Brrr… stay warm this week, Overlook! We're in for another beautiful cold & crisp week. Fortunately, there's lots going on to keep you warm & well fed.
1) OKNA Potluck Dinner – Tonight! (12/9)
2) Santa is Coming to Overlook House This Sunday! (12/11)
3) Dine Out for Beach School (12/15)
4) Portland Harbor Community Advisory Group meeting (12/14)
5) Trillium Charter School Auction – Save the Date (2/11)
6) Are You Interested?
7) OKNA Communications
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1) OKNA Potluck Dinner – Tonight! (12/9)
Please join your OKNA neighbors for our annual Holiday Potluck Dinner and socializing! In lieu of our December general meeting, we will gather at Daybreak CoHousing and break bread together while we take a holiday themed break.
OKNA Holiday Potluck
Friday December 9 6:30—9:00 PM
Daybreak Cohousing
2525 N. Killingsworth Street
Please make something to share if you can (and bring a serving utensil!) and join us for merry company or just drop in for a drink and to say hi! OKNA & Daybreak will provide dishes, flatware, drinks and cups.
But wait, there's more!
Thanks to generous donations from your Overlook business neighbors, we're pleased to announce door prizes from the following businesses, and don't be amazed if there are a few surprises too:
Atomic Pizza
Beaterville Cafe
Blue Buddha Bodywork
Mextiza
Miho Izakaya
Naked Sheep Knit Shop
NoPo Paws
Overlook Restaurant
Kenny & Zukes
Thank you for the donations! And see you all there tonight..
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2) Santa is Coming to Overlook House This Sunday! (12/11)
Overlook House will host a visit from the Jolly Old Elf himself on Sunday, December 11 from 11 am-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. See you there!
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3) Dine Out for Beach School (12/15)
Come support Beach Elementary School, your neighborhood school, on Thursday, December 15th at Burgerville (1135 NE MLK Blvd.) from 5-8PM. Burgerville will be donating 10% of the total sales from all the customers who come in and dine from 5-8PM. Come by, have a burger, try the sweet potato fries or treat yourself to a milkshake. Beach School would appreciate all your support. Spread the word & we hope to see you there!
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4) Portland Harbor Community Advisory Group meeting (12/14)
Meetings of the Portland Harbor Community Advisory Group (PH CAG) are intended to keep the community abreast of developments on the Portland Harbor Superfund Site and to provide a forum for discussion. PH CAG meetings are open to everyone. We encourage you to step forward to share your concerns and advice.
Date: Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2011
Time: 6:00 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: 6543 N Burlington Avenue (at the Portland BES Water Pollution Control Lab)
Agenda:
Roles of Federal/State agencies in responding to spills or releases in/along the Willamette River:
Jim Anderson, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, US Coast Guard, TBD and US Environmental Protection Agency, Dan Heister
CAG input: What are several basic questions/concerns others in community not familiar with Portland Harbor may want to know
about the site?
Alanna Conley, US Environmental Protection Agency
CAG Announcements –
Jim Robison
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5) Trillium Charter School Auction – Save the Date (2/11)
Trillium Charter School's annual auction is happening on February 11th, 2012. This year’s auction will be a formal event hosted downtown, near PSU and the Crystal Ballroom, the weekend preceding Valentine’s Day, and it’s all about feeling the love: “For The Love of Trillium” is about advisors creatively nurture learning through dynamic and emergent processes at all levels of education, meeting challenges, and remaining adaptable.
“For the Love of Trillium” is about the administrative staff works tirelessly to cultivate a platform from which Trillium can meet or exceed the needs, expectations, and goals of our uniquely diverse community, internally, as well as in our relationships to the neighborhood, the city, the school district, and the state.
“For The Love of Trillium” is about parents contributing money, time, and skill, often teaming up with faculty-members to coordinate an array of services and happenings, in addition to staying involved with their children’s learning. It’s about students sharing their stories of learning and growth, through art, experimentation, music, journaling, and more, in an unrestricted setting which encourages critical-thinking, self-inventory, and accountability.
Please save the date and support one of the neighborhood schools.
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6) Are You Interested?
The East Multnomah Soil & Water Conservation District is offering to hold FREE Naturescaping & Rain Garden Workshops that help people learn low impact & chemical free gardening techniques are good for people, water and wildlife.
Before contacting them to schedule this, I'm taking a brief poll… Are You Interested? Workshops are for 20-40 people; if you are vaguely interested in participating, please click reply to let us know and we'll see about scheduling something for the spring season.
OKNA is also soliciting ideas for our annual Earth Day/Spring Clean Up. The project area that has commanded so much attention over the years (N Going, west of Interstate) is finally complete. Removing invasive species somewhere? Hazerdous materials gathering? Plastics round up? What interests you and where can our volunteer efforts best impact Overlook?
Send your ideas to info@OverlookNeighborhood.org
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7) OKNA Communications
From the looks of our email box, lots of you are chomping at the bit for a newsletter. The next issue of Overlook Views will be distributed in February, so you have to hang tight for a bit for your print fix. However, if you've got a news item or other idea for the next newsletter, now is the time to write to Views@OverlookNeighborhood.org to let Michelle know. Your deadline will be in mid January, but space must be reserved beforehand.
Your short neighbor messages can be included in the weekly email; write to OKNA at info@OverlookNeighborhood.org
Keep tabs on midweek stories at our website: www.OverlookNeighborhood.org
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