attempting to hear both sides and often translating separate wants and needs into some sort of common agreed-upon plant pick. Never with Bill and Karen, however.
They individually had their garden preferences and quite happily chose and picked on their own. Because they knew what they liked (and what they didn’t), they were both a joy to help. I initially thought this “separateness” was some sort of a learned line of demarcation of battle that happens in years of marriage. But for Bill and Karen, it just wasn’t so.
I’ve quietly witnessed them meeting at the checkout, showing each other their plant finds. They would ask each other questions and genuinely compliment each other on their picks. If I hadn’t known better, I’d thought they were at the beginning stages of dating.
And almost always, they’d end in a laugh (or chuckle) as Bill discovered something humorous in the moment.
On this occasion, though, the pair’s nursery reunion was abruptly interrupted. Ryan, who’s particular strength is paying close attention to detail, had seriously overcharged Bill. I could see the concern on Ryan’s face as he tried to explain.
“You overcharged me for four dollars?” I heard Bill loudly exclaim. There was a cavernous pause as he looked squarely at Ryan.
I stopped my pruning.
“Did you hear that, honey?” He suddenly turned to Karen. “Ryan here has left me with four dollars!” He riffed. “I can take you out to lunch! Today we can go anywhere you like!”
Ryan and I had to laugh.
Later, we watched Bill and Karen leave, each happily carrying their individual boxes of plants. Ryan had a smile on his face as he gave an extra wave. “Funny guy,” he said.
For me, Bill, as well as Karen, managed to lighten our mood. They seemed well suited for each other; independently strong, allowing plenty of room for the other to grow. They reminded me of two complementary plants growing well together in the garden.
And, in a way, when the world is so uncertain and seemingly a bit out of control, it was refreshing to have people who were genuinely uplifting.
As for Bill, his natural humor gave us a bit of pure cheer. His energy was invigorating as a summer breeze and, in this uncertain time, left us perhaps with a better sense of control. Also, I’m most sure his effect in our nursery wasn’t his only place, and we weren’t his only people.
Though for that day and most any other day, I’m appreciative of him.
At the Business Recovery Centers for the South Metro region of Washington County, I mentor business owners on how to become more profitable.
Whether I’m helping a business owner land contracts with the government or guiding a restaurant through a new marketing campaign, all of my work is confidential and free. Yes! Since the BRC was funded with your tax dollars through the CARES Act, I might be the first time you’ve seen your tax dollars at work!
When I work with artists and photographers, I show them how they can make money over and over from one piece of art. No, I am not suggesting that the artist surreptitiously slinks through a slightly open window, abscond with the painting recently sold to Ms. X and resell it to Ms. Y. Instead, artists, graphic designers and photographers can license their work and get paid for that same piece of artwork over and over again.
If you are an artist or photographer, you have copyright to your work.
“Copyright protection exists from the moment a work is created in a fixed, tangible form of expression. The copyright immediately becomes the property of the author who created the work. Only the author, or those deriving their rights through the author, can rightfully claim copyright” – www.copyright.com/Services/copyrightoncampus/basics/law.html.
There are two types of copyright:
“Poor man’s copyright” is yours after you complete your work of art. This is not defensible in court.
Official copyright is granted by the U.S. Copyright Office. You can apply on their website: eco.copyright.gov/eService_enu.
Official copyright is defensible in court and starts at $35. This how the heirs of Marvin Gaye won $7.4 million from Pharrell Williams and Robin Thicke.
Now that you have copyright, you can license your art for reproduction and earn money from your art.
OK, I might have lost you at the first turn. Let me back up but not over the roses next to the driveway.
In Oregon, you can take a test and get a license to drive. This means the state of Oregon is giving you permission to drive on its roads hither, thither and yon. (Personally, I really like yon…)
When you license a piece of your art to a clothing manufacturer, you are giving them permission to use your art on a tee shirt or a hat. (Hint: you need to negotiate limited rights which means they can only use your art on Product A or Product B. If you give the company an unlimited license, the company may use your image on a variety of products.) The company compensates you with a flat fee OR royalties (which might include an advance).
