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NENA Board Meeting:
TBA
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Our fall meeting schedule will be available
soon. 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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The traffic zoo at
Roosevelt School will soon be history!
...an update from
Peter Guttchen
One
of NENA’s long-term goals has been achieved! This
project—more than eight years in the making—is
the centerpiece of NENA’s efforts to realize our
vision of transforming our neighborhood into a safe
and beautiful place to get active and get connected.
Gary’s
Bulldozing, a local contractor, did
the construction. Site work began on July 19 and
was completed during the first week of August.
The project is funded with monies generated by the
OSD levy that passed in February. OSD estimates the
total project will cost about $80,000. The original
estimate, which was developed in 2006 when the
economy was stronger, came in at more than
$105,000. These
costs don’t include the $15,000 in grant funding
NENA secured to pay for the initial planning, design
and engineering work, and the hundreds of volunteer
hours our neighborhood collectively contributed to
this project.
If
you have questions about the project, please contact Tim
Byrne or Paul Clark with OSD's Capital Planning and
Construction office at 596-8560 or at
tbyrne@osd.wednet.edu.
A
big, loud, long collective cheer of thanks is in
order for the many people and groups who came
together to turn what seemed at times to be a pipe
dream into a real-world project that will
dramatically improve the quality of life in our
neighborhood. In future newsletters, I’ll do my best
to recognize your individual contributions.
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Neighborhood welcome sign
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NENA has been awarded a generous City of
Olympia Neighborhood Matching Grant to
create a
beautiful and lyrical neighborhood welcome sign
that's unlike any you've ever seen (see drawing
at right). The sign will be a series of steel
“reeds” of grass, each etched with verbs that
convey our neighborhood’s vibrancy and
diversity. Thank you to everyone who voted on
the verbs we will include on the sign! Our
survey closed on July 18.
The sign will be designed and built by local
architect Katie Cox and metal sculpture artist Rus
Geh who both live in our neighborhood. Katie and Rus
are the team who designed, fabricated and installed
the spectacular metal and
cedar kiosk at the SF bakery that now serves as
our neighborhood bulletin board.
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We
plan to install the sign at the top of the San
Francisco Street hill in a pocket garden
neighbors planted at the corner of San
Francisco Street and Pear Court. We
expect to have the sign built and installed by
the end of the summer. Completing the sign will
be an important milestone in NENA's efforts to
realize our long-term vision of transforming our
neighborhood into a safe and beautiful place for
people to get active and get connected.
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Graffiti program
update
- 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. Thank you, Mark Lally,
for offering to lead this effort.
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