Sumner Association of Neighbors (SAN)

The last Saturday of each month is the day the Sumner Association of Neighbors (SAN) in NE Portland goes out on litter patrol! Join us tomorrow — August 28 — for some instant gratification as we beautify our streets.

Where and when: We meet at 10AM at the CNN office, 4415 NE 87th (side door of the fire station), between Sandy and Prescott. We supply orange vests, rubber gloves, garbage bags and those pickup pincher tools. We go for two hours max, and dump anything we collect in the CNN dumpster.

I toured the neighborhood last weekend setting up signs for the garage sale, and found a few hotspots that need our attention:

• North end of NE 91st (near NE Sumner)
• North end of NE 89th (near Killingsworth)
• North end of NE 82nd (at NE Webster)
• Around the intersection of NE 82nd and NE Prescott
• Along NE Going St
• Along NE Prescott St
• NE Sandy around NE Prescott

In other words: There is no shortage of areas to cover this month.

Last month, with just a few of us, we covered the following areas: NE Sandy from NE 87th to NE 85th; NE Prescott and NE Going from NE 82nd to NE Sandy; NE 87th from NE Sandy Blvd to NE Emerson.

Picking a name for the ‘litter patrol’

At our most recent neighborhood meeting, the topic was raised for a permanent name for the litter patrol. ‘Litter patrol’ was just a description more than a name for the group who does the beautification.

An long list of possible names was shared by our neighbor Heather (who wrote the essay ‘Inside litter‘), and here are the vote-getting contenders:

• Sumner Pride – three votes
• Sumner Litter Patrol – two votes
• Sumner Litter Zappers – two votes
• Sumner Litter Busters – one vote
• Sumner Rubbish Urchins – one vote

What’s your opinion? If I can figure out how to post a web poll on this site, I’ll do it. (I may have to set it up on Survey Monkey.) Leave a comment, or email us at sumner.neighborhood@gmail.com.