Save the Date for an Awesome Evening Summer Gathering, August 21, 2020
By Suzanne Perra, SRN President
Let’s gather as a neighborhood at the Plumper Pumpkin Patch and Tree Farm, 11435 NW Old Cornelius Pass Road, and celebrate the end of summer with food, music, kid’s activities and good company. This year we will try something new. The gathering will be held starting in the evening. Instead of a potluck, dinner will be provided.
For the first time in 28 years, we did not have our annual Skyline Ridge Neighbors Summer Gathering in 2020 due to the pandemic. Let’s make up for lost time and visit with our neighbors. A big Thank You to our hosts the Kessinger Family for providing our venue again this year!
New Time – 4:00 pm to 9:30 pm
We decided to shake it up a little this year and try an evening event. Enjoy your day with what you love, be it kid’s sports, bike riding or gardening and then head over to Plumper Pumpkin for an evening of great food, music and neighbors.
4:00 - 6:30 Children’s Activities
4:00 - 7:25 Silent Auction
5:00 - 9:30 Band Plays
5:00 - 7:30 Dinner is Served
7:30 - 8:00 Oral Auction
8:00 - 8:15 Last Chance Auction
9:30 Event Ends
Free Food and Drinks
Thanks to very generous donations from The Meating Place , the Skyline Grange and SRN, we will provide all food and drink this year. Also, plates, silverware and glasses will be provided by the Skyline Grange. If you prefer beer or wine, please bring your own (and bring glasses to minimize late evening cleanup).
Bring the Kids
Shea Lavalier is our Children’s Event Coordinator this year and he has all kinds of fun activities for children planned. There will also be farm animals to visit and outside play structures. Shea is a member of the SRN Board and a First Grade Teacher. Also, don’t forget your teens. This is a family event.
It’s a Fundraiser - Auctions and Quilt Raffle
SRN depends entirely on support from the neighborhood to publish the Ridge Runner and Newsline, and organize community events such as the SOLV clean-up. We are a nonprofit 501c3 charitable organization so your donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Please consider donating your time or an item for the silent or oral auctions, making a cash donation or purchasing some of the wonderful auction items. Click here to download a donation form.
Feel free to support local businesses this year by purchasing an item or gift certificate from a local business to donate to the auction. Business donors get a thank you mention in the October Skyline Ridge Runner. Consider asking your contractors such as window washers, painters, weeders, HVAC maintenance, landscapers, etc., if they would like to contribute gift certificates.
This year’s raffle quilt is designed and sewn by Tracy Waters and is quilted by Cindi Cramer. It features a Disney theme. It’s a 45” x 43” quilt starring vintage Disney Babies in a diverse collection of mixed primary color blocks, each with a different center. Tickets will be sold at the SRN Summer Gathering.
Join the Team
The Gathering will be coordinated this year by Brad Graff and Suzanne Perra. Cindy Lou Banks and her band Brooks Hill will entertain us again this year. Thank you to the following neighbors for leading the main Summer Gathering activities. We couldn’t do it without you: Auction-Suzanne Perra, Music-Brad Graff, Children’s Games-Shea Lavalier, Food – Sen Speroff and Valerie Driscoll, Greeters, Registration and Sign out – Rachael Brake, Table Setup and Cleanup - George Sowder, Flowers-Lisa Graff, and Community Relations – Alex Rose.
We expect our State Reps and County Commissioner to attend again this year. Our Multnomah County Sheriff’s Deputy David McGarry, and TVFR will both attend if their duties do not pull them away. There will be information specific to our neighborhood, including the Neighborhood Emergency Team (NET) and the Firewise Program. You will have the opportunity to talk about your latest neighborhood interests, be it traffic, Skyline Internet, Firewise or just introduce yourself and get to know the officials who serve our community.
Please contact Brad Graff at bradgraff@gmail.com or 503.292.1614, or Suzanne Perra at suzanne@perrafamily.com or 503.866.9289 to volunteer for the Gathering. You can volunteer some time to help prepare for the event, during the event or for cleanup. There are some slots that require just an hour of your time. It’s a great way to make new friends. We’d also love to have some teens involved!
Contact Suzanne Perra to make donations for the silent and oral auctions. Cash donations are more important than ever this year since last year’s auction was cancelled and we lost that revenue. To make cash donations, please make checks payable to SRN and send them to Rachael Brake, SRN Treasurer, 14109 NW Rock Creek Rd., Portland, OR 97231. Online donations to SRN can be made using Venmo; account is rcmbrake@hotmail.com and be sure to indicate it is a donation to SRN.
Gathering Updates
We will be following CDC and Multnomah County guidelines regarding COVID 19. Please sign up for the SRN Newsline emails to keep track of any changes to the Gathering from our home page. Alternatively, “like” Skyline Ridge Neighbors on Facebook, or check this page periodically for updates.
