As Washington State’s fourth largest city, the “other” Vancouver offers big city activities, endless outdoor adventures, and much more.

Cities called Vancouver are so nice, they get named twice in the Pacific Northwest!

Canadian Vancouverites are familiar with that initial confusion that happens when we cross the border between BC and Washington State, only to discover that there are not just one, but TWO Vancouvers in the Canadian province and the American state.

Founded 30 years before BC’s Vancouver, Washington State’s Vancouver (Vancouver, WA) is located directly north of the Columbia River and the Washington-Oregon border.

When mapping out your West Coast road trip this summer, make a stop at Washington State’s fourth largest city and discover the big city activities, small town vibes, and outdoor adventures that the “other” Vancouver has to offer.

A couple exploring Fort Vancouver National Historic Site. Photo courtesy of State of WA Tourism

Uncover the PNW’s rich history at Fort Vancouver

Get better acquainted with Vancouver, WA by learning all about the historical birthplace of the Pacific Northwest (PNW) region at Fort Vancouver National Historic Site.

Situated on the north bank of the Columbia River, Fort Vancouver is the site of one of the first permanent settlements west of the Rocky Mountains. Within the 191-acre area, visitors can stroll through history and uncover a frontier fur trading post at the Hudson’s Bay Company, a military post at the US Army’s Vancouver Barracks, and the wonder of aviation at the Pearson Air Museum.

Spend quality time in the great outdoors

Tucked between the peaks of the Cascade Mountains and the flowing currents of the Columbia River, and with the iconic Mount St. Helens in the distance, Vancouver, WA is the perfect base for dynamic outdoor recreation in the PNW.

As one of the United States’ 10 National Scenic Areas, the Columbia River Gorge is known for its scenic vistas and sweeping panoramas. For the best of both, head to Beacon Rock State Park — one of the world’s largest monoliths. You can also take a hike along the 1.6-mile trail to the Cape Horn Overlook for unparalleled views that are simply gorge-ous.

If you desire an escape from the crowded trails, take the 40-minute drive from downtown to the picturesque Moulton Falls. The park offers the perfect day trip destination complete with two waterfalls, a wooden arch footbridge, deep pools that double as popular cliff jumping spots, and hiking trails for all skill levels.

For those ready to grab their paddles and head out to the water, Vancouver Lake and Lacamas Lake are ideal spots for kayaking, canoeing, standup paddleboarding, and other watersports activities on the calm lake waters.

The Grant Street Pier lit up at the Vancouver Waterfront. Photo by Perfect Shot Filming LLC

Take a stroll along the Vancouver Waterfront

Anchored by the Grant Street Pier, the revamped Vancouver Waterfront is the latest addition to Vancouver, WA’s downtown core.

The five-mile Columbia River Waterfront Renaissance Trail parallels the water, and connects the waterfront with the Historic Reserve and downtown Vancouver via the Vancouver Land Bridge. It is lined with local shops and restaurants, sculptures, and historical markers, such as “Wendy Rose” who honors those that worked at the World War II-era Kaiser shipyards, and a brand new 7.3-acre Waterfront Park with an open lawn and seating areas.

Dine on fresh seafood

A walk along the Vancouver waterfront will introduce you to so many options for fresh and exquisite PNW seafood!

Dine in and catch a dish at WildFin American Grill or Beaches Restaurant & Bar, where both eateries offer outdoor patio seating overlooking the Columbia River. Or, if you’re on the go, swing by the walk-up What A Catch Fishbar window to grab a quick bite of fish ‘n’ chips and a soft-serve ice cream cone.

Sip on local brews in ‘Brewcouver’

Hailed as the PNW’s ‘next beer town’, Vancouver, WA is becoming well-known for its rapidly growing and evolving craft beer scene.

Dubbed ‘Brewcouver’, the downtown Vancouver area is home to over two dozen breweries and several local taprooms. Some local favorite breweries include Loowit Brewing, Trap Door Brewing, and Trusty Brewing. You can find a comprehensive list of even more local breweries and tap houses here.

For more ideas on things to do during your visit to Vancouver, WA, go to visitvancouverwa.com.

Nancy Lynchild died of cancer in 2012. It was too soon. Too soon for Campbell, who lived another six years without the love of her life. Too soon for a nation that had not yet federally legalized same-sex marriage, leaving Campbell with little recourse when Veterans Affairs denied her request for Lynchild’s burial on the same hallowed ground to which other military spouses were entitled.

The right to a military burial for gay spouses was guaranteed nationwide with the legalization of same-sex marriage in 2015, but only a handful of known same-sex military couples are buried across the 172 national cemeteries in the US — grounds reserved chiefly for military members and selected family.

For most, the honor has been hard won with bravery and unerring love.

Brad Avakian was one of the Oregon state leaders who helped Lynchild secure a place for her wife at Willamette. In the process, he got to know the couple he describes as “remarkable.”

“The word ‘fight’ is used so often in politics it loses its meaning,” he told CNN. “But this was a fight.”

Avakian is now a professor at Willamette University, and a vice president at Clark College in Vancouver, Washington. When he first met Campbell and Lynchild in 2012, he was the Oregon state labor commissioner. To Campbell, he said, her military service and her marriage were two of the most important things in her life. She wanted to be buried in Willamette, where her veteran father was buried. But she also wanted to be with the woman she loved.

“Linda had expressed for so long the dismay that she and her father had given their entire careers to this country and this country would not recognize her as a human being in return,” Avakian said.

“She had gone through the era of ‘don’t ask, don’t tell.’ She had gone through everything you would think a woman had to go through in the military. And this final fight felt like that whole era all over again.”

Avakian said his repeated appeals to then-President Barack Obama went unheeded. It was Eric Shinseki, former US secretary of Veterans Affairs, who advanced Campbell’s case and eventually granted her the waiver she needed for Lynchild’s burial.

Avakian and his wife remained close with Campbell after that. She showed them the apartment she bought across the river. When she died, Avakian spoke at her funeral. There was no pomp and bluster, he said. Just a feeling of warmth, of celebration. Of two people together again, as they should be.

“They were two of the most loving, compassionate people you’d ever want to meet,” he said. “Linda had a disciplined and driven military side to her, in beautiful combination with a loving, compassionate view of the world. It showed in everything she did, and it showed in her relationship.”

