🌱Portland Joins Rose Quarter Project + Street Response Team In Demand

It's another Friday in this party place we call Portland! Three cheers for Friday. Here's what's going on today.

First, today's weather:

We've got another gorgeous day with sunny skies and a high of 84.

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Here are the top five stories today in Portland:

1. The Built for Zero movement, aiming to reduce the number of homeless, continues to make strides in Portland. Built for Zero brings community partners together to pool information from those living on the streets. They take this information to help identify trends in that community and disseminate resources accordingly. Portland, Gresham and Multnomah County joined the initiative last year. Even as the movement gains support, however, there is concern around its desire for a list of names of homeless individuals. (KOIN.com)
2. The Portland City Council signaled Wednesday it may be ready to rejoin the I-5 Rose Quarter Project with the Oregon Department of Transportation. The city walked away from the project in 2020 after one of the community groups involved, the Albina Vision Trust, walked away after they said ODOT's vision for the project would not benefit the historic Black community. But after months of negotiating, Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty said the new I-5 Rose Quarter Project would go a long way for racial justice. The interstate split the historically Black Albina neighborhood in the 1960s and now ODOT says this updated project will literally reconnect it by building caps over I-5 that can be built on. The caps would reconnect North Hancock Street to North Flint Avenue. (KATU)
3. Back in 2020, Portland voters approved a host of measures designed to protect tenants, such as requiring landlords to provide renters upon move-in with an inventory of property — like appliances, fixtures or equipment — that would be covered by their security deposit. Next week, Portland city commissioners will vote on whether or not to keep those protections in place. This vote was triggered by landlords Janet Newcomb and Jerry Mason, along with apartment industry group Multifamily NW, suing over the rule. Among the issues raised in the lawsuit were complaints that the ordinances were too vague and didn’t inform landlords of how to comply with the new rules. (OregonLive)
4. There's no denying that the Portland Street Response team is popular. Maybe just a little bit too popular. It seems that they are already overwhelmed with demand just three months into its citywide launch. “[The first 3 months have] been incredibly busy. We’ve gone from zero to 60 overnight it feels like,” PSR program manager Robyn Burek said. Burek said staffing and meeting the demand are by far their biggest challenges, but she’s optimistic that with time and more staff, the agency can meet its goals of going 24/7 and handling all calls by October with 58 full-time employees. (KATU)
5. On June 20, the political action committee Everyone Deserves Safe Shelter returned over $350,000 in contributions from donors, including real estate developers Killian Pacific and Schnitzer Properties, among other powerhouses. Everyone Deserves Safe Shelter is the political action committee formed this spring to support a ballot initiative proposed by People for Portland, the advocacy group that sought to reroute most of a Metro tax measure meant for supportive housing instead to emergency shelter. The returns come after People for Portland failed to produce a ballot initiative that would be up to legal snuff for the November ballot. (Willamette Week)

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Today in Portland:

• Pedalpalooza is still in full swing and tonight they're having their Bad B!tch B!ke Club! DJ, Dancing, and Debauchery are encouraged. There will be prizes for best dressed, best Vogue performance, and baddest bike. They will meet at 7:30 at Laurelhurst Park to dance and party! Then the ride leaves at 8:30 p.m.
• Come to The Aimsir Distilling Company in NE Portland for their Midsummer Party. Inspired by the Scandinavian Midsummer tradition-- a time to celebrate light, warmth, and connection to nature. Andy Robinson, Aimsir's head distiller, is excited to release his well-crafted passion project, the Vaettir Aquavit, a traditional Scandanavian spirit. Register online for this free event. 4 - 8 p.m.
• Join the West Coast Grocery Company for a watch party for The Great American Recipe with Portland's own contestant, Christina McAlvey! Join Christina and others to watch the first episode, eat one of her featured recipes, and support the Portland Food Project, a local food non-profit through a charity raffle and food donations! Register online for this free event. 6 - 9 p.m.
• Listen to others tell their most intimate secrets at a live reading event at Rose City Book Pub. Presented by the Hermetic Order of Clandestine Urban Scribes (AKA HOCUS), they will enter into their third year with a confession-themed event. Curated readings, a few choice anonymous confessions, and absolution for all your literary sins! Register online for this free event. 7:30 - 9 p.m.
• If you're looking for a hoedown, you'll find it at the Starday Tavern and their Big Honky Tonk Show and Dance. Featuring classic country band Countryside Ride! From the plunking stand-up bass, to the swinging, minimalist drums, to the crisp, plucky Telecaster twang, to the love-sick croon and hootin' hollers, Countryside Ride is as timeless and sturdy as their vernacular. Showtime is 9 p.m.

From my notebook:

• Portland Audubon: "Big news! On June 17, the Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife Commission (ODFW) took a major and long overdue step forward in reforming trapping regulations in the state. After a marathon hearing that extended more than three hours, t..." (Portland Audubon via Instagram)
• Do you like adorable little kittens? Of course you do. That's why you should look at Cat Adoption Team's Kitten Palooza. It's THE kitten adoption event of the year. During this event, they’ll have about 100 kittens for adoption — all in one place! Kitten Palooza is busy, fun, and full of kittens and people! For your safety and comfort, we are offering entrance to the adoption event by appointment only. You’ll need a pre-approved application and appointment to meet and adopt at Kitten Palooza 2022. (Cat Adoption Team)
• The YouTube channel RMTransit is obsessed with public transportation. But, then again, so am I. This video explores Portland's transit system; the good, the bad and the ugly. (YouTube)
• More than 200,000 Oregon workers will receive $600 checks from the state as soon as this week. Oregon lawmakers in March approved the one-time stimulus payments for certain low-income workers. The payments will go to Oregonians who claimed the Earned Income Tax Credit in 2020, a tax break for low-income working households, and lived within the state in the last six months of that year. (The Oregonian)
• If you haven't gotten a chance to get downtown to see Mike Bennett's creation Dinolandia, the Unipiper has you covered. Here's a few pics of the exhibit to give you a peak as to what it's like. Enjoy! (Instagram)
• I shared news of the viewing party going on tonight at The West Coast Grocery Company, but you may have never heard of the PBS series The Great American Recipe or Portland home cook Christina McAlvey. She originally grew up in Saginaw, Michigan, and was taught to cook by her Filipino immigrant parents. The show she'll be appearing on, “The Great American Recipe”, is designed, like such cooking shows as “Taste the Nation,” to celebrate the multicultural influences in American cooking. Each week, the contestants will cook in two rounds. One cook will be sent home at the end of each episode, and at the end of the competition, the winner will have one of their recipes featured on the cover of “The Great American Recipe Cookbook.” (The Oregonian)

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Pedalpalooz! Kitten Palooza! We've got more Paloozas than we know what to do with! But that's Portland for you. There's always something going on. The weather is going to heat up this weekend, so keep yourselves, and your pets, cool. I'll be back tomorrow and let you know a little about what it'll be like. Ta Ta for now.

— Dominic Anaya

About me: Doctor, educator and now a writer/artist, I'm just chillin' in Portland, OR with my wife, our ferrets, our chickens and our goats.

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