Let’s gather as a neighborhood at the Plumper Pumpkin Patch and Tree Farm, 11435 NW Old Cornelius Pass Road, and celebrate the end of summer with food, music, kid’s activities and good company. This year we will try something new. The gathering will be held starting in the evening. Instead of a potluck, dinner will be provided.
For the first time in 28 years, we did not have our annual Skyline Ridge Neighbors Summer Gathering in 2020 due to the pandemic. Let’s make up for lost time and visit with our neighbors. A big Thank You to our hosts the Kessinger Family for providing our venue again this year!
New Time – 4:00 pm to 9:30 pm
We decided to shake it up a little this year and try an evening event. Enjoy your day with what you love, be it kid’s sports, bike riding or gardening and then head over to Plumper Pumpkin for an evening of great food, music and neighbors.
4:00 - 6:30 Children’s Activities
4:00 - 7:25 Silent Auction
5:00 - 9:30 Band Plays
5:00 - 7:30 Dinner is Served
7:30 - 8:00 Oral Auction
8:00 - 8:15 Last Chance Auction
9:30 Event Ends
Free Food and Drinks
Thanks to very generous donations from The Meating Place , the Skyline Grange and SRN, we will provide all food and drink this year. Also, plates, silverware and glasses will be provided by the Skyline Grange. If you prefer beer or wine, please bring your own (and bring glasses to minimize late evening cleanup).
Bring the Kids
Shea Lavalier is our Children’s Event Coordinator this year and he has all kinds of fun activities for children planned. There will also be farm animals to visit and outside play structures. Shea is a member of the SRN Board and a First Grade Teacher. Also, don’t forget your teens. This is a family event.
It’s a Fundraiser - Auctions and Quilt Raffle
SRN depends entirely on support from the neighborhood to publish the Ridge Runner and Newsline, and organize community events such as the SOLV clean-up. We are a nonprofit 501c3 charitable organization so your donations are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law. Please consider donating your time or an item for the silent or oral auctions, making a cash donation or purchasing some of the wonderful auction items. Click here to download a donation form.
Feel free to support local businesses this year by purchasing an item or gift certificate from a local business to donate to the auction. Business donors get a thank you mention in the October Skyline Ridge Runner. Consider asking your contractors such as window washers, painters, weeders, HVAC maintenance, landscapers, etc., if they would like to contribute gift certificates.
This year’s raffle quilt is designed and sewn by Tracy Waters and is quilted by Cindi Cramer. It features a Disney theme. It’s a 45” x 43” quilt starring vintage Disney Babies in a diverse collection of mixed primary color blocks, each with a different center. Tickets will be sold at the SRN Summer Gathering.
Join the Team
The Gathering will be coordinated this year by Brad Graff and Suzanne Perra. Cindy Lou Banks and her band Brooks Hill will entertain us again this year. Thank you to the following neighbors for leading the main Summer Gathering activities. We couldn’t do it without you: Auction-Suzanne Perra, Music-Brad Graff, Children’s Games-Shea Lavalier, Food – Sen Speroff and Valerie Driscoll, Greeters, Registration and Sign out – Rachael Brake, Table Setup and Cleanup - George Sowder, Flowers-Lisa Graff, and Community Relations – Alex Rose.
We expect our State Reps and County Commissioner to attend again this year. Our Multnomah County Sheriff’s Deputy David McGarry, and TVFR will both attend if their duties do not pull them away. There will be information specific to our neighborhood, including the Neighborhood Emergency Team (NET) and the Firewise Program. You will have the opportunity to talk about your latest neighborhood interests, be it traffic, Skyline Internet, Firewise or just introduce yourself and get to know the officials who serve our community.
Please contact Brad Graff at bradgraff@gmail.com or 503.292.1614, or Suzanne Perra at suzanne@perrafamily.com or 503.866.9289 to volunteer for the Gathering. You can volunteer some time to help prepare for the event, during the event or for cleanup. There are some slots that require just an hour of your time. It’s a great way to make new friends. We’d also love to have some teens involved!
Contact Suzanne Perra to make donations for the silent and oral auctions. Cash donations are more important than ever this year since last year’s auction was cancelled and we lost that revenue. To make cash donations, please make checks payable to SRN and send them to Rachael Brake, SRN Treasurer, 14109 NW Rock Creek Rd., Portland, OR 97231. Online donations to SRN can be made using Venmo; account is rcmbrake@hotmail.com and be sure to indicate it is a donation to SRN.
Gathering Updates
We will be following CDC and Multnomah County guidelines regarding COVID 19. Please sign up for the SRN Newsline emails to keep track of any changes to the Gathering from our home page. Alternatively, “like” Skyline Ridge Neighbors on Facebook, or check this page periodically for updates.