At the same time Campbell was fighting for her wife’s memory in Oregon, Madelynn Taylor was waging a similar battle in Idaho. The longtime LGBTQ activist and Navy veteran with her wife, Jeanne Mixner, in 1995. It was love at first sight. Together, they attended church and made a name for themselves in their Boise-area community until Mixner’s death in 2012. Taylor wanted Mixner’s remains to be buried at the military site where she herself hoped to rest one day, but no amount of influence or anger could persuade the Idaho Department of Veterans Affairs to allow it. At the time, the Defense of Marriage Act meant same-sex spouses could only be buried together at such sites if they lived in states where their marriage was deemed legal. Idaho was not such a state, and a lawsuit Taylor filed against the state’s VA was rejected.It wasn’t until Idaho’s ban on same-sex marriage was overturned in 2014 that Mixner’s place in the Idaho State Veterans Cemetery was secured.

Taylor’s righteous defiance was a hallmark of her activism, her sister Karen Hicks said.

“She was always a problem solver,” Hicks told the Idaho Statesman. “If there’s a will, there’s a way with her.”

When Taylor took on the lawsuit, Hicks said she asked her sister if she thought she was taking on too much.

“She said, ‘No, when you feel strongly enough about something, you get it done.'”

Taylor was a fixture at Pride events and other gatherings in her area. When she died in 2021, she was mourned as the mother of a movement, a wife whose devotion would be enshrined in history and in stone.

A resting place at a national cemetery is a great honor for military veterans, one that was denied many same-sex couples until 2015. However, gay veterans have always fought for their right to be included and celebrated in such spaces.

Since 1980, LGBTQ activists have taken part in memorial ceremonies at Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia, the largest and most famous national cemetery in the country. And yet, no same-sex military couples are known to be marked among the 400,000 graves there. Not far from Arlington, the Congressional Cemetery in Washington, DC, is the site of a one-of-a-kind LGBTQ section that honors military members and national leaders who fought for equality and dignity. Their tombstones shout into the silence: “Gay is good,” reads a plaque below the grave of Frank Kameny, an iconic activist, civil servant and World War II veteran. A glossy nameless marble headstone marks the grave of Leonard Matlovich, one of the first LGBTQ veterans to protest the military’s ban on homosexuality, as one belonging to “A Gay Vietnam Veteran.””When I was in the military they gave me a medal for killing two men,” his stone reads, “and a discharge for loving one.”

To be recognized in death not only for their service, but for their true selves, was a righteous quarrel for these veterans, who served their country despite criminalization and oppression of their identities.

Today, in a slightly brighter future, that torch is held high by couples like Campbell and Lynchild, like Taylor and Mixner, and like the Rev. Lowell Worthington and his husband, Ken Sims. Worthington, an Army veteran who served in the Korean War, died in 2017 and was interred at Dallas-Fort Worth National Cemetery. When his husband Ken Sims died in 2021, they became the first same-sex couple to be buried at the site. The Rev. Erin Wyma of the Cathedral of Hope presided over Sims’ burial. She remembers the couple who had been attending the church since the 1990s, as strong, admired fixtures in the congregation. They loved people, she said, and hosted parties at their house for years.

When Worthington died, the community came together to support Sims in his grief. After all, they were family.

“Family can be such a loaded word for LGBTQ people,” Wyma said. “So many have difficult relationships with their own families. That’s why chosen family is so important.”

It was very hot the day Wyma helped lay Sims to rest with his husband. Family — chosen and otherwise — were in abundant attendance. The military staff at the Dallas-Forth Worth cemetery were nothing but lovely, she said. In fact, it wasn’t until after the service that the true significance of the event dawned on her.

In the moment, under a searing Dallas sun, she was just grateful to pay remembrance to them as they were, and name the love they had chosen for each other.

“We were in a military place. There were people in uniform, guards nearby. And I felt free to speak about their time together,” she said. “It was a privilege to be able to speak openly about how much they loved each other.”

With time, more such couples are destined to find similar peace together. When they are laid to rest, the tireless battles of their forebears will ensure they are honored wholly — as veterans and as family.

Floyd Arthur Steen Jr.

1937 – 2022

Floyd Arthur Steen Jr, 84, of Vancouver Washington, passed away peacefully on May 24, 2022. Floyd was born on November 23, 1937, to Floyd and Alice Steen in Longview Washington. After graduating from Robert A. Long High School in 1956, he went on to marry his high school sweetheart Barbara Jeanne Foutch, in 1957, and had two daughters, Pama and Lynda. He was preceded in death by Barbara on February 2, 2000. Floyd was remarried in 2004, to Norma J. Brackins.

After being a “stay at home dad” in the first couple of years after marrying Barbara, he landed his first job in the produce department of a local grocery store in Longview. This kickstarted a long and successful career in grocery store operations, from which he retired in 1989. In addition to his career success, Floyd put his family first and was a dedicated father, friend, and community member (once awarded “Best Float Driver Ever “) and enjoyed time spent with his grandchildren and great grandchildren. Special family memories include Christmases spent together where he would supply several delicacies enjoyed by his grandchildren including homemade mini-cherry cheesecakes, a tradition that he continued after the loss of his first wife.

Floyd was passionate about travel, golf, and was a landscape design enthusiast. He spent most of his retirement traveling, golfing, caring for the yard at the family home, and helping his neighbors. Floyd was also predeceased by his brother Robert Steen, his great uncle Hugh Everhart, and his son-in-law Frank Joyner, and leaves behind his wife Norma, daughters Pama Joyner and Lynda Renz with her husband Bill, four grandchildren and four great grandchildren . He will be lovingly remembered and dearly missed.

A Celebration of Life will be held on July 10, 2022, at Frenchman’s Bar Regional Park in Vancouver, from 11 am to 2 pm. In lieu of flowers the family suggest planting a favorite flower, bush, or tree in his memory.

Published by The Daily News on Jul. 1, 2022.

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NEW YORK, June 22, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Sotheby’s International Realty announced today that its independently owned and operated affiliate, Cascade Sotheby’s International Realty in Oregonhas merged with local firm, The Hasson Co., which achieved more than US$2.8 billion in sales volume in 2021. The partnership brings together two of the biggest real estate firms in Oregon that will now operate as Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s International Realty.

In 2021, the two companies achieved a combined total of US$6 billion in sales volume, and through the partnership, are now the largest real estate company in Oregon in terms of sales volume1. Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s International Realty will now consist of a total of 22 offices and 575 independent sales associates.

