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Every year, our final quarterly community meeting is a celebration and social gathering. This year it will be held Thursday December 7th at 5:30 at Port & Park. We’ll have some fun and announce the winner of this year’s golden rake for amazing work during our annual street leaf cleanup. As always, reach out to info@gracelandwest.org with any questions.
Who wants to win the “Golden Rake” Award for raking and bagging the most street leaves in Graceland West by the end of the day today, Sunday Nov 19.
Borders are Montrose, Clark, Irving Park and Ashland. Rake and bag your street leaves and place the bag on your parkway for pickup after the 19th.
Take a photo and share it with us info@gracelandwest.org with your name and number of bags of street leaves.
Thanks to all the energetic and kind neighbors who raked and bagged almost 100 bags of street leaves in 90 minutes last weekend at five Greenview intersections.
Block Rep Liza S kicked off GWCA’s 11th Annual Street and Crosswalk Leaf Cleanup at Cullom and Greenview with these bagged leaves. Please bring a rake, your family, friends and some neighbors and officially help kick-off this project at 9 am Saturday, Nov 11. Kick-off is at Greenview and Belle Plaine, Berteau and Cullom intersections where we will provide bags.
Can’t make it Saturday? Just bag your street and crosswalk leaves through Nov 19 for a special parkway pick-up after Nov 19.
We need everyone to help. This effort makes streets and crosswalks less slick for pedestrians. And it keeps leaves from clogging sewers and flooding streets, basements and vehicles. Our goal is 500 bags of street and crosswalk leaves. Please take photos and send to info@gracelandwest.org
November 11, 2023 @ 9:00 am – November 19, 2023 @ 5:00 pm
GWCA 11th Annual Street and Crosswalk Leaf Clean-up. Launch is Saturday, Nov 11 at 9 am. Meet at Greenview and Belle Plaine, Berteau or Cullom. Can’t help then. Clean street leaves and place bagged leaves on the nearest parkway from Nov 11 through Nov 19. Streets and Sanitation will do a special pick up for us after Nov 19.
2022 was a great year of re-emergence (of sorts) after a couple of years of flattening the COVID-19 curve and building immunity.
- We kicked the year off after hibernating for the winter at our March meeting where we had a great time with Alderman Matt Martin and continued to build our relationship with Lake View High School, specifically their STEM program representatives and our very own Council member and teacher Joanne Yonan.
- On Earth Day we cleaned up the streets around the high school with our Congressman Mike Quigely.
- Our Q2 meeting took place in beautiful Warner Park and focused on the efforts of the GWCA Eco Committee, led by Council member Joel McFarland who is an Openlands certified TreeKeeper. We also heard from the Alderman’s office and CDOT about safe streets improvements. More on this topic in 2023.
- The annual yard sale was moved up to June. Many thanks to Mark Nehring for his leadership.
- The annual Garden Walk celebrated 40 years in 2022. 40 years! Fearlessly led by Donna Forsberg for one last time as she called this year her last as the chairperson. Mother Nature decided to keep us guessing throughout the day but allowed for plenty of time for all of our amazing neighborhood gardeners to share their efforts with guests.
- The newly branded Graceland West Neighborhood Fest (formerly GWCAFest) was visited by Gale and Squall who dumped about 2 ft of flooding into the neighborhood, but that didn’t stop Sarah Maxwell, Barb Sullivan, Brad Pierce and their volunteers (including LVHS students) from toughing it out and waiting for the weather to clear for the neighborhood to emerge to enjoy Peg’s famous bake table, Randy’s age-less magic, Lisa B’s smooth vocals, Tacos, Tacos, Tacos (and Margaritas), and flame throwing (aka juggling)!
- Our Q3 meeting finally brought us back into LVHS where we were introduced to the LVHS Robotics program (which is incredible)!
- The Halloween party at Warner Park returned after a couple year hiatus and featured some amazing costumes, games and make your own candy apples. Special thanks to Andrea and Colin McLeod and their volunteers for hosting the event.
- And sure enough, Mother Nature wasn’t finished with us when she gave us rain and 50 mph winds the morning of our Street Leaf Cleanup and the Pumpkin Smash at LVHS. Didn’t stop new Council member Paul Monzella from raking Cullom/Greenview until it was pristine. Throughout the week we totaled 182 bags, picked up by the Ward Superintendent the next week.
- We finished off the year back at the Piggery, our gracious hosts for our March and December meetings, where we enjoyed pizza, pork and socializing.
The GWCA Council would like to recognize our Block Reps who helps to deliver flyers and spread important neighborhood news. Thank You!
Also, thanks to all who volunteered or attended any of the GWCA meetings and events and participated in the goal of the association to foster positive relationships between residents of the neighborhood, promote civic engagement and educate community members on issues of common interest such as crime prevention, neighborhood history and preservation, and community improvement. It takes a village!
Rake/Smash/Play/Learn
Saturday, November 5th, 10 AM – 2PM
Rake: Meet at 10 am at the Greenview intersection of either Cullom, Berteau, Belle Plaine or Cuyler. Bring a rake and leaf bags (we will have extra bags). Clean leaves from streets, parkways, crosswalks and sewer grates and place full bags on the parkways.
Clean remaining street, crosswalk and parkway leaves through November 13 for special parkway pickup after November 13.
Who will win the GWCA Golden Rake Award this year for most bagged street leaves?
Smash: Smash your pumpkins and gourds at Lake View High School for composting. The University of Illinois County Extension Services will be running the Composting
Event on November 5th in tandem with the GWCA street leaf cleanup. Last year over 1,000 pumpkins and gourds were composted from this event. Pumpkins must be free of candles, stickers, glitter, yarn, synthetic decorations. We can compost pumpkins decorated with water-based paints.
Play: Lane Tech will have games for kids (10-2).
Learn: Please stop by the University of Illinois and County Extension, environmental and GWCA tables.
November 5, 2022 – November 13, 2022
We’ll kick things off on Nov. 5th at the corner of Belle Plaine and Greenview. Please bring 3-4 leaf bags and a rake.
This annual event is a great way to see your neighbors and helps make walking surfaces less slick when the rain turns to ice and reduces flooding due to clogged storm drains.
Let’s get outside this weekend and bag some street leaves! While there’s still a fair amount of leaves hanging on in our tree canopy, there’s a lot that are currently clogging up storm drains. These are the key leaves to make sure get into bags this weekend. Priority should also be given to leaves that are at intersections and cross-walks.
Bagged leaves can be left on parkways for pickup after November 14th. Share your photos on Facebook @Graceland West Community Association, on Instagram @graceland_west_gwca or by emailing info@gracelandwest.org to enter to win the GOLDEN RAKE AWARD which can be proudly displayed as a Graceland West badge of honor and defended when the leaves fall next year.
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Bagged leaves can be left on parkways for pickup after November 14th. Share your photos on Facebook @Graceland West Community Association, on Instagram @graceland_west_gwca or by emailing info@gracelandwest.org to enter to win the GOLDEN RAKE AWARD which can be proudly displayed as a Graceland West badge of honor and defended when the leaves fall next year.
Come join us at the pumpkin smash on Saturday, November 6th to pick up a leaf bag for your Graceland West street leaves.
