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March
2008
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 Our
Healthy Steps grant work is about to begin!
- You've already given us
great ideas for our
NE Olympia Walkaround Guide. As we
prepare our destination map and wayfinding signs, we'd like your
input about local parks, businesses, and other places you frequent.
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- We also need a few hearty
volunteers to take a walk with City Sidewalk and NeighborWoods staff
to discuss where sidewalks and street trees should go. This half-day
walk, which we'd like to schedule for mid-May, is a big commitment
but vital to kick-start planning for sidewalks to our neighborhood
schools and parks.
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- Please e-mail
melinda@neneighborhood.org. Thank you!
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 Roosevelt
Elementary Saint Patty's Day Auction!
- Join the party from 4 to 7:30 pm
on Saturday, March 15 at Roosevelt! No entrance fee.
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More trees are coming to our
corner of Olympia!
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Our next NENA board meeting will be on Wednesday,
March 19 from 7 to 9 pm
in the Roosevelt
Elementary music room.
Staff from the City's NeighborWoods Program will be on hand to talk
about the massive tree-planting effort that will take
place on Saturday March 29 and to provide a crash course in how to plant
these trees. You will learn more about how to help to make this historic
event a green success!
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!
NENA about to begin work on another Thurston County Public
Health STEPs grant!
In
this work, we
will be promoting fun
and interesting walking
routes in our neck of
the woods by creating wayfinding signs for
key walking routes. We
will also continue our work
to research and apply
for grants to fund
projects like the
Roosevelt School parking
lot improvements.
In addition,
we'll be partnering
with the City of Olympia
and the Woodland Trail
Greenway Association to
identify where
sidewalks, crosswalks,
and street trees are
needed to make our
neighborhood safer and
more pleasant for
pedestrians.
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Roosevelt School Parking
Lot Improvements
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We've met again with
staff from the Olympia School
District and Roosevelt's
Principal Domenico
Spatolla-Knoll to refine the
new parking lot design.
NENA will use grant
money from our new
Thurston County
Department of Health
Healthy Steps grant to
have this design
engineered by Parametrix,
and will then make the design available for
everyone to review. Once we receive formal
support from OSD, NENA will pursue grant
funds to get this work DONE before more
tempers flare and we suffer any more
near-misses as kids walk to the school
entrance.
San Francisco Street Sidewalk Project - Phase II: Quince Street to Easy Bay Drive to be completed
this summer!
Construction of a key link
in realizing our vision of
creating an interconnected web
of sidewalks and walking trails
in our neighborhood will start
next month! Last year the City
finished construction of Phase I
of the SF Street sidewalk
project which runs from Garrison
Ave. past the SF bakery and up
to Quince Street. In 2008, Phase
II which will link Quince Street
to East Bay Drive will be
compete. With this new stretch
of sidewalk, folks will be able
to walk more easily and more
safely to all kinds of exciting
destinations including downtown
Olympia, the Farmers Market,
Priest Point Park, Roosevelt
Elementary and Reeves Middle
schools, and along the glorious
new trails that were built last
year in Mission Creek Park.
 March
10, 2008: Update from the Project
Manager, Sheri Zimny:
PSE will be removing two of
the trees along San
Francisco St. This is being
done so that they can
relocate three or four
poles, in preparation for
the sidewalk project. The
tree removal work is
scheduled for this
Wednesday, March 13th which
means that there may be some
intermittent road closures
between 9am and 3pm for them
to drop large tree
sections. The two trees
planned for removal are
right at the end of the
driveway for 812 SF Street
behind the existing power
pole.
After the tree removals, PSE/Potelco
will be setting new poles and
moving their lines (mostly
likely this week or next).
Comcast and Qwest's work will
follow in the next 4-6 weeks.
For
details on the project you can
visit the City's project web
page at
SF
Sidewalk Phase II.
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