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Summer is a great time for hill and marina parties!  We hope to recruit volunteers to organize these picnics and help you advertise them! Contact: Sarah Taylor at sarahsojourner@mac.com Volunteers needed to help research and respond to Land Use Notices generated by the city and DEQ. Great for people who like to see what’s behind City… Continue reading Announcements

By Sarah Taylor As part of the yearly cycle of the neighborhood association, we need to review the by-laws to make sure they are easy to use and implement and that they reflect our current vision and knowledge. For example, our awareness of local democracy, elections, equity and climate have changed as well as our… Continue reading By-laws Review Team

By Nancy Hiser Our Neighborhood Association received a public notice recently about McCall Oil’s request for expansion that includes10 new rail car spaces and new pipelines into the Willamette. A family business, McCall has been in Linnton for 80 years—well before the seismic vulnerability here was understood. However, now we know the ages of tanks… Continue reading No to McCall Oil’s 

By Brian Hoop Trimet responded to a letter the Linnton Neighborhood Association submitted last fall advocating for continued bus service along St. Helens Road. The neighborhood letter was in response to Trimet’s Forward Together report last fall. The project was an attempt to assess how they should adjust public transit service in response to COVID… Continue reading Linnton bus service spared for now – Long-term options

By Nancy Hiser Literally, have some cash in your cache. With ATMs and credit card machines most likely not functioning immediately after a disaster, it’s recommended that some good old fashioned paper currency, in small bills, and coins be included in your neighborhood cache. And put some in your personal cache, too!

By Sarah Taylor Walter Cole was born in 1930 in a small, company house in Linnton. He lived there throughout his childhood going to Linnton grammar school and then Lincoln. His father worked in a mill for a dollar a day.  He lived in the Yugoslavian neighborhood in a town composed of many immigrant communities.… Continue reading Honoring Darcelle

By Sarah Taylor Everyone in Linnton is invited to participate in Linnton Neighborhood Association meetings and activities. However, State and City rules require that people formally join an organization to be a member. Being a member means you get to vote on neighborhood issues, help elect neighborhood association leadership and run for the Board of… Continue reading May membership drive

By Brian Hoop Just announced – Tentative – Save the Date. Saturday, May 20 – 10:30am at LCC A community forum will be held to discuss community concerns about the Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub with the Multnomah County Commission and several members of Oregon’s U.S. Congressional delegation on Saturday, May 20, TIME??? at the… Continue reading Join Linnton forum with County commissioners and U.S. Congress members

By Nancy Hiser Our LNA advocacy group, Linnton Speaks Out, is contacting the Bureau of Development Services and McCall Oil this month opposing McCall’s proposed expansion. More than 40 advocates and allies are making Linnton’s voices heard on important issues. Members take a few minutes monthly to send an email, a letter, or make a… Continue reading Linnton Speaks OutAbout McCall Oil 

By Sarah Taylor It had never occurred to me after living decades in Linnton, that I could walk down by the river but there we were watching Darcelle get out of a limousine with the mayor and lead us down 107th to the river.  There was a proposal to make a large waterfront park with… Continue reading Walking to the River with Darcelle