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The Southwest Portland Post
4207 SE Woodstock Blvd #509
Portland, OR 97206
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email: editor@multnomahpost.com
Did a city planner belittle a
Multnomah Village CAC?
I am looking for a reference to a public
meeting at least a year ago regarding
the city of Portland’s planning for
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Specifically I want to cite the statement
by the Planning Bureau representative
that no matter what the Multnomah
Village Citizens Advisory Committee
recommended, the city and he were
going to do what they were going to
do anyway.
If you can point me in the right
direction I would appreciate it. Thanks.
Gary Rydout
Hillsdale Foundation invites
project ideas for funding
The Hillsdale Community Foundation
is looking for local projects to fund.
The foundation, supported largely
through its annual book sale, has
used its money to install and maintain
plantings along Capitol Highway, to
help buy computers for Wilson High
School, to pay for bicycle racks and
other bike amenities in the Hillsdale
town center and to provide seed money
for the Hillsdale Main Street Program.
The foundation is looking for new
ideas and proposals to enhance the
community. Projects could be funded
up to $5,000.
Proposals may assist one or all of
the following: the Hillsdale business
community, Hillsdale institutions
including the schools, Hillsdale
organizations, and residential “clusters”
within the neighborhood. Those in
surrounding neighborhoods may
indirectly benefit as well.
If you or your organization has an
idea or project to put forward, submit
it in 500 words or less to Rick Seifert
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Hillsdale
New playground
planned in
conjunction with
new field at Rieke
School
Mary
Rieke
Elementary School
has always been a big
part of the Hillsdale
community.
We are in the process
of funding, designing
and building a new
p l a y g r o u n d a t t h e “Quilts to Remember” is the theme of the Multnomah
Historical Association display at the Multnomah Arts Center.
school.
Each quilt displayed includes a story and background about
Since the school is part
each quilt. While all are of interest, the most unusual and
of a larger community, interesting is a reversible quilt made entirely of umbrella
the proposed name silks over 50 years ago by Morris Schlaifer, a retired
i s “ T h e H i l l s d a l e tailor. The exhibit will be on display through January.
Community Playground (Photo courtesy of Patti Waitman-Ingebretsen)
at Rieke Elementary.”
The plan is to be ready by September
Dearth [“Open Forum: Middle housing
2017, coordinating with the new turf
could provide new generation with
field being installed by Portland Parks
alternative to McMansions”] describe
and Recreation on the old Rieke School
larger homes as “monstrosities”.
field.
Where are these people dreaming up
It would be great if The Post could
this stuff? What could there possibly
do a story on the playground to get the
be about a house larger than the
community excited about this great
neighborhood average that could
project.
qualify it as a monstrosity? Have we
really debased our language to that
Paul Higgins
extent?
Co-chair
It is both amusing and infuriating
Rieke Elementary Playground
that some of the very people who
Committee
continually hector us about accepting
diversity are the same ones who object
to diversity in our landscapes.
Don’t hate “monstrosities”
It seems we are obliged to embrace
significant variance in cultures and
just because they’re big and
ethnicities, but we aren’t allowed to
expensive
accept that a neighborhood might have
a broad range of home styles and sizes.
Two articles in the November 2016
The fundamental question that
edition of The Post, by two different
arises, and it’s doubtful either writer
writers, apply the same repulsively
could produce a cogent answer, is
derogatory term to larger than average
simply this; what harm, exactly, is
private residences.
being done by the presence of a
Both KC Cowan [“City fines property
million-dollar home at one end of the
owner $21,600 but allows giant cedar
block and a $300,000 home at the other?
trees to be cut down”] and Chris
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