VOLUNTEERS STILL NEEDED for Open Streets - Get a free T-shirt & more!
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The Corvallis Sustainability Coalition is a proud co-sponsor of Open Streets! It’s an amazing event – and we hope you’ll be part of it as a volunteer.
On Sunday, June 28, from 11 am to 3 pm, a stretch of city streets will be closed to motorized traffic between Riverfront Park and the Skate Park in Downtown Corvallis (see route map), so that people can use them for walking, rolling, dancing, playing, and socializing. Activity hubs along the route will include local food and drink, live music, giant-sized games, and more. Neighbors, community organizations, and businesses will host interactive activities.
The success of Open Streets depends on volunteers – people like you who offer to help for a couple of hours to make the festival happen. In return, volunteers get a free t-shirt, coffee and pastries, tamales, and a voucher for Go Giddy Pops.
We especially need people to serve as Intersection Superheroes to make the event fun and safe by:
- Answering questions and handing out event maps
- Redirecting most cars
- Escorting (walking) local residents driving their cars to/from their homes
As a bonus, intersection superhero volunteers will get a free drink voucher for Common Fields.
Visit the Open Streets volunteer page to sign up for a specific location and time.
Thank you in advance for your help!
Jay Thatcher
Neighbors
Gather on Sunday at 10:15 am for a bike bus experience. If you have some portable tunes, bring them.
Starting at 10:30 am, we'll pedal together from Riverbend Park to Riverfront Park, then disperse to play at Open Streets. We'll stop along the way at Lilly Park (at about 10:45) to pick up anyone waiting there.
Find more information about our route at www.openstreetscorvallis.org/bike-bus
We'll be tracing the planned route of the Southtown
neighborhood bikeway.
See you there!
Jay T.
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About 25 people came on the Corvallis Ride of Silence on 5/20/2026. It's a reverent, simple and powerful way to witness and claim a presence on our streets. See you on 5/19/2027!
I think of this as my convincement experience. In the
depths of my depression and disbelief, I was convinced–reached
and changed–by the Spirit. Early Quakers talk about
convincement as an awakening of a witness that God has placed
in every human heart. A witness that testifies to God’s
reality and living presence. This describes what I
experienced: It was like some capacity for attention in me got
a kick in the rear.
When I walked into a Quaker meeting after these experiences,
it struck me that I was among people waiting for help from a
power greater than themselves. Here were people who had seen
the limits of their own capacities and imaginations; their
waiting worship was a sign of this. They were yielding
human-made religion–all our varied attempts to climb a ladder
toward God under our own steam–and trusting they would be
taught by God directly, as he climbs down the ladder right
into the messiness of our lives. Here was a community whose
life was, at its best, given shape by the leadership of this
Guide, a community not gathered by human hands.
-Matt Rosen, Awakening the Witness, Pendle Hill Pamphlet 492 (2025)