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Won't you be my neighbor? Babysitting, a car-share club, yoga classes, and a sense of place: One Portland community proves that neighborliness is more than just potluck dinners.

Publication: Sunset
Publication Date: 01-JUN-09 		Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Won't you be my neighbor? Babysitting, a car-share club, yoga classes, and a sense of place: One Portland community proves that neighborliness is more than just potluck dinners.(First on the block)

Article Excerpt
DO GOOD FENCES REALLY MAKE GOOD NEIGHBORS? Lisa Gambee of Portland and her fellow residents in that city's Cully district don't think so.

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Gambee, a marketing and design consultant, is the founder of the Ainsworth Street Collective, a group of more than 50 community-minded individuals and families interested not just in the needs of their northeast Portland neighborhood but also in those of the planet as a whole.

"The neighborhood was in a bit of transition, and there was an odd and wonderful energy starting," says Gambee, describing the happy confluence of events when she moved there with her husband, John, and their now 11-year-old daughter back in 1999. "I mentioned to my friends Markus Stoffel and Abby Mages that we were moving here. It turned out they lived on the same street. Then my sister moved into the neighborhood. Several multi-generational families were...

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