To build this kind of a business, look at companies in these niches because they are likely to license art:
Clothing and fashion
Footwear
Skateboards
Surf boards and Boogie boards
Greeting Cards
Stationery and office supplies
Tourist merchandisers.
I am currently counseling a photographer who is interested in licensing her exquisite landscape photographs of Sedona’s resplendent red rocks. She is collating a set of 10 images which she will present to the smaller, local greeting card companies to negotiate a limited license. Since she is an established artist with a recognizable brand, we are negotiating for an advance payment to her plus royalties. (Be aware that any advance is deducted from royalties until the advance is paid in full.)
She could take the same photos and license them for calendars or mouse pads with an office supplies company.
She is also a fluid artist, creating very flowing pools of soft pinks and purples which are perfect for surf boards, skateboards and boogie boards marketed to young women. Her next project may involve marketing her fluid art to those companies.
And she gets to sell the same image over and over again. That’s how she will make money from her art.
The Tigard-Tualatin School District was the first in Oregon to announce its closure in mid-March. While some students try to continue their daily lives from the comfort of their own home, others aren’t as lucky to live with those opportunities. When the school year turned into an online environment, many students were left without a safe space or source of nutrition.
Unemployment rates were as high as they’ve been since the Great Depression and the families who were barely scraping by before COVID-19 are in search of any way to get their next meal.
Groups and organizations such as the Northwest Christian Church, Tualatin School House Food Pantry and other food pantries have been a huge help for the spontaneous issue, but haven’t been able to expand their reach or capacity to meet the ever-growing demand. Although, breakfasts and lunches can still be received by students Monday through Friday at several TTSD elementary schools and complexes which are still operating to this day.
One volunteer’s sum of food boxes prior to their Saturday once-a-week delivery. Photo courtesy of Ben Bowman.
“At the start of all the closures, the grocery stores were literally running out of food so there was this fear that you could feel in the community. We really had to scramble to get something together,” Tigard-Tualatin School Board member Ben Bowman said.
Packed with Pride is a program that seeks to solve the issue of food insecurity during the pandemic time. As a nonprofit and a partnership between the Tigard-Tualatin School District, the Foundation for Tigard-Tualatin Schools, the Tigard-Tualatin Education Association and the Tigard-Tualatin Student Union, this group of volunteers from the community pack and deliver food boxes to the TTSD families in need. This totals approximately 850 families for the once-a-week delivery and pick-up.
“[At the March 12 emergency meeting], we all agreed that we had to close schools. But the issue that got brought up by multiple members was that we needed to create a way to get food to students who rely on schools to access nutrition,” Bowman said.
From the initial call to halt the 2019-2020 school year, Tigard-Tualatin School Board Chair Maureen Wolf, Tigard-Tualatin Education Association President Scott Herron, Executive Director of the School Foundation Margie Greene and Tigard-Tualatin School Board member Ben Bowman decided to call a second meeting to set up some sort of solution whether it be temporary or permanent for the impending problem.
Week one of Packed with Pride, while only sending out 135 boxes, encountered huge financial walls and program sustainability questions. Bowman said, “the founders of the program and I sat down and thought ‘That was exhausting and we’ll never be able to sustain this capacity.’ There were major concerns about the financial stability of the program because it costs a lot of money to run.”
Community members, families and PSOs were strictly funding the program at that time along with larger food donations from nearby businesses. Although extremely helpful, food donations wouldn’t last with the program’s goal of delivering to every district family in need.
“We started by just going to the Grocery Outlet in King City, putting boxes and boxes of their food into carts. That was seriously the way that we could purchase food,” Bowman exclaimed. Within a couple of weeks, the demand had skyrocketed with representatives from a majority of schools seeking answers for hundreds of families.
