District parents and community members will get a chance to meet the new leader of the Forest Grove School District at a meet and greet event scheduled for September 23 from 6 to 7 p.m. at Echo Shaw Elementary School.
A potluck, representatives from local public safety agencies, prizes, games and more are on tap for the annual National Night Out event held nationwide and in Gales Creek.
PHOTOS: Five years may have passed between the 53rd and 54th Gales Creek Strawberry Festival, but the efforts of volunteers and vendors brought the popular community event roaring back to life.
A meeting to elect officers in the Roy, Gales Creek, and Verboort CPO 13 and hear from Washington County staff on the Council Creek Trail will be held in Banks on June 26.
Until 4 p.m., enjoy the return of the Gales Creek Strawberry Festival with live music, about three dozen food and craft vendors, strawberry shortcake, and so much more.
A group of older adults in rural Banks and Gales Creek who started walking together as part of a study are now deep into the process of funding and installing fitness equipment at Greenville City Park.
The next meeting of the Gales Creek Community Club will be held Thursday, May 23 at 6:30 p.m. inside the Gales Creek Library. The group will also jointly meet with the Gales Creek Neighborhood Watch. Most of the leadership of the community club and the neighborhood watch is involved in both groups.
Move over, CPO 14: the Gales Creek, Roy and Verboort-area Community Participation Organization (enumerated as CPO 13) is also in the process of launching, just weeks after CPO 14 officially launched.
The next meetingand first since the group formally adopted a nameof the Gales Creek Community Club will be held Thursday, April 25 at 6:30 p.m. inside the Gales Creek Library. The Strawberry Festival, National Night Out and more are on the agenda.
The Gales Creek Garden Club will once again clean up the grounds of the Gales Creek Community Church in an all-volunteer effortwith more volunteers soughtto spruce up the downtown anchor on Saturday, May 4 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.