UPDATE

DENVER AVENUE

STREETSCAPE

Recently, the Portland City Council,PDC and the Urban Forestry Com-mission adopted the recommendationsof the Downtown Kenton DenverStreetscape Plan. Construction of theimprovements is slated to begin in2009. The Plan outlines improvementsalong North Denver Avenue, fromInterstate Avenue south to WattsStreet, including widened sidewalks,street trees, lighting, benches, stormwater planters and public art.

These improvements willhelp to revitalize the historicKenton business district— fondly known asDowntown Kenton.

Now that a preferred design concepthas been selected, the team iscurrently reﬁning the details of theschematic design through the designand engineering phase. With the help of the Regional Arts &Culture Council, artist and public artconsultant Valerie Otani was broughtonto the design team and to makerecommendations for themes, scale of public art, and potential location of artinstallations. Because downtown Ken-ton is surrounded by family housing and parks, a key conceptual element isthat the art be interactive and engag-ing, creating a family-friendly tone.To learn more about the design andconstruction process, visit with a PDCrepresentative at the Kenton Neigh-borhood Association Meeting andOpen House on June 11th. See eventdetails in calendar at left.

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SUMMER

events

June

Wed., June 11, 6-8 pm

ANNUAL KNA GENERAL MEETING

Kenton Masonic Temple8130 Denver Ave.Bring the entire family and enjoya free dinner and open house.See reverse side for details.

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Sat., JUNE 14, 9 am-noon

GRAFFITI CLEANUP

To volunteer,contact Havilah Ferschweiler at:503-823-4098. More details on back.

July

Wed., JULY 30, 5:30-8 pm

KENTON “COOKOUT”

Historic Kenton Firehouse8105 N. Brandon St.Po Shine’s Café de la Soul will becookin’ up the bar-b-cue! Meet yourneighbors and enjoy tasty food too.See reverse side for details.

August

Thurs., AUG. 7, 6:30-10:00 pm

OUTDOOR MOVIEKENTON PARK

Presenting...The Spielberg classic: ET.Bring a picnic to this family-friendlyevent. Ride your bike and be partof the fun! Movie starts at dusk.

Thank you Portland Parks and Recreationand the City of Portland’s Neighborhood Grants Program for sponsoring this event.

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TUES., AUGUST 12, 6-8 pm

KENTON PARK CONCERT

Presenting...The Pete Krebs Gypsy Band.Bring a picnic and enjoy the music!

Thank you Kathy Armstrong for spearheading our Kenton Concerts and to PIRand Friends of PIR for sponsoring them.

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TUES., AUGUST 26, 5-8 pm

KENTON PARK CONCERTAND COMMUNITY INFO FAIR

Learn about local businesses andorganizations, bring a picnic andenjoy The Lewi Longmire Band.

See previous concert credits.

GET YOURCARTSA ROLLIN’

BRENDA RAY SCOTT

Portland’s new residential recycling system gets its carts a rollin’—recycling carts that is. Now being introduced,these new blue recycling roll carts andgreen yard debris carts will be deliv-ered by haulers in the Kenton neigh-borhood June and July.

Here’s how it works:

Customers keep one of their yellowrecycling bins to use for glass recycling.Slap a label on that says glass. Thesecond yellow bin you may keep for your own use. The really groovy newsis that you will put all the other recy-clables into the new roll cart, exceptglass and motor oil. Better yet, youcan put plastic tubs such as yogurt andmargarine containers, small plasticbuckets and plastic nursery pots intothe new cart. No need to roll out thecart every collection day if it’s not full.Don’t forget, glass goes in a separate yellow bin. Sorry, plastic bags are notaccepted at all in curbside recycling!You can still recycle plastic bags atneighborhood collection points, suchas a grocery stores or recycling centers.

For more information:

Visit the websitewww.portlandonline.com/osd/carts.

The new four-bin system separates garbage, yard debris, glass and other recyclables.

KENTON CONNECTS WITH RESIDENTS

KNA INTERIM chair—

Vicky Kirk

It is my pleasure to bring you the ﬁrst Kenton Connect newsletter! This is just the beginning of our effort to communicate with residents on important issues facing our community. I’d like topersonally thank the 32 Kenton Walkers who volunteered to deliver this issue to your door step— our ﬁrst ever canvassing system in Kenton!

Four months ago I became the Kenton Neighborhood Association (KNA) Interim Chair. Within this time I have createda monthly resident email and increased the subscriber list from 50 to 300 residents, created the Kenton Connect quarterlynewsletter, produced a marketing campaign to support the restaurants on Denver Avenue and most importantly created theKenton Walkers delivery group—which will hopefully be my most important legacy as chair.I encourage you to peruse our summer events column, let your voice be heard at the new library site meeting May 29th, andmost importantly attend the Annual KNA General Meeting and Open House on June 11th! And please, take time to readthe “Kenton Menu” delivered with your newsletter and support our amazing new restaurants on Denver! See you soon.

LAST CHANCE TO WEIGH IN ON THENEW LIBRARY SITE

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Help Kenton write a new chapter inits book! On

Thursday, May 29that 7:00 pm

join Commissioner Jeff Cogen, Director of Libraries MollyRaphael, and the real estate man-ager Mike Sublett at the

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(8130 N. Denver Avenue indowntown Kenton) as they requestpublic feedback on the two finalist sitesfor the new North Portland library.The search for a library site in Ken-ton has been narrowed from threelocations to two—the site at 2133 N. Argyle and the site at 8226 N. Den- ver. Because both sites offer benefits,Commissioner Cogen would like thecommunity to weigh in one more time.Please join us to hear the presentationand share your opinions at this finalstage.

The winner will beannounced at the Kenton Neigh-borhood Association (KNA) Gen-eral Meeting

, Thurs., June 11th alsoat the Masonic Temple!

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Join our walking volunteers!Help us deliver newsletters and getsome exercise too!Each volunteer delivers to their smallsection of Kenton. It takes only1.5 hours, four times per year.We need alternates: emailinfo@historickenton.com, or call Vickyat 503.539.2199.