Emerson-Garfield in the News
Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council’s budding efforts to become a non-profit organization were covered in a Spokesman-Review story today by Pia Hallenberg. Read it here.
January Neighborhood Council Meeting Recap
In previous months, we’ve attempted to condense and convey the exciting events of each neighborhood council meeting by writing a dedicated blog post about it. This didn’t always happen due to time constraints, and it also meant duplicating work: both the author of the recap post and the EGNC secretary ended up putting the same event into different words. So we’re trying something new to kick off 2013. The EGNC secretary will aim to get the meeting minutes drawn up…
Materials for the Jan. 9 EGNC Meeting
In a break from recent custom, the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council is holding a meeting this month. It will take place on Wednesday, January 9 in the usual place (Corbin Senior Center) at the usual time (7pm). Brave the cold in exchange for the warm, fuzzy feeling of doing good for the neighborhood. The agenda for the upcoming January 9 meeting and the minutes from last month’s meeting on December 12 are now available. Grab them on the “Downloads” page or just…
New Year’s Neighborhood Mailers
Residential households and businesses all over Emerson-Garfield have begun receiving neighborhood mailers over the past few days. They look like this: Many of us found out about the neighborhood council and its activities through print mailings (like the sadly defunct West Central Community Newspaper), and it was important to make sure that we continued to spread the word about how to get involved. The more people who take a stake in this neighborhood, the better it will be for all…
How to Apply for Street Trees & Sidewalks
Of all the questions posed to the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council, some of the most common ones concern street trees and sidewalks. How do you get them if your house doesn’t already have them? How do you go about dealing with old/diseased/overgrown trees or repairing cracked/uneven sidewalks? Both are projects that must be dealt with on the city level. The EGNC (like all neighborhood councils across Spokane) acts as an intermediary in many of these cases by helping you formulate your…