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HB Lee Middle School student accosted in Columbia View Park while walking home.

HB Lee Middle School student accosted in Columbia View Park while walking home Tuesday, Jan 17, 2012. If you have any information call Gresham Police at 503=823-3333.  Details Here!

Stranger Danger Alert

A message from HB Lee Middle School:

Early Tuesday afternoon January 17, 2012 an HB Lee Middle School student reported being accosted by an unknown person while walking home from school through Columbia View Park. Get Map.

Fortunately, the student was able to return to the school and report the incident to school personnel.

The City of Gresham Police Department is investigating the matter. If you have any information about the incident please contact Gresham Police at (503) 823-3333.

HB Lee Middle School student accosted in Columbia View Park while walking home Tuesday, Jan 17, 2012. If you have any information call Gresham Police at 503=823-3333.  Details Here!
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Free Support Group for Families of Children and Teens with Serious Behavioral Disorders

Free Support Group for Families of Children and Teens with Serious Behavioral Disorders. Meets every 2nd & 4th Tuesday monthly from 4PM-6PM at the Rockwod Building 124 NE 181st. A free public service of Trillium Family Services. Info here!

Drop-in's Welcome

When: 2nd & 4th Tuesdays 4-6PM
Where: Community Room
Human Solutions - Rockwood Building
124 NE 181
Gresham, OR
Get Map!

Free Behavioral Support Group
The Talk it Over support groups are for parents, caregivers, and siblings of a child or teen with a serious behavioral disorder, and is a free public service of Trillium Family Services. This new group will be more accessible to families in East Multnomah and Clackamas Counties and more convenient to public transportation.

Groups meet twice monthly on the 2nd & 4th Tuesday from 4PM-6PM in the Community Room at the new Human Solutions Rockwood building located at 124 NE 181st, Gresham, Oregon (one block north of E Burnside MAX Blue Line Station).

Open to the public. FREE. Drop-in's welcome

Neighborhood Connections: December 2011

City of Gresham: Neighborhood Connections, August 2011. Find Out What's Happening in and Around Your City. Public Safety information, Community Activities & Events, Training & Workshops, Volunteer Opportunities, and 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.

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Keep up with what’s Happening in your City!

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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.

HB Lee Middle School Awarded 'Safe Routes to School' Oregon Dept of Transportation Grant

HB Lee Middle School Awarded 'Safe Routes to School' State Dept of Transportation Grant. Walking and biking to West Gresham's HB Lee Middle School will soon be safer and easier. Details here!

Walking and biking to HB Lee Middle School will soon be safer and easier.

The Oregon Department of Transportation has awarded the City of Gresham and Reynolds School District $169,000 to add bike lanes, signs to slow traffic, and new crosswalks on 172nd Ave between NE Halsey and NE Glisan.

New crosswalk, signs and paths
The Gresham project includes extending a bike and pedestrian pathway and building a covered bike structure on the HB Lee campus. It also includes a new mid-block crosswalk and two signs advising drivers of the school zone and their actual speed. The improvements are expected to make it safer for students who face speeding drivers and have difficulty crossing the street as they walk or cycle to school.

One of 10 statewide awards
The project is one of 10 Oregon Department of Transportation awards statewide to promote healthy living among children and reduce congestion, fuel consumption and air pollution around schools.

A partnership for healthy students
It also highlights a new public health partnership between Multnomah County, the cities of Gresham and Portland, and local school districts to prevent obesity and chronic diseases by boosting children's physical activity and healthy food options.

Desire a cozy home this winter? Clean Energy Works Oregon is here to help!

Desire a cozy home this winter?  Clean Energy Works Oregon is here to help!. Details here!

Even the smallest leak in your home can allow the winter chill to enter.

Sealing all air gaps and properly insulating walls, the attic and crawl space in your home can help keep indoor temperatures more moderate – both in the winter and summer. These are just two of the improvement opportunities offered with Clean Energy Works Oregon (CEWO).

CEWO is a new non-profit, partnering with the City of Gresham, to provide homeown-ers with an easy, all-in-one solution to im-proving energy efficiency in the home. Improving the energy efficiency in your home increases comfort and protection from both inclement weather and rising energy rates.

  • No-money-down, easy financing
  • Free extensive home energy audit by a trained building expert
  • Work conducted by a certified contractor
  • Repayment of loan through the utility bill

It includes home and water heating, insulation, windows, and air and duct sealing.

Apply today and receive up to $2,000* in instant rebates toward the cost of your home energy improvements.

