Join us at Dawson Park Thursday, July 22 from 5-8pm for a free jazz concert and family-friendly event. See the flier below for more details and also visit the website CONCERTS page here for more details and to sign up to be a sponsor, vendor, volunteer or just to donate.
We hope to have 3 more events this summer and fall.
This is the first of 4 events this summer/fall. (Other event dates: August 26, September 16, October 7)
Bring your family and friends and enjoy an evening at Dawson Park. Food available for purchase on-site or pack a picnic and snacks, don’t forget a blanket or low lawn chairs.
We can’t wait to see you all at the event!
Co-Chairs: Jimmy Wilson and Allan Rudwick
Join Zoom Meeting (phone instructions at bottom)
Pre-Meeting – Dawson Park Concert meeting at 6:00pm
Agenda (subject to changes):
please consider joining by phone if you have connection issues
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Meeting ID: 921 9954 0103
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I recently received this information from Emanuel Displaced Persons Associaion 2 (EDPA2). In response to 116 people dying during the heatwave a few weeks ago, EDPA2 is organizing a portable air conditioner drive.
Most of the dead lived in Multnomah County!!! According to reports they died because they did not have air conditioners and/or fans. People literally died in their homes from HEAT!!!!! This doesn’t need to happen again. I’m organizing an air conditioner and fan drive. On Saturday July 24th between the hours of 9am and 2pm in the parking lot of the Knott Street Dermatology clinic located at 301 NE Knott (across the street from the Albina Library). Like all of you, I am busy as hell but together we can make this a success.
Here is what’s needed,
1. Will some folks identify/locate people in need of a mini portable air conditioner and/or fan with a focus on senior citizens living alone?
2. Will someone create a flyer for this event? It should invite folks to participate by purchasing a mini portable air conditioner and/or fan and to drop them off at the event. People in need of a mini portable air conditioner and/or fan can pick them up at the event
3. We need folks at the event to direct traffic and to receive the fans/mini portable air conditioners
4. We need folks to drop off the fans/air conditioners as they are received
5. Will someone look up mini air conditioners to see which ones work the best and other information
6. Will someone compile a list of tips and advice for how to stay cool while home alone
7. WE need some tables and chairs
9. What else, what else, what else? If you think of anything please let me know
I thank you in advance for your willingness to volunteer
For more information, contactedpa2@gmail.com
Hi Eliot Parents. I wanted to put some information on how to register your child for school. I know a few years ago when my Kindergartener started at Boise-Eliot/Humboldt Elementary on N Fremont it was a bit confusing what I needed to do. Registering your child earlier helps to figure out how many teachers will be needed at each grade level. Here are some instructions from the administration there.
This is how to enroll a student that is new to Portland Public Schools.
Collect this information
Online registration process
The online registration will enroll the student at the school assigned to the address where you reside. If the student is on an approved transfer to a different school, connect with the transfer school for enrollment options. If you experience technical difficulties with the online registration, email IT Support at support@pps.net.
Once you have submitted the online registration, school staff will reach out to you about completing the enrollment.
Paper registration process
Complete the paper Student Registration Form and turn in to your school secretary with all supporting documents.
If you are working with Portland Public Schools to develop an IEP for kindergarten, because your child received preschool special education services and has an IFSP, your child will be enrolled automatically in your neighborhood school. You will be able to verify demographic information and upload required verification documents at the end of summer through ParentVUE. If you are granted enrollment into an immersion program or PPS school other than your neighborhood school your students’ enrollment will reflect that change.
By Anonymous
You wake up to the boom of a car stereo or the smell of cigarette smoke wafting through the back bedroom window. Aggressive drivers rev their engines and honk their horns. It sounds like rush hour, but it’s 6 AM, and this is the destination.
All-day long, looking outside is like playing bingo. Across, the headings are categories like violence, drugs, sex, vandalism, and driving.
FYI
By Julie Doumbia and Sue Stringer
It’s been a while since we have had a Within and Beyond the Borders of Eliot column. For this issue, we think it’s time for a sequel to the piece the Eliot News did three years ago. There’s a proliferation of new murals and street art in and around our neighborhood. You can also find the map online with links to larger color photos than we could publish in the print version. See the FAQs below the map legend for more information about murals and street art. Photo credits Julie Doumbia and Sue Stringer.