With a new delivery of food supplies, Bowman (left) and volunteers unload the pallets to be prepped for packing. Photo courtesy of Ben Bowman.
Fortunately, with relationships built with suppliers and grocery stores, the program can more easily order and buy food without paying the added customer costs. Local churches have also been able to collect and donate the higher-priced food items along with the program receiving some hefty donations at the start of May. These will be able to keep the program alive through Spring and Summer.
The first of which is the $20,000 Resident Aid Fund of Tigard (RAFT) created by the City of the Tigard and the second being a $100,000 grant from Lam Research, of whom is one of the largest employers in the district. “Before we found out about these grants, we genuinely had questions about whether we could be able to even make it to the summer, let alone through the summer. So now we’ll be able to at least continue with our current capacity if schools open up in the fall,” Bowman said.
With the grants, Packed with Pride has been able to accumulate over $250,000 in donations to fund the program, but with the unpredictability in whether schools open back up immediately this Fall, they are still accepting donations. The program costs upwards of $12,000 a week for the nearly 850 food boxes and while following the CDC COVID-19 safety guidelines, Packed with Pride is seeking volunteers while they still determine the amount of need in the community.
“There is so much uncertainty about the future and many are going through a really scary time right now. I think that a lot of folks feel grateful to do something really productive and useful for the community as well as helping the people who need it,” Bowman said.
Volunteer jobs span from delivery and distribution to unloading pallets of food, packing food boxes and disinfection. Over 7000 boxes have been distributed across the 850 families from their headquarters at the Tigard High School cafeteria.
“What we recognize is that this is absolutely a marathon and not a sprint. This economic recovery is not going to happen overnight so we need to sustain our pace over the next several months if we want to meet the needs of the community.”
The Tualatin Rotary Club serves our community in many ways.When the coronavirus hit, members were anxious to be of service. With weekly meetings and events canceled it seemed like our contributions might need to be individual and not collective. And then the call came. The Tigard-Tualatin School District needed books to give students. Books on Wheels had a new mission.
Thanks to financial support from the Rotary Club, Books on Wheels has been giving books to students every summer. The books are distributed at free lunch sites and children and families select stories to add to their home libraries. The books are gifts.They do not need to be returned.
Books are expensive! Most volumes cost around ten dollars. Finding a supply of books that could be readily available and affordable to the school district seemed nearly impossible.
Books sorted for emergency deliveries.
Books on Wheels delivers in the summer and collects books from September through May. Founded over ten years ago, the book collection process has been successful. There have been school drives. Individual community members have donated. Some businesses have also contributed. The Tualatin Rotary Club has supplied funds to purchase new books that children really want to read. Fortunately, the Rotary books were available when this coronavirus need arose.
Packed with Pride is a new organization that is spearheading the effort to get emergency food and books to our school children. In coordination with the school board, the school foundation, the student union and the teachers’ union, a movement is underway to support families in need during this time of extended school closure.
Within a two day period, from the first request for help, Books on Wheels was there.Over 1500 books were packed and delivered to Tigard High School. Rotary got the books ready and members of the teacher’s union provided the muscle and transportation. To make book delivery easy, every book was sorted by grade level. Sanitation was also a concern. Fortunately, all the Books on Wheels volumes had not been touched by anyone in months. They were perfect for the need!
Rotary is no stranger to the fight against disease. The entire International organization has been on the front line to eradicate the poliovirus from the earth. Since 1985, Rotary has worked with the WHO and the Gates Foundation to vaccinate the children of the world. If we can get to zero new cases for three years in a row—the disease will be eliminated. Polio has proven to be a tough enemy. Outbreaks around the globe have decreased significantly and now only three regions still show signs of the disease. A virus that infected over 200,000 children a year has been reduced to less than 100. Rotary is still on a mission to wipe out this disease.Efforts to vaccinate every child is a worldwide campaign.
