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Renew America Together: USAService.org [video]

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Added by Shawn on January 12, 2009 at 1:11pm — No Comments

21st Annual Candlelight Dinners, Saturday, February 21

Join the 19th Ward Community Association and the fun by hosting a dinner or by attending as a guest. It is a pot luck event and the host/hostess will coordinate the event and notify guests what they can bring.

To sign up, call the Association office at 328-6571 and leave a message if you or hosting or guesting and how many adult guests you can fit around your table or how many adult guests will be attending from your household.

February 7 is the last day to sign… Continue

Added by Shawn on January 11, 2009 at 9:56pm — 1 Comment

President Elect Obama and his View on Cities

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Added by Shawn on January 10, 2009 at 6:24pm — No Comments

Free Swim Lessons for Youth Ages 7 - 13

The City’s Bureau of Recreation is offering free swim lessons for youth ages 7 - 13 at six different pools. Registration (an adult must sign registration forms) begins Sat., Jan. 10 and continues each Sat. through Jan. 24, as space allows, at the following locations:

• Adams Street Community Center, 85 Adams St., 9:30 - 11:30 a.m.

• Clinton Baden Community Center (School #9), 485 Clinton Ave., 10 a.m. - 12 noon

• Franklin High School, (entrance #13), 950 Norton St., 9 - 11… Continue

Added by Shawn on January 10, 2009 at 5:37pm — No Comments

PARTICIPANTS SOUGHT FOR MARTIAL ARTS "CLICKER" TOURNAMENT TO BENEFIT ROCHESTER'S FOODLINK

Martial arts organizations and individual martial arts practitioners are invited to participate in a Martial Arts “Clicker” Tournament to benefit Foodlink on January 31, Saturday, 11 a.m. - 4 p.m., to be held at the city’s Adams Street Community Center, 85 Adams St.

Participants (ages 6 and over) of all martial arts forms are welcome to register by calling 428-7442 no later than January 30. The entry fee for each spectator and each participant is 5 to 10 cans of food to be donated to… Continue

Added by Shawn on January 10, 2009 at 3:27pm — No Comments

Free Ballet, Hip Hop, Pop-locking and Breakdancing Classes

I am re-posting this from the 19th Ward Yahoo Group.

Hi All,

Just letting you know about some free dance classes you may be interested in getting your children or grandchildren into. Through a collaboration between Dance for Joy, 4Winds Christian Fellowship, Greater Rochester Health Foundation, and Victory Fitness Center, free ballet, hip hop, pop-locking and breakdancing classes are being offered to youth every Saturday, beginning January 10, 2009 from… Continue

Added by Shawn on January 10, 2009 at 2:58pm — No Comments

Luminary Kits; Making and Selling

This is a posting from Dan, that he made to the 19th Ward Yahoo group. I am reposting it here.

-Shawn

We will be selling Luminary kits at Tops on West Avenue this weekend, while supplies last starting from 11- 5 on Saturday, and from 11-5 on Sunday. Hunts has Luminary Kits available as well, if you can't make it to Tops.

We will also have our hopefully last Luminary making event, Saturday at 10:30 at Tops on West Avenue. The store is allowing us to make the… Continue

Added by Shawn on January 9, 2009 at 9:21am — No Comments

MAYOR DUFFY UNVEILS $51 MILLION FEDERAL ECONOMIC RECOVERY PACKAGE

Mayor Robert J. Duffy today unveiled the City’s official request for Federal Economic Recovery funding, reflecting Rochester’s participation in the federal proposal to revive the economy by creating jobs through investments in the nation’s infrastructure and environmental sustainability.

“This request will rejuvenate the Rochester economy by creating meaningful jobs,” Mayor Duffy said. “It represents a down payment on our city’s future by accelerating the pace of some of our most… Continue

Added by Shawn on December 31, 2008 at 6:33pm — No Comments

Keep it positive in 09!

Old Rail Road Depot, Mount Upton New York

Afternoon 19th Warders, and supporters! After spending several days in Chenango County, one of the poorest counties in New York State, it is great to be back in Rochester.

I grew up in Chenango County in a little Hamlet called Mount Upton on the Unadilla River. I have not lived Mount Upton in 10 years. The last decade has not been kind to my hometown. I have seen the economy bottom out,… Continue

Added by Shawn on December 31, 2008 at 1:00pm — No Comments

Holiday Clean Up

Good afternoon 19th Warders! I am headed over to Chili and Thurston Rd for the Holiday Street Clean Up @ 1pm. There is still time to come out and join us, and enjoy a brick December day in the 19th Ward! Bring a rake, shovel, plastic lawn and leaf bags, gloves and warm cloths!

