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NEWS

Gift Cards to Save 4th Avenue Business: Round 2!

Round 2 of the Fourth Avenue Gift Card Program goes live on May 4 at 6am!

Historic Fourth Avenue is the heartbeat of Tucson. Its character is defined by the many unique, locally owned businesses within the district. Preserving and supporting those businesses is fundamental to preserving the character of Fourth Avenue itself. The Fourth Avenue Merchants Association (FAMA) and an Anonymous Angel will add $10 to each card which goes directly to the merchant. Together we will be making a $35,000 investment in the future of our community’s small, locally owned businesses.

For $25 you receive a $35 gift card for use at the following participating Fourth Avenue Businesses:

Bison Witches Bar & Grill • BOCA Tacos y Tequila • Book Stop • Boss Shears • Brooklyn Pizza • Cafe Passe • Caruso’s Restaurant • Celestial Rites • Che’s Lounge • Chocolate Iguana • Crooked Tooth Brewing Company • The Drunken Chicken • Eastland Alley Design Co. • Flower Shop on 4th Avenue • Hippie Gypsy • How Sweet It Was Vintage • Hurricane Records • Lindy’s on 4th • Magpies Gourmet Pizza • Martin’s Comida Chingona • Medusas on 4th • Mr. Head’s Art Gallery and Bar • Pop Cycle Shop • Public Brewhouse • Razorz Edge • Rustic Candle • ShopUp Tucson • Silver Sea Jewelry • Surly Wench Pub • TallBoys• Tap & Bottle • Tiny Town Surplus • True Love Honey • Tucson Improv Movement • Tucson Thrift Shop • Tumerico on 4th Ave • ZUZI! Dance

Gift cards can be purchased beginning on Monday, May 4th at 6am.

»PURCHASE GIFT CARDS

Thank you for supporting the Merchants on Fourth Avenue! Gifts cards will be mailed out by USPS approximately 7-10 days from the end of the program.

For more information: contact Fred Ronstadt at (520) 624-5006.

Next WUNA Board Meeting

Our April and May meetings are canceled, and we will not be meeting virtually at this point. We continue to talk to each other by phone and hope everyone is okay and looking in on their neighbors if they can.

Thursday, MAY 7, 2019, 6:30-8pm CANCELED
Trinity Church
Fellowship Hall
400 E University Boulevard

Directions
Coming from the North:
Access the building through the east side wooden doors. Fellowship Hall is the first room on the left.
From the South:
There is a church parking lot and a south entrance that goes directly into Fellowship Hall. Enter from Hoff Ave just east of 4th Ave off 4th Street. Go north and you will see a small parking lot. A ramp leads up to glass doors. These doors go right into Fellowship Hall.

All are welcome!

»More about WUNA meetings and see minutes

City of Tucson E-Scooters Pilot Program

E-scooters are being deployed in Tucson as of Sept 12, 2019. Many will be in our part of town and we will start seeing them on our neighborhood streets fairly quickly. This is a pilot program with two operators: Bird and Razor. Each operator may launch and operate up to 500 scooters (1,000 total), and can launch an additional 250 scooters in “opportunity zones” – characterized by a high percentage of low-income households without access to a motor vehicle.

»More information about the Bird and Razor program, rules of use, how to rent, etc.

City Airs “Quality of Life” Plan for De Anza Park

About 60 people, a full house with many of them from West University homes and businesses and City offices, crowded into Trinity Church on August 9, 2018, to hear about a new police plan to combat homelessness and crime at our neighborhood’s two parks. Top police officers, from Chief Chris Magnus to Lt. Jen Turner and four others, spoke passionately about the huge difficulties in policing homeless people living in De Anza…
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Call for Good Contractor References: Preferred Provider List Update!

It has been a couple of years since we updated the Preferred Provider List, which is a very useful benefit of WUNA membership.

Most of us have historic or at least older homes and fixing them requires a knowledge of older systems and finishes. Some trades people enjoy the challenge, others hate dealing with our complex issues – and others pretend they know how and make things worse.

That is why it is important that we share with each other the names of people who have worked for us and done a great job!

So if you have had a good experience with someone who has worked on your historic home recently, please email Carolyn the name and contact information. This will only take you a minute but can save your neighbors much gnashing of teeth and pulling of hair. Consider it your first good deed for 2018!