In our community and country, this is a time of many unknowns. One thing that you can count on is the willingness of people to help. One organization that has been ready is your Tualatin Rotary Club.
After more than two months of take-out-only restaurants, home haircuts and shuttered gyms, things are getting back to normal.
Sort of.
The state approved Washington County’s application to enter into the first stage of reopening on May 28. And the county entered Phase 1 on the first day of June – the second-to-last of Oregon’s 36 counties to make the jump (Multnomah County hadn’t applied as of May 30, but officials there are aiming to reopen on June 12, according to reports.)
The reopening process statewide started on May 15, when retail stores were permitted to open; non-emergency medical care could resume; and state parks and other outdoor recreation opened, among other things, as long as distancing and other safety guidelines were followed.
To get to Phase 1, Washington County had to demonstrate declining COVID-19 cases, have a minimum testing regimen, implement a contact tracing system and have quarantine facilities, enough healthcare capacity and sufficient personal protective equipment.
So what is Phase 1 all about?
Restaurants
Tualatin Claim Jumper.
Restaurants, bars, breweries, brewpubs, wineries, tasting rooms and distilleries can all open for business as long as they are able to meet distancing requirements of 6 feet between tables and allow no more than 10 people in a party. Employees must wear face coverings, and on-site service must end by 10 p.m. Video poker, as long as distancing is enforced, is allowed.
Personal services
This category of businesses, which includes everything from barbershops and beauty salons to tanning salons and tattoo parlors, is permitted to reopen during Phase 1. They are required to ask clients whether they have had COVID-19 symptoms before an appointment and keep a log of customers. Face coverings are required. Social distancing between clients must be maintained, and shops must remove magazines, newspapers and refreshments from waiting rooms.
Gyms
To comply with Phase 1 requirements, gyms must limit how many people are in the facility, maintain social distancing and sanitize equipment. Contact sports and activities, such as basketball and taekwondo, are prohibited.
Social gatherings?
Parties and other gatherings are allowed during Phase 1, but they must be limited to 25 or fewer people who are from the area – so no traveling to get to a gathering. Also, attendees must stay at least six feet away from each other.
What about Phase 2?
After 21 days in Phase 1, according to draft guidelines from the state, counties can enter Phase 2 if all of the Phase 1 requirements are still being met. Counties must also show that they are tracing 95 percent of new COVID-19 cases within 24 hours and at least 75 percent of positive cases can be traced to an existing positive case. Also, there must not be a significant increase in positive cases.
Under the Phase 2 draft guidelines, gatherings of up to 50 people indoors and 100 people outdoors would be allowed, as would increased travel. Limited return to work will be permitted, but remote working is still strongly encouraged. Venues such as churches, movie theaters and family fun centers could reopen with distancing and sanitation. Youth sports could resume with distancing. The curfew for onsite service at restaurants would be extended to midnight.
Even as the coronavirus pandemic has put so many things on hold, traffic improvement and neighborhood safety projects are continuing throughout Tualatin.
“There’s a ton of activity,” Public Works Director Jeff Fuchs told the City Council during a May 11 quarterly update on Tualatin Moving Forward, a local transportation improvement program that is being funded by a $20 million bond passed by Tualatin voters in 2018.
Construction is set to begin on several projects this summer.
One of them – which will include roadway, pedestrian and bike improvements at the Garden Corner Curves – moved forward during May 11 when the council authorized the city to spend $177,402 to purchase right-of-way and easements on 108th Avenue, Blake Street and 105th Avenue needed to build the nearly $3.6 million project. Work on the Garden Corner Curves is slated to begin in July and take about a year.
Two public roadway projects begin in July 2020 on the Garden Corner Curves.
