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Vegetarian options

Portland has a reputation for being vegetarian-friendly... the most vegetarian-friendly city, says GoVeg.com.America's Best Vegetarian-Friendly Large Cities, GoVeg.com. Portland is so friendly with vegetarians, some vegetarians are considering reporting Portland for sexual harassment. But most vegetarians appreciate Portland's wandering hands, as well as the food options those hands offer them.
Nearly all restaurants in Portland have at least a couple meals on the menu for vegetarian patrons, often vegan. A dozen or two, distributed around the Portland area, have nothing on the menu with meat (or fish, etc). Some are fully vegan as well.
== Vegetarian restaurants ==
For a list of fully vegan restaurants, see Vegan options.
=== Downtown ===
* Backspace
* DC Vegetarian 
* Vegetarian House
=== Southeast ===
* Van Hanh
* Vege Thai
== References ==
== External links ==
* NWVeg.org's list of vegetarian restaurants
Vera Katz

Vera Katz served as the 41st Mayor of Portland, and was the city's third woman to hold that office. 
She served for three terms, from January 1993 to January 2005. She was preceded by Mayor "Bud" Clark and followed by Mayor Tom Potter. Mayor Sam Adams is usually described as her protege. 
An informal-looking bronze statue of Katz sits along the Eastbank Esplanade. 
* List of Portland's Mayors
Katz
Veterans for Peace - Chapter 72

thumb|400px|Peace Memorial Park before planting, in the spring. 
Veterans For Peace Chapter 72 is the Portland Metro chapter of Veterans For Peace, a national organization founded in 1985. The organization includes men and women veterans of all eras and duty stations spanning the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), World War II, the Korean, Vietnam, Gulf and current wars/occupations in Iraq and Afghanistan as well as other conflicts. Our collective experience tells us wars are easy to start and hard to stop and that those hurt are often the innocent. Thus, nonviolent means of conflict resolution are necessary.
==OUR MISSION:==
Veterans For Peace, Inc. (VFP) is a non-profit 501(c)(3) educational and humanitarian organization dedicated to the abolishment of war.
==STATEMENT OF PURPOSE:==
We, having dutifully served our nation, do hereby affirm our greater responsibility to serve the cause of world peace. To this end we will work, with others
: (a) To increase public awareness of the costs of war
: (b) To restrain our government from intervening, overtly and covertly, in the internal affairs of other nations
: (c) To end the arms race and to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons
: (d) To seek justice for veterans and victims of war
: (e) To abolish war as an instrument of national policy.
To achieve these goals, members of Veterans For Peace pledge to use non-violent means and to maintain an organization that is both democratic and open with the understanding that all members are trusted to act in the best interests of the group for the larger purpose of world peace.
VFP Chapter 72 can be found at VFPchapter72.org
Category:Organizations
Vietnamese Ethnic Resources

=== 1st things to do upon arrival in USA ===
 First things common to all new comers 
=== Eating places ===
*Restaurants
*Food carts
*Free food (hint: Steve Jobs survived in Portland by eating at ISKCON temple)
=== Emergency ===
* Domestic violence
* Fire
* Ambulance
* Poison
* Police
* Non-emergency police department
* Lost and Found
=== Entertainment ===
* Musical events
* Cultural events
* Performing arts
* Sport events
* Sport clubs (Hint: cricket!)
=== Shopping ===
* Ethnic grocery stores
* Book stores
=== Ethnic associations ===
* Alumni associations
* Cultural associations
* Religious associations
=== Ethnic temples and churches ===
=== Health ===
* Pharmacy
* Ambulance
* Urgent care clinic
* Emergency hospital
* Hospitals
* Clinics
* Family planning
=== Housing ===
* Apartment complexes
* Long term temporary accommodation
* Paying guest
* For rent houses 
=== Money ===
* Banks
* Credit unions
* Check cashing
* Money transfer
* ATM for foreign debit cards
Vista Bridge

