More History and Direction
Newsletter:
One of our missions is to inform our community of things going on around them…and in the City that they might not know about. We don’t have a neighborhood newspaper in District 11. The community does its best to stay informed usually by community newsletters. FACE members belong to a number of groups and organizations. We ask members to share information and we are happy when items from our newsletter are passed onto other groups for publication. We signed up for as many news groups and newsletters as possible. We cut and paste from these sources and publish a monthly newsletter. We also provide updates as often as once a week. We distribute it free online or by mail for a small charge.
Some past projects: Celebrating Parks:
McLaren Park, the second largest park in the city and too long ignored by a large percentage of the community. Toward that end, FACE conceived of the idea of having a community picnic, with live music at the amphitheater to bring people out to discover it. This was to be the first Jerry Day in McLaren Park. Later FACE joined with other groups and individuals to have the amphitheater named for Jerry Garcia. This has brought many more people to discover the park for the first time. FACE is active with Friends of McLaren Park and events like the annual Earth Day celebration.
The Crocker Amazon Tile Project: The community came together to build the big purple play structure at Moscow and Geneva Ave. in 2002. For several years, the idea of beautifying the plain gray concrete benches had been discussed.