2 • The Southwest Portland Post
EDITORIAL
February 2012
Friends group fights to save
Fulton Park Community Center
FROM THE EDITOR’S DESK
By Don Snedecor
The Southwest Portland Post
I met with Moses Ross at a coffee
shop in Multnomah Village in mid-
January to discuss the fate of Fulton
Park Community Center.
Originally built in 1914 as Fulton
Park Elementary School, in 1958 the
school was closed and the property
and building were leased by the
Portland School District to the City
of Portland. That long-term lease
continued until 1999 when the
City purchased the building and
property.
Located at 68 SW Miles St, not
far from Barbur Boulevard, the
property includes a 1.62-acre park,
offices for staff, four classrooms,
a full kitchen, and a gymnasium
with a stage that is also used as a
cafeteria and auditorium.
“It’s one of those fundamentals
that a community needs to have,
right up there with sidewalks and
sewer lines,” said Ross.
“My daughter took preschool
classes there,” said Ross. “They had
an amazingly low teacher-student
ratio. The quality of education for
a public facility is fantastic.“
Ross, chairman of the Multnomah
Neighborhood Association, said
a “friends” group has developed
with some 75 members. The group
has a Facebook page called “Save
Fulton Park Community Center
and Preschool.”
Ross said that the activities held at
the Center include an indoor park,
folk dancing, community gather-
ings and city-run volleyball. “It
doesn’t mean that you have to use
it, but it is there if you want to go.”
To raise funds to cover overhead,
Ross said better marketing was
needed to targeted groups that
could use the building, particularly
those within a two to five mile ra-
dius.
Ross said he would like to see
Fulton Park CC connect with the
Multnomah Arts Center and the
Southwest Community Center at
Gabriel Park, so that Fulton could
pick up overflow programming.
Additionally, a foundation could
be formed to provide necessary
funding. “I would love to see a
public-private partnership,” said
Ross.
For more information on this sub-
ject, read Lee Perlman’s news story
on Page 1.
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