Elmhurst Clean & Green » Pleasant Valley Parkway http://elmhurstcleanandgreen.org Dedicated to the Beautification of Providence Neighborhoods Sat, 31 Jul 2010 01:38:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 ARBOR DAY TREE PLANTING http://elmhurstcleanandgreen.org/2010/04/20/arbor-day-tree-planting/ http://elmhurstcleanandgreen.org/2010/04/20/arbor-day-tree-planting/#comments Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:28:49 +0000 Robin http://elmhurstcleanandgreen.org/?p=438 Volunteers are needed on Arbor Day, Friday 4/30 at 8:30 am to help plant eight trees and put down mulch on the Pleasant Valley Parkway.   

If you are available, please ‘Contact Us’ via this website.  Thank you!

]]> http://elmhurstcleanandgreen.org/2010/04/20/arbor-day-tree-planting/feed/ 0 EC&G Updates http://elmhurstcleanandgreen.org/2009/11/24/ecg-updates/ http://elmhurstcleanandgreen.org/2009/11/24/ecg-updates/#comments Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:24:18 +0000 Robin http://elmhurstcleanandgreen.org/?p=324 Hi everyone!  Quite a few updates to report on…

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!

]]> http://elmhurstcleanandgreen.org/2009/11/24/ecg-updates/feed/ 0 THANK YOU! http://elmhurstcleanandgreen.org/2009/11/07/thank-you/ http://elmhurstcleanandgreen.org/2009/11/07/thank-you/#comments Sat, 07 Nov 2009 23:22:39 +0000 Robin http://elmhurstcleanandgreen.org/?p=257 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 & Wales students and, of course, the PC students who volunteered!

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.

]]> http://elmhurstcleanandgreen.org/2009/11/07/thank-you/feed/ 0 September Meeting Agenda http://elmhurstcleanandgreen.org/2009/09/13/september-meeting-agenda/ http://elmhurstcleanandgreen.org/2009/09/13/september-meeting-agenda/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2009 00:48:27 +0000 Robin http://elmhurstcleanandgreen.org/?p=152 Our next meeting is this Tuesday, September 15, at 7:00 pm in room 405 of the Feinstein Academic Center at Providence College. Councilman Terry Hassett may attend if his schedule permits.

Topics of Discussion

  • Farmers Market
  • Building Bridges Service Day Recap (Clean up and Fargnoli Park)
  • Business Association (Meeting with city reps and discussing the next steps)
  • Trash Problem in the PC area
  • Pleasant Valley Parkway (progress so far and potential future projects)
  • Eaton-Smith Island Update
  • Volunteers and Sub-committees (and sign ups?)
  • Misc. Ideas and Projects (time permitting)

We hope to see you there!

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