Last night around 7:30 pm, shots rang out on Alberta Street striking the glass in the bus shelter at 9th in front of the Alberta Street Market. Four males were seen to flee on foot up 10th Avenue, pursued by a car that circled around after them. According to a witness, someone in the car shouted: “I’ll kill you!” but there were no apparent injuries. Police closed three blocks of Alberta to investigate and traffic was diverted.
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Alberta Cleans Up on Earth Day
Alberta Main Street is organizing a way for you to help the Alberta business district on Earth Day. It’s the Alberta Street Clean Up! Go to their website and pre-registration form. Check out their facebook event page. People can just show up on the day of but since lunch is being provided (thanks to Burgers or Bust Cafe) and some other special treats, they would like some idea of how many people to expect.
The clean up starts at 10:00 am on Saturday April 23 (Meet at Alberta Central Plaza between Barista & Umpqua Bank) and will end with lunch and a celebration where they hope to unveil the prototype of new Alberta Street garbage cans and debut the Art on Alberta mobile Art Gallery.
Friends of Last Thursday Prepares to Take Reins
Town Hall Meeting on Last Thursday | hosted by Friends of Last Thursday
From the Office of Neighborhood Involvement:
In partnership with Portland’s Office of Neighborhood Involvement, a group of dedicated volunteers has spent the last year preparing to assume a stewardship role of the popular arts festival, Last Thursday on Alberta. Friends of Last Thursday’s (FOLT) mission states, “FOLT is committed to facilitating a fun, safe, and sustainable monthly public arts festival that culturally enriches the community while fostering neighborhood respect.”
FOLT will be hosting a Town Hall Meeting Saturday, April 2, 2011, 2-4 PM, at St. Andrews Church Community Hall, NE 9th and Alberta Street, to formally unveil the proposed strategy, the most vital component of which will be the participation of the larger community.
FOLT has a website at: http://www.lastthursdayonalberta.com/and a Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/LastThursday
As for who the members of FoLT are and what their leadership structure is, their information on the web and the staff at NECN could not provide this answer. Hopefully this will be cleared up at the meeting.
City Holds Alberta Bar Summit to Address Issues
In an attempt to find solutions to conflicts between bar patrons and neighborhood livability on Alberta and city wide, the mayor’s office is holding a series of bar summits between bar owners, police, OLCC, and other city officials to find solutions to persistent problems.
The summit concerning Alberta Street was held on March 16th at St. Andrew. Numerous alcohol-related concerns were the focus of a letter from KNA to the Mayor and City Council regarding Last Thursday.
According to Oregon Liquor Control Commission Regulatory Services Director Linda Ignowski, there are 53 liquor licenses from 9th to 39th and Alberta Street, which includes both 46 on and seven off premise licenses.
Read the press release and leave a comment here.
As we learn more about the outcome of this process, we will keep you updated.
Art on Alberta to Cease Art Hop
photo by Heather Zinger
In June of 2010, Art on Alberta decided to undergo an organizational transition. We were invited by the Regional Arts and Culture Council to take part in their Cultural Leadership Program, which gave us the opportunity to work directly with professional nonprofit arts consultant George Thorn over the course of the next two years. Thorn has decades of experience as a consultant to nonprofit arts organizations around the United States, and we felt the chance to be able to redefine ourselves after ten years of serving the Alberta Arts District was an offer we couldn’t refuse. We’ve been working closely with Thorn to redefine our role within the community with the intent to remain true to our original mission of bringing exceptional arts and educational programming to Northeast Alberta Street.
Our strategic work thus far has led us to redefine our main focus for 2011. This focus includes restoring a 1960s teardrop trailer into a mobile art gallery to host rotating, monthly shows that can travel around the street, neighborhood, and city to promote Northeast Alberta Street’s arts identity. Watch for its presence this spring!
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