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August 2013
Multnomah Days festival to include parade, street fair and three music stages
By Lee Perlman
The Southwest Portland Post
Yes, the Multnomah Village Business
Association’s annual Multnomah Days
festival is back, most (but not all) of it
on Saturday, August 17, from 8:00 a.m.
to 4:00 p.m.
As usual, the proper way to start is
the Kiwanis Pancake Breakfast from 8
to 11 a.m. at the Key Bank parking lot.
Lunch will be served from 12:00 noon
to 4:00 p.m.
The Street Fair is really something to
see. From 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., more
than 100 vendors stretching from the
viaduct to the Multnomah Arts Center
will have a wide variety of food, bever-
ages, clothing and merchandise for sale.
Things really get under way at 10 a.m.
with the Biggest Small Parade, starting
at the viaduct and proceeding along
Capitol Highway to 31st Avenue.
It will start with a Pooch Parade,
followed by Neighborhood House
executive director Rick Nitti as grand
marshal and all manner of cars, floats
and groups, some with instruments and
many very colorful.
After the parade is over, you will have
your choice of attractions. Among them:
The Southwest Neighborhood News al-
most never gets it wrong, but there will
not be two music stages at the festival
as reported.
There will be three – the Community
Stage at Southwest 36 th Avenue and
Capitol Highway; the Main Stage at
34th and Capitol; and a third stage on
Southwest Moss Street between 34th
and 35th avenues next to another attrac-
tion, the Festival Beer and Wine Garden.
There will be diverse groups perform-
ing from about 12 noon to 5 p.m., in-
cluding Miya Folick from Los Angeles,
the Quadraphones female sax quartet,
and high school musicians from across
the city. There will also be a Food Court
near the Main Stage at 34 th and Capitol
Highway.
This year the Kids Zone at the
Multnomah Arts Center parking lot
will be particularly full of activity. There
will be a climbing wall, a human-sized
woodpecker, a PDX Kids Calendar
photo booth, and a maypole. From 11
a.m. to 3:30 p.m. the zone will have
a Performance Corner with puppet
shows, puppet and balloon art making,
and a recycled 3d sculpture.
Also at the Multnomah Arts Center,
The Beat Goes On Marching Band is scheduled to appear again in the Multnomah
Days Parade. (Post file photo by Don Snedecor)
on the front lawn, will be their annual
pottery and art sale. Touring both areas
will be the Portland Police Bureau’s
bomb disposal robot.
Individual businesses will also have
special activities going on.
For instance, Umpqua Bank will be
co-hosting an Energy Fair. Anastasia
Salon will have a Cut-A-Thon, with
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$8 million transportation allocation means several new sidewalks in Southwest
By Lee Perlman
The Southwest Portland Post
Thanks to $8 million allocated to
the cause during Mayor Sam Adams’
administration and other funds,
Southwest Portland is getting new
sidewalks in places they never were
before. Seven such projects are either
nearing completion, under way, or
imminent.
New sidewalks on Southwest 11th
Avenue between Gaines and Gibbs
streets. Already under way, this
should be complete by early August.
Extended shoulders on Southwest
Maplewood Road. This too should be
done by early August, except possibly
for the extension of existing speed
bumps into the shoulders.
Sidewalks on the east side of
Southwest Sunset Boulevard be-
tween DeWitt Street and 18th Avenue,
with parking and a continuous storm
water project on the west side. Work
is already underway, and the project
should be completed by September 21.
At times the road will be reduced to
one lane controlled by flaggers.
Sidewalks along the north side of
Southwest Spring Garden Road from
17th Avenue to Taylors Ferry Road,
and on 19 th Avenue from Spring Gar-
den to Barbur Boulevard.
Work should be under way by the
time you read this, and last until Oc-
tober 26. Project manager Chris Armes
hopes to complete work near Capitol
Hill School before classes start.
Sidewalks along the south side
of Southwest Huber Street between
35 th and 43 rd avenues. Work should
begin in early August and last 90 days.
Again, there may be partial road clo-
sures and flagging.
Sidewalks on Southwest Vermont
Street between 30 th and 34 th avenues,
and the reconstruction of irregular
intersections at the confluence of Ver-
mont, Terwilliger Boulevard and Idaho
Drive, and Terwilliger, Caldew Street
and Seventh Avenue.
Sidewalks and bicycle “cycle track”
shielded from cars, on the north side
of Southwest Multnomah Boulevard
between 22 nd and 34 th avenues. On the
south side there will be a multi-use
path shared by bikes and peds. There
will also be a crossing at Southwest 25 th
Avenue with a flashing beacon.
The last two projects had not been
put out to bid at press time. City of-
ficials were “monitoring” the bid pro-
cess due to unexpectedly high bids for
other projects this summer. The City
may hold off on the bidding process
for these until after Labor Day when
bids are expected to be lower.
Don Baack of SW Trails and City
of Portland project managers Chris
Armes, Kyle Chisek and Rich New-
lands contributed to this story.
Editor’s Note: Money for new sidewalks
in Southwest Portland came largely from
a fund to improve Capitol Highway be-
tween Garden Home Road and Taylors
Ferry Road—first on the list of priorities
for pedestrian and bicycle improvements.
When the cost of the Capitol Highway
project doubled to more than $12 million
due to the high cost of environmental
services, the project was shelved and the
money became available. The 1996 Capitol
Highway Plan is still only half finished.
— Don Snedecor
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Construction workers pour cement on the new sidewalks along Southwest Sunset Bou-
levard at DeWitt Street, July 26. (Post photo by Don Snedecor)