Portland Fire & Rescue’s Fire Station 18, located at 8720 SW 30th Avenue, will be hosting an open house to welcome back personnel and equipment to the newly renovated station. Fire personnel will be offering a welcoming at 11:30 am and then community members can tour Fire Station 18, explore firefighting equipment and apparatus, and interact with Station 18 firefighters past and present.

JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

Watershed Outreach Intern (2 positions)

Applications accepted until positions are filled
(Note: this posting will be removed when positions are filled)
Preferred start date: early June, 2012

Learn the basics of how the City of Portland's land use and development review process work. Get the hands-on experience with a land use review case study, including review of a development proposal and site plan, identification of relevant issues, and effective ways to respond to the approval criteria. Introduction by Leonard Gard, program manager for Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc.

Southwest Neighborhoods has worked with over 400 volunteers during the last year to support citizen involvement and community-building activities, and secured funding for playgrounds, sidewalks, greenways, a mural, and other improvements in our neighborhoods. Take a minute to review our Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2010-11. Take note of the significant amount of funds leveraged by the City’s investment through our grant agreement with the Office of Neighborhood Involvement and the number of activities and accomplishments measured in our performance indicator reports.

Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc annual volunteer recognition party. Save the date!

Southwest Neighborhoods Inc. (SWNI) is offering $2,029 in grant funds to support projects that remove graffiti in the SWNI coalition area; improve properties that have been chronically tagged with graffiti in a way that will hopefully prevent future tagging and graffiti; and build community in neighborhood associations and communities within southwest Portland.

$22,956 will be made available to neighborhood and community-based organizations in the Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc. area. Proposed grant dollar amounts may range from $200 to $2,000. Grants will be awarded through a competitive process.

This page is for individuals to post comments about the proposed Lewis & Clark development of a block of apartments for 150-200 students on Maplecrest. Please be courteous and respectful. You may certainly debate the topic, pro and con, but do not insult or attack any individual or your login will be revoked.

Check out the schools pages for recent changes:
* News articles updated
* Action Plan 2009-10 (on main page)
* New links to organizations

Location

Join the Friends of Vermont Creek as we get to know our watershed! Learn more about the roles of stormwater runoff, groundwater, and native vs. invasive plants in watershed function. Tour is expected to take 2.5 hours one way (about 2-2.5 miles, some trail hiking). There will be limited shuttle space available to take people back to Multnomah Village at the end of the tour, if needed.

The Schools Tour of SW Charter School has been changed to Monday, May 18 at 9:00 AM.
For more details, click on the calendar for May 18, then on More Detail.

The SWNI Schools Page now has a page of links to websites with information relating schools.
To check it out, go to swni.org/schools and click on the Useful Links line at the left side of the page.
To suggest a useful link, please email schools@swni.org

Last school tours - coming up week of May 11 and 18th

From: Mayor Sam Adams: “The City of Portland was able to secure an additional $2 million of federal stimulus money for important Portland sidewalk improvements on 82nd Ave and SW Barbur Boulevard. I must thank Marianne Fitzgerald and Leonard Gard of Southwest Neighborhood Inc. whose tireless advocacy for the needed sidewalk and safety improvements help bring this money to Barbur.”

Early in February 2009, after listening to many hours of testimony, all seven members of the Metro Council voted for a resolution relating to the Columbia River Crossing. No, it was not an endorsement of eight, ten or twelve lanes on a new bridge. Rather it was a resolution calling for “a comprehensive demand management analysis by an independent consulting firm, not connected to this project or with present or potential contracts with the Washington and Oregon Departments of Transportation.” The moment of unanimity is largely unknown by members of the public because the region’s largest newspaper did not publish a story about the Council’s action. Instead, it gave broad coverage to the agreement between the Mayors of Vancouver and Portland to build the biggest possible project, the “jumbo bridge.”

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