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What Style Is my House?

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Y’all come! General Meeting of the Sabin Community Association celebrating Sabin’s homes and history:

What Style Is my House? All NECN neighborhoods invited!!

When: October 18th, 2010.
Where: Sabin Elementary School Auditorium, 4013 NE 18th Avenue, Portland 97212.

6-7pm: Social hour.

Special exhibit of Sabin’s rich history of diversity and community service from the archives of Betty Walker; refreshments; Architectural Heritage Center table, with experts on weatherizing your home, researching your house, and more; excellent handouts.

7-8: Special presentation on Sabin architecture:

7-7:30: What Style Is my House? by Bosco-Milligan Foundation/Architectural Heritage Center board member Robert Jordan, as he surveys house styles common to the Portland area and the northwest. If you’ve ever wondered what style to call your home, you will find the answer in this perfect program.

7:30-8 pm: Sabin historian William Youngren presents particular houses representative of the great integrity of Sabin design.

8 pm:. Sabin business meeting.

Tonight’s timely program encourages residents to explore Sabin’s more modest but equally precious architectural heritage in light of the recent application for the Irvington Historic District. Our wonderful community builds its bright future in the context of an illustrious past that is the focus of this evening to which you are all most cordially invited.

We warmly invite our neighbors from the Alameda, Boise, Concordia, Eliot, Grant Park, Humboldt, Irvington, King, Sullivan’s Gulch, Vernon, and Woodlawn neighborhoods to join us for the social hour and the presentations. Much of what will be said is equally applicable to your fine communities. Y’all come!

Shoshana Cohen
Neighborhood Programs Manager
Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods
503-823-4570
www.necoalition.org
Shoshana@necoalition.org

Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls Fall Enrollment

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Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls announces open enrollment for Fall 2010 Girls Rock Institute programs

Girls Rock Institute (GRI) is a year round after school music program located at the Rock ‘n’ Roll Camp for Girls in NE Portland. The Rock n’ Roll Camp for Girls mission is to empower girls ages 8-18 through music creation and performance.

Every class at GRI is a fun and intensive way to learn how to play music, improve skills, write, and perform. GRI instructors are talented women who help students with performing, recording, booking shows, making band merch, touring, and many other aspects of playing in a band and/or being a solo performer. As always, we welcome students of all skill levels. No experience necessary! FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE AVAILABLE FOR ANY GIRL WHO NEEDS IT.

For more information, email gri@girlsrockcamp,org or go to www.girlsrockcamp.org to download an application.

School Board to Discuss High School Plans Tonight

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The Portland school board will consider proposed high school changes tonight, Wednesday, Sept. 29, 5 -7 p.m. at the Blanchard Education Service Center, 501 N. Dixon St.

o Board members will spend the first hour discussing with staff members plans to support Marshall Campus students as they transition into new schools.
o The second hour will be spent on an in-depth look into the middle college program proposed for Jefferson High School.
o Community members are welcome to attend the work session, however public testimony will not be taken.

Benson Polytechnic High School, Jefferson High School, and existing charter schools would make up a network of focus schools – open to students from across the school district.

◦Benson will continue to offer a four-year program of career and technical education, serving approximately 425 to 850 students full time on the campus, enabling students to pursue one or more in-depth career focused programs.

◦Jefferson would build on a strong partnership with Portland Community College to offer a middle college program that provides students the chance to earn college credits while pursuing their high school diploma. Students residing in the current Jefferson boundary could choose to attend the Jefferson focus school, or have guaranteed entrance into Grant, Madison or Roosevelt high schools, depending on their address.

•The Harriet Tubman Leadership Academy for Young Women would no longer offer a high school program, but would become a stand-alone focus middle school, independent of Jefferson High, serving grades 6 to 8.

The board is scheduled to vote on the changes at a meeting Oct. 12.

Lunch Box Event for Kids at King Farmers Market

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Portland’s Grace Kuto, philanthropic author, renowned cook, and passionate educator, will help host the “Local Lunch Box,” an educational event filled with activities intended to encourage kids to make healthy, seasonal, local food choices. Kuto will do a cooking demonstration at noon and be on hand to sell and sign her cookbook, Harambee.
School-aged participants can take part in a market scavenger hunt to learn more about good versus bad food choices, learn about a day in the life of a farmer and experience fresh and/or new fruits and veggies. Other planned activities include a drop-in cooking class for children of all ages, nutrition bingo, make-your-own lunch box, and a blind box produce game where children can identify fruits and veggies based on touch and smell.

10 am to 2 pm, Sunday, September 12 at the King Farmers Market, NE 7th and Wygant. Contact Amy Hunter for more information: ahunter@leeweinstein.biz, (503) 927-5872

Portland Farmers Market is generously supported by the Art Institute of Portland and COUNTRY Financial as season sponsors.

Support Your Local Schools with Project Community Care

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Get your community schools ready for fall by coming out to your King public schools, King and Sabin. Along with most other PPS schools, they will have their events on Saturday, August 28th from 9:00-noon. We will be weeding, cleaning, painting and doing general upkeep of the grounds. Meet the new King Principal, Kim Patterson and get involved with the PTA as a parent or community member.

Pre-register at
www.community.pps.k12.or.us.
Questions? Call 503-916-3078 or
e-mail ajackso2@pps.k12.or.us
Your efforts will make a difference for students and the neighborhood.
Interested in additional volunteer opportunities? Visit www.community.pps.k12.or.us to select opportunities such as landscaping, tutoring, painting and more!

There will be a Community Appreciation Barbeque after the event at Clarendon-Portsmouth K-8 School, 5103 N. Willis Blvd. from 1-4 p.m.
Free food, live music, back-to-school information and more!

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