The Lents Neighborhood Livability Association received a call from an Adventist Health Caregiver and wanted to know if we did lawns. By doctor’s orders this gentleman was unable to tend his own yard so we spend a couple of weekends getting his yard back in shape. Please come out and help us help others.
This was not a project but a great inside look of the latest family shelter on 92nd Avenue
We had a wonderful time packing boxes and distributing 50 complete Thanksgiving Dinners to the kiddo’s in the Lents schools. We wish to thank all our wonderful volunteers as well as the people who helped us purchase the food with their kind donations and the neighbors and friends who purchased a good portion of the necessary items for the boxes. We would also like to thank Fred Meyer & The Sunshine Division for their kind donations.
SUPPORT OUR THANKSGIVING DINNER GIVE-AWAY
Please join us in helping the children and families in our neighborhood enjoy a true Thanksgiving Dinner. No family should go without during the holidays. Make their holiday a special event and something they will always remember. PLEASE DONATE HERE!
THIS PROJECT WAS FOR ONE OF OUR NEIGHBORS!
New kitchen, yard cleaned up and new fence! Loads more photos on our Below
Here are just a few of the things we have accomplished since our organization was formed in September 2017:
1) We have cleaned up several miles of roadways, removing tons of trash and garbage from 92nd Avenue from Woodstock to Johnson Creek Road as well as around the campsite along the Multi-Use Path around the Flavel MAX station.
2) We have also provided bags to the homeless that live in the neighborhood, be it in RVs or tents so they could keep their own area clean.
3) We have helped neighbors who couldn’t get the job done. We removed a burnt down garage that caught fire last year due to homeless individuals living it to stay warm.
This homeowner was being fined by the City and contacted by the fire department to have this unsafe structure removed.
4) We applied for and received a City grant to clean up along the multi-use path which runs from NE Portland to the SE Flavel MAX station.
The area we cleaned up was near the Oliver P. Lents Elementary School. We cleaned both the West and East side of the walking bridge that crosses over I-205.
5) We have done fundraisers by cleaning up yards for neighbors who needed assistance in landscaping. {First photo below is a slide show so you can click through each photo.}
November 18, 2017 - This was our first actual fundraiser - This desperate homeowner was given 10 days notice that her mother was coming into town for Thanksgiving and she didn’t want her mother to see her yard in such disarray.
6) We have given away 22 Christmas turkeys to needy families.
7) We supported the Foster-Powell neighborhood when the City decided to put a low barrier homeless shelter in their neighborhood near an alternative high school, a YMCA youth facility and a day care center two doors down from it.
8) We brought in two 30 yard dumpsters from Heiberg Garbage & Recycling and had them placed in the parking lot of the Adult & Teen Challenge Thrift Store on 82nd Avenue to help the neighbors clean up unwanted trash around their property. Several of the guys even went out with their pickups and trucks and hauled stuff back to the dumpsters for people who didn’t have anyway of getting the trash there.
Weeding and pruning at the 92nd Street Shelter - August 28, 2018
Building new staircase for neighbors - August 29, 2018
Alley Angels cleaning up alley between Foster & Ramona off 83rd Avenue - September 15, 2018
Lents Monument Cleanup - heading East from downtown Portland - September 27, 2018
Lents Monument Clean up September 27, 2018
BEFORE - provided by Brian Lau, MBA - Executive Assistant of the Asian Health & Service Center
AFTER - - provided by Brian Lau, MBA - Executive Assistant of the Asian Health & Service Center