Beyond the Curb Focus Group Part 3 - Families (The Sandwich Generation)

Beyond the Curb Focus Group Series Part 3 - Families 
Monday, January 26, 2015 
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm 

Salisbury Business Center
301 S Main Street, Salisbury NC

It sure was great to see NOMA neighbors at the 2nd in the series of Beyond the Curb last night in
Downtown Salisbury!

It's so wonderful to have neighbors who care about affecting change in our downtown!  The third in the series in coming!

The Beyond the Curb Series, hosted by Downtown Salisbury Inc, focuses on varied demographic groups: #1 / The Millenials ; #2 / The 'Empty Nesters' ; #3 / The Family Group (or Sandwich Generation), and #4 / Businesses.

So . . .

Join your NOMA neighbors, Downtown Salisbury, Inc., and the City of Salisbury for an early evening of engagement with our community members on Monday, January 26th from 5:30 - 7:30 pm at the Salisbury Business Center.

Together participants will help to provide feedback on what they'd like to see in the downtown district.

5:30 pm Reception with hor d'oeuvres, wine, beer and non-alcoholic beverages
6:00 pm Welcome & Introductions
6:15 pm Program Begins
6:45 pm Breakout Sessions
7:30 pm Closing Remarks

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CHILDCARE:

Bounce City of Salisbury will be providing complimentary drop-off childcare during this event. Make sure when you RSVP you select the option if you plan to utilize this service for this event.


PLEASE NOTE: This particular focus group for people who have children living at home (identified as The Sandwich Generation) and are interested in the future of Downtown Salisbury. We are committed to including all of our community members therefore similar events in the future will offer opportunities for other groups to provide their feedback as well.

Participants will each receive Downtown Dollars as a thank you for providing their feedback and be entered to win door prizes from various downtown merchants.

The North Main Neighborhood
northmainneighborhood@gmail.com

Art on Easy Street Festival ~ Saturday May 15th ~ NOMA Participates in a BIG WAY!

Saturday, May 15 will be the seventh annual Art on Easy Street Festival, featuring more than 100 art, craft and food vendors and area and regional artists and musicians.

The festival will be held at the parking lot at the corner of Liberty and North Main Streets from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

The North Main Neighborhood with our many resident artists, will play a big part in this year's festivities. Mosaic artist Cherie Turner (N. Main St) will be exhibiting, Julie Upp (N. Main St) will have her original watercolor, oils, and photography on display. Liz Currey (N. Jackson St) will be exhibiting her handmade hair bows! And our musicians!!! Jimmy Alston (N. Richard St) will be performing his wonderful jazz at 11:00 AM and Sue McHugh (N. Main St) and Tripp Edwards (N. Jackson St) and friends will be performing music on the main stage at 2PM.

Other musicians participating in Art on Easy Street include Divided by Four, Polka Dots, Sam Havens (Guitar) and Ladies Auxiliary Blues Band out of Greensboro. Timmy Abell will perform with the Amadeus Youth Chorus at 3 p.m. in the Trolley Barn.

Many vendors will be offering items for sale and, in addition, James Taylor will do portraits while other vendors will demonstrate skills such as woodturning and glass blowing.

Festival food will be available, including Italian ice, a hot dogs cart, Gyros, hamburgers, funnel cakes, and even Fudge Puppies!

Family Fun day will be at Waterworks Visual Arts Center as well from 10 a.m.-3 p.m.

More information is available at www.rowanarts.org or by calling 704-638-9887.

Saturday is bound to be beautiful day so come on out, look at the original art, listen to music, eat yummy food...and support the arts in Rowan County! Your NOMA artists will be looking for you!

NoMa News

Hello Neighbors & Friends ~

Here's hoping you all had a fantastic Halloween weekend! We hope you made it downtown to the Halloween Fun Fest. We know some of you made it to the Fulton Heights Neighborhood to join in their Halloween Festivities.

We have a few updates from around the neighborhood:

Newly Wed:
Please join us in congratulating Jenni and Brian Pfaff who married Halloween evening at their home on Henderson Street! Much Love from NOMA, Brian & Jenni! Jenni will be opening her new yarn shop, Tranqwool, very soon! We can't wait!

Newly Born:

• Please join us in welcoming Hiram Newton Teeter, born to our neighbors Scott and Heather Hopkins Teeter of 11th Street. Welcome Hi!
• And we also welcome Bromly Earnhart born to Keith & Carol Earnhart of Henderson Street. Welcome Bromly!
• We are much delayed in welcoming Brice Schwalm, born to of Thomas & LoriAnn Schwalm of N. Main Street. YAY Brice!

Newly moved away:
We are sad to announce that one of our #1 volunteers, Jason Raymer, has moved away from NOMA. If you got a flyer in your doorway this spring, summer, or fall, chances are very good that Jason delivered it to you. Jason was probably the most diligent in hand delivering our flyers than anyone we've known. Good luck in your future, Jason!

Meeting with Downtown Salisbury Inc.:
We met with DSI last week for a most interesting meeting. While DSI cannot legally use their funds for improvements in NOMA (they are locked by strict boundaries limiting their work to a very specific downtown area), they are willing to express support for NOMA in such areas as the North Main Small Area Improvement Plan and other areas. They gave us some good ideas on how to proceed with our attempts to move this project the forefront with the City.

Election Day:
Salisbury's municipal election day is only 2 days away! Please make your plans to vote on November 3rd. Check with the Rowan County Board of Elections (www.co.rowan.nc.us/government/departments/boardofelections/) if you don't know if you are registered or where to vote. NOMA is in what is known as the North Ward. Our polling place is the City Park Recreation Center on Lake Road.

Next NOMA Meeting:
Our next neighborhood meeting is scheduled for Thursday November 12th at 7:00PM at Sue McHugh's home at 910 N. Main St. Watch your inboxes for an agenda.

See you all soon!

NOMA Home & Garden Tour 2010

Hi Friends & Neighbors!

At our last meeting, we discussed our NOMA Home & Garden Tour 2010. We formed an Home Tour 2010 Action Committee made up of the following neighborhood members:

Sean Myers
Cherie Turner
Mike-O Martelli
Daphne Safrit
Josef Medlin
Jenni Woomer
Jessica Koontz

The NOMA Home Tour 2010 Action Committee is having a kick-off meeting tomorrow evening, Wednesday September 9th, at 7:00 PM at 910 N. Main St. They'll be picking the weekend, probably in April or May of next year and discussing which homes will be invited to participate.

If you know of someone who has an interesting home that should be on the tour, please nominate them. We'll be looking to have between 6-8 homes over a two-day Saturday-Sunday tour. The homes should be historic or period to the neighborhood. The homes should be renovated or restored well, not necessarily to period but the more original details the better. Each room should be decorated well - they don't have to be high-end and even eclectic is great. If you know of folks who collect interesting artwork or decor or furnishings - this is exactly what we are looking for. If you know of folks who keep a wonderful garden. Visitors want decorating and placement ideas. Their visit needs to be an "experience". This is what will keep people coming back to the NOMA tours for years to come. And this being our FIRST - it needs to be SMASHING!!

A Home Tour like this can really pull our neighbors together. There is lots of opportunity for fun and participation. The time consuming part is the writeup and advertising solicitation and follow up with papers. The rest of it is really fairly easy – it just takes a lot of coordination and checklists and keeping on schedule. But HEY ~ did we tell you? Downtown Salisbury Inc. (DSI - www.downtownsalisburync.com) has agreed to help us promote our Home Tour. This is awesome news!

We are so excited to be able to do this and to have so much support for the concept from all our NOMA members! Thank you, NOMA!