Community Efforts

Holiday Safety Tips from ONI

Portland's Office of Neighborhood Involvement has several pamphlets for businesses and residents on Holiday Safety. Click on the links below to download the pdf file or visit their website.
Shoplift Prevention Information
Holiday Safety Tips
Crime Prevention Strategies for Businesses
To report suspicious activity call the police non-emergency number, 503-823-3333.
Be Alert, Observant and Mindful!

The Portland Plan

A CITY IS ONLY AS GOOD AS ITS LAST PLAN.

The Portland Plan will be our City's strategic plan for the next 25 years, ensuring that Portland is a thriving and sustainable city and our people are prosperous, healthy and educated. The last time Portland created a plan like this was in 1980. Our recycling rate was in the single digits. Back then there was no such thing as Google let alone cell phones and the Internet. In fact, huge parts of Portland, including Cully and most of East Portland, weren't even within the city limits. Now we're at the next big fork in the road. It's time for us to chart the course for our future and take a new approach to city planning—one that focuses not just on transit and infrastructure but health, education and equity. Come join the conversation... because more voices means better choices.

Visit the Portland Plan Website: www.pdxplan.com

Homes for Troops

Advantis Credit Union Sponsors Homes for our Troops:

Advantis is raising funds to build homes for two Portland area veterans who returned home from Iraq with severe, life altering injuries. Homes for Our Troops is a national, non-profit organization that builds homes that are specially adapted for each veteran's unique disabilities, and we are honored to join Homes for Our Troops (HFOT) as the title sponsor of their first Oregon projects.

How You Can Help:

You can help by making a cash contribution or donating your services if you are a licensed contractor or tradesperson. Your contribution is tax deductible and will go toward the purchase of materials to build the homes.

For more information please visit the Advantis Credit Union website at www.advantiscu.org.

Belmont Area 'Sense of Community' Highlighted

The June 11, 2009 issue of In Portland included with Thursday copies of The Oregonian had an article which featured two buildings on Belmont Street. The Belmont Market and Zupan's are located in old and new 'Streetcar Buildings' on Belmont Street. An excerpt from: Portland's streetcar architecture -- past becomes future by Fred Leeson, Special to The Oregonian Thursday June 11, 2009
"Developers seemed reluctant to make the leap at first. On the east side, the catalyst proved to be an old brick dairy building on Southeast Belmont. In 1996, Zupan's moved an upscale grocery into the ground floor of what became the Belmont Dairy Lofts, while the second-floor apartments with high ceilings rented quickly. Here was a situation where people really did yearn to get back into a neighborhood and be close to restaurants and stores and coffee shops and that sense of community."

You can see the entire article by going to http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2009/06/portlands_streetcar_architectu.html