Last Friday Happy Hour

Introducing a new neighborhood gathering: Last Friday Happy Hour!

Palace of Industry

Friday, January 27, 2012

5:30 - 6:30 PM

Once a month, on the last Friday, meet your neighbors at a rotating venue in or around Arbor Lodge. Check our website each month for details on the next gathering.

Want to help a neighbor?

Each week 19 children at Chief Joseph Elementary School take home a backpack filled with donated food. During the week these children qualify for free or reduced fee breakfast and lunch at school, and the food backpacks help them get through the weekend at home. Most of the food is dried/canned staples donated by the NE Ecumenical Food Pantry. The backpacks are lacking fresh fruit. In addition to food, these families are also in need of some basic necessities like toilet paper and disposable diapers.

If you can buy extras while you're shopping and drop them off at the front office of Chief Joseph (Saratoga and Delaware), you'll walk out with a smile and someone in your neighborhood will greatly benefit from your generosity. Backpacks are filled on Wednesdays and go out on Thursdays each week. Donations are accepted any weekday. Thank you!

ALNA 2012 General Meetings

The Arbor Lodge Neighborhood Association will continue meeting on the third Thursday of each month in 2012. All neighbors are welcome to attend the meetings, and we especially encourage your participation in our quarterly general meetings.

General Meetings:

January 19, 2012

April 19th, 2012

July 19th, 2012

October 19, 2012

Burn some calories, help the Park!

Looking for an easy way to burn some Holiday calories and help Arbor Lodge Park? Become a winter/spring flame weeder!

It's easy, you burn some weeds with a propane torch; while you walk around the Park doing this service you burn calories too. You can pick your day and time. Interested in learning how? contact Ginger at ginger.edws@gmail.com

Neighborhood Holiday Party

Please join us for a neighborhood holiday party! We're gathering at the Historic Kenton Firehouse. Please bring a dessert to share. See you there!

Information Meeting

Updated: The park presentation will begin at 6:30 pm at the Kenton Firehouse.

Improvements are coming soon to Arbor Lodge Park! Join us Thursday evening, December 15, at 6:00 pm for a special 30 minute presentation at the Historic Kenton Firehouse. Sue Glenn, from the City of Portland's Parks & Recreation Bureau, will show new design plans for our park and explain the new features and equipment that will make it an easily accessible recreation area for our community. Our regular monthly Board Meeting will follow at 6:30 pm.

Supplies Needed for Bee/Bird Bat Houses at Park

Help a Scout Build Bee, Bird and Bat Houses for Arbor Lodge Park!

You can help by contributing needed supplies. If you can contribute anything listed below, please contact Bob @ (503) 312-7193 or Ginger @ (503) 312-7135. We'll come pick up your contribution. Thank you for considering helping us make our Park bee, bird and bat friendly!

Supplies needed:
4 cedar or redwood 2 x 4 x 8's
1-2 sheets of CDX 1/2 inch plywood
Cedar Boards - 1" x 3" x 8' long
1" x 6" x 8' long
Sandpaper
nails, screws, eye screws
tar paper or asphalt shingles (just need a few)
1 tube exterior caulking

Tofurky Trot

If you haven't already heard, your Arbor Lodge neighbor, Molly, is putting on a Thanksgiving morning 5K fun run. You're invited to walk, skip, run (or any other way you'd like to get around) through scenic North Portland.

There are no prizes (unless you bring them and award them yourself), no commemorative t-shirts, no timing clock, and no required Tofurky eating. Just your friendly neighbors and some pastries and drinks at the finish line!

The Tofurkey Trot will begin at 8:00 AM, Thursday, November 24th. The starting line is in front of the yellow house on Greenwich Avenue between Dekum and Bryant. Hope you can make it!

First Annual Tofurky Trot

ALNA Board Meeting Tonight

There is an ALNA board meeting happening tonight at 6:30 in the upstairs meeting room in the Historic Kenton Firehouse. All neighbors are welcome.

Portland Plan Hearings

The Planning and Sustainability Commission is seeking public participation regarding the proposed Portland Plan. There are hearings scheduled around the city, and the first one will be next week in North Portland.

Portland Plan Hearing
Tuesday, November 8
5:30-9:00 PM
Jefferson High School
5210 N Kerby Avenue

The Portland Plan is a strategic plan to improve our city through setting goals and creating action items. The highlighted priorities to reach toward 2035:

• Create well-paying jobs.


• Advance social equity.


• Improve educational outcomes.


• Support health connected communities.