Noble Gardeners' Market
Aug 6 - Sept 24, 2022

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New this year to Noble Gardeners' Market is a series of free demonstrations
See these at 10:30am and 11:30am on Market days:

About that Plant Swap on the 24th - Dividing plants in your garden? Bring your plants to the Noble Gardeners' Market to sell or swap with other gardeners!

Upcoming Events in the Noble neighborhood
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Hello Noble Neighbors!

We always have good things going on in the neighborhood!

Tuesday. Sept 6, 7pm  Noble Neighbors meeting:
This month we're meeting at a delightful spot, Milliken Playground. You long-timers will remember that Milliken School was a neighborhood school just south of Mayfield at the end of Crest Rd. At the corner of Crest and Mayfield is Peace Lutheran Church. Turn south from Mayfield and in two blocks, you will run into Milliken. 
     Neighbors in this South Noble area have been working for years to create playground space for area residents and visitors. This is a neighborhood treasure that we all need to know about. Please bring a lawn chair, a water bottle and be prepared for the temperatures to cool as we near sunset. Parking is on the street so carpool if you can. Note that there are no restroom facilities on site.

Saturdays, Sept 3, 10, 17 and 24, 10am-Noon   Noble Gardeners' Markets
Join us as a buyer or seller at the corner of Roanoke and Noble Roads for our Market. You'll find the freshest vegetables and flowers cut just that morning. Do stay for our special events:

Friday, Sept 16, 4:15 - 5:45pm  Heights High Homecoming Parade
Noble Neighbors is signed up to walk in the Homecoming Parade on Lee Road. We've done this before and it really is a fun event!
     Meet Larry Shaw at 4:15 at Fairfax School. Wear your We Are Noble t-shirt or Heights High colors - black, yellow and white. We'll give you a We Are Noble sign to carry. At 5:00, the parade steps onto Lee Road and marches toward Heights High. It will end one block shy of Cedar at Tullamore Road. We recommend that you park near the end of the parade and arrive early. Lee Road and a few surrounding streets will be blocked off at 4:30. Parking near Fairfax School will be very crowded. Come support our Noble area students!

Saturday, Sept 17, 10am  National Clean-Up Day!
The Cleveland Heights Green Team is hosting a few clean-up events in Cleveland Heights on this day. In our neighborhood, Join them at Barbara Boyd Park (formerly Caledonia Park) at 10am to help Girl Scouts clean-up that neighborhood asset. 
     The CHGT will also partner with the Noble Litter Busters to clean-up Noble Elementary School. Please watch for announcements about details at this site. 

Wednesday, September 21, 2022, at 6:30 pm  ARPA Fund Community Input Meeting
The City of Cleveland Heights has announced the date for its third community meeting about how it should spend the ARPA funds. It has not announced a location so watch the city e-news for that. In the meantime, fill out the ARPA Survey. Make sure our Noble area concerns are well voiced. For example, Start Right CDC is asking us to advocate for the gap funding that was originally promised for the Caledonia Homes project. This infill housing project cannot move forward without that funding which was part of the original agreement. You can find the link for the survey at https://www.clevelandheights.gov/. While you're there, sign up for the city's weekly e-newsletter https://www.clevelandheights.gov/304/City-News-Update-Archive.
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Ongoing: Gardeners needed for our public perennial gardens
We have established and take care of several public gardens - the mini-park at Noble and Roanoke, the two corner gardens at Monticello and Noble (one on the CVS corner and the other on the Longwood Beauty Supply corner), the garden surrounding the Welcome to Cleveland Heights sign at Belvoir and Monticello and the Delmore Community Orchard (including its perennial pollinator gardens). Wonderfully, the City fills and tends all the planters and hanging baskets along Noble Road. (Do consider dropping the mayor a thank-you email!)
     Recently, the "we" who tend the gardens has diminished to a very few faithful folk. We need to spread the joy a bit further and invite the rest of you to help. Please respond to this email if you are interested in attending a one-day weeding and tending work day. Let us know if you are willing to take the lead role on any of these gardens. This responsibility can range anywhere from you are willing to keep it weeded (with other volunteers) all the way up to being the leader who reimagines and replants better garden designs. We also are in need of someone who is willing to organize volunteers and work days. Do drop us a line if you can help.
     Just as an FYI, these gardens and the orchard are critical to the changing narrative about the Noble neighborhoods. So many people have stopped by the gardeners to tell them they feel better about the neighborhood, they feel safer and they enjoy our neighborhood so much better because of these spaces. Folks, these are not merely projects that scratch someone's itch for flowers, we are experiencing what research has documented - the sense of community is increased though public garden and park projects where people feel better about where they live. One project multiplies into many projects where nearby property owners invest more in the "curb appeal" of their properties. In turn, more folks are positively impacted. That absolutely translates to higher property values - more people want to buy in an area where more people like where they live. All this is good for all of us.

