North Williams Avenue will host the 2nd Annual Shop Williams Late event on Friday, December 9th from 6:30pm – 9:30pm.
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LUTC Minutes 2011-11-21
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Turkeys and Trees Belong in Your Green Roll Cart
The holidays mean more food on your table. This year, the holidays mean more food in your green Portland Composts! roll cart.
Not only can you add food scraps – from meat to bones to dairy – to your green roll cart, you have a new place to scrape your holiday plates and holiday leftovers. From the Thanksgiving turkey to the holiday ham, leftovers can join your yard debris in your green roll cart to be turned into nutrient-rich compost to nourish yards and gardens.
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2012 Tree Planting
In partnership with Friends of Trees, Eliot Neighborhood is planning another tree planting event this winter. Join us Saturday February 11th to help plant trees and create a healthier community!
Curbside Composting Made Easy
Most Portland residents can add food scraps, along with yard debris, to their green Portland Composts! roll carts. This means that residents can turn meat, dairy, bones, vegetables and grains into nutrient-rich compost for fertilizing yards and gardens.
As you get used to scraping plates into your kitchen pail and tossing leftovers into your green roll cart, here are a few tips to make the transition easy.
A Dawson Park Summer
Dawson Park felt alive this summer with so many fantastic events.
In cooperation with Portland Parks and Recreation, the Dawson Park Concert Committee raised enough money from local businesses and generous concert goers to host 4 fabulous concerts in July and August. Neighbors and families from all over Portland were treated with an eclectic variety of free music throughout the summer.
Explore Mexico with Eliot Language School
Tierra Educational Center in in Eliot Neighborhood is offering a unique full-immersion trip to Pátzcuaro, Mexico this December 10-18th. The center opened in 2009, with a mission to offer small group Spanish and ESL services to help bridge communication and cultural barriers between the growing immigrant population and the community at large.
Pepper Box
Nothing tastes better than a fresh home-made traditional tortilla stuffed with shades of green avocado, ripe tomato, Tillamook Cheddar Cheese and scrambled eggs covered in a generous topping of green chile crema. I mean nothing. This is what I eat, not on Monday, because the Pepper Box, a food cart at Dreamer’s Marketplace, is closed on Monday but as soon as I can I walk down there every Tuesday around 10 am.
Central City Plan—NE Quadrant
The recession has slowed development activities in Eliot so the major land use action involves City plans for the NE Quadrant as part of the Central City Plan update. The Central City Plan covers the downtown area east of the West Hills as well as our area of NE (Lower Albina, Lloyd District, Rose Quarter, and points in-between). The NE Quadrant plan is the first to be developed of the four quadrants in the Central City. The plan is a partnership between the City and the State because the Department of Transportation wants to improve freeway capacity on I-5 between I-84 and I-405 and needs to replace ramps and overpasses to do so. That will require changes to surface streets so it makes sense to plan for that within the Central City Plan update. The proposed freeway changes are expected to be “temporary,” which means sufficient for the next 20 to 30 years only. The freeway element has dictated that the Plan process proceed on two tracks, one for freeway improvements and one for land use.
Eliot Neighborhood Trivia
Questions:
Q1: What still in use structure on MLK had a bit part in a 1993 sleeper hit? What was the building? What was the movie? Bonus: What two word line (arguably one of the best in the movie) was uttered by an extra in that scene?
Q2: What used to be at the site of the Nike outlet store? What happened to it?
Q3: What is the name of the park adjoining Tubman School, and why is it hyphenated?
General Membership Meeting Minutes 2011-10-10
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Art Glass to the World From Eliot
By Barry Joe Stull
Uroboros is a company named for a symbol of a dragon eating its tail – symbolic of alchemy, the “ancient art” of turning base metals into gold. Eliot’s Uroboros combines sand and other ingredients to produce art glass in 150 sophisticated color combinations in over a dozen styles and textures. Uroboros colors stem from chemicals used in making the glass. Gold produces pinks and purples, copper green, red or aqua blue, cobalt deep blue, and so on. Textures result from rollers used on the molten glass, and manipulation, such as pushing the molten glass to produce ripples.
Neighborhood Small Grants
In partnership with the City of Portland’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement, the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods is offering $23,794 in small grant funds and $6,650 in graffiti abatement funds to neighborhood, business and community-based groups. NECN will offer $1,000-$4,000 per project within the Neighborhood Small Grant program and up to $2,500 per graffiti abatement project.
Half Night to Benefit Seniors
The Summer in September Jambalaya Festival and Barbecue in Dawson Park, a benefit for the Martin Luther King Jr. Loaves & Fishes Center, was a big success. The event raised more than $20,000 to serve needy seniors in Northeast Portland making it one of the most successful in its six-year history.
Editorial – MLK Gateway Project Status
The other day while walking to work I passed by the triangle where MLK and Grand come together at Hancock. I noticed the sign announcing construction for the new gateway project to begin Spring 2011. Then I recalled all the hubabalu about the project last May. I was angry that our neighborhood lost out on a positive change due to the whining of a few.
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