Hi neighbors, we are working to have a bench installed in Two Plum Park to make it easier for everyone to enjoy the Park. Two Plum is in the King Neighborhood, between NE Shaver and Mason, NE 6th and 7th Ave, in Portland, Oregon.

Two Plum Park already has a lot to offer: a swing set, a play structure, a streetlamp, a mural… but no place to sit.

Maybe you want a place to sit and watch the kids while they play. Maybe you would like a place to sit and chat with a friend. Maybe you’d like a place to sit and read, enjoy your lunch, or just relax outside. You can help us make this a reality in the Park.

Our project team has approached Portland Parks about a bench for Two Plum Park and they recommended we use their Commemorative Bench Program to get a bench installed.

A Commemorative Bench with a plaque costs $5,200 and we are raising $6,000 to cover all our fees.

We’ve already raised most of the funds for a Bench, we want to raise the last bit with your help!

In the late 1990’s Two Plum Park was a vacant lot overgrown with weeds. Neighbor Joe Martin lived at the end of the block and decided to start mowing the grass. Soon other neighbors were helping to cut the grass and clean up the lot. As they continued their improvements they decided to work with the City to make the space an official Park. In 2001 the garden became Two Plum Park.

We plan to dedicate the bench to all the neighbors who cared for the space and worked to create Two Plum Park.

Please visit our Kickstarter campaign to raise the remaining funds needed, at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/818065431/a-bench-for-two-plum-park. Many thanks to all of our contributors and supporters!

The following Liquor Licenses applications were received for consideration by the City of Portland the week of November 12th- November 20, 2012.

Please follow this link to see the applications in their entirety: http://www.portlandonline.com/oni/index.cfm?c=48007&

If you wish to comment please fill out the attached comment form and submit it to the City of Portland Liquor License Notification Program.

Attn: Theresa Marchetti

By mail to: 1221 SW 4th Ave Ste 110, Portland OR 97204

By fax to: 503-823-3050

By email to: theresa.marchetti@portlandoregon.gov

Neighborhood: KING

MLK MARKET

4069 – B NE MLK BLVD

[Formerly the site of the Miracles Club, on the west side of King Boulevard]

Neighborhood: KING

7-ELEVEN #35861H NO/OPS

5150 NE MLK BLVD

[Nearly ready to open, this 7-11 is at NE Sumner & MLK.]

To submit your comments or opposition to the issuance of a OLCC license, use this form: Application Comment Form

Our neighbor Rick Sills writes this update to a post earlier this week about the Oregon Liquor Control Commission’s apparent lack of interest in considering neighborhood input into licenses:

By way of background, Ken Peterson, the Grant Park Neighborhood Association’s (GPNA) Land Use Chair, and the GPNA have for months been working to try to mitigate alcohol-related problems in their neighborhood .  Neighbors understood that these problems would only be made worse by the proposal of yet another convenience store (Jacksons #562) at the corner of N.E. 33rd and Broadway that would sell alcohol.  This proposed store will also be within 500 feet of Beverly Cleary Grade School, which is already adversely being impacted by alcohol-related problems near the school.  On 10/25/12, the OLCC Commissioners, after being fully informed at a public hearing of alcohol-related problems near Beverly Cleary Grade School and of strong neighborhood opposition, with apparent indifference to the livability of Grant Park and the safety of its schoolchildren, granted the proposed store an unrestricted OLCC license. Continue reading →