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February
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NENA Board Meeting:
Wednesday, Feb. 17, 7 to 9 pm, Roosevelt
music room
- Let us know
your ideas for making our neighborhood a great
place to live. We'll help you turn your ideas
into a plan of action.
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- Our meetings
occur on the third Wednesday of each month.
Meetings planned for this winter and spring are:
Mar. 17, Apr. 21, May 19, and June 16.
An update from
Peter Guttchen, NENA
President:
On Monday,
Dec. 14, the Olympia School Board
unanimously passed a resolution to put a
4-year levy on the ballot next year that
includes funding for traffic safety
improvements at the entrance to Roosevelt
School. I am overjoyed and over the moon
about this news.
NENA has been working to realize our vision
to make our neighborhood a safe and
beautiful place to get active and get
connected since 2002. And - together with
our community partners - we've made lots of
progress toward realizing this vision
with completion of the trail system
in Mission Creek Park and with the
construction of new sidewalks on Miller Ave.
and on San Francisco and Quince Streets.
However, in our outreach to the neighborhood
and the Roosevelt school community, the
intersection at SF and Bethel
streets/Roosevelt School entrance was
consistently cited as the most serious
traffic safety hazard in our neck of the
woods, especially during school commute
times. Although we dedicated hundreds of
volunteer hours and secured grant funding to
pay for the engineering and design work to
make the intersection safer, we could not
find funding to pay for the
improvements. Until last night! If the levy
passes in February, sometime in the next two
years, improvements will be made to make
it much safer and easier for students to
walk to Roosevelt School and for all of us
to navigate through what is now a "zoo" of
an intersection during school commute
hours. Details about the current design for
these improvements are on our
project web page.
And more great traffic safety news!
CHAPEL HILL,
N.C. (December 8, 2009) ─ The National
Center for Safe Routes to School announced
today the selection of 25 mini-grants
recipients to receive up to $1,000 for local
projects that encourage student creativity
in Safe Routes to School (SRTS) activities
in the spring 2010 semester. The selected 25
mini-grant recipient organization
programs/activities include:
Madison, Roosevelt and
Pioneer Elementary Schools (Olympia,
Wash.)
will develop an anti-idling and
anti-speeding campaign for parents. The
campaign will use social marketing tools
and incorporate a special pledge for
drivers in the family to drive the speed
limit and to turn off their engines if
they are idling more than 30 seconds.
Walk n’ Roll partners will help teachers
conduct speeding audits using a speed
gun and will monitor air quality by
measuring particulate matter in
emissions (via car exhaust on note cards
coated with petroleum jelly) for use in
class lessons. Students will create
Public Service Announcements to
contribute to the anti-idling and
anti-speeding campaign.
NENA's successful Graffiti Busters
program is back! Graffiti Busters is
a program NENA developed in
partnership with the City of
Olympia, local utilities, and a
group of dedicated volunteers to
report,
clean up and prevent graffiti in our
neighborhood. Read all about it
and learn how to help combat
graffiti in our neighborhood in this
letter from
our new coordinator,
Diana Cushing.
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