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 May
2007
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 Roosevelt
Time Garden
Installation!
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Saturday, May 19, 9am to noon
- In conjunction with Roosevelt's
quarterly
Make A Difference Day!
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It's high time the entrance of our school reflected the excitement,
talent, and hard work of our staff, students, families and neighbors,
who've made our school the heart of our neighborhood for the past 100
years!
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All are welcome to help
us install a Human Sundial in front of Roosevelt and plant the Time Garden to celebrate the
centennial of Roosevelt Elementary. 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 bring your (labeled) shovels, trowels, and
wheelbarrows.
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Walkability Issues
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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:
Month of May: Our Roosevelt Roadrunner Rollers bicycle commuter team is participating in the Intercity Transit Bicycle Commuter Contest.
May 18:
Roosevelt's First Ever Walk & Roll to School Day,
in conjunction with
Intercity Transit's Bike to School Day.
May 21:
Safety Without Fear Workshop with Candyce Bollinger, from 6:30 to
8:30pm in the Roosevelt multipurpose room. Free!
June 4:
Fun Run
co-sponsored with the American Diabetes Association! Students will run and
walk a variety of courses on the school grounds.
- Howard Avenue Neighborhood
Connector
- We're moving forward! Engineering firm Parametrix
has mapped 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. Now we can begin finalizing the trail
alignment and design. This work is being supported by our Healthy Steps Active
Communities grant from the Thurston County Department of Health.
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- Roosevelt Elementary Parking Lot
Proposal
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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!
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Mission Creek Park
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The Olympia Volunteers In Parks (VIP) program
is sponsoring a work party at Mission Creek Park on Saturday, May 19, from 9
am to noon. Join us as we begin work on the new trail system for Mission
Creek Park. Meet at the corner of San Francisco and Marion Streets NE in
Olympia at 9 am. Please dress for the weather and wear sturdy boots or shoes.
Volunteers under the age of 18 are welcome, but must have signed parental
permission. Volunteers under 14 must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
Tools and refreshments will be provided. Call
753-8365 to RSVP, or just show up!
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NENA
Board
- 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 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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