4 • The Southwest Portland Post
FEATURES
Portland park bureau offers
summer concerts and movies
By Lee Perlman
The Southwest Portland Post
South Portland now has the dis-
tinction of being the only Portland
neighborhood to host two free sum-
mer parks concert series. Willamette
Park will be host to concerts by Tony
Furtado on July 6; Linda Hornbuckle
on July 13; Dirty Syncopators on July
20, and Lisa Mann and Her Really
Good Band on July 27.
Meanwhile, the newly-minted
Elizabeth Caruthers Park in South
Waterfront will have concerts with
the Water Tower Bucket Boys August
19, and Blue Cranes August 26. The
Willamette Park concerts start at 6:30
p.m., the Caruthers Park events at 6
p.m.
The Portland Bureau of Parks and
Recreation is the main sponsor of
the concerts, but it requires that local
community groups come up with
part of the financial backing, an in-
creasingly challenging task in these
economic times.
South Portland Neighborhood As-
sociation by now has the advantage
of experience and past successes in
gathering support, while those as-
sociated with the South Waterfront
include individuals and groups with
deeper than normal pockets.
Elsewhere in southwest, the park
bureau is offering free movies, in
every case preceded by some sort of
live entertainment until the night gets
sufficiently dark.
The schedule is as follows: The
Social Network will be shown at the
Multnomah Arts Center on July 1.
Imagine That will be shown at Dick-
inson Park on July 3.
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off will be
shown at DeWitt Park on July 29. Free
Willy will be shown at Holly Farm
Park on July 30. E.T. will be shown at
Caruthers Park on August 11.
James and the Giant Peach will be
shown at Dickinson Park on August
13. North by Northwest will be shown
at Caruthers Park, September 8.
Toy Story 3 will be shown at
Multnomah Arts Center on Septem-
ber 9. Chitty Chitty Bang Bang will be
shown at April Hill Park on Septem-
ber 10. Music begins at 6:30 p.m. and
the movies will start at dusk.
At each of these events the park
bureau will have vendors on hand
from whom you can purchase food,
or you can bring your own along with
a blanket and/or lawn chair. Patrons
are asked to be courteous and helpful
to those around you, and otherwise
enjoy the shows.
July 2011
MULTNOMAH NOTEBOOK
Friends of Spring Garden Park wins
$10,000 grant from Umpqua Bank
By Moses Ross
The July meeting of the Multnomah
Neighborhood Association will be
held on Tuesday, July 12 at 7:00PM
at the Multnomah Arts Center, Room
30. Please join us!
Congratulations to the Friends of
Spring Garden Park for being chosen
as the recipients of a $10,000 grant
to build a nature playground at the
park. The grant was the grand prize
of Umpqua Bank in Multnomah Vil-
lage’s Build Your Block Challenge.
Spring Garden Park’s Nature Play-
ground was one of three projects that
had made it to the final selection stage
of the contest. The other two projects
were a community mural and instal-
lation of benches throughout the
neighborhood.
The community mural and the
benches projects received much sup-
port in the voting and so the neigh-
borhood association would like to
“adopt” these projects to make sure
they are followed up on and imple-
mented. If you would like to assist us
in implementing these projects, please
contact Moses at mnachair@gmail.
com and I can give you more details.
Do you live on a street that is
unmaintained? Your chair is work-
ing on a project to identify and map
all the unmaintained streets in the
Multnomah neighborhood. If you
live on an unmaintained street, please
help out by emailing me at mnachair@
gmail.com and let me know the loca-
tion of the street.
Its summertime in Multnomah
and that means its time for the
Multnomah Outdoor Cinema. Spon-
sored by the MNA and our friends at
SW Neighborhoods, Inc, O’Connor’s
Restaurant, Food Front Grocery and
Portland Parks and Recreation, this
has become a summertime tradition
in our neighborhood.
Come join everyone at this free
community event on Friday, July 1
starting at 8PM with live music cour-
tesy of the Shannon Tower Band. At
dusk, the PG-13 rated movie “The
Social Network” begins.
Enjoy bottomless bags of popcorn,
the good company of your neighbors
and friends as well as music and
movies under the stars. The event
is held outside under cover at the
Multnomah Arts Center so bring a
blanket and make an evening of it!
We’ll see you there!
The Oregon Legislature recently
tackled the redistricting of House
and Senate districts, as mandated
every ten years due to the census and
adjustments for where people within
Oregon live.
The Multnomah neighborhood was
dramatically affected by this shifting
of boundaries. Previously, the entire
neighborhood was within the bound-
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