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December 2021
CNN E-NEWS
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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December has marked the end of the year and the coming of winter since the ancient Romans established their first calendar. December is formed from the Latin root decem- which means “ten” … but December is now our twelfth month December holds many religious holidays, such as Christmas, Hanukkah, and Kwanzaa. The ratification of the Bill of Rights was on December 15, 1791, Virginia was the last state needed to ratify the first ten amendments of the Constitution, thereby passing them into law.
The birthstone of December is zircon, tanzanite and turquoise, which represents prosperity, success, and good fortune. Its flower is the narcissus, which symbolizes rebirth and respect. The zodiac signs are Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec.21), characterized as extroverted and optimistic, and Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19), described as professional and organized. Which one are you?
Monthly observances during December include Universal Human Rights Month and Read a New Book Month.
Many celebrity birthdays are in December including: Lucy Liu (12/2), Walt Disney (12/5), Larry Bird (12/7,) Frank Sinatra (12/12), Bob Barker (12/12), Taylor Swift (12/13), Jamie Foxx (12/13), Vanessa Hudgens (12/25), Ludwig van Beethoven (12/16), Samuel L. Jackson (12/21), Sir Isaac Newton (12/25) and comic book icon, Stan Lee (12/28).
Did you know, the Statue of Liberty is the largest Holiday gift ever given? Standing over 150 feet tall and weighing 225 tons, the Statue of Liberty is impressive. It was considered a holiday gift when given to the U.S. by France in 1886, it's officially the largest Holiday present in the world.
Annual Holidays and Observances
United Nations International Years
Each year, the United Nations chooses a few different topics, or themes that they want all the Countries around the World to focus on.
In 2021, they were:
- International Year of Creative Economy for Sustainable Development
- International Year of Fruits and Vegetables
- International Year of Peach and Trust
In 2022, these are:
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International Year of Artisanal Fisheries (various small-scale, low-technology, low-capital, fishing practices undertaken by individual fishing households) and Aquaculture (the rearing of aquatic animals or the cultivation of aquatic plants for food)
In 2023, these are:
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International Year of Millets (a fast-growing cereal plant that is widely grown in warm countries and regions with poor soils. The numerous small seeds are used to make flour or alcoholic drinks)
In 2024, these are:
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International Year of Camelids (a mammal of the camel family)
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Upcoming Meetings in
Central Northeast Neighbors
Meetings are being held via Zoom. Please look at the Neighborhood Association Websites for updates.
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Central Northeast Neighbors First Wednesday 7pm (CNN) contact Ronda
Sumner Neighborhood Association (SAN) contact Ronda
Madison South Neighborhood Association (MSNA) Click here
Beaumont Wilshire Neighborhood Association (BWNA) Click here
Rose City Park Neighborhood Association (RCPNA) Click here
Hollywood Neighborhood Association (HNA) Click here
Grant Park Neighborhood Association (GPNA) Click here
Central Northeast Neighbors Community Connects Gathering TBD
Central Northeast Neighbors Land Use Transp. Comm. 4 Wednesday
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Community & Civic Engagement Small Grants
Apply Now!
Central Northeast Neighbors 2022 Small Grant Application is open through December 30, 2021 at 1:00pm.
Central Northeast Neighbors (CNN) with the Office of Community & Civic Life (OCCL) is providing small grants for Community Engagement and Capacity Building projects. This year a total of $20,395 is available for Community Organizations and Neighborhood Associations. Award amounts are from $500 up to $3,000.
Goals of the Grant
Increase the number and diversity of people who are involved and engaged in the broader communities and neighborhoods.
Strengthen and expand community and neighborhood capacity to build community leadership, identity, skills, relationships and/or partnerships to reach equity goals.
Amplify over looked voices and Increase community and neighborhood impact on public decisions and community life.
Support community preparedness and resiliency building efforts.
Expand local capacity to care for the physical environment.
Projects will engage community members in the Central Northeast Neighbors area.
No late applications accepted.
For More Information or Schedule a meeting contact Ronda Johnson, Equity Outreach Manager, and Small Grants Coordinator 503-823-2780 rondaj@cnncoalition.org
The Community & Civic Engagement Small Grants Program has been made possible by Central Northeast Neighbors through funding from the City of Portland, Office of Community
If you have questions please call or email me. We look forward to working with you in the future. Ronda Johnson, Equity Outreach Manager and Grants Coordinator, rondaj@cnncoalition.org or (503)823-2780
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Central Northeast Neighbors Land Use, Transportation, Open Spaces and Parks (LUTOP)
Next LUTOP Meeting Fourth Wednesday of the month January 26, 2022
Our meetings are open to the public. We look forward to seeing you there!
