President's Column - Volunteers Needed for a Successful Summer

Our MorningSide Community Organization’s board of directors has been hard at work over the past few weeks brainstorming a set of proposed activities for the year 2022. We’ll discuss some of these ideas at the February 8 membership meeting. Needless to say, the success of any neighborhood project or event is dependent on support and participation from community residents.

The ambitious line-up being discussed for the warm-weather months starting in April falls into three buckets or categories that will each be led by a board committee:

• Outreach

• Neighborhood Improvement

• Events

Examples of community activities under consideration include:

• MorningSide unity walk

• a “Good Neighbors” guide

• monthly bike rides

• blight clean-ups

• tree plantings

• t-shirt sale w/MorningSide logo

• block club canvassing

• new MorningSide entry signs

• holiday lights contest

• vacant house inventory

• fun events like movie night, skating party, bowling, etc

Coming soon, the board will publish a schedule showing planned activities for each month from April to September.

Which one of these ideas are YOU excited about? We need folks willing to volunteer, both as participants and helping to organize. Starting in February, every monthly meeting will include a call for volunteers needed for upcoming projects and events. No need to wait though—if you can help out with planning one or more of these events, please email your interests and contact info anytime to morningsidecommunity2@gmail.com. Each of our three committees is seeking multiple volunteers.

And if you’ve got a great proposal for a MorningSide event, let us know. Please only send ideas that you are willing to help organize! Yes, we’re thinking big and unforeseen circumstances (Omicron begone!) may alter our plans. But with enough people power, the sky is the limit.