One-time events and ongoing activities (public and ticketed) in the Emerson-Garfield neighborhood.
Now we need help making sandwich boards for them! If you have some extra plywood and/or a spare hour or two, we’d like your help. We need to make three separate 2.5′ x 4′ sandwich boards to accommodate the “pointing” vinyl roadside signs pictured below, which will simply be affixed to the front. Let us know if you’re able to help out by using the contact form, or simply drop us a line via e-mail. This is a grassroots operation,…
Christ Our Hope Bible Church will be hosting their annual neighborhood garage sale on Saturday, July 6 in the parking lot of COHBC. The sale will run from 9am to 1pm. This event is open to buyers and sellers from the entire neighborhood, not just COHBC congregants. Each summer the church intentionally opens this garage sale to everyone in an effort to build stronger community relationships and establish meaningful conversations among neighbors. If you want to sell items yourself, please…
First off, our logs show that a number of visitors are coming to the site in search of the vendor application for the new Emerson-Garfield Farmers’ Market — which, admittedly, is a very encouraging sign. We’ll save you the trouble of looking further. Download it here: http://bit.ly/EGVA2013. There are other signs that we’re gearing up for a strong launch on Friday, July 19. We have a growing list of committed core vendors, and it seems like we’re adding more by…
The City of Spokane’s Office of Neighborhood Services is offering free social media training for neighborhoods (and, by association, neighborhood-centric organizations) on Monday, June 24 from 6 to 7:30pm at Tincan [map]. During the 90-minute session, participants will learn how to set up and maintain accounts with Nextdoor, Twitter, Facebook, and blog sites like Blogger and WordPress. They’ll also learn why social media matters in building stronger neighborhood ties. Little ol’ Emerson-Garfield was recently highlighted by the ONS as a…
Just a reminder: Mayor David Condon is hosting a Telephone Town Hall tonight (June 12) at 6pm to ask the public for input on the 2014 budget and community priorities. Residents will be contacted using technology that allows the City of Spokane to call thousands of people to ask if they want to participate in the meeting. Citizens can also opt into the meeting by calling (888) 409-5380 between 6 and 7pm tonight. Mayor Condon will introduce the proposed 2014…