Have you ever been curious about what was happening in the neighborhood in the past? Electronic issues of Eliot News from 2006 on have been posted eliotneighborhood.org since 2007. But what about older issues? Recently, issues from 1999 – 2005 have been converted to PDF if possible, or scanned into PDF format and posted as well. Now you can find out what was happening a decade ago!
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Neighborhood Clean-Up!
Eliot’s annual Spring Clean-Up will be held Sunday, April 28th between 10 am – 2 pm on N. Graham between N. Williams and N. Vancouver. It’s time to clear out the clutter from your closets, rooms, basement, yard and garage. Bring your unused and unusable junk of all sizes and shapes. Clean out your surplus metal, furniture, clothes and more. Fees range from $5 and up. No yard debris, construction debris, raw garbage or hazardous materials can be accepted.
Board Meeting Minutes 2013-02-11
Board Meeting Minutes 2013-02-11
Board Meeting Agenda for 2013-3-11
Room change- Room 2055
Meeting of the Board (Public welcome) March 11th at Legacy Emanuel Hospital : Room 2055. 7-9pm
Construction on MLK
I’ve lived in Eliot for 5 years now, and Martin Luther King, Junior Boulevard (MLK) is less than half a block from my house. If I had to use one word to describe it I would say ‘highway’ probably. The traffic is what defines MLK, slow and busy at rush hour, and fast and sparse throughout the rest of the day.
LUTC Minutes 2013-02-17
February 13, 2013 by Alexa Heidrich
Eliot News Spring 2013 – A Call for Articles
Freezing Fog in Eliot
Photo Essay By Jason Franklin
Photos taken 1/19/2013
“Rose” NE Rodney
“Hydrant” NE Rodney
“Hoops” Lillis Albina Park
“Bicyclist” – N Flint
“Man” NE Rodney
Eliot News in Danger
The Eliot Newspaper is a publication of the Eliot Neighborhood Association and has been published for the past 22 years. In recent times, former Board Chair Clint Lundmark has been the Editor, Advertising contact, Layout manager, and a major content creator for the paper. This is a tremendous amount of work for one person—too much for me—to do as I am quickly finding out, and I would like to thank Clint for the amount of work he has done for the paper over the past year.
Our Little Free Library
By The Sporseens
The Little Free Library concept is designed to promote literacy and the love of reading by building free book exchanges worldwide. Eliot Neighborhood now has a first Little Free Library and we are now on the map at www.littlefreelibrary.org.
One Down, One to Go
Readers of this column will know that the NE Quadrant phase of the Central City Plan update recently finished. The resulting Plan was approved by City Council. This plan is “advisory” and may be changed of modified subsequently. Concern about possible changes that would upset the compromises agreed to by the stakeholder committee resulted in a request that the committee be notified of any prospective changes and re-engaged to review and comment before they are adopted. It isn’t clear Council will be bound by that request, but here is hoping it will be.
LUTC Meeting Agenda for 2013-2-18
Meeting of the Land Use and Transportation Committee (Public welcome) February 18th (President’s Day) at Legacy Emanuel Hospital Room 1035
Its Your Paper
The Eliot News is one of the primary ways our neighborhood association reaches out to our neighbors: ALL of them, some of whom are elderly and/or poor and do not have internet access and whose views would otherwise ignored. It is one of the few remaining ink and paper neighborhood association newsletters.
Is it time to reconsider our school names?
“This Board (Humboldt Neighborhood Association) is opposed, as a matter of policy, to retaining the names of schools and other public institutions named for former slave owners and others who did not respect equal opportunity for all.”
The Germans Left Churches
When I sent the moldings in my home off to the stripper, I noted the name on the back appeared to be German. I also suspected the owner worked for the railroad because the front door is a custom size, probably to accommodate a window in the shape of a Union Pacific shield, which dates from the 1880s, and my home was built in 1908. A recent Oregonian article, (“NE Portland church tells story…” 1/12/2013) confirmed these suspicions. Although the article warned of the potential tragic loss of churches founded by German immigrants, it noted that these settlers were from the Volga region of Russia.
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