Reminder that we will be meeting tomorrow night, Tues. 11/10 at 7pm at PC’s Feinstein Center, Room 405, 4th floor. 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 [...]
Thank you so much to all of the volunteers who helped to ‘spruce up’ the neighborhood last Saturday! From painting the fence at Fargnoli Park to cleaning and weeding the tree wells and cleaning the sidewalks on Smith St., everyone’s contribution was greatly appreciated. Special thanks to the project leaders, Everett Brooks and the Johnson [...]
The weather looks like it will cooperate tomorrow which is fantastic. Folks, if you can only make an hour tomorrow, that is okay! Any help at all would be greatly appreciated. Here is the plan… 9-11 am – Clean & weed Smith St. tree wells. Meet at Little Chopsticks on Smith at 8:50am for instructions. See Heidi [...]
There has been a lot happening! Beginning with the Davis Park ‘revitalization’ project, Bob McMahon, Superintendent of Parks, provided us with some very good news last week. Bob has secured funding for the new walking track, removal of the existing minor league field and installation of a new field, new lighting at the existing little league field and a new [...]
Due to the rainy forecast, we are postponing our clean up and fence painting for tomorrow and have rescheduled for next Saturday, 10/31. Tentative time is 11:00am-1:00pm. More info to follow. 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 [...]
Unfortunately the forecast is calling for rain on Saturday! We will make a decision on Friday by 6pm as to whether we will have to call off our Neighborhood Improvement Day projects. Hopefully we won’t have to. Please check here tomorrow for status. Thank you.
We are moving forward with our plans for Neighborhood Improvement Day on 10/24 with the help of some great PC student volunteers. Johnson & Wales has expressed interest in working with us, if not on the 24th, sometime in the near future which is terrific. One of our projects on the 24th is to clean [...]
If you haven’t noticed it yet, we have added an EC&G event calendar to the right sidebar of the page. We’ll be updating this as we schedule events. A quick reminder that on Saturday, October 24th, we will be working in conjunction with PC’s Student Environmental Action Coalition on our first Neighborhood Improvement Day. There [...]
We met today with representatives from the Environmental Club at Providence College who had expressed interest a few weeks ago in working with us on clean-ups. We had a great meeting and are all very excited about working together to improve the area. We hope to have a project scheduled at least every other week [...]
Despite the forecast, we had quite a good turn out for the farmers market. We have had nothing but positive comments about our group, the market and the park. Several folks expressed interest in having a garden plot for next summer, many signed up to join our group and also to volunteer for neighborhood clean [...]
