Portland Financial Planning Day, Saturday, October 22, 2011
City of Portland, CASH Oregon, and the Financial Planning Association of Portland invite you to attend Portland Financial Planning Day on Saturday, October 22, 2011 from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm at the Portland Building where you’ll be able to meet one-on-one with dozens of professional financial planners to discuss your personal finance questions, concerns and interests.
Information will be provided on a pro-bono basis by experts from the Financial Planning Association and highly qualified CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professionals. There are no strings attached – volunteering financial planners will not pass out business cards, marketing materials or sell products or services.
You may seek information and advice on a wide range of topics, including:
GENERAL FINANCIAL PLANNING
Buying a Home – Debt Management
Building a College Fund – Savings Goals
SPECIAL CIRCUMSTANCES
Job Loss and Job Change – Foreclosure Assistance
Change in Marital Status
INVESTMENT PLANNING
Investment Strategies – Asset Accumulation
Generating Investment Income
RETIREMENT PLANNING
Building a Retirement Fund – 401(k) and 403(b) Plans
IRA Accounts – Social Security
INCOME TAX PLANNING
Tax Reduction Strategies
Charitable Contributions – Small Business Taxation
ESTATE PLANNING
Building an Inheritance – Wills and Trusts
Estate Tax Strategies
INSURANCE PLANNING
Life Insurance Coverage – Disability Insurance
Long-term Care Planning
EMPLOYEE BENEFITS
Managing Health Insurance – Health Savings Accounts
Pension Benefits
NECN Community Economic Development Council Speaker Series
Where:
Curious Comedy
5225 NE MLK Blvd
Portland, OR 97211
Tues, Nov 1, 2011 6-8PM
“The Supreme purpose of history is a better world”
– Herbert Hoover
A panel discussion and Q&A for those interested in Learning more about grassroots economic development & how to expand current small business and economic endevors.
Panelists:
- Carl Talton, former Co-chair of the N/NE Economic Development Allianc
- Dr. Karen Gibson, Assoc. Professor, Urban studies & Planning,
- Paul Knauls, Small Business Owner (Geneva’s Shears Barbershop)
RSVP – 503.823.4264 – imani at necoalition.org
Learn to make your energy savings grow, sign up for a free Be wattsmart Workshop.
This is one class where the subject matter will save you plenty of money. Pacific Power is pleased to present Be wattsmart Workshops in your area. Please join us for an enlightening evening of tips, advice and some tasty refreshments. This workshop sold out last year, please register now at www.pacificpower.net/bewattsmart!
The smarter you are about energy, the lower your electric bill will be.
Tuesday, October 18, 2011
6:15 – 7:45 pm
McMenamins – Kennedy School – Gymnasium
5736 NE 33rd Ave
Portland, OR 97211
The workshop will put you on the path to greater energy efficiency and lower electric bills by teaching you how to:
- Identify your household energy use and how it changes over time
- Take a whole-home approach to energy efficiency
- Recognize the most cost-efficient energy improvements for your home
- Save energy and improve your home’s comfort, health and safety
- Save money with Energy Trust incentives
During the workshop, we’ll also answer the following questions:
- What uses the most energy at home: appliances, heating and cooling systems, lighting?
- How can I use less energy at home?
- Do I need to buy new energy-efficient equipment or just change my habits?
- What cash incentives are available for new appliances, lighting or other energy efficient equipment?
Register now at www.pacificpower.net/bewattsmart!
Kari Greer
Community Relations
Oregon Energy Efficiency
Pacific Power
825 NE Multnomah, Ste 2000
Portland, OR 97232
(503) 813-5642 office
(503) 813-7274 fax
kari.greer at pacificorp.com
Cully Main Street/Local Street Plans Project Open House to share and seek input
Come give your vision for the neighborhood
Portland, OR. — Community members are invited to an open house to learn about the Cully Main Street and Local Street Plans project, give their feedback on the information collected so far and share their ideas about where the project should go from here.
Spanish language interpretation, on-site childcare and light refreshments will be provided free of charge. The open house also features a raffle with door prizes!
Staff have integrated community input with research about the Cully neighborhood to describe existing conditions in the future main street area and for the local street system. With this information, the City and the community can start to understand what it will take to develop a thriving neighborhood main street and a safe, accessible local street system to serve the Cully community.
What: Open House for the Cully Main Street and Local Street Plans Project
When: Thursday, October 27th, 5 – 8 p.m.
