Good Neighbor Awards
Walkability
Place-Making
NENA Board
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 NENA
Fall Block Party!
- Saturday, September 16 from 10 to 1
- on San
Francisco between Bethel and Garrison
Join us to:
 Celebrate the opening of the new art-full
sidewalk on San Francisco
Help plant the new SF Bakery gardens
Create a human sundial for the Roosevelt
Centennial Time Garden!
And don't miss our Good Neighbor Awards, face painting & music!
Do you have a
neighbor who is especially helpful? Someone who is always looking
out for you, the other neighbors, and the neighborhood?
We need your help in finding these people in our neighborhood so
we can honor them at our fall block party.
If you would like to nominate someone, please take a few minutes to
fill out the Good Neighbor
Nomination form by September 8. And feel free to nominate more than one neighbor!
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Reeves
Middle School Connector to East Bay
Work
began on July 10! Details are provided in this
flyer prepared by the City. Major construction was
completed by August 18, and now we get to watch the art and landscaping
go in.
We
received 35 responses to the Roosevelt Traffic Survey--thanks to all of you who
took the time to let us know what you've seen at the Bethel/San
Francisco entrance and how we might improve traffic flow and student
safety. Take
a look at our
draft letter to the Olympia School
District and others, which highlights the observed problems and proposed
solutions.
Miller Ave.
Sidewalk
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NENA Board Members
- Send questions or
comments about NENA to any of our board members.
- President, Treasurer,
Scribe*
- 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 & want to use your talents to make our neighborhood
a better place, please consider joining the board!
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This is our
top-priority project for 2006 - making it safe for students to get
to school and all of us to get to Friendly Grove Park! Construction
is scheduled to begin late this summer, and should be complete by the
end of September or early October. The sidewalk will be 6
feet wide and will run from Fir Street to Friendly Grove
Road. It will be set back from the street by a 6- to
10-foot separation. Some sections will have a storm water
ditch between the sidewalk and the edge of the travel
lane. For more information, visit the City's Web
site.
We wrapped up our place-making
workshops on June 24th with hope, excitement, and a pile of
creative, visionary, practical and whimsical ideas for
transforming the intersection of SF and Bethel streets into a
beautiful, safe and vibrant neighborhood crossroads. Check out
 and some of
the ideas generated at the workshops. Also please
complete the follow up survey,
which will help
Olympia's
Village Improvement Project as they work with the City to
develop guidelines for future intersection repair projects
around town.
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 Thank you to all of the neighbors and
friends who shared their innovative ideas and insights at
our Place-Making Workshops! We've prioritized our goals and
will be devising a plan of action at our July 19 NENA Board
meeting (please join us!). Stay tuned for news about our
Fall Potluck, where we will begin the transformation.
- A huge THANK YOU to Kathleen and Chariti from the Olympia Village
Improvement Project for their commitment and skill in helping us
wrangle our diverse ideas into a tangible plan of action. We're
looking forward to bringing these ideas to fruition and assisting VIP
as they formalize the intersection improvement idea for other
neighborhoods in Olympia.
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