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Arts/Events in the Park

  • OPB Broadcast from Homeless Encampments In Lents

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    Lents Active Watch: Neighbors Try To Understand Homelessness OPB’s Think Out Loud March 7, 2015 Today we head out to Beggars Tick, a wildlife-refuge-turned-homeless-encampment in the Lents neighborhood, to try to understand the complicated relationship between housed and unhoused neighbors. “I’ve often said that if you want to be homeless, you might as well do it in Portland. It…

  • Vote on New North Park Blocks Playground

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    Portland Parks and Recreation presented plans for improvements to the North Park Blocks playground in a public open house on Feb 29th. Here’s your chance to review the plans and cast your vote – note deadline for votes and comments is Tuesday, March 8th. View ideas for playground shared at Open House here Vote and comment here

  • A Vision for the North Park Blocks

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    Meeting Held with City Officials: Reported by Stanley Penkin Following the disruptive summer of 2015 in the North Park Blocks (NPB), there has been a good deal of discussion and citizen activism to assure that there is not a repeat occurrence this coming summer, or ever again. Residents and businesses adjacent to NPB gathered their forces late…