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dd acres of swimming at North
Clackamas Aquatic Park and
you’ve got it: the perfect place
to enjoy indoors or outside.
North Clackamas Aquatic Park
highlights the district. A world-class
facility, the Aquatic Park features a
kiddie pool, a dive well, a full-size
swimming pool that draws high school
swim teams throughout the year, wa-
ter slides and a new 29- foot climbing
wall. To reserve space for your party
or to get your kids swimming, call
503-
557-SURF
(7873).
Picnics, wedding receptions, anni-
versaries and parties can find a home at
the
Milwaukie Center,
located at 5440
SE Kellogg Creek Drive in Milwaukie,
They offer social service assistance as
well as a backdrop for dozens of activi-
ties for master gardeners, an annual
quilt show, recreation and education
classes along with outdoor activities. It
is located in the 45-acre North Clacka-
mas Park off Highway 224.
Gladstone features
Max Patterson
Memorial City Park
at its center, where
you’ll find the magic of festival in the
summer, or the quiet, lazy times for fam-
ily and friends enjoying the outdoors.
Not to be overlooked, in
Damascus
Centennial Park,
where you’ll find the
21 foot candle, is the perfect place for
outdoor fun. Host site of
Day in Da-
mascus,
the well-kept park sits con-
veniently in the center of town behind
the fire station.
One of the newer parks, still in its
final phases of completion, is
Boring
Station Trailhead Park,
marking the
eastern end of the
Springwater Trail.
A community and family gathering
place, with the local grange hall sitting
next door.
With a riverfront like Milwaukie’s
and Gladstone’s it’s no wonder two of
their signature parks front the Wil-
lamette. In Milwaukie continuing
work provides additional opportuni-
ties for their
Riverfront Park
just off of
Main Street. In Gladstone there’s lots
of opportunity, including RV space, at
Clackamette Park.
The area is host to national softball
tournaments on its excellent new fields
in both Milwaukie and Happy Valley.
Living
youth ball fields, acres of green and nearly 50 neighborhood
parks dot the landscape in north Clackamas County.
The area’s Trolley Trail is
more than a look back at
old railway companies and
overgrown streetcar lines. It’s a
living story of persistence and
restoration against all odds.
Meet Thelma Haggenmiller,
an Oak Lodge resident on the
front lines of a relentless fight
for renewal she believes to be,
“Our community treasure.” For
decades she’s educated, de-
fied, and praised all the chal-
lenges and challengers on her
quest to convert this 6-mile
Trail into a useful, safe, right
of way for all the people in this
area. March 2011 was the
official groundbreaking for the
Trolley Trail. “You must under-
stand,” she insists, “Nobody
told us how to accomplish this.
We just decided to do some-
thing. I feel the need to remind
people…we are the govern-
ment. Our elected officials are
here to represent us, and our
standards are very high!”
It’s impossible to keep
Thelma from imagining even
larger visions for Trolley Trail.
“So much good stuff is already
happening,” she bubbles. “Ev-
eryone’s excited. At least four
community schools adjacent to
the Trail are taking advantage
of opportunities for hands-on
education projects along ‘their’
part of the Trail”
Why does she get up in the
morning? “I have the abil-
ity to empower people to get
involved,” she admits. ”We
all need to stand up and do
what’s right!”
North Clackamas
Aquatic Park
Milwaukie Trolley Station in 1950
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