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May 22, 2012
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Greetings!
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Summer is just around the corner, which means countless opportunities for celebration and networking with friends and neighbors. SE Uplift encourages you to enjoy yourself while making neighborhood connections by hosting a block party! Block parties are a great way to get to know your neighbors, relax in the public space of your neighborhood and most importantly, have fun! The activities and scope of the block party will vary based on your interests. You can learn more about hosting a block party here. Our friends at Our United Villages put together a wonderful toolkit aimed at guiding you through the process of hosting a neighborhood or community celebration. You don't need a reason to host a block party or neighborhood celebration. Though the benefits are plenty! - Celebrations bring neighbors together in a joyful atmosphere
- Celebrate an individual's or group's accomplishment
- Use a celebration as an outreach tool for your neighborhood association or community group
- A celebration can serve as a "hub" for the neighborhood - a place where people can network and pick up resources
- Neighborhood celebrations increase community vitality and livability
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Neighborhood Events
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Portland is a city of neighborhoods, each rich in its own history. Some, like Sellwood, Albina, and Multnomah, started out as separate cities; others, as country crossroads, or stops on interurban lines. One would think that, in a city infatuated with history as Portland, neighborhood history would be well documented, but it is not. Apart from historian Eugene Snyder's 1979 book Portland Names and Neighborhoods, there is not a single comprehensive work on Portland's neighborhoods. There are a few works on individual neighborhoods, but most of the history of Portland's neighborhoods has yet to be written. There are a few neighborhood based history groups, but no organized, comprehensive effort at preserving the history of all Portland's neighborhoods.
What is the Neighborhood History Project? The purpose of the Neighborhood History Project is to put together a network of what I would call Portland neighborhood historians with four initial goals: 1.) Identify existing neighborhood history groups 2.) Identify people who might be interested in forming history groups for their neighborhood 3.) Identify people who could contribute to neighborhood histories 4.) Find people interested in joining together to represent neighborhood history groups as a unified entity. The basic idea is to find a way to ensure the preservation of the history of Portland's neighborhoods that survives individual people by helping neighborhood history groups assemble, organize, preserve, and digitize neighborhood history collections. The project is open to anyone interested in neighborhood history; there are no dues, fees, or required meetings. We will do our best to help you do as much, or as little as you want.
Contact Brian Hoop for more information: Brian.Hoop@portlandoregon.gov |
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Community News
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 On Saturday, June 2nd, bring your family and join students at Bridger K-8 as they kick-off summer with learning a few extra healthy habits! The event will start with a neighborhood bike ride at 8:45am. From 10:00am until noon, join us back at Bridger School for fun family
activities (vegetable seed planting, bounce for books in our bouncy house, participate in a scavenger hunt) and be introduced to various community organizations. All neighbors are invited!
Any questions, please contact the Bridger PTA at bridgerpta@gmail.com.Visit the www.bridgerpta.org/living for more details. Village Building Convergence City Repair's Village Building Convergence is an annual ten-day placemaking festival that combines crowdsourced activism, creative community development, hands-on education and celebration.  | | VBC 2012 Invitation |
If you have not yet heard of the VBC, please go to www.cityrepair.org/vbc, where you will also find a registration form for the event, or call 503-235-8946 to learn more.
Brooklyn Community Garden's Ground Breaking Celebration
The BCG celebration is a part of the citywide Village Building Convergence, with more than 30 natural building, permaculture and public art projects scheduled throughout the City of Portland, and locally sponsored by City Repair.
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 SE Uplift is delighted and proud to host "We are Portland!"
"We are Portland" is a youth-run mobile portrait studio that builds community through the arts. Our young photographers offer free interactive arts-focused events to their families, friends, and neighbors, and through the stunning portraits they make, My Story youth can focus the lens of public discourse on the communities they call home. All families who participate in "We are Portland" receive free portraits from their sitting.  Our vision for "We are Portland" is for our young photographers to use community portraiture to fully represent the diversity and vibrancy of the city of Portland, and for our students' work to be accessible to all Portlanders.
The project infuses public spaces with interactive arts-based experiences that change the way residents view themselves and the places they inhabit. In the midst of the excitement these events generate, new relationships are formed that cross cultural and generational boundaries. We hope you will stop by the SE Uplift Community Building to view this brilliant work. 
The SE Portland Neighborhood Food Project is seeking volunteers to help donate food to two local pantries. This food program is quitebasic, with individuals filling a green bag with non-perishable itemsone jar or can at a time when they go shopping. Neighbors helping neighbors while creating a sense of community.
The 2nd Saturday of even numbered months the green bag is set on your porch and picked up by the neighborhood coordinator and delivered to our food pantry partners: SECC, 5535 SE Rhone and Kelly School Sun Pantry, 9030 SE Cooper.
Our next pickup is Saturday, June 9.
 CharityHowTo.com provides premium webinars and supporting supplemental training videos to help nonprofits leverage the power of social media and technology. CharityHowTo webinars help nonprofits utilize social media and technology to engage their constituency, communicate their mission, and develop relationships that help to acquire and maintain donors, volunteers, and passionate supporters. These are great resources for any grassroots organization or neighborhood association.
