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Help save Outdoor School
Portland’s keen interest in sustainability and “green” building gets another boost with the new Natural Style Homes and Gardens Expo taking place on Saturday & Sunday May 10 and11. The Expo will offer healthy home and garden ideas while raising money to benefit the Multnomah Education Service District (M.E.S.D.) Outdoor School in critical danger of budget-imposed closure. The Expo will take place at 1000 N.E. Multnomah, in the Portland-Lloyd Center DoubleTree Convention Hall and will run from 10a.m.- 6p.m. Saturday, May 10 and from 10a.m.- 5p.m. on Sunday, May 11. The Max Line serves the Expo location.
This new Expo will feature informational booths, speakers and workshops showcasing beautiful, healthful and sustainably-oriented products, ideas, and services for homes and gardens. There will be free workshops and speakers with great topics such as Green Remodeling, Solar Power, Organic Gardening, Native Landscaping, Interior Design, Feng Shui, and much more. For additional details, please visit the sponsors website at http://www.redirectguide.com/naturalstyle.
Admission for the Expo will be a suggested $2.00 donation; all donations will go directly to benefit the M.E.S.D. Outdoor School. The Outdoor School Support Network (ODSSN) is working with Friends of Outdoor School, a non-profit foundation to support an annual-million dollar fundraising initiative to keep the Outdoor School running. The Outdoor School has served three generations of Oregonians and is a national model environmental education program. For more details visit the website at www.passonthememory.org
Volunteers are needed to help out with a variety of activities, including set up, take down, neighborhood flyering and helping to host booths as needed. Contact ReDirect Guide at 503-231-4848 for more information or to volunteer.
Stamp Out Hunger
Letter carriers throughout Mid-County, will join with letter carriers across America to do much more than deliver mail when they walk and drive along their postal routes on Saturday, May 10. They will also collect generous donations of nonperishable food from their postal customers to Stamp Out Hunger during the annual National Association of Letter Carriers Food Drive-the largest one-day food drive in Oregon and in the nation.
“Letter carriers deliver mail to homes in every community, and we know the people along our routes,” said L.C. Hansen, president of NALC Branch 82. “We know first hand that the need for food donations has never been greater. NALC is proud to take part in this event.”
The process is simple. Here’s how all citizens can help letter carriers Stamp Out Hunger:
1) Letter carriers will deliver plastic bags to postal customers along their routes a few days before the food drive. Fred Meyer generously donated the bags.
2) Fill the bags with nutritious, nonperishable foods. Most needed foods include canned tuna, peanut butter, soups, stews, chili, canned fruits and vegetables, boxed rice and pasta meals, beans, rice and pasta.
3) Place the filled bags by your mailbox on Saturday, May 10. The NALC food drive always takes place the second Saturday in May.
4) Letter carriers will collect nonperishable food donations left by mailboxes along their routes and deliver them to local community food banks. If your letter carrier misses your donation, call your local post office on May 10. Someone will come to your mailbox to pick up your donation.
Last year’s NALC Food Drive generated almost one-and-a-half million pounds of food throughout the state. More than 1,500 letter carriers collected almost 700,000 pounds of food in Multnomah, Clackamas and Washington counties alone.
“Oregon remains number one in hunger in the nation, and the number of people who are hungry continues to grow,” notes Rachel Bristol, executive director of Oregon Food Bank. “The NALC Food Drives provides some of the most nutritious food we receive,” says Rachel Bristol, executive director of Oregon Food Bank. “This high-quality food is particularly important for the growing bodies and brains of one in five children in our area who relay on emergency food boxes for meals during the year.”
Water conservation workshops
Beginning in 1996, Community Energy Project has offered free water conservation workshops to over 700 Portland households annually. Participants learn how to detect and repair leaks, get ideas on lowering indoor and outdoor water usage, plus learn ways to decrease water and sewer bills. Each Portland household receives a free water conservation kit worth over $25. The kit includes a watering can, hose nozzle, wildflower seeds, faucet aerator, instructional workbook and much more.
The Water Conservation Workshop program is co-sponsored by the Portland Water Bureau and Community Energy Project.
On Tuesday, May 13, Mid-County residents can participate in a free workshop from 6:30-8 p.m. at the East Portland Community Center, 740 S.E. 106th Ave. To register, call 503-284-6827
Endangered species
Among the 58 threatened and endangered species at the Oregon Zoo, perhaps the most stunning is the Siberian Tiger. Native to the rocky mountain woodlands of Southeast Russia and North Korea, and the cold forested regions of Manchuria and Siberia, fewer than 400 of these magnificent beasts exist in the wild. Tigers are disappearing due to habitat loss and the encroachment of civilization. Their flesh and bones are highly prized for food and medicinal purposes. The largest living cat, these tigers can measure as much as twelve feet from head to tail, stand 3 feet high at the shoulder, and weigh as much as 675 pounds.
On Tuesday, May 13 you can visit the tigers and perhaps hear their mighty roar at no charge from 1 - 4 p.m. The second Tuesday of every month is designated at Free Tuesday at the Oregon Zoo from 1 p.m. until closing.
Free Seminars on Fibromyalgia, Seasonal Allergies
The Oregon College of Oriental Medicine (OCOM) is sponsoring free Spring Seminars on health topics of interest to many people.
The first seminar on Tuesday, May 13 will focus on fibromyalgia, a health problem that many people find difficult to resolve.
The topic for the second seminar on Tuesday, May 20, is hay fever and seasonal allergies. Members of the faculty at the Oregon College of Oriental Medicine will be the presenters for both seminars. Each of the one-hour seminars begins at 7:30 p.m. and will be in the Acupuncture Clinic on the OCOM college campus.
The seminars are free, but space is limited. To reserve your place, call 503-253-3443 ext. 550. The Oregon College of Oriental Medicine, 10525 S.E. Cherry Blossom Drive, is in East Portland, near Mall 205.
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