September 2013 Sunnyside News Tony Jordan, SNA President The last few months have to discuss ideas for making this UPCO M ING EVENT S | SEPTE M BER 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 OCTOBER 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 MEETING SCHEDULE 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, Laughing Planet, 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 Sweet Hereafter, 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, Circa 33, 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.