Don’t forget this Sunday’s Pedalpalooza event, starting at the Overlook Intersection Repair!
CITY REPAIR INTERSECTION REPAIR TOUR
N Overlook Blvd & N Concord
Sunday, June 15 1:00pm – 6:00pm
Ride map: https://mapsengine.google.com/map/edit?mid=zpOo_eflU-Ks.kl6JMsC7gtac
1) OKNA Meeting Reminder (6/18)
2) Pittman Addition Sculpture HydroPark Party (6/22)
3) Sustainable Overlook Garden Tour 2014
4) Town Hall on Portland Parks Replacement Bond (3/30)
5) Help Wanted: OKNA Communications
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1) OKNA Meeting Reminder (6/18)
Join your Overlook neighbors for the monthly OKNA General Membership meeting. Hear updates on current projects and find out how you can be involved, share your crime and safety concerns, bring your Overlook ideas.
Tuesday, June 17, 2014
07:00 PM to 09:00 PM
Kaiser Town Hall Building
3704 N Interstate Avenue @Overlook Blvd
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2) Pittman Addition Sculpture HydroPark Party (6/22)
Treat yourself to art, music and light refreshments on Sunday, June 22, from 4-7 (same day as the North Portland Sunday Parkways). We’re celebrating the first official art installations in our new hydropark at N Concord & N Going Court (just north of the Going Street soundwall). Enjoy the sculptures by Ryan Beard, Ivan McLean, Jason Jones, Julian Voss-Andreae and Jim Schmidt. Meet the people who helped to transform an empty forgotten dead-end lot into Portland’s first public sculpture park. It’s easy to find, just follow Concord south to the Going Street pedestrian bridge.
What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit. (quote by John Updike) Come and enjoy our new community space!
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3) Sustainable Overlook Garden Tour 2014
Saturday, June 28
All gardens open 10 am to 3 pm
Suggested donation $5
The 3rd annual neighborhood garden tour will feature yards that express Sustainable Overlook’s mission of ‘Building Community and Resilience’ in a wide variety of ways. Explore neighbors’ creative solutions for rain harvesting, edible gardens, outdoor play spaces, use of reclaimed materials, bird and pollinator-friendly gardens and much more.
Each garden will host an information table from organizations including East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District, Metro, Xerces Society, Backyard Habitat Certification Program, Bee Friendly Portland and Friends of Overlook Bluff. All the gardens featured are pesticide-free so it’s a great chance to visit organic yards, learn natural gardening tips and be inspired! Check www.sustainableoverlook.org for details and the garden locations the week of the tour.
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4) Town Hall on Portland Parks Replacement Bond (3/30)
June 30, 2014 — 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Cleveland High School Cafeteria (3400 SE 26th Ave, Portland, OR 97202)
Co-hosted by: Portland Parks & Recreation and Portland Parks Foundation
RSVP here (http://www.portlandoregon.gov/parks/65170)
Please join us for a discussion about how the Parks Replacement Bond will help address urgent maintenance needs with no increased tax rates for Portlanders. Get your questions answered and give your input to Parks Commissioner Amanda Fritz.
Over the last century, Portlanders created and have maintained our parks system through a series of capital investments (bonds and levies). However, our park structures and facilities have finite life spans, and require ongoing investment to remain safe and accessible. As Portland’s existing parks bond—approved in 1994—is paid off in 2015, we have the opportunity to address critical park needs without increasing tax rates, by referring a Parks Replacement Bond to voters now.
In North and Northeast Portland, a Replacement Parks Bond would fund major maintenance at St. Johns Community Center, pool renovations at Grant, Matt Dishman Community Center and Peninsula Park, urgent accessibility and restroom repairs at multiple parks, and more.
A recent survey shows that more than 65 percent of Portlanders are supportive of a Replacement Bond would not increase tax rates and would fund some of the most critical repairs to our parks system. Get your questions answered on this unique opportunity at the Parks Replacement Bond Town Hall.
RSVP here, and learn more at ParksReplacementBond.org
Childcare provided | Fully accessible | Light refreshments served
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5) Help Wanted: OKNA Communications
The Overlook Neighborhood Association (OKNA) is seeking a few good people to assist in an ever-expanding communications team.
Newsletter: Our quarterly print newsletter needs a new coordinator to maintain contact with the OKNA board and community members to share Overlook news. This job can be done by multiple people, if they’ll coordinate. See past issues here: https://overlookneighborhood.org//news/
Weekly Email Newsette: OKNA has over 500 subscribers to our email list who rely on these timely updates. This obligation is about 2 hours per week and requires attention to detail and the ability to copy/paste. Weekly blasts are posted on our website as well; review past topics here: https://overlookneighborhood.org//
Mail Monitor: A good fit with the Weekly Email writing, OKNA needs someone to monitor our public email account ‘info@’ and filter emails that require action to the OKNA board. This can be as simple as checking for urgent issues a couple of times per week.
Website: The website content is up to date but the template could use some updating. This position should be held by someone familiar with WordPress, who is willing to keep the site updated and secured. Most work is done in the WordPress dashboard but the webmaster should be familiar with the back end works as well. OKNA maintains several email accounts (with forwards) that this person should also assist with. We recommend having multiple content managers.
Facebook: Topping 600+ members, the OKNA Facebook page would be well served by having several administrators who can post to the page. The page is well connected with information for ‘shares’. Of you 600, are there 3 or 4 who’d help out with sharing posts and updates?
NextDoor: Similar to Facebook, but private, this social media site has an active constituency. OKNA could benefit from one person posting OKNA information (meetings etc) to the group. This group is not run by OKNA, we should just contribute there. If you would like to just join the Overlook Nextdoor community, you can use this link: https://nextdoor.com/invite/hsyjagwprzvzxtumttnq
If you’ve seen room for improvement in OKNA’s communications, or you’ve been wanting to get more involved with the neighborhood association but were unsure how, these volunteer jobs are excellent ways to get an overview of the varied work OKNA does and be very helpful at the same time. If you’ve got the time and are ready to bring it, please contact us soon and/or come to a meeting (we hold 2 public meetings per month). We would like to fill these positions by September and if you act now, you can get some training too!
info@OverlookNeighborhood.org views@OverlookNeighborhood.org 1st Tuesday of the month: Board meeting at Overlook House 3rd Tuesday of the month: General Membership meeting (usually at Kaiser Town Hall but look for special locations this summer!)