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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 – Good health with a little help from my friends

I don’t know which is more common: making New Year’s resolutions or breaking them.  When I look back at the major changes I’ve been able to make over the years, every success I’ve had has been with some really key support along the way.   Let’s face it, if we could easily make the [...]

Know Your Neighbors – Schools and Classes

Whether you have a one year old or a fourteen year old, like the idea of circus skills for fun or Saturday school for better academics, this swap shop post about schools and classes connects [...]

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 [...]

Know your newest neighbor – International Leadership Academy

 

I am happy to announce that we have brand new neighbors not just nearby the Swap Shop but actually right inside our space.

If you have been around the past few weeks you will have noticed a lot of French being spoken and you might have already met Massene, Patricia and Cary, two teachers [...]

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 [...]

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