September 2013 Sunnyside News Tony Jordan, SNA President The last few months have to discuss ideas for making this Up c o m i n g Ev e n t s | Se p t e m b e r been eventful at the Sunnyside publication even better. nd- Neighborhood Association. We 2 - Labor Day are happy to welcome a new board In mid-October, Ashe Urban from 3rd--8th-- Music Fest Northwest member, Dan Rutzick (check out his Southeast Uplift will facilitate 4th-- Portland Public Schools First Day of biography in this newsletter), and I a Neighborhood Visioning for Classes suspect we will have a full board again Sunnyside. This event, which has 7th-- Bike in Movie @ Hawthorne Hostel before too long. This month we’re been very successful in other 14th-- Belmont Street Fair making a push to get full coverage for neighborhoods, is a way for interested th- our newsletter delivery and we had a neighbors to help set an agenda 17 - Knock Knock It’s Your Neighbor th- great meeting of newsletter volunteers for the cont’d on page three... 26 - Colors of the Jungle - Belmont Li- brary Family Program Newsletter Volunteers Always and join the dozens of other th-- Sunday Parkways - Southwest Welcome volunteers who help with this essential 29 task. Delivering the newsletter is easy By SNA Newsletter Committee Oc t o b e r and rewarding. It’s a great way to get TBA (Mid-Month)- Neighborhood Visioning Are you getting this newsletter for involved, too. th- th-- Portland Nursery Apple Tasting the first time in a while? Is your block 11 -13 th- th- one of those marked in black on the Even if your block isn’t marked, there 18 -20 - Portland Nursery Apple Tasting map below? If you like to see your are always volunteers who need a break or have large routes. The more neighborhood and take walks, write to Me e t i n g Sc h e d u l e the merrier! [email protected] Meetings at Southeast Uplift unless noted General Meeting and Board Elections Thursday, September 12, 7 p.m. Crime Prevention and Livability Committee Thursday, September 12, 6:45 p.m. Land Use & Transportation Committee Monday, September 9, 7:30 p.m. Emergency Preparedness Committee @ Fred Meyer @ Hawthorne and Cesar Chavez - 1st floor deli area Monday, September 16, 7:00 p.m. Graffiti Clean-up 2nd & 4th Saturdays, weather permitting. Call 503-235-5047 SNA Meetings @ SEUL Delivery help needed

SUNNYSIDE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION www.SunnysideNeighborhood.com or at the Sunnyside Listserv: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SunnysideNeighborhood/ Mark Your Calendar: Belmont Markets and the Belmont Dairy, Nextdoor.com, a New Street Fair on September 14 Stumptown Coffee Roasters, Pro Neighborhood Network By Annette Schaff-Palmer Sound, , Good By Tony Jordan Food Here, Mt. Tabor Veterinary The Belmont Street Fair, which Clinic, Battery X-Change, Belmont A few months back I wrote about takes place from noon to 7 p.m. on EcoLaundry, The , online options for staying informed and Saturday, September 14, will extend La Calaca Comelona, Cleek Law connected to the neighborhood. Since along Belmont from SE 21st to SE Office, , Col-Tab, Balloons on then, one of those sites, Everyblock, 48th. Belmont will be closed to car Broadway, Snow Gum Studios, Inner has shut down. I did take some time traffic from SE 35th to SE Cesar Sound, John Barker Architecture, to join Nextdoor.com, however, and I Chavez. Straight from New York Pizza, The would like to encourage others to do Blue Monk, About Face Dental Spa, the same. When you join Nextdoor, Check out the great music, lined up by and Cricket Café. you will verify your address by one of the Blue Monk and supported by Pro several methods (landline phone call, Sound. Main Stage entertainment, The fair is a collaboration between a free credit or debit card verification, sponsored by Advantis Credit Union, the Sunnyside Neighborhood or a postcard). This step ensures that starts at 1:30 p.m. and continues Association and the Belmont Area for the Sunnyside Neighborhood on throughout the day: Business Association, with support Nextdoor, only actual residents are • 1:30 p.m., The Lower 48 by Southeast Uplift and our business members. I have worked with the • 3 p.m., Mbrascatu sponsors. company to make our neighborhood • 4:30 p.m., Neighbors boundaries match up with those on • 6 p.m., All the Apparatus Don’t forget to sign up to volunteer by the site. writing to Music starts at 1 p.m. on the Zupan’s/ [email protected] to get In other cities, Nextdoor has partnered Belmont Dairy Stage: your limited edition Belmont Street with local police departments and city • 1 p.m., Renegade String Band Fair T-Shirt. governments to distribute information • 2:30 p.m., Brothers of the Baladi and help with crime prevention. It’s • 4 p.m., Wayward Vessel See you at the Fair! been used to find lost animals, return • 5:30 p.m., The Ruby Pines found items, organize block parties, and just to ask questions about things There will be free trolley rides between happening in the neighborhood. SE 21st and SE 48th, with stops along the way. Come enjoy Central Park, a Nothing beats face-to-face contact, green space at SE 34th and Belmont, but with thousands of households in and the kids’ area sponsored by the Sunnyside, a tool like Nextdoor can be Swap Shop. Restaurants will be open, very helpful in connecting with people and many will have beer gardens near you might not already know. It’s most the stages. useful if a good percentage of us are using the site, so give it a try. I will A big shout out to the neighborhood “welcome” you on the site and you can businesses sponsoring the fair: let me know what you think. Advantis Credit Union, Zupan’s

