When
10 am–2 pm
Where
Event description
East County Learn Share Do Fair
Building connections for a more climate resilient community
Saturday, February 24 from 10AM to 2PM
Centennial High School Cafeteria, 3505 182nd Avenue, Gresham
All are welcome. Habrá servicios de interpretación.
- Free lunch
- Free pantry food
- Repair Cafe
- Free chiropractic services
- Household sharps, prescription medication, CFL bulbs, and batteries collection
- Bike helmet giveaway: Get properly fitted for a helmet and take one home for free! While supplies last.
- Clothing swap
- Exhibitor tables
Enjoy fun hands-on activities for the whole family, and pick up free giveaways while supplies last. Visit exhibitor tables and learn about preparing for extreme heat, emergency preparedness, saving energy and money on your utility bills, caring for trees and plants, making non-toxic cleaners, gardening, transportation options, and much more!
You'll leave the East County Learn Share Do Fair feeling hopeful, more connected in our community, and have a deeper understanding of how we can become a healthier and more resilient to climate change.
This event is co-hosted by:
Free Repair Cafe
Get your broken items repaired for free by volunteer fixers in our community. The City and Coalition of Gresham Neighborhood Associations, with Gresham Free Swaps, organize Gresham Repair Cafes to bring people with repair skills together to help neighbors fix their broken items.
Find the current list of items that can be repaired at this event.
Free Clothing Swap
Gresham Free Swaps will be on site to organize the clothing swap. It's not required to bring anything to take something home with you, though you can bring clean clothing that you'd like to donate to the swap. Children's clothing will be included, too.
Free Kid-Friendly Activities
In addition to interactive displays from exhibitors, several kid-friend activities will be offered at the event, including:
- Face painting
- Enjoy a smoothie made by bike pedal power
- Bike helmet giveaway, while supplies last
- Make your own green cleaners
- Creative reuse art projects
- Coloring, stamping, and stickers
- Check out items being repaired on site by volunteer fixers to learn about reuse, reduce, and repair
Free household sharps, prescription medication, CFL light bulbs, and battery collection
Metro will be providing free collection for your medical sharps and epi-pens, prescription medications, and household batteries for free. Check out the items that are accepted at the links below, provided in English and in Spanish.
How to get here
- Trimet
- Parking is available on site for cars and bikes.
Get Involved
Have a table at the event
Sign up for a table. Table and chairs will be provided.
Volunteer at the event
Would you like to help make this event possible? Sign up to volunteer for as little or as much as you like between 8am and 2pm.
