Please join NECN’s effort to end violence in our homes and communities. Volunteers from NECN’s Safety and Livability Team (SALT) will host a two-part forum on gender injustice & domestic violence, presented by the YWCA Social Change Program.

Part 1:  Gender Injustice
Sexism & Gender-Based Violence
Thursday, September 19th, 6:30–8:00 PM

Part 2:  Understanding Domestic Violence
Ways to Support Friends and Neighbors
Thursday, October 3rd, 6:30–8:00 PM

Space is limited!  RSVP by September 13^th:
info@necoalition.org │ 503.388.6088
Please indicate if you will be attending Part 1, Part 2, or both nights.

Doors open at 6:00 for meet & greet with snacks, forum begins at 6:30 at the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, located in the King Neighborhood Facility at
4815 NE 7th Avenue, Portland, OR 97211 (bus lines 6 & 72).

Meals on Wheels/Loaves and Fishes thanks King Neighborhood Association* for our donation to this year’s Summer in September BBQ & Festival on September 7th, in Dawson Park. Money raised at this event will support Loaves & Fishes MLK, Jr. Center at MLK Boulevard & Killingsworth.

*The letter is addressed to NECN because NECN issued our donation check on behalf of KNA.

KNA will vote on new bylaws at our meeting next month. As always, we will meet on the second Wednesday of the month, September 11^th at 6:30 pm in the NECN offices at 4815 NE 7^th Avenue (near the corner of 7^th and Wygant). All members are invited to come and vote. Our current bylaws are posted online here: http://kingneighborhood.org/bylaws.pdf

Proposed changes to the by-laws will be available on this site soon!

Plan to join us for the 8th Annual Summer in September Jambalaya Festival and BBQ presented by New Seasons Market on Saturday, Sept. 7, from noon to 6 p.m. at Dawson Park. Additional sponsors include Oregon Transfer, Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods, Por Que No, Oregon Metal Slitters, Unified Grocers, Widmer Brothers Brewing, KBMS 1480 AM, Worth & Barbara Caldwell, Chuck & Suzanne Carlbom and Teletha Benjamin.

This unique neighborhood event features an authentic Creole Jambalaya meal, ribs and a variety of picnic food along with entertainment and activities for the entire family. This year we will feature a beer garden sponsored by Widmer Brothers Brewing and a special Past-Present-Future exhibit of Black History from Oregon Historical Society, info on the Freedom Fighters presented by Roosevelt High School and a display on Portland’s Lost Black Neighborhoods.

Entertainment includes Jim Creek, Cascade Zydeco dancers, We Sick Boss, Dark Star, E.D. Monmdaine Gospel, Chief Don, Bullfrogz, DJ, No Limit, Main Squeeze and Randy Star.

All proceeds provide hot meals for seniors in Northeast Portland.

Tickets are $15 per person or $45 for four people.

Head to summerinseptember.org to buy tickets or sign up to volunteer.

King Neighborhood Association is proud to be a sponsor of Summer in September.

King NA meets this Wednesday evening – here’s a look at what’s on our agenda:

King Neighborhood Association General Meeting

King Neighborhood Facility, 4815 NE 7^th Avenue

August 14, 2013– 6:30 to 8:00 PM

 Agenda

6:30     Introductions; approval of minutes and agenda; announcements

6:40     Update from the Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods.

6:50    Re-cap of 2013′s movie in the park.

6:55     Vanport Square – is the Portland development Commission looking at a developer’s project for the empty lot at MLK & Alberta – how can we as residents of King advocate for proposals that suit and benefit our neighborhood?

7:10     Greenscaping King Park: the depave/bioswale project at King School.

7:20    Changes to our NA by-laws: proposal and discussion.

7:40    Updates from committees (communications, Backpack, etc.)

7:55    New business

8:00    Adjourn

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