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SHERWOOD FOREST CRIER
July 1, 2022
Neighborhood Profile Updated!
The Officers and Executive Committee, and other neighbors have been fine tuning the neighborhood description for the website, social media and other uses to promote SF using history and current features. You can even use it to market your property, but why would anyone want to leave the Forest?
Take a look at the home page at sherwoodforestneighbors.org and let us know what you think!
Upcoming Events in the Forest
UofSC Belser Arboretum Open House
Sunday, July 17, 1-4pm
Open House is always the 3rd Sunday of every month.
Follow the Arboretum on Instagram and see Facebook for event info.
National Night Out
Tuesday, August 2, 6-8pm
Sherwood Forest ARP Church
Mark your calendars for our next community event National Night Out. Since 1984 on the first Tuesday in August, NNO has enhanced the relationship between neighbors and law enforcement while bringing back a true sense of community. It provides a great opportunity to bring police and neighbors together under positive circumstances. The best way to build a better community is to know your neighbors and your surroundings; making communities safer and more caring places to live.
There will be food, games for the kids, music, camaraderie, and maybe police cars and firetrucks!
Tell a neighbor. Better yet, bring them along.
Stay tuned! More details to come.
SFNA General Meeting
Wednesday, August 10, 6:30pm-8pm
The next general meeting of the Sherwood Forest Neighborhood Association is scheduled for Wednesday, August 10 from 6:30pm-8pm. The plan is to meet via Zoom (Meeting ID: 863 8990 6648 Passcode: 649565).
If you have an issue you would like discussed at the meeting please let us know!
SFNA Adopt-A-Highway Clean Up
Saturday, August 20, 9:30-11am
Contact Dave Nelson at 803 447-4793 or appearance@sherwoodforestneighbors.org for more information.
SFNA Forest Friends
Forest Friends is a new Sherwood Forest neighborhood program. It is being designed to increase understanding of the urban forest that we live in, with incentives to retain and add native trees. Most of us appreciate our wooded neighborhood, but we may not realize the full value of it.
Each month, this column will focus on a different benefit of our forest. Stay tuned for more information, and in the meantime be thankful for your shade trees that help keep your house and yard cool in our hot summers!
Please contact Valerie Marcil if you would like to help further develop this program. We would especially like one or two younger neighbors!
What Are These Flags and Paint Markings?
In the ongoing effort to update our water and sewer lines, the City of Columbia and its contractors are working in our neighborhood.
The flags and paint markings are installed by utility locator companies to identify the approximate location of buried utilities so that the City contractors or you don’t unintentionally dig into an underground utility line.
The color codes are:
- Blue – potable water
- Green – sewer and drain lines
- Yellow – gas, oil, steam, petroleum, or gaseous materials
- White – proposed excavation
- Pink – temporary survey markings
- Red – electric power lines, cables, conduit and lighting cables
- Orange – communication, alarm or signal lines, cables or conduit
- Purple – reclaimed water, irrigation and slurry lines
You or your contractor should call 811 or use the South Carolina 811 center’s website a few business days before you begin any digging, including common projects like planting trees and shrubs or installing fences and mailboxes.
Frogtown Segregation Wall Dedication Invitation
Saturday, July 2, noon-1pm
Sherwood Forest resident families are invited to participate in a coming together celebration acknowledging the historical roots of the Frogtown neighborhood going back to the 1930’s.
A commemorative plaque on the cinderblock wall will be dedicated Saturday, July 2. Event assembles at 3812 Monroe Street. The project is being produced by descendants of the Founders of the Frogtown Community.
Celebration schedule…
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Crier emails
The Crier goes out around the first of every month to keep neighbors and friends up do date on neighborhood events, and other events and information of interest.
If you have anything to share with your neighbors, please pass it along and we may include it in a future Crier.
Tell your friends and neighbors to subscribe. No membership required, but of course we would like everybody to join! New neighbor? Let us know and we’ll send out the welcome wagon.
To subscribe, email membership@sherwoodforestneighbors.org or subscribe online
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