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The Neighborhood Association Board will be meeting right before our Neighborhood Social from 6:-6:30 p.m. at Piepers Cafe to talk about our budget and the end of the fiscal year. If you're into budgets feel free to join us but if you are more into drinking, eating and chit chatting with neighbors come to the social starting at 6:30 p.m. Here's the agenda June5MSAAgenda

Pedalpalooza! June 15th Come check out some amazing southeast parks and attractions! We'll start at Woodstock Park and ride up Harold Street, stopping off along the way at some of the mini-parks neighbors have created and looping over to Lents Park. We'll end back at Mt. Scott Park for a BBQ hosted by the Mt. Scott-Arleta Neighborhood Association. When:  Saturday, June 15th, starting at 4:00 Visit the Not-so-dirty-Harold Pedalpalooza Facebook page

Let your voice be heard about Foster Road! It's your best chance to make Foster Road into the place you would like it to be. Do not miss it! When:  Tuesday, June 4th, 6:00- 8:00 p.m. Where : Junior Achievement (7830 SE Foster Road). Learn about and comment on the investment strategy and the Foster Streetscape Plan: Foster Investment Strategy:  “The  Foster Corridor Investment Strategy  will be an action plan to improve the neighborhoods and commercial areas along Foster Road. At Open House #4 attendees will be able to review the Integrated West Foster Strategy and the Integrated East Foster Strategy.” Foster Streetscape Plan:  “The Portland Bureau of Transportation (PBOT) is working with community members to update the 2003  Foster Road Transportation and Streetscape Plan  prior to investing  $3.25  million on Foster Road from Powell to 90th Ave.”

Have you ever found yourself dodging that wayward branch at the last moment while walking or riding around the neighborhood? You can thank your neighbors when they finally get around to pruning those low-hanging branches - hopefully soon! The City will train and assist neighborhood volunteers (could be You) to prune Mt. Scott-Arleta’s street trees this summer (could be your tree).  At least two sessions are scheduled from 7-9pm:  June 27 at the SE corner of Mt. Scott Park, and  July 11 at Arleta School. Contact portlandearthcare (at) gmail.com if you know about needy overgrown trees or would like to help. A neighborhood "tree friend" is needed for the area south of Harold and west of 70th Ave to coordinate stewardship efforts for a possible third event. Could this be you? Many homeowners don’t know that they are responsible for the maintenance of street trees in front of their homes. The most noticeable offense is letting new growth "encroach" on the public Rig

WEDNESDAY JUNE 5th, 6:30 pm PIEPER CAFE (6504 SE Foster Rd) Come meet your neighbors and learn about your neighborhood association. There are a lot of fun projects happening in our neighborhood and we think you’ll want to know more about them... plus we’ll have snacks and drinks! visit the facebook event page

One cool thing about Multnomah County Libraries is that we make it easy for you to vote. Official ballot boxes are in every library, checked and emptied regularly by election officials. Drop off your ballots during any open hours. And guess what! We'll have election staff in the lobbies so that you can drop off your ballots on Monday, 5/20, even when the libraries are closed! (No coming in to pick up your holds or such, though. Not until 7/1 when we go back to being open every day.) Election day is the 21st... they have to be in by 8:00 p.m. or they don't count. So, count!

The Alley Allies team want your feedback on their new Alley Toolkit. A group of planning students from PSU's Toulan School of Planning are nearing completion of their workshop project sponsored by  Foster Green Ecodistrict  along with our neighborhood, Fo-Po, and Lents. The group, Mill Street Community Planning, is holding a public vetting of the new toolkit this Saturday morning May 18 at Bar Carlo from 10AM-Noon. Please drop by to check it out and offer your valuable feedback. There's more info on Mill Street's website and on Foster United . Go Alley Allies!

Howdy Neighbors, Once again it's that time of year. Get your spring cleaning on and bring that junk on down to our neighborhood clean up event! By bringing it to the neighborhood clean up you help support our Neighborhood Association but in addition you also save, gas, money, and time because you don't have to take it to the dump.  It's a WIN for everyone! Check out the flier to see what and what you can't bring and cost for car/truckload.

Happy May Day! Come hear both sides of Ballot Measure 26-151 that would require Portland to fluoridate drinking water.  Also, an update on the Portland Mercado and Board Elections!!! Wow, a jammed packed meeting.  Remember, in June our neighborhood meeting will be at Piepers Cafe. We'll send out reminders, don't you worry. May 2013 Agenda