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Please join us for the 3rd annual King School auction!
Northeast Portland’s Martin Luther King Jr. School PreK-8 will hold its third annual auction on May 31st at 6:00 pm. Tickets are on sale now at kingpta.org/tickets and are $35 each. Don’t wait as we expect to sell out again this year. This years theme is Masquerade. Cocktail attire and a mask are highly encouraged. If you don’t have a mask, don’t worry – you might be able to pick up an original mast created by one of King’s students.
This year we will have food by Tastbud, 3 drink tickets, a dance performance by King’s own Derrell Sekou Walker and we will unveil the new school mascot – drawn up by one of our very own students!
PTA funds have helped support the kids and teachers in so many ways! Some of the money raised from last year’s auction helped support the Mother’s Day event put on by the Latino parent group, King’s track team, a play structure for Pre-K, library software, the learning garden in the courtyard and the chess club.
May 31st 6:00 pm
The Village Ballroom
700 NE Dekum St.
Visit our website at www.kingpta.org or contact us at auction@kingpta.org. We’d love to tell you more about King School and its upcoming auction.
Attend the NET training (5/21) and join the neighborhood emergency network team!
DISASTER TRAINING MOVIE NIGHT!
King NA endorses People’s Water Trust.
Having met with Public Water Trust organizers Nick Caleb and Jonah Majure on April 9th, the King Neighborhood Association voted to endorse the People’s Water Trust campaign.
The King NA agrees that he stewardship of our water supply is among the critical issues facing local government, and that citizens’ rights to engage in oversight of the care-taking of the water systems in our area provides benefits to users and residents.
Opportunities for vigorous citizen oversight and engagement in the management and stewardship of water supply, sewer systems, and related bio-regional concerns are necessary to promote a democratic public process which allows no single user or consortium of users to dominate control of the water system for their own ends.
In the interests of a healthy water system overseen by a sustained democratic process, we endorse the People’s Water Trust campaign. The campaign is currently gathering signatures, with hopes to put it on November’s ballot.
Learn more at People’s Water Trust for Portland.
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The People’s Water Trust campaign is not related to 26-156, the Water & Sewer Utility Board measure that is on the May ballot this year. The King NA has no position on 26-156.
Portland Housing Bureau annual action plan meeting, May 6th.
Annual Action Plan
Tuesday, May 6, 2014
5:30 pm to 6:30 pm
Portland Housing Bureau
We want to hear from you!
The City of Portland, the City of Gresham and Multnomah County are finalizing their annual plans to spend federal housing and community economic development money to help low income households access quality housing and to revitalize communities.
Come to the public hearing and:
- Learn about existing needs, opportunities and constraints.
- Review plans, budgets and projects designed to bring long term affordable housing and community economic development to our neighborhoods.
- Tell us whether these plans and projects meet the community identified needs. Tell us what is missing.
Snacks and beverages will be provided.
The Draft Action Plan will be available online and in all Multnomah County Libraries by Friday, April 18.
NEXT STEPS: Submit the Action Plan application for federal funding.
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