February 2015
The Bark
Connecting the Communities North of 45th
Night Walk The Husky Neighborhood Intern Night Walk is set for February 10th at 7pm. Please join us at the median of 17th between 45th and 47th streets. What is a Night Walk, you might ask? The Night Walk is an effort run by the HNI team and the ASUW Safety Committee in order to see physical improvements done to the neighborhood. Participants will spend around an hour or so walking the streets assessing things such as: burnt out lights, overgrown bushes, and damaged infrastructure. The main focus this year is on LIGHTING Improvement, as members of the HNI team, Lighting Design Lab, and community members have identified to be a persistent problem. The current system not only fosters a lack of a perceived sense of safety, thus causing people to not want to walk, but the poor visibility, spacing, and design appears to also foster pockets of darkness where crime can (and frequently does) take place. If you are passionate about seeing this problem alleviated, and improving the quality of life in your neighborhood, please lend your support; it can only be done via action from members like you. We will be tackling the streets from 45th-Ravenna, and 16th-21st, making note of burnt out lights and assessing other damaged infrastructure. Lighting will be an ongoing project in the HNI team this year, in addition to the ASUW Safety Committee: so please, if you can spare an hour of your day, come out at 7pm on the 10th to help if possible, and let’s get this problem fixed!
Events
North 45th Community Meeting February 3rd, 4pm
Husky Night Walk— February 10th, 7pm
Presidents’ Day—February 16th (Holiday)
Martin Luther King JR. Day of Service- Reflection This past MLK Day, the HNI team partnered with United Way and the UW Carlson Center to carry out our annual North of 45th Neighborhood clean-up. On the morning of January 19th, a group of 18 enthusiastic and dedicated students and residents braved the chilly weather and helped collect enough trash to fill 20 garbage bags! Armed with garbage grabbers, gloves, bags, and vests, the group worked our way from NE 45th St to Ravenna Blvd, and covered 16th Ave NE to 22nd Ave NE. We certainly had some interesting finds-ranging from shoes to abandoned umbrellas. During the event, group members had the chance to talk and get to know one another; perhaps people who they otherwise would not have met. More than just a clean-up to make the neighborhood healthier, this day of service was a community-building activity! Thank you to all the volunteers who helped make the event successful; we hope to see even more at the upcoming Spring Clean!