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By Dennis McNabb, Contributing Writer Photos by Craig Brubaker Photography

ooking for a fun, delicious, dessert destination your entire family will enjoy? Well look no further than The Pink Spoon located in Forest Grove!

Serving a variety of frozen yogurt flavors, a cornucopia (50+) of toppings to choose from, yogurt shakes, yogurt-cookie sandwiches, root beer floats, gourmet popcorn, ready-toeat cookie dough, and Puppy Snacks. The Pink Spoon has something for everyone!

Owner-operator Stacy Parker giggled when we discussed the issue of frozen yogurt as a healthier dessert alternative. In truth, she uses only YoCream brand frozen yogurt, locally made in Portland, which has the highest count of real live yogurt cultures of any brand. In addition, she always offers at least 2 flavors which are dairy-free and 1 flavor which is no-sugars-added, not to mention several varieties of real fruit toppings. So depending on the choices you make, it is absolutely possible to have a relatively healthy-but-stilldelectable dessert here. The thing that is so funny is that few have the willpower to do so!

Although The Pink Spoon has been open since 2018, Stacy just had her 10 year anniversary as an expert in the industry. Some of you may recognize her as the previous owner of The Yogurt Shop in McMinnville. Fortunately for us though, when she moved to Forest Grove she sold the other business and opened this one. And she absolutely loves it! Her sincere passion for her product, her staff, and her community, is not only evident but inspiring.

And they offer fantastic flavors you can’t find anywhere else! Avocado, Gingerbread, Apple Pie, Grandma’s Sugar Cookie, Crème Brûlée; the list goes on! She and her staff have a blast regularly concocting new and exciting flavors, so you never get tired of what’s offered. You can also rest assured that their flavors are genuine, made from real ingredients, not sugary syrups or chemicals!

Once you’ve had the real thing, there’s no going back! For 4 years running, The Pink Spoon has received the Reader’s Choice 1st Place awards for both Best Dessert and Best Kid Friendly Restaurant! In 2022, they won those awards in addition to 2nd Place for Best Customer Service and also Business of the Year. They are also a long standing business partner with us here at Advantage Magazines.

Support a local business and treat yourselves to the best dessert in town.

The Pink Spoon is located at 3650 Pacific Highway Suite 103B in Forest Grove. Give them a ring at (503) 992-1919, or check out their menu and order online for pickup and dine-in.

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SEASONAL

Easter History: Hares, Eggs, & Candy

By Donovan Darling, Staff Writer

Easter is about rebirth, renewal, and fertility. This is evident in symbols like the Easter bunny and Easter eggs, which eventually led to chocolate eggs, marshmallow Peeps, and the second best-selling candy holiday in America! Let’s take a quick look at how Easter has changed over the years.

Easter Bunny

According to legend, the Easter bunny first came to 1700s America with German immigrants who settled in Pennsylvania and brought along their tradition of an egg-laying rabbit called “Osterhase” or “Oschter Haws.” Children made outdoor nests so this curious creature could lay its colored eggs. Eventually, the tradition spread across the country, and the fabled hare’s Easter morning goodies would eventually include chocolate, candy, and gifts, while colorful baskets would replace the nests. Much like milk and cookies left out for Santa, children would often leave out carrots in case the Easter bunny got hungry from all his hopping!

Easter Eggs

From a Christian perspective, eggs were handed out during Easter service in early Orthodox churches, with the hard shell representing the sealed tomb and the cracking of the egg representing the resurrection. One explanation is that eggs used to be forbidden during Lent, so Christians would paint and decorate them to mark the end of the period of penance and fasting, then eat them on Easter as a celebration. The origin of dyeing Easter eggs is less clear, beginning anywhere from 13th century Europe or all the way back to ancient Mesopotamia. It’s rumored the early Christians of Mesopotamia dyed eggs using red to represent the blood shed on the cross. Later, missionaries may have painted biblical scenes on eggs and used them to explain the story of Easter to children.

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Easter Candy

Fast forward to the 19th century, when European chocolatiers began making chocolate eggs to celebrate Easter.

Nowadays, Easter is the second best-selling candy holiday in America after Halloween. The largest Easter egg ever made was over 25 feet high and weighed over 8,000 pounds, made from chocolate and marshmallow, and supported by an internal steel frame. Another egg-shaped candy is the jelly bean, first popular for Easter back in the 1930s. Over 16 billion jelly beans are made in the U.S. each year for Easter. Over the last decade, the marshmallow Peep has been the best-selling non-chocolate Easter candy. Created in the 1950s, the original Peeps were handmade, yellow marshmallow chicks, and other flavors and shapes were introduced later, including chocolate mousse bunnies! info from history.com

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“The story goes that there was a guy who was coming around doing decorations for the car lot,” explains Dave Anchel, president of Elmer’s. “Elmer asked him if he was making any money and the guy said, ‘Better than you!’”

