🌱Dumpster Fire During Demonstration + Biden Coming To Portland

Here we are back at another Tuesday in Portland. Tuesday gets a bad rap sometimes. It doesn't get a nickname, like Humpday, nor does anyone ever thank God it's Tuesday. But I think it's time we show Tuesday some respect. Here's what's going on this Tuesday.

First, today's weather:

Rain all day and a high temp of 50. That's just how it goes during a Portland springtime.

Here are the top five stories today in Portland:

1. A group of demonstrators broke windows, vandalized buildings and set a dumpster ablaze at a police precinct in Northeast Portland on Saturday night, the Portland Police Bureau (PPB) said. Police said the group gathered in Peninsula Park at 700 North Rosa Parks Way around 8 p.m. According to a flyer posted to social media, the gathering was for a planned march to demand justice for Patrick Lyoya, a 26-year-old Black man who was shot and killed by a police officer during a scuffle in Grand Rapids, Mich., on April 4. (KGW)
2. Anyone hoping to drive to visit the popular 18-mile “Waterfall Corridor” in the Columbia River Gorge this summer will need to reserve a timed-access ticket in advance. Officials from Multnomah County, the Oregon Department of Transportation, the U.S. Forest Service, and the Oregon Parks and Recreation Department released more information about the pilot ticket program they’re launching this year. A new Timed Use Permit system will go into effect May 24 for any personal vehicles hoping to travel the Waterfall Corridor in the Columbia River Gorge. (KOIN)
3. Rents across the Portland metro area have climbed rapidly over the past year, straining the budgets of renters and forcing them to make a difficult decision: stay and try to keep up with the skyrocketing costs, or take a chance on a new place that might only prove a temporary reprieve. In Multnomah County, according to data from the online rental marketplace Apartment List, rents dropped during the pandemic but have already grown beyond pre-pandemic levels. The average approached $1,370 in March. (The Oregonian)
4. One teenage boy died and three others are in the hospital after a shooting on Sunday night in southeast Portland's Centennial neighborhood, police officials said. The shooting was reported at about 8:40 p.m. Sunday near the intersection of Southeast 162nd Avenue and Stark Street, which is near the border between Gresham and Portland. An officer told reporters the shooting was “likely a drive-by shooting.” PPB later confirmed the victims were juvenile males. (KATU)
5. If you experience some extra traffic in town on Thursday, it will likely be because streets and areas have been shut down to make it easier for President Joe Biden to move around. The president is headed to the Pacific Northwest with stops in Portland followed by Seattle the next day. While officials have not provided details on what exactly the president will be addressing, they've said that the visit to Portland will focus on infrastructure and the trip to Seattle will be focused on the economy. (Portland Patch)

Today in Portland:

• It's the Tuesday Open Jam at the Big Legrowlski in downtown Portland. No cover. Just support with some drinks and vegan grub. If you’re shy to play in front of others, that’s ok. The community is so kind and supportive you’ll feel at home in no time. Also — it has a beautiful instrument collection and killer backline. 7:00 PM to midnight.
• And Just Like That...it's time for Sex and the City trivia at the 4th Wall PDX! Take a trip down memory lane with Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte & Miranda…falling in love, getting over heart break, overcoming major life hurdles…all whilst looking FABULOUS! Winning team will receive a 4th Wall PDX Gift Card. 7:00 - 9:00 PM.
• Basic Rights Oregon presents its virtual Fierce Families Network Guest Speaker Series: Find Yourself in a Book! This Speaker Series event through Fierce Families Network is an opportunity for folks in the network to pick a topic of choice they feel will educate and provide robust conversation around important issues. For its part two in the series, it will be looking at book titles and resource-sharing! This is a panel-style discussion, featuring Sara Ryan, Multnomah County Library's Teen Services Librarian, to provide fantastic titles within multiple age-ranges as well as resources for families and caregivers. Register online for this streaming event. 6:30 - 8:30 PM.
• Powell's Books Presents Jeff Deutsch in an online Conversation With Ada Calhoun. Do we need bookstores in the 21st century? If so, what makes a good one? In his beautifully written book, In Praise of Good Bookstores (Princeton), Jeff Deutsch — director of Chicago's Seminary Co-op Bookstores, one of the finest bookstores in the world — pays loving tribute to one of our most important and endangered civic institutions. He considers how qualities like space, time, abundance, and community find expression in a good bookstore. Deutsch will be joined in conversation by Ada Calhoun, author of Why We Can’t Sleep and Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give. Online registration is required. The talk begins at 5:00 PM.
• Come to Von Ebert Pizzeria & Taproom at Cascade Station for a chance to beat our brewers at a game of cribbage! It's going to be a night of beer, pizza, cribbage & fun. Prizes await our winners. Can you beat the brewers? 6:00 - 8:00 PM.

From my notebook:

• Portland Audubon: "Volunteer appreciation week starts today! We want to thank and honor the more than 500 volunteers who provide leadership and support our work. Thank you to all who serve weekly on our campus in our Care Center, with our Ambassador Animal..." (Instagram)
• Portland Art Museum: "Happy #Easter! 🎨 Corita Kent (American, 1918–1986), “resurrection,” 1955. Color screenprint on wove paper; 21 1/2 × 15 1/2 in. The Vivian and Gordon Gilkey Graphic Arts Collection, 84.25.333 © Corita Art Center, Immaculate Heart Commu..." (Instagram)
• Spring is a time when many baby animals arrive and on Wednesday, the Oregon Zoo welcomed its newest member. The zoo’s 20-year-old Bornean orangutan Kitra gave birth to a new baby. The zoo says this birth is adding to the world population of the critically endangered species. Caregivers say the baby orangutan was born on April 13 at around 11 a.m. This is Kitra’s first baby and both she and the newborn are doing well in their behind-the-scenes maternity den. (KOIN)
• If you think that Portland is too rainy, just consider the Great Flood of 1862. It was the largest flood in the recorded history of Oregon, Nevada, and California, occurring from December 1861 to January 1862. It was preceded by weeks of continuous rains and snows in the very high elevations that began in Oregon in November 1861 and continued into January 1862. This was followed by a record amount of rain from January 9–12, and contributed to a flood that extended from the Columbia River southward in western Oregon, and through California to San Diego, and extended as far inland as Idaho in the Washington Territory, Nevada and Utah in the Utah Territory, and Arizona in the western New Mexico Territory. (Wikipedia)
• The Museum of World Athletics, MOWA, will be held at Pioneer Place from Friday, April 8, through Sunday, July 25, celebrating the athletes of track and field and the World Athletics Championships Oregon22. The championships will be held in the U.S. for the first time at legendary Hayward Field in Eugene, Oregon. Athletics, called track and field in the U.S., is one of the most popular Olympic sports in the world. MOWA is the first sports museum to be established solely in the digital world. It offers visitors an interactive journey through the history of athletics and the sport’s flagship World Athletics Championships, highlighting many legends of the sport. (World Athletics)

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This is Portland, where even Tuesdays are extraordinary. But don't be so enchanted by the day that you forget to come back tomorrow, so I can tell you about what's going on in our lovely town.

— Dominic Anaya

About me: Doctor, educator and now a writer/artist, I'm just chillin' in Portland, OR with my wife, our ferrets, our chickens and our goats.