Emerson Garfield

Materials for the Sep 9 E-G Neighborhood Council Meeting

September 8, 2015 Emerson Garfield

After a relaxing summer of concerts, potlucks and markets, the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council is back in full swing for its September meeting tomorrow (Wednesday, September 9) at 6pm in the Corbin Senior Center (827 W Cleveland). The tentative agenda includes news on the autumn Residential Tree Program (free trees!), Community Development Block Grants, traffic-calming projects and the rash of citywide crime, plus a guest speaker and the Alliance to Protect Local Jobs explaining why his group is opposing Prop1 on the November ballot….

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Corbin Senior Center Auction (Sep 19)

September 3, 2015 Emerson Garfield

The Corbin Senior Activity Center is holding its 13th annual Munch and Mingle Gala & Auction on Saturday, September 19. It’s the center’s biggest fundraiser of the year. This year’s theme is The Roaring Twenties. Anyone who shows up suitably attired or ready to dance the Charleston will be entered into a prize drawing. Doors open at 3pm so you can start browsing all the silent auction items. Dinner is at 4:30pm, and that’s also when the serious bidding starts. Both dinner…

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Craftwalk at the E-G Farmers’ Market (Sep 18)

September 2, 2015 Emerson Garfield

The second annual Craftwalk at the Emerson-Garfield Farmers’ Market is scheduled for Friday, September 18. It will run concurrent with the market (i.e., 3-7pm). Not familiar with Craftwalk? This is a special event where the market welcomes specialty non-food vendors of all kinds. Local artists and crafters with unique handmade items such as quilts, knitwear, upcycled goods, jewelry, clothing, hats, sculpture, soaps and pottery will line the sidewalk around the perimeter of the lot. Because Craftwalk complements the usual market, that means there will be music,…

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Revitalization at Corner of Washington and Maxwell

August 31, 2015 Emerson Garfield

Community Frameworks is constructing a new block of affordable apartment housing called West 315 in the organization’s old office location at the corner of N Washington and W Maxwell. Along with other recent developments such as the relocation of the Women and Children’s Free Restaurant, this could help revitalize a traditionally overlooked corner of Emerson-Garfield that has begun to see renewed interest and activity. The latest rendering of the new building is pictured below with the current view of the…

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Recap of the August 2015 E-G Neighborhood Council Meeting

August 30, 2015 Emerson Garfield

Typically the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council holds a very casual meeting with a light agenda after the neighborhood’s Summer Potluck, and this year was no different. However, owing to shifts in the annual Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) deadlines, the agenda included preliminary decisions on how the neighborhood intended to allocate its $56,299 for 2016. Here’s a brief recap of some of the discussion and decisions from the August 12, 2015 neighborhood council meeting. (Click here for a photo gallery from the potluck.) Because the proposal due August…

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