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Welcome
friends and North River Fronts Neighbors and Businesses!
Things are moving and shaking in a good way in our
little piece of Eau Claire. Phoenix Parkside is
booming! Businesses are filling up and there are
waiting lists for apartments and condos.
Responsible
landlords are investing in some of our rental properties
and home owners are encouraging each other to take
pride in their properties.
A
lot of these advances have been possible because
we have an active and interested neighborhood association.
Please mark your calendar for the 2nd Wednesday
of each month at 7:00p.m. and join us for the North
River Fronts Neighborhood Association Meetings.
We meet at the Community Table at 320 Putnam St.
(Also marked on the neighborhood
map.) We also meet at neighborhood businesses
depending on our agenda and space needed.
Thanks
Andrew for visioning the 2012 Gardens! The area
is beautiful and so full of energy! Thanks to the
rental plot gardeners - the partnership for pollinators
- UW-Extension and Americorp Vista and to the oodles
of friends and neighbors who have helped this area
grow and provide food for many in the Chippewa Valley!
Wednesday,
May 9th 2012
6:00p.m.
- 8:00p.m.
Hobbs Ice Arena -
915 Menomonie Street
Parks
& Waterways special meeting to:
1. Guide Phoenix Park Overflow Parking Lot (On Xcel
property)
Move
to Conf Room or keep the room that P&W just
completed their meeting
& discuss:
1. Neighborhood Garden Lease Agreement
2. Security - Report Anita
3. Summer Picnic & Float (June 2nd or 23rd Sat.
or June 3rd or 24th Sunday)
4. Other
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Dear
Neighbors,
I
write to invite all of you to the Partnerships
for Pollinators Planting Fiesta on Sunday,
May 6 from 1-4 pm in Phoenix Community
Gardens.
This
will be a fun community event to plant
a pollinator habitat near the new pavilion
site in Phoenix Gardens, and an opportunity
for you to learn more about how to help
pollinators and to meet other folks
in the community concerned about pollinators.
Partnerships
for Pollinators is an Eau-Claire based
coalition of individuals and organizations
dedicated to promoting the well-being
of pollinator species. Please check
out the Facebook page at: http://www.facebook.com/PartnershipsForPollinators
The
group is also happily accepting donations
of pollinator-friendly plant species
(below)! If you have extras of any of
the following plants, please leave a
message on the facebook page or come
to the fiesta on Sunday!
Postponed
due to weather NEW
date soon!
Thanks, and we hope to see you at the
Planting Fiesta! Here's the list:
--Joe
Pye weed
--purple coneflower (Echinacea)
--canna
--dahlia
--zinnia
--cosmos
--sunflower
--chives
--thyme
--lavender
--basil
--salvia
--asters
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--cardinal
flower
--plain gentian
--Helenium
--monarda/beebalm
--foam flower
--hyacinth
--yellow trout lily
--cleft phlox
--spiderwort
--tickseed
--Virginia bluebells
--Jacob's ladder
--Cimicifuga racemosa
--blazing star |
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The
pavilion project is a go! Just last bits of
fundraising and we'll be able to start the
construction. In the mean time we are rigging
rain
barrel platforms to capture the rain
off of the maintenance building and starting
a partnership with UWEC's Partnership
for Pollinators to get our rain garden
established. If you have any perennial plants
you want to split let us know!
Volume
One - Phoenix Gardens to Get Swanky Pavilion
Leader
Telegram Article
WEAU
Coverage
Leader
Telegram Article on Rain Barrels
AMAZING
'12
Thanks
to the City of Eau Claire for organizing the
5th annual Amazing Eau Claire Cleanup!
Our
group alone picked up more than a ton of garbage
from our Mt. Simon Park and walking trail
area. Let's try to get some areas designated
as Leave No Trace places and start educating
folks that if you bring it in you need to
take it out with you!
Thanks
to Kerri for organizing us, and to Andrew,
Ann, Annika, Jim, Catherine, Mark, Bob, Dawn
and Tami for your time and energy! The area
looks great! Let's keep it that way!!!
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Amazing
Eau Claire Clean-Up
Thanks
North River Fronts Amazing Cleanup Crew
The City Assigned our neighborhood one of
the areas that needed cleanup the most! Our
team scoured the riverbank off of Madison
St. by Family Video. They picked up hundreds
of pounds of trash.
When
will people learn to use garbage cans?
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