Elmer believed it, so he left auto sales for the car lot decorating business. The store prospered, thanks to his talent for spotting niche business opportunities, like flags and banners, and his commitment to building customer loyalty with quality products and honest service. Today, Elmer’s is Portland’s largest flag, banner and kite store, with 4,000 square feet of products, everything from weathervanes to windsocks.

Anchel grew up in rural northeast Pennsylvania, where he spent 22 years in the family business, learning how to run a successful small company. In their search for a business to purchase, Anchel and his wife visited Portland and fell in love. “We came to Portland, had some really good chocolate and said to each other, ‘We could live here,’” he recalls.

Variety is the spice of life and it’s also what you’ll find at Elmer’s.

Anchel estimates the store offers some 8,000 different products, about 1,200 of which are available online. Elmer’s also makes

its own custom flags and banners, by hand and in-house. They make both high-quality, digitally designed flags and banners, and are one of the only companies in the United States that still does appliqué - the time-honored tradition of sewing one piece of fabric onto another - just like Betsy Ross.

“We make those by hand, upstairs in our sewing shop, and they look gorgeous,” Anchel explains. “It’s for when people want an heirloom quality flag, like of their family crest, or when a high school wins a championship and wants to hoist a banner to their gymnasium ceiling.”

Elmer’s also manufactures, sells, installs and services custom poles, including two of the tallest in the state of Oregon, measuring 120 feet. “They’re monsters,” Anchel says with a laugh.

Elmer’s selection of kites, flags, banners, weather vanes, wind spinners and other wind toys will amaze you. Looking to spruce up your home’s exterior? Stop into the retail store at 1332 NE Broadway in Portland, Monday-Friday from 8:30am to 5:30pm and Saturdays from 10am to 4pm. Or visit their website, elmersflag.com anytime.

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BUSINESS SPOTLIGHT

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or anyone following our monthly articles, you will no doubt already be familiar with the name Sandy Monterroza. As an agent with State Farm, she has been providing superior service for her clients for the past 20 years. Her genuine passion for helping people, combined with her prodigious levels of knowledge and experience, places her firmly at the top of the preeminent agents in the area. Regardless of whether you’re a long-term client or a first time caller seeking a quote, Sandy always provides the most honest, educated, and intelligent advice available. And when it comes to protecting your family, why would you settle for anything less?

In that same spirit of helping and educating folks, this month Sandy thought it wise to advise on accidents and what to do in the unfortunate event that you’ve had one.

Accidents are an unavoidable part of life. We’ve all had them, but we don’t always know how to handle them.

Your insurance policies provide financial protection against your own damages as well as possible liability against others, but it’s not always the wisest choice to use that coverage. So how do you know?

Call your agent! If you don’t have an agent, get one before filing a claim. As we know, the fewer at-fault claims we have against our policies, the better, and there are many instances where it behooves us not to make a claim! Generally speaking, it most often comes down to deductibles. When the cost of paying your deductible is

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higher than the cost of the claim itself, it’s better not to file or else your rates could be affected over a claim your insurance can’t even pay for.

That’s just one example, of course, but it illustrates the kinds of pitfalls you can avoid by having an agent like Sandy to help. Accidents happen. That’s why we carry insurance in the first place. But there are many different ways to handle those situations, and only someone with years of experience and expertise can properly advise you. If you don’t already have an agent, or even if you do but don’t necessarily trust that they hold your best interests at heart, contact Sandy Monterroza today!

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RECIPE

Lemon Blueberry Cake This moist blueberry lemon cake contains three lemon cake layers with blueberries and is frosted with a refreshing whipping cream and cream cheese frosting, which again has blueberries and lemons.

INGREDIENTS

CAKE 1 (16.25 ounce) package white cake mix 1 ¼ cups water 3 egg whites 1/3 cup vegetable oil 2 teaspoons lemon extract DIRECTIONS

FROSTING 1 cup heavy whipping cream 1 (8 ounce) package cream cheese, softened ¾ cup white sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla extract FILLING 1/3 cup blueberry pie filling

1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees F (175 degrees C). Grease and flour two 8-inch pans.

2. Beat cake mix, water, egg whites, vegetable oil, and lemon extract together in a bowl using an electric mixer on medium speed until batter is well combined, about 2 minutes. Pour batter into prepared pans.

3. Bake in the preheated oven until a toothpick inserted in the center of the cake comes out clean, 25 to 30 minutes. Cool in pans for 10 minutes before transferring it to a wire rack to cool completely.

4. Beat cream in a chilled bowl using an electric mixer until soft peaks are almost forming into stiff peaks; place bowl in refrigerator.

5. Beat cream cheese, sugar, and vanilla extract together in a separate bowl using an electric mixer until smooth and creamy. Fold whipped cream into cream cheese mixture.

6. Place 1 cake on a plate; top with blueberry pie filling. Place second cake atop blueberry filling. Generously frost cake with whipped cream cheese frosting.

