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 neighbor - Humble Luna - Whimsical Designs for Children

… Fortunately for me and everyone else reading this, there are little pockets of joy right here in Portland where you can feel really good about what you have bought, who you have bought it from and how it was made… [...]

Know Your Neighbors - Wren's Nest Preschool

Wren’s Nest Preschool – Montessori preschool right in the neighborhood. There’s something magical about trays full of natural materials presented with awe and wonder to tiny bodies and little busy minds… [...]

Bea Weiss-Krull - Estate Planner/Attorney at Law

As a town that appreciates cottage industries (especially if they brew beer) and celebrates living locally, we may want to consider adopting Bea Weiss-Krull’s home town Tuttlingen Germany as our sister city.

Her part of Germany is known as the world headquarters for precision medical instruments making . . . but before you start [...]

Brazilian party upstairs Friday 4/2 upstairs

Our first of two great Brazilian parties in April, that will help Leticia George fundraise for a great cause, will be happening Friday April 2.

Regular Friday gym time 3-5pm, followed by bouncy castle night with the castle gifted to us by the Engs in full swing in the gym from 6:30 on.

Important [...]

Know Your Neighbors -

I feel lucky to have Shira Fogel, who started Tiny Talkers baby signing workshops, and Carissa Martos, who is trained at the Signing Time Academy, both involved with our co-op. Having good resources for our children and our families is what the “Know your Neighbor” weekly emails are all about. [...]

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 [...]

Tonight, Spanakopita; Tomorrow, a Yachaphone

Family Night at The Roost (for some of us that will be before or after checking out the Sunnyside Environmental School Talent Show) tonight (March 5th) features spanikopita and roasted veggies:

Menu

A full plate of Spanakopita (or noodles) and veggies: $5 Just Spanakopita: $3 Just Greek roasted veggies: $2 Kid’s noodle plate $2 [...]

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 [...]

Indian Dinner - Friday Night Menu 2/27/2010

Aaaaaaah . . . it’s a good life when you can stroll over to the Swap Shop and head up to The Roost on a Friday night for authentic Indian Food that even preschoolers and teenagers will like. Agihla and Kalki will be sharing their love of healthy food and good community 5:30 [...]

New Roost Sponsor: Melissa Guthrie, Mortgage Direct

Living more simply and making more local connections is a great way to upsize the richness of our lives and downsize the time we spend commuting away from our home to be able to come back and pay for it.

Our newest Roost business sponsor, mortgage broker Melissa Guthrie, knows that living simple [...]

Swap Shop Summer Parade

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Know Your Neighbors – 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 neighbor – Humble Luna – Whimsical Designs for Children

… Fortunately for me and everyone else reading this, there are little pockets of joy right here in Portland where you can feel really good about what you have bought, who you have bought it from and how it was made… [...]

Know Your Neighbors – Israel Sostrin, physical therapist.

Everything we do with our body uses some combination of our strength, our flexibility and our endurance. Addressing just one of these three and not the others, as some of us can vouch for, can make the problem even worse. Israel’s work is all about better coordinating our own body’s natural balance while honoring that simple truth that we have gotten into whatever pinch we are in for very good reasons more complex than it all first appears. [...]

Know Your Neighbors – Wren’s Nest Preschool

Wren’s Nest Preschool – Montessori preschool right in the neighborhood. There’s something magical about trays full of natural materials presented with awe and wonder to tiny bodies and little busy minds… [...]

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 [...]

Correction: Sunflower repaint …

Correction: Sunflower repaint is on Sunday May 30, 10am-4pm, SE 33rd & Yamhill http://bit.ly/dCAByv

Repaint the Sunflower Sunday May 30, 10am-4pm, SE 33rd & Yamhill

One of City Repair Village Building Convergence’s longest standing events is just two blocks away from our co-op at the Sunnyside Piazza at 33rd and Yamhill. Help our co-op member, Suzanne Tom, repaint the sunflower, weather permitting, Sunday May 30, 10am – 4pm. Help cleaning the intersection is also welcome. Cleaning is today 10am [...]

Bea Weiss-Krull – Estate Planner/Attorney at Law

As a town that appreciates cottage industries (especially if they brew beer) and celebrates living locally, we may want to consider adopting Bea Weiss-Krull’s home town Tuttlingen Germany as our sister city.

Her part of Germany is known as the world headquarters for precision medical instruments making . . . but before you start [...]

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