Eliot Neighborhood Association Board Meeting Minutes 2012-2-13
The Green Garage Opens in Eliot
The biking community in Portland continues to grow, making our city healthy and cleaner with fewer car on the roads. One of the major bike-ways in Portland passes though Eliot’s Lower Albina area. A new bike shop opened last fall just off of Interstate on North Mississippi. The location is very convenient to all the Interstate cyclists who pass by every day.
Ivy School Open House
By Laurie Simpson
The Ivy school will be hosting an open house in Eliot this month. On Wednesday February 22nd, the upper elementary open house for grades 4, 5 & 6 will be from 6 – 7 pm at 26 NE Morris Steet.
A Little Greener
On Saturday February 11th Eliot neighborhood turned a little less gray and little more greener. New trees were planted in the neighborhood at the annual Friend of Trees neighborhood planting. As has been tradition the last few years, Eliot joined Boise, Humboldt and King to plant tress in North and Northeast Portland.
New Seasons Coming to Eliot
In case you hadn’t already heard…a News Seasons Market is coming to Eliot! On January 5th New Seasons Market announced they intend to open a store on the “Bakery Blocks” – the parcel of land bordered by Cook, Williams, Fremont and Vancouver. The 13th New Seasons store is expected to open in 2013.
Board Meeting Agenda for 2012-02-13
Meeting of the Board (Public welcome) Febuary 13th at “MOB West” at Legacy Emanuel Hospital. 7-9pm
25th Annual Fix-It Fair
The City of Portland’s 25th annual Fix-It Fair season has one remaining fair on Saturday February 25th at Jefferson High School. Fix-It Fairs are free events where you can learn simple and effective ways to save money at home this winter and stay healthy.
The Albina Cooperative Garden, A Local Experiment in Self-Organization
By Shara Alexander
Yes, now it is Winter, but soon it will be Spring. Green buds will be pushing out from every plant node. You will have the urge to get outside and grow things. How will you start your vegetable growing experiment in the year 2012? Will you go alone outside to your muddy back yard (not to malign your back yard), or to the little pot on your windowsill (it’s a lovely windowsill, by the way), or to the parking strip you tore up last year (well, that’s not really a problem, the grass will grow back) and wonder “what next? Do I have to do this alone?”
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