Category: NPB News
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NW Examiner: Civility Collapses on North Park Blocks
The September 2015 issue of the NW Examiner details this summer’s dramatic decline of the North Park Blocks. Click here for PDF of article Our lovely park has become home to vagrants who openly do drugs, have sex, fights and regularly urinate and defecate in public. … This is affecting my business and more importantly, Portland’s prosperity in the long run.”…
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North Park Blocks Recommendations to Mayor Hales
On Sept 1st Mayor Hales hosted a 90 min meeting at City Hall to hear the concerns raised by residents and businesses of Portland’s historic North Park Blocks (NPB). Over two dozen were in attendance including Portland Police, representatives from city and county agencies, outreach program managers, and DAs office. The NPB neighborhood was represented…
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KATU-TV: Park Safety Concerns Heard by Mayor Hales
By Emily Sinovic, KATU News Reports Sept 1, 2015 PORTLAND, Ore. — Portland Mayor Charlie Hales met on Tuesday with a group of community leaders and concerned North Park Blocks neighbors who gathered to address concerns for safety and livability in the city’s historic park. The mayor’s office called today’s meeting more of a “listening session.”
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KATU-TV: Park Safety Concerns Cloud School Opening
Here’s the latest report from Jackie Labrecque, KATU News Published: Aug 29, 2015 Aug 25th KATU report here PORTLAND, Ore. — Parents whose kids attend the Emerson School in North Park Blocks are joining in the chorus of concerned voices for all the crime happening there: People camping out, doing drugs, and having sex all in…
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Take Back the Block: Emerson School Picnic – Aug 27th
The folks at the Emerson School have extended this invite for the neighborhood to join them tonight Thurs Aug 27th “I wanted to put out the information that The Emerson School is having our Back To School Picnic tonight, on the playground block, with ~100 families and children coming to play and take over the…