Other projects slated to begin in the coming months include:
Midblock crosswalk and flashing beacons on Boones Ferry Road at Tualatin High School ($310,000)
High visibility crosswalk, flashing beacons and other improvements on Grahams Ferry Road at Dogwood Street ($226,000)
Flashing beacons at an existing crosswalk on Mohawk Street at the PGE campus ($40,000)
High visibility crosswalks, flashing beacons and curb ramps on Borland Road near Bridgeport Elementary School ($80,000)
Speed feedback signs on Martinazzi between Avery Street and Dakota Drive ($30,000)
Midblock crosswalk on Nasoma Lane at Marquis Assisted Living ($80,000)
Councilor Bridget Brooks said Tualatin Moving Forward’s progress during the pandemic is “encouraging.”
“Of all the silver linings in this COVID situation,” she said, “to have construction and things going on when traffic is light – to be able to build in efficiencies right now – is, at least, one piece of good news.”
While project planning, design and construction continues amid coronavirus, the pandemic has changed how Tualatin Moving Forward is communicating with the community.
“One of the things we did when COVID hit was pause and take a look at the way we were doing business,” said Megan George, assistant to the city manager. “We came up with a set of operating principles to inform how we approach continuing doing work. And one of those operating principles was to continue with public engagement in creative ways.”
To that end, the city has shelved pre-pandemic outreach efforts like open houses, in-person meetings and door hangers and have started using electronic surveys, webinars and virtual neighborhood meetings, among other things.
So far, five projects have been completed. Among them are buffered bike lanes and a crosswalk at Hazelbrook Middle School; driver feedback signs on Avery Street between Boones Ferry Road and Martinazzi Avenue; intersection upgrades and pedestrian-activated flashing beacons at Boones Ferry at Siletz Drive; and midblock crosswalks and flashing beacons on Sagert Street at Atfalati Park and Ibach Street at Ibach Park.
Councilor Paul Morrison was especially enthusiastic about the Ibach Street improvements, saying that there were “blind spots” that had posed a safety risk.
“You performed a miracle at the intersection of Ibach and Boones Ferry Road,” he said to Fuchs. “That has just been an amazing job that you did there at that intersection, and thank you very much.”
For More information on Tualatin Moving Forward projects or to suggest a project, go to www.tualatinmovingforward.com.
It was a warm day, the sun was out, the birds active, and the earthy, sweet scent of hyacinths and daffodils helped kindle a common spirit of gratefulness through the separated and evenly spaced people. It was the kind of day that, despite the ongoing raging virus, said, “Thank goodness for spring.”
Josie was among the people that day in the nursery and it surprised me when I saw her. Now, instead of her usual warm hug, she smartly (and considerately) waved hello to me from a generous 12 feet away. The surprise, though, wasn’t her smart greeting but that she was here by herself without Frank.
“No Frank?” I asked obviously.
“My son-in-law…took him for the day.” She responded hesitantly. “It’s been tough lately.” She added, her voice shaking with emotion.Frank, her longtime husband, had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s some time ago and as the seasons marched unwaveringly forward, so too had his disease.
In the nursery, I’m quite used to seeing people in all stages of dress: formal, informal, from just out of the high-rise corner office to morning pajamas with garden boots. I rarely notice what people wear because, well, being in the garden is one place to be just yourself.
Josie, over the years however, was the exception.She was one that I couldn’t help notice probably because it was obvious she paid attention to her detail. Garden shopping for her, like being in town, meant properly dressed for the part. Her beautifully grey-silver hair was urban chic, cut short and neatly stylized, and she usually dressed with some ensemble of stylish jeans and smart boots. Her bright eyes and easy smile made her both likable and with her neighbors and friends, popular.
This day, though, she came just as she was. Her hair tousled beyond recognition and her sense of detail now long lost to a larger sense of sacrifice. It was just a tiny window into the daily windstorm of what the disease brought to her life. The once important details now seemed another lifetime ago. Only her eyes, now pierced with tired tears, along with her worn smile, told me she was still Josie.
“This has been… you know… quite the test.” She hesitated. “Quite the trip. I’d do anything for him, of course, but it’s just been… well…so constant.”
