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Happy 4th of July!
The heat of the summer is upon us. Stay cool and enjoy our gorgeous weather.
Sunny weather is a great fit for our Solar Oregon event July 14th.
Gardens still need lots of water, but now is a great time to harvest and enjoy the fruits of your labor.
Movie Night continues this month - a great way to share community in the coolness of Painters Hall.
If you love to share in good homemade food, come to our Pie Party and Food Swap July 19th
See details below - and come on out to witness what's happening for yourself. We'd love to see you!
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Happy 4th of July, Everyone!
We hope everyone has a wonderful, fun, and safe 4th of July weekend! Stay cool!
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Solar Oregon at Painters Hall
July 14th at 6:30
THE 'BASICS OF GOING SOLAR' WORKSHIP COVERS WHY SOLAR IS A SMART CHOICE FOR OREGON
This free workshop will be at Painter's Hall on Tuesday, July 14th from 6:30 to 8:00 p.m. Solar Oregon is a nonprofit organization that works to improve energy efficiency and provide ideas for building a carbon-neutral future through solar energy. Attendees will walk away with an understanding of why solar is a smart choice for Oregon homeowners. Topics that will be covered include:
- How solar works in Oregon's climate
- Available solar technologies and how they fit into your overall energy use
- Assessing your site for solar
- How financial incentives and tax credits can cover up to 80% of the cost
- Ownership, Leasing, power purchase and financing options
Workshop participants will come away with basic knowledge about solar energy systems and will be prepared to do more focused research on their own or start working with a solar contractor.
This workshop is free, but please RSVP to let us know you are coming!
Go to http://solaroregon.org/events/Salem_Solar_Workshop to register.
Come to Painters Hall at Pringle Creek Community, 3911 Village Center Dr SE, Tuesday, July 14th at 6:30 p.m. for this free workshop.
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Gardening in July: Maintain - and Prepare for Fall & Winter
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This month, focus on maintaining the health of your vegetable garden - water deeply and intermittently for strong roots, and check for pests. Watering in the morning helps to keep slug issues at bay.
Enjoy the bounties of your planning, patience and hard work! Harvest and use those vegetables you've grown. Harvest pickling cucumbers for actually making pickles! Don't let them get too big (more than 4 inches)! Enjoy fresh string beans, summer squashes, greens, and new baby potatoes (if you've planted them, you likely have a number of them that you can pick and enjoy when they start to flower). Add mulch to the potatoes, nearly burying the greensso that you get more potato production from shoots off of the now buried stems.
Believe it or not, now is the time to start planning and preparing for your fall and winter garden. Midsummer plantings of beets, bush beans, carrots, cauliflower, broccoli, lettuce, kale, and peas will provide fall and winter crops.
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No Salsa in July
Paco is taking time off from teaching salsa this month.
Use those dancing skills and salsa all over Oregon!
We'll let you know when he'll start back up. Stay tuned!
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Pie Party & Food Swap
July 19th from 1:00 - 4:00
Bake and bring your best sweet or savory pie to Painters Hall Sunday, July 19th at 1:00!
We're co-hosting this delicious event with the Cherry City Food Swappers, a local group who meet and trade homemade, homegrown food.
We encourage everyone to bring a pie to share, and an appetite to try the pies of others. The whole point is to gather and celebrate the season by featuring our delightful pie-making abilities. Bring homemade and homegrown food to share and join the fun with the Cherry City Food Swappers.
Free
and open to the public. Come to Painters Hall, 3911 Village Center Dr SE
503-315-1055 for more information
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Reduced Price on the
Net Zero Home
This high performance 'smart' home is powered by Solar City. 'High performance' comes from extra insulation, energy efficient windows, high performance heating and cooling systems and an energy conserving on-demand water heater, low flow fixtures and dual flush toilets. Your home is durable, built to last and continue performing efficiently. It's called a Net Zero home since it is designed to create as much energy through solar power as will be needed to live in the home.
Built by Winsome Construction, this house is a 4 bedroom, 2 1/2 bath 'smart' home just completed in March. The price was just reduced to $375,000. Since reduction, there's been a LOT of new interest in the home. If you are interested, connect with Wendy Stassens, builder and real estate agent.
Contact Wendy Stassens at
wendy@thebellacasagroup.com or 503-560-5189
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Produce for sale
Canning? We've got tomatoes!
Colleen is growing all kinds of delicious, organically grown produce for her CSA customers. She also has extra produce to sell. By mid-month and the end of July, she expects to have LOTS of tomatoes to offer for sale. If you like to can tomatoes that you can use throughout the year, call Colleen to reserve some. 503-315-1055
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Movie Night
Each month we have a community movie night in Painters Hall, our community center, organized by Kenn Poznar, one of our residents. It is a fun, relaxing time when residents and guests get together to enjoy the company of their neighbors and friends along with potluck tid-bits and byob drinks.
Thanks, Kenn!
This month the feature is The Wedding Banquet, a comedy.
The film, by Ang Lee, is the story of Simon and Wei-Tung, a gay couple living together in Manhattan. To defer the suspicions of Wei-Tung's parents, Simon suggests a marriage of convenience between Wei-Tung and Wei-Wei, an immigrant in need of a green card. When Wei-Tung's parents come to America for the wedding, they insist upon an elaborate banquet, resulting in several complications.
This film was the most profitable film of 1993, and
Rotten Tomatoes gave it a score of 96%
For information email or call: info@pringlecreek.com or 503-315-1055
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Weekly Community Yoga Classes
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The first two weeks of July, July 2nd and 9th, yoga is cancelled as Alyson is taking a summer break)
Come on over and stretch out any and all tension in your body with Alyson and her students. Alyson is a talented teacher ready to offer stretches and positions to remedy all kinds of kinks and tweaks that you may have.
Join us Thursdays at 5:00 pm at Painters Hall for a yoga class with experienced yoga and dance instructor Alyson Budde.
Classes are designed for people of all ages and skill levels. Bring your own mat and any additional equipment (blocks, straps, bands & pillows) you may need. Come stretch, strengthen, improve your balance, and enjoy the community spirit!
$5 per person
3911 Village Center Dr SE, Salem 503-315-1055
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The Garten Party:
Garten Service's BBQ & Brews
Fundraiser
Pringle Creek Community is partnering with Garten Services, hosting their annual BBQ & Brews Fundraiser August 1st.
Garten Services is a wonderful organization, working to give job opportunities for people with disabilities. They do great work and we're proud to have this opportunity to work with them!
The event will have Beer, BBQ, wine, music, a cash raffle, wine wall, and a live auction. Tickets for this event, $35 per person or $250 for a table, can be purchased
at www.garten.org/tickets. RSVP by July 24th.
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Pringle Creek Community is partnering with Epic Fitness
We're working together to bring a walking group to our area. Plans are moving along to create walking loops of various lengths starting here, at Painters Hall, or at Epic Fitness on Madrona and Commercial St SE, next to ACE Hardware.
If you are interested, get more information and sign-up August 4th at Epic Fitness and ACE. They are co-hosting a Neighbor's Night Out event that night and will have a sign-up there. You can also contact Kerry Fox at Kerry@pringlecreek.com or Michele Vanderyacht at Michele@goepicfit.com
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