Spring Garden of Wonders Clean Up

This Saturday, March 14th 8 am to noontime Come get your hands in the soil with the GOW crew and get the garden looking ship-shape for the first planting of the season. We need helping prepping garden beds, moving wood chips, pruning berried & dahlias, weeding,...

Division Street Plan Project Update

We are writing to provide some very long overdue updates to what is happening with the next phase of the Division Street Plan implementation. There has been a lot of work going on behind the scenes that we want to bring into the open: *** 7 Corners design project...

Street Renaming/Historic Info on Grand Ave

As indicated earlier the City is considering a request to rename Broadway, 39th or Grand Avenue in honor of Cesar Chavez. For information on the entire process please scroll down to the bottom of this message. Thanks to one of the historians living in our...

Advisory Committee for New Community Center

Things are starting to move again on our long held plans to develop an inner Southeast Community Center at the former Washington/Monroe High School site near SE 12th & Alder. The Parks Bureau is setting up a citizen advisory committee to guide the next phase of...

Time to Plan the Muddy Boots Festival

St. Philip Neri’s Muddy Boot Organic Festival A Soulful Celebration of Sustainable Living St. Philip Neri’s 4th annual Muddy Boot Organic festival will take place September 11th – 13th, 2009. The parish is currently recruiting for a few people to...

Benefits of Trees Workshop

Persuasion and the Benefits of Urban Trees A free 3-hour workshop March 30, 2009 1 p.m. – 4 p.m. Location: Northwest Natural 220 NW 2nd Ave. 4th Floor Conference Room Portland, Oregon Geoffrey Donovan, USFS researcher, will quickly cover dozens of recent...