The Alta Vista Neighborhood Association met on Jan. 25, 2017 to discuss issues including the Vacant Building Program. Claudia Guerra, newly elected board president, introduced John Stevens, manager of the San Antonio Office of Historic Preservation’s Vacant Building Program. (Link to more information: http://www.sanantonio.gov/Vacant-Building )

This week’s Edge features a neighborhood coalition pushing back at the city and developers, the healthy eating program, ¡Por Vida! teams up with food trucks, the latest on the Zika virus and our mobile-friendly school supplies and immunizations map.

More than a dozen neighborhood groups in San Antonio’s urban core have banded together to form the Tier One Neighborhood Coalition to protect their community plans from both city processes and developers.

The 7th Annual ON AND OFF FREDERICKSBURG ROAD STUDIO TOUR, organized by Bihl Haus Arts, is scheduled for February 22 and 23, 2014, with a preview party at Bihl Haus on Friday, Feb. 21, 2014. Our goal is to highlight the quality, variety, and sheer numbers of professional artists—visual, musical, performing, literary—who live and/or work in the Los Angeles Heights, Keystone, Beacon Hill, Monticello Park, Jefferson, Woodlawn Lake and Alta Vista neighborhoods.

National Night Out (NNO) promotes involvement in crime prevention activities, police-community partnerships and neighborhood camaraderie. NOWCastSA aims to enrich San Antonio’s NNO activities by engaging online audiences, raising awareness of events, and helping people and organizations to tell their own stories.