The Parkrose Neighborhood Association holds its general membership meeting tonight,  from 7 – 8:30 p.m. at Faithful Savior Ministries in at 11100 N.E. Skidmore St in east Portland.

For tonight’s agenda, contact PNA chair Mary Walker at 503-252-2146 or send her an e-mail at: abfportlandor@aol.com

We received a note from Jodie Rossi, one of our Portland Christian Schools information sources, about an event tomorrow night at the Jr./Sr. High School, 12425 N.E. San Rafael St., in outer east Portland.
It follows:

“Everyone is invited to International Food Night, Saturday, May 8. This special event is an exciting opportunity to eat foods from other cultures prepared by our International Student Program students. We will also have a performance by the internationally famous Japanese Drum Dancers, Portland Taiko.

James Mayer had a good story in yesterday’s (Thursday’s) inPortland section of the Oregonian entitled “Potholes are the pits, Portlanders say.”

It talks about new Mayor Sam Adams and his obsession with potholes. Another Adams stunt or is he serious?
Portland has a backlog of street maintenance (30%) that grows larger every year. True, potholes are a small part of the problem, but they are the most visible.

And, last month’s December to Remember storms only exacerbated the situation.

Take Sandy Boulevard in east Portland for instance, from Northeast 82nd to around 47th Avenues to be exact. Let us now call it “Pothole Boulevard.” please, take it and fix it Mayor Adams.

A couple of weeks ago, at the east end of the off-leash area in Argay Park, three new light poleswere installed. Not knowing the Portland Parks & Recreation Bureau had scheduled this upgrade, we put a called them, only to discover the money for this improvement came from Mayor Tom Potter’s Interbureau Task Force.

Mark Warrington, public safety manager for Portland Parks & Recreation said the impetus for the additional lighting came from the IBTF.

The task force is comprised of representatives from each City Council office, a representatives from the Portland Police and Development Services Bureau code inspections division. The IBTF’s objective is to address livability, crime and fear of crime in neighborhood areas with long-term and complex public safety issues.

Have you been dying to learn about the City of Portland’s land use and development review processes?

Would you like to get hands-on experience with a land use review case study; one that includes a review of a development proposal and site plan, identification of relevant issues, and effective ways to respond to the approval criteria?

If so, you, the public, are invited to attend a free Land-Use Workshop Saturday, January 24 from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. at the East Portland Community Center, 740 SE 106th Ave. Multipurpose Room #2

We recieved a news release today from Parkrose School District.
It follows.
Parkrose High School Community Center is in eastr Portland at 12003 NE Shaver St.

News Release from: Parkrose Sch. Dist.
PARKROSE SCHOOL DISTRICT TO HOST SWEARING-IN CEREMONY OF NEW MAYOR
Posted: December 18th, 2008 11:18 AM
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Portland, OR, December 18, 2008: The Parkrose School District has been selected as the site for the swearing-in ceremony of Mayor-elect Sam Adams.

The event is scheduled for Monday, January 5th, 2009 at 12:00 p.m. and will be held at the Parkrose High School Performing Arts Theater.

Banfield Pet Hospitals, in cooperation with Meals on Wheels, is seeking donations of pet foods for MOW clients in east Portland as part of its annual Season of Sharing.

Shut-ins are very attached to their pets, and if necessary will skimp on their own food intake to feed them. Unopened containers of pet food can be dropped off at all Banfield outlets through January.

We subscribe to Portland Online, an information service run by the city that notifies you, if you subscribe, of various events and happeningings in the city.

Specifically, of course, we receive notice of events and happenings in the Mid-county area.

So, the other day we receive an e-mail from Portland Online informing us of the Parkrose Community Fair happening on Saturday, September 20.

Parkrose Community Fair? Wasn’t this an event held at Parkrose High School at the end of the regular school year?
It has moved, apparently, to September and will be held in the parking lot at Eastminster Church on Northeast Halsey Street at 125th Avenue in east Portland.

The Memo story about the upcoming Parkrose Festival & Cruise-In gives more details on the August 2nd event the Parkrose Farmers Market is participating in.

The Parkrose Farmers Market is booming with activities and great local produce and crafts.

On Saturday, Aug. 2nd the Market is joining forces with the Parkrose Business Association and moving the market for that one day to Sandy Blvd. between Northeast 105th and 112th Avenues for the Parkrose Festival and Cruise In, from 9:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m. With old fashioned and new fashioned cars, great music, cooking demos, crafts, and most of all that fresh Local Produce it is sure to be an event to remember.

We received an e-mail from Parkrose super volunteer Allison Newman-Woods. She’s looking for volunteers from the Parkrose business community to join the “new” Parkrose middle and high school athletic booster groups.

If you know anyone that would be interested in helping the Bronco Boosters, please forward them this link.

(The dates she refers to are on Mondays; July 14, 28 and August 11 and 25. All meetings in the Parkrose High School Community Center Library, 12003 N.E. Shaver St.)

Here is Ms. Newman-Woods’ missive: