Category Archives: Public Safety

>Civic Mart OLCC Board Hearing: SUCCESS

>Short version- The OLCC Board of Commissioners voted 4-0 to grant the Civic Food Mart a liquor license WITH the 4 current restrictions: 1) No sale of malt beverages larger than 24 ounces2) No fortified wines/malt beverages more than 6% … Continue reading

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>OLCC & Piedmont Meeting: Recap

>Today in the Fireside Room of the Peninsula Park Community Center 5 PNA board members, 10 residents, PPB Officer Lisa Clayton met with OLCC Executive Directory Stephen Pharo and 3 OLCC folks. Previous to the larger meeting the OLCC group … Continue reading

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>OLCC’s coming to Piedmont

>The director of the OLCC and their PR person will be at the Peninsula Park Community Center for a “talk” TOMORROW (April 15th) at 4:30pm to hear our concerns. ALL ARE INVITED TO ATTEND AND EXPRESS YOUR OPINION.

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>Civic Mart Liquor License – Update

>KGW’s Scott Burton did a real nice piece covering the issue we’re having with a belligerent OLCC and the Civic Food Mart…Video: http://www.kgw.com/video/video-index.html?nvid=235072Text: http://www.kgw.com/news-local/stories/kgw_041008_news_piedmont_debate.50d5de3a.html The KGW report summarizes information that is contained in the following post from our blog…http://blog.piedmontneighborhood.com/2008/04/olccwhat-hell-are-you-doing.html Note … Continue reading

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>Hit and Run – Did Anyone See It?

>Piedmont resident and editor of BikePortland.org has a write up of a hit and run involving a car and a bike that happened Thursday, April 3rd at 5:30pm in front of the Civic Food Mart on Rosa Parks Way. Last … Continue reading

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>OLCC…WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!?!

>MARK YOUR CALENDAR: APRIL 18TH, 9AM (location tba) The PNA has received the following from the OLCC… Just an FYI: this months Commission meeting is scheduled for Friday, April 18th at 9am. The only licensing matter for the Portland area … Continue reading

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>Shots Fired in Peninsula Park – Update

>The Portland Mercury has a write up on the February 19th incident in Peninsula Park where shots were fired and the windows of AJ Java were broken. …”It was just very real,” said Rohter. “Until then, we’d generally think loud … Continue reading

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>Civic Food Mart Liquor License – Update

>Well it looks like Chief Sizer is now on my christmas list! The PNA was given a copy of THIS letter from the City of Portland Bureau of Police to the Oregon Liquor Control Commission. Essentially the Chief of Police … Continue reading

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>Accessing Police Services

>At the last meeting this great booklet was passed out. It contains a wealth of information on accessing police and crime prevention services. It is titled Accessing Police and Crime Prevention Services. Click HERE to view the booklet (Warning…BIG PDF … Continue reading

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>Neighborhood Watch

>At the last PNA General meeting, Mary Tompkins of the City of Portland spoke about how to organize a neighborhood watch. Mary Tompkins provides 1.5 hrs of training for you and your neighbors and helps you organize your phone trees. … Continue reading

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