September 2016 – RNeighbors

2016 Mayor’s Urban Forestry Volunteer Awards

September 28, 2016 Comments 0 Comment

Sponsored by the RNeighborWoods program, the Mayor’s Urban Forestry Volunteer Award was created to recognize amazing citizens, for outstanding contributions to Rochester’s urban forest. This year there are four categories for these awards including adult, youth, business, and organization. 2016 Mayor’s Urban Forestry Volunteer Award Winners Youth: Ava Masterpole Couple: Jeff and Dianne Ellerbush Individual: Clifford Hansen Business: People’s Coop These awards will be presented by the City Forester, Jeff Haberman and RNeighbors at OAKtoberfest 2016. Think of how many trees…

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Fall 2016 RNeighborWoods Community Tree Planting

September 20, 2016 Comments 0 Comment

Rochester’s urban forest needs your help to plant some trees in the Fox Trails NW Rochester neighborhood. On Oct. 15 we’ll be planting 250 trees on the bouvlards of Tundra Lane, Heritage Place, Heartland Ave, and Ashland Lane NW. Tree types to be planted include Sugar and Red Maples, Ohio Buckeye, Service berry, Catalpa, Hackberry, Hawthorn, Gingko, Honey Locust , Kentucky Coffee, Ironwood, Pin and Bur Oak, American Linden and Hybrid elm. Appropriate shorter trees will be planted under power lines. Saturday, October 15,…

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OAKtoberfest 2016 – Celebrate with RNeighbors

September 19, 2016 Comments 0 Comment

Cheers to great neighborhoods! On Friday, October 7, 2016, we’re celebrating Rochester neighborhoods and the people and trees that live in them – OAKtoberfest, at the Kahler Apache, 1517 16th St SW, 6-9 pm. A plethora of German food will be served (see menu below) and each attendee will have their choice of one free tap Oktoberfest Beer, German Wine or mixed drink. Cash bar will be available. Several Neighbor Awards will be given, highlighting the excellent things going…

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Creative Crosswalks – Prototyping Festival

September 2, 2016 Comments 0 Comment

Thursday, September 15, 9 am-noon RNeighbors was one of 16 prototyping proposals chosen to participate in the upcoming Placemaking Prototyping Festival. We were awarded a grant to paint “Creative Crosswalks” across 1st Avenue downtown to help bring art to a barren space and emphasize safe crosswalk space for the one of the most heavily used pedestrian areas in downtown Rochester. We are working with Greg Wimmer, the muralist who designed the street murals that are assets in several of our neighborhoods….

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