So put on some walking shoes and enjoy a day of wandering through the neighborhood and enjoy the free art show accessible to all. We’re still waiting to get an update on the new mural/art on the building at NE Russell and MLK Blvd., so check back with us in the fall for that one. Also, a mural was approved to be painted on PICA’s and RH Brown’s buildings. Installation starts sometime this summer or fall.
Click the link HERE to navigate to the Google map with all the murals and art and their locations. For a preview of what is on the map see the information below:
1. Women Making History: N Harding Ave and N Interstate Ave sponsored by In Other Words Women’s Books and Resources (closed) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_Making_History_in_Portland Artist Robin Corbo
2. Mural plus lots of street art: Ecliptic Brewing Warehouse 2410 N Interstate Artist Pablos Murals https://pablosmurals.com
3. MLK Jr. Mural 627 N Tillamook St: Artist Shane Grammer @shanegrammerarts, https://shanegrammer.com
4. Night Stars, Camping & street art: 2410 N Interstate Ave Ecliptic Brewing warehouse
5. Geometric patterns and scenes: N Mississippi and N Fremont (NE corner)
6. Salmon along a fence: Boise-Eliot-Humboldt Elementary N Borthwick at N Cook St
7. Michelle Obama: residential front door 329 N Fremont St. Artist Dianne Bocci
8. People and aliens: Grains of Wrath 3901 N Williams
9. Tropical fruits and desert-scape: MF Tasty food truck 3925 N Williams Ave
10. Geometric shapes: Parallax apartments 4030 N Williams Ave
11. Urbanscapes: Cook St apartments parking lot access via N Ivy between Williams and Vancouver
12. Musicians and Dancers: Above The Waypost 3120 N Williams Ave
13. Honey in the Bee Ball—I Can’t See Y’all – Medallions: Dawson Park fence N Williams Ave at N Stanton St. Artist Isaka Shamsud-Din
14. Geometric design: Breadwinner Cycles 2323 N Williams Ave
15. Frogs: Port City Gallery (closed) 2170 N Williams
16. Birds: Pacific North Press 16 NE Tillamook St
17. Flowers: Tillamook Row 22 NE Tillamook St
18. “MIKE” (Multicultural Integrated Kidney Education Program) Mural: 1914 NE 7th Ave. Artist Robin Corbo
19. “In My Skin”: PDX RedWall, Oregon First Realty 2106 NE MLK Jr.- Rotating art -current artist Jason Hill
20. “Together” Rotating Mural: Open Signal 2766 NE MLK Jr. Artist: Limei Lai
21. Mural (by students?): Growing Seeds Child Development Center: 2808 NE MLK Jr.
22. “In My America” Flag mural: 2915 NE MLK Jr.
23. Mural and Tiles and Sculpture: Cascadia/Garlington Center NE MLK Jr and NE Morris St. Artists south side bldg. mural –Arvie Smith, panels at the front door on MLK –Jeremy Davis, sculpture by the parking lot –Hillary Pfiefer
24. “Jumptown Video Wall”: The Magnolia apartments 3262 NE MLK Jr. Artist Pamela Chipman. Thomas Robinson and Portland City Archive contributed photos and videos
25. Residential garage mural: 435 NE Cook St. Artist Ryan Bubnis
26. Waves of color: Mothership Music 3611 NE MLK Jr. Artist Pablos Murals
27. “Peace in the Hood”: mural on residential wall 3792 NE MLK Jr.
28. Women and shapes: Luna Wellness 3801 NE MLK Jr
29. Ahmaud Arbery, George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and BLM Protestors mural: North side of Sengatera Ethiopian Restaurant 3833 NE MLK Jr.
30. MESO murals, plant/art piece, garage mural -4008 NE MLK Jr. Artists: Southside -Adia Gibbs, Latoya Lovely, Kyra Watkins, Alex Chiu, Emmanuel Dempsey. Panels/plants -Peg Butler. Northside Isaka Shamsud-Din, Garage – Emmanuel Dempsey
What is street art?
Why is street art important? What’s the big deal?
What is the difference between street art and graffiti?
Where can I go to learn more about street art?
