1) Surviving the 9.0 Earthquake: Tools you can use (Saturday, Feb. 20)
2) Homeless camps update
3) Air toxics meeting (Thursday, Feb. 25)
4) Gypsy moth training
5) Sunday Parkways returns to North Portland (Sunday, June 26)
6) Grimm films in Overlook
1) Surviving the 9.0 Earthquake: Tools you can use (Saturday, Feb. 20)
Personal and Community Preparedness is on the agenda for Sustainable Overlook/Overlook NET’s Resilience Summit. Learn what a 9.0 Earthquake will look like, what will help us survive and recover more quickly, and how to prepare your household.
Join your neighbors for an interactive day of presentations, information and workshops that will give you a practical plan to be ready. The keynote speaker will be geotechnical engineer Allison Pyrch, a participant in OPB’s Unprepared documentary “Surviving a 9.0.”
Lunch catered by New American Restaurant – vegetarian and vegan friendly. Register and reserve your lunch at sustainableoverlook.org or just show up on Saturday and bring your own lunch.
Surviving the 9.0 Earthquake
Saturday, Feb. 20, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m.
Beach Elementary School (1710 N Humboldt St.)
The meeting between representative of the Overlook Neighborhood Association reported last week was postponed by the mayor’s office. The city continues to work on a permit for Hazelnut Grove, and a meeting between campers, the neighborhood and city staff has been rescheduled for Friday, Feb. 26. Stay tuned for updates.
This week was not without events, though. RVs and other vehicles illegally parked on N Greeley Avenue beneath the Overlook Neighborhoods were finally moved.
Other neighborhoods are talking about the city’s plans for homeless camping. The Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods on Tuesday will hold a public meeting to talk about the city’s plans. The meeting is open to everyone. Topics will include:
- Discussion of the Mayor’s short-term framework
- Explanation of Home for Everyone and the long-term plan to end homelessness
- Experience with public involvement in the Mayor’s plan
- Next steps
Homeless camping discussion
Tuesday, Feb. 23, 6:30 p.m.
Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods (4815 NE 7th Ave.)
3) Air toxics meeting (Thursday, Feb. 25)
Reports of air toxics in Portland have been spreading, and North Portland is a hot spot. The Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods will hold a public meeting on Thursday, Feb. 25 to inform residents about the situation. Topics will include:
- What we currently know
- General air quality context
- DEQ as an agency
- Maps reports
- Articles and other data
- Next steps
Air toxics public meeting
Thursday, Feb. 25, 7:30 p.m.
Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods (4815 NE 7th Ave.)
Although Asian gypsy moths are not established in Oregon, they were detected in the summer 2015 in Forest Park, North Portland and in Washington state. The Asian gypsy moth is an exotic pest and a closely related species to the European gypsy moth. The European gypsy moth is well known for defoliating (eating leaves off of trees) an average of 700,000 acres per year, and as much as 12.9 million acres of forest in the eastern United States in a single year. In the last 30 years, Asian gypsy moth has been detected in Oregon three times and successfully eradicated each time.
To help respond to the Asian Gypsy Moth situation, the Oregon Forest Pest Detector program is organizing several AGM monitoring workshops in spring 2016 for community members and OFPD program graduates. At the workshop you will learn how you can help by surveying for AGM egg masses and pupal cases in target areas of North Portland.
There will be three workshops in North Portland over the next couple of weeks. Choose one that works best for your schedule. Registration is simple:
- Select your preferred workshop date below and fill out the registration form. All workshops will take place at the St Johns Community Center (8427 N Central St.) from 10 a.m. to 12 p.m.
- Then, review the online AGM learning module below before attending your session. The module covers the history, life cycle, and management of EGM and AGM. It is important that you arrive at the field workshop understanding the information in the module; you will need the information to successfully complete the field exercise.
- Workshop 1: Friday, February 26, 2016
- Workshop 2: Saturday, February 27, 2016
- Workshop 3: Friday, March 4, 2016
5) Sunday Parkways returns to North Portland (Sunday, June 26)
The Portland Bureau of Transportation and presenting sponsor Kaiser Permanente announced the Sunday Parkways 2016 schedule, featuring five traffic-free events through Portland neighborhoods, including a new route linking the cities of Portland and Milwaukie and crossing the new Sellwood Bridge.
Sunday Parkways is a series of free community events opening the city’s largest public space—its streets—for people to walk, bike, roll and discover active transportation. The events are hugely popular. Total attendance in 2015 set a record 119,000.
View the complete schedule of Sunday Parkways throughout the summer online. They event returns to North Portland June 26, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. with a 9.5-mile ride.
Notice a lot of traffic around N Melrose Drive and N Overlook Boulevard on Friday? The NBC show “Grimm” is filming in Overlook again. Shooting is scheduled to wrap by Saturday evening.