Happy New Year! Our next general meeting is Monday, January 9th at 6pm – Provident Heights Elementary in the second floor library. See you there!
Dear Neighbor,
The City of Waco will have a roll-off dumpster at Seley Park (1800 Bosque Blvd.) available Saturday and Sunday. This can be used for disposing of certain types of trash and yard waste.
Paint, chemicals, batteries, and tires CANNOT be accepted. Please don’t dump this stuff in the roll-off.
Brush, lumber, tree limbs, etc. CAN be brought.
Thanks! See you at the park…don’t forget about the Better Block Project at 15th and Colcord on Saturday, and Halloween on Colcord next Monday!
Better Block Project – Oct. 29th
The 2010 Better Block Project at 15th and Colcord in North Waco was a smashing success!
This year at the 2011 Better Block Project, the Sanger-Heights Neighborhood Association will be hosting a booth, where we will be promoting the neighborhood and talking about our neighborhood flag project as well as other association initiatives. If you would like to volunteer to staff the BBP Sanger-Heights booth for some or part of the day, please fill out the form below:
Event contact: Ellen Filgo
Halloween on Colcord – Oct. 31st
For the last several years, a 6 or so block stretch of Colcord Avenue has become a destination for local trick-or-treaters on Halloween. Several of our Sanger-Heights neighbors have offered their homes as trick-or-treating locations, provided candy or other giveaways, helped with crowd control and safety, or a myriad of other ways. If you can help this year, please fill out the following form:
Event contact: Rick Allen or Jen Adams
Spring Garage Sale/Art Show/Taste of N. Waco/Concert in the Park – late March/early April (TBD)
Coming this spring to Sanger-Heights! A day of art, food, fun, music and garage sale-ing located in Seley Park! The details on this event are still being determined, but if you would like to help out in the planning, promoting and production of this neighborhood festival, please fill out the following form:
Event contact: Chad Klawetter
You may have already seen a few of them around the neighborhood. How do you get one of your own?
Two of these three strategies have been shown to work very effectively. We’ll let you decide the right one for you – see you around the neighborhood!
For the last 10 months a group of Sanger Heights pastors and stakeholders have worked on the Sanger-Heights Neighborhood Flag Project. The idea is to place 175 Sanger-Heights flags on major thoroughfares in Sanger-Heights to tell everyone that this neighborhood has a name, that residents take pride in this place and care about it, and so should you when you come to visit. We need your help to make this project happen.
Would you commit three hours (10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m.) of your time this Saturday, August 27? People from several Sanger-Heights churches and organizations will go out in teams to talk to people in the neighborhood to: learn their thoughts about the neighborhood, discover leaders, and find people who want a flag placed in their yard. August 27 kicks off with a brief training session from 10:00-10:45 am at Rick Allen’s house (2211 Colcord), and then we’ll hit the streets. EVERYONE and ANYONE is welcome! Contact Chad (498-3362) or Walker (214-5663) for more info.
Waco Time Exchange Orientation and Potluck
Fri, August 19, 6:30pm – 8:00pm
Location: NeighborWorks Waco, 922 Franklin Avenue
This orientation will cover how to register and navigate the online
time bank application. Bring a potluck meal or beverage to share.
Optional: bring your laptop. For more information, contact Fernando
Arroyo at 254-307-1728 or email wacotimeexchange@gmail.com.
What is a time bank? At its most basic level, time banking is simply
about spending an hour doing something for somebody in your community.
That hour goes into the Time Bank as a Time Dollar. Then you have a
Time dollar to spend on having someone doing something for you. It’s a
simple idea, but it has powerful ripple effects in building community
connections. More at wacotimeexchange.wordpress.com.
Come join your neighbors for National Night Out on August 2nd, 7-9 pm, at Seley Park (1800 Bosque Blvd)! We’ll have ice cream and more information about the brand-new Sanger-Heights yard flags. All are welcome!
Last evening, at the Sanger-Heights Neighborhood Association general meeting, a new slate of board members was elected. The new board members are:
Past-President – Jen Adams
President – Chad Klawetter
Vice President – Ellen Filgo
Secretary – Walker Moore
Treasurer – Michael Harris
Business & Development Committee
Fernando Arroyo, chair
Communications & Membership Committee
Meg Cooper, chair
Congratulations to the incoming board members!
Dear Neighbor,
Please excuse the last-minute post about some very important news!
WHAT: Sanger-Heights General Meeting, including elections for board officer positions
WHEN: Monday, July 11, 2011 from 6-7pm
WHERE: Provident Heights Elementary, 2415 Bosque Blvd.
Hope to see you there.
From our friends over in the Heart of Texas Urban Gardening Coalition:
Friday, June 10, 2011
6:30PM
1815 Morrow Avenue
Waco, TX 76707
Bridgewater House
POTLUCK: Bring anything you want to share to consume.What is a timebank?
Timebanks create matches between people who need things and others who can help meet those needs. No money is involved, and everyone’s hour is equal, which is one of the features that enabled Timebanks to receive an official IRS income tax exemption declaration so people on disability, social security, unemployment and other government benefits can participate without penalty.The egalitarian nature of the system ensures that people will be able to purchase the services that they need without toiling endlessly for high priced services like in the market economy. People can also trade goods with the stipulation that their price be based on the amount of time involved in producing the goods and not their market value. Timebanks’ most successful application has been to provide a means for at-risk youth who have gone to court to do service for their community.
For example, suppose Janice develops websites and John wants one built, but has nothing that Janice presently needs. Using time credits, John can still get the website by giving Janice “credits” for the agreed price. Where does John get the time credits to give to Janice? He creates them. Just as banks create dollars to give to someone who requests a loan, John creates the time credits (by using his time helping someone else…like Leon in the picture above) to pay Janice for the website. Janice can then spend those credits when she buys something from anyone else in the system. When John creates credits to pay Janice, he requires himself to accept credits from someone in the system at some future time in payment for his own goods or services. In this way, by making a sale, he “redeems” the time credits that he originally issued.
This interest meeting and potluck is meeting in Sanger Heights. Please attend if you’re interested in getting involved with this fabulous project!
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