For more information or questions or to be added to our email list please email Alison Stoll at alisons@cnncoalition.org
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Family Owned, Locally Loved Proudly caring for our community
We are currently offering walk-in booster shots and First & second doses for Pfizer, Moderna and J&J Covid- 19 vaccines.
We also have pediatric Pfizer vaccine for ages 5-11 as well.
Monday-Friday: 9am-6pm
Saturday: 9am-1pm
We are currently offering walk-in PCR covid-19 test. (48-72hour) Please park in the spot next to the pharmacy and call when you arrive.
Monoclonal Antibody treatment is also available for qualifying patients at our pharmacy. Please call us for more details.
Location
1619 NE 42nd AVE
Portland OR, 97213
PARK AT TRADER JOES
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Garbage & Recycling:
Winter & holiday tips
Ready to toss your tree after the holiday? You have two options through the City:
- Set out your whole tree (6-feet or less) at the curb, next to your compost bin, for a $5.10 charge.
- Cut your tree into pieces (3-feet or less), and place in your compost bin for no extra charge (make sure the bin lid closes).
Trees must be completely free of decorations, tinsel, lights, nails, and stands. Artificial trees and trees “flocked” with fake snow should be set out on the curb on your next garbage day for pick-up as garbage.
Renters, talk with the landlord before setting out a full tree because they may need to pre-approve the extra charge. If you live in an apartment building, ask the property manager where to put your tree. Learn more: www.portland.gov/holiday-recycling-tips
Snow and ice: Garbage delays
In case of snow or ice, your garbage, recycling, and compost pickup may be delayed. Leave your bins at the curb and your garbage company will come as soon as they can.
Extra trash over the holidays
Extra holiday trash? You can set out extra bags or cans (32 gal and 55 lbs max) for $5 each.For large, bulky items that don’t fit into your garbage bin, like furniture or mattresses, call your garbage company for a cost estimate and pickup date. (Renters, ask your landlord.)If the item is still in good condition, consider donating it: Call 503-234-3000 to find out donation organizations, drop-off locations, and pick-up options. www.portland.gov/holiday-recycling-tips
No holiday garbage delays this year
This year, there are no schedule changes in garbage, recycling, and compost pick-up because Christmas (December 25) and New Year’s Day (January 1) are on Saturdays.
These are the only two holidays of the year where garbage, recycling, and compost pickup is delayed, so there are no pickup delays during 2021 or 2022.
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City of Portland One Point of Contact
The City of Portland’s One Point of Contact Campsite Reporting System is the mechanism community members can use to report issues of illegal camping or related garbage within Portland. The following video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXSc6cr4WuY) describes how to use the system to make a report and how the City and Central City Concern’s Clean Start Program respond to those reports. Please click on the image below to play the video.
It can be very frustrating for community members to raise issues with the City. It’s not always clear how to make reports and to whom. The City’s One Point of Contact Campsite Reporting System is designed to simplify the process by providing a platform to more easily report issues about campsites. https://www.portlandoregon.gov/toolkit/70039
There are two ways to report a campsite using the One Point of Contact Campsite Reporting System. Please use just ONE of the following methods:
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PDX Reporter. Select the "Campsite Reporting" icon on the main menu.
- Call 311.
**Please note that not all reports result in immediate action by the City. Every site reported is reviewed and analyzed.** Whether using PDX Reporter or calling 311, exact location of the site is needed.
Once a report is filed a Clean Start crew is dispatched to conduct an onsite assessment and to pick up camper identified garbage.The Homelessness and Urban Camping Impact Reduction Program (HUCIRP) recommends submitting a new report of the same site once a week to ensure a current assessment by Clean Start (the first responder to the site to remove garbage and biohazardous materials). To report people living in a vehicle go to https://www.portland.gov/transportation/parking/abandoned-auto
If you are reporting criminal activity/behavior, report directly to Police. If you are reporting an emergency, call 9-1-1
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Hey ReBuilders, it's Giving Tuesday! @ the Rebuild Center
We invite you to reflect on organizations that have had a positive impact in your neighborhood, and we'd like to share a few of our own. Non-Profits like Girls Build, Oregon Tradeswomen, the African American Alliance for Homeownership, and Portland Youth Builders play an essential role in providing homeownership opportunities and repair education to communities which have been historically excluded from these spaces. We look to their work as we shape our evolving mission around climate justice.
From now until December 31, every dollar you donate to our Give Guide Campaign will enable ReBuilding Center to become an even more equitable organization. We look forward to offering free materials for low-income individuals, free delivery to transit-dependent folks, relevant repair skills classes, and so much more!
Donate today and be entered to win a $20 ReBuilding Center Gift Card and a collection of other fantastic prizes!
Attention Trail Blazer Fans! Today is an extra great day to give because it is a Big Give Day provided by Portland Trail Blazers and Kuto!
