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with land use, transportation and
public safety. She also tackled new
community initiatives likeeconomic
development, gentrification and the
proposed shipment of coal through
Portland.
UnderColeman’s leadership, the
coalition helped create the King
Farmers Market and its Food Share
program for subsidizing purchases
with SNAP food stamps. The group
joined efforts to provide low-cost
installation of solar panels through
its Solaraize Northeast program.
September 12, 2012
H eigh bor H
They took aggressive positions
against the proposed 1-5 Columbia
River Crossing bridge, and chal
lenged the city’s handling of crowd
control at Last Thursday celebra
tions on Northeast Alberta Street.
Such efforts “put us on the map,”
Coleman says. “We strengthened
our relationship with neighborhood
associations, but what really made
the light bulb go off was our advo
cacy. We provided a place for dis
cussion. In my opinion, it was true
community building.”
As recently as last spring, she
says, the board had told her “I’m the
Former Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods Executive Director
Paige Coleman (right), and NECN staffer Katie Chastain, working
on community building during the Alberta Street Fair last month.
imagine
best director they ever had.”
N E C N ’s first director, Edna
Robertson, said she had steered
clear of politics during her 19-year
tenure on the theory that it could
Green Streets filter
stormwater to
protect our rivers
and streams.
The city keeps
Green Streets
working and
welcomes your
help with care
and upkeep.
northeast’s living room, where ev
eryone is welcome.
“Times have changed since the
1970s and there are different issues,”
Coleman said, but like Robertson,
We strengthened our relationship with
neighborhood associations, but what really
made the light bulb go off was our advocacy.
-P a ige Coleman
turn off people who didn’t agree
with a political direction, and it could
be that Coleman’s approach may
have generated some dissatisfac
tion in this way.
Coleman says she has continued
Robertson’s legacy by making the
neighborhood office “like the
L o
E nvironmental S ervices
C ity of P ortland
w o r k in g fo r ( lo a n r iv e r s
she said she advocated for public
safety measures, and instituted pro
grams such as the Youth Gang Out
reach and TriMet Rider Advocates.
“Going beyond serving neigh
borhood associations is necessary
if NECN wants to address “the real
needs of the community,” she said.
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