Charlotte Neighborhood Leadership Awards

Neighborhoods and neighborhood leaders collaborate with City staff to accomplish great things throughout our community. While volunteering can be a thankless job at times, the 2014 Neighborhood Leadership Awards provides you with the opportunity to show your appreciation for the work that neighborhoods do to make our city a great place to live, work and play.

 

Several City departments have crafted special awards to celebrate accomplishments and inspire additional efforts.  The 2014 Neighborhood Leadership Awards categories, and the names of the City departments that will sponsor each award category, are below.

 

·   Community Safety Ambassador  (Charlotte Mecklenburg Police Department) ·   Moving Forward  (Charlotte Department of Transportation)
·   Good Neighbors  (Neighborhood & Business Services’ Code Enforcement division) ·   Sustainability Pioneer  (Neighborhood & Business Services’ Community Engagement division)

Headlines Barber Shop Collecting Food Donations For Second Harvest Food Bank

Post by Jan Pettis.


Headlines Barber Shop will be colleting food for the Second Harvest Food Bank of Metrolina thru August 16th.  Their goal is to raise 1,000 pounds of food!!  Be sure to drop off donations to support this great community effort.  - 5309 E. Independence Blvd, Charlotte, NC 28212 

Back to School 2014 Library Summer Festival

It's here - we all knew it was eventually coming -- BACK TO SCHOOL 2014!   It's true, we must all begin the work @ wrapping our thoughts around the end of summer, school days and cooler weather.  The Charlotte Public Libraries at Hickory Grove and Sugar Creek will be host  their annual Back To School Festival  August 16th.  The festivities will kick off at 10a but to participate you must  register - which begins at 9A.

The entertaining and educational activiities will surely bring smiles and laughter to kids of all ages!! Registered attendees will also recieve FREE  school supplies.

For more information please contact :

Hickory Grove Public Library 

5935 Hickory Grove Rd.

Charlotte, NC 28215

Sugar Creek Public Library

4045 N. Tryon St. suite A

Charlotte, NC 28273

This local  event was shared with us by local junior  #EastCLT reporter J. Cin.  Many thanks for helping get the word out to the East Charlotte Community.  

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Fourth of July Fun in East Charlotte

East Charlotte neighbors enjoyed lots of smiles and laughs as they celebrated the 4th of July 2014 with the 46th Annual Hickory Grove Parade!  Check out more photos and video at the parade website: Http://www.hickorygroveparade.org


Neighbors and Families Gather for Hickory Grove 4th of July Parade

Speak Tweet Tee - Celebrate Social Media Day 2014!!

Here at East Charlotte Tweets we LOVE  Social Media and really believe in the power of these new communication channels.   One of the main goals of this blog is to help local businesses to
tap into the power of Twitter!  To celebrate Social Media Day, June 30th, we are hosting our first Giveaway--  A Twitter Tee!!   We are giving away a "Tweet Speak" Tee to 5 lucky winners.





It is easy to enter,  just sign in the Rafflecopter Contest below!   Entrants must  add a comment to this  blog post and can gain extra points by tweeting about the contest, adding a post to their Facebook page or following via Twitter.

Winners will be  chosen at random and announced on Monday July 7th here on the East Charlotte Tweets Blog.  Winners will be notified via email and must reply by midnight on July10th.

Entrants must be  at least 18 years  and able to recieve  shipment to an address within a local Charlotte, NC  zipcode.

If you have questions feel free to use the Speak pipe app here on the site to contact us.




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I Love Charlotte Limpa

On the first Saturday of April, the Queen City recieved a very special community service from youth members of TheJesus Ministry, Inc..... a city wide cleanup/beautifucation day.  Members from this youth cleanup brigade could be seen walking along Albermarle road in East Charlotte picking up debris along the street. ' I Love Charlotte Limpa' is the name of the annual community servie event sponsored by Jesus Ministries.  We send a heartfelt THANK YOU to these young people for their BIG contribution to our city.  Keeping Charlotte beautiful is truly an important responsibility for all Charlotteans.  These young people are a shining example of what can be done to make a positive change in local community.  

Positve Youth  of Jesus Ministries!!

One 7 Ministries Offers Helping Hand to Local East Charlotte Families

East Charlotte - If you can offer any support to these families please contact One7 Ministries. We must all work to support those in need.    

Post by Eastwoodacres Charlotte.