“Know your board” is a series of articles to help you get to know the members of your Eliot Neighborhood Association Board.
Patricia Montgomery is a native Oregonian and has lived in Eliot for 26 years. Her favorite things about the neighborhood are the accessibility to the city, the diversity of the neighborhood and the sense of a caring community.
“Know your board” is a series of articles to help you get to know the members of your Eliot Neighborhood Association Board. Eliot has a very diverse board. It consists of men and women who care about our neighborhood. We want to share a little bit about your board members.
Sue Stringer is fairly new to Eliot. She has lived in the neighborhood for the last 3 years but has lived in Portland on and off for 17 years. She is also new to the board joining in January as the Eliot News Editor. She joined the board because she wanted to get more connected with the neighborhood and meet new neighbors.
Eliot Community Conversation Meeting open to Eliot residents, business and property owners this Wednesday, November 5th – 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM at St Philip Deacon Episcopal Church on Knott and Rodney.
Focus: Choosing Ideas and Prioritization.
Wednesday October 8th neighbors from all corners of Eliot gathered, socialized, and shared their thoughts and stories about our awesome neighborhood. Thank you to all who came out – it was great seeing you and getting to know you. A big hearted thank you as well to all our local patrons and artists who donated food and gifts for the raffle.
You are invited to join in conversation with your neighbors and the Eliot Neighborhood Association (ENA) board about our Eliot neighborhood.
By Kayla Mullis
The Eliot Neighborhood Beauty Committee is part of a partnership with the Portland Trail Blazers to improve the livability of Eliot and mitigate the negative impacts of Moda Center events. We are currently looking for small, meaningful projects that will help improve the physical landscape or personal community in the neighborhood. A small amount of grant funds are available for this work.
Eliot in First Quarter 2014 is an exciting, energized and rapidly changing neighborhood. During my time serving on the Eliot Neighborhood Association (ENA) Board, many events and neighborhood highlights have held my interest and spurred me towards further involvement, gaining more opportunities to experience and help Eliot thrive.
It’s easy to Stay Connected with the Eliot Neighborhood. Pick your favorite service and keep up to date with what is happening in the neighborhood.
You may have noticed in the recent issue of Eliot News that the upcoming General Membership Meeting is last year. Yup…if that sounds funny it is. The newsletter said it is October 8th 2012. Actually it is October 14 2013.
There comes a time in every chairperson’s life when they realize that they don’t want to have this job forever. As of right now, I have been acting as the newsletter editor in addition to being the chair of the neighborhood. The last person who held both of these roles, Clint Lundmark, has done a good job illustrating to me that this is not a sustainable amount of work for one neighbor to shoulder.
We need your passion to kick-start the next exciting project in our community. It doesn’t need to be complicated. A block party could go a long way towards meeting your neighbors. We can help come up with ideas, financial support, give feedback or any other way to build community in Eliot
The Eliot Neighborhood Association has a rich history. Founded in 1969 during the Model Cities program under President Lyndon Johnson’s administration, we have been around a long time. After thinking about that I don’t want to start that far back. The bylaws, in their current form, go back to 1992. They were amended in 1993, 1996, and 1999, and they have been good enough for the past 14 years. Why update them now?
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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