Tigard 223 Community Advantage Magazine August 2023

Bright, Open Villebois Home

With a bright, open concept, this Villebois home has what you are looking for! An inviting entryway with high ceilings greets you upon entrance, with a full bedroom and bathroom on the main. The living/dining rooms and kitchen design are perfect for entertaining. Stainless steel appliances, butler’s pantry, marble backsplash, and upgraded quartz countertops are among the kitchen features. Custom built-ins and a gas fireplace are highlights of the Great Room, with a sliding door leading directly into the oversized back yard. Large loft upstairs allows space for an additional workspace, hobby area, or whatever your desire. Master suite on the upper level provides privacy, with a soaking tub for your relaxation. Huge backyard is a blank canvas for you to make your own. Bosch kitchen appliances, gutter guards, and custom blinds throughout the home add to the charm. Near all that Villebois has to offer, all this home is missing is you!

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Jaimy Beltran

Licensed Oregon Broker / Owner Beltran Properties Group

Caring for Your Home

Providing year-round home services

By Alice Williams, Contributing Writer

Do you need your house or business windows washed but are reluctant to let random people have access to your valuable space? Is your priceless oriental rug in danger of fading in the sun and would benefit from having your windows tinted? Are you fed up with workers flaking after hiring them to powerwash your siding or concrete? Are you terrified your overconfident do-it-yourselfer will damage your home or themselves when cleaning the gutters? Have you dreamed of having your holiday lights designed, put up, maintained, then taken down and stored for next year? Your local Window Genie provides all of these services.

Shari Poindexter, owner of Window Genie, which services the west side of the Portland metro area, is grateful for the community’s trust in her team of service professionals. She appreciates that her employees have received consistent feedback for being polite, courteous, proficient, and

respectful. Serving others is Shari’s lifelong passion. “My background has always focused on people and relationships, whether in true customer service, sales, marketing, PR, or even volunteering. People are what make the job, and people are what make the difference,” says Shari.

Window Genie, a member of the Neighborly Family of Brands, is a regular, repeat service company providing window cleaning, washing, and tinting services, as well as pressure washing, concrete sealing, gutter cleaning, and holiday light design, maintenance, and storage. They offer specially designed window care and home maintenance programs customized to your needs, providing regularly scheduled work by their dependable technicians or in preparation of a special event you’re hosting. Please note that Window Genie does not tint car windows.

Neighborly is a family of home service brands committed to providing outstanding service. All their service professionals operate on a simple but powerful principle: It’s not done, until it’s done right! They know that caring for your home can be stressful, so they want you to feel reassured, knowing they take great pride in their work and ensure it’s done to the highest standard.

All Window Genie service professionals provide you with the best service and experience possible. They are all fully insured and licensed. Unlike the “other” guys who might pull up in a personal truck and tank top, Window Genie employees are uniformed and drive only professionally wrapped GENIEMOBILES. Call Window Genie today for your estimate.

Window Genie serves the west side of the Portland Metro area. Call them at 503-828-9025 or visit windowgenie.com for more information.

Celebrating 28 years in business, locally-owned and -operated Mattress World Northwest (MWNW) carries the largest selection that will fit your needs best, and the only store with the 4 major sleeping technologies: GelFlex Grid, TEMPUR® foam, Air, and Natural Latex. They carry major brands like: Tempur-Pedic®, Purple™, The Number Bed by Instant Comfort®, and Posh+Lavish™ Natural Latex. They’re all in-store, side-by-side, for your convenience! And they guarantee the lowest price and have a 90-night comfort guarantee, so you can take home a better night’s sleep with confidence. Their employees love working here and will always greet you with a smile, listen to your needs and concerns, and give you a great buying experience. On average, team members have worked here for 5+ years, and their management team 10+ years, so you know they are committed to this company and making their customers happy.

MWNW Rests On Its Core Values

At the heart of their business, lie three core values. First, is their sincere dedication to helping every customer get a better night’s sleep. They have the largest selection of name brand mattresses and specialty mattresses in the Northwest, from handmade to 100% natural latex, as well as adjustable frames. They carry every type of mattress for every type of sleeper!