Where: Rigler School, 5401 NE Prescott St
Who: The Cully Community, City of Portland Bureau of Planning and Sustainability, Portland Bureau of Transportation
The Cully Main Street and Local Street Plans Project is a year-long effort to create opportunities for neighborhood-serving retail and
services in the heart of Cully, and attractive and safe routes for getting around the neighborhood. The project comes on the heels of other efforts in
Cully, including the Cully-Concordia Community Assessment and Action Plan, the Cully Blvd Green Street, and the Cully-Concordia Early Childhood Needs Assessment.
Staff will make reasonable accommodations for people with disabilities. Please notify us no fewer than five (5) business days prior to the event by phone at 503-823-7700, by the TTY line at 503-823-6868, or by the Oregon Relay Service at 1-800-735-2900.
About the Cully Main Street and Local Street Plans Project
The Cully Main Street and Local Street Plans Project is a one-year effort to increase opportunities to allow more neighborhood-serving commercial development in the heart of Cully, including shops, restaurants and other amenities and services. The project will also help foster safe and attractive routes for residents to walk, roll or bike to local destinations. The local street plan will identify opportunities for future street connections. It will also consider new designs and funding strategies for improving substandard streets based on community priorities for enhancing local circulation. The project will conclude with a report that includes zoning recommendations for the Cully Boulevard Main Street area and a local street plan. Both will be presented to the Portland Planning and Sustainability Commission and the Portland City Council at public hearings in Spring 2012 for final action.
T-Mobile Cell Tower Community Meeting, October 26th, 7:00 – 8:30pm
All are invited to a community meeting at The Little Church, 5138 NE 23rd Ave., October 26th, 7:00 – 8:30pm. In an effort to satisfy a City requirement, T-Mobile is having a meeting prior to renewing a permit to install a Cell Tower facility at NE 31st and Prescott St. The Alameda Neighborhood Association urges our neighbors to attend the meeting and express their opinion on cell towers in residential neighborhoods.
October CNA News
Northeast Sunday Parkways September 25, 2011 • Noon – 5 pm
This year’s route, an 8-mile loop, showcases one of our newly created Neighborhood Greenways – NE Going Street.
Enjoy the Ainsworth Arboretum by Bike, Sunday Parkways, Sunday 9/25
by kpkaye
Join Jim Gersbach, local tree steward, member of the Concordia Tree Team and creator of the Ainsworth Linear Arboretum for a bicycle tour of the Ainsworth Arboretum. The tour will be held during NE Sunday Parkways on September 25, 2011 from 12 to 1:30 p.m. The tour will meet at the NW corner of Alberta Park (by the bleachers) at NE 19th Ave. & Ainsworth.
The tour will stop at various points along the route to discuss the natural history and interesting stories about trees planted along Ainsworth both before and after it was designated a Linear Arboretum by the City of Portland. Get to know trees from Mexico, Asia, the Middle East, South America, Europe and the eastern U.S. as well as West Coast natives. Learn which trees have attractive flowers, fruit or fall color, and discover which ones are thriving here and which are struggling.
The Linear Arboretum is a showcase of tree diversity, featuring many underused and promising urban street trees that deserve to be better known. Many of the trees along Ainsworth are investigational plantings being monitored to see how well they do in Portland during the rapid climate change anticipated from higher concentrations planetwide of greenhouse gases.
The Concordia Tree Team and Friends of Trees Vernon and Concordia Neighborhood Coordinators will be at Fernhill Park all day to answer questions about trees and how to get involved.
Words Bring 42nd Avenue Cully-Concordia Mural to Life
Photos: Courtesy the Cully Neighborhoood Association
A new mural is appearing at the intersection of NE 42nd Avenue and Alberta Court. But this is no ordinary mural thanks to the creativity of resident artist Loey Hargrove, the support of local property owners of the Morel Ink building (Bill Dickey and Matt Witham) and Doggy Business (Doug Duncan and Meredith Wilson), funding from the Regional Arts and Culture Council and the handwork of local volunteers, the image of a tree appears as two interconnected wall mural along this historic commercial corridor between Concordia and Cully.
The image is based on curved forms, creating a highly abstracted landscape of geometric pattern. The two murals reach across the intersection, where the flowing tree giving a sense of movement.
“The mural aspires to invoke community through its ‘Tree of Life’ theme. It symbolizes process, change, the continuity and connectivity of life.” writes Hargrove. This is a fitting dynamic for the community and nod to decades of transformation.
In addition to the image, the mural incorporates words inspired by the theme and location. The inclusion of words, generated and painted by members of the surrounding neighborhoods, reinforce the symbiotic relationship between the commercial district & area residents.
Do you have a word you’d like to add to the mural?
If you have a word you believe reflects the theme and aspiration of this work, submit your suggestions for consideration. Words for the murals will be selected by drawing from the pool of entries. Applications are being accepted through September 30th. For details, contact Bob Granger at robert@g2online.org or 503 771-3916.