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Vote for the SE Uplift Pocket Park &
Medicinal Garden in the Umpqua Bank
Build Your Block Challenge!
SE Uplift is one of three finalists in Umpqua Bank's Hawthorne Build Your Block Challenge!! Vote every day through April 15th at the Hawthorne Umpqua at 3557 SE Hawthorne Blvd.
Imagine a lush pocket park full of native and medicinal plants - where community members can relax, share tea with friends, enjoy lunch, garden, gather for educational workshops, read, or play a friendly game of chess/checkers. The benefits for this community pocket park will be far-reaching and available to all members of the community. Imagine neighbors and business leaders working together toward a safer and more sociable community space. Imagine a haven for native pollinators that will increase the pollination of plants nearby. Imagine educational workshops from local experts specializing in naturopathic and botanical medicine, creating pollinator habitat, gardening for food and medicine, aromatherapy, and essential oil distillation!
Vote once each day through April 15th. Your vote will help us transform this unused space into a community asset! We greatly appreciate you taking the time to stop by Umpqua Bank on Hawthorne to vote! Learn more about the challenge and the other finalists.
Finalist #2: Landscape Improvements to Mt. Tabor Middle School Entrance Description: Umpqua will partner with community members to help transform the entrance to Mt. Tabor Middle School into a warm and welcoming portal. This winding path would take students from 58th Ave up to the school's entrance and will deal with the existing mud problem.
Finalist #3: Harvest the Rain with Sunnyside Elementary Description: Umpqua will work with the gardening and sustainability program at Sunnyside Elementary to create a rain harvesting demonstration project.
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Neighborhood News
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SE Uplift Spring Neighborhood Social TOMORROW!
Thursday, April 7th, 2011, 5-7 PM,
Bar Carlo, 6433 SE Foster Road Please join the staff of SE Uplift for our spring neighborhood social at Bar Carlo in the Foster-Powell neighborhood. Explore a new neighborhood in SE, meet your fellow board members and enjoy a drink. Light snacks provided. No R.S.V.P. required - but keep up with events here!
Mt. Scott-Arleta and Woodstock neighborhood associations are partnering to host their annual Easter Egg Hunt in Mt. Scott Park! We're thrilled that after years of the hunt taking place in Woodstock Park, the neighborhood association thought that partnering with us would be a fun change and they even volunteered to come our way.
The Easter Egg Hunt will take place on the 23rd. Please spread the word to your neighbors to come on out and enjoy the hunt! Please email Alyssa at alyssaagee@gmail.com if you'd like to volunteer to help.
SE Portland neighborhood clean-ups
Neighborhood association and community area clean-ups are testimony to Portlanders' dedication as volunteers and commitment to the environmental health of our community. These clean-ups provide our neighbors with an excellent opportunity to "reduce, reuse and recycle" all in one convenient location. They also provide education about community resources, opportunities for civic involvement and the benefits of collective action, working together to make a difference in our community.
 Useful Goods Exchange becomes
Sunnyside Swap and Spring Cleanup
The annual Useful Goods Exchange held at
Sunnyside Environmental School for the past
four years and the long running Sunnyside
Neighborhood Clean Up have merged to become the Sunnyside Swap and Spring Clean Up. This combined effort to reduce, reuse and recycle will all take place at Saint Stephens Catholic Church gym and parking lot Friday, April 15th - Sunday, April 17th 2011.
 Spring is slowly but surely coming, and with it comes the reopening of the popular Buckman Portland Farmers Market! Our opening day for 2011 is Thursday, May 5 at 3 PM.
Buckman Portland Farmers Market is located at SE 20th & Salmon between SE Belmont & SE Hawthorne - in the parking lot of Hinson Baptist Church. It is open every Thursday from May 5-September 29, 3-7 PM.