With a minimum $10 donation today, you'll be entered to win:
- A $20 ReBuilding Center Gift Card
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A $100 “Small Shops Big Hearts” gift card* from Kuto. There are ten chances to win one of these gift cards!
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Two chances to win a pair of 100-level tickets to the Trail Blazers vs Timberwolves game on Sunday, December 12, 2021
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A 2021-22 team autographed basketball from the Trail Blazers
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Four chances to win a Trail Blazers swag bag
As of today we've reached 40.99% of our goal with just four weeks left! Thank you all 💚
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The True Meaning of the Holidays
“There are people who are having trouble making their miracle happen; there are people who don't have enough to eat, there are people who are cold, you can go out and say hello to these people. You can take an old blanket out of the closet and go to them and say ‘Here!’, you can make them a sandwich and say ‘Oh by the way, here!’”
~ Bill Murray as Frank Cross from the movie Scrooged
Greetings CFPA Community,
The holiday season has officially started. Thanksgiving is behind us, Hanukkah has already begun, and we’re looking forward to the Winter Solstice, Christmas, Kwanzaa, New Years Eve, and other holidays celebrated during the month of December. As we all know, the next month is going to be a blur, and the next thing we know we’ll open our eyes and it will be New Years Day. But let’s take a little extra time this holiday season to do two things.
First, let us appreciate the community of people around us, which may include family, friends, co-workers, neighbors, or others in our lives. If Covid has taught us anything, it’s the importance of connection during difficult times, and how being in community with people truly is one of the most important things in life, something we don’t always recognize until it’s gone.
Second, let’s be aware of the continued struggle for many of those around us. While many of us are desperately trying to find ways to enjoy life and gather in community despite Covid, there are others in our community who continue to deal with difficult issues including social isolation, housing instability, addiction, mental health challenges, and many others. While we can’t help every person on the planet (I wish we could), each of us has the ability to make an impact in the lives of others. Offer a meal, give a blanket or coat, converse with someone who needs to talk, volunteer, or just treat everyone you meet with a little more patience, grace, and respect.
The past few years have ill prepared us for such a socially cleaving event as Covid, but we do have the capability to make things right again. So let’s all make the effort this holiday season, and throughout next year, to stop looking at each other as foes, or potential threats, and rather see each other as people, just like us, with flaws and the ability to make mistakes, but also the ability to do and be better. No society can properly function by simply discarding those who do wrong; they and we will be better off showing empathy and helping people understand their own thoughts, actions, and behaviors, to find within each of us the desire to be better.
We at Community for Positive Aging have been working hard these past two years to keep our community connected despite Covid. Absorbing The Giving Tree this year expanded our community, and offered new opportunities for reaching and helping people, while providing new perspectives on community needs and how to increasingly widen our scope of representation. We haven’t been perfect, but we’re on a journey to be better, and trying to do so every day.
With that in mind, I would like to highlight several upcoming events and activities that we’re offering at Hollywood Senior Center, as well as other sites around the city. See the events below for details. This month’s main program highlight is our CFPA Holiday Open House, taking place on Thursday, December 16 from 11am to 3pm at Hollywood Senior Center. We cordially invite our entire CFPA community to drop by during the event, including everyone from Hollywood Senior Center, residents in the buildings where we provide Enhanced Resident Services (Helen Swindells, Alder House, Dawson Park Apartments, The Fairfield, The Morrison, and Uptown Towers), as well as our community partners.
Our intention is to offer a fun and safe space for people to drop in and say hello to staff, volunteers, and fellow community members, and celebrate some holiday cheer with music, decorations, food and holiday treats, soft drinks, and a variety of raffle prizes. Covid vaccinations are required, as are masks when people are not actively eating or drinking. While this open house may not be the raucous holiday party that the Hollywood Senior Center has put on in the past, we’re going to do our best to ensure that everyone who attends leaves with a holiday glow that will keep us all in good spirits through the new year. Wear your favorite holiday sweater!
Community for Positive Aging
Holiday Open House
Thursday, December 16 • 11:00am–3:00pm
at Hollywood Senior Center
Registration Not Required/Drop-in
As we continue to expand our programming and work toward re-opening, we ask for your support to allow us to make this re-engagement possible. Supporting our Holiday Appeal is critical for our work to continue. To support the Community for Positive Aging in our ongoing efforts to keep our community connected, visit our donation page or send a check or money order to Community for Positive Aging at Hollywood Senior Center, 1820 NE 40th Ave, Portland, OR 97212.
All the best,
Michael Murphy
Center Activity & Event Manager
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Rose City Bluff
Rose City Bluff Restoration is an informal volunteer organization dedicated to removing invasive plants and restoring the native ecological system on the Rose City Bluff in Portland, OR. The Bluff is a half mile long slope on the north edge of the Rose City Golf Course, with a one mile loop trail and panoramic views of the golf course and Mount Hood. It is a popular walking and running route for the surrounding neighborhoods.
