NESNA

Hear Ye, Hear Ye!

Northfield neighbors from 1^st to 7^th & Washington to Prairie Streets :

Join your neighbors and friends for the

The Annual All-Neighborhood Meeting of the East Side Neighborhood Association

Next Sunday, March 14, 2010, 2 to 4 PM, at First United Church of Christ, Sanctuary, 300 Union Street

This meeting will provide an opportunity to hear updates on important neighborhood issues, and to join in small group discussions with neighbors about issues of interest to you!

Social Reception to follow, 4 to 5 PM, Church Social Hall

On behalf of the NESNA Board,   Michael Harper  (President), Lisa Ash, Ed Lufkin (Publicity)

IMPORTANT NOTE:  Carleton strongly encourages you to share their views by coming to this meeting, and by responding to the questions posted on the Arts Union Project  web site http://carletonneighbors.pbwiki.com/ (also available at www.northfieldeastside.org).

No project in the foreseeable future will have as great an impact on our residential neighborhood as the proposed Arts Union. Please take the time to share your views with the project planners.

Child care will be provided on-site.

We look forward to seeing you on Sunday, March 14!  Thank you.

To contribute refreshments for the reception, contact Grace Clark, 645-6330

The NESNA Board

We’ve just received this timely information from Lisa Ash.    Since it’s a longish, two-page document,  I’ll present the first paragraph here, and you can continue reading it by clicking on the link.    Thank you, Lisa———–Ed

A Quick Primer Regarding Skateparks and Memorial Park
1. History. The City has been working to determine a location for a possible skatepark,
responding to a request made in 2006 by the Skatepark Coalition (associated with The Key).
After the Park Board failed to recommend a site that was acceptable to the Council, the Council
relieved the Park Board of this responsibility. After discussions within the Council (at work
sessions and formal meetings), the Council has reduced possible locations to three candidate
parks sites, of which Memorial Park and Babcock Park are generally considered the most likely
contenders, and with Memorial Park strongly favored by some members of the Skateboard
Coalition and apparently favored by some members of the Council.   Continue reading A Skateboard Park at Memorial Park?

Here you see our furry friends hard at work eating berries, much as bears do, in contemplation of the winter ahead.                  Ed

Hello, All—–We thank Suzie Nakasian for alerting us to the presence of a new talent at Carleton,  namely Doug McGill Jr., who is earning acclaim as a blogger and intelligent conveyer of news.     You can see what we mean by going to the link below left, at

www.pressville.org.

Again, our appreciation to Suzie for this information.       Ed

About a month ago  (see earlier post)—–we described the reclamation efforts underway in Lyman Lakes, where the two islands have suffered much erosion of banks.

Here is a photo to show the considerable progress made since then.    The biologs are in place, creating a wall about four feet high at the new perimeters of the islands, and the littoral zone has been filled in with large amounts of mixed compost, sand and soil, and tamped down.    Also the new prairie plantings have been placed.

Meanwhile, new visitors have appeared on the shores in these recent weeks of reclamation:   little green herons (Butorides virescens) have taken advantage of the new shallow zones to feed on minnows.        Ed