News and notes for this week

A couple items of news and note for this week:

• HOA board meeting this Thursday
  
  The next Esplanade HOA board meeting will take place on Thursday, 4/11 at 6:00 p.m. in the community room. There will be committee reports, budget updates, and more.
  
  
  Residents are reminded that while they are welcome to attend, this is not a general HOA member meeting. The board conducts their business during these monthly meetings, sometimes asking for input from committee members and others present. A Q&A session for residents is usually included at the end of the meeting.

• Entrance to upper garage partially blocked this week
  Work that was supposed to be done last week was postponed due to a water spill, so residents are reminded to be careful entering and exiting the upper garage this week. Cars will be able to go in and out of the garage, but there will only be one lane, so cars will have to take turns going in and out. The water storage tank located under the entrance ramp to the upper garage is in need of service (this is not the building's main hot water tank, it is a tank used as part of the fire-suppression system). There is sediment in the tank, and it needs to be drained, coated, and re-filled.

• Two opportunities to help out the neighborhood this Saturday, 4/13
  
  Apparently by sheer coincidence, two local beautification groups will be working this Saturday morning to clean up areas directly adjacent to The Esplanade building. Plenty of opportunity this Saturday to get involved in cleaning up the neighborhood! Both groups will provide gloves, tools, etc., so you just need to show up.

  
  

  The "Esplanade Neighborhood Litter Patrol" will meet again to clean up the area directly across Dock Street from our building (between the railroad tracks and Hood Street), as well as the A Street sidewalk leading up to the locomotive sculpture. Meet on Hood Street at 9 a.m. For more information, contact Lynn at lynnrdutton@aol.com.

  
  
  UPDATE: "Friends of the Foss Gardening Group" not meeting this week due to inclement weather. Litter Patrol is still meeting.
  
  Also, the "Friends of the Foss Gardening Group" will meet at 9:30 a.m. this Saturday to clean up weeds and invasive ivy around the trees that are directly on the waterfront, between Pacific Seafood and The Esplanade building (next to the public boat dock). Click on the image below for more information, or contact group leader Jori Adkins at joriadkins@mac.com.

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• Daffodil Marine Parade this Sunday, 4/14
  Sometime between noon and 1 p.m. on Sunday, 4/14, expect to see a flotilla of decorated boats on the Foss Waterway. The Tacoma Yacht Club parade hosts the Daffodil Royalty, plus dozens of other yachts and marine vessels.