Last Thursday is Coming…

From FoLT:

With 17,000 participants in the peak summer months, Friends of Last Thursday is focused on addressing the issues involved with sustaining this event in a people-powered approach. This group has saved LT from a painful death, the result of politics, collapse, self implosion and or backlash from one of many angles. FoLT will now hold a permit for LT and are geared to steer the event back towards supporting artists and performers and providing the services to allow it to continue into the future. FoLT earns and scrounges funds and gathers the volunteers each month, providing security, education of the vendors about expectations, removal of trash and recycling, street closure and logistics.
FoLT is wanting to purchase a used box truck for our Street Operations Team. We will take that box trailer and retro-fit it to carry all of the barricades, street signs, and garbage/recycling bins and what they get filled with at the end of the night. FoLT will then lend out the trailer to other community groups at low cost, with the funds helping FoLT to become more financially sustainable. This box trailer will help us support a multicultural community’s economic engine, grassroots art, creative thinking, performance opportunities, personal expression, dreaming, et al. Your contribution may be tax deductible as our fiscal sponsor is the Non-Profit Association of Oregon.
Please see our campaign here.
Shoot, if you don’t have $ to give, please take a moment to pass this along to friends and help us get the word out!
You can also volunteer for a Last Thursday! Info@LastThursdayonAlberta.com

Each month runs just under $4000 to make the magic happen even with the donated time, cars, drivers and efforts.

Want more information?
Info@LastThursdayonAlberta.com

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1st Annual Alberta Bar Crawl
April 25, Last Thursday
Between the hours of 6-10p.m. teams of four, distinguished by their team “dress code”, will travel down Alberta Street getting stamped at each of the ten participating bars where they are offered cheap drink specials and enjoy live music, entertainment and prizes.
At the end of the event, teams will turn in a full punch card and receive a Last Thursday pint glass.
Let’s get ready to rumble!
Money raised will help FoLT pay for services (trash, security, toilets, etc.) during the peak summer months of Last Thursday.
Sign up early at the Black Cat Cafe, 1203 NE Alberta or Al Forno Ferruzza, 2738 NE Alberta.

Upcoming Events
FoLT Meeting
The Hilt, 1934 NE Alberta
6:30-8:00

April Last Thursday
Alberta Bar Crawl
6-11p.m.

May Last Thursday
1st Street Closure by FoLT

KNA April Agenda–Liquor Licenses, Watershed Stewardship, Movies in the Park

King Neighborhood Association – General
Meeting
Wednesday, April 10, 2013 6:30pm
Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods
4815 NE 7th Avenue, Portland, OR
Agenda
6:30 Introductions, approval of agenda and minutes
6:45 Discussion of pending liquor licenses & KNA engagement
-CROWN Q MARKET & DELI – Comments due 4/20
7:15 Water Stewardship Grant update – Diego Gioseffi
7:25 Vote on fiscal sponsorship of Water Stewardship Grant
7:30 Movies in the Park update & request for volunteers – Russ Eisenberg
7:40 Communications Committee – Recruitment & Ideas
8:00 Adjourn

Crown Q Market & Deli seeks liquor licenses

The following business has applied for two liquor licenses:

CROWN Q MARKET & DELI:
(CROWN Q LLC & GARY L. LOWE)
445 NE KILLINGSWORTH
PORTLAND, OR 97211

The OLCC has received an application for a Limited On-Premises license and an Off-Premises license in your community. These two licenses would allow a licensee to sell and serve wine, cider and malt beverages for consumption on the premises, as well as in sealed containers for consumption off the premises. The legal hours to sell alcohol in the state of Oregon are 7:00AM to 2:30AM daily.

The applicant proposes to operate from 7:00 AM to 9:00 PM Sunday through Thursday, and from 7:00 AM to 12 Midnight Friday and Saturday. Food will be available whenever alcohol is consumed on-premises.

If your organization wishes to provide the Commission with factual information concerning whether there is a basis to grant or deny this license under the OLCC’s licensing standards, please write me at the following address:

OLCC
Eric Hildebrand, License Investigator
P.O. Box 22297
Milwaukie, OR 97269-2297

If you have any questions, please call me at (503) 872-5197. Please respond to this letter within 14 days of this letter’s date so that we can process this application in a timely manner. We will share your information with the applicant, make it a part of the public record and consider it when making a final decision.

Eric Hildebrand,
License Investigator
Ph. 503.872.5197
Fax: 503.872.5074

OLCC
PO Box 22297
Milwaukie, OR 97269

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Portland Playhouse extends Mother Teresa is Dead, announces next season

Mother Teresa is Dead is EXTENDING
Now through April 11th!

