We received an e-mail from Office of Neighborhood Involvement Neighbohood Resource Center Manager Brian Hoop about a land-use workshop being held in February. Here it is.

 Saturday, February 9, 2008  9:00 AM to 1:00 p.m. at the Good Samaritan Medical Building #2 1040 NW 22nd Ave. North and  South Conference Room Entrance at Southeast corner of intersection of N.W. 22nd Avenue and N.W. Marshall Street.
Workshop is free and open to the public.
Pre-registration is required.  Space is limited to 25 people.
Learn about the City of Portland’s land use and development review processes. Get hands-on experience responding to typical issues that come up in land use reviews.
Presented by Brian Sheehan, Bureau of Planning and Jacob Brostoff and Ronda Fast, Bureau of Development Services, and a neighborhood association land use leader. 

Kim Hill, a senior at Portland Christian Jr/Sr High School in east Portland, previously featured in the Memo for her basketball and volleyball skills, was again recognized recently for her athletic abilities.

The Gatorade Company, in partnership with RISE Magazine, last month announced that Hill has been tapped as its 2007-08 Gatorade Oregon Volleyball Player of the Year.

Kim Hill is the daughter of Argay residents Bradd and Terri Hill; Bradd Hill owns Chet Hill Insurance, Inc., in Parkrose, an independent agency started by his father in 1954.

The people of Parkrose Community United Church of Christ will celebrate
the life and ministry of The Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. on Sunday,
January 20th during a 10 a.m. worship service.

The service will include readings from Scripture and several of Dr. King’s
sermons and speeches. Congregants will sing Amazing Grace, written by a
former slave trader, and We Shall Overcome, the anthem of the civil rights
movement.

Portland City Commissioner Randy Leonard and State Sen. Brad Avakian will host a community town hall on Tuesday, Jan. 15, from 7 to 9 p.m., at David Douglas High School, 1001 S.E. 135th Ave. The public is cordially invited.

This is the second town hall-style meeting planned by the pair this month. The first was held Jan. 9 in Northwest Portland; the theme for both: “Livable Communities.”

The town hall will focus on issues such as land use, water resources, renewable energy, public safety and emergency response. The town hall will begin with a short presentation by both Leonard and Avakian, followed by questions from and a discussion with community members.

Public meetings are being planned to let citizens in on the Portland Police Bureau’s plans for redistricting, and that includes east Portland’s East Precinct.

Neighbors with the Madison South Neighborhood Association have been given some advanced notice concerning the changes, and apparently their portion of east Portland will be redistricted – out of the East Precinct. Some of those members are unhappy with the plans.

The first public meeting of city officials and the PPB for citizens to view proposed boundary changes, learn about redistricting recommendations and provide feedback regarding changes to the PPB East Precinct will be held Tuesday, Jan. 15, from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. at the Banfield Corporate Office, 8000 N.E. Tillamook St.

There’s an exciting change going on at the former Our Savior Lutheran Church at 11100 N.E. Skidmore St in the Parkrose neighborhood.

Our Savior Lutheran Church, established in the early 1960s, is combining operations and congregations with Faith Lutheran Church, formerly located near 60th Avenue and Sandy Boulevard in Portland, Oregon.

The new church is called Faithful Savior Ministries, and the combined churches, operating from one site at Northeast 111th Avenue and Skidmore Street in east Portland, held the first Sunday worship on Jan. 6.

A graffiti awareness class is set for Tuesday, Jan. 8, from 6:30 to 8 p.m. at the offices of Central Northeast Neighbors, 4415 N.E. 87th Ave. The public is invited to attend. The Memo strongly urges its readers to attend this educational meeting.

The event is hosted by two city of Portland entities, the Office of Neighborhood Involvement and Central Northeast Neighbors. Marcia Dennis, graffiti prevention coordinator with ONI, will teach the graffiti awareness class.