1) Winter fruit tree pruning workshop (Feb. 28)
2) Roosevelt High School gymnasium’s last hurrah (Feb. 20)
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1) Winter fruit tree pruning workshop (Feb. 28)
Good, timely pruning can improve the shape, strength and fruit set of your trees while simultaneously helping to reduce pest and disease pressure. Certain fruit trees benefit from winter pruning (Jan-Feb), while others benefit greatly from summer pruning (June-Aug). This class will cover the fruit trees that are best pruned in winter, general pruning theory and specific techniques to help students learn how to make the best cuts on their fruit trees with confidence and skill. The methods covered are organic and incorporate permaculture principles.
Local fruit tree expert Monica Maggio of Core Fruit Institute will teach the class, which is cosponsored by Daybreak Cohousing and Sustainable Overlook. The class is free, but a $10 donation is suggested. Registration is required.
Register or make a donation online.
Winter fruit tree pruning workshop
Saturday, Feb. 28, 9 – noon
Daybreak Cohousing Community Room (2525 N Killingsworth Ave.)
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2) Roosevelt High School gymnasium’s last hurrah (Feb. 20)
Roosevelt High School plays its last four basketball games on Feb. 20 in its nearly 100-year old building. Its storied gymnasium will be demolished soon thereafter. RHS will then undergo a dramatic $92 million transformation when it is redesigned, rebuilt and reborn over the next two years. RHS Athletic Director Stuart Smith has asked the community to “fill the gym” for the final four basketball games on that day. This event will celebrate history, and it will herald a new era of hope for a school and community that has fallen on hard times. These are heady times for North Portland, a community so forgotten that RHS was almost closed forever just five years ago.
RHS’s celebration on Feb. 20 will mark the end of an era and herald a new one with four basketball games mixed with a full day of “get crazy” activities, music, and dancing in this nearly 100-year old building. Madison High School’s boys and girls JV and Varsity teams will be Roosevelt’s last competition before this gym closes its doors forever, and a new state-of-the-art facility rises in its place as part of the $482 million Bond Measure passed by Portland voters in 2012.
The games start at 3:30, and the celebration will culminate in a student/alumni/community dance after the boy’s varsity game.
It all promises to be “A special day of rebirth,” RHS Alumni Association’ Mike Verbout said. “If we can get a standing-room only turnout, Roosevelt students will always remember, and will long tell the story, of the day the whole world came to see their last hurrah in that fabled, old gym.”
Final four games at Roosevelt High School gymnasium
Friday, Feb. 20, first game starts at 3:30 p.m.
Roosevelt High School