I’m interested in commissioning a mural for my property, where can I go to get information?
Portland Street Art Alliance has a long history of supporting community connections and they can help you scope your project and connect with an artist: http://www.pdxstreetart.org/commissions
With the tough last year we’ve had, I’m trying to find ways to stay hopeful and find things that bring me joy. Something that I’m excited about in Eliot is that it looks like we may be welcoming many new neighbors soon.
From Albina Vision Trust:
In honor of Junteenth, Albina Vision Trust is hosting three events this Saturday. See below for details!
After canvassing 10,000 homes in Albina, we are coming together for a virtual panel discussion at 10am: Looking back and moving forward: A teach-in about the future of Portland. With the I-5 Rose Quarter Improvement Project in the background, the workshop will be followed by a postcard writing workshop led by Bruce Poinsette.
Register for your free tickets: here
P.S. Provide your perspective on the highway covers being studied by the Independent Highway Cover Team by participating in the 5 minute survey available here. AVT supports options that repair the urban fabric and restore stolen wealth by maximizing the opportunity for creating developable land.
Next, there will be a drive-in festival featuring local Black filmmakers. Presented films include the Elijah Hasan and Dr. Renee Mitchell’s Black Nod; Dru Holley’s Where do we go?; and episodes from Heart & Hustle/ Rashad Floyd’s Expressions in Black.
Get your movie tickets here! First screening is at 9pm.
And finally, Sharita Towne will present: Thanking Black Educators in Light & Sound. This will be an honoring of Black educators and visionaries with a projected video collage on the Portland Public Schools HQ building (501 N Dixon).
Drop by between 10-11:30p – no registration needed!
We hope to see you Saturday, and Happy Junteenth!
The Eliot Neighborhood Association is hosting a concert in Dawson Park on Thursday July 22nd in the evening. More details to follow.
If you are interested in donating volunteering, being a vendor, or having a table you can connect at this page
This post will be updated as more information comes together
By Sue Stringer and Mike Warwick
Do you recognize this building? In the past years the ENA Board has talked about getting a mural or some art installed on this wall. It is where NE Russell Street ends on Martin Luther King Jr Blvd. Baileywick Properties is working on a new art installation on the building. Stay tuned for more details in the next issue.
Also, in our next issue, we will have a map of all the art and murals in the neighborhood. If you have a favorite mural, we’d like it if you could email a photo and location or just the intersection to news@eliotneighborhood.org and we’ll add it to the map.
Co-Chairs: Jimmy Wilson and Allan Rudwick
Join Zoom Meeting (phone instructions at bottom)
Agenda (subject to changes):
please consider joining by phone if you have connection issues
Dial by your location
+1 253 215 8782 US (Tacoma)
Meeting ID: 921 9954 0103
Passcode: 714644
Find your local number: https://zoom.us/u/adBQ1yPQO0
The beginning of the end of the pandemic. A return from social isolation. A year of protest. A year of reflection. America and more locally Eliot has a huge opportunity ahead of us. Things won’t be the same as they were in 2019, but the future is bright: vaccines are coming. While the rollout has been inequitable I am optimistic that the rate of vaccination is reaching an inflection point. Schools will reopen soon. Restaurants and in-person businesses will come back in the not too distant future. Masks might fall by the wayside as soon as this summer. I can’t wait.
By Desiree S. – University Park resident and Vaccine Event Promoter/Organizer
This event is for anyone needing their 2nd dose who attended the event back in May. ALSO, anyone else needing their 1st or 2nd dose of the PFIZER Covid vaccine is invited to attend.
This event at Holy Redeemer School (cosponsored by Immunize Oregon, Legacy Health, and Holy Redeemer School) is open to the general public and for those who are eligible for their 1st or 2nd Pfizer Covid Vaccine, ages 12 and up.
There are many appointments still available. Also, walk-ins are welcome. This is not just for North Portland residents, ANY eligible persons who are interested in attending are welcome.
We would greatly appreciate it if you could share with your neighbors by any means (social media, email, etc.)
Thanks, in advance, for your time and consideration!
Place: Holy Redeemer School Gymnasium , 107 N Rosa Parks Way
Date: Friday, June 18
Time: 11 am – 6 pm
Schedule your vaccine: Click HERE
