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August 2025 North Street Neighborhood Association Meeting Agenda

The August meeting of the North Street Neighborhood Association will be on Thursday, August 7th, at 6:30pm, online via Google Meet. This meeting will be online only due to maintenance work at our normal meeting location.

The call-in information is at the top of the agenda as well as on the calendar event (viewable on the righthand side of our website, https://northstreetna.org. You can view the agenda here. The Officers Report, including the Treasurer’s Report, will be added before the meeting. If you have trouble accessing any of the documents, please contact cochairs@northstreetna.org to let us know!

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Volunteers needed for Eken Park Festival

Eken Park Festival 2025 Volunteer Sign Up

Eken Park Festival 2025 is back in Eken Park on Saturday, August 16th.  

This fun, family-friendly event only comes together with the hard work of volunteers. There are a variety of important jobs that need to be filled. Please consider signing up! If you won’t be around the day of the event, there are flyering opportunities in the weeks before the event.

Thank you in advance,

Eken Park Festival Planning Committee

Click on this link to sign up:

Eken Park Festival 2025 Volunteer Sign Up

More details:

Here’s how it works in 3 easy steps:

1) Click this link to see the available spots on SignUp: https://signup.com/go/VCaycer

2) Review the options listed and choose the spot(s) you like.

3) Sign up! It’s easy and you will NOT need to register an account or keep a password on SignUp.

Note: SignUp does not share your email address with anyone. If you prefer not to use your email address, please contact the festival committee to sign you up manually.

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Bike Week and Yard Sale Are Next Week

NSNA is celebrating Madison Bike Week and our annual yard sale weekend the first week of June! See details and links below, and we hope you can join us.

  • First up, on Tuesday, June 3 from 7-10am, join us in Emerson East Park (corner of N Second and E Johnson) for our Bike Week commuter station. We’ll have coffee donated by MOKA, pastries donated by Bloom, and extra food purchased by NSNA. More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/583138088159577. If you would to volunteer at the event, please sign up at https://signup.com/go/uBCeDSU
  • On Wednesday, June 4 at 6:30pm, we’re doing a family-friendly slow roll from points in Emerson and Eken to the Chocolate Shoppe on Atwood. Also on the agenda is tacos and/or bingo (for 21+) at the Ohio Tavern. Pick one or the other, or all of the above! More info at https://www.facebook.com/events/1402717997739479
  • On Saturday June 7, it’s time for the annual neighborhood yard sale from 8am-2pm. More info at https://northstreetna.org/yard-sale/ 

And of course, our monthly meeting is on Thursday, June 5th at 6:30pm. We will post the agenda tomorrow (Thursday, May 29th). This is the meeting where we will hear from grant applicants and members will rank the recipients, so it may run as late as 8pm. Please read their applications (in the agenda) ahead of time. 

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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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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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North Street Yard Sale registration is open

The annual North Street Neighborhood Association yard sale is now open for seller registration. The sale will take place Saturday, June 1 from 8am-2pm (rain date: June 8).

Sellers: Please register by May 22 if you would like to be included on the map. The cost to register is $5 for NSNA members and $10 for non-members. Registration fees help offset the cost of advertising.

Buyers: A map will be published shortly before June 1.

See full details at https://northstreetna.org/yard-sale/ or the Facebook event at https://www.facebook.com/events/799755192068951