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Yard Sale 2025

Registration is open for the 2025 Emerson East & Eken Park Neighborhood Yard Sale! If you’ve been considering holding a yard sale, we encourage you to join – with lots of sales in the two neighborhoods on the same day, there should be more folks coming to check things out.

The yard sale is on Saturday, June 7th (rain date: Saturday, June 14th) from 8am-2pm. Sign up by May 28th to be included on the map. Your registration fee helps cover the cost of placing an advertisement in local media. (Just interested in buying from your neighbors? the map will be published on June 1st).

More info and registration form are here.

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NSNA Neighborhood Grant Applications are Open

The North Street Neighborhood Association is pleased to announce that the annual Giving Committee grant process has begun. Interested parties can apply for a North Street Neighborhood Association Neighborhood Improvement Grant at this link.  Please note the Eligibility and Stipulation requirements shown, especially the application due date of Friday, May 16th.

To learn more about our annual giving process, or if you would like to be more involved, you can visit our Giving Committee page here. You can see the full details about the process in our policies [PDF].

VIEW APPLICATION

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NSNA Earth Day Clean-Up

Join the efforts of North Street Neighborhood Association in cleaning up our neighborhoods for Earth Day! Meet us at North Street and Commercial Avenue (butterfly gardens – across from Tip Top) on Saturday 4/26/25 at 10:00AM for supplies and head out with friends and neighbors to pick up trash in parks, along neighborhood streets and bus stops. Cafe Domestique is graciously donating coffee for our meet up spot – please bring your own mug.

If you are specifically interested in supporting efforts at Demetral Park, please register with the City to join their Parks Earth Day Challenge!

Collected trash can be disposed of at the following pick up points:

-Demetral Park Shelter (place in or near shelter trash cans)

-Eken Park (place in trash cans or at curb by park sign)

-Washington Manor Park (place in trash cans or at curb by park sign)

When you are done, head over to Northstreet for their Earth Day Fair happening Saturday 4/26/25 from 10:00AM-2:00PM.

Full details on the flyer (PDF)

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November 2024 North Street Neighborhood Association Meeting Agenda

Our November meeting will be on Thursday, November 7th, at 6:30pm, at Bashford Church, with a call-in option (no video). You can view the meeting agenda, which includes the call-in information, meeting materials, and announcements. 

November is when we hold our officer elections. Any member is eligible to run to be an officer, and you can nominate yourself. We need to elect a secretary, treasurer, and co-chair. The secretary and treasurer are one-year positions, and the co-chair is a two-year position. The co-chair for this year must be a resident of Emerson East. The secretary and treasurer can be from either neighborhood. All members of the association who are present at the meeting can vote for officers.

There are a few items that will be added to the agenda once they are ready. Those are the minutes from October 2024 (which will be added directly into the agenda) and information from Bear Development about their project (which will probably be a link to a PDF).

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Greenspace Volunteer Opportunity

After applying for Free Native Plants for Schools and Community Projects, we received a donation of approximately 200 plants for the East Washington Butterfly site near the Ella! 

Eken Park Butterfly Gardens Volunteer Opportunities – October 5th and 6th
Meet at the butterfly gardens at East Washington and East Johnson (Car-X/Ella side).

Site Preparation for New Plants
Saturday 10/5/24 10:00AM – Approx. 12:00PM
General weeding and preparation of the turf area for planting.

Planting New Plants
Sunday 10/6/24 10:00AM – Approx. 12:00PM
Help plant all the donated plants at the new site!

To join the Greenspace Committee Newsletter, visit the Greenspace Committee Page

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August 2024 North Street Neighborhood Association Meeting Agenda

The August meeting of the North Street Neighborhood Association will be on Thursday, August 1st, at 6:30pm at Bashford Church and online via Google Meet. You can view the meeting agenda, which includes the call-in information, meeting materials, and several announcements. Note that a few items, including the meeting minutes from July, are still being finalized and will be added as they become available.

rek announcements, Giving Committee

NSNA Awards Grants to Neighborhood Projects

Reminder that the July NSNA meeting is NOT in two days, it will be on July 11th. Read on for an announcement about our first annual giving process! At the May NSNA meeting, association members had the opportunity to hear from the local organizations that applied for funding from the annual NSNA Giving Process, and rank the applicants to determine the allocation of funds. The process, overseen by the Giving Committee, is how the neighborhood association gives out funds raised through Eken Park Festival to support local projects.

This year year’s awardees were:

Emerson Elementary PTO, $1000 towards the purchase of a mat for their GaGa Ball Pit.

Emerson Eken Arts, $1000 towards the 2nd Annual Emerson Eken Art Walk (September 28, 2024).

Friends of Starkweather Creek, $924 towards purchasing native plants for the park at the corner of Commercial and McCormick.

Our co-chairs joined the Giving Committee chair to present the funds to a representative from each organization. We’re so glad to be able to support all three organizations with our first round of our giving process.

Three people stand in front of the corner of Commercial Ave and North Street. The Giving Committee Chair and the neighborhood association cochair are on either side; the Emerson Eken Arts representative is in the middle with a sign for the art walk.
Two people are standing in front of a tree. A representative from Friends of Starkweather Creek is on the left; a cochair of the neighborhood association is on the right.
Three people stand right behind the Emerson Elementary School sign. From left to right are the neighborhood association cochair, the Giving Committee Chair, and a representative from the Emerson Elementary PTO. The school is in the background.