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Second, MWNW believes in empowering employees to live their best possible lives. Happy employees means happy customers, so you can trust you’ll be greeted with a smile and an attentive ear. Mattress purchases are done only a handful of times in our lives. That experience, good or bad, leaves a lasting impression. At MWNW, they have perfected the process to ensure that you get the best possible service and overall experience every time.

A Foundation of Philanthropy

Third, and perhaps most importantly, is their dedication to philanthropic work. Each and every month, MWNW supports local charities and schools in a variety of ways. To date, they have donated over $500,000 to local high schools and other charities! Giving back to the community is an integral part of what defines this organization.

Dedicated Charitable Support

In August, all locations will be accepting donations to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation in support of their work to provide the means to find the cure for CF and ensure that those living with the disease can live long and productive lives. MWNW is gladly donating to this benevolent cause while also raising awareness by offering to take donations on the organization’s behalf. Please help raise funds by donating online or visiting one of their local stores.

Family-owned and -operated, dedicated to providing customers with the best products at the lowest prices, and donating to and participating in their local communities – Mattress World Northwest exemplifies the very best of retail. Get a better night’s sleep and help support your community by visiting your local Mattress World Northwest location for more information, or you can order online at mattressworldnorthwest.com.

Feeling Is Believing.

CAMPUS COMEDY

CAMPUS COMEDY

“National Lampoon’s Animal House” and its Oregon roots

After initial overtures to the University of Missouri were rejected, Universal Studios approached the University of Oregon, who agreed to permit filming on the campus for $20,000 and an agreement that the university not be identified in the movie. Universal also negotiated deals to use the houses of two fraternities located just off campus on the 700 block of East 11th Avenue. The Delta fraternity house was set in the Eugene Halfway House located between the two fraternities. The city of Cottage Grove, twenty miles south of Eugene, also got in on the fun. City officials agreed to close down Main Street for three days for the filming of the movie’s dramatic homecoming parade scene.

By Robert Matsumura, Contributing Writer

If you’ve ever wondered how the song “Shout” became a wildly popular tradition at University of Oregon football games, one need only watch “National Lampoon’s Animal House” to see the tie-in. But what does this outrageous comedic classic from the 1970s have to do with U of O? Unbeknownst to many people today, the movie starring Jim Belushi of “Saturday Night Live” fame was shot primarily on the U of O campus.

In the fall of 1977 the producers of “Animal House,” a movie that was to become one of the most successful American film comedies of all time — were searching for a college campus as the setting for their story about the scandalous Delta Tau Chi fraternity and the madcap chaos it wreaked on fictional Faber College.

In October of 1977 the cast and crew arrived in the area, settling at the Rodeway Inn in nearby Springfield. The movie was a showcase for Belushi, who had recently risen to fame due to “Saturday Night Live,” and featured Donald Sutherland as well, who played the role of an English professor on campus. “Animal House” was also the film debut for Kevin Bacon and Karen Allen, both of whom went on to enjoy major success in numerous hit movies. In addition to these famous Hollywood names, Tom Hulce (of “Amadeus” fame) and Tim Matheson (of the ’60s “Johnny Quest” series, and more recently, “The West Wing”) also played minor roles. Behind the scenes, “Animal House” was the first major Hollywood movie for director John Landis, who subsequently brought hit movies such as “Trading Places,” “The Blues Brothers,” “An American Werewolf in London,” and others to the big screen.

Auditions for extras were held on the U of O campus, and 150 men and 50 women were chosen to appear in the film. The students were paid $2.30 an hour, and the male extras were instructed to have their hair cut in the style of college students from 1962. Filming of the movie commenced on October 24 at the Sigma Nu house, where the majority of interior shots of the fictitious Delta house were taken. U of O President Boyd’s office was used for that of Dean Wormer, the enemy of the Deltas. The Dexter Lake Club, located 20 miles east of Eugene, served as the locale for the movie’s “road trip” scene, where the Deltas take their dates to hear their favorite R&B band called Otis Day and the Knights.

During his off hours Belushi befriended Portland blues legend Curtis Salgado, who helped fuel Belushi’s passion for the blues, which in turn led to the subsequent movie, “The Blues Brothers,” starring both Belushi and Dan Akroyd. While filming “Animal House,” Belushi and his wife, Judy, also had dinner with Oregon author Ken Kesey (“One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest”) at his home in nearby Pleasant Hill.

