By Amanda Milholland
Graffiti: spray-painted names and messages sprawled across business walls, dumpsters, electrical poles, and even on the sidewalk. In Eliot, the summer months bring graffiti. When not cleaned up, tagged walls encourage other taggers to stake their claim in our neighborhood.
Meeting of the Board (Public welcome) September 10th at Medical Office Building 501 N Graham : West Conference Room. 7-9pm
Another successful neighborhood cleanup is history, and all the paperwork is (finally) completed. In all, we removed nearly nine tons of debris from the neighborhood, and added about $500 to our coffers.
As always, many people came together to make this possible.
Looking for something to do tonight to kick off your Labor Day Weekend? Why not spend it in your neighborhood park listening to music and watching a movie?
The Portland Brownfield Program has grant funding available until September for North and Northeast Portland property owners. These funds can be used for free or low-cost or Environmental Site Assessments on brownfields or properties where previous use may have contaminated the soil or ground water with petroleum or other hazardous substances.
VOLUNTEERS OF AMERICA
Men’s Residential Center
Invites YOU to…
WHAT? A BLOCK PARTY
WHERE? Next to the VOA-MRC
N.E. Sacramento Street
Between 7th St. and MLK Jr. Blvd.
WHEN? Tuesday, August 21, 2012
TIME? 4:30 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.
Entertainment for the Kids! Great Eats! Dancing in the Streets!
Come Enjoy Yourself & Meet Your Neighbors!
The regularly scheduled meeting for August is cancelled. Please contact Allan Rudwick (arudwick@gmail.com or 503-703-3910) if there are any pressing issues that can’t wait until the September meeting
Some members of the board will meet as a subcommittee in the normal meeting room but no official business will occur. Enjoy the sun, and please check back next month.
Over the last several years Portland has undergone a transformation of sorts with city dwellers getting creative in how they Urban Farm. Many have created their own garden boxes to grow organic vegetables, planted fruit trees in their yards and parking strips, and added berry bushes to their landscaping, all using compost they’re making from kitchen and yard scraps. The latest trend is keeping chickens in the city.
By Laurie Simpson
The Ivy School, a 1st – 8th grade public Montessori school with Spanish-language study, is located at NE 42nd street and Prescott. The school opened for the 2009-2010 academic year and just completed its third year. Since September 2011, the school has been operating their upper elementary classrooms (grades 4 – 6) in the Eliot neighborhood at Immaculate Heart’s classroom building across from Dawson park.
Innovative Housing, Inc. (IHI) is throwing a party to celebrate the start of its newest housing development in the Eliot Neighborhood! On Saturday, July 21, 2012, IHI will take over the vacant lot on NE Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard between NE Cook and Fargo Streets (soon to become 50 units of new affordable housing) and fill it with friends, neighbors, musicians, food vendors, and tons of fun construction activities for kids.
Did you know water usage in the Portland Metro area can more than double and even triple during the summer months? We Oregonians work hard to keep our lawns and gardens green in hot and dry weather. Many of us have heard the advice to water our lawn about an inch a week – and more during hotter weather – but few of us actually know what that means. In fact, many people actually over-water their lawns without realizing it.
Eliot Neighborhood Association Board Meeting Minutes 2012-07-9
This column has described the NE Quadrant Planning process over the past 20 months of Stakeholder Advisory Committee (SAC) meetings. That portion of the Central City Plan is nearing its end with the SAC’s adoption of the Facility Plan. The process has been driven by the desire of ODOT to expand I-5 between I-405 and I-84 and PDOT’s hope of leveraging federal freeway dollars for surface street improvements. Because the City’s hope depends on federal money, this hope has always been a house of cards and remains so.
Continue reading Freeway Expansion Plan Drafted – Eliot in Crosshairs?
By Maegan Vidal
Randall Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel is excited to host a free and family friendly summer street fair right outside of their new home. The community can participate in fun interactive activities designed to help children get active, eat healthy and stay safe.
June meeting of the Land Use and Transportation Committee (Public welcome) at Legacy Emanuel Hospital Room 1035. 6:30-8pm.
Eliot Neighborhood 