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Woodlawn Neighborhood Association December 5, 2023 Meeting Agenda

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…...

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Woodlawn Farmers Market 2023 Holiday Market

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!...

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Woodlawn Elementary School 2023 Holiday Gift Drive

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…...

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Land Acknowledgment & Our Guiding Principles

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…...

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Explore the Offerings of the Vanport Mosaic

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…...

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Woodlawn History Trivia #2

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…...

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SOLVE: Upcoming Portland Volunteer Opportunities

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…...

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Woodlawn Park Gets a Nature Patch

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…...

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Staying Informed about the Upcoming City Government Changes

Three major changes are coming to Portland’s governmental structure by 2025. The city will now be broken into four districts with three elected councilors for each district. There will be a city administrator position hired by the mayor to oversee all of the various bureaus. And the city of Portland…...

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Woodlawn History Trivia

Several years ago, before the pandemic shuttered in-person gatherings and fun, the Woodlawn Neighborhood Association in partnership with the Oregon Public House hosted a Woodlawn History Trivia Night. Here are just a few of fun facts from that evening. Many of these were culled from the book, Portland’s Woodlawn Neighborhood,…...

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