🌱 Tires Slashed In NE Portland + Police State Reasons They Left

Happy Thursday, my friends. It's another lovely day here in Portland. We've got:

• Respiratory Syncytial Virus rising in Portland
• Psychedelic spell-casting
• Adorable little pumpkins

What more do we need? Here's what's going on.

But first, today's weather:

We've actually got a little sun today and a high of 63.

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Here are the top stories today in Portland:

1. Measure 114, the gun-control measure on November's ballot, has become one of the more controversial items to vote on, but one group made their feelings on the matter very clear. Hundreds of students at Grant High School staged a walk-out on Tuesday in support of the measure. In related news, "Oregon emergency departments saw a 90% increase in firearm injuries from 2019 to 2021." (KGW.com)
2. Residents of the Parkrose neighborhood woke up on Oct. 1 to discover the tires on their cars had been slashed. It is believed that the cars of 65 people were vandalized. Crime Stoppers of Oregon is offering a $2,500 reward for information leading to an arrest. They released an image of the suspect, who appears to be a man in a baseball cap, "approximately 6 feet tall and 250 pounds." "The damage is estimated to cost tens of thousands of dollars," Crime Stoppers said in a statement Tuesday. (OregonLive)
3. We seem to have gotten a handle on COVID, but other infections are rushing in to take its place. Many local hospitals are seeing an increase in the number of Respiratory Syncytial Virus (RSV) cases. RSV primarily affects infants and toddlers and can mimic a common cold. Some of the "symptoms are a runny nose, decrease in appetite, coughing, fever, and sneezing." "Most people can recover from it fairly quickly but for babies and seniors, that’s not always the case experts say." (Fox 12 Oregon)
4. It's about time! Multnomah County is getting a brand new behavioral health resource center. "The downtown Portland location will start off as a day center when it opens in December, with services like peer support and job counseling, while also offering people a place to warm up, use the bathroom, and get something to eat. ... Program managers for the new space all have firsthand experience of what it's like to be homeless or face barriers to care, including Zach Harrell, who will provide peer support at the center in December." (KATU)
5. In exit interviews performed last year, several Portland police officers gave their reasons for leaving the Portland Police Bureau. Overall, they blamed "leadership by command staff and city leaders as reasons they decided to leave the bureau. ... Despite the frustrations they detail in the interviews, five people who completed the form rated their overall experience of working with the Portland Police Bureau as 'good' and one officer said it was excellent." Still, at least one officer called Portland "disgusting," so there's that. (KOIN)

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Today in Portland:

• Calling all spell-casters! If you want to know more about using psychedelics, this is the class for you. Psychedelic Spellcasting in History & Practice - In Person will take place at The Haven. "This Halloween season, Psanctum Psychedelia invites two leading specialists in historical and practical magic and witchcraft to present on psychedelics, alchemy, transformative magick, and the poison path." 7:00 - 10:00 PM.
• This is the perfect season to dream of dark and troubling things. So, see Eraserhead at the Clinton Street Theater. "David Lynch’s 1977 debut feature, Eraserhead, is both a lasting cult sensation and a work of extraordinary craft and beauty." 7:00 - 9:00 PM.
• For a night of honky tonk music, come see the Mawlee Jones Band at the White Eagle. "This band of bizarre bandits have a twangy, swamp-witch sound that is punishably good— from belly-aching ballads to fruity cowboy rendezvous tales, they’re confessing the reality of backwoods queer love and eroticism." Showtime is 8:00 PM.
• The Miguel Hernandez Trio will be playing at Produce Row. Come enjoy a Portland-based jazz guitarist with progressive compositions. 6:00 - 8:00 PM.
• Halloween is approaching, so what better time to see "Connections of Life and Death" at the Alberta Street Gallery. "As the warm light of summer and autumn fades, Carson explores the ways in which his abstract pieces can reference the joy and ephemeral of life." Doors open at 6:00 PM.

From my notebook:

• "You can reach the Oregon Coast in just an hour and half from downtown Portland. It's the perfect day trip. Hiking, camping, whale watching and fishing are just the beginning. Hit the link in our bio for our guide to the beautiful Oregon ..." (Travel Portland via Instagram)
• "Just another reason to vote yes on 26-225: Ancient forests at Oxbow Regional Park. Learn more: https://bit.ly/3VU7A0p Photo by Bob Sallinger [Image Description: A photo of a woman walking on a trail through large mature trees.]" (Portland Audubon via Facebook)
• "If these cute little pumpkins 🎃 from @kaelceramic don’t get you into the spooky spirit, we don’t know what to tell you…other than come to our last FLEA of the year this Sunday 11-4pm for trick or treating 🍬, costume inspiration, photo ..." (Portland Flea via Instagram)
• "Small towns across Oregon, especially during the early twentieth century, were frequently identified by their main streets. Often the nexus for communities and their broader rural areas, these streets not only measured the size of a grow..." (Oregon Historical Society via Facebook)
• Let's go back in time. Here's Jay Leno visiting The Church of Elvis way back in 1995. (YouTube)
• Street Art Adventures visits street artist/screen printer/muralist Hayden Senter. "Hayden started his artistic career in graffiti on the coast of Northern California. He moved on from letter writing to screen printing and never looked back. Now you can see his work all over town. An interesting combination of cartoon, realism, surrealism, and...somethin else. You decide. He uses both spray paint and brush on his projects giving his work the feeling like it's straddling two worlds, street art and fine art. What a blend." (YouTube)

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Have a lovely day, Portland! You do you and be awesome at it! I'll see you tomorrow to hype up your most excellent Friday!

— 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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