Upcoming Events
StoryWalk® - Earth Day: An Alphabet Book
The EJCA invites you to participate in our neighborhood's spring StoryWalk® featuring the book, Earth Day Alphabet Book by Gary Kowalski.
Beginning April 8, you are invited to take a walk on the block of Alexander Street between Joffre and Central and read the pages of this picture book. Yard signs are posted at kid eye level in participating neighbors' yards. The walk starts mid block on the east side of Alexander and continues back up the west side. We plan to have the walk available through Earth Day (April 22) and our Neighborhood Wide Yard Sale (April 25) until the end of April.
Inspired by the StoryWalk® Project and its mission to promote early literacy, physical activity, and family time together in nature, the East Joffre Community Association's Arts Committee - with help from willing neighbors on Alexander Street - hopes this will be a family friendly activity that gets neighbors out together during the month of April.
The StoryWalk® Project was created by Anne Ferguson and developed in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier Vermont. Storywalk® is a registered service mark owned by the Kellogg-Hubbard Library
NOTE From the Arts Committee: Thank you to the neighbors who volunteered time and donated money and materials to make this project happen! If you have questions or feedback or suggestions for future arts projects, please reach out to Laura (@memflag) at laura.mcartor@gmail.com.
To learn more about volunteering with the Arts Committee, check out our Volunteer Opportunities page and fill out the Interest Survey!
October 2025’s StoryWalk on Palisade, featuring the book It’s Fall!
Neighborhood-Wide Yard Sale
Need a reason to kick-start your spring cleaning? Let's have a neighborhood-wide yard sale! We're encouraging the whole neighborhood to join together and each host our own yard sales on this weekend.
Pre-Sale: Fri Apr 24 (optional)
Main Event: Sat Apr 25 (suggested start: 7:00 AM)
A NOTE FOR YARD SALE PATRONS:
Come visit us on Holmes, Palisade, Alexander, Reese, Central, and Joffre, from Central to Poplar! A map of yard sale locations will be posted in the days before the event. We expect 15-20 households to be running yard sales on Saturday, including several large-scale sales who will also be selling on Friday.
If we all have items for sale at the same time, we can draw more customers to the neighborhood! New this year is the Friday pre-sale, requested by a few neighbors with more items to offer - feel free to join in on one or both dates!
Three things to note:
The EJCA Board will be handling event promotion (putting up signs and posting on Nextdoor, Craigslist, etc), but now's the time for you to start gathering what you want to sell - it's a great time to declutter!
To help us cross-promote each other’s sales, please email the EJCA Board at eastjoffre at gmail dot com Mon April 20 with your name and address if you are planning to host a sale in your yard, and which day(s) you expect to be selling. We will add your yard to the map and will share the list of locations to all participating households before the event.
On the fence about participating? We encourage you to reach over that fence and coordinate with your neighbors! If you have just a few things to sell and still aren’t able to find someone to partner with, we’ll help match you up if you email the Board by April 20 with your name, address, and a guess of how much stuff you’ll have.
As always, reach out to the Board via email with questions.
Feel free to use this event flyer to promote the sale on your social channels!
2026 Tillman Station Neighborhood Watch Meetings
Date: Last Tuesday of each month (Feb-Oct)
Time: 6:00 P.M
Location: Tillman Station, 426 Tillman St.
EJCA’s Community Safety committee is looking for volunteers to attend the monthly Tillman Station Neighborhood Watch Meeting on behalf of the Association and report back on presented information. All community members are welcome at the meeting, where MPD representatives discuss current crime statistics, trends, and safety tips. (For instance: did you know MPD offers a Vacation Watch program where a patrol officer will drive by your house at least once each beat shift while you are out of town?)
Please visit our Volunteer Opportunities page if you are interested in learning more getting involved with one of our committees, including the Safety Committee and its Neighborhood Watch group.
The Neighborhood Watch Coordinator at Tillman Station can be reached at 901-636-3026.
Neighborhood Meetup & Mid-Year Meeting
Join us for a social meetup across Poplar at Lucchesi's Beer Garden (84 S Reese, lucchesibeergarden.com) to mingle with your neighbors. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
There will be a short neighborhood business meeting at 6:00pm (one of the two annual neighborhood-wide meetings required by our bylaws) where the Board will present the proposed program of events for the rest of the year. Neighbors are welcome to email the board if you have a topic you would like to add to the agenda.
Neighborhood Block Party
JOIN US ON JOFFRE for our annual Neighborhood Night Out event. As with past years, there will be a food truck, activities for the kids (chalk, button making, crafts), and general socializing! (Rain Date: Wed 10/7)
We hope to see you out there! Bring a neighbor, friend, family member, whoever.
2025 Neighborhood Night Out, on Joffre between Holmes and Greer
Annual Neighborhood Business Meeting
Join us from 5:30-6:15 PM on Tuesday December 15 for the EJCA's Annual Neighborhood Business Meeting at RP Tracks restaurant (3547 Walker Ave).
RP Tracks is letting us use the Sun Room for our meeting - keep turning left after entering the restaurant. Food and drinks will be available for purchase, and neighbors are encouraged to stick around for socializing and/or dinner afterwards.
The agenda will a review of neighborhood events in 2026, a report on the association's financials, and results of the 2027 Board election. But most of the time will be devoted to hearing about the kinds of events and initiatives you want to see more of in the future, so please consider attending to share your input!
Coffee in Joffre
Coffee, tea, OJ, and donuts will be provided.
An informal opportunity to come out and meet your neighbors, with coffee and snacks provided out of the EJCA budget. We look forward to seeing you there!
Annual Neighborhood Business Meeting
Join us from 5:30-6:15 PM on Tuesday December 16 for the EJCA's Annual Neighborhood Business Meeting at RP Tracks restaurant (3547 Walker Ave).
