Garbage, recycling and yard waste will be picked up on Thursday this week, Christmas Eve, because Friday, obviously, is a holiday. Many people, including me, have trouble remembering this type of thing, so don’t hesitate to remind your neighbors.
Same deal next week, though it won’t be a recycling week.
An invitation from the Presbyterian Church of the Covenant, 501 South Mendenhall Street:
Please join us for a Modern Candlelight Service, from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. on Christmas Eve. Bring a canned good to benefit Greensboro Urban Ministry.
Click on the image for a map and more information.
Attached are the approved minutes from the September meeting. The next CHNA meeting will be Monday, December 7 at 7 p.m. We meet in the Fellowship Hall of Presbyterian Church of the Covenant.
The granite-and-marble sign at Market and Tate streets is now complete. It’s the first phase of a broader project to raise awareness of the historic district throughout the neighborhood. The sign cost about $19,000, paid for with funds from College Hill’s Municipal Service District fee.
Crews install new streetlights on Tate Street on Sunday morning.
A new streetlight is installed Sunday at Mendenhall Street and Walker Avenue
Crews are working on Mendenhall and Tate streets today, installing additional streetlights. The pole-mounted lights are the first of 50 or so that will help light up nighttime dark spots. They’re the same lights that were installed last winter on several blocks of Mendenhall and Spring Garden streets.
The LED lights have been paid for with funds from the historic district’s Municipal Service District tax. Inadequate street lighting has long been a concern of many College Hill residents. The neighborhood association began addressing the problem in 2014 with the installation of one light at Walker and Fulton streets. Reaction was positive, so a further test was conducted earlier this year with about a dozen lights, all placed within a couple blocks of the Mendenhall-Spring Garden intersection.
Reaction again was positive; neither the neighborhood association, city nor Duke Energy received any complaints. The lights are designed to shine directly down onto the street in a tight cone without exposing nearby homes to the glare that our traditional streetlights put out.
The very positive cooperation of both the city and Duke Energy has been critical to bringing this project along and is much appreciated.
College Hill novelist Miriam Herin will read from her newly published second novel, A Stone for Bread, next Sunday, November 1, at 3 p.m. at Scuppernong Books, 304 S. Elm St. She also will sign copies of the book.
Synopsis from Livingston Press:
“In 1963, North Carolina poet Henry Beam published a collection of poems, claiming they had been saved from a Nazi death camp. The controversy over authorship that followed cost Henry his teaching position and forced him into decades of silence. Then, thirty-four years after the book’s publication, Henry breaks his silence and begins telling grad student Rachel Singer about his year in Paris, his entanglement with the fiery right-wing politician Renard Marcotte, his love affair with the shop girl Eugenié, and his unnerving encounter with the enigmatic René, the man who supposedly gave Henry the disputed poems. The novel moves from 1997 North Carolina to post-World War I France, to Paris in the mid-50s and into the horror of the Mauthausen concentration camp in Austria. Even while Rachel wonders how much is true, Henry’s story forces her to examine her own life and the secret she has never acknowledged.”
Herin’s first novel, Absolution, received the 2007 Novello Press Literary Award.
College Hill Neighborhood Association meets tonight at 7 pm in the Fellowship Hall of Presbyterian Church of the Covenant. All are welcome to attend.
The minutes from August and the Agenda for tonight are attached.
An invitation to the neighborhood from College Place UMC. Click on the link for all of the details!
Chili Festival Flyer – sent to neighborhood newsletter groups
