• Bethany Village Halloween Hunt
• What’s New Furniture exclusive discount!
• Thank You for a Great Market Season and It’s Not Over Yet!
• New Businesses
  • Portland’s Creo Chocolate now open at Cedar Hills Crossing
  • The Art of Problem Solving
  • Massage & Spa at Bethany has grown!
• Mad Greek Deli closing
• Tired of Crossing Your Legs When You Sneeze or Laugh?
• Spotting the Deepfake

Bethany Village Halloween Hunt

Saturday, October 31, 1-3 pm, 4720 NW Bethany Blvd, free

Inviting all ghouls, goblins, and Baby Yodas to enjoy a fun walk throughout Bethany Village Shopping Centre for an entertaining afternoon of trick-or-treating on Halloween!

What’s New Furniture exclusive discount!

Mon.-Sat. 10-6, Sun.11-5, 1026 NW Murray

The newest business in Cedar Mill is offering a discount for Cedar Mill News readers! Just bring in this issue, or mention us when you shop, or use the discount code in their ad (page XX) to get 10% off all merchandise (one per family).

You’ll love shopping in their beautiful new store, in the former Miller Paint building, across from Safeway. They have a wide variety of eclectic chairs, stylish sofas, and trendy accents, and you can customize most pieces with your own selection of fabric. They believe that furniture shopping should be a fun and stress-free experience, so instead of high-pressure sales tactics, you’ll find helpful support and friendly conversation.

Thank You for a Great Market Season and It’s Not Over Yet!

Saturdays, October 3, 10, 17, 9-2 pm, corner of NW Cornell & Murray Roads

The Farmers Market this year was a huge blast and we’re still going strong! Although the season is wrapping up, the market will continue into the first three weeks of October. Excitingly, we are celebrating our second annual Kid Entrepreneur Day on our last market day, October 17! Come out and support these creative kid vendors, selling their handmade projects! 

Our farmers will have delicious squashes for your soups, pumpkins for jack-o’-lanterns, and apples for a scrumptious pie! We’ll have pamphlets on pickling and freezing, so your produce can last throughout the winter! So come stock up on fresh, local, fruits and veggies! 

Thank you for another amazing season, Cedar Mill! Remember to spend your Double Up Food Bucks at the market as they expire at the end of the year!

New Businesses

Portland’s Creo Chocolate now open at Cedar Hills Crossing

Cedar Hills Crossing, 2855 SW Cedar Hills Blvd., Beaverton

Creo Chocolate, the family-owned craft chocolate company founded in Portland in 2014, opened its first location outside Portland at Cedar Hills Crossing in September. The Cedar Hills shop is Creo’s fourth location and the first the family has opened outside central Portland. The Beaverton storefront features a case full of truffles, various chocolate covered products, and seasonal goodies.

Creo is run by father and son Tim and Kevin Straub, who partner with a single-family farm in Ecuador to produce their chocolate. The beans come directly from the farmers at Hacienda Victoria to their Portland factory. The process to turn the beans into their award-winning chocolate takes three days of work. They welcome the public into their Chocolate Lab for Build-a-Bar experiences to learn more about the process.

“We started [Creo] with a raspberry farm in Ridgefield, WA. While running the farm, we started making chocolate for family and friends, and things got a little out of control. Next thing you know, we’re opening up our fourth chocolate shop.” says Kevin Straub.

The Art of Problem Solving

11786 NW Cedar Falls Dr., near Even Hotel

AoPS Academy is opening its newest location soon, providing an enrichment program for grades 1–12, with after-school and weekend classes in math, language arts, and science for highly-motivated students. Students develop their creativity, critical thinking, and complex problem-solving skills with outstanding peers and mentors. The program has been meeting on the Catlin Gabel campus. The company has campuses all over the US. Learn more here.

Massage & Spa at Bethany has grown!

4720 NW Bethany Blvd., Suite F-2

Since the article in the February 2017 Cedar Mill News we have expanded into a beautiful new space in Bethany Village and we now have a team of approximately 22 employees.

