Eight Streets meeting postponed

Due to the impending weather, the February Eight Streets meeting has been postponed.   While I'm sure walking across the neighborhood int he snow wouldn't be a problem, many people come to the NA meeting right after work - and with the potential for tomorrow's commute to be extra long, many people won't be able to make the meeting.

Our two presenters have already been rescheduled for our March business meeting, including City Council district 2 candidate Suzanne Lee.

I hope to see everyone at the March meeting.   Hopefully we'll have less snow on the ground, and no storms on the horizon.

(And remember, another snow emergency starts 9AM Tuesday morning (2/1/2010)

SE Library lecture series

The Friends of the South End Library will kick off its 2011 authors' series on Tuesday, January 25 at 6:30 PM at the South End Library with nationally renowned author and professor of literature Doug Bauer. The South End resident  will read from a forthcoming collection of personal essays. More information about the series and its upcoming guests can be found on the FOSEL web site.

Trash collection on SATURDAY this week

Because of the blizzard, this weeks' trash collection has been moved to SATURDAY, Jan 15th.   Please do not put trash out until after 5pm Friday night, or better still, Saturday morning.  

Also, since this snow won't be melting any time soon, please do your best to help the sanitation people.   They can't see over snowbanks and such.  Try to put your trash near a path that leads to the street.  If you have white trash bags, try putting your bags near your neighbors black bags so they can be seen.   And, as always, make sure your trash is in sealed garbage bags.  Please, no trash in paper department store bags or convenience store plastic bags - all trash needs to be in secured barrels or in appropriate garbage bags.

The change of date is for this week only.   Regular trash collection resumes next week.

Got a photo?

Got a good storm photo?  Or any photo of our neighborhood?   If you use Flickr, use the tag eightstreets and share your photos with the neighborhood?   (anyone use picasa?   Lemmie know and we can use tags there as well)

Flickr eightstreets photos...

No January ESNA Meeting

Greetings and Happy New Year everyone!

We will not be having a January Eight Streets Meeting.   We had no issues to vote on and no speaker scheduled.   And I think like myself, many of you are just getting back into the swing of things after a busy December.     Once we are able to move back to the Ballet meeting space, we'll most likely change to the second week of the month, just so the monthly meetings don't sneak up on anyone.

Speaking of which, the next meeting is Tuesday, February 1st.     Currently we just have a project update form the new owners of 5 Dwight street.   This will be informational only - as of now, no votable items on that project.  

As always, let me know if there are speakers you would like to see at our meetings.   We don't have to be all business.  There are many State and City folks who would come to the meeting to speak and ask questions.   (In December we had two city councilor's offices in attendance).   If there's a speaker you'd like to see come to a meeting, or a topic you'd like to discuss, send to the email list or reply to the blog and let us know!

As a reminder, Eight Streets member renewals were do as of September.   If you have not renewed yet, head over to the Membership Page; where you can use paypal to renew your ESNA Membership; or print out a member form and US Mail it in.

Thanks everyone, and see you February 1st!

Christmas Tree Recycling

The city will be recycling Christmas trees from January 3 through January 14th, on the neighborhood recycling days.  For Eight Streets this means you can put your tree out for recycling on the mornings of January 4th and January 11th.   Trees put out on any other day will be taken as trash.

To get your tree recycled, it has to be free of all lights, ornaments and decorations, and must not be in a plastic bag.  If you use a bag to remove your tree form your home, take the bag off the tree once you get streetside.

Trees taken for recycling are shredded and turned into compost which is given out free by the city each Spring.