Healthy Communities Speaker Series, June 19 - 20 The Education and Outreach Committee of the Oregon Chapter of the American Planning Association, along with 1000 Friends of Oregon and the Oregon Environmental Council, is proud to present the 2012 Healthy Communities Speaker Series with Dr. Richard J. Jackson. Dr. Richard Jackson will discuss the link between our health and the way our communities - especially our suburbs - are designed. Obesity, asthma, diabetes and heart disease are all aggravated by the auto-centric way we live our lives today. For the first time in two centuries, children today face shorter life expectancies than their parents due to unhealthy life styles. It doesn't have to be this way. Dr. Jackson will talk about how well-designed communities and better transportation choices can enable physical activity and improve both our physical and mental health. For more information about Dr. Jackson and the Designing for Healthy Communities project, go to: www.designinghealthycommunities.org.  The Bureau of Environmental Services is partnering with the Confluence Environmental Center to hire a part-time AmeriCorps member to assist as a Green Street Stewardship Coordinator. This AmeriCorps position will concentrate efforts in outer SE as well as N/NE neighborhoods. BES wants to be certain potential applicants from these areas are aware of the position and would appreciate having this position advertised through your web page, and other appropriate channels. There is a quick turn around, with an application deadline of April 26th and a position start date of May 9, 2012 through October 23, 2012. Anyone can apply to be an AmeriCorps member and in turn apply for the coordinator position. There is a stipend of $6500 gross for 900 hrs of project work. 
Please join us at the ResiliencePDX event on June 2nd at King School. We are pleased to partner with Portland Bureau of Emergency Management, Multnomah County Office of Emergency Management. This is meant to be a city-wide event to share resources related to disaster preparedness and response. We hope this will be a great opportunity for us to share and learn from each other. The expo will include about sixteen workshops on topics related to resilience and preparedness including: food storage/preservation, organizing their neighbors (PREP), household water treatment, home retrofitting, household sanitation, first aid, and many more. We have invited City and County departments to share information on their contingency plans and information. We are also inviting a wide cross-section of Portlanders and groups. We expect about 20-30 organizations there and about 1000 people. Of course, there will also be some fun entertainment!We have a few spots reserved for neighborhood associations or committees. Check out the event website: www.resiliencePDX.org  Celebrate the positive things happening in community! Community Outreach of Our United Villages invites you to the sixth presentation of Sharing Ideas on Thursday, May 24th, 2012 at the June Key Delta Center (5940 North Albina Street) from 6:00 - 8:00 PM. Sharing Ideas showcases the positive efforts of neighbors, groups and organizations throughout Portland. |
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Land Use & Sustainability
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Foster-Powell Garden Tour
 On June 16th from 10 a.m.-2 p.m., residents of Southeast Portland's Foster-Powell neighborhood are proud to host their free annual garden tour. Now in its 5th year, the Foster-Powell Garden Tour showcases the wondrous things that are possible on smaller, city-sized lots. The tour is an informal, at-your-own-pace event, and visitors are encouraged to register to win free door prizes from neighborhood businesses. For a map, email fopogardens@gmail.com, or pick up a map the day before or day of the tour at Sweetness Bakery (3524 SE 52nd), Bar Carlo (6433 SE Foster), Holgate Library, or Dennis' Seven Dees on Powell.
Johnson Creek Mussel Count with Johnson Creek Watershed Council and Xerces Society - June 2, 2012, 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. at Tideman Johnson Park (Springwater Trail and S.E. 37th Ave.). To participate in the mussel count, please RSVP Amy Lodholz from the Johnson Creek Watershed Council at amy@jcwc.org or call 503-652-7477. All ages are welcome to participate.  PHLUSH will host World Toilet Organization Founder Jack Sim on Sunday, June 3 and Monday, June 4. Jack is an international media celebrity and inspiring advocate for human dignity. He put the spotlight on the 2.6 billion humans who lack toilets and helped get the UN to include sanitation in Millennium Development Goals. Jack was one of Time Magazine's Heroes of the Environment, and his quirky personality and effective advocate abilities come across in "Meet Mr. Toilet" featured at Sundance Film Festival.
Portland City Council unanimously adopts the Portland Plan Commissioners celebrate the city's roadmap for the next 25 years 
The Portland Plan presents a roadmap to help our city thrive into the future. The result of more than two years of research, dozens of workshops and fairs, hundreds of meetings with community groups, and 20,000 comments from residents, businesses and nonprofits, the plan's three integrated strategies and framework for advancing equity were designed to help achieve the plan's goals.
Do you love farmers markets? Are you passionate about where your food comes from? If so, you would be a great volunteer for our Veggie Corps this season! If interested in volunteering, please come to our VOLUNTEER ORIENTATION event: Sunday, May 20th | 10am-12 pm | 7600 SE Stark Street As a reminder, The Montavilla Farmers Market opening day is June 3 at 10 am and it's our 100th market! Join us to shop for fresh fruit, vegetables and protein, a spectacular chef demo and planting activities for the kids. We can't wait to see you there! For more information about our market and vendors visit: www.montavillamarket.org.  WOODSTOCK FARMERS MARKET
ANNOUNCES 2012 SEASONOpening Day, Sunday, June 3
The popular Woodstock Farmers Market will begin its 2012 season on Sunday, June 3, offering shoppers even more organic food choices, more produce vendors, hot prepared food, a longer market season, and other features. In just its second year, the Woodstock Farmers Market in the KeyBank parking lot, 4600 SE Woodstock Blvd, has fast become a neighborhood institution and a weekend tradition for community members. |
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