Vista Bridge (officially, Vista Avenue Viaduct) is a bridge towering over SW Jefferson Street in the Goose Hollow neighborhood of Southwest Portland.
Its striking profile, including old-fashioned "bench lights" rising above its massive arch straddling Tanner Creek Canyon, and expansive view of Portland from on top of it, earned it a listing in the US National Register of Historic Places in 1984.
Nicknamed "suicide bridge," its great height and great view seems to be particularly attractive to jumpers looking to end the cosmic game in a spectacular and disruptive way (though by no means original, as people have been diving off the bridge in droves since 1931). So much so that Portland City Commissioner Steve Novick approved an emergency request by the Portland Transportation Bureau to put up 9-foot-high black mesh walls on the bridge in July 2013. However, since the bridge is federally protected from permanent alteration under the National Register of Historic Places, current city government is having to work to convince the feds to permit this "temporary" wall installation to become a more permanent fixture.Temporary suicide barriers to go up on Vista Bridge, David Stabler, The Oregonian, July 9, 2013.
== References ==
== Externals links ==
* Vista Bridge on Wikipedia
Category:Bridges
Category:Suicide
Category:National Register of Historic Places
Voice of Portland

== A Civic Symphony? ==
===What is the "Voice of Portland"?===
Here we attempt to clarify the "Voice of Portland" as defined by the PortlandWiki community of contributors. The goal is to identify and define specific attributes and characteristics that enable PortlandWiki to equitably and authentically represent the entire community of Portland, Oregon.
This is a tall order and a tough challenge. Some consider Portland as having a relatively homogeneous culture (where "people of color" aren't as represented as much as in other medium and large cities in the United States, for instance). Even so, Portland is home to people who also inhabit a diverse set of distinct cultures, experiences, backgrounds, walks of life, religious beliefs (or lack thereof), political ideologies, social statures and so on.
=== How does a Civic Wiki accommodate so many voices? ===
PortlandWiki will succeed at truly representing the entire Portland community by not losing sight of this goal as its primary mission. As the project evolves, its contributors will need to refocus on how effectively or honestly its mission is maintained. Again, this is a tough challenge. And it's easy to cynically dismiss such challenges as unworkable or impossible.
== Choir Practices ==
PortlandWiki launched with the idea of becoming a sort of "Wikipedia for Portland" with a uniquely Portland flavor (versus a dry, encyclopedic style). The "just the facts, ma'am" style necessary for an encyclopedic knowledge base like Wikipedia is insufficient for any civic wiki striving to capture the authentic "flavor" of its community.
Some of the current discussion and planning for PortlandWiki is taking place on its Community Portal discussion page. Please have a look, get involved and add your voice! We welcome your participation.
Category:Culture
Voodoo Doughnut

Voodoo Doughnut is a 24 hour doughnut store with locations in Old Town Chinatown and Kerns. They're known for unusual doughnuts such as the bacon maple bar.
After the stupid thing Pat Robertson said about the earthquake in Haiti - Haitians Brought Earthquake on Themselves - Voodoo started a funds matching drive, pictured to the right: 
History fact - they used to be in Los Angeles
==External Links==
* Official site
Category:Companies
Category:Old Town Chinatown neighborhood
Category:Culture
Voter-Owned Elections

Voter-Owned Elections (variously called "Clean Elections," "Clean Money," or "Fair Elections") is term used to describe a particular system of publicly funded campaign schemes. A variety of voter-owned election systems are used in a small number of states and local political jurisdictions in the United States.
In the 2010 election cycle Measure 26-108 is the current publicly funded campaign scheme put before Portland's voters. Judging from recently reported campaign contributionsCity Hall: Voter-owned elections campaign money keeps pouring in | Brad Schmidt, The Oregonian | Wednesday, October 20, 2010, business interests are the measure's primary opponents while community organizations and labor unions are its primary advocates.
Measure 26-108 was defeated in November 2010, bringing an end to Portland's voter-owned elections.
== Measure 26-108: Advocates and Adversaries ==
Primary Adversaries
* Portland Business Alliance
Primary Advocates
* Common Cause Oregon
* Western States Center Inc.
* AFSCME Council 75
Measure 26-108 is also supported by former White House press secretary Bill Moyers, Portland Mercury, ACLU of Oregon, Harvard professor Larry Lessig and Bus Project.Bill Moyers Wants YOU to Vote Yes on Measure 26-108 | Andrea "the Intern" Vedder, Portland Mercury | Fri, Oct 29, 2010
== References ==
Category:Government
Walking

