Rosewood Initiative
Wilkes East Neighborhood, 2017 Fall Meeting: Mon Nov 13, 2017 7PM-9PM
By admin - Posted on November 1st, 2017
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When: Mon Nov 13, 2017 7PM-9PM |
Neighborhood Meeting, Everyone's Invited
Join Your Neighbors. Get involved. Make a difference!
Save the date
Be sure to save Monday, November 13th at 7PM for the Wilkes East Neighborhood 2017 Fall Meeting. The meeting will be held at Albertina Kerr, 722 NE 162nd Av, Training Building (small bldg, center north on property), Gresham OR. Get map!
Guests & Topics
Speakers for the November 13th meeting include: Election of Board Officers, Gresham Police Neighborhood Enforcement Team (NET), City of Gresham Code Compliance, Rockwood Boys & Girls Club, City of Gresham Transportation Dept, Proposed 162nd Max Station name change
November is election month. Please consider becoming a board member. Nominate yourself. No experience needed. All positions are open.
Remember, if we don’t have a neighborhood association then we will have no idea, or say, in what is going on in our neighborhood or community!
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Seeking Board Members. Are you motivated, passionate, creative? |
Who should attend?
This meeting is open to all residents and businesses in the Wilkes East Neighborhood!
Be Part Of Your Community. Plan To Attend.
| The Wilkes East Neighborhood is located in the Northwest corner of the City of Gresham, Oregon, and is one of Gresham's sixteen neighborhoods. Wilkes East Neighborhood borders are roughly NE Sandy Blvd to the north, NE 181st Ave to the east, NE Glisan St to the south, and NE 162nd Ave to the west. Get map!. |
Agenda
- Election of Board Officers
- Gresham Police Neighborhood Enforcement Team (NET)
- City of Gresham Code Compliance
- Rockwood Boys & Girls Club
- City of Gresham Transportation Dept
- Proposed 162nd Max Station name change
- plus a Nadaka update and neighborhood news.
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Watch for these red & white Meeting Signs the week before our meeting. The signs were purchased with assistance of the City of Gresham Neighborhood Grant Program, and with volunteer hours to set them out and retrieve them. Signs Now NW also made a generous contribution to this project. |
Mark your calendar. See you there!
Share Your Opinion, Rockwood Area Neighbors Listening Circle; Rosewood Initiative: Apr 21, 2014 7-9PM
By admin - Posted on April 1st, 2014
04/21/2014 - 7:00pm
04/21/2014 - 9:00pm
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Tell Us What Works, and What Could Be Even BetterWhen: Mon Apr 21, 2014 7PM-9PM |
Refreshments will be served
You're Invited!
Camassia Community Planning, a grad student group from Portland State University has partnered with the Rockwood Neighborhood Association to host an open discussion for Rockwood Area Neighbors from Wilkes East, Centennial, North Gresham, or Rockwood. We want to hear about what works in your neighborhood, and what could be even better!
Camassia Community Planning, with the support of Planning and Urban Design department of the City of Gresham, will develop Opportunity Maps, using an innovative method for analyzing and displaying the neighborhood conditions that affect community health and well-being. In order to ensure that the maps reflect the lived experiences of the residents of Gresham, Camassia would like to come to you to start a conversation about the opportunities you see in your area. Take the 5-min Survey!
Free Community Event, Rosewood Summer Kick Off: Fri Jun 14, 2013 6PM-9PM
By admin - Posted on June 1st, 2013
06/14/2013 - 6:00pm
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 Rosewood Café, 162nd & SE Stark |
Join The Fun!When: Fri Jun 14, 2013 6-9PM |
Rosewood Summer Kick Off!!
The Rosewood Initiative is collaborating with Morpheus Youth Project, American Indian Movement, Resolutions NW, David Douglas and Centennial High School Students, One Life and others to celebrate a kick off to a safe summer! It's going to be a blast and everyone is welcome!
