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Share Your Ideas When: Thu Feb, 21 2013 6:00-7:30PM Where: Gresham City Hall Room 2A and 2B 1333 NW Eastman Pky Gresham OR Get Map!

Come help define the city's renewable energy vision.
Join us for a Renewable Energy Open House to review the draft Code describing how and where we should allow renewable energy technologies like solar, wind, biomass, geothermal and micro-hydro energy systems.

The Renewable Energy project:

• Encourages renewable energy development in appropriate locations while protecting the natural environment, the social and economic quality of life and the design of the built environment
• Updates the City's Community Development Plan Goals, Policies and Code Standards concerning renewable energy
• Creates a clear review process for renewable energy projects

You know the old saying, "spring ahead, fall back"...

Set your clocks ahead 1 hour Sunday 2AM

It's time to spring ahead! Daylight saving time 2012 officially begins this Sunday, March 10 at 2:00AM (local time) -- remember to set your clocks ahead one hour to 3:00AM when you go to bed Saturday night.

It's also the perfect time to install a fresh battery in your smoke detectors.

About Daylight Saving Time
Daylight saving time (DST) — aka summer time is the practice of temporarily advancing clocks during the summertime so that afternoons have more daylight and mornings have less. Clocks are adjusted forward one hour near the start of spring and are adjusted backward in autumn.

Most of the United States and Canada observe DST beginning the second Sunday in March and ending the first Sunday in November -- almost two-thirds of the year.

(More on the history of Daylight Saving Time below the break)

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Be Seen! Get Heard! When: Sat Jan 12, 2013 12PM-2PM Where: The Rockwood Building 124 NE 181st Av Gresham OR Get Map!

Join community members for a celebration of the Rockwood Art and Media Project on Saturday, January 12th, 2013 at The Rockwood Building, Gresham. Parents and youth are hosting an event for the community, “Be Seen! Get Heard!” a Showcase featuring photos, art, and talents of youth

Handmade Crafts Bazaar When: Sat/Sun Nov 19-20, 2011 9AM-3PM Where: St Aidan's Episcopal Church 174th & NE Glisan St Greaham OR Get Map!

Holiday Gifts Galore

• Pictures with Santa and Mrs. Santa
• Canned goods prepared in our licensed kitchen
• Specialty vendors, Needlework, Baked goods, Plants, Games, Handiwork and Crafts, Resale Items
• Raffle including a handmade quilt
• Delicious Food at the Christmas Café, 11AM-2PM
  Deli Sandwiches and Homemade Soups
• Giving Tree for SnowCap

Click here for the Oregonian's complete list of 2012 Holiday Bazaar's!

Happy shopping!

Oregon Renaissance Band

"As it fell on a holie eve" A Christmas and New Years Concert When: Sun Dec 30, 2012 3PM Where: St Aidan's Episcopal Church 17405 NE Glisan Get Map!

Admission: $15 general, $12 students and seniors.
Tickets will be available at the door.

What on Earth is a sagbutt?*
The 13 musicians of the Oregon Renaissance Band will perform "As it fell on a holie eve," the second concert in Concerts @ 3:00pm series at St. Aidan's Episcopal Church, 17405 NE Glisan in Gresham, December 30th, 2012. This concert of Christmas and New Years is by 16th and 17th century composers for early instruments and voices. Celtic, Italian, German, English, Spanish, and French music will be featured by composers including O'Carolan, Playford, Praetorius, and Holborne, Byrd, Du Caurroy, and includes the performance of a Magnificat.

The instrumentalists and singers play music of and others on period instruments including violin, viola da gamba, lute, sackbutts, recorders, cornamusen, bagpipes, racketts, tartold, spinettino, krummhorn, tabor, and others. The program will include the splendid Magnificat by Pachelbel's son Charles who worked in 18th century South Carolina.

Learn the Do's and Don'ts of Holiday Recycling Plus, How-to Recycle Your Tree Curbside for Free!

As the holiday's draw to a close, here's a few tips for proper disposal of unwanted wrapping paper, wreaths and trees!

Holiday Recycling Questions

• Can glossy holiday gift bags go in the blue cart?
  Paper gift bags can be recycled. Tip: Usually if you can tear the paper fairly easily it will pulp up at the paper mill. Gift bags can be reused or donated to charity.
• Can cellophane or foil wrapping paper go in the blue cart?
  Non-paper wrapping material should not go in the blue roll carts. Most “foil-like” paper is metallic ink on paper and is accepted with recycling.
• Can present ribbons be recycled in the blue cart?
  Non-paper ribbons are not accepted (very few ribbons are paper-based).

  Plenty more tips below this break!

Take A Survey About Food Carts in Gresham.

Let planners know what you think about proposed rule changes Surveys end Nov 28th

The City of Gresham planners would like you to take the latest online survey regarding the Food and Beverage Carts project.

Take the Surveys Here!
Visit the City's Food and Beverage Carts project website to learn more about how you can shape Gresham's new food cart policy.

• Take the Food and Beverage Cart survey here!
• Take the Temporary Uses survey here!

The City of Gresham will use the information from the surveys as they proceed with the project. Hurry. Only one week left. Surveys close Nov. 28.

Handmade Crafts Bazaar 2 Days Only! Sat/Sun Nov 19-20, 2011 9AM-3PM Where: St Aidan's Episcopal Church 174th & NE Glisan St Greaham OR Get Map!

Holiday Gifts Galore

• Pictures with Santa and Mrs. Santa
• Canned goods prepared in our licensed kitchen
• Specialty vendors, Needlework, Baked goods, Plants, Games, Handiwork and Crafts, Resale Items
• Raffle including a handmade quilt
• Delicious Food at the Christmas Café, 11AM-2PM
  Deli Sandwiches and Homemade Soups
• Giving Tree for SnowCap

Click here for the Oregonian's complete list of 2012 Holiday Bazaar's!

Happy shopping!

Serving warm food, warm smiles

Happy Thanksgiving For most families, Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on everything you’ve been given, and be grateful for all that you have.

This year may be tough for many of us. But no matter how bad things are looking for you this year, there’s always someone who has it worse. So this year, take the time to give thanks for all that’s good in your own life -- and to give to others who may not share the same good fortune this Thanksgiving.

Give from the heart

Help brighten the holiday for someone in need.

• Donate time or money to a local charity or food pantry
• Donate a Thanksgiving basket to a neighbor in need
• Volunteer at a local soup kitchen or homeless shelter
• Deliver Thanksgiving meals to housebound seniors

Volunteer this holiday, and share the season!

Have a safe Thanksgiving weekend.