The month of August has come to a close and summer is winding down.

August was filled with concerts and movies. Petty Fever brought in close to 500
people. Our Food and Beer vendors were busy and some of the gold sponsors (Timberline & Hometown Lenders) were also on hand giving out information. Our second concert of the summer, Johnny Limbo and the Lugnuts had close to 700 people. It was awesome to see the attendees get up and dance in front of the stage. The last movie, Sing 2, John helped out with day of while carol enjoyed a much needed vacation. Great job Carol on these fantastic community events!

Softball ended with the 6 teams playing 20 games during the summer and the Mt. Hood Athletic Club Team walked away with the trophy.

Skyhawks Camps finished up in August as well.

Marc had a few great outings with the seniors- including taking them to Dinner at Roadhouse in Gresham, a mystery drive up the Clackamas River, a hike on the Cazadero Trail followed by lunch at the Red Apple, a hike on the Clackamas River trail, and a trip to Senior Day at the Clackamas County Fair.

With the help of our wonderful Meals on Wheels volunteers, we delivered a total of 1334 meals in August.

Chelsea worked with the team to gather data for our Cost Recovery project. August was also our first full month of building rentals so she created a policy and procedure document for handling the damage deposits. We had a successful employee picnic and everyone had lots of fun enjoying the music, food cart, ice cream, and games.

We were awarded a Congregate Meal grant of $25,000, thanks to John’s hard work.  The money will be used to get our kitchen up to code and working more efficiently so that we can start serving congregate meals once again to the seniors of our community. Way to go John! John also hired and trained a building monitor who will be here to cover for after hour events and classes. Brooke, our new building monitor, has been a great asset and helped us cover most of our weekend rentals in August.

The department is working together to plan a new event: Holiday Lights at Meinig, which will take place in December. More information to come soon on this.

The Parks & Trails Advisory Board did a Parks Tour for their meeting this month. It involved a tour and history of our Parks and Trails systems and everyone enjoyed it.

Olga, our Client Services Coordinator announced her retirement this month. Her last day was August 30th. She will dearly be missed by all of us and we wish her the absolute best on her next adventure. Thanks for all the hugs Olga!

Parks & Facilities August Recap:

Important Upcoming Dates:

September 5th- Center closed for Observance of Labor Day

September 11th- Corn Cross at Liepold Farms

September- Some of the classes listed in our recreation guide begin middle of September.