Performances by: Restorative Justice students, Mexica Tiahui, local BBoys, One Life, Also, Taj Rockitt, Double Up, All Soul, Rey Totum and THE LOCALS! With DJ Weather on the turn tables...join us for a night of music, food and fun in Rosewood!
We need help with donations of bottled water, snacks, and positive adult presence.
In other news, the remodel of Rosewood is well under way, our walls and floors are painted and we're working on things like lighting, plumbing, room acoustics, and lots of other odds and ends. We couldn't do it without the THOUSANDS of volunteer hours from our neighbors and partners. Thank you everyone!
Rosewood T-shirts are in today, we're going to be selling them for $20 to raise some money for the great work we're doing. Stop by to pick one up and see the progress we're making. Keep in touch on our FaceBook group page, search The Rosewood Initiative and ask to join to keep up to date.
Rosewood Area Prosperity Initiative visioning workshop, Rosewood Cafe: Jan 25, 2011 3-5PM
By admin - Posted on January 1st, 2012
01/25/2012 - 3:00pm
01/25/2012 - 5:00pm
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When: Wed Jan 25, 2012 3-5PM |
Building Community - Neighbors helping neighbors
We need your participation in the next phase of the Rosewood Neighborhood Prosperity Initiative, a project with Portland Development Commission to support the emerging Rosewood business district.
Join us this Wednesday, January 25th from 3-5pm for a visioning workshop. We will discuss and outline a vision for increasing the economic competitiveness of Rosewood. It is crucial at this stage to have a diverse range of perspectives and participation. Nick Sauvie from Rose Community Development Corporation will facilitate and we will have a Spanish interpreter to assist our conversation.
We hope you can make it! This work is in conjunction with our public safety efforts and is an important part of bringing in the resources that we need for long-term improvement in the Rosewood community. Thank you for continuing to be involved in Rosewood!
Jenny Glass, The Rosewood Initiative
Rosewood, Proposed 'Mini' Urban Renewal Area Meeting: Nov 8, 2011 5:30PM
By admin - Posted on November 1st, 2011
11/08/2011 - 5:30pm
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When: Tue Nov 8, 2011 5:30PM |
Show Your Support Tonight!
Meeting with Portland Development Commission at 5:30pm at IRCO, 10301 NE Glisan, Portland to explore the options of the ROSEWOOD area as a new "mini-urban renewal area."
This is our first workshop to discuss what resources that could bring our neighborhood. It's extremely important that we have a diverse group of people to represent us, please come participate!.
Rosewood Area Community Meeting, Rosewood Cafe: Nov 16, 2011 1:00PM
By admin - Posted on November 1st, 2011
11/16/2011 - 1:00pm
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When: Wed Nov 16, 2011 1:000PM |
Building Community - Neighbors helping neighbors
About Rosewood
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. 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 & Burnside. The neighborhood is most commonly defined as SE 157th to SE 165th and NE Holiday to SE Alder.
Everyone who lives or works in or around the Rosewood area will benefit from the success of the Rosewood Initiative.
City of Gresham Open Play Outdoor Futsal: Wed, Sep 04, 2019 4:30PM-7:30PM
By admin - Posted on September 1st, 2019
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Let's Kick Ball!
When: Wed, Sep 04, 2019 4:30PM-7:30PM |
Middle school and high school youth and adults can attend the free Open Play Outdoor Futsal every Monday and Wednesday from 4:30 - 7:30 pm at the Vance Park futsal courts, located at 1400 SE 182nd Ave.
- Open to youth in grades 6 - 12 and adults
- Play futsal for free, make new friends and win raffle items each time you play
- Sponsored by the City of Gresham
Schedule:
- 4:30 - 6:00 pm for youth in grades 6 - 12
- 6:00 - 7:30 pm - for Adults
For more information please contact Jesus Valdez at Jesus.Valdez@GreshamOregon.gov or Ricki Ruiz at Ricardo.Ruiz@GreshamOregon.gov or 503-618-2213.