Portland ranks number twelve in American cities for walkability, according to walkscore.com, using an algorithm that awards points based on the distance to amenities in each category.
By that measurement Portland's top 10 most-walkable neighborhoods (as of August 2011) are: 
# Downtown, score 96
# Hollywood, 95
# Pearl District, 95
# Old Town Chinatown, 94
# Northwest, 92
# Sunnyside, 91
# Hosford-Abernethy, 90
# Goose Hollow, 89
# Buckman, 86
# Richmond, 86
The site Mapnificent.net is built around an application that displays your mapped "walkshed" from any single location, given a maximum amount of travel time.
==See also==
* Footwear
Category:Transportation
Washington Park

Washington Park is one of Portland's oldest parks. 
Situated in the West Hills, it was originally known as City Park. It is home to:
* the World Forestry Center
* the Vietnam Veterans of Oregon Memorial
* the Hoyt Arboretum
* two of the Portland City Reservoirs
* the Portland Japanese Gardens
* the International Rose Test Garden
* the Oregon Zoo
* the Washington Park MAX station, reportedly the deepest transit station in the United States
Water

The water in Portland is unbeatable. Whenever I travel, I find that the water is unimpressive compared to the water in Portland, Oregon. 
Organizations like WaterWatch and Portland Water Bureau work to maintain our water's satisfying taste and cleanliness. WaterWatch works to protect in-stream flows for fish, wildlife, and people. Portland Water Bureau is responsible for our water's infrastructure, fiscal, and natural resources.
The water we drink in Portland comes from rainfall in the Bull Run Watershed near Mount Hood. Some of our water even starts as snowfall and fog drip within the watershed. Interestingly enough, none of Portland's drinking water comes from Mount Hood itself; the watershed and Mount Hood are separated significantly. Other drinking water comes from Portland's groundwater supply.
The water in the watershed runs down Bull Run River and Bull Run's reservoirs. Then, the water enters a treatment facility where it is treated with chlorine and ammonia called chloramination, to give it its incredible and fresh taste. Chloramination also disinfects the water of any contaminants, so people don't have to be sorry later after they've drank their eight servings of water for the day.
Our water runs beneath streets and sidewalks to get to our homes and businesses. Portland provides water for approximately one-fourth of Oregon's population: Portland residents and the residents of 19 suburbs and water districts. Impressive!
== External Links ==
* WaterWatch
* Portland Water Bureau
Category:Water
WaterWatch

WaterWatch is an organization that was started in 1985 with a mission to protect, maintain, and restore water sources in Oregon to sustain native fish, wildlife, and the people themselves. According to WaterWatch, Portland's rivers "provide refuge from the daily grind, unparalleled fishing and birdwatching opportunities, diverse boating activities, and a chance to stay connected to the natural world. Oregon's rivers also harbor magnificent fish such as coho and chinook salmon, several kinds of trout, and steelhead." This is one of the many reasons that WaterWatch's goal is to keep these rivers safe; this means to leave plenty of water within the rivers so that wildlife are able to survive. Water is also the source for recreation, maintaining healthy riparian areas, and flushing sediment and pollution our of our city. To ensure that their goals are met, WaterWatch works with legislature, the state and federal agencies, the courts, and the media to restore the Klamath Basin, free the Rogue River, protect the Deschutes River, defend water sources from implications of growth and climate change, and to work to reform the state Capitol. The WaterWatch website claims that they are the "only group that monitors water allocation proposals, agency decisions and actual water use across Oregon." It is important to them for citizens of Oregon to have a voice in how their water is treated and protected. 
=== Contact ===
(503) 295-4039
* WaterWatch
Category:Water
Category:Organizations
Ways this wiki could be used to help grow the economy

Growth in itself is perhaps not necessarily a desirable outcome. Economic growth for the sake of growth may not be useful. Economic growth for the sake of mutual prosperity may be useful however, that is, to benefit both the self and others.
This wiki could be used to help grow the economy in multiple ways. 
This wiki could be used to post classifieds. This wiki could be used to post job opportunities. This wiki could be used by individuals in the Portland area to connect electronically and network electronically in order to find potential business partners. There are many ways that this wiki could be used to speed up growth and progress. Potentially, it could be used as a medium for construction proposals to be reviewed. Much of this is theoretically, but quite possible (at least in theory).
WeCar

