1) Little Children’s Halloween Party (Oct. 31)
2) Overlook Village Business Association Halloween Crawl (Oct. 31)
3) North Portland is the most popular Sunday Parkway again
4) How dangerous is Overlook Neighborhood?
5) Adidas will sell Reebok
6) North Portland Tool Library Survey
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1) Little Children’s Halloween Party (Oct. 31)
Children aged 5 and younger can still have a spooky good time on Halloween. Join us with your little ghosts, goblins, princesses and superheroes at the Overlook House. We’ll have games, prizes, crafts, healthy snacks and disco-ball dancing!
The event is free, though donations will be gratefully accepted.
Helpers are still needed (and appreciated!) so email us (OverlookHouseEvents@gmail.com) if you can lend a hand decorating, helping during the event, bringing a snack, or cleaning up afterwards.
Friends of Overlook House is sponsoring the event for the children of Overlook Neighborhood.
Little Children’s Halloween Party
Halloween! Friday, Oct. 31, 4-6 p.m.
Overlook House, 3839 N Melrose Ave
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2) Overlook Village Business Association Halloween Crawl (Oct. 31)
Enjoy some Halloween trick-or-treating with children from 5-7 p.m. and with the over 21 crowd from 7-9 p.m. Pick up a passport at a participating business and visit each location for candy or specials to get your passport stamped. Once your passport is full, turn it in to any participating location for a chance to win a gift certificate from an Overlook Village Business Association business. Come enjoy some safe trick-or-treating fun in Overlook and support your local small businesses in the process! Hosted by the Overlook Village Business Association.
Halloween Crawl
Friday, Oct. 31, 5-7 p.m. (kids) and 7-9 p.m. (21+)
N Killingsworth Street & N Greeley Avenue
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3) North Portland is the most popular Sunday Parkway again
Another year of Sunday Parkways is in the books, and once again the North Portland route is the most popular among bike riders, walkers, skaters and everyone else. About 31,100 people came out this year. The North Portland route this year passed through the Overlook Neighborhood and several other North Portland neighborhoods.
The Portland Sunday Parkways occur in each of the city’s five quadrants each summer. About 109,000 participants turned out for the five events.
Read the full 2014 Sunday Parkways Report online.
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4) How dangerous is Overlook Neighborhood?
GoLocalPDX crunched the numbers to find Portland’s most dangerous neighborhoods, and Overlook Neighborhood made the list … the bottom of the list. Overlook ranked 32nd out of 35 neighborhoods in a measure of calls to police, fire incidents and dangerous intersections. To put that another way, Overlook is the third safest on the list!
Read the full story at GoLocalPDX.
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5) Adidas will sell Reebok
The Wall Street Journal reports that Adidas will sell Reebok to a group of investors. Adidas has managed its Reebok arm from its campus in the Overlook Neighborhood, but the Portland Business Journal says that the deal will not have much effect locally. As of last year, Adidas employed about 850 people in Portland.
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6) North Portland Tool Library
Do you use the North Portland Tool Library? Please take a few minutes to complete a short survey about your experience using the North Portland Tool Library. On behalf of the City of Portland and the Urban Sustainability Directors Network, the library is participating in a research project to learn more about the impacts of tool-lending libraries. Your responses will be anonymous-and very helpful to this research.
Access the survey online by clicking here.
Please respond by October 28, if possible. We will have paper copies available at the Tool Library, this Saturday, if you prefer.