Announcement

Rockwood Fred Meyer (demolished), 185th & SE Stark. Click to enlarge.

Share your ideas When: Tue Jan 22, 2013 6PM Where: The Rockwood Building Community Room 124 NE 181st Av Gresham OR Get Map!

Ten years ago voters approved a 20-year urban renewal district bond measure to rebuild the Rockwood Town Center after Fred Meyer closed. Now, with just ten years remaining, millions spent and no viable plan, what will become of Rockwood?

Community Forum
You're invited to attend a community forum for the Central Rockwood Plan Update. This project is intended to ensure the community’s vision for Rockwood can be achieved, and that the rules in place are not a barrier to the desired urban form. The forum will introduce the project, share identified issues, and ask for input on additional issues to study.

Your input is invaluable since you have unique expertise in how the community operates, where improvements may be made, and what is currently working well.

Neighborhood Board Meeting When: Mon Jan 28, 2013 6:30PM Where: (Contact for location)

Board meetings are scheduled for the 4th Monday each month 6:30PM

For more information please contact: info@wilkeseastna.org

Upcoming Meetings

• Feb 25, 2013
• Mar 25, 2013
• Apr 22, 2013

Save Energy, $ave money! When: Sat Jan 19, 2013 11:30AM-5PM Where: Gresham Downtown Library 385 NW Miller Av Gresham, OR Get Map!

As winter draws near, many residents, both homeowners and renters, will be facing a chilly indoors, coupled with higher energy bills. As utility customers and taxpayers, they are financially supporting a variety of energy efficiency programs that could assist them, and yet they may be unaware of these opportunities. The City of Gresham is offering free energy efficiency information fairs, to raise awareness in the community about the benefits of energy conservation and the opportunities to increase energy efficiency in one's home. Regardless of whether one owns or rents, lives in a single family home, mobile home, apartment or condominium, there are no cost, low cost and advanced energy efficiency opportunities and incentives available.

Share Your Ideas! When: Tue Jan 29, 2013 6:30PM-9PM Where: Gresham City Hall Room 3A 1333 NW Eastman Pky Gresham OR Get Map!

Join us as staff presents an overview of the preferred approaches to address issues with the City's development rules. The solutions will address concerns about how the City reviews and allows food and beverage carts and temporary uses (including carnivals, special events, farmers' markets, commercial stands, agricultural product sales and other uses of a temporary nature).

An open house will begin at 6:30PM and will be followed by the community forum at 7PM.

Revised plan approval When: Tue Dec 18, 2012 3-5PM Where: Gresham City Hall Council Chambers 1333 NE Eastman Pkwy Get Map!

Support Your Park
One of the agenda items will be Council approval of suggested changes to the original Nelson Property Neighborhood Park Master Plan (Nadaka) dated July 1, 2010. Changes include such items as relocation of the community garden and nature based play area.

What People Are Saying...
"My husband and I volunteered at the December 1st sheet mulching event at Nadaka Nature Park. We had a great time, and are so excited to see something like this developing in our neighborhood." K.M.

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!

Neighborhood Board Meeting When: Mon Dec 24, 2012 Cancelled Where: (Contact for location)

Board meetings are scheduled for the 4th Monday each month 6:30PM

For more information please contact: info@wilkeseastna.org

Upcoming Meetings

• Jan 28, 2013
• Feb 25, 2013
• Mar 25, 2013

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!