“The integration of Cascade Sotheby’s International Realty and The Hasson Co. combines the prowess and renown of two leading real estate firms in Oregon,” said Phillip White, President and CEO of Sotheby’s International Realty. “This strategic partnership solidifies their position as a leading residential real estate firm in the state of Oregon. I greatly look forward to supporting Deb, Steve, Lynae, and the entire Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s International Realty team.”

“Our partnership with The Hasson Co. brings together the strengths and synergies of two established, family-run businesses,” said Deb Tebbs, co-CEO of Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s International Realty. “In addition to being affiliated with the most trusted and recognized real estate brand in the world, our clients know they can rely on us for global representation with a local family feel from listing to close.”

As part of the merger, Steve Studley other Lynae Forbes will remain in place as Co-CEO and President, respectively. The strategic integration units two well-respected, family-run organizations that will service the state of Oregon and southwest Washington region. The partnership expands the firm’s service areas to include the cities of West Linn other Wilsonville, Oregonand builds upon the company’s existing locations in Portland; Ashland; bend; Canon Beach; Vancouver, Washington; and more.

Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s International Realty is part of the Peerage Realty Partners portfolio.

The Sotheby’s International Realty network currently has more than 25,000 affiliated independent sales associates located in more than 1,000 offices in 78 countries and territories worldwide. In 2021, the brand achieved a record global sales volume of $204 billion USD. Cascade Hasson Sotheby’s International Realty listings are marketed on the sothebysrealty.com global website. In addition to the referral opportunities and widened exposure generated from this source, the firm’s brokers and clients will benefit from an association with the Sotheby’s auction house and worldwide Sotheby’s International Realty marketing programs. Each office is independently owned and operated.

1Source: Terradatum, May 2021 to April 202206-22

Sotheby’s International Realty

Sotheby’s International Realty was founded in 1976 as a real estate service for discerning clients of Sotheby’s auction house. Today, the company’s global footprint spans more than 1,000 offices located in 78 countries and territories worldwide, including 51 company-owned brokerage offices in key metropolitan and resort markets. In February 2004, Anywhere Real Estate Inc. entered a long-term strategic alliance with Sotheby’s, the operator of the auction house. The agreement provided for the licensing of the Sotheby’s International Realty name and the development of a franchise system. The franchise system is comprised of an affiliate network, where each office is independently owned and operated. Sotheby’s International Realty supports its affiliates and agents with a host of operational, marketing, recruiting, educational and business development resources. Affiliates and agents also benefit from an association with the venerable Sotheby’s auction house, established in 1744. For more information, visit www.sothebysrealty.com.

The affiliate network is operated by Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates LLC, and the company owned brokerages are operated by Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc. Both entities are subsidiaries of Anywhere Real Estate Inc. (NYSE: HOUS) a global leader in real estate franchising and provider of real estate brokerage, relocation and settlement services. Both Sotheby’s International Realty Affiliates LLC and Sotheby’s International Realty, Inc. fully support the principles of the Fair Housing Act and the Equal Opportunity Act.

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VANCOUVER, Wash., May 23, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — CytoDyn Inc. (CYDY) (“CytoDyn” or the “Company”), a biotechnology company developing leronlimab, a CCR5 antagonist with the potential for multiple therapeutic indications, announced today that it has reached a non-cash settlement with its former Chief Medical Officer, Dr. Richard Pestell, concerning an ongoing legal dispute related to his former employment with the Company.

Under the terms of the agreement, the parties will release each other of all claims, and the Company will release to Dr. Pestell 8.3 million shares of the Company’s common stock held in escrow, transfer to Dr. Pestell the assets acquired from ProstaGene LLC and subsequently written-off by the Company and issue a warrant at an exercise price of $0.37 per share to Dr. Pestell for seven million shares of the Company’s common stock. dr Pestell and the Company are also exploring ways in which Dr. Pestell can reengage with the Company to help realize leronlimab’s full potential in oncology. CytoDyn regrets Dr. Pestell’s departure from the Company and the subsequent public statements made by its former CEO about Dr. pestilence

Antonio Migliarese, Chief Financial Officer and interim President, stated, “We are pleased to resolve this matter as part of our comprehensive efforts to restore credibility with the medical and scientific communities. We look forward to the opportunity to utilize Dr. Pestell’s expertise to further the development of leronlimab.”

dr Pestell has published more than 600 works, is the most frequently cited scientist in the field of cell-cycle control and was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in the 2019 Queen’s Birthday Honors for distinguished service to medicine and medical education. He has served on editorial boards of six journals, which is the Director of two NCI-designated Cancer Centers and has founded several biotechnology companies. He serves as an advisor and reviewer for a number of domestic and international research centers, including NCI cancer centers.

About CytoDyn

CytoDyn is a clinical-stage biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of leronlimab, an investigational humanized IgG4 monoclonal antibody (mAb) that is designed to bind to CC chemokine receptor type 5 (CCR5), a protein on the surface of certain immune system cells that are believed to play a role in numerous disease processes. CytoDyn is studying leronlimab in multiple therapeutic areas, including infectious disease, cancer, and autoimmune conditions.

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This press release contains certain forward-looking statements that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that are difficult to predict. Words and expressions reflecting optimism, satisfaction or disappointment with current prospects, as well as words such as “believes,” “hopes,” “intends,” “estimates,” “expects,” “projects,” “plans,” “anticipates” and variations thereof, or the use of future tense, identify forward-looking statements, but their absence does not mean that a statement is not forward-looking. The Company’s forward-looking statements are not guarantees of performance, and actual results could vary materially from those contained in or expressed by such statements due to risks and uncertainties including: (i) the regulatory determinations of leronlimab’s safety and effectiveness to treat the diseases and conditions for which we are studying the product by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and various drug regulatory agencies in other countries; (ii) the Company’s ability to raise additional capital to fund its operations; (iii) the Company’s ability to meet its debt obligations; (iv) the Company’s ability to recruit a permanent CEO and retain other key employees; (v) the Company’s ability to enter into partnership or licensing arrangements with third parties; (vi) the Company’s ability to identify patients to enroll in its clinical trials in a timely fashion; (vii) the timely and sufficient development, through internal resources or third-party consultants, of analyzes of the data generated from the Company’s clinical trials required by the FDA or other regulatory agencies in connection with applications for approval of the Company’s drug product; (viii) the Company’s ability to achieve approval of a marketable product; (ix) the design, implementation and conduct of the Company’s clinical trials; (x) the results of the Company’s clinical trials, including the possibility of unfavorable clinical trial results; (xi) the market for, and marketability of, any product that is approved; (xii) the existence or development of vaccines, drugs, or other treatments that are viewed by medical professionals or patients as superior to the Company’s products; (xiii) regulatory initiatives, compliance with governmental regulations and the regulatory approval process; (xiv) legal proceedings, investigations or inquiries affecting the Company or its products; (xv) general economic and business conditions; (xvi) changes in foreign, political, and social conditions; (xvii) stockholder actions or proposals with regard to the Company, its management, or its board of directors; and (xviii) various other matters, many of which are beyond the Company’s control. The Company urges investors to consider specifically the various risk factors identified in its most recent Form 10-K, as well as risk factors and cautionary statements included in subsequent Form 10-Qs and Form 8-Ks, filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission. Except as required by law, the Company does not undertake any responsibility to update any forward-looking statements to take into account events or circumstances that occur after the date of this press release.

