The Griffin's Receive Beautification Award
Our very own Carl and Lynn Griffin received West Lafayette's May Neighborhood beautification award. Their home on Robinson at the entrance to New Chauncey is one of city’s masterpieces and sits on nearly two acres that the Griffins have nurtured since 1986.
Carl and Lynn are both West Lafayette natives and their gardens boast bearded iris and lily of the valley from their family gardens.
Our very own Carl & Lynn Griffin at home in New Chauncey received the May 2009 West Lafayette Beautification Award.
Perennial beds dot the landscape, each with a character and story of their own. Shade loving beds rich in a variety of hostas surround the mature oaks while sun loving daylilies, coneflowers, asters, tulips, and daffodils line the sidewalk and open beds. Aroma is a key factor in plant selection. Dozens of lilacs provide spring color and fragrance. Other flowering shrubs and trees include dogwood, roses, hydrangea, witch hazel and vibernum, and provide color from March until November The Griffins are also avid birders and their gardens invite song birds to their sanctuary. The wildlife adds a finishing touch to the rich floral display at the Griffin residence. Next time you see Carl or Lynn around the neighborhood - say thanks for making it a nicer place to live!
Graduations & the "Special" in the 'Hood
The graduation season is upon us and as happens every year about this time the Boiler Special haunts the New Chauncey Neighborhood.
If you are lucky enough to see the "Special" run down your street, give a wave and a "Boiler Up!" shout out.
Thanks from Project Move-Out
The ultimate recycling project!
We received the following note from Harry Brown, Assistant Dean of Students and Director of Boiler Volunteer Network (BVN) and wanted to pass it along to the neighborhood:
On behalf of the Boiler Volunteer Network and the Office of the Dean of Students I, want to thank everyone whose support and hard work helped make this year's Project Move Out a huge success, and the best Project Move Out ever.We received more donated items this year than ever before. The volunteers from the community did much of the hard work of unloading trucks, sorting the donations, and cleaning-up after the event - Project Move Out simply could not happen without them.
The shoppers who came to the Armory on Sunday came from a total of 378 households representing a total of 1288 people served (the average household size was 3.4 people). Project Move Out provides assistance to a significant number of low-income families.
Project Move Out is only successful because of collaborative efforts across the university and between the university and the community. Thank you all.
We thank you Harry and all of the talented BVN students that helped pull this great event together.
Wabash River Enhancement Update
The first public meeting of the watershed management group was held at the Holiday Inn in Lafayette. There was a very good turnout of more than 75 members of the community. Purdue students
Stan Lambert being interviewed by WLFI reporter Kristin Crowley
presented their river improvement proposal projects. The projects were inventive and provided solutions to many of the issues that face the Wabash. Professors from Purdue also educated and discussed various aspects of these challenges and solicited the public's concerns and issues.
Students talk with community about solutions to some of the challenges the Wabash River faces.
The meetings are being hosted by WREC (Wabash River Enhancement Corporation) which has strong city, county, public, state, and Purdue representation. If you are interested in finding
out more, please contact Sara Peel or Stan Lambert or visit the Wabash River Enhancement Corp. website.
Best Cities For Jobs:
Lafayette Area is in Top 50!
According to the Praxis Strategy Group, the greater Lafayette Area is ranked as the 50th best small city for job growth for 2009. That is up 94 places since last year. The area is ranked 85th overall out of the 336 cities listed. The highest ranking area in Indiana, Lafayette moved up more than 200 places from last year. The rankings uses the robustness of the area's growth, and includes all of the areas included in the employment data reports from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics through January 2009. The index is calculated from a normalized, weighted summary of: 1) recent growth trend: the current and prior year's employment growth rates, with the current year emphasized (two points); 2) mid-term growth: the average annual 2003-2008 growth rate (two points); 3) long-term trend: the sum of the 2003-2008 and 1998-2002 employment growth rates multiplied by the ratio of the 1998-2002 growth rate over the 2003-2008 growth rate (two points); and 4) current year growth (one point).
