PORTLAND DRIZZLE

🍋‍🟩 Monday again. Rainy Monday ahead - high of 58, grab a jacket. Portland's bagel scene is booming, the city is turning backyard fruit into meals amid federal cuts, and an armed suspect hiding in a tree for 12 hours. Let’s get the fruit and the bagels together and have breakfast! Don’t invite the armed suspect.

With USDA cuts reducing fresh food supplies by roughly 20%, Portland nonprofits are leaning on what's already growing. The Portland Fruit Tree Project has volunteers harvesting fruit from private yards that would otherwise go to waste and routing it to people who need it. Lift Urban Portland executive director Stephanie Barr says rising food and housing costs are squeezing families across the region. Oregon Food Bank notes that SNAP remains the most effective tool, delivering seven meals for every one the food bank network distributes. The trees are doing their part. KOIN

Portland police responded to an armed suspect situation at a Northeast Portland apartment building Friday morning that stretched into a half-day ordeal. After officers deployed gas into the apartment, the suspect climbed to the roof, then jumped into a tree and swung to the ground. He was taken into custody. No injuries were reported. Portland Police have since identified the suspect. The neighborhood near 122nd Avenue was locked down for hours while detectives worked the scene. Twelve hours is a long time. The tree held. KGW

Hand-rolled, boiled, baked, and sold out by noon. A wave of new bagelries has hit Portland, Pipsqueak Bagels in Creston-Kenilworth, Sincerely Bagel in Kerns, Red Hen Bagelry at Red Hen Sauce on weekends, and Portlanders are lining up for them. The bakers are transplants chasing East Coast nostalgia, working with Oregon grain and Portland's genuinely good water. Kimchi cheddar is outselling plain. Pipsqueak moves 1,000-plus bagels most days. "Portland is a borough city," says Pipsqueak's Madilyn Gibbons. Your neighborhood probably has one now.

The full story is worth reading at EATER

Maggie’s Coffee Co: Maggie opened a mobile coffee cart earlier this year and has recently moved semi-brick and mortar. They are now open Fri-Sun from 8-1 on SE 34th Ave near Belmont. We tried it out this weekend and loved it! I got a spicy chai which was very well done and the staff was kind and we will definitely be going back. They’re on IG HERE, and I made a video you can see HERE

June 8, 1949: George Orwell published Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Portland's got great water, great bagels, and at least one guy who sticks the landing.

by Michael Simpson Contact: [email protected]