Weekend Get-Out Guide: Nov. 20 - 22

By KATU.com Staff Published: Nov 19, 2009 at 4:54 PM PST Last Updated: Nov 19, 2009 at 5:27 PM PST
Weekend Get-Out Guide: Nov. 20 - 22

Get out and explore with our Weekend Get-Out Guide for Friday, Nov. 20 to Sunday, Nov. 22. Step into a turn-of the-century jailhouse, park free in downtown Portland, cut an organic Christmas tree, help clean a city park and more:

Dancing with the Portland Stars

Dancing with Portland's Stars
This week through 4 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, the Assistance League is holding a fund-raising dance-off between local celebrities for its children's program. Dancers. Vote for your favorite by donating at least $10 (100% deductible). Each dollar equals one vote for the dancer of your choice.

Philentropist, Flickr Creative Commons

 Arendt's Christmas Tree Farm in Aurora, Ore.
The Christmas tree season is kicking off! On Saturday, Nov. 21, the Arendt family opens its tree farm along with other farms in the area. This one is halfway between Portland and Salem off I-5 exit 278 (then 4 miles west). It's $25 each for any size organic Noble or Frazer fir. This farm is reportedly the state's sole organic tree farm.

Portland Parks & Recreation is holding a work party at this Powell Butte meadow in November.

Portland Parks work parties
Dig into South Portland's great outdoors. Join the Riverbanks Work Party at Willamette Park's south-end picnic shelter starting 9 a.m. Saturday. Work hand in hand with Portland's Park & Recreation Department to get its outdoor spaces in ship shape. The "party" goes through noon. Directions; more Parks work parties

Heslin House Museaum

 Heslin House Museum and City Jail
Want an inside look at a local turn-of-the-century Multnomah County jail? You'll find it - and the historic Heslin House Museum (left) - open for tours 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 21, at 60 Main St. in Fairview, Ore. Find photographs, maps, artifacts. Donations go to the Fairview Rockwood Wilkes Historical Society.



 

Free Parking Downtown Promotion
Get to downtown Portland between 10 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Saturday, and park free for the rest of the day at any Smart Park garage downtown. The first 150 shoppers at participating retailers to spend $50 get a $50 American Express gift card from the  kiosks at 401 S.W. Morrison St. or 719 S.W. Morrison St. (1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday only). Smart Park locations.
Want more events? Check out our entertainment calendar and our outdoor calendar (scroll down on this one) for events posted by others in the KATU.com community. Feel free to add events of your own.

NEW: Now you also can check out events in your own Portland-area or Southwest Washington neighborhood. Simply go to KATU's new Neighborhoods section, select a neighborhood, and click "Events" at the top of the page. We know at least one of our Web producers will be heading out to an event on that list: Evergreen High School's theatre rendition of "The Outsiders."

Hope to see you out and about!