Announcements

General messages from the HAND board – reminders, notices, and updates for the neighborhood.

How this works

The board posts short announcements here as they come up – upcoming meetings, meeting changes, neighborhood updates, meeting minutes, and other general notices. For forwarded newsletters for HAND, see HAND Sharing Square instead.

Latest Announcements

HAND Meeting Minutes, Oct. 2008

Hand Board Meeting Minutes -- Approved by board during November meeting. October 21, 2008 Board members present: Chair alex Bassos, Secretary Carolyn Brock, Treasurer Matthew Masini, frank Dufay, Liz Gatti, Dave Kaplan, Wendy Kunkel, Lindsey McBride, Linda Nettekoven,...

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Abernethy Harvest Festival, Thursday, 3-4pm

Join your Abernethy Community in a Harvest Festival Celebration! Thursday (Today) After School from 3-4pm in the Gazebo and Garden of Wonders. Enjoy your friends while: sipping fresh pressed apple cider eating popcorn learning about seed saving making applesauce and...

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Next HAND Meeting, Oct. 21, 2008

Please mark your calendar for the next HAND board meeting. Tuesday, October 21 St. Paul Classroom @ Paulist Center, St Philip Neri Catholic Church 2408 SE 16th Ave, Portland, OR 97214 6:00 PM Land Use & Transportation Committee (Contact: Kina Voelz) 7:00 - 9:00 PM...

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Hungry for Knowledge: Lauro Mediterranean Kitchen

Lauro Mediterranean Kitchen benefits Hosford Middle School all day today donating 20% of lunch and dinner revenue to the neighborhood public school.Enjoy lunch or dinner today at Lauro and you'll be supporting critical programs right here in our neighborhood. The...

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Nominations Open for the Spirit of Portland Awards

It's time to think about honoring some of the many volunteers who make our community work --- here in the neighborhood, in our schools, in our nonprofit organizations, in our business community. The annual Spirit of Portland Awards nominations are now being accepted:...

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Comment on ONI’s Proposed Goals

The Office of Neighborhood Involvement goals and mission guide what funding is sought, how staff resources are used, and how City funding is passed on to Coalition Offices (Southeast Uplift in our case) and neighborhood associations like HAND (e.g., we receive a small...

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Urban Ecology & Conservation Symposium

URBAN ECOLOGY and CONSERVATION SYMPOSIUM: Connecting Green Research, Lands and Partners Monday, January 26, 2009 Portland State University, Smith Center Ballroom You are invited to participate in the seventh annual symposium hosted by the Urban Ecosystem Research...

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HAND Land Use & Transportation Meeting Agenda

DRAFT: OCTOBER 2008 : HAND LUTC AGENDA 6 pm- 6: 10 pm Announcements: • upcoming BDS public meeting with tom armstrong re: non- conforming uses along hawthorne & zoning change. Tom Armstrong to come to Oct 21st general meeting? (Alex, thoughts? Kina will contact Tom...

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Burnside Bridgehead Meeting Postponed

The latest from PDC on the stalled Burnside Bridgehead project. - Frank From: Lam, Trang Subject: October 14th CAC meeting - Canceled Good morning Burnside Bridgehead Citizen Advisory Committee Members & Interested Parties, At the suggestion of the CAC Chair Tim...

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