I nodded as if I could even begin to understand the weight of it all.
“But we’re here today.” She added with a small sense of cheer. “I have the entire day and I would really like to spend it in the garden.”
We talked a little longer, still from a safe distance away, and then I watched her as she criss-crossed the nursery with abandon. It occurred to me that in comparison, the issues I had been worrying about seemed small and trivial. I couldn’t sit in a restaurant and enjoy a dinner, or a movie, had to wait an extra day for the supply of eggs to arrive at the store and the things I worried about like a good weather forecast and displays I needed to make didn’t even approach her scale of importance.
Yet in all of the turmoil and uncertainty, it was really the simple things she craved the most. Feeling the sunshine (or rain) on her face, having her hands in the dirt, planting shrubs and perennials and vegetables that some of it would produce heartily and undoubtedly make into her salads and top a hamburger or two.
Sometimes, the familiar and the simple things can give the greatest comfort.
Josie brought up a full box of small flowering perennials as well as a good helping of vegetable starts. “I bought out a lot of your cherry tomatoes,” she told me. “It’s something Frank can stay busy by picking them.” Even in their garden, Frank wasn’t far from Josie’s thoughts.
“Stay safe and healthy,” she called back as she left.
Josie could have easily succumbed to the pressure of being the sole caregiver much less one during an ongoing pandemic, I thought. That she still had room to wish me well, too, confirmed my belief that superheroes don’t always wear a cape.
And with that, she was off carrying the load of plants to her car. It was her day and she was going to make the most of it.
As Oregon counties reopen during the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, city staff in Tualatin are working on an economic recovery plan that aims to stabilize suffering local businesses now and support them as they move forward into an uncertain future.
Jonathan Taylor, Tualatin’s economic development manager, provided an overview of the plan during a May 26 City Council meeting. He outlined four phases of recovery: response, stabilization, preservation and enhancement.
“I’m framing this as a disaster,” he said. “We have to.”
The response phase took place early on, when businesses began to experience the effects of the pandemic and resulting restrictions put in place by Gov. Kate Brown. During that time, Tualatin took steps like creating a business resource webpage and establishing an economic stabilization fund for local businesses.
Currently, the city is in the early part of a 6-month stabilization phase intended to shore up existing businesses that are at risk of disruption and closure. Staff proposals for this phase include:
• Establishing a business recovery center where local businesses would have easy access to a host of resources
• Providing short-term financing to businesses, such as grants, low- or no-interest loans or subsidizing interest on loans
• Acting as a sourcing option for personal protective equipment, such as masks, that are required for reopening
Washington County commissioners intend to provide cities with $500,000 to fund business recovery centers. Taylor told the council, and councilors during the May 26 meeting directed staff to put together more detailed plans for short-term business funding and personal protective equipment sourcing.
The preservation phase would focus on “preparing for the economic health of our residents, businesses and workers,” according to Taylor’s presentation. Plans include partnering with organizations to provide small business workshops and completing an update to the city’s economic development plan in light of current economic conditions.
“We always were going to update our economic strategic plan,” Taylor said. “But now we have to have a focus on recovery and what does that look like both for resiliency and also for helping our business community as quickly and as safely and as soundly as possible?”
Proposals for the enhancement phase – the “long-term game,” Taylor said – include the city helping businesses secure financing via a partnership with a community development finance institution and resiliency planning that would involve continuous evaluation and adjustment of economic recovery efforts.
“We have to be nimble because something unforeseen can happen,” he said. “The guiding star is helping people get back to work, keeping our neighbors employed and in business – but also being great community partners … to be a good steward of our resources.”
Council members expressed support for Taylor’s plan.
“This is a great outline for economic recovery,” Councilor Valerie Pratt said.
Still, Councilor Robert Kellogg cautioned staff to “be very restrained in what we do” as the city moves forward with a recovery plan, saying that the city, by itself, can’t save every business and the worst may be yet to come.
