9/11/07

HONORING NEIGHBORHOOD NOISEMAKERS

The 7th and greatest ANNUAL NEIGHBORHOOD IMPROVEMENT NIGHT -- Sept 19, 6:30 PM

Neighborhood improvement will be celebrated with recognition of neighbors who have made a difference -- by planning an event, or creating a service, or bringing people together to resolve a problem or to meet a community need. Bring your whistles and horns, and be ready to cheer for these wonderful people who make life in the neighborhoods great!

There will be free pizza for the first 100 people :-) so bring the kids and don't be late! Location is Hunt School -- follow signs to the Neighborhood Planning Assembly party!

Following dinner and the hoopla!, Dan Bradley from public works will unveil your new Transportation Plan, in response to your requests (see list below) for safer streets for biking, expanded bus service, and new sidewalks. They have this amazing concept called "great streets," plus "slow streets" and "complete streets," proposal for a multi-modal transportation center downtown, and a zippy roundabout on North Ave? What? Could be happening! Stick around after dinner and find out what's in store for us out here!

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YOUR N.P.A.

~To the tune of Y.M.C.A. by the Village People.

http://www.stinalisa.com/YMCA.html

Neighbor, there's no need to feel down
We say, Neighbor, get ideas off the ground
We say, Neighbor, if you're in a new town
Come and get connected.

Neighbor, there's a place you can go
We say, Neighbor, if you just have to know
You can come here, and I'm sure you will find
Good ideas and have a good time.

Come have your say at the N.P.A.
Come have your say at the N.P.A.
They have ideas to make life so good
And it’s really great to hang with the ‘hood.

Come have your say at the N.P.A.
Come have your say at the N.P.A.
You can get new ideas, you can find a good deal
You can say whatever you feel.

Neighbor, are you listening to me
I say, Neighbor, how do you want it to be
I say Neighbor, you can make real your dreams
But you've got to know this one thing!

No one does it all by herself
I say, Neighbor, put your blues on the shelf
And just go there, to the N.P.A.
I'm sure they can help you today.

~POETS AND SONGWRITERS-- this is a work in progress, help us improve it!

~SINGERS -- audition to record a PSA!

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Most forms of democracy discern the will of the people by a common voting procedure:

Individual registration and qualification,
Opening the Election for a set time period,
Registration of voters at established voting locations,
Distribution of ballots with preset candidates, issues, and choices (including the write-in option in some cases),
Selection of preferred choices (oftentimes in secret, called a secret ballot),
Secure collection of ballots for unbiased counting, and
Proclamation of the will of the voters as the will of the people for their government.

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