We’ve just posted the vendor lineup for tomorrow’s Emerson-Garfield Farmers Market to our Facebook page.
There are 17 in total — including fresh-baked bread (also gluten-free), fresh-picked veggies, locally grown berries and tree fruit, healthy goat meat, wild-caught seafood, seasonings, and some amazing health & beauty items. Not to mention the delicious ready-to-eat food and ice cream on offer from our loyal food trucks.
Check it out here!
This marks the year that the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council launches its Concerts in the Park series. The first of those concerts — and the only one for 2013 — will take place on Sunday, July 28 in Emerson Park (1116 W Alice) [map] from 4-6pm.
Admission to the concert is free. The R&B/soul band Island Soul will be performing, and Smokin’ Rome’s food truck will be on hand serving up his delicious BBQ and soul food. So it’ll be a feast for at least two of the five senses.
Concertgoers are encouraged to bring blankets, chairs and picnic items as well as friends and family — but please leave any alcohol at home. And that goes for trying to consume it discreetly, too. Otherwise it jeopardizes the possibility that these concerts will continue in the future.
Eline Helm has been instrumental (no pun intended) in getting these concerts off the ground. She arranged the venue, took out the necessary permits and insurance, sought out the band, and handled all the funding. Mallory Battista pitched in by designing the eye-catching poster you see above, and Jackie Wheler designed the promotional brochure that will be available at the concert.
We also had a very generous donor on the neighborhood council who ensured that we had the initial money to do all this. Neighborhood businesses who chipped in are Zip’s on N. Monroe, Caffe Delicio, the West Central Association of Businesses and the Corbin Park Homeowners Association. Hamilton Studio is kindly loaning their PA for use at the concert.
If things go smoothly and there’s an encouraging turnout, this year’s concert will serve as a stepping stone to more ambitious series in coming years, which will be held in both Corbin and Emerson Parks.
The Office of Neighborhood Services is providing another free session as part of its Neighborhood Training series. This one is called Organizational Success: How to Engage the Community, and it will take place on Monday, July 29 from 6-7:30pm at the West Central Community Center (1603 N Belt) [map].
Like its title suggests, this training session will teach you how to reach out to, interact with and involve the community in your neighborhood organization. This training is ideal for neighborhood councils of all shapes and sizes, but it’s open to anyone who wants to attend — which means senior centers, nonprofits, churches, schools, and other organizations in that vein.
The ONS’ last training session, which focused on social media, was overbooked and received very positive feedback from the participants.
To reserve your spot for Organizational Success: How to Engage the Community, get in touch with Jackie Caro at (509) 625-6733 or jcaro@spokanecity.org.
How did we miss this?
Last year Emerson-Garfield resident Mary Charbonneau won the Peirone Prize as part of The Inlander’s Give Guide, the alt-weeky’s annual philanthropy issue in which they highlight people who are making things better here in the Inland Northwest.
The paper featured a long profile of Mary and her work with Washington Bassett Rescue.
Mary is a familiar face at neighborhood council meetings, neighborhood events, and even (or especially) in the virtual ‘hood on our Facebook page.
What’s even cooler is that Mary isn’t the only one in the neighborhood who has been highlighted by the Give Guide for making a difference. In 2011, Brent and Amy Hendricks, who run Global Neighborhood Thrift here in E-G, won the same philanthropic prize, which was accompanied by a similar profile writeup in the paper.
Now in its third year, the Give Guide is once again calling for nominations of deserving individuals for the Peirone Prize. Whether it’s education, social action, the environment, animal welfare, or community gardening, they want to know who to recognize when it comes to people generating positive change in our community.
So send the full names of your nominations, their ages (if you know them), and a sentence or two explaining why you think they deserve recognition to giveguide@inlander.com by no later than Thursday, August 1.
And who knows — maybe Emerson-Garfield will be represented three years out of three!
Here’s a heads up on downtown construction and road closures that was issued by City Hall on Friday:
A new public plaza is planned in the parking lot north of City Hall that will include seating and gathering space for events. In appreciation of the 125-year partnership between WWP/Avista and the people of Spokane, the newly developed City Hall Plaza will be a gift from Avista Corp. shareholders to the City of Spokane.
Work on City Hall Plaza will begin on Tuesday, July 23. The north parking lot will close permanently following the City Council meeting on Monday, July 22. Three handicapped spots will be moved to the lot on the southwest side of City Hall.
Improvements will also be made to Post Street, which will close for several weeks beginning in mid-September. The Post Street project will be finished in late fall.
Current parking options during construction:
- Street parking will be available before work begins on Post Street and after it is finished.
- River Park Square parking garage with skywalk accessibility to City Hall.
More information on the Huntington Park improvement is given in this Spokesman-Review story. Avista also blogged about it here.