The Weekly Catch Parks & Recreation Major Bank of America Grant Enhances PP&R’s Mobile Lunch + Play Program PP&R Website Bank of America Funds Portland Parks Program Jim Redden in the Portland Tribune Two Local Nonprofits Announced as Grant Recipients for Portland – Area Programs The Skanner News Gabriel Park Playground Area Getting an Upgrade Bill Gallagher in the SW Community Connection A New Parks Policy Threatens to Hurt Portland’s Poorest Residents Alex Zielinski in the Portland Mercury Dinners in Parks OPB’s Think Out Loud City of Portland Takes First Step to Fix O’Bryant Square Lindsay Nadrich in KGW News Portland Accepting Bids to Demolish O’Bryant Square, Downtown’s Notorious “Paranoid Park” Henry Latourette Miller in Willamette Week Environmental Services 3000 Gallons of Sewage Spills into Willamette River in Portland Associated Press Staff in KGW News Transportation Portland Leaf Pickup Day Starts Friday Joe English in KATU News Blumenauer Bridge Breaks Ground; I-84 Bike, Pedestrian Crossing to Open in 2021 Andrew Theen in The Oregonian Blumenauer Bicycle and Pedestrian Bridge Coming in 2021 Elise Haas in KOIN 6 News Work Starts on New I – 84 Bike and Pedestrian Bridge KATU News Staff November Meetings Will Be Crucial for SW MAX Bill Gallagher in the SW Community Connection Police ‘Girl Cops Are Awesome’ Event Engages Portland Youth Koin 6 News Staff Community Can Offer Input on Portland’s Negotiations for New Police Union Contract at Two Forums Maxine Bernstein in The Oregonian Wheeler and Hardesty to Host Police Union Contract Meetings Jim Redden in the Portland Tribune Office of Community & Civic Life SE ‘Code Change’ Meeting: Heat – But Little Light David F. Ashton in The Sellwood Bee Neighborhood Watch No Longer Part of Portland’s Plan Bill Gallagher in the Southwest Community Connection Special Election Portland Voters Handily Approve Four Ballot Measures in Election with Feeble Turnout Aaron Mesh in Willamette Week ‘It’s Delicious Water’: Bull Run Measure Aims to Protect Watershed Jennifer Dowling & News Staff in KOIN 6 News Portland Voters Approve Spending Ratepayer Money in Water System Aid to Other Cities Everton Baily Jr. in The Oregonian Portland Approves Both Water Measures in Tuesday’s Special Election Rebecca Ellis in OPB News In Other News Shop Local 2019 Portland Mercury Staff Could Consistent Outreach Impact Most Entrenched Homeless Camps? City Says Yes. Molly Harbarger in The Oregonian Incentives for More Multifamily Housing Before the City Council on Wednesday Jim Redden in the Portland Tribune Portland City Council to Hold Meeting on Climate Change Elise Haas in KOIN 6 News Portland City Council Goes on The Road to Discuss Climate Action KATU News Staff Final Four Clean Energy Fund Committee Members Appointed Jim Redden in the Portland Tribune Portland Water Bureau Could Lose Big Customers as It Builds $1 Billion Filtration Plant Amelia Templeton in OPB News Portland Mayor Wheeler Hears Livability Concerns in Lents Zane Sparling in the Portland Tribune