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I met Steve Hirshon for coffee one day and, being that the weather was nice, we took our drinks to go and milled about Monument Square. In the course of our 20-minute walk Steve must have said hello to over 60 people. It was an impressive display even by Portland standards, but it wasn’t surprising.

Steve (‘Fang” to his oldest friends) worked in Monument Square. And he grew up in Portland (President of his class at Deering High). And he and Collette (his “co-mortgagee”) always seemed to be at any party I ever was at. And he was a WMPG DJ for 35 years. And he was ever present in the activist, finance, immigrant rights, bike-ped advocacy, arts, and Jewish communities — and I’m probably leaving several things out.