MedCure Surgical Training Center Breaks Ground in North Gresham Business Area

MedCure Surgical Training Center Breaks Ground in North Gresham Business Area. Details here!
Medcure breaks ground, Sep 2011

The City of Gresham is finalizing building permits for the creation of a Surgical Training Center at the northeast corner of 181st Avenue and Sandy Boulevard.

State-of-the-art facility
Ground breaking for the new facility happened September 7th. The new Surgical Training Center will be a six-station, state of the art bio-skill laboratory. Surgeons will utilize the center to develop and practice the latest in minimally invasive surgical procedures on persons who have donated their body after death, to support advancements in medical science. This kind of surgical training is critical in developing competency in procedures before performing these operations on living persons.

“The location is ideal for us because of the proximity to the Portland International Airport and area hotels,” says Valere Beck, Marketing Director for MedCure. “This allows surgeons to access the center with ease.”

The opening date is expected to be in February 2012.

Rosewood Initiative; High crime rate, drugs, gangs and violence unite a community

Rosewood Initiative; High crime rate, drugs, gangs and violence unite a community. Details here!
Max rider, 162nd & Burnside

Neighbors helping neighbors

The Rosewood Initiative is a non-profit organization launched in 2009 dedicated to making the Rosewood area a safe and desirable place to live, work, and play.

Working Together
To accomplish this goal, they are partnering with residents, apartment managers and owners, businesses, churches, government agencies, social services, neighborhood associations, and public safety agencies.

Rosewood is a roughly 15-block area around the intersection of NE 162nd & E. Burnside. The neighborhood is most commonly defined as SE 157th to SE 165th and NE Holiday to SE Alder. About 70 percent of the area’s 6,500 residents live in 46 apartment complexes.

Unfortunately, many residents in the Rosewood area are at risk due to the influence of gangs, drugs, and human trafficking activities in and around the community. For that reason, the Rosewood Initiative is developing an outreach program called RISE (Rosewood Initiative Sisters Empowered) to help identify at-risk youth and connect them to appropriate mentorship and service programs.

Fall 2011 Wilkes East Neighborhood newsletter now available

Wilkes East Neighborhood, Gresham Oregon USA. Diversity, Harmony, Community - Together we can make a difference!

Fall 2011 Wilkes East Neighborhood newsletter. Download here!
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Fall 2011 Newsletter is here.
Download your copy today.

INSIDE THIS ISSUE

  • Training Center Breaks Ground
  • Weatherization Rebates Available
  • HB Lee MS Awarded State Grant
  • Center Helps At-Risk Familes
  • Cypress Park joins Nat’l Night Out
  • Rosewood, A Community Unites
  • Nadaka Next Step, Events & More

Download the full-color edition here!
(Includes clickable links to more information)

Newsletters are a regular publication of the Wilkes East Neighborhood Association. They are hand-delivered to over 1,500 residences and businesses in our area, timed to correspond with our regular meetings.
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Got a story to share?
Wilkes East residents are encouraged to submit articles for the newsletter. Articles should be limited to 300 words and may be subject to editing. Send articles by email to: info@wilkeseastna.org, or by postal mail to: PO Box 536 • Fairview, OR 97024.

Thank You to City of Gresham Roads Division on the 162nd Ave Project

Thank You to City of Gresham Roads Division on the 162nd Ave Project from the Wilkes East Neighborhood. Details here!

Thank You for repaving NE 162nd Ave,

From the entire Wilkes East Neighborhood

The following is and excerpt from a letter sent to the City of Gresham Road Divison regarding the 162nd Ave repavement project by the president of the Wilkes East Neighborhood Assn on behalf of the Board and our neighbors. Viewed entire letter here.


John Dorst, Manager

City of Gresham Roads Division
1333 NW Eastman Parkway
Gresham, OR 97080

RE: 162nd Avenue NE Halsey to NE Glisan

Dear Mr. Dorst & repair road crew:

I am writing on behalf of the Wilkes East Neighborhood Association (WEna) and all of our members.

We wish to thank you as well as congratulate you on a job well done on the replacement of the 162nd Avenue
It looks great, rides great, walks with better safety features as well as a project, which was completed as promised (and ahead of schedule).

Curtis Duval our Land-Use Chair who is a retired Engineer with ODOT and also lives at 163rd and NE Holiday Street was pleased with the plan and execution done by your team of workers.

Thank you for taking on a project, which was originally felt to be too expensive. Ultimately this will make our winter driving safer!

Kris Freiermuth, President
Wilkes East Neighborhood Assn. (WEna)

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