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Ok for you greenies….which there appear to be quite a few here, RDN is holding a series of Open Houses on Sunday to allow you to explore some of the latest green building trends.  And one of the homes is here in the South End…surprise, surprise!

Here’s a link to the event in Harbour Living.

And more info on their site.

You need to register in advance…all the contact info is there, on both sites.

 

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Well, we’ve got LOTS of pallets hanging around the South End!  This may be a way to use them??

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Right next door in Harewood…whodathunk it?

Community Beat: Livestock enhance Nanaimo home

Bylaw allows woman to turn her yard into oasis reminiscent of her childhood

Krista Bryce, The Daily News

Published: Tuesday, July 17, 2012

The faint hum from three beehives tucked in between rows of Roblyn Hunter’s vegetable garden adds to the serenity of her south-end Nanaimo backyard.

Click here to read the entire article.

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Posted on Face Book by a friend in Wisconsin:  A house, three blocks from mine, has a “poem box.” You can read through the glass, or take a printed copy from the box. Yesterday’s offering was, “Father’s Shoes.”

 

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So, all you creative South Enders.  Here’s a link to a blog full of fresh ideas for using art to add colour and character to a neighbourhood.  Lots of wonderful ideas worth filching….:)

The site is aptly named StreetArtUtopia.  Ts’wonderful.

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South-end group has several other potential projects planned for their community

Alyson McAndrews, The Daily News

Published: Tuesday, November 08, 2011

South End residents are finding new and creative ways to beautify their community. In the dark. In disguise. When no one would expect it.

Read more.

 

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Pallets Transformed

There don’t seem to be as many pallets laying by the roadside as there were a few years ago.  But if you do find one, before you haul it off to the dump,  check out this short and upbeat You Tube clip.  It’s quite amazing what you can do with a pallet (I write as I look across the street at my neighbours’ genuine pallet fence…:)

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