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The Upcoming Summer Events
1. Art on the Mesa Summer Series- please encourage artists (visual, performing, crafts) to join in. Register at Moonshine Bay by June 8.
2. Mesa Bazaar- for your quadrant (EAST ALTA) is slated for Saturday, June 25 (10a-5p) at the Holy Cross Parking lot next to the Harmony Garden. East Alta includes all the streets northeast of Meigs and Cliff.
The bazaar is the combination of
a common yard sale-- encourage your neighbors to bring their white elephants, and anything they have been keeping unused to sell;
a home and garden exchange/sale- extra home and garden produce - for exchange or for sale;
a potluck lunch - there will be a common table for everyone's mid-day sustenance.
We need volunteer coordinators: Mary? Shireen? Raul? Eileen? Rich? Kathleen? Angela? Gail? Judy?
3. M-CUBs and MPVOs- worthwhile family summer activities
M-CUB (Mesa CleanUp Brigade) focuses on maintaining the island in front of the northeast strip (by Mike Richardson's) and parkways on Meigs (on the west side)
M-PVO (Mesa Park Volunteers) help in the upkeep of the nearest park to your home- we are blessed with seven parks and the conservancy in our midst. DO what you can to keep it clean and beautiful.
4. Tuesday, July 12 (4-5p)- the first par-TEA for all Mesa seniors. If you or any of the neighbors around you are 55 and older- they are welcome to join this first par-TEA . With tea, coffee and sweets, we will get to know each toher and perhaps, start our helping each other as neighbors- drivig one to a doctor's apppointmnet, picking up some prescription/groceries, anything- as neighbors- minus the hassle of vetting and insurance of institutionalized group. we will be simply neighborhos helping neighbors.
5. A DAY AT LA MESA PARK- our end-of-summer get-together on the last Sunday of August (this year on the 28th) at our central park (noon to five) Potluck lunch, music, performances, games, a peace hearts circle at the end. Pencil it in and meet more of our neighbors.
6. Street Team Huddles- I shall continue with the street team organizing- three street on each quadrant this year. Schedule to follow.
Please give me your comments- and please help spread the word around-
OF COURSE - THESE WiLL BE IN OUR NEIGHBORHOOD PAPER AND WEBSITE.
We need volunteers for each of these activities- please come forward for where ever your heart is.
Please campaign among your neighbors to participate in these summer activities if they're in town.
Thank you!
alice
845-6870 (i take calls until midnight daily) |
| Share your extra home yard produce and/or household "white elephants" and donate proceeds to our Community Service Garden Project. We need gopher wires, terra cotta pots, potting soil, plastic, wood or wrought iron shelves, folding tables and chairs. Artists are welcome to bring their work- and contribute a percentage of their proceeds to the project. Call Estelle 965-4491 (estelle2@cox.net) |
If you are a business owner, you can create the basket (price range: $5-$20) and add your own gift certificate or discount coupon in your basket creation for sale at the Mesa Bazaar. You advertise your business and help The Gathering Place and our community gardens |
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One of our first two MESA BAZAARS held at The Gathering Place, the latter one Wednesday July 15.
A fund-raiser for our Community Service Garden Project for now, the Bazaar takes in donations from our neighbors' gardens and are swapped for funds from others. It is held every Wednesday at The Gathering Place (the strip of Holy Cross property on Meigs) from 4 to 7 p.m.
Starting next Wednesday, we will take in your household "white elephants" and have a sort of a common yard sale for donations too. Artists are welcome to bring in their crafts also for percentage of their proceeds. Spend some productive time with neighbors--come to the Mesa Bazaar.
THANK YOU TO ALL OUR NEIGHBORS WHO ARE GENEROUSLY PARTICIPATING IN THIS PROJECT! You are leaving a tangible legacy to our neighborhood.
OUR DEEP GRATITUDE TO JOHN AND ESTELLE FOSTER who are taking much of their personal time, effort and funds to jumpstart the Community Service Garden project in our neighborhood - all for a zero-mile food production on the Mesa - THANKS JOHN AND ESTELLE!
We also thank those who are helping create The Gathering Place: plant donors- Terry Fountain, Cindy Weber, Debbie Williams, Jim Watson, Stacie Bouffard, Lane Anderson, Liz Greenwald and the anonymous ones who just left the plants in the strip; for their time and labor - Abi Webber, Chona Pinnock, Wayne Tustin, Lane Anderson, Millie and Cheri Ravenscroft, Mr. Santa Barbara Terry, Bob Nice and Lucia Casso.
THANK YOU SO MUCH LOVELY NEIGHBORS! |
Our first Mesa Neighborhood Bazaar was held Wednesday, July 8th at The Gathering Place. There was fun, information, and great conversation. The lovely donations of plums, lemons, zuccinni apples, lettuce, cilantro, chives, giant avocados, herbs --Walla Walla onions, Italian parsley, true guava, and rare hot chili pepper plants went around pretty quick.
The first Bazaar Day items were donated by John & Estelle, Neil & Marie Chu, Bob & Rozie Larson, Ron & Susan Green, and Sally Walker. The produce are being shared for donations to purchase materials for the greenhouses, among many.
Community Service Garden Project Headed by John and Estelle Foster, the Community Service Garden is envisioned to provide locally grown produce to the neighborhood, at the same time feeding the needy.
To date, there are two areas where greenhouses will be set up: in Braemar and in the Holy Cross Parish fenced-in property, which Ron&Susan Green and Fr. Ludo de Clippel, parish pastor, respectively, have so generously loaned to us.
Call 965-4491 or estelle2@cox.net to donate or volunteer.
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