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Reference materials 812 S.W. Washington Street Portland Oregon United StatesChurch of Scientology Mission of PortlandSherlock Building @ 320 South West Oak Street Portland Oregon United States
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Feb 9, 2011
Tough time for Scientologists: A Story in The New Yorker and a lawsuit in Portland — Willamette Week
Type: Press
Author(s): James Pitkin
Source: Willamette Week
It's shaping up to be a tough month both in Portland and nationwide for the Church of Scientology. On a national level, a takedown published this week in The New Yorker can't be good for the religion founded by sci-fi writer L. Ron Hubbard. And locally, Scientologists face a lawsuit filed Feb. 4 by a woman claiming exposure to toxic fumes in a downtown Portland building owned by the Church. The suit filed in Multnomah County Circuit Court claims Teresa Barney ...
Jun 30, 2010
Neighbor of Portland chapter of Church of Scientology: A strip club — Daily Journal of Commerce (Oregon)
Type: Press
Author(s): Aaron Spencer
Source: Daily Journal of Commerce (Oregon)
The Portland chapter of the Church of Scientology this month purchased the Sherlock Building, where it plans to move. But something about the location of the building sticks out: It's across the street from a strip club. Namely, it's across the street from a male nude strip club called Silverado. The club is ostensibly gay (a rainbow flag hangs outside its door), but straight women also go there. I called the president of the Portland chapter of Scientology, the Rev. Steven ...
Jun 8, 2010
Church of Scientology buys Sherlock Building — Daily Journal of Commerce (Oregon)
Type: Press
Author(s): Aaron Spencer
Source: Daily Journal of Commerce (Oregon)
The Church of Scientology last week completed the purchase of the historic Sherlock Building in downtown Portland. The church purchased the building for $6.4 million. Portland-based Butler Brokers managed the sale. The Sherlock Building, at 309 S.W. 3rd Ave., is six stories and 61,430 square feet. It was built in 1894 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The church purchased the building from Seattle-based Urban Renaissance Group, which bought the building in 2007 for $9.75 million. The ...
Jun 8, 2010
The Church of Scientology of Portland says old digs don't work, buys bigger digs downtown — The Oregonian (Portland)
Type: Press
Author(s): Janie Har
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
The Church of Scientology of Portland is moving into a larger building at Third and Oak. Community affairs director Gwen Barnard said the 12-story Stevens Building at 812 S.W. Washington Street, which the church bought in 2008, lacks the open space needed for a chapel and architects couldn’t make it work. The church purchased the 6-story Sherlock Building at 320 S.W. Oak Street for $6.4 million from the Urban Renaissance Group, an investment partnership based in Seattle. Office space on floors ...
Mar 31, 2010
Church of Scientology selling Stevens Building in Portland — Daily Journal of Commerce (Oregon)
Type: Press
Author(s): Aaron Spencer
Source: Daily Journal of Commerce (Oregon)
When the Church of Scientology bought the Stevens Building in 2008, it told tenants to vacate when their leases ended. Most of them did. Now the Portland building is 42 percent vacant, another 20 percent is used for storage, and the church no longer plans to move in. “It would be nice to have it back to where it was in 2006 - about three-quarters full,” said Steven Ballinger, who has maintained a Princeton University Press sales office in the building ...
Oct 29, 2009
Review board grants request from man responsible for 1996 Scientology shooting — The Oregonian (Portland)
Aug 27, 2009
Couple’s weekend job selling carpets brings them to Tigard on Sundays — The Times (Tigard/Tualatin/Sherwood, Oregon)
Type: Press
Author(s): Kristen Forbes
Source: The Times (Tigard/Tualatin/Sherwood, Oregon)
Karen and Chris Noel spend their weekdays working at the Church of Scientology in Portland, but on weekends they take on another role: carpet salesmen By Kristen Forbes The Times, Aug 27, 2009 Karen and Chris Noel spend their weekdays working at the Church of Scientology in Portland, but on weekends they take on another role: carpet salesmen. They sell rugs at various locations throughout the Portland area. On Sundays, they can typically be found in the parking lot of the ...
Mar 26, 2009
Former member takes aim at Church of Scientology — KVAL CBS 13 (Eugene, OR)
Type: TV
Author(s): Thom Jensen
Source: KVAL CBS 13 (Eugene, OR)
PORTLAND, Ore. – Jeff Hawkins is on a mission to expose what he says is a cult. "It's become too abusive," he said. Hawkins is referring to the fast growing, famous and mysterious religion known as the Church of Scientology. He says Scientolgy's California headquarters and other large facilities have turned into work camps for staff members. "They work underground, and sometimes they stay there sometimes for years," Hawkins said. "They're not allowed contact with anybody outside." Protestors demonstrate regularly oustide ...