“National Lampoon’s Animal House” premiered in New York

City on July 24, 1978, and in Portland in August of the same year, with many of the movie’s extras in attendance. The movie was the second most popular film in 1978 and a remarkable financial success. Produced for under $3 million, “Animal House” grossed $140 million in the U.S. and Canada. So successful was “Animal House” that it spawned a whole genre of zany, overthe-top comedies focused on younger audiences. Aside from one’s cinematic preferences, “Animal House” ranked 36th on the

American Film Institute’s list of the hundred greatest film comedies of all time. In 2001, the Library of Congress selected it for preservation in the National Film Registry.

Although “Delta House” was torn down in 1986 and replaced by another building, a bronze plaque still marks the site for posterity. The old Sigma Nu house still stands. The building is now home to the Northwest Christian University’s School of Professional Studies, but if you peer through the front door you can still see the stairwell where Belushi’s character, Bluto, bashed a hole in the wall with the guitar of a student playing folk music.

Despite the fact that the University of Oregon initially attempted to downplay its involvement

in the movie, “Animal House” has actually become a part of U of O’s popular culture and is even marketed as a feature of the school’s identity. Locations from the movie are pointed out on campus tours, and Otis Day and the Knight’s version of “Shout” is belted out by the audience at Duck football games. To this day, people in both Eugene, and Cottage Grove, take great pride in their town’s participation in this American comedy classic.

So, the next time you witness Duck fans singing “Shout” at a U of O football game, or happen to watch “Animal House” on television, know that this wild, raucous and influential movie was filmed close to home, right here in the state of Oregon in the southern Willamette Valley.

Easy Pavlova

Cloud-like meringue + fresh fruit

YIELDS 15 MINI PAVLOVAS

Ingredients

6 large egg whites, room temp.

11/2 cups granulated sugar (plus 2 tablespoons for whipped cream)

2 teaspoons corn starch

1/2 tablespoon lemon juice

1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract

11/2 cups heavy whipping cream

4–5 cups fresh fruit

Directions

 Preheat oven to 225˚F. Line large baking sheet with parchment paper. Using stand mixer, beat 6 egg whites on high for 1 minute until soft peaks form. With mixer on, gradually add 11/2 cups sugar; beat 10 minutes on high, or until glossy, stiff peaks

form.  With spatula quickly fold in 1/2 tablespoon lemon juice and 1/2 tablespoon vanilla extract; then fold in 2 teaspoons corn starch; mix until well blended.  Using a Wilton 1M tip, pipe meringue into 3- to 31/2-inch wide nests onto parchment. Indent center with spoon. Bake at 225˚ for 1 hour and 15 minutes — do not open oven door while baking. Turn oven off and keep door closed another 30 minutes. Outsides will be dry and crisp to the tap and a pale cream color; insides will still be marshmallow soft.  Transfer pavlova, still on parchment paper, onto counter or rack; cool completely.  Beat cold whipping cream with 2 tablespoons sugar in cold bowl for 2 to 21/2 minutes until whipped.  Pipe cream onto pavlova and top with fresh fruit. Garnish with fresh mint, chocolate shavings, chopped hazelnuts. Enjoy!

A ‘Marvel’ Illustrator

Imaginative comic artist made lasting impact

By David Bates, Contributing Writer

The comics industry has a growing roster of Asian, AfricanAmerican and Latino artists who have a hand in creating the books that land in comic book stores every day. That wasn’t always the case, but way back in the 1940s one trailblazing immigrant from Puerto Rico made Marvel Comics his artistic home. And in the early 1960s, he adopted Newberg as his actual home.

Today, the non-descript ranch house at 608 N. Meridian Street in Newberg is housing for George Fox University undergraduates. This is Schomburg House, named for Alex Schomburg, who moved there in 1962. Although most of his comic book work was behind him by then, he was still a working artist.

Schomburg was born on May 10, 1905 in Puerto Rico to Guillermo Schomburg and Francisa Rosa, one of seven children and six sons. They were a prosperous family, and able to move Alex to New York when he was 12. He attended public school in Harlem, and in 1923 he and three brothers started their own art studio.

