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| CNN Community Gardens/Food Access April Meeting |
 After the first meeting on March 31st, Near
Gardens
is taking back valuable comments
to present their plan of action! NEAR Gardens is a group of Community Development students at Portland State University working on a project called Root Access. If you are interested in a cohesive network of community gardens in CNN neighborhoods this meeting is for you! Please join us Thursday April 15 at 7pm at CNN, 4415 NE 87th.Please RSVP to neargardens@gmail.com or call 503-823-2780, see video. |
| Help Transform Thomas Cully Site into a Park! |
Imagine kids, parents, elders enjoying a day in the park and the dream of a neighborhood soccer field being one step closer to reality! Help transform this recently acquired industrial property into a family-friendly park in an area that is park deficient. Spend the morning outside and put your arms to work! Energetic volunteers are needed to help pull blackberry bushes near the fence along this soon-to-be park's border. Saturday, April 24th from 8:30 am-noon, NE 75TH & Killingsworth. Click here to sign up or call Kim Livesay at Hands On Greater Portland: 503-200-3366 or email her at Kimberly@handsonportland.org. |
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| 2010 Education Summit Community Town Hall |
 Education is vital to our goal of becoming the most sustainable city in the world. The only way we will achieve this goal is through partnership and collaboration. The Town Hall serves to engage the community in a meaningful conversation about how we as a community can ensure all students have access to resources that help them graduate high school on time and go on to post-secondary education. Resources for youth and families will be available as well as snacks and child care.
COMMUNITY TOWN HALL
Keynote Speaker: Michael Geisen
Saturday, April 10th, 1:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m.
FREE and open to the public
Parkrose High School |
| Spring Clean-Up Events in CNN Neighborhoods! |
 Cully Neighborhood
April 17th 9-3 pm
5520 NE Killingsworth/Trinity L Church Click here for more information
Madison South Neighborhood
May 1st 9-3 pm (not taking yard debris)
Glenhaven Park, NE 82nd & Siskiyou
Roseway Neighborhood
May 15th 9-3 pm
7016 NE Sandy Blvd. Rose City N. Church
Sumner Neighborhood May 15th 9-3 pm
Helensview school, 8678 NE Sumner
Rose CityPark Neighborhood May 22nd, 9-3 pm
5309 NE Alameda, Archbishop Howard School
Please refer to Metro's website for the schedule of upcoming hazardous waste collection events. P
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| Portland Plan Phase II: Setting the Direction Workshops |
 What is the most important action Portland can take to improve high school graduation rates? Help chart the course of Portland's future!These are key questions you can still weight in on. Join your neighbors in the next round of workshops during the months of April and May to help sort information from the first phase and set the direction. To learn more about the Portland Plan or to take the survey, please visit www.pdxplan.com.
Northeast Workshop
April 29, 6:30-9 pm
Beaumont Middle School, Cafeteria
4043 NE Fremont Street
LGBTQ Portland Plan Town Hall
April 12, 6:30-8:30 pm
Q Center, 4115 N Mississippi (for more information on this event please call Clay Neal at 503-823-4186 or Matt Wickstrom at 503-823-2834)
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| Solarize NE Enrollment Ends April 15th! |
 Solarize NE is a volunteer-driven, community-based volume purchasing project for solar electric panels is supported by the City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability and Energy Trust of Oregon.
Click here for more information or to enroll in the group purchase program which closes April 15, 2010. |
| CLF's 2010 Regional Livability Summit |
 Building Alliances to Get Results
During this month's celebration of Earth Day, the 2010 Regional Livability Summit provides community leaders, advocates, government staff, elected officials, students and teachers and others an important opportunity to propel the notion of "what it takes to get the results we want... results on equity, on sustainability, on prosperity". At the Summit, we will celebrate our collective progress, engage in initiatives that are underway, identify where we are falling short, debate new strategies and strengthen the relationships we need to achieve our goal of improving the health of the Earth and all of us who live here. Thursday, April 29, 8-4p at PSU. To Register and for more information go to http://clfuture.org/events, 503-294-2889; email nicole@clfuture.org. |
| Special Events |
 Calendar of Events
Columbia Slough Watershed Council event calendar
City of Portland Landlord Training Program
www.portlandonline.com/oni
Public Forum for Liquor Licensing Concerns, April 15th 6-8p, North Precinct, 449 N.E. Emerson
Schools and Parks Conditional Use Code Refinement Project-Recommended Amendments-April 22, 3p City Hall 1221 S.W. Fourth www.portlandonline.com/bps/schools-parks
Screening of Papers (on undocumented youth) April 22, 6p Madison High School Library, 2735 NE 82nd
SAVE THE DATE
Citywide Budget Hearing May 20th, 6-8:30p University Park Community Center, 9009 N Foss
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Sandra Lefrancois, Community Program Director
sandral@cnncoalition.org |
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