Upcoming Sustainable Overlook Meetings

Get involved with sustainability and resilience efforts in Overlook and help chart the course of preparedness and ecological living in our own neighborhood. Our meetings are a fun way to meet your neighbors, share ideas for sustainability initiatives and lend a hand with projects already underway. Mark your calendar for these dates.

Meetings are on 3rd Thursdays from 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

August – Summer break

September 18th – Steering Committee Meeting – Core group members will meet to plan 2015 events and budget. Email us to get involved!

October 16th  – Location TBD – General meeting

November 20th  – Location TBD

 

 

July Meeting – This Thursday

Hello There,

Phew!  It has been a busy summer already with Sustainable Overlook events, from the Intersection Painting to the Garden Tour to last weekend’s Yard Sale / Free Share.  We hope you’ve had a chance to connect with at least one of the events thus far.  We’d also like to invite you to our monthly meeting this Thursday at 6:30PM at volunteer Josh Cabot’s house, 4035 N Castle Ave.  We will be meeting under the covered back porch and will have some light refreshments (lemonade, iced tea, fizzy water, beer).

We will be recapping our summer’s events as well as doing the following:

  • Plan our next moves as it relates to our Pesticide Free Overlook (PFO) initiative
  • Develop ideas for new sandwich board style yard signs for advertising our events
  • Discuss how to start building our new neighbor guide
  • Determine how we can do our part to promote our local neighborhood businesses
  • Brainstorm a potential neighborhood resilience summit for next spring
  • Planning for our table at the Movie in the Park night at Overlook Park 8/31

If you can make the meeting and/or if you have any questions or constructive criticism, please reach out to us at Sustainable@OverlookNeighborhood.org.  Also be sure to check back here for updates on all of the work we’re doing around the neighborhood.

Thanks for your interest and your support!

Yard Sale/Free Share Map!

Here is the map for this weekend’s Yard Sale and Free Share!

PDF: 2014 Overlook Yard Sale – Free Share MAP

We also have an online google map version which could be useful if you have a smart phone or other similar mobile device. Check it out here

There are over 50 sales going on on Saturday and there will be lots of free piles to go treasure hunting in on Sunday. A few highlights:

3900 N. Overlook Terrace – Friends of Overlook Bluff is having a multi-family garage sale at the historic oak which is a fundraiser for their amazing conservation work right in our neighborhood. There will be printed copies of the map at this location.

5523 N. Detroit – Plant sale with a variety of native, ornamental and edible species. You can also get a free lady bug yard sign at this stop if you want to join the Pesticide Free Overlook effort! There will be printed copies of the map at this location.

2116 N.Humboldt St. – Gluten-free treats!

2014 Overlook Yard Sale Map.ai

Feel free to print out some maps to share with neighbors or post around the neighborhood.

The event is free for all but please consider making a donation to Sustainable Overlook to help us continue to put this on as well as other neighborhood events. Make a contribution on our About page.

Yard Sale/Free Share – July 19 and 20

It’s time for Overlook’s 4th annual Yard Sale and Free Share!

Sell your items on Saturday, July 19th from 10 am to 4 pm. 

Share items for free on Sunday, July 20th, all day. 

Look for the map with participating households here, available for viewing after July 16th.

Have questions for want to be included on the map? E-mail Josh at sustainable@overlookneighbohood.org before July 10 to be included on the map.

To participate in the Free Share on Sunday, just put items you’d like to give away on the curb with a FREE sign. Make sure to clean up any remaining items by the end of the day Sunday!

 

Print out a flyers to post around the neighborhood or share with friends and family:

PDF  2014 Overlook Yard Sale – Free Share Flier

It takes a community!

Many people contributed to the success of our 3rd annual garden Sustainable Overlook Garden tour.

Special thanks to our garden hosts who so generously opened their gardens (and homes in two cases): Ann and Neal Forsthoefel, Jan-Marc and Barbara Baker, Robert and Sharon Sullivan, CJ Tabor, Mike O’Brien and family, Kerri Creager and family, Nikkie West, Sorrel and Chris Arends, Ruth Oclander and family and Leslie Lewis.

Thank you to our community partners who spent the day sharing resources with tour goers: Dahwiya and Christy from Oregon Right to Know GMO labeling campaign, Katie Meckes of East Multnomah Soil and Water Conservation District, Nikkie West of Backyard Habitat Certification Program, Kevin Scribner of Slow Food Portland, Ruth Oclander and Greg with Friends of Overlook Bluff.

Thanks to businesses who joined us for the tour: Lory Duralia from Bosky Dell Natives, Jan-Marc Baker of Jan-Marc Wine Cellars, Hannah Nickerson of Rain City Gardens, Greg Haines of Ecoroofs Everywhere and Leslie Campbell of Habitat Landscape Design,

Thank you to tour coordinators Mulysa Melco and Ann Forsthoefel and to Sustainable Overlook steering committee members Leslee Lewis and Josh Cabot for their many contributions.

Volunteers, we couldn’t have done it without you! Thank you to Alison Bingham, Brenden Butler, Jane Finch-Howell, Wanda Auger and Kathie Brandini and all the friends and family members who pitched in.

Thanks to:
New Seasons (Arbor Lodge) for providing the refreshments at the pre-tour reception.
Good Sport Promotion – for donating bike rack rental.
Camera Graphics – for doing a fantastic job printing tour materials.
The Xerces Society for donating a raffle prize.
Resilience Design for donating a raffle prize.

Thank you to Metro for their continued support of the Pesticide Free Overlook project and valuable natural gardening resources.