He found his way into the comic book world by freelancing. His black-and-white illustrative work started showing up in the pages of some of the early pulps — Radio Craft, Popular Western and Thrilling Adventures, among others.

He was in an ideal position to ride the wave of a publishing industry that swelled in the late 1930s; the precursor to Marvel, Martin Goodman’s Timely

Comics, began publishing stories about characters with names like the Human Torch, the Sub-Mariner, and during WWII, Captain America.

From the late 1930s into the mid-1940s, Alex produced more than 500 comic book covers, including all but about a dozen of the first 69 issues of the Marvel Mystery Comics series. A generation of American kids who grew up reading and later collecting Golden Age comics were likely to have seen his covers.

His work was imaginative, splashy and highly detailed, perfect for the eye-grabbing mission of a comic book cover on a magazine rack. Ron Goulart, author of “Comic Book Culture: An Illustrated History,” called Alex “the Heironymous Bosch of comics.”

At the website for the Estate of Alex Schomburg, you’ll find a testimonial from one of the artist’s biggest fans, Stan Lee himself.

“I’ve always felt Alex Schomburg was to comic books what Norman Rockwell was to the Saturday Evening Post,” Lee wrote. “He was totally unique with an amazing, distinctive style…we used to wonder how he managed to get so much detail in every cover.”

Alex had another claim to fame — he was among the artists who worked with director Stanley Kubrick in the 1960s on the visual design for “2001: A Space Odyssey.”

Today, you can find Schomburg’s work at Marvel Unlimited, the online repository of the comic giant’s catalog and read more about him at AlexSchomburg.com.

After Hours Networking

A new opportunity for Chamber members and local business

By Dennis McNabb, Staff Writer

The Tigard Chamber of Commerce operates under five core objectives: to build a strong local economy, to provide opportunities for members to build business relationships, to promote the local community, to represent the voice of local businesses at city, county, state, and federal legislative levels, and to take political action to positively impact the local community. In an effort to satisfy their second objective specifically, The Tigard Chamber has for years held regular weekly networking events for members on Thursday mornings called Good Morning Tigard. These events are always well-attended and provide a fantastic opportunity for businesses to gain exposure and build relationships. But it’s not always easy for some business owners to “step out of the office” during what could be the busiest time of their day.

As a result, The Tigard Chamber has heeded the call, and returned to providing members with an alternative opportunity:

a quarterly After Hours Networking Event. This is a similar endeavor to Good Morning Tigard (members will take turns hosting the proceedings at their own establishments), and it was a regular part of the schedule prior to COVID, but was shut down by the pandemic. Now that it’s been reinstituted, the excitement level is palpable. They just held their second event on July 11th at the Beach Hut Deli in downtown Tigard, and it was a huge success. Word had started to get out, and the second event hosted nearly double the number of attendees as the first. The Tigard Chamber couldn’t be happier with the results, and because interest is growing exponentially, they will likely be switching to a bi-monthly schedule. The next event is being penciled in for September!

I had the great pleasure of speaking with Greg Kozina regarding this exciting new opportunity for Tigard Chamber members. Warm, friendly, and contagiously enthusiastic, Greg is the

Co-Chairman for the Ambassador Team and is not only highly involved in these events, but actually organizes them. He is also a licensed Real Estate Broker with Beltran Properties Group at eXp Realty. Of course, Beltran Properties is one of the preeminent agencies in town, and regularly provides us with real estate market updates and buyer/seller advice in these very pages. As conscientious

and highly-involved members of The Tigard Chamber, the staff at Beltran Properties is sponsoring all of these networking events for members! Greg credited Tigard Chamber CEO Megan DeSalvo and Chamber Growth Manager Danny Botnik for a lot of the recent growth and positive things happening within the Tigard Chamber itself, but certainly it’s their assiduous members,

like Beltran Properties, who help to bring it all together.

So, businesses in Tigard, if you are not a member of The Tigard Chamber, now is the time to get involved. And if you are already a member, take advantage of this new opportunity to network and gain exposure. Check out the Tigard Chamber webpage: tigardchamber.org for more information and attend the next After Hours Networking Event!

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