Due to audience demand, Mother Teresa is Dead is extending for one week, and will now be running through April 11th.

Read the review in The Oregonian, then make sure you…

Buy your tickets here!

2013-2014 Season Six

DETROIT by Lisa D’Amour
Directed by Brian Weaver
October 2 – November 3, 2013
A “sharp X-ray of the embattled Ameri-can psyche…a dark comedy as rich and addictively satisfying as a five-layer dip served up with a brimming bowl of tortilla chips.” -The New York Times

THE OTHER PLACE by Sharr White
November 20 – December 8, 2013
Gretchen Corbett stars in Sharr White’s riveting psycho-logical drama that critics have hailed as “piercing and tonally on-target” (New York Magazine) “curvy and com-pelling” (NY Daily News), and a “taut, incisive puzzle play” (Backstage).

JITNEY by August Wilson
January 15 – February 2, 2014
Don’t miss Portland Playhouse’s signature approach to Wilson, of which Portland Monthly wrote about this season’s King Hedley II: “if you like your drama strong and your performances intense, it’s unlikely that you’ll see a production this gripping… anytime soon.”

THE LIGHT IN THE PIAZZA Book by Craig Lucas
Music & Lyrics by Adam Guettel
February 26 – March 30, 2014
Discover what The New York Times calls “a blessing for those in search of signs of intelligent life in the American musical.”

AFTER THE REVOLUTION by Amy Herzog
Playwright’s Portland Debut
April 30 – June 1, 2014
Tamara Fisch (Race at Artist’s Rep 2012; The Scene at Portland Playhouse 2011; After the Revolution World Premiere workshop at the Williamstown Theatre Festival 2010) directs this “smart, engrossing play” that “crackle[s] with lively, natural dialogue” and characters that “are drawn with a perceptive sense of the contradictions that color personality” (The New York Times).

NECN seeks executive director

From the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods:

Full Time Executive Director: NECN welcomes applications for a full time Executive Director. The ideal candidate is a committed lifelong learner and facilitative leader who works in partnership with others (including neighborhood volunteers, board, staff, and community partners) to translate vision into action. This person has a passion for civic engagement and a track-record of community-building experience. Please click here for job description and information on how to apply. No calls please.

Portland Center Stage invites you to Cybourne Park

The King Neighborhood Association is invited to see Clybourne Park! A white community in 1950s Chicago splinters over the black family about to move in. Fast forward to our present day and the same house represents very different demographics, and neighborhood values and tensions. Decades apart, hilarious and horrifying neighbors pitch a battle over territory and legacy that forces us to consider how far our ideas about race have evolved—or not. When our houses become our homes, and our neighborhoods become our identities, what will we do to protect them? And from what? Clybourne Park won the 2012 Tony Award, the 2011 Pulitzer Prize and the 2011 Olivier Award for Best New Play. On the Main Stage at Portland Center Stage from April 6–May 5.

King neighbors get a $10 discount on tickets! See the attached flyer below for details:

King Neighborhood Discount to Clybourne Park

Proposed OLCC rules seek to control alcohol, noise outside food carts, restaurants, and bars

The Oregon Liquor Control Commission has been engaged in Rulemaking for Exterior Areas at licensed establishments. The rules redefine the requirements for licensing exterior areas that are connected to a brick and mortar pub, as well as create rules for exterior areas that are not associated with a brick and mortar location i.e.: Food Carts.

PUBLIC HEARING: Commission staff will hold a public hearing on this proposed action:
Date: March 21, 2013
Time : 10am
Location: Oregon Liquor Control Commission
9079 SE McLoughlin
Portland, OR 97222
within Oregon 1‐800‐452‐6522)
Phone: (503) 872‐5131 (toll free
Fax: (503) 872‐5110
Presiding Officer: Jesse Sweet – jesse.sweet@state.or.us
Comments will be taken until April 4th at 5pm

The Final Draft for the recommended rules is attached.
In a nutshell…
Exterior Areas of Taverns and Restaurants
1) If on Public Property, the sale, service, and consumption of alcohol must be a permitted use.
2) If on private property, the applicant must have legal access to the real property
3) The applicant must define boundary, and demonstrate control.
4) If the property abuts residential, amplified music is not allowed from 10pm to 7am
5) If the property abuts residential, sale and service of alcohol is restricted as follows;
a. 11pm –Sunday through Thursday
b. 1am – Friday and Saturday
THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO TEMPORARY SALES LICENSES OR TO ESTABLISHMENTS WITH ESTERIOR AREAS THAT HAVE GREATER THAN A 500 PERSON CAPACITY.

