Beautification Awards
Covington Neighborhood Collaborative
(Meeting site: Center for Great Neighborhoods of Covington)
January 17, 2023
Neighborhood Leader:
We know that many people dislike long emails, so this will serve as an executive summary of the note below: The Covington Neighborhood Collaborative wants to revive the Covington Beautification Awards program that was started in 1989 by the Friends of Covington, an organization that disbanded during the Covid crisis. We are asking for some help – a small amount of time and energy – so that we can continue an awards program that had a positive impact on the city and some 400 award winners over the years.
Further details follow:
If you’ve been around Covington for any length of time, you probably know that many things have changed for the better in recent years. A city that suffered from a severe case of urban malaise for decades after World War II seems to have reversed its fortunes and has become kind of a cool place where people want to live, work, have dinner or a cold one.
The city’s elected leadership and two volunteer organizations – the Covington Neighborhood Collaborative (CNC) and the Friends of Covington – have played significant roles in this turnaround. We are hoping that you or one of your neighbors or friends would be willing to donate some time or energy (just a small amount of either) to continue a project that was started some 34 years ago by the Friends of Covington.
Over the years, some 400 Covington homeowners and business owners were recognized with Covington Beautification Awards that honored them for the work that they had done on the exterior of their properties. Winners received an exterior banner for their homes and a plaque that was usually presented by the Mayor of Covington at a ceremony at the Behringer-Crawford Museum in Devou Park. The turnout was always good and winners were always appreciative.
The theory was fairly simple: Fixing up one property in a neighborhood can prompt others to do the same. And there’s nothing negative about a Fix Up-Clean Up Covingion.
The Covington Neighborhood Collaborative, which intends to revive the Covington Beautification Awards program, hopes to find at least one winner in each of the city’s 18 neighborhoods. This is where we need some help – finding homes or businesses that are worthy of an award and then passing on information about the property, the property owner, the work that has been done on the exterior and contact information for the owner. Some additional help also might be needed before the awards ceremony.
If you or someone you know would be willing to help revive the awards in any way that you can, the collaborative would be grateful. The CNC will discuss this proposal at its next monthly meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, at the Center for Great Neighborhoods, 321 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. And if you can’t make it but want to get involved in some way, please email me or Greg Paeth at the addresses below.
Thanks,
Bill Wells
CNC chair
Greg Paeth
CNC secretary
gregpaeth@fuse.net
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Beautification Awards
Covington Neighborhood Collaborative
(Meeting site: Center for Great Neighborhoods of Covington)
January 17, 2023
Neighborhood Leader:
We know that many people dislike long emails, so this will serve as an executive summary of the note below: The Covington Neighborhood Collaborative wants to revive the Covington Beautification Awards program that was started in 1989 by the Friends of Covington, an organization that disbanded during the Covid crisis. We are asking for some help – a small amount of time and energy – so that we can continue an awards program that had a positive impact on the city and some 400 award winners over the years.
Further details follow:
If you’ve been around Covington for any length of time, you probably know that many things have changed for the better in recent years. A city that suffered from a severe case of urban malaise for decades after World War II seems to have reversed its fortunes and has become kind of a cool place where people want to live, work, have dinner or a cold one.
The city’s elected leadership and two volunteer organizations – the Covington Neighborhood Collaborative (CNC) and the Friends of Covington – have played significant roles in this turnaround. We are hoping that you or one of your neighbors or friends would be willing to donate some time or energy (just a small amount of either) to continue a project that was started some 34 years ago by the Friends of Covington.
Over the years, some 400 Covington homeowners and business owners were recognized with Covington Beautification Awards that honored them for the work that they had done on the exterior of their properties. Winners received an exterior banner for their homes and a plaque that was usually presented by the Mayor of Covington at a ceremony at the Behringer-Crawford Museum in Devou Park. The turnout was always good and winners were always appreciative.
The theory was fairly simple: Fixing up one property in a neighborhood can prompt others to do the same. And there’s nothing negative about a Fix Up-Clean Up Covingion.
The Covington Neighborhood Collaborative, which intends to revive the Covington Beautification Awards program, hopes to find at least one winner in each of the city’s 18 neighborhoods. This is where we need some help – finding homes or businesses that are worthy of an award and then passing on information about the property, the property owner, the work that has been done on the exterior and contact information for the owner. Some additional help also might be needed before the awards ceremony.
If you or someone you know would be willing to help revive the awards in any way that you can, the collaborative would be grateful. The CNC will discuss this proposal at its next monthly meeting at 6 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 2, at the Center for Great Neighborhoods, 321 W. Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. And if you can’t make it but want to get involved in some way, please email me or Greg Paeth at the addresses below.
Thanks,
Bill Wells
CNC chair
Greg Paeth
CNC secretary
gregpaeth@fuse.net