Announcements
General messages from the HAND board – reminders, notices, and updates for the neighborhood.
How this works
The board posts short announcements here as they come up – upcoming meetings, meeting changes, neighborhood updates, meeting minutes, and other general notices. For forwarded newsletters for HAND, see HAND Sharing Square instead.
Latest Announcements
HAND Neighbors & Safeway Draft Good Neighbor Agreement
After many months and meetings, a draft Good Neighbor Communication plan is close to completion. Please see draft at this link: HAND Safeway Draft Good Neighbor Communication Plan HAND board members will be discussing the draft at the next neighborhood meeting,...
Dine Out April 17, 18 & 19th for Piccolo Park
EAT DINNER, APRIL 17, 18 & 19 @ SUNSHINE TAVERN Dine out at Sunshine Tavern April 17, 18 or 19th and help us get a few steps closer to a drinking fountain installed at Piccolo Park! Sunshine Tavern will donate 10% of food sales from those nights to the Portland Parks...
Neighborhood Clean-Up, Saturday, April 21
Celebrate Earth Day weekend with a clean basement and garage!! Your donations to this event will go to support our efforts to get a drinking fountain installed at Piccolo Park this Summer. Bring your stuff to our annual neighborhood cleanup Saturday, April, 21. Drop...
City Budget Chopping Block = Buckman Pool? Neighbors Create Petition to Save It
Once again Buckman Pool is slated for closure as one of the proposed cuts to the Park Bureau's budget and once again the community is circulating a petition to keep Buckman Pool open. To sign the petition please go to --...
Next HAND Meeting, Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Hosford-Abernethy Neighborhood Development Association (HAND) Board Meeting Tuesday, March 20, 2012, 7:00 PM (Safeway meeting at 6:00) St. Philip Neri Church Paulist Center, St Paul Room 2408 SE 16th Avenue (and Division) Note: There will be no land use meeting...
Donate Now to Piccolo Park – Help Us Get a Drinking Fountain
Neighbors of HAND have organized a new group affectionately called, "Friends of Piccolo Park" with the hopes of raising $7,000 so that the parks bureau can install a new drinking fountain at the playground this summer. Many have already submitted donations to this...
Draft – HAND Meeting Minutes, Feb. 21, 2012
HAND Board Meeting 2/21/12 Meeting called to order at 7:05pm Introductions Announcements - Sue Pearce is our representative for the Portland Charter ongoing review process - Open house on police accountability tomorrow evening - Light rail open house upcoming Crime...
LIQUOR NOTICE
LIQUOR NOTICE
Rail Road Crossing Construction at 11th & 12th
In the link below is a notice of coming construction on 11th, 12th, and Milwaukie. Transportation officials strongly suggests anyone using 11th and 12th between Powell and Division during January look for alternate routes, especially during rush hours. There will be...
Hawthorne Safeway Store: Update on Neighborhood Concerns
March 2012 is the target date for the opening of the new Hawthorne Safeway store. For the past nine months during the construction process, HAND has continued to ask Safeway to: 1) participate in a “crime prevention through environmental design (CPTED)†review of...