On the weekend of May 21st and 22nd, 2011, 40 artists in the Mount Tabor neighborhood will welcome the public into their homes and studios for their sixth annual juried Art Walk. On Saturday and Sunday from 10 to 5pm on display will be paintings, jewelry, sculpture, pottery, fiber art, and more at 30 marked sites. The annual event has become a tradition for many Portlanders. Walk or ride your bike to all of the sites and experience the natural beauty of the neighborhood along with the high quality art produced by local artists. You will be able to meet and chat with artists and purchase art directly from them. Maps will be available at each site and can be downloaded from our website www.mttaborartwalk.com . This is a free event.
 Woodstock Unimproved Street Project Wins Award for Student Achievement
Roadway Not Improved, a student-led project looking at community-based alternative solutions to the challenges of unimproved streets in the Woodstock Neighborhood has been selected by The Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association as the recipient of the 2010 Award for Student Achievement in Planning. 5 Portland State University students in the Masters of Urban and Regional Planning Program spent 6 months surveying the Woodstock neighborhood, talking to residents, and creating feasible solutions to the many unimproved streets in the neighborhood. The final product was a Community Toolkit meant to be used by residents interested in creating their own improvements. Currently, one group of residents has been awarded a SE Uplift Small Grant to take on their own improvement project on a particularly problematic block, affectionately known as "Lake Carleton." If you would like more information on this project or would like to download the community toolkit, check out the project website- www.roadwaynotimproved.com.
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Land Use and Sustainability
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 The Citizen Agent of Change - Making Headway Through Economic Uncertainty and Political Paralysis
The SE Uplift Sustainability Program will host Emily Klavins, from the Center for Earth Leadership, to discuss: 1) this essential need for citizen involvement at the local level, 2) concrete examples of the diverse ways Portland citizens are already contributing and 3) how you might be involved. Thursday, April 21st - 7 PM - 3534 SE Main St. (SE Uplift)
Also join us for The Local Organizer's Toolkit: Essential Knowledge for Change
A workshop hosted by the Center for Earth Leadership
Saturday, May 7, 2011, 9:00am-12:00pm, Downtown Portland
 Portland Parks & Recreation is planning a new Community Garden near Mt. Tabor. Attend the May 3 Public Meeting for the proposed Mt. Tabor Community Garden, Mt Tabor Presbyterian Church, 5441 SE Belmont St, 6:30-8 pm, to learn about the plans and design. The garden will be sited at the east end of the nursery blocks between SE Harrison and SE Lincoln, just east of 60th Ave.
 BTA Alice Awards!
Saturday, April 23, 2011 at 5 pm
Pure Space, 1315 NW Overton, Portland, OR
From a pool of strong and diverse candidates, a group of winners emerged. In each, we see strength and a bold vision of the future. In each, leadership and guts. These individuals did not sit back and wait for things to get easy. They did not wait for the movement to come their way. "Why wait?" they asked. Instead, they took stock of their resources, looked to their allies and partners, and seized the moment of transformation.
These are the individuals who have made Portland and Oregon the national leader in transportation and livability. These are the leaders who will build the next generation of transportation. Buy your ticket to Alice. Come join us to celebrate these leaders, the superheroes of today and the superheroes of tomorrow.
 Monday, April 11 · 6:30am - 9:30am
Portland Hawthorne Hostel, 3031 SE Hawthorne Blvd
Spring is here, and bicycle touring is in the air! Are you itching to hit the open road and explore nature in a way you haven't yet? Are you a regular bicycle rider but have never taken a bicycle tour?
Join us to learn more about Self-Supported Bicycle Touring. We'll be discussing equipment, planning, and cost as well as day-to-day life on the road. We'll also have a few loaded touring bikes to check out.
 SE Uplift is a partner in organizing two metro-area Water Schools. Water Schools are a unique 2-day mini-college for individuals interested in current watershed issues and how to get involved with local stewardship groups. Training topics at each of the Water Schools will be different, for detailed schedules please visit our website. Topics will include watershed processes, the natural history of Portland, ecological gardening, and urban wildlife. Learn more HERE.
