MPNA October Events

Lower Polk Meeting
- On Tuesday October 7 from 6:30 PM to 8:00 PM, our friends from the Lower Polk Neighbors (LPN) are having a special presentation by the San Francisco Department of Public Health on TRAFFIC CONGESTION & TRAFFIC NOISE and its effects on our health. Environmental Health Specialist, Tom Rivard will present. All are welcome, please share this invite with your neighbors and friends. This meeting will take place at the First Congregational Church, 1300 Polk Street, at Bush.

Monthly Clean-up

The Middle Polk Neighborhood Association’s (MPNA’s) next Neighborhood Clean-up will take place on Saturday October 18 (Clean-ups are on every 3rd Saturday). This month will be special in that we will join the Department of Public Works in their Clean Team Day for District 3. We have several options for this clean-up, all starting at 9:45 AM at It’s A Grind, 1800 Polk at Washington:

- Our regular Neighborhood Clean-up. DPW provides all supplies and equipment, we provide the volunteer time. Meet your neighbors and new friends while doing something that will make a difference in our Neighborhood. We’ll clean the sidewalks of the neighborhood from 10 AM to Noon.

- DPW will be leading a special clean-up of the little park that is on top of the Broadway Tunnel; upper Broadway at Hyde/Leavenworth. Plenty of volunteer spots are open for cleaning, sweeping, weeding and helping DPW with some of the more complex work.

- Many neighbors have asked how they can be involved with the fight against graffiti and tagging. DPW has a successful program addressing this called Graffiti Watch. MPNA had an initial training for volunteers for this program last year, now it’s time to include more volunteers. DPW provides all of the training and supplies to clean or paint over graffiti that is on public property, or as they term it, street furniture (i.e.; mail boxes, streetlamp poles, transformer boxes and the like). In return for the training and a very well equipped tool and supply kit, DPW asks for a 2-year commitment to the program and an agreement to care for a specified area. If your interested in participating in this program, we need to know by October 13; please contact Dawn at TrennertDawn@yahoo.com or 314 0772. We need at least 5 new volunteers to pre-register in order to have this training.

-After our Clean-up of the sidewalks and park and Graffiti Watch training, we’ll meet our friends from LPN for lunch, provided by DPW. This will be at a Polk Street restaurant TBA. Join us for lunch.

Monthly Meeting

Our MPNA October meeting will be on Monday October 20 (always the 3rd Monday of the month) from 7 to 8 PM at It’s A Grind, 1800 Polk at Washington. We’ll be focusing on Ballot Decisions at this meeting and we’ll feature Melissa Griffin, Political Writer for the San Francisco Examiner. All are welcome to join us.