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Café au Play in the News


The Bee:  October 2008

Public art transforms look of former ‘meth store’

The building on SE Division Street, across from Atkinson Elementary School, which started out as a gas station 50 years ago... Read Article

 

MTNA Newsletter:  Fall 2008

More Progress at Tabor Commons

Changes keep coming at Tabor Commons...   Read Article

 

The Bee: April 2008

Grant money and volunteers move ‘Tabor Commons’ project forward

Remember the “drive-through meth stop” on SE Division Street that was busted, closed, and all set to become a community center? ...  Read Article

 

Metro Parent: July 2007

Café au Play’s Moves Forward!

Café au Play’s effort to start a nonprofit community coffeehouse for families keeps brewin'... Read Article

 

Mt Tabor Newsletter: Summer 2007

Support the renovation of the Tabor Commons

Community members need your help to raise $10,000 to renovate the community-owned Tabor Commons building at 57th & Division. Community design workshops have identified three goals for the site: ...  Read Article

 

Southeast Examiner: November 2006

Derelict building gets renovation

Parents and neighbors joined together to review design ideas for a new school/ neighborhood community center being developed on a former drug crime site at S.E. 57th and S.E. Division... Read Article

 

Oregon Humanities: Fall/Winter 2006

Field Work: Vision + Work + Luck.  A kid-friendly coffeehouse finds a home on a former drug site.

This is Kristin Heying's vision come to fruition: three towheaded toddlers run circles around an art deco sofa while a nursing mother chats with a friend, oblivious to the jubilant chaos... Read Article

 

Metro Parent: September 2006

Café au Play, Where Coffee, Community and Kids Come Together

When Kristin Heying moved back to Portland with her 6-month old daughter, she was in the process of becoming a single mom.  Like a lot of parents, Kristin found that having a community of support was a necessity, not a luxury... Read Article

 

 

 

 

 

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