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Woodlawn Neighborhood Association December 5, 2023 Meeting Agenda

Nancy Flynn 2023-11-28

Woodlawn Neighborhood Association General Meeting Agenda Tuesday, December 5, 2023 at 7:00 pm Please make every effort to join us In Person at Classic Foods: 817 NE Madrona Or online on Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/3014662210?pwd=d3VKbXkzVldqYzNWU2RwVm9OUkZyZz09 Meeting ID: 301 466 2210 Passcode: WNA Also online at Facebook Live Welcome and Vision: “In the future, Woodlawn will be a place where people live harmoniously, respectfully, and in support of one another. The neighborhood will

Woodlawn Farmers Market 2023 Holiday Market

Nancy Flynn 2023-11-27

Join us for the annual Woodlawn Farmers Market Holiday Market on Saturday, December 16, 2023 from noon to 5 pm at the Village Ballroom, 704 NE Dekum Street. Over thirty local vendors, raffles, live music, and generally good holiday cheer. We look forward to seeing you! Happy Holidays!

Woodlawn Elementary School 2023 Holiday Gift Drive

Nancy Flynn 2023-11-27

Every year, staff at Woodlawn Elementary School coordinate a holiday gift drive for their students and their families. Woodlawn is Title 1 school meaning most of its students come from low-income families. School families give staff volunteers their top three most needed and most wanted items for each of their children and rely on generous community donations to fulfill their wishes. Each gift purchased gets wrapped by volunteers and Woodlawn

Land Acknowledgment & Our Guiding Principles

Nancy Flynn 2023-11-23

Woodlawn Neighborhood Association would like to acknowledge that the land we live and meet on is unceded territory, originally home to Indigenous peoples such as the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla; Cowlitz and Clackamas; Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde; and Confederated Tribes of Siletz. Further, we recognize that over the last 200 years, Woodlawn has been home to Black and immigrant communities (including Greek, Japanese, Romany, Scandinavian, and Tonga Islanders),

A Thanksgiving Shout-Out to Our Generous WNA Sponsors!

Nancy Flynn 2023-11-23

At Thanksgiving, we wanted to take a moment to recognize once again the generosity of Woodlawn businesses that sponsor the Woodlawn Neighborhood Association—Campana. Classic Foods. For Good & Co. Georgies Ceramic and Clay Co. Marbott’s Greenhouse and Nursery. Olive & Percy LLC. Woodlawn Coffee & Pastry. Thank you all so much for investing in our Woodlawn community. You are much appreciated! If you are a Woodlawn business and

Explore the Offerings of the Vanport Mosaic

Nancy Flynn 2023-11-21

The Vanport Mosaic is, according to their website, “a memory-activism platform. We amplify, honor, and preserve the silenced histories that surround us in order to understand our present, and create a future where we all belong.” Since 2014, their collective has worked to honor the cultural and historical memories of underrepresented communities throughout the Portland area. The Vanport Mosaic started as a project to document oral histories about Vanport, the

Woodlawn History Trivia #2

Nancy Flynn 2023-11-21

Get to know more about the historic buildings and their former occupants right here in the heart of the Woodlawn Triangle. Many of these were culled from the book, Portland’s Woodlawn Neighborhood , written by our neighborhood historian, Anjala Ehelebe, and published by Arcadia Publishing. —Woodlawn’s Fire Station No. 29 was built in 1913 on the original Triangle block that was the site of the train station depot at the

SOLVE: Upcoming Portland Volunteer Opportunities

Nancy Flynn 2023-11-20

SOLVE is a local environmental nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and leading community-driven events that directly contribute to the well-being of our environment, such as trash pickup initiatives and invasive species removal projects. SOLVE believes in the power of collective action to create positive change, and we’re looking for volunteers and community leaders with a passion for the environment that can help contribute to the success of our volunteer initiatives.

Woodlawn Park Gets a Nature Patch

Nancy Flynn 2023-11-17

Over the past year or so, staff from Portland Parks & Recreation’s Ecologically Sustainable Landscapes Initiative have worked with volunteers to add a nature patch to Woodlawn Park. Back in 2017, the first nature patch was created in Alberta Park. Since then, a dozen more parks were added to the nature patch list with six more in the works, including the one that was recently planted here in Woodlawn. What

Woodlawn Neighborhood Association By-Laws

Nancy Flynn 2023-11-15

Below is the text of the official bylaws of the Woodlawn Neighborhood Association last reviewed and updated in May 2014. A link to a PDF of this document with a table of contents is here: WNA Bylaws from 2014. WNA Bylaws 2014 BYLAWS of the WOODLAWN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, INC. Article I NAME The name of this organization is the Woodlawn Neighborhood Association, Inc. (hereinafter referred to as the “Association.”) Article