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Tenants Sought for New
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The Disco Ball
Once again it’s time to shake your
booty, flash the polyester and stomp
those platform shoes! Join the Lotus
and ZlOOSunday, September 5thfor
the biggest Outdoor disco party under
the stars! The entire parking lot be­
hind the Lotus is transformed into a
giant disco tech. Equipped with three
full bars and Bar BQ food. “Satin Live
Orchestra” will be performing live.
The party starts in high gear at 9 PM,
band starts at 10:30 PM.
Off-Leash Areas
Portland Parks & Recreation will
be holding a public hearing on Off-
Leash areas in Portland's Parks. The
public hearings are to get input from
members o f the community on this
issue. The next two meetings will be
on W ednesday, Septemer 15, 6:30-
8:30 Pm at the Portland Building,
Room C and Saturday, September
18, 9 AM - Noon at W arner Pacific
College, Egtvedt Room. For more
information, please call 823-5457.
Huckleberry Festival
The Cascade Geographic Society
will celebrate its 15th Annual Mt.
Hood Huckleberry Festival & Barlow
Trail Days, a free, family-oriented
Festival. There is no admission and
parking is free. The event will be at
the Mt. Hood Village (65000 East
U S. Highway 26, near the Village o f
Brightwood) on A ugust 27, 28 and
29. There will be Native American
storytelling, music, and much more!
4th Annual Menagerie Project
Come one! Come all! Come on
down! The Really BIG Dance Com­
pany presents the 4th Annual M enag­
erie Project (or Menagerie Quatre for
all you fancy folks) August 2 6 ,2 7 ,2 8
and September 2,3, and 4 at 8 PM at
Conduit Studio, 918 SW Yamhill, 4th
floor. In years past, you've witnessed
dueling belly dancers, wild animal
revues, as well as "really big” dancing
fruit.. .Tap dancers, pranksters, song­
stresses, and some really bad- (oops!)
make that Really BIG magic! Call
503/236-9843.
Hip Hop In the Park
A
g ro u p
of
c o n c e rn e d
o r g a n iz a tio n s and a rtists have
teamed together to host the first “ Hip
Hop in the Park: Edutainm ent, Resis­
tance and C ulture,” to be held in
Alberta Park A ugust 29 from 3 - 8
PM, an event w hich will focus on
blending politics and hip hop to cre­
ate a statem ent that will speak to
youth. A lberta Park is located at NE
22nd and Killingsworth. For more
information, call Roderick Franklin
at 503/817-9257.
Conflict Resolution & Violence
Prevention
Oregon Peace Institute will offer a
workshop on “The Use o f Art in I on-
flict Resolution and V iolence Pre­
v e n tio n ” fa c ilita te d by R ebecca
Singer, the Executive D irector o f
Artrageous. on Thursday. September
23, 1999 from 6 : 3 0 - 9 PM at the
First U nited M ethodist Church in
Room 160,1838 SW Jefferson Street,
Portland. Please register by calling
OP1: 503/725-8292. A $10 donation
would be appreciated.
Tutoring Help
Experience C orps is currently
looking for older adults, 55 years o f
age and older to tutor children and
assist with other school needs in Port­
land, Parkrose and Beaverton elemen­
tary schools. No experience is neces­
sary, we provide training. Volunteers
can receive a m onthly $200 tax-free
stipendfor serving 15 hours or more a
week. Contact Experience Corps at
249-0469 for details or to apply.
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Right now. there „ a ,acT„t W o d « o a r . loot lot at N Klillngsworth S t r ... and VancouveT Av«: Construction w,ll start" In November Nr. the thmwetor, atmetom with
40 middle-income housing units and 4,200 square feet of retail space.
land D evelopm ent Com m ission and the
ith land use approval and fi­
state, and state tax credits for affordable
nancing in hand, developer
housing developm ent. The structure, built
Jane O lberding needs a few
“
pretty
businesses and residents to occupy
her m uch according to code, with a
few minor adjustm ents, has received city
new building.
approval and the support o f the Humboldt
M cCuller C rossing, to be built on a
N eighborhood A ssociation. O lberding
vacant 27,000 square foot lot at North
hopes to begin construction in November.
K illingsw orth Street and V ancouver A v­
The biggest unmet need at this point is
enue, will be a three-story structure with
to find retail tenants, she says. "B ankers
40 m iddle income housing units and 4200
are still wary o f retail space,” she says, so
square feet o f retail space. Funding for the
it must be pre-leased before construction
project includes assistance from the Port-
W
starts. “ It’s hard to get people to rent a
com m ercial space that they can t even
see. 1 do n ’t see a whole lot o f businesses
like Starbuck’s rushing in from the out­
side to fill it up The cool part is that it
gives people who live here a chance.
Likew ise, she says, she expects most o f
the tenants to be from the area. The b u ild ­
ing will have two and three-bedroom apart­
m ents for people earning 60 percent or
less o f m edian income.
“Cityw ide landlords are hurting for ten-
ants, but in this area housing is tight,”
O lberding says. “It’s hard to find anything
affordable, especially if it’s new .” R efer­
ring to her existing building on N ortheast
M artin Luther King Jr. and W ygant Street
she says, “All o f the folks there are from
the neighborhood.”
She hopes the architecture can complement
“the beautiful older buildings in the area.”
T he b u ild in g is n a m e d fo r Jo h n
M c C u lle r, fo rm e r o w n e r o f F a rm e r
Jo h n ’s R estaurant.
Damon Stoudamire Delivers
School Supplies To Blazers Boys
And Girls Club Kids
O n M on­
day, A ugust
23,
1999
P o r tla n d
Trail Blazers
point guard
D a m o n
Stoudam ire
presented the
Blazers Boys
and
G irls
C lub
k ids
with school
supplies.
The pro­
gram
is
c a lle d
“Books B e­
fore
B a s­
kets”. In con­
junction with
Fred M eyer
D am on d e ­
livers school
su p p lie s to
c h ild ren in
need.
Stoudamire
p u rch ased
$ 5 ,0 0 0
of
sch ool sup­
p lie s
to
launch the
cause. He has
coordinated
a school sup-
d riv e
Ply
Fred
w ith
Meyer stores
to co n tin u e
the effort for
other under-
p r iv ile g e d
c h ild r e n in
Portland.