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Pictured above, clockwise from the top left: John Abbot, Jack Horton, Chuck Schultz, one of the 'kids', Mark Lally, Aidan Lally, Peter Guttchen, Fergus Fuess watching Retro and Ding Dong (baby goats), and a mom & daughter watching the grazing goats nibble on blackberry bushes

Help Your Neighborhood Association Turn
an Empty Lot into a Beautiful Walking Path!!

Key Project Proposals

* Build a 6 foot wide gravel path connecting Bethel Street NE to Tullis Street NE along the Joy Avenue right of way.

* Bring in goats (yes goats!) from Rick Mansfield and his "kids" to eradicate the blackberries. www.brushclearinggoats.com

* Remove dead wood and trash from the site.

* Install new native plants/trees.

Your Northeast Neighborhood Association (NENA) has partnered with the City of Olympia over the last ten years to dramatically improve the walkability of our neighborhood. This has helped us make significant progress toward realizing the City’s community mobility goals and NENA’s vision of transforming our neighborhood into a beautiful and safe place for folks to get active and stay connected.

With the help of a generous grant from the City of Olympia's matching grant program, we are transforming this overgrown city-owned property into a functional connector pathway and safe walking route between Quince Street (a key feeder street for Reeves Middle School), and Bethel Street (a key feeder street for Roosevelt School). This path will encourage students to walk to school and provide a new option for folks to get around our neighborhood easier and safer. Expected completion: November 2011

We Need Your Help!

This project is heavily reliant on people like you to pitch in and make this path a reality. While the city has provided funding for pathway materials and such, the labor is 100% volunteer efforts from the very people that you call your neighbors. Please join us for a Saturday morning or afternoon this summer and help make this pathway a reality. Check back regularly to learn about upcoming work parties or visit our kiosk at the SF Bakery.

If you have any comments or wish to provide feedback on our planting plan for this site, please email Mike Dexel, NENA President, at nenapresident@gmail.com

Click this link to see the front page article from The Olympian that appeared July 5, 2011:

http://www.theolympian.com/2011/07/05/1713693/eight-olympia-neighborhoods-split.html

To stay informed about this project, you can join the Joy Ave. Pathway Google Group at http://groups.google.com/group/joyavepathway

Join us for our next work party!
Saturday, MARCH 3 from 9 am to noon

Join your neighbors for our next "Mulching Madness" work party on Saturday, March 3 from 9am-noon. At this event, we'll be finishing up our work mulching the site with cardboard and chips to protect the beautiful new plants we put in the ground in November and to keep the weeds at bay when Spring arrives.

If you join us, wear sturdy shoes, dress for the weather, and please bring a shovel, work gloves, and cardboard boxes to the work party. If you don't have tools or work gloves, we'll have some available for you to use. Join us for as long or as short a time as you can. Any help you can provide is appreciated. If you can't make it to the work party, there are plastic tarps at the Bethel end of the trail where you can leave flattened cardboard boxes.

This project, funded in part by a generous grant from the City of Olympia's neighborhood matching grant program, will make it safer and easier for students to walk and bike to Roosevelt and Reeves, and will help all of us get active and get connected.

If you have any questions, comments or suggestions about the project, please send a note to the Joy Ave. pathway Google Group at joyavepathway@googlegroups.com.

We forward to seeing you on the trail on March 3!