2013 Bayside Phoenix Fair was a huge success!!
Here are some photos from the fantastic September 15 event.
Join Us for 2013 Bayside Phoenix Fair!
We hope you will join us for a fun Bayside neighborhood event, brought to you by the Bayside Neighborhood Association.
Help Make a Park from a Block!
Sunday, September 15, 11:00 AM to 3:00 PM
- Kennebec Street (“Phoenix Square”) between Preble and Elm (by the Flea-for-All)
- West end of Bayside Trail at Elm (behind Trader Joe’s)
Come learn more about Bayside.
Join our campaign to turn this block of Kennebec Street into an urban park.
When the City extends Somerset Street and the Bayside Trail through to Deering Oaks, this street can become an oasis in Bayside. Phoenix Square will link Bayside Bowl, the new Portland and Rochester pub, The Shoe, the Flea-for-All, and other local businesses over to the trail, right at the doorstep of the Federated Cos. planned apartment complex.
Neighbors, property owners, business owners, and all those who live, work and play in Bayside are invited to come and socialize and enjoy games, food, music, puppets and more. For more information, or to volunteer or provide further support for this event, please email bnaportland@gmail.com .
PLEASE SUPPORT OUR SPONSORS:
Deering Oaks Rose Garden Circle Celebration
On June 21, Bayside and Parkside Neighbors joined Anne Pringle, President of the Friends of Deering Oaks Park, City of Portland staff, community volunteers from Serenity House and others to celebrate the replanting of the Rose Garden Circle in Deering Oaks Park. The former roses were hard to maintain and required a lot of pesticides. The new roses were specifically chosen by rose experts to adapt to the Northeast climate without the use of labor intensive care and pesticides. (Click on the photos to see full-size; hit ESC to return to page.)
The Very First Bayside Neighborhood Association Flea Market
Saturday, June 1, from 11:00 to 4:00.
It’s all happening in the Goodwill parking lot next to Dyer’s Variety, 45 Portland Street.
COME ON BY!!!!
If you have any items you don’t need but are too good to throw away and you just haven’t gotten them down to the Salvation Army or out to the Goodwill, PLEASE DONATE THEM. The BNA needs to start raising money–anything will help. Anything that will fit on a table or on the ground in front of it is good (that’s pretty much everything, right?). We’ll also have a rack for clothes (please include hangers).
To donate, please bring items down to the parking lot between 10:00 and 11:00 so we can get them priced. If that time can’t work for you, email me and we’ll see what we can do about picking them up.
If you look around and decide you want to have a table all your own, the BNA can retroactively permit you with the City (that will cost only $20 because the BNA’s getting the big-bucks operator permit). We have SOME extra tables, and you can put stuff on a tarp or blanket on the ground, a card table, whatever.
P.S. Dyer’s makes great chowder!
Bayside Health Fair 2013
This year’s Bayside Health Fair on May 18 brought lots of neighbors out for this fun annual event, which featured informational tables, free ice cream, baby goats, live music, Irish step dancing and more. Kids had lots of activities, including free fitted bike helmets and a raffle that included free bikes, free tickets to the Children’s Museum and other fun prizes.
The fair is presented by the University of Southern Maine Bayside Community Nursing Partnership with Bayside Neighborhood Association and Midtown Community Policing.
Hats off to the USM nursing students who are the primary organizers and do a wonderful job of bringing this annual event to Bayside! We appreciate their hard work! Click on the photos below to see larger images.
City of Portland Bulky Item Collection Program April 2013
Visit the website at http://recycle.portlandmaine.gov/ to learn more about the “Bulky Waste Sticker Program.” There is an informational video that should tell you all you need to know.
For a list of items that can and cannot be picked up click here.
Large bulky items have a $40 fee per item for items weighing over 30 pounds and/or are too large for one person to lift safely.
No household hazardous waste or E-waste is accepted.
