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We Are A Vendor For “The Longest Day” Event!

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Let’s celebrate the Summer Solstice at “The Longest Day” Event

A benefit for the Alzheimers Association

Please join us and my fantastic vendors/donors and become a part of our team, “Walking on Sunshine!”, as we celebrate this special day ushering in the summer season by supporting a cause near and dear to many of us. Alzheimer’s disease robs families and communities of treasured members. It touches, or will touch, all of us. Let’s come together and help put an end to this cruel disease! Your help and friendship mean the world to us!

Details:

When:
June 20th, 2024
5:30 – 8:00 PM

Where:
Ruzzo’s Retreat
15252 OR-224
Clackamas, OR 97015

What to expect:

  • Live music with: Pontiac Nights
  • Ruzzo Beverages
  • Food carts
  • Vendors
  • Silent Auction
  • Family-friendly event

Sponsored by:

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Ready For The Next Chapter?

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EVERYONE’S NEXT CHAPTER IS DIFFERENT.

ARE YOU CONSIDERING relocating or downsizing? Is your family growing or reducing in size? Are you planning for your financial estate, power of attorney or medical future? Are you looking for senior assistance, or do you need to understand how your insurance coverage will be affected with a new lifestyle change?

You are invited to hear from professionals who will share updated information to help you move forward into your next life chapter. In this casual gathering you will have the opportunity to talk to qualified professionals in a variety of industries. This forum will help you create a solid strategy to advance toward your future goals... Read the rest

The Move Makers Celebrates 2022 National Senior & Specialty Move Managers Week

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The National Association of Senior Move Managers (NASMM) has designated the week of September 11-17 as National Senior & Specialty Move Managers Week. During this recognition week, NASMM and NASMM members around the world are promoting the value of Senior & Specialty Move Management and Move Managers’ commitment to assisting older adults and their families with later lifestyle transitions and individuals who have unique needs.  

Senior & Specialty Move Managers assist adults and their families with both downsizing to remain in their current home, as well as the entire process of moving to a new residence. Move Managers specialize in helping their clients with the emotional and physical aspects of sorting through a lifetime of memories in the transition process, while providing them with effective options and resources to increase efficiencies and reduce stress... Read the rest

The Move Makers are Certifiably Awesome

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Professional development is a very important part of our mission at The Move Makers.  Since our clients engage us to help them make important decisions about their personal belongings and navigate the process of moving and creating a new home, our Project Managers and Professional Organizers routinely earn professional certifications in several industry-related areas, the better to serve them. Here’s a snapshot of our achievements:

Operations Manager Rachael Langtry is certified as a SMM-C (Certified Senior Move Manager) by NASMM, the National Association of Senior and Specialty Move Managers. NASMM sets high standards and protocols for the senior move management industry, and, according to the NASMM website, an SMM-C certification “exemplifies an expanded knowledge of essential operation and client service issues unique to Senior Move Management.”.. Read the rest

Gratitude In Trying Times- A Look Back at our Blessings

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2020 will go down in the books as one of the more challenging, strange and seemingly endless years in recent history.  The stress of illness, politics, and economic downturn for many can make it difficult to reflect on what we are truly grateful for.  But self-reflection and gratitude can be a healthy way of dealing with the present and help keep a focus on the future, with the hope of good things to come.

Our Move Makers team kept busy through the pandemic, and for that, we are most grateful.  Adapting and working with our community partners and individual home owners has been challenging but we took it in stride and kept going. .. Read the rest

Tools 4 Troops: Helping Veterans with Tool Donations

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Some movies make us laugh, some movies make us cry. But for Pete Wall, the film Pearl Harbor made him look at ways to help veterans. A few short months after viewing that fateful film, he formed Tools4Troops and has helped change the lives of veterans.

Pete, a retired sustainable construction specialist, teamed with Coast Guard veteran, Realtor and property manager Pat Dillow on a mission to deliver donated tools to both active duty and discharged veterans. Since 2014, Tools4Troops has supplied tools to over 4,000 veterans.

There is a real need for tools and supplies for veterans leaving the military and entering the job force. According.. Read the rest

The Move Makers Take A Look Back at 2019. It was a Great Year!

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Year number six is in the books for The Move Makers, and what a year it was!  We continue to grow and have assisted with many move outs and move ins in 2019, all while taking the stress out of the process for our wonderful clients and their families.

In 2018, The Move Makers achieved A+ Accreditation by the National Association of Senior Move Managers (NASMM), the leading professional organization for Senior Move Managers in the world.  This year, our founder Carolyn Rowe was elected to the NASMM Board of Directors, and looks forward to her role on the leadership team... Read the rest

A Better Way to Bag

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They’re one of the more ubiquitous items in our kitchens, often stuffed into a drawer or basket or shoved hastily under the sink.  They’re plastic grocery bags and in Lake Oswego and other parts of Oregon, they’re facing a hasty demise.

As of July 1, 2019, Lake Oswego has ordered a ban on all plastic carry out bags in retail establishments over 10,000 square feet (think grocery and big box stores), with other establishments following suit  by January 2020, according to Jenny Slepian, Lake Oswego’s Sustainability and Management Analyst.  

Why the bag ban now?  According to the town of Lake Oswego’s official city website, the goal is to change consumers’ behavior. .. Read the rest

The Move Makers Awarded Highest Distinction in Senior Move Management

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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Lake Oswego, Oregon — The National Association of Senior Move Managers (NASMM) has announced that The Move Makers has been awarded the NASMM A+ Accreditation for its excellence in the senior move management industry. Only 50 out of 950 member companies nationwide have achieved this distinction. The Move Makers is the only senior move management company in the northwest to earn A+ Accreditation.

“This accreditation decision represents the highest level of professional achievement that can be awarded to a senior move management company,” according to Mary Kay Buysee, NASMM’s Executive Director. “An organization receiving a three-year NASMM A+ Accreditation has put itself through a rigorous peer review process.”.. Read the rest