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

Materials for the Nov 11 E-G Neighborhood Council Meeting

Materials for the Nov 11 E-G Neighborhood Council Meeting

The Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council meets tonight (Wednesday, November 11) at 6pm in the Corbin Senior Activity Center (827 W Cleveland) to discuss and/or vote on the following:

Allocating $24,145 in remaining 2016 Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) funds to the installation of new sidewalks along Cedar, Emerson Park improvements, and the West Central Community Center​. Photos roughly outlining those proposals are below and are also included in the agenda.

Recaps of the Fall Cleanup, the NW Blvd Greening Grant planting, and the Transitions​ housing development community meeting. Plus committee reports that will bring everyone up to date on citywide ordinances, changes and proposals that could be affecting our neighborhood.

Our guest speaker is a representative from Greater Spokane Incorporated​ who’ll be talking about ways we can collaborate to energize the small businesses in our neighborhood.

If you have a tablet or a smartphone, please help keep our printing expenses down by downloading the materials as PDFs:

We hope to see you there! The neighborhood council is open to anyone to who lives, works or owns property in Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood​. There are no dues or other obligations to attend.

Transitions Community Meeting (Nov 10)

Transitions Community Meeting (Nov 10)

Transitions is holding a community meeting tomorrow (Tuesday, November 10) between 6:30 and 7:30pm at the Transitional Living Center.

The community meeting is designed to answer questions from members of the Audubon-Downriver Neighborhood and the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood in regards to a potential housing project on the empty two acres located at the south side of the property at 3128 N Hemlock. It’s also intended for neighbors’ concerns to be heard and noted by Transitions.

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The Office of Neighborhood Services will be moderating the meeting. They’re reserved roughly 15 minutes for background on the project and the progress thus far. The remaining 45 minutes will focus on input from members of the neighborhoods. As basic guidelines to ensure that everyone’s voice is heard, the organizers have suggested that no one speak twice before everyone has had a chance, and that no one speak longer than five minutes at any one time.

If you have any questions about the meeting please contact Melissa Wittstruck of the Office of Neighborhood Services at mwittstruck@spokanecity.org or 625-6087.

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 the trucks, tilling the soil, and finally (the fun bit) putting the new plants in the ground. The volunteers’ ages ranged from their twenties to their seventies.

Amy Dutton, a neighborhood resident and owner of Garden UP Landscaping, donated her time and skills to oversee the planting. She carefully selected the plants so that they’ll bloom in stages throughout the year. It should look really lovely come spring.

The slight letdown is that the number of volunteers (out of a neighborhood of more than 9,000 people) meant that there wasn’t enough time or manpower to tackle the planting of the second triangle to the south as originally planned. We’re trying to determine if a second volunteer planting event can be arranged this late in the year, or if additional funds will have to be used to hire a contractor.

The neighborhood council would like to offer a huge show of thanks to Alicia Powell at the City’s Office of Neighborhood Services. Under the Greening Grants program, she coordinated the planting, made arrangements for traffic safety, and also set up the installation of an irrigation system with the help of the City Water Dept.

Many thanks to Jonathan Martinez as well for bringing snacks and snapping the above photos during the event!

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.

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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 other plants that will bloom in stages throughout the year. Ideally we’d like to have 30+ participants.

Yes, we know it’s Halloween, but the planting will be over several hours before trick-or-treating starts.

Please bring any of the following items on the day:

  • Lawn rakes
  • Garbage bags
  • Wheelbarrows
  • Shovels
  • Garden fork and/or hand claws
  • Trowels
  • Gloves
  • Drinking water

We could also use a few volunteers with trucks for hauling. You’ll get a dump pass worth $20, or you can wait until our neighborhood’s Fall Cleanup on November 7 to offload.

Facebook users, please feel free to RSVP to the planting event.

And, lastly, a huge thanks to Perfection Tire for kindly letting us use their lot to park, meet, and store supplies!

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.

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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 as “powerful.” They’re encouraging individuals, youth groups, book groups, and other people to attend together and then discuss common experience and individual impressions after seeing the play.