Summer - Mt Tabor

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Neighborhood Association Newsletter
Serving the only neighborhood on the slopes of an extinct volcano
Volume 9, Issue 4
Summer 2007
Mt. Tabor neighborhood entryway completed
By John Laursen
or more than a decade, members
of the Mt. Tabor neighborhood
association have been working with
the Portland Office of Transportation
to create a new Mt. Tabor neighborhood entryway at SE 50th &
Hawthorne Boulevard as an enhancement to the Hawthorne Transportation
Plan. The entryway sign, a low wall
faced with the same black-diamond
basalt that was used in the remodeling of the crater amphitheater in
Mt. Tabor Park, features a large
plaque of cast bronze with the words
“Mount Tabor Neighborhood” to signal eastbound drivers on Hawthorne
that they are leaving the commercial
district and entering a residential
area. On the pedestrian side of the
wall, two smaller bronze plaques
relay the histories of Mt. Tabor and
of Hawthorne Boulevard.
This has been a completely
grassroots effort, conceived and
designed by MTNA members who
have donated their time. Although
the curb extension where it sits is
part of the Hawthorne Transportation
Plan, the entryway itself has been
created without government support,
funded by the MTNA and by a generous grant from Jan Caplener of Realty
Trust and numerous contributions
from Mt. Tabor residents.
The neighborhood association has
committed to installing and then
maintaining the landscape on the
entryway curb extension, and is
continuing to raise money for this
purpose. To support our fundraising
John Laursen and Dave Hilts unveil the Mt. Tabor entryway on August 18.
effort, we’re raffling off a framed
giclée print donated by Mt. Tabor
artist Molly Cliff Hilts. Summer is a
Fish Story is a lovely and colorful
landscape inspired by a walk along
the large reservoir at Mt. Tabor Park
on a very early July morning. It
measures 31 ¼" x 27 ½" (framed
size) and has a value of $400. Raffle
tickets are $3 each or two for $5.
The print is on view at Bread and
Ink, and you are encouraged to stop
in to see it and buy a ticket or two.
Tickets are available there and at the
Sapphire Hotel through September
18. The raffle will take place at the
MTNA meeting on September 19;
you need not be present to win.
Tax-deductible donations for the
landscaping effort can still be made
to Southeast Uplift, 3534 SE Main,
Portland 97214; write “Mt. Tabor
entryway” in the memo line on your
check. We welcome volunteers to
help with the landscaping and maintenance effort. If you are interested
in participating in this community
project, please drop an email to
[email protected] .
What’s inside
Warner Pacific welcomes . . . . . . . . . . . 2
A Taste of Atkinson . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Mediation ends . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
Renovation of the Tabor Commons . . . 4
Franklin High School . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Glencoe Elementary . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5
Mt. Tabor neighborhood team . . . . . . . . 6
Concerts love their volunteers . . . . . . . . 8
55th & Belmont Green Street update . 8
Volcano gardening . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
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Warner Pacific welcomes neighbors
By Katy Steding
Warner Pacific’s second annual end of summer festival, Warnerpalooza,
will be held on Saturday, September 8, from 2 to 6 p.m. Admission is free,
but please bring a bag of unused school supplies for My Father’s House, metro
Portland’s only family shelter. This year’s event includes three hours of live
music including renowned Portland jazz and blues group Soul City, Christian
contemporary artists Dan and Georgene Rice, and Warner Pacific’s own
United Image student group. The popular kid’s carnival has been expanded
from last year—bounce around the Castle with your little ones, try the rockem-sockem gladiator joust, and don’t miss the velcro wall. A street fair has
been added this year with food, crafts, and information booths. We would
love participation from neighbors and there is no charge for a booth, but
space will be limited. Please call Katy Steding at 503-517-1369 for a vendor
application or visit www.warnerpacific.edu/warnerpalooza. Look for a fall
events calendar in your mailbox with full listings for Warner Pacific College,
including concerts, lectures, and athletic contests. A Taste of Atkinson, October 6
E d i tor
Nadine Fiedler
By Tracy Wiens
Sto r y E ditor
Gayle Marechal
On Saturday, October 6, Atkinson Elementary School will host A Taste of
Atkinson. This free, day-long event will feature community chefs, musicians,
and artists representative of Atkinson’s diverse student origins—Latino,
Chinese, Vietnamese, and the Pacific NW. Please join us from 10 a.m. to 4
p.m. for a delightful day of music, tasty tidbits, arts and crafts, and tours of
the Atkinson gardens.