Our new spa features private infrared sauna rooms with showers, advanced facials and HydraFacial treatments, body treatments, spa rituals, and what we believe is Portland’s only adjoining-room massage suite. The suite consists of two private treatment rooms connected by a large sliding doorway, allowing couples, friends, and family members to enjoy massages together while retaining the comfort of their own rooms.

We have also been honored with the 2025 Best of the Rose City Gold Award for Best Day Spa, along with Silver Awards for Massage and Women-Owned Business.

Visit our website or call 503-533-5614 for information or to make an appointment.

Mad Greek Deli closing

The building on the NW corner of West Union and 185^th has been home to several restaurants over the years. The Rock Creek Tavern closed a few years ago and The Mad Greek Deli took over. It had formerly been at the SE corner of the same intersection.

Now the owners are closing the business on November 28. Owner Jake Marks says the building has been sold and economic pressures “have made it impossible to continue.” The downtown location will stay open.

Tired of Crossing Your Legs When You Sneeze or Laugh?

Grace Aesthetics & Wellness, 15160 NW Laidlaw Rd., #100

Your pelvic floor may be trying to tell you something. Bladder leakage and urgency are incredibly common—but that doesn’t mean you simply have to live with them. Whether changes began after having children, with age, or you’ve noticed leaking when you laugh, sneeze, exercise or simply can’t make it to the bathroom as easily as you once could, your pelvic floor may need some attention.

Emsella is a completely non-invasive pelvic floor treatment for women and men that uses HIFEM technology to create thousands of powerful pelvic floor muscle contractions in a single 28-minute session—all while you remain comfortably seated and fully clothed.

To celebrate the launch of Emsella at Grace, we’ve extended our introductory pricing for the Cedar Mill community. Curious if Emsella is right for you? Schedule a complimentary, private consultation with Michelle to talk about your concerns and create a personalized plan. 

Spotting the Deepfake

By Sunset Credit Union

What is a deepfake? It’s an artificial intelligence (AI) generated or manipulated video, audio recording, or image that realistically mimics a real person’s appearance or voice to make it look or sound like they did or said something they never actually did. One way a criminal uses a deepfake is to clone voices or video calls to impersonate company officials or family members to authorize financial transfers or steal data. The quality of these deepfake videos or phone calls has become even more convincing with the development of generative AI, which is technology that creates new text, image, music, videos or code when a person types a request (think ChatGPT, Claude, Google Gemini, etc).

At Sunset Credit Union, we are always on the lookout for deepfake phone calls, which is why we will verify your identity through a series of questions that only the real you will know the answers to. Not all AI is used for fraudulent purposes, however as it becomes a more integral part of our lives, we need to learn how to tell the real from the (deep)fake.

Here are some things to look for to spot a deepfake: Lighting and shadows: Do the shadows and reflections match a single light source, like the sun or a room lamp? AI often misplaces shadows on faces, hair, or glasses; Blinking and eyes: Watch how the person blinks for unnatural patterns—either too fast, too regular, or completely missing; Skin and edges: Look at the edges where a face meets the neck, hair, or background, is it blurry, flickering or is there a sudden change in skin tone?; Teeth and mouth: Do the teeth look blurry or lack individual outlines? Lip movements may also drift out of sync with the audio (think old, dubbed movies)’ Voice quality: Listen for a flat vocal tone or lack of inflection, robotic sound, or missing breath noises between sentences, does it sound like the normal rhythm of human speech?; Manufactured urgency: Be extremely cautious if a video or audio call tries to rush you into sending money or sharing passwords. No financial institution will ask you for your credit card number or PIN; Real-time tests: On live video calls, ask the person to wave their hand in front of their face or turn their head sideways to see if the AI glitches.

As always, if you are unsure about a message you receive, go directly to the source of the call, email or video via a trusted phone number or website to verify the information before taking action. Legitimate sources expect to be verified.

Visit our website or come in to the office at 1100 NW Murray to learn more about your local Credit Union.