(This is from Melissa Quon-Huber, president of the Averill Woods Neighborhood Association.)
Dear Averill Neighbors and Friends,
You know how hard we have all been working to develop and implement short and long range plans for the woods clean-up, lighting, etc. for the Averill School and Park. We’ve made HUGE progress with the help of so many city and school partners.
But there has been so much more to do, but not enough help to get it all done. So you better be sitting down when you read this.
You are not going to believe this.
Take a deep breath.
Michigan State University has invited us to be a location for their fall “Into the Streets” project.
We may have up to 200 MSU students here on November 14th!!!
The can help us implement our long range plans for the woods clean-up, the landscape plan at the school, the soccer goals, bridges in the woods, etc.
I think we can really leverage this work day if we combine the student effort with the Averill neighbors, including adults and youth; the entire Averill elementary community including students, parents, teachers; the Trinity community; our City services folks; and the volunteer group council member Carol Wood found for us.
We’re gonna kick some butt on these projects!!!! But we need to get organized quickly.
If you can, please join me this Saturday, Oct. 3 at 3:30 p.m., location TBA at the Biggby’s on Waverly just south of the Flap Jack (of course after the MSU-UM game at noon).
We’ll to start putting together the game plan and organizing into work teams. If you can’t come you can contact me about any areas you might like to work on (e.g. fundraising, getting donations of materials and supplies, leading a student work team, helping with publicity/newsletters, organizing food for all the volunteers, etc.)
Still doing the happy dance,
Melissa 394-3996
