Newsline, November 30, 2011

Submitted by agnes on Wed, 11/30/2011 - 10:19am

Skyline Rural Watch Newsline

Mailbox: newsline [at] srnpdx [dot] org
Urgent: alert [at] srnpdx [dot] org
Phone: (503) 621-3501

November 30, 2011

SKYLINE SCHOOL:

Skyline's Enrollment/Middle Grades Discussion
On Thursday 12/1, from 6:00-7:30 pm in the Gym, Director of Enrollment and Transfer Judy Brennan will lead a discussion about K-8 enrollment at Skyline, with a special focus on the current guaranteed enrollment of Skyline neighborhood students, with bus transportation, at East/West Sylvan Middle School. I learned today that PPS School Board Member Bobbie Regan will also attend Skyline's Enrollment/Middle Grades discussion on Thursday night. Please come to the Skyline Gym on Thursday to have your voice heard about Middle Grades options for Skyline students, and about K-8 enrollment. (Limited childcare is available; please RSVP to me or to Mrs. Hall, shall [at] pps [dot] net, to reserve childcare space.) Updated information about the K-8 enrollment balancing process, including PPS Staff/Superintendent's recommendations to the School Board, can be found here:

http://www.pps.k12.or.us/departments/enrollment-transfer/enrollment-balancing.htm

David J. Wood

Principal, Skyline K-8 School

Portland Public Schools

11536 NW Skyline Boulevard

Portland, OR 97231

phone: (503) 916-5212

fax: (503) 916-2765

COMMUNITY ORGANIZATIONS:

Child Care at Linnton Community Center
The Linnton Community Center has a few openings in our full day state certified child care- open from 7:00 am to 6:00 pm. Between 8:30 am and noon the children spend becoming familiar with the Spanish language as they learn the skills needed to prepare them to thrive at Skyline School. This is a combined Immersion preschool with one teacher that practices songs, fingerplays, speaks & reads stories in Spanish only to the children. Call 503-286-4990 or cell phone 503-475-3731 or e-mail

abcuniversitypreschool [at] hotmail [dot] com to arrange a tour.
Linnton Community Center Website: http://www.linnton.com/lcc.asp

Forest Park Conservancy

Volunteer Work Party: Saturday, 12/10

Date: 10-Dec-2011

Capacity: 30 (0% booked)

Join Forest Park Conservancy for this month’s volunteer work party! We will be raking leaves off of Wildwood Trail starting from the top of Newton Road.
Forest Park Conservancy Website: http://www.forestparkconservancy.org/

TRANSPORTATION & PULIC SERVICES:

Thompson Road Repair
Contact: Mike Pullen, Public Affairs Office, 503-988-6804,

mike [dot] j [dot] pullen [at] multco [dot] us <mike [dot] j [dot] pullen [at] co [dot] multnomah [dot] or [dot] us>

N.W. Thompson Road slide repair begins

Multnomah County is using an innovative new product made by a local firm to repair a landslide that closed N.W. Thompson Road earlier this year. The road is expected to reopen by mid-December.

The landslide on the downhill side of the road threatened to erode the shoulder and eastbound traffic lane. Multnomah County has a small budget for emergency road repairs. Last winter’s heavier rainfall led to more and slides than in a typical year. The county lacked funds to repair all the slides. After researching several options, the county chose a product made by Maverick Solutions of Lake Oswego to repair the Thompson Road slide.

The repair creates layers of plastic netting covered with gravel and lined with bags of earth all tied together by a system of plastic connectors. The end result provides the stability of a conventional slide repair and allows the hillside edge to be re-planted, adding strength and environmental benefits.

The technology developed by Maverick Solutions has been used locally to stabilize banks of rivers as a flood control measure and is increasingly being used to repair landslides.

The damaged section of N.W. Thompson Road is in a rural area between N.W. Cornell Road and N.W. Skyline Blvd. Until the road reopens, through traffic should detour to N.W. Cornell Road and N.W. Skyline Blvd. Homes on N.W. Thompson Road can be accessed from N.W. Cornell and N.W. Skyline.

Multnomah County maintains N.W. Thompson Road and more than 300 miles of roads and bridges. For more information, visit www.multco.us/roads.

GOVERNMENT:

Have you ever wondered why the market value of your property goes down but the property taxes still increase?

That question and more are answered in a report released this month by the Multnomah County Tax Supervising and Conservation Commission (TSCC). The report, titled "A Recent History of Oregon's Property Tax System," focuses on how changes in the property tax system have affected Multnomah County taxing districts.

Copies of the 133-page report can be obtained by the calling the commission's office at 503-988-3054 or at http://tsccmultco.com/publications.html

OUR NEIGHBORS
Shirley M (Salstrom) Motz

December 8, 1934 - April 15, 2011

Obituary: Shirley M. Motz was born December 8, 1934 in Portland, Oregon and passed away April 15, 2011 in Portland, OR. Her Memorial Service was Saturday April 30, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. in Sunset Presbyterian Ch., Portland, OR.

FROM SKYLINE RIGDE NEIGHBORS WEBSITE - SRNPDX.ORG

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Listing of organizations and businesses herein does not imply any endorsement of SRN nor does it imply a lack of endorsement for similar organizations or businesses not included.

About the Newsline:

Skyline Rural Watch Newsline is a part of Skyline Ridge Neighbors (SRN) and has been produced since June 1994 as a means to communicate neighborhood information. The Newsline is produced by Laurel Erhardt (editor) with help from Miles Merwin, Libby Merwin, Sharon Barthmaier, and Sen Speroff.

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Publication date:

Wed, 11/30/2011