 Grow Portland uses a simple and powerful
approach: connect diverse groups with
education, supplies, land and markets. We
are energized by how much can be accomplished in just one year. Our Fruit Tree Initiative, Seed Club, Growers Alliance, and Community Gardens Program are all flourishing. Check out our upcoming events!
 Naturescaping Basics with Sunnyside Neighbors
Learn to design your landscape to conserve water, prevent pollution and create healthy habitat for local birds & wildlife. You'll find out how gardening with Native plants can save you time, money and energy! Includes field trip to local Naturescaped garden.
Saturday, May 28, 9am - 1pm, SE Uplift, 3534 SE Main, Portland, OR 97214
Register online. For more information: 503-935-5383
 Toby Hemenway and Tryon Life Community Farm are partnering to bring you Portland's most professional and dynamic Permaculture Design Course. If you are working for a sustainable future and want practical tools and a deeper whole-systems perspective, then this course is for you. It is especially useful for home & business owners, educators, planners, design professionals, farmers, gardeners, and organizers. Course graduates will receive a permaculture design certificate from the Permaculture Institute.
Tryon Life Community TLC Farm will provide opportunities for hands-on skill-building as well as an inspiring setting for the course.
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Community Classes, Events and Workshops
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 We are very happy to let you know about the next training available for those searching for ways to do the most effective community work possible. Our April 9 Asset Based Community Development Workshop is the next opportunity. Please share the attached flyer widely. And, visit the Second Stories website to read more about the training and register.
Go to www.secondstories.org for more information and to register. We'd be glad to answer any questions you may have.
 Community History Storytelling: North Portland
The community is invited to a free Community History Storytelling event focusing on North Portland communities, sponsored by Community Outreach of Our United Villages. Come and hear featured storytellers who have lived or worked in North Portland as they share stories, personal experiences and community history.
WHEN: Saturday, April 16th from 12:00 PM - 2:30 PM
WHERE: Historic Kenton Firehouse, 8105 N Brandon Street
FREE and open to anyone interested. Light lunch provided. Please RSVP by Monday, April 11th to outreach@ourunitedvillages.org or 503.546.7499.
 Learn about Metro's online opinion panel - a new way to share your views and help shape the future of the region. Learn more HERE.
Making a great place takes the involvement of lots of different people with a variety of viewpoints. Metro needs to hear from you. But it can be hard to find the time to join a committee, attend an open house or write a letter to your Metro Councilor. Now there's an easier way to tell regional leaders what's important to you.
 Reviewing Oregon's Tax Expenditures
What Are They - Lost Revenue or Economic Incentives? General Meeting: League of Women Voters of Portland Tuesday, April 12, 2011, 7:00 P.M., Multnomah County Building, 501 SE Hawthorne Speakers: · Chuck Sheketoff, Executive Director, Oregon Center for Public Policy · Jody Wiser, Tax Fairness Oregon · Jon Bartholomew, Executive Director, OSPIRG For more information review the the Governor's Tax Expenditure Report at: www.oregon.gov./DOR/STATS.  Portland's School Board Candidate Forum
Public Invited, April 26th Candidates for four positions on the Portland Public School board will appear on Tuesday, April 26, at 7 P.M. in the Board Room of the Blanchard Education Service Center, 501 N. Dixon Street, Portland, in a forum presented by the Education Fund of the League of Women Voters of Portland and Community and Parents for Public Schools. The forum is free, and the public is invited and encouraged to attend. Election day is May 17, 2011. Ballots will be mailed to voters beginning on April 29, 2011. Completed ballots must be received at an official drop-off site by 8 p.m. on May 17, 2011.  Calling All Photographers!
FEBRUARY 1st THROUGH APRIL 15TH, 2011 Elders in Action Photo Contest! To signal the importance of elders in our culture & celebrate their contributions, we are proud to present Lifetime Reflections. Elders in Action invites you to creatively capture a moment that best represents older adults in one of this year's themes. Deadline: April 15, 2011 Other Great Resources: Multnomah County Library Events The Architectural Heritage Center Portland Fine Arts Guild Neighborhood Notes Coalition for a Livable Future Resolutions NW |
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