-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 and agenda to follow. Please mark your calendars!

-Sadly had to cancel our Fargnoli Park Farmers’ Market for Sunday but hope you will support our local farmers and businesses and stop by next week. As always, fun activities for the kids! Fargnoli Park, Smith St. between Academy and River Avenues, Sundays from 11am-2pm through Oct. 30th.

-We are ALWAYS looking for volunteers! Please let us know if you can lend a hand. For instance, one of our members was able to secure additional trees from the PNPP/City for planting this October and could use help. Dates and further information will be posted on our website and Facebook.

-Good news! The Pleasant Valley Parkway will receive some much needed improvements next Spring. Sections of the Parkway will be changed back to one-way and the dangerous intersections will be re-configured. Thanks to Council President Solomon and the neighbors who have been working on this project for several years now.

-A reminder that we work very closely with Lt. Reddy and Lt. Gannon on safety/crime issues and partner with Susan DeRita who started and manages a neighborhood crime watch group. If you would like to be added to Susan’s email notification list or have any questions, please contact Susan at susan.derita@cox.net.

-Don’t forget to check back with us for updates – either here or on Facebook…and please remember to ‘like’ us!

Stay dry and safe folks!

Best wishes,

Robin

Robin Jarzembowski
Elmhurst Clean & Green
www.elmhurstcleanandgreen.org

“You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

Our meeting this evening will start at 7:00 pm sharp in Room 400 of PC’s Feinstein Center.  Mayor Taveras will be attending despite his busy schedule! 

Here is a link to PC’s campus map.  Feinstein is pictured as #18 in about the center of the campus/map.  If you park on Eaton St., you can walk up their driveway (right of the Chapel) and Feinstein will be on the right.  Take the elevator to the 4th floor.  Signage will direct you to Room 400.

Hope to see you there!

Providence College campus map:

http://www.providence.edu/forms/college-relations/campusmap.pdf

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!

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.

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!

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!

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.

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!

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