<![CDATA[the website of the Eastmoreland Neighborhood Association all News Posts]]> http://www.eastmoreland.org en Sun, 19 Feb 2012 06:55:50 GMTthe website of the Eastmoreland Neighborhood Association all News Postshttp://www.eastmoreland.org<![CDATA[Theft from Porch]]>Sat, 4 Feb 2012 04:06:06 GMT<![CDATA[Cell tower lawn signs:]]> ​As we continue the battle to keep Eastmoreland free of cell towers (we are

​waiting to hear if the applications have been filed yet)  the city officials who will

​make the decision want to know neighborhood sentiment on the issue.  The

new lawn signs include the website, and were paid for by one of your neighbors.  Your $4.00

donation will cover costs,  and includes free home delivery!   Please call 503-775-0146 if you want

one of the new signs.  Or, you can pick one up at 3678 S.E. Ogden (just north of Knapp).

Let's tell T-Mobile...and city officials....that turning utility poles into cell towers without our 

permission is a bad idea!  Kimberly Koehler,  ENA Board member

]]>Fri, 9 Dec 2011 02:56:00 GMT<![CDATA[Leaf Pick–up shortcomings]]> So-called city leaf pick-up yesterday left a great deal to be desired.  In front of my house is a big gutter that takes run-off from 34th to Reed College Pl. and from over half way down the blk. on Reed College Pl.  Yet the city did not sweep that area, so today it is backed up.  What are we paying for?  Other areas in Eastmoreland were also sloppily swept.  Let's call this to the attention of the city now.
 

]]>Tue, 22 Nov 2011 19:20:00 GMT<![CDATA[The city can do something. You can help.]]> For those of us concerned about how the city has been acting - with respect to the T-Mobile towers or more generally - I'm hosting mayoral candidate Jefferson Smith at my house this week, and I'd love for you to come, tell him what you think, and hear his response.  

The details:

Wednesday, November 9, from 7-9 pm

3908 SE Carlton St.

Light food and drink served.

On the web here and on facebook here.

Hope to see you there!

Jonathan

jonathan.pulvers@gmail.com

 

 

]]>Mon, 7 Nov 2011 13:00:00 GMT<![CDATA[Leaf blowers vs. rakes]]> Here are a few haiku I have written about leaf blowers.

I invite my neighbors to do the same!!

1)  Why not try a rake?

      The exercise will help you.

      Wet leaves are waiting.

2)   Leafy orchestra,

       Conductor with a backpack,

       Sidewalk symphony.

3)   Pollution.  Racket.

       Remember when yard work was

       Neighborly?  Quiet?

]]>Thu, 3 Nov 2011 17:18:00 GMT<![CDATA[Cellular Communication Towers in Eastmoreland Near Homes]]> To provide some background for the November 1st T-Moble meeting at Dunniway Grade School in the cafeteria at 7pm, here are some facts about this installation:

1) This cellular antenna placement location, that will only help T-Moble Customers in Eastmoreland, was opposed by the Eastmoreland Neighborhood Association in the Fall of 2008.
2) Both T-Moble and the Portland City Office (formerly called the Office of Cable and Franchise Management  and now renamed as the Office of Community Technology) decided to not develop the site in 2009 - even when contacted a year later in 2010 to confirm their prior decision(s).
3) This site has a planned antenna to be pointed directly at the second floor of a family home at under 50 feet. With the increased wireless traffic of current technology phones, there is no accurate research or current scientific consensus as to whether this technology is environmentally safe to be residing less than 50 feet from the antenna emitter.
4) While all streets surrounding our neighborhood are categorized as a level 4 (the last category of a Portland city street to have an antenna placement), there are better placement alternatives for wireless communication facilities to be placed for singular or multiple antenna installations.

A feasible alternative that needs to be voiced at any Portland city cellular antenna placement meeting would be the following:


The best alternative for everyone would be to place an antenna structure, disguised as a tree, on the west side of the 9th hole of the Eastmoreland Public Golf course. This structure would:

  • be far from homes and would create a safe "boundary" around the antennas.
  • The signal would spread out from the tower so that concentrated cellar communication traffic would be nowhere near children's bedrooms, like the current option.
  • The equipment box that would require a rather loud cooling system, that would be on during warmer days when people are more likely to be outside, could be placed in the ground and not bother golfers.
  • Perhaps the funds that would be collected by multiple cellular communications companies could go to help the Portland City Office of Parks and Recreation as well as support other offices and city programs.

Thanks for your support!
The Gillespie Nebert family

]]>Sun, 30 Oct 2011 21:05:53 GMT<![CDATA[Eastmoreland Tree Planting 11/5/11]]> Please note an up-coming event posted in the "Events" section.

Eastmoreland, Sellwood/Moreland and Brooklyn Neighborhoods will participate in a tree-planting project, sponsored by Friends of Trees.  The planting will take place on Saturday, November 5, 2011.  Our gathering place is the Moreland Presbyterian Church, 1814 SE Bybee Ave.

Volunteers are welcome to help plant trees.  Training provided.  Please dress for the weather, including sturdy shoes.

Questions?  Contact Mary Dettmer - 503-869-1080.

]]>Mon, 24 Oct 2011 20:47:12 GMT<![CDATA[President's Message – Fall 2011]]> Dear Neighbors:

This has been a busy summer.  We have made good progress on a number of fronts and received a healthy scare on others.

On the good news front, we have completed the rehabilitation of Reed College Place.  A few spots still are roped off and are awaiting a second seeding.  Overall, the centerpiece of our neighborhood is quite changed from the spectacle of last year when the city stopped watering and maintaining the seven block area.  On the Union Pacific Railroad litigation front, we have completed a very successful discovery effort and have a good solid position to take forward to the judge.

