Here’s wishing everyone in Emerson-Garfield and beyond a safe and happy Fourth of July. Have fun barbecuing, watching fireworks, getting together with friends, heading out of town, or however you choose to spend this sunny Independence Day!
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…
The Spokane City Council is currently looking at the Photo Red program to see if they want to recommend to the Spokane Police Department to move forward with retaining or amending the contract language. Neighborhood councils like ours need to be proactive when it comes time for open discussion as to where those funds may be allocated. There is expected to be discussion as to using some of the funds for purposes other than neighborhood traffic calming projects such as…
The Office of Neighborhood Services is putting out a call for images for the 2014 Neighborhood Calendar. The photos should be of neighborhood events, landmarks, and uniquely characteristic features. If you’d like to submit your photos, send them via e-mail to Jay Cousins. Only JPEG images will be accepted, and they must be at least 8 megapixels. Also be sure to include the name and contact information of the photographer, the location of the photo submission, and the names of…