Juneteenth Celebration of Black Lives at King School Park. Save the date!

Celebration of Black Lives is an annual community festival hosted by The Big Yard Foundation that takes place in Portland on Juneteenth. The event features local Black-owned businesses, food vendors, and live performances. This year’s celebration will take place from 1:00pm-4:00pm at King School Park on Monday, June 19th.

Join CBL in celebrating and empowering Portland’s Black and communities.

More information can be found at Big Yard Foundation’s CBL Facebook page: https://www.bigyardfoundation.org/cbl

Detrash Portland – King Neighborhood trash clean up event

Date: Sunday September 13th
Time: Check in anytime between 10:00 – 10:30am. There will be a staggered check in at this event.
Event will run from 10:00 am – 12:30 pm.
Where: We will meet just outside of the Farmer’s Market by the basketball court. Look for signs directing you toward the volunteers wearing high-vis vests.

Sign-up: https://www.solveoregon.org/opportunity/a0C1I00000RMyAiUAL

Come join Detrash Portland as we team up with Portland Schools and the King Farmers Market for a Northeast neighborhood trash and litter clean up event.

This event will be entirely out-doors and will comply with social distancing guidelines. WEAR A MASK! Please. 

After a quick sign-in, we will spend a few hours picking up litter and trash in and around the King Neighborhood. We will provide bags, gloves, and trash grabbers. Afterward we recommend that you pop into the Farmers Market to support our local vendors. 

What’s Provided: Heavy-duty garbage bags, litter grabbers and vinyl gloves. If you have your own gloves, litter grabber, litter bag, or bucket, you are encouraged to bring those as well.

Let’s make a difference. Many hands make light work.

If you have any questions about Detrash Portland please contact the group at detrashportland@gmail.com or via instagram @detrashportland.

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Detrash Portland | https://www.meetup.com/Detrash-Portland/

Detrash Portland – Boise Neighborhood trash clean up event with Ex Novo

Date: Saturday September 5th.
Time: 10 am to noon.
Where: The corner of the Lillis Albina Park at N Russell and N Flint Avenue.

Sign-up: https://www.solveoregon.org/opportunity/a0C1I00000RMyA9UAL

Detrash Portland needs civic minded volunteers for another trash pick up event!

We will be hosting a clean up event on Saturday September 5th to pick up litter from the streets, gutters, and drains in the North Portland Boise neighborhood. We will be meeting at the corner of the Lillis Albina Park at N Russell and N Flint Avenue by the baseball field at 10 am. From there we will provide trash grabbers, gloves, and bags to our volunteers. 

Trash pick up is an activity that complies with social distancing guidelines while at the same time benefits our city greatly. Safety is are utmost priority. We hope you can come out an help make a difference.

Masks will be required to participate in this event.  Please also dress for the weather and wear closed toed shoes. 

Ex Novo has also partnered with Detrash Portland for this event. They will be just down the street from our meeting location. Ex Novo has been gratcious enough to offer all volunteers to this event a 10% discount to any to-go orders or on site guest tabs, food, draft beer, package beer, or merchandise.

They are also open for Phase 1 dinein and encourage any participants to stay after the trash pick up event to have lunch. They encourage you to make a reservation first through Resy.com or through the link on their website http://www.exnovobrew.com/portland

If you have any questions about the event or Detrash Portland you can contact the group by email at detrashportland@gmail.com or via instagram @detrashportland.

Detrash Portland | https://www.meetup.com/Detrash-Portland/

Franklin Family Foundation Holiday Event a Success!

Here a few pictures of the amazing Franklin Family holiday fest.  At least a couple hundred folks attended the event.

In addition to a free meal and toys for all the kids, tables were set up to make wreaths (KNA board member Cheri Folsom was a happy guide!), decorate candy canes, paint faces, and make gingerbread houses/ice cream cone Christmas trees and ornaments.  There was a packed house with a lot of joy for a lot of kids and their families.

For more information about the Franklin Family Foundation, go to https://www.facebook.com/Franklin-Family-Foundation-113947126628285/ .