 By:
Tomica Miller
Volunteers make the City of Knoxville work. The Board of Zoning Appeals, the Metropolitan Planning Commission, the Historic Zoning Commission, the Knoxville Area Transit Community Advisory Committee, and the Better Building Board are just a few examples of boards and commissions filled out with volunteers who give of their time and talents to help make Knoxville function. Without volunteers, we would all be paying higher taxes for things to be accomplished.
The same is true for the Old North Knoxville neighborhood association. We have our own committees: the Home Tour Committee, the Beautification Committee, the Traffic Calming Committee, the Neighborhood Watch, the Welcoming Committee, Neighbors Helping Neighbors, Special Projects Committee, and the Social Committee are some of the committees that make Old North Knoxville a stronger neighborhood and a better place to live. These committees are run and staffed by your neighbors. They could also be run and staffed by you.
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in front of one of the Old North Knoxville markers. Volunteers from the
Beautification Committee planted and watered the flowers. But that is only
part of what they do. Click here
for details on this neighborhood committee.
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Over the next several issues of Old North News, we will feature each of these committees to let you know what they do, what they have planned, and how you can help out. You don't have to have any special skills, take any test, or pay any price to belong to any of these committees. You only have to have a willingness to help make Old North Knoxville a better place to live and to give a little of yourself.
No one single person has all the answers or can do all the work needed to make Old North a vibrant place to live. But together, we can build a place to live and grow and raise our children. And when our children come of age, they will carry on this tradition either here in Old North Knoxville or wherever they may live. And stronger neighborhoods can only serve to make for a stronger, more vibrant, more livable city, a city that functions for us all.
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