We really need some help and support from the neighborhood folks in preparation work for the new Madison Elementary playground! If you can spare a couple of hours, please, join us at Madison on Saturday, July 23rd, 9am to 1pm. We will continue lifting out remaining bark chips, take apart the last old playtoy and few other small, but necessary tasks. Hope to see you there!
This coming Saturday, May 14 at the city’s Saturday Drop-Off Site, the City of Olympia will provide up to 2 5-gallon buckets of free compost from Silver Springs Organics. The Drop-Off Site is located at 1401 Eastside St SE and is open 9am – 2pm.
This compost giveaway is in recognition of International Compost Awareness Week, which was last week, May 1-7, and to acknowledge City of Olympia customers for doing their part in helping turn waste into a resource.
The Saturday Drop-Off Site is a convenient location for safely disposing of yard waste and scrap metal. Read more about it on the city’s website.
Contact Ron Jones, Public Works, at 360.753.8509, or email rj****@**********wa.us if you have questions.
Monday, May 23, 2011
6:30 to 8:30 pm
Olympia City Hall City Council Chambers
The program will begin with a Neighborhood Conversation on planning and a review of the Imagine Olympia neighborhood meetings held in January and March.
Then Jim Diers, the former director of Seattle’s Office of Neighborhoods, will share his thoughts and vision with our community. Jim is a champion of participatory democracy who finds creative and resourceful ways to get more people involved with their communities and the decisions that affect their daily lives. In Jim’s fourteen years of service with the city of Seattle, his department’s mission was to decentralize and coordinate city services, strengthen communities and their organizations, and work in partnership with these organizations to preserve and enhance the neighborhoods. Jim’s influence and legacy is still evident throughout Seattle and in today’s work at Seattle’s Department of Neighborhoods. Jim is also the author of Neighbor Power: Building Community the Seattle Way.
This event is sponsored by the City of Olympia and the Coalition of Neighborhood Associations. Questions about the event? Contact the president of the Coalition of Neighborhood Associations, Julie Hankins at ol*****@**no.com