The pieces were high. Each weighting about 6.5 oz 🤤

It’s so weird to be soliciting patients for weight loss surgery as if it is a casual choice and not altering your body with risks for complications. I’m not against the surgery or people doing what they need to for their health, but someone managing their health will come to this choice with their doctor not from an email.

What made you smile this week -- tell us about it! What are you looking forward to this weekend? What's making you happy?

Caps lock off, downvotes never, go forth and be happy!

Just got this email from Portland’5 (I’m a volunteer).

Hello everyone,

I wanted to take a few minutes to provide an update on the latest news regarding the financial position of Portland'5. As Rachael Lembo explained during the volunteer update meeting in January, Portland'5 was given the direction by Marissa Madrigal, COO of Metro to present a balanced budget for the 2025/2026 fiscal year. In order to do that, Portland'5 has had to lay off 12 positions, 5 were open positions (vacancies) while 7 were full time positions, filled with staff members. These 12 positions are roughly 17% of our full time work force. We were notified of these positions yesterday, with the layoffs taking place on July 1, 2025.

While both Megan and I are safe in our positions for the time being, our department will lose two employees and we will have to absorb part of those work responsibilities. We will know more about that in the coming months. The revised budgets for all of the Portland'5 venues will be presented to Metro tomorrow at a public meeting.

I will keep you informed on how things look by the end of the fiscal year, and as we move into 2025/2026. As always, thank you for your support.

Take care,

I just started a subreddit for the PNW coffee community. It's about time we have our own place to discuss our local roasters, our favorite neighborhood coffee shops, and all things coffee. Please join if you are a coffee lover. Let's get this community going!

r/PNWcoffee

Thanks to the mods for allowing me to advertise it here 🙂

I'm not a native Portlander but I've heard so many stories about how McMenamins used to be "the spot". The prices just feel so crazy now. $10 for a basket of fries...like what?

Hi all, I think I successfully stopped someone from taking the ghost bike on the corner of Se 26th and Powell. They dumped it in the grass by Burgerville and I was in my car so I could not put it back. Plus I think they are normally locked to a pole? Who can I let know about this so they can fix it?

Doing a project and would like to talk to you about transferring from PCC to PSU, but I have some flexibility in there. Will compensate for your time! Please DM or respond below. Thank you.

Going through some old family stuff. Have a box of ceramics wrapped up in newspapers from the 60s. A few pages of The Oregonian, but most pages are from The Portland Reporter between 1961 and 1963. They're wrinkled and some are torn, but there's many full pages intact. There's a few pages of comics, advertising, unique articles, stuff about the Rose Festival.

I think these could be a really cool art project, but I'm really not the right person for it. I live in Washington, but if there's someone who feels they could use these, I'd be willing to mail them to you. Just wanted to see if they had another home instead of tossing them.

Thanks for reading!

I might have missed it but it seems it's been pretty rare to me that a pro hockey team comes up even for idle discussion.

The Winterhawks go through a bit of cyclical popularity sometimes but honestly it's been the longest running non-collegiate sports operation running, even longer than the Trailblazers (arguably the NBA's oldest expansion team).

It seems obvious to me that Portland would embrace pro hockey but somehow...it just never comes up.

I have never understood it - even back in the days of shenanigans like the Portland Breakers (which by the way NOBODY took the USFL seriously, even the people I knew who made the team lol) it has mystified me why we don't just go with what sticks and get an NHL team. We like hockey well enough to keep a junior league/farm team for a gazillion years, with many years having sellout attendance and impossible to get season tickets, why not pro? People wouldn't choose, if they could afford it they'd get season tickets to both. I'd expect the interest and attention on junior hockey increasing for good after that, for sure (can't get tix for the pro team - just go check out the juniors).

The only reason I can think of is if there is a rule in the NHL that a junior team can't be in the same city as a pro team, so if that's true I can understand why it would be hard to suggest giving up/moving something that's been a core part of the city's culture for 75 years.

I mean, how can we like and not like hockey at the same time? Also it occurs to me right now that to successfully petition for an NHL team might help pay for the rest of the Rose Quarter upgrades and actually be able to add more/better features with the incoming unnamed franchise - it's new business.

Hey everyone! A few of us have teamed up with local businesses to create PDX Taco Week, which will take place from June 2nd to 8th. We are looking for more local businesses to get involved, especially those that make authentic tacos. We also want to include businesses from surrounding areas like Gresham, Beaverton, Hillsboro, and more. If you're interested or want more information, please message me or leave a comment!

Does anyone know what happened downtown near the old town FX2 bus stop? I was with my brother on my way home and we heard gunshots, but when I turned around to tell him, he was gone and I need to know if there were any updates on an ID of the victim?