The text below was received in a January 7, 2002 e-mail from Coalition for Alewife
From: Coalition for Alewife
You're invited ! !
More than that, we request your active participation.
Who: You, members of your organization, and other Alewife organizations.
What: Alewife Regional Forum
When: Thursday, January 17, 2002, 6:30-9:00 pm
Where: Temple Beth El, 2 Concord Ave., Belmont (intersection of Blanchard
Rd.)
Why: To act jointly on shared concerns regarding the Alewife area, e.g.,
the Reservation, open space, flooding, land use, and traffic.
Desired result: A decision by multiple organizations to act jointly on one
or more of the multiple issues that we will identify during the forum.
Meet people from organizations in Arlington, Belmont and Cambridge who share
your concerns. Realize that we will more easily achieve common goals if we
act together.
Agenda:
6:30 - 7:00 Socializing. Light refreshments. Pick up literature.
7:00 - 7:45 Brief (2-minute limit!) presentations by one speaker from each
organization.
7:45 - 8:45 Discussion, moderated by Coalition member Dan Geer, to identify
and prioritize issues of common concern. A chance for organizations to
collaborate.
8:45 - 9:00 Wrap up. Summarize issues and priorities. Hopefully, there
will be one issue we can all agree to work on together.
Background:
The Coalition for Alewife agreed to bring together concerned citizens,
organizations, elected representatives, and other decision-makers from all
three towns that abut Alewife. This forum is the result. While it is open
to the general public, citizen organizations are central to this forum and
to
any agreed-on action. Your members are concerned, motivated, best able to
draw in their uninvolved neighbors, and best organized to make requests of
elected and appointed officials.
What you need to do:
Please forward this invitation to your members. We encourage you to further
distribute it via website or listserv.
We ask participating organizations to choose one individual to make a very
brief (2 minutes max!) presentation describing its essentials - its origins,
concerns, and current activities. For greater detail, we also ask each
organization to provide 100 copies of an information sheet, plus some copies
of your current brochure and most recent newsletter, to leave at a
literature table.
Please RSVP Carolyn Mieth or Aram Hollman, the forum's organizers, as soon
as possible.
Carolyn Mieth
15 Brookford St.
Cambridge, MA 02140
home: tel (617) 864-6751
work: (617) 630-4995, cmieth@ppffound.org
Aram Hollman
12 Whittemore St.
Arlington, MA 02474
home: tel (781) 648-6417, ahollman@aol.com
work: tel (617) 578-3181, ahollman@nef.com
Directions: Temple Beth El, at Concord Ave. and Blanchard Rd., is accessible
by MBTA bus. Parking is available in the rear; enter from Blanchard Rd.
Please do not bring any meat products into the building.
(Event sponsored - and information provided - by Coalition for Alewife,
which is not affiliated with the Alewife Study Group)