The first planting of the Friends of Trees 2006-07 planting season is at Oaks Bottom Wildlife Refuge on Sat., Oct., 14, and the first neighborhood planting in Portland is in the Sellwood-Moreland neighborhood on Nov. 11. Both are part of the Fun Run for Restoration course. To view a map of the run and walk, visit www.friendsoftrees.org.
Friends of Trees will host its first Fun Run for Restoration, a 5-mile run and 3.5-mile walk, on Sunday, Oct. 8th, beginning at Oaks Amusement Park, 7100 Oaks Park Way. Registration is at 8:30am., the run starts at 9am. The Fun Run for Restoration is sponsored by the Nike Factory Store.
Photo of the Year 2006, an amateur photography contest benefiting the MESD Outdoor School Program is LIVE!
If you are an amateur photographer, enjoy beautiful photography, or are a supporter of natural science education, please visit our newly re-mastered website at www.photooftheyear.net.
Contact Rhyan Grech, Team Up Program Coordinator, at 503-844-9571 or rhyan@solv.org
Let’s Plant some trees in Lake Oswego!!
My name is Matt Weatherly, and it is the beginning of a new tree planting season.
November 4th, SOLV’s Team Up program at Carter Creek in Lake Oswego, Oregon. Working from 9:00 to 12:00 and all tools, gloves and supplies will be provided.
We will be having fun on Nov. 10, 2006 cutting blackberries with loppers
and piling slash to facilitate planting spots for the Ponderosa pine we
will plant in January. The group will also spread native grass seed on exposed
Lummi Traditional Values in a Changing World with Danita Washington
Danita was raised on the Lummi Reservation in Washington where she received the teachings she strives to put into daily practice and assist others to live up to their teachings as well. She is the eldest of eleven children, the mother of two grown children, auntie to over thirty-six nieces and nephews, and considered auntie to many more. Danita is the Coordinator for the Lummi Community Mobilization Against Drugs (CMAD) Initiative and actively participates in the Lummi Nation Poverty Elimination Planning Project. www.earthandspirit.org
Rick Pettigrew, RPettigrew@aol.com
www.archaeologychannel.org
A Benefit for The Archaeology Channel, International Film and Video Festival
Two Films: Blood of the Vikings, Episode One: First Blood and The Kingdom of the Nabateans: From Petra to Medain Saleh
Admisson is $6 per person
At Fifth Avenue Cinema, indoor, 510 SW Hall Blvd. Portland OR.
