Greenwood Aurora Involved Neighbors
Welcome to GAIN News, the email newsletter for Greenwood Aurora Involved Neighbors (GAIN).
GAIN Cleanup – this Saturday!
Join GAIN for a litter cleanup this Saturday, June 4, on Aurora. This will be our last cleanup before the summer break (yes, we take a break!). We will meet 10:00-11:30am to focus on the area 85th to 95th on both sides of the Aurora and neighboring streets. We will meet at 10:00am at the Aurora Commons, 8914 Aurora Avenue N. If you haven’t seen this new resource you should see it! Hope to see some of you there
Police Dept Picnic - July 9
The North Precinct police officers invite the public to join them for music and fun at their annual picnic, Saturday, July 9, 1-4pm, 10049 College Way N. It's fun for the whole family!
Greenwood Summer Streets – Aug 12
Mark your calendars and start planning your activities for another great Greenwood/Phinney Summer Streets Party & Art Walk, August 12, 6-9pm.
Humans will rule the road as 22 blocks of Greenwood Ave from N 87th St to N 65th St are opened up, allowing families and visitors to play, stroll, relax, reconnect with neighbors, have some great food, enjoy art and support local businesses. This event happens during the monthly Art Walk.
Come out and have a picnic in the street or play scrabble! Teach your kid to ride their bike! Summer Streets help people imagine what life could be like if more people walk, bike and shop locally and folks drive less. Visit Summer Streets to learn more and register to volunteer, provide an activity or be an event sponsor. Click on “Get Involved” in the left column. Have questions or what to share an idea? Email summer.streets@seattle.gov.
Greenwood Park Updates
The Vision Greenwood Park group been has been working hard to make the community vision of expanding the park into a reality. They are making real progress towards adding a community garden and multi-sport courtyard in the vacant, city-owned lots in the northeast and southeast corners of the park! Their grants require a local match. While there is a lot to celebrate, with the great turnout for park events and generous donations, they still need your support. To leverage the full amount of the City grant and be able to complete the community garden this year, they need to raise an additional $2,500 in donations. Your monetary support will help them complete the community garden in time for late season planting in 2011 and get started on the multi-sport courtyard in 2012!
They have many accomplishments from 2010 and 2011:
· Awarded $102,000 in grants from City of Seattle, King County, and the Norcliffe Foundation to build the community garden and multi-sport courtyard.
· Held a fundraising event in the summer of 2010
· Held 2 work parties in the fall of 2010, which started the work on the community garden.
· Held a community Urban Birding workshop in February 2011.
· Held work party with 20 volunteers on April 16 to continue progress towards the community garden.
Donations of any amount can be made securely on the Phinney Neighborhood Association website here. Checks are also welcome and can be made out to Vision Greenwood Park and sent to PO Box 30105, Seattle, WA 98113.
Girls Soccer!
Dan Pavlovic, one of GAIN's leaders, is also a Dad and a volunteer soccer coach for girls. He is looking for neighborhood kids to join a Greenwood Soccer team! Please let your neighbors know! http://www.ballardsoccer.org U7 (fall 1st graders) Golden Dragons Girls. U11 (fall 5th graders) The Ospreys. Enter either by team name or coach Dan Pavlovic. Let him know if you have questions - 522-4777. The Ballard league goes from the ship canal up to 145th so covers a wide area (not just Ballard). The Fall 2011 Recreation Soccer registration dates are: May 1 - June 15 for U5-U7, May 1 - June 4 for U8-18 Late registration continues until September or teams are full
GAIN Mission
Greenwood Aurora Involved Neighbors (GAIN) is a group of active neighbors who are working to enhance community and decrease crime in the Aurora corridor north of Woodland Park and south of 95th. GAIN's vision is to bring permanent changes resulting in a safe and involved neighborhood. For more information visit www.gainseattle.com or email gaingroup@gmail.com. To be removed from the email list, simply reply to this email.
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