Cool new free, online service to make sharing things with neighbors easy
Story about NeighborGoods.Net, a free, online sharing service that makes sharing things with neighbors easy!
Cherriots looking for new Budget Committee member
Image via Wikipedia If you live in NEN, you live in the 3rd subdistrict (see map) of Salem-Keizer Transit (Cherriots). If so, and you’ve got some facility with figures and you want to don your green eyeshades and help keep the bus system’s budgeting process on the straight and narrow, this is your chance. If...
OregonHelps.org: For anyone who could use some help
Info about a site (http://OregonHelps.org) that lists and links to more than 30 publicly funded assistance programs.
Bringing Chess for Success to Englewood and Parrish
Image by JF Sebastian via Flickr Chess for Success is a Portland-based program serving students in communities across Oregon and SW Washington. Chess is a terrific enhancement to school programs because it’s fun, because it develops valuable life and critical thinking skills, and because it gives boys and girls of all kinds a way to...
“Call Before You Dig” – now easy to do online
If have an Internet connection, and I think you do if you’re reading this, you might be interested in knowing that you can file requests to have the utility folks come out and mark the utility connections to your house before you dig online at www.CallBeforeYouDig.Org So if you’re thinking of digging in your yard...
Great article on why urban hens matter
http://www.foodsafetynews.com/2010/04/on-civic-agriculture-why-backyard-chickens-matter/
NEN Community Garden update
Image via Wikipedia The idea for a community garden in McRae Park was set aside after the NEN board learned that the total costs to the neighborhood would still be in the thousands, even after a Salem Parks Improvement Fund grant. For such a small garden, the costs were too high to proceed. Many neighbors...