The Taste of Atkinson is made possible by a grant from Southeast Uplift.
For more information or if you would like to help in any way, please call
Jennifer Pultz at 971-409-0233. D e s i gn an d Produc tio n
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Mediation ends; public process starts
By Bruce Treat
The mediation between the Mt. Tabor and South
Tabor neighborhood associations, and Portland Parks
and Recreation (PP&R), has ended—and the results are
positive. Representatives from both neighborhood associations, PP&R, and two co-mediators as well as other
concerned citizens have begun talks on crafting a public
process to create a parks property disposition policy and
update the Mt. Tabor master plan.
As you may recall, mediation was needed when, in the
fall of 2006, MTNA found out that PP&R was negotiating
the sale of 8.5 acres of land at the Mt. Tabor central yard
and nursery to Warner Pacific College. These negotiations involving a memorandum of understanding had
been done under the radar of and without input from the
public or the Mt, Tabor and South Tabor associations.
Residents from MTNA began requesting documentation
from the city, and both neighborhood associations
passed resolutions opposing the sale, lease, or transfer
into private hands of any land at Mt. Tabor Park. PP&R
eventually pulled the sale off the table and made overtures to meet with both neighborhood associations to clear
the air. Eventually, the city ombudsman got involved and
suggested that the parties seek a mediator to resolve
the dispute. All the parties agreed to the mediation.
PP&R also agreed that no sale or lease of any park land
or any negotiations regarding them would happen during
the mediation.
Ten members of MTNA, led by John Laursen, and four
members of STNA, led by Scott Yelton, volunteered their
time and energy to meet four times during April and May
with two parks representatives, director Zari Santner and
community relations manager Gay Greger, and the two
co-mediators, Jamie Damon and Mary Forst. The mediation sessions were at times tense but always cordial, and
communications improved as the process went on with
the help of the co-mediators. On May 14, the parties
signed an agreement that a formal PP&R policy related to
property disposition is needed and that the development
of such a process and guidelines for it is expected to be
completed June 30, 2008.
“We take the responsibility of safeguarding Mt. Tabor
Park seriously, and learning of the possible sale of a piece
of the park was really disturbing to us,” said John
Laursen. “It took a leap of faith on the part of both the
parks director and the community members who participated, and then a considerable investment of time and
energy, but that effort paid off with an outcome that we
could not only accept but embrace.” Scott Yelton added,
“We all enjoy this great park system only because of the
efforts of earlier generations who worked hard to create
it, and it is our responsibility—indeed, our obligation—
to honor their foresight and generosity by being good
stewards of our parks, and to pass them along intact to
those who will follow us.”
The parties working with other groups and the mediators will form a task force to design a public involvement
process to update the Mt. Tabor Park master plan. The
current master plan (http://www.mttaborpdx.org/history.
html) was finished in 2000 but never adopted by city
council. The task force will also consider pros and cons
of maintaining, refurbishing, enhancing, or relocating
the central yard and nursery while also conducting
financial analyses in response to the needs identified
during the public process.
The goal of the master plan update task force is to
ensure an open, transparent, community-wide and inclusive process, where all ideas are welcomed and considered
while following consistent values as articulated in the
current master plan. One of the concerns expressed in
the mediation was that PP&R didn’t communicate
effectively with the community, and the task force wants
to address that. The task force will then jointly take the
updated master plan to City Council for approval by
June 30, 2008.
MTNA board members familiar with the proceedings
cautioned that although PP&R abandoned its pursuit of
sale, lease, or transfer of the Mt. Tabor central yard and
nursery, that issue is yet to be finalized by a City
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Support the renovation of the Tabor Commons
By Paul Leistner
Community members need your help to raise $10,000
to renovate the community-owned Tabor Commons
building at 57th & Division. The renovations will allow
community groups to use the building for meetings and
events and Café au Play to start up its family-and-community-friendly coffee house operation. MTNA has made
a rare exception to its policy of not allowing newsletter
inserts and has included a contribution envelope in this
issue. Please send in your contribution today!
September renovation: Tabor Commons will work
with Café au Play and the Oregon Tradeswomen, Inc. to
complete basic renovations. Among other locals donating
their services are electrician Traci Sullivan, contractor
Leif Nelson (Meteor Building Co.), and plumber Cricket
Crockett (Cricket’s Plumbing). We welcome contributions
of good-quality building materials and services.
Environmental cleanup: Mandatory removal of underground fuel tanks is scheduled for August. The estimated
$200,000 project will be funded by contributions from the
Oregon Economic and Community Development
Department, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency,
and the city of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services.
