EAST PORTLAND NEIGHBORHOOD EPN ASSOCIATION NEWS July 2010 News about East Portland Neighborhoods vol. 15 issue 3 Your 21st annual Paint & Repair-a-thon NEIGHBORHOOD By Barrett Ebright Karnes Community Builders Program, REACH ASSOCIATIONS Community Development Argay Save the date for REACH Neighborhood Association Community Development’s 21st annual Paint & Repair-a- Centennial thon, Saturday, August 7th Community Association from 8:00 am – 2:30 pm. This community event brings Glenfair together hundreds of volun- Neighborhood Association teers and area businesses to help 20 to 30 senior and dis- Hazelwood abled homeowners living in Neighborhood Association and around the Lents URA all in one day! In the past 10 Lents years, over 150 homeowners Neighborhood Association have benefited from this event. Last year, 280 volun- Mill Park teers completed 116 home Neighborhood Association repair projects for twenty-two senior and disabled home- Parkrose Heights owners living on a low- 2009 REACH Paint & Repair-a-thon volunteers from Oregon Tradeswomen Inc. and Rejuvenation Association of Neighbors income. gather for a break from painting with a family from the Lents neighborhood. Volunteers repainted Event volunteers help senior the entire exterior of their home. Parkrose homeowners with exterior Neighborhood Association painting, yard clean-ups, bars, and more! iors to age safely in their To apply for free home Pleasant Valley amending unstable stairways The Paint & Repair-a-thon homes and remain connected repairs and an opportunity to and installing handrails, fix- not only helps beautify neigh- to their community. be part of the Paint & Repair- Neighborhood Association ing minor plumbing or electri- borhoods, but also makes Let your neighbors know a-thon, contact Barrett at 503- Powellhurst-Gilbert cal concerns, installing homes safer, livable and more about this great opportunity to 208-8152 or e-mail at smoke detectors or grab energy efficient, allowing sen- receive free home repairs! [email protected]. Neighborhood Association Russell Neighborhood Association National Neighbors Wilkes Community Group Night Out Woodland Park National Night borhood spirit and Out (celebrated police-community Neighborhood Association every year on the partnerships; and first Tuesday in promote emer- Are you on our August) is gency prepared- free mailing list for designed to send ness awareness. a message to DON’T FORGET the East Portland criminals that to register your Jim Blatt of Wilkes (center) and volunteers from Parkrose Heights, Glenfair and Hazelwood help a neighbor unload wood helping him Neighborhood neighborhoods PORTLAND, OREGON • 2010 NNO event with are organized and ONI ~(last day for make way for a new deck. Association News? fighting back, heighten com- registration is July 27). Go munity awareness of crime to http://www.portlandon- IfIf youryour namename doesdoes notnot Spring clean up May 15, 2010 and drug prevention; gener- line.com/oni/index.cfm?c=2 appear above your ate support for, and partici- 8986& for more info and to By Brenda McSweeney tons of metal and 21 tires. address, you are not. Call and Mike Vander Veen About 8,100 flyers went to stu- us at 503-823-4550 to pation in, local anti-crime register your event! dents in 13 schools. Special make sure you get every programs; strengthen neigh- A bulky waste clean up event issue.issue. happened on a rare sunny day thanks to Chris Pierce and in May at the Menlo Park and Victoria Maya from Reynolds National Neighbors Ride (SE 122nd and E. School District for getting our Burnside). About 40 volunteers flyer translated to Spanish. Night Out Schedule from seven neighborhoods Also, to Aleks Smolentsev from helped load 6 dumpsters with Mt. Hood CC for translating our PAID US POSTAGE Tuesday, August 3 PORTLAND OR 9.3 tons of bulky waste, 1.44 PERMIT NO. 653 NONPROFIT ORG continued on page 5 NNO - Argay Neighborhood Association, 6-8:30pm, Argay Park, NE 141st & Beech. NNO - Glenfair Neighborhood Association, 4-9pm, Glenfair Park, NE 154th & Davis. InsideInside thisthis issue:issue: NNO - Mill Park Neighborhood Association, 6-8:30pm, Street Party, 113th & 114th at Yamhill EXPEXP XPOXPO specialspecial insertinsert NNO - Parkrose Heights Association of Neighbors, 5:30-8:30pm, Knott Park, NE 117th & Knott. If you want this paper Wednesday, August 4 NNO - Powellhurst-Gilbert Neighbors Night Out, please call us at 6:30-9:30pm, Gilbert Heights Park, SE 130th & Boise. 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