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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 (Facebook)
Central
Business District
Cordata/Guide
Meridian
Eldridge
Fairhaven
Happy
Valley
Lettered Streets
Mt Baker
Northern Neighbors
Sehome
Silver Beach
South
Neighborhood
South Hill
Sunnyland
Whatcom Falls
York
WWU
Bellingham
Websites:
AOBN
(Assn. of Bellingham Neighborhoods)
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
Monthly
Meeting
The will be no meeting in August.
Enjoy the sun!
Our next scheduled meeting will be on Thursday, Sept. 2, 7 PM, at
Fairhaven Park Pavilion
President's Message:
Edgemoor
Residents,
Included below
is this week's Water Main Replacement Update.
FYI, The City
of Bellingham Planning Department allowed for another extension of
the Fairhaven Highlands EIS deadline which was set to expire on July
30. This latest extension is until October 29. If the
developer/bank does not agree to fund the remaining work that is
required to complete the EIS by the deadline, all applications for
the Fairhaven Highlands development will become null and void (that
is unless a third extension is granted). If you have any questions,
comments or concerns, please contact the Planning Department or
Mayor Pike.
Also a set of
keys was found on the corner of Lyla and Linden Roads last Wednesday
by a neighbor. They include an electronic car key as well as two
other keys that may be house keys. If you are missing your keys,
you can call 647-1306 to identify them.
All for now.
Good weather is on the way!
Brad
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8/10/10 Water
Main Replacement Update:
Merchants and Residents of Fairhaven:
This
week there will be a little break in the action. The crews have
moved over to Cowgill where they will be installing more watermain.
As
for the work in Fairhaven, it will be testing week. There are two
tests that our little watermain needs to pass; pressure, and purity.
We fully expect to have passing results by the end of the week.
The
Council passed the noise variance last night. This will help us
make the transfers from the old main to the new one during a time
when most folks are not using the water. For the night work, crews
will start setting up at 11:00 p.m and dig into the work at 12:00
a.m. to 6:30 a.m. Here is our anticipated schedule of night work.
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Sunday night to Monday morning McKenzie to just south of
Larrabee. This will affect Wins, Chuckanut Manor, and Banner
Bank |
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Monday night to Tuesday morning will mostly be the Larrabee
intersection. This will affect Yorky's and all the properties
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Tuesday night to Wednesday morning will be the connection at the
bridge and Donovan. Affected properties will be on Donovan,
those on 12th Street between Old Fairhaven Parkway and the
Bridge, and those businesses in the newer development on the
south east corner of Old Fairhaven Parkway and 12th Street. If
there is time the crews will take a shot at connecting Old
Fairhaven Parkway. |
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Wednesday night to Thursday morning connect to Old Fairhaven
Parkway. This will affect those properties between 12th Street
and 14th Street along the north side of Old Fairhaven Parkway.
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The
contractor will do their best to remove all the air from the new
line, however, when you turn on your water in the morning, you might
want to run it for a little while just to make sure. The contractor
will send out separate notices to those affected by the night work
and connections the day before the work begins.
Happy
Tuesday!
Mark
C. Handzlik, P.E.
Project Engineer
City of Bellingham
Department of Public Works
210 Lottie Street
Bellingham, WA 98225
tel (360) 778-7922
fax (360) 778-7901
"the more I practice the luckier I get" ... Ben Hogan
Links of Interest:
Post Point Sewer Treatment Plant
Planning underway for wastewater facility improvements
Every day, people in Bellingham wash
dishes, shower, brush teeth, and flush sending between 8 and 72 million
gallons of wastewater mixed with some stormwater, through a complex system
of pipes and pumps to the
Post Point Wastewater Treatment Plant (WWTP).
What arrives in the wastewater (called load) is as important as the
quantity (or flow). Some days the amount of solid and dissolved, organic
material or Biochemical Oxygen Demand (BOD) touches or exceeds the rated
capacity of the plant.
Treated wastewater entering Bellingham Bay from our plant consistently
meets or exceeds all state and federal standards designed to protect public
health and the environment. However, as the plant reaches capacity for both
"load" and "flow", we must make improvements to be able to continue to meet
wastewater requirements and serve our community safely and effectively in
the future.
To address this need, a City-hired consultant team has prepared several
improvement alternatives for review and consideration.
Read the full article at
http://www.cob.org/issues/wastewater.aspx.
Read the Frequently Asked Questions document
HERE
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. 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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