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Volunteers Needed For North
Portland Paint-A-Thon
Who: Hous/wg Our Families and Trimet
What: Paint-a-Thon
When: Saturday', August 12 9 am to 4 pm
Where: Five houses in North Portland’s Boise Neighborhood
Contact: Kris Smock 335-0947 x 301
Volunteers are needed to paint five homes owned by low income
residents ofN orth Poi (land's Boise Neighborhood. On Saturday, August
12, community members, church groups, local businesses, schools, and
youth groups will join together to transform five neighborhood eye-sores
into beautiful homes. The Paint-a-Thon, which is co-sponsored by
Housing Our Families and Trimet, is a community-based effort to
revitalize the Boise area.
No experience is necessary. Groups and individual volunteers are
welcome. The houses will already be prepped and primed, and volunteers
will be supervised by professional painters. All equipment, tools, paint,
and supplies will be provided.
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West Side Streetcars Proposed
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Call Rainbow Travel. Inc. at 635-3525. *Ask for Shirley
Leonard Smith, a longtime com­
munity activist, has announced the
grand opening of his new Grandfather ’ s
General Store at 3524 N. Mississippi
Ave.
The unveiling of this fresh new
store, just north of Fremont, will take
place on Tuesday beginning at 6 p.m.
in conjunction with National Night
Out, the annual neighborhood crime
prevention event.
Smith will provide live music and
free balloons for the children.
In addition to his own selection of
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The c o n tra c t calls for the
p re se rv a tio n o f h isto ric artw ork
on the L ovejoy ram p support c o l­
um ns.
"The removal of the Lovejoy
ramp is an important step forward in
our effort to build housing in the
Central City," emphasized Commis­
sioner Earl Blumenauer who over­
sees the Office of Transportation.
"By providing housing with
major employment centers, we will
be more successful in managing
growth, increasing transit ridership
and encouraging alternate modes of
Community Clean-Up
Help Available
snacks, ice cream, groceries and con­
venience items, the store will feature
such ice cream specialties as real, made-
to-order milkshakes, banana splits and
sundaes.
For the grand opening will be
John Barnes' mobile barbecue Porky's,
which will be at the store on a regular
schedule. The store is now open, seven
days a week, 8 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Smith invites the public to enjoy
National Night Out by stop by lor the
special festivities, music, barbecue and
delicious ice cream.
a n k in g
The Central City Streetcar por­
tion of the contract is $1.5 million,
and could go to construction as early
as 1999. Engineering for the Lovejoy
ramp removal and reconstruction is
just over $1 million and may go to
construction as early as 1997.
P ortland S tre e tc a r, Inc., is
c o m m u n ity - b a s e d , n o n -p r o f it
c o rp o ratio n e sta b lish e d w ith the
single goal o f im plem enting the
C entral C ity S treetcar as a project
that will benefit the livability and
econom ic vitality o f P ortland and
its C entral C ity.
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A neighborhood clean-up planning guide, litter bags and promo­
tional items are available from the organization Stop Oregon Litter
and Vandalism.
Clean-up projects have been planned in all parts o f the state and
range in size from community-wide groups to individuals who pick up
litter during daily walks.
Last year, over 130 communities in Oregon coordinated cleanups
through the SOLV program.
Buttons, stickers and signs to advertise clean-up projects are
available.
The 1995 program was launched by Gov. John Kitzhaber in May
as a call to action for citizens to help increase the livability ofthe state.
The planning guides and more information are available by
calling 647-9855 or 1-8OO-322-3326.
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streetcar from Portland State to Or­
egon Health Sciences University and
Macadam Avenue and a finance
package for final design, construc­
tion and operation of the Central City
Streetcar.
Currently, the Lovejoy ramp is
an elevated structure that connects
the Broadway Bridge with North­
west 14th Avenue. The reconstruc­
tion of a much shorter ramp would
remove a barrier to the development
of housing the area.
The project is seen as an excel­
lent incentive for the private sector to
develop housing at the densities en-
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Portland City Council members
are supporting a plan to bring street­
cars back to the southwest and north­
west inner-city.
A contract with Portland Street­
car, Inc. authorizes the preliminary
engineering work on a Central City
Streetcar between Portland State
University and northwest Portland
and the Removal and reconstruction
of the Lovejoy ramp in northwest
Portland.
In addition to the preliminary
engineering work on the streetcar
alignment, the contract also includes
a feasibility study connecting the
Travel. (503) 635-3525 or (800) 947-2462.
HC&iHrsival.
In May 1995, Oregon voters
approved aconstitutional amendment
that allows lottery revenues to be
used for education and the repay­
ment of bonds.
"A few months ago, the voters
decided this issue and overwhelm­
ingly supported the use of lottery
revenues to back bonds," Hill said.
"I question why Mr. Sizemore is
asking the voter to consider this issue
again."
project and this initiative is an at­
tempt to kill the project by closing
off a source of the stale's financing
But what he failed to consider are the
long-term, negative impacts this ini­
tiative will have on the state's financ­
ing. If Mr Sizemore wants to stop
the light rail project, then he should
take in on directly, not by going
through the back door and damaging
Oregon's finances in the process,"
Hill said.
cessfully funded Westside Light Rail.
"Mr Sizemore's initiative is an
irresponsible attack on the state's fi­
nance," Hill said. "If passed, this
initiative would completely close off
the use of lottery revenues to finance
any needed revenues to back bonds
is an important financing tool for the
state and reduces the tax burden on
Oregonians.
"It is no secret that Mr. Sizemore
opposes the South-North Light Rail
State Treasurer Jim Hill said he
is opposed to an initiative petition
recently filed by Bill Sizemore, the
Executive Director of Oregon Tax­
payers United.
The "Lottery Spending Limita­
tion Act" would ban the use of lottery
revenues to back state bonds The
state is considering using lottery rev­
enues to back bonds for the construc­
tion of the South-North Light Rail
project, which is how the state suc-
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