https://youtu.be/Lr2sqKifmNw?si=EMYWp8ABUzPDMcRr

A mother of two has moved into her new Habitat for Humanity home in Cornelius, Oregon, the first in West Tuality Habitat’s Rapid Homestead program. The home dedication event included West Tuality Habitat staff and volunteers, members of the new homeowners extended family, and the Residential Loan Officer from Banner Bank who assisted in helping with the new homeowner's mortgage. Read more and see photos at the link.

https://www.westtualityhabitat.org/press-room/b5up68pf99goapuw2ljrkjd5dwo6yh

¿Necesitas ayuda legal pero no puedes pagar un abogado?

Los servicios de asesoría jurídica gratuita están disponibles para personas de bajos ingresos y pueden ayudarle a navegar por el sistema legal y defender sus derechos.

¿Qué tipo de asesoría puedes obtener?

Los servicios de asesoría jurídica gratuita que puede recibir con problemas legales son:

Derechos de inquilinos, beneficios públicos, derecho de empleados y la ley familiar para víctimas de violencia doméstica.

Si usted o alguien que usted conoce necesita asesoría jurídica no falte.

OLC provee servicios legales civiles a personas de bajos ingresos; como los derechos de inquilinos, beneficios públicos, derechos de empleados y la ley familiar para víctimas de violencia doméstica. No damos asesoramiento acerca del derecho penal. 

Miércoles, Noviembre 13 y Diciembre 11

10 - noon and 1:30 - 3:30

Centro Cultural de Washington County, 1110 N Adair St, Cornelius, OR 97113, United States

https://centrocultural.org/

A local family that bought their first house through West Tuality Habitat for Humanity’s home ownership program in 2002 has paid off their mortgage and now owns their home in Cornelius outright. Donaciano and Dora Dominguez and their children, Sofia, then 9, and Chano, then 5, moved from a mobile home where they had been living into the Cornelius home built by Habitat volunteers and with their own contributions through sweat equity.

The Dominguez home was the third built by volunteers and partners in the West Tuality chapter. The final mortgage payments were made by their now adult son, Chano, who is in the Pharmacy Residency Program at the University of California at Davis. Their daughter, Sophia, is now teaching at Cornelius Elementary School. Donaciano and Dora are now retired.

A celebration was held with the family, along with employees and volunteers from West Tuality Habitat and friends and neighbors to rededicate the house and honor the family’s achievement. In addition to a symbolic burning of the home’s mortgage, remarks were given by Cornelius Jeffrey C. Dalin, staff and board members from West Tuality Habitat, and members of the family.

Read the full story and see photos from the day here:

https://www.westtualityhabitat.org/press-room/paysoffmortgage2024

Thursday, September 26, 2024 

6:30 – 7:30PM

Cornelius Public Library

Local historian Sig Unander is giving a presentation at the Cornelius Library about the greatest natural disaster to hit the region: The Columbus Day Storm.

In the autumn of 1962, an extra-tropical cyclone ravaged the Pacific Northwest. The extensive devastation and prolonged, expensive recovery led to unforgettable tales of survival, resilience, and valuable insights for the times ahead. Click here for more information:

https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/events/6698038f2486bf251bb8351f

El historiador local Sig Unander está dando una presentación en el Biblioteca de Cornelias sobre el mayor desastre natural que ha azotado la región: ¡la tormenta del Día de la Raza!

En el otoño de 1962, un ciclón extratropical asoló el noroeste del Pacífico. La devastación extensiva y la recuperación prolongada y costosa trajeron historias inolvidables de supervivencia, resiliencia y conocimientos valiosos para los tiempos venideros.Has clic aquí para información:

https://wccls.bibliocommons.com/events/6698038f2486bf251bb8351f

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Habitat's homeownership program now taking applications in Western Washington County

Applications are NOW being accepted to own a home in the West Tuality Habitat for Humanity service area (Western Washington County), which includes Cornelius. Habitat's path-to-home-ownership program is designed to make homeownership affordable for moderate, low and very low income households. Read the web page carefully, including the FAQs, before applying and before contacting us with questions. Habitat cannot determine program eligibility prior to the submission of a completed application and we cannot answer questions via Facebook. The deadline to submit your completed form to West Tuality Habitat for Humanity is August 12, 2024. Please read this page carefully for exact steps on how to participate.

https://www.westtualityhabitat.org/how-to-apply

West Tuality Habitat for Humanity held its second home dedication and move in celebration of 2024, this time for the Bautista Family in Cornelius, with about 40 people on hand for the event. Habitat volunteers spent the following days rapidly converting this house from three bedrooms to four bedrooms, to better accommodate the needs of the Bautista Family.

