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We received an e-mail — too late for the February issue — from Ali Rice at the East Portland Community Center about a class on traveling in India.

“Don’t put off the adventures you want to experience. Travel and yoga instructor Jenna Roberts wants to help empower those with the will but unsure about the way, to enjoy the possibilities of fascinating travel abroad.

We received a public service announcement (below)  from Portland Parks &Recreation. If you can not serve,  maybe you know someone that might be interested.

Portland Parks & Recreation’s Parks Board is currently recruiting one new member to fill an immediate vacancy and two additional members to fill vacancies that will become open when the terms of current Board members expire this coming fall.

Formed by city ordinance in 2001, the Parks Board is a 13-member, non-administrative board whose role is advisory to the PP&R Director, the Commissioner of Parks, and Portland’s City Council. The volunteer Board serves as an advocate for parks and recreation in city infrastructure, provides a forum for public involvement and decision making about major park policy issues, and brings a citywide and long-term perspective to neighborhood-based issues.

The Portland Parks & Recreation board will meet Wednesday, November 19, from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Multnomah Arts Center, 7688 S.W. Capitol Hwy.

The public is invited and encouraged to join the Portland Parks Board and Portland Parks & Recreation staff in the discussion of several important agenda items, including the management of Ross Island, Lents Park and the baseball stadium proposal, the Rose Festival’s request for a festival extension, and the upcoming 2009/2010 budget process.
The Portland Parks Board has designated two to three meetings each year to be held in the evenings and at different locations around Portland to encourage more participation by the public.
For more information contact Karen Loper, Assistant to the Director, at 503-823-5123 or Beth Sorensen, Public Information Officer at 503-823-5300.

From 3 to 5 p.m. on Saturday, June 14th staff from the Portland Parks & Recreation and the Portland Water Bureau host a grand opening celebration for the new community garden at Hazelwood HydroPark, Northeast 117th Avenue, between Multnomah and Holladay Streets in east Portland.

Community members and the Food Policy Council are invited to join this celebration of urban agriculture and community. Of the 25 garden plots to be had, ten are currently still available.

For more information about Hazelwood Hydro-Park garden plots call the Community Garden Program, 503-823-1612.