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The MEMO Calendar is your vehicle to publicize community events. Let your Mid-County neighbors know about events of interest, meetings, fundraisers and the like.
To insure publication, please send submissions for each month by the 15th of the previous month. Calendar submissions for the June issue are due by Thursday, June 15. For best results, e-mail Darlene Vinson at editor@midcountymemo.com. Or mail editorial submissions to 4052 N.E. 22nd Ave., Portland, OR, 97212-1503. To leave a phone message, call 503-287-8904.
SPECIAL EVENTS
Cans for kids
Gather your returnable cans and bottles. The Parkrose High School Boosters will take them off your hands. Volunteers will be waiting for you on the first Saturday of each month from 9 a.m.-1 p.m. During the wet spring weather, you will find them at Parkrose Middle School, under cover, in the turnaround. If you miss the Saturday, May 3 collection, the boosters will be back on Saturday, June 1. Funds collected are used for scholarships. Parkrose Middle School is located at 11800 N.E. Shaver St., across from the high school. For more information, contact Sue Kunz at 503-254-2664.
Asian Cultural Night
The Asian Family Center (AFC) and Immigrant and Refugee Community Organization (IRCO) are celebrating Asian Heritage Month and recognizing the success of AFC at the “8th Annual Asian Cultural Night, Waves of Change: Unity and Strength in the Asian Pacific Islander Community.” The evening will include a family style dinner, cultural performances, live entertainment, raffle prizes, and keynote speaker, Dr. Phyllis Lee, Oregon State University Director of Multicultural Affairs. As an educator and civil rights advocate, she has over thirty years of service with communities of color, and the Asian Pacific Islander population. Her voice has echoed the concerns and interests of these communities, empowering them to mobilize and gain places at decision-making tables to take their rightful stance in America. Proceeds from the event support services for families and youth at the Asian Family Center. Asian Cultural Night will take place May 9, from 6 p.m.-midnight, at the Legin Restaurant; 8001 S.E. Division St. Tickets are $25.
Project Interwoven Tapestry, a joint project between the Metropolitan Human Rights Center and the Immigrant and Refugee Center, is based at the Asian Family Center, which has been host to the project since its inception almost 3 years ago. For more information or to buy tickets call Raquel at 503-235-9396.
Talk to your legislatures
Sen. Avel Gordly, Rep. Steve March, State Rep. Jackie Dingfelder will hold a joint Town Hall on May 10th, the third in a series of discussions to hear citizen input on the 2003-2005 budget and other state issues.
The Town Hall will be held on Saturday, May 10th, from 10 a.m.-noon, at the YMCA Arts Education Center at 6036 S.E. Foster Road. For more information contact Rep. Dingfelder at rep.jackiedingfelder@state.or.us or 503-986-1445
Land use training for citizens
The City of Portland Bureau of Development Services offers a free Lunch and Learn Brown Bag Session to discuss Land Use Training for Citizens - Understanding the Process on Friday, May 9, Noon-1:30 p.m.
This public education, discussion, and feedback session will explore:
• What is a Land Use Review? What is a Nexus and where can I find one?
• What activities are allowed with and without a Land Use Review?
• How can I effectively participate in the Land Use Review process?
• Types of Land Use Review (I, II, or III) ~ What do they mean?
• Questions and Answers with City Land Use experts.
All are Welcome to attend this free event. Bring your lunch to the 1900 S.W. 4th Avenue Building Second Floor Conference Room 2500-A.
The Bureau of Development Services sponsors Lunch and Learn Community Education Brown Bags. The City of Portland Development Services Center is located at 1900 S.W. 4th Ave., First Floor. The center is open Monday-Friday 7:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. and Thursday nights 5 to 7:30 p.m. This information and a complete library of past presentations are now available on the website at www.bds.ci.portland.or.us Click on “Lunch & Learn Seminars” for more information.
East Portland neighborhoods hold cleanup
Residents of East Portland neighborhoods can take advantage of the Spring 2003 Neighborhood Cleanup on Saturday, May 10, 2003, at the Tri-Met Park-n-Ride lot at Southeast 122nd Avenue and East Burnside Street. Enter from Southeast Ash Street. The cleanup will start at 9 a.m. and end at 1 p.m.
Drop boxes will be set up for residents in the East Portland area, (I-205 to Portland/Gresham City limits, from the Clackamas Border to the Columbia River), to dispose of yard debris, old furniture, and tires. The East Portland Neighborhood Office offers this opportunity to encourage residents to clean up their yards and improve the appearance of their neighborhoods. In order to serve the greatest number of residents, only one pickup load of debris will be accepted from each household.
The following fees will be charged to help pay for the cleanup: $15 per pickup load of yard debris; $2 per passenger vehicle tire off the rim ($4 on rim); $30 per pickup load of old furniture and appliances, or a $5 minimum for smaller loads; computer monitors and television sets will be $10 each.
Fees can be waived if they are a hardship. Arrangements must be made in advance; call 503-823-4550.
No food waste, hazardous materials, construction waste, or debris from outside the above noted service area can be accepted. This cleanup is supported by a grant from Metro.
For more information about the cleanup, please call Richard Bixby or Teresa Hatfield, East Portland Neighborhood Office, at 503-823-4550.
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