Project background: The Tabor Commons property
was transferred to community ownership last summer
by the U.S. Marshals, who seized the property in a drug
case. Southeast Uplift currently holds the property on
behalf of the Mt. Tabor and South Tabor neighborhood
associations and the Atkinson Elementary School PTA,
guided by a steering committee of community members.
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Community design workshops have identified three goals
for the site: create a community gathering place (such as
a neighborhood coffee shop), create additional space for
school and neighborhood activities and projects, and
develop innovative environmental features on the site.
Long-term plans: Opsis Architecture and Greenworks
have worked with community members to create concepts
for two future redevelopment phases for the site. Phase I
will include further renovation of the existing building
and site improvements that will include a public terrace,
and many innovative landscape features. Phase II will
include the construction of an additional community
activity building on the eastern portion of the site. This
facility will be available for classes, events, conferences,
receptions, and more.
Other news: Special thanks to Mariko Locke, State
Farm Insurance agent at 51st & Hawthorne, who saved
us thousands of dollars by finding us cheaper insurance
coverage. The Farm Stand is selling local fruits and berries
again this summer; thanks to Pat Rice and Karen Rutledge
for cleaning up the site and the landscaping. Portland
State University has offered to loan an attractive information kiosk structure with a healthy and vibrant eco-roof.
To contribute, make your check out to SEUL—Tabor
Commons and send it to Southeast Uplift, 3534 SE Main,
Portland OR 97214. All contributions are tax deductible.
For more information, call or email Paul Leistner,
503-232-3888 or [email protected]), or Kristin
Heying, 503-231-2707, [email protected]. SE 50th & Hawthorne Blvd.
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Upgrades at Franklin High
School
By Lauren Ettlin
While students are on vacation, Steve Matthews is at
school every day, making sure tasks get done. Steve is
Franklin High School’s business manager, a title that
broadly encompasses overseeing building maintenance
and upgrades, grounds upkeep, physical plant maintenance, finance, information technology, security, and
lots of “Steve, can you get this done for me?” Steve
approaches each task with a positive attitude, using
staff and volunteer resources. He’s working through
the maintenance backlog caused by years of budget
constraints. This summer his “to do list” has been long:
• New textbooks were brought in for math, language
arts, and social studies and old textbooks removed.
• New, fast computers replaced all of the old computers
in the library. Every lab was re-configured, and the
workstations re-imaged. Every computer workstation
now works and meets or exceeds minimum Portland
School District standards.
• The weight and fitness and agility rooms were moved
to the fitness wing of the building. The dance room
was reshaped to accommodate a new dance class.
• A room was set up for the new drama teacher. Yes,
Franklin will have drama again!
• Steve worked with Imago Dei Church volunteers to
pressure wash, prime, and paint the school’s exterior
doors. He hopes this will be completed in September.
• Several rooms are being set up for 100 or so eighth
graders from now-closed Kellogg Middle School, who
are welcomed at Franklin.
• Steve is working through the request lists of eighty
or so teachers.
• A nd he is working with the volunteer PTA board to
get the readerboard sign renovated and functional.
Steve Matthews can be reached at 503-916-5140.
General information about Franklin is available from the
office or counseling staff at the same phone number. How the community
can care for Glencoe
Elementary
By Betsy Salter
Here’s a chance to help Glencoe
Elementary, at SE 51st between Belmont
and Stark, which serves about 500 students from kindergarten through 5th grade.
From August 15 through October 31, you can help
Glencoe by shopping and dining at Lloyd Center. For
every dollar you spend, Glencoe will earn one point. If
Glencoe is among the 10 schools with the most points,
we will win a cash prize! Last year Glencoe came in second place and earned $3,000. The Lloyd Center Earnings
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everything you need (and want) at Lloyd Center. For more
information, please call Kristy Carlson at 503-254-2728
or Kirsten Rian at 503-281-9392, or visit Lloyd Center’s
customer service center or website, http://www.lloydcentermall.com/go/mallEvents.cfm.
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Meet the Mt. Tabor neighborhood team
By John McLaren
When Justin Leonard stepped down as MTNA president
at the May meeting, with no clear successor, the neighborhood association set up a new alternative structure,
consisting of four board members who now share
presidential responsibilities. The new co-presidents are
Bruce Treat, Don Jacobson, Bing Wong, and John Laursen.
