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The New Rainier Vista Family Support Group invites all community members to a discussion on “How to talk with NRV community kids when there’s an issue.” This event will be on Friday, May 01, 2009, 6:00pm – 7:30pm, at the Neighborhood House Paul Allen Room.

The discussion will include:

• Panel comments from different ethnic/linguistic groups – Ethiopian (Oromo and Amhara); Somali; Vietnamese; Chinese and mainstream American
• Ways to communicate with kids from different cultures
• Ideas and understandings of what each culture expects when a child or adolescent misbehaves
• Ways to compliment kids from different ethnic backgrounds when you see and appreciate positive behavior

All community members are welcome! Some activities for children will be available. If your child comes with you, please bring a favorite quiet activity (e.g. a book) for your child.

For more information please contact Naomi Chang, Community Builder at 722-4010 ext. 2, or email “nchang (at) seattlehousing (dot) org“.

This might be a repeat of older information, but at least this download is available. This map shows the areas currently slated for inclusion in our Residential Parking Zone.

Seattle Mayor Nickels announced last week that, to ease the transition to new parking regulations, each household and business located within the Link light rail RPZs will be eligible for up to two no-cost permits and one-no cost guest permit for the first two years of the new parking regulations. Additional permits currently cost $45 per vehicle for two years. Low income permits are available for $10.

What You Need to Know Now

• Sign installation around the Columbia City light rail station will begin in mid-May
• Enforcement of signs does not begin until light rail service begins in July
• If your address is located within the zone, you will receive a door hanger with more information within the next two weeks
• If you live within 1/2 mile of the station, you will receive a flyer in the mail this month
• RPZ applications will be mailed to residents starting in early May - please return the completed application by June 1
• SDOT expects to mail RPZ applications to businesses in June, pending City Council approval of a pilot program for employee permits

Our next neighborhood clean up is scheduled for this Saturday, April 25th from 10-11:30. Meet up in Central Park, grab a donut and a cup of coffee before heading out with a trash bag to beautify our neighborhood. Gary will be supplying the garbage grabbers and other usual supplies and if you have your own favorite pair of gloves, bring them with you!

This community clean up is being done in conjunction with the South Seattle Bridge to Beach Makeover, so we are 1 of 20 sites throughout the Rainier Valley where volunteers will be working to beautify our communities.

At the end of the work day, everyone will gather to celebrate their collective achievements at a BIG community-wide party at Othello Park where we’ll enjoy food, fun, prizes for all participants and live entertainment. Festivities start at 3pm.

From the NRV Traffic & Safety Committee:

ALL of NRV will be in the new Restricted Parking Zone (RPZ) being set up by the City to prevent our neighborhood from being a de facto parking lot for the light rail’s Edmunds Street Station. Right by the Neighborhood House, the parking limit will be for 4 hours. In all other parts of NRV, parking will be limited to 2 hours unless the vehicle has a permit. This is in response to all the input from our community! Good work, and thanks everyone. The City listened.

Also, thanks to work by our neighbors closer to Othello Station, RPZ permits will be free for the first two years, and each household will get two. You will be able to purchase guest passes.

The zone will be in force during the day on weekdays. There will be monitoring to see if it will also be needed on weekends when there are games down at the stadiums.

Signs about the RPZ will go up in May, but enforcement won’t start until the light rail is running, which now is projected to be around July 9.

We should be seeing mail from SDOT about the RPZ and how to get permits in the next few weeks.

Stay tuned: More details to come from SDOT and NRV’s Traffic & Safety Committee.

The New Rainier Vista Family Support Group is hosting a panel discussion, “How to talk with NRV community kids when there’s an issue” on Friday, May 1, 2009, from 6:00pm – 7:30pm at the Neighborhood House Paul Allen Room. This discussion will include:

• Panel comments from different ethnic/linguistic groups – Ethiopian; Somali; Vietnamese; Chinese and mainstream American
• Ways to communicate with kids from different cultures
• Ideas and understandings of what each culture expects when a child or adolescent misbehaves
• Ways to compliment kids from different ethnic backgrounds when you see and appreciate positive behavior

All community members are welcome! Some activities for children will be available. If your child comes with you, please bring a favorite quiet activity (e.g. a book) for your child.

For more information please contact Seble Mesfin, Group Leader at “seb6mike (at) yahoo (dot) com” or Naomi Chang, Community Builder, at “nchang (at) seattlehousing (dot) org“.

The Multicultural Committee is sponsoring a Rainier Vista Community Potluck on Saturday, April 18th, from 5:00 to 7:00pm, at Neighborhood House. All NRV residents are all invited. During our regular monthly meeting (April 15th) and at this potluck we are featuring the “American” culture. For the potluck we want to highlight American foods. This is a tough one because of the diversity of our backgrounds. But use your noodle and come up with something you think is as American as…. Along with your chosen dish, we may ask you (only if you are willing) to tell the group why the dish is an American dish, to you. What better way to learn about other cultures than to have people describe the foods that are meaningful to them? At future potlucks, other cultural groups will be doing the same.

Questions? Ideas? Contact the Multicultural Committee at “multicultural (at) newrainiervista (dot) com“. Please join us on the 18th.

This just in from Impact: Garbage and yard waste should have been collected today, Friday, April 3. Recycling will be picked up next Thursday, April 9. Please do not leave your recycling out until then; bring the cans in off the alleys.

Impact also sent a new Collection Calendar. Download it here.