Forest Hills Canned Food Drive--Update

Thanks to everyone in and out of the neighborhood for the cash and cans that were donated. We just packed everything in and did a count. We have collected a total of 217 canned good items and $95 for the Good Shepherd House. We'll keep the bin out on our front walk for the rest of the weekend if anybody missed the drive. Thanks again.

Canned food drive in Forest Hills This Saturday

Six-year-old Ella Coxe will be collecting canned fruits and vegetables for a food drive to benefit The Good Shepherd Center, which feeds around 480 people a day. They are currently in need of canned foods. We are asking for your help to make it a great success.

On Saturday, July 26 from 9:00-12:00 you can drop off your canned goods at 402 Forest Hills Drive. She also will be selling lemonade to benefit the center. If you can’t make it on Saturday during the drop off times, you can drop off the items anytime at the above address on Wednesday, July 23 through Friday, July 25. We will have a plastic bin on our front steps for the food. If you need us to come to your house, just call (763-7109) and we will come pick it up. -- Bradley Coxe

Hey y'all there's some new blogs in town

First, let me again put in a plug for Wilmaville, a blog for Wilmington area moms (not just Forest Hills) run by Christina Wood and Elizabeth Humphrey. It even has a rapidly growing social network attached to it, which is free to join. Come explore the brave new world of social media with friendly locals.

Our friend Andie Reid has started a blog for restaurant recommendations called Wilmington NC Restaurant Recs. Andie's cool (she's even a bigger geek than I am) and so is her blog.

I just learned a new neighbor, Bradley Coxe, has started a blog called Forest Hills Vine where he's been archiving some of the emails sent out by Miles Lewis (aka The Mayor of Forest Hills). I've invited Bradley to come join us over here; maybe we'll do some kind of merger down the line.

Finally, you may not be aware of this, but this blog is linked to an iGoogle page that has news, weather, maps, and a calendar for Forest Hills. We haven't done much with it yet, but we're hoping y'all will join us and make this a true community effort.

Curious about being an author for this blog? Send an email to me -- dan (at) dantynan (dot) com. Obviously, you want to substitute actual @ and .'s

Ciao.

There are Two Forest Hills Blogs!

The Forest Hills Vine is here: http://nclawyer.typepad.com/forest_hills_vine/atom.xml. That seems to be a posting of the emails that go out over the The Port Neighborvine.

Isn't the Internet great?

I have fed those posts to this blog as well for your reading convenience.

i've been out-of-town...so this may be old news, but the house on market/end of colonial is listed for $724,900. w/ 4000 square feet....

colonial dr/market

hi,
just wanted to let everyone know that the former "methodist manor" children's home has been vacant for several months now. as you may have seen, they auctioned off all of its' contents. it is supposed to be listed very soon. anyone interested???? we are hoping for an actual resident.
kym

Spread the Word

Hi neighbors,

I just want to let you know that I set this site up to help with local communication. Not because I profit from it in any way. I know that we already have an email list. But when I ask for information to go out via that list, it frequently gets edited for meaning and my message is changed or lost.

In fact, I asked our list master to send an announcement about this blog but...nope. Nothing. Nada. I'm shut out. And not for the first time. I'm sure this isn't happening only to me. It's probably not even intentional. But this is 2008 and we have options. So I decided to provide one. And you are looking at it.

For it to work, though, we have to use it. Anyone who lives in Forest Hills can be an author here and it's very easy. Send an email requesting an author account and you will get one. If there was an easier way to join you, I would. But I need an email address to set you up. But even if you aren't yet set up as an author, you can post comments. (At the end of posts, click on the word comment). If you need help figuring out that first blog post, just call me. First request your author account and we'll take it from there.

And you don't have to check the blog to read announcements. Just subscribe to the blog and the posts will come right to your email. Enter your email adress on the box on there on the left or click on the feed button if you like to use a feed reader.

Help me out here: Send this link to some people in the neighborhood today. And use the email subscription to sign up for the feed. And ask for your author account so you can make your own announcements, ask for recommendations, or talk to your neighbors!

Christina