The ENA Annual Picnic is scheduled to be held this Saturday at Lion’s Park, in the shelter.
Running from 4pm to 7pm, Eastside Big Tom’s has graciously donated the burgers, there will also be hotdogs. You are welcome to bring a side or dessert to share.
Your neighbours are hosting block parties all over our neighborhood on Saturday the 9th July between 4pm and 7pm.
Locations include;
The party hosts will provide some food and activities. Please bring your own potluck dish and/or beverage. People of all ages are welcome to attend. If you have a yard game to share, or a musical instrument you’d like to play, bring it! You may also want to bring a chair or two.
Please read this press release from the City of Olympia;
The City of Olympia’s Community Work Group on Reimagining Public Safety wants to hear
from YOU!
The City has launched a community-led process to ensure our public safety system works for
everyone. This process is being led by a Community Work Group who is hosting a series of
Listening-and-Learning Sessions during April and May.
We invite you as neighborhood representatives and members of your community to join us on
the evening of April 20, 6:00-8:00 PM for a virtual conversation on:
The City of Olympia is dedicated to deeper exploration of racism, and specifically anti-Black
racism. Marginalized communities such as people with disabilities, the LGBTQ+ community and
specifically people who are transgender or non-binary, immigrants, people in poverty, and
many others also have important concerns.
Together, we’re committed to a better understanding of these to ensure that everyone in our
community feels that the public safety system works for them. To do that, we need to hear
from neighborhood residents. The listening-and-learning sessions are brave spaces for honest
sharing and conversation about what’s important to you, your experiences, and your ideas for
reimagining public safety for our community.
Together, we’re committed to ensuring that everyone in our community feels that the public
safety system works for them. To do that, we need to hear from you. The listening-and-learning
sessions are brave spaces for honest sharing and conversation about what’s important to you,
your experiences, and your ideas for reimagining public safety for our community.
While recognizing that many far-reaching societal factors (education, housing access, racism,
etc.) can influence public safety, this process takes a closer look at specifically the City’s public
safety system, which includes areas like policing, crisis response, corrections, prosecution,
defense, courts, and medical and fire response.
This effort is being led by a Community Work Group made up of nine community members who
represent a cross-section of Olympia’s demographics, expertise, and experiences. The
members are dedicated to listening carefully to community members, with an emphasis on
voices of people that have often been excluded from decision-making. Using what they learn, they will work together to prepare recommendations for the Olympia City Council that
represent the needs of our community.
The work group’s intention is to provide a facilitated opportunity for safe, intimate discussion.
However, please share this invitation with specific members of your community who you feel
would be an asset to this important conversation.
To learn more about this process, including how to join the listening-and-learning session, and
view helpful pre-discussion materials, visit engage.olympiawa.gov/publicsafety.
To stay informed on this process, sign up to receive Community Safety, Health & Livability e-
mail notices at www.olympiawa.gov/news.
THE ENA Board’s Subarea Planning Core Team would like to invite all interested neighbors to a Community Discussion at the Swantown Inn & Spa during Community Clubhouse operation on December 19th between 11am and 12 noon.
The lack of a continuous sidewalk on 7th Avenue SE, linking the lower neighborhood with Lion’s Park has been an issue brought up constantly over the past 20 years. The Core Team has made real progress with the city in fixing this and would like to share developments.
Attendees will be treated to full coffee service and snacks, courtesy of the Swantown Inn & Spa.
For those who do not already know, the Community Clubhouse is a partnership between the Swantown Inn & Spa and ENA. You can read more about it here.
Hello Neighbors!
The Eastside Neighborhood Association invites you to walk around the neighborhood to view holiday-decorated windows, light displays, and decorated yards/porches. The event is the Eastside Neighborhood Winter Walkabout and the theme is “Hope.”
You can find the Google Map here. If you have suggests or want to nominate a display not on the map, contact us (details at end of this post).
There are three different categories in which prizes will be awarded;
If you are not going to enter one of these categories, you can still vote for your favorites!
Please consider decorating one or more of your windows prior to the December 16th. You can use tempera paint (washes off easily), paper, or any other means to reflect the “Hope.” theme. Think about reflecting the positive aspects of our neighborhood and this year’s holidays. Decorating your window may be a fun thing to do prior to the December holidays. And it will help improve the quality and togetherness of our neighborhood.
You can check out photos of windows decorated by neighbors in past years here: https://eastside-olympia.org/projects/winter-window-walkabout/
And there’s a Pinterest page that has lots of information on window painting: Window Painting Information
You may also like to use paper to decorate your window.
And here’s a link to photos of holiday decorated windows on Pinterest: Holiday Window Painting
If you are a window decorating expert, you can share advice on Nextdoor our ENA Facebook page or volunteer to help decorate somebody’s window.
We can pretty much all agree we love a good holiday light display. There are a quite a few regulars in our neighborhood that have large displays, inflatables and in between. They literally bring some dazzle in to our bleak winter evenings!
This is a category that is not only lights, but something a little extra. Whether it be a nice display of a publicly viewable Christmas tree, but remember there are many reasons for the season! There are multiple religious holidays this time of year, bring them all out and show the diversity of our great neighborhood.
We are pleased to announce that we will be awarding prizes to participants. We will also award a prize to a random voter! Your neighbors will be the jury and vote for the winners in each category.
If you wish to officially submit for prize consideration and to be put on the map we will need the following from you;
The information will be used on the map. This year this will also double as a voting slip. Details for submitting will be on the form. Voting will start from December 16th continue through the end of December.
If you choose to decorate your location, please provide your address through Nextdoor or send it to Nathan Allan ([email protected]) or Roger Horn ([email protected]) by December 15th. We will use addresses (not names) to create a map of decorated locations. You may also contact Roger or Nathan if you have questions or suggestions about the event.
Hope you will participate in this event and have a fun time walking around our neighborhood this winter!
