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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNewsletter City_May 2017Mayor’s Message M AR K YO U R C AL E N D AR M A Y 2 0 1 7 City Council Meeting May 3rd & 17th @ 6:30 pm in the council chambers City Council June 7th & 21st. Arts & Rec Guide Upper Valley Wom- en's Choir Con- cert May 8th @ Tab- ernacle— FREE Hazardous Waste Col- lection Dates May 24th and 25th AND August 23rd & 24th Wow! Can you believe it’s May already? It seems like we just celebrated the new year and here we are 5 months into that new year already. How time flies when you’re having fun, right? I do enjoy serving this community as your Mayor. We are not without our problems and disagreements here and there but by and large I see people being kind and striving to serve one another and at the end of the day that’s really what it’s all about. A huge thanks to those who put on our annual Easter Egg Hunt. It is sponsored by our Cham- ber of Commerce and the Rexburg Kiwanis Club. This volunteer service group puts in a lot of time and effort to make good things happen here in our “Burg”. I encourage anyone who would like to give a little service time to the community to join with one of our many service clubs…they all do tremendous work to better our community. If you don’t know how to join, send me an e -mail and I can put you in touch. Thanks also to the good folks who have sponsored drug awareness programs I have attended recently. One done by Madison Cares and another by Andra Hansen’s BYU Idaho group. It brought home to me the need for us to not let down our guard but to be constantly vigilant and looking out for our children and grandchil- dren to protect them from the travesties that these substances can bring on. I hope you are noticing the beautiful tulips that are blooming in many of our city beds along the different entries and intersections in town. Our City Parks people worked hard last fall to get these all planted and now we are enjoying the fruit of those labors. We want Rexburg to be a beautiful and welcoming place and we are making strides in accomplishing that. There are many other things I would like to do but we have limitations of time and budget that we have to work within. But stay tuned! A few have commented on some of the trees in town being cut down. This is all part of our ongoing plan to remove trees that are planted in the wrong places (growing into power lines or blocking necessary views, etc.) and some have insect or disease problems. We will be planting many new trees this spring and summer to replace the removed ones with trees of a better variety for what we want to accomplish and to provide some semblance of design and continuity in our urban tree canopy. Center Street will be a highlight of these efforts to be done this summer. I think you will like it. One water saving tip…now that sprinkler systems are being activated, please pay attention to rainy days and turn the sprinklers off. In early spring, you really don’t need to water much. I usually don’t even run mine regularly until after Memorial Day…an occasional soaking is plenty. Most of us water too much in spring and fall. It will save you money and help conserve our precious water resource. I’m excited about all the new home grown restaurants that are popping up. I plan on visiting and supporting them regularly and I hope you will too. Our business community is growing. Thank you all for being great Rexburgers. Please keep it up!! Mayor Jerry Merrill 35 N 1st E Rexburg, Idaho 83440 208.359.3020 / fax 208.359.3022 customerservices@rexburg.org Monday-Thursday 7:30am-5:30pm Friday 7:30am-12:30pm May 8th - Upper Valley Women's Choir Concert @ Tabernacle Free May 12th - Gideon The Magician @ Romance Theater 7 pm May 12th & 13th - Sharla Dance - Choister Workshop - Free - May 23rd & 24th - Rexburg Tabernacle Orchestra Concert and Ballet @ Tabernacle The Spring Concert of the Rexburg Tabernacle Orchestra will combine with a group of ballet dancers from the university and community to perform the Russian ballet, Petroushka, by Igor Stravin- sky, Tuesday and Wednesday May 23 and May 24th. Other music on the program will be a delightful comedy of spoofs on composers such as Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Bach. This concert is FREE. The Recreation Department is hosting the annual Carousel Summer Kickoff. We plan to increase the ac- tivities and size of the events this year by inviting the Farmers Market to set up on the street on the west side of the carousel, provide free activities for kids through local busi- nesses and start off the season of the carousel by letting kids ride it for free from 4-8p on May 26th.