Saturday, May 16, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Rose City Nazarene Church – 7016 NE Sandy

Volunteers needed! Free disposal and lunch! Email Claudette at claudettesu@yahoo.com

We will accept:
Bulky waste (furniture, mattresses, windows, etc.)
Yard debris and wood waste
Appliances and scrap metal
Tires
Reusable household items for our “trade it” area (leftovers will be donated)
Reusable building supplies

We will not accept:
Hazardous wastes or explosives (including paints, fluorescent lightbulbs, batteries) Call (503) 234-3000 for information on disposing these items.
Rocks, ashes, sod or concrete
Commercial landscaping or construction debris
Plastics
Electronics
Fees:
$5 per car load
$10 per pickup/SUV load
$15 per trailer load
$25 per truck and trailer load

Special thanks to our event sponsors and partners:
Metro Regional Government
Portland Office of Sustainable Development
AGG Enterprises
The ReBuilding Center

Over 60 friends and neighbors attended the Paella Party in the Painted Parkblocks fundraiser for the mural project under ominous skies on Saturday afternoon in the 72nd Avenue Park Blocks. Amazing food by Donald Granger and Marlys Mick; raffle tickets for artist’s proofs of the mural and an original print by artist Angelina Marino. Even chocolate chip cookies made and shipped from mural artist Gary Herd’s mother—all the way from the Great State of Maine. Thanks to RNA Board member Peggy Sullivan and to all that participated and made this event possible.

The mural is at a point that community helpers could be a big help with putting on paint in the lower areas (only the artists can go up on the scaffolding) They’ll be working on the Wall whenever there’s a dry spell, so if you’re at idle ends, come on over and wield a paintbrush, become one with art!

Thanks to Roseway Historian Bonnie LaDoe for capturing photographic evidence that a good time was had by all. Here are some of the highlights:

To happen in the south-est of the NE 72nd Avenue parkblocks (at the Sandy/Fremont intersection) on Saturday November 1, beginning between 2 p.m. and 3 p.m., until the paella is all gone!

For a mere $20, you’ll be fed the finest paella (and salad & bread) in the Portland area (courtesy of Donald Granger/Marlys Mick, and their cooking is a kind performance art, you’ll want to arrive early enough) while marveling at the mural going up on the wall of The Missing Link Bike Shop. Community, felicity, comraderie, art-ery all at once!

Call/email me to tell me to save you a plate - we need 60 diners minimum, can feed 125 maximum - but we need to know to save a place for you!

For the love of art and good food,
Peggy Sullivan
503/288-8501

The Public Art Advisory Committee (the PAAC at RACC) unanimously gave their heartfelt approval to the new, improved and still fabulous Roseway mural for the Missing Link Bike shop wall. Congratulations all around: to the artists, of course, their supporters, and all the future supporters, too. Our first Public Art project!

A community-focused blog called Neighborhood Notes has a page for every Portland neighborhood. Visit the Roseway page here! There is also a posting about the Roseway Mural Project here.

First city-wide community meeting to discuss curbing prostitution on 82nd Avenue
 
PORTLAND, OR (August 14, 2008) -The Save NE 82nd Avenue Coalition (formerly Save Madison South), an non-profit organization created to improve livability along NE 82nd (and was integrally involved in opposing the proposed development of a Wal-Mart on 82nd Avenue in 2007), has spearheaded a community-wide town hall summit to discuss the growing problem of prostitution along 82nd Avenue.   The “Take Back 82nd” Town Hall meeting is scheduled to take place on Monday, September 15th from 6-8:30pm at Vestal Elementary School located at 121 NE 82nd.   Anticipated attendance is expected to fill the 400+ seat auditorium, as all neighborhoods adjacent to 82nd Avenue will be invited from Killingsworth at the north end of 82nd to the Clackamas County line on the south end.
 
Citing independent efforts to curb prostitution from each of the individual neighborhoods, and a high number of concerned neighbors affected by prostitution taking place literally in their front yards, Save NE 82nd Coalition members realized that the time had come to unite all the efforts taking place.  A town hall has been set up by the group to pull all the city and neighborhood-wide anti-prostitution activities and concerns into a respectful, concerted and solution-oriented town hall meeting, with the purpose to promote a common understanding of how to empower citizens in combating this issue while assisting police enforcement efforts.  Organizers also have the goal of developing to a community problem-solving approach taking into account the prostitutes themselves.  One key emphasis of the meeting is to keep a humane approach to the women involved, as many are victims.
 
Invited speakers include Commissioner Randy Leonard, Commissioner Sam Adams, Lila Lee, Executive Director - Council for Prostitution Alternatives, Commander Mike Crebs - Portland Police Bureau East Precinct, Bill Smith, Executive Director - Defenders USA (group formed to help end demand for prostitution), Ken Turner -Chair of the 82nd Avenue of Roses Business Association, and Office Laura Wiley, Portland Police Bureau’s Vice Unit.
 
The solution-based and outcome-oriented agenda will focus closely on educating community members on root causes of prostitution and how it operates, provide perspectives from people working to stop prostitution, and empowering residents to take safe action steps to discourage prostitution activities on their property, in their street and neighborhood.

Are drivers ignoring stop signs on your corner? Are you witnessing suspicious behavior in your neighborhood? Maybe you are tired of unsafe driving on your street? Want to know what to do about an abandoned auto? Click here for our list of neighborhood contacts. This list includes the non-emergency number for the NE precinct of Portland Police and the abandoned auto hotline, among several others.

If your block is not organizing a NNO event this year, come to the neighborhood event on NE 72nd Ave between Fremont and Klickitat from 6-9pm on Tuesday, August 5th. Bring something to grill or a extra vegetables to trade, and a notebook for writing down the phone numbers of your neighbors.

Click the link below to learn how you can be involved in the decision-making process for Portland’s Streetcar route development plan. Click the NORTHEAST Portland streetcar survey link from that page to give your input. There is also a calendar of events and meetings if you want to get more involved. The survey closes on September 15. Don’t forget to tell your neighbors! Let’s make sure Roseay is represented in the Portland Streetcar plan.

http://www.portlandonline.com/transportation/streetcarsystemplan 

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