By Ofc Peter Helzer NRT & Angela Wagnon ONI
It seems we got the good weather just as school is starting again. I would like to take this opportunity to remind everyone to look out for kids on their way to/from school, and to drive safely in neighborhoods and school zones. With everyone’s schedule filling up again with back to school activities and running around to events, remember not to leave valuables in your cars.
Eliot Neighborhood now has a page on Facebook! Like us, let’s be friends.
DRAFT- NOT YET APPROVED
The Unscriptables, an unscripted theatre company, will host 2 performances in Dawson park on Sundays in August. Shows are on the 7th, 14th and 21st starting at 1pm and 3pm. The first show is geared more toward kids with a “G” rating the the second show toward a slightly older audience with a “PG” rating. All shows are free!
Here is more information on the shows:
The Dawson Park concert series kicked off with a bang featuring Obo Addy & Okropong. The Ghanaian drums and dance were a hit with people of all ages. The following week the Hillstomp show was postponed due to weather. The concert series continued on July 20 with the Dirty Syncopators followed by Lisa Mann and Her Really Good Band on the 27th.
By Kayla Gill
Allies of Eliot, a group of eight PSU community development students, has produced a historic walking tour of Eliot based on a series of interviews conducted by the Eliot Oral Histories Project and on community outreach conducted for the walking tour. The tour is self-guided and consists of an informational booklet with historical photos, and corresponding audio tracks taken from the interviews. Booklets and audio players will be available for checkout from Dishman Community Center, where the tour begins and ends. A condensed brochure version of the booklet and audio mp3s will be available for free download from the project website this summer.
The NE Broadway Summer Super Sale offers Great Deals, Great Music, and plenty of Street Fair Fun on Friday July 15 through Sunday July 17. Participating businesses will have great merchandise and bargains up to 75% off, with sidewalk sale tables spilling over and more killer deals inside the shops. Add two music stages, lots of kids activities and much more, and it means plenty of fun for everyone.
Since it was platted by Edwin Russell, William Page, and George Williams in 1872, the city of Albina (now Eliot) was set up with a Manhattan-style grid with long east-west blocks that are 2.5 times as long as the north-south blocks. This, combined with the steep cliffs separating the neighborhood from the river made all the north and south streets important connections for a huge area north of Eliot over the last 140 years. In 1888, the Steel Bridge opened and life on the east side was booming. Electric streetcars started running over the bridge in 1889 on the original Albina line. In the early 1900s, streetcars ran up and down Williams and Union (now Martin Luther King, Jr.) Avenues. The speed limit before cars came along was 6mph, with streetcars allowed to go 12mph. Crossing the street was no big problem for the early residents of Albina.
The King, Sabin, Elliot and Boise neighborhoods are invited to a NATIONAL NIGHT OUT at Irving Park, August 2, 5:00 to 9:00 PM.
Bringing the Sun to the Northwest
As a native Oregonian, every year at this time, I wonder to myself, “Can it get any worse?” But this year the weather seems particularly bad. I do need to remind myself that even while I write this article the sun is shining brightly outside. Maybe it just takes us awhile in the Northwest to regain the comfort that the sun really does come out again, after our nine month dreary winters. Let’s talk about better, brighter things though.
Continue reading Al Forthan Memorial Scholarship Summer Bike and Hike
By Maegan Vidal
Only 8 months away from opening its doors in February 2012, the new home for The Children’s Hospital at Legacy Emanuel is 70 percent complete. The hospital will better care for the community by dramatically increasing its capacity to serve kids and families. The new home is nearly four times the size of the current hospital, with nine-stories, 334,000 square-feet and 165 beds. Physicians, nurses and staff will be able to provide holistic care in a world-class family-centered healing environment for the growing number of children in our community with medical needs.
Continue reading Children’s Hospital on its way to February 2012 opening
If you have driven by the SE corner of Fremont and Williams lately, you can see that something very colorful and exciting is happening there.
It is the Boise Eliot Village Square and it will be a public market place with live music, theatre, gospel on Sunday’s and some democracy and educational forums as well. The public market will be open on Friday and Saturday 12-8 and Sunday 12-6.
Dawson Park will host four free concerts this summer! The gazebo will be the stage for the live performances. Concerts begin at 6:30 PM and last about 2 hours. Best of all, the concerts are free!
2011 lineup:
Eliot Neighborhood 