4th of July Senior BBQ

On July 3rd, the Center hosted a Senior BBQ. We had over 50 seniors register for this event. It was a beautiful day and the whole team chipped into to plan, organize, and execute this event. The seniors love being able to gather again here at the Center for a meal. Highlights included the baked beans, watermelon and fresh strawberry shortcake for dessert.

Mountain Festival Activities:

Mt. Festival started the day after the fourth with the Pet Show on
Wednesday, Thursday was the Bike Derby, and Friday was the kids
Parade. Thank you to Clackamas County Bank for providing hotdogs to
all the kids and Scoop and Swirl free ice cream. Carol headed these events up with John, Marc, Amy and Caroleana helping out.

The whole team gathered for the main Parade through downtown. Tiana provided the Parks Truck, Chelsea ordered the decorations and candy, and Tiana, Rochelle, John, and Chelsea decked out the truck. Tiana drove. Caroleana, Chelsea, John, and Bodhi were our safety walkers. Marc and Councilor Mayton threw candy. Rochelle and Councilor Walker carried our Parks & Recreation banner leading the group. Everyone had a blast and it felt so great to be part of such an amazing community event.

Caroleana:

Energy Assistance – This month was slower and we had 4 senior households that were helped with 4 of those being home visits.  

This month the center had 9 new MOW clients; which involves home visit with each client in and around Sandy. Caroleana further offered and assisted each household with other available resources. 

In July, the Change of Pace respite program grew by one client. Caroleana also allocated resources from the Aging and Disability Resource Center for Respite clients. As well, she is looking into a caregiver support group to meet at the center. 

Caroleana is also working on future senior classes and events at the center.  

Shiba is a free resource for the Clackamas county community offering help to seniors for medicare education.  

The second collaboration would be with Mt. Hood Hospice for future classes in the Fall on the topic of grief and why hospice.  

Caroleana coordinated with the Street Trust of Oregon who is looking for feedback from the senior community on pedestrian safety. They’ll be doing a open house event here on September 26th from 10:00am-12:00pm.

Caroleana is also planning a fundraiser for March 2024. 

Carol:

July started off with another successful 4th of July firework display.
Thanks to Clackamas County Bank for sponsoring another exciting
event.

July 12th was the first music in the park. It was “Taken by the Sky” a
Fleetwood Mac Tribute. The Parks and Rec team decided to do a 50/50
raffle and it was a big success. The winner ended up with $212 in their
pocket. It was super fun plus staff made it a competition among
themselves to see who could sell the most tickets.

July 21st was the first movie in the park which was Puss n Boots. It was
well attended with close to 100 people. The weather was perfect.

July 26th was the second concert with Nate Botsford. The crowd
enjoyed it so much there were people dancing and Nate even came out
for an encore. The winner of the 50/50 raffle went home with $220!

The Recreation Department started a brand-new Mt. Bike Camp. We had a total of 14 kids ages 6-14. Robbie Walters who is a professional local Mt. Biker took the kids to local Sandy Parks and then finished up at Sandy Ridge. The kids had a blast.

Marc:

Senior trips for July Recap:

-Dinner at Chicali Cantina in Welches with 10 seniors.

-Dinner at The Cazadero in Estacada.  12 people with 3 meeting us there.

-Washington County Fair in Hillsboro with 8 people.

-Hike at Graham Oaks Nature Park in Wilsonville then lunch at McMenamins Wilsonville Old Church & Pub.  14 people went.

-Hike at The Old Salmon River Trail in Welches then lunch at Mallards at the Mt. Hood Oregon Resort. 11 people went.

-Trip to the Western Antique Aeroplane and Automobile Museum and lunch at Grace Su’s China Gorge Restaurant in Hood River.  10 people attended.

1021 meals were delivered to Meals on Wheels clients.

Amy:

• Hosted the 2nd Bee City Action Group Meeting on July 11th.
• Started planning for a Fall Volunteer Appreciation Event in conjunction with the Library.
• Continued to do the Community Gardens Social + Volunteer Work Day.
• Skyhawks Camps were successful and concluded at the end of July.
• Researched Volunteer Software Systems.
• Softball Tournament, End of Season, and post season survey was sent out.
• Posted lots of social media posts and started experimenting with FB Reels.
• Started planning for Winterfest with the team
• Researched Bat House ideal locations for National Bat Week in October.
• Finalized Mt Storm Instructional League details and created a poster for the program.

Chelsea:
-Updated Sportsman with our new master fee schedule rates and updated our waiver form with our updated cancellation policy, created a flier for our new Park Shelter rentals, and began taking reservations for Bornstedt and Cascadia gazebos and the smaller shelters at Meinig Park. These are off to a busy start. We’ve taken 13 new reservations so far! -Compiled Playground survey results into a spreadsheet and shared results with our team and Lango Hansen.
-Compiled and created an updated SDS Binder for the center.
-Converted flyers to display on the Center’s new TV (Advertisement Board) and learned how to upload and work the display.
-Attended a CCS meeting and a Winterfest planning meeting.
-Completed the quarterly grant update/reimbursement request for the Cedar Ridge Trail construction project.

John:

Lead a Winterfest planning meeting including nailing down events for this year + involving the local downtown businesses.

Met with Don Kesterson with Commercial Holiday decorators for a downtown tour which included brainstorming creative ideas to decorate the downtown sector of town.

Headed up the Park Naming Committee for the Community Campus park, successfully recruited a full committee (includes 3 community members, 2 parks board members, and a city council liaison), and started the planning process for our first meeting in August.

Parks & Facilities:

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Upcoming Important Dates:

August 5th Movie in the Park: Spiderman

August 9th Concert in the Park: Radical Revolution

August 19th Movie in the park: Lightyear