SOSNA Newsletter

This Week at SOSNA: Triangles Summer Music Series & Safety Friends & Neighbors,  Join us on Thursday, May 21st for the first addition of the Triangles Summer Music Series! Every Thursday night we'll have live music and a food truck in the Triangles Plaza from 6-8pm! What better way to get out and enjoy the spring weather with your friends, family and neighbors than at the Triangles? The SOSNA Safety Committee Meeting will also take place this Thursday, the 21st at the SOSNA office. We're launching a new initiative focused on the implementation of our neighborhood's Walkability Plan. The goals of this initiative are to foster a safer and more pleasant pedestrian environment, to educate citizens about healthy streetscape design, and to create city-wide awareness of innovative traffic calming that incudes pedestrian and bicycle safety measures. The Walkability Plan recognizes the value of walking and proposes ways to improve conditions for neighbors and pedestrians that bring vitality to the South of South neighborhood. SOSNA is in need of more interested volunteers to help implement walkability projects, join us on Thursday to help with this effort! Lastly, we'd like to thank all who participated in Plazapalooza on May 16th! It was an absolute blast! We had an amazing group of volunteers who helped all throughout the day. Remember, SOSNA is a volunteer organization and we welcome more enthusiastic neighbors to join us in planning events and community projects! We'd also like to thank all of our Plazapalooza sponsors! With the support of these local businesses and organizations we were able to hold this great community-building event!                                 Events NO MAY ZONING COMMITTEE MEETING SOSNA has not received any applications to present at the May Zoning Committee Meeting, therefore there will be NO Zoning Committee meeting on May 20th.  News Join Philly FoodWorks CSA and Support SOSNA Our friends at Philly Foodworks have a great offer - sign up for their CSA and if you input "SOSNA" (all caps) as the coupon code, they will donate $10 back to SOSNA to support our great projects like Carpenter Green!!   News Call for Volunteers - Safety Committee Launches Walkability Plan Implementation Initiative The SOSNA Safety Committee is launching a new initiative focused on the implementation of our neighborhood's Walkability Plan. The Committee seeks interested volunteers to participate in this initiative. Please join us for our next meeting on Thursday, May 21st at 7:00pm at the SOSNA Office (1901 Christian St) to start a neighborhood discussion about implementing concepts from our  Walkability  Plan.   The goals of this initiative are to foster a safer and more pleasant pedestrian environment, to educate citizens about healthy streetscape design, and to create city-wide awareness of innovative traffic calming that inlcudes pedestrian and bicycle safety measures. The Walkability Plan recognizes the value of walking and proposes ways to improve conditions for neighbors and pedestrians that bring vitality to the South of South neighborhood.      Events Julian Abele Park Farmers Market The farmers market at Julian Abele Park is returning May 26th! The market will be every Tuesday from 2-7 PM. The wonderful provider will again be Highland Orchards, out of Delaware (they also go to Fitler Square on Saturdays and Schuylkill River Park on Wednesdays). They have fruits, veggies, preserves, honey, meat, cheese, eggs, and more! Stop by for your mid-week shopping!