Category: What’s Happening in Sunnyside?

Join Us for Our February Meeting

On the agenda at the general meeting this month:

  1. Introductions (3 min)
  2. Approve agenda, circulate November minutes (2 min)
  3. Sunnyside Neighborhood sign contest, viewing of entries (10 min)
  4. February 19, movie matinee fundraiser w/ RNA (Allen Field 5 min)
  5. Sunnyside Sunflower painting: passing the torch (Suzanne Tom 5 min)
  6. Disaster dinner funds request (Dana Buhl 5 min)
  7. Mural repainting on Walgreens (Nam Khalsa 5 min)
  8. Committee Reports (15 min)

Sustainability (RD)
Land Use and Transportation (TJ)

Crime Prevention (HW)

Southeast Uplift (HW)

Treasurer’s Report (JP)

  1. Announcements (5 min)
  2. Approve minutes (2 min)
  3. Next meeting on March 8 / Newsletter articles (due Feb. 15)
  4. Adjourn

And the board meeting’s agenda is as follows:

 

  1. Approve agenda/minutes (2 min)
  2. Sunnyside Neighborhood sign contest (10 min)
  3. Bagdad movie matinee logistics (10 min)
  4. Cell tower opposition (5 min)
  5. Disaster dinner funds request (10 min)
  6. Action items:

– Disaster Dinner funds

– Choosing winner of sign contest

– letter supporting cell tower opposition

  1. Newsletter articles (due Feb. 15)
  2. Other Business

Adjourn

We hope to see you there. As always, we meet at Southeast Uplift, the corner of 34th and Main.

Movie & Free Icecream at the Bagdad to Benefit Neighborhood Associations

The Sunnyside and Richmond Neighborhood associa­tions will join together again to host a fundraiser at the Bagdad Theater on Sunday, February 19. The movie, The Secret of Roan Inish, will be a 2 pm matinee, with doors opening at 1 pm. Free Ben & Jerry’s ice cream will be served starting at 1pm! Tickets will be $5 for adults, $1 for kids.

Net proceeds from ticket sales will be shared by the Sunnyside and Richmond Neighborhoods. We hope to see you there.

SE Community Kitchen Tool Library in the Works

Sunnyside is a neighborhood with friendly folks who feel comfortable lending a cup of sugar to their neighbors. But what if there was a place where people could borrow a food dehydrator or cider press?

Everyone deserves access to kitchen tools for food processing, preserving, and serving. With that in mind, community members are developing the Southeast Community Kitchen Tool Library, a place where anyone can borrow from an extensive collection of kitchen appliances and tools. We hope to offer pressure cookers, canners, knife sharpeners, bread machines, popcorn makers, grain mills—even place settings and ravioli crimpers! The goal is to provide a wide variety of handy items that are infrequently needed and often prohibitively expensive.

We also envision the Community Kitchen Tool Library being a place where neighborly connections can be fostered through a shared love of food. The library might even grow into a community-supported kitchen where we can share our culinary skills, nourish our bodies with healthy local food, and collaborate on difficult or intensive projects.

We are inspired by other successful lending libraries, such as the Southeast Portland Tool Library and North Portland Preserve and Serve Library, and believe that together we will make this a reality. By making expensive equipment freely available to all, and by sharing our collective skills and knowledge about food preservation and preparation, the future Southeast Community Kitchen Tool Library will make our community a more equitable and sustainable place to live.

This is a community-directed initiative and we need your input, creative energy, and kitchen items. Please contact Kim Hack for more information ([email protected] or 971-285-7372). Join us on November 7 for a planning meeting at 1221 SE 35th Avenue between Salmon and Main streets. Thank you!

 

 

Planting Work Party at SEUL

SE Uplift is building a pocket-park at 36th and Main, and would love to have help putting in some native plants!  For a few short hours we’ll plant a portion of the property and spread some mulch.  If you have some time to help turn what used to be an unmaintained grass patch into a beautiful native landscape, please stop by. The planting will take place from 9 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Nov. 5 at 3534 SE Main.

Contact Tim at (503) 232-0010 ext. 313 or [email protected] for more information.

Board Meeting on Thursday, Oct. 13

Here’s what’s on tap for this month’s general meeting. Please join us at 7 p.m. at Southeast Uplift, corner of 34th and SE Main.

  1. Introductions (3 min)
  2. Approve agenda, circulate August minutes (2 min)
  3. Sunnyside Tree Planting (Jeff Cole, 5 min)
  4. Leaf Day Overview (Grant Morehead, PDOT 10 min)
  5. Domestic Violence Awareness Month (Choya Adkison-Stevens, YWCA 5 min)
  6. Committee Reports (15 min)

Sustainability (?)
Land Use and Transportation (TJ)

Crime Prevention (HW)

Southeast Uplift (HW)

Treasurer’s Report (JP)

  1. Announcements (5 min)
  2. Approve minutes (2 min)
  3. Next meeting on November 10 / Newsletter articles (due Oct. 15)
  4. Adjourn