Milliken Playground is another one of those neighborhood transformation stories. Do plan to attend our meeting on Tuesday to hear the incredible story of this site.

It is good to live in the Noble neighborhood!

Next Noble Neighbors meeting:

First Tuesday of each month, 7pm, usually.  We rotate where we meet between the public meeting places in the neighborhood.

We've met outdoors all summer and will wait to schedule an indoor meeting when the COVID rates drop. 

Tuesday, September 6, 7pm at Milliken Playground

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Reading and Action Group: Green Noble

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Currently we need funds for:
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   Event signage
   Event materials and supplies
​   Special Projects
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​Quote Wall

Are we really making a difference? Oh, yes we are! These quotes are from emails, web site form submissions and conversations. Not one of them was solicited. Each of these people voluntarily reached out to us to tell us what they feel. Thank you!! You're an encouragement to us all!
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~Wonderful! 
~This was such a great way to start the school year! Thanks for continuing this tradition :)
~Yes! We loved this last year and definitely want to do it again.
     ~ Responses from principals at local schools for our request to host Chalk Cheers at their buildings the evening before the first day of school, July 2022
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~You are a wonder and a huge blessing for our community. I salute you. 
~Great job!!!
~Thank you for the information!
     ~ A few of the responses to our Upcoming Events in the Neighborhood email, July 2022
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What great events are happening in the neighborhood I spent some wonderful years in my life!  I miss my friends but making some new ones.  Best wishes for a successful event.
     ~ A longtime resident retired and moved out of town. She still gets our emails as we prepare for We Are Noble, May 2022

~This is adorable!!
~This is great!
~Oh, the "chalking" makes me so happy! My second of three kids just graduated this spring, and I am feeling particularly nostalgic for Noble.  And Caledonia is where I went to school forever ago. I am sooo glad you are doing this, and I will definitely do my best to be there!
~I absolutely love this and yes I want to be a part. 
~I would LOVE this!!!!
~This sounds like a nice idea.
~I love this idea. I would love to join you.
     ~ Responses to our Chalk Greeting events for the first day of school at the public schools in our neighborhood, August, 2021

-Just wanted to say thank you for the park clean up at Denison. We truly appreciate you all.
-We cannot be more appreciative of your support! You guys are an awesome group and we are so glad we met you.
     ~ A city staff member and event organizer sent us notes about our participation in the park clean-up, June 2021

​-Thank you for the beautiful oases in the middle of what would otherwise likely be overlooked or neglected spaces! I always enjoy stopping to see the differing new blooms when walking my dog (who enjoys sniffing the flowers)
​-Thank you to those who contributed to this project. I am a gardener and find the efforts of those who continue to beautify our landscape a step toward creating a sense of community. When we all experience and appreciate the gardens, we are together.
     ~ NextDoor users referenced our 5 public perennial gardens maintained by volunteers, May 2021
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-It felt really good to add all those NN events to my calendar.
-Uplifting to read all of the future happenings.
-WOW - lot's of great information and energy for our Noble neighborhood.
     ~ A few if the responses to our Upcoming Events list as we emerge from COVID restrictions. March 2021
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I no longer live in the area. I will miss the neighborhood (was in my home for 30 years) but alas it's time. You have done an incredible  job. I loved being part of the group and appreciated all the hard work everyone put into the many various activities. Keep up the good work.  Good Luck!  
     ~ A Former Noble Neighbor who has moved to her retirement location, January 2021
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