The year that was

We had a very good year last year.






Our Big victory was the city removal of the dangerous building on the corner of 14th and Belmont. This house had been and eyesore for years and had started to rot and fall in on itself. This is a huge success for us. Now we need to get the city or land trust to mow it.


In addition
We had dumpster day, which was fully funded by your donations. These donations, also, funded most of our second annual fall beach party.


We started our graffiti abatement program, So far it has had good success most of the graffiti has not returned. The only retagged building was a garage at 13 and Belmont and that only in the last 2 months. So all in all our efforts have yielded success.
We still have to power wash the wall at the corner of 13th and Belmont. Also, a tree at 12terr and Belmont.

And last was our second annual end of summer beach party in the street, where a fun time was had by all.

I want to thank all of the folks that helped me keep the pressure on the city, the Blue Vally Neighborhood association, Truman Road Corridor and many of you who personally called city officials. It looks like this squeaky wheel got some relief.

I also want to thank the city trash folks for keeping up the pressure and helping us to keep our street free from trash by writing tickets when land lords decided to use the curb to store their trash.

I love it when I see a city tag on a big pile of old furniture and trash bags

tulips on 14th street

I had hoped to have tulips all up and down the block but we all got busy last fall and I only got them planted at the block entrances. Maybe more next fall.

Dumpster Day

It was a hot and sweaty morning but we had a good turn out and managed to fill 2 dumpsters by 11 am. We got our dumpsters, with the help of the Blue Valley Neighborhood Association, from the city dumpster program. The city will cover the cost of the dumpster and only charge the neighborhood $55 for a $300 dumpster. To cover our cost we ask everybody for donations, we ended up with $149 in donations , which cover our $110 cost for the dumpsters and leaves us with $39 to use on our next project. These donations are very important as we charge no dues for membership and have no funding grants. The only way we can bring things like the dumpsters or trash bags for the spring and fall cleanup is with donations from the neighborhood.
A big thanks to those who donated, they keep things happening in the neighborhood.