The Bunny is Coming!

The 3rd Annual Villebois

Easter Egg Hunt

Friday, April 2

(rain or shine—dress appropriately!)

4pm @ Sofia Park

This event is open to EVERYONE – not just Villebois neighbors. But to make this egg hunt a success, we need your help!

If your child is planning to participate, please contribute at least one dozen plastic eggs filled with something (an M and M, a Skittle, a sticker, etc). We need A LOT of eggs so please contribute AS MANY EGGS AS YOU CAN.

We also need the plastic eggs that look like rocks or grass to make it more challenging for the big kids. These are typically available, pre-filled, at Costco or Target.

Please bring your eggs to 29507 SW Venezia on or before Friday, April 2nd at 11 a.m. or bring them to Sofia Park at 1 p.m. on April 2nd to help hide them.

Please consider contributing to the prize basket. These baskets will be filled with new, inexpensive, age-appropriate prizes for the kids who find the golden eggs. You can drop off prizes when you drop off your eggs, but it would help me plan if you tell me you’ll be donating prizes too.

Don’t have kids? Just want to watch or help? No problem! We could really use egg or prize donations, or help hiding the eggs. Or just come and join the fun!

Questions/Comments: Contact Allison Sherman at

allison@sherman.me or 503-709-2317.

OR

For more information about Villebois or the Bunny is Coming Event, please contact Costa Pacific Homes New Home Specialist Andy Green at 866.580.2836 or Blog@CostaPacific.com. The Costa Pacific Homes sales office in the Villebois Village Center is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and Sunday; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays. You may also visit ChangeHowYouLive.com.

Villebois Sunday Market is now accepting 2010 vendor applications.

Interested vendors can download application and handbook at www.villeboissundaymarket.com .  You can also email us at  villeboissundaymarket@gmail.com or pick up the phone and call  (503)913-3114.

Deadline for new and returning applications are due Friday, March 5th.

Take advantage of the local farmers market in the beautiful Villebois community. For more information about the Villebois Sunday Market, visit VilleboisSundayMarket.com. You may also call 866.580.2836 or email villeboissundaymarket@gmail.com.

The Villebois Events Committee (V.E.C.) in Wilsonville, Oregon’s Villebois neighborhood recently announced that it will host a Merry & Bright Party in heart of the award-winning Villebois community this Friday, December 4, 2009.

The event will include caroling, cocoa drinking, cookie eating and all around holiday cheer in the Sofia Park Pavilion in Villebois to mark the official start of the holidays. Villebois and area neighbors are invited to ring in the season together this Friday in the community in which the live, work, play and learn.

The V.E.C. will provide hot cocoa and hot cider. Guests are invited to bring a plate of holiday goodies to share as well as a flashlight. Caroling books will also be provided.

The Merry & Bright Party is just one of the many community activities that homeowners throughout the Villebois neighborhood regularly come together to take part in. The Villebois community is designed as a social environment where homeowners get to know their neighbors and develop lifelong friendships.

Click here for a complete list of Villebois neighborhood activities.

Change how you live. Envision yourself living in this social community.

For more information about Villebois or the Merry & Bright Event, please contact Costa Pacific Homes New Home Specialist Andy Green at 866.580.2836 or Blog@CostaPacific.com. The Costa Pacific Homes sales office in the Villebois Village Center is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and Sunday; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays. You may also visit ChangeHowYouLive.com.

Known for its pedestrian- and bike-friendly nature, the award-winning Villebois neighborhood in Wilsonville, Oregon, offers its residents miles and miles of nearby trails and 160 acres of community green space. A web of paths, nature trails and sidewalks traverse neighborhood parks and green spaces, serving as pedestrian and bike connections between streets and pockets within Villebois. Several major regional pathways also snake through Villebois, including the Tonquin Trail, the Villebois Loops Trail and the Coffee Lake-Wood Trail.

