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Archive for May, 2009

Gambardella’s does breakfast!

Posted in Downtowns on May 22, 2009 | 8 Comments »

Holy cats! Gambardella’s is now doing breakfast, and it’s fantastic!
It was just luck that I discovered it, too: I’d had to walk to an ATM before traveling, and my walk back took me along Second Avenue past this classic Fairbanks restaurant.  Their door was open, and they’d put out an “Open” sign.  I stopped [...]

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Lewis Feldstein lecture: a master speaks on social capital

Posted in Social capital on May 16, 2009 | 3 Comments »

Tuesday night (May 12) saw an astounding lecture on social capital: Lewis Feldstein, president of the New Hampsire Charitable Foundation and co-author (with Robert Putnam) of Better Together: Restoring the American Community, spoke at Schaible Auditorium on the topic “Better Together: Community Leadership and Social Capital”.
The lecture, part of UAF’s Northern Leadership Center Lecture Series, [...]

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Butts and more butts: clean-up day, 2009

Posted in Civic participation, Public spaces, Social class on May 11, 2009 | 4 Comments »

I went out this Saturday morning with my daughter for Cleanup Day. We decided to work on our immediate neighborhood rather than on one of the main streets.  Our neighborhood needed it badly.
(For those not in Fairbanks, Cleanup Day is an annual ritual here, where hundreds — if not thousands — of Fairbanksans — [...]

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The Watershed School: local interest vs. local access

Posted in Children, Education, Genius loci, Neighborhoods, Social opportunities on May 1, 2009 | 1 Comment »

I may be heading to some kind of Pedestrian Hell: I have enrolled my daughter, a first-grader-to-be, in a charter school.
Actually, The Watershed School, which opens this fall, has a component that should make pedestrian-types long to send their kids there: it focuses on “place-based” education, in which students focus on their local communities to [...]

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