I must admit -- this one is ''SHORT NOTICE'' and I am to blame!

Have any of you heard about the ''Spirit of Mesa Neighborhood Awards''? They
will be held in October 2001 and forms are due in the Neighborhood Offices by JULY 2 if anyone wishes to nominate our neighborhood for any of the categories.

The form is easy - two questions - describe the project, program or activity and when it happened. No doubt, we HAVE done a lot of things together here in Marlborough.


The City of Mesa wants us to nominate SOMETHING because we have been so
involved as a neighborhood in working together. They often use ''US'' as an
example to other neighborhoods that are just beginning to get organized.
Therefore, these are some of the things they have suggested that we nominate
Marlborough Mesa for:

1) Nominate the Easter Egg Hunt and Community Picnic for the Neighborhood
Progress category.

2) Nominate the Welcome Baskets and participating businesses under the
Neighbors Working Together with Businesses category.

3) Nominate the entrance signs and landscape upgrades along with perimeter
fence paintings under the Beautification category.

4) Nominate the website, newsletter and ambassador concepts under the
Neighborhood progress category.

5) And there is a catch-all category for any other projects/people we want
to nominate.

If you would like to see your neighborhood represented in any of these
categories, please contact Debbie Driscol at Deborah_Driscol@ci.mesa.az.us
or call 644-4067 or 644-2387. She will fax a form to you or you may pick
one up at my home.

Also, I attached our ''TIMELINE'' in an email sent out to those of you who are on the Neighborhood Email list so that you may see just what all we have accomplished and when. However, this morning -- I took the time to REVISE that and there were many more things, names, etc. to add. If you wish a copy of the new one -- let me know.

Have a good day and a great 4th of July,