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August 2007 |
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 Annual
Potluck
Join us at our
annual fall potluck on
Wednesday, September 12, from 5:30 to 7:30 at Friendly Grove Park. All are
welcome! Click on the postcard at right for details. And please start
thinking about neighbors who have made your life better this year through their unheralded acts of kindness,
vision, and dedication to making our neighborhood a great place to live. Use
our
Good
Neighbor Nomination Form to let us know who deserves a
pat on the back.
Please submit your nominations by Wednesday, September 5. Thanks!
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NENA
Membership and Board
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If you're interested in specific
issues affecting our neighborhood, would like to help NENA accomplish
current goals, or lead NENA in new directions, please consider joining us!
Yearly dues are just $10.00. However, those who can afford it are welcome to
contribute more. If you'd like to join, make a contribution or
learn more about NENA, please
download our
membership letter and
brochure
then send your completed sign-up form and dues to:
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Northeast Neighborhood Association
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1910 E. 4th Ave, PMB
#2
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Olympia, WA 98506
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- Our next NENA board meeting will be on Wednesday, October 15 at 7
pm. We're going to try out a new location--to be announced here
soon.
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Mission Creek Park
- Have you checked out the new
boardwalk and trails in this magnificent new park in our neighborhood? Go to
the east end of San Francisco Ave. and enter a different world. Wow.
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- The Mission Creek stream monitoring event that
was scheduled for July 21 was postponed due to all the rain we received
that week. Patricia Pyle is looking to reschedule the monitoring effort
but hasn't set the date yet. If you're interested, please call
Patricia at 570-5841 or e-mail her at ppyle@ci.olympia.wa.us.
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Our garden was the starting point for the 2007 Garden Rhapsodies
Tour! We've installed the engraved bricks and are watching our
garden grow. Curious about the details of this year-long effort?
Check out the
timeline,
the
sign
I've posted in the garden, and our
Project Summary
(revised August 14) that details real vs. reimbursed
expenditures. Thanks to the generosity of our school families,
we built a $50,000 garden for just under $6,000!
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Walkability Issues
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Roosevelt Elementary Parking Lot
Proposal
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At the July 16 meeting of the
Olympia School District Board of Directors, NENA received permission to
proceed with plans to implement changes to our parking lot so it is safer
for pedestrians and less frustrating for parents and bus drivers. We are
currently working with Parametrix to finalize engineering drawings and
preparing funding requests.
A
unique partnership between NENA, Roosevelt staff, 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 note that we've changed the travel route for the large buses.
To avoid having to lay new asphalt for a bus turn-around area, we are now
proposing that the large buses enter the school grounds through the current
driveway on Garrison, let the students off at the play shed, then exit the
school grounds through a new driveway on Garrison, located on the north end
of the unused bus pullout on Garrison. This change is NOT reflected in the
Roosevelt parking lot concept. Details of the proposal are provided in this
newsletter article.
Howard Avenue Neighborhood
Connector
We're moving ahead with trail design
and funding requests to construct the Howard Ave. trail, which will provide
a safe alternative for students and neighbors who walk between East Bay
Drive and Reeves Middle School. This work is being supported by our Healthy Steps Active
Communities grant from the Thurston County Department of Health.
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