EDGEMOOR NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION

Effective immediatly, new watering restrictions have been issued by the City. Click here for the City .pdf facts, AND PRAY FOR RAIN!

EVERTON FLORIDA PRESENTS:
A KICK IN THE GRASS (gourmet!) FOOD TRUCK RALLY at Puryear Park!

Join us on Saturday for Breakfast or Lunch during the Spring Academy Challenge.
Trucks will be on site from 8:30am - 3:00 pm.

Join us for this FIRST of a kind experience as 25 Academy teams from around the area compete at Puryear Park.

Gourmet Food Trucks will be there with their culinary delights...

Wicked 'Wich - amazing sandwiches
Fire Monkeys - fabulous entree offerings
Whatever Pops - gourmet popsicles and other wonderful frozen treats
Unforgettable Cupcakes - tantalizing cupcakes

AND MUCH MORE!

For those of you who might be interested, there is an Elder Consumer Protection Law Day coming up on Thursday, April 19 at Stetson Law from 9am to 3pm - this is a free community education event. Click on the event graphic for printable .pdf flyer.

The Edgemoor Annual Family Picnic is confirmed for April 21, 2012! Food and beverages will be supplied but you are welcome to bring your favorite dessert and share (sorry, no alcohol permitted in the park.) Also, if you have a game you would like to bring the more the merrier! Over 250 people from Edgemoor turned out last year... let's make this year even bigger and better! Click here for map, Puryear Park is located in the lower right corner.

The St. Pete Police Department - who are kind enough to attend our monthly meetings - are having their annual on-site assessment as part of a program to achieve re-accreditation by verifying it meets professional standards.  Please take a moment to comment, they deserve our recognition for their efforts and this is a good way to do it, here is the form with additional info and all the different ways to submit your comments - please do so on or before April 2, 2012.

We also received an update from our city councilman Bill Dudley, who was also in attendance, regarding the Pinellas Trail bike-path bridge on 1st and 54th Ave. NE - the bridge is currently under construction and should be completed around April 20 - hallelujah!

Many other topics were discussed, but primarily we tried to finalize all the details for this year's picnic.  We hope you can join us for next months meeting. A big shout-out to Dr. McKalip Start to Finish Spine Care for another huge donation toward our picnic and neighborhood association! And as always a big round of applause to all our neighborhood volunteers who give of their time to help make our neighborhood great... you guys rock! And thanks for the pizza at our meeting 3187 4th St. Westshore!

A date has been (tentatively) set for this year's Annual Family Picnic in the park: April 21, 2012!

We are awaiting final confirmation on the picnic date regarding availability of the above date, and permitting $$$ costs.

We had a lively Q&A discussion this month about the Pier in downtown St. Pete with our City Council District 3 Councilmen representative Bill Dudley. I suppose we all should be paying a bit more attention to what the final plans are going to be, because right now it looks pretty sad. Bill Dudley claims there have been 68 meetings so far regarding the final plans for the Pier, and more to be scheduled where your voice can be heard; we were told to check the City website for upcoming meeting dates, also here is the cities existing Pier page.

Among other topics, many are walking/exercising their dogs in the soccer fields at Puryear Park (which of course is prohibited) and - surprise - are not picking up after their dogs! Their have been complaints by the soccer association and the City is considering locking up the gates.

We will be working on dates for the Canal Clean Up, Neighborhood Clean up and a possible Edgemoor Classic Golf Fundraiser; more on this and other topics will be discussed at our next meeting.

Stay tuned for updates and information regarding our neighborhood. Hope to see you at our next meeting!

A fun-filled year is on tap for Edgemoor!

Many topics were discussed at our first meeting of the year, Tuesday, January 17. An overview of events for the year, including the upcoming Family Day Picnic in April (date yet to set) kicking off the Curb Painting project, an expanded Coastal Cleanup, the annual Neighborhood Cleanup and more. We hope you'll check back frequently (or sign up for Blog posts) as the year progresses. We are always in need of volunteers, take a moment to contact the president of our neighborhood association, Richard Kirby, to add your name to our volunteers list, a great way to meet your neighbors, improve our community and have some fun!

A new web page on the Pinellas County site called "See, Click, Fix" smart-phone app, allows anyone to post inquiries and comments addressing life's little inconveniences taking place in Pinellas County, you can also use the website to voice concerns as well as comment/vote on existing posts.

Also, the 2012 schedules for Mayor's Night Out and Breakfast with the Mayor events are now posted.

Breakfast with the Mayor is held on the fourth Wednesday each month at a different St. Petersburg restaurant. The first breakfast of 2012 is Wednesday, January 25, 7am at Steak N Shake, 8101 Dr. MLK Jr. St., N. The program, now in it's third year, is an opportunity for residents to share informal, one-on-one conversation with Mayor Foster and support the host restaurant with breakfast.

Mayor Bill Foster and the City Council invite you to Mayor's Night Out, as the city brings its full array of services to the neighborhoods. Speak one-on-one with the mayor and other public officials, and get the services you need from City Hall. During the coming year, Mayor's Night Out will be held in each of the eight City Council Districts. You are invited to attend one or all of the Night Out events. Mark your calendars. Next meeting is February 9, 2012 at the Willis S. Johns Center, 6635 MLK Jr. St., N., beginning at 6pm.

And, as a Public Service Announcement, for those wanting to be in-the-know about our City neighborhoods, CONA (the Council of Neighborhood Associations) is Lowering the Boom on dealing with noise emanating from chronic boom-car offenders, and other raucous noise. Read how the sheriff's office is dealing with the issue.

Don't forget, if you register on our Blog you will automatically be notified of new blog posts. Registering is easy, just create your own User Name and Password and that's it, this also gives you Authorship privileges to create your own posts. Posting is just as easy as writing an email. We are using WordPress, which is NOT by the way a 'social network' it is a private platform that enables us to communicate better with one another about things we care about. There are even instructions on how to get started.

Stay tuned for updates and information regarding our neighborhood. See you at our next meeting!

It was a great year for Edgemoor!

Wow, we accomplished many things this year, which would not have been possible without the hard work and efforts of our Board Members and neighborhood volunteers. We have new neighborhood signs (hat-tip to our former president Tom DeMint for all his immeasurable hard work) we had our best ever Annual Neighborhood Family Picnic, as a community we did a Coastal Cleanup back in September and our volunteers helped neighbor's that needed a helping hand. Well done Edgemoor residents! As 2011 comes to a close, we are looking forward to an even better 2012...