03/16/2014
Update: March 16th 2014
Please join us Thursday, March 20th, 6:30 Kenton Fire House
March 20th Arbor Lodge Neighborhood Association meeting
6:30-8:30
Kenton Fire House
6:30 Introductions, ask if any additions to Agenda by those present
6:40 Minutes and Treasurer's reports/updates
6:50 Police Update
7:00 Update on Clean Up - Volunteers needed!, Movie in the Park update, North Portland Parks Committee letter to Amanda Fritz
7:15 Panel on Development in Arbor Lodge
* zoning, do you know your zoning?
* affordable housing issues
* transportation safety issues - bikes and pedestrians
* presentation of some options for ALNA
* developing a flier about zoning in the transit zone only
* developing "Arbor Lodge Guidelines", a set of desired development guidelines for our neighborhood, not enforceable, but giving both the City and potential developers info about who we are and what we'd like to see
* your ideas?????
8:00 Putting it altogether
* do we need a group to write up a flier?
* do we need a group from Land Use to volunteer to answer questions presented online or in person?
* should we recruit a group to develop Arbor Lodge Guidelines? if yes, who? how to recruit?
* what else???
03/05/2014
Update: March 5th 2014
Come join us and Dig some Dirt at Arbor Lodge Park & Harper's Playground this Saturday, March 8th between 9-12. Come for a half hour, or the full 3 hours.
It's our 1st work party to keep Arbor Lodge Park and Harper's Playground Pesticide and Herbicide Free in 2014. It only works with volunteers like you.
Come join the fun, it's easy, and you'll feel great. p.s. it's supposed to be sunny too!
02/24/2014
Every Drop Counts: Regional Water Providers Consortium offers free indoor water saving kits
Many of us have ignored the trickling stream coming from our toilet, or we’ve chosen to overlook those slow drips from the sink.
After all, how much water do they really waste?
According to the EPA, more than 1 trillion gallons of water leak every year in homes across the U.S. That’s enough water to sustain the population of Los Angeles, Chicago and Miami combined each year. It’s also estimated that leaks in almost 10 percent of American homes drip away nearly 90 gallons of water a day.
With Fix a Leak Week right around the corner (March 17-23), there’s no better time to check your home for leaks and make every drop count.
To help you save water and money, the Regional Water Providers Consortium—a group of 20+ regional water providers plus the regional government Metro— is offering free indoor water saving kits to customers who reside in the Consortium service area (find out if you qualify at www.conserveh2o.org/consortium-members). Available from March 1 through March 22 (while supplies last) the kits include a bathroom faucet aerator, kitchen faucet aerator, high efficiency showerhead, shower timer, toilet leak-detection dye tablets and a toilet fill-cycle diverter.
To request a free kit, visit the Regional Water Providers Consortium on Facebook, www.facebook.com/RegionalWaterProvidersConsortium, from March 1 through March 22.
For more tips to help you discover and repair leaks during Fix a Leak Week and beyond, visit the Consortium at www.conserveh2o.org.
02/23/2014
Update: February 23rd 2014
Buy some Peanut Butter, make a difference in child hunger.
Fred Meyer has a coupon for peanut butter in the Sunday Oregonian. Please consider cutting that coupon (good thru March 1st) and then buying 2-4 jars of peanut butter to support the School Backpack Program at Chief Joseph/Ockley Green. All donations go to Ockley Green for distribution at both schools. Right now 32 backpacks go out to help feed these kids through the weekends. Peanut butter is a staple of these backpacks.
If just 16 of us buy 2 jars for $3 we can put peanut butter in each backpack this coming week.
You can make a difference in child hunger right here in Arbor Lodge! Thanks for all your support.
02/13/2014
Update: February 13th 2014
Arbor Lodge NA meeting, Feb 20th, 6:30-8
Agenda for the Feb 20th Arbor Lodge Neighborhood Association meeting, all are welcome to join us!
6:30 pm
Kenton Fire House
6:30 Welcome and introductions
6:35 Meetings/approval, Treasurer - update $50 spent last month
Action items
6:40 * Movie in the Park general
* sponsorships/advertising
* fliers/distribution
6:55 * very brief update from required NPNS meeting in regard to insurance
7:00 * resolution of Ockley Green/dog walking/PPS issue
7:05 * Land Use - 2 updates/discussion points
* apartments on Greenwich
* Woodlawn NA and Bus 8 rerouting options
7:20-25 * update and planning for Clean Up set for April 26th with Kenton (remember this is how we pay for most of the Movie in the Park)
7:30 * NECN grant money available, how to apply, what are priorities?
7:40 * pre-planning for Block Parties this summer - some folks expressing interest
Any new items brought up by attendees