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

Building Stronger Neighborhoods Meeting (Jan 27)

Building Stronger Neighborhoods Meeting (Jan 27)

Building Stronger Neighborhoods — a subcommittee of the Community Assembly dedicated to raising awareness about and increasing participating in neighborhood councils — will be holding its first meeting of the new year on Monday, January 27 from 5-6pm at Fire Station 4 (1515 W Riverside Ave). Please note that the meeting has been moved to a new time, as the 11:30am lunchtime meetings had limited people’s ability to attend. The Building Stronger Neighborhoods committee had a productive 2013 and is looking…

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Neighborhood Training: Succession Planning (Jan 6)

Neighborhood Training: Succession Planning (Jan 6)

The Office of Neighborhood Services will be holding another event in its successful and informative Neighborhood Training series. This one is on succession planning: that is, how the current group of neighborhood council officers will be replaced by the newly elected group of officers following this year’s voting process (which most councils typically hold in January). Incidentally, Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council holds its annual elections in April. The succession planning workshop will take place on Monday, January 6 from 6 to 7:30pm…

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Traffic-Calming Orientation Tonight (Dec 16)

Traffic-Calming Orientation Tonight (Dec 16)

Apologies for the short notice (our neighborhood council is still waiting on being paired with a Web intern to help us post in a more timely fashion), but there’s a traffic-calming orientation tonight, December 16, from 5:30-7pm at City Hall [map]. Traffic calming is a frequent topic at neighborhood council meetings across Spokane. This 90-minute session will bring you up to speed on how you can slow down traffic in your neighborhood. You’ll learn how a stretch of road might…

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Materials for the November 13 EGNC Meeting

Materials for the November 13 EGNC Meeting

The Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council meets tomorrow (Wednesday, November 13) at 7pm in the Corbin Senior Center. If you live, work or own property in Emerson-Garfield, please attend and take an active role in improving the neighborhood. This meeting is a biggie. There will be one guest speaker, Jamie Borgan of Transitions, who will describe what their organization did with the Community Development Block Grant funding our neighborhood allocated to them last year. After Jamie’s presentation, we’ll get right down to the…

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Meet & Eat with Andrew Chanse (Nov 7)

Meet & Eat with Andrew Chanse (Nov 7)

Chief Garry Park Neighborhood Council is hosting a Meet & Eat with new Spokane Library Director Andrew Chanse on Thursday, November 7. It will take place at Cassano’s Italian Grocery (2002 E Mission Ave) [map] from 5-6:30pm. Meet & Eats are hosted by individual neighborhood councils and provide an opportunity for people from all over Spokane to engage with community leaders on an informal basis. They not meant to be stage-managed PR events, but rather down-to-earth forums where you can…

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