Board meetings are held the first Wednesday of every month from 7:00- 8:30 p.m. The agenda for these meetings typically focuses on planning, budgeting, and community projects.  They are open to all neighborhood residents and people who work or own businesses in Woodlawn. Location: Woodlawn Community Resource Center in the Woodlawn Methodist Church, 1425 NE Dekum St. Enter the west door and head up the stairs and down the hallway.

Learn the basics of how the City of Portland’s land use and development review processes work in this free workshop. Get hands-on experience with a land use review case study, including review of a development proposal and site plan, identification of relevant issues, and effective ways to respond to the approval criteria.

Saturday, January 28, 9am to 1pm, SE Uplift Neighborhood Coalition, Fireside Room, 3534 SE Main Street.

Pre-registration is required (if you don’t have  a PortlandOnline account you can set one up for free). Details here.

Make a plan, Build a kit, Get trained:
Red Cross Disaster Preparedness training for Woodlawn neighbors

Woodlawn Neighborhood Association invites residents to learn about how to prepare for a disaster. Join us at Classic Foods, 817 NE Madrona, January 18 from 7-8:30p.m. Child care and refreshments will be provided. Details here.

Please note that this training is instead of our usual monthly meeting.

We’d like to know how many people are coming, especially if you would like child care.  Please register with Sheila Hale. Thanks!

Join other Portlanders for a unique community forum in which community members will share their experiences working with city council members and use this information to identify the skills and abilities we want and need in our elected city leaders. Click here for more information.

St. Philip Neri Church (Carvlin Hall), SE 16th & Division, 7-9 pm.

7-11 Alert! Share your thoughts on the proposed 7-11 on the corner of 15th and Killingsworth at the next Vernon Neighborhood Association meeting. Vernon Elementary School, West entrance on January 10th at 7pm! They look forward to seeing you there and hearing your feedback!

This presentation will explore how nationally and in the Portland area, the location of industrial sites and freeways and exposure in the workplace, home, and place of worship leave communities of color highly vulnerable to chronic disease linked to toxics. Speakers will include Ben Duncan, Program Specialist with Multnomah County Health Department, Environmental Health Division and Board Chair of OPAL Environmental Justice Oregon which works for Environmental Justice in the Portland metro area. This presentation is part of the Healthy Homes, Healthy Congregations: Green Steward Project, a pilot project to improve environmental health in our homes and our congregations, especially for infants and children.

5:30 to 7:00 p.m. at Concordia University, 2811 NE Holman Street.

You can find out what room the presentation will be in, and register for the event, by email or by calling 503-221-1054. The event is free and open to the public. Please notify us if you will be needing childcare by January 6th.

We need a funddraising coordinator. Is it you? We have some fantastic fundraising ideas to generate the money we need to cover WFM costs. We have ideas, and are open to more, but need someone to spearhead this. Please contact us if you have any interest.
Thanks – Sandra, Jake, Deepak & Wren

7:00 – 8:30 p.m at the Woodlawn Community Resource Center in Woodlawn Methodist Church at 1425 N.E. Dekum St. Enter the west door and head up the stairs and down the hallway.

The agenda for these meetings typically focuses on planning, budgeting, and community projects.  They are open to all neighborhood residents and people who work or own businesses in Woodlawn.

Your input is requested about having a farmers’ market near the Woodlawn triangle. Your answers will help create a market that best serves our community. Please take a few minutes to fill out the survey.

Thanks!

Here are links to approved minutes of meetings you may have missed:

Board meeting 11/2/11

General meeting 10/29/11