Noble Neighbors Annual Celebration - Covid Style - Jan 2021
Hello Noble Neighbors!
On Tuesday, January 5, in a normal year, we would be gathering with a potluck to celebrate our 7th anniversary. Our tradition is to recount all the good things we've accomplished in the previous year. Looking at our website, it is astounding what we have done together in our neighborhood since 2014. Of all the events, efforts and advocacies we've engaged, by far the greatest achievement is the changing tide of how people think more positively about our district and that our city is engaged in seeking solutions to our challenges. Bravo, all of you! Stand up and take a bow!
Still, we don't want to let this anniversary pass uncelebrated. A few good folk have been considering how to do something together without holding a meeting and they've got a creative idea:
On Tuesday, January 5, in a normal year, we would be gathering with a potluck to celebrate our 7th anniversary. Our tradition is to recount all the good things we've accomplished in the previous year. Looking at our website, it is astounding what we have done together in our neighborhood since 2014. Of all the events, efforts and advocacies we've engaged, by far the greatest achievement is the changing tide of how people think more positively about our district and that our city is engaged in seeking solutions to our challenges. Bravo, all of you! Stand up and take a bow!
Still, we don't want to let this anniversary pass uncelebrated. A few good folk have been considering how to do something together without holding a meeting and they've got a creative idea:
Storytelling
We do indeed have stories to tell about what has been done in 2020 in spite of Covid precautions. Here's another way you can participate in our annual celebration. Send your stories and photos to NobleNeighbors@gmail.com in the next few days. At the beginning of next week, our website will be revised to include all these stories. Visit the website late next week. Once again, we'll all be amazed and proud about how many people are working so many ways to build this community.
We do indeed have stories to tell about what has been done in 2020 in spite of Covid precautions. Here's another way you can participate in our annual celebration. Send your stories and photos to NobleNeighbors@gmail.com in the next few days. At the beginning of next week, our website will be revised to include all these stories. Visit the website late next week. Once again, we'll all be amazed and proud about how many people are working so many ways to build this community.
2020 Stories:
Delmore Community Orchard
This is a fabulous new installation on a vacant lot - apples, paw-paws, grapes, raspberries, blueberries and beautiful pollinator flowers. Click here to learn about it.
Roanoke/Noble Mini-Park
Beautication has been one of our primary activities for neighborhood improvement. The efforts started a few years ago with the installation of public perennial gardens. The Roanoke/Noble Mini-Park is the 2020 addition. Read about it by clicking here.
We Are Noble 2020
How do you host a neighborhood festival when we're under stay-at-home orders due to a pandemic?
1. Evaluate what the festival really is about
2. Find goals that folks will be willing to share
3. Provide multiple points of entry for people to choose how to participate.
Wildly successful beyond expectation, click here to learn more!
1. Evaluate what the festival really is about
2. Find goals that folks will be willing to share
3. Provide multiple points of entry for people to choose how to participate.
Wildly successful beyond expectation, click here to learn more!
Noble Gardeners' Market
This hyper local market hosts neighbors selling vegetables and flowers to neighbors. During the pandemic, farmers markets were considered essential businesses. With a few safety adjustments, we were able to open! Read more here.
Once again, you all were astoundingly generous with your donations to the Start Right CDC Hunger Center on Dec. 19th. Here is the photo of all the disposable items you donated. Additionally, you gave more than $1500. SR-CDC will use those funds to purchase more food in bulk quantities. Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
A few of you also brought items for the Caledonia Community Center/CHPD Toy Drive. A trunk load of toys, clothing and other items was delivered that afternoon to the toy drive.
A few of you also brought items for the Caledonia Community Center/CHPD Toy Drive. A trunk load of toys, clothing and other items was delivered that afternoon to the toy drive.
Roanoke’s Free Yellow Pantry at 941 Roanoke Road
The yellow wooden pantry has been on the tree lawn at 941 Roanoke since the first week of the Pandemic in March with the slogan: “Add What You Can…Take What You Need.” During the spring and summer, it was often full of donations, but recently more often it has been empty. Our neighbors prefer easy to prepare comfort foods like Baked Beans, Mac and Cheese, Peanut Butter and Spaghetti – O’s. If you are concerned about cans (jars are not recommended) of fruit, vegetables or tuna “Freezing” then consider donating boxed items: cereal, a bag of coffee, Rice A Roni or tuna in a pouch. With children home every day, snacks including cookies, fish crackers and granola bars disappear overnight. Examples of items other than food that have been donated: diapers, over the counter first aid items, hand sanitizer and pet food. Thank you for your creativity and generosity to continue to support our Noble Neighbors in 2021. |
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Wind Chimes at Roanoke
Together, we'd like to create temporary wind chime sculptures to hang in our new Roanoke/Noble mini-park. Using recyclable materials - tin cans - we'll write a ONE WORD WISH for Noble in 2021 and string these cans together to create wind chimes. The photographs have our prototypes. To participate, you have two options: 1. Paint your own tin can, write your ONE WORD WISH on it and bring it to the mini-park. OR 2. Show up and write your ONE WORD WISH on a can which we provide. Project leaders will be at Roanoke & Noble on Tuesday, Jan. 5 from 2-3pm and 6:30-7:30pm. Choose one of those times to either bring your prepared tin can OR write on one that's there. Project leaders will string your ONE WORD WISH tin can with others to create a few wind chime sculptures. Come back and enjoy them throughout January! |
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