Welcome SES families and others viewing this page. The Sunnyside Swap Shop Co-op is proud to be a community partner with Sunnyside Environmental School supporting the school’s environmental focus on reducing, reusing and recycling. Read below for more detailed information on this week’s postings in the SESmessenger.
CLOTHES-WITH-HEART CLOTHING CIRCUIT:
All year long the swap shop works with the SES staff and volunteers to help unclaimed lost and found and clothing donations from our families and the community get out to a large circuit of valuable organizations that distribute used clothing directly to people who will appreciate them. This year we have the talent and energy of SES’s sustainability co-coordinator to help make this happen. The second Thursday of every month, lost and found items are tagged with a small metal safety pin. Lost and found that has gone unclaimed for over a month will get recirculated the second Thursday of the next month to fill the bins of the swap shop, the clothing racks for homeless and low income adults and families attending the fellowship meals at Sunnyside Methodist Church, the store house for the PTSA Clothing Center for Portland school kids in need of assistance, the live-in program at the Letty Owings center for moms in recovery and their children under five, and the Helping Hands Community Store. To help with the sorting, laundering and distributing for the circuit, contact Karen Hery at the Swap Shop at the Sunnyside Swap Shop Co-op or Aaron at SES.
BLANKETS FOR THE HOMELESS:
Pat Schwiebert of Metanoia Peace Community who coordinates the food and fellowship program across the street from the school in the Methodist Church building is asking for donations of blankets that she can hand out to people who come to the meals who are living on the streets. Blankets that are brought to the Clothes with Heart tan bin in the main hall will also be given to Pat to distribute. She hands blankets out inside plastic bags so they stay dry in the out of doors. If you can bring your blanket donation already in a bag, that would be great.
FAMILY SHELTER HOSTS:
Help your middle schooler earn service learning hours and help the community by serving together as family shelter hosts one night a month for the fall and winter season. Shelter host families open the shelter (inside the Methodist Church building across the street from SES) at 7pm each evening then greet the one to three families staying on any given night, help them settle in and spend the night with them in the building, cleaning up and closing up the next morning by 8am. To get training and more information, contact shelter host coordinator Kim Snyder at (503) 709-8779.
NEW ADULT NIA CLASSES AT SUNNYSIDE!
Many SES families already know Saffire Bouchelion from after school classes he has taught our children and teens at SES. He is a very well respected black belt NIA instructor and many of us who have experienced his talent are delighted that he is starting up an extension of his existing NIA program already on Stark Street into a new location right across from the school in the Sunnyside Methodist building gym. Classes at 1407 Stark are Mon, Wed, Friday mornings 9-10:15 and Saturday mornings 10-11:15. His new classes at the Sunnyside gym are Tues and Thursdays 9:30 – 10:45am. Cost per class is $10-$13 depending on whether you pay a drop in fee or purchase a set of classes. Come to the stone steps on the Yamhill Side of the Methodist Church building and follow the signs to the upstairs gym area to participate. Nia is a body-mind-emotion-spirit fitness and lifestyle practice using expressive movement to create wellness.