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By Robert Matsumura, Contributing Writer

or the multitude of travelers crossing the Interstate Bridge between Oregon and Washington, Jantzen Beach is simply a vast spread of shopping centers, restaurants, and hotels clustered on Hayden Island as you zoom past. Many will have a vague notion of the area being associated with the Jantzen brand of swimwear, but with each passing year the memories of the iconic Jantzen Beach Amusement Park dwindle into obscurity. Back in the day, hailed as the “Coney Island of the West,” Hayden Island was once home to the largest amusement park in the nation—a massive park encompassing 123 acres that was patronized by over 30 million people during its 42 years of operation.

It all began in 1927 when William A. Logus and Leo F. Smith purchased forty acres on Hayden Island from the Portland Electric Power Company.

Shortly thereafter, Logus and Smith launched the Jantzen Beach Amusement Park, named after Carl Jantzen of swimwear fame; along with a number of Jantzen executives and several prominent members of the community, Carl 26 • FOREST GROVE COMMUNITY ADVANTAGE MAGAZINE

Jantzen underwrote the entire $500,000 project.

Jantzen and his fellow investors envisioned the park as a showcase to promote swimming as a public activity, which later included the company’s sponsorship of national “Learn to Swim” weeks throughout the 1940s and ‘50s. With swimming as a primary focus of the park, four gigantic swimming pools were constructed as well as a natatorium (an indoor swimming facility).

The Jantzen Beach Amusement Park officially opened on May 26, 1928. In addition to the swimming pools, the park also featured a number of popular rides including the Big Dipper Roller Coaster and a custom-made carousel.

Constructed by C.W. Parker, the “American Amusement King,” the carousel was hand-crafted in 1921 and first operated at Venice Beach in Los Angeles. After surviving a fire, the carousel was later shipped to Portland where it became a highlight attraction at Jantzen Beach. Of the various rides created by Parker, only the carousel survives

today. It resides in the custodianship of Restore Oregon, an organization with plans to reassemble and install the carousel in a permanent new home that will “serve as a new attraction for our region.” On a spooky note, the carousel was for years the source of ghost stories. A number of youngsters, as well as maintenance workers, claimed to have witnessed ghostly children on or about the ride.

The Big Dipper Roller Coaster, designed by Carl Phare, took center stage as the featured attraction of the park.

The “Dipper,” a gigantic amusement construction, boasted to be the largest roller coaster west of Chicago, traveling 3800 feet per minute with 14 dips, 5 of them in excess of 35 feet, and the steepest dip which plunged riders 70 feet straight down. For the more faint of heart, the park offered a Kiddy Dipper roller coaster, and included arcade games and picnic grounds.

One of the biggest draws of the park was the Golden Canopy Ballroom, which became Portland’s premier dancehall during the 1930s and ‘40s.

In 1942, Clara Shepard of the Spectator newspaper wrote: “If a young man about town says dancin’ to a girl, he might as well say Jantzen Beach at the same time…for they are synonymous as far as she is concerned. The Golden Canopy Ballroom features the sweetest swing in the country every night of the park’s season, with a parade of big name dance bands moving across its board…” Shepard’s description was no exaggeration. World famous musicians such as Benny Goodman and Louis Armstrong performed at Jantzen Beach to the delight of thousands who flocked to the park for unforgettable nights of top shelf entertainment.

By the late 1940s, however, Jantzen Beach was in decline.

Vanport, a town created during World War II to house workers at the Kaiser Shipyards in Portland and Vancouver (hence the name Vanport), was located at today’s Delta Park area and provided one of Jantzen Beach’s primary revenue sources. As the second largest city in Oregon at the time (by population), the residents of Vanport frequented Jantzen Beach for its wide variety of entertainment right in their own “backyard.” After the Vanport Flood of 1948, which effectively destroyed the majority of the town, and the

decline in population after the war, this important revenue stream dried up for the once thriving park.

Changes in the society at large also contributed to the decline of Jantzen Beach. While television rose to prominence as America’s go-to entertainment, people frequently opted to stay home rather than venture out during their leisure time.

When they did venture out, the boundless freedom of the automobile—now a staple of American society—offered endless opportunities for recreational activities. The allure of the traditional amusement park had lost its luster.

In 1960, a fire broke out in the Tunnel of Love, resulting in its destruction as well as that of the Fun House and the Dutch Mill. In the face of incidents and declining attendance, the Jantzen Beach Amusement Park closed its doors after Labor Day weekend in 1970. Following the closure of the amusement park, Jantzen Beach Center, a large shopping complex, eventually arose, and for some years housed the historic C.W. Parker carousel, which may operate again one day should Restore Oregon succeed in constructing a new home for it. The pumping system for the swimming pools of the old amusement park are still in use today, providing drinking water for residents of the Hayden Island area. And wooden remnants of the Big Dipper Roller Coaster live on at Ken’s Artisan Pizza on S.E. 28th St. in Portland, where they have been repurposed as tables, as well as the bar itself.

So the next time you’re caught in traffic on I-5 near Jantzen Beach, allow yourself to daydream a little about the “Coney Island of the West,” that famous amusement park on the Columbia from days gone by that brought joy to millions, and memories to last a lifetime, for those fortunate enough to share in the experience.

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