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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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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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2023 Neighborhood Project Grant Results
2023 was the ninth year of our Neighborhood Project Grants (NPGs). These grants now reimburse up to $3,000 for neighborhoods to complete projects that enhance a neighborhood’s livability and involvement, benefit the entire neighborhood, and promote a strong sense of community. 2020-2022 were quiet years for NPGs as neighbors dealt with the pandemic. But in 2023, successful NPGs more than tripled from 2022! Once again, there were robust applications with some original ideas from neighborhoods on bringing neighbors together, including…
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2024 RNeighbors Neighborhood Project Grants
RNeighbors Neighborhood Project Grants reimburse up to $3,000 in costs for neighborhoods to complete projects that: Enhance a neighborhood’s livability and involvement Benefit the entire neighborhood Promote a strong sense of community. Be creative. These non-revenue producing projects can include, but are not limited to, identification signage, bike racks, mini libraries or food pantries, pocket park improvements, physical activity opportunities, butterfly & rain gardens, festivals, food trucks, native plantscaping, public art projects, live performances (musicians, theatre, etc.), and neighborhood gatherings….
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Chalk the Block 2023 Recap
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Call for Artists – Chalk the Block 2023
Event Date: September 30 (Rain Date Sunday, October 1) Artists Working: 9:30 am-1:45 pmAward Ceremony: 2 pm Location: Graham Park (Olmsted County Fairgrounds) SE Parking LotTheme: “Art is the highest form of Hope.” – Gerhard Richter Each participant will have a designated block of pavement 17 ft. long and 8 ft. wide. Required mural 4 ft. x4 ft. (or 16 square ft.) will fit inside of this to allow artist(s) space to walk around mural while working. Artists Categories: Youth…
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Chalk the Block 2023
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2023 AARP Community Challenge Grantee
Age Friendly Olmsted County at Family Service Rochester has been selected to receive a 2023 AARP Community Challenge grant. They are one of only 310 grantees selected (out of 3,600+ applications) from across all 50 states, Washington D.C, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. With this quick-action grant, Age Friendly Olmsted County will conduct a walk audit in the Slatterly Park neighborhood in Rochester, MN early in early September. “We are incredibly proud that AARP selected Age Friendly Olmsted County for this investment to make Rochester…
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