🌱Portland's 21st Homicide + Trail Blazers Lillard's Season Over

Happy Tuesday, peoples, and welcome to spring! It's a whole new season, but the same old, beautiful Portland. Let me tell you all about it.

First, today's weather:

Wow, what a day we have today! We're going to start out cloudy, but that's going to clear right up and give us a high of 69. Awesome!

Here are the top five stories in Portland today:

1. Police were called to a shooting in the Buckman neighborhood of Southeast Portland around 7:15 on Sunday morning and found a man dead on the sidewalk at 8th and Washington. The person who shot him was gone when officers arrived. This is the city’s 21st homicide of 2022. (750 KXL)
2. Emergency crews were called to a crash in Northeast Portland early Monday morning, at about the same time that power was knocked out for nearly 1,500 customers in the surrounding area. The crash was reported shortly before 5 a.m. near the intersection of Northeast 162nd Avenue and Foster Road, just south of Sandy Boulevard. The reporter at the scene said it appears three vehicles crashed in the area; one that hit a power pole, another that came to a stop upside down near a tree, and a third that is in a ditch. (KATU)
3. Last March, TriMet handed over control of transit policing to the Multnomah County Sheriff's Office. Since then, TriMet has been building and training an unarmed group of employees to reassure riders of their presence and help those in need. The Safety Response Team (SRT) began riding MAX trains last fall. SRT members aren't police and they're unarmed. And while their presence can help de-escalate sometimes tense situations with riders, they're mostly there to assist anyone who needs help. (KGW)
4. In just our region, the harsh realities of the impacts infrastructure can have on communities are still seen and heard. There’s the failure of the levee that led to the destruction of Vanport, Oregon’s second-largest city, which had a large Black population. There’s the displacement of large swaths of families in Portland’s Albina neighborhood to make way for Interstate 5. The Interstate Bridge Replacement Program staff is hoping not to repeat that history. (The Columbian)
5. Whatever gas is left in the tank for a potential, late-season playoff push for the Portland Trail Blazers won’t include star Damian Lillard. KOIN 6 News has confirmed a Monday morning report in the Athletic from @ShamsCharania that said the 6-time All-NBA guard would not return this season following abdominal surgery he underwent in January. KOIN 6 News confirmed the report a few hours later. (KOIN)

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Today in Portland:

• Portland Audubon is presenting the online class Introduction to Herping: Amphibians and Reptiles of Portland. While we tend to be distracted by birds in the treetops, a variety of beautiful animals can be found right underfoot in the Portland area. This class will introduce you to the amphibians and reptiles that call Portland home. Viewers will learn how to find, identify, and safely study these fascinating creatures. Register online. 6:00 - 7:00 PM.
• Tonight at the Alberta Rose Theater will be the 25th Anniversary concerts of "On A Winter's Night" from veteran singer-songwriters Christine Lavin, John Gorka, Patty Larkin and Cliff Eberhardt. These are among the brightest stars of the singer/songwriter movement for the past three decades. In 1994 Christine Lavin gathered them together, along with folk and Americana artists to showcase music of the Winter Season on the now classic On A Winter's Night CD, followed by several years of touring collaborations. Tickets available online. Doors open at 6:30 PM.
• Mountain Shop staffer and Ultralight Backpacking Guru Gary Lawton will be retiring at the end of March and heading out on a long list of adventures! Join him one last time to ask all your ultra light backpacking and thru hiking questions about gear, trip planning, some of his favorite adventures, and tips and tricks that he has amassed over his many years as a triple-crown hiker (PCT/AT/CDT) and ultralight backpacker completing numerous high alpine hikes across the US, including the Colorado Trail, Tahoe Rim Trail, Wind River Range and more! Feel free to bring your backpack and gear for Gary to look at if you are curious about shaving weight or need suggestions. This event will be held in-person at the Mountain Shop and no ticket purchase is necessary. This event starts at 7:00 PM.
• Everything is Terrible: Kidz Klub Tour will be happening at Revolution Hall in SE Portland. Everything is Terrible! is the video and performance collective that is responsible for a never-ending treasure trove of found videos, psychedelic documentary feature films, international touring live show, and immersive installations. The vast EIT! found footage library is being culled from the mountains of dead media that have been abandoned by humanity, EIT! has posted re-edits from the collection online daily since 2007. Some of their most widely shared videos include Yogi Ogi Dogi, the creepy yoga farmer, Cat Massage, Pubic Hair Dying and the Yellow Dino who hunts pedophiles. Tickets available online. Doors open at 7:00 PM.
• Come to the Ponderosa Lounge to see Kameron Marlowe and his Low Dough Show. With over 165 million on-demand streams, believers at country radio and the support of over a dozen digital tastemakers – Spotify, Amazon Music and Pandora among them – Kameron Marlowe has exploded onto the country scene, emerging as the big-voiced authentic talent modern fans crave. Get your tickets online. Doors open at 6:00 PM.

From my notebook:

• Portland Trail Blazers: "it took a second…..but count that!" (Instagram)
• Portland Art Museum: "✍️ Robert Goodnough was an American abstract expressionist painter and part of the New York School of artists in the 1950s and ‘60s. “Goodnough’s gatherings of floating, overlapping planes fluctuate between suggestive figuration and abst..." (Instagram)
• Kindness Farm in SE Portland aims to care for people & Earth by regeneratively & sustainably growing nutrient-full vegetables & fruits; cultivating community education of balanced farming practices; & providing freshly harvested nutriments to houseless and low-income neighbors in need. If that's something you may wish to be a part of, they're having Volunteer Parties for the rest of March. Come for as little or as long as you'd like! The magic of volunteering at the farm settles on your soul gently, like a warm coat on a rainy day. Register online to choose a shift. (Eventbrite)
• Worried about the lead levels in your water? The city of Portland is giving away free lead-in-water testing for residents, childcare providers, and schools. The test kit includes instructions, sample bottles, a postage-paid return envelope, and an information card for you to fill out and return with the water sample. The LeadLine has an instructional video showing how to collect a water sample using your test kit. (portland.gov)
• Did you know that Oregon created its very own satellite? Small educational satellites called CubeSats have been launched by dozens of universities, countries, and companies all around the world. And now Oregon has joined them! It has built its own artisanally hand-crafted CubeSat system, and its first CubeSat is currently in low Earth orbit as you read this. (ORESAT)

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I told you it was spring, but this here feels like summer. Enjoy it while you can though, because the rain returns tomorrow. And so will I, just to give you the low down about our fine town 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.