Bruce Treat
Treat, MTNA’s new communications
coordinator, wears a second hat as secretary, preparing the minutes for the
monthly meetings. Before joining the
board, he was among the association’s
more active members. Besides regular
attendance at the meetings, he has volunteered at the annual MTNA clean-ups, helped mediate a
dispute between a citizen and the MTNA board, and taken
part in the mediation process between the neighborhood
association and Portland Parks and Recreation over the
future of the city maintenance yard and nursery in Mt.
Tabor Park.
Treat has several ideas for improving and strengthening MTNA. First he would like to see more people come
to the meetings, by seeking out new residents and
encouraging former attendees, including former board
members, to come back.
He also suggests broadening the scope of the
association’s website to include something about MTNA’s
history, such as when the association was founded and
who the officers have been over the years. “This info
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could easily be put in the website, and I’ll bet profiles of
some of those people would be an interesting read in the
newsletter,” he says.
Treat, who is “40-something,” is employed as an
environmental and intellectual property paralegal. He
has lived in the Mt. Tabor area for more than two years.
You can reach him at [email protected].
Don Jacobson
Jacobson, the new MTNA agenda
manager, has had an interesting and
varied career as an electrical engineer,
a professional glassblower whose work
has been shown in galleries across the
United States, and an acclaimed nature
photographer.
Jacobson, 63, has been a Mount Tabor resident for more
than three years. His deep appreciation and concern for
woodlands developed when he was living in the Sierra
Nevada foothills. He became active in trying to protect
them, founding the small but activist Forest Issues Group
and serving for a time as executive director. He now
chairs the MTNA environment committee.
He has also been involved in community radio, hosting
a folk music program on KVMR in Nevada City, California,
for 19 years, while serving on their board of directors
and programming committee. He currently is a volunteer
broadcaster on KBOO-FM with his program, “The Long
and Dusty Road.” Jacobson also serves as conservation
coordinator for the Portland chapter of the Native Plant
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Society of Oregon and as volunteer with Portland
Audubon. He maintains a website, www.donjacobsonphoto.com, to showcase his photography.
Jacobson feels preserving the integrity of Mt. Tabor
Park is an “essential task” for the neighborhood and the
city, and he would also like to see the MTNA “help make
our neighborhood have more of a community character.”
Bing Wong
As MTNA’s meeting facilitator, Wong
runs the meetings with an ambitious
goal: finish on time while allowing for
ample discussion of the issues on a
busy agenda.
A 15-year resident of the Mt. Tabor
neighborhood, Wong was attracted to
the area by its natural setting. As a birder, he values the
fact that Mt. Tabor is an important stopover point for
migratory birds. Portland has many parks, he notes, but
only a few, like Mt. Tabor, have natural areas that can
flourish if not disturbed.
Wong has been MTNA’s treasurer for more than eight
years, an office he continues to hold in addition to his
new responsibilities.
“MTNA is one of the city’s most active neighborhood
associations,” he says. “It’s been a powerful voice for
neighbors’ issues. We need to welcome and empower
neighbors to keep the association vibrant into the future.
The more people with diverse backgrounds and abilities,
the more effective we will be.” Longtime board members
can help, he says, by sharing their experience with new
members, and Southeast Uplift can provide valuable
training and support.
Wong, 55, is employed by Kaiser Permanente as a
medical technologist and clinical laboratory scientist.
John Laursen
Laursen was a logical choice to fill
the post of city mediation liaison on
the MTNA board. As chair of the committee mediating with the parks bureau
in the dispute over selling off a piece of
Mt. Tabor Park, Laursen is already
extensively involved in negotiations
with the city over that particularly touchy issue.
He also served on and then chaired the citizens
advisory committee for the Hawthorne Transportation
Plan. Through that connection he ended up designing
the Mt. Tabor neighborhood entryway at 50th &
Hawthorne and was responsible for shepherding it over
bureaucratic hurdles in the city government. He believes
the neighborhood celebration that occurred at the unveiling of the entryway could serve as a model for future
events that would “connect the MTNA with neighbors
who don’t necessarily come to our meetings.”
“For me the MTNA is all about building community,”
he says. He has been pleased to see how “the neighborhood association has grown and flourished in the last
decade or so, and become well organized enough and
strong enough to do a creditable job of looking out for
the public interest in our community.”
