Eiber Neighborhood Association Eiber Neighborhood Night Out
When: August 4, 2010
Free Dinner - 5:30 pm
Ice Cream Social -
6:30 to 8pm
Where: St Paul's Church, 10th and Garrison
The entire community is invited to dinner at 5:30 followed by ice cream and neighbor socializing from 6:30 to around 8 pm. The Lakewood Police Department and West Metro Fire Department have been invited to join us! Come for dinner or just ice cream but hope to see you there!
Come See The Trolly Car #25 Roll Out
When: August 14, 2010, 10am to 3pm
Where: Denver Federal Center
The West Corridor Historical Rail Cooperative invites you to this year's open house and "roll out" of Denver & Intermountain Interurban Trolley Car No. 25. See and ride on this magnificently restored 1911 piece of local history and interact with the volunteers who have spent over 15,000 hours meticulously restoring the car. Hear about the exciting regional plans that include a permanent facility and exhibit for Car No. 25 at Oak Street Station in Lakewood. Rides are free.
Garrison Closed for Constuction
When: Until July 30th
Drainage improvements have advanced west along 13th Avenue to the intersection at Garrison Street. Garrison Street will be closed between 10th and 14th Avenue beginning on Monday, July 19, 2010. Current scheduling indicates that Garrison will reopen the night of Friday, July 30, 2010. The suggested detour route for this closure is Carr Street.
2nd Annual Yard Sale a Success!
Thank you to all the Eiber residents who donated their treasures for Eiber's resale and profit on June 5th. Eiber board volunteer collected donations, priced items, organized and set up for the sale, peddled goods all day long, and cleaned up including the final donations of any remaining items. We made nearly $500 to benefit the work of the Eiber Neighborhood Association. We thank all of you for your commitment to our community and our annual fund raiser to enable the Eiber board to continue to represent and communicate all the area happenings to you! Special thanks to Paul Ditson, Fran Yehle, Ed Calmus and Merry Hansen who spent their Saturday working on behalf of Eiber!
Interested In Community Gardening?
Several people expressed interest in doing a community garden in the Two Creeks Neighborhood. One idea is an NSA. It is a neighborhood share connection where several people get together and coordinate their growing at each yard to share. Barbara Moore of Harvest Mountain non-profit is going to farm John's sideyard [12th and Vance] and offer some demo classes on organic growing and composting. More...
Year's Accomplishments Reviewed at Neighborhood Annual Meeting
Despite rainy weather, 61 people attended the Eiberhood Annual Meeting on April 22nd. They heard from President Beth Wicht, RTD, and the Lakewood police grafitti task force. Much was accomplished this year, thanks to the hard work of Beth and the Board. The year's accomplishments include:
- Won a grant to beautify the Colfax medians
- Put an agreement in place with the City for a 13th Avenue traffic study once light rail service begins
- Prepared a unified position with other local neighborhood associations regarding the City's Medical Marijuana Ordinance
- Collaborated with the City on:
• New sidewalks for Garrison
• various zoning change requests
• community gardens
• and even RVs More..
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Join your neighborhood organization and support our volunteers as they work to represent Eiber in the many ongoing construction, planning, and neighborhood events. Only $10 a year, and includes an exclusive monthly email update, as well as the biannual printed newsletter and website updates. Stay in touch, be in the know and support Eiber in its work to represent and communicate to our neighbors. Just complete and send us the membership form.
