Adams Creek Cohousing February 2020 Newsletter |
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January 2020 arrived with a hum of activity and it looks like this year is going to be a very busy one, but an exciting year for Adams Creek Cohousing! You can continue to look forward to our monthly Open Houses and Potlucks and we are adding new activities and fun nights every month. |
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Adams Creek Cohousing Open House Information and Tour Sunday, February 9, 2020 3-4 pm 1419 Sherman Ave, Hood River, OR 97031 Meet new people! Find out about cohousing! Be part of something exciting in the community! RSVP: friends@adamscreekcohousing.com |
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Community Potluck Sunday, February 16, 2020 4-7 pm 1419 Sherman Ave, Hood River, OR 97031 Bring a favorite dish to share! Everyone is welcome! RSVP: friends@adamscreekcohousing.com |
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House Concerts Come join us in continuing the tradition established by our former HR mayor of having monthly house concerts. Local, regional, and national musicians live or pass through Hood River and we are fortunate enough to entice them to perform at our House Concerts. This February we will have two concerts: |
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February 8, 2020 @ 7:00 pm (doors open at 6:30 pm) featuring MARK REYNOLDS and JIM DRAKE, who are local musicians from Wasco County who play deep folk-blues and gospel-inflected country. Mark plays and slide guitar and Jim plays lead mandolin and guitar. They guide us through homages to Woody Guthrie bluegrass-tinged instrumentals, and lost rock gems from the British invasion era. |
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February 22, 2020 @ 4:00 pm We are excited to host our first Children's House Concert on Saturday, February 22 at 4 PM featuring Beth Waters, a children's musician. Miss Beth will lead us in children's music and there will be dancing, lively songs and instruments to play along. Free, but donations happily accepted! Questions to Becki at rrawson@gorge.net or 541-490-2025. |
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All concerts will be held at 1419 Sherman St, Hood River, OR 97031 Please park on Sherman and walk up our driveway. |
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Game Night is a new happening and we had our first one in January. Mexican Train Dominoes was a hit. There were over 16 people there and everyone had a good time (thanks to Liz’s pickleball friends!) Another Mexican Train night will be held on: February 19, 2020 @ 6 pm NO EXPERIENCE NECESSARY! |
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SPOTLIGHT ON OUR MEMBERS Patrick and Becki Rawson moved to Hood River in 1989. They were on a trip discerning where to locate in the Northwest and after visiting several Oregon cities, they stopped for lunch in Hood River. When they heard Spanish and met some Latino residents, the Columbia River Gorge went to the top of the list. They have raised their children to embrace the diversity of our rich local culture as they pursued their careers as Community College Professor (https://www.cgcc.edu/), Social worker and Nurse practitioner (https://oregon.providence.org/) Patrick recently retired and has returned to the roots of their early years (“dating” weekends were spent on Mexican border immersion trips) by serving with the US/Mexican border refugee crisis. He is currently on his third assignment on the border. He has taken to reflecting on life and borders and below is an excerpt from his publication: “Conjectures of a Border Pilgrim”. “As a kayak and canoe paddler, I am always alert to the prime paddling regions of our country. The intimacy of paddling through a new land has always drawn me in and been an occasion of dwelling in the quiet mystery of a sacred space (Unlike whitewater paddling, I prefer flat water - “tranquility” paddling). It is intriguing that some of the prime paddling adventures in North America include our spectacular “boundary waters” of northern Minnesota. In the Northwest, every true paddler longs for the iconic waters between the San Juan Islands (U.S.) and Canada, or the opportunity to join a kayak expedition from Glacier Bay, Alaska, along the British Columbia Coast and down to Seattle. These legendary “boundary waters” allow us to paddle across international borders right in the middle of a lake or channel. It’s as if the “border” is literally “fluid” in these sacred spaces. Perhaps we choose to name them “boundaries” rather than “borders” to soften the reality that these waters also have geopolitical limits. Another North American body of water that is shared generously is the magnificent Sea of Cortez in Mexico where paddlers and whales migrate annually to this bay teeming with life (and WARM water!). Again the fluidity of these spaces (the tides!) tends to awaken in us the awareness that these rivers and seas are a common inheritance that is shared generously by many nations and are treasures of all humanity. These boundary waters help us imagine a larger geographic circle of belonging that invites us to leave behind our national identities and go with the flow. “ |
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We are hoping to start construction on our Adams Creek Cohousing Community sometime this summer. With that in mind, our Membership, Marketing, and Outreach Committee are ramping up speed to find the few new members we need to reach our goal of 25 families. We have been very busy this past few months participating and holding open houses at PDX Commons in Portland and in Hood River. These invitations have resulted in visitors from Montana, Colorado, California, and Oregon and have added 4 new families to our growing community. We love showing prospective members our pubs, the wineries, and having informal brunches and gatherings. Hood River is such an exciting place to live, grow, and play! Contact us for a visit or more information at friends@adamscreekcohousing.com |
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