Members of the Parkrose High class of 1963 will gather for a reunion in August. A casual get together will begin at 6 p.m. Friday, Aug. 10 at Jim Dandy Drive-In, 9626 N.E. Sandy Blvd. There will be a golf tournament on Saturday, Aug. 11 at 10 a.m. at Mountain View Golf Course in Boring. A barbecue will follow at the home of Glenn and Diane Scott. For details, contact Gary Grimes at 503-537-9431 or visit www.pshs63.0rg.

The 15.7 acre Beech Property is located next to Shaver Elementary School. Portland Parks & Recreation purchased the parcels in 1984 and 1999 from the Garre family as part of a long-range vision to provide a large neighborhood park to serve this part of Mid-Multnomah County.

The property has been land banked since its purchase and the Garres continued farming on the site until May.

The areas inside the yellow lines are the two parcels slated to become a park.

At a meeting recently held at Shaver the interim management plan for the future park was discussed.

Sometime in 2008 (probably the latter half) the design process for the new park will begin. A collaborative effort between the neighborhood and Parks & Recreation, the final design will reflect recreation needs and community priorities according to Doug Brenner, East Portland Zone Manager (503-823-5255).

Reader Walt Lersch, sent us an e-mail about an incident in the Hazelwood neighborhood last Saturday (6/16) evening.

To the editor:

Saturday evening when driving home from dinner I noticed something going on
in the Northwest corner of the vacant Albertson’s parking lot at N.E. 122nd Avenue
and Halsey Street. I dropped the family off at home and returned to see
what was going on.

There was a Boss Hawgs banner and Budweiser banner draped around the wrestling ring. The announcer stated that this was a preview of the full show which would take place at the same location the next day from Noon through the evening.

We recently received a note from Erin Sutherland, Director of Community Relations, Oregon College of Oriental Medicine about their open house in June.

Since their event will occur before the July Mid-county Memo is published, we wanted to help spread the word about their event.

Here is Erin’s invitation:

You are cordially invited to an Open House at Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM) on Thursday, June 28 from 4 to 8 p.m.
The event is designed to give prospective students, clinic patients, community partners, neighbors and friends an idea of what we do.

The New York Mets used its first pick in this year’s major league baseball draft to select Eddie Kunz, a 2004 Parkrose High graduate. The hard throwing right-handed pitcher was the 42nd player taken over all.

Kunz played for Parkrose Little League as a youngster and was part of the Parkrose High baseball team that were co-champions of the Mt. Hood Conference. He also played football and basketball as a Bronco.

For the last three seasons Kunz has been a member of the nationally ranked Oregon State Beaver baseball team. As a middle relief pitcher last season, he helped the Beavers claim the NCAA national championship banner.