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Historic Hawthorne Rental's Taylor House

We haven’t put summer completely behind us and yet I just received an email confirmation of my children’s airline tickets to go see their grandparents for Thanksgiving!

Claire and Emily’s grandma can’t be the only one planning ahead this year to save money. Advance holiday reservations have been busy this year for our Roost [...]

Swap Shop hosts kids space at the Belmont Street Fair

SWAP SHOP AND ROOST AT THE BELMONT STREET FAIR, SUN. SEPT 12: It is our pleasure to gift the Belmont Street Fair with a great, shaded play area for kids of all ages. If you are navigating the street fair next Sunday and need a break, come to the parking lot behind Belmont Market [...]

Swap Shop Open House Saturday 9/18, 9-4

All day open house 9-4, Saturday, September 18 and Saturday, October 2. Plenty of time to tour the Swap Shop indoor and outdoor play and swap areas and check out the upstairs gym and Roost family night space. You can stay and play while filling out joining paperwork to become a member right away [...]

Roost Open House Mon August 30th 3-6pm

The Roost will be holding an open house / Roost for the Day on Monday, August 30 from 3 to 6 pm. See Roost for the Day for more details.

It’s easy to Roost for the Day before registering – be a part of The Roost for one day . . . you’ll be [...]

Noun – A Person’s Place for Things

The world is divided up into lots of different types of people. This isn’t the biggest or most important distinction between people by a long shot – but there are definitely those of us that really, really like to shop and those of us that shop only for the “necessities.”

Audrey, the dental hygienist [...]

Repaint the Sunflower Saturday May 29, 10am-4pm, SE 33rd & Yamhill

One of City Repair Village Building Convergence’s longest standing events is just two blocks away from our co-op at the Sunnyside Piazza at 33rd and Yamhill. Help our co-op member, Suzanne Tom, repaint the sunflower, weather permitting, Sunday May 30, 10am – 4pm. Help cleaning the intersection is also welcome. Cleaning is today 10am [...]

Spring Cycling with Clever Cycles and Veloce Bicycles

There is some pretty eclectic weather going on in Portland right now – so sunny and warm on some days you entertain the hope that winter is fully over, rainy and warm on other days, then rainy and cold with snow in the mountains.

Plenty of inspiration for me to go into Clever Cycles [...]

April 5 and 13th: Parenting Wisely in the Middle School Years

PARENTING WISELY IN THE MIDDLE SCHOOL YEARS:

Kathy Masarie, MD and Kathy Keller Jones, MA, Portland authors of “Raising our Daughters” and “Raising our Sons” will be talking on separate nights for parents of boys and parents of girls on Healthy Paths from Home to Community – how to encourage your child’s independence through [...]

3/18: Gym open to all ages tonight 3pm - 9pm

EXTRA FRIDAY GYM TIME: straight through 3pm-9pm. Camp Fire programming for middle schoolers at The Roost will not be happening tomorrow because of spring break, so you can play right through the afternoon into the evening assuming the weather isn’t so gorgeous that you just want to stay outside.

Useful Goods Exchange

EVERYTHING OLD IS NEW AGAIN: Save the date for the 4th annual Useful Goods Exchange. This is the community event that kicked off our year round Swap Shop. Every spring and fall we swap with the whole community. The spring exchange is a three day event:

Friday, April 16th 3pm-9pm Drop off of [...]