Results of an informal survey on transportation improvements to Garden Home Road between SW Capital Highway to the east, and the intersection with Multnomah Boulevard to the west.

Join us for a brief dedication ceremony and official opening of our new playground, followed by refreshments and activities for the kids.
Music by Gypsy Jazz West

Neighborhood Association Meeting

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Opened in the late 1950’s, George Smith Elementary School operated for nearly 50 years before being closed by the school district for “declining enrollment.”

In the eighties or nineties, Smith’s boundaries were shrunk in order to enhance the number of students at Markham, which had been closed. The students south of Taylors Ferry Road, many of whom walked to Smith, were bussed to Markham. This was detrimental to our community by fragmenting it, and by eliminating an opportunity for healthy exercise for students by walking to school in a safe, quiet neighborhood.

The Portland Tribune recently ran an article, City’s sewage saga, about the Garden Home pressurized sewer line. It is a tale of exploding sewer lines, environmental contamination, last minute pipe material substitutions, trips to Reno for city employees paid for by pipe manufacturers, and an unnecessary “cost savings” boondoggle which, years later, still hasn’t saved the city any money.

The city did not need to build this system, nor do they have to repair nor replace it now. They have always had the option to send the flow via a gravity fed line to a Washington County treatment plant, as has been done in prior decades. The city built this failed pressure system to pump sewage uphill to their already at-capacity Columbia River treatment plant. Originally, the plan called for using steel pipe, but in order to shave off 0.9% from their $18,000,000 project, they substituted plastic pipe instead.

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ASHCREEK NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION

General Membership Meeting, October 8, 2007

The meeting was called to order by Pres. Jack Klinker at 7:00 PM. Present
13 members, 2 guests, sign in sheet attached. Minutes of the September
meeting approved. Agenda approved.

Guest: Ruthann Bedenkop, Outreach Coordinator for SWNI, explained what she

For more than 40 years we have been promised a traffic signal at this intersection. Enough is enough. Only organized grassroots citizen activism is likely to bring enough pressure on our public officials to improve the situation at this intersection. Here’s a plan for action.

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