Hear ye, hear ye! Here is your SHERWOOD FOREST CRIER February 1, 2018 SFNA General Meeting Tuesday, February 13, 6:30pm-8pm The next general meeting of the Sherwood Forest Neighborhood Association is scheduled for Tuesday, February 13 from 6:30pm-8pm at the Sherwood Forest Presbyterian Church on the corner of Wilmot Avenue and Beltline Boulevard. Join us at 6pm to meet and greet your neighbors! If you have any questions or concerns, or ideas for speakers, please let us know! Facebook event... We Are Coming Together Saturday, February 17, 11am-2pm From Across the Wall to Sherwood Forest Join the Original Frogtown Community, Shandon, and Sherwood Forest neighbors at the Sherwood Forest Presbyterian Church for a celebration of our shared history. Sonya Hodges-Grantham will share the history, heritage and how Sherwood Forest connects with the Original Frogtown Community, and give a brief history of Sherwood Forest from 1712- 1959, including the connections with St. Joseph's Catholic Church, The House That Jack Built, Palmer McMaster, Gills Creek @109.8 Bluff Road, President FDR, DHEC, Pubic Health in SC Public Schools, S&S Cafeteria, and of course the Brick Wall! Members of the Green Family will be there to tell their history of residing in the home with Mr. Belser. Maps, brochures titled Reminisces of Sherwood Forest and ten books titled Across the Wall from Sherwood Forest will be on display. Come and find out the origin of the name Sherwood Forest. Facebook event... USC Belser Arboretum Open House Sunday, February 18, 1-4pm The public is invited to an open house at the W. Gordon Belser Arboretum. The open house program is held the third Sunday of every month, and features a variety of learning elements in these events. Contact Gail Wojtowicz at 618 402-8736 or by email or see USC's Department of Biological Sciences W. Gordon Belser Arboretum web page for more information. SFNA Adopt-A-Highway Clean Up Saturday, February 24, 9:30-11am Volunteers are invited to participate in cleanup which is part of the Keep The Midlands Beautiful Adopt-A-Highway program. We will meet at the Piggly Wiggly parking lot. We will work from Devine to Rosewood on Kilbourne, then east to Beltline, and finishing at Sherwood Forest Church. Volunteers should wear closed toed shoes and bring their own gloves. Please contact Dave Nelson at 803 447-4793 or appearance@sherwoodforestneighbors.org for information or any questions. Facebook event... Mark Your Calendars! SFNA St Patricks Day Party Saturday, March 17 Contact Megan Harrington at 252 904-4721 or social@sherwoodforestneighbors.org, to join in organizing the event! Details to come... Crier emails We are making an effort to send out these informational emails around the first of every month to keep neighbors up do date on neighborhood events, and other events and information of interest. It's cheaper and better for the environment not to print and pass out fliers! But we could all probably use the exercise! If you have information of interest to the neighborhood, please pass it along and we may include it in a future Crier. Tell your friends and neighbors to subscribe. No membership required, but of course we would like everybody to join! New neighbor? Let us know and we'll send out the welcome wagon. To subscribe, email membership@sherwoodforestneighbors.org or subscribe online Join the Sherwood Forest Neighborhood Association Join now for 2018! Dues are only $20 and are due in January. Pay your dues now online. Or pay at the next general meeting or mail a check to Henry Nechemias, 4 Robin Hood Ct., Columbia, SC 29205 and you will be paid up for 2018! Why should you join the SFNA? Benefits of the SFNA... You're receiving this email because of your interest in the Sherwood Forest Neighborhood Association. If you no longer wish to receive email correspondence from SFNA, please email webmaster@sherwoodforestneighbors.org Please add webmaster@sherwoodforestneighbors.org to your approved sender list in whatever email client or system you are using to make sure you are able to receive email communications from the Sherwood Forest Neighborhood Association! SFNA Facebook Page | SFNA Facebook Group | SFNA Twitter Sherwood Forest Neighborhood Association, Inc. Columbia, South Carolina www.sherwoodforestneighbors.org © Copyright 2017 Sherwood Forest Neighborhood Association. All rights reserved.