Bridgeton may be Portland's
best-kept secret
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Welcome to the Water!Welcome to Bridgeton! Dating to the early 1900s, Bridgeton was once a thriving fishing and farming community. The Bridgeton neighborhood of today continues to be a unique and viable assortment of floating homes, condos, historic homes, and businesses.
Positioned upon the levee of the North Portland Harbor channel, in Portland, Oregon, Bridgeton feels like a removed beach village well within Portland city limits. The smallest of all Portland neighborhoods, with under 1,000 residents, Bridgeton may be Portland's best-kept secret. We welcome you to our friendly community, where neighbors wave to each other, and friends are made easily. Come experience Bridgeton Neighborhood. BNA Board of Directors 2020Board Members
Tom Hickey, Chair, hickeyt+bna.pdx@gmail.com Matt Whitney, Treasurer, mattwhitney@comcast.net Bridget Bayer, Secretary, bnagreenteam@gmail.com Gorgy Gonzales, Events Chair, gorgyag@gmail.com Erik Molander, Land Use Chair, epmolander@gmail.com Walter Valenta, Land Use, walter@harbor-properties.com Jan Strand, Beautification, Jan@jestrand.com Paul Wargnier, pgwargnier@gmail.com Not Boring Board Members
Tom Hickey, BNA Board Chair
2017, 2018 member at large 2019, 2020 Board Chair Originally from: Eugene, Oregon Profession: Decorative Painting Contractor (semi-retired, but see me if you need any fancy paint) I was born in Eugene, and attended kindergarten at what is now the Multnomah Village Arts Center. However, my family moved east, and I grew up in the Alexandria, Virginia suburbs while my dad worked for the Commerce Department as a bureaucrat. I tried to come back to Oregon, but a year at OSU didn't take root, so I finished college in Virginia and settled down in Baltimore to marry and raise a family. Ann and I finally managed to return to Portland in 2014, having bought our floating home as a summer getaway in 2012, but two summers were enough to convince us that Portland had more to offer than Baltimore. We are delighted to live on the water and watch the river flow by. After three years of steady work on our fixer-upper, I decided to lift my head above the levee and join the BNA board. It seemed like a good way to get to know my neighbors. Boy, was that right. What I didn't realize was, there are real projects that need done – sometimes working with local bureaucracies, sometimes pushing back against them. I never thought that it would be so fascinating to see how the city government works. Don't forget the General Meeting on April 14, (provided we are virus-safe to do so), and these other events: -Spring Clean Up- Saturday May 16 9-2 pm -Sidewalk Sale- June (TBA) -Summer Block Picnic- July (TBA) -Portland Marathon Cheering Crowd- August (TBA) If you are interested in volunteering to help with any of these events (and meeting some great people), please send an email to Volunteers.BNA.PDX@gmail.com 
Matt Whitney, BNA Board Treasurer
Matt and Becky moved to our houseboat in Bridgeton in 1985. I have been involved with BNA since then and served on the BNA board since at least 1990, serving as Chair for 10 years and Co-chair for another half dozen years beyond that. Our major challenges and achievements during that time included the initiation, development and establishment of the Bridgeton Neighborhood Plan adopted by City Ordinance in 1997, developing a 10 block long traffic calming plan that substantially reduced speeders on Bridgeton Road and redesigning the dangerous Gantenbein / Marine Drive intersection. Ultimately however my greatest challenge was chairing Bridgeton’s 2007 opposition to the USACOE & MCDD plan to denude Bridgeton of all it’s street and levee trees. That effort and court battle finally resulted in a negotiated settlement that helped Bridgeton develop a good working relationship with the Corp and MCDD. Becky and I, with Zola, love Bridgeton and plan to live right where we are for the foreseeable future! Matt 
Bridget Bayer, BNA Secretary
Board member since 2015 I love living in a floating home at the foot of NE 1st Ave. with my husband, Captain Peter Wilcox and our scaredy-cat, Luna. We moved to the river in 2014 after finally realizing that our well-educated, fully grown children wouldn’t be returning to the big Irvington home we’d all shared for the past 20 years. We’d already kept our runabout, a 20’ fast boat (looks a bit like a wooden Boston whaler) on S. Channel docks for 5 years so already liked the Bridgeton water community. Our good friends Tom Kelly and Walter Valenta helped us find the perfect place to settle in for this next phase in our life. My work mostly involves helping main street associations build community through events. I write grants, manuals, organizational development tools, marketing promotions, reviews, yada yada, mostly, I write a lot. So, writing with a riverside view works well for me! Right now, it’s especially rewarding to work on the Inside Passage Decarbonization Project, working to change the way boaters and water communities protect and steward their environment. Peter and I voyage north, from Olympia to British Columbia and Alaska, on our 36’motor-sailor, sharing information and ideas about how to power petroleum free, on land and in boats, engaging people and communities about the many ways to eliminate toxins in our environment. I’m an organizer by nature so am pleased to help the BNA collect and track information. It’s been a pleasure helping to rejuvenate of our beloved entry triangle and starting the Green Team committee. I highly recommend volunteering for the BNA this year, especially if you never have before. It’s a wonderful group of individuals who help each other, help our community, be a warm and inviting place to live and play together! |
Latest NewsClick on these stories to get more details about what's happening in the Bridgeton Neighborhood.
