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Lead-Safe Home Projects Workshop March 25th
Learn how to tackle small projects at home in a lead-safe manner. Qualified participants receive a free kit of safety materials.
Call 503.284.6827 x107 or email lead at communityenergyproject.org
Wednesday March 25th from 6-7:30 pm at Community Energy Project Office, 422 NE Alberta Street.
Lead Poisoning Prevention Workshop March 12th
Learn how to protect your family from lead poisoning. This workshop is ideal for people who live in older homes with children or a pregnant woman. Qualified participants receive a free kit of safety and testing supplies.
Thursday March 12th from 6:30-8:00 pm Matt Dishman Community Center 66 NE Knott Street.
Call: 503.284.6827 x107 or email lead at communityenergyproject.org
Forth Annual Neighborhood-Business Collaborative Graffiti Cleanups
The City of Portland Graffiti Abatement program will sponsor eight (8) Saturday morning graffiti cleanups between March and October 2009. Interested neighborhoods/business associations should contact Graffiti Abatement Coordinator as soon as possible to be considered as a cleanup site.
Beginning in March, the cleanups will be held one Saturday each month from 9:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. and will be a combined effort by City-contracted graffiti removal crews, and a minimum of 10 volunteers from the community. Be a part of the solution!
Prior to the cleanup date, residents/businesses will be asked to survey their area and compile a list of sites that have been vandalized by graffiti and then to submit the list to Graffiti Abatement Coordinator at least a week ahead of the event.
The contractor-crews will focus on paint-out or power-wash removals from private properties (provided we have signed owner-permission prior to the event). Volunteers will remove graffiti from properties “in the right-of-way”, including utility poles, dumpsters, newspaper boxes, and other sites that are not routinely cleaned by agencies or owners. Previous years collaborative events have resulted in more than 1000 sites cleaned in a “season”.
Supplies will be provided by the Graffiti Abatement Program. Volunteers must sign a volunteer agreement and application form, available at the Graffiti Program webpage: http://www.portlandonline.com/oni/index.cfm?c=32420
For additional information click here.
January 2009 CNA News
Cold Weather Tips
From NECN:
With this severe weather, some of our vulnerable neighbors may be at risk: please take time to visit neighbors and check in with those who may need some assistance.
If you have the ability and time, please check on single parent families, young parent families, elderly, injured, disabled and frail neighbors to determine if they have food, water, heat, medicines, etc.
Help as much as you are able. If your neighbors need assistance that you cannot offer, and their health is in jeopardy, please call 911. Once the dispatcher determines that this is indeed an emergency, service can be dispatched. If not, you will be routed to the non-emergency number. Please do not hang up; be patient with the process.
A New Way to Report Aircraft Noise
CNA has recently met with the Port of Portland’s Noise Management team to discuss concerns about the safety of increase F-15 travel over nearby residential areas as part of their present “test”. One outcome of those discussions has been a reminder that anytime – day or night – any resident has a concern about aircraft noise of any kind can call the Port of Portland’s noise hotline: 503-460-4100. But now you can also report your concerns – and view flight patterns – on-line using WebTrak.
WebTrak is an online flight tracking system covering the greater Portland/Vancouver area. WebTrak offers a wealth of information about each flight, ranging from altitude and direction to aircraft type and airline to flight or tail number. For security purposes, the system is delayed 90 minutes and does not show government, military or law enforcement flights.
I took WebTrak for a whirl. You pick a location and time period and then you watch plane icons move across an area map. Basically this gives you the option to clearly identify the flight that was causing you grief and you can report the problem using an on-line form in WebTrak. Try it out yourself by logging on at http://www.portofportland.com/Noise_Mgmt_Home.aspx, you definitely need a high speed connection to use it.
WebTrak is a neat tool but it is a little clunky and if you are experiencing a noise problem, you have to wait at least 90 minutes to identify the issue using WebTrak. It remains easier and quicker to just call the Port at 503-460-4100 when you hear a wayward and/or loud aircraft.
When you call the Port or submit a report on-line via WebTrak, the Port noise management team is required to thoroughly investigate and respond within 48 hours. In some cases, the information provided by citizens or obtained during the investigation, is used to refine the noise abatement program and in discussions with aircraft operators.
Neighborhood Meetings and Inclement Weather
CNA has a number of regular meetings through out the month – general meeting on the 1st Tuesday, Board meeting on the 2nd Tuesday, and various committee meetings. ALL CNA meeting are open to the public – unless the Board is in executive session, which is exceedingly rare.
As we enter the inclement weather season, we will do our very best to have regular meetings as scheduled. However, if the schools are closed – the neighborhood association is closed (we aren’t the post office and we don’t want to be – call us wimps if you want to…).
So, if there is a meeting scheduled and PPS is closed, please don’t come out! Stay home, snuggle up with loved ones or a book in front of a roaring fire and think happy thoughts.
Peace.
Vision into Action Wants to Hear from YOU!
In January, the Vision into Action (VIA) Coalition will announce a second round of Community Action Grants available for neighborhood and community organizations. Be looking for the application in early 2009!
Also, next year, the VIA Coalition will organize itself around at least two “action areas”. The VIA Steering Committee and staff have identified some potential action areas, focusing on parts of the vision that won’t be covered by the Portland Plan. We would like to hear from you about the action areas you would like the Coalition to prioritize next year. PLEASE CHECK NO MORE THAN FIVE IDEAS TOTAL listed in the survey (link below), even if you like all of them. Thank you.
Help Shape our 2009 Work! Fill out the survey here!
Stephanie D. Stephens
Program Manager, Vision into Action (VIA)
Portland Planning Bureau
1900 S.W. Fourth Avenue, Suite 7100
Portland, Oregon 97201-5380
503-823-9588
stephanie.stephens@ci.portland.or.us
Portland International Airport Open House
The Port of Portland invites you to attend one of the following events to
learn more about the North Runway Extension and South Runway Rehabilitation.
Draft Environmental Assessment.
Wednesday, Dec. 10, 2008
5 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Brief presentation at 6 p.m.
Meeks High School, 4039 NE Alberta Court, Portland, OR 97211
Tuesday, Dec. 16, 2008
5 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
Brief presentation at 6 p.m.
Pearson Air Museum, 1115 E 5th, Vancouver, WA 98661
Refreshments provided.
The Port will provide an opportunity for written or verbal comments about the Draft Environmental Assessment.
Related Links:
North Runway Extension
Contact:
Dennis Sandstrom, Community Affairs, 503.944.7151
· PO Box 3529 · Portland, OR97208 · 503.944.7000