Dec 30, 2008
Infinite Complacency / The case against Miscavige
Nov 25, 2008
A Scientology center's guard kills an Oregon man // The ex-Florence resident's record includes probation, jail time — The Oregonian (Portland)
Type: Press
Author(s): Lori Tobias
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
A man shot and killed Sunday in front of a Scientology building in Los Angeles was a Florence resident who was on probation for stalking a Lane County judge. Also, he recently had served time in a Florence jail for threatening a tow truck driver. A security guard shot Mario Majorski, 48, after Majorski threatened guests and another security guard with samurai swords at the Scientology Celebrity Centre in Hollywood, Los Angeles police said. Majorski, who had numerous addresses in Los ...
Nov 10, 2008
Real estate roundup — Portland Business Journal
Type: Press
Source: Portland Business Journal
... The Church of Scientology of Portland leased 16,000 square feet at the Century Building and Century Tower after moving out of its long-time home at the Western Building in downtown Portland. The Western Building, home to the Scientology church since 1974, is being renovated for a bank tenant. The Century Building will be the church’s temporary home while it prepares to renovate the Stevens Building, which it acquired in January. ...
Sep 11, 2008
In Other News — Portland Mercury (Oregon)
Type: Press
Source: Portland Mercury (Oregon)
Portlander and former Scientologist Susan Lentsch submitted an open letter to the head of communications for the Church of Scientology, Karin Pouw, last Thursday, September 4, asking why her daughter, Katherine, cannot be allowed home for a vacation from the church's elite management organization, the so-called "Sea Organization" or Sea Org ["Selling Scientology," Feature, August 7]. Lentsch alleges that since she allowed her daughter to join the Sea Org in 1993, Katherine was promised three weeks vacation a year, but that ...
Aug 7, 2008
Scientology's International Headquarters — Portland Mercury (Oregon)
Aug 7, 2008
Selling Scientology — Portland Mercury (Oregon)
Type: Press
Author(s): Matt Davis
Source: Portland Mercury (Oregon)
In the mid-1980s, more than ever before, television advertising was about big budgets and excess. Bucking that trend was Scientologist and marketing whiz Jeff Hawkins, whose understated, minimalist TV ads for L. Ron Hubbard's Dianetics helped launch the book onto the best-seller list—and arguably sparked a worldwide interest in the religion. Hawkins' ads featured simple questions like, "Why are you unhappy?" in white print against a black background, backed by edgy music supplied by Hawkins' friends, and finally, a shot of ...
Aug 1, 2008
$5M purchase paves way for Helmer building renovation — Portland Business Journal
Type: Press
Author(s): Wendy Culverwell
Source: Portland Business Journal
The Church of Scientology is out and California-based First Republic Bank is in as a new owner takes control of the historic Helmer building in the heart of downtown Portland. The Goodman family, which owns or controls numerous commercial sites in downtown, closed its purchase of the Helmer building at 969 S.W. Broadway on July 25 in a deal worth about $5 million. The two-story building takes its name from its most prominent retail tenant, John Helmer Haberdashery, and also is ...
May 10, 2008
S for Scientology: Masked Protesters at Portland Church of Scientology — Willamette Week
Type: Blog
Author(s): Jason Howd
Source: Willamette Week
Meet at the Umbrella Man. 11:00, Saturday. The crowd, wearing British folk-hero Guy Fawkes masks in the style of the book and film V for Vendetta, surrounded the bronze man with a parasol and were heading towards a clash with the disciples of Hubbard and Cruise. “We are Anonymous, we are legion, we do not forget,” they proclaim. The Anonymous, or anons as they’re called in the wiki-shpere and chat rooms, have taken part in sabotage and cyber-disruption and have called ...
Feb 21, 2008
The House That Wasn't There — Portland Mercury (Oregon)
Jan 18, 2008
Scientologists' tall new home — The Oregonian (Portland)
Jan 9, 2008
Church of Scientology buys Stevens Building — Portland Business Journal
Type: Press
Source: Portland Business Journal
After a years-long search for a building to call its own, The Church of Scientology of Portland has acquired the historic Stevens Building in an all-cash deal for $5.38 million. The sale was fueled by donations from church members. At 12 stories, it is the tallest building ever acquired by a local chapter of the Church of Scientology, according to Butler Brokers Commercial Realtors, which handled both sides of the transaction. In November, former owner Joseph Weston donated the building, which ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Nov 9, 2003
Be glad you lost, Julie
Type: Account
... I froze. I wasn't moving much to begin with, but I froze solid. I didn't want to breathe. I forgot all about our immediate problems. My CO had just said he was going to murder Julie Titchbourne. He was absolutely serious. I was in shock. Sure, she deserved to die — all SPs did. But you can't actually do that that sort of thing. My thoughts raced. Please, I thought, please, somebody say something that will make this stop. I ...
Oct 4, 1996
Godeka's odd actions trace back to 1987 — The Oregonian (Portland)
Type: Press
Author(s): Phil Manzano
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
Jairus C. Godeka conversed freely with the television set. He would laugh aloud for no reason. He said the FBI was watching him and bugging his telephone. He heard voices that commented incessantly on his behavior. Godeka spun out these and more suspicions and fears during a 1987 interview at a Northeast Portland mental health clinic. But never once did he mention what was to become a grinding obsession - the Church of Scientology. Godeka is scheduled to be formally arraigned ...
