The Fall Raking event for the Oakbridge Common Areas will take place on Sunday, November 14 at 10 am. Anyone interested in helping should meet at the Oakbridge Neighborhood sign. The rain date for this event will be Sunday, November 21 at 10 am.
Hours The Oakbridge Board of Directors recommends that trick or treating occur between 5 PM and 7 PM on Halloween, Sunday Oct. 31.
Locations We recommend that people puts treats out at the end of their driveways this year instead of kids coming up to individual doors. See the City of Madison’s website with a link to the CDC Guidelines:https://www.cityofmadison.com/visit-play/halloween-activities
Pumpkin Contest
If you’d like to participate in our pumpkin-carving or -decorating contest, place your pumpkin where it’s easy to see and next to it have a sign with your address. If you’d like to enter more than one artistic effort, make sure each of them has an identifying letter as well as your address. People walking by would keep notes and, by the end of Tuesday Nov. 2, e-mail their top-3 votes to OCSA Secretary RichardSRussell@tds.net with the subject line “OCSA Pumpkin Vote” . Voting is not limited to one per household; each person can vote independently (but only once 😉)! The body of the message should be just 3 lines, like this:1 – 123 Oak St. B2 – 456 Oak Ave.3 – 123 Oak St. A
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The Oakbridge Community Services Association Board of Directors will be meeting virtually at 7 PM on Wed. Nov. 3. All residents of Oakbridge are welcome to attend. There will be a specific time early in the agenda for citizen input. Among other things, the Board will be discussing 2022 annual assessments. To obtain the link to the meeting, e-mail the Board’s Secretary at RichardSRussell [at] tds.net.
Madison Police Department solicits community input on safety concerns. West Side Division captain and officers will be available to hear what’s on your mind this Thursday, Sep. 16, at 9 AM at Elver Park.
This Sunday, the 4th of July, we celebrate America’s 245th Independence Day! This year the OCSA board has once again decided to cancel the normal picnic/potluck portion of our celebration due to COVID-19 concerns, but we WILL have a parade! Yay!
It’ll be led by a fire truck driving through the neighborhood starting at 11 AM at the neighborhood sign and proceeding slowly (at walking speed) counter-clockwise TWICE around Oakbrook Circle. As it passes by your place the first time, fall in behind it with your kids and their decorated bicycles, wagons, scooters, pets, etc.
And just so you adults don’t feel left out, when you pass by the first of our two flag stations, pick one up to wave as you walk; drop it off again when you get to the second flag station.
The Oakbridge board has decided to choose 7/31/2021 and 8/1/2021 as the dates for this year’s garage sale dates. After much discussion, we felt that it was necessary to delay it by 2 1/2 months from the normal Mid May time-frame so more people can get vaccinations. We also wanted to give enough notice so it can be as successful as possible. If these dates do not work for you, you can certainly do it when it’s convenient.
A single developer was responsible for Oakbridge Community (single-family homes, where we are), Oakbridge Condos, and Oakbridge Apartments. And sitting smack at the vertex of these 3 developments is a community pool, which anyone in the 3 Oakbridges can become a member of. Here’s this season’s sign-up info:
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The next Oakbridge Neighborhood Board Meeting will take place on Wed., May 19, at 7 pm. Among other business, the Board will discuss summer activities, including the 4th of July. If you would like to attend the Board Meeting, please email richardsrussell@tds.net for the Zoom link at least 24 hours in advance.
Project Recovery, Wisconsin’s implementation of the FEMA Crisis Counseling Program, is currently providing cost-free and over-the-phone crisis counseling focused on non-judgmental listening and helping folks navigate their emotions and reactions to stress caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Each area code is assigned a specific counselor who is also knowledgeable in local resources available to help meet any food, shelter, and/or health needs, and they are trained in resource referral.
Project Recovery is currently partnered with United Way 211. Anyone can be connected to a crisis counselor by dialing 211 or 608-237-1255, and by contacting Project Recovery via their program website at https://projectrecoverywi.org/
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