The first Friday of every month, Classic Foods opens their doors for public retail sales between 2 and 6 pm. Available for purchase are fresh pasta, a large selection of raviolis, pestos, olive oil, vinegar, spices, chocolate- and more.

Classic Foods is located at 817 NE Madrona, at the intersection with Durham.

Woodlawn residents may also order Will Call fresh pasta on any day with 24 hour notice by calling: 503-234-9387

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!

What is nutritious food? How can it help us? How is it produced? The answers involve biological processes in the soil that are responsible for full spectrum nutrition in our food. These essential processes are necessary for the optimal enzymatic activity in living organisms that brings about hardiness and abundant health in both plants and animals.

Redeemer Lutheran Church, 5431 NE 20th Avenue, 7-9 pm. Please register for this event by email to Ari Rosner.

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.

Every 13 seconds, U.S. Poison Centers receive a call about someone being exposed to a poison. Over 50% of these emergencies involve a child under five years of age. Would you know what to do? Learn about common household poisons, prevention, and first aid in case of accidental contact here.

The Josiah Hill III Clinic has detailed information about how to keep children and their homes safer.  Click here to learn about:

• preventing lead poisoning
• improving air quality
• making non-toxic cleaners

Nominations are now being accepted for citizens to serve on the Portland Multnomah Food Policy Council and address food access and health issues.
Members will provide policy advice to local governments on food-related matters that impact land use, health, the environment and jobs. The two-year terms begin in January and the deadline to apply is Oct. 21.

Interested community members will require expertise in one or more local food-related issues, such as local agriculture, food security and access, nutrition, food business and industrial practices, community food education and land use.

For more information, go to http://www.portlandonline.com/bps/index.cfm?c=42290.

Proper, an organization that seeks to empower communities to utilize their resources toward the common good, has extended an invitation for Woodlawn neighbors to join in their event to celebrate Thanksgiving, community style.

FROM THEIR POST:
This event is free. There will be entertainment, fun volunteering, very good food, an opportunity to meet new and old friends on their best and most real behavior. How could we not come back to a table like that? It’s a beautiful thing and we hope to see you there Thanksgiving Day from 12-4pm.

-Vegan and vegetarian options

-Donations: non-perishable Thanksgiving-related food items or paper goods

-Volunteer: pass out flyers, chef, prep food, set up, serve food, cleanup, and more
-General information call Michael at 503-936-3704

-Volunteers call Sara at 503-505-1298 (se habla Espanol)

-Entertainers call Robin at 503-890-5393

We’ll be celebrating at Celebration Tabernacle at 8131 N Denver, next door to Po’Shines Cafe de la Soul – as the space has become just too small for our turnouts. Come out of your self, bring what you have to the Table of Thanksgiving: Music & Storytelling | Good Food | Community. Hope all is well with you and that we’ll see you there.

DIRECTIONS: Take Lombard West past Fred Meyer, second light from Interstate. Street parking, TriMet 4, 6, Yellow MAX -Kenton Station.

MORE INFO: ProperUSA.net
ABOUT PROPER: here

September is National Child Obesity Prevention Month, and Believe Movement Studio wants to help us help our kids learn the importance of movement, of eating healthy foods, and of taking good care of their bodies.
We are inviting kids, ages 7 to 14 (and their parents!), to join us for this casual kick-off of what will become an annual event.

Highlights this year will include:

• guided 1-mile walk around the park
• tour of the school’s children’s garden
• veggie seed packet w/planting instructions
• mini-trampoline exercises & handout
• healthy homemade snack(s) w/recipes
• other handouts

Won’t you join us?

Sunday, Sept. 26th
1:00-3:00 PM
Woodlawn Park

REDUCING THE ‘SUMMER SLIDE’

It is well known that many children, especially those from families with limited financial and transportation resources, lose about 2 months of schooling during each summer vacation. That loss compounds year after year ultimately leaving the children many months or years behind their more affluent peers.

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