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.
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).
Everyone can participate!
There are three different categories in which prizes will be awarded;
Painted Windows (which have been done in our neighborhood sporadically over the past 20 years)
Holiday Lights (someone needs to pick up the void left by OlyLights skipping a year!)
Decorated Yards and Porches (with or without lights, but more than just lights)
If you are not going to enter one of these categories, you can still vote for your favorites!
Painted Windows
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 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.
Holiday Lights
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!
Decorated Yards and Porches
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.
Prizes
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;
Your name (Family name will do)
Email address
Location/Address of display (any special instructions, e.g. Window top left corner of house)
Category you are submitting for
Optional: name of display
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!
We wanted to let you know of two opportunities to check out the Armory and envision its future as a Creative Campus and neighborhood asset.
The dates are coming up this weekend:
Friday, October 1, 5-7pm. This is an opportunity for the neighborhood and stakeholders to walk through the building and talk with staff and the consultant – sort of a soft opening.
Saturday, October 2, 12-6pm. This open house is in conjunction with Arts Walk, and culminates with the lighting of the building at dusk.
The Winter Window Walkabout is completed now. It went from 12/16 to 12/31. Thanks to all of you who decorated your windows and yards. It was cool to walk around the neighborhood and see all the decorations. And thanks to those of you who put your sites on the ENA Winter Window Walkabout map!
Here are the winners of the Left Bank Pastry gift certificates ($50):
Best Kids Window: 1512 Legion Way SE Title: Advent Calendar
Best Family Window: 820 Boundary SE Title: The Rogers Holiday House
Best Community Theme: New Bridge Church, 812 Central St. SE Title: Jesus Christ is the same Yesterday… and Today & Forever
The Eastside Neighborhood Association is always interested in organizing neighborhood events. If you have any recommendations for the next Walkabout event at the end of 2021, let us know. Your thoughts about any other neighborhood events or activities are also welcome. Thanks! Wishing you all a wonderful year!!!
The Eastside Neighborhood Association invites you to walk around the neighborhood to view holiday-decorated windows. The event is the Winter Window Walkabout and the theme is “Community.” We’ll provide a map providing the locations of the decorated windows and we’ll provide a link on Nextdoor and our Facebook page, when the map is ready.
Everyone can participate!
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 “Community” 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 may also like to use paper to decorate your window.
Another option is to highlight your Christmas light display.
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.
Prizes
We are pleased to announce that we will be awarding prizes to participants.
Categories include;
Best kids window (done mainly by kids)
Best family window (full family effort)
Best “community” theme
If you wish to officially submit for prize consideration and to be put on the map we will need the following from you;
Your name (Family name will do)
Email address
Location/Address of display (any special instructions, ie Window top left corner of house)
Category you are submitting for
Optional, name of display
The information will be used on the map.
If you choose to decorate your window, 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 window locations. You may also contact Roger or Nathan if you have questions or suggestions about the event.
Hope you will join us and have a fun time viewing the holiday windows in the neighborhood!
