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By Gail Curtis, Kingsley Community Garden  Volunteer Manager  Anyone interested in a Kingsley Community Garden plot should submit their name via the Plot Request Form – https://www.portland.gov/parks/community-gardens/request  There is no sign-up deadline. However, people who sign up now will likely be offered a plot as there are currently four open plots and a short waitlist. … Continue reading Several plots
available at Kingsley Community Garden

By Richard Barker Following up on the article from our last issue, at the January 5th LNA meeting the Board approved the purchase and installation of replacement trees up to a limit of $2000. The funds will be used from our Legacy Projects Fund. We are currently researching what type of trees to plant as… Continue reading Trees to be replaced in median 

President: • Preside at all board and general membership meetings • Prepare proposed meeting agendas.  • Represent the LNA, or designate others, on committees and    commissions  • Be the alternate delegate to the Neighborhood      West‑Northwest Review Board. • Approve expenditures of LNA funds, along with the Treasurer. Secretary:  • Attend General membership meetings… Continue reading Open board positions

By Sarah Taylor We hope that many of our readers have had an opportunity to enjoy the new river trail on NW 107th in Linnton. This trail offers lovely views of the Willamette River, the St. John’s Bridge and the Portland Harbor. This trail connects to the State’s Willamette Greenway Trail system as you head… Continue reading Update on Willamette River Greenway
easement effort

By Brian Hoop A long planned formal entrance to Forest Park is now under construction just south of Linnton off St. Helens Rd./Hwy 30 on the old NW St. Helens Rd. The current project, expected to be completed in Spring 2022, is limited to improvements to the trailhead access, a parking lot for 30 cars,… Continue reading New entrance to Forest Park under construction 

Please join NET and Firewise volunteers for a half-day to remove debris and help create defensible space around a Linnton home.  Contact Shawn Looney: looneysters@gmail.com EARTH DAY NEIGHBORHOOD LITTER CLEANUP  SATURDAY, April 23  | 9:00 AM Meet at Linnton Community Center 10614 NW St. Helens Rd.  Do your part for Earth Day – Help keep Linnton’s… Continue reading Get Involved with Linnton projects!

By Sarah Taylor Like many institutions, we who live along old river road, have much to gain by understanding the origin of our town’s name. Our town, like other places in Oregon comes from one Senator Linn, who never stepped foot in Oregon. He was a doctor and senator from Missouri who was best known… Continue reading Examining the racist roots of our town’s and neighborhood association’s name, as we look forward

From Oregon Dept of Transportation Northwest Bridge Avenue on the east side of the St. Johns Bridge will remain closed until late March or early April 2022 for emergency repairs addressing rockfall problems. The road has been closed since January 5 by rockfalls and ODOT crews have been evaluating the slope above the road. Early… Continue reading NW Bridge Ave. may be closed into March or April due to rockfall

By Nancy Hiser, LNA Environmental Committee The Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub industries, the cluster of tank farms along the Willamette River in Linnton, are required to report their toxic air emissions to the state Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) like all other emitting industries.  Linnton Neighborhood Association (LNA) has recently written a letter of… Continue reading Push made for Oregon DEQ to require better testing of tank farm toxic air emissions

By Nancy Hiser, LNA Environmental Committee  Linnton Neighborhood Association (LNA) first wrote an opposition statement about the Critical Energy Infrastructure (CEI) Hub threat in the fall of 2018, asking the tank farms here to relocate to geographically diverse and stable bedrock, based on then-current knowledge of our community’s huge risks and the city’s and state’s… Continue reading Call for Action on Critical Energy Infrastructure HUB by City and County Officials