November 1, 2017
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Alberta Plans for Historical Markers
Alberta Main Street, a nonprofit community
and economic development organization, invites
artists or artist-led teams to submit their qualifica-
tions for consideration in the Alberta Street His-
torical Markers Project.
The selected artist or artist-led team will be
commissioned to create permanent public art-
work in the form of historical and cultural mark-
ers along Northeast Alberta Street. The markers,
inspired by stories from past and present African
American community members, will honor and
document the history of the African American
community on Alberta Street.
Preference will be given to Portland metro
area based artists, particularly those with de-
monstrable deep connections to Alberta Street
or lived experience as part of the African Amer-
ican community affected by change on Alber-
ta Street. Approximately $30,000 is available
for design, fabrication, and installation of the
markers.
Alberta Main Street will host a pre-proposal
meeting for artists and team members interested
in applying for this project on Thursday, Nov. 2
at 7 p.m. at St. Andrew Catholic Church Commu-
nity Center, 806 N.E. Alberta St. The deadline for
submission is Nov. 21. For more information, vis-
it albertamainst.org.
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Phil Knight Invitational Hoops Feast
In the summer of 2012, Michigan State athletic
director Mark Hollis began to form plans for an
unprecedented 16-team men’s college basketball
event in Portland, all to honor Nike’s Phil Knight
and celebrate his 80th birthday. Now – more than
five years later – PK80 is almost here.
Sixteen of the nation’s top college hoops
teams will converge at the Rose Quarter for one
of the biggest and best events in the history of
college basketball. Participating in the Nov. 23-
26 tournament Arkansas, Butler, UCONN, De-
Paul, Duke, Florida, Gonzaga, Michigan State,
North Carolina, Ohio State, Oklahoma, Oregon,
Portland, Portland State, Stanford and Texas. In
total, the PK80 field collectively has 23 NCAA
National Championships and 89 Final Four ap-
pearances.
Multiple ticket packages are available at pk-
invitational.com. All games will be televised on
ESPN networks.
Next Stop: Better Services
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the Portland Observer.
TriMet officials say other fac-
tors have contributed to the lower
ridership as well, such as chang-
es in the main workforce areas in
Portland.
“It used to be that downtown
was the main job area. And peo-
ple from the suburbs would come
into downtown for work. Well
now there’s job centers around
the Portland airport area and
Clackamas. So people need to go
from north to south without nec-
essarily coming in to downtown
Portland. And our route hasn’t
necessarily changed to reflect
that. So that’s why we are looking
at doing these improvements.”
Altstadt said.
TriMet security has also been
amped up in response to the re-
cent stabbing in May where two
people died and one was injured
on a Max train. Aldstadt said
TriMet has added 20 permanent
security officers since then, and
keeps a pool of on call officers
from 14 contracted security com-
panies to respond to any security
issues that might arise.
No plans have been announced
to increase monitoring of fare
evaders, some of whom have
caused violent attacks upon bus
drivers and reportedly may cost
the company up to a million dol-
lar each year in lost revenue, of-
ficials said.
TriMet, however, does plan to
implement a fairer citation pro-
cess for evaders who are caught
by giving them a 90 day window
to resolve their citation before
they are sent directly to court, a
policy made possible thanks to a
recently passed law.
Other proposed improvements
include 24 hour bus service to
the airport, the implementation
of all-electric buses, the integra-
tion of ride services like Uber
and Lyft into the TriMet trip
planner app, and Max station
renovations.
Many of the proposals come
directly from riders’ suggestions,
Aldtstadt said.
Open houses to hear from the
public are planned over the next
two weeks with written com-
ments accepted until the end of
the year.
“We’re presenting them to the
public in these open houses to
say ‘Here are some of the ideas
we’ve heard from you, will this
serve your area better? Will this
get you to where you need to go
and where you want to go?’” Ald-
stadt said.
For a complete list of the open
house times and dates and more
information on the service pro-
posals, visit trimet.org.
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