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Woodlawn Farmers Market 2023 Holiday Market

Join us for the annual Woodlawn Farmers Market Holiday Market on Saturday, December 16, 2023 from noon to 5 pm at the Village Ballroom, 704 NE Dekum Street. Over thirty local vendors, raffles, live music, and generally good holiday cheer. We look forward to seeing you! Happy Holidays!...

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Woodlawn Elementary School 2023 Holiday Gift Drive

Every year, staff at Woodlawn Elementary School coordinate a holiday gift drive for their students and their families. Woodlawn is Title 1 school meaning most of its students come from low-income families. School families give staff volunteers their top three most needed and most wanted items for each of their…...

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I Spy

…googly eyes on a Woodlawn neighborhood cyclone fence. Don’t you now wonder who put them there and when and even why? And why are they called googly eyes anyway? Here is what Wikipedia has to say on the subject of just what exactly is a googly eye. Which is where…...

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Land Acknowledgment & Our Guiding Principles

Woodlawn Neighborhood Association would like to acknowledge that the land we live and meet on is unceded territory, originally home to Indigenous peoples such as the Cayuse, Umatilla, and Walla Walla; Cowlitz and Clackamas; Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde; and Confederated Tribes of Siletz. Further, we recognize that over the…...

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A Thanksgiving Shout-Out to Our Generous WNA Sponsors!

    At Thanksgiving, we wanted to take a moment to recognize once again the generosity of Woodlawn businesses that sponsor the Woodlawn Neighborhood Association—Campana. Classic Foods. For Good & Co. Georgies Ceramic and Clay Co. Marbott’s Greenhouse and Nursery. Olive & Percy LLC. Woodlawn Coffee & Pastry. Thank you…...

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Explore the Offerings of the Vanport Mosaic

The Vanport Mosaic is, according to their website, “a memory-activism platform. We amplify, honor, and preserve the silenced histories that surround us in order to understand our present, and create a future where we all belong.” Since 2014, their collective has worked to honor the cultural and historical memories of…...

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Woodlawn History Trivia #2

Get to know more about the historic buildings and their former occupants right here in the heart of the Woodlawn Triangle. Many of these were culled from the book, Portland’s Woodlawn Neighborhood , written by our neighborhood historian, Anjala Ehelebe, and published by Arcadia Publishing. —Woodlawn’s Fire Station No. 29…...

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SOLVE: Upcoming Portland Volunteer Opportunities

SOLVE is a local environmental nonprofit organization dedicated to creating and leading community-driven events that directly contribute to the well-being of our environment, such as trash pickup initiatives and invasive species removal projects. SOLVE believes in the power of collective action to create positive change, and we’re looking for volunteers…...

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Woodlawn Park Gets a Nature Patch

Over the past year or so, staff from Portland Parks & Recreation’s Ecologically Sustainable Landscapes Initiative have worked with volunteers to add a nature patch to Woodlawn Park. Back in 2017, the first nature patch was created in Alberta Park. Since then, a dozen more parks were added to the…...

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Woodlawn Neighborhood Association By-Laws

Below is the text of the official bylaws of the Woodlawn Neighborhood Association last reviewed and updated in May 2014. A link to a PDF of this document with a table of contents is here: WNA Bylaws from 2014. WNA Bylaws 2014 BYLAWS of the WOODLAWN NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, INC. Article…...

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