About this blog: updates, deletions, and changes.
If you can’t come to Spring Cleanup this Saturday (April 27), there’s a chance that Spring Cleanup could come to you! A group of volunteers from North Central High School and Cub Scouts from Pack 151 are going to be doing on-site collection — which means they will come to your home and haul away the refuse that you’re unable to bring to the roll-off containers at Faith Bible Church. If you or someone you know — a housebound or…
[What follows is a recap of the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council Meeting that took place on Wednesday, February 13. You can either read slimmed and streamlined version of the minutes below, or download the full version of the meeting’s minutes here.] The meeting began with a presentation from Judge Tracy Staab of the Spokane Municipal Court. The judge gave a Powerpoint slideshow that detailed the many facets of the Court, such as crime statistics, budgets, and punishment or rehabilitation methods. The slideshow was supposed to…
In the recent print mailing, we mentioned that Emerson-Garfield scores a 73 (out of a possible 100) on WalkScore.com. That places our neighborhood third in Spokane (which nets a meager 54) — just behind Riverside/Downtown (92) and Browne’s Addition (76). But what exactly is a walk score? It’s an international measure of walkability and ease of pedestrian/commuter access to amenities like restaurants, stores, parks, cultural hubs, bus stops, and more. It’s primarily used by realtors to assess the amenities near…
Our event calendar is now up and running. To view it, you can click the page title in the navbar above, or you can simply click here. But wait: there’s more! As much as we like seeing you, you don’t have to keep returning to this website to stay up-to-date on all the latest happenings in Emerson-Garfield. You can subscribe to the calendar and always have it handy on your desktop, laptop, tablet, or mobile phone. For most calendar apps,…
This is the start of the new website for the Emerson-Garfield neighborhood. It is so new that this is the only content. Don’t worry, there will be much more content in the next few days and weeks. A calendar, event notices, meeting minutes, photos from around the neighborhood and comments from readers and residents. The next EG Steering Committee/Neighborhood meeting will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 8, 2012. Meetings are held at the Corbin Senior Center and start at 7PM….