While you’re likely familiar with the BWNA bi-monthly newsletter, have you visited the BWNA website lately (BWNApdx.org)? Do you subscribe to the monthly community updates sent via email? All of these communication efforts are made with the goal of keeping our neighborhood informed about the workings of the neighborhood association board, its committees, BWNA-sponsored events, and other news, features, and information of interest to our community.
While a committee to keep all those communication channels in concert with each other was active earlier, it’s been on hiatus for a few years.
An ad hoc (temporary or as needed) committee formed last year to improve upon the website with the help of volunteer webmaster Matt Grainger. The BWNA Board recently conferred full-fledged standing committee status to the group. The committee’s primary goal is to maximize the effectiveness and efficiency of BWNA’s communication with residents via its website, newsletter, and community updates.
The new Communication Committee is comprised of Matt, Jane Feinberg, who is representing the newsletter, volunteer techies Michelle Rudd and Steve Avery, and yours truly.
Committee meetings will be held on the third Tuesday of each month at 4:30 p.m., sometimes via Zoom and sometimes in person. If you’re interested in participating, contact Chair Michelle Rudd (pdx.stmptwn@gmail.com). And if you aren’t already receiving our monthly community updates, visit BWNA.pdx.org and click Subscribe.
A native of the San Francisco Bay area, Al Ellis is a longtime BWNA board member and former editor of this newsletter. Al taught Russian and social studies in Portland schools for over 30 years and has also been active in the Portland-Khabarovsk Sister City Association; he currently serves as vice president. He and his wife Peggy have been B-W residents since 1990.