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Info session for anyone interested in learning more about becoming a member of NE Village. No registration required.

Please bring a thought on the topic that is particularly important to you. We can offer support and genuine interest as we share our stories. This group is closed, but another one is forming. Look for that announcement.

Monthly meeting for the Communications, Marketing and Outreach Team.

Being able to move is so natural. . .until you are not able to. This group is forming to help
explore how the lack of mobility, whether minor or major, temporary or permanent, affects our
lives. This will be a group built from the ground up to meet the needs of the participants, so
we can support each other, knowing we are not alone in our movement struggles.

This month we will be joined by Sarah Morrill from Ride Connection. Ride Connection is a non-profit organization providing transportation to seniors and the disabled and helps them to access goods and services. Susan will present a slide show about how Ride Connection works and whether now or in the future, you will know how to benefit from this great resource.

Led by NE Village member Nancy Freyer. Open to all NE Village members and volunteers.

The movies for discussion are: "Perfect Days," and "Origin." They are both available for streaming on Prime Video and other streaming sites.

Please register for this meeting on the NEV calendar so that we will know who is coming. Someone will meet you by the front door. If you arrive after the start time, please use the call box for the listing under the name of Lana Lyons.

Will look forward to seeing you at there.

This month we‘ll be dining out at one of Portland’s highly rated, but inexpensive restaurants, Ki’Ikibaa. Choose from a large menu of simple, delicious food from Yucatán prepared by well-known chef Manuel Lopez of pre-covid era Angel Food and Fun. Limited on-street parking on Klickitat and small parking lot off Klickitat. REGISTER BY MONDAY, APRIL 15 so we can reserve tables. See you there!

Would you like space to connect with other male members and volunteers from NEV? NEV volunteer Steve Parker is convening a group for Village men. At this initial meeting, we will brainstorm the idea of a men’s group on-going to create another venue for male community in the village. Venue, topics and format will be discussed to see what may work best for our group. If you have ideas or suggestions in the meantime please send them to Steve Parker at shifthap@gmail.com

Historically, care for the dead was handled by family and community – and legally, it is still our right to do so. But for many, our ancestral ways of caring for each other after death have been forgotten. We’ll review the aspects of deathcare now mostly outsourced to professionals – bathing, dressing, and transporting the body; sourcing a casket, shroud or urn; handling the paperwork; arranging for final disposition and any ceremony – and consider the benefits of more hands-on engagement.

Presented by Holly Pruett. Holly works with families and communities to create unique, personalized ceremonies that support bereavement and remembrance, including advising families who wish to care for their dead at home. Holly is professionally trained as a Life-Cycle Celebrant, Home Funeral Guide, and End-of-Life Doula; certified as NEDA Proficient by the National End-of-Life Doula Alliance, and in Thanatology by the Association for Death Education & Counseling. Holly has provided community deathcare education and consulting services for more than a decade as the co-creator of Oregon Funeral Resources & Education, a non-commercial website informing Oregonians of legal rights and resources when death occurs; the founder of the Death Talk Project and PDX Death Café; and as a facilitator with Oregon Humanities’ Talking About Dying conversation program. For 30 years she served the community through local, state, and national non-profit organizations as a community organizer, executive director, and consultant advancing LGBTQ and women’s rights and racial, social, and environmental justice.

Wheelchair accessible. Free and open to the Public.

Monthly meeting of the Soil to Supper team that plans and organizes gardening and cooking programs and activities.

In this series of 3 sessions we will reflect on our next steps in preparing for our own good death. If possible, register for and plan to attend all 3 meetings live; they will not be recorded. Come prepared to write in response to prompts and share what you wish with the group. Limited to 8 participants.

Facilitated by Leanne Logan, a retired nurse and educator who worked in end of life care.