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March Madness?
March Madness was first used to refer to basketball by an Illinois high school official, Henry V. Porter, in 1939, but the term didn't find its way to the NCAA tournament until CBS broadcaster Brent Musburger (who used to be a sportswriter in Chicago) used it during coverage of the 1982 tournament.
The 2021 NCAA DI men's basketball tournament will be unlike any March Madness that has come before.
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Upcoming Meetings in
Central Northeast Neighbors
Meetings are being held through Zoom. Please look at the Neighborhood Association Websites for updates.
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Central Northeast Neighbors (CNN) contact Ronda
Sumner Neighborhood Association (SAN) contact Ronda
Madison South Neighborhood Association (MSNA) Click here
Beaumont Wilshire Neighborhood Association (BWNA) Click here
Friends of Wilshire Park Playground Project, Click here
Rose City Park Neighborhood Association (RCPNA) Click here
Hollywood Neighborhood Association (HNA) Click here
Grant Park Neighborhood Association (GPNA) Click here
Central Northeast Neighbors Community Connects Gathering March 3rd
Central Northeast Neighbors Land Use & Transp. Comm. 4th Thurs Zoom
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March Community Connect Gathering with
Commissioner
Mingus Mapps
Wednesday March 3, 2021
6:15 pm to 7:00 pm on Zoom
We are excited to announce that Commissioner Mingus Maps will come and talk with us this coming Wednesday, March 3, from 6:15 pm to 7:00 pm. Commissioner Maps will share with us about his bureaus and give us updates. We have asked him to please let us know how we can be involved. We will have a little time to ask questions and find out how we can best communicate to him on concerns and issues in our neighborhoods and community. We have asked his office to give us an update on Civic Life. We look forward to working together!
Commissioner Mapps is the Commissioner in charge of the Water Bureau, Bureau of Environmental Service and the Bureau of Emergency Communications. He is also the liaison to Travel Portland, the Visitors Development Fund and the Fair and Moral Claims Board.
Please join us and invite your neighbors to hear Commissioner Mapps:
Topic: Community Connect with Commissioner Migus Mapps
Time: Mar 3, 2021 06:15 PM Pacific Time (US and Canada)
Join Zoom Meeting
Meeting ID: 856 6715 8669
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Do you Need a Notary Public?
We have you covered.
Central Northeast Neighbors can help you. Our Ronda Johnson is a Notary! This is a free service from Central Northeast Neighbors. Please contact her for more information about doing curb side notaries during
Covid-19 quarantine.
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Commissioner Hardesty's Virtual Neighborhood Association Open House
TUESDAY, MARCH 9, 2021 AT 6 PM PST – 7:30 PM PST
Join Commissioner Hardesty for a "Neighborhood Association Open House" - open to all members of Neighborhood Associations and District Coalitions operating in the City of Portland.
The Virtual Open House is a meet & greet opportunity for members of Portland's neighborhood associations to meet and ask questions to Commissioner Hardesty, who recently became the Commissioner in charge of the Office of Community & Civic Life.
Details & Registration Link below.
Tuesday, March 9th, 6pm - 7:30pm.
Registration closes on Friday, March 5th at noon.
Registration is open to all active Neighborhood Association and District Coalition members.
This meet & greet opportunity with Commissioner Hardesty will be hosted on Zoom. NA members can register online and a link will be sent out closer to the event.
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BPS's Shelter to Housing Continuuum
The Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, the Housing Bureau and the Joint City-County Office of Homeless Services are partnering to review and retool City regulations to better address the homelessness crisis.
A range of approaches are being explored to better serve, shelter, and house Portlanders who are either experiencing — or are at risk of experiencing — houselessness. The Housing Bureau is continuing to build more apartments paired with supportive services for extremely low-income individuals and households The Joint Office of Homeless Services continues ramping up efforts to meet the increasing demand for emergency and short- term shelter, day storage and hygiene facilities. Expanding the options in the shelter-housing continuum are also being explored, such as campgrounds with tents or sleeping pods, tiny house villages, and micro-apartments with shared kitchens as well as other group living or housing arrangements.
The Bureau of Planning and Sustainability is developing proposals to change certain City Code requirements that would expand the housing and shelter options for individuals and households with extremely low incomes. Some of the solutions being explored will modify current permitting procedures, while others will require new City Code to be established.
The goals of this project are to further fair housing laws, expand the range of shelter and housing options, and improve how the regulatory environment affects for-profit, nonprofit, and public-sector-shelter and housing providers.
Project steps and timeline
Project scoping and research 2019
Code development Spring 2020
Discussion Draft and stakeholder discussion Summer 2020
Proposed Draft and Planning and Sustainability Commission hearings Fall 2020
Recommended Draft and City Council hearings February-March 2021
Effective date April 2021 (shelter-related elements) and August 2021 (group living and RV/tiny house on wheels elements)
Important links:
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Portland Street Response Pilot
Hits Streets in Lents
The pilot for the Portland Street Response (PSR), an innovative non-police response to assist people experiencing houselessness or a behavioral/mental health crisis, hits the streets for the first time on Tuesday, February 16th. Beginning at 10 am, the team will start taking calls dispatched from 911 to offer an alternative to police for people suffering mental and behavioral health challenges.
