Neighborhood Coalition Gets Cash to Clean Up Trash

A coalition of NE Portland neighborhood groups received a grant from the city of Portland for up to $90-thousand dollars in cleanup funds. The year-long pilot project will contract to add a full-time employee to clean-up a 1-square mile area in the Elliot, Lloyd, and Central Eastside Industrial areas. Cleanup will include picking up trash and needles generated by the city’s homeless and heroin addicted. If successful, the Office of Neighborhood Involvement hopes to replicate the program throughout the city. Read more.