Woodland Meadows Neighborhood Assoc

We are officially into our second year as a City of Vancouver Neighborhood Association. We've done a lot in one year and hope to do even more this upcoming year. We held elections at our last general membership meeting and thankfully, Velda and Destiny were reelected as Treasurer and Co-Chair. Our goal this year is to get more involvement from our neighbors. We are hoping that more of you will attend a Meet and Greet, a General Membership Meeting or one of our events. We are a board of four and would really appreciate some more input from our neighbors to help keep ideas fresh and new.

Please consider coming to our next Meet and Greet which will be held at Buenos Dias Restaurant on Saturday, March 22 from 2-3pm..

We will receive 25% (that's 25%!) of sales from Chipotle on Sunday, April 27 between the hours of 4:00pm-8:00pm at the NE Fourth Plain Blvd location (14321 NE Fourth Plain Blvd, Vancouver). We hope that many of our neighbors will decide to go in-restaurant or order on their app their Sunday meal and help us earn some money for our Association. It's a super easy fundraiser as we will provide you the code to use when ordering and BAM! We just earned 25% of your order. We would like to use these funds toward a movie in the park night (or two). Please watch for more info on this in the near future.

As you are most likely aware, we lost another tree and part of one in our park. This park is NOT a city owned park and is actually owned by the residents of 5th Plain Creek Station's HOA. Since it's not a city park, we didn't think we'd be able to tap into some of the City's resources, but when the Mayor of Vancouver was visiting us at our picnic she suggested who to reach out to at the city to receive some free trees. So we did! The forester from the City came and walked the park with our chair, Carrie, and he recommended where the trees should go to promote more of a canopy in the park. We got the okay from the HOA to go ahead with this plan and we are looking at a Fall 2025 plant. The very cool part is that the city will maintain these trees for the first year. We are fortunate to access these free trees and the city's services for our little park. When the planting does take place, we could use a few volunteers to help. We'll send a call out when it gets closer and hope some of you will help.

Officer Jordan Rasmussen is now assigned to our district as our new neighborhood police officer. The NPO’s are the liaisons to the citizens within their district and are available to meet with neighbors to discuss crime issues, livability issues, attend community meetings and to answer questions about crime trends and prevention. These officers are the main contact person for a citizen within a district to go to when there are crime issues or other concerns that the police department can assist them with. These officers work cross departmentally as well to assist citizens with problem solving strategies as well." It is our hope that you will be able to meet him at one of our meetings, meet & greets or events.

it's time to start thinking of our Association's sponsored Second Annual Neighborhood Garage Sale. We will hold the sale as we did last year, the first weekend in June. It will be open Thursday June 5-Sunday June 8. We heard from some that they were unable to participate due to their work schedule, and additionally, through our research we know that Thursday is a popular day for garage salers. You do not have to participate all those days, just the days you can and want to join. There will be an application for you to complete if you'd like to participate. Our HOA rules do not allow for Garage Sales in the neighborhood, but in working with them, we have received permission to do this annual neighborhood event. There will be a $5.00 application donation/fee. This will help us cover the cost of signs which we will post up in the area. We will advertise on social media, too, and each house will receive a balloon to put in front of their house to let people know where the sales are and we will include your address on our map. We may have some spots available in the park so that apartment residents can participate, too. If you have any questions in the meantime, please contact us.

2025 CALENDAR OF EVENTS

Saturday, March 22: Meet & Greet 2-3pm at Buenos Dias Restaurant

Monday, April 14: General Membership Meeting 6:30 pm LocationTBD

Saturday: April 26: Clean up Park/ Neighborhood Event 10:00 am

Sunday, April 27: Chipotle Fund Raiser 4:00pm-8:pm

Saturday May 24: Meet & Greet 10:00am in the Park

Thur-Sun June 5-8: Neighborhood Garage Sale

Saturday, June 14: BIG CLEAN UP EVENT- 8am-1:30pm

Saturday, July 12: Clean Up Park/Neighborhood Event 9:00am

Saturday, June 21: General Membership Meeting 10:00 am in the park

Thursday July 17: Meet & Green 6:30pm in the park

Friday, August 8: MOVIE IN THE PARK ** NEW EVENT***

Sunday, Sept. 7: Neighborhood Picnic

Wednesday, Oct. 22: General Membership Meeting 6:30pm Location TBD

Saturday, Nov. 2: Clean up Park/Neighborhood Event 1:00pm

Saturday, Nov. 8: Neighborhood Food Drive

December: Gift Wrapping Fundraiser - Possibly Breakfast with Santa

This is Jason. He was seen out and about in December picking up trash and not even on his own street! THANK YOU Jason for being a caring neighbor.

If you'd like to help out in our neighborhood, we are having a Clean Up the Park/Neighborhood on Saturday, April 26 at 10:00am. We have all the supplies you need! Mark you calendars and bring the family. The more helpers we get, the faster it goes. You'd be amazed how much trash we pick up off the streets in our neighborhood. Help us take pride in where we live.

We are a positive and proactive group of concerned neighbors who wish to make our neighborhood the best it can be by working together and by securing services that the city has to offer neighborhood associations. We've made some good friends, too. PLEASE consider joining us by attending a meeting or an event. No time to help? Consider making a donation to the Association.

• The Woodland Meadows Neighborhood Association is 100% volunteer run.

• We are not a homeowner’s association.

• We don’t make or enforce rules or collect dues.

• We work with the city to solve neighborhood problems and host events to help bring us closer together.

• We welcome your input!

• We welcome volunteers!

• Get in touch by email –

We are a non-profit and the only funds we receive are from donations, fundraisers and from grants. Making an annual donation (suggested amount $20) will help us to fund events, pay our insurance, and make neighborhood improvements. You can link directly (via Zeffy.com) to our account by scanning the QR code or it can be accessed via our website. We appreciate the few individuals who have already donated to the Neighborhood Association and we thank you in advance for your future donations.

There are several ways you can contact us and we welcome your ideas and feedback. You can access our website at: www.woodlandmeadowsna.com or you can email us at: woodlandmeadowsvanna@gmail.com

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Just search Woodland Meadows Neighborhood Association and you’ll find us.