Hawthorne Chiropractic 1222 SE Division St., Portland, OR 97202 503-231-9879 pediactric care • whole family • acute/chronic • auto accident injuries • massage Emergency Preparedness Tip of and consuming chlorine has possible Knock, Knock! It's Your Neigh- the Month health effects, especially if you use it bor: Join Southeast Storytellers Water, Part 3: Purification over a long period. But, if you don’t on September 17 By Lee Greer, SNA Emergency Pre- have a fuel source and can’t boil, By Ashe Urban, SEUL paredness Committee chlorine is better than nothing. Southeast Uplift is thrilled to announce After a disaster, we may have to use A reminder about boiling water or Knock, Knock! It's Your Neighbor at possibly contaminated water from cooking after a disaster: Never use the Bagdad Theater on September 17 sources like a rain barrel or a toilet charcoal, or stoves designed for at 7 p.m. Doors open at 5:30 for the tank. Or, if tap water is available, camping, indoors since they release early birds. Grab a burger, beer, and authorities may notify us that it’s carbon monoxide. nab a seat before perusing the lobby contaminated. Suspect water should where you will find our chalkboard be treated before you drink it or use it Portland Loses a Great wall, Piano! Push Play, a photo booth, for hygiene or dishwashing. Neighborhood Reporter and the opportunity to meet some of By Tony Jordan our wonderful sponsors. Tickets are You can boil water. Boiling for one $12 at the door or $10 in advance minute is the time-honored and safe Nearly anyone who has read the from itsyourneighbor.org/tickets way to kill microorganisms in water. If Southeast Examiner or any other you have a purifier such as a SteriPen neighborhood newspaper will Our host for the evening, Courtenay or a bacteriological filter that you use recognize the name Lee Perlman. Hameister of Live Wire! Radio, will for camping, you can use that. Be sure A regular attendee of neighborhood take the stage at 7 o’clock sharp. Your you know what your purifier will do and meetings and city hearings, Lee had typical neighbors, local comedians, follow instructions. a great knowledge of what was going and established storytellers will bring on and was on a mission to make the audience to laughter and tears as If you are unable to boil your water, sure no one missed out on something they regale us with tales of knowing or you can purify water with common important. Lee was found dead in his not knowing their own neighbors. household bleach such as Clorox. home on August 9 by police doing a Be sure it is plain liquid chlorine welfare check. The Jackalope Saints, presented bleach and not scented or with other by Beam Development, will wrap up additives. And, of course, never Lee will be sorely missed. A memorial the show, performing songs from mix bleach with ammonia or other is being planned for sometime this their new album, Illuminations of the cleaners. Add 4 drops of bleach to month. Mystery Tradition. a quart of water, or ¼ teaspoon (16 drops) to a gallon of water. Mix well ...cont’d from page one. Thank you to our sponsors in the and let stand for 30 minutes. Water Sunnyside News Portland business community: City should have a slight chlorine odor after neighborhood association and, more Club of Portland, Beam Development, treatment. If it doesn’t, your bleach importantly, take action to put that Heliorana Filmworks, ADX, Intrinsic may be old or the water may have agenda in motion. I am very excited Ventures, and Mag-Big. been very contaminated. So treat it about this opportunity to meet more of again the same way before using it. you and to energize our organization.

