1) Overlook Annual Holiday Party Potluck (Dec. 12)
2) Santa to visit Overlook House (Dec. 7)
3) North Portland Land Use Group meeting cancelled
4) Ockley Green Middle School’s backpack program for kids
5) 10th Birthday Celebration for North Portland Tool Library (Dec. 9)
6) New trees coming to North Portland
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1) Overlook Annual Holiday Party Potluck (Dec. 12)
Celebrate the holidays with your neighbors at the annual holiday potluck party. There will be plenty of holiday cheer to go around. Door prizes given out.
Please bring an entrée, side salad or dessert to share and lets socialize. Dress casually.
Overlook Annual Holiday Party Potluck
Friday, Dec. 12, 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.
Cohousing Common Room
2525 N Killingsworth St.
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2) Santa to visit Overlook House (Dec. 7)
Santa Claus will visit Overlook House on Sunday, Dec. 7. Come tell Santa what you want for the holidays and have your picture taken. There will be face painting and other fun activities as well.
Santa Claus
Sunday, Dec. 7, 11 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.
Overlook House
3839 N Melrose Dr.
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3) North Portland Land Use Group meeting cancelled
The December meeting of the North Portland Land Use Group has been canceled. The next meeting will be on Jan. 22. ‪The agenda is still being developed, but it will include tree code, design guidelines and more.
Happy Holidays! We’ll see you next year.
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4) Ockley Green Middle School’s backpack program for kids
Ockley Green Middle School is in need of food items for the backpack program for kids for weekends and holidays. Â Right now we are sending home 300-350 pounds of food for the weekends weekly in 35 backpacks. At the holidays, we will attempt to send home closer to 1600 lbs.
Below are nine ways you can help the students. The most helpful (and often the most economical) way to buy for us is from Costco or from grocery stores in quantity (example: 10 boxes of crackers when they go on sale for a dollar or 8-packs of soup or Chili from Costco, etc).
For our holiday boxes we will be collecting food all the way up to Wednesday, Dec. 17. This will include fresh fruit, holiday treats, and bathroom tissue. Folks are welcome to drop them off at the Ockley Green office or send me an email if they would like to drop off larger quantities.
We will be packing 40 holiday boxes.
Here are 9 ways you can help support our local school the next time you go shopping.
- Four jars of store brand peanut butter
- Three boxes of granola bars
- Five cans of tuna or chicken
- Cans of chili or beef stew
- Instant oatmeal packets
- Bar soap
- Dish soap
- Deodorant
For more information and pickup please call or message Jill Hoddick at hoddick@up.edu or call 503-286-9803.
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5) 10th Birthday Celebration for North Portland Tool Library (Dec. 9)
Come support the North Portland Tool Library, where all sorts of tools are available to residents of our neighborhood. PAUSE is generously donating 25% of all food and beverage sales from 5-10pm to the North Portland Tool Library (NPTL) – so please eat and drink up!
10th Birthday Celebration for North Portland Tool Library
Tuesday, Dec. 9, Â 5-10 p.m.
PAUSE Kitchen & Bar
5101 N Interstate Ave, Portland
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6) New trees coming to North Portland (Dec. 20)
The lovely Omaha Boulevard between Killingsworth and Rosa Parks is getting some new trees, courtesy of the diligent organizational efforts of Arbor Lodge tree steward Liz Stevenson and Karl Dawson of the city’s Urban Forestry section of Parks & Rec.
Please join the planters. No experience in tree-planting necessary, tools will be provided. Coffee and other refreshments will also be provided!
 Tree planting
Saturday, Dec. 20, 9-11 a.m.
Gather at 6421 N Omaha