What's New at SAVE OUR ELMS

SAVE OUR ELMS Receives BES Grant

SAVE OUR ELMS has been awarded a $33,000 grant from the City of Portland Bureau of Environmental Services to provide matching grants to homeowners to help defray costs of tree pruning IN LADD'S ADDITION ONLY. These funds, to be used over a three year period, are part of the East Side "Big Pipe" CSO sewer project targeting construction impact mitigation. SAVE OUR ELMS and BES will pay one half of the cost for sanitation and code-compliance pruning for street elm trees according to the proposed pricing schedule, and will pay a fixed subsidy for other species (on street frontage) in Ladd's Addition.

For more information you can contact :
Dave Kaplan
email: pruning@saveourelms.org

Street Tree Pruning Initiative - Winter 2008

Keeping our elm trees properly pruned is as important as inoculations and SAVE OUR ELMS is partnering with Treecology, Inc. to begin another pruning project in Ladd's Addition thist dormant season. We solicited bids from qualified aborists and Treecology Inc came in with the best group pricing.

SAVE OUR ELMS is able this year to extend a pricing discount with Treecology Inc. on sanitation pruning to all the street trees in Ladd's Addition

Detalils of the Ladd's Addition pruning program are finalized and you will see information on your doorknob very soon, or click on the link below to view a PDF of the flyer.

IIf you are interested in having your street tree pruned this winter, please send an email to : purning@saveourelms.org . Learn more about Treecology, Inc .

2008 Inoculations

June is Elm inoculation Month and the busiest time for SAVE OUR ELMS. Volunteers are needed throughout the city to inoculate the American Elms. Please go to the Calendar entry for June to fine the Inoculation locations, schedules and contact information.

2007 Spring Historic Home Tour A Great Success

Thank-you to everyone who helped make this years Home Tour such a great sucess. The Rhodies and Azeleas bloomed on time, the weather was perfect, and over two hundred people bought tickets to visit the twelve residences on this years tour.

To the volunteers who worked so hard to organize the event, the home owners who opened their homes to the public, the neighborhood businesses who support our efforts (especially Hankin's TrueValue Hardware and Palio Desert & Espresso, for handling the pre-event ticket sales) , here's a hardy pat on the back for a job well done.

Remember this is SAVE OUR ELMS major fund raising event for the year and that your donations are used to maintain the health of the mature American Elms planted along the streets of Ladd's Addition.

We had twelve residences on the tour this year and between ticket & souvenir sales and membership donations we brought in over $3,400.00.

We still have some SAVE OUR ELMS souvenirs left so if you are interested in purchasing something email Karen Farley at kfarely@saveourelms.org for details.

$ 10.00 - Ladd's Addition Map. Reproduction of Ladd's Properties sales map dated May,1922.
$ 5.00 - Ladd's Addition Glass 8 oz Coffee Mug.
$ 5.00 - Save Our Elms Etched Wine Glass

Inoculation Day Slide Show

2006 Slide Show

Here are photos taken during the annual SAVE OUR ELMS inoculation event in Ladd's Addition. On the morning of June 24th the volunteers gathered for orientation and instuctions. They then set out to inoculate the 88 American elm street trees scheduled for 2006. Done by 11:30 AM they headed back for lunch.

The elms were very co-operative this year and took up the fungecide by days end. Most had absorbed the inoculant from their first injectors even before their last injector was set.

Thank Yous go out to all the volunteers who helped make this years event so successful, to Jon Farley for all the great photos; and to the local neighborhhod businesses who provided food, tools, people power and dollars.

2006 Home Tour Report

The Board sends their heart felt Thanks to all the families who opened their homes on Mother's Day and to all the volunteers who helped organize and run the event.

It was such a beautiful day to stroll the neighborhood and we hope that everyone had a good time. We had thirteen homes on the tour this year and between ticket & souvenir sales and membership donations we brought in over $1,750.00.