There are disadvantages of chlorine We are close to finalizing the details purification. First, it doesn’t kill for this event. It will likely be either cryptosporidium cysts, one kind of October 10th or 17th from 7 to 9 p.m. microorganism that can cause illness. Details will be posted online and in the Also, it tastes and smells unpleasant October newsletter. New SNA Board Member Planet of the Dinosaurs Recap a try! What's not to like about joining By Dan Rutzick By Davida Jordan with your community and enjoying a lovely Portland summer evening... Hello Sunnyside, I was elected to As the sun set on Sewallcrest Park while watching buxom babes and the SNA Board in August. An urban on Saturday, August 17, the Blue handsome hunks being ripped apart by planner by profession, I will chair the Cranes came out. Along with them bloodthirsty dinosaurs? SNA Land Use and Transportation came a man with a toilet plunger in Emergency Preparedness Committee. a fishbowl and a host of other Foley Committee: New Meeting Time Sunnyside has been my home for the artists, musicians, and voice actors By Lee Greer past five years. It is clear that much from Filmusik, a unique local group effort has been spent on shaping that creates new soundtracks to Starting this month, the SNA our unique neighborhood over time. classic films. All were there to entertain Emergency Preparedness Committee I value its greenery, locally owned us at the annual outdoor screening of will alternate morning and evening businesses, and sense of community. Planet of the Dinosaurs, an extremely meetings. The next meeting will be In addition to the annual block party, campy 1970’s sci-fi movie complete at 7 p.m. on Monday, September I’ve gathered with neighbors to press with plunging necklines, jumpsuits 16, at Fred Meyer on SE Hawthorne apples in a century-old orchard for the shipwrecked astronaut men and Cesar Chavez, in the first floor up the block, carried compost to a and women, not-at-all-lifelike terrible deli eating area. The Sunnyside neighbor's chickens, and borrowed a lizards, and lots of fun for everyone. Neighborhood Emergency Team (NET) pick-up from another neighbor to haul Happy attendees lounged on the adopted a schedule of alternating furniture. field, enjoying snacks brought from morning and evening meetings, to home or bought on site while they allow people with differing schedules to When not working on our region’s watched this FREE movie under attend. The Emergency Preparedness far west side, I have been focused the starry skies. Sponsored by Committee, which has been meeting on raising kids and raised beds over the neighborhood associations of 30 minutes before the Sunnyside NET these past five years. The upcoming Sunnyside, Richmond, and HAND, meeting, decided to follow suit. Watch years will involve the same activities, Planet of the Dinosaurs was a great the calendar in this newsletter for the but also include volunteer hours success once again. Not only were monthly meeting time and location. to pick up where others have left there terrible lizards on the screen, off. I am eager to hear your vision but real life lizards and tortoises The Emergency Preparedness for strengthening what is already a roamed among the human audience, Committee is also pleased to remarkable corner of Portland. I am in keeping with the reptile theme. In announce that we have helped the interested in helping you and your addition to providing the soundtrack for Sunnyside NET secure a place for neighbors channel your collective the movie, the nationally known Blue storage to store disaster preparedness energies into small-scale projects— Cranes entertained the crowd before supplies and equipment near our projects to benefit our area and be the movie started with their original NET staging area. We will be asking admired by others passing by on their jazz and rock compositions. If you've Sunnyside residents to donate to the way up the mountain or to the river. never ventured out to a Portland Parks cache. Watch for details in the October The Sunnyside Neighborhood and Recreation outdoor movie, give it newsletter. News is published monthly by the Sunnyside Neighborhood Association. Newsletter Committee Chair: Lee Greer Editor: Tony Jordan Newsletter Volunteers: Diana Deumling, Reuben Deumling, Gwyneth Van Buskirk

Tony Jordan President Jonathan Noel Vice-President Lorraine Henriques Secretary Josh Palmer Treasurer Reuben Deumling Member-At-Large Lee Greer Member-At-Large Paul Loney Member-At-Large Dan Rutzick Member-At-Large Vacant Position Member-At-Large

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