2 • The Southwest Portland Post
EDITORIAL
The Southwest Portland Post
4207 SE Woodstock Blvd #509
Portland, OR 97206
Fax: (866) 727-5336
email: editor@multnomahpost.com
Years in
Business!
Transportation bureau
should fix dangerous
Capitol/40th intersection
Multnomah Neighborhood Associa-
tion has identified safety issues at sev-
eral locations along Southwest Capitol
Highway.
A safety vigil was held in March at
Capitol Highway, near Miles Street and
the West Hills Preschool and Learning
Center. The most recent vigil target [in
April] was Capitol Highway near the
intersection at 40th Avenue.
“SLOW Down / Share the Road”
signs were made available through the
Portland Bureau of Transportation and
10 signs were strategically placed near
this intersection.
Orange cones and bright safety vests
helped to draw attention, while keep-
ing the volunteers safe. The vigil vol-
unteers placed and held signs to alert
drivers heading off to work or school.
Capitol Highway safety concerns
include speeding traffic in both direc-
tions and ignoring the stop sign at 40th
Avenue. [Because of the unique Y con-
figuration] a major traffic safety issue
4207 SE Woodstock Blvd #509
Portland, OR 97206
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The Post has a circulation of 7,000 in Multnomah Village and the surrounding
neighborhood business districts including Burlingame, Capitol Hill, Garden Home,
Glen Cullen, Hillsdale, South Portland, Raleigh Hills, West Portland and Vermont
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The Post is printed on recycled
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Multnomah neighbors Patti Waitman-Ingebretsen, Moses Ross, James Nobles, and Greg
Manning participate in a safety vigil in April at the intersection of Southwest Capitol
Highway and 40th Avenue. (Photo courtesy of Patti-Waitman Ingebretsen)
occurs as vehicles attempt to navigate
that dangerous intersection.
Multnomah neighborhood residents
are actively pursuing Capitol Highway
safety with the hope that the Portland
Bureau of Transportation can resolve
or decrease the identified safety issues.
The residents along Capitol Highway,
as well as members of the Multnomah
Neighborhood Association, are quietly
hopeful that a solution can be found
to address and resolve the identified
safety concerns
Patti Waitman-Ingebretsen
Multnomah Village
Editor’s Note: Since this letter was
written, progress has been made. A city
engineer inspected the intersection of
Capitol Highway and 40th Avenue and
came up with an ingenious solution—
with paint. By repainting the traffic
stripes and fog lines the transporta-
tion bureau can inexpensively redirect
traffic in both directions and prevent
potentially disastrous automobile ac-
cidents from occurring.
My understanding is that this repaint-
ing project has been approved and will
be completed soon.
— Don Snedecor
June 21st Workshop for Writers/Family Historians!
Learn how to research and write family history.
Indigo Editing sponsors Portland author Camille
Cole in a day-long intensive for narrative history
writers, memoirists, novelists, or anyone wanting
to write a compelling story
about family, a family
member, or their own
life. Cole’s 2013 book, The
Brass Bell, is the story of
a great aunt, a school in a
cherry orchard, two world wars, and the Great
Depression. A copy of her book is included in
the cost of the class that includes a focus on
both research and writing.
Find more here:
http://writeyourfamilyhistory.blogspot.com
Contact Camille: 503.914.9515
Photo by: Rachel hadiashaR
Today, [May 26] while on my walk
along Southwest Garden Home road,
I was the victim of a random act of
meanness by three teenage girls in a
nice white car.
To be quite frank, they threw a wet
sanitary napkin at me with a lewd pic-
ture on the top drawn in sharpie. This
isn’t the first time this has happened to
me in this neighborhood.
Last year, two teenage girls threw
unripe plums at me as I climbed the
stairs to my apartment. There was no
provocation; I’m just a normal woman
in my 20s minding my own business.
It isn’t so much what these girls did
that bothers me; it’s the fact that they
did those things for fun. They actively
set out to be mean to someone for
laughs. That’s cruel and hurtful.
When I was a high school student,
I learned about the Random Acts of
Kindness (RAK) organization (www.
randomactsofkindness.org).
Whether it’s buying coffee for the
person behind you in line or prepar-
ing a surprise dinner for your family,
RAK seeks to promote kindness among
all of us.
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As a teenager, RAK inspired a lot of
fun activities for me. I remember pick-
ing flowers in the dark with my best
friend.
We tied up the blooms in little bou-
quets and did our best to sneak up to
random houses at night and leave the
flowers on the doorstep.
There was a bit of teenage daring
involved, but it was positive and I re-
member it fondly to this day. I wonder
what those mean girls will think about
their behavior when they grow up?
Casey Davis
Multnomah Village
Victim of teenage pranks
urges random acts of
kindness
Celebrating
June 2014