http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/index.php Portland and surrounding area community news and information http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121684889171277300 Mary Lynn Payne Mary Lynn Payne died July 20, 2008, of complications from a long-standing medical condition. She was 57. Mrs. Payne was born Feb. 18, 1951, in Cleveland, Ohio, the oldest of six children. She was educated in Catholic schools and was in the first class of women to be admitted ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121684879230668000 A man suspected of stealing $7,000 from a video store in Lake Oswego led police on a foot chase for more than an hour in Tualatin Friday. The chase ended when a police dog sniffed the man out of a garden shed. Lake Oswego Police arrested James Wesley Cassel, 31, in the incident. Cassel is ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121684867824011500 Information from the public safety column comes from the records of the Lake Oswego Police Department. Police recently filed reports on the following incidents: 7/15/08 4:24 a.m. Jennifer Christine Stai, 21, was arrested for theft and taken to the Clackamas County Jail. 7/15/08 10:34 a.m. ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121684799676318400 Football games at Lakeridge are a go this fall, according to the Lake Oswego City Council’s unanimous ruling late Tuesday night to deny an appeal from neighbors. The approved conditions will allow for play-by-play announcement, safety lights on the field until 9:30 p.m., except for ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121684783227762500 The guests of honor seemed to take everything in stride. Two Great Horned Owls were released at Bryant Woods Nature Park in Lake Oswego on Tuesday to the great pleasure of 50 local bird lovers. Thus ended the saga, or at least a chapter, of the two owls – known simply as adult owl and ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121684772237616700 Former swim coach and lifeguard Don King, 67, did not get his job back after an appeal to the Lake Oswego School Board last Wednesday. The Lake Oswego School District fired King on June 3 for inappropriate physical contact with children, which was described as sexual harassment according to ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121684755968124200 If you call Cindy Klein a saint, she shakes her head “No.” If you call her an angel, she says, “No one who really knows me thinks that I’m an angel.” But one compliment Klein does not try to elude is “decisive.” Because from the moment she found out ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121684739868081300 Dave Roche just wants to give his customers a break. That is why his Dave’s Palisades Service became the first Lake Oswego area gas station to drop its price of regular gas below $4.00 per gallon on Monday. And these days, $3.99 gas is reason to celebrate. “I bought it at the right ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121683577536094500 THURSDAY, JULY 24 · WEST LINN CHAMBER RIBBON CUTTING/NETWORKING – 4 to 6 p.m., Legacy Clinic West Linn, 2020 8th Ave., Suite B. Contact 503-655-6744. · MAC USER GROUP – 12:30 p.m., Lake Oswego Adult Community Center. FRIDAY, JULY 25 · BREAKFAST AT “THE TABLE” ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121675660181434700 Oregon’s 198 public school districts received on Monday $28 million in earnings from the Common School Fund. The money that was distributed this week is 14 percent higher than was given out in July 2007, and 57 percent higher than the amount distributed in 2000, according to Oregon’s ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121640590574866100 Former swim coach and lifeguard Don King, 67, did not get his job back after an appeal to the Lake Oswego School Board on Wednesday, July 16. The Lake Oswego School District fired King on June 3 for inappropriate physical contact with children, which was described as sexual harassment according to ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121624604822175300 Recovering from addiction to drugs or alcohol is a hugely difficult challenge. But Come Rest Awhile makes it easier. For 150 female addicts since 2001, the Lake Oswego home has been a community for women in recovery, building strength and sobriety and enabling them to return to a normal ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121624644774674800 The Lake Oswego City Council voted Tuesday to approve up to $100 million in bond sales to finance the Lake Oswego sewer interceptor, a sewer pipeline that will serve more than two thirds of the city’s buildings. The one-of-a-kind floating sewer pipe will carry effluent through Oswego Lake ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121635425210014300 Republican Mike Erickson’s beleaguered congressional campaign got a lift recently when the U.S. Supreme Court tossed out the “Millionaire’s Amendment.” The 5-4 court decision means Erickson’s Democratic opponent, Kurt Schrader, must stick to regular campaign ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121624635644859700 Talks about a possible land deal could lead to a city purchase of Lake Oswego Hunt Inc., the nonprofit equestrian facility at 2725 S.W. Iron Mountain Blvd. Discussions about a possible purchase have been ongoing for a year, according to the president of the club’s board of directors, and the ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121624822458889200 Brenda Suteu says that if Lake Oswego businesses are friendly to senior citizens, Lake Oswego senior citizens will be friendly to them. This simply makes good business sense, as Suteu outlined her talk titled, “The Graying of Lake Oswego” before the Lake Oswego Business Alliance ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121624887680364400 Information from the public safety column comes from the records of the Lake Oswego Police Department. Police recently filed reports on the following incidents: 7/11/08 8:16 a.m. Michael Dee Lyski, 25, was cited and released on suspicion of driving while suspended. 7/11/08 9:03 a.m. Nicholas ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121624855377515400 Bozena Rose McVay Bozena Rose McVay died July 6, 2008 in Santa Cruz, Calif. She was 96. She was born in l912 to Czecho-slovakian immigrants Louise and Louis Spousta in Menominee, Mich. While she was in grade school her family moved to West Linn, to the parcel of land that is now Oswego Hills ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121624847268030400 The Lake Oswego Public Library’s 32nd annual Volunteer Recognition luncheon was held recently at Oswego Lake Country Club with over 120 people in attendance. Following the theme of “Everything’s Coming Up Roses for Our Library Volunteers,” nine Royal Rosarians were in ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121624788112974800 CLEAN STREAMS – Help the city of Lake Oswego celebrate Clean Streams by designing the look for new storm water manhole lids. Send your design by July 28 and compete for a cash prize of $200. The final design will be chosen by a city-appointed selection panel in August. Visit the Clean ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121624700712602300 Lake Grove Elementary School is getting a new drainage system this summer that will cost the district almost $1 million. The school building was built after the original facility burned down in 1949. At the time, the school was a part of the Lake Grove district before the district merged with ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121624672815347700 A 23-year-old man who threatened a cab driver with a fake gun Saturday is being held by federal immigration officials for allegedly being in the country illegally. Mohammad Mahm Alanezi was arrested for menacing, disorderly conduct and harassment at about 7 a.m. Saturday after pointing a BB gun ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121624660055908900 Three new candidates have announced plans to run for the Lake Oswego City Council in the next general election Nov. 4. They include Bill Tierney, chair of the Lake Oswego Development Review Commission; Russell Jones, a long-time civic volunteer with conservative leanings; and Justin Luber, a ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121624654776097500 Frank Groznik, a Lake Oswego city councilman, calls it “the Gordian Knot of governance.” But the issue of the West End Building – whether to sell it, keep it or craft some combination of the two – may finally be creeping toward resolution through a nine-part plan approved ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121624593807358000 A loud, emotional response to the Lake Grove Swim Park closure plan prompted the city of Lake Oswego and one of its contractors for the Lake Oswego Sewer Interceptor project to see if the park could be kept open next summer. Yet the hearing Tuesday evening was met with little positive response ... http://www.lakeoswegoreview.com/news/story.php?story_id=121623210277266600 THURSDAY, JULY 17 · WEST LINN CHAMBER NETWORKING – No meeting today. · LAKE OSWEGO CHAMBER NETWORKING – 8 a.m., 2B Well Clinic, 5935 Willow Ln. · FICTION ALLSORTS: SHORT STORY DISCUSSION GROUP – Meets weekly at 10:30 a.m. in the upstairs conference room at Lake Oswego Public ...