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Portland International Airport (PDX) will be hosting its first-ever street fair, now known as the "AirFair," on Saturday, July 12, 2008 from 10 am to 3 pm. The fair will be held under the canopy outside the PDX terminal building - an area normally used by commercial traffic - transforming the closed road into a festive celebration of the airport. This fun family event will include a live marimba

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Hello all! The Bryant Street Bridge (BSB) committee wants your feedback on the designs submitted. The BSB's design page is HERE. Or you can jump right to the designs HERE. If you are a GMail/Picasa user, you can leave comments right below the pictures. Otherwise, comment below please. If you have questions, ask away!!

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In just under 3 weeks, Peninsula Park Commons will host its biggest ice cream social ever! Come join the fun as they celebrate their 9th Annual Community Ice Cream Social and Garden Party. Date - Sunday, July 13th Time - 4pm until late, with a ~6pm pot luck dinner Place - Peninsula Park Commons, 6325 N. Albina Ave. (look for the new 3-story buildings across from Peninsula Park) They'll

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This Saturday, from 10:00am to 11:00am a Portland Parks' Ladybug Nature Walk will be held at Peninsula Park. Touch slimy slugs, smell tree bark, look under rocks, feel crinkly and soft leaves, hear musical bird songs, creep up on furry bunnies or even climb a tree. Youngsters and their parents are exposed a variety of environmental activities and curiosities in parks around town. We practice

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OregonLive just popped up a post highlighting the report that will be release tomorrow on North Portland's noise issues. The post is HERE, but even it states that the committee that commissioned the report isn't expected to discuss the report in a City Council meeting until August or September.

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The Rose City Softball All-Stars take on the Portland Police in the Annual Pride Charity Game this Saturday (June 14th) at Farragut Park! The shin dig kicks off at 11:30am. The Police Academy Cadets will also have a food and beverage booth to raise money for the Police Cadets. More details HERE.

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On Wednesday, July 30th the Portland Festival Symphony will perform a free concert starting at 6pm in Peninsula Park! This is one of many concerts Portland Parks holds in neighborhood parks throughout the city. During the months of July and August, the public can enjoy music in parks from Rose City in Northeast Portland to Willamette Park in the southwest. Picnics are welcome and many parks

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Several PNA boards ago, board members worked with the Parks Department to get some ICURA (Insterstate Corridor Urban Renewal Area) money slated for parks into Peninsula Park. Money was set aside to replace the wading pool and sandbox at Peninsula Park with a spray water feature for young children (Parks is moving to replace all standing water features with spray water features). Additional

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The latest word from Winston Sandino at PDOT is that the two planned crosswalks to Peninsula Park are a go! 1. Albina/Holman Crosswalk (crosses Albina at Holman St.)A couple of years ago PNA wrote and was awarded an ODOT grant to pay for this crosswalk. This summer, it's finally happening. And in addition to the crosswalk stripes, we get two islands! The Bureau of Maintenance will complete the

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We sold our 2nd car back in October and I've been commuting to downtown via bike since then. I just crested 1100 miles on my bike since October. I've lost weight, my blood pressure is way down and overall I am in much better physical shape. One of the things that I look forward to on the last Friday of the month is Shift's (http://www.shift2bike.org/) Breakfast on the Bridges (BonB). Just before

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The City of Portland's Office of Neighborhood Involvement (ONI), Overlook NA, Arbor Lodge NA and the Kenton NA are looking for volunteers to help with their Interstate Ave Graffiti Cleanup event on Saturday, June 14th. In addition to cleaning up graffiti, the event's goal is to enable neighbors to meet and to connect with ONI folks. Immediatly after the cleanup event, there will be a

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Neighbor Janice McDonald had her bike stolen from her backyard while it was unattended. If anyone sees this bike, please let Janice know. janis.mcdonald@pdxtrans.org clickly the pics to see bigger versions... She would also like to remind everyone to write down your bike's serial number as it will do you the good you can imagine it will. Janice, as many of you know from her many presentations

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Holy Redeemer is having their 1st multi-cultural event called "A Taste of Holy Redeemer" on September 20th and 21st. With the immense diversity growth in the Portland area, the folks at Holy Redemeer feel that it is time that we celebrate the blessings of our diversity. The event will provide opportunities for people to taste ethnic foods, music and entertainment. The plan is to serve foods

