Archive for March 6th, 2006
Chili Cookoff at The UGLY
On Saturday March 11 at 4:30 p.m Sherry Perry at The Ugly Broad Tavern will be hosting a fundraiser for Save Our Land. Save Our Land is a group of residents that have bonded together to raise funds to help four of our neighbors defend their loss of land to the Fulton Road Bridge Replacement Project. These neighbors must hire an attorney, obtain appraisals to counter the very small compensations offered by the County and defend themselves against the encroachment of the bridge.
Seven people have entered their Chilis for the cook off. We will continue to accept entries until Wednesday if you know anyone who has a killer chili recipe.
Here are the details:
Where: The Ugly Broad Tavern
3908 Denison Avenue
When: March 11, 2006
Time: 4:30 p.m. to 7 p.m.
Price: $5.00
Raffles, prizes, and more!
This is a great chance for all of those people who tell me that they have always intended to stop in at The Ugly Broad Tavern to do just that. See you There!
NOTICE OF COMMUNITY MEETING
Saturday March 11th, a community meeting to discuss the FULTON ROAD BRIDGE PROJECT will be held at the Archwood United United Christ Church at 2800 Archwood Avenue. The meeting begins at 2:30 p.m.
The meeting is being sponsored by Brooklyn Centre Community Association, Councilman Brian Cummins and the Save Our Land coalition.
This meeting will deal with many issues facing our neighborhoods before the project begins and when the project begins. The issues to be discussed include:
1. effects of demolition blasting on surrounding houses and properties
2. changes in traffic patterns
3. access to Brookside Park
4. effects on historic-interest areas
5. land seizure
6. public process
7. facts you need
We have invited government officials to attend or send representatives, but after all, this is a Saturday.
Come ready to ask questions about the above topics and more. I am sure there may be issues that we have failed to identify and you may hold the key.
If you cannot attend the meeting, please leave your comments and/or questions at this site and I will make sure that your questions are addressed at the meeting.
We as a community have a lot of unanswered questions concerning the plans of the project. Everyone knows that we need to address the continued detrioration of the bridge, but many of us feel that the community should be in the planning loop.