Spring General Meeting - CancelledThe Spring General Meeting planned for Tuesday, April 14, at the Portland Yacht Club, has been postponed due to the Coronavirus emergency..
Bridgeton Neighbors Levee Upgrade ResponsesBNA Board MeetingBNA Board Meeting
March 10, 2020 6:30 - 8:30 PM Courtyard by Marriott Portland North, 1231 N Anchor Way, Portland, OR 97217, USA BNA Board MeetingBNA Board Meeting, February 11, 2020
6:30 - 8:30 PM Courtyard by Marriott Portland North, 1231 N Anchor Way, Portland, OR 97217, USA BNA Board Members will finalize the neighborhood response to Levee Feasibility Study Proposal. BNA Position on Neighborhood Association Code Change 3.96 proposalBNA Board submitted a letter against City Council accepting the proposed change to City Code 3.96. Full letter here.
Bridgeton Neighborhood Association Annual Fall Meeting - Oct 15
Join neighbors to get all the latest news & info. Presentation by OR Speaker of the House & district rep, Tina Kotek!
Winter Warm Clothes Collection Bring your extra coats, warm clothing and extra items to the BNA Winter Warm Clothes Collection at our Fall Annual Meeting 10/15/19. Donate good winter coats and warm clothes to support the kind of proactive, membership-based community, in NE Portland, providing shelter off the streets for 60 people a night since 2001. https://dignityvillage.org BNA Street SaleSpring Clean Up2019 Portland Community Insights SurveySpring General MeetingJoin the Bridgeton Neighborhood Association on April 23rd, 6:30-8:30 PM at at the Portland Yacht Club, 1241 NE Marine Dr.
Water Pollution Reporting
Garbage & Recycling updateNorth Portland Neighborhood Services ~ Sock DriveHello North Portland community,
As we all know, many Portlanders are living outside, despite continuing investments to keep and get people housed. We realize many of you already provide direct support to assist our most vulnerable neighbors daily. In this holiday season, North Portland Neighborhood Services invites you to donate new socks, and gently-used scarves, hats, gloves, and/or washable blankets. We will receive those items at our office. ANNUAL CITY SOCK DRIVE November 28, 2018 through December 19, 2018. . Your donations may be distributed to organizations identified by the Joint Office of Homeless Services, and/or North Portland locations, such as the St Johns Clothing Closet. Many locally-owned stores host sock sales after Thanksgiving, so please consider picking up an extra package as you do your holiday shopping. Donation boxes are/will be located: Historic Kenton Firehouse 2nd floor Please call 503-823-4099 or email mary@npnscommunity.org or doretta@npnscommunity.org when you are ready to drop off your donations. Thank you in advance,and thank you for all the great service you provide to the North Portland community. Happy Holidays, Tom, Mary and Doretta I will be attending the meeting on Monday, Dec. 3rd. If you have donations, I can deliver them to the Firehouse for you...just leave any items on my front porch at 402 N Bridgeton Rd and text me to let me know. Thank you! Susan JW, 503-939-8088. Celebrate The Season With Your BNA on December 11th...
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