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Video: Oregon Health & Science University hosted a roundtable discussion on fentanyl on Wednesday, June 29, to raise community awareness — especially among parents, school officials and health care professionals. (OHSU/Sara Hottman)

A surge of illicit fentanyl in the Pacific Northwest is supercharging an opioid epidemic with counterfeit pills that are 50 to 100 times more potent than heroin, cheap and readily available — often to young people who make the potentially deadly mistake of viewing them as no more dangerous than cigarettes.

Jennifer Epstein

Oregon Health & Science University hosted a roundtable discussion Wednesday, June 29, to raise community awareness — especially among parents, school officials and health care professionals.

Jennifer and Jon Epstein joined the panel, sharing their experience in losing their son, Cal, after he consumed a counterfeit pain pill in late 2020, while home on a break from college. It contained a lethal dose of illicit fentanyl.

Jon Epstein

The couple have turned their loss into advocacy, to reduce the number of similar tragedies for other families.

“These pills are everywhere,” Jon Epstein said. “You need to recognize the youth in your life are at risk, even when they don’t fit a traditional at-risk profile.”

The pills are particularly dangerous because they are often disguised to appear harmless.

Todd Korthuis, MD, MPH (OHSU)

In fact, they’re often deadly: The number of poisoning deaths recorded over the past year for teenagers in Oregon and Washington has doubled, said Todd Korthuis, MD, Ph.D. a professor of medicine (general internal medicine and geriatrics) in the OHSU School of Medicine who heads addiction medicine at OHSU and moderated the panel discussion.

Impulsivity and risk-taking are a normal part of adolescent development, which makes it imperative for parents, school counselors and trusted clinicians to communicate openly and clearly.

Ana Hilde, MD, MPH (OHSU)

“Young people really don’t understand risk,” said Ana Hilde, MD, MPH, a child and adolescent psychiatrist with the Native American Rehabilitation Association of the Northwest. “Their thinking about risk is very limited. [They think], ‘It’s not going to happen to me.’ We see this both in the idea of ​​novel risk-taking, like, ‘I’m at a party and there’s alcohol and there’s some pills. Oh, I’ve never used it, I’m just going to take it one time. It’s not going to hurt me.’”

Tony Vezina

That’s a huge miscalculation, said Tony Vezina, executive director of 4D Recovery Center, which provides peer-based recovery with a focus on youth and young adults. Even tiny amounts of fentanyl can be extremely addictive, assuming a new user survives.

The tablets, sometimes known as “blues,” are made to appear like various types of pain pills or sedatives prescribed by physicians.

“We’re seeing the market just flooded with blues,” Vezina said. “In addition, the pushers of fentanyl are using all sorts of different pills to hide their fentanyl. People don’t necessarily know what they’re taking, but they know that it’s cheap and easily accessible.”

Olivia Rae Wright, MD (OHSU)

These pills are killing many people quickly, but they also kill people slowly as they become more and more dependent, said Olivia Rae Wright, MD., an addiction medicine physician in Vancouver, Washington, who provides medical care at the Daybreak Youth Treatment Center, the only addiction treatment center for youth in the region.

Until recently, Wright said she mainly saw kids affected by alcohol or marijuana use.

“Before when kids were experimenting, not only was the risk low for accidental overdose, they were also less likely to become dependent,” Wright said, adding that two years ago she began to see many more young people hooked on fentanyl. “This is a potent drug, it acts on the brain quickly, and it starts to remodel it quickly. And it can happen before the parents realize their kids are just way in over their heads.”

Worse, young people lack access to proven therapies for opioid use disorder in Oregon and Southwest Washington.

Bradley Buchheit, MD (OHSU)

Pediatricians and family medicine physicians need to improve their ability and willingness to care for these patients, said Bradley Buchheit, MD, an assistant professor of family medicine in the OHSU School of Medicine who directs a low-barrier clinic that provides medication for treatment of substance use disorder.

“We need to educate families, and we need to educate students, teachers, coaches, health care professionals so they can talk to and screen their patients,” Buchheit said.

Joni Busche, RN

Joni Busche, RN, a staff nurse in the Beaverton School District, said the district is coordinating staff training in the use of naloxone to reverse overdoses among students as young as middle school. The district has also worked with the Epsteins to promote a “Fake and Fatal” awareness campaign among students and families.

The surge in fentanyl is quite evident within teenagers’ social circles, she said.

“It’s a different landscape from years ago, when we had students bring in mom and dad’s vodka or pills from the cupboard,” she said. “Until I heard Cal’s story, even as a medical professional, I had no idea the amount of fentanyl and illicit drugs that were out there ready for the next unsuspecting individual.”

Last year, the surge in fentanyl led to a 41% increase in overdose deaths in Oregon — compared with a 16% increase across the rest of the country.

Honora Englander, MD (OHSU)

The situation is challenging but not hopeless. The community can make a difference with increased awareness, harm reduction, treatment and leadership, said Honora Englander, MD, professor of medicine (hospital medicine and general internal medicine) in the OHSU School of Medicine. Englander leads Project IMPACT, an innovative in-hospital addiction intervention program that has demonstrated success in engaging people with substance use disorder with treatment.

“Every overdose of death is preventable,” she said.

Today local historian Dana Beck takes you back — and tells how Indepdence Day was celebrated through the years

Independence Day is one of America’s biggest celebrations. Across the country, in towns and neighborhoods, millions of people on that day once again this year will be stoking the coals in their barbecue, watching parades, and waiting to see the fireworks that honor this holiday.