RP Tracks is letting us use the Sun Room for our meeting - keep turning left after entering the restaurant. Food and drinks will be available for purchase, and neighbors are encouraged to stick around for socializing and/or dinner afterwards.
The agenda includes a review of neighborhood events in 2025, a report on the association's financials, and results of the 2026 Board election (voting remains open through tomorrow!), but most of the time will be devoted to hearing about the kinds of events and initiatives you want to see in 2026, so please consider attending to share your input!
Neighborhood Block Party
Don't forget that our Neighborhood Night Out event is this Tuesday, 10/14 from 5:30 - 7:30pm. JOIN US ON JOFFRE, between Holmes and Greer. There will be a food truck, activities for the kids (chalk, button making, crafts), and general socializing! (The weather is looking swell, but just in case our rain date is Wed 10/15!)
We hope to see you out there! Bring a neighbor, friend, family member, whoever. Come chat with a Board member to learn more about upcoming events, neighborhood issues, and volunteer opportunities.
It's Fall!: StoryWalk in East Joffre (Copy)
The EJCA invites you to participate in our neighborhood's first StoryWalk® featuring the book, It's Fall! by Renee Kurilla.
Beginning September 21st, in time for the first day of autumn, you are invited to take a walk on Palisade and read the pages of this picture book that will be posted on yard signs at kid eye level in participating neighbors' yards. We plan to have this available until November 2.
Inspired by the StoryWalk® Project and its mission to promote early literacy, physical activity, and family time together in nature, the East Joffre Community Association's Arts Committee - with help from willing neighbors in the south block of Palisade - hopes this will be a family friendly activity that gets neighbors out together during the months of September and October.
The StoryWalk® Project was created by Anne Ferguson and developed in collaboration with the Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier Vermont. Storywalk® is a registered service mark owned by the Kellogg-Hubbard Library
NOTE From the Arts Committee: Thank you to the neighbors who volunteered time and donated money and materials to make this project debut happen! If you have questions or feedback or suggestions for future arts projects, please reach out to Laura (@memflag) at laura.mcartor@gmail.com.
Neighborhood Mingle
Join us for a social meetup across Poplar at Lucchesi's Beer Garden (84 S Reese, lucchesibeergarden.com) to mingle with your neighbors. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
There will be a short neighborhood business meeting at 6:30pm (one of the two annual neighborhood-wide meetings required by our bylaws) where the Board will present the proposed program of events for the rest of the year. Neighbors are welcome to email the board if you have a topic you would like to add to the agenda.
Popsicles on Palisade
EJCA is happy to sponsor "POPSICLES ON PALISADE", at 214 Palisade Street from 5:30-7:30 p.m. We'll have the freeze pops; you just drop by with your chair/blanket and of course, all the kids!
Neighborhood-Wide Yard Sale
Need a reason to kick-start your spring cleaning? Let's have a neighborhood-wide yard sale! We're encouraging each family to host their own yard sale on this date. If we coordinate with the whole neighborhood, we're likely to get more buyers! Consider teaming up with someone else in the neighborhood if you don't have enough items of your own. More details will be posted in the coming weeks. (Rain date: May 18.)
Coffee in Joffre
The 4th Annual Spring
Coffee in Joffre
is coming up this Saturday April 26
from 9-11 AM at 239 Palisade!
Coffee, tea, and donuts will be provided.
Come out and meet your neighbors - we look forward to seeing you there!
Another neighborhood mingle, with coffee and snacks provided out of the EJCA budget. Thanks to all who attended our last Coffee in Joffre event in October 2024.
Coffee in Joffre - October 19, 2024
Neighborhood Mingle
Join us for an informal social meetup across Poplar at Lucchesi's Beer Garden (84 S Reese, lucchesibeergarden.com) to mingle with your neighbors. Food and drinks will be available for purchase.
Tillman Station Neighborhood Watch Meeting
Date: Last Tuesday of each month
Time: 6:00 P.M
Location: Tillman Station 426 Tillman St.
You are invited to attend the Tillman Station Monthly Neighborhood Watch Meeting. This meeting is specifically for everyone in the neighborhood. We will address current crime statistics, trends, and safety tips. We appreciate your continued efforts to take a stand against crime and value your partnership with the Memphis Police Department. We hope to see you at our next meeting!
If you have any questions before the meeting, please contact the Neighborhood Watch Coordinator at Tillman Station at 901-636-3024.
Coffee in Joffre
Coffee in Joffre | Saturday, October 19, 2024 from 9:00-11:00 AM | 242 Alexander Street
National Night Out
Hosted by UDistrict
Abernathy Park behind St Luke’s UMC
480 S Highland
38111
UDistrict Memphis invites you to come hang with the neighbors and talk about all the cool stuff we do to reduce crime! Share YOUR ideas!
-- meet law enforcement command staff and your elected officials!
-- Garibaldi’s bringing PIZZA
-- UDI’s got your soft drinks
-- NINTENDO’s bringing the games!
-- All we need is you and your neighbors!
National Night Out Block Party
You're Invited to National Night Out!
Hosted by the East Joffre Community Association
Mark your calendars and join us for a fun night of community and celebration at National Night Out!
Location: On Joffre between Palisade and Alexander
Coffee & Donuts
Come enjoy complimentary coffee and donuts and explore how you can get involved in our neighborhood efforts for safety, social activities, beautification and more.
Please come by to meet your neighbors and members of the MPD, MFD, and upcoming election candidates.
Kickoff Meeting
Have you wanted to meet more neighbors but didn't know how?
Do you have concerns about safety and crime?
Do you have ideas for keeping the Joffre neighborhood a wonderful place to live?
Your neighbors in East Joffre are forming a neighborhood watch and YOU ARE INVITED.