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May 17, 2008 Portland
Lone Fir Cemetery Monument Repair Workshop
10:00am-Noon Workshop; Noon-2:00pm Workparty
Come and learn simple techniques for monument repair. Learn about materials to use or avoid in restoration and repair, as well as safety techniques and other procedures.
(503) 224-9200
May 17, 2008 Lebanon
Lebanon Pioneer Cemetery Clean-up
9:00am-1:00pm We will be doing a clean-up, headstone repair and constructing an informational kiosk. Bring a sack lunch and a snack. Drinks will be provided. Bring gloves and dress for the weather.
Contact: Shannon Muskopf at smuskopf@ci.lebanon.or.us or (541) 258-4281.
May 18, 2008 Millersburg
Miller Cemetery Clean-up and Meeting
Join us at the corner of Woods Road and Millersburg Dr., Millersburg. 9:00 till afternoon. Contact ECPOWL@aol.com
May 18, 2008 Waldport
Alder Grove Cemetery Clean-up
1:00 pm at Alder Grove Cemetery on Eckman Creek Road, east of Waldport. Waldport Heritage Museum will supply snacks & water. Bring your hands for picking up sticks, mowers, weedeater & brooms for cleaning off flat head stones. For info call 541-563-2301 or 563-7092.
May 20, 2008 Portland
501(c)(3) Tax Exempt Clinic
Carol Cheney, TACS Senior Consultant
This hands-on clinic provides a walk through of the 501(c)(3) application process and includes discussion of the most important, difficult and potentially confusing questions.
Technical Assistance for Community Services - www.tacs.org
May 22, 2008 Tigard
Stepping Back: A look at local history - Outdoor Museums; Art and History in the Graveyard
Join us and learn to look at cemeteries in a whole new way. Carol Surrency of Oregon Historic Cemeteries Association will discuss the history and types of cemeteries, symbolism and iconography, and proper methods of preservation.
7:00-8:30pm Tigard Public Library, Community Room
Tigard Historical Association (503) 639-2857, www.tigardhistorical.com, tigard.historical@gmail.com
May 24, 25, 26, 2008 Portland
Lone Fir Cemetery Memorial Weekend Assistance
9:00am-3:00pm
Friends of Lone Fir will be assisting Metro in greeting visitors and distributing flags and flower vases and helping families and friends locate the graves of loved ones. Information tables and refreshments will be in the center of the cemetery, near the soldier's monumnet.
METRO Pioneer Cemeteries (503) 797-1709
May 26, 2008 Newport
Eureka Cemetery Memorial Day
Take a walk through the Eureka Cemetery in recognition of those who have served our country.
Contact: www.eurekacemetery or (541) 265-7282
May 31, 2008 Portland
Lone Fir Cemetery Stone Cleaning Workshop
10:00am-Noon
Join Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery for some real 'hands-on' experience as we clean selected monumnets in the cool morning air. Learn the propoer methodology for cleaning and caring for headstones to ensure their longevity, as well as something about symbology and monumnet art.
(503) 224-9200
May 2008, Baker County
Baker County Cultural Coalition Grant Deadline
Contact: Bob Evans at bobevans@oregontrail.net or (541)5197273
http://www.bakercounty.org
May 2008, Sherman County
Sherman County Cultural Coalition Grant Deadline
Contact: Orice Klaas at oricek@gmail.com or (541) 565-3844
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June 4, 2008 Tigard
Discovering History: Cemetery Walking Tour
Crescent Grove Cemetery 9925 SW Greenburg Road, Tigard.
1:30-3:00pm
Tigard Historical Association (503) 639-2857, www.tigardhistorical.com, tigard.historical@gmail.com
June 4, 2008 Portland
Advanced Grant Strategies
Rick Levine & Kit Gillem
Technical Assistance for Community Services - www.tacs.org
June 7, 2008 Portland
Lone Fir Cemetery Stone Cleaning Workshop
10:00am-Noon
Join Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery for some real 'hands-on' experience as we clean selected monumnets in the cool morning air. Learn the propoer methodology for cleaning and caring for headstones to ensure their longevity, as well as something about symbology and monumnet art.
(503) 224-9200
June 8, 2008 Portland
Lone Fir Cemetery Rose Tour
1:00-3:00pm
Lone Fir Cemetery has close ties to the Rose Festival and its beginning, as well as a prize-winning rose garden of its own. Come learn about how it came to be and learn the unique role Lone Fir plays in the mythical realm of Rosaria. The tour is especially times so as not to conflict with the Grand Floral Parade.
(503) 224-9200
June 12 & 13, 2008 Portland
Advanced Nonprofit Accounting
Gary McGee
Technical Assistance for Community Services - www.tacs.org
June 14, 2008 Portland
Lone Fir Cemetery Monument Repair Workshop
10:00am-Noon Workshop; Noon-2:00pm Workparty
Come and learn simple techniques for monument repair. Learn about materials to use or avoid in restoration and repair, as well as safety techniques and other procedures.
