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RV homeless campsite set for St. Johns (Nov. 2023)
A city-managed RV homeless encampment with nearly 200 spaces is coming soon to the St. Johns area, Mayor Ted Wheeler announced Oct. 26. The camp will also have tent and pod spaces in the city-owned property at 10505 N. Portland Road near Columbia Slough. “The need in our community far exceeds available resources,” Wheeler said, “and I…
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DA, Deputy DA and County Commissioner field questions (Nov. 2023)
The parents did not hold anything back from Multnomah County District Attorney Mike Schmidt at an Oct. 9 Portsmouth Neighborhood Association forum. “My son attends Rosa Parks Elementary School and already knows the difference between a ‘secured perimeter’ and a ‘lockdown’”, parent Sarah Messier told Schmidt “No eight-year-old should have to know that,” she declared. Several…
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Three Rider teams make history in state playoffs (Nov. 2023)
For the first time in Roosevelt’s storied history, all three of its major fall teams—football, girls soccer and boys soccer—have earned coveted berths in the state playoffs. Roosevelt is headed to the prestigious state football playoffs for the second year in a row after routing Grant 36-7 in the regular season finale Oct. 27. The…
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Lack of Police affects North Pdx safety: more coming (Oct. 2023)
A North Peninsula Review reporter sat down with Lt. Chadd Stensgaard of the Portland Police Bureau’s North Precinct at his office at 449 NE Emerson to get his observations on reducing North Portland crime. Stensgaard pointed to a staffing chart behind his desk showing lots of vacant shifts. “Our precinct covers everything from Kelley Point…
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Polish Festival Sept 16-17 (September 2023)
The delicious scent of Kielbasa and the beauty of swirling dancers are here again as the Portland Polish Festival returns Sept. 16-17 at the historic Polish Library Association site at 3900 N. Interstate Ave. The celebration, the oldest Polish Festival on the West Coast, is back for the first time since 2019 after COVID cancellations. Admission…
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PIR controversy: leaded exhaust, noise rankle neighbors (August 2023)
A recent London-based Guardian newspaper investigative story singled out the Kenton neighborhood as having some of the worst racetrack-produced lead fumes in any residential area in the U.S. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) banned leaded gas for passenger cars in 1996 because of the health hazard, especially for young children. But the law exempted racecars. The EPA…
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Safe Rest Village opens on the cut over the holiday (June 2023)
Boiling tensions between homeowners and homeless people continue to plague the now open Save Rest Village (SRV) in University Park and a similar proposed development at St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church in Portsmouth. Those pressures flared anew prior to opening, at an invitation-only tour May 19 at the Peninsula Crossing Safe Rest Village site. During the tour,…
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Roosevelt High School sports update (June 2023)
Roosevelt High School has just completed its most successful sports season in decade and for girls, perhaps the most stellar accomplishments since the emergence of girls high school varsity sports in the early 1970s. The RHS tennis and golf teams were hindered by rainy weather curtailing matches and meets. The number of sports participants also rose to…
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Church project encounters pushback (June 2023)
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church has partnered with the non-profit WeShine to develop a small-pod “micro-village” on the church parking lot at 7600 N. Hereford Ave, one block north of Lombard. The ten-pod project will be a “neighborhood-based micro-village,” offering a temporary place to stay and transitional services for Portland’s vulnerable homeless population, the St. Andrew’s website…
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Portland Parks’ maintenance neglect impacts North Portland (May 2023)
The Parks & Recreation Bureau has the distinction of having the biggest maintenance backlog of any City of Portland bureau—$600 million—a figure that exceeds the Gross National Product of eight countries in the United Nations including the Marshall Islands, Tonga and Sao Tome. And closer to home, that figure is twice the $276 million backlog…
