The next SNA Board meeting will be held this Thursday, August 19 at 7:00pm, at Summit Commons, 99 Hillside Ave.
The agenda can be found on the Meetings and Agendas page.
Hope to see you there!
Issues
Take SNA’s 2009 Summit Issues Survey
What does your neighborhood need? Help plan Summit Neighborhood Association’s activities for 2009 by taking SNA’s amazingly quick 2009 Community Issues Survey Click Here to take survey.
The top issues emerging from this survey will be discussed in detail at our 2009 Annual Meeting coming up on February 23 at 7pm at Summit Commons Nursing Home 99 Hillside Ave.
General News
Build your social capital at SNA meeting Feb 25
Join us for the biggest neighborhood meeting of the year, the Annual Meeting of SNA members on Monday, Feb. 25 at 7PM at the Rochambeau Branch Library, 708 Hope Street.
We’ll review SNA activities, elect our new 2008 board and explore ways to build your non-monetary portfolio – your social capital account. The idea of social capital was popularized in Robert Putnam’s 1999 book Bowling Alone. (more…)
Neighbors
Service for Maryanne Flanagan Wednesday morning
On Friday, our dear friend and long-time Summit Neighborhood Association board colleague Maryanne Flanagan of Fourth Street passed away. A service of remembrance will be held this Wednesday, Dec. 7, at Swan Point Cemetery’s Redwood Chapel. Notice of Maryanne’s death appeared in this mornings Sunday Journal (Local News). You may send email condolences via the Russel Boyle Funeral Home.
Maryanne was a lifelong student and teacher, and a woman of gentle, deeply persistent courage. While her passing leaves us poorer, our entire community is richer for her life among us.
Maryanne’s commitment to community found expression in her faithful, never-failing service as Secretary to our board, as a thoughtful governor of the organization and strategist in our campaigns and as a hands-on activist always ready to make calls, write letters, knock on doors and speak at hearings.
Maryanne’s faith in her power as a citizen continued to the very end. Just last week, Maryanne considered with me whether she should sit in outside the door of our city building inspector, who has failed to respond to her numerous calls and letters on a certain neighborhood matter. (For all I know, Maryanne may have done just that.) Last Saturday, Maryanne submitted her Minutes for our November Board meeting.
Maryanne’s steadiness in the face of her illness perhaps lulled us into believing what we hoped: that she would overcome and remain our friend and colleague here forever. That could not be, but Maryanne’s memory and spirit will always strengthen those of us who knew her.
I hope that those of you who also knew Maryanne will respond to this post with your own remembrances and tributes.
SNA
SNA Board meeting Monday, Sept. 17
The Summit Neighborhood Association board will hold it’s monthly meeting on Monday, Sept. 17 at 7PM in the Community Room at the Rochambeau Library. The public is welcome to attend.
Agenda items will include:
Participation in the city’s three-neighborhood planning process for Summit, Mt. Hope and Blackstone the week of Sept. 24 through 29.
Update on the North Main Street project.
Key board and volunteer positions to be recruited.
If you have a matter you want raised at this meeting, please call Jonathan Howard at 331-2272 in advance.
Environment
Next SNA Board meeting July 16 – East Coast Greenway Project
Summit Neighborhood Association’s next public board meeting will be held Monday, July 16 at 7PM in the Community Room downstairs at the Rochambeau Branch of the Providence Public Library, 708 Hope Street.
Eric Weiss RI organizer of the East Coast Greenway Project will join us to talk about the future of bike routes on the East Side, including his proposal to make Blackstone Boulevard bike and pedestrian friendly. Blackstone will be the planned route connecting the Pawtucket end of the Lincoln Bike Path to India Point and the East Bay Bike Path.
Eric will also talk about the potential for bike lanes and off-road greenways along the North Main and Moshassuck River corridors. The Moshassuck, which runs through North Burial Ground and along Rt. 95 was the actual path of the old Blackstone Canal which the Lincoln path follows for most of its length.
For more information, or to request time on the agenda, please call Jonathan Howard 331.2272.
SNA
Quick Notes from June’s SNA Meeting
The June meeting of the Summit Neighborhood Association was held at the Mount Hope Learning Center on June 18th.
General News
Quick notes from May’s SNA Meeting
The May meeting of the Summit Neighborhood Association was held at the Mount Hope Learning Center on May 21st.
General News
Neighbors form committee on Hillside property
More than 40 residents attended an SNA-sponsored meeting on the future of the former Hillside Health Center between Chace and Hillside Avenues on August 10. The nursing home entered bankruptcy in 2003 and was forced to close its doors in June of 2004. Neighbors are concerned about how future use of the property will help or harm the neighborhood.
At the meeting, neighbors formed a new, SNA-affiliated working committee, chaired by John Smithers of Hillside Ave, to represent neighborhood interests in the re-development of the large complex. The new committee will monitor developments at Hillside, including current court cases and future regulatory proceedings, keep neighbors informed and aware and advocate for re-using the Hillside buildings in ways that are most appropriate to our residential neighborhood.
To learn more about the committee or to share information about the Hillside Health Center, please contact John Smithers: (401) 751-2505 or by email: john.smithers@cox.net.
Read the full notes of the Hillside Committee meetings here. (more…)
City Government
SNA Board to hear about Edgehill Crime Watch Monday
The Summit Neighborhood Association monthly board meeting will have guests to discuss Crime Watch, city planning and a possible new neighborhood association for the Elmgrove neighborhood. The board meets Monday, July 10 at 7PM in the Community Room at Rochambeau Branch Library on Hope Street. The public is invited to attend. (more…)