Creative Recycling Night: Tue, Mar 12, 2019 6PM-7:30PM
By admin - Posted on March 1st, 2019
03/12/2019 - 6:00pm
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When: Tue, Mar 12, 2019 6PM-7:30PM |
Join the Citys Recycling and Solid Waste staff for a fun and creative event for the whole family. We will learn how to make recycled greeting cards and journals with recycled materials from SCRAP PDX. Learn how to recycle with fun, interactive presentations and games.
- Free pizza
- Craft supplies provided (scissors, glue, paper, etc.)
- Free instruction and recycling information
For more information, contact Shaunna Sutcliffe at 503-618-2694 or Shaunna.Sutcliffe@GreshamOregon.gov.
Rosewood Initiative RENEW Meetings 2018: Wed, Jan 24, 2018 9AM-10:30AM
By admin - Posted on January 1st, 2018
01/24/2018 - 9:00am
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When: Wed, Jan 24, 2018 9AM-10:30AM |
A monthly meeting of residents, service providers, and law enforcement to collaboratively address public safety and livability issues along the border of Portland and Gresham.
For more information about this meeting, contact Daniela Stites at 503-988-4227 or daniela.stites@mcda.us.
Rosewood/162nd Max Station Name Change Proposed
By admin - Posted on November 1st, 2017
162nd Max Station (view east), 162nd & E Burnside, Portland OR
By Jenny Glass
Executive Director, Rosewood Initiative
(Update: On November 29, 2017 TriMet decided they won't be going forward with changing the name of the 162nd Ave MAX station. Residents of the Rockwood, Wilkes East and Wilkes Community group had expressed strong feelings against the name change during recent neighborhood meetings.)
(Update: At the November 13, 2017 Wilkes East Neighborhood Association General Meeting neighbors approved a motion to support the Rosewood/162nd Max station name change.)
The Rosewood Initiative, a community organization serving the neighborhood since 2009, has requested that TriMet change the 162nd Ave MAX station name to Rosewood/162nd. This is a request to honor, identify and lift up the community that the station resides in. It is part of a larger effort for and by the community to create a sense of place and belonging. Where is Rosewood?
No one has claimed "ownership" in the form of investment, financial or otherwise, in this MAX stop since it was created. In fact, although the 162nd MAX station has one of the highest rates of ridership compared to other stops, the station area has received almost no public or private investment since it was built. Here's a snapshot of the lack of investment:
The public sector has invested in mixed-use buildings, pedestrian improvements and crime prevention programs to improve MAX ridership. At the 162nd Avenue station, that amount totaled $900,000.
By comparison, the public sector has spent $28 million improving the area around the Killingsworth MAX station, the audit said. The Tuality MAX station in Hillsboro has drawn $12 million in transit-oriented public investment.
When the public sector does not invest in a community for decades, we collectively pay the price by having to react to symptoms like concentrated poverty and high crime and consequently an extraordinary amount of police and emergency response services, as well as social safety net services. Maintaining brokenness is very expensive. We can't afford it.
Renaming the MAX station is an opportunity for us to come together as a community and create a strategy for investment around the 162nd MAX station. The Rosewood Initiative has stepped up to lead the advocacy for investment in this station.
The Rosewood Initiative was started to reduce crime in the area. Rebuilding relationships between community and police in both Gresham and Portland was one of the first strategies. But even the Portland and Gresham Police that started The Rosewood Initiative understood that the high crime in this area was not going to be solved by policing, but by public and private sectors coming together and collectively investing in a community.
We would love to work together with Rockwood Neighborhood Association, Wilkes East Neighborhood Association, City of Gresham, TriMet, Metro, and the people that live near the 162nd Ave MAX station to create a comprehensive strategy for investment that is led by the people that live in the community.
We believe that one of the first steps toward collectively taking ownership of the 162nd Ave MAX station area is to give it its own unique identity. Since this area is now known to many as "Rosewood" we think this is a symbolic gesture to highlight the cross-jurisdictional investment that is imperative to support the Rosewood community.
More Info
For more information contact The Rosewood Initiative.
