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May 2010
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| Community Gardens Networking Meeting |
Donate 10 cents to Root Access/NEAR
Gardens for bringing your own bag at Hollywood
Whole Foods!
Join NEAR Gardens as we launch CNN GardenNet online. NEAR Gardens is a group of PSU Community Development students working with the Central Northeast Neighbors on building a network of community gardens. We will present the tools we have been working on to facilitate local food access in CNN neighborhoods. Come help us celebrate the culmination of our project on May 26th 7-8:30p, 4415 NE 87th. There will be an opportunity for you to get directly involved with the future of food access and community gardening in your neighborhood. Feel free to bring your favorite garden dish to help us celebrate, refreshments provided. Please RSVP to neargardens@gmail.com or call 503-823-2780, see video. |
| Meet your Neighbors Host a Block Party! |
 Summer is right around the corner, and with summer comes neighborhood block parties! These parties vary in size and activities such as BBQ, live music, face painting, raffle, parade, pot-luck, ice-cream social, so you can count on having fun! Neighbors renew old friendships and make new ones creating community and breaking down barriers. For more information on block parties and online forms click here. Block party packets with permit and street closure forms are available at CNN, 4415 NE 87th (by Sandy Blvd) in the box to the left of the entrance (available anytime). Please bring your completed application to Ronda at CNNrondaj@cnncoalition.org 503-823-3156. |
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| Sunday Parkways in NE May 16th! |
 Opening Our Streets, Connecting Our Communities! The City of Portland Bureau of Transportation, Kaiser Permanente, and Metro are hosting five Sunday Parkways events in 2010. These routes create traffic-free streets linking parks and great places to walk and ride bicycles. Sunday Parkways is about connecting neighborhoods while getting exercise! These events are wonderful opportunities for individuals and families to get out and be active right in their own neighborhood. Portlanders will be able to walk, bike, run, roll, meet neighbors, and enjoy entertainment and activities in the parks and along the route.
Volunteers needed! Sunday, May 16th from 10-3 p.m. Wilshire, Fernhill, Alberta, and Woodlawn Parks. Visit the web site for route map www.portlandsundayparkways.org. |
| Hollywood Urban Park Community Event Series |
 The Hollywood Neighborhood Association is having a Hollywood Urban Park community event series starting on May 20th at 7 pm at the Hollywood Senior Center, 1820 NE 40th. The kick-off event features special guest speaker of the Crandall Arambula architecture firm. There will be three more events during the summer, each on Thursday nights at 7 pm at the Hollywood Senior Center. June 10th will feature potential sites and a neighborhood walk, with the last stop at the Laurelwood Brewery. There will be a design charrette on July 22, and a presentation of findings on August 26th. For more information contact Elisabeth Winnen at ewinnen@mac.comhttp://blog.hollywoodinportland.org/?p=123.
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| Food Scrap Curbside Collection in Roseway! |
 The Roseway Neighborhood is one of four participating neighborhoods for the new Portland Composts! Food Scrap Curbside Collection Pilot. The City selected 2,000 Portland homes from four neighborhoods across Portland. These homes will participate for one year in weekly food scrap curbside collection and will provide feedback before the program goes citywide in 2011. This will bring Portland in line with other major West Coast cities such as Seattle and San Francisco that have been offering their residents curbside collection of food scraps for several years with great success. |
| Airport North Runway Extension Project |
 The process to create a new long-range plan for Portland International Airport is nearing completion. Join us to review the work of the community advisory group and share your perspectives.
Learn what's new with noise management, natural resources, sustainability and the north runway extension project. Thursday, May 13, 5:30 - 8 p.m.
Parkrose High School, Community Room
12003 NE Shave. For more information call the Port of Portland at 503.460.4143. PDX Airport Futures
http://www.pdxairportfutures.com/
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| Nominations Open for the 2010 Spirit of Portland Awards |
 Nominations for the 2010 Spirit of Portland Awards are now open! This year a new category has been added: The Sandy Diedrich Award for environmental stewardship. If you know an individual or group who has helped make our city a better place to live, consider nominating them for one of the 2010 awards. Nominations are due in the Office of Neighborhood Involvement by Monday, August 16. Nomination forms can be downloaded from the web at Spirit of Portland 2010 www.portlandonline.com/oni.
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| Spring Clean-Up Events in CNN Neighborhoods! |
 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 City Park Neighborhood May 22nd, 9-3 pm
5309 NE Alameda, Archbishop Howard School
Please refer toMetro's websitefor the schedule of upcoming hazardous waste collection events. |
| Portland Emergency Preparedness: Be Connected! |
 In Portland, earthquakes are a constant and significant concern. Individuals, families, offices and places of business need to be prepared and know about the tools available to them in case of an earthquake or other emergency. Portland's Office of Emergency Management (PoEM) unveiled a new feature of the city's coordinated information website, www.publicalerts.org, designed to rapidly get information out to residents in times of emergency. You can now go to publicalerts.org, click on the Sign Up button, and register to get voicemail, email and text messages sent directly to your mobile phone in times of emergency. The information you provide is protected and confidential. It takes only a minute to sign up, tell your neighbors! |
| Special Events |
 Calendar of Events
Columbia Slough Watershed Council event calendar
Asian Heritage Month Celebration May 10th 11-2p 1907 NE 45th Ave
Community Safety Recognition Event May 13th 7-8:30p 2303 SE 28 Place-Crime Prevention and Emergency Management
Native American Youth and Family Center Neerchokikoo Pow-Wow May 14-15 more info at www.nayapdx.org
Environmental Justice 101 May 16th 3-6p OPAL 2407 SE 49th RSVP 503-928-4354 or joseph@opalpdx.org
Citywide Budget Hearing May 20th 6-8:30p University Park Community Center, 9009 N Foss
2nd Fridays on Fremont a new monthly celebration in the Beaumont Business District. 5-9p (kick-off May 14)
Your Money Bus Tour at Pioneer Courthouse Square June 18 11-6p, June 19 9-2p *free financial advice!
Grotto to Rocky Butte Trail Walk a gem in Sumner! June 12, 9am and August 12 6pm NE 88th/Sandy (Grotto parking lot)
International Day Festival July 10 11-5pm NE 72nd and Fremont
Visit our web site!photos portlandground.com
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Sandra Lefrancois, Community Program Director
sandral@cnncoalition.org |
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Central Northeast Neighbors | 4415 NE 87th Avenue | Portland | OR | 97220 |
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