Personally, I love a good parade, and there’s no better place to find one than in one of Oregon’s many small towns scattered about the state. If you like farm equipment, then you might want to stop by Hillsboro’s annual Fourth of July parade and look over 100 vintage and old-time tractors. In the tiny community of Cloverdale, south of Tillamook, spectators are entertained by the dancing horses of the local Latino Horse Riding team. And one of my own personal all-time favorite observances has been the antique biplanes of Hood River, circling around the Columbia River Gorge with Mt. Adams in the background, with each plane swooping down to do a pass over the parade below three times.

Americans have celebrated the Fourth of July since 1776, each in their own unique way. Returning to Portland specifically, and even more specifically Southeast Portland, here’s a trip through time to see how Oregonians have celebrated one of the most important days in American history.

In 1861, the Declaration of Independence was not yet even a hundred years old, and Portland was still basically a rough pioneer town. Working conditions were often harsh, and men and women typically worked ten to twelve hours a day – often seven days a week. There was little time to relax and enjoy life’s pleasures. Most Oregonians were probably too tired to be celebrating much of anything at the end of a very long day’s work – but when it came to honoring Independence Day, that was still a momentous occasion, and they celebrated with what energy they could muster.

That’s why, in 1861, some 8,000 people – that was most of the town, in those days – turned out in the streets of downtown Portland to celebrate Independence Day. The holiday was filled with patriotic speeches by politicians, many of whom voiced concerns about the Civil War already raging in the east; and a feature of such celebrations was often the public reading of the Declaration of Independence by a local orator. But once the speeches were done, it was time for the fun to begin. Racing horses and betting were popular pastimes in the 1860s, and the crowds adjourned to the local Country Club Race Track, where the horse racing was getting underway. Other activities during the day included tossing horse shoes, and competing in foot races. Foot races were for all ages – young boys to portly men; and flour sack races, and even egg races for the girls – were staged throughout the day.

Time passed. By 1910, automobiles and motorcycles had become a fascination for many Americans, as had been the introduction of electric lights — but few people could afford to own a vehicle yet, and most Oregonians were still using kerosene lamps and candles for nighttime activities at home.

In The Dalles, up the Columbia Gorge, hundreds of people from around the region gathered to witness an automobile parade, as well as floats decorated with electrical lighting, down Main Street. Afterwards, folks retired to the fairgrounds to bet on the horse racing there, to cheer on bare-footed racers, and to whoop and holler for the local baseball team.

Closer to Portland – in Vancouver, Washington, in that same year – spectators were treated to a mule obstacle course race, and a wall-scaling demonstration by athletic military personnel stationed at the Vancouver Barracks at Old Ft. Vancouver.

And in 1916, Sellwood was packed for the Fourth of July. Close to 2,000 people attended the Independence Day festivities at Sellwood Park, after a morning parade and a double-header baseball game between Sellwood’s youngsters and other schools. Events for the day still tended to focus on athletics –a sack race, a three-legged race, and a hopping contest for girls, along with other categories that included boys’ and girls’ sprints and relays.

A ball-throwing contest, along with a potato and wheel barrow race, completed the day’s festivities with the last events being a cracker-eating contest and a tug of war between married and single men. The single men won, and were awarded a supply of doughnuts for their prowess (the consumption of which might have tended to level the playing field somewhat for the married men).

Two years later, Independence Day in Sellwood in 1918 was an all-day affair at Sellwood Park – complete with a band concert, vaudeville acts, political speeches, and music and songs by local students. The highlight of the celebration was a parade that started at Sellwood School, proceeded to 13th Avenue until it reached Leo Street (today known as Lambert), and then concluded at the Sellwood Park entrance on 7th Avenue.

The parade that year, like most others around the nation, was led by a contingent of Boy Scouts and a Fife and Drum Corps. They were followed by girls pushing decorated doll carriages, as well as a group of girls representing the allied countries involved in what became known as The Great War, but what we now know as World War I. There were many patriotic songs sung by the spectators to honor our soldiers fighting overseas.

Floats in that 1918 parade included a tank, a Liberty Bond Car, an Ambulance, a Conservation Car, and even a “Goddess of Liberty Car”. Auxiliary Nurses rode in the back of an open Red Cross vehicle, and the parade completed with people of all ages dressed as familiar storybook characters – Mother Goose, Little Bo Peep, Red Riding Hood (evidently minus the Big Bad Wolf), Jack and Jill, Mother Hubbard – as well as Uncle Sam, and an assortment of clowns and fairies to entice the youngsters.

People who didn’t have their own neighborhood celebration nearby would spend the day at Oaks Amusement Park. The observance there was already by far one of the largest gatherings for the Fabulous Fourth. It was also a child’s paradise. While mothers packed lunches and tended to stay around the amusement park’s picnic areas, their children could spend the day riding the various rides, playing games of tag and hide and seek on the common grounds, or roller skating in the pavilion.

Men at Oaks Park on the Fourth could be found trying their luck at the shooting gallery, or gathered with drinks in hand around the barbecue, giving advice to the grillmaster. Others stood nearby sharing stories or telling jokes. Hard liquor and other such spirits had easily been smuggled into the Amusement Park, until “Prohibition” in 1916 stopped the consumption of alcohol completely across the nation.

Once they were able to relax at the park, the women settled into groups of two or four to chat about the exploits of their children and to share family news – pausing only to feed a hungry child who’d arrived back from their adventures in Oaks Park to grab some food or a cool drink.

Of course, at Oaks Park, most of the fun occurred year ’round, and not just on the Fourth of July!

Specifically, during the early years, vaudeville and circus acts were popular entertainment, and new material was presented during the annual Fourth of July performances at The Oaks. The day wasn’t complete without buying a ticket for a ride on the scenic railway, the giant metal seaplane attraction flying high above the ground, or stumbling through the Laughing Gallery with its many confusing mirrors and secret exits. In the mid-1920s, new attractions for patrons of the park included a monkey zoo, and a cage with a few live bears.

By evening on each Independence Day at Oaks Park, people were gathering along the bank of the Willamette River, where blankets were spread on the ground, in anticipation of experiencing the hour-long fireworks display. Since its inception in 1905, Oaks Park has always provided a dazzling display of fireworks on the Fourth of July – with pyrotechnics fired out over the Willamette River for everyone in Southeast Portland and the surrounding areas to see.Fireworks were not just limited to Oaks Park. Firecrackers and fireworks could be dangerous, but were popular to buy and use at home for boys and men. Roman candles, rockets, Red Devils, lady fingers, cherry bombs, and giant cannon crackers could be purchased at Erickson’s Hardware Store at S.E. 13th and Harney Street. Moreland Hardware, then located nearer the Moreland Theater than it is today, also offered a variety of noisemakers and fireworks. Rickety wooden firework booths could be found on many neighborhood corners, set up temporarily along the commercial districts of Sellwood, Woodstock, and Westmoreland, often staffed by young people or greying senior citizens.