Thank you to all of the volunteers- new and returning! We look forward to all of the beauty that will spring forth in 2022….thanks again!
Last year we began a modest plan of new plantings of native vegetation. Central Northeast Neighborhood Coalition (CNN) continues to encourage our efforts and is our fiscal agent. Thank you to all of our volunteers, CNN, East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District and Portland Parks Bureau for your support over the last three years.
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Rose City Park Playground Project
Playground Improvements Approved for Rose City Park!
The Rose City Park Playground Project (RCPPP) has been working for over three years to advocate and fundraise for a new playground in Rose City Park. The RCPPP is very excited to announce that they have successfully forged a partnership with the Portland Parks Foundation (PPF) and Portland Parks And Recreation (PPR) to upgrade the playground in RCP in 2022!
The improvements will include a new playground structure and the necessary accompanying upgrades to the park to improve safety, usability and access--and, most of all, fun for the young people and young at heart in our neighborhood.
"We're elated to be partnering with the wonderful--and tenacious--RCPPP," says Randy Gragg, executive director of PPF. "Our motto is, ‘We help people help their parks.’ We look forward to fulfilling RCPPP's vision for the playground." PPF is still finalizing details on the budget, but a private donor has stepped forward with a significant gift to prime the final fundraising push, says Gragg. "Combined with great contributions RCPPP gathered so far, we're no more than $50,000 from getting the playground funded and installed."
This is where the community can help to play a big role towards making this dream a reality! Please help us fund the remaining amount needed by making a tax deductible contribution this holiday season to the Portland Parks Foundation by going to https://www.portlandpf.org/rosecityplayground today!
If you’d like to donate by check put “rose city playground” in the memo line and please mail to:
Portland Parks Foundation
1500 Southwest First Avenue, Suite 760
Portland, OR 97201
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TriMet temporarily reduces service due to operator shortage, starting Sunday, Jan. 9
Temporary reduction in service levels will help schedule reliability as TriMet works to build bus operator ranks during national worker shortage
TriMet must temporarily reduce bus service due to a severe staffing shortage. With employee attrition and not enough applicants to meet our expected hiring goals, we are facing the most significant operator shortfall in agency history. Starting Sunday, Jan. 9, 2022, TriMet will reduce current bus service levels by about 9%. This will bring service back to the level TriMet adopted in April of 2020, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. We apologize to our riders as we would much rather be expanding service, but by taking this step we increase the schedule reliability so riders experience less canceled or late buses.
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Oregon Emergency Rental Assistance Program
The Oregon Emergency Rental Assistance Program helps eligible low-income households with their past due rent and utilities. This program uses funds from the federal Emergency Rental Assistance Program, which allocated a collective total of $280 million to Oregon, the City of Portland, and multiple counties in the state. In most cases, approved applications will result in payments made directly to landlords and utility providers.
Qualified renters who have experienced financial hardship due to the coronavirus pandemic, and are at risk of homelessness or housing instability, may apply for the Oregon Emergency Rental Assistance Program.
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Do you Need a Notary Public?
We have you covered.
Central Northeast Neighbors can help you. Our own Ronda Johnson is a Notary! This is a free service from Central Northeast Neighbors. Please contact her for more information about doing curb side notaries during
Covid-19 quarantine.
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CNN Resource Numbers and Websites
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"You Are Not Alone" We know physical distancing creates increased concerns, but there is help. At this website, https://govstatus.egov.com/or-dhs-not-alone is a list of resources for you, friends and family, and community members. All of these help lines offer translation services and are confidential.Your personally identifying information is not required.
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Please refer to www.211info if you require a resource that cannot be found on our website. Learn about community resources: Dial 2-1-1 They have extensive information if you are looking for resources related to food, housing, energy, emergencies, childhood and parenting, and maternity services. The website provides contact and location information for service providers nearest you.
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Mlutnomah County and City of Portland Resource List https://multco.us/sites/default/files/health/documents/community_resource_list.pdf
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This is a Great Resource during Covid-19 Check it out! Macs List Portland Oregon https://www.macslist.org/working-in-portland/covid-19-resources-for-the-portland-community
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People with disabilities and older adults: Aging and Disability Hotline at 503-988-3646 or adrc@multco.us
- Mental health support: Multnomah Mental health Call Center at
- 503-988-4888
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Looking for the COVID resources featured in recent issues of the NEWS? These resources can now be found in https://www.multco.us/dchs/covid-19-information-resources-people-disabilities-older-adults
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This newsletter has been made possible through funding by the City of Portland, Office of Community & Civic Life. Views or findings expressed here do not necessarily represent those of the City of Portland or the bureau.
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