Free Document Shredding event at ECSB, Saturday 5/18, 2-4 pm

[ron_newman]

East Cambridge Savings Bank, 285 Highland Ave at Cedar St, will hold a free Community Shred Event from 2 to 4 pm this Saturday, May 18. The event will include music, refreshments, and giveaways. You can bring these things to shred:

Invoices, bank statements, contracts, canceled checks, medical records, personal records, insurance claims, pay stubs, expired IDs, receipts, mail, computer printouts, CDs, cassette and audio tapes, back-up disks, and prescriptions

Does a Landlord Need to Provide a Doorbell?

[makoshark.livejournal.com]

Apartments in my apartment building do not have street-accesible doorbells or any other way of notifying the people in the house from outside. We had them once in the past but are no longer usable and the landlord will not fix them.

This is very annoying. I want to know if there is a law in Somerville, Massachusetts, or any national building code which would require the landlord/property manager to provide us with doorbells or equivalent.

Free 12-pack of caffeine-free Diet Dr Pepper

[nonelvis]

Curse you, Dr Pepper marketing department, for making packaging for your caffeine-free product too similar to your caffeinated one! Anyway, if you've got a hankering for a 12-pack full of delicious chemicals (but not the one I personally was looking for), PM me, and it's yours. Pick up at my house in Medford, between Ball Sq. & Magoun Sq.

Claimed!

The Future of Davis Square

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“Somerville by Design” is coming to Davis Square! http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/PosterDavisSquare.pdf

It has been thirty years since the City prepared the “Davis Square Action Plan” to guide change associated with the MBTA Red Line Extension. When we look around Davis Square today, we see many physical characteristics that are the direct result of that plan. Here's the 1982 plan:http://www.somervillema.gov/sites/default/files/1984-DavisSquareActionPlan.pdf

Plans typically have a lifespan of twenty or thirty years, so the time is ripe for a community dialogue about the next generation of physical design improvements in Davis. The City will be launching a planning series this spring and summer that is similar to our recent Green Line “Station Area Planning Series” and the “Complete Streets Series”.

Please join us in a “Crowdsourcing Event” to set the table for our work over the next six months.
Date: Tuesday May 21st
Time: 6:30 – 8:30 pm
Place: Somerville Community Baptist Church (31 College Avenue)

Brad Rawson, Senior Planner
City of Somerville, Office of Strategic Planning and Community Development

This is Paul. If you want to see the 1982 plan, contact me.

Vacuum repair

[dreda.livejournal.com]

We have a four-year-old Hoover that's starting to behave like it really needs a tuneup, and probably a replacement power cord - any recommendations or anti-recommendations?

(I can find a lot of reviews of the shop on the corner of Day Street, but just with regard to how they deal with sewing machines and sewing-related questions - not so much with the vacuums, other than that they have Miele models in the window...)

Thanks!

Found parakeet/budgie in Teele Square

[lizzyclean.livejournal.com]

JUST FOUND: beautiful blue and white budgie. We found him happily eating grass on the sidewalk on Mead Street, just off of Cameron. He's got very nice dark blue shoulder patches.

We've currently got him/her in a cat carrier eating millet and some of the grass from the sidewalk. He's pretty tame, though does not seem to enjoy being held. It seems like he is used to people and not a wild bird.

We do own two budgies already, which is why we agreed to take him in (as opposed to our nice neighbors who have never owned one before) but we only have a small cage AND we have two cats. Right now he's safe in a closed room, and we can keep him for a little bit, but obviously if he belongs to someone we'd like to reunite them. The Animal Rescue League is closed for the evening so it looks like we'll be keeping him overnight.

I've never found a bird before so if someone has any other ideas for trying to locate the owner please let me know! I'm going to try twitter and Universal Hub.
I can be reached at lizzylee@gmail.com if you know who owns this pretty little bird!

Found parakeet/budgie in Teele Square

[lizzyclean.livejournal.com]

JUST FOUND: beautiful blue and white budgie. We found him happily eating grass on the sidewalk on Mead Street, just off of Cameron. He's got very nice dark blue shoulder patches.

We've currently got him/her in a cat carrier eating millet and some of the grass from the sidewalk. He's pretty tame, though does not seem to enjoy being held. It seems like he is used to people and not a wild bird.

We do own two budgies already, which is why we agreed to take him in (as opposed to our nice neighbors who have never owned one before) but we only have a small cage AND we have two cats. Right now he's safe in a closed room, and we can keep him for a little bit, but obviously if he belongs to someone we'd like to reunite them. The Animal Rescue League is closed for the evening so it looks like we'll be keeping him overnight.

I've never found a bird before so if someone has any other ideas for trying to locate the owner please let me know! I'm going to try twitter and Universal Hub.
I can be reached at lizzylee@gmail.com if you know who owns this pretty little bird!