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March Colorful Greetings – RNews 3.11.24
Check out the latest edition of RNews, the RNeighbors online newsletter. In addition to neighborhood news, there’s valuable information about available grants and many community events that you can get involved with. Examples include Litter Bit Better, Neighborhood Project Grants, and more. If you don’t already receive this newsletter via email and would like to, you can use this link to sign up.
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Boundaries E/W: 23rd Avenue NE to 18th Street NE N/S: Viola Heights Drive NE to 19th Avenue NE Goals Social Cohesion Public Safety Environmental Preservation Contact
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2024 Natural Playscape Grant
For the second year, the RNeighborWoods team is offering a different outdoor park experience for a winning neighborhood: a natural playscape! The 2023 winner was the Elton Hills neighborhood, the logs placed at Allendale Park. Our partners at the Park and Rec Forestry Department have created Lincoln Log-style beams that can be stacked together in a natural play area, fun for all ages to climb and sit on. The logs come from local Rochester trees that must be removed for…
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Spring 2024 RNeighborWoods Community Tree Planting
Planting trees along streets maximizes the benefits of the city-wide tree canopy. Through the teamwork of RNeighborWoods since 2004, we have utilized 7,577 volunteers to plant 8,338 boulevard trees. These trees provide multiple ecological and other public benefits, including reducing Rochester’s carbon footprint. Rochester’s urban forest includes 41,177 public trees on neighborhood boulevards and parks. In one year, 33,100 lbs of pollutants were removed from the air, and $719.284 in stormwater benefits were achieved thanks to these trees. Here is an…
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