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April 11 meeting notes
Guests tonight are from Lawrence Transit, Kirsty from Midland Care (and NoLaw), architects working on the sprinkle park at Lyons Board members present: Ted, Alison, Jeff Attendees: 17 Ted called the meeting to order at 6:59 pm introducing the guests who are here to talk to us about park improvements and other issues. Ted said…
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April 11 meeting is ON
NLIA will be meeting IN PERSON again tomorrow, Monday, April 11th, 7pm at Peace Mennonite. We will have SNACKS and NEW TEE SHIRTS for sale based on the new NoLaw sign. We will host guest speakers, including the director of Parks and Rec, and folks from the city will be there to talk to us…
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Meeting notes, March 2022
First meeting since March 9th, 2020. Officers present: Ted Boyle, Jeff Joseph, Alison Dishinger Attendees: 11 Alison took membership registrations and Jeff handed out raffle tickets for tonight. Ted started the meeting at 6:58pm. Ted talked about his meeting with Parks and Rec about 5 years ago, and our desires in North Lawrence for parks…
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First meeting of 2022
The North Lawrence Improvement Association will have its first in-person meeting since the pandemic began on Monday, March 14th, 7 pm at Peace Mennonite Church.
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September 2021 Potluck Picnic Postponed
Normally, we would gather as neighbors for our potluck picnic at the Lyons Park Shelter on the Second Monday of September. Out of an abundance of caution, we did not hold the event in 2020. Now, due to rising numbers of Delta Variant cases in Lawrence and Douglas County, we are postponing the 2021 potluck…
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2021 North Lawrence Garage Sales
We are happy to announce that the 2021 North Lawrence Garage Sales are this coming weekend, Friday, June 18th and Saturday, June 19th, 2021 We did not hold official garage sales in 2020 or earlier this spring due to pandemic restrictions. There are a number of neighbors participating this year, selling some really great items.…
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No picnic and important updates
Didn’t get a postcard? Don’t worry. We didn’t send any out! There will be no annual North Lawrence Improvement Association Picnic held in September of 2020 because of the coronavirus crisis. Peace Mennonite Church does not plan to open their doors again until late fall, if at all, this year. So, NLIA monthly meetings are…
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Registering to get a coronavirus test next week
A non-profit out of Johnson County will be testing Lawrence residents next week. Residents are asked to sign up ahead of time at: https://www.hearttoheart.org/covid19testing/ Excerpt rom Chad Lawhorn’s article on July 1st: A Johnson County nonprofit is expanding its program to test asymptomatic people for the COVID-19 virus in Lawrence next week. Lenexa-based Heart to…
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Garage Sale POSTPONED
Ted has been getting a lot of questions about whether or not we will be holding the annual neighborhood garage sale in May. The answer is no. The neighborhood garage sale will be POSTPONED until a date at which we feel it is safe again to hold public events. We do not know when this…
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UPDATED Ballard Center Help
Ballard Center needs food donations right now. Staff have been buying supplies out of pocket. Donations can ONLY be dropped off between 12 and 1pm, M-F. Please do not drop food off after hours. It will be stolen! They are also looking for drivers to deliver food to neighborhood families who have kids that attend…
Sandrats for the better.