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Piedmont's very own Kat Halpenny (also PNA Land Use Co-Chair) is organizing a city-wide adventure race on July 19th. The Stumptown Challenge. The race is intended as a medium to encourage Portlanders to engage with their city in a way that is healthy, promotes public transportation, and highlights local businesses on a neighborhood level. Participants will solve clues to find different

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My best friend's sister's boyfriend's brother's girlfriend heard from this guy who knows this kid who's going with the girl who brought this blog post to my attention. Really great info and links for all us North Portlanders. 100 Reasons I love NoPo

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For the second year, Marquis Stoudamire is working with a group that presents free movies in Portland's parks. On August 1st Abstract Visionz will present the movie Love Jones in Peninsula Park. The full schedule of movies is below.

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Laughing Planet Cafe is presenting an event on June 14th that they're calling Cirque du Cycling. Cirque du Cycling, presented by Laughing Planet Café, is part circus, part bike street race and a benefit for Self Enhancement, Inc. The whole event kicks off at 4:00 with a free three mile family ride to Peninsula Park. There is also a bike parade (advance registration required) featuring all sorts

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Piedmont's very own Compressed Pattern just submitted their design proposal for the Bryant Bridge Project! Check out their proposal (HERE) and pics of their design (1, 2, 3, 4). The pics have also been added to the design slideshow found on the bridge's page... www.PiedmontNeighborhood.com/BryantBridgeProject

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View Larger Map The Bryant Street Bridge will be closed Mon., June 9 – Wed., June 11 PDOT will be improving the sidewalk ramps that lead to the bridge so that the approach is safer for pedestrians and bicyclists! The is repaving work is part of a comprehensive project to improve the accessibility, safety and cleanliness of the Bryant Street Pedestrian and Bicycle Bridge. Initiated by Piedmont

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At the last PNA General Meeting Mathew Deschane from WhyNotPortland.org spoke regarding his group's ballot initiative. Below is additional information on the subject. You can also go directly to their www site... http://www.whynotportland.org/ Today more than 9000 kids can’t see a doctor in Portland. They are our neighbors, our relatives, the classmates of our sons and daughters. They’re the kids

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The Sentinel has reported (HERE) that the PDOT will hold its first North Portland streetcar District Working Group meeting May 7th at the St. Johns Community Center. A full schedule of the meetings can be found on the North Portland District Working Group site (HERE). You can view a map (in PDF format) of the streetcar corridors that the DWG is considering HERE. One of the corridors runs

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Free vegetarian food servings are returning to North Portland under the Food Not Bombs (FNB)banner this coming Monday! -a hot, healthy, delicious vegan meal -lots of food to take home: fruits, vegetables, bread, tofu, and more. -everyone is welcome to come and to cook -5:30, mondays, Peninsula Park (at the corner of N Albina & N Ainsworth) MAP FNB encourages all to attend, eat and meet your

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Spring Master Recycler Plastics Roundup will take place on two Saturdays, and four locations. Saturday, May 3rd 9am-2pm at two locations... S.E. Portland: Floyd Light Middle School (10800 SE Washington) MAP N. Portland: Kaiser Permanente (3325 N. Interstate Ave) MAP Saturday, May 17th 9am-2pm at two locations... Lake Oswego (5400 Meadows Rd) PCC Rock Creek (17705 NW Springville Rd. Lot D)

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Sometime between now and July 31st we're going to receive two new roll carts. The blue cart is for recycleables (except glass and motor oil) and the green is for yard debris. You can read to your heart's content on the subject on both OregonLive.com (HERE) and on PortlandOnline.com (HERE). You can futher help the process by not putting out your blue roll cart unless it is FULL. This reduces

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The Planning Commmission is holding a meeting on May 27th at 7pm to discuss proposed rezoning of NE Killingsworth Street between NE 14th and NE 17th to "bring back commercial vitality to the three block area..." Read more about this HERE (PDF format). You can also find this document, and other Land Use notices on our Land Use page. Just click the link labelled...wait for it...wait for it...

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