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June
2008
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Edible Forest Garden
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NENA joins with
Terra Commons to establish the first Edible Forest
Garden in the neighborhood!
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On
Wednesday night, June 11, at 7:00pm,
a PowerPoint slide show on Edible Forest Gardens will be
shown at Robert Jorgensen's, 2013 Bethel Street.
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- On June 14-15,
neighbors are invited to help install an edible forest
garden
in
Cheryl Waitkevich's yard at 2027 Bethel
from
10am until 4pm both days with potluck lunches. Feel free
to come for both full days, half days or just stop by
when you can.
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Edible Forest Gardens consist of three main layers:
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~Fruit and nut trees as the upper canopy,
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~Berries and other edible bushes as the middle layer
~Perennial vegetables and fruits as the ground cover
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DONATIONS NEEDED
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~WOODCHIPS: Maple, alder, willow, etc. NO CEDAR. Call
Cheryl at 970-1124 about delivery.
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~FUNDS
to help Terra Commons put on the work shop. Mail to
Terra Commons, 3725 36th Loop NW, Olympia, WA 98502.
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Scam alert
An
area resident and the Olympia Police Department have reported that a person posing
as a representative of a security company called APX is going
door-to-door in our neighborhood, possibly to determine if people
have valuables that might be the target of future robberies. This
individual has no business cards or paper information, just a badge,
a hat and a "uniform." A quick Google search revealed that this is a
long-standing and far-reaching scam that has involved everything
from fraud to breaking and entering.
If
you are approached by anyone who wants to evaluate your property for a
security system, alert the police.
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Amy Stull
Senior Program Specialist
Police Community Programs
Olympia Police Department
(360) 753-8049
astull@ci.olympia.wa.us
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San Francisco St. Sidewalk Phase II: Quince Street to East Bay
Thanks
in part to our long history of support of this project, to Joe Hyer's leadership and the willingness of his fellow
Councilmembers on the Finance Committee - Joan Machlis and Craig
Ottavelli - to think outside the box, and to the work of City
staff to identify creative and responsible options to fund this
project, the Council approved funding for the project at their Council meeting on May
6. Start looking for big changes up San Francisco hill this
summer!
The City of Olympia was seriously considering postponing
construction of the SF sidewalk project that would link Quince Street to
East Bay Drive until as late as 2010. Given how important this project
is to our neighborhood and how long we've been waiting for it to be
built, NENA President Peter Guttchen has been working closely with
Councilmember Joe Hyer to track the status of this project and to offer
our neighborhood's strong support for completing this critical project
this year. When this phase of the SF project is complete, there will be
a sidewalk or trail all the way from downtown and places like the
Farmers Market and Percival Landing to the Edison St. entrance to
Mission Creek Park.
- Roosevelt School Parking
Lot Improvements
- Another win for
our entire neighborhood today! We just received word that the
Olympia School District has approved the
parking lot redesign
that
we've been working on for over two years. This work started in
2006 when parents told us in the Roosevelt Traffic Safety Survey
that they felt the entrance to our school was very dangerous for
pedestrians and bicyclists, and very frustrating for commuters
and bus drivers. A team of NENA folks partnered with Roosevelt
Principal Domenico Spatolla-Knoll, teachers, and staff from the
City, OSD, and WA Department of Transportation to redesign the
school entrance. NENA used funds from our
Thurston County
Department of Health
Healthy Steps grants to
have this design
engineered by Parametrix.
Now that we have formal support from OSD, we will be preparing
grant applications to get the funds necessary to complete this
redesign.
In a nutshell, this redesign involves:
- Relocating the school driveway about 100 feet east on
San Francisco so commuters going through the intersection of
Bethel and San Francisco can avoid school-related traffic.
- Building a parent drop-off area, where parents can let
their kids off at the curb near the school entrance, with room
to pass cars and small buses that are stopped.
- Building a raised sidewalk so kids walking from the
northeast side of the school will not have to cross traffic as
they enter the school grounds.
- This raised sidewalk will also serve to divide the
parking lot from the pull-through drop-off and pick-up area.
We always
welcome your input. Please let
melinda@neneighborhood
know what you think!
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Graffiti Update
Thanks to the hard work and responsiveness of our many partners, more than 100 taggings in
our neighborhood have been
"busted" since we started this
effort last Fall. The success of
this effort shows the power of
community collaboration to
solve what appear to be
intractable problems. The list
of partners on this project is
long and include the young men
and staff at the Touchstone
group home, Qwest
Communications, Puget Sound
Energy, Comcast, InterCity
Transit, Thurston County Public
Works, Abbey Realty, Moonrise
Homes, Sherman Williams, and
staff from the City of Olympia's
Police, Public Works, and
Community Planning and
Development Departments
including Amy Stull, Jeannine
Stewart, Rick Knostman, Bonnie
Herrington, Chris Grabowski, and
the City's Signs and Markings
Section staff. I encourage you
to get involved by taking
digital photos of any taggings
you see in our neighborhood and
posting them on our "Graffiti
Busters" blog. Go to
http://www.xanga.com/signin.aspx and
sign in using
username: Nena_Oly
and
password: adrian.
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Our next meeting TBD. Everyone
is welcome to our board
meetings, and we are now looking
for new board members. These meetings are a chance
for you to learn more about, and
get involved in, making your
neighborhood and community an
even better place to live.
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!
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updated 07/22/2010 |
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