The future of the Tonquin Trail and its connectivity to the rest of Wilsonville and the Portland metropolitan area’s Westside has been one that local residents have watched closely. Metro, the Portland, Oregon area’s regional government, is currently working on the future Tonquin Trail Master Plan, which involves a multi-use regional trail that will connect natural areas, neighborhoods, schools, jobs, shopping centers and transit stops between Sherwood, Tualatin and Wilsonville.

You can now get involved and add your two cents to the planning process of the new Tonquin Trail Master Plan. Attend an open house or share your views online between Dec. 7 and Dec. 21, 2009.

Here are the open house dates:

Tuesday, Dec.8
6:30 to 8:30 p.m.
Tualatin Council Chambers Building
18880 SW Martinazzi Ave.,Tualatin
Co-hosted with Tualatin Parks Advisory Committee

Wednesday, Dec.9
6 to 8 p.m.
Wilsonville City Hall, Council Chambers
29799 SW Town Center Loop E, Wilsonville
Co-hosted with Wilsonville Planning Commission

Thursday, Dec.10
5:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Sherwood Community Room, Sherwood City Hall
22560 SW Pine St., Sherwood
Co-hosted with the City of Sherwood

Click here to view additional information, including area maps, about the Tonquin Trail Master Plan.

For more information about the Villebois or the Wilsonville trail system, please visit: www.ChangeHowYouLive.com or contact Costa Pacific Homes New Home Specialist Andy Green at 866.580.2836 or Blog@CostaPacific.com. The Costa Pacific Homes sales office in the Villebois Village Center is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. weekdays and Sunday; and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays.

Villebois residents of all ages and lifestyles discuss what their families enjoy the most about the unique Wilsonville, Oregon, neighborhood from the close-knit social atmosphere to the variety of community events and activities that bring neighbors together.For more information about the Villebois community, please call 866.580.2836 or email Blog@CostaPacific.com. You may also visit ChangeHowYouLive.com.

Monsters, fairies, witches and clowns: Join neighbors in Wilsonville, Oregon’s Villebois community for the best parade in town! On Halloween, all costumed Villebois residents and anyone else who cares to join – kids or adults – are invited to congregate at the Sofia Park Pavilion in the Villebois neighborhood to march, stroll, ride or roll on a short parade route to kick off the Halloween festivities. The parade starts at 6 p.m. and ends with refreshments and activities. The Villebois community hopes you can join in a ghoulishly good time!

Homeowners throughout the Villebois neighborhood regularly come together for a variety of fun and exciting community activities.

Here are just a few of the many events planned at Villebois:

-          Villebois Sunday Market – Wilsonville’s only farmers market runs every Sunday from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. May through October

-          Easter Egg Hunt – Bring the kids and search for treats in Sofia Park

-          Community Garage Sale – Feel good about getting rid of the items you no longer want

-          4^th of July Parade – Watch neighbors get creative with floats and decorations as you celebrate our nation’s independence  

-          Campout Movie Night in the Park – Join neighbors as you watch old favorites on a projection screen in Palermo Park

-          Oktoberfest – Enjoy German fare while celebrating the festival with friends

-          Potluck Concert in the Park – Bring your favorite side dish and dine al fresco with other Villebois homeowners while listening to local musicians

-          Christmas Caroling – Celebrate the holidays by caroling throughout the neighborhood

-          Bunco and Poker Nights – Try your hand at game night with one of the many groups in the community

-          Ladies Night Out – Meet new friends while you tour area restaurants and bars or meet at neighbors’ homes each month

-          Book Clubs – Join one of the community book clubs and catch up on the latest bestsellers

-          Weekly potluck block parties

Call 866.580.2836 or email Blog@CostaPacific.com today to learn more about life in Villebois. Or visit www.ChangeHowYouLive.com.  

Costa Pacific Communities just announced that Villebois resident and local musician Michele Van Kleef will open for Portland-area adult rock radio station, KINK.FM’s LIVE 12 CD release concert on Sunday, September 27^th in the Villebois neighborhood in Wilsonville, Oregon.

The concert is open to all Portland-area residents and will feature the music of Justin Jude, a musician featured on the KINK Local CD, which the popular radio station will distribute for free to all concert-goers.