I believe the HSBC parking lot will be open to park, if your driving.

Hope to see you there!
-Shawn

Added by Shawn on December 20, 2008 at 12:21pm — No Comments

Connecting, Cleaning and Collaborating

Today was a great day of community connection, and collaborating. Several groups of folks got together and did some trash pick up along Thurston Road and Genesee Street this afternoon.A HUGE thank you to Boulder Coffee Company for the surprise donation of coffee to warm us up! It's truly wonderful to have an amazing community minded business like Boulder in the Ward.

Plus watch for an article from the Democrat and Chronicle in… Continue

Added by Shawn on December 13, 2008 at 6:56pm — 1 Comment

Freshening up the Site

I have grown tired of the bright blue that was the old site colors. So if things seem a bit different, it's just me playing around with the colors.
-Shawn

Added by Shawn on December 11, 2008 at 10:30pm — No Comments

Visiting Boulder Coffee

It seems like forever, that we have been waiting for a coffee house to come to the 19th Ward. In the works for many years, Tuesday saw the opening of Boulder Coffee Company. With the 19th Ward Genesee Street location, Boulder now operates 3 coffee houses in Rochester. The original on Alexander, one at the Public Market, and now our own 19th Ward location.

I ventured out on my bike to check it out. Only to my dispair, with homework in tow, they… Continue

Added by Shawn on November 6, 2008 at 8:27pm — No Comments

From the Staybride Suites Website

I just came across this on the Staybridge website. Very exciting to see. Too bad they call Brooklanding a "suburban setting". I guess that's to be expected when the blurb was probably written hundred miles away in some corporate office.

The Staybridge Suites Rochester East is now accepting reservations for arrivals after December 2, 2008.

The Staybridge Suites hotel in… Continue

Added by Shawn on November 6, 2008 at 7:10pm — No Comments

Stay Bridge Suites is taking Reservations

I just checked to see what day the new Stay Bridge at Brooks Landing (or what Stay Bridge is calling their Rochester University Hotel) is taking it's first nights reservations. And… Continue

Added by Shawn on October 11, 2008 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Savor Life Radio Show

Sometimes I'm a little slow when it comes to discovering some of the great things Rochester has to offer. An example of this is The Savor Life Radio Show, by Michael Warren Thomas, which is produced right here in the 19th Ward.

Head over to SavorLife.com where you can find a link to the live show, and listen to archives of past shows. (I'm listening to last weeks… Continue

Added by Shawn on October 10, 2008 at 9:40pm — No Comments

Expansion approval for Strong

Approval for Strong Hospital to move ahead with expansion plans is good news for the 19th Ward. As Strong Hospital grows, as well as The University of Rochester grows, so does the 19th Ward. With the help of the UR Home Ownership Program, and the business that comes with more employees living, working, and shopping here. The stronger we become in terms of restoring our neighborhoods, and taking… Continue

Added by Shawn on October 3, 2008 at 9:00pm — No Comments

Building a presence

I feel that there is a need for a site like Location19, in the 19th Ward. The next step for this us is to build an online presence. Telling our friends and neighbors, online and off, about Location19. Nothing beats face to face connecting and community building, but this can be the one place we all come together day to day when we can't in our offline lives.

Thanks for the support,
See around the Ward
-Shawn

Added by Shawn on September 27, 2008 at 11:08pm — No Comments

Sector 4 PAC-TAC: Police and Citizens together against crime

PAC-TAC is part of the Neighborhood Empowerment Team (NET) organization, a collaboration between the Rochester Police Department, City Code Enforcement Staff and Neighborhood residents. NET is based on the notion that the best way of responding to neighborhood issues is by teaming residents with City staff to devise and achieve effective solutions to neighborhood problems, supported by the full resources of City Government.

PAC-TAC is a neighborhood watch program in which resident… Continue

Added by Shawn on September 24, 2008 at 11:31am — No Comments

City Newspapers Best of Rochester 2008

Have a favorite place here it the ward that you want others to no about? How about filling out the City Newspapers "Best of Rochester" 2008. Head on over and fill out the survey online by September 26th, and tell everyone about the great things going on in the 19th Ward!

Added by Shawn on September 23, 2008 at 10:59pm — No Comments