 Roosevelt
Time Garden
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Time Garden
Installation! Saturday, May 19, 9am to noon
- In conjunction with Roosevelt's
quarterly Make A Difference Day!
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More details
coming soon! At this event, we'll be installing a Human Sundial in front
of Roosevelt School and planting the Time Garden to celebrate the
centennial of Roosevelt Elementary. NENA obtained a City of Olympia
Neighborhood Matching Grant that is helping to pay for the Time Garden.
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We will also be doing
the ongoing work of Roosevelt's quarterly Make A Difference Day so we can
keep our school pesticide free. Please join us to help spruce up our
neighborhood hub!
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Walkability Issues
- Roosevelt Elementary Parking Lot
Proposal
A
unique partnership between NENA, the City of Olympia, and the Olympia School
District to improve the traffic flow at Roosevelt is working to make it safer
for students to get to school by separating school buses, cars, bicycles and
pedestrians. The work of this team is supported in part by a grant from the
Thurston County Health Dept.'s STEPS program, a program that funds community
efforts to prevent and reduce obesity, diabetes and asthma. Please check out
this proposed plan and use this
comment sheet if you have suggestions,
concerns, or kudos. Thank you!
Howard Avenue Neighborhood
Connector
We've just signed a contract with the
engineering firm Parametrix to map the property boundaries along the Howard
Ave. trail, which will provide a safe alternative for students and neighbors
who walk between East Bay Drive and Reeves Middle School. After we've got the
property boundaries mapped, we can begin work on finalizing the trail
alignment and design. This work is being supported by our Healthy Steps Active
Communities grant from the Thurston County Health Department.
- Active Community Efforts at Roosevelt
- With a portion of our Healthy Steps
Active Communities grant from the Thurston County Health Department, we will
be holding fun activities aimed at encouraging Roosevelt students to get
active and stay healthy. Here's what we're planning so far; more details
will be posted HERE shortly!
Month of May: Our Roosevelt Roadrunner Rollers bicycle commuter team
will participate in the Intercity Transit Bicycle Commuter Contest.
May 31: We'll host a Fun Run with the American Diabetes Association!
Students will run and walk a variety of courses on the school grounds.
June 8: Roosevelt's First Annual Walk and Roll to School Day!
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Mission Creek Park
- The Mission
Creek Park Plan is final!
Thanks to everyone who
participated in shaping the interim use plan for Mission Creek Park! It's
been a very long road to get this milestone - from the original
controversial plans to build the "Rolling Fields" townhouses to the City's
purchase of the property in 2001 as open space and finally to the adoption
of an interim use plan this month. This plan will improve access to the park
while protecting it's unique beauty and value as a wetland and providing
habitat for birds, plants and animals. Work to improve access to the
property will begin as early as March.
Special thanks to Jonathon Turlove from the Olympia Parks Dept. for his
dedication and commitment to this project. From the beginning he approached
this effort as a collaborative project. He listened and was responsive to
our ideas and interests and he got the plan done, and done on time.
And
extra special thanks goes to Tom Badger and Wendy Gerstel who have been the
neighborhood's stewards of this property for more than 10 years. Their
long-term vision and hard work were key to ensuring this natural gem is now
protected, and will be preserved for us to enjoy today and for generations
to come. Also key in this effort were Kelly McAllister, Peter Impara, Carri
LeRoy, Carolyn Scafidi, Jack Horton, Mark Lally, Lowell Dickson, and Bill
Kingrey. Thank you all for your extraordinary contributions.
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NENA
Board
- We will not have a NENA board meeting in March because we will be
co-hosting the Neighborhood Open House (see above).
- The next NENA Board meeting will be
on Wednesday, May 16 from 7 to 9 pm in the Roosevelt Music Room. All
are welcome!
A friendly appeal
for new Board members...
We now have only
four official Board members!
We are truly a skeleton
crew, taking on increasingly ambitious projects to make our colorful corner of
Olympia even better.
Over the years, lots of
people have contributed to NENA's success at addressing serious community
problems and to planning and hosting events that bring us together as
neighbors to celebrate our great neighborhood. Our success is due in part to
our proactive and long-term focus on high-priority issues and projects, issues
like walkability and pedestrian and traffic safety, and projects like the
Miller Ave. sidewalk and Mission Creek Park. Our approach has been to reach
out to our neighbors to figure out what we want our neighborhood to become,
and then partner with public agencies like the City of Olympia and the Olympia
School District to turn our vision for the future into reality. To sustain
our focus, we need your help. Please consider joining our Board, or
volunteering to help with specific projects. To learn more, contact any board
member (listed below) or come to one of our meetings.
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- Vice President:
currently vacant
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