When: Wednesday March 3, 6:30-8:00 PM.

Where: Mt. Scott Community Center Click here

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Portland Parks Recreation is making BIG CUTS to the summer programs and Brooklyn Park is one of them.  In the past, Brooklyn residents have always “stepped up to the plate.” If we as a neighborhood, do not act now, we will lose this program.

PLEASE DO WHATEVER YOU CAN TO HELP US SAVE THIS INVALUABLE PROGRAM!

Here’s what you can do!
Email, write or call Nick Fish’s office and tell him what this program means to this community and to our kids.
This may be our only chance, so act now.
Commissioner Nick Fish
1221 SW 4th Avenue, Suite 240 Portland, OR 97204
Email: nick@ci.portland.or.us
Phone: Office Front Desk: 503-823-3589
Office Fax: 503-823-3596

Parks Budget hearing at Mt. Scott Community Center this coming Wednesday, March 3 at 6 – 8:30 pm if anyone would like to go and lobby for Brooklyn’s Program.

WE CAN SAVE THIS PROGRAM WITH YOUR HELP, BUT WE NEED IT NOW!

Portland-Milwaulkie Light Rail Conceptual Design Report – index to the full report

View the Conceptual Design Report

Clinton Street, Rhine Street and Holgate Boulevard station areas

System Elements and Preliminary Engineering Recommendations

- see page 8 and 9, Quiet Zone

Feel free to attend a Light Rail Open House to learn more about plans for your neighborhood, and to thank TriMet and City stakeholders for taking our concerns to heart. The meeting notices are in the calendar to the left of this post.

Thanks to the Hosford Abernethy Neighborhood Association for this update.

Location: Thelma Skelton Loaves and Fishes Center, 3925 SE Milwaukie Boulevard.

Who We Are: The Brooklyn Action Corps is a neighborhood organization whose purpose is to better the community by working together toward the solution of its social, physical, and economic problems. The Board is active in all that affects the greater good of the Neighborhood.  All members of the community are invited to join the BAC and serve as a volunteer board member. Board membership requires a commitment of 2 to 3 hours per month.  Please come to the board meeting if you’re interested in the neighborhood association or want to join the board.

Please join Southeast Uplift for a Southeast Sustainability Network discussion about the role of neighborhood sustainability committees in this effort on Tuesday, January 26, from 6:30-8:30 at 3534 SE Main Street.

Steve Johnson, long-time local community activist, researcher, educator, lecturer and consultant will give a presentation on the importance of community involvement in sustainability.  You’ll also get project updates from other neighborhoods’ sustainability committees and hear about the successful Solarize Portland Project.

If you’re interested in starting a sustainability committee in your neighborhood, want to join an existing committee or are just curious about what others are doing we would like for you to attend.  This event is free and all are welcome.

Call 503.232.0010 x313 or email tim@southeastuplift.org with any questions.

The first meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, January 6th from 7 pm until 8:30 pm at the Thelma Skelton Loaves and Fishes Center at 3911 SE Milwaukie Avenue.  Area residents, employees, and business owners are welcome to attend.

City planners and agency representatives will work with area residents to tackle the following questions:

-  What are the opportunities for redevelopment around the Clinton and Rhine stations?

-  How can community cohesion between the Hosford-Abernethy and Brooklyn neighborhoods be improved?

- How might the employment and industrial areas around the stations  evolve?

-When and how can the public comment on the different projects and planning efforts for the area?

For more information, please contact Matt Wickstrom at the City of Portland, Bureau of Planning and Sustainability at 503-823-2834.

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The public and anyone interested in joining the BAC Board are encouraged to attend the BAC Board Meeting on January 13

Warning to owners of small animals: KEEP THEM INSIDE AT NIGHT!

Guest speakers Mike Mason and Brett Richards from the Oregon Department of Transportation will address concerns about repaving plans and other issues with McLoughlin Boulevard, plus representatives of the City of Portland Bureau of Transportation will discuss the Bicycle Master Plan.  Anyone interested in the Brooklyn neighborhood and/or these issues is encouraged to attend.  The BAC general meetings are held at the Thelma Skelton Loaves and Fishes center at the corner of SE Milwaukie Avenue and SE Center Street. (Directions)

Current expansion plans by the Union Pacific Railroad require the steam locomotives to move from their current home by January 2012.

Although it is sad to see the locomotives move out of the Brooklyn Neighborhood, it is exciting to see the development of a new interactive rail museum just a few blocks away from our northern border.  The new museum will be a real showcase for rail history, and a major redevelopment for the industrial land located south of OMSI.