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The Mid-county Memo is your newspaper. We want to hear from you. Discuss an important issue or address a concern you want to call to the attention of the community. Letters to the editor are edited for space, grammar and issues of clarity. We prefer e-mailed letters to the editor sent to Darlene Vinson at editor@midcountymemo.com. Please put “Letter to the editor” in the subject line. You may also mail your letter to 3510 N.E. 134th Ave., Portland, OR 97230 or fax it to 503-249-7672. Deadline for the April issue is Friday, March 14.
Paper praised for bringing struggles to light
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| Corbett found a new home after his master Jim Crockford passed away. Mid-county Memo photo/Tim Curran |
David Raphael
Alliance of Vulnerable Homeowners
Editor's Note: Since this story ran, we received inquiries as to the status of Corbett, Crockford's well beloved dog, a Great Pyrenees mix. Mid-county Memo publisher Tim Curran adopted Crockford's precious pet, and he has settled in nicely.
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Get off my lawn
To the Editor:
I read your article on the new parks (“Fritz comes through with two new east Portland parks for you” February 2012).
We do not need any more parks. As there is a nice one at Northeast 129th and Halsey Street that is rarely used, the one at Northeast 106th Avenue and Halsey Street is beyond stupid.
I called and wrote city controllers as to my thoughts on the vacant land at Northeast 106th and Halsey. When it demolished, I suggested that they put in a concrete skateboard park or a covered putting green. The cover could be designed to slope to the center to collect in a huge tank. That water could then be used to water the covered greens.
We need to elect people with business brains, or just a small brain would be better than what we have. You never want to have a project that does not pay for itself and pays for maintenance.
I live across from Western States College [sic] on Northeast 132nd Avenue. I wrote the commission I did not want a clinic across the street from me in a residential neighborhood, but the stupid people allowed it anyway. I wonder who gets paid for these decisions. Do city controllers draw on a pool of cash and gold that people who want their way keep full?
The university does not pick up leaves on its property, so they blow across the street and into my yard. I, as a 78-year-old disabled veteran with Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, a panic disorder and a bad back cannot rake my yard, nor do I have the money to hire it done.
Rex Romaine Bahr
Russell neighborhood resident
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More parking please
To the Editor:
A note to Linda Cargill about her story in the Memo on the Rose apartment project (“The Rose apartment project breaks ground in Gateway,” January 2014): It was a very nice article. She wrote an awful lot. I was quite impressed; it was a very informative article. I would like her to consider doing a follow-up article in three or four years to see if “58 shared surface parking spaces” for the new 90-unit Rose apartment building will be clogging the neighborhood streets with parked cars. I am a huge supporter of having more parking for apartments. I think it's a travesty what the city of Portland has done recently where they don't require enough parking for [new] apartments, and then they clog up the neighborhood streets. I commend her on the very nice article, but I am concerned about the parking, although 58 is much better than some of the newer ones you read about on Division Street and in central Portland where they have four parking spots for a 60-unit complex.
Thank you
Jerry Dukleth
Argay Terrace
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