In addition, the first 25 people to tour the Villebois models in the Village Center before the show will receive a free copy of the new KINK Live 12 CD and a chance to enter to win for a pair of Tyrone Wells tickets and dinner for two or one night stay at a hotel in downtown Portland. After the concert kick-off on September 27th, the KINK LIVE 12 CD will be released and sold through local Starbucks locations.

For more information about the KINK Concert this Sunday, please call 866.580.2836 or email Info@CostaPacific.com.

The Villebois Sunday Market has been fortunate enough to attract a number of high-quality vendors, and with the help of Costa Pacific Communities and Arbor Custom Homes, Wilsonville, Oregon’s farmers market was able to expand onto a gravel area off Villebois Drive in the heart of the award-winning Villebois neighborhood.

Unfortunately, gravel is not wheelchair-accessible, and so the Villebois Sunday Market has had to restructure its market map, reducing the number of available spaces to vendors.

The Villebois Sunday Market is committed to standing by its founding objectives:

- To provide an informal, social gathering place in an open-air setting;
- To provide a community-building event in Wilsonville’s Villebois Village Center;
- To give the community access to a wide variety of fresh, local, in-season farm products direct from the producer; and
- To give local producers a centralized location to provide customers with a wide variety of fresh, local, in-season farm products.

This means that the Villebois Sunday Market has had to re-evaluate some of its non-farmer vendors, so that the market could make more space for farmers who sell produce. So, if you are missing a vendor who is no longer at the market, please feel free to contact the Villebois Sunday Market Manager at villeboissundaymarket@gmail.com, and she will do her best to put you into contact with the vendor you miss.

Speaking of vendors… Don’t miss the fresh strawberries that are currently for sale in the Villebois Sunday Market. Visit the United Farm booth next to Café Fratelli’s coffee stand. United Farm picks its strawberries fresh every Sunday morning before the market, so you can rest assured you are getting the very freshest fruit possible!

Take advantage of the local farmers market in the beautiful Villebois community before it closes for the winter on October 18^th. For more information about the Villebois Sunday Market, visit VilleboisSundayMarket.com. You may also call 866.580.2836 or email villeboissundaymarket@gmail.com.

Costa Pacific Communities recently announced that Tracy Baker of Wilsonville, Oregon, joins the Villebois Sunday Market as the new market manager. Market contact information remains the same. If you have any questions, please feel free to e-mail Tracy Baker at VilleboisSundayMarket@gmail.com.  

Additionally, as school starts and the days grow shorter, we are quickly slipping into fall. With the change in seasons, comes a change in goodies at the Villebois Sunday Market in the heart of the Villebois neighborhood! The last day of the market season is October 18^th, so don’t miss your last opportunities to pick up fresh vegetables, seasonal plants or start your holiday shopping early!

AND – Don’t miss concert rock violinist Aaron Meyer’s performance at the Villebois Sunday Market on September 20th between 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. Listen to Aaron’s cutting-edge music while you browse the market.

Visit villeboissundaymarket.blogspot.com for all the latest details about vendors and market events or call 866.580.2836.

Local adult rock radio station, KINK.FM, recently announced plans to kick-off the launch of its latest KINK LIVE 12 CD with a concert open to all Portland-area residents in Villebois’ own Palermo Park in Wilsonville, Oregon, on Sunday, September 27^th.

The concert will feature the music of Justin Jude, a musician featured on the KINK Local CD, which the popular local radio station will distribute for free to all spectators at the concert this month.

Plus! The first 25 people to show up and tour the Villebois models in the Village Center an hour prior to the show will receive a free copy of the new KINK Live 12 CD! While touring the Villebois Village Center, you can also enter to win for a pair of Tyrone Wells tickets and dinner for two as well as a one night stay at a hotel in downtown Portland. After the concert kick-off on September 27^th, the KINK LIVE 12 CD will be released and sold through local Starbucks locations.

For more information about the KINK Concert in the Villebois neighborhood, please call Andy Green at 866.580.2836 or email Blog@CostaPacific.com.