Preserving Our Neighborhood Treasure

by Suzanne Briggs, Rose City Bluff Restoration Volunteer. 

We have a wildlife treasure in our midst; and our aim is to enhance and preserve it!

This wildlife corridor adjoins the north edge of the Rose City Golf Course and parallels NE Sacramento St.  For the last five years an ever-growing group of neighborhood residents has worked to remove invasive plants, such as Himalayan Blackberries, and to replace them with appropriate native plants.  Our goal is to restore the area to its native ecology and to provide a refuge for native plants and animals, and to provide an easy walk for area residents to enjoy the beauty of nature.

To date we have cleared large swaths of blackberry brambles and invasive plants, spread woodchips in four designated areas and planted more than 800 native plants.  Many of these young plants are marked with bamboo stakes.

We have achieved this by informally gathering every Sunday morning for two hours. In 2023, in addition to this weekly work, we plan to schedule work parties on the third Sunday of each month to tackle specific projects; and to sponsor special educational events e.g.  Native Plant Education Walks, Native Planting Days and Birding Education Walks.

The Rose City Bluff Restoration is an informal volunteer organization that is working in partnership with Portland Parks and Recreation, Central NE Neighborhood Coalition and East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation. To learn more about the Rose City Bluff Restoration activities, check out our website:  rosecitybluff.org or contact us at rosecitybluff@gmail.com.

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Rose City Park Neighborhood Association Survey

Rose City Park Neighborhood Association Survey

The board of Rose City Park Neighborhood Association would love your feedback!

What do you want from your neighborhood association?

In the past, some of our activities have been:

– Hosting community events like concerts in the park and ebike rides
– Organizing the neighborhood yard sale
– Improvement actions like mulching of trees in Frazier park and neighborhood cleanups
– Advocacy and interfacing with the City of Portland about transportation, development, and park projects
– Hosting election forums
– Organizing neighborhood emergency response plans

We want to hear from you!

Are these effective ways to bring value to our community?

What else could our neighborhood association do to bring value to your life in Rose City Park?

Please click this link and submit your ideas!

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Please join us: Portland Schools Community Care Day Saturday, August 27th, 9am-12pm

Hello Rose City Park Neighbors,

We are days away from our first day of the 2022-2023 school year, and we can’t wait! Please join our school communities and neighbors on Saturday, August 27th, 9am-12pm, to help prepare our playgrounds and school grounds, as part of our community’s annual “Project Community Care” day.  Activities will be held at Rose City Park Elementary, Roseway Heights Middle School, and all other schools in our district.

Project Community Care is an annual tradition established more than 20 years ago, and disrupted by COVID-19. This is a wonderful opportunity for families to lend a hand, beautify their school grounds, and meet one another!

Please visit pps.net/communitycare for more information.

We hope to see you there!

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RCPNA General Community Meeting – Tuesday 3-30-2021

Join the meeting on Zoom or watch it livestreamed on YouTube.  Open a YouTube session and search for “rcpna video”.  You will also find video of previous meetings at that site.

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