Join us at the Ruins to celebrate 45 years of protecting livability, agriculture, and wild places! We will close our annual online auction showcasing the beautiful Hood River valley with a celebration with food, drinks, and live music! Come and support our work for years to come.

We're pretty excited about the goodies that we will be auctioning at H is for Harvest, our big fall fundraiser, October 13, 6 pm at The Ruins, Hood River (tickets available here). If you've got your eyes on an item but can't make the event, contact Polly Wood or (541) 490-5443 to place an absentee bid. In keeping with our mission, our live auction also spells S-T-E-W-A-R-D-S-H-I-P:     S is for Summer Art Camp at Leslie Smith’s Kid’s Creations for 7 days. This is the classic Hood River summertime experience and creative release for your little one. Each day camp art session runs from 10 until 3 pm Monday – Friday. Supply your child or grandchild with a sack lunch and they will frolic for hours with various art mediums and let those creative juices flow.              T is for Totally Gorgeous ceramics by Hood…

What is it? Streets Alive! temporarily closes a few traffic lanes in the Heights to vehicles so that people of all ages can freely walk, bike, play and share food, music and art with their neighbors. This will be a day to celebrate what's great about the Heights and Hood River with amazing food, participatory art projects and live music on porches throughout the neighborhood. Check out StreetsAliveHR.com for more info. We'll also be testing out some demonstration street treatments on 12th and 13th Streets based on ideas that Dan Burden suggested in his Heights Walkability Report. The cool kids call it Tactical Urbanism or DIY Urbanism or Planning-by-Doing. We'll be using low-cost materials like chalk paint and haybales to experiment with potential street design changes like curb extensions and protected bike lanes.  VOLUNTEERS needed! Are you a musician, artist, restaurant, Heights’ homeowner, or a resident who wants to be a block captain, roving cyclist, intersection monitor, social media maven, demonstration assembler…

Sunday June 3, 2018 4:00-6:00 pm Columbia Center for the Arts, 211 Cascade Ave., Hood River  4:00–4:30 Informal Social with Appetizers & No Host Bar 4:30–5:30 Presentations & Speakers State of the Hood: Our Year in Review, Heather Staten, Executive Director, HRVRC Making a Welcoming & Livable Community, Mary Kyle McCurdy, Deputy Director, 1000 Friends of Oregon Backdoor Revolution: How and Why to Build an Accessory Dwelling Unit, Kol Peterson 5:30-6:00 Hood River Pear Cake from Polly’s Cakes Drawing for our Electric Bike Raffle! Questions? Contact Polly Wood polly@hrvrc.org or (541) 490-5443. More info at hrvrc.org. Guest Speakers: Mary Kyle McCurdy   Mary Kyle McCurdy earned her BA in Human Biology from Stanford University and her law degree from the University of California at Davis. She served as a law clerk to Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Edward Leavy. After two years in private practice, she joined 1000 Friends of Oregon…

Who needs a car? Electric bikes are a game-changer in Hood River. With a Scott E-Sub Active bike you'll be laughing up 12th Street and doing it in style.  HRVRC is raffling a $2,199 Scott E-Sub Active electric bike. This bike is so cute and so loaded, we all want one! Hills? What hills? Exhilarate with that “hand of God” feeling as you are gently pushed up steep hills with very little effort even when loaded down with the week’s grocery shopping. An ideal commuter bike, the E-Sub Activ has unisex geometry with a wide step through, it's powered by a  Bosch 400 watts battery, and has 50c tires for miles of worry free reliability. Here is more on the specs. Be sure to check out the cute review video starring Hood River's own Jodie Gates and Matt Morrow. Thanks to our friends at Oregon E-Bikes  for making this raffle possible.  Raffle tickets are $20 each…

Doors at 6:30, Forum at 7:00 Columbia Center for the Arts, 215 Cascade Avenue, Hood River Our state and county face some tough problems but we also have great opportunities. Find out how candidates for the Oregon legislature and county commission plan to tackle them. Come enjoy a glass of wine with your neighbors, meet the candidates and ask questions about the issues that matter most to you. Hood River Valley Residents Committee is happy to sponsor this event along with our partners Hood River League of Women Voters and Livable Hood River.     Candidate statements are printed as submitted and not corrected for punctuation, grammar, syntax errors or inaccurate information. Candidates are listed in alphabetical order according to the position for which they are running. Candidate photos were submitted in various formats and every attempt was made to post these here in an equitable manner.   Candidates for Chair…