Full story:

https://www.westtualityhabitat.org/press-room/cornelius2024

West Tuality Habitat for Humanity would love to speak to your congregation, business association, social club, community group or employees in Cornelius about the work of Habitat for Humanity in Western Washington County & how you can participate. Email volunteer@westtualityhabitat.org to introduce your group or club and to set up a date!

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We want to help you learn how to keep your home safe and protected from costly home repairs all year round! Staff from the West Tuality Habitat for Humanity critical repair program will lead a free workshop about simple but essential home maintenance for homeowners on Saturday, June 8 at 1pm at the Cornelius Public Library, 1370 N. Adair St (easy to reach by TriMet #57!). The presentation will be in English and Spanish.

¡Queremos ayudarlo a aprender cómo mantener su hogar seguro y protegido de costosas reparaciones durante todo el año! El personal del programa de reparación crítica de West Tuality Habitat for Humanity dirigirá un taller gratuito sobre el mantenimiento simple pero esencial del hogar para propietarios el sábado 8 de junio a la 1 p.m. en la Biblioteca Pública Cornelius, 1370 N. Adair St (fácil acceso por TriMet #57 !). La presentación será en inglés y español.

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Volunteer photographers needed by local Habitat for Humanity affiliate

West Tuality Habitat for Humanity, which serves Western Washington County, has several group volunteering events coming up where volunteers will paint and help with neighborhood cleanups in Forest Grove and Cornelius. But we need volunteers to help take photos of these events!

You can volunteer at just one event or at multiple events as a photographer. You need to have your own smart phone or digital camera and you need to know how to upload these to a shared space of your choosing - a Google photos drive, for instance, or DropBox, or download them onto a flashdrive you can pass onto us - so that we can access and use these photos within two business days of the volunteer event.

You can read a list of dates and more about these volunteering opportunities and the requirements of volunteers, and why we involve volunteers in these roles, here:

https://www.volunteermatch.org/search/opp3808599.jsp

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Washington County and the cities of Beaverton and Hillsboro are conducting a survey to better understand the housing and community service needs of residents. Your answers will help determine how to invest federal resources over the next five years.

It would be great if there are a LOT of responses from Western Washington County - Forest Grove, Cornelius, North Plains, Gaston, Banks, Timber, Buxton, et. al.

Responses are anonymous and should take about 10-15 minutes. There will be a drawing for three (3) $100 gift cards to be awarded from a random drawing at the close of the survey.

https://www.washingtoncounty-or.com/jfe/form/SV_bKqjumYj2l9fSkK

One of the easiest volunteering activities is working an American Red Cross blood drive, and there is a critical shortage of volunteers for blood drives in Washington County, including Forest Grove and Cornelius.

A volunteer goes through an easy online training, and then has to agree to sign up for a shift at least once a month. Shifts are about 6 hours. As a blood drive volunteer - called an Ambassador - you sit at a desk and check people in as they arrive for their donation time. You also keep an eye on people after they have donated and are enjoying the provided snacks, to make sure they don't faint in that 15 minute window after they have finished donating.

You get to sign up for the day, time and place you want to volunteer.

The blood drive could be in a church fellowship hall, in a city hall meeting room, at a conference room at Nike, at a school - and very often, there's guest wi fi provided from the place where the drive is taking place. There's always a place to park nearby and, often, places are near mass transit.

You don't have to do anything at all regarding the actual blood donations.

I have done this kind of volunteering - great time to read, do a Duolingo lesson, or just chat with people before or after their donation.

The Red Cross Cascades Region serves the greater Portland, Oregon metro area, including Washington and Clackamas counties.

It's SO easy to sign up and get started:

https://volunteerconnection.redcross.org/

(disclosure - I was a volunteer for the Red Cross in Washington County for about a year)

As a blood drive volunteer, you can volunteer as much as you want - several times a month or just once a month. On weekends or during the week. Whatever. And the American Red Cross makes it ridiculous easy to sign up, get trained online, and get started elsewhere.

And if you dream of being deployed to disaster zones elsewhere, you first have to have deep experience as a part of your own ARC teams in your own area (disaster action teams, shelter staff teams especially). And the American Red Cross is your way in.

