Carol:
Accomplishments: The first Annual Yappy Hour was a huge success. We had close to 350 people with their dogs. and everyone had a blast. The vendors are excited for next year and it will even be bigger next year with more vendors wanting to join.
Here’s a fun video of dogs at the event: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1tW-RmaG3aTxXuls864rY8Jr6i1AKygDb/view?usp=sharing
A special thanks to Andrew Lytle, local graphic designer and artist, for providing free dog sketches to dog owners at the event. This booth was a big hit! Andrew completed an estimated 25 sketches during the 3+ hour event.
The Summer Guide came out the first week in May. Posters for music and movies have been distributed.
Carol had her largest senior class on May 21st with 29 seniors attending. The word has been spreading and we are getting new seniors that come into the center.
Amy:
Worked Yappy Hour
Hosted a booth at the Spring Celebration/Gardening Club Plant Sale
Planned and orchestrated a Community Gardens Work Day
Organized World Bee Day Film Screening of “My Garden of 1000 Bees”
Softball Scheduling/Organizing is done!
Tupper Park Playground Completed.
Caroleana:
Caroleana had over 425 senior related calls. This month the center had 7 new MOW clients & 7 reassessments; which involves home visits with each client. Caroleana further offered and assisted each household with other available resources.
Caroelana started to make calls and schedule appointments for the summer cooling Energy Assistance program.
As well she participated in a select online survey for the Institute on Aging with the college of Urban and public Affairs at Portland State. The interview portion of the survey was conducted over zoom with 10 other center directors throughout the state of Oregon. The Oregon Health Authority funds and supports 24 specialists statewide. The local Clackamas County specialist is Kim Whitely who I have met twice. Their goal is to collaborate with and coordinate with community partners.
Conducted two trainings with meals on Wheels drivers including elder abuse signs and what to do in case of an emergency.
Caroleana went on a hike this month with Marc and the seniors to Salish Ponds. She thoroughly enjoyed herself and is making a point to attend once a month in order to have more conversations with seniors who go on hikes.
Caroleana also helped a local senior get assistance with the purchase of special orthopedic shoes. She connected this senior to Sandy Helping Hands and assisted in filling out the intake paperwork in order for him to get financial assistance.
Event:
On May 14th we had the Senior Resource Fair which was a success and we had over 65 people attend.
19 businesses and organizations participated, giving their time and providing resources to our community.
A big thank you to: Avamere at Cascadia and Sandy Avamere, Mt. Hood Hospice, Mt. Hood Adult Day Center, Mt. Hood Senior Solutions, Sandy Public Library, Sandy Area Metro, Sandy PD, Assisting Hands Home Care, Cedar Springs Advisors ltd., Clackamas County Fire, Clackamas County Volunteer Connections, SHIBA with Clackamas County, Clackamas County DHS and Care Oregon, Embold Credit Union, Clackamas County Bank, Parkinson’s Resources of Oregon, and ClearCaption.
Future Events:
Melissa Hagerety with Legal Aid Service with Clackamas County reached out to Caroleana in May. They received a grant that will fund a few training courses in the fall. We Scheduled for Legal Aid classes for the end of summer on the last Tuesday in Aug and Sept.
Marc:
Senior Trips:
– Dine out at Alpine Events by Busy Bee Catering – Full bus with 9 people meeting us there
– Evergreen Aviation and Space Museum in McMinnville – 11 people
– Hike & Lunch – Tualatin River Trail and California Pizza Kitchen in Tigard – 13 people with Amy joining us
– Dine out at Oswego Grill at the Clackamas Town Center – 9 people
– Hike and Lunch at Salish Ponds City Trail and Troutdale Station Food Carts – 13 people with Caroleana joining us
MOW
– 1368
– New clients added
Chelsea:
- Processed invoices related to various park projects
- Collected vendor documents for new vendors
- Drafted addendums
- Updated project budgets
- Attended meetings in regards to various ongoing park projects
- PTAB meeting, agenda, video, and minutes
- Checked on playground equipment deliveries for Cedar park
- Started taking meeting notes for ARC’s work at Cedar Park
- Research for special events
- Continued to do necessary updates for various park grants
- Worked Yappy Hour
- Helped with the Senior Resource Fair.
John:
On May 6th, I presented the final branding package of the Action Sports Components of Cedar Park (Skatepark, Pump Track and Jump Line) to City Council for a final adoption. See below for the final branding designs.
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Closed out a Congregate Dining Grant of $25,000 that we used to purchase a new/working dishwasher and upgraded our fire suppressions system which will allow us to safely serve free and nutritious meals to seniors.
Coordinated the route, map and communication to City Staff and neighboring community members in regards to the Longest Day Parkway. This is an annual event that highlights the different parks and neighborhoods that the City has to offer (https://www.ci.sandy.or.us/parks-rec/page/longest-day-parkway-2024)
Parks & Facilities:
Upcoming and important events/dates (save the date or dates of facility closures, or park closures etc.)
– Adult Coed Softball starts June 10th with 12 teams this year.
– Center closed for Juneteenth- June 19th
– Longest Day Parkway – June 20th
- Noah’s Quest Walk/Run- June 29th
- Summer camps with i9 start the end of June. The i9 camps will be held throughout all the city parks like Timberline, Cascadia, Bornstedt and Sandy Bluff Park.