Eliot neighbors and Open Signal, Portland Community Media Center are planning a neighborhood block party on Saturday, August 26 from 2-10pm.
Open Signal Block Party
Pick it up, Portland! picks ELIOT
Hello Neighbors! Good news: The Oregon environmental non-profit organization SOLVE has chosen Eliot to be part of a new citywide volunteer neighborhood litter clean-up event. If you happen to be free on Thursday morning August 31st, I hope you will join us to help clean up our neighborhood.
Advanced Technology Charts More Precise Paths Through the Brain
Legacy Emanuel Medical Center is the first hospital in Oregon to acquire an advanced robotic imaging and navigation system for more precise brain tumor removal and spinal surgeries.
The Synaptive BrightMatter technology integrates pre-operative imaging, surgical planning and robotic visualization to give neurosurgeons the ability to see relevant details in the brain not visible to the human eye, which may allow for much safer surgical intervention.
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Board Meeting Minutes 2017-07-17
Eliot Neighborhood Association
Meeting Minutes
July 17, 2017
6:30 – 8:30 pm
St Philip Deacon Episcopal Church NE 120 Knott St
Submitted by Shireen Hasan
New Murals
Thanks to Fresh Paint, our new partnership with the Regional Arts & Culture Council (RACC), three artists will paint temporary murals on Open Signal’s exterior west wall, a highly prominent site that faces Martin Luther King Jr Blvd.
City Council Approves Grant to Fund Clean Start PDX
A few months ago Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods and members of Eliot neighborhood met to discuss trash and livability issues in our inner northeast neighborhoods. Eliot has seen an increase in litter and debris related to the Moda Center and homelessness. We agreed to talk to Central City Concern about their Clean Start Program.
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Board Meeting Minutes 2017-06-19
Eliot Neighborhood Association
Meeting Minutes
June 19, 2017
6:30 – 8:45 pm
St Philip Deacon Episcopal Church NE 120 Knott St
Submitted by Shireen Hasan
Cornerstones African American History Project Continues—Combatting Demolition
On May 18th, in the basement of the Vancouver Avenue Baptist Church, city representatives met with neighborhood homeowners, community leaders, city planners, and local historians to discuss the precarious future of the neighborhood’s homes. Finding the city’s properties with historic significance and protecting them from development is the goal of a new grant-funded partnership between the city’s Historic Preservation Program and the Architectural Heritage Center.
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Walking Program Promotes Community Memory Building
gram Principal Investigator, OHSU
The Sharing History through Active Reminiscence and Photo-imagery (SHARP) walking program is a research study for African Americans aged 55 or older (Oregon Health & Science University IRB#16980). Raina Croff, PhD is the Principal Investigator. SHARP participants will engage in community memory building while walking through historically Black neighborhoods in North and Northeast Portland. Participants will view images of African American community in Portland from 1940 to 2010, and engage in small-group conversation about what it was like to live and work in those communities as they walk through those communities.
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Board Meeting Minutes 2017-05-15
Eliot Neighborhood Association
Meeting Minutes
May 15, 2017
6:30 – 8:30 pm
St Philip Deacon Episcopal Church NE 120 Knott St
Oregon Burn Center Celebrates 1 Year
Using Laser Treatment to Erase Memories — Legacy Emanuel’s Oregon Burn Center Celebrates 1 Year of Laser Treatment Therapy.
Janelle Roha, blinded by the thick smoke from her burning home, frantically searched for a way out. She felt the coolness of the window and thought, “safety.”
Children’s Book Bank
A series of posts about places where you can buy, borrow or donate books in and around our amazing neighborhood.
The Children’s Book Bank is a local nonprofit that engages the community in collecting, sorting, and distributing new and gently used books to children who might not otherwise have books in their homes. Children living in poverty often enter school lacking the foundational vocabulary needed to learn to read and early literacy skills are directly linked to a student’s success in school and beyond. That’s why The Children’s Book Bank collects and distributes books to children in need ranging from birth through eighth grade. We distribute books through Head Start programs, public schools, and more.
Neighborhood Company Rallies Businesses to Back Refugees
A Portland effort to rally businesses in support of refugees started in the Eliot neighborhood. We Hire Refugees was launched by Indow on N. Interstate Avenue in partnership with the nonprofit Immigrant Refugee Community Organization. The initiative is designed to rally businesses of all sizes to declare that refugees make our communities and businesses stronger. More than 45 businesses have signed including New Seasons, Ziba Design, Zapproved, Neil Kelly and IdeaLegal.
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Legacy Plans Major Expansion
Legacy Health has announced a replacement and expansion project on the Legacy Emanuel Medical Center campus that would add new surgical suites and a new space for the Legacy Oregon Burn Center. Plans are to build a new four-level facility with parking for 100 cars on the N. Kerby Street lot, adjacent to the hospital and current operating rooms. This is the first major expansion on the Legacy Emanuel campus since the opening of Randall Children’s Hospital in 2012.
Where to Get Financial Assistance for Childcare?
There is so much more to raising a child today than just loving them unconditionally and teaching them the right values. According to the US Bureau of Labor Statistics, 64.2 percent of women with children under 6 years old were either working or looking for jobs in 2015. If both parents are working, you may have to think about leaving your kid in a childcare facility.
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