Immigrants new to America took special pride in celebrating this special holiday – but, with their own variations. Swedish residents flocked to Oaks Park in the 1940’s on the Fourth, dressed in native folk clothing, there to eat and dance and salute the holiday. Traditional Swedish foods of pickled herring, potato dumplings, cardamon rolls, and strawberry sponge cake were delicacies brought to the picnic area; and the live music of Knusel’s Orchestra filtered through the towering oak trees at the Park’s picnic grounds. Entertainments included wrestling, arm wrestling, and lots of group singing and laughter. The evenings were highlighted by a yodeling contest, in which young and old – and even family dogs! – joined in.

Meantime, just south of Oregon City in Canemah Park, the Scots were hosting their own version of a Fourth of July party. Under the auspices of the Macleay Clan and the Caledonian Society of Portland there was a Scottish picnic. Attendees were able to take part in Highland and sword dancing, along with a competition for couples to be the best schottische dancer. Bagpipes skirling and a game of rugby, along with stone-throwing and sword demonstrations, replaced the typical American patriotic tunes and baseball games found at most other Independence Day gatherings.

Still in the 1920s, and returning to typical local observances on Independence Day, commercial buildings up and down Milwaukie Avenue in Westmoreland and on 13th Avenue in Sellwood were decked out in patriotic themes. Red, white, and blue bunting could be found hanging from the façades of storefronts, and the Sellwood Confectionary at Tenino and 13th sold Fourth of July greeting cards, as well as red and white candy sticks, spinning pinwheels, and sparkling stars.

Other merchants, like Brill’s Department Store, had huge windows decorated with colorful paper maché designs, or brightly-colored tinsel and streamers. Hand-held flags for those attending the community parade could be bought for a dime, and clothing emporiums offered displays of children’s swimwear in case the kids decided to spend part of the day at the Oaks Bath House, or down the street at the Sellwood Swimming Pool, which first opened in 1910 and is still there today at Sellwood Park.

In the early Twentieth Century, few people traveled far, and almost all shopping and necessities could be had within a few blocks of where they lived. Independence Day celebrations were usually held nearby. Because of that, each neighborhood had its own place and way to observe the holiday

Sellwood residents had a dedicated park, and community swimming pool, so all their activities were held in Sellwood Park – and, as for their Fourth of July parade: You marched on 13th Avenue in the main commercial district, and the route wound around and ended at Sellwood Park, where everyone gathered for the remainder of the day.

Those people who lived in “South Moreland”, along S.E. 17th between Bybee Boulevard and Nehalem Street, had their own park: Johnson Creek Park, located at 21st and S.E. Clatsop, was dedicated to South Moreland by the City of Portland in 1920. An outdoor playground was installed, and residents living in the area felt that Independence Day activities should properly be held at Johnson Creek Park – so they had their own parade that came down 17th Avenue and ended at that park for the all-day Independence Day events, such as the community picnic.

In 1925, Westmoreland residents were calling on the city for a park of their own, but nobody seemed to be listening to them. They had their own school – Llewellyn Elementary – and their own movie theater; they had their own streetcar, which ran down Milwaukie Avenue. But they had no park where they could watch baseball games or hold any outdoor activities.

They even had their own Neighborhood Association: the Westmoreland Community Club. So, instead of traipsing over to Sellwood for Independence Day celebrations, or accepting an invitation to Johnson Creek Park, they organized their own party. The Westmoreland Community Club invited everyone who lived in their neighborhood to a special Fourth of July dance aboard the riverboat “The Swan”, with lively music by Darby’s Orchestra. Women and girls wore summer dresses sporting patriotic themes, while men wore straw “boater” hats with miniature American flags protruding from the sides. But for Westmoreland, a park would finally be coming – as a job-providing “public works” project during the Great Depression in the 1930s.

So it was that in 1936 Westmoreland Park was officially dedicated to the residents of Westmoreland. Typical food for the Fourth at that time might include homemade potato salad, biscuits, coleslaw, bean salad, corn on the cob, and barbecued ribs or chicken. Everyone made sure to leave room afterwards for ice-cold watermelon, or strawberry shortcake and ice cream.

Following each of the last century’s two World Wars, many American parades were filled with returning solders, military vehicles, and military themes. In 1921 a parade was organized at Peninsula Park in Portland to honor not only the World War I Veterans, but also the men who fought in the Spanish-American War, and even those still alive from the Grand Army of the Republic. The 1921 celebration in Portland included three boats – a torpedo boat and two destroyers – from the United States Navy, which docked downtown on the Willamette. Their sailors were invited to march in thecity’s July 4th parade. Afterwards, afternoon activities included a stunt contest, a pie-eating tournament, and a three-legged race, among other things.

Meanwhile, over at Mt. Scott, the locals attended a Boy Scout parade, followed by a lively baseball game, and volleyball and even track and field events.

By the 1960s and thereafter, Independence Day Parades had largely lost the interest of Portland and Inner Southeast residents. But in Eastmoreland, the folks were thinking of ways to bring back festivities of the Fourth of July. Ken Brooks proposed to the Eastmoreland Neighborhood Association a bicycle-only parade, and an ice cream social – and the ENA approved the idea. In 1994 the first Independence Bicycle Parade in Eastmoreland took place and it continues to the present day.

As Eastmoreland Historian Joanne Carlson recorded, “It’s not unusual to have over 1,000 people show up for the annual Eastmoreland Independence Day Parade” – a parade which will again take place this year on that day, starting and ending at Duniway Elementary School. Designated as a bicycle parade, everyone from children to grandparents gets involved, and even dogs in the parade join in, putting up with being decorated – decked out in zany or colonial designs or clothing, representing the Fourth of July spirit.

In the Eastmoreland parade, there are usually at least a few motor vehicles – Fire Engine #20 from the Westmorland fire station often leads the parade, which may also include a Portland Police pace car, and sometimes an assortment of vintage autos. Marching units vary, but some past participants have included Cub Scout Troops, clowns, school bands, Rose Festival Princesses, and even riders on horseback.

