Meals on Wheels People need volunteers to help serve food to seniors in the MLK Center, between the hours of 8 am and 2 pm.

We also need volunteer drivers to deliver meals to home-bound seniors in the community.

We utilize volunteers to pick up food donations from the Oregon Food Bank & a local Bakery for our community food rack.

We currently seek board members to sit on our steering committee & on our Summer In September planning committee (Summer in September is the annual fundraiser picnic extravaganza for the MLK Center).

The Steering committee meets 10 times a year between 1pm & 2:30pm and Summer in September committee meets 8 to 9 times a year.

We are always gratefully accepting donations of fresh fruits & vegetables from the community!

David Lomax

Center Manager, MLK Center

Meals on Wheels People

5325 NE MLK blvd. Portland Oregon 97211

Phone:503-953-8207 Fax:503-988-4899
david.lomax@mealsonwheelspeople.org
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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.