WeCar is the car-sharing division of Enterprise Rent-a-Car, a service designed to let people or institutions save money by owning fewer cars than they would otherwise have to.
As of August 2010, WeCar offers vehicles to State of Oregon employees, Oregon State University students and faculty in Corvallis, and University of Oregon students and faculty in Eugene.
Enterprise also offers Rideshare, a vanpooling service, in the Portland area.
== External Links ==
* WeCar.com (official website)
* list of local WeCar programs
== See Also ==
Cars
Driving
== References ==
Category:Transportation
Category:Businesses
Category:Car-sharing
Category:Transportation
WePay

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===What is WePay?===
WePay is a secure, online payment collection system that allows for simple, transparent contributions to a group. WePay set up is free and it charges 3.5% per transaction (minimum $.50). PortlandWiki is using WePay to allow wiki contributors and community fans to support the site.
===How can I support Portland Wiki?===
Thanks for asking! Portland Wiki needs your help to increase and maintain our server capabilities, MediaWiki-specific tech support, and outreach efforts. Please visit the Portland Wiki Support page and make a small donation to our awesome community wiki. Thanks, in advance, for your support!
Weekend meetups

If you are interested in having a weekend meet up on Saturdays or Sundays, you can discuss that here. 
==Interested humans who have joined this wiki==
* Michael (talk) 03:45, 11 August 2011 (UTC)
==Discussion==
Saturday or Sunday sometime would work for me. We could do it in Beaverton or Sylvan area on a Saturday or Sunday. Maybe at about.... 2-2:30PM... list yourself above and we can coordinate more...
Category:Events
Welcome To Portland

=== Welcome To Portland! ===
Welcome To Portland! is a resource guide for new comers to the city for smooth sailing into Portland. This web/mobile App will help make new immigrants and foreign students feel welcome in the city. To reduce their time to get adjusted, this App will connect them to their ethnic, cultural and educational resources in the city. It will also provide hints on the first things to do after arriving in Portland.
 IIT Alumni association - Oregon chapter is building this App for Portland's CivicApp contest. 
We have chosen to use a wiki for adding the content. These wiki pages will be about ethnic restaurants or food cart and ethnic grocery stores. Contributors will also add wiki pages for businesses such as interpreters, ESL tutors, immigration lawyers, notary public with language skills. Contributors will also add listings of local ethnic festivals or events. For this purpose, we would like to use PortlandWiki. 
=== Supported ethnicities ===
Here are the first of the ethnicities that are supported:
* Indian
* Ukrainian
* Vietnamese
=== Going forward ===
We are actively recruiting contributors of different ethnicity to add wiki pages to PortlandWiki. These contributors/authors are typically Portland residents who are well settled and are well connected. Some of these will be 
volunteers/elected officials of local ethnic associations. Others would be immigrant and refugee counselors (primarily from IRCO.
We will use MediaWiki API to present this content within our web/mobile App.
Wendy and the Lost Boys

Wendy and the Lost Boys are a 4 piece acoustic group based in Portland Oregon. Their rolicking folk/Americana sound will have your boots tapping and possums-a-swinging. 
Members:
: Phil Garfinkel: Vocals, Guitar, *Stuff*
: Christian McKee: Vocals, Mandolin, Mandola
: Paul Prato: Stand-up Bass
: Wendy Rover: Vocals, Frottoir, Darbuka
Updated news, video clips, and live MP3's from their show at the 2011 Bite of Oregon festival available at their website at http://WendyAndTheLostBoysBand.com
Category:Music
West 6th Avenue

6th Avenue, along with 5th Avenue, is a major transit thoroughfare on the Westside. W Burnside divides it into two streets: NW 6th Avenue, and SW 6th Avenue.
==Northwest 6th Avenue==
NW 6th runs from W Burnside on the south to just past NW Irving on the north, where it terminates at Union Station.
==Southwest 6th Avenue==
SW 6th runs from W Burnside on the north down to approximately SW Sheridan on the south, where the street then becomes SW Terwilliger Boulevard.
Category:StreetsCategory: NW 6th Avenue
Category: SW 6th Avenue
West Burnside Street

