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Quick
Links:
June ENA Newsletter
April ENA Newsletter
March ENA Newsletter
Feb. ENA
Newsletter
Nov. ENA
Newsletter
Oct. ENA
Newsletter
Contact ENA
(Edgemoor Neighborhood Association) with
questions or concerns about Edgemoor Neighborhood. Your articles, stories
and photos are always welcome and will help us keep Edgemoor neighborhood
residents informed about local events.
Other
Neighborhood Websites:
Alabama
Hill
Ass'n of B'ham Neighborhoods
Central
Business District
Cordata/Guide
Meridian
Eldridge
Fairhaven
Happy
Valley
Lettered Streets
Mt Baker
Northern Neighbors
Sehome
Silver Beach
South (coming soon!)
South Hill
Sunnyland
Whatcom Falls
York
WWU
Bellingham
Websites:
AOBN
Bellingham.net
City
of Bellingham
Port of
Bellingham
Kulshan.com
Informative
Community Websites:
www.caretakershouse.org
www.pro-whatcom.org
www.whatcomwatch.org
www.fairhaven.com
www.rdnow.org
www.whatcomindy.com
www.re-sources.org
www.sustainablebellingham.org
More
Links of Interest:
Post
Point Lagoon Restoration Project
A new city service
makes videos of Bellingham City Council meetings available 24/7 by
providing them on the Internet.
Schedule
City
of Bellingham, now has neighborhood maps and pictures available online....
COB:
Maps
Neighborhoods & Parks
Whatcom
County maps / Comp Plan 2005 (PDF
Edgemoor Neighborhood Blog
This is a place to weigh in about issues that effect our
community.
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Edgemoor Neighborhood Association (ENA) meets
the first Thursday of each month at Fairhaven Park Pavilion at 7 PM, unless
otherwise posted. All ENA meetings are
open meetings and Edgemoor residents are welcome to attend.
Center for
Local Self Reliance
Plans are underway to create a Center for
Local Self Reliance at the former site of the Fairhaven Rose Gardens, in
Bellingham.
The Center for Local Self Reliance (CLSR) teaches
gardening, food preservation, seed saving, medicinal plant preparation,
and other self reliance skills. The Center will be operated by
Bellingham neighbors, builders, gardeners, business owners, and
educators who care about our community and see opportunity at the
Caretaker’s House.
The City of Bellingham has granted CLSR a long-term lease for the
Caretaker’s House and grounds. The goal is to renovate the house in
order to offer gathering and teaching spaces, including a commercial
kitchen where canning, food preservation, medicinal plant preparation,
and other domestic arts will be taught.
The Caretaker’s Garden will include beautiful food gardens, orchards,
berry patches, medicinal plant and herb gardens, and a small outdoor
amphitheater for intimate home made music gatherings. Community members
of all ages will gather at the Caretaker’s House to teach and learn from
one another. Join us as we create a new vision of a resilient and
self-reliant community at the Caretaker’s House!
Website: http://www.caretakershouse.org/
We also welcome donations, which are tax deductible. Checks should be
made payable to AWISH (our temporary 501(c)(3) umbrella) and mailed to
CLSR, PO Box 4200, Bellingham, WA 98227. In addition, if you are willing
to volunteer to help do clean up work at the Caretaker’s house, please
send an email to
. We will be looking for volunteers to help
with the gardens once the work on the house has made significant
progress. (The City of Bellingham has set a benchmark for this nonprofit
of raising $75,000 by March in order to move forward with plans).
Contact:
Edgemoor
Neighborhood Plan Update
Our goal for 2008 was to update the Edgemoor
Neighborhood Plan, originally written in 1981. A Neighborhood Plan Update
Committee met over the course of many months and put together an update to
the old Edgemoor Neighborhood Plan. The City of Bellingham has recently
announced that it will not schedule any neighborhood plan updates in the
near future, however, ENA has chosen to continue with the update process.
