Last night, police officers responded to a call of shots fired at a residence in the 14800 block of Northeast Fremont Court in the Wilkes neighborhood of outer east Portland.

According to a Portland Police Bureau news release, arriving officers found a deceased adult male at a residence. Immediately, they began searching the area for a suspect and called for Homicide Detectives and the Forensic Evidence Division.

Investigators are on scene and no additional details area available at this time as this is an active and ongoing investigation.

Anyone with information is urged to contact Lt. Robert King, 503-823-0010, pager: 503-790-1779, or email him at Robert.King@portlandoregon.gov.

The May 2012 Mid-county Memo is posted online. A recap of its contents:

Last month, the top three mayoral candidates debated at David Douglas High School’s Howard Horner Performing Arts Center; the new Neighborhood Prosperity Initiative areas are approved; Parkrose School District averts a teacher’s strike; David Douglas special education teacher Annie Harrell is named Outstanding Teacher of the Year; Lee Perlman interviews City Commissioner Amanda Fritz and opponent, state Rep. Mary Nolan; the Planning and Sustainability Commission endorsed the Outer Powell Conceptual Design Plan; since 2006, east Portland neighborhood associations have been operating illegally; the Portland Housing Bureau is changing tax abatement area boundaries in east Portland … again; and, longtime Gateway hairstylist June Bauer’s obituary.

Are east Portland neighborhood associations all illegal? Technically yes, says East Portland Neighborhood Office Executive Director Richard Bixby, but it is not their fault. It is his.
A handful of the City’s 95 recognized neighborhood associations are 501(c)3 non-profit corporations, able to offer tax deductions for donations. Most of the rest fall into a different non-profit status.

Because they handle relatively small amounts of money, they do not have to make yearly reports to the IRS — or did not until the year 2006, when the law was changed.

The annual Safe Routes to School Spring Kick-Off event is tomorrow, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., at Russell Academy, 2700 NE 127th Ave.

Brought to you by the Portland Bureau of Transportation, the free family event celebrates health, safety and physical activity.

Safe Routes to School annual Spring kick-off event is tomorrow.

You can learn how to safely ride a bicycle, map and plan a bicycle trip and do basic bike maintenance.

Games and activities for the kids, a free raffle for a new bicycle, art projects, a healthy lunch and a community bike ride at 1 p.m. are all part of the event.

The April 2012 Mid-county Memo is posted online. A recap of its contents follows:

Bre’Shay Barnes was named Rose Festival Princess from Parkrose; the new Neighborhood Prosperity Initiative areas struggle to meet financial goals; Parkrose School District declares impasse with teachers; PSD Superintendent Karen Fischer Gray is one of four finalists for Reynolds job; the first meeting between Metro and Glendoveer golf course lovers since a contentious open house in August; the Argay Neighborhood Association hires a lawyer to help fight infill development across the street from Argay Park and an east Portland high school winter sports roundup.

It was a hot summer day the last time Metro representatives met Glendoveer Golf Course & Fitness Trail users, neighbors and lovers to discuss the facility’s future at an outdoor open house.

An overflow crowd showed up at a meeting called by Metro to discuss Glendoveer's future.

Even hotter were tempers of hundreds of Glendoveer defenders who showed up to stop what they perceived as the first step in a radical reshaping of the beloved 242-acre golf, tennis, recreation and restaurant complex, considered by many the crown jewel of east Portland’s public facilities.

Joe Rossi, Parkrose’s well-known promoter and leader of the Rossi family, stunned the board of the Parkrose Business Association recently with the delivery of a four page list of 23 grievances against the group.  He devoted five of his 23 points in particular to the method employed voting for the group’s annual top honor, the Karl F. Lind Award.

To read Rossi’s list of grievances it in its entirety, scroll to the bottom…

Joe Rossi, left, with sculptor James Gion at the Portland Immigrant Statue unveiling in October.

Editor’s note: The 2012 elections are a watershed moment in city politics. For the first time in decades, with the mayor declining to run for re-election, Randy Leonard retiring from his council seat and incumbent commissioner Amanda Fritz facing a serious challenge, there will be at least two, if not three new faces at City council. Veteran beat reporter Lee Perlman interviewed the major mayoral and city council candidates. The Smith interview concludes the mayoral portion of the series. Council candidate interviews follow in upcoming editions.

State Representative Jefferson Smith.

Jessica Vega Pederson is a candidate for Oregon House District 47, which includes portions of Portland east of I-205 to the Gresham border and from I-84 and Northeast Sandy Boulevard south to Division Street and Powell Boulevard. She is running to build a sustainable economy with high wage jobs, to strengthen our educational system and to fight for equity in Oregon. If elected, she would make history as the first Latina to serve in the Oregon House.

Running in House District 47, Jessica Vega Pederson wants to become the first Latina to serve in the Oregon House.

Editor’s note: The 2012 elections are a watershed moment in city politics. For the first time in decades, with the mayor declining to run for re-election, Randy Leonard retiring from his council seat, and incumbent commissioner Amanda Fritz facing a serious challenge, there will be at least two, if not three new faces at City council. Veteran beat reporter Lee Perlman interviewed the major mayoral and city council candidates. In this post, mayoral candidate Eileen Brady is interviewed.