East Lancaster Neighborhood Association

ELNA is represented by a board of citizen volunteers who help us work on local issues to make our neighborhood a better place to live, work and play.

Current Members are:

• Susann Kaltwasser, President
• Sue Fowler, Vice President
• Mary Sarabia, Secretary
• Paul Hockett - Neighborhood Watch program coordinator
• Richard Goche, Parks issues
• Dave Steiner, Traffic issues
• Mabel Wilhelm, Ron Chapman, Bruce Sonnen,, Marty Litster, Margaret Davis, and Art Keunzi - members
  

City Councilor - Ward 6 - Bruce Rogers (503-399-7806) brogers@cityofsaelm.net

Neighborhood Liaison - Paul Thornton, Parking Services Division (503-589-2065) pthronton@cityofsalem.net

Community Services Specialist - Annie Battee (503-588-6261) abattee@cityofsalem.net

By Sue Fowler

This year, the neighborhood association has dealt with a wide variety of issues including speeding on 45th, parking around Swegle School, truck parking on Clay Street behind Big Lots, graffiti, code enforcement and property maintenance. Personal safety and crime issues have been a focus of our efforts overall. Each month we hear from the Police on local issues and find out what is happening down at City Hall from our City Councilor, Bruce Rogers, and our City Liaison, Jayne Stump.

We are especially excited and grateful for the completion of the new neighborhood park on Weathers Street. This has been an 11-year project that could not have happened without the support of the City and the hard work of neighbors, like Susann Kaltwasser, Linda Evans, Dixie Taylor and Maria Ponce.

This past year we increased our participating significantly with several new members. We are always open to neighbors bringing their problems to our meetings to help find solutions. We invite all of you to come to our meetings each first Thursday of the month.

We especially want to thank the Springs Retirement Apartments for continuing to host our meetings. We hope to see you at one of our meetings soon. In the meantime, if you would like to communicate with us between meetings, either give us a call at 503-378-1845 or 503-363-3998, or send an e-mail to elna@open.org.