Greetings everyone! -Hopefully we won’t be hit very hard by the hurricane! Below please find information sent from the Mayor’s Office. FYI, the City’s website is www.providenceri.com, the number to call if you have any questions is 421-2489. -Our next EC&G meeting will be held on Wednesday, Sept. 21 at 7pm at PC. Room number [...]
Would you like to be involved in our group? Perhaps help to plan a neighborhood clean up, plant trees or raise funds for community projects? Then come to our next meeting or drop us a line at contact@elmhurstcleanandgreen.org for more details. Check back here or on our Facebook page for more updates! Have you been [...]
Have you noticed that the corner of Oakland and Smith is clean once again and has been landscaped? What about the traffic island on Chalkstone in front of the hospital? Weeded and mulched…you can actually see the perennials! Yes indeed…all thanks to our hard working and dedicated volunteers. Thank you all! Another improvement you may [...]
Please join us next Saturday, April 9th for our 4th annual Earth Day neighborhood beautification event! We will be meeting at Twitchell Park on Oakland Ave. between 10:30-10:45 am for coffee, snacks and instructions. The park is located between Smith St. and Chalkstone Ave., across the street from the Nathanael Greene School. There is parking on Higgins St., [...]
Farmers’ Market 2011 We have exciting news! We are moving our Farmers’ Market to Fargnoli Park on Smith St., Elmhurst next summer. We believe that this location will draw more people as it is walkable for many and in a highly visible and well traveled location. The vendors will be set up on the Jastram Street side of the park [...]
Greetings everyone! Well 2011 is here and many of you may be thinking about what your New Year’s resolution will be. If it happens to be to volunteer in the community, than I have a proposal for you! Or if you’d just like to see a greener, cleaner and safer neighborhood, the same holds true! [...]
Our clean-up event on October 2nd went really well and what a great group we had! In addition to cleaning many of the area streets we also planted a garden in front of Nathanael Greene School and weeded many of the tree wells on Smith St. We had over 60 people participating! A huge thank you to our dedicated EC&G volunteers, teachers, [...]
Greetings Folks! This Saturday 10/2 is our next neighborhood clean up. We are meeting at Nathanael Greene Middle School (Raymond St. side) at 9:30 am for coffee and instructions and will get started at 10:00 am. We hope that you will consider helping out for as long as you are able. Bags and gloves will be [...]
Our next EC&G meeting will be on Tuesday, September 21st at 7pm and I am happy to say being held at the Alliance Francaise, newly located at 928 Smith St. (the large white house across from Fargnoli Park). Topics of discussion will include: Neighborhood Clean Up - Saturday 10/2 – logistics, volunteers Farmers’ Market – Update, PR [...]
On Saturday, October 2nd from 10am-1pm we will once again join together to spruce up the neighborhood. Please save the date! We are looking for volunteers. We will definitely be cleaning up parts of Smith St. and other areas of concern. More details to follow soon. Check back with us! To volunteer, please email us at [...]
