🌱 Gun Violence Map Of Portland + Stranger Wanders Into Home

It's Friday, my peeps! That makes me so excited I'm going to use way too many exclamation points! Fred Meyer is scanning our ID's, we've got a comedy show about the Dark Web and Free Museum Day is this weekend. Let's get our Friday going!

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First, today's weather:

Wow, cloudy skies and a high of 68. It's beginning to feel like Portland again.

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Here are the top five stories in Portland today:

1. Okay, well that's pretty frightening. Imagine a complete stranger entering your home and walking into your child's bedroom. Kelsey Smith doesn't have to imagine. "I was out on the porch chatting with a friend. It's a direct line of sight to the door, but I was facing my yard and the dogs started going crazy," Smith said. When she went to investigate, she walked into her kids' room and found the stranger. (KGW)
2. Did you know that Portland's Community Safety Division has a map of places where gunfire injuries are most likely to occur? I know I didn't. The map, produced in July of this year, shows the places in the city where people were most often injured by gunfire, using shooting data from between January 1, 2019, through April 30, 2022. Only shootings where a person was injured or killed were included. (Willamette Week)
3. A decades-old small business in North Portland says a homeless camp next door is causing tens of thousands of dollars worth of damages in theft, and it's getting no help from the city. The camp is built out with boats, numerous RVs, grills, pop-up tents, stacks of propane and a water tank. The business owners of Curt's RV Storage said the constant criminal activity of theft and break-ins on their lot has cost them upwards of $100,000. (KOIN)
4. If you usually buy your beer at Fred Meyer, make sure to bring your ID. And prepare to get it scanned. The practice is called universal carding and is becoming more common. Tennessee has made it a state law in 2007 for retailers that sell alcohol for off-premises consumption. Regarding the scanning of the bar code on the back of Oregon driver's licenses, Fred Meyer says that customers can opt out, but that it makes check out faster. (KGW)
5. The Portland Police Bureau is investigating a deadly stabbing that happened in the Eliot neighborhood early Thursday morning. Just after 1:30 p.m., officers received a suspicious circumstances with a weapon call in the 2400 block of Northeast Rodney Avenue. Police said a man had been stabbed and he died at the scene. The victim's name has not been released. (KPTV)

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Today in Portland:

• How do you feel about mead? Because there's a mead tasting in North Portland! Come sample a variety of ethically made meads + spirits by Pixie Meadery while bathing in the sights and sounds of an immersive bee art installation. Meet the meadmaker, Benjamin Pixie! 6 - 9 p.m.
• If you're a fan of beer, come to OMSI for OMSI After Dark: BrewFest! There'll be a beer geyser and beer goggles, Laser Prince in the planetarium, a trivia contest and much, much more. 6 - 10 p.m.
• It's the Talk of the Town! Talk of the Town at Curious Comedy Theater, that is. Talk of the Town invites special guests to tell us all about the amazing things they are up to in the city of Roses. These special guests are Portlanders who're making art, making food, or making a difference! Showtime is 7:30 p.m.
• Dark Web Tonight will be at the Funhouse Lounge, Stand Up Variety from the Black Heart of the Internet! Ben Harkins, along with cohosts Calaix and Noah Watson, showcase their funniest friends along with some of the strangest videos the dark web has to offer. You'll laugh, cringe and recoil in fear at the darkness within. Doors 9:30 p.m.
• Portland singer-songwriter Brian Granse will perform at Music Millenium to celebrate the release of his new album. CD's will be available for purchase at the event. Come grab your copy of The Longwall and catch a sneak preview before Sunday's big album release party! And show your love for Music Millennium, a record store that is truly a national treasure. Showtime is 6 p.m.

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From my notebook:

• Travel Portland: "The swifts are back! Late summer is the time of year when thousands of Vaux's swifts drift through the city on their annual migration from Canada to Central and South America. (Travel Portland via Instagram)
• Portland Audubon: "Have you heard the term "casual birding?" At its core, it is the passive observation of birds and it can provide an avenue to a deeper and more expansive connection with nature. Once you've experienced it, it opens up a new lens." (Portland Audubon via Instagram)
• Portland Art Museum: "🏛️ Museum Free Day is this Saturday! Which artwork will you visit? Enjoy free admission, organized by "Smithsonian Magazine," with 450 participating cultural organizations nationwide. Tickets may be reserved in advance online." (Portland Art Museum via Instagram)
• It's the end of an era, as Oregon's last coal-fired power plant is demolished. The Boardman coal plant operated from 1980 until its early retirement in 2020. The announcement of its destruction helped settle a Clean Air Act lawsuit brought by green groups, plus PGE avoided having to make costly emissions control upgrades down the road. The closure eliminated about 2 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions that were coming from the plant every year. (OPB)
• The Fresh Hop Pop-Up Beer Fest returns for its 7th year at Portland's "top food cart pod" Prost! Marketplace and the Bloodbuzz outdoor bar. A covered beer garden with ten of the best food trucks in Oregon will complement an incredible ever-changing selection of the freshest fresh hop beers of the season. (Eventbrite)
• It's the 20th anniversary of Zoobomb and several cyclists turned out to celebrate last weekend. At its peak from around 2007 to 2012, Zoobomb was something of a religion for hundreds of Portlanders who'd gather every Sunday night at the "Pyle" (a.k.a. the "Holy Rack" or People's Bike Library of Portland) to meet with friends then roll to a MAX station where they'd ride light rail up to the Zoo in Washington Park, then climb a bit further to the peak of the West Hills, before bombing down the windy, steep streets in total darkness. (Bike Portland)

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I declare today to be the official start of the weekend! Yeah, it's still a workday, but we don't have to tell the boss it's the weekend. Have fun you beautiful people and meet me back here tomorrow for more news of Portland.

— 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.

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