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Know Your Neighbor – Reunion Apparel

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When I last wrote about Reunion Apparel Resale in November, Tara and Will were just getting started as young business owners taking on the Portland clothing scene.   I’m grateful for their sponsorship of our Roost program and more than happy to spread the word every few months about their hidden little gem of a [...]

Know Your Neighbor – Hankins True Value Hardware

Too late to run to the hardware store tonight, but if something started dripping, seeping or leaking around your house during this last bout of snow and rain, you may be happy to know what I found out from Lois Hankins (long time owner of Hankins True Value Hardware store on Hawthorne and MLK) [...]

Know Your Neighbor – Cold weather car care with Hawthorne Auto Clinic

What better day to be talking about cold weather car care than the first snowy morning of the season. Liz and Jim at Hawthorne Auto Clinic are two of my favorite role models for how to run a business and how to take care of a car.  I’ll brag about how well they take care [...]

Know Your Neighbor – Our Community Pantry

Happy Interdependence Day. Yep, that’s right . . . interdependence day.

I’ll be happily celebrating American Independence Day on Monday but today I’m grateful , not just for my independence, but for all the ways I am interdependent with so many great people in Portland.

Our newest Roost sponsor, Brion Oliver, in his own quiet [...]

Bowls, bunnies and song 5-7 Friday night

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We take a break from our regular Friday Family Nights in the summer but are more than happy to come together now and again to celebrate the beautiful web of connections that we’ve built all year long and to [...]

Dena Wilder – Family Folk Music Night

We’re not waiting for the weather to cooperate. . .

Summer officially starts tonight for the co-op with the return of Dena Wilder to the Swap Shop stage.

From 6-6:30 she’ll lead a circle time for kids and babes in parents laps (great for all ages) and then . . . the kids are off [...]

Sprout Pediatric Dentistry

Some of you may recall that our first pediatric dental sponsor was all the way up in Vancouver so you may be as happy as I am that, when Dr. Jenna Milot was deciding where to start her practice fresh out of residency at OHSU, she saw a gap in services in our part of [...]

Know Your Neighbor – Hankins True Value Hardware

 If you have been following at all the efforts of Sunnyside neighbors to influence the drive through plans for Walgreens at Belmont and Cesar Chavez or the efforts to save Naomi’s Organic Farm Supply in Sellwood on land owned [...]

Know Your Neighbor – Summer camp best kept secrets

Come along with me on a secret, behind the scenes, journey through summer camps. 

 

Know Your Neighbors: Dental/Orthodontics Resources

 

This is the tale of two dental offices and an orthodontist and hopefully a pleasant reminder of how we all make an investment in each other when we move into a neighborhood together.

 

As a parent I don’t think about dentists/orthodontists too much .  . . [...]