Oct 4, 1996
Man enters not-guilty plea in Scientology-center shooting — Seattle Times
Type: Press
Source: Seattle Times
PORTLAND — The man accused of shooting four people in a Church of Scientology branch pleaded not guilty today to 13 criminal counts arising from the Sept. 25 incident. Along with the shootings, Jarius Godeka is accused of taking a hostage and setting a fire at the church's Celebrity Centre. No trial date was set. Godeka, who was jailed briefly early this year for threatening to kill church members and demanding money, had blamed the church for business problems.
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
Sep 26, 1996
The shooting: Violence visits Scientology — The Oregonian (Portland)
Type: Press
Author(s): Bryan Smith, David R. Anderson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
Seven months ago, Jairus Chegero Godeka threatened to kill everyone in the Portland Church of Scientology unless they gave him $50,000 for ruining his life. On Wednesday, police say, Godeka walked into the church's downtown Portland office and shot and wounded four people, including a pregnant receptionist. Godeka set a fire and briefly took another woman hostage at the church's Portland Celebrity Centre before a police officer persuaded him to surrender. The attack brought activity on Southwest Salmon Street and Broadway ...
Sep 25, 1996
Four shot at Oregon Scientology center — CNN
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Type: Press
Source: CNN
Four shot at Oregon Scientology center PORTLAND, Oregon (CNN) – A man carried a gun and a can of gasoline into a downtown Church of Scientology on Wednesday, shot four people and started a fire, police said. The suspect, identified as Kenya native Jairus Godeka, 38, surrendered after walking out of the church's Portland Celebrity Center with a female hostage whom he released unharmed. Godeka was promptly arrested, and firefighters quickly doused the flames. A pregnant woman was hospitalized in critical ...
Item contributed by: Ron Sharp
May 26, 1985
The selling of Scientology // Hubbard's motivations revealed in correspondence — The Oregonian (Portland)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Fred Leeson
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
Three years after publishing a best-selling book in 1950 about his theories for improving mental health, L. Ron Hubbard, 42, was living in Spain and worrying about money. An idea struck him. Why not present Scientology as a religion, he suggested in a letter written to Helen O'Brien, then the head of an organization for marketing his mental health concepts known as the Hubbard Association of Scientologists. This was the formative stage of the Church of Scientology. Over the next 30 ...
May 24, 1985
Scientologists chorus 'amen' to court criticisms — The Oregonian (Portland)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Sura Rubenstein
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
A gathering billed as a news conference turned into a rally Wednesday as several hundred Scientologists shouted fervent "amens" to religious spokesmen decrying a $39 million judgment against the Church of Scientology awarded by a Multnomah County jury last week. "I heard a fight was going on in Oregon, and I wanted to get in on it," said the Rev. Everett Sileven, a Baptist minister from Louisville, Neb., who served 157 days in jail because he refused to permit state certification ...
May 24, 1985
Scientology verdict not threat to religion — The Oregonian (Portland)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
The Church of Scientology's lofty claim to be the last outpost between the fragile frontier of religious freedom and the barren wasteland of religious oppression has significantly failed to rally other allegedly threatened religions to defend the embattled stockade. To the claim by Ken Hoden, president of the Church of Scientology of Los Angeles, that "If we, one minority, one religion, are attacked, then all religions are attacked," Rodney Page, who represents 13 Christian denominations as executive director of Ecumenical Ministries ...
May 22, 1985
Scientologists carry protest to Capitol — The Oregonian (Portland)
More: link
Type: Press
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
2,000 march through Salem in attempt to see governor [Picture / Caption: ON THEIR WAY — Scientologists loaded up several school buses in downtown Portland Tuesday morning to head for Salem, where they said they planned to march around the state Capitol to protest last week's decision against the Church of Scientology.] A 38-bus caravan of Church of Scientology members arrived in Salem from Portland early Tuesday afternoon for a demonstration to show their displeasure with the $39-million verdict issued last ...
May 22, 1985
Scientologists march again to protest Portland verdict [exact date unknown] — Clearwater Sun (Florida)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Jack Reynolds
Source: Clearwater Sun (Florida)
CLEARWATER — Clearwater Scientologists marched again Tuesday night. Some 400 church members held a 10 p.m., hour-long candlelight procession through the downtown area and out onto Memorial Causeway. A church spokesman said the action was part of a coordinated worldwide protest against a May 17 Oregon court decision awarding $39 million to ex-church member Julie Titchbourne, who claimed the church had failed to make good on promises to improve her eyesight and intelligence. "A similar march began at 7 p.m. in ...
May 21, 1985
Film star joins in Scientology verdict protest — The Oregonian (Portland)
More: link
Type: Press
Author(s): Holly Danks
Source: The Oregonian (Portland)
Movie star John Travolta, looking tired, tousled and in need of a shave, arrived shortly after midnight Monday in Portland to defend the Church of Scientology and back the growing protest of the $39 million judgment handed down against it last week by a Multnomah County jury. "It's simple," Travolta said after walking into a small conference room on the third floor of the Hilton Hotel and taking a long drink from the water glass placed in front of him. "I've ...
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