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News from the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods.

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NECN Hosts Neighborhood Association Board Orientation:

NECN will offer a training covering skills to improve your effectiveness within your neighborhood association.  We welcome both new and  long-time board members.  This fun and interactive training will be relevant to anyone involved with their neighborhood association.

Topics include an overview of Portland’s community involvement system, NECN’s information sharing and advocacy model, board roles responsibilities and regulations, ways to make your meetings welcoming and small group discussions on common neighborhood challenges!

Wednesday, November 30th from 6 to 9pm at NECN, Light Refreshments will be served

RSVP Requested: admin@necoalition.org or call 503-823-4575

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NECN’s Safety and Livability Team to host Josiah Hill III Clinic Healthy Homes workshop:

Monday, November 21st at 7:00pm at NECN

Come to our Healthy Homes workshop, where participants will learn simple strategies for improving the “health” of their home environment. Reduce your family’s exposure to the contaminants and chemicals that can trigger asthma, allergies and other health concerns. Win prizes, make recipes and play games while discussing healthy, cost-effective alternatives to store-bought cleaners!

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The Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods is proud to announce that we are offering another round of Solarize NE!

We are seeking applicants to serve on a RFP Selection Committee, which will evaluate proposals based on defined project goals. Please contact NECN staff Gene Lee or Benjamin Adrian at 503-823-4575.

Registration will be open late 2011 through Spring 2012. For updates on the Solarize project, please view the project website at Solarize.NECoalition.org.

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Northeast Coalition Community Committees 

  • Land Use and Transportation Committee

Next meeting: Wednesday, December 7th, 7:00pm, at NECN.

Please note, due to upcoming holidays, November and December meetings have been consolidated into one meeting on December 7th.

  • Safety and Livability Team

Next meeting: Monday, November 21st, 6:30pm at NECN.

  • Community Economic Development Council

Next meeting: Thursday, November 17th, 8:00am – 9:30am at NECN. Thanks to everyone who attended the first Speaker Series Event – over 100 people in attendance.

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Special Event: North Williams Community Forum
Monday, November 28, 2011 – from 6:00 to 8:30 p.m.

Location: Immaculate Heart Church, N Williams and Stanton

Based on public interest, the project team has begun work on planning a forum in which community members and City leaders can explore together how issues of privilege and exclusion relate to the process of making decisions about investment in public infrastructure.  Please contact Ellen Vanderslice, ellen.vanderslice@portlandoregon.gov or 503-823-4638, to contribute to the planning process.

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Main number: 503.823.4575 | Fax Number: 503.823.3150

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King NA meeting tomorrow eve: See you there!

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King Neighborhood Association General Meeting

King Neighborhood Facility, 4815 NE 7th Avenue

http://kingneighborhood.org

http://www.facebook.com/kingneighborhood

November 9, 2011 – 6:30 to 8:15 pm

 

Draft Agenda

6:30    Welcome and introductions. Approval of minutes and agenda.

6:40   Officer Ryan Bren, Portland Police Bureau.

6:50   Miracles Club check-in with neighbors.  

7:05   Update from Sabin NA on Sabin infrastructure projects.

7:25   Updates on Two Plum Park, the Portland Playhouse, the King weeding/planting project.

7:30   Dr. Jay Klusky, educating parents and teens.

7:45   Trace Salmon, KNA Communications.

7:50  Katy Asher, Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods.

8:00   Updates from KNA committee members, including 2012 Movie in the Park.

8:10   Closing thoughts.

 

The King Neighborhood Association meets on the second Wednesday of each month at 6:30 in the King Neighborhood Facility at 4815 NE 7th Avenue. Our next meeting will be held on December 14, 2011.  Child care is provided on site if requested 24 hours in advance by email to info@kingneighborhood.org or by calling 503-823-4575. Enter via the door facing 7th Avenue. You can subscribe to our electronic newsletter and check out our community calendar at www.kingneighborhood.org. You can send us an email at info@kingneighborhood.org.

It Takes a Village to Make a Pie!

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The Community Engagement Committee of the Alberta Co-op presents our 3rd annual pie event! This year, we’re celebrating the diverse skills, resources, and knowledge that come together in our community to make amazing and delicious things happen. On 11/7, neighbors got together to make a bunch of dough for pie crust, and now it’s time for Part 2: Filling the Pie!

 


Tuesday, November 15th
6:30 – 8:30 
Redeemer Lutheran Church, NE 20th & Killingsworth

We’re inviting organizations and individuals to contribute pie fillings, pans, spices, whipping cream, whatever you have, and we’ll whip up some pies together. Whether you have berries in your freezer from summer picking or set some apples aside from a harvest party with the Portland Fruit Tree Project, bring it along and turn it into a feast with some help from your neighbors. If you’re bringing winter squash, please bring it already baked. Contributions for savory pies as well as sweet are encouraged! We hope to all enjoy some pie at the event and send some pies home with participants.
RSVP to community_engagement@albertagrocery.coop with what you’d like to bring.

McCoy Academy Art Fundraiser, Nov 4th

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OUR DREAM COMES TRUE NOVEMBER 4TH

Stop in this weekend and support our project for raising funds
to give free art classes to young people in our community.

FIRST FRIDAY GRAND OPENING

Many thanks to McCoy Academy for providing us with a home.

Bobby Fouther
P.O. Box 9191
Portland, Oregon 97207

503-422-3076

View Artwork
bobbyfouther.com

Kitchen Commons: skills, resources, and spaces for affordable food!

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From Kitchen Commons:

Hello my name is Mollie and I would like to inform you about a new organization called Kitchen Commons.

MISSION:
Kitchen Commons is a network of Portland metro area community kitchen and food preservation organizers. Our goal is to improve community food security by supporting and developing spaces in our neighborhoods where people can come together to learn about cooking and preserving food on a budget, and access equipment and resources for both personal and microenterprise use. Our vision is to build community through food by joining together, cooking together, and feeding families together.

The role of Kitchen Commons is to support, develop, and promote and match kitchen resources with community needs. By fostering the development of lots of different kinds of kitchens, we can help to meet lots of different evolving needs in different communities. We do this by connecting neighborhood kitchen organizers with resources and tools, creating opportunities to network and share ideas, and advocating for policies that facilitate the development and use of community kitchens.

We’ve found that it’s important to emphasize that there are lots of community kitchen activities that don’t require certification or special equipment like classes and community cooking events. Also we are interested in helping groups fundraise or solicit in-kind donations in order to improve their kitchen space. Several groups with kitchens have thought that they could not participate with us at all because their kitchen isn’t certified or has various deficiencies.

PROJECT:
Right now our website is in the process of being built. Kitchen Commons is a very new non-profit. The first step to making this website successful is to find organizations that are interested in publicizing their accessible kitchen, and adding it to our website.

My question to you is, do you have a Kitchen you would like to open up to your community or neighborhood? If so we are a free resource to publicize your kitchen to the public and help overcome barriers to community use of your kitchen.

Please let me know if your interested in knowing more information and I would love to speak with you more about it. Thanks so much for your time!

Sincerely,
Mollie
mollie@kitchencommons.net