By Staff on July 2, 2010
By John Kinsey
In June, the CYCA board of directors accepted the resignation of two members: Susan Currier and Kyle Gowen. Kyle led the Safety Committee working with the MPD on National Night Out and on better ways to communicate safety news to CY residents. Susan served on the Membership Committee. We are sad to see [...]
Posted in CYCA, Letters from the President | Tagged letters
By Staff on July 1, 2010
BY TAMARA WALKER
On July 14th, 2008, the Cooper-Young Business Association initiated talks with Mary Baker of the Office of Planning and Development and Bill Schaffer of the Memphis City Engineering Office to discuss ways to slow down traffic on Cooper Street. After meeting with Mary and Bill, we asked the ETI Corporation, an Engineering Planning [...]
Posted in Business, CYCA, Letters to the Editor | Tagged bicycle, bike, Business, CYBA
By Staff on June 1, 2010
By Emily Bishop
The LampLighter has grown under the leadership of many editors since the premiere issue back in 1989. Some editors have served for several years and some only a few issues. Leslie Jaynes has stepped down as editor after more than a year of service. Leslie worked to broaden the scope of articles printed in the LampLighter [...]
Posted in CY Community News, CYCA, Events, Letters to the Editor | Tagged LampLighter
By Staff on June 1, 2010
I recently met with leaders of other neighborhood associations who, like CY residents, are protected by the officers of the Union Avenue Precinct.
Crime and safety were the topics of conversation. The stories shared were very eye-opening for me. One leader described her fear of calling about a drug house down the street because of retribution. Another spoke of how her [...]
Posted in CYCA, Letters from the President | Tagged board, President
By Staff on April 29, 2010
By Andy Ashby
Several Cooper-Young residents recently took advantage of a beautiful Saturday morning to make their neighborhood a better place to live.
Jordan Danelz, Madelyn Altman, Rodney Nash, Beth Cooper, Sydney Ashby, Debbie Sowell, Chris McHaney, Sharron Johnson, and Kristan Huntley participated in the Cooper-Young Community Association’s “Gazebo to Gateways” clean-up on March 27th.
It was truly [...]
Posted in CY Community News, CYCA | Tagged beautification, CY Community News, CYCA
By Staff on April 29, 2010
By Andy Ashby
On July 26th, the Cooper-Young Community Association will organize a neighborhood-wide alley clean-up in order to make Cooper-Young a safer and cleaner place.
In the past, the CYCA has cleaned up one or two alleys at a time. This year, we’re going to use pre-trial workers, paired with neighborhood volunteers, in order to get [...]
Posted in CY Community News, CYCA, Green/Eco, Safety | Tagged beautification, CY Community News
By Staff on April 28, 2010
Thank you, Cooper-Young, for electing me the new President for the CYCA. It’s an honor to be given the opportunity to lead an organization with such a fine history of accomplishments and caring for the community. I’ll continue to work towards fulfilling the mission statement of the CYCA: “…to make our diverse and historic community [...]
Posted in CYCA, Letters from the President | Tagged board, board elections
By Kristan on March 28, 2010
By Kristan Huntley
Let’s face it—Cooper-Young will get together and have a party for pretty much any reason, be it the annual Night Out, to support the Cooper-Young Festival 4-Miler runners, or whatever other happy occasion comes up. Well, here is a chance to party and hang out with your neighbors while raising money for the [...]
Posted in CY Community News, CYCA | Tagged arts, beautification, mural, progressive potluck
By Staff on March 28, 2010
By Emily Bishop
The 3rd Annual Cooper-Young/Peabody School Chili Cook-Off was a huge success, raising almost $1,800 (twice the amount of last year) for improvements to the community playground at Peabody School and bringing around 300 people to the Peabody cafeteria on February 27th.
Most Unusual Chili – Rene Erickson and the Midtown Chili Bombers
Judge’s Choice – [...]
Posted in CY Community News, CYCA, Events, Food | Tagged chili, contest, events
By Kristan on March 28, 2010
By Haynes Knight
Spring is in the air, your windows are open, thunderstorms are rolling across the Mid-South, the jonquils are bursting from their winter hideaways, and you keep on avoiding those boxes at the top of your closet filled with stuff from when you moved in (mumble, mumble) years ago. By the time you read [...]
Posted in CY Community News, CYCA, Events, Goings On! | Tagged CY Community News, Yard sale
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