Delaware held its annual Ice Cream Social / Neighborhood Night Out July 17, with a food tent by Caracas House and music by The Traveling Troubadours. The event was hosted by Westminster Presbyterian Church. And, of course, there were free ice cream treats! Next up is Lantern Walk centered on Delaware Elementary…
Author: Nancy Williams for SGFNN
Four neighborhoods came together to tidy up on a beautiful, sunny May 18. Thirty-one people registered on site to volunteer, and we filled 12 dumpsters with trash and four with brush over four intense hours. The Computer Recycling Center and the Habitat for Humanity ReStore were there, as well as…
Delaware Neighborhood held its first holiday lights celebration in December to thank neighbors for the bright and creative decoration displays. It started out as a ‘nominate or volunteer and have your lights judged’ type of format but morphed into the judges just driving around ooh-ing and aah-ing. Snowflake awards and…
Schools are the hearts of neighborhoods, and Delaware Elementary is certainly the heart of ours. We know these students are the future of our neighborhood and our community, and DNA wants to support them and, by extension, their families. Therefore, right after our neighborhood association was formed, a partnership was…
Delaware invites women from ALL neighborhoods to bring friends, meet friends, make friends at our monthly get-togethers – DNA+ Women GET OUT. We use our time together to catch up on what’s going on, solve the problems of the world (or at least Springfield) and to encourage each other in…
Delaware Neighborhood held one of its most popular events again in August – the Lemonade Crawl. This was the fourth annual event, which started in the summer of 2020 in response to CPO’s Neighborhood Challenge. CPO encouraged neighborhoods to have a creative event with safe Covid practices, and the Lemonade…