Transportation forum with Metro, this Thursday

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Your voice is important: Join Metro for a community forum on the future of our transportation system

 

Metro is hosting a series of community discussions about the future of transportation investments.  Join us on April 3, at the Madison High School Library and meet with Metro councilors Sam Chase, Bob Stacey and Shirley Craddick.  This is your opportunity to meet with your councilors, give your input on regional plans, and help shape the future of the region.

Join us at this community forum

5:30 p.m. open house
6:00 p.m. Metro Councilor welcome
6:20 p.m. discussion tables
7:30 p.m. Adjourn

April 3, Multnomah County

Madison High School library
2735 NE 82nd Ave., Portland

Metro is seeking public comments through our survey site www.makeagreatplace.org from Thursday, March 27 through Monday, May 5.  You can also give more detailed feedback on the plans and programs that will shape our region for the next 25 years.
Information that you provide will inform:

Open Forum on the May ballot measure concerning water/sewer management in Portland.

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Please help us spread the word to let folks in your neighborhoods know that on Thursday, April 10th, from 7-9pm, the Buckman Community Association will host an open forum on the Ballot Measure that would remove from City Council management the Water and Sewer (BES) services.
The forum will be held in our regular meeting space, the Multnomah County Board Room, 501 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Many Portlanders (ourselves included!) are relatively clueless about this measure and its potential impacts on water/sewer rates, but also the environment and related programs.
At the forum you will:
Find out about the measure from the initiative proponents..its purpose, what it creates and what we can expect. How it will aid ratepayers.
Hear from the opponents why this is a bad idea and how it could negatively affect the city, its residents and the environment.  How it will hurt ratepayers.
Get your questions answered.
The BCA remains neutral and is hosting the forum to create an opportunity for Portlanders to become informed about this serious proposal before the ballots arrive in April.
All are welcome!!  We especially invite those from other inner eastside Portland neighborhood to come.  Refreshments will be served at the break.
If you have any “pre-questions” feel free to email me personally or the BCA Board as a whole:buckmanboard@googlegroup.com
We look forward to seeing you there!!

Bright Lights: Rethinking Urban Renewal

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Date:  March 10, 2014 – 6:00pm
Location:  Jimmy Mak’s, 221 NW 10th Ave, Portland
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No city agency has been racked by more recent change than the Portland Development Commission. World renowned for its role in re-creating downtown and shaping new urban neighborhoods like the Pearl District, the agency turned from placemaking to economic development under Mayor Sam Adams during the Great Recession. And, ironically, as the economy has begun to boom, the PDC had to shrink, shedding dozens of jobs and institutional memory.

Now, under a new mayor, the PDC is shifting focus again with the most dramatic redrawing of the city’s urban renewal areas in over two decades.

Please join us for a conversation with the PDC’s executive director, Patrick Quinton, about the future of urban renewal in Portland. The event is free. Doors open at 5:30 p.m.

Bright Lights: Discussions on the Future of Portland is a monthly series presented by Portland Monthly magazine with City Club of Portland designed to bring the region’s thought leaders to the stage in an informal, conversational setting. Past guests have included Congressman Earl Blumenauer, advertising guru Dan Wieden, Portland Art Museum director Brian Ferriso, Portland State University president Wim Wiewel, and many others. Many past presentations can be found at vimeo.com/portlandmonthlymag/videos.

KNA meeting agenda – Wed., March 12th.

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King Neighborhood Association Board Meeting
Wednesday, March 12th, 2014
at 6:30 pm
at the offices of NECN in the King Facility Building, 4815 NE 7th Avenue

6:30 Introductions, agenda.

6:40 Catching up on meeting minutes.

6:50 Board announcements.

6:55 King neighborhood spring clean-up.

7:00 Safety issues/policing issues: Black Cat GNA update.

7:10 [REDACTED] – egg hunt; grant application to NECN.

7:20 Eileen Kennedy – safety & livability issues.

7:30 Vanport: Developer Ray Leary joins us to discuss the Vanport development – past, present, and future.

8:10 Other announcements.
8:20 We adjourn.

Urban Bee Habitat Workshop, March 19th.

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Workshop: Wednesday, March 19, 6:30PM at the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods
King School Facility, 4815 N.E. 7th Ave., bus lines 6 and 72 (where King NA normally meets)

PORTLAND – Urban Bee Habitat: Start a bee-friendly garden project in your neighborhood!

With spring around the corner, the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods (NECN) will host a workshop on March 19th on how to start a bee-friendly garden project in your neighborhood.

Did you know that planting bee-friendly flowers is the most important thing you can do to help save both native bees and honey bees? Even if you don’t know a daisy from a daffodil, its easy to grow some pollen-bearing plants that the bees will love. It’s even more fun if you join with your neighbors to learn about bees and take action together. That’s what residents of the Sabin Community Association did, and now they want to share some practical tips that will help you start a bee-friendly garden project in your community.

Join the following experts for a panel discussion and Q&A:

  • Mace Vaughan, Pollinator Program Director at Xerces Society for Invertebrate Conservation and co-founder of the Sabin Bee-Friendly Garden Project
  • Tim Wessels, Master Beekeeping Instructor at Oregon State University, President of the Portland Urban Beekeepers, and founder of Bridgetown Bees
  • Diane Benson, Coordinator for the Sabin Bee-Friendly Garden Project
  • Glen Andresen, Gardening and beekeeping educator and host of The Dirtbag, a KBOO radio show about organic gardening

The Sabin Bee-Friendly Garden Tour is a free, self-guided tour with 41 sites that you can visit whenever you like – spring, summer or fall. A map and a guide to the gardens are available on the Sabin website (sabinpdx.org). Sabin hopes to inspire other neighborhoods to create similar projects for protecting pollinators and building community.

Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods is home to 12 neighborhoods:  Alameda, Boise, Concordia, Eliot, Grant Park, Humboldt, Irvington, King, Sabin, Sullivan’s Gulch, Vernon and Woodlawn. The Coalition is a forum for neighbors to address issues of shared concern, advocate for their priorities, and work together to shape the future of their neighborhoods. NECN actively supports collaborations across lines of race, culture, economic status and neighborhood boundary.

 

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