Councilor Churchill: Spring Is it Lewelling, Pay fines 2 brings great change to town 3 or Luelling? 6 with food! Celebrate Earth Day Milwaukie’s Local Leaders The City of Milwaukie will host Milwaukie’s first Earth Day Event on Sat., April 20th. More The ‘Green Team’ than 10 organizations from the Milwaukie com- “Every little thing we do, or don’t do, has an ef- munity are sponsoring volunteers, goods and fect,” Willamette View resident, and Green Team services to beautify Milwaukie. chair Winnie Thomas explains. 8:45 a.m. - Convene & Register at Milwaukie Presbyterian (2416 That, in essence, is what drives the group’s efforts SE Lake Rd.) Coffee provided by Starbuck’s & pastries by Wil- to employ more sustainable practices within their lamette View Retirement Living. community of more than 400 residents, and in- Project Work Starts at 9 a.m. volvement in community-wide events • Downtown - Clean-up & weed- st like Milwaukie’s inaugural Earth ing along 21 and Main Street th VOLUME 23, ISSUE 4 ~ April 2013 Day event on April 20 . • Riverfront Park - Ivy pull & Through the Green Team’s ef- trash collection forts in 2012 alone the Continu- • Kellogg Creek behind the ing Care Retirement Community Milwaukie Presbyterian just south of Milwaukie recycled Church - Ivy pull 11,154 pop cans, 260 tons of pa- Noon - Reconvene at Milwaukie per and cardboard, 14.2 tons of Presbyterian for a celebra- SELVES glass, and about 300 pounds-worth M tion lunch! Food and drinks of plastic shopping bags. HE provided by Cha Cha Cha T Now the Green Team is expand- Milwaukie and Pietro’s Pizza. ing its efforts beyond their recycling education ef- Please pre-register by contacting Beth Ragel at forts and programs to include things like energy OVERN (503) 786-7568 or at [email protected] or conservation education and working with the ad- G by visiting www.cityofmilwaukie.org/volunteer. ministration to buy cleaning products that are safe for the environment and appliances, light bulbs, ET TER and shower and faucet fixtures that are energy ef- B ficient. O Series snags Dark T The Green Team has put together a full sched- Horse Comics Prez ule of events for the month of April that will raise ATION awareness around sustainability issues and encour- M The third discussion age greener practices. The Team expects to turn of The Ledding Freeout about talks20 residents at for theLibrary City’s Kellogg Res- NFOR Cultural Forum th I toration Project on April 20 . features Milwaukie’s ITH own Mike Richardson, W the founder and president of Dark Collection event set Horse Comics on This year’s Down To Earth Day event will be th st ILWAUKIE April 4 , at 7 p.m. held on Sat., June 1 from 8 a.m. to noon at the at the Pond House, Crosswhite Industrial Park (6641 SE Johnson Creek M F located at 2215 SE Harrison St. Blvd.) O Richardson founded the award-winning The City’s garbage haulers will be on-site to accept international publishing house in 1986. In addition appliances, scrap metal, yard debris and other bulky to producing films such asHellboy II: The Golden items, free of charge. The event is open to City of ITIZENS Army, My Name Is Bruce, and The Mystery Men, he Milwaukie and Overland Park area residents. Curb- C has also produced films based on several of his own side collection for elderly and disabled is available THE creations, including The Mask and Timecop. on a limited basis by calling Sherri Dow at 503-742- The Ledding Cultural Forum is a free series that 4463. celebrates the literary arts with public talks by local Look for the Coupons for City residents in your and regional writers the first Thursday of the month. May water bill! ROVIDING THE MILWAUKIE PILOT P MILWAUKIE CITY COUNCIL MAYOR JEREMY FERGUSON SCOTT CHURCHILL MARK GAmbA DAVE HEDGES MIKE MILLER Spring brings great change Help ‘refresh’ Downtown This month's Councilor Column is written by Councilor Scott “What do you want out of Churchill. To contact Scott, call (503) 786-7511 or send him your Downtown Milwaukie?” an e-mail at [email protected]. was the central question posed to those who attended an As Milwaukie steps into Spring Open House and Workshop with the blossoming of flowers, on April 1st, at 5:30 p.m. in one cannot help but think of the North Main Village, 10558 seasonal rebirth of our Willamette SE Main Street. Valley landscape and the change The meeting kicked off it brings us each year. As we the Fresh Look Milwaukie: watch nature bring this change, Downtown Road Map proj- one cannot help but see and hear ect – a major initiative to another change to our City. Light bring the various adopted Rail Construction is everywhere. The rumble of dump