CANCELLED -Birchwood Neighborhood Meeting Jan. 17 at Shuksan

Due to bad weather, the Birchwood Neighborhood Association meeting on Tuesday, January 17th, from 6:30-8:00 at Shuksan Middle School is cancelled.  We will be rescheduling the meeting in February or March.   At the rescheduled meeting we will have the Bellingham School District Superintendent, Assistant Superintendent, and architects discuss plans for the Birchwood Elementary remodel. 

We will also have election of Board members.  Anyone who has lived in Bellingham for a year and is a resident of Birchwood Neighborhood or owns a business in the Neighborhood is eligible to run for a Board position.  A Board member’s term of office is three years.  The Board meets once a month.  Please contact Becky Schlotterback, rebecca.schlotterback@comcast.net  if you are interested or have questions.

Posted on Wednesday, June 1, 2011 at 06:24AM by Registered CommenterBNA Board | Comments Off | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

BNA Members and WECU Provide Birchwood Park Port-a-Potty

Donations from Birchwood Neighborhood Association members and Whatcom Educational Credit Union have funded the portable toilet in Birchwood Park through September.   We plan to fund it again May-September 2012.  If you would like to contribute, please send donations to:

Rebecca Schlotterback, BNA Treasurer, 2611 Lafayette, Bellingham, WA 98225.  

Stephen Trinkaus, owner of Terra Organica at the Public Market on Cornwall Ave., has generously offered match your donations for the portable toilet. 

Thank you all for your support!

Posted on Monday, April 25, 2011 at 11:32PM by Registered CommenterBNA Board | Comments Off | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

REQUEST AND OFFER FROM KULSHAN COMMUNITY LAND TRUST

Kulshan Community Land Trust staff would like to hear from people who are interested in, or concerned about, KulshanCLT’s proposal to build new, small, energy-efficient homes for homeownership on approximately two acres at W. Indiana and Lafayette Streets? 

KulshanCLT wants everyone to have accurate information and wants anyone who is interested to become involved in future discussions and meetings that KulshanCLT will be hosting. Meeting dates will be announced through the Birchwood Neighborhood Association website and by other means. 

As you will understand, many Birchwood residents, but not all residents, had a chance to participate in the prior KulshanCLT’s meetings with neighborhood residents in 2009 and 2010, which included the informal KulshanCLT meetings in fall 2009, the City of Bellingham Hearing Examiner process in early 2010, and regular Birchwood Neighborhood Association meetings when Paul Schissler provided updates from KulshanCLT.

Site planning with neighborhood involvement will begin in 2011, with informal meetings where everyone will be invited to participate. In the meantime, for anyone who has questions, KulshanCLT staff would like to hear and answer those questions. Also, KulshanCLT staff would like to hear all concerns, suggestions or ideas that anyone would like to share.

KulshanCLT staff will be willing to meet with neighborhood residents and others, if that would be helpful. Please call or email to set up a time to meet with KulshanCLT staff or to learn more about the development.  KulshanCLT can be reached at (360) 671-5600 and at 215 W. Holly St., Suite H-20 in downtown Bellingham. Also, feel free to contact project manager Paul Schissler at PaulSchissler@KulshanCLT.org and (360) 671-5600 extension 102, or Executive Director Dean Fearing at DeanFearing@KulshanCLT.org and extension 106.

More information is also available at the Birchwood Neighborhood Association website at http://www.birchwoodneighborhood.org/  and at the City of Bellingham’s website at www.cob.org by searching on the word Kulshan.

KulshanCLT asks that you please help dispel rumors and circulate accurate information about KulshanCLT by encouraging anyone with questions to contact KulshanCLT (contact info above.)  On behalf of the members, staff and board of KulshanCLT, thank you for helping to make a great neighborhood, Birchwood, an even better neighborhood by participating in civil society.

Posted on Monday, November 22, 2010 at 07:31PM by Registered CommenterBNA Board | Comments Off | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

Little Squailicum Creek Contaminated Materials Clean Up

Polluted soil and sediment from Little Squalicum Creek will be dug up, moved nearby to The Oeser Co. property and covered under a $1.5 million cleanup that the Environmental Protection Agency expects to start in August.

The plan includes possibly setting aside the existing upper part of the creek - upstream from the Marine Drive Bridge - as backup storage for the contaminated material, according to the EPA.

The EPA hopes to start the actual cleanup on Aug. 18, although the federal agency is still finalizing details such as access agreements. But crews will be at the park within the next two weeks for preliminary brush clearing and soil sampling.  The cleanup is expected to take six weeks. During it, the main trail through the park will be closed and beach access will be affected.

Details: Call Howard Orlean, EPA superfund project manager, at (206) 553-2851, or JeanneO'Dell, community involvement coordinator, at (206) 553-6919.More on the cleanup: Go online to go.usa.gov/ltk and scroll down to Little Squalicum Creek.

PARK USE LIMITED

Beginning the first week of August, the main trail through Little Squalicum Park will be closed to the public during the Environmental Protection Agency's cleanup of polluted Little Squalicum Creek. That trail starts at Bellingham Technical College and ends at Little Squalicum Beach.

Another side trail will be closed for parts of the cleanup. Beach access will be affected as well.A detour route will be marked and warning signs will be posted during the cleanup, which is expected to last about six weeks.

The park will not be closed during the cleanup, as EPA indicated in a postcard sent out about an Aug. 5 open house to discuss the cleanup.  Details: 778-7000.

Read more: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2010/07/23/1537797/epa-plans-to-start-cleanup-of.html#ixzz0uWkpNXGj

Posted on Sunday, May 23, 2010 at 09:13PM by Registered CommenterBNA Board | Comments Off | EmailEmail | PrintPrint

Birchwood Survey

Click on the linkss below to see the results from the Birchwood Neighborhood Surveys.  The Random Sample survey was sent to 600 people.  325 people responded.  The Volunteer survey was open to anyone who wished to complete it. 

Random Sample Survey Results: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=6Wfjr1ZtWrc0mkQz2oSZNTBdP3mUkDgJvyXosksir2s_3d

Volunteer Survey Results: http://www.surveymonkey.com/sr.aspx?sm=JgGue_2bi9T6iMEH9fNsNG3YDG2n4CsD8AhGWJg8La5vk_3d

 

If you would like to take the Birchwood Neighborhood survey, click on the link below:

Volunteer Survey Link: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=mU7YZ807kTJtCnDV9MLmpg_3d_3d .

 

Posted on Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 01:07AM by Registered CommenterBNA Board | Comments Off | EmailEmail | PrintPrint
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