Workshops

Become a SOLV Project Coordinator

When: Fri May 13, 2011 9:30AM-3:30PM Where: Mt Hood Community College Room AC1253 (use door to right of the bookstore) 26000 SE Stark St Gresham, OR Get Map!

Training Workshop
SOLV is pleased to announce a new training opportunity at Mt. Hood Community College on Friday May 13th. Learn how volunteers can help improve the environment and your community. This workshop is designed to help community members organize a SOLV project focused around litter and illegal dumpsite cleanup, invasive plant removal, native tree and shrub planting, or maintenance and monitoring of watershed restoration sites. Topics covered include:

• Watershed basics
• Envisioning and defining your project
• Managing and recruiting volunteers
• Educate volunteers on the impact of their work
• Add new energy to volunteer projects
• Finding sponsors, fundraising, and working with the media
• Project logistics for the day of your event

To Register or find out more:
Go to http://www.solv.org/programs/volunteer_action_training.asp, call Sara Ryan at 503.844.9571 x 320 or email sara@solv.org.

This workshop is designed to help community members coordinate a high quality SOLV project. The workshop provides training, resources, and ongoing project support.

Neighborhood Connections is a publication from the City of Gresham
Communications & Community Outreach offering City of Gresham news, Public Safety information, Community Activities & Events, Training & Workshops, Volunteer Opportunities, and more.

Inside this Issue

• Crime Reports
• Gresham Newsletter Online
• Spring Neighborhood Safety Forum - May 14
• Multnomah County RSVP, a Program of Metropolitan Family Service (MFS)
• East County's Got Talent - Auditions Apr 30
• Project Linkage
• East Gresham Community Information Fair - May 25
• Experience is the Best Teacher, and You Have a Lifetime’s Worth
• Rockwood Design Standards Community Forum - April 18
• Urban Forestry Management Plan Open House – April 19
• The Chamber Expo
• New Mediators Join East Metro Mediation
• Are You a Gresham Homeowner? Clean Energy Works Gresham is Here!
• Public Comment Sought on Draft Stormwater Monitoring Plan - Deadline Apr 25 Noon
• City’s Earth Day Recycling Collection Event is April 23
• Volunteer Bird Survey Orientation is April 23
• Drug Take-Back Day is April 30
• Gresham Celebrates National Bike Month in May
• Learn to Naturescape in Your Garden Workshop May 7
• Internal Sustainability Plan Brings Multiple Benefits to City Operations
• City’s New Program Offers Free Water Audit and Home Energy Review
• Resident Web Panel: Your Opinion Matters

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Wetlands. Important to plants, animals & people

When: Sat, Apr 30, 2011 8:45AM-1PM Where: Whitaker Ponds Nature Park 7040 NE 47th Ave Portland, OR 97218 Get map!

Learn About Urban Wetlands

Join the Columbia Slough Watershed Council for a free workshop all about local wetlands. Learn why wetlands are important to urban communities, how wetland mitigation occurs, and what plants and animals rely on wetlands to survive. Finish up the class with an outdoor field trip focusing on wetland restoration projects in NE Portland.

Columbia Slough Watershed map

Advanced registration required; suitable for adults and teens 14+.

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Neighborhood Connections is a publication from the City of Gresham
Communications & Community Outreach offering City of Gresham news, Public Safety information, Community Activities & Events, Training & Workshops, Volunteer Opportunities, and more.

Inside this Issue

• Crime Reports
• Earthquake Preparedness (Read)
• Multnomah County RSVP, a Program of Metropolitan Family Service (MFS)
• "10 Ways to Engage Your Audience & Extend Your Reach" Class
• Project Linkage
• Experience is the Best Teacher, and You Have a Lifetime’s Worth
• Earth Day Recycling Collection Event, Save the Date: Apr 23
• City Looks at Relationship Between Built Environment And Health
• Residents’ Views Needed on Institutional Master Plans: Apr 4
• Rain Garden Grants Available: Deadline Apr 15
• Event Recycling Volunteers Needed: Mar 26
• Birds, Bees and Butterflies Workshop: Apr 10
• Make Your Opinions Count for the Community, E-mail surveys
• Street Sweeping Schedule
• Transportation Fair for Downtown Employees: Apr 7
• Bike Rides for Adults and Families Start in April
• Nationwide Prescription Drug Take-Back Day: Apr 30
• Bike Commute Workshops: May 4 & 11
• Free Bird Workshop: Apr 5
• City’s Natural Resources and Sustainability Committee Looking for Members
• Get Ready to Travel Smart

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Neighborhood Connections is a publication from the City of Gresham
Communications & Community Outreach offering City of Gresham news, Public Safety information, Community Activities & Events, Training & Workshops, Volunteer Opportunities, and more.

