Candidates for Portland School Board to Appear at League of Women Voters Forum April 16

Thursday, April 16, 7:00 pm

Board Room, Blanchard Building, 501 N Dixon, Portland

The League of Women Voters of Portland and community partners present a forum for candidates for the Portland School Board. All candidates for each office have been invited to participate. The forum will be moderated by the League of Women Voters of Portland.

School Board candidates invited to participate include:

Zone 4: Steve Buel, Martin Gonzalez, and Rita Moore

Zone 5 Scott Bailey and Pam Knowles

Zone 6 Trudy Sargent

The event is free, and the public is invited to attend.

This April, Portland metro area residents will honor trees for Arbor and Earth Month at 15 events that Friends of Trees is joining community partners to host. The events span the month of April, which includes Oregon Arbor Week from April 6 to 11, Earth Day on April 22, and National Arbor Day on April 24.

Friends of Trees wraps up its neighborhood planting season this week with more than 2,680 street and yard trees planted in Portland, Gresham and Vancouver neighborhoods since November — 47% more trees than last planting season.

The Deer Creek Center for Field Research and Education, the Siskiyou Field Institute and Southern Oregon University are pleased to announce the Third Conference on Klamath-Siskiyou Ecology: "Sustaining Biodiversity in a Changing Environment" May 28th – May 30th, 2009 in Selma, Oregon. This conference will bring together scientists, resource managers and engaged citizens to discuss the scope and consequences of environmental change in the ecologically diverse Klamath-Siskiyou bioregion.

Birdsongs at Whitaker Ponds

Fridays: April 24, May 1, June 12

7:00am – 9:00am

Join David Helzer, with City of Portland Environmental Services, for an early-morning birding hike around Whitaker Ponds Nature Park.  Learn about the birds that utilize the Slough and work on your birdsong ID skills.  Bring your binoculars!  Trip meets at 7am and last 1-2 hours.  Pre-registration is required.

Location: Whitaker Ponds Natural Area   |   7040 NE 47th Ave, Portland, OR 97218

Cost: FREE. Donations welcome.

Presented by: Columbia Slough Watershed Council

To Register: go online to www.columbiaslough.org, or call Melissa at 503-281-1132.

Columbia Slough Watershed Council

Learn the classic and relaxing art of knitting while making new friends at the Julia West House each week. Students will learn new skills and gain confidence as together they work on projects of their choice. Hats, mittens, scarves--it's up to the student to decide!

The Columbia Group of the Sierra Club is proud to present an Earth Day celebration of the writer and scientist whose inspiration gave birth to the modern environmental movement:

A Sense of Wonder Rachel Carson’s love for the natural world and her fight to defend it-- a film dramatization of an interview with Rachel Carson, as portrayed by Kauilani Lee.

with a live musical introduction by Pacific Northwest artist:

Alexa Wiley

When: April 22, 2009. Doors open at 6:30 PM. The program will begin promptly at 7 PM.

Where: Sierra Club at 1821 SE Ankeny, Portland, OR 97211

Contact: Wes Kempfer, [email protected] 503.926.3867

More about the film:

King Stropharia Mushroom Workshop Saturday, April 11, 2-5 pm

Here is a link to our full class schedule:

http://tilth.org/education-research/organic-education-center/organic-education-center-classes

Intensive Vegetable Gardening Thursday April 16, 6:00-8:00pm Luscher Farm

Spring is here and it’s time to start planting all your favorite veggies! Learn how to grow more in a small space through intensive growing techniques. Topics include, seed sowing and spacing, transplanting, season extension and vertical gardening. Discover space-saving tips for planning and planting your garden to help increase this year’s harvest. $28/ $25 Lake Oswego residents & Tilth members Learn more at www.tilth.org or call 503-675-2549 to register

Comprehensive Organic Gardener Program

Presenters: Rick Levine, Grant Writing Consultant Kit Gillem, Program Officer, MJ Murdock Charitable Trust

Date: April 16, 2009

Time: 8:00 am - 4:00 pm

Join Rick Levine, one of the most senior grantwriters in the Northwest, and Kit Gillem, Program Officer of the Murdock Charitable Trust, to learn what foundation and corporate grant makers expect of experienced grant writers. In this competitive grant seeking climate, it is more important than ever to have well-targeted and finely crafted proposals. Receive direct feedback about your proposals while working in small groups with a staff person of a major regional funder.

The proposal reviewers will include:

Interested in helping out local seniors?

Friendly House Senior Program is looking to add to our network of volunteer translators and interpreters. We are currently looking for people with ability in translating documents into Mandarin Chinese and into Russian, and also for some folks able to do occasional interpretation.

The mission of Friendly House Senior Program is to help seniors remain living independently in their homes for as long as it’s safe for them to do so. We focus on the needs of seniors in Northwest Portland by providing case management, information and assistance, an activities program, and other support services.

Volunteer in the kitchen at Outside In!

Outside In is looking for volunteers to prepare and serve meals for our youth. Help ensure our clients receive healthy meals, provide a welcoming environment and have fun! Additional duties include helping to organize kitchen on delivery days and assisting with dishwashing and clean up.

Shifts available: Monday 8:30am – 10:15am, Wednesday 3:30pm – 6:15pm, Thursday 8:00am-10:15am, Sunday 11:30-2:45pm, Sunday 3:30pm – 6:15pm.

Please go to our website www.outsidein.org for a volunteer application.

PlantNative, a small organization in North Portland dedicated to moving native plants and naturescaping into mainstream landscaping practices, seeks volunteers to help us update our database.