Know Your Neighhors - Tales from the dentist

This is the story of two front teeth, a wooden slide and a weekend call to the dentist.  I promise the story has a good ending (or two or three) so you can read on and know that it’s all going to turn out fine.

When Swap Shop and Roost board members and [...]

Know your neighbors - Summer Road Trip check-ups at Hawthorne Auto

On the first real sunny day in a good long while, it’s a lot easier to look forward to vacation plans and believe that summer, that fabulous Northwest summer, is really coming our way.

If your summer plans include one or more of those all American road trips, you might also like to include [...]

Middle School and Braces

ROOST SPONSOR POST: Parkside Orthodontics

Our 170+ member families of the Sunnyside Swap Shop Co-op that don’t yet have a middle school student in their life got a Roost sponsor email this week all about baby and young child sign language.

Wouldn’t it be great if there was a form of sign language that [...]

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 [...]

Know Your Neighbor Update- ASAP Mac and PC Services

 

A great way to think of Scott Buntin’s very, very local business -  ASAP Mac and PC Services – is to just refer to him as our “community brother-in-law.“ Not everyone has relatives in town to watch our kids or that brother-in-law or neighbor just down the street that knows [...]

Know Your Neighbor - Neighborhood Works Realty

Spring is in the air and that means home buying and selling is picking up even in this down economy.

Whether you are seriously in the market for a new home or just dreaming and planning for the future — we are lucky to have very knowledgeable inner southeast real estate agents: Jarrett [...]

Valentines Day at JaCivas Bakery and Chocolatier

Something for everyone. That would be the theme of this sweet post and really the whole focus of how JaCivas Bakery and Chocolatier treats their role as the local, neighborhood bakery and candy shop.

This time of year, every possible niche has a gift, from 45-cent foil-wrapped hearts for little kids with pocket [...]

Know Your Neighbor - Free Car Seat checks at Hawthorne Auto Clinic

If you are lucky enough to have all the kids in your family out of car seats and even through with booster seats . . . you can skip right past this email and only check in with The Hawthorne Auto Clinic when you need a great, local car mechanic.

For the rest of [...]

Know your neighborhood - Immortal Piano Company

The Immortal Piano Company is a real gem, right off busy 39th at 4011 Belmont. Martha Taylor buys, sells, restores and refurbishes pianos and custom makes piano benches. A great resource for amazing used pianos and piano appraisals. [...]

Dana Buhl – massage therapist

Co-op member Dana Buhl’s massage studio is walking distance from the Swap Shop. You can schedule a deep tissue massage, pregnancy massage, or couples massage lesson. She also teaches baby massage and practices CranioSacral therapy – a gentle form of manipulating the membranes and fluid that support the brain and spinal chord to ease migraines and tension headaches, jaw tension and dysfunction, sleep disturbances, anxiety, depression, chronic pain, sinus issues and even low back pain. $65 hourly rate with a $5 discount if you walk or ride to her studio at 30th and Salmon. Appointments: Mon-Thurs noon – 8, Fridays 9:30 – 4. [...]

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