Panhandling--and other downtown events

Downtown Greensboro, Inc.'s weekly newsletter included a valuable information sheet about panhandling. Along with a definition of panhandling and when/where it is allowed, the info sheet offers some excellent suggestions for how to help those in need when confronted:

PLEASE DO NOT GIVE MONEY TO ANYONE SOLICITING—there are agencies within the
city that can assist those in need. If they ask for food, refer them to
Greensboro Urban Ministry located at 305 E. Lee Street.

Greensboro Urban Ministry also sells $1.00 tickets that can be given to those
soliciting—those tickets are good for a meal at Potter’s Kitchen and on the back
of the ticket gives information about Greensboro Urban Ministry—the $1.00 you
spend for tickets helps them continue their mission of feeding and ministering
those who are in need.

For more information about Greensboro Urban Ministry, call—336—271-5959 for
emergency needs—336-271-5952; Potter’s Kitchen—336-271-5993.

On a lighter note, information about the upcoming week's events and new restaurants also are included in the newsletter.

July Board Meeting

Neighbors take note: This is not your ordinary monthly meeting.

Aycock Neighborhood Meeting

Tuesday, July 24, 2007 6:30 PM

St. Leo’s Place- Community Room

(located at the corner of Cypress and East Bessemer)

Open to all Neighbors and Interested Individuals
Neighbors are encouraged to attend


Agenda

6:30 – 7:00 PM Kym Smith, Greensboro Street Light Coordinator. Kym will address the city’s progress regarding our deteriorating street lights.

7:00 - 7:15 PM Community Watch Police Officer Melanie Daniels and Chet Arnold

7:15 – 7:30 PM Summer Picnic & National Night Out – SAVE THE DATE –August 7th. Jacynthia Mitchell applied and received a BSN Grant on behalf of our neighborhood. Hurray Jacynthia!

7:30 PM Beautification News

• Neighborwoods Grant – WE GOT IT! FIND OUT WHEN WE START PLANTING! Thank you Laura Wall for initiating the grant and making this happen!
• Yard of the Month
• Home Improvement Award
  

7:45 PM Treasurers Report- Tracy Lamothe

7:45 PM Pecan Festival – Mark your calendars for Saturday, October 20, 2007

8:00 PM Minutes, President’s and Vice President’s Report – David Wharton

8:15 PM Certificates of Appropriateness

• 627 Summit Avenue – Paint exterior of building; close in one entrance door at rear of building with brick
• 709 Percy Street – Replace front porch floor with poured concrete
• 111 Cypress Street - Exterior alterations to front porch
• 613 Park Avenue – Replace square porch columns with round columns and other alterations as part of front porch repairs
  

8:30 PM Other

Aycock's Big Bicentennial Plans

Today's Greensboro News and Record reported on individual neighborhoods' plans for celebrating the city's bicentennial next year. Unfortunately, Donald Patterson's article failed to mention Aycock's Big Plans.

Here's what everyone else is doing:

The city's bicentennial commission wants all of Greensboro's neighborhoods — well over 300 of them — to take part by staging their own celebrations. They'd be in addition to the citywide events already planned.

Events under consideration include cookouts, historical tours, block parties, historical picture exhibits, receptions, ecumenical services, a show-and-tell festival, ice cream socials, talent and sports competitions, and making scrapbooks, brochures and entrance banners.

Fisher Park plans tours of Green Hill Cemetery.

Lindley Park will hold a spring fling.

Glenwood wants to put on a multicultural festival.

College Hill plans to do a walking tour.

Warnersville wants to put on a community drama, a reunion and a mass choir concert. The Warnersville events, the largest to date for any neighborhood, will be the last weekend in April.

And here's what Aycock has planned:

Archaeological dig at Sternberger Park (where is that swimming pool?)

Civil War encampment at or near the Dunleith property

Living history tour (residents will dress up in costumes reflecting the period in which their homes were built)

Poster presentations of home histories (residents will research their home histories and display posters containing this history)

For more information, to offer suggestions, or to get involved with the above activities, please contact a Board member or email us at historicaycock@gmail.com.

Aycock Wins Neighborwoods Grant

From Laura Wall, Beautification Co-Chair:

Congratulations Aycock! We've been selected to receive the 2007 Neighborwoods Grant which will supply our neighborhood with up to 150 free trees on personal and public property.

Starting in August, we will begin working with the city and its urban landscape designers. Tree planting will occur in October or early November and will include the perimeter of Aycock Middle School, Sternberger Park and personal property. We will need hundreds of volunteers from Aycock at that time -- so clear your calendars!

Thank you to everyone for filling out your forms requesting trees and for filling out letters of support. The addition of these trees should really make an impact on the visual appeal of our neighborhood and will make our neighborhood GREEN.

Thank you, Laura, for coordinating this grant (the application for which turned out to be a book-length, exhaustive account of the neighborhood's need and support for this program).