Community

Buy Your Valentine a Gift When: Sat Feb 07, 2015 10AM-4PM Where: 150 W Powell Blvd Gresham OR Get Map!

Art Sale and Benefit
Join 13 artists that are showing and selling their work to benefit two of our valuable community non-profit programs: Gresham VFW and the Tsuru Island Japanese Garden.

Buy your valentine a gift at this event and you will also be giving a gift to our community! View event flyer

Meet and learn more about the two community programs this sale supports:

• Gresham VFW: Is working to create a Veteran’s Community Center that will not only house support programs for our Veterans, but also have space available
  to the entire community for events, classes and more.
• Tsuru Island Japanese Garden: Located in Gresham’s Main City Park, dedicated volunteers have transformed this little island, creating a true work of art that will enhance our community for generations to come.

Share Your Transit Ideas! When: "Thu Feb 12, 2015 6PM-8:30PM Where: Gresham City Hall Conference Center 1333 NW Eastman Pky Gresham OR Get Map!

The Powell-Division Transit and Development Project is holding a Hands-on Community Workshop. This is an opportunity for community members to provide thoughts and ideas on transit alternatives and options for desired neighborhood change. Attendees will be able to look at plans and ask questions of City, Metro and TriMet staff.

The open house start at 6PM; presentations and discussions begin at 6:30PM.

Wilkes Community Group Annual Meeting When :Tue Nov 04, 2014 6:30-8:20PM Where: Margaret Scott Elementary School Library 14700 NE Sacramento Portland OR Get Map!

Public Invited!
Wilkes Community Group is hold their General Meeting, Tuesday Nov 4th, 6:30PM at Margret Scott Elementary School. Neighbors are invited to attend.

Agenda

• 6:30 - Introductions
• 6:45 - Police Officer(s) Report
• 6:55 - Minutes and Treasurers Report
• 7:00 - Election of Officers
  Chairperson, two Co-chairpersons, secretary, treasurer, EPN Director
• 7:20 - Approval of By Law Changes
  see Web Page at wilkes.eastportland.org for proposed changes
• 7:45 - Speaker - Danielle DePaiva Voisi
  Tree Plan Outreach Coordinator, PP&R
• Urban Forestry
• 7:30 - Old Business
  Meeting Place
• 8:00 - New Business
  Should the Board have a December Retreat?

Free Flu Shot Event When: Tue Nov 11, 2011 3-7PM Where: Legacy Mount Hood Medical Center 24800 SE Stark St Gresham, OR Get Map!

Protect Your Health
Legacy Health is offering FREE flu shots to people age six months and older on Tuesday, November 11, 2014, Veterans Day. Shots will be available on all five hospital campuses.

People age 12 and older may also receive a free tetanus/diphtheria/pertussis vaccination. Pertussis commonly referred to as whooping cough, is very contagious. County health departments declared pertussis outbreaks in Oregon and Washington in 2012. Eighty three percent of people who die from pertussis in the U.S. are less than three months old and often catch it from adult family members.

Rockwood NA Meeting When: Mon Nov 17, 2011 7-9PM Where: Rockwood Building 124 NE 182st Ave Greaham OR Get Map!

Meeting Agenda

• Guest Speakers:
  • Officer James Leake
    Gresham Neighborhood Enforcement Team-Abandoned and Vacant Houses, and Neighborhood livability issues.
  • Jeffrey Rhoades
    Multnomah County Deputy District Attorney
• Human Solutions Winter Warming Shelter
  162nd and Burnside
• Election of officers

Rain or Shine! Macy's Holiday Parade When: Fri Nov 28, 2014 9AM Where: Downtown Portland Get Parade Route Map!

Visit Macy's website for details.
http://social.macys.com/believe/#events/8550

Friends of the Children, Gresham OR Artists rendering. Click to enlarge.

Focus on At-risk Youth. New Facility Opening Fall 2015. Friends of the Children, a Portland non-profit, is making a significant investment in the East County community.

The non-profit agency Friends of the Children has begun the final planning phase of their budgeted $5 million project—an 8,500-square-foot youth center located next to Pat Pfeiffer Park on NE 172nd Ave. Construction is set to begin in February, and the facility opens in the fall of 2015.

Founded in 1993, Friends of the Children is a mentoring program dedicated to transforming the lives of children in need. Youth are selected in kindergarten and paired with a “Friend,” a full-time professional mentor. Youth’s benefit from this strength-based relationship through high school graduation.

The organization currently serves over 425 youth, half of whom live east of I-205. According to Friends of the Children’s COO, Mark Young, the organization anticipates enrolling many of each year’s new class of kindergartners from East County elementary schools. The program focuses on enrolling youth whose life challenges put them most at-risk of school failure, juvenile delinquency and early parenting.

Albertina Kerr's Louise Home addition Artists rendering. Click to enlarge.

Albertina Kerr's historic Louise Home undergoes its first major renovation in more than 30 years to complete the 10-acre campus overhaul.

Built in 1925 as a juvenile hospital offering maternity services for dependent girls, the historic Albertina Kerr Louise Home will undergo its first major renovation in more than 30 years.

The 3-story 12,000 sq.ft. Georgian style building is the oldest and most recognizable building on the Albertina Kerr Gresham campus at 722 NE 162nd Ave.

The Louise Home will retain its historic structure and facade and receive a full interior renovation including seismic, structural and ADA building updates. A modern 2-story 4,000 sq.ft. addition between the two wings on the east side of the building will complete the renovation providing much needed space for Albertina Kerr programs and support staff.

While preliminary work has already begun, the planned start for the renovation is December 2014, with project completion scheduled for September 2015.

Every Saturday May thru October! When: Every Saturday, 8:30AM-2PM Where: NW Miller & Third St Historic Downtown Gresham, OR Get Map!

Stock-up Now! Final Weeks This Year

Fresh & Local
Shoppers will find all-natural meats and cheeses, fresh-picked produce, nursery stock and fresh-cut flowers, hand-crafted jewelry, soaps, artwork, and much more. Live music and food are always part of the market.

Located on Northwest Miller Avenue between Second and Third Street 8:30AM to 2PM each Saturday now through Oct. 25.