{"id":10589,"date":"2016-01-06T21:47:55","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T02:47:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=10589"},"modified":"2016-01-12T11:13:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T16:13:21","slug":"httpwww-thevalleyledger-comp1904-119","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=10589","title":{"rendered":"Easton Promise Neighborhood to hold first Annual Meeting January 13"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>EASTON PROMISE NEIGHBORHOOD\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>TO HOLD INAUGURAL STATE OF EPN ADDRESS\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span data-term=\"goog_632010776\">WEDNESDAY JANUARY 13th\u00a0<\/span>AT NURTURE NATURE CENTER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><u>Community event will feature release of recent neighborhood survey results in West Ward.<\/u><\/em><\/p>\n<p>W<strong>HAT:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Easton Promise Neighborhood will host its first State of the EPN event <span data-term=\"goog_632010777\">next Wednesday<\/span> evening. Executive Director Dr. Yamil Sanchez Rivera will discuss the organization\u2019s 2015 achievements and its plans for 2016.<\/p>\n<p>EPN Manager Ammar Sharif and PNLV Data Manager Ewuradjoa Dawson-Amoah will share with attendees the findings of this past summer&#8217;s EPN Resident Survey. The door-to-door survey captured information about housing, education, healthcare, and other important quality of life issues affecting West Ward neighborhood residents. The Easton Promise Neighborhood is located in Census tract 142 and is bordered by 15<sup>th<\/sup> St., 10<sup>th<\/sup> St., Lehigh Drive, and Chidsey St.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Resident Survey also gave residents the opportunity to talk to EPN staff about the interests and concerns they have for the neighborhood, and\u00a0provided the organization with the information it needs to determine how best to assist residents moving forward.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Survey result highlights include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>74.6% of EPN residents have someone in the neighborhood they can turn to in case of emergency<\/li>\n<li>48.3% of EPN households have no children<\/li>\n<li>58% of residents believe drug selling is an issue in the neighborhood<\/li>\n<li>92% survey return rate for our sample goal of 800 households and 43.9% return rate for the census tract<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This free event is open to the general public to attend. Light refreshments will be served. Attendees will also be entered into a raffle to win donated prizes, including two children\u2019s bicycles, local restaurant gift certificates, and more.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHEN:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 January 13 from 5 \u2013 <span data-term=\"goog_632010780\">6:30 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>WHERE:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Nurture Nature Center, 518 Northampton Street, Easton<\/p>\n<p>Parking is available on the street (some spaces have meters) or in the City of Easton parking garages.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WHO:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The nonprofit Promise Neighborhoods of the Lehigh Valley unites partners, residents and leaders from various sectors to ensure the success of children from birth through career. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.promiseneighborhoodslv.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.promiseneighborhoodslv.org\/<\/a>.<br \/>\n<strong>Information Provided By:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Tracey Werner, Blabbermouth Communications<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> tracey@blabbermouthcommunications.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner3023'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/' target=\"_blank\" data-id='3023' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div class='adkingprobanner sidebar banner7036'><a href='http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com' target=\"_blank\" data-id='7036' data-ga='{\"campaign\":\"\",\"banner\":\"\",\"implemented\":\"universal\",\"imp_action\":\"Impression\",\"click_action\":\"Click\"}'><img src='https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/inpostblank.jpg' alt='' \/><\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?post_type=adverts_posts&p=7036\" class=\"read-more\">Click here to read more... <\/a>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10590,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,482],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-press-release-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Easton-Promise.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10589\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10590"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}