Block Parties June 28, 2025

This year the ENA is sponsoring 4 block parties to celebrate and get to know your neighbors! Go to one, go to all! All block parties are taking place Saturday, June 28, from 4-7pm.

Block parties are potlucks, please bring food to share with your neighbors! The ENA will be providing some burgers, dogs, and a veggie option at each party, along with a selection of drinks.

Please pack out what you pack in! Be conscious of your hosts and take any dishes/leftover food you have brought with you when you leave a party (take what you brought onto the next party!). While each party may have limited seating, please bring chairs for yourselves.

We hope to see everyone at one or all!

Locations

  • McCormick and 7th. Hosted by Abigail, Karen & Jim, Aicha & Dan.
  • McCormick and 13th. Hosted by Patricia Campbell.
  • Lions Park. Hosted by Jim Rioux.
  • Lybarger and 10th. Hosted by Sherry Chilcutt.

Joint Olympia Council of Neighborhood Associations & City of Olympia

Housing Affordability Forum

You are invited to participate on May 21st in a dialog about housing affordability and how Olympia neighborhoods and community members are affected. The City will use your input to help inform solutions. You can attend in-person or through Zoom.

The City of Olympia and Council of Neighborhood Associations are co-hosting an opportunity for community members to learn and talk about housing affordability in Olympia. The conversation takes place from 5:30 to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, May 21, 2025 in Olympia City Hall Council Chambers, 601 4th Ave. E, Olympia WA.

Attendees will learn about the issue of housing affordability in our community and the actions the City and its partners are taking to address that challenge. You’ll be invited to talk with others in small groups about how neighborhoods and community members are impacted and explore how the City and broader Olympia community can further address housing affordability. City staff will collect your input to inform what solutions move forward for further analysis and possible consideration by the City Council.

Caregivers are welcome to bring children. If you would benefit from special accommodation, please contact the City two days or sooner in advance of the meeting.

Use the following link to participate through zoom: https://us02web.zoom.us/…/register/l6axOD9lQF6vACoyr8YHRw

Stay informed of housing information by signing up for “Housing” e-news notices at www.olympiawa.gov/news.

Newsletter Archive

Just a note that to make it easier we created a Newsletter Archive. So from January of 2025 we should have an easier way to access the new curated newsletters. Older ones are kept in the blog area as a legacy archive (there is nothing like history!).