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Intersection repair
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workshops!
Join us to
brainstorm ideas about how we'd like to transform the
intersection of San Francisco and Bethel into a "public square"
that reflects the flavor and diversity of our corner of town.
- Each workshop will be held
from 10 to 1 at Roosevelt.
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Saturday, May 6
- Place-Making 101:
- Getting to Know You
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Saturday, May 13
- Site Analysis:
- San Francisco & Bethel
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Saturday, June 10
- Design Charrette:
- The Intersection Repair
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Saturday, June 24
- Place-Making: The Vision
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- Make A
Difference Day at Roosevelt
- Saturday, May
20, 9 to noon
Bring your muscles, enthusiasm
and gardening tools to help clean up the school grounds in an
ongoing effort to keep our school pesticide-free! |
NENA Board Members
Send questions or comments
about NENA to any of our board members.
- President,
Treasurer, Scribe~*
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- Vice President,
Webmaster~*
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- Brains, Muscles,
Tenacity~*
- Mark
Axtell
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Mary Donaldson
*We
need you! If you're passionate about issues affecting our
neighborhood & would like to apply your talents to make our
neighborhood a better place, please consider joining the
board!
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site is a work in progress; your feedback is essential to its
growth and improvement. Please send your comments to:
melinda@neneighborhood.org.
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 April
2006
President's Update Walkability
Intersection
Repair Mission Creek
Reserve
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Meetings
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Wednesday, April 19
– NENA board
meeting, 7:00-9:00 P.M.
in the Music Room at Roosevelt. Everybody is welcome!
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To NENA members and other interested folks:
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A city begins
with its neighborhoods, and our neighborhood begins with
you. And thanks to you and our community and local government
partners, our great neighborhood is getting even better! Read on
to learn the latest about our high-priority 2006-07 projects,
along with updates on the rest of our exciting work...
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School
Traffic Survey-available until May 8!
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NENA is working to improve pedestrian, bicycle and
traffic safety, especially along school walking routes and
in school zones. To help us in this effort, we've drafted a
very short two-question survey to
gather data about the concerns neighborhood residents may
have about the safety of the intersection at Bethel and San
Francisco streets and the traffic flow patterns at Roosevelt.
Please take a moment and fill out the online
survey! We will share the survey results with the
Olympia School District and the City of Olympia, and will
use your input to come up with options to improve the safety of this
critical intersection in our neighborhood.
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Quince Street sidewalk -
BIG NEWS!!!
- We've
been waiting for news on this important project and just
this week we learned that Steve Hall, Olympia's City Manager
will be recommending to the City Council that they approve
moving forward with this project. This project will make it
much safer and easier for students to walk and ride their
bikes to Reeves Middle School. More details to come...
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Reeves
Middle School Connector to East Bay
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NEWS!!
- It now
looks likely that NENA and its partners - the
East Bay Drive Neighborhood Association
and the
Woodland Trail Greenway Association - will be awarded
the
Thurston County STEPs grant we applied for to design the
connector that links East Bay Drive to Reeves Middle
School. We are now in the process of making some revisions
to our request based on feedback from the
County. Assuming our responses are satisfactory, we expect
to be able to begin work sometime in April.
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Miller Ave. sidewalk from Fir St. to Friendly Grove
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This is
our top-priority
project--making
it safe for students to get to school and all of us to get to
Friendly Grove Park!
The goal is to be
in construction by mid-July with completion in late August.
Although there are right-of-way and other challenges, we are
hopeful and optimistic the sidewalk will be built before school
begins in Sept. 2006, and Reeves students start attending John
Rogers while Reeves are remodeled. This project was originally
scheduled to be completed sometime after 2012.
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San Francisco sidewalk
- Given design
challenges for the hill up from
East
Bay, the current plan
calls for building the sidewalk from Quince to Garrison in 2006,
and completing the project down to
East
Bay Drive in
the near future. A
design for the public art is expected to be ready for public
review during the week of April 17-28. Check
back here for details!
Join
us in an exciting, hands-on community design process to transform the
intersection of San Francisco and Bethel streets into a safe and
beautiful public square. This project - supported in part by a City of
Olympia Neighborhood Matching Grant - is at the core of our long-term
efforts to transform our streets into beautiful and safe places for people
to get active and get connected. This is your opportunity to shape the
future of your neighborhood, and set the stage for similar projects
throughout the community.
We
could use your help! Please check out the list of to-dos in the
flyer. For
most of them, we've got a board member who is working them, but for all of
them, we could use additional assistance, especially help in spreading the
word. So please tell your friends and neighbors.
This is truly an opportunity not to be missed, for young
and old alike. We need:
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Volunteers
to help set-up and clean-up before and after the workshops, take
digital photos, etc. |
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Donations of all kinds of art supplies for our Design
Charette on June 10, such as cardboard, drawing paper, crayons,
markers, pencils, popsicle sticks, etc. Please e-mail
pguttchen@hotmail.com if
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Join us for any or all of the
workshops we've planned with the Village Improvement Project, which
will be held from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at Roosevelt.
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Saturday, May 6 ~
Place-Making 101: Getting to Know You
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Saturday, May 13 ~ Site
Analysis: San Francisco & Bethel
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Saturday, June 10 ~ Design
Charrette: The Intersection Repair
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Saturday, June 24 ~
Place-Making: The Vision
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- The first
meeting of the core planning group was held on March 23 and work has begun
on creating a base map of the property. After a base map is complete,
we'll be reaching out to the neighborhood to begin creating a vision and
to developing a plan for the MCR.
- Stay tuned...
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