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The Mental Health Association of Portland, along with Metro, have created an online survey to collect opinions and ideas about a new memorial space at Lone Fir Cemetery. Input from the mental health community is being solicited NOW. Click Here to take our survey One public meeting has already been held to collect community input. […]
From the Portland Mercury, September 25 2008 Soon, up to 15 people who have committed violent crimes will be moving into one house in the Ardenwald-Johnson Creek neighborhood, on the edge of Southeast Portland. Neighbors in Ardenwald-Johnson Creek are, understandably, upset. The controversial new residents are the future patients of Balfour House, a planned healthcare […]
METRO is our regional government which in part manages pioneer cemeteries, including the Lone Fir Cemetery, located in inner SE Portland. For over one hundred years Lone Fir Cemetery has been the resting place for hundreds of patients of the Hawthorne Asylum. These graves are unmarked, relatively unknown, and until recently were rudely covered with […]
From the Oregonian, September 18 2008 Jaws dropped in the Legislature’s Joint Ways and Means Committee today when budget-writers heard that the Oregon State Hospital needs 1,000 additional staff for the new mental hospital in Salem. The estimated price: $124 million. The Legislature had agreed to spend $458.1 million to replace the dilapidated 125-year-old state […]
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