Villebois Community Garage Sale in Wilsonville Oregon

4 days to go until our neighborhood garage sale

……Saturday, June 12th, 8am-3pm……

We have over 35 homes signed up to participate!

If you haven’t done so already, please bring your fee over to
11730 SW Grenoble St (please place in the plastic green folder that is buried amongst our toys)

****IF YOU DO NOT WANT TO HAVE YOUR OWN GARAGE SALE, PLEASE DONATE YOUR ITEMS TO SOFIA PARK
PROCEEDS WILL HELP FUND OUR NEIGHBORHOOD EVENTS
DROP OFF YOUR ITEMS PRE-PRICED BETWEEN 7-7:30AM

****DONATE YOUR BAKED GOODS AND DRINKS TO SOFIA PARK ANYTIME BEFORE 10AM
PROCEEDS WILL HELP FUND OUR NEIGHBORHOOD EVENTS

We live in the greatest country in the world! The United States of America.

Please take a moment to remember our founding fathers and the values that they instilled in the country’s people, the sacrifices that they made and the vision that they shared for a great America.

This vision never would have become a reality without the service of our country’s men and women who valiantly protect our freedoms and safety both domestically and abroad.  For those men and women who have fallen during their service to our country and its people, we remember you today and pray for you and your family wherever you may be.

GOD bless America.

Happy Memorial Day.

Costa Pacific Homes

Wilsonville, Oregon's Only Farmers Market

Running May 23 through October 3, the Villebois Sunday Market offers a variety of local entertainment, seasonal produce, baked goods and other Oregon farm-fresh products.  Additionally, local artisans, florists and nursery vendors have booths at each event. The market is held in the Village Center in the heart of Wilsonville’s award-winning Villebois community.

Market Entertainment:

May 23rd AM: The Dixie Cups Coffee Appreciation Society Dixie Band are a motley collection of musicians who do not let their respectable lives get in the way of playing Dixie music. Their repertoire includes Dixie classics such as Rampart Street Blues and Just a Closer Walk with Thee, as well as Lynard Skynard’s They Call Me the Breeze and a Dixie version of Raffi’s Baby Beluga.

May 23rd PM: Michele van Kleef Michele has been singing for as long as she can remember. After piano and  voice lessons, theater and musicals through high school, she went to Oregon State University and minored in Vocal Performance.  *Michele has been one of my favorite vocalists since the mid 90’s.  You don’t want to miss her!!

Soon after graduating, she joined the very successful, NW-based Indie band Calobo. They started out playing the NW Colleges, house parties and local bars. After everyone was done with school they decided to go full time in 1994 and toured the country for the next 6 years. They played the Wetlands in NYC, House of Blues in Chicago, The Great American Music Hall in San Francisco, and the epic music festival, Bumbershoot, on the Stadium Stage in Seattle. When all was said and done, Calobo released 5 full length records, the final being recorded Live at the Crystal Ballroom in our hometown of Portland, Oregon.

After Calobo, Michele joined up with LazyBones Recordings as Mackabella in Seattle. They released the self-titled album Mackabella in 2001. Many of these songs have been placed in the TV/Film Industry. Willing has had the most placements:   a  movie trailer for the Johnny Cash story Walk the Line, and spoof of the same film, Walk Hard, among many others.  Additional recent song placements includes VH1, Fox, NBC, T-Mobile, 90210, Lifetime, MTV, South of Nowhere, and Roswell.

Michele took some time off to start a family, but is thrilled to be playing music again. She’s been focusing on her own songs that are true from her heart, sometimes funny, and she is more than ready to share them.
Call 541.206.2471 or email villeboissundaymarket@gmail.com to learn more.

Come & see the Villebois Sunday Market at the Keeping it Local Fair.

The Villebois Sunday Market, Wilsonville Oregon’s only farmers market, is excited to take part in the City of Wilsonville’s Keeping it Local Fair.

Villebois Sunday Market

The Villebois Sunday Market is the only farmers’ market in Wilsonville, Oregon. The 2010 season will run on Sundays from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm. May 23^rd to October 3^rd.

About the Villebois Sunday Market

The Villebois Sunday Market is created to establish operations of a seasonal, open-air market at the Villebois Village Center in Wilsonville.

The objectives of the market are:

(a)   To provide an informal, social gathering place in an open-air setting for the Villebois Sunday Farmers Market community and our neighbors;

(b)   To enhance the Wilsonville business community;

(c)   To give the community access to a wide variety of fresh, local, in-season farm products direct from the producer and to provide a centralized location for local producers to market directly to the buying public.

Additionally, the Villebois Sunday Market is committed to hosting a green market and ensuring that all environmental aspects are considered in the planning and execution of the Market.  We are approaching our events with a pollution prevention perspective in mind in order to reduce its overall environmental impact.

Click here for driving directions to the Villebois community & the Villebois Sunday Market.

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 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.