Laursen, 61, has lived in Mt. Tabor since the spring
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Mt. Tabor concerts love their volunteers
By Mary McWilliams
Did you know that the Mt. Tabor Park concerts, which took place on
Tuesday nights this July, were organized by a volunteer committee of folks
who live in the Mt. Tabor and other close neighborhoods? The committee met
almost monthly beginning in January to talk to potential sponsors and vendors
to raise the $10,000 budget, pick bands, work out volunteer staffing details,
and coordinate the hands-on art activities for children and the community
organizations that apply to share information. Perhaps you will recognize one
of your neighbors in the core Mt. Tabor committee: Dionne Au-Yeung, Sue
Jacoby, Mary McWilliams, Dean Philipp, Maren Peterson, Kathy Schuman,
Dorene Smith, and Roger Warren.
Joining the committee on concert days were Dave Raphael and Dave
Houghton, who placed sandwich boards on major streets around the park,
and members of the Friends of Mt. Tabor foot patrol, who directed traffic and
reminded people that dogs are not allowed in the caldera. Helping to emcee
the event, collect donations, and pick up trash afterwards were Tully Alford
and daughter Madeline, Chauncey Anderson and daughter Mara, Stephanie
Fleming, Gretta Grimala, Rob Hauss, Diane Newton-Prior, and Monica Smith,
along with former committee members. In addition, Portland Parks &
Recreation provided staffing for maintenance assistance on concert nights.
As you can see, it takes a lot of volunteers to bring the concerts to Mt. Tabor
Park. We hope you will consider joining us next year as a volunteer or as a
sponsor. We are indebted and grateful to our 2007 sponsors, whom you
should support: Academy Theater, Anisha—A Center for Holistic Health, Art
Heads Frame Shop, Belmont Dairy, Buds Expert Tree Care, Cooper’s Coffee,
Friends of Mt. Tabor foot patrol, Hawthorne Auto Clinic, Hot Dog Ernie,
Montavilla neighborhood association, Mountain Ice, Mt. Tabor neighborhood
association, Parkside Deli and Fine Foods, Papa Murphy Pizza, Providence
Portland Medical Center, Realty Trust, SE Examiner, and US Bank. 55th & Belmont Green Street update
By Rhetta Drennan
The city of Portland will move water lines in the area of 55th & Belmont to
make way for a traffic calming and stormwater facility. Crews will start moving water lines near the end of July, and begin construction in August.
The project will extend the curb and add a “Green Street” facility on the
northeast corner of the intersection. Stormwater runoff will flow from the
street into the landscaped curb extension, where vegetation and soil will filter
pollutants and water will soak into the ground. Green Streets keep stormwater
out of the sewer system and provide a community green space and visual
amenity. The curb extension, along with a refuge island and marked crosswalk, will also increase pedestrian safety.
The city will do the work in phases, with periods of inactivity between
phases. Residents will have access to their property during work hours, and
workers should not need access to your property, working only in the planting
strips and street. On-street parking in the work area or in some nearby areas
will be prohibited during the work.
For information, call or email Rhetta Drennan at 503-823-6006, rhettad@
bes.ci.portland.or.us. City staff members will also attend the August MTNA
meeting to explain the project. Can’t make it to the monthly MTNA meetings?
Read minutes and more at our web site: www.mttaborpdx.org
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Gardening on a
volcano
By Linda Eggiman
From a reader’s request for more
info: fall is the best time to treat two
of the garden’s worst and most
destructive pests, slugs and root weevils. Both of these creatures are
hatched in the fall, not in the spring
as may have been thought. The larvae
or grub stage of the root weevil does
the most damage, chewing away at
the part of the trunk just below the
ground. If they manage to girdle it, it
will shut off the flow of vital liquids
and damage or kill the plant.
Orthene has always been super effective if applied as a drench at the base
of the trunk in the fall. Nematodes
are the best organic method. You can
purchase them at your local nursery,
but you must be ready to use them
immediately, as they are living organisms with a short shelf life. Read the
directions and use as a drench. It’s so
much easier than trying to track
down the crawlers and flying adults
in the spring.
Slugs also hatch in the fall, and
now you see their slimy trails all
winter. Whatever slug bait or method
you choose, do it in the fall because
by spring they have migrated. Apply
in the usual places, at the base of the
most vulnerable plants where you
have seen their damage before. Slugs
eat the middle of the leaf, while root
weevils notch the edges. Happy
hunting. Questions? 503-254-1814,
[email protected]. MTNA bo ard officers
Communications coordinator.....Bruce Treat
Agenda manager. ................. Don Jacobson
Meeting facilitator..................... Bing Wong
City mediation liaison
and spokesperson.................. John Laursen
Vice president..................... Nancy Norby
Secretary. ............................ . Bruce Treat
Treasurer. ............................ . Bing Wong
SEUL liaison........................ Paul Leistner
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