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!
2012 Tree Planting
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.
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.
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.
Now on Facebook
Eliot Neighborhood now has a page on Facebook! Like us, let’s be friends.
NE Broadway Summer Super Sale
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.
National Night Out Picnic at Irving Park
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.
Al Forthan Memorial Scholarship Summer Bike and Hike
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.
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Cleanup Kudos
Thanks to all the hard work of volunteers and generous donations, the annual Eliot clean-up was a success. We removed over 10 tons of debris from the neighborhood, plus a few more tons of scrap metal that were recycled. We also raised about $500, to be used to help fund neighborhood events such as the Dawson Park concerts.
Dawson Park Design Input Needed
Since 1925, Dawson Park has been at the core of this cuturally diverse community. Over the years, the neighborhood has changed and grown, as has the role of the park. Portland Parks needs your input on new design options that best meet the needs of the community today!
Spring Cleanup Drivers Wanted
The Eliot Neighborhood Spring Cleanup is Saturday May 15th. Do you have a truck? Can you spare a few hours helping neighbors clean up?
King Farmers Market Reopens May 1
Spring is slowly but surely coming, and with it comes the reopening of the popular King Portland Farmers Market! on Sunday, May 1 at 10 AM.
Free Summer Concerts at Dawson Park
Hello Neighbors! Amazingly enough, summer is just around the corner and your Dawson Park Concert Series Committee has been hard at work gaining sponsors so we can again host some amazing free concerts in Dawson Park this July. Thanks to sponsor and audience generosity we managed to snag some great music last season, drawing record-breaking and increasingly diverse crowds to the gazebo. We are working towards hosting 4 concerts this year which will be held on Wednesdays in July at 6:30pm to dusk. No general fund money from Parks & Recreation underwrites these concerts, which means we raise every penny through the work of our concert committee, gathering sponsors from local businesses and donations from concert lovers.
VOA Scholarships for high school seniors
You’d be hard-pressed to find another academic scholarship named after a drug dealer. Then again, you’d probably never find a drug dealer quite like Al Forthan. The fine print here is that Al Forthan, once a crime lord in North Portland, eventually got clean. He went to prison nine times, ravaged his body with heroin, and controlled the illegal drug market in North Portland for years. But in April 1992, Al entered the addiction treatment program at the Men’s Residential Center (MRC) and began to change his life.
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