Category Archives: Public Safety

Community Event with Commissioner Gonzalez and Your Neighborhood Firefighters

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Commissioner Gonzalez has announced the second of his community outreach events aimed at fostering authentic connections between local businesses, your neighborhood firefighters, members of our neighborhoods and himself! This event will take place Thursday, August 17th from 9:30am-10:30am at Fire Station #14 located at 1905 NE Killingsworth Portland, OR 97211.

This is an opportunity to come together over some delicious neighborhood pastries and engage in meaningful conversations with our local heroes, as well as Q&A session with Commissioner Gonzalez. Whether you have questions to ask, wish to express your gratitude to our first responders, or simply wish to connect with fellow community members, this is the perfect opportunity to do so. We encourage you to bring your friends, family, and neighbors to make this event even more special!

To help Commissioner Gonzalez’s team plan accordingly, please let them know if you’ll be joining by RSVPing to this event no later than Monday, August 14th. An accurate head count would be much appreciated, so please include the number of guests you’re planning to join with you. You can do this by emailing Nicholas.Coffey@portlandoregon.gov and please include “RSVP” in the subject line.

Please spread the word, invite your friends and neighbors, and help make this event a memorable gathering for our Northeast community!

Detrash Portland – King Neighborhood trash clean up event

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Date: Sunday September 13th
Time: Check in anytime between 10:00 – 10:30am. There will be a staggered check in at this event.
Event will run from 10:00 am – 12:30 pm.
Where: We will meet just outside of the Farmer’s Market by the basketball court. Look for signs directing you toward the volunteers wearing high-vis vests.

Sign-up: https://www.solveoregon.org/opportunity/a0C1I00000RMyAiUAL

Come join Detrash Portland as we team up with Portland Schools and the King Farmers Market for a Northeast neighborhood trash and litter clean up event.

This event will be entirely out-doors and will comply with social distancing guidelines. WEAR A MASK! Please. 

After a quick sign-in, we will spend a few hours picking up litter and trash in and around the King Neighborhood. We will provide bags, gloves, and trash grabbers. Afterward we recommend that you pop into the Farmers Market to support our local vendors. 

What’s Provided: Heavy-duty garbage bags, litter grabbers and vinyl gloves. If you have your own gloves, litter grabber, litter bag, or bucket, you are encouraged to bring those as well.

Let’s make a difference. Many hands make light work.

If you have any questions about Detrash Portland please contact the group at detrashportland@gmail.com or via instagram @detrashportland.

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Detrash Portland | https://www.meetup.com/Detrash-Portland/

Detrash Portland – Boise Neighborhood trash clean up event with Ex Novo

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Date: Saturday September 5th.
Time: 10 am to noon.
Where: The corner of the Lillis Albina Park at N Russell and N Flint Avenue.

Sign-up: https://www.solveoregon.org/opportunity/a0C1I00000RMyA9UAL

Detrash Portland needs civic minded volunteers for another trash pick up event!

We will be hosting a clean up event on Saturday September 5th to pick up litter from the streets, gutters, and drains in the North Portland Boise neighborhood. We will be meeting at the corner of the Lillis Albina Park at N Russell and N Flint Avenue by the baseball field at 10 am. From there we will provide trash grabbers, gloves, and bags to our volunteers. 

Trash pick up is an activity that complies with social distancing guidelines while at the same time benefits our city greatly. Safety is are utmost priority. We hope you can come out an help make a difference.

Masks will be required to participate in this event.  Please also dress for the weather and wear closed toed shoes. 

Ex Novo has also partnered with Detrash Portland for this event. They will be just down the street from our meeting location. Ex Novo has been gratcious enough to offer all volunteers to this event a 10% discount to any to-go orders or on site guest tabs, food, draft beer, package beer, or merchandise.

They are also open for Phase 1 dinein and encourage any participants to stay after the trash pick up event to have lunch. They encourage you to make a reservation first through Resy.com or through the link on their website http://www.exnovobrew.com/portland . 

If you have any questions about the event or Detrash Portland you can contact the group by email at detrashportland@gmail.com or via instagram @detrashportland.

Detrash Portland | https://www.meetup.com/Detrash-Portland/

Are you concerned about traffic safety around Dr. MLK Jr. Elementary School and park?

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The King Neighborhood Association is collecting information about past and present traffic safety problems near Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School and King School Park.

If you’ve noticed traffic safety problems, please use the following form to report the incidents.

Type the name of the streets where you've observed safety problems.
Type the time of day that you observed a safety issue.

Thanks for helping improve traffic safety for our children!