What Style Is my House?

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Y’all come! General Meeting of the Sabin Community Association celebrating Sabin’s homes and history:

What Style Is my House? All NECN neighborhoods invited!!

When: October 18th, 2010.
Where: Sabin Elementary School Auditorium, 4013 NE 18th Avenue, Portland 97212.

6-7pm: Social hour.

Special exhibit of Sabin’s rich history of diversity and community service from the archives of Betty Walker; refreshments; Architectural Heritage Center table, with experts on weatherizing your home, researching your house, and more; excellent handouts.

7-8: Special presentation on Sabin architecture:

7-7:30: What Style Is my House? by Bosco-Milligan Foundation/Architectural Heritage Center board member Robert Jordan, as he surveys house styles common to the Portland area and the northwest. If you’ve ever wondered what style to call your home, you will find the answer in this perfect program.

7:30-8 pm: Sabin historian William Youngren presents particular houses representative of the great integrity of Sabin design.

8 pm:. Sabin business meeting.

Tonight’s timely program encourages residents to explore Sabin’s more modest but equally precious architectural heritage in light of the recent application for the Irvington Historic District. Our wonderful community builds its bright future in the context of an illustrious past that is the focus of this evening to which you are all most cordially invited.

We warmly invite our neighbors from the Alameda, Boise, Concordia, Eliot, Grant Park, Humboldt, Irvington, King, Sullivan’s Gulch, Vernon, and Woodlawn neighborhoods to join us for the social hour and the presentations. Much of what will be said is equally applicable to your fine communities. Y’all come!

Shoshana Cohen
Neighborhood Programs Manager
Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods
503-823-4570
www.necoalition.org
Shoshana@necoalition.org

Our United Villages to Sponsor Community Safety Conversation

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From Our United Villages:

Hello Northeast Neighbors! Please extend the following invitation to your networks, friends, family, and neighbors. This event is free and open to anyone interested. We would appreciate if you would post this event in community calendars, newsletters, websites, or on bulletin boards you may have (PDF and JPG attached). Thank you, in advance, for helping us get the word out!
Community Safety Conversation
Thursday, October 21st from 6:00pm-8:00pm
St. Andrew Church 806 NE Alberta Street Portland, OR 97211

You are invited to a Community Conversation sponsored by Community Outreach of Our United Villages. What does community safety mean to you? Come share your ideas for preventing violence and brainstorm ways we can work together to build safe neighborhoods for everyone. FREE. Open to anyone interested. Space is limited. Please RSVP by Monday, October 18th to outreach@ourunitedvillages.org or by calling 503.546.7499.

Light meal provided. Child care, transportation, and interpretation provided upon request. Community Outreach of Our United Villages is a local non-profit organization. For more information, go to www.ouvcommunityoutreach.org.

SCRAP Re:Vision Gallery Presents: Masks of Incognito

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News from SCRAP:

Masks of Incognito represents the innovation and variety inspired by artists’ use of reclaimed and recycled materials. Transforming discarded materials (such as leather scraps and zippers, milk jugs and metal springs, vintage piano keys and clock parts ) into masks, twenty five artists have created works to transform the face and character of a mask wearer.

The masks will be on display in Re:Vision Gallery in October, and then auctioned at SCRAP’s fundraising masquerade ball at the Oregon Zoo on October 28th. All artists have donated their masks to SCRAP.

25 Artists include: Mark Crummett, Dan Daniels, Tony Fuemmeler, Susan Gallacher-Turner,Monica J. Roxburgh, Bill Rutherford, and Arvie Smith

Where: Re:Vision Gallery at SCRAP 2915 NE MLK Jr. Blvd. Portland OR 97212
When: October 7th, 6-8:30pm (Reception) October 3rd – October 27th, 10am to 6pm daily
http://scrapaction.org/creative-reuse-center/art-gallery/

www.scrapaction.org

Home Energy IQ Workshop at Kennedy School

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Pacific Power is sponsoring a Home Energy IQ Workshop on October 6th from 6:00–8:30 p.m. at the McMenamins Kennedy School Gymnasium, 5736 NE 33rd Ave. The event is free for all Pacific Power customers and includes dinner!

However, seating is limited and we are asking that everyone register ASAP to ensure we have enough catering and seating. You can register at www.pacificpower.net/energyiq .

Pacific Power is working with Energy Trust of Oregon to deliver this workshop that will educate homeowners about improving their home’s energy efficiency and lowering their electric bills. Attendees will learn how to:

• Identify your household energy use and how it changes over time.
• Take a whole-home approach to energy efficiency.
• Recognize the most cost-efficient energy improvements for your home.
• Save energy and improve your home’s comfort, health and safety.
• Reduce your environmental footprint.
• Save money with Energy Trust incentives.

Participants will receive a free Energy Saver Kit, including:

• Compact fluorescent light bulbs (CFLs) that use 75 percent less energy, last up to seven years – depending on your daily usage – and give off natural-looking light.
• High-performance faucet aerators and showerheads that reduce water heating costs by using up to 20 percent less water – compared to standard fixtures – without impacting water pressure.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions, please feel free to contact:

Kari Greer
Community Relations
Oregon Energy Efficiency
Pacific Power
825 NE Multnomah, Ste 2000
Portland, OR 97232

(503) 813-5642 office
(503) 816-9032 cell
(503) 813-7274 fax
kari.greer@pacificorp.com

Precinct Commander Responds to King’s Request for More Police

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September 27, 2010

Dear Members of the King Neighborhood Association:

Chief Reese received your September 9th letter to Mayor Adams and asked me to respond to you. First, I appreciate the fact that you are asking questions of your police department. It is important that we communicate freely and transparently, so that the Police Bureau can give our community the best service possible. We also appreciate the support given by the residents of the King Neighborhood. North Precinct has long enjoyed a productive and positive relationship with the King Neighborhood.

As to your concern about officer response times, the Police Bureau’s goal for arrival on emergency or priority calls for service is five minutes or less from the time a police unit is dispatched on a call. I asked our Crime Analysis Unit to look at response times in the King Neighborhood from January 2010 through September 2010. Overall, the numbers suggest that we are meeting that goal. For example, our average response time for emergency 911 calls for service in District 630 during that period is 3.5 minutes.

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