Learn more about the impacts of climate change in Portland region and how you can help us ReTHINK who is engaged, how they’re involved and what they are talking about as it relates to our community. This free training includes hands-on activities, prizes, and dinner. Childcare is available upon request. Please RSVP if you plan to attend.

The sessions are:

• Tues 11/29  Sustainability Matters & Climate Counts
• Tues 12/6  Be Resourceful (healthy homes, energy IQ, other resources)
• Tues 12/13  Safe and Healthy Transportation Options & Food Choices

All sessions are 5:30 to 8:30pm at June Key Delta Community Center, 5940 N. Albina Ave (at the corner of N. Ainsworth).

More information, future session dates and RSVP forms can be found here.

Looking for a place to celebrate  on Thanksgiving day? Doing the holiday community-style is a beautiful thing. There are volunteer opportunities, too!

PROPER, with Po’Shines Cafe de la Soul and Celebration Tabernacle Church, is sponsoring its 11th annual free Thanksgiving feast. There will be a full holiday dinner with vegetarian options and live entertainment.

• Thursday, November 24th  from noon to 4pm
• Celebration Tabernacle
• 8131 N Denver Ave (Kenton District), North Portland,  OR 97217

Local photographer Ben Latterell will be showing some of his wonderful photographs of Oregon from 7-9 PM at  Good Neighbor Pizzeria, 800 NE Dekum. You can preview his work here.

A brownfield is a site where contamination – or the possibility of contamination – is preventing use or redevelopment. This event, “Restore our Community, Rebuild our Wealth,” will focus on local brownfields and economic community development.

Saturday, November 12th, 11AM to 1PM, at Constructing Hope, 408 NE Church Street (at the northeast corner of MLK).

For more information, contact Steven Gilliam at Steven@oregonaction.org or 971-634-0004.

Race Talks, a discussion series sponsored by Multnomah County, will tackle the complex and sensitive topic of how race has impacted a local transportation project. This event’s topic is “Coming Together on North Williams Avenue: Reconciling Neighborhood’s Past with Proposed Bike Lane”.

BikePortland has a post with more details, take a look here.

Following the presentations, the audience wil break into small discussion groups to talk over the evening’s subject and more general topics of race and ethnicity. These groups are facilitated by trained volunteers from Uniting to Understand Racism and Portland’s Intergroup Dialogue program.

Free.

Tuesday, November 8th. Doors open at 6PM, event begins at 7PM at the McMenamin’s Kennedy School Gymnasium.

You are invited to this forum on the 2012 State of Oregon Legislative Session:

• Learn how the legislative agenda is developed.
• Hear an overview of next year’s agenda.
• Share issues relevant to your neighborhood.

Saturday, November 11th,  6:30 to 8:00 PM

Portland Building, 1120 SW 5th Avenue, 2nd Floor, Room C

For more information, click here.

Woodlawn Swap N Play is hosting a Halloween Harvest Festival this Sunday at 4 p.m. at the Village Ballroom, 700 N.E. Dekum St.

Kiddie movies, treats and games are provided for youngsters five and under (though all are welcome). And here’s the best part: It’s free.

Beer and wine will be for sale for $4 with proceeds going towards the opening of the Oregon Public House.

So put on the kid’s costumes, bring a blanket and a pillow, and join your neighbors for an afternoon of fun.

Calling all Woodlawn Neighborhood Association board members: WNA is holding a special meeting this Saturday to review grant applications.

The grants are for the following things:

1) To help boost membership by providing food, childcare and outreach for the association.

2.) To help with the Easter egg hunt, a neighborhood yard sale and National Night Out.

3.) To fund cooking classes in the community garden.

The meeting is at Good Neighbor Pizza, 800 N.E. Dekum St., at 4 p.m.

We need as many board members as possible to attend. The meeting should only take a half hour and could go along ways towards making our association and neighborhood stronger.

The Northeast Coalition of Neighborhoods (NECN) hosts a free panel discussion and Q&A about the history of economic development in inner N/NE Portland with an eye cast toward discovering future economic development opportunities.

6:00 – 8:00 PM

Curious Comedy, 5225 NE MLK Blvd.

For more information, click here, or check out the Facebook page.

RSVP requested by calling 503.823.4575 or online at info@necoalition.org

Woodlawn Swap N Play and The Oregon Community offer kid-friendly fun for toddlers five and under, but all ages are welcome!

Sunday, 10/30 at 4:00 pm

Village Ballroom, 700 NE Dekum

More information available here.