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 November/December
2006
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Roosevelt Time Garden
NENA
Board
Mission Creek Refuge
Walkability Issues
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Roosevelt Time Garden
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Roosevelt Engraved Brick Fundraiser is underway!
For $35 you can buy a
4x8-inch brick, and for $75 you can buy an 8x8-inch brick. These bricks
will be
engraved with your personalized message that will be included in the
pathways through the Time Garden. ALL proceeds will benefit the
Roosevelt Foundation.
Thank you!
The City of Olympia
has awarded a Neighborhood Matching Grant to build the Roosevelt Time
Garden in Spring 2007, in preparation for Roosevelt's 100th
anniversary celebrations next year! The Northeast Neighborhood Association, which
applied for the grant, will work alongside the Roosevelt community
to make this area around the Roosevelt sign a lovely place for
students, staff, parents, and neighbors to meet. The idea for this garden
space took root at our Place-Making Workshops with Olympia's Village
Improvement Project in spring 2006.
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NENA Board
- We will not have a meeting in December.
The next NENA Board meeting
will be on Wednesday, January 17, 7 to 9 pm
in the Roosevelt Music Room. All are welcome!
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President, Treasurer, Scribe:
Peter Guttchen
- Vice President:
currently vacant
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We
are truly a skeleton crew, taking on increasingly ambitious projects
to make our colorful corner of Olympia even better. Have an issue or
concern? We probably can't solve your problem for you (we're
just your neighbors, after all, working to improve our neighborhood in
our spare time), but we can share constructive processes for
expressing concerns and proposing courses of action to local decision makers.
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As you think of
ways to make our neighborhood even better, consider using your talents
to keep NENA chugging along.
E-mail
Peter Guttchen
or
Melinda Spencer
if you're interested.
We are currently in need of a:
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Vice President
- Treasurer
- Scribe
- Member
Contact Coordinator
- Emergency Preparedness
Coordinator
Mission Creek Refuge
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 WOW—what
a turnout! Over 50 people devoted their blustery Wednesday evening (Oct.
18) to share ideas about enjoying this neighborhood jewel. The Mission
Creek Refuge includes wetlands, a salmon-capable stream & open space. Thanks to
all who participated! Special kudos to:
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 Peter
Guttchen, Wendy
Gerstel & Tom Badger who have successfully kept this
issue on NENA's front burner.
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Jonathon Turlove
& other City Parks staff who've devoted an admirable amount of energy
to get the refuge on the City's workplan.
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- We will post new information
about the Interim Use Plan as it becomes available from the City.
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Walkability
Issues
Roosevelt School
Walking Route Survey
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Is this neighborhood great or what?
We've received surveys for 234 students,
which is over 57 percent of
the student body at Roosevelt Elementary!
NENA, supported
by an Active Communities grant from the Thurston County Public Health
Department, developed this school walking route survey to find
out how Roosevelt students get to and from school. This is a follow-on
to the school traffic survey conducted at Roosevelt in
spring 2006. For those of you who have not yet seen the
results from our
Roosevelt Traffic Survey,
here you go!
Survey Results-Word Survey Results-PDF
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We
are processing the feedback now, and will soon:
Identify the safest
walking/biking routes to Roosevelt, which will be highlighted on
a map distributed to all Roosevelt students.
Begin working with
the Olympia School District & the City of Olympia to make
school walking routes safer by recommending the construction
of sidewalks & other features that will protect pedestrians &
cyclists.
Become a
trend-setting school in the Olympia School District by
encouraging more students to get active and get healthy by
walking or biking to school!
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Miller Ave.
Sidewalk
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Construction
is complete! See the City's newsletter for more details.
Reeves
Middle School Connector to East Bay
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