The American Red Cross URGENTLY needs:

• Blood Donor Ambassadors
• Blood Transportation Specialists
• Disaster Action Team members
• Shelter Services staff members
• Disaster Health Services Team (if you are a licensed healthcare provider)
• Administrative help

More info:

https://www.redcross.org/volunteer/become-a-volunteer/urgent-need-for-volunteers.html

Does anyone know what schools, particularly MS/HS serve the Holt Homes Laurel Woods community?

A four photo montage of volunteers posing outside, all wearing very warm work clothes, as well as a photo of little decorative Christmas mailboxes filled with goodies that were distributed to families by the Dwell congregation

A big thank you to members of the Dwell congregation for turning out on a cold morning and joining the community of Cornelius Manor for a neighborhood cleanup organized by West Tuality Habitat for Humanity. These events vastly improve people's homes and quality of life, and bring us all together in a shared purpose.

Want to volunteer with West Tuality Habitat on a community cleanup, a home repair for a vulnerable homeowner, on a house building project or at the ReStore? No skills necessary and you can volunteer as an individual (you don't have to be a part of a group that wants to volunteer). Join us!

Visit our web site for more info:

https://www.westtualityhabitat.org/volunteer

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Are you a resident of Cornelius? The City of Cornelius wants your input to create a Community Vision: an inspiring shared image of the future that guides and unites the Cornelius community, to foster collaboration and empower individuals to work together towards common goals. Click on the link to complete a 5-10 minute questionnaire to share your vision for the future of Cornelius, and to read more about this project.

https://cornelius-vision.squarespace.com/

Has anyone bought/moved into this community by Holt Homes? If so, how do you like it? What would be the assigned middle school for this area?

Recently moved to Cornelius. Curious if there are any plans to build any new businesses, stores, etc.?

The Safe Rest Pods, which opened last October, will move to Cornelius at the end of the month. Once the pods move, they will undergo construction to be equipped with electricity ahead of the hotter summer months. The 30 pods are currently located at SW 17th Ave. and will reopen at their new location at North 4th Ave. in August. They're a partnership between Washington County, the City of Hillsboro, and Open Door HousingWorks, which operates the site.

Jes Larson, the assistant director for the Washington County Department of Housing Services, says the pods will continue to move around Washington County over the next several years as needed until more permanent shelter options are built. The intent is to move more people into permanent housing, Larson said.

"The goal is to have three pod villages in operation at all times across the county until we have the permanent shelter infrastructure in place to replace these temporary options," Larson said.

There are community meetings planned in Cornelius on June 28 and July 11.

https://katu.com/news/local/hillsboro-safe-rest-pods-to-move-to-cornelius-washington-county-department-housing-services

Students from Caitlin Gable school have been volunteering with West Tuality Habitat for Humanity in recent days. They have helped clean up the yards and throw away items for vulnerable home owners in a manufactured home community in Forest Grove, Oregon, many of them seniors and people with disabilities, and helped prepare a lot in rural Washington County (officially part of Cornelius) for home building later this year in this time.

Come #volunteer with us: https://www.westtualityhabitat.org/volunteer

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The Forest Grove ReStore, less than a mile from the Cornelius-Forest Grove border, needs your clean plastic bags! We have plenty of paper bags, but many of our customers prefer plastic bags for small items they buy here at the ReStore. They can have brands on them - just as long as they are not ripped and they are CLEAN. You can drop such off at the Forest Grove ReStore, Monday through Saturday, 9 to 5. Thank you!

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Cornelius Elementary School will be running our annual spring fundraiser campaign, “Lend a Paw,” now through the month of April. 100% of all cash or check donations will come directly to our school and benefit our kids.

If you are not familiar with our school, it serves students in grades preK-4th and provides a two-way Spanish/English immersion program. We are a title 1 school and we serve a low income population. We cannot depend entirely on our students’ families to provide extra funding for enrichment opportunities at our school. We also rely on support from the community. Our goal is to raise $10,000. During our last fundraiser, in 2019, we raised $6,000, with approximately half of this directly from students/families and half from other community/business donations.

If you decide to support our school with a donation your money will be used for things that help support teachers, provide opportunities for students, and build community, such as:

• Classroom field trips
• Classroom supplies and playground equipment
• College campus visits
• Community building events such as our Back to School BBQ and Family Movie Nights

You will be recognized for your generous donation by a thank you on our school reader board, and we will bring you a certificate to display in your business, if you would like. We can also acknowledge you as a partner organization on our fundraising website.