West Burnside, a section of a large historically commercial street formally called Ankeny Street. In Portland it is the horizontal line that separates the North quadrants from the South quadrants. The Willamette river is the vertical line. 
In most towns there exists a single road that is located in such a way that it splits a city in two distinctive halves. Often, the road will cause a distinctive change in angle of the street block grids. The angle change will cause a series of small triangle shaped blocks. 
Similar town splitting streets in other cities:
* Atlantic Avenue - Brooklyn, NY
* Bowery Street - New York, NY
* Olive Way - Seattle, WA
* Market Street - San Francisco, CA
* South Alameda - Los Angeles, CA
West Burnside specifically is a section that passes through what is considered the older historical downtown of Portland. Like many of these older commercial streets, they start out as being the city's prominent boulevard. A central trunk for earlier urban development. This takes its toll as the years go by, as once successful and prominent buildings become old and are slow to be renovated. New commercial buildings and developments appeared in the SW quadrant using cheaper land at that time. 
In some ways the historical nature of these buildings, attract a certain kind of commerce that survives over long financial cycle while unable to gain pronounced success. Businesses such as Cabaret Lounge, Roseland Theatre and Powell's Bookstore, serve to anchor what is considered Portland's commercial personality.
Culturally Nearby Businesses
* Roseland Theater
* Powell's Bookstore
* Paris Theater (strip club)
* Voodoo Doughnut 
* Mc Menamins 
* Cabaret Lounge (strip club) 
* Spartacus Leathers
* Billy Galaxy
* Jackpot Records
* Counter Media
* EdgeLink
Category:Streets
West Hills

The West Hills of Portland form a physical boundary on the west side of downtown. 
Formally, the West Hills are known as the Tualatin Mountains, although this name is not in common use. The West Hills are home to affluent neighborhoods and two of Portland's largest parks: Washington Park and Forest Park. 
The West Hills were a large obstacle to development of townships in the mid-Nineteenth century, because they separated the farmers in the Tualatin Plains from the best method of shipping, the Willamette River. Rival townships to Portland, like Linnton, attempted building roads over the West Hills, but in many cases these roads were too steep to be practical and were abandoned. Early Portland developers were able to gather enough public funds to create their own passage over the hills, calling it the Great Plank Road.
In the early 1900s, developers began carving plats out of the West Hills. Some of these became neighborhoods, like Hillside and Willamette Heights, but many areas were abandoned because of landslide dangers and road washouts.
Category:Geography
What Can I Do to support sustainability?

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* Waste less. Poor insulation, inefficient appliances and wasteful habits send lots of energy up the chimney. The desire to buy stuff that doesn't really make us happy, doesn't help. Common sense and passion can go a long way.
* Use renewable energy. There are many positive trends. Solar power is becoming more efficient and localized, buildings are getting greener and more self-sufficient, vehicles are getting electrified and using less fossil fuel, and people are more aware of their impact. 
* Minimize air travel. If you travel by air for professional or personal reasons, finding a way to eliminate even just one trip will make a bigger dent in your carbon footprint than any other single step.
* Choose to have a smaller family. Runaway population growth is a direct factor in humanity's total resource impact on the planet. By not having more than two biological children, you avoid exacerbating the situation; opting to have a single child - or none - helps move our species towards a more sustainable balance on the planet.
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Category:Sustainability
Whiteaker Street

As printed originally in the Oregonian, November 25, 1921 "Portland Street Names – November 25, 1921 – Whiteaker", origin of Whiteaker Street's name. 
Whiteaker street is named for John Whiteaker, the first governor of the state of Oregon. He was born in Dearborn county, Indiana, May 4, 1820. He went to California in 1849 and after two years returned to Missouri.
With his family he crossed the plains in 1852, settling in Lane county, where he served as judge, was a member of the territorial legislature, served three terms in the Oregon house of representatives and one term as state senator. During these terms he was speaker in the house in 1868 and president in the senate in 1876 and again in 1878. He is the only govenor who served in the legislature after having been chief executive.
Supposing the new constitution adopted by the people of Oregon had been accepted by congress and the stated admitted to the union, the state election was held in 1858, but the state was not admitted until February 4, 1859. Governor Whiteaker assumed office immediately and was in the gubernatorial chair when Fort Sumpter was fired on and the civil war begun.
His term expired September 10, 1862, and he retired to his farm in Lane county. In his later political life, besides his terms in the state legislature, he served in the lower house of congress in 1878, and was collector of internal revenue in Portland.
He died in Eugene in 1902.
==References==
Category:History