OKNA Overlook Neighborhood Email 11/15/13

1) Overlook House Holiday Bazaar This Weekend! (11/16 & 11/17)
2) OKNA General Membership Meeting (11/19)
3) Bread Making Part Deux
4) Public Safety Action Committee Meeting – Special Date (11/20)
5) Arts & Crafts Spectacular at Trillium Charter School (12/7-12/8)
6) Santa Is Coming to Overlook House on December 8th!
7) Street Seats Applications Available Now

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1) Overlook House Holiday Bazaar This Weekend! (11/16 & 11/17)

Saturday, November 16, 9 AM to 5 PM
Sunday, November 17, 9 AM to 4 PM
3839 North Melrose Drive

All three floors of the Overlook House will be bursting with stocking stuffers as well as that perfect gift for someone special. Bake sale returns with many of your favorites!

Several new vendors will be participating as well as some of your “old favorites.” Items include Pendleton fabric purses, framed poetry, floral arrangements, jewelry, pickles, aprons, garden art, cards, sock animals, journals, scarves, cutting boards, household cleaner, napkins, wine boxes, matted photos, clothing, bath & body products, baskets, wine bottle lamps, crocheted hats, quilts, fused glass items, and more!

A great opportunity to begin you holiday shopping in the neighborhood! Shop Local!

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2) OKNA General Membership Meeting (11/19)

Join your neighbors this Tuesday evening for a discussion of neighborhood business. On the agenda, we plan to hear more about the Oregon Solutions Project and Neighbors for Clean Air, two groups that are working hard on the topic of bad smells and poor air quality around Swan Island.

We’ll meet as usual from 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm at the Kaiser Town Hall Building: 3704 N Interstate @ Overlook Blvd. See you there!

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3) Bread Making Part Deux

The Sustainable Overlook Bread Making Workshop planned for this past week was cancelled, but will be rescheduled! If you’d like to learn about bread making with a little help and hands on support, email Sustainable @ OverlookNeighborhood.org and ask to be put on the waiting list for the next workshop.

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4) Public Safety Action Committee Meeting – Special Date (11/20)
North Portland PSAC
Our speakers this month are Angela Wagnon and Jenni Pullen from ONI Crime Prevention. They will be giving a presentation on Problem Oriented Policing.
We look forward to seeing you there!
Date: Wednesday, November 20, 2013
Time: 7:00 – 9:00 PM
Location: Historic Kenton Firehouse (2209 N Schofield – across from the post office)

NOTE: December’s meeting is cancelled. Next meeting will be on January 22, 2014. See you next year!

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5) Arts & Crafts Spectacular at Trillium Charter School (12/7-12/8)

Trillium Public Charter School warmly invites you to join us at the Arts & Crafts Spectacular on December 7-8 from 10:00-5:00. The Spectacular is a community art fair that promotes the work of 40 talented artists, selling everything from glass mosaics to handmade soap and tutus. In addition to selling the work of artists, we sell student work and engage the community with music and food.

Trillium Arts & Crafts Spectacular
December 7-8, 10:00-5:00
5420 N. Interstate Ave.
Portland, OR 97217
spectacular@togetherfortrillium.org        http://tinyurl.com/2013-Spectacular

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6) Santa Is Coming to Overlook House on December 8th!

Overlook House will host a visit from the Jolly Old Elf himself on Sunday, December 8th from 11 AM to 1 PM.

Come tell Santa what you want for Christmas and have your picture taken with him. Write a letter to the North Pole, get your face painted, play games, and enjoy the special holiday fun with us. Sants’s looking forward to seeing you there!

Overlook House, 3839 North Melrose Drive

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7) Street Seats Applications Available Now

PBOT has updated its Street Seats program and set an application deadline of March 1, 2014. Street Seats is a program of the Portland Bureau of Transportation that allows organizations to build a temporary platform in the on‐street parking lane. The platform is the same height as the curb and extends the sidewalk space in order to add additional outdoor seating for a restaurant or to provide additional public space for people to stop, sit, and take in the life of the street.

Today, Portland has eight Street Seat installations, seven of which were organized by restaurants to offer outdoor café seating.  One installation has been designed solely for open public seating and is located at the Center for Architecture at NW Flanders and NW 11th Avenue.

While encouraging additional restaurant and café proposals, the Transportation Bureau will prioritize design proposals that are open to full public use, such as the NW Flanders installation.

Proposals may be seasonal or year-round, and may be located in any part of the city

Application packets as well current Street Seat locations may be found at  www.PortlandOregon.gov/Transportation/StreetSeats

A pool of Street Seats photos from Portland and elsewhere may be found at http://www.flickr.com/groups/pdxstreetseats/

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