If you have supported our school in the past we thank you many times over. If you are considering supporting us again or for the first time we assure you that your money will brighten the educational opportunities available to our students.

To make a donation, please make checks payable to Cornelius Elementary Parent Club. You may mail your check to the school at the address below or call and request a parent club member to drop by and pick it up. Your donation may be tax deductible, as we are a non-profit.

We hope you will consider “lending a paw” to support your local students.

www.getmovinfundhub.com/register

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Council Creek Regional Trail Survey

The CCRT will be a 6-mile long, car-free, environmentally friendly, off-street multiuse pathway connecting downtown Forest Grove, Cornelius and Hillsboro. It will be located about a quarter mile north of TV Highway and will be part of a network of trails planned to connect the Portland metro area to the Oregon Coast.

Take the survey on Table 5 to share input on:

• Ways you would use the trail
• Trail features you would like to see: wayfinding signs, benches, lighting and more
• Best locations for trail signs, benches and other features
• Important trail access points

ccrt.washcoopenhouses.org/

The Council Creek Regional Trail online open house and survey will be open for public comment April 14-May 14. Also plan to visit with us in person from 4-6 p.m. April 25 at the Cornelius Public Library. Plans for the full 15-mile trail include:

• An east-west segment connecting Hillsboro to Forest Grove (6 miles, in progress)
• A north-south segment connecting Forest Grove and Banks and the Banks-Vernonia Trail (not yet started)

The east-west segment connecting HIllsboro to Forest Grove will use the existing railroad right-of-way between the Hatfield Government MAX station and Forest Grove (21st Avenue and Douglas Street, east of Pacific University). Train traffic has not used this section of railroad since 2015. Preliminary design work on the east-west segment has started. Complete information: https://www.washingtoncountyor.gov/lut/planning/council-creek-regional-trail

The Adelante Mujeres Farmer's Markets in Forest Grove and Cornelius are working with the Oregon Farmers Market Association to conduct a survey of Oregon farmers market customers. Your responses will help these local market better understand customer preferences, and may be useful in decision-making about market operations or securing grant funding to support Oregon farmers markets.

Deadline is NEXT WEDNESDAY, MARCH 1st.

The survey is available in both English and Spanish / la encuesta está disponible en español e inglés.

Participate in a farmers market customer survey and be entered to win a $100 gift card.

https://ucdavis.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_bpdxPYwIXUuvkdo

Some of the places you can volunteer in Cornelius, Oregon include:

Centro Cultural de Washington County

Open Door

Cornelius Fire Department

Cornelius library

Cornelius farmer's market.

Cornelius boards, committees and councils (to support various city services).

You can volunteer at any public school in Cornelius.

You can volunteer at blood donation events in Cornelius through the American Red Cross.

You can volunteer as a troop leader through the Girl Scouts or the Boy Scouts, or help an existing troop with activities or events.

And many communities of faith (churches) in Cornelius, Oregon need volunteers to maintain the grounds (to mow, pick up debris, etc.).

Do you volunteer in Cornelius? Where?

Do you know of other volunteering opportunities in Cornelius?

Also see: Where can you volunteer in Forest Grove? A list of ideas (and add your own).

We're looking for a volunteer with a vehicle to spend a day or two distributing Habitat for Humanity materials to various points around Western Washington County, Oregon (Forest Grove, Cornelius, North Plains, Banks, Gaston, Gales Creek). Mostly libraries and city halls, also maybe posting things on a bulletin board in a grocery store or two. Read more about this volunteering opportunity at our posting on VolunteerMatch:

https://www.volunteermatch.org/search/opp3624298.jsp

Anyone know what’s burning near the library?

Centro Cultural de Washington County, based in Cornelius, invite local teens to participate in a 6-week playwriting residency to learn the essential elements of theatre. Centro Cultural hosts this residency in partnership with Portland Center Stage. Participants will receive a student stipend for their full participation in the residency. Register today: forms.gle/mns9PWz5W6UiQMVu6

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Estamos invitando a los adolescentes locales a participar en una residencia de dramaturgia de 6 semanas para aprender los elementos esenciales del teatro. Esta residencia es organizada por Centro Cultural en asociación con Portland Center Stage. Los participantes recibirán un estipendio de estudiante por su participación completa en la residencia.