September 1st, 2010
Bethlehem Backyards for Wildlife Gardening Contest Awards Event
Date: Saturday Sept 18 (Sunday Sept 19th as a rain date)
Time: 2-4pm
Location: Friendship Park
Activities:
1. Award prizes from Edge of the Woods native plant nursery, local artist Will Christine, The Bird House and Heavenly Hedgehog for contestants.
2. Plant walk-about/scavenger hunt
3. Bird house/feeder craft activities
4. Information on native plants and invasive exotics
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August 23rd, 2010
Are you sick of summer heat! Are you ready for a change? Then get ready to celebrate winter with us at Stoketoberfest 2010, a ski film spectacular at the Ice House October 22-23. We will feature 5 of this year’s hottest ski and ride films from the top film companies in the business. Afterparties at the Bethlehem BrewWorks and more. For $15 bucks you get to watch 2 ski films, a copy of Powder Magazine and a lift ticket voucher for Elk Mountain. There will be swag and chances for prizes in our raffles. Don’t miss it, tickets are available now online.

The gang from Meathead films will be there for Meet the Meats and the crew from Level 1 will be in the House! Keep checking the movie website for developments and tell all your friends. Even if you don’t ski or ride, you gotta come see the superheroes of winter in these films!
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August 18th, 2010
Meet and Connect with neighboring business owners and professionals on West Broad Street.
Share and develop ideas for enhancing business visibility on the Broad Street Corridor.
Talk with residents about ideas for promotion and events, such as a business open house.
Discuss Broad Street improvements that will help your enterprise and help Broad Street neighborhoods.
Develop a pipeline to City and State support of revitalization
Start the implementation process.
Choice of Location and Time:
7:30 AM @ the DAR building in the Rose Garden on 8th Avenue
7:00 PM @ the Mayflower Restaurant at 622 West Broad.
Fill out the online survey: Help save time and prepare for the meetings by filling out the online Business Survey. Send your request for the survey to toulousm@gmail.com.
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August 17th, 2010

Bike hitches have started hitting the streets of NbNW starting with East and West Broad Street. In an effort to make the neighborhoods more bike friendly, and with the help of CAT, Public Works and the Streets Depts. bike hitches were installed in 6 spots on East and West Broad.





Look for more hitches soon on Linden and Center Streets.
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August 16th, 2010
Do you walk around the neighborhood and occassionally spot pet litter? Would you be interested in helping us reduce that problem? We would like to install some Dog Waste Stations around the neighborhoods that make up the North by Northwest Neighborhood Initiative but we need your help.
Click below to make a $75 dollar donation to sponsor one of the Dog Waste Stations.
Some places mentioned so far:
Border of Friendship Park
Border of Fairview Park
We welcome suggestions for locations where you think dog litter is an issue. Thank you for your help, we will keep you informed on our progress.
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July 27th, 2010
Within the past few months, there have been numerous reports of theft, vandalism, drug usage, and trespassing in our neighborhood. In many of these instances, the BAPD and BASD security have been involved. With the help of Lorna Velazquez at Calypso, we’d like to have a meeting to discuss how we can band together as a community and keep our awesome neighborhood safe.
Please try to attend…it will take all of us together to …send a message that these kinds of behaviors will not be tolerated.
August 4th 6-8pm @ Calypso School
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June 30th, 2010
As of 3:30 PM today, June 29, 2010, House Bill 2279, PN 3227, the operative legislation for the 2010-2011 fiscal year budget, still had the New Communities Program showing $10,000,000. New Communities funds 3 programs. Main Street, Elm Street and Enterprise Zone. The $10 million in funding keeps these programs alive and on life support.
While things look good for essentially holding the line in this tight fiscal year, you may want to give your State Senator and Representative a quick call to remind them that you would like her or him to insure that The New Communities stays at the $10,000,000 level.
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June 29th, 2010
The health bureau, traffic engineering, police (traffic bureau) and Coalition for Appropriate Transportation have collaborated and launched a pilot project through the Federal Highway Administration installing Shared Roadway Markings on high bicycle crash routes and where there may be conflicts between motorists and bicyclists in the city. The pilot project is now over and I need your help to fill out a quick survey so I can finalize the end results.
Please click here to complete the Motorist survey:
and/or
Click here to complete the Bicycle survey
I thank you in advance for your assistance in obtaining your opinions regarding the usefulness of the Shared Roadway Markings.
Sherri L. Penchishen, MPH, RD, LDN
Director, Chronic Disease, Health Education & Planning Programs
City of Bethlehem, Bureau of Health
10 East Church Street
Bethlehem PA 18018
484.239.6065 (c)
610.865.7087 (p)
610.865.7326 (f)
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June 25th, 2010

Well, schools out, hot summer weather is in. That means it’s time to keep your eyes peeled for graffiti in the neighborhood, on your block, at your playground. This is an assault on your property value. It’s a 25% drop if the value of the house you live in if there is graffiti present on the block. Help yourself by helping us catch some of these taggers and by removing it as fast as it goes up.
Report graffiti to Izzy Geier at the City of Bethlehem igeier@bethlehem-pa.gov or call the Parks Department. If you can take a picture and attach it to your email that would be helpful.
These are from today at Friendship Park. Read the rest of this entry »
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