“A politician without an economic background would say there’s all this pent up consumer demand and once we reopen, it’s going to be a roaring economy again – some may even say ‘huge,’ if that resonates with anybody,” he said. “An economist without a political objective may say things may be OK but when the [Paycheck Protection Program] money runs out and there are gaps and we get into the fall and, perhaps, there’s a resurgence, we’re only at the end of the beginning.”
This information is provided by the Tualatin Police Department and represents a partial log of calls recently received by the department. The department’s non-emergency phone number is 503-629-0111. The community tip line can be reached at 503-691-0285.
May 1
A man reported that a cell phone account was opened in his name without his permission.
Someone threw beer bottles at a victim’s car, causing more than $1,000 in damage.
May 2
A 28-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of DUII and heroin possession.
A 45-year-old man was cited for alleged felony methamphetamine possession.
May 3
There was a physical fight in a parking lot in the 11000 block of SW Tualatin Road in front of a six-year-old child.
A bike was reported stolen from an apartment complex in the 18000 block of SW Lower Boones Ferry Road.
A suspect stole a garden hose and garden hose reel from a business in the 10000 block of SW Avery Street.
May 4
Someone was reportedly injured while trying to separate two dogs.
A man allegedly tried to redeem forged bottle return slips for cash at Whole Foods.
May 8
Two fire extinguishers were taken from an apartment complex.
May 11
A caller reported that the driver side window of their vehicle had been shattered.
May 12
Two iPhones were found on SW Borland Road and turned into the Tualatin Police Department.
Gang graffiti was found at Tualatin Community Park.
A married but separated couple had an argument over a wedding ring.
May 13
Someone stole two six-packs of beer from the 7-11 on Nyberg Street.
A fire hydrant was damaged overnight in the 7000 block of SW Nyberg Street.
May 14
A 25-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of intimidation, menacing and unlawful use of a weapon.
May 15
Bones were unearthed during an excavation of a construction site in the 10000 block of SW Herman Road.
May 16
A 19-year-old man was cited for allegedly stealing a 12-pack of Corona beer from the Plaid Pantry on SW Boones Ferry Road.
A 32-year-old man was cited for misdemeanor driving on a suspended license.
A 46-year-old man was reportedly seen on surveillance video breaking into a vehicle. He was subsequently arrested for unlawful entry into a vehicle, driving with a suspended or revoked license, felony drug possession and theft.
Graffiti was reported on a portable toilet at Jurgens Park.
May 17
A 32-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of vehicle theft and possession of methamphetamine.
May 18
A caller reported that two bicycles were stolen from the back of his truck, which was parked at a Nyberg Lane apartment complex.
A 31-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of shoplifting from a store in the 19000 block of SW Martinazzi Avenue.
A 30-year-old man was given a criminal citation and trespass warning for allegedly shoplifting from a store in the 19000 block of SW Martinazzi Avenue.
May 19
A 46-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of stealing cash from the till while working at a fast food restaurant.
A juvenile was cited for minor in possession of marijuana.
May 20
A 34-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of robbery after allegedly punching a Safeway employee.
May 21
A woman was knocked down by two large dogs at Atfalati Park.
A 40-year-old man was arrested for allegedly violating a restraining order and stalking.
May 22
A 29-year-old man was cited for allegedly stealing from Fred Meyer.
A 29-year-old man and 31-year-old woman were arrested on suspicion of shoplifting from O’Reilly Auto Parts.
May 24
A 27-year-old man was arrested for DUII and hit-and-run (property).
A 33-year-old man and 34-year-old woman were arrested for allegedly stealing from Cabela’s.
A 44-year-old man was arrested on suspicion felony domestic violence. The man reportedly began strangling the victim in front of her minor child.
May 25
A man reported that his company laptop and cell phone were stolen from his vehicle. The thief used a drill bit to access the car via the keyhole.
A 27-year-old man was arrested on an outstanding warrant and methamphetamine possession.