Below is a link to the
draft of the Neighborhood Plan Update. Please read it critically with your
concerns involving growth, quality of life, and the needs of the
neighborhood in mind. As well as noting whether you think it covers the
subjects which need to be addressed, please note where you think the tone,
readability and format need to be improved. We have one suggestion already
to make each Chapter start on a new page. If you think of something, even if
it seems to be a casual concern, note it. Others are likely to have noticed
it also, so do not hesitate to speak up. If you have a neighbor with an axe
to grind or simply skill or knowledge involving planning, land use, editing
or composition, please pass it along to them, even if they live in another
neighborhood. Send your comments to me to compile to
mhnickerson@yahoo.com. I will make all of them available to a review
group. If they are in hard copy, send them to:
Martin
Nickerson
242
Bayside Road
Bellingham, WA 98225
Edgemoor Neighborhood Plan (1981)
Draft of Edgemoor Neighborhood Plan Update
Mayor's
Neighborhood Advisory Committee
Each of the 23 Bellingham neighborhoods has a
representative who attends the monthly meetings of the Mayor's
Neighborhood Advisory Committee. The Edgemoor Neighborhood Rep is who reports to us each month at ENA meetings.
Fairhaven
Alumni Association
The
Fairhaven Alumni Association (FAA), promotes and preserves the
memory of Fairhaven High School, and provides higher education
opportunities for Fairhaven District students. This year, the FAA is
broadening its membership to include not only alumni of Fairhaven High
School, but Fairhaven Junior High/Middle School as well. Read
more...
Join
the Fairhaven Alumni Association
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Welcome
to the Edgemoor Neighborhood Website!
The
Edgemoor Neighborhood Website has been created to provide news and
information for residents of Edgemoor Neighborhood, Bellingham WA.
In
the EDGEMOOR section, you will find an
Edgemoor Neighborhood map and information about various neighborhood
communities and homeowners' associations.
EDGEMOOR
NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
(ENA) was formed in July, 2004 to
provide a structure for neighbors to come together to talk about
common concerns and issues. ENA currently has
several committees formed to address issues of importance to Edgemoor
residents. The COMMUNICATIONS COMMITTEE
provides news and information about our local community. The
GROWTH
AND LAND USE COMMITTEE is working on important issues facing our
neighborhood. The HOSPITALITY COMMITTEE
welcomes new residents to Edgemoor and plans activities to connect our
neighborhood and develop a sense of community. The
SAFETY
COMMITTEE addresses concerns about traffic, pedestrian
safety and home security. Edgemoor residents are encouraged to
join
the ENA and support your neighborhood association. Dues
are $15 per year and monthly meetings are held at 7 PM on the first
Thursday of the month at Fairhaven Park Pavilion.
The
NEWS,
MEETINGS
and PUBLIC NOTICES
pages provide information about current issues. If you know about an
upcoming meeting, please send a notice to .
The
EDGEMOOR
NEIGHBORHOOD BLOG is a place where news is posted about meetings
and events in our local community.
LOCAL
LINKS are a collection of informational links to Whatcom County
websites. If you would like us to add a link to a website of interest,
let us know.
Watch
for future additions to the website. A section devoted to history of
Edgemoor is currently under development. If you have some interesting
history to share, we would love to include it on the website.
Photos
taken in Edgemoor are now showing on the home page of the website. You
are welcome to share your photos of our beautiful Edgemoor
neighborhood. Attach digital image files (full size) and email to , or send photographs to PO BOX 4023, Bellingham, WA. We will scan them
and send them back to you.
If
you live in Edgemoor Neighborhood, this is your website.
You can keep it interesting by contributing stories, news, photos and
information.
, webmaster for the Edgemoor
Neighborhood website.
Bayside
Swimming Club
Visit
www.BaysideSwimmingClub.com
for information about Bayside Swimming Club, located on the corner of
Willow and Clark Road in Edgemoor.
Block
Watch
With increasing criminal activity in our
neighborhood, we are all encouraged to watch for and report unusual
activity in our neighborhood. Edgemoor needs more Block Watch captains.
Click
Here to read more about the Block Watch program.
, Crime Prevention Officer, Bellingham Police Department
Keep
Kids Alive - Drive 25
The ENA has endorsed the Keep
Kids Alive, Drive 25 safety campaign. For more information on
this national pedestrian safety program, visit www.keepkidsalivedrive25.org.
Signs and car stickers are available at ENA meetings. We
encourage Edgemoor residents to post these signs in their yard and
stickers on their home and car windows.
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