Posts Tagged ‘ Neighborhoods ’

Press release: Applications are available to Peoria homeowners and property owners who want a dusk-to-dawn alley light installed on their house or garage. The City has earmarked money for the purchase and installation of 150 lights. There is no fee for citizens who apply for the installation of a light. The only requirements for installation...
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Bad news for people who live in older neighborhoods and don’t have driveways. the city will not begin fining you for parking on the street. It’s important that the main streets be cleared of snow so commuters won’t be inconvenienced: Date: February 21, 2010 Released by: Alma Brown, Communications Manager Subject: City Crews and Parking Ban City crews...
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Well, thank goodness they have a plan: A policy addressing the demolition of vacant houses should be considered to help stabilize the city’s deteriorating older neighborhoods, a new city plan looking into Peoria’s future says. The comprehensive plan, which will be introduced to the City Council on Tuesday, said the city should consider a new policy...
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From my inbox: We are hosting a fundraiser to recharge the scholarship fund to send residents and neighborhood activists to the Regional Neighborhood Network Conference.   Each year, Peoria sends delegates to this conference to both bring back ideas to benefit our community and to present our communities ideas to cities from five Midwestern states. Several years...
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NOTE: This post is linked on a white supremacist forum which I will not name. And the comments are about what one would expect. To these folks, I say: Make all the comments you want about black people and work, most the World Church of the Creator knuckleheads I encountered here in central Illinois...
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From a press release: Campaign for a Walkable West Bluff is pleased to announce a partnership with the Western Avenue Greenway to develop a Community Garden for 2009 The garden will be located in the Greenway, along Western Avenue in Peoria. The plan is to grow a harvest of organic vegetables and donate the entire harvest...
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(press release) Bryan Ave will be closed between Monroe and Madison for utility installation work starting Monday August 4th for one week.  Weather pending, the contractor expects to have the road back open by the end of the week.
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(press release) Scholarships are available to registered neighborhood associations and neighborhood watch groups in Peoria for the 2008 Regional Neighborhood Networking Conference, October 2-4, in Lima, Ohio. The conference theme is “We Know Neighborhoods.” Neighborhood associations and neighborhood watch groups are eligible to apply for one full and two partial scholarships to attend the conference. Full...
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I was driving through a certain Peoria neighborhood and was disgusted and disappointed at how much trash lined the curbs. Ugh. Then I came home and found this timely email from Peoria City Hall: Applications are available to neighborhood associations that want trash and landscape dumpsters free of charge for neighborhood clean ups. Neighborhood associations...
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I’ve a member of the Randolph-Roanoke neighborhood (though not eligible for membership in the association, because I am a lowly renter) for a little more than two months now. With temps in the high 60s, I was able to comfortably take a walk around the neighborhood today, for the first time. I’ve been really...
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From a press release: TRAINING LANDLORDS TO PREVENT DRUG AND GANG HOUSES The City of Peoria Neighborhood Division and Code Enforcement Division is offering a free training to help landlords and property managers keep crime, drug and gang activity off rental property. The training will be held from 9:00 A.M. to Noon, Friday, March 14, 2008,...
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From a press release: The Neighborhood Alliance has gathered recipes for a cookbook entitled “Neighborhood Recipes that Play in Peoria.” There are 350 recipes from various neighborhoods throughout the city, city staff, and from our representatives such as Mayor Ardis, several city council members, Representative Aaron Schock, Senator Koehler, and Congressman LaHood. The Neighborhood Alliance...
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I heard today that the city has chartered a new neighborhood association, the Jackson Corners Neighborhood Association. The JCNA serves the area bordered by Knoxville, Forrest Hill, McClure and Prospect. The fledgling association counts 13 members, and is likely to grow because of aggressive door-to-door recruiting. The new association shares the exact same official boundaries as...
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District 150 started the first of four public hearings on the site of a new Woodruff High School feeder school insisting that there absolutely will not consider building two schools to replace the total of four they have or will close. But all the heard was plea after plea from the neighborhoods to not...
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UPDATE: The PJS has its article about the press conference up. I noticed this paragraph in today’s Journal Star article about the “Manual 22″ controversy. But while District 150 Associate Superintendent Cindy Fischer confirmed Thursday the city had notified the district that tickets would be issued to students heading home down streets instead of available sidewalks,...
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