Two New Events!

Sunday, Jan 22 1-4pm - Pocket Park and Chicane Clean-up
Meet at the Northwest Neighborhood Pocket Park at 6th Avenue and Linden St. to pick up trash and weeds at the park, and then travel down Elm St. to clean trash and weeds from the chicanes, and educate fellow neighbors about our responsibility as a neighborhood to keep the chicanes clean and plants watered. We'll be distributing this flyer (attached) as we go. We'll meet back up at the Pocket Park around 3pm for food, music, and socializing. If you're able, please bring food or drink to share!

Saturday, Feb 18, 12:30-2pm - 4th Avenue Tree Pruning
Meet on 4th Ave between Lester and Linden. Dan will give a brief lesson on correct tree pruning practices, and we'll continue down the street providing some maintenance to our street trees. If you have them, please bring pruners, a saw, and/or gloves.

August 2011 Meeting Overview

Here are some of the highlights of August 3rd's neighborhood meeting.

• A plan to discuss weeding and maintaining the chicanes on Elm St. was discussed, but since the Watershed Management Group training program hasn't started yet, we decided to table action until next month. The idea of "adopt a chicane" was brought up, and we were encouraged to do our own minor maintenance and trash clean up in the chicanes.

• We set a date to do a cleanup of the pocket park at Linden and 6th Ave. It will happen at 9AM on Saturday, August 27th. Bring tools and gloves for weeding, etc.

• We may participate in the fall National Night Out (in October) with Feldman's Neighborhood. More info to come.

• There are two more "Welcome to Northwest Neighborhood" signs to hang somewhere in the neighborhood. They will likely be placed near the Northeast corner and Southeast corner of our neighborhood boundaries.

• A celebration of the 5th Ave Greenway project will likely take place on September 10th or September 17th. More info to come.

• Richard Sanders at the Northwest Neighborhood Center needs 40 kids (ages 5-12) to sign up for KIDCO for the fall or the program will be canceled at the center. Center info and contact info for the center is HERE

Nine residents and Richard from the center were in attendance. TPD did not send a representative for the second month in a row. Despite all of the agenda topics, the meeting went fairly fast and wrapped up in about an hour. Please come to the next monthly meeting on September 7th at 6PM.