Eliot Neighborhood

The holidays mean more food on your table.  This year, the holidays mean more food in your green Portland Composts! roll cart. Not only can you add food scraps – from meat to bones to dairy – to your green roll cart, you have a new place to scrape your holiday plates and holiday leftovers.  [...]

Read Full Post »

In partnership with Friends of Trees, Eliot Neighborhood is planning another tree planting event this winter. Join us Saturday February 11th to help plant trees and create a healthier community!

Read Full Post »

Most Portland residents can add food scraps, along with yard debris, to their green Portland Composts! roll carts. This means that residents can turn meat, dairy, bones, vegetables and grains into nutrient-rich compost for fertilizing yards and gardens. As you get used to scraping plates into your kitchen pail and tossing leftovers into your green [...]

Read Full Post »

Dawson Park felt alive this summer with so many fantastic events. In cooperation with Portland Parks and Recreation, the Dawson Park Concert Committee raised enough money from local businesses and generous concert goers to host 4 fabulous concerts in July and August.  Neighbors and families from all over Portland were treated with an eclectic variety [...]

Read Full Post »

Tierra Educational Center in in Eliot Neighborhood is offering a unique full-immersion trip to Pátzcuaro, Mexico this December 10-18th. The center opened in 2009, with a mission to offer small group Spanish and ESL services to help bridge communication and cultural barriers between the growing immigrant population and the community at large.

Read Full Post »

In partnership with the City of Portland’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement, the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods is offering $23,794 in small grant funds and $6,650 in graffiti abatement funds to neighborhood, business and community-based groups. NECN will offer $1,000-$4,000 per project within the Neighborhood Small Grant program and up to $2,500 per graffiti abatement project.

Read Full Post »

The Summer in September Jambalaya Festival and Barbecue in Dawson Park, a benefit for the Martin Luther King Jr. Loaves & Fishes Center,  was a big success.  The event raised more than $20,000 to serve needy seniors in Northeast Portland making it one of the most successful in its six-year history.

Read Full Post »

By Ofc Peter Helzer NRT  & Angela Wagnon ONI It seems we got the good weather just as school is starting again.  I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone to look out for kids on their way to/from school, and to drive safely in neighborhoods and school zones.  With everyone’s schedule filling [...]

Read Full Post »

Eliot Neighborhood now has a page on Facebook!  Like us, let’s be friends.

Read Full Post »

The NE Broadway Summer Super Sale offers Great Deals, Great Music, and plenty of Street Fair Fun on Friday July 15 through Sunday July 17. Participating businesses will have great merchandise and bargains up to 75% off, with sidewalk sale tables spilling over and more killer deals inside the shops. Add two music stages, lots [...]

Read Full Post »

The King, Sabin, Elliot and Boise neighborhoods are invited to a NATIONAL NIGHT OUT at Irving Park, August 2, 5:00 to 9:00 PM.

Read Full Post »

Bringing the Sun to the Northwest As a native Oregonian, every year at this time, I wonder to myself, “Can it get any worse?” But this year the weather seems particularly bad. I do need to remind myself that even while I write this article the sun is shining brightly outside.  Maybe it just takes [...]

Read Full Post »

If you have driven by the SE corner of Fremont and Williams lately, you can see that something very colorful and exciting is happening there. It is the Boise Eliot Village Square and it will be a public market place with live music, theatre, gospel on Sunday’s and some democracy and educational forums as well. [...]

Read Full Post »

Dawson Park will host four free concerts this summer!    The gazebo will be the stage for the live performances.  Concerts begin at 6:30 PM and last about 2 hours.  Best of all, the concerts are free! 2011 lineup: July 6  Obo Addy & Okropong (Ghanaian drums & dance) July 13  CONCERT RESCHEDULED 8/31 DUE [...]

Read Full Post »

By Ofc Peter Helzer NRT  & Angela Wagnon ONI Hello!  The weather has finally begun to swing in the right direction, and school is letting out for the summer.  It’s time to remember our basic prevention techniques.  Check your outdoor lighting and watch out for your neighbors.  Just as a reminder, please keep your valuables [...]

Read Full Post »

By Julie Woelfer Thanks to all the hard work of volunteers and generous donations, the annual Eliot clean-up was a success. We removed over 10 tons of debris from the neighborhood, plus a few more tons of scrap metal that were recycled. We also raised about $500, to be used to help fund neighborhood events [...]

Read Full Post »

Since 1925, Dawson Park has been at the core of this cuturally diverse community. Over the years, the neighborhood has changed and grown, as has the role of the park. Portland Parks needs your input on new design options that best meet the needs of the community today!

Read Full Post »

The Eliot Neighborhood Spring Cleanup is Saturday May 15th.  Do you have a truck?  Can you spare a few hours helping neighbors clean up?

Read Full Post »

At the Eliot Neighborhood April General Membership Meeting concert planners Tamille Lundmark and Pamela Weatherspoon announced the concert schedule.  Dawson Park will host 4 concerts this season – every Wednesday evening in July.

Read Full Post »

Spring is slowly but surely coming, and with it comes the reopening of the popular King Portland Farmers Market! on Sunday, May 1 at 10 AM.

Read Full Post »