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One-time events and ongoing activities (public and ticketed) in the Emerson-Garfield neighborhood.

Photos from the Oct 31 E-G Community Planting

Photos from the Oct 31 E-G Community Planting

The Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council held a community planting on the morning of October 31 as part of our neighborhood’s successful round of Greening Grants. Its purpose was to remove the thatch and dead brush from the traffic triangles on Northwest Boulevard and to install new native, hardy plants like lilacs and echinacea. Despite gray skies, about fifteen volunteers from Emerson-Garfield and beyond came out and spent their Halloween morning pulling up thick layers of dried grass, raking the debris, loading…

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E-G Community Planting (Oct 31)

E-G Community Planting (Oct 31)

Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council is organizing a community planting as part of our successful round of Greening Grants this Saturday, October 31. The planting will run from 9am to noon, rain or shine, and will beautify the unsightly traffic triangles on Northwest Boulevard. Volunteers will need to meet at Perfection Tire (1021 NW Blvd) at 8:45am. We’re looking for folks of all ages and abilities to help us prepare the area for planting and then put in phlox, yucca, echinacea, and…

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Free Play at Knox Presbyterian (Oct 15)

Free Play at Knox Presbyterian (Oct 15)

Knox Presbyterian Church (806 W Knox) is holding a free special dramatic presentation tomorrow (Thursday, October 15) at 7pm when the Knox Presbyterian Drama Group presents Beyond the Shadow Lands, an adaptation of the play Strangers and Other Angels conceived by Karin Coonrod. The play contains direct transcriptions of medieval drama, modern translations, scripture, and even Italian dialogue. It offers insight into the Biblical themes of sinfulness, mercy, and God’s restoration. The Knox Presbyterian Drama Group says that those who’ve seen it have described it…

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Materials for the Oct 14 E-G Neighborhood Council Meeting

Materials for the Oct 14 E-G Neighborhood Council Meeting

It’s an action-packed agenda at this month’s meeting of the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council, which happens tomorrow (Wednesday, October 14) starting at 6pm in the Corbin Senior Activity Center Center (827 W Cleveland). There’s an update from Community Frameworks on the West 315 revitalization at the corner of Washington and Mission. In other development news, one resident will be speaking to her concerns over a proposed 24-cottage facility by the Transitional Living Center. We’ll also be continuing the conversation on neighborhood crime that we began…

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Corbin Senior Center Auction (Sep 19)

Corbin Senior Center Auction (Sep 19)

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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