Topics of discussion will include:

Earth Day event 4/24

Update on:

Farmers’ Market, Community Garden, Merchant’s Association. 

Pleasant Valley Parkway projects

Hope to see you there!  

If you have any questions, are interested in joining EC&G or volunteering, please ‘Contact Us’ via this web site.

Our next EC&G meeting will be held on Tuesday, April 13th at 7pm at PC’s Feinstein Center, Room 405, 4th floor.  Agenda to follow.  See you there!

Date:  Tuesday 3/9/10

Time:  7:00-8:30 p.m.

Location:  Providence College (Room 405 of the Feinstein Building)

Agenda:  We are trying a new format this month. We will begin with brief introductions and then we will break into subgroups to work on the various projects. (You pick the project you are most interested in, or pick more than one.)  We will then meet as a group to give updates on our projects and discuss new business.

We hope you will join us. If you haven’t attended a meeting before, we look forward to meeting you.

Our next meeting will be on Tuesday, January 12 at 7pm at PC’s Feinstein Center, Room 405, 4th floor.  Hope to see you there.

Bob McMahon/Parks Dept. have started construction of the new walking path and ballfield at Davis Park.  Coming soon, solar lighting and black iron fence along Chalkstone. 

Christine, President of PC’s student environmental group recruited about 15 students who finished painting the front fence at Fargnoli Park.  Looks great and thanks so much to the student volunteers!

A few of us met with Amintha Cinotti from the Providence Planning & Development department and will soon have information to pass along to Elmhurst businesses regarding the benefits of establishing a merchant’s association. 

A beautiful new ‘Elmhurst’ sign for the Eaton/Smith island has been designed and will be made by our member, Larry Pavese.   It will be installed early next spring.  Anna and I planted some tulips and daffodils around the monument so it should look nice!  More landscaping in the spring as well.

Several people questioned why trees were cut down on the Parkway.  We have found out that they were diseased.  Heidi is working on applications for obtaining free trees from the City.  We will be looking for volunteers in the spring to help plant them.  

Speaking of free trees, Dec. 1 is the deadline to submit applications for free trees for neighborhood streets.  All that is needed is 5 neighbors per street to agree to have trees planted in front of their homes and to help plant and water them.  If you are interested, you still have time!    Please visit the Providence Neighborhood Planting Program’s web site for more info at www.pnpp.org.  Folks, these are beautiful, tall, mature trees of many different varieties…not little saplings!

We will soon start planning next season’s farmers’ market.  It will be much bigger and even better than our first.  If you’d like to be on the sub- committee, please let us know at contact@elmhurstcleanandgreen.org.

We would like to see some holiday/winter decorations on Smith St.   If you have any ideas or contributions or can volunteer, please also let us know at our contact address.

Our next EC&G meeting will be held on Tuesday, December 8 at 7:00pm at PC’s Feinstein Center, Room 405, 4th floor.  Please see our map of PC for location.

As always, thank you for your support, and best wishes to all for a very Happy Thanksgiving!

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!

Agenda

-Introduction New Members

-Update from Bob McMahon, Parks Department – Davis Park, Fargnoli Park

-Update from Lt. Daniel Gannon, Providence Police Department – PC area, general information

- Discuss plans for Saturday, October 24^th Neighborhood Improvement Day.  Outline projects, locations, times, project leaders, supplies, meeting locations. Update from Christine/PC on volunteers.

-Discuss plans for Fall Community Fair Sunday, October 25^th at Davis Park (in conjunction with Farmer’s Market). Update from LeeAnn/Neighborhood Day.  Parking, set up, kid’s activities, supplies

- Update on Elmhurst business/merchant’s association.

-Open to group – new issues, suggestions, concerns

Additional business time allowing:

-Farmers Market

-Community Garden

-EC&G future meetings/organization

-501c3 status

Lt. Daniel Gannon will be at the meeting to answer questions and provide updates from the police department. Also attending will be representatives from three of our local schools – Providence College, Rhode Island College, and Johnson & Wales.

As many of you know, one of the reasons that we started EC&G was to address the amount of trash generated in the neighborhood, particularly by the students. As a matter of fact, this was an agenda item for our last meeting but we decided to hold the discussion until October. We have held numerous clean ups in the past two years, several of which were in conjunction with a great group of students from PC. We have also approached two of the colleges to ask for their support by providing trash barrels, dealing with specific ‘problem’ tenants, etc.

So it is fantastic to hear that Councilman Michael Solomon, the police, and the colleges are working together on ways to control the “party zone”, from adding police foot patrols to having the three colleges take responsibility for weekly neighborhood cleanups. In addition, Councilman Solomon is drafting an ordinance focusing on landlords who rent to troublesome tenants.

I just had the pleasure of speaking with Lt. Daniel Gannon, the district commander for the area, who is responsible for this “Operation Red Cup”. He has already met with representatives from Providence College and some of the landlords in the area and is next meeting with officials from Johnson & Wales and Rhode Island College. The Lieutenant is pro-active in his approach to crime prevention and has implemented several programs in an effort to curb crime and make our community a better place to live. I am very pleased that Lt. Gannon will be joining us at our next EC&G meeting on October 20.