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This special edition of Faith News is dedicated solely to the community resilience event THIS Saturday. Below you will find the flyer, schedule for the day and details about what to look forward to THIS Saturday.

How you can help?
Thanks to the whole congregation for helping making this event a success!

What's happening on Saturday?

Community of ChristChurch in Hillsboro, OR, in partnership with Washington County Public Health Emergency Preparedness is hosting a community resiliency event on Saturday July 23rd from 10am – 3pm. This event will focus on preparing our community for long term sustainability by sharing community resources and interactive workshops.

Wondering what to do about lunch during the event?
El Taco Yucateco will be parking in our lot and selling authentic Mexican food for lunch.

Where to park during the event?
Additional parking will be available at the Liberty High School Student parking lot. Thanks to our sister congregation Bethel Lutheran Church in NE Portland we will be providing a shuttle from the Liberty High School Student parking lot to the church.

To avoid getting stuck to the DEQ line please follow the signs to the Liberty Student parking lot where a van will shuttle attendees back and forth.

Family fun!
Bright Start day care center will be helping supervise playtime in the gym. Tamara, an emergency medical specialists will be at our event making balloon animals. This is a family friendly event!

Door prizes!
Some of our vendors have generously agreed to contribute a door prize. Everyone that attends will be eligible to win a prize. Several prizes will be awarded.

Live music!
The worship team will be playing two songs at the event.

Non-profits & vendors attending (more may be added):

Community Action
Family Promise Washington County Oregon
HAM Radio -ARES
Hillsboro Fire and Rescue /Community Emergency Response Team (CERT)
InStove
Interfaith Disabilities Network of Oregon
Medical Reserve Corps
OHSU University Center for Excellence in Developmental Disabilities
Oregon Food Bank
OSU WA County: Master Recycling
Permaculture - Witch Hazel Design
Phlush
Quake Up - Hillsboro
Red Cross
Thrive - Freeze Dried Food

Washington County Sheriff's Office
Washington County Solid Waste & Recycling Program

Full Details for the day:

10 am - Doors open: Visit Vendors!

10:15 am -11:15 am Keynote Speaker - Community Resilience: Alice Busch

Alice currently serves as the Operations Division Chief for Multnomah County Emergency Management, MCEM. Her role includes managing the office’s training, exercise, duty officer, and community preparedness programs. She is also responsible for ensuring overall operational readiness and the staffing and management of the Emergency Operations Center. Prior to her roles with MCEM, Alice worked as an Emergency Manager for the Department of Human Services. Her work with Human Services involved Mass Care and Sheltering, Continuity of Operations, Disaster Behavioral Health, and Donations and Volunteer Management planning. Alice started her career in the fire service. During her 21 years with the fire department, Alice served as an Emergency Manager, EMT, Public Information and Education Officer, Critical Incident Stress Manager, Fire Inspector and Fire Investigator.

11:15 pm - 11:45 pm Visit vendor booths

11:45 am - 12:45 pm Permaculture: Julian Dominic, Witchhazel Design

Permaculture, in its simplest form, stems from the words “permanent” and“agricultural”/“culture”. While mimicking the patterns in nature, permaculture is an intentional design language. It seeks to meet human needs through careful ecological planning and regenerative design methods while caring for the earth, her people and always having an abundance to share. A sort-of spicy form of small and large-scale landscaping!

Wondering about lunch?

El Taco Yucateco food truck will be parking in our lot and selling authentic Mexican food for lunch.

12:45 pm - 1:45 pm Tortillas and Climate Change - Tortilla making and tasting (limited seating): Julian Dominic, Witchhazel Design

Nixtamal is the old process of cooking corn with an alkali to make it more bio-available and healthy. Stemming from the old Aztec word from the Nahuatl language, “Nixti” = Ashes and “tamal”=corn dough, this process will be hands-on as we explore the historical cuisine and cultural history of corn as a revered figure in history. We’ll be cooking, learning about and eating home-grown, fresh-girdled-tortillas while meeting our neighbors and deepening our passion for community resilience. This session is limited to 20 participants, sign up when you arrive.

1:45 pm - 2:45 pm Disaster Sanitation - What to do with Pee and Poo: Jeff Holiman, Phlush (Public Hygiene Lets Us Stay Human)

Geologists predict a Cascadia Subduction Zone megaquake in the Pacific Northwest. Governments and households are considering the consequences:

  • What are we going to do when the toilets don’t work?
  • What’s going to happen to sewer infrastructure?
  • Do we have the knowledge and materials we need to build safe, functional household and multi-household toilet systems?
  • Shouldn’t we plan now for more resilient sanitation systems?

Jeff Holiman from Phlush will be sharing with us the answers to these questions. For more info on Phlush go here.

2:45 pm - 3:00 pm Visit vendor booths

3:00 pm Event ends


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