9:00 am - Meet at Davis Park.  Coffee and snack provided.
9:15 am  – Register, get assignment and t-shirt (first 125 volunteers).
10: 00 am – With ‘group leaders’, depart to project location
12:00 noon – Finish up.  Lunch will be provided at Davis Park.

Our projects include painting the concession stand, bleachers and benches, and cleaning up Davis Park and cleaning certain areas of Elmhurst and Smith Hill.   Unfortunately we cannot complete the tasks that we had scheduled for Fargnoli Park as it is opening day for baseball, but hope to do so in the near future.

Come join in the fun and community spirit and help make our neighborhoods a better place to live and work!  If you have any questions, feel free to ‘Contact Us’ through our web site.  See you at the Park!

We’ll be cleaning up sections of some of the major streets such as Smith, Oakland, Chalkstone and Convent, priming the concession stand at Davis Park and planting some shrubs, trees and flowers.

If you can’t make it this time, please consider going out on your own at some point to pick up some trash or whatever else you can do to improve our parks and neighborhood!

Thank you very much everyone and please let us know if you have any questions.  More info to follow soon….keep checking our web site!

Topics of discussion will include:

Update on Davis Park projects

Recap on farmers markets

Discuss future tree planting initiatives

Information re: recycling event with City

Update on forming a merchant’s association

Update on Eaton Island project

Miscellaneous/new business (time allowing)

Hope to see you there!

Thanks as well to the EC&G volunteers and PC students who braved the rain to help plant trees the weekend before.  Over 30 trees were planted throughout Elmhurst. 

We’d like to keep up the momentum with tree planting and are looking for volunteers for this Spring to assist with planting on Pleasant Valley Parkway.  The more volunteers we have, the more trees we will request.  Please ‘contact us’ if you are interested.  Thank you.

For more information on obtaining trees free of charge from the City of Providence, please visit the Providence Neighborhood Planting Program’s web site, www.pnpp.org.  All you need are 5 residents per street to ’sign on’ in order to be considered.  The deadline for Spring planting is Dec. 1.

9-11 am – Clean & weed Smith St. tree wells. Meet at Little Chopsticks on Smith at 8:50am for instructions.  See Heidi or Kim.

11-1 pm - Clean Smith St. from Oakland corner down to Chalkstone and beyond, time permitting; also mulch tree wells. Meet in front of ALDI’s supermarket on Smith St. at 10:50 am for instructions & supplies.  See Christine or Kelly.  We are expecting over 25 students from PC and Johnson & Wales to help.

11-1 pm – Paint fence at Fargnoli Park on Smith St. Meet at 10:50 am for instructions and supplies.  Wear old clothes!

Thank you everyone for pitching in to make our community a nicer place to live.  A special thanks to our project leaders and students!  If you have any questions, contact@elmhurstcleanandgreen.org.

Our last farmers market and fall community fair went very well yesterday.  The weather was just beautiful and everyone enjoyed being outdoors, shopping, hearing about services from local organizations, meeting new friends and visiting with neighbors.  We were extremely pleased to have join us Mayor David Cicilline, State Representative Joanne Giannini and Councilman Terry Hassett.   It was a great day and great first season!  Thank you so much to all of the volunteers who helped yesterday and throughout.   Thank you as well to Mark Sweeney from The 02908 Club, Anthony from Big Tony’s and to the vendors who donated gift certificates and items for our raffle.  We appreciate your support!

A few EC&G folks and PC students braved the rain on Saturday to help Valentina and others plant trees throughout Elmhurst.  You can see some of the trees on River Ave…they look great.

Lastly, we have re-scheduled our clean up and Fargnoli Park fence painting for this Saturday, 10/31 from 11:00am-1:00pm.  Please let us know if you can help - contact@elmhurstcleanandgreen.org.  Thank you!

The trees from the PNPP will still be planted tomorrow unless there are high winds.  Volunteers are to meet at 315 River Ave. at 10:00 am and see either Joe or Valentina.  Thank you!

One of our projects on the 24th is to clean up some of the areas that really need attention. I come to you with the question…which areas do you feel are most in need of a clean up? What other improvement projects would you like to see? Please let us know your thoughts and we will consider your suggestions: contact@elmhurstcleanandgreen.org.

The more volunteers we have the better our neighborhood will look! Times to volunteer are from 9-11am or from 11-1pm. Thank you!

Hopefully the rain will disappear in time for our Farmers’ Market this Sunday and we will see you there.

Our next meeting is Tuesday, 10/20 at 7pm at PC’s Feinstein Center, Room 405, 4th floor.