The team includes a program manager, a firefighter/paramedic, a mental health crisis clinician, and two community health workers. Each team member trained for the past month to prepare for calls. The team has been walking the Lents neighborhood, the pilot location, to introduce themselves to business owners and community members and to explain how they will aid Lents neighbors in crisis.
Lents was designated as the pilot location because it is not supported with many existing resources and services; additionally, the volume of mental and behavioral health calls in Lents is outpacing the growth of similar calls in other parts of the city. The team initially will be available Monday through Friday from 10 am to 6 pm. After six months, a second team will be added to cover the same area and to expand services to nights and weekend. By 2022, the program will ramp up to include more teams and coverage to locations across the city.
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Eligible older adults in Clackamas, Columbia, Multnomah and Washington countries who want to schedule a vaccination at the Oregon Convention Center should sign up at Get Vaccinated Oregon. OHA will send a list of eligible older adults to All4Oregon health system partners, who will reach out to schedule appointments at the Oregon Convention Center. Because of limited supply, not everyone who is eligible for a vaccine will be contacted by All4Oregon and able to schedule a vaccination at the Oregon Convention Center.
COVID-19 Vaccine Information by County
https://www.oregon.gov/oha/covid19/Pages/vaccine-information-by-county.aspx
Have a question about the COVID-19 vaccine?
Text ORCOVID to 898211 to get text/SMS updates (English and Spanish only)
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So long, James Madison. Hello,
Leodis McDaniel High School
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Madison High School is no more. The Northeast Portland school once named after the fourth president of the United States is now Leodis V. McDaniel High.
It will open under its new name this fall.
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City of Portland cleanup continues from historic winter storms; check updates for water, sewer, transportation, parks impacts and resources
The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) and other city agencies continue to clean up from the historic Presidents Day Weekend winter storms that covered the city with as much as 10 inches of snow and .75 inches of ice.
To ensure access for emergency services, PBOT crews worked in 24-hour operations for nine consecutive days, from Feb. 10 to 19. Driving snowplows, salt and sand spreaders and support vehicles, PBOT crews:
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Drove collectively 95,476 miles -- equivalent to driving from Portland to Miami, Florida roundtrip, more than more than 14 times!
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Spread more than 30,000 gallons of magnesium chloride liquid de-icer
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Placed 324 cubic yards of road salt and 425 cubic yards of a salt and gravel mix to ensure emergency routes were clear
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CNN Resource Numbers and Websites
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Some Neighborhood Facts
Hollywood. The Hollywood Neighborhood in northeast Portland was named after the ornate Hollywood Theater which was built by Walter Tebbetts. The theater opened on July 17, 1926 with the silent movie, "More Pay-Less Work". Prior to 1926, this area was known as “Hollyrood”, Oregon after the Scottish Holyrood.Apr 14, 2017
The Rose City Park Neighborhood was platted in 1907, the year of the first Portland Rose Festival. Trolley service from Downtown Portland was inaugurated that year by the Portland Railway, Light & Power Co., and discontinued November 30, 1936.
The original Beaumont Neighborhood was platted in 1910. It was originally part of the Rose City. The original Rose City Park subdivision was part of a land claim of Joseph Backenstos, which was assigned to his widow by President Andrew Johnson in 1866.
The Wilshire Neighborhood was initially platted in 1921 around the area of NE 33rd and N.E. Skidmore. Wilshire includes Wilshire Park, a 14.83-acre (60,000 m2) park with a canopy of mature trees, playgrounds, and picnic facilities.
Cully Neighborhood is Portland’s largest neighborhood both in population and land mass, it is over 3 square miles and population. It was incorporated into Multnomah County in 1985. It was home to the Chinook peoples and was known as Neerchokikoo village. Cully is the most ethnically and racially diverse Census tract in Oregon.
Grant Park Neighborhood is named for the park at its center, a lovely and walkable green area spanning nearly 20 acres. Grant Park, named for President Ulysses S. Grant, was acquired by the city in 1922 and Grant High School was built in 1924.
Homes in Sumner Neighborhood are mostly single units, although there are a few larger models sprinkled throughout. The area is diverse and family-friendly – you can spot kids playing in their yards on most weekends. Parts of Sumner are very tight-knit, with neighbors watching out for each other and creating a strong community. Sumner is also great for walking, particularly if you live closer to Sandy Blvd.
Safeway is in the Roseway Neighborhood on the site of The old Rose City Fred Meyer store. Did you know that Fred Meyer's was built around a home whose owner refused to sell his property to make way for Freddy’s. The store surrounded the house on 3 sides. They had one heck of a fenced back yard!
Sunderland Neighborhood is home to Dignity Village, the Portland Airport and The Columbia River Correctional Facility. Dignity Village is a membership-based community in NE Portland, providing shelter off the streets for 60 people a night since 2000. It’s democratically self-governed with a mission to provide transitional housing that fosters community and self-empowerment– a radical experiment to end homelessness.
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This newsletter has been made possible through funding by the City of Portland, Office of Community & Civic Life. Views or findings expressed here do not necessarily represent those of the City of Portland or the bureau.
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