WENA Encourages West End Residents to Join In! By Mark Tappan, WENA board member The West End Neighborhood Association (WENA) kicked off its Join In! initiative at the annual WENA picnic on Tuesday, August 13th at Harbor View Park. The goal of Join In! is to build community by fostering relationships among all residents of […] The post Join In! WENA Encourages Intergenerational Activities appeared first on The West End News ..read more

West End Neighborhood Association needs your help as they raise $10,000 to refresh Harbor View Park and start planning a new intergenerational recreational area around the park and nearby playground. As garden harvests come in and days shorten, the West End Neighborhood Association has started planning for an intergenerational recreation and respite area centered around […] The post Raising Funds to Refresh Harbor View Park and Planning Intergenerational Area in West End appeared first on The West End News ..read more

Reiche Community RoomSeptember Activities Calendar Back to School & Back to Fun! The West End Neighborhood Association (WENA) is one of the most active neighborhood associations in Portland. It takes a lot of volunteers to pull together our September events and activities, but seeing people having fun or creating a cleaner, safer, and more resilient […] The post Back to School & Back to Fun! – September Activities at Reiche appeared first on The West End News ..read more

We’re All in This Together Inspiration, Education, Action Citizens’ Climate Lobby presents A Concert for Climate at St. Luke’s in Portland on October 27th. By Sydney Patten It’s been said that if you overwhelm people with statistics or retell stories of doom over and over again, things eventually will go in one ear and out […] The post A Concert for Climate – Inspiration, Education, Action appeared first on The West End News ..read more

City News Briefs Harbor View Park Cleanup with the Portland Parks Conservancy On Thursday, July 25th, volunteers turned out at the West End’s Harbor View Memorial Park for a cleanup organized by the Portland Parks Conservancy. Outfitted with trash bags, work gloves and pickers, several neighborhood residents plus a workplace group from IDEXX joined in […] The post Harbor View Park Cleanup appeared first on The West End News ..read more

Layne’s Wine Gig Presents Lifestyle vs. Critique ANGOOR SELF POUR WINE BAR 100 Fore St., Suite A, Portland, ME By Layne V. Witherell There have been tons of local lifestyle media and mag interviews of Angoor Self Pour Wine Bar owners Sangeeta Nasiff and Rafael Dones. The photos are so lovely as are the couple. […] The post Lifestyle vs. Critique: Angoor Self Pour Wine Bar appeared first on The West End News ..read more

Saskatche-what? Where? When? By Nancy Dorrans A few years ago, at an ATTA (Adventure Travel Trade Association) event in Eugene, Oregon, I met Patti Peesker, the Travel Trade Market Consultant for Tourism Saskatchewan. She passionately expressed her love for her homeland, the trapezoid-shaped Canadian province nestled between the neighboring prairie provinces of Manitoba and Alberta. […] The post Saskatche-what? Where? When? appeared first on The West End News ..read more

Book Short The Strong Pioneering Women Edition By Stephanie Miller A beautiful actress desperate to make good on her forced complicity with the Nazis patented the idea of multi-modal radio frequency that became the basis for all our mobile phones—and never got credit or the chance to see her solution applied to the war effort. A […] The post Book Short – The Strong Pioneering Women Edition appeared first on The West End News ..read more

Curbside and neighborhood composting in Portland By Marie Caspard Where to start? If starting your own compost bin sounds intimidating or physically not feasible, fear not! The City of Portland manages community drop-off sites at schools, community gardens, and other parks throughout the city where residents can drop off compostables on their own schedule, at no […] The post Bright Ideas: Curbside and neighborhood composting appeared first on The West End News ..read more

Reverence for where the city came from Artist Timothy Goldkin expresses his reverence for Portland’s history in his large commercial and soon public art works By Tony Zeli His brand is Ramble More, and he has done a lot of rambling in his life, but Timothy Goldkin always comes home to Portland. He is known […] The post Timothy Goldkin Brings Portland’s Past Back to Life appeared first on The West End News ..read more