Everclear in E.C. park tonight

Concerts and more concerts!

Last night, Toque Libre entertained the neighborhood with their acoustic Latin tunes. Good turnout, and lots of dancing, despite the hot, HOT weather. 

Ecopalooza

Coming up tonight, EVERCLEAR will be performing in Elizabeth Caruthers - Ecopalooza is a benefit concert for SOLVE, a local nonprofit cleaning up Oregon beaches. That's right, the concert begins at 2:30 with a group of local bands. We will get a nice bluegrass warmup until Everclear takes the stage at 7:30.

Fences set up early this morning

Stage setup begins

For those of you concerned about noise (it is difficult getting a baby... or yourself to bed, with a rock concert going on right outside your bedroom), they tell me the band will wrap up by 9:00.

On another note, how did we not know this was going on this weekend? I don't recall seeing any notices about it, although I looked back and did find a mention of it in the August e-Current. At any rate, enjoy the change in weather, enjoy the entertainment, enjoy the outdoors this weekend!

Update - Photo from the pre-show:

Roman Holiday Rain-Out

The progression of tonight's Movie Night in the Park (Elizabeth Caruthers Park) below...

7:30 - Staking out spots, enjoying the nice evening, picnic-ing

8:00 - spots are filling in, band is playing

 8:30 - Sunset

 8:40 - Uh oh a few folks run for cover from the rain

Cider Summit Portland - take 2

Cider Summit Portland lands in Elizabeth Caruthers Park this Saturday, 11am-7pm.

Tickets are $20 in advance and $25 (cash) at the door.  For details, visit: www.cidersummitnw.com

This is the 2nd annual event for Cider Summit NW and their foray into Portland.  For more clips of last years's inaugural event, see my post from June 2011.

Cider Summit NW 2011

And remember, dogs are welcome to attend!

Park Market, Park Petiquette

In other park-related news, the new South Waterfront Farmers Market starts tomorrow!

When: Thursday, June 14, 3:00-7:00pm
Where: E.C. Park across from Umpqua Bank

More info from South Waterfront Community Relations - Vendor line-up:

• Produce:  Thompson Farms
• Produce:  Little Gnome Farms
• Smoked Salmon:  Columbia River Smoked Salmon
• Bakery:  Pearl Bakery
• Creamery:  Alsea Acre Goat Cheese
• Charcuterie:  Olympic Provisions
• Honey and Skincare:  Mickelberry Gardens
• Gelato:  Gelato Meistro
• Prepared Food:  The Hummus Stop
• Hard Apple Cider:  Wandering Aengus Ciderworks
• Hot Food:  Renaissance Wood Fired Pizza
• Hot Food:  Coonhound Crepes

For the Dog Walkers - some new signs popped up in Elizabeth Caruthers today:

Waterfront happenings

Goslings are cute! 

 Construction on the east side of the river, light rail project (South Waterfront in the background):

 New OHSU building on Moody Ave - foundation is in:

Improvement to Slippery Walkways

The treacherous Elizabeth Caruthers Park walkways which I wrote about in November have been given a surface-roughening treatment. I did a test this week and found the slip-factor greatly improved.

Before:

E.C. Park - November 2011

 After:
If you look closely, you can see the marks where the wood has been roughened to offer more traction and grip.

E.C. Park - April 2012

E.C. Park - April 2012

This seems to be very effective in the wet, rainy conditions. Please continue to be cautious, especially if there is frost and ice.

Hurray for the Portland Parks crew for addressing this issue!

Caution: Slippery Walkways

Beautiful but hazardous?

This is just a pedestrian safety alert about the slippery wooden pathways in Elizabeth Caruthers Park this time of year. A friend of mine slipped and fell last week, and I heard reports from several others. When I scoped it out this weekend, it was not raining, but the frost was still on the shaded paths at noon, and they were indeed very slippery.

12pm on Saturday

Mystery photo contest #2

Well, this is a different kind of mystery photo contest. The mystery is: What is This Guy Doing To the Granite Slab in E.C. Park?

The wood carpet was rolled in this morning, and a guy in a white van started doing some kind of work with an electric power tool. (I thought maybe he was etching his initials in but checked later and no sign of that.)

Here's a picture of the stone after he finished. I'm sure there must be a second part of this production coming soon.

Does anyone know what he is doing? 

New photos added on Friday:

It looks like he just removed and replaced the center slab. Now working on re-cementing it.