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Southwest Neighborhoods Spring Cleanup, Saturday, May 26

Date of event: 
Saturday, May 26, 2012 - 9:00am - 1:00pm

Get energized, join our happy cleanup crew on Saturday, May 26th from 9 am to 1 pm at the Portland Christian Center, 5700 SW Dosch Road for our Annual Spring Cleanup. Bring your bulky waste, yard debris, and scrap metal items for recycling. We will also be accepting reuseable household items for Community Warehouse. If you are a senior and or disabled and need a volunteer to collect your items and bring them to our cleanup site, call the Southwest Neighborhood Office at 503-823-4592 by Wednesday, May 23rd. We need volunteers! Lend a hand, bring your truck and help a senior in need, or help load drop boxes. We feed our volunteers and promise you will have fun!

WRC hiring summer outreach staff

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JOB ANNOUNCEMENT

Watershed Outreach Intern (2 positions)

Applications accepted until positions are filled
(Note: this posting will be removed when positions are filled)
Preferred start date: early June, 2012

Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc. Annual Report

Southwest Neighborhoods has worked with over 400 volunteers during the last year to support citizen involvement and community-building activities, and secured funding for playgrounds, sidewalks, greenways, a mural, and other improvements in our neighborhoods. Take a minute to review our Annual Report for Fiscal Year 2010-11. Take note of the significant amount of funds leveraged by the City’s investment through our grant agreement with the Office of Neighborhood Involvement and the number of activities and accomplishments measured in our performance indicator reports.

Portland Fire & Rescue Station 18 Open House

Date of event: 
Saturday, June 2, 2012 - 11:30am - 2:30pm

Portland Fire & Rescue’s Fire Station 18, located at 8720 SW 30th Avenue, will be hosting an open house to welcome back personnel and equipment to the newly renovated station. Fire personnel will be offering a welcoming at 11:30 am and then community members can tour Fire Station 18, explore firefighting equipment and apparatus, and interact with Station 18 firefighters past and present.

"ABC's of Land Use" Workshop

Date of event: 
Saturday, June 9, 2012 - 9:00am - 1:00pm

Learn the basics of how the City of Portland's land use and development review process work. Get the hands-on experience with a land use review case study, including review of a development proposal and site plan, identification of relevant issues, and effective ways to respond to the approval criteria. Introduction by Leonard Gard, program manager for Southwest Neighborhoods, Inc.