I would like to hear your stories about living in the
Elvehjem Neighborhood. Have you lived in the neighborhood for over 40 years?
How has it changed? Did you help start the ENA? Did you meet your best friend
or spouse while living here? What is your favorite memory of the area? I’ll
share some of the stories throughout the year in the Echo and put all of
them together for next year’s annual meeting.
Elvehjem Neighborhood Garage Sale Date Set
Fri/Sat August 8/9th. Diana Winter will be running things
again.
Rough proposal for Door Creek Park Now
Online for Viewing
A rough proposal in PDF formay can be seen at http://www.elvehjemneighborhood.org/files/door%20creek.pdf
Neighborhood Watch
Neighborhood Watch informational meetings will be held
on Thursday, April 17 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Dean East Clinic
and Saturday, April 19 from 10:00 a.m. to noon at the East District Police
Station. Our neighborhood liaison police officer is Adria Ehly. She
can be contacted at 209-8553 or aehly@cityofmadison.com
Don’t let the early
spring slop keep you from your gardening chores.
The late dormant season—February, March, April—is
the best time to prune most of our deciduous woody ornamentals in our gardens.
Prune with a purpose--Approach your tree with the following steps in mind
to optimize your efforts. Remember, too, you only want to remove about 25%
of the canopy in one season.
1. Remove broken, diseased, dying or dead branches.
2. Select a leader and remove competing leaders
3. Select the lowest permanent branch.
4. Select scaffold branches and cut back or remove competing branches, crossing or rubbing branches, or branches spaced too tightly at one spot.
5. Select temporary branches below the lowest permanent branch (and remove those in future years).
These steps hold true for most species destined to be large shade trees in your landscape. You may find these rules do not necessarily apply to specialty trees or shrubs you may have. Use your better gardening judgment and bend the rules as necessary. Regardless, a few minutes of pruning each year will leave any plant more aesthetically appealing, healthier and a longer-lived specimen in your garden. Mike Maddox is the Horticulture Educator with Rock County UW-Extension. Contact the Horticulture Help-line by calling (608) 757-5696 with your garden and landscape questions.
1. Remove broken, diseased, dying or dead branches.
2. Select a leader and remove competing leaders
3. Select the lowest permanent branch.
4. Select scaffold branches and cut back or remove competing branches, crossing or rubbing branches, or branches spaced too tightly at one spot.
5. Select temporary branches below the lowest permanent branch (and remove those in future years).
These steps hold true for most species destined to be large shade trees in your landscape. You may find these rules do not necessarily apply to specialty trees or shrubs you may have. Use your better gardening judgment and bend the rules as necessary. Regardless, a few minutes of pruning each year will leave any plant more aesthetically appealing, healthier and a longer-lived specimen in your garden. Mike Maddox is the Horticulture Educator with Rock County UW-Extension. Contact the Horticulture Help-line by calling (608) 757-5696 with your garden and landscape questions.
Cpt. Klubertanz's
latest newsletter
Along with descriptions of crimes in the East Police District over the last month or so, she gives a description of what happens when you call 911. She also goes over the process in which crimes are categorized etc. Click on this link:
http://www.ci.madison.wi.us/police/eastnews/news2007-11.htm
Economic Development Listening Sessions
The City of Madison is in the process of developing a Strategic
Economic Development Implementation Plan to guide our efforts over
the next 3-5 years. "The plan can only be as good as the ideas provided."
Click
Here for more information about the five sessions, their dates and
topics.
“Prez Sez”
New Board Members Welcome
New Board Members Welcome
I
would like to welcome Susan Dow and Mike Digman to the ENA Board. Susan
is now returning to the board. Mike is new to the board but has been interested
in joining for some time now. They’re welcome additions and we all
look forward to their contributions and ideas. We now have a board of
8. There is still room for more, so if you are interested, please drop
a line to one of the board members listed later in the Echo.2008 NUSA Conference
is in Hampton, VA from May 21-May 24.
On an annual basis, NUSA hosts a national conference
with a sponsor city. The 2008 NUSA Conference is in Hampton, VA from
May 21-May 24. NUSA is a national non-profit organization
committed to building and strengthening neighborhood organizations To
find out more visit there website at http://www.nusa.org/.
Stoughton Rd. (51) Corridor Improvement
Department of Transportation is agreeing to add an auxiliary
lane along Southbound Stoughton Road from the Cottage Grove Road entrance
ramp to the Buckeye Road intersection. This project is scheduled for
construction in the Summer of 2008 and is a spot improvement project
that is part of the larger Stoughton Road corridor study currently being
conducted by WisDOT.
For more information click here
to view Alderman Comptons memo in its entirety or view the DOT's
Stoughton Rd. Corridor Study at http://www.dot.state.wi.us/projects/d1/us51corridor/index.htm....Also(not
affiliated with DOT) is the SRRP"s Website at http://www.stoughtonroad.com/Welcome.html
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. | Thanks Mennenga for helping support ENA
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Open Letter to Neighborhoods and Neighborhood
Associations from Madison Water Utility
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Neighborhood Beat Officers |
| Officer Adria Ehly is our neighborhood Liaison Officer and can be contacted at 209-8553 or aehly@cityofmadison.com |