Neighbors around Salem recently cleaned graffiti from a park mural, distributed gifts to local seniors and are organizing conservations about city budget issues.

Help wrap gifts for local seniors, get involved in downtown and Faye Wright associations and learn more about what’s going on in your neighborhood this month.

Salem’s neighborhood associations are planting camas, cleaning up McKay Park and gathering donations to help those in need this holiday season.

Salem’s neighborhood associations are getting to know the city’s new fire chief, planning park clean-ups and fall events, and collecting socks for an annual drive benefitting homeless youth.

Salem’s neighborhood associations are ready for fall with a kids’ playdate, park murals and candidate forums coming up.

Volunteers installed panels for a new mural at Northgate Park, and neighbors gathered across Salem for National Night Out.

Grant gets a new street mural, glass birds come to parks around Salem and neighborhoods are preparing for National Night Out gatherings in August.

Several Salem neighborhoods are planning summer block parties, and Northgate is gathering testimony in an effort to preserve a tree on the site of a proposed affordable housing development.

Many of Salem’s neighborhood associations are hosting garage sales and clean-up events over the coming weeks.

From spring celebrations in parks to multiple CPR trainings, Salem’s neighborhood associations have a multitude of spring projects planned.