This year’s Eastmoreland Parade is promised once again to have lots of participants, and to draw a large crowd of spectators – it will start promptly at 10 a.m. on Monday, July 4, at Duniway School. If you attend, feel free to bring your lawn chair, your American Flag, and lots of enthusiasm and cheers for the youngsters on parade.

If you’re not in the mood for a parade, or are looking for other ways to celebrate with a feel of Americana this year, don’t forget the big fireworks show at Oaks Amusement Park – a display accompanied by the sight and sound of carnival music and the neon lights of the Ferris Wheel and all the other rides that will be open and in action there that evening.

This year, our country celebrates 246 years of declared independence, and has grown from 13 defiant small colonies isolated in a distant land to the mightiest country on earth. Happy Independence Day to you!

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By Kathy A. Heimbigner

Whether a volunteer or draftee, each and every veteran signed a document agreeing to sacrifice his or her life during service for the United States of America.

That makes a veteran different from the rest of us. They pledged their life to save our freedom.

For that pledge, they were told they would receive benefits — including health care for life — from the United States through the auspices of the Veterans Administration.

In Lewis County, Washington and surrounding areas that promise was broken when the VA chose to close the South Sound/Chehalis Community Outpatient Clinic without advance notice. This was an unexpected and much more than an inconvenient event.

For some veterans who were able to utilize the clinic, this was the furthest they could travel. Travel times were upwards of 75 to 90 minutes one way. Due to traffic, it was often over three hours round trip. That’s a difficult trip for those in pain, disabled with specific needs or with limited funds for gas or payment to a driver.

None of these concerns or issues were apparently considered by VA parties of authority choosing to close the clinic.

They were told to travel farther to a new clinic north in the Olympia and Lacey area, a clinic now over-burdened by appointments. Many are not able to schedule a health appointment. Even if they are, they are frustrated by excessive waiting times in calling the VA system. The limited facilities for these veterans are all further distant.

There are now no VA services from Olympia south, with a two to three hour drive to Vancouver, Washington, the other possibility.

A VA Puget Sound Health Care System newsletter proudly announces no less than 10 VA health facilities in Olympia and north.

A Lewis County resources for veterans document disseminated by the Department of Veterans Affairs shows a high density of veterans in our county. That’s a fact confirmed by the 2020 US Census: 10.4% of the Lewis County population are veterans. That’s approximately 8,500 people.

These are the veterans who “pledged their life to save our freedom,” and more are coming home. They are not receiving the health care promised by the VA.

No VA care in rural areas? These veterans only ask for “what they were promised.”

Perhaps rural veterans do not deserve the same level of medical care, although the challenges can be greater. Travel is only one. Recently the internet was promoted as being necessary statewide. Lewis County has areas with no internet or cellphone service. The privileges of rural living is peace, quiet, country — all allowing a better quality of life.

Lewis County veterans do deserve medical care, specifically a VA staffed clinic in our county.

A sixth meeting of Vets Coffee is focused on proposing a countywide (and beyond) petition to the VA decision makers.

Join in at 8 on Thursday, July 7, at Tall Timber Restaurant in Randle.

Restore a broken promise. Let’s help all veterans in and around Lewis County

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Kathy A. Heimbigner is the wife of a veteran.

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HOUSTON, TX – Ten Memorial Hermann urgent care centers reopen today under a new partnership with GoHealth – just in time for the busy Fourth of July weekend. The Memorial Hermann-GoHealth Urgent Care centers will be staffed and led by Memorial Hermann clinicians, who will provide in-person and virtual care services seven days a week. […]

HOUSTON, TX – Ten Memorial Hermann urgent care centers reopen today under a new partnership with GoHealth – just in time for the busy Fourth of July weekend.

The Memorial Hermann-GoHealth Urgent Care centers will be staffed and led by Memorial Hermann clinicians, who will provide in-person and virtual care services seven days a week. Each site can see the whole family, ages 6 months and older, with additional pediatric expertise for infants and up at the West University pediatric location. Patients will have access to a wide array of services for non-life-threatening conditions at all Urgent Care locations. The centers will also provide X-ray services, COVID-19 testing and treatment, sports physicals for kids and more.

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“The last two years have shown how critical it is for our communities to have easy access to on-demand, affordable health care,” said Manny Singh, Market President, GoHealth Urgent Care. “We are proud to provide the Greater Houston area with convenient access to urgent care that is directly connected to the expertise and deep community roots of Memorial Hermann. We look forward to caring for patients across Southeast Texas and ensuring the health and safety of its residents.”

The centers also provide a direct connection to Memorial Hermann’s robust network of care, which regularly earns regional and national recognition for excellence in quality and safety.

“These centers will provide Greater Houston area residents with an affordable option for safe and efficient health care close to home for non-emergent conditions,” said Anne Pearson, MD, Senior Vice President and CEO of Physicians of Memorial Hermann. “Memorial Hermann’s commitment to delivering high-quality care coupled with GoHealth’s advanced technology and expertise in the urgent care space will provide patients of all ages with the best possible health care experience.”

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The centers will be open from 8 am to 8 pm Monday through Friday and from 9 am to 5 pm Saturday and Sunday, with the exception of the West University Pediatric Urgent Care center which will be open from 10 am to 10 pm, seven days a week.

Patients seeking care can be seen quickly and easily by walking into any Memorial Hermann-GoHealth Urgent Care center or by going online and clicking on the nearest location to pre-register and save a spot.

Below are the addresses of Memorial Hermann-GoHealth Urgent Care’s ten centers:

• Bender’s Landing – 4057 Riley Fuzzel Rd, Suite 1100B, Spring, TX, 77386
• clear lake – 19419 Gulf Fwy, Suite 3, Webster, TX 77598
• Friendswood – 1505 E. Winding Way, Suite 112, Friendswood, TX 77546
• Fulshear – 5102 FM 1463, Suite 1200, Katy, TX 77494
• Greater Heights – 300 North Loop, Suite 100, Houston, TX 77008
• Town & Country – 12740 Memorial Drive Suite 100, Houston, TX 77024
• Telfair – 1227 Museum Square Dr, Suite A, Sugar Land, TX, 77479
• Washington Ave – 4500 Washington Ave, Suite 100, Houston, TX 77007
• West University Urgent Care/West University Pediatric Urgent Care – 3501 W Holcombe Blvd, Houston, TX, 77025

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Charting a better future. A future that’s built upon the HEALTH of our community. This is the driving force for Memorial Hermann, redefining health care for the individuals and many diverse populations we serve. Our 6,500 affiliated physicians and 29,000 employees practice the highest standards of safe, evidence-based, quality care to provide a personalized and outcome-oriented experience across our more than 265 care delivery sites. As one of the largest not-for-profit health systems in Southeast Texas, Memorial Hermann has an award-winning and nationally acclaimed Accountable Care Organization, 17* hospitals and numerous specialty programs and services conveniently located throughout the Greater Houston area. Memorial Hermann-Texas Medical Center is one of the nation’s busiest Level I trauma centers and serves as the primary teaching hospital for McGovern Medical School at UTHealth. For more than 115 years, our focus has been the best interest of our community, contributing more than $400 million annually through school-based health centers and other community benefit programs. Now and for generations to come, the health of our community will be at the center of what we do – charting a better future for all.

