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PRESIDENTS’ NOTE
Spring 2009
Here we are
finally at the end of February and hopefully soon at the end of our
long winter season. We have lost several good friends (Iris Blodgett
on East Meadows and Bill Anderson on Briarcrest) this winter and our
economy is in bad shape.
But we each can elect to have good memories, to count our
blessings and be thankful for good families, neighbors and
friends. We also can
look for ways to help our city, county and state with budget items
that we can do ourselves or get along without. It must be tempting to go
after the new federal funds but why not accomplish much without
added spending?
Our January Neighborhood improvement projects meeting
yielded the following priorities: 1) work with the city to
improve appearance and function of the retention pond at Gateway
& Glenbrooke; 2) add playlots in our neighborhood at three
possible locations; 3) lobby for improved non-motorized access to
major malls; 4) push for connecting our neighborhood to area river
trail and to future community park south of Prill; 5) add flower
beds and benches for walkers in neighborhood; 6) lobby for improved
traffic controls on Gateway/Golf, Gateway/Hamilton &
Golf/I-53.
All neighbors
are encouraged to volunteer with these projects
AND also to work on the city's
announced flower bed, trail & park adoption program. Call me or look on the city
web site for more details.
There is a renewed push to restore passenger
railroad service to Menonomie and Eau
Claire
; this could mean
that the passenger train from the Twin Cities to
Milwaukee &
Chicago would service the
Chippewa Valley
again. Our governor is actually attempting to obtain some of the
federal funds for a high speed train on this route.
There are four
homes on East Meadows
Place
, two homes on
Briarcrest
Drive and two lots on
Ridgeway
Drive currently for sale in our neighborhood. the
Google map on this we site .
The neighborhood
Spring Thrift Sale is set for May 15th &
16th. The
price for participating neighbors will remain at $5 to cover the
advertising costs. If
you are planning a thrift sale, please fill in the promo and signup
form in this newsletter and return it with $5 to our treasurer Dan
Degeneffe.
We need
volunteers at the food tent and to make goodies to sell; please
disclose that on the signup form. We will also need help with
the food tent setup/take
down.
Don’t
forget the Spring Election on Tuesday April 7th. There is
some information about who is running on the city web site. Check the calendar for other
key dates and the brunch dates &
locations
A block
captain for S East Meadows is still needed; call or email if you are
interested. Block
captains distribute newsletters three times each year and keep us
posted on any changes in their neighborhood.
May God bless
your families and our neighborhood.
Duane Berglund,
President
January 2009
Sustainability Government
Each household recently received the Winter
issue of "Community NEWS" from the city of Eau Claire.
Sustainability considerations were developed by a special community
group that resulted in a major amendment to the existing 2005
Comprehensive Plan. As your association president I attended most of these
planning sessions.
The
goals and actions are to improve the quality of
life and lessen our impact on our beautiful environment here.
Advocacy - The issues of
available parks and playlots, greenways and especially walking and
bike trails are a long-range concern. We must continue to advocate
with our county and city reps and with city department heads on
these issues including our city and county
representatives.
We have three new block captains
Lalaine Gunem for south Briarcrest, Mandi Yeast for north Ridgeway
and Carol Blades for Prill. A block captain for S East Meadows is
needed; call or email if you are interested. Block captains distribute
newsletters three times each year and keep us posted on any changes
in their neighborhood.
Duane Berglund – President and Editor -
839-8599 dberg581@aol.com
2008 BLOCK
CAPTAINS
The following neighbors are our block
captains:
Linda Nortman – East Meadows (North) Block
Captain
Catherine
Keys – Briarcrest
Drive
(North) Block Captain
Lalaine Gunem –
Briarcrest
Drive
(South) Block Captain
Mandi Yeast
– Ridgeway
(North) Block Captain
Cheryl Meyers – Ridgeway (South) Block Captain
Carol Blades – Prill Block Captain
Jim Dickerson –
Hamilton
Ave
Block Captain
Go to Block Captains for more
details.
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