(503) 224-9200
June 19-22, 2008 Amherst, Massachusetts
Annual Conference
Association for Gravestone Studies - http://www.gravestonestudies.org/
June 26, 2008 Portland
Time Management
Cliff Jones
Technical Assistance for Community Services - www.tacs.org
June 28, 2008 Jacksonville
Brown Bag Get Together and Workshop with Commissioner Dirk Siedlecki
We will meet in the Jacksonville Cemetery at 9:00am. We will start off with a small informal workshop on cleaning and repairing markers. We will break for lunch and informal discussion on topics of mutual interest and concern regarding our cemeteries. Please bring gloves to wear, a lunch and perhaps a folding chair to sit on. Morning coffee and snacks will be provided along with dessert and bottled water at lunch time. Please contact Dirk at 541 826-9939 or djsmhs@earthlink.net if you wish to attend.
Directions are as follows: Take Highway 238 into Jacksonville and turn right onto California Street (main street thru downtown) to first stop sign, turn right onto N. Oregon St. proceed down N. Oregon a short distance and entrance to the cemetery will be on your left.
June 2008
Likely Oregon Cultural Trust Grant Due Date!
http://www.culutraltrust.org
June 2008, Clackamas County
Clackamas County Cultural Coalition Grant Deadline
Contact: Emily Orlando at culturalcolaition@clackamasculturalcoalition.org or (503) 655-0525
http://www.clackamasculturalcoaliton.org
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July 12, 2008 Portland
Lone Fir Cemetery Tour
10:00am-Noon
The tour highlights Portland's founders, early pioneers and nationally recognized figures, as well as interesting headstones and monumnets. Explore 30 acres of mature trees and a very special rose garden. Meet at the main entrance at Southeast 21st Avenue and Morrison Street on Bus 15. A suggested donation of $10.00 goes to headstone restoration and educational programs.
(503) 224-9200
July 12, 2008 Portland
Lone Fir Cemetery Stone Cleaning Workshop
10:00am-Noon
Join Friends of Lone Fir Cemetery for some real 'hands-on' experience as we clean selected monumnets in the cool morning air. Learn the propoer methodology for cleaning and caring for headstones to ensure their longevity, as well as something about symbology and monumnet art.
(503) 224-9200
July 19, 2008 Portland
A Midsummer Night at Lone Fir
5:00-8:00pm
Watch Portland history come to life as you relax on a blanket, enjoying live music as volunteer performers present the tales of some of the more interesting individuals resting at Lone Fir Cemetery.
(503) 224-9200
July 23, 2008 Portland
Good to Great for Your Nonprofit: The Growing Human Resources Paradox
Margaret Barbee PhD.
Technical Assistance for Community Services - www.tacs.org
July 2008, Columbia County
Columbia County Cultural Coalition Grant Deadline
Contact: Larry Cole at ldcole@charter.net ot 503-728-9854
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September 16-17, 2008 Natchitoches, LA
Cemetery Landscape Preservation Workshop
The National Center for Preservation Technology and Training - www.ncptt.nps.gov, (318) 356-7444, debbie_smith@nps.gov
September 18, 2008 Portland
501(c)(3) Tax Exempt Clinic
Carol Cheney, TACS Senior Consultant
This hands-on clinic provides a walk through of the 501(c)(3) application process and includes discussion of the most important, difficult and potentially confusing questions.
Technical Assistance for Community Services - www.tacs.org
September 26, 2008 Portland
Getting Federal Grants
Michael Wells
Technical Assistance for Community Services - www.tacs.org
September 2008, Benton County
Benton County Cultural Coalition Grant letters of intent to apply.
Contact: Walter Frankel at curtwalt@exchangenet.net or (541) 753-6763
http://bentonculture.org
September 2008, Yamhill County
Yamhill County Cultural Coalition Grant Deadline
Contact: Barbara Doyle at nomadicteacher@yahoo.com or (503)538-9721
http://www.yamhillcountyculture.org
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October 31, 2008
Lone Fir Cemetery Tour of Untimely Departures
6:00-9:00pm
Come for our once-a-year tour of the Lone Fir at night! Luminaria light the pathway through the darkened cemetery as we meet some real characters from Portland's past who are notorious or met an untimely or unseemly death.
(503) 224-9200
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If you would like to submit an item for Historic Cemetery Events, please send one line and contact information to Kuri.Gill@state.or.us. Please allow two weeks for submissions to be posted. Submissions must be directly related to Oregon Historic Cemeteries and posting is at the discretion of the Historic Cemeteries Program.
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