Archive for the ‘Portland’ Category

2010 Valentine’s Ball

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

Looking to get Valentine’s Day weekend off to a fun start? Get your tickets for tonight’s 4th Annual Valentine’s Ball to support the Oregon Active Foundation. The Oregon Active Foundation is a 501(c) (3) non-profit dedicated to providing outdoor adventures for those in our community that are affected by life-challenging conditions. The Oregon Active Foundation focuses on facilitating these adventures for young adults battling cancer, at-risk children in challenging situations, and members of our community with disabilities.

Grab a group of friends or invite that specal someone to join in the fun and dancing tonight. ORA will be hosting a silent and live auction with items including, but not limited to: kiteboarding lessons, “meet and greet” with Blazer Rudy Fernandez, state-wide adventure getaways, horseback wine tours, and fly fishing tours. 

When: Thursday, February 11, 2010. 7:30pm-12am. Doors close at 8pm.

Where: Crown Ballroom, 918 SW. Yamhill, 5th Floor.

Attire: Formal attire encouraged.

Cost: $45 at the door. Proceeds support the Oregon Active Foundation and the great work they do for the Oregon community.

What’s Next For Sustainable Building?

Wednesday, February 10th, 2010

Dennis Wilde, principal at Gerding Edlen Development, kicks off the Real Estate Sustainability Series with a discussion of the proposed Oregon Sustainability Center. This Net Zero project is a collaborative effort to build the most environmentally responsible high-rise ever attempted, anywhere.

Join in on the discussion with a Q&A session following the program.  February 25 , Arlington Club (811 SW Salmon Street). Registration begins at 4 pm, program begins at 4:15pm.

RSVP to Kelsey at khultengren@perkinsaccounting.com or 503.221.7548.

Nature: So Beautiful, So Exquisite

Tuesday, January 19th, 2010

Join the celebration of nature, by volunteering your time and energy to something you love and want others to enjoy. Oregon Metro offers up different volunteer programs for different folks. Whether it is the fun of showing both children and adults alike how to discover nature or doing restoration projects, you will discover something within yourself.  This site also gives information on activities to do, places to go and sustainable living. So give an hour do teach someone, something new!

Move to Portland’s Pet friendliest apartment community and join CyanPaws!!

Friday, January 15th, 2010

   Do you occasionally need someone to feed your cat, or take your dog for a walk?

Are there times you’d like a dog-sitter, without paying the pricey daycare fees? 

Do you think it’d be nice to let your pet socialize with other pets through play dates or walks?

 Join the only social networking site for downtown Portland area apartments created for The Cyan’s animal owners:

Cyan Paws!

Get you and your pet moved in to the Cyan and Create a profile on www.cyanpaws.ning.com

The once lost fish has now been found! Hear its brave story!

Sunday, December 27th, 2009

For weeks now the Cyan has been mourning the loss of one of our two clown fish twins. Its disappearance and lack of physical evidence (no floating fish body) was somewhat of a mystery to all of our residents; “one moment it was swimming around having a great time and the next….gone” exclaimed one distraught residents. Even after putting our best detective skills to work we came up empty handed. For all our efforts we could not solve the mystery of the disappearing clown fish twin.

clownfish

Over the next few weeks we continued to search for any signs of our lost friend with no luck. Our other clown fish wouldn’t give up the search and seemed heart broken, never leaving the top of the tank. With the loss of its twin clown fish it looked like we would lose our other clown fish too.  After we had given up all hope on ever knowing what had happened to our fishy friend its twin gave us a sign! While cleaning out the 85 gallon tank our other clown fish would not move from the filter area and time and time again tried to swim up the filter hose. That’s when we saw it! A flipper slap the top of the water in the over flow filter! After some wrangling around the filter tank we found our clown fish was safe and sound!! For two weeks our little friend had kept itself alive swimming around in the over flow tank after being sucked up into the filter system.   

 reunited!

Today our clown fish twins are reunited and happily swimming around the Cyan tank with all of their other fishy friends! If you are interested in meeting this heroic little swimmer stop by the Cyan leasing office and we will introduce you.

Mayor Sam Adams’ Year in Review

Monday, December 21st, 2009

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2009 Year-in-Review, at a glance:

  • Doing what’s needed now: delivering more support and funding for small businesses, students, artists and Portlanders facing homelessness and unemployment;

 

  • Building for what’s needed tomorrow: committing to aggressive climate action goals, industry and job creation targets, and a comprehensive plan to create the Portland we all want for the next 25 years;

 

  • Bringing everyone to the table: working side-by-side with entrepreneurs, community leaders, activists and local, state and federal government to get what we need and share what we have.

To see more and watch a few videos go to http://www.portlandonline.com/mayor/.

Greendrinks Portland

Tuesday, December 15th, 2009

35Join them for good beers, good conversation and a chance to network with other environmentally minded people.

 

 

 

WHEN: Every first Tuesday of the month at 7:00 pm.

WHERE: Main Lobby on the first floor of the Ecotrust Building, 721 NW Ninth Avenue. 

FEATURING: Hot Lips Pizza and Beer

SIGN UP: Here

The Cyan gets ready for the Holidays!

Thursday, December 10th, 2009

After a trip out to the Beaverton Holiday U Cut Family Tree Farm ( http://www.holidayucut.com/ ) yesterday the Cyan is now ready for the Holidays! So come down to our community Living Room, grab a cup of hot coco, and watch the lights of our Holiday tree twinkle.

Cyan Holiday Tree

Holiday Trees Improve the Environment

  • Each acre of Holiday Trees provides the daily oxygen requirements of 18 people, converting CO2 to Oxygen.
  • For each Holiday Tree that is cut, we replant a new tree each year.
  • 93% of real trees are recycled into mulch and used in landscaping and gardening or chipped and used for playground material, hiking trails, paths and walkways. They can be used for beachfront erosion prevention, lake and river shoreline stabilization and fish and wildlife habitat.
  • Artificial Trees are manufactured with PVC, a non-biodegradable, petroleum-derived plastic. These put toxins into the air during production and are non-biodegradeable and non-recycleable, meaning they will end up in a landfill after their lifecylce is finished.
  • A single farmed tree absorbs more than 1 ton of CO2 throughout its lifetime.
  • The lightest environmental impact provides for families cutting trees from a local tree farm that focuses on safe and conscientious practice.

Cyan/PDX Yoga is back! Classes will be every Monday, commencing on Monday, December 7th!

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009

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Civil War!!

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009

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