Inside this Issue

• Crime Reports
• Drawing Out Conflict – Workshop to Explore Conflict Resolution
• Basic Mediation Training: Apply by February 28
• Community Forum on Existing Tree Regulations – February 22
• Multnomah County RSVP, a Program of Metropolitan Family Service (MFS)
• "10 Ways to Engage Your Audience & Extend Your Reach" Class
• Healthy Streams Program
• Think Before You Flush
• Project Linkage
• Experience is the Best Teacher, and You Have a Lifetime’s Worth
• Free Bird Workshop in April
• Earth Day Recycling Collection Event, Save the Date
• City’s Natural Resources and Sustainability Committee Looking for Members
• Free Rain Garden Workshop March 5
• Get Ready to Travel Smart!

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Gresham Neighborhoods listing

For more information, visit the Neighborhood Associations page at GreshamOregon.gov or contact Cathy Harrington at 503-618-2482, or email Cathy.Harrington@GreshamOregon.gov.

City of Gresham News, Community Activities, Workshops & More

Neighborhood Connections is a publication from the City of Gresham Communications & Community Outreach offering City of Gresham news, Public Safety information, Community Activities & Events, Training & Workshops, Volunteer Opportunities, and more.

Inside this Issue

• Experience is the Best Teacher, and You Have a Lifetime’s Worth
• $1,000 Shopping Spree
• Multnomah County RSVP, a Program of Metropolitan Family Service (MFS)
• Volunteer as a Severe Events Driver
• Residents’ Views Needed on Residential Compatibility
• City Grants Support Environmental Projects at Schools
• Join Our Resident Web Panel
• Free Grease Kits for Holiday Cooking and Beyond
• Holiday Construction Limitations in Busy Retail Districts
• Prepare Your Water Pipes Before Freezing Temperatures Arrive
• Spirit of Christmas Festivities on Saturday, November 27
• Pumpkin Tip
• Fall Leaves Tips
• $200 Rain Garden Grants Available
• Volunteer to Watch Wildlife
• Free Workshop: Learn to Ride Bus, MAX

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Help ensure new and existing developments are more compatible Join the Residential Compatibility discussion! City Hall, Tuesday Oct 20th 6:30PM

When: Tuesday, Oct 20, 2009 6:30PM
Where: Gresham City Hall
Conference Center
1333 NW Eastman Pky
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Residential Compatibility Workshop

The City of Gresham would like your help in ensuring new development and existing development are more compatible with each other.

Please come to this workshop to discuss alternative ways to address issues raised in the Residential Districts Review – Compatibility project.

Alternatives will be presented on the following issues:

• Transitions (commercial or apartments next to single-family)
• Buffers and screening between developments
• Flag lots (homes behind other homes)
• Height and bulk of new homes
• How small-lot subdivisions are reviewed
• Quality/appearance of fences along streets

Express yourself, Help Gresham set attractive, innovative, Multi-Family Design Standards. Community forum Sep 30th

When: Wednesday, Sep 30, 2009 6:30PM
Where: City Hall Conference Center
(Springwater Room)
1333 NW Eastman Pkwy
Gresham, OR
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Share your ideas!

The Multi-Family Design Standards project will create Code that will facilitate the creation of multi-family housing that is attractive, innovative, of high quality design and materials, and compatible with surrounding neighborhoods. Multi-family development is defined as three or more units located on a single lot. The project will also look at duplexes and mixed-use developments. Issues include defining a vision for multi-family development regarding site design and building design by considering desired quality, design excellence, sustainability, transportation access, traffic impact

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Free workshop! Make your own Rain Garden! Beautify to your yard & protect our streams too.

When: Thursday June 11, 2009 6:00PM - 9:00PM
Where: Fairview Community Center
200 Harrison St
Fairview, OR
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What is a Rain Garden?

Rain gardens are a great way to add beautiful landscaping to your yard and protect our overloaded urban streams at the same time. Join us to learn how to build a rain garden on your property to keep our streams clean and healthy!

Participants will learn what a rain garden is and the critical role they can play in the restoration of urban streams, and the “how to’s” of constructing your own rain garden. You will learn the how to assess your site, calculate impervious surfaces, locate and size rain gardens, determine soil suitability with a percolation test, choose appropriate plants, and how to maintain your new rain garden. You will receive a rain garden packet, and where possible, take a field trip to a nearby rain garden.

Advanced registration required. Click here to register!

Join us for a Morning Bird Walk at Nadaka Park Learn the value of urban natural areas.

When: Thursday May 28, 2009 07:30AM - 08:30AM
Where: Nadaka Nature Park
17500 NE Pacific St
Gresham, Oregon
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Join us for a morning stroll

In celebration of Great Blue Heron Week, join Jim Labbe with the Audubon Society of Portland and Lee Dayfield with Wilkes East Neighborhood Association for a morning stroll through Nakada Nature Park in West Gresham. We’ll explore the natural and human history of this unique neighborhood nature park and learn about efforts afoot to expand the park, improve access and environmental interpretation, and enhance its wildlife habitat. We’ll also begin the documenting of bird species inhabiting the park and discuss the value of urban natural areas to avian biodiversity.

Register Free!

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