Join your neighbors at the Edible Hillside at Harbor View Park for the Spring Planting event at April 29th from 10AM to 4PM. More details to come, but in the meantime, check out this article in the West End News.
This year we’re trying a different approach to our annual spring clean-up: it’s more flexible and focused on the places we frequent every day. When: Saturday, 21 April Where: Throughout the West End How: Gather a few neighbors and choose … Continued
WENA and The Locker Project are co-sponsoring a food drive on behalf of Reiche school children. According to the School District’s Food Security Task Force, 1 out of 2 Portland school-aged children is food insecure. Please join us in helping … Continued
Due to conflicts of schedule, we are postponing the Traffic Box Project meeting tonight (11/29) until sometime after the new year. If you’re interested in this project, you can learn more here.
We will be elaborating, sharing, and thinking about our designs for the five traffic boxes that we’ll be repainting in the Spring of 2018. Clifford Tremblay will have a map sample to critique as a group. Remember, you do not … Continued
In May 2017, the West End Neighborhood Association applied for a grant from Portland Trails for a community-building project. The project we proposed for painting traffic boxes (trafos) in our neighborhood was awarded $1,000. We are very grateful for Portland … Continued
On Tuesday, 31 October the 35th Annual West End Halloween Parade will start gathering at 5:30pm at the Reiche School playground (166 Brackett St.). Paraders will begin assembling on Brackett at 6:05.Marching will begin at 6:15pm sharp and finish around 7pm. Click here for a map of the parade route. Please consider … Continued
Please join us next Wednesday, October 18th at 6:30PM in the Reiche Community Room for an neighborhood kick-off meeting to design and paint a handful of traffic boxes in the West End. We will cover the process going forward, the … Continued
We are making steady progress thanks to the effort of many individuals and organizations – thank you all! In July we planted six American Chestnut seedlings just up from Commercial St. at the western end of the Park under the … Continued
KEEP THE HEAT INSIDE The West End Neighborhood Association (WENA), in partnership with the Portland Climate Action Team (PCAT), and our team of Portland volunteers will make 500 Window Dressers insulating window inserts for homes in Portland, and particularly the West … Continued