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

Paint in My Hair (Re)Opening, Aug 9

Paint in My Hair (Re)Opening, Aug 9

When one door closes, another often opens.

It was only a few weeks ago that we were lamenting the departure of Area 58. The good news is that another Monroe Street business, Paint in My Hair, has already moved into Area 58’s vacated space and will be hosting a grand (re)opening on Thursday, August 9 starting at 10:30am.

Jessica, the owner of Paint in My Hair, closing her old shop, July 28, 2012.

The boutique left its old digs at 2810 N. Monroe on July 28 (almost one year to the day after moving in) and is now located at 3036 N. Monroe [map]. (A post that describes how the owner transformed that earlier space can be found here.)

As part of Paint in My Hair’s Grand (Re)Opening festivities, they will be raffling away three great prizes:

  • A DeWalt drill set
  • A $100 Paint in My Hair gift certificate
  • 10 Paint in My Hair tote bags to the first ten customers, each filled with goodies

In addition to the giveaways, the event will also feature Chalk Paint demos and new items for sale.

2012 Emerson-Garfield Picnic & Potluck, Aug 8

2012 Emerson-Garfield Picnic & Potluck, Aug 8

Lucky residents in Emerson-Garfield have already begun receiving their flyers for this year’s Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Picnic & Potluck, which will be held Wednesday, August 8 from 6 to 8pm in Emerson Park [map].

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The picnic/potluck is being organized by members of the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council — an all-volunteer organization that’s dedicated to bringing improvements to the neighborhood and ensuring a better quality of life for residents and business owners alike.

This event will be a great chance to meet your neighbors from all over Emerson-Garfield neighborhood and to hear from EGNC members on things like:

  • Upcoming events
  • Crime reports
  • Initiatives by the City of Spokane
  • Neighborhood planning
  • Park improvements

Everyone who lives or does business in Emerson-Garfield is welcome to attend. Invite your closest neighbors! Invite members of your charity or congregation! Invite the postman! Invite the cashiers at Zips on NW Blvd and Pizza Rita on Indiana or the baristas at Caffe Delicio!

There will be free hot dogs and soda, but all participants are kindly asked to please bring a dish (seriously, folks, please bring a dish!) to ensure that we’ve got enough food and enough variety. It could be a bowl of your homemade potato salad, a bag of tortilla chips and a jar of salsa, or some fruit from a local grocer.

Costs for all the supplies are coming out of our own pockets, so if you’re feeling generous, here’s what else we could use:

  • Extra utensils
  • Extra cups
  • Additional hot dogs or burgers (and buns)
  • Juice

Please let us know if you’re bringing any of the above so we can plan accordingly. Leave a comment below, e-mail us, or call (509) 325-4340.

A neighborhood council meeting will follow the event, which means you can take part and decide if you’d like to become an active member.

We look forward to seeing you there!

Monroe St. Pub Crawl July 28

Monroe St. Pub Crawl July 28

The fifth annual Monroe Street Pub Crawl will be held this Saturday, July 28, starting at 5pm.

This pub crawl is organized by Great Shape! Inc., a nonprofit that facilitates health care and education projects in Jamaica. The pub crawl is one of its two annual fundraisers
that help send volunteers to Jamaica to provide families with eye care, dental care, and literacy programs.

The event will start at Scout [map] at 1001 W. 1st Ave (i.e., corner of Monroe and 1st) at 5pm and continue north on Monroe as the evening progresses. There are ten bars/taverns/pubs on the itinerary, including (* denotes an Emerson-Garfield business):

Registration is $25. Sign up by filling out the online registration form, or get in touch with Hannah Phalen for more info.

Christ Our Hope Neighborhood Garage Sale July 28

Christ Our Hope Neighborhood Garage Sale July 28

Christ Our Hope Bible Church [map] will be holding a neighborhood garage sale this Saturday, July 28, from 9am to 1pm. It will take place in the church’s parking lot at 1620 N. Monroe.

It’s free to shop, of course, and even better — it’s free for vendors.

COHBC will take care of all promotional activity and set up tables in the church parking lot. Members of the community can sign up to sell their own items at one of those tables.

Setup will begin at 8am, and tables must be cleared of goods by 2pm. Participants ought to remain at their assigned table for the duration of the event, since COHBC won’t assume any responsibility for pricing, minding, or selling participants’ goods.

If you’d like to reserve a table, RSVP — for the record, that means répondez s’il vous plaît, or “please respond” — to Mark Baker via markalanbaker@gmail.com or call him on (509) 979-9903. It’s important that you get in touch promptly because they will need to know how many tables to reserve.

You can download the flyer as a PDF to keep for handy reference or to print out and help spread the word.

Upcoming Meetings Reminder

Upcoming Meetings Reminder

Just a brief reminder about upcoming meetings:

  • The North Monroe Business Association meets at 6pm on Wednesday, June 27 at Petunia’s Marketplace. We’ll detail what’s on the agenda closer to the date, although it will almost certainly include planning for the proposed July “classic cars” event.

  • There is no July meeting for the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council. The next time the EGNC will meet is at the neighborhood potluck on Wednesday, August 8 at 6pm. More info on the potluck will be posted in July.

  • The Neighborhood Planning stakeholders will meet on Wednesday, July 11 at 6pm at Corbin Senior Center. Although we’ll post more about the agenda as that meeting approaches, it will be dominated by prep work for the issues/solutions workshop in October. Please bring ideas and be ready to brainstorm.

If the difference between all these groups isn’t clear, don’t fret! We’ll have a post describing where they diverge and where they overlap in the near future.