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, and it’s going to take grassroots support to get it up and running. Don’t be shy about stepping forward to donate or volunteer a tiny fraction of your time or materials!
The official press release for the Emerson-Garfield Farmers’ Market has also gone out. If you’re a media-type person who can help spread the word, please download it here as a PDF.
Quarter-page flyers for the market are 99% ready too. In the coming days we’ll be printing and distributing them around the neighborhood (and that means to residents, businesses and churches). We put out an earlier call for some help and some wonderful folks put their names forward — but we could still use a few more feet on the ground. If you’re interested in putting a little bit of time to get flyers into people’s hands — maybe at your own church or workplace? — please e-mail us.
Oh, and big credit to Bri Musser, who created the logo design for the Emerson-Garfield Farmers’ Market. It was sort of deconstructed for this vertical implementation, but the 6′ horizontal banner shows it in all its glory.
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 reserve a table by contacting Mark Baker via e-mail or by phone on (509) 979-9903. It’s free!
Want to lend COHBC an additional helping hand? They’ll begin setting up for the event at 7am for anyone who can come early, and they could also use help cleaning up afterward.
And no matter whether you sell, buy, or show up just to browse, you can always help spread the word by downloading the flyer and posting it elsewhere.
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 roundabouts and speed limit signs. Right now, Photo Red funds can only be used for traffic calming, and a recent vote by the EGNC came out in favor of keeping it this way.
The Community Assembly (which is sort of a roundtable of all Spokane neighborhood councils) is asking for our feedback on this issue so as to introduce it as a discussion topic for the City Council this autumn.
We ask that residents of Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood take the following informal poll(s) so we can provide feedback to the Community Assembly.
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If you voted “No” on the poll titled Photo Red Funding, please use the comments section below to suggest where you would spend Photo Red funds in addition to neighborhood traffic calming projects.
Thanks in advance for your feedback!
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 people who are immediately identifiable in the photo.
The deadline for submission is October 1, 2013.