plans that map Downtown trucks, the pounding of pile drivers, the spinning of Milwaukie’s future growth in closer alignment with the concrete mixers, the clearing of trees and the removal community’s vision. The kickoff meeting was the first step of hillsides to make way for a new form of public in this process, and will be followed by a three month-long transportation for the citizens of our City and our community engagement process that will include community county. Light Rail. It will change the Milwaukie conversations with identified stakeholders. landscape as we currently know it forever. Those interested in engaging in the conversation are en- As we watch and observe the contractors, couraged to visit the Fresh Look Milwaukie project page on subcontractors, utility workers and traffic control the City’s website to learn how to participate. flaggers, I am reminded of the richness of our existing Neighborhoods and the citizens who live here. They are all part of our City and as residents and neighbors, they strive to respect each other as they go about BE PREPARED their busy lives. Everyone from Firefighters and Police Officers, young families and retirees, homeowners and If you need a little extra help to live independently, renters, City employees and small business owners all remember these tips: “Buddy up” with family/friends to work hard to be respectful of one another and to make help each other. certain that their work dovetails seamlessly into the Buy or make a medical alert tag or bracelet with rich fabric of our community. important info; make up a medical list that includes With that Milwaukie model of respect for one the names of your doctor, medicines/dosages, copies of another being set by its citizens, I know that the insurance cards/important documents. General Contractor for TriMet, Stacy and Witbeck see Be sure to keep at least one week’s supply of important how essential it is for them to respect the Milwaukie medication always available. Citizens as they leave for work, drop children at Check with fas.org/reallyready/disabilities/index for school, walk to the bus transit station or ride their more info. bicycles to downtown. After all, as contractors working on the Light Rail project, they are all guests in the community doing work with our tax dollars and our city general fund contributions. As a guest Get your garden plot in our town, I know that they are aware of how The plots of the Mil- important Safety, Security and Courtesy is for our waukie Community Gar- pedestrians, drivers and bicycle riders as they make dens at the Campbell their way along Harrison, Monroe, Washington and Community Garden and Lake Road. the Open Grounds Garden So when you see them next, give them a wave or call at St. Paul’s United Methodist Church are going fast! them at 503 962-2222 to let them know how they Only six plots are left and all were snagged last season, so act are doing. They will much appreciate the feedback. now to secure your plot. For more information call 503-342- 6330. Page 2 www.cityofmilwaukie.org THE MILWAUKIE PILOT Luelling or Lewelling? Written by Greg/Frank Hemer Our neighbors in the North East end of town technically can spell their NDA as Luelling or Lewelling. Just depends on choosing between Henderson or Seth… the Luelling or Lewelling Brothers. Yes, brothers. In the summer of 1847, Mr. Henderson Luelling left Iowa, bringing across the plains several hundred yearling grafted sprouts of apple, pear, cherry, plum, prune, peach, grape, and berries, and settled in Milwaukie. Seth Lewelling came west in 1850 and joined his brother of writing of Llewellyn to Luelling, for simplicity. Henderson at his nursery in 1853. During his whole life Henderson followed the spelling So why the different spellings? The family, originally, came adopted by his father; and so did Seth until as late as 1875 from Wales, and in the latter part of the eighteenth century when Lewelling was used in nursery catalogues. Seth adopted settled in North Carolina. Soon after arriving the head of the “Lewelling “ as his spelling of the family name, but “Luelling family decided to change the name from the usual Welsh style “was retained by the remainder of the family. Citizens invited to help update Transportation Plan The Transportation System Plan (TSP) of 2013, and while making these updates page, and identify whether any projects is the City’s guiding document for mak- City Council is asking the community should be re-prioritized, or recommend ing improvements related to transporta- to reassess the TSP’s project lists to make any new projects that would address im- tion in Milwaukie.