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Easter Egg Hunt – Westmoreland Park Sat. April 11, 2009 @ 10am

reid — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 02:37:02 +0000

Title: Easter Egg Hunt – Westmoreland Park
Location: South End of Westmoreland Park
Description: Easter Egg Hunt at 10am SHARP at the South end of Westmoreland park. And when we say sharp, we mean it. It’ll be over by 10:15 or so. Those kids are like hungry pirahna looking for chocolate eggs. See the bunny. Have fun. Presented by the Oaks Bottom Lions Club and SMILE.
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2009-04-11
End Time: 10:20

Keep Abandoned Autos off City Streets – Action needed

reid — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 18:17:40 +0000

The City of Portland Fiscal Year 2009-1010 Budget Request includes $5.4 million in cuts. This includes the elimination of the abandoned auto program , a $440,000 program which helps to remove abandoned cars from city streets. Users called (503) 823-7309 to report abandoned vehicles and eventually see them removed from city streets. See more at the Oregonian’s Oregon Live site: http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/03/portland_abandonedcar_program.html
I’m not saying that it’s the most important program in the city, but I would go so far as to suggest it’s one program that sure seems like it could be easily turned into a public-private partnership in some way and run for less money. I know that those sort of things haven’t always turned out well at a national level, but perhaps that could work here.

If you have an opinion about the program or suggestions on how it might continue in a tight budget year, please send in your written testimony to the council clerk for the bureau presentation to City Council on March 16, 2009, at 2:00 p.m. Testimony should be emailed to Laurel Butman at
laurelb@ci.portland.or.us. General information about testifying before
Council is found at
http://www.portlandonline.com/auditor/index.cfm?a=63123&c=34447#2.

Also, consider contacting the other members of City Council and voicing your
concerns about the budget. They’re available here: http://www.portlandonline.com/

Why is this program on our radar today? Because it turns out that urban blight begins with abandoned cars, garbage and abandoned buildings with broken windows. Keeping dead cars off the streets keeps people invested in and proud of their neighborhoods. It also helps to get the cars recycled into other items, keeps oil and gas from dripping out into Johnson Creek or the Willamette River and preserves valuable on-street parking spaces. Please send a note to the city with your thoughts on how they might be able to save money but still retain the positive aspects of the abandoned car program.

Wed. Mar. 11, 2009 7pm – Community Greenhouse Event @ Sellwood Middle School

admin — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 04:37:59 +0000

Title: Community Greenhouse Event @ Sellwood Middle School
Location: 8300 SE 15th Ave, Portland, OR 97202 – Sellwood Middle School
Link out: Click here
Description: Green Speaker Series event at Sellwood Middle School: Topic: Sellwood Community Greenhouse Project. Sellwood Middle School, Wednesday, March 11th, 7 pm

Please come and network with a volunteer team from the middle school to plan for our grant funded community greenhouse, to be built on the Sellwood Middle School campus. To raise awareness of the project, and to build community, we are now planning the first annual Sellwood Sustainability Fair for April 25th, 10 am- 2pm.

An enthusiastic team of middle schoolers from the Make a Difference Club, parents, school administrators, and Portland State University students have been hard at work on the fair. Please come the the meeting on wednesday to find out how you can share your skills and volunteer with parents and your neighbors in this SE Uplift grant funded fair.

Are you a gardener skilled at selecting waterwise drought tolerant plants? Are you an organic gardener knowledgeable about what vegies grow well in the sellwood neighborhood? Are you an amateur bicycle mechanic who could offer your expertise to middle schoolers for an hour, to help them learn how to tune up their bikes? Would you like to find out more about local solar, geothermal, educational projects happening right here in sellwood? Would you like to find out more about how to protect your family from plastics with toxic components? Do you have an excellent idea for a booth?

Please bring your ideas and energy and work with us to build community. Neighborhood residents will be invited to use the greenhouse once built. We will have a groundbreaking ceremony at the fair, and the Sellwood Playgroup Association is planning exciting age appropriate games for younger children as well!

Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-03-11
End Time: 21:00