Neighborhood/Community City Legislative Agenda Gathering, Jan. 6th, 2009 at 7 PM in City Council Chambers

Neighborhood, business, and other community-based organizations play an integral part in assuring community and neighborhood livability. I continue to be committed to working with Portland neighborhoods, businesses, and community organizations to provide services and information to assist in empowering residents to identify and support issues that benefit Portland. One way we can support each others efforts is to explore joint legislative objectives and work together in Salem to achieve positive results.

December 16, 2008
 

TO:    Portlanders

FROM:  Mayor-Elect Sam Adams
       City Commissioner Nick Fish
       City Commissioner-Elect Amanda Fritz
       City Commissioner Randy Leonard
       City Commissioner Dan Saltzman
       Auditor Gary Blackmer

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The President of Ireland, Mary McAleese, will dedicate the new Oregon Irish Potato Famine Memorial 11:00 a.m. Saturday, December 13th, at Mt. Calvary Catholic Cemetery. This will be the first visit to Portland by a serving President of Ireland.

The Oregon Irish Potato Famine Memorial was commissioned by Portland's Ancient Order of Hibernians, to construct a Memorial in Portland to those Irish who died of hunger and disease during the Great Irish Potato Famine, An Gorta Mor, and to commemorate the dedication and commitment of those Irish who made that great trek to the West, and lived out the remainder of their lives in Oregon.

The Memorial is a Celtic High Cross modeled on the ancient Cross of the Scriptures from Clonmacnoise, County Offaly, Ireland, which was carved in 916 A.D. The newly remastered replica was hand carved in Donegal Town, Ireland, by Brendan Mc Gloin, an Irish stone sculptor and artist.

For more information, contact Portland's Hibernians at 503-701 9726 or e-mail OregonIrishMemorial@gmail.com.

Mt. Calvary Catholic Cemetery
333 NW Skyline Blvd.
Portland, OR 97221
(503) 292-6621

Vestas Wind Turbines

Over 200 people attended the "Removing Invasive Species, Restoring Healthy Natural Areas" Summit held Tuesday, November 18th at the Oregon Zoo. The summit highlighted the progress made since the 2005 to effectively manage invasive plants within the City of Portland including the City's new Invasive Plant Management Strategy.

Sam moderated a panel of local experts and facilitated the audience Q&A which featured a motivating discussion of local and regional efforts to remove invasive species and restore our natural areas.

We welcome your comments on the attached Project Summary.  

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MLS Soccer/Triple A Baseball Evaluation Project Summary
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Revised: 11/26/2008 3:56:15 PM

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Portland Prints II
City Hall Art and Holiday Sale
Thursday December 4th 5-7pm
City Hall 1221 SW 4th

Attendees from 36 states and 10 countries traveled to Seattle this week to attend the 2008  International Low Impact Development (LID) Conference, where Sam joined Seattle Mayor Greg Nickles in highlighting the importance of sustainable stormwater management.

.ART SPARK with host:

LAIKA

Mayor-elect Sam Adams experienced a unique "green moment" as he addressed an enthusiastic crowd on Monday, Nov. 10. The crowd, made up mostly of employees of The Standard, gathered to celebrate a new partnership with Zipcar, a national car-sharing service.

 With the current economic downturn the City of Portland has joined with Congressman Earl Blumenauer, Senator Ron Wyden and other members of our Congressional delegation to urge Washington to pass a public- works-based stimulus bill.   Its passage could create more than 8,000 jobs in Portland.

Harvey Milk circa 1977Last week while at a conference on transit oriented development, I was lucky enough to be invited to attend the opening of Milk, Gus Van Sant's new film about the life and times of Harvey Milk. Briefly, Harvey was the first openly gay elected official when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1977. A year later, Milk and Mayor George Moscone were assassinated by Supervisor Dan White.  Mr. White avoided significant prison time by succesfully arguing that his poor diet caused him to be temporarly insane.