*Memorial Hermann Health System owns and operates 14 hospitals and has joint ventures with three other hospital facilities, including Memorial Hermann Surgical Hospital First Colony, Memorial Hermann Surgical Hospital Kingwood and Memorial Hermann Rehabilitation Hospital-Katy.

GoHealth is an on-demand consumer-centric care platform that serves as the digital and physical front door to the healthcare ecosystem. At GoHealth, we aim to provide timely, accessible and high-quality on-demand care to patients, both virtually and in person, through both our technology-enabled and data-driven approach to care and partnerships with market-leading health systems. GoHealth operates over 190 on-demand care centers in the greater New York metropolitan area; the Portland, Oregon-Vancouver, Washington, metropolitan area; the San Francisco Bay Area; Hartford and Southeastern Connecticut; Winston-Salem and Charlotte, North Carolina; St Louis and Springfield, Missouri; Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Northwest Arkansas; Delaware and Maryland; Michigan and Texas. GoHealth Urgent Care is a portfolio company of TPG Growth, the middle market and growth equity investment platform of TPG, which has more than $114 billion of assets under management.

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Contractors are increasingly turning to bio-based materials, such as mass timber, to serve as construction carbon sinks in order to meet the goal of net zero emissions by 2050. President Joe Biden signed an executive order late last year to make the federal government carbon-neutral by 2050, aiming for a 65% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

The Softwood Lumber Board and USDA Forest Service recently awarded $2 million total to six projects that highlighted innovative architectural design and mass timber’s significant role in carbon reduction.

As mass timber becomes a more commonly used building material across project sites, lessons learned from the competition will be shared with the construction community to help support future projects, including cost analyses, life cycle assessments and other research results, SLB said. Here are the six winners:

Vancouver Ambulatory Care Center

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The new medical center in Vancouver, Washington will provide outpatient ambulatory medical care. ZGF, Timberlab, Swinerton and PCS Structural Solutions lead the project.

The site sits on a 12.5-acre greenfield at the eastern portion of Vancouver, Washington. The 176,000-square-foot, 4-story building will employ cross-laminated timber panels and glue-laminated timber throughout the structure. A key deliverable from this effort will be a typology-specific comprehensive barrier-breaking type resource guide developed by the design team.

The project shows an estimated 1.6 million kgCO2e savings for the mass timber over the steel structure with an additional 1.6 million kcCO2e savings when considering the biogenic storage benefits of wood, according to the SLB report.

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This project (pictured in header) is a high-rise multifamily building in downtown Denver and will be the first mass timber multifamily building in the state of Colorado. Katz Development, Timberlab, KL&A Engineers and Builders and Tres Birds lead the project.

The 12-story building will house 84 apartment units, resident amenity space and ground floor retail. The building consists of nine levels of mass timber sitting above a three-level concrete podium. The mass timber structure will hold residential units on levels 4 through 11, and will contain a planted rooftop amenity and four penthouse units on the 12th floor. The mass timber structure will be composed of glulam columns and beams with cross-laminated timber decks.

Evergreen Charter School

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The project is an 85,000-square-foot, 750 student K-12 project for a mission-driven charter school organization based in a low-income Hispanic community in Long Island, New York. Martin Hopp Architect, Consigli and Odeh Engineers lead the project.

The structure is a 5-story hybrid cross-laminated timber building, with accessible multi-purpose and green roofs. An early-stage carbon analysis using the Woodworks Carbon Calculator indicates that for the 36,666 cubic feet of cross-laminated timber used in the building, the project will avoid about 359 metric tons of CO2 emissions by substituting in mass timber instead, according to the SLB report.

Alaskan Copper & Brass

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The proposed project is a 42,456-square-foot industrial warehouse in Kent, Washington, led by atelierjones, Foushée, Timberlab and DCI Engineers.

The warehouse will be the first to incorporate mass timber on a large scale to a shell and core warehouse project in the Kent Valley, which has traditionally been dominated by tilt-up concrete, bar-joist and pre-engineered metal buildings, according to the SLB report. The one-story warehouse features cross-laminated timber panels and glulam beams and columns.

An initial comparative carbon impact analysis of the warehouse project shows a 33% reduction in emissions for an equivalent warehouse with a cross-laminated timber enclosure over a concrete tilt-up baseline.

INTRO Cleveland Stage 2

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This 750,000-square-foot mixed-use development is the largest mass timber project in the country. Harbor Bay Real Estate Advisors, Hartshorne Plunkard Architecture and Forefront Structural Engineers lead the project.

Phase 2 will build a 16-story mass timber building that focuses on additional residential space, including a mass timber tower over a concrete podium. The mass timber tower will consist of glulam columns and girders with cross-laminated timber floor slabs. The project team projects wood to comprise about 50% of the total structure, according to the SLB report.

With carbon stored in the timber and avoided carbon emissions, the carbon benefit is 6.483 metric tons of carbon dioxide in Phase 2, according to the WoodWorks Carbon Calculator. A comparative carbon impact analysis of this project shows a 39% to 56% reduction in embodied carbon.

Killingsworth

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The structure is a three-story 18,780-square-foot office space building in Portland, Oregon. Adre, LEVER Architecture and Holmes Structural Engineers lead the project. The project will promote social equity with a goal of 30% of the subcontractors building the project to be Black, Indigenous, and people of color (BIPOC) and women-owned businesses.

Mass timber used in the project will result in a carbon benefit of 407 metric tons of carbon dioxide. The goal of the design is to prove out the rocking shear wall system and become a demonstration project of how this advanced technology can exceed code and provide a cost-effective seismic solution for buildings between 3 and 12 stories, according to the release.