November 2012
NEWS
The Southwest Portland Post • 3
French school seeks to expand; Age-friendly designation proceeds
HILLSDALE NOTEBOOK
By Jillian Daley
The Southwest Portland Post
Hillsdale Neighborhood Associa-
tion residents learned at a meeting last
month that L’Etoile French Immersion
School aims to move into the Fulton
Park Community Center this year.
The French school, which presented
its plans at the meeting, has applied for
a conditional use permit to move some
of its students into the community cen-
ter at 68 S.W. Miles St.
L’Etoile School, which has 58 stu-
dents, wants to move its 12 first- and
second-graders to Fulton Park.
This will open up space for the kin-
dergarteners and preschoolers at the
school’s current home at 5839 SW Hood
Ave., said school operations director,
Seema Kathuria in an interview with
The Post in late October.
Kathuria plans to add one higher
grade per year until the school reaches
the fifth grade.
The French school needs a conditional
use permit because the community cen-
ter is in a zone usually allowing ages 5
and younger, not first to fifth graders.
The permit creates an exception, Ka-
thuria said.
Kathuria said that during and after a
Nov. 5 public hearing, people will have
an opportunity to comment on whether
they approve of the school. No one has
taken issue so far, and she expects to be
Fulton Park Community Center. (Cour-
tesy of Portland Parks and Recreation)
able to move in this December. She loves
the space and sees a future there.
The Portland Bureau of Parks and
Recreation previously held some of
its own programs at the Fulton Park
Community Center before they were
discontinued because of budget cuts,
although the bureau still rents out space
at the center affording L’Etiole School a
place to grow.
Hillsdale Walkability Audit and
age-friendly certification
Also at the Hillsdale Neighborhood
Association meeting, Alan DeLaTorre,
a Portland State University instructor
who is the project manager for Port-
land’s Age-Friendly Cities Project, dis-
cussed the Hillsdale Walkability Audit.
The audit will help pinpoint what needs
to be done to make Hillsdale the first
Portland neighborhood designated as
age-friendly.
An age-friendly certification involves
improvements such as: making doors
easier to open; providing places to rest;
improving lighting to help prevent
crime; and making places easier to navi-
gate for those with vision trouble. The
designation has other benefits.
“I think (an age-friendly certification)
would be some good marketing for Hill-
sdale,” said neighborhood association
chairman Mikal Apenes in late October.
The project is part of a larger city ef-
fort to make Portland more age-friendly
that’s been going on for years. Hillsdale
was chosen to be a part of that effort be-
cause of its strong transit system, major
artery in the form of Southwest Capitol
Highway and thriving residential and
business communities, DeLaTorre ex-
plained in a late October interview.
One milestone of the local project
came at a May 2 Hillsdale Neighbor-
hood Association meeting when Hill-
sdale Main Street executive director
Megan Braunsten and Elders in Action
volunteer Will Fuller announced a part-
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the age-friendly certification effort for
the neighborhood.
Neighborhoods compete for
small grants
Hillsdale neighbors discussed the
2012-2013 Southwest Neighborhoods,
Inc.’s Small Grants Program. Grant
awards are $200-$2,000 apiece, and a
grand total of $10,020 is available to the
16 neighborhoods this year.
There was $20,000 available last year,
Apenes said. Hillsdale neighbors are
seeking a grant for a three-level water
fountain at DeWitt Park
Mary Rieke Elementary School repre-
sentatives also told neighbors they will
submit a grant to support their green
schools program. According to Apenes,
Hillsdale is going to write a letter in sup-
port of this particular grant application.
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