NWNW Grants Recipients Announced

Graffiti Abatement Grant

• Pearl District Neighborhood Assoc. - "Free Zone 97209"

Neighborhood Small Grants

• Downtown Chapel - "Friends of Old Town Mural"
• Ecotrust - "Sundown at Ecotrust"
• Friendly House - "Community Outreach & Engagement Project"
• Linnton Neighborhood Association - "Bridging the Hills"
• Macdonald Center - "Building Community in Old Town Chinatown"
• Northwest Portland Ministries - "Community Corner"
• Oregon Nikkei Endowment - "Day of Remembrance: Fighting for Civil Rights"
• Sisters Of The Road - "Empowered Voices Media Project"
• Sylvan-Highlands Neighborhood Assoc. - "Neighborhood Coalition & Communications with Outreach Events"
• Zimmerman Community Center - "Welcome Ramona"

More information about each grant is available on the NWNW website.

A group of committed readers on our RFP committee read through eleven proposals and interviewed five contractors, selecting the final contractor for each project. Congratulations to Mr. Sun Solar for winning the contract with Solarize Northwest.  Thanks to our volunteers for working tirelessly to make the selections.

The first Solarize Northwest workshop has been held, with attendees learning projected pricing details, meeting contractors and talking about financing and technology of solar. Now we need you!  If you have thought about solar at all in the last year, start talking about it with your friends, let them know that workshops are being held throughout the community, and stir up excitement equal to ours! More Solarize Basics and technical workshops are coming up - check our website for the schedule.

With the contractor selected and workshops started, online registration is up. If you know that you are ready to go forward, you can register online at the Solar Oregon website.

From October through May our community is prone to landslides due to heavy amounts of rainfall. The Portland Office of Emergency Management along with the Oregon Department of Geology and Mineral Industries will hold a public meeting to discuss landslide sites throughout the city and what actions property owners can take to reduce their risk of damage from landslides.

The meeting will highlight a newly released mapping analysis of the SW Hills. Experts will address assessing risk, preventive measures for property owners,  as well information about insuring property against landslides and other natural hazards.  

For more information, contact Christine Miles, Portland Office of Emergency Management, 503 793-1650.

 

Date: Tuesday, February 8

Time: 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m.

Location: OHSU Campus, Old Library Auditorium, 3181 S.W. Sam Jackson Park Rd

At the January 11 meeting of Northwest Industrial Neighborhood Association, Arnold Cogan, Principal in the consulting firm of Cogan Owens Cogan, LLC,  (COC) spoke about Eco-Industrial Development (EID).  This was a preview of a more detailed presentation to be made to NINA members in February or March by Andreas Koenig, an international expert in EID practices and a Senior Advisor for Sustainable Management to the Re-Tem Corporation of Japan.  Re-Tem and COC are collaborating in the Pacific Northwest to identify opportunities where EID techniques can be applied.   

 

This approach to sharing information, knowledge, and technology may not only be beneficial to the individual and collective interests of members, but NINA also hopes it could be a catalyst to fostering a new, productive approach with neighbors.

 

Further information and details on EID Workshop in February or March, watch the NINA and NWNW websites.  All neighborhood associations are welcomed to attend.

Northwest Neighborhood Cultural Center Directors Election
The Northwest Neighborhood Cultural Center (NNCC) will be electing its 2011 directors at its next meeting, 7:00 PM, Thursday, February 10, at 819 NW Everett, in Looking Glass Hall (the reception room).   The Nominating Committee of the Board has proposed the following candidates: Dan Anderson, Rick Michaelson, Janice Stewart, Bill Welch, Bob Arkes, Ike Bay, Larry Westerman, Rodger Eddy, Bing Sheldon, Don Genasci, and Bill Harris. Additional nominations for Director may be accepted until January 31.

If any member of the corporation wishes to nominate for Directors persons other than those proposed by the Nominating Committee, said member shall do so by delivering to the Secretary not less than ten (10) days prior to the Annual Meeting a petition signed by at least ten (10) members naming the nominee or nominees and stating that each nominee has agreed to serve if elected. The Secretary shall state at the Annual Meeting, prior to the election of directors, the names and qualifications of those nominated by petition. Nominating petitions may be delivered to the NNCC Secretary at NWNeighborhoodCC@gmail.com or by snail mail at NNCC / P.O. Box 10327 / Portland, OR 97296.The bylaws limit the maximum number of Directors to eleven. See  the NNCC website for more information on NNCC and membership.

Forest Park Neighborhood Association Elections
The annual Forest Park Neighborhood Association's election of directors will be held on Tuesday, February 15, at Willis Community Center, 360 Northwest Greenleaf. Four candidates receiving the most votes will be elected to the Board of Directors for 3-year terms.

Names, statements, and the time and place of voting will be published in the February 2011 edition of the Northwest Examiner. If nominations received by January 20th are insufficient to fill all positions, the President may nominate additional candidates.

Neighbors West-Northwest has received a request seeking photos for a book on West Hills neighborhoods. The book is to be published by Arcadia Publishing Company as part of their Images of America series. Photos are sought of Portland Heights and Council Crest, Washington Park and Arlington Heights, Kings Heights and the Pittock Mansion, and Forest Park and Willamette Heights, from early settlements to the 1980s. Photos would be scanned for use and returned to their owners. For more information, contact Laurence Spiegel, PO Box 1708, Lake Oswego, OR 97035.