Volunteer Day - Beerline Recreational Trail Project

Please note that there is a volunteer community event being organized to assist in implementing Phase One of the Beerline Recreational Trail Project. This project aims to take a section of abandoned and deteriorated railway and transform it into a valued stretch of public space for the Harambee and Riverwest neighborhoods. We encourage all of you to get involved, learn more about the project, and take ownership of the trail through this volunteer event. The event is scheduled as follows:

Date: Saturday November 8, 2008
Time: 9:00 am to 12:00 noon
Location: Buffum Street & Keefe Ave (At the northern tip of the trail)

Basic refreshments will be served. The day will focus on litter and garbage cleanup, planting trees, mulching, etc. For more information on the project, please visit the Riverworks website at the following link: http://www.riverworksmke.org/rdc/in-the-works.php.

If you are interested and able to volunteer, please RSVP to Chris Grandt at 414.906.9650 or chrisg@riverworksmke.org.

Cluster Two Play and Grow Shows Community Pride

Donna Handel is celebrating her 92nd birthday today and to mark the occasion posed for a picture in front of the new sign on the future Play and Grow Lot at 3347 N. 3rd Street. The sign doubles as a bulletin board for updates on Cluster Two and Harambee Great Neighborhood happenings to help the garden become a neighborhood gathering place. Stop by to see it grow!

A Play and Grow Lot is a community garden and natural playground, where children can play while older neighbors watch and tend their gardens. In spring, a new garden was planted on this vacant lot. Roberta Lyles and Donna Handel are the Cluster Two residents who live across the street, dreamed up this concept and are working to make it a reality by raising funds for the playground. The Great Neighborhoods program has engaged a landscape architect to begin working with them to design the play area.

More projects like this can be developed throughout the Harambee Community as Community Pride projects. For information on how to plan and apply, resident groups should contact Nannette Smith at 414.264.7822 or smithng@harambeeombudsman.org.

Linear Park/Beerline Recreational Trail Community Stakeholder Meeting

This is another reminder that this Friday, September 12, Marek Landscaping has scheduled a walking tour of the recreational trail that runs from Buffum and Keefe to Burleigh and Bremen. This tour is open to the public and geared towards residents, business owners, and other stakeholders of the Harambee and Riverwest neighborhoods. Please RSVP by Wednesday, September 10 to Marek Landscaping at mike@mareklandscaping.com or at 414-272-0242.

The details of the meeting date, time, and location are as follows:

Date: Friday September 12, 2008
Time: 3:00 PM
Location: 325 E Keefe Avenue (By Buffum and Keefe where the recreational is)

Thanks,
Chris