Hoodland Community Planning Organization, October 2025

We look forward to the beginning of the school year.  Take care when driving to keep all of our children safe. Schools are an important community asset. They provide the physical infrastructure for education from pre-K to Seniors and other community workshop space. Our area does not have a community space as we once had at the Dorman Center. That space for meeting has not been replaced and there is no plan to provide a useful space for the entire community to use. Our hope is that additional space at one of the current school buildings may serve the many (15 +/-) active non-profits in our area sometime in the future.

Most of you know that the mission of the Hoodland Community Planning Organization (HCPO) is to bring County information to our Hoodland community members and provide a loud voice back to the County. Currently, we are requesting funding from the County for postage to let the community know we exist. An alternate request is to put a short communication in with the property tax mailing each year.

The next Community meeting will be on Thursday, October 16th at 7 p.m. in the Osprey Room at the Mt Hood Oregon Resort, Fairway Drive, Welches, Oregon. There will be cookies. Our speaker will be Arron Bayer, Superintendent of the Oregon Trail School District. Superintendent Bayer works with the District Board of Directors to ensure all Oregon Trail students arrive at the future they deserve. He has served as Oregon Trail School District Superintendent since fall 2011. He will be speaking on specific challenges the school district faces and plans to meet those challenges efficiently and effectively. Please come and see the plans.

Also speaking at the October meeting for the Mountain Minute segment is Seth Tinker, owner and operator of the Hoodland Sports and Fitness Gym in Welches. Seth will share the benefits of gym workouts, whether slow going plans to basic fitness or more challenging workouts. He can also address the fully paid memberships under some Medicare and other health plans. 

Please write to us, we welcome your comments on any matter. Also please write to us at: Hoodlandcpo@gmail.com to get on our mailing list. 

In the Hoodland Emergency Communication Network (HECN), we now have 51 members with radios and 30+/- who are interested in joining us. The installation of the Rhododendron repeater will help our neighbors to the East more easily access a repeater and extend their reach.  If you want to join in, or simply learn about GMRS Radio please write to us at HECN.hoodlandcpo@gmail.com

Thanks to all of you who continue to support this community.

“It Takes This Village”