Happy Spring Neighbors!

 

With spring quickly opening up, it is time again to think about the yearly community Clean-Up. This year's annual BOSTON SHINES is the last Saturday morning in April: Saturday, April 30, 2011.

 

This event has…

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Scary phrase right?

What is even scarier is that the Tobacco Industry is doing this to our young people in MA right now in the form of underhanded tobacco marketing tactics!

Are you serious? Yep, sure am. 

Did you know tobacco products are being made and marketed to look and taste like "candy" and that they are being sold in plain site and as individual units to make them more affordable to young people?

Did you…

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Got an important meeting or job interview to make? Your worries about being late because of the T are now over thanks to Howf*#ckedistheT.com.

The sites provides real time data about all operating MBTA T trains. It's very useful site with an o-fun-sive title.

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Would you like to spend one day doing something for someone else? Volunteer with Little Brothers-Friends of the Elderly for EASTER! This is a great opportunity for a family, group, or individual volunteer.

Our organization provides companionship to low-income elders in the city of Boston. Our elders are over 70, live on less than $8000 a year, and have no one to spend the holiday with. Visiting Volunteers will bring a meal and flowers to an elder and spend time visiting with them.…

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We all believe - or at least have been told - that God answers prayer, but is it true? I think the best answer might be, "Yes and No."

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Soleil Tan and Spa, located at 708 Centre Street is now open! We are open 7 days a week!

M-F 9:30 AM to 8 PM

Sat. 9:30 AM to 6 PM

Sun. 10 AM to 6 PM.  We are a full service salon including nails, hair, waxing, facials, and tanning!  

Grand Opening Specials : Mani and Pedi $35 (Save $7) and 1st Tanning Session Free!

617-983-1600

 

We also have a huge free parking lot in back!

JP neighbors,

Now that we are a citywide network, you will be posting neighborhood related information in the re-activated Jamaica Plain Neighborhood Forum. Please do not add information as a blog post unless you want to start a citywide conversation or are a NFN partner making a citywide announcement. 

For events, it's really important that you tag each event…

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Neighbors, 

A couple weeks ago, we announced we'd be consolidating our network into one city wide network. So far I've accomplished the following:

1. Made the JP network the base network and changed the website address to NeighborsForNeighbors.org
2. Made it really easy for you to find what you are looking for on the front page with our new "Craigslist" style navigation. Thanks you to David K for the support and Guidance. 
3. Created forum categories for each…

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Wanted to give everyone a quick update on our progress!

 

We now have 402 City of Boston residents that have signed our petition.  370 of those are from Jamaica Plain.  We also have a large number of supporters who are anonymous to me, but not the elected officials who see the emails.  We feel strongly that looking at the numbers close to 59% of the 162 are from JP.  

 

We currently have 158 fans on Facebook and 87 followers on our Twitter account.  Not all are…

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Neighbors,

Over the weekend we migrated to the our new URL and began implementing the new navigation structure on the front page. 

A technical glitch took the network offline from Saturday from about 5 pm to early this morning, thanks for your patience as that took some time to resolve. 

If you have any feedback or suggestions, please leave them as a comment. 

Who you are!



You're bright, motivated, internet savy (you're on twitter and use it regularly), can write well, have a positive can-do attitude, are looking to role up your sleeves and help make stuff happen in a big way.



While we can't pay you, we will teach you what we know about community engagement and technology and write you a sweet recommendation on linkedin.com. You'll be a critical part of further developing… Continue