WHAT:

FLOCK TOGETHER SOCIAL GATHERING: meet new folks with common interests

WHEN:

Saturday, March 13^th 2:00pm-4:00pm

WHERE:

Humboldt Gardens Opportunity Center

5033 N. Vancouver Avenue (at Alberta)

Portland, Oregon 97217

ABOUT:

Community Outreach of Our United Villages invites you to an interactive afternoon to connect with people and discover shared interests.  Snacks provided.  Child care, interpretation, and transportation provided upon request.  FREE and open to all. RSVP to outreach@ourunitedvillages.org or (503) 546.7499.  www.ourunitedvillages.org

Woodlawn Neighborhood Association invites you to a get-together for Woodlawn writers.  If you are a writer living in the Woodlawn neighborhood, or if you are interested in writing, please attend our first get-together.

2-4 PM Saturday March 13th

at the Community Room (upstairs)

United Methodist Church – corner of NE 15th and Dekum

Please bring a sample of your work.  This is an opportunity for writers in the Woodlawn neighborhood to meet, learn about one another’s work, and discuss how to promote our work within the community.

For more information: 503-288-3758

Woodlawn Neighborhood Association invites you to a get-together for Woodlawn artists and craftsmen.  If you are an artist or craftsman living in the Woodlawn neighborhood, or if you are interested in art, please attend our first get-together.

2-4 PM Saturday March 6th at the Community Room (upstairs)

United Methodist Church – corner of NE 15th and Dekum

Please bring a sample, or pictures, of your work.  This is an opportunity for artists and craftsmen in the Woodlawn neighborhood to meet, learn about one another’s work, and discuss how to promote our work within the community.

For more information: 503-288-3758

I can hardly contain my excitement!  The first Sunday parkways of the season is coming to the Woodlawn neighborhood on Sunday, May 16 2010.  I’ll post more as the details come in.  Go to http://www.portlandsundayparkways.org/ and click on NE Sunday Parkways to see the route – it will connect Wilshire, Fernhill, Alberta, and Woodlawn Parks.  Sunday Parkways needs a LOT of volunteers to pull off the fun, so sign up now!  This will be a great opportunity for families and friends to get together for walking, biking and connecting!

The deadline for the 2010 Woodlawn Friends of Trees planting is now Monday January 4th. Sign up to get trees for your parking strip, or your yard. Tell your Woodlawn neighbors about this wonderful event!

Go to friendsoftrees.org to register. It only takes a couple of minutes.

More information from Gregg Lavender… Read the rest of this entry »

WNA General meeting Wednesday, 11/18 at 7:15. Meetings take place in the Woodlawn Community Resource Center, 1465 NE Dekum St. – 2nd floor of Woodlawn Methodist Church (enter on the west side of the building and go up the stairs).

Highlights
* Election of Officers
* Guest speaker Shoshonna Cohen about Columbia River Crossing
* Neighbor with a request: Katrina’s McGann’s People to People Trip
* An opportunity to meet neighbors, celebrate Woodlawn, share concerns, get more information and stay connected to your neighborhood

Also, there is now a collection point at the meetings for the Backpack Lunch Program.

We post a lot of important community involvement info here on GoWoodlawn, but there is plenty of room for additional topics, too. Would you like to share a favorite recipe? Gardening tip? Share a story? Voice your opinion on a hot topic? Thank someone for a good deed? We have room for all that, and more!

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The Woodlawn neighborhood was fortunate to be involved in a visioning process with the city. The result was the Woodlawn Triangle Master Plan [ read more here], a plan created by over 100 engaged neighbors to help guide our neighborhood’s growth.

I think the name of that plan is important, and it was a consciously chosen name. Lately I’ve been hearing our neighborhood’s retail district referred to as the Dekum Triangle, and while that’s an accurate description given that our retail is mainly on Dekum, our vision plan chose a different name. In the planning process, a neighbor (perhaps it was historian Anjala Ehjelebe) brought up the point that it would wonderful to choose a name that honors our neighborhood, more so than honoring only the street that runs through our neighborhood. We weighed the options, Dekum Triangle… Woodlawn Triangle… rolled those names around, had discussion, and collectively the people at that meeting (the two large meeting had around 100 and 50 people, respectively) decided to go with Woodlawn Triangle. Read the rest of this entry »