Neighborhood Night...
And here's the long.
Tonight was the annual meeting of the Belvoir Neighborhood Association. We heard a review of the year. Lots of stuff happening in the neighborhood. Then we had an opportunity to elect our board - our area representatives and our officers. We did a couple of updates to the bylaws as well. So I suppose I think of this as government at a very local level. It's really nice to live in a neighborhood where there is interaction among the residents and a structure to make good things happen for the neighborhood.
One of the things we heard about tonight is the Pavilion Project which will be built in the Triangle Park. Here's a great blog post about it from David Barlew who is the architect. It looks like this will be built in this coming year. I'm really excited about that. We also had an update on the bluebird trail. It was established in 2008 I believe and our report tonight said that we are close to fledging 100 birds. It was a particularly hard year for the birds this year because of the heat. John McGirk who is the brains behind the bluebird trail really worked hard to save the babies. Several of the bird houses got blue ice on the outside it the heat of the day and a neighbor tapped to supplement the parents hunting by feeding meal worms about every two hours. Tonight in the presentation, Bud Hickey one of our founding members had gotten a picture of one of our very own bluebirds perched on one of our neighborhood bluebird markers. It was just beautiful. We have two bluebird boxes on the circle. One of the boxes was in distress. One of our neighbors and I pitched in to help with the mealy worm feeding and we helped save one of the three babies in that box. It was fun to watch it fledge!
So here's to organizing on a local level and working with neighbors to bring good things to the neighborhood! And in the most basic way democratic government at work.
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