Category: Other « Sunnyside Family Swap Shop and Play Space

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 – 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 Neighbor – Cycle of Life

This is the story of over wrapped shoes and under wrapped finances . . . the story of estate sales and lawyers, whimsy and wonder.

If through it all you find some valuable resources for your family and an angle on shopping you hadn’t quite thought about in a while. . . then this tale [...]

Spring Cycling Updates

If you have ambitions to ditch the car to become a bike only commuter, are ready to get more exercise or are getting excited about more family bike outings when the sun starts shining . . . this is the know-your-neighbor post with the things to know.

Everything [...]

The Herb Shoppe Update

Fresh off of hosting a carnival held in a gym inside a church filled with trapezes and a swap shop, I am sitting down at my computer figuring out how to best describe some doctors with classes and acupuncture and warm cups of tea in an Herb Shoppe .

Daniel Caplan and the Green Microgym

I am super happy to report that somebody (that somebody being cool and hip Oregonian Daniel Caplan) is working hard to open a new gym just two blocks from our co-op. To my utter delight, Daniel’s workout gym runs pretty much just like our Swap Shop. There’s a code keypad on the front door, pay-as-you-go [...]

Custom costumes with Heidi of Humble Luna

I don’t know how it is in your house, but in our world ever since my oldest was two it’s been Halloween every month of the year. First there was just a whole lot of dress up going on and then . . . the talking and planning started.

“Mom, guess what I’m going to [...]

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 at [...]