OKNA email: OKNA Potluck, Holiday Bazaars, Beach School News & More

Bundle up, Overlook, it's a chilly weekend to get you in the holiday spirit. If that doesn't do it, there are some fun events for you to check out.

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1) Overlook House Holiday Bazaar (12/3 & 12/4)

2) Overlook Livability Team Clean Up this weekend! (12/4)

3) OKNA Potluck Dinner – This Week (12/9)

4) Join the Beach School/Escuela Beach PTA

5) Dine Out for Beach School (12/15)

6) Public Safety Alert

7) Overlook Village Holiday Bazaar (12/3)

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1) Overlook House Holiday Bazaar (12/3 & 12/4)

Overlook House, 3839 North Melrose Drive

Saturday, December 3rd — 9 AM to 5 PM
Sunday, December 4th – 9 AM to 3 PM

Shop local!! Crafts, home baked goods, raffle.

Vendors include Overlook neighbors and others from the Portland area.

All original, homemade items. Soap, spices, cards, crayons, calendars, stained glass. Watercolor, wood burning, sewing, knitting, crocheting. Jewelry, hair accessories, hats, pj’s, baby items, kitchen aprons, towels.

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2) Overlook Livability Team Clean Up this weekend! (12/4)

Join your neighbors for a quick tour of work in small teams, cleaning graffiti, picking up trash and generally looking cool in your OLT t-shirts.

New team members are always welcome; meet up this Sunday at Di Prima Dolci (1936 N Killingsworth) for a 9am start time or email graffiti@Overlook Neighborhood.org for more information. Group meets monthly on Sundays.

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3) OKNA Potluck Dinner – This Week (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 (and bring a serving utensil!) if you can and join us for merry company! OKNA & Daybreak will provide dishes, flatware and cups.

Invite a neighbor and come do something different.. it's fun!

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4) Join the Beach School/Escuela Beach PTA

In effort to strengthen the relationship between Beach School and the community we would like to encourage people to join our PTA. Y

ou can now do it easily and quickly online.

Please click here to join now. Our goal is to have 200 members by the end of January and we are currently at 110. Please pass the word and join now.

Beach is also selling some nice new t-shirts which you can at our home page www.beachpta.org . where you can order as well using Paypal. You can also use this form to specialize your order.

Bryn Dearborn
Beach PTA President

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5) 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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6) Public Safety Alert

Elder fraud awareness

Portland Police detectives are investigating three cases of theft in Southeast Portland where unknown males have been posing as Portland General Electric (PGE) employees and seeking to enter residences saying they need to perform inspections.

Elderly victims appear to be targeted. In one case, they forcibly entered an occupied residence and stole property belonging to the homeowner.

The suspects have not displayed credentials nor have they driven PGE vehicles. There may be one or two males attempting to contact residents. The men are only described as “scruffy-looking” white males.

All PGE employees carry official identification badges when contacting customers at their homes or businesses. PGE employees typically do not enter residences.

There may be other attempts that have not been reported. Anyone who has someone claiming to be a PGE employee at their door who does not have a PGE identification badge should immediately call 911. Ask the dispatcher to send an officer to check the area to take a report describing the suspects and any associated vehicles.

Anyone with information about incidents like this is asked to call:

Detective Amber Lewis
Desk: 503-823-0887
Email: Amber.Lewis@portlandoregon.gov

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7) Overlook Village Holiday Bazaar (12/3)

This Saturday December 3rd from 10am until 6pm at Podkrepa (2116 N Killingsworth). There will be hand-made gifts by local vendors.

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