Community Events Portland, Oregon
Trackers has a strong community that surrounds it and helps it thrive. In a way its our Four Guilds of Rangers, Wilders, Mariners and Artisans come to life. Required Read our Reminders, Boundaries and Needs (below) to see if this event is a good fit for you.
Upcoming Community Events
Trackers
Community Picnic & Archery Tournament
June 1, 2013
Who Hosted by the Rangers Guild
What Picnic, Rangers Apprenticeship Gradutation, Archery & Horseshoe Tournament
When Saturday, June 1, 2013, 11am-4pm
Where Bull Run Educational Center, 41515 SE Thomas Rd, Sandy, Oregon 97055 (in the campground)
Free Jumpstart the summer and join us for community picnic potluck in Sandy, Oregon. There will be archery and horseshoe tournaments (fun for all skill levels), opportunities for exploration in our beautiful forest, primitive skills demonstrations, and even the graduation of this year's Teen Rangers Apprenticeship (First Class!). Bring your family and a potluck dish. Trackers will be BBQing hot dogs for everyone. This Outdoor Gathering takes place at our new collaborative location with the Bull Run Educational Center. We welcome your family to explore its over 90-acres of forest in the sunshine of a Saturday in June.
Day's Events...
9am-11am OPTIONAL help with park clean-up and service projects
11am-12pm Teen Rangers Apprentices teach visiting families wilderness skills: bow drill, archery, hut building, blacksmithing, and tracking
Noon Fire up the BBQ and begin the Potluck. Eat! Eat!
12:30pm-1pm Graduation ceremony for the first class for Teen Ranger Apprenticeship
1pm-3pm Archery, Horseshoe and Badminton Tournaments.
3pm-3:30pm Tournament Awards!
3:30pm-4pm Event ends
RSVP on Facebook RSVP on Facebook or just come. Feel free to invite friends and family!
Important! Reminder to All
For All These events are open to everyone but are NOT OFFICIAL Trackers programs. They are opportunities for people and families to come to together to share similar interests and potluck food. Space and website outreach is donated by the organization of Trackers Earth as a community service.
By Attending Any Community Event You Recognize All Truths Below...
For Parents Always family friendly, these community events often include Trackers instructors on their own personal time. As many of them consider teaching their life, conversation about programs is appropriate, but we also request these events be considered primarily social. Our staff is not necessarily there to work. They are a place where adult beverages (beer among others *gasp*) may be responsibly consumed and people are not simply in "teacher mode". We assume parents will understand this in order to take the opportunity to engage the great community Trackers provides.
For All These events are open to everyone but are NOT OFFICIAL Trackers programs. They are opportunities for people and families to come to together to share similar interests and potluck food. Space and website outreach is donated by the organization of Trackers Earth as a community service.
Boundaries and Needs
Trackers requires an environment that keeps the community and every individual safe. If you can agree to and follow the terms below, then please come. If you cannot, then choose to go elsewhere.
- Absolutely NO DRUGS allowed No compromises. Not on your person, in your pack, your car or anywhere. Not abiding this will get you banned from every Trackers location for life.
- Respect beginning and ending times We have volunteers overseeing most events so we need to value their time.
- We do not accept dangerous activities, incurring emotional distress beyond the scope of our volunteers and staff, racist, sexist and otherwise bigoted behavior, accusatory and aggressive unsolicited advise, expectations that participants or staff conform to another person's aggressively specific moral values and overwhelming, unspoken or indirect verbal, written or physically aggressive behavior.
- We don't throw wild parties This means respecting that we live in a neighborhood. We will shut the party down or ask specific instigators to leave at the first sign of things growing beyond the original scope.
- Don't congregate outside ESPECIALLY with alcohol The latter practice is illegal and we will ask you to leave the premises immediately. The former practice is out of respect to the families that live around us.
- Know what you bring to potlucks Never risk people's safety with improperly prepared or poorly identified food. A couple of banned food items...
- Wild carrots are NOT allowed (misidentified to easily)
- Wild mushrooms that are NOT clearly and easily identified are NOT allowed
- Any plant, animal or mushroom with a clear poisonous look alike are NOT allowed
- We get to ask anyone to leave if they are mean to us or anyone else Nuff' said