Exterior Areas NOT associated with a Structure i.e.: Food Carts
1)If on Public Property, the sale, service, or consumption is not authorized under applicable rules of the governing body
2) If on Private party, must have written proof of legal access
3) Property owner (public property) must expressly allow the sale of alcohol.
4) Must qualify for Minor 3 posting (not be a drinking environment)
5) Must define boundaries and demonstrate control of the area
6) Must designate an area for consumption and confine the designated area with a physical boundary
7) Must demonstrate supervision of the area.
8) Limit patrons to possession of no more than 2 alcoholic beverages at a time
9) Must adhere to specific beverage requirements
10) Cannot bring alcohol into or out of the designated area
11)Amplified entertainment and sale and service of alcohol are not allowed between 10pm and 7am.
THIS DOES NOT APPLY TO TEMPORARY SALES LICENSES

Theresa Marchetti
Liquor Licensing Specialist
503-823-3092
theresa.marchetti@portlandoregon.gov
Fax: 503-823-3050

KNA March Agenda

King Neighborhood – Meeting Agenda
Wednesday, March 13, 2013 6:30pm
at the office of the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods
4815 NE 7th Avenue, Portland, OR

Agenda

6:30 Introductions, approval of agenda and minutes

6:45 PreServe – Discussion to gather input from older African Americans living in King on their health concerns, neighborhood barriers that keep them from being healthy, and ideas for community-based activities that promote health and reduce barriers to health.

7:00 PDC – Representatives of the Portland Development Commission will be on hand to discuss the latest projects occurring in our neighborhood, including a proposal for development at Alberta & MLK, and how the community can engage and be involved in conversation on current and future projects.

March 31st Egg Hunt, Two Plum Park. Vote to have it be a KNA sponsored event and looking for volunteers.

8:00 Adjourn

Tadpole Tales for Tykes

Children aged 3-5 with their parents are invited to a short story and guided nature walk. Watch birds fly overhead, search for hidden animal homes, and learn about local trees and flowers. Topics will vary each week at each location. Topics include: pond life, birds, dirt and worms, and mammals. Routes are accessible to strollers. Families are welcome to bring a snack. Advanced registration required by emailing intern@columbiaslough.org or calling 503-281-1132

Appropriate for what ages? 3-5
Day/Date: Wednesdays, March-May

Time: 10 -11 AM

Cost: $3 admission/donation per child, no charge for adults.

Location/Address: Locations change each month…
• March: Whitaker Ponds Nature Park, 7040 NE 47th Ave, Portland
• April: Columbia Children’s Arboretum, 300 NE Meadow Ln., Portland 97211
• May: Columbia Slough Water Quality Facility, 19595 NE Sandy, Portland

Phone Number (for general public for more information): 503 281-1132

Web site: http://www.columbiaslough.org/calendar_detail.aspx?calendar_id=231

KNA Opposes Unrestricted OLCC License for 7-Eleven

The following is a letter submitted to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission at yesterday’s hearing on the 7-Eleven license application. The license was granted with no restrictions but KNA is committed to continuing negotiations with 7-Eleven to preserve neighborhood livability through a good neighbor agreement.

Oregon Liquor Control Commission
9079 SE McLoughlin Blvd. Portland, OR 97222

RE: 7-11 5150 NE MLK Blvd, Portland – Liquor License Request for Restriction

The King Neighborhood Association (KNA) has previously submitted opposition to an unrestricted OLCC license being issues to the 7-11 now located at 5150 NE MLK Blvd, Portland. At that time the King Neighborhood Association requested that the license be restricted based on size and alcohol content of beverages, as well as the time of sale be restricted to no later than 1:00 am.
On February 7th, Ryan Kroll, on behalf of 7-11 engaged with the King Neighborhood Association and has entered into negotiations to find suitable accommodations for the concerns of the KNA. We believe that 7-11 is acting in good faith as is the KNA and we would like to formally request an extension of one month on your deliberation of this matter. While we have made excellent progress on a draft agreement, there are items that warrant further discussion.
The King Neighborhood has in the past and does currently struggle with street drinking amongst other public safety concerns. Great strides have been made over the past 10 years within the neighborhood to make significant improvements, but there is much work yet to be done. As new businesses move into our neighborhood it is incumbent both on those businesses and the neighbors to work together to ensure that the positive momentum that has carried us this far continues.
We urge you to grant this request and allow us the opportunity to work with our new neighbor to continue to make positive change in the King Neighborhood a reality.
Sincerely,

Russ Eisenberg
Co-Chair KNA on behalf of the King Neighborhood Association