On the healthy scare front, a developer proposed knocking down one of the beautiful Eastmoreland houses and replacing it with two "skinny" houses.  We were surprised to find out that decisions by the Portland city council have eroded traditional zoning laws.  A groundswell of sentiment helped change the developer's mind.  we will be working on changes to keep the character of our neighborhood intact.

A second round of the annual appeal will be hitting mailboxes soon.  This will be addressed only to those who did not respond to the first effort.  The funds go to preservation of our park, inoculating trees, maintaining trees and ground cover along Reed College Place, and supporting our efforts to block expansion of the Brooklyn Railyards into our neighborhood.   Not to mention other projects like the 4th of July Parade, the annual garage sale, the newsletter, and many other projects.  Please help us make Eastmoreland a better place to live.

As always, call, email or visit if you have questions or concerns.  My door is always open . . .

Robert McCullough
503-771-5090

 

]]>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 01:49:40 GMT<![CDATA[Solicitor attempted to enter home]]> This afternoon a "solicitor" knocked on our door and then tried to open the door.  Fortunately the door was locked.   The solicitor was a man, medium build, light brown hair, approx 6 ft tall, and was wearing a light green collared shirt and stone colored Dockers-style pants.   

]]>Tue, 13 Sep 2011 06:44:40 GMT<![CDATA[Old Pictures of Eastmoreland]]> I came to the old site a few years ago and there were some great pictures from the area from before Eastmoreland was built and during the early years. Where did they go?>
 

]]>Thu, 25 Aug 2011 21:53:20 GMT<![CDATA[Brooklyn Yard noise]]> Hi Neighbors, Since August 4, we have been hearing very audible and bothersome backing beeps from the unloading tractors at the Brooklyn Yard. They are present throughout the day and evening until about midnight. I have lodged complaints with both the City of Portland and with Union Pacific. Has anyone else been bothered by this? It may be a portent of things to come if we do not get active to prevent the planned vacating of the injunction that has made Eastmoreland what it is today. -- Bruce Gilley

 


 

]]>Tue, 16 Aug 2011 05:12:53 GMT<![CDATA[Precision Castparts – review of May 11 chemical release]]> The Oregonian just posted an interesting story about Precision Castparts release of toxic chemicals into the air from earlier this year on May 11.   A combination of errors lead to the problems.  Air currents at the time pointed toward Eastmoreland from the factory (according to KGW-TV).  However, the telephone warning system for those living downwind failed.

More detail in the article (from Oregonlive.com, Aug 6, 2011):

After a night of tension, confusion and a toxic cloud, Precision Castparts in Oregon says it will make changes to prevent a repeat

http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/08/after_a_night_of_tension_confu.html

]]>Sat, 6 Aug 2011 23:53:21 GMT<![CDATA[Noises?]]> Hi, Neighbors:

Did anyone else hear a loud bang at 1:30 this morning (that is, very early on Monday, May 30th)?  Three members of our household heard it.  It sounded like a rifle shot or very large firecracker. It wasn't the trains--we're used to those.

We live on 30th. between Rex and Knapp.

Margaret

]]>Tue, 31 May 2011 04:52:21 GMT<![CDATA[President's Message]]> Dear Neighbors:

Welcome to the Eastmoreland web site.  We are midway through a dramatic change in the way neighbors communicate.  Given the pace of modern jobs and family, few of us have the time for meeting on a day to day basis.  Mail, though still good, is often clogged with ads and appeals. 

Almost all of us are now on the internet, so with the invaluable help of the webmaster, Bert Sperling, we are edging towards email and web communications.  Please do sign up on the new web site and use it or email to check in with us.  We are very interested in your concerns – so interested that we have been known to place newcomers at the front of the parade and ask them to lead!

A great deal is happening at the moment:

  1. The city has reduced city services across the board – police, park, and transportation are the areas of the most importance.  We have stepped up to save the trees along Reed College Place as well as maintaining the beautiful Bybee park.  We are actively involved with a vastly more political city hall than any in our city’s recent history and we need all the help and encouragement we can find.
  2. Union Pacific has continued a hundred year long fight to extend rail operations through Eastmoreland and Sellwood and on to Tacoma in the south.  They plan to both extend the geographic scale of their operations and to increase tonnage by a factor of three.  Most of the tonnage will involve additional truck traffic and emissions along 99E and will directly affect us.  We are currently opposing this in federal court.
  3. TriMet and Metro have plans to rebuild the Bybee Bridge in order to facilitate light rail next to the golf course.  They are not including parking, nor have they considered all of the traffic and safety issues.  We are also highly involved in this issue.
  4. Our first annual appeal has started very well and we are working to expand it.  If you haven’t already contributed, please do.
  5. And, as always, we are inoculating trees, running the garage sales, the 4thof July parade, and many other projects.

Feel free to email, call, or just plain visit with me and the other board members.  You can reach me at Robert@mresearch.com, 503-771-5090, and a knock on the door at 6123 S.E. Reed College Place works as well . . .

Robert McCullough

President
Eastmoreland Neighborhood Association

]]>Wed, 4 May 2011 03:46:27 GMT<![CDATA[Neighborhood cleanup]]> Hi - I'm on 35th at Bybee.  I didn't even know there was a neighborhood website.  I was just trying to find out if there was a calendar somewhere that would tell me when the Neighborhood cleanup day was scheduled.  Does anyone know? 

Have you advertised your website in the neighborhood.  I think this could be a valuable tool but I don't know if many people are aware of it.  You could place notices locally at the Eastmoreland grocery or Duniway.  Wish you the best with the website

Ted W.


 

]]>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:21:52 GMT<![CDATA[Welcome to Eastmoreland Neighborhood!]]>Thu, 20 Jan 2011 20:25:10 GMT