Meeting: SCCO Montly Meeting
Date: Thursday, Sept 5, 7PM
3280 River Road (Messiah Lutheran Church)
Two main topics:
Topic One. The LTD Transit Station Update:
Topic Two: The Carbon Free Challenge.
It creates an easy and fun way for residents to evaluate their personal consumption/carbon footprint and learn of new steps they can take that will help to lower their personal carbon emissions. You can preview the website here:
https://werenew.net/westernor/eugene
When: Saturday, August 24, 2019. 10 AM to 5 PM
Where: River Road Recreation Center, 1400 Lake Drive
The following information is from the River Road Community Organization Website.
The Festival will be hosted by the River Road Community Organization [RRCO]
Contact – Jan Spencer janrspencer@gmail.com or Clare Strawn at clarestrawn@gmail.com
The Community Resilience Festival is a day long event about reducing our ecological footprints and building positive community culture. The event will be fun, educational and timely. The festival will show and tell the projects, actions, allies and assets we have in Eugene and the southern Willamette Valley for creating more green and resilient homes, lifestyles, city and region.
The Festival will include over 30 community organizations, 15 round table conversations, 10 classroom presentations, 5 plenary talks, 4 fishbowls, and a Kid Zone. It will be followed by 7 site tours in 5 different Eugene neighborhoods on other dates to see over 15 properties w/ green and resilient features.
Topics of interest include cooperative economics; urban, rural and suburban land use; neighborhood associations, local food systems, cooperative living, climate change and reducing eco-footprints. The participating community organizations touch on a wide range of issues and interests and all play a part in creating green and resilient homes, neighborhoods, community and region.
The festival will be free and family friendly. All are welcome. Donations to RRCO and the Parks District appreciated!
Transportation & Parking: Please ride a bike. The River Road Swim Club will provide valet bike parking, by donation, in a safe, closed in location next to the Rec Center. Look for the signs and swim club members pointing the way to bike parking.
Healthy Food: The Resilience Festival welcomes the Peaceful Palate, serving healthy and tasty vegan cuisine. Even better, the Palate will serve on your own dinnerware so you can avoid throwaways! And best of all, they will donate a part of their proceeds to RRCO and the Rec Center!
Visit the River Road Community Organization website for detailed session information. Click Here.
News Release
August 13, 2019
Contact: Peter Thurston, 541-321-0798
Subject: Santa Clara Community Garden (SCCG) work party/composting schedule
On August 22, Thursday evening, 4 PM to 7 PM, composters and gardeners will complete a lasagna bed compost and prepare for two upcoming compost workshops in October and November.
SCCG is located behind St. Matthews Church at 4110 River Road, about 1-1/2 mile north of Beltline. These composting workshops are free and do not require preregistration. All sessions run for an hour or two.
Free 2019 Compost Workshops
October 19, Saturday, 10 AM – OSU Compost Specialist demonstration and cover crops
November 16, Saturday, 10 AM – SCCG Compost preparation for the coming season
All workshops will include discussion of various composting methods, including: hot compost, cold compost, lasagna, cover crops, and soil building with worms.
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Meeting: Thursday, August 22nd
12-1pm
McNail-Riley House
601 W 13th Ave Eugene
The Neighborhood Leaders Council Housing and Homelessness committee will continue with a year-ending series looking at shelter and housing options in Eugene. The July meeting was an informative look at legal and illegal car camping with Regan Watjus, City Manager’s office and Keith Heath, St. Vincent de Paul. In August, Linda Barnes, Lane Co. Human Services will talk about “what went right and what went wrong” with the Hwy 99 Dawn to Dawn camp. We hope to also have a speaker to address the city’s plan for a 75 bed shelter.
Looking ahead: Monthly meeting conversations will take a look at Winter Strategies for sheltering the unhoused, the recently passed HB 2001 allowing increased density in residential areas, the overlap between disaster preparedness and addressing housing/shelter needs, and efforts to carry out the TAC report recommendations. Here is a link to the public shelter feasibility study.
Ever wonder what your property taxes would be if you annexed your property to the city of Eugene? Here’s a link to a useful tool that will give you an estimate.
The app is intended to provide an estimate of the change in property taxes resulting from annexation to the City of Eugene. The scope of this tool includes properties within the River Road, Santa Clara and Industrial Corridor neighborhoods which are located inside the Eugene Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) but outside the Eugene city limits.
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