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Reusage Project: Rebecca Sills’ Kitty Table
Rebecca Sills built this “kitty table” to provide access to an oddly positioned cat door.
This table is “made with salvaged apple crate, wood legs, and carpet tile topper
from Home ReSource.”
1515 Wyoming, Suite 100
Missoula, MT 59801
(406) 541-8300
www.homeresource.org
Summertime and the living is …
Summertime is here
the sun is shining
and the temperature will be rising this weekend. Might want to bring the kids to Franklin Park to cool off, or have a picnic, or just visit with your neighbors.
Have a fun and safe Fourth of July.
If you aren’t going to the park, what will YOU be doing this holiday weekend?
NEIGHBORHOOD SOCIAL
Get together with your neighbors for the Annual Franklin to the Fort PICNIC.
Franklin to the Fort Neighborhood Council Annual Summer Social and Meeting
Tuesday, July 26th
Neighborhood Council Meeting
Franklin to the Fort Neighborhood Council Meeting
Tuesday June 28th
7:00 PM Missoula Friend’s Meeting Hall
Description:
Come to Franklin to the Fort Neighborhood Council Meeting to learn how to meet your neighbors, fund your neighborhood project, work with local government, and invest in the future of Missoula.
Age Group: All Ages
Venue: Missoula Friend’s Meeting Hall
Address: 1861 S. 12th St. W
Anyone Have Staycation Ideas?
What is the best Staycation Idea you can think of?
Tell us a story of the most fun you’ve had while staying close to home!
“Preserving the Past, Building the Future” 2011 Sustainability Tour
2011 Sustainability Tour is THIS WEEKEND! Saturday June 11th from Noon to 5pm.
This annual event is organized by homeWORD
“Preserving the Past, Building the Future”
If you go to homeWORD website you can get a sneak preview of the homes on tour.
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TICKETS ON SALE!
$25 Guided Bus and Moped Tours
$10 Guided Bike and Walk or Self-Guided Tours
Tickets can be purchased at Rockin’ Rudy’s, Abode, Home Resource, Scooterville MT or online!
All tours start at the Boone and Crockett Club under the Higgins Bridge, and registration begins at 11am.
Out to Lunch at Caras Park
Out to Lunch in Caras Park begins June 1!
Look here for the summer schedule
Caras Park downtown Missoula
Great place to take the kids, gather with friends or co-workers or go it alone. Always good food, great music and lots to see.
Spring Colors
The neighborhood is all in BLOOM. Today I could see blossoms everywhere and ohhhhhhhh the fragrance of the lilacs!!!!
This porch is so inviting, isn’t it?
This porch is totally hidden by the beautiful lilacs right now.
Franklin School’s New Playground Equipment is in USE
“It all began about a year ago,” explained Julie McLennan, a school parent, who launched the concept with Julie Merritt, another school parent.
“I knew my daughter would be playing on the equipment,” she said. “It was at least 35 years old and probably had lead paint on it, and that bothered me.”
Because other Franklin parents shared similar sentiments, it wasn’t difficult to rally support for the idea to raise funds for a new playground.
The two Julies took hold of the project, the Parent Teacher Association lent its full approval, and the fundraising for the $58,000 new playground took off.
Franklin Plyground Gets lots of Use
Everyone involved knew the project would eventually happen, but no one expected the McGrath family from Colorado to step in and offer to donate $25,000 to the cause.
On April 17th , Steve McGrath was on hand to witness the joy he had helped fund, and to help build the school’s dream with his own hands.
“My daughter was a University of Montana student who student-taught here, and truly the staff and the kids taught her as much as she taught them,” McGrath said. “And to some extent, this our family’s way of saying thank you.
“We wanted to help because this project is so inspiring, and for our family it is a thrill and a privilege to be part of this.”
Yard sales, walkathons, raffles and a host of other small money-makers helped pay for the rest of $58,000 bill, McLennan said.
Among the highlights of the playground: A massive climbing structure with two slides at opposite ends, twisted gymnastics bars and an elevated track system with sliding hand holds that allow children to glide above the ground.
Missoula’s legendary generosity was again on full display, McLennan said, and there aren’t enough “thank yous” in the world to give to the many people and many organizations that helped make the playground possible.
Lowe’s donated cement, the local iron workers union lent their expertise to the welding work, University of Montana College of Technology students helped with earthmoving and construction, but the list of helpers goes on and on, McLennan said.
Story was first reported by Betsy Cohen in the Missoulian’s April 17th edition of the newspaper: Photo’s taken by Anne Jablonski
Franklin to the Fort Neighborhood Council General Meeting
Franklin to the Fort Neighborhood Council General Meeting
Tuesday April 26th at 7:00 pm
1861 S. 12th St. W.
Missoula, MT 59801
More details go to http://www.ci.missoula.mt.us/Calendar.aspx?EID=2133