Elections

Paige Brown:

Hello! My name is Paige Brown and I live at 219 N. Vine St.

Over my past 2-year term, I feel like I have accomplished a lot. 

I have continued leading the way in creating new workshops. Some of the workshops have been wildly successful, like the planter box workshops, whereas others, like the tuckpointing workshop, did not have great attendance. I’m still learning what workshops people are looking for, the best way to market them, and how to get more attendees. While I haven’t been perfect, I’m always ready to pivot and try to create something new! 

Pivoting also comes in handy to change up old neighborhood traditions. In the past decade, the Easter egg hunts have become less attended and with COVID on the rise, we switched that to a scavenger hunt with yard signs that kids could go around our neighborhood and find. While that worked out great in 2020, in 2024 we did not have a lot of participation. This year, I switched our Easter egg hunt to an ice cream social focused on kids. I think that worked better overall, but there are some tweaks needed to make the event better in the future! 

This year, in collaboration with Chris Poland, I have organized euchre nights at the Emily Kimbrough Museum for neighbors to get together, laugh, and play some euchre. We normally have anywhere from 4-10 people there. These events are great to casually get to know your neighbors (or people from outside the neighborhood). 

Another accomplishment is the Washington Park Concert Series. We had 3 different artists come out and play: Mecca Shreves, Kevin Klinger, and Duncan Jansen. These concerts brought out about 30 people per concert with a new crowd each time! We were able to pay these artists a small stipend for playing, supporting the arts in our community and utilizing Washington Park. Each time we got to meet new neighbors and tell them about the neighborhood association.

If elected onto the board, I would like to continue creating new opportunities for neighbors to come together. With the success of the Washington Park Concert Series, I want to really focus on revitalizing our park. I plan to focus a lot of my effort into creating park programming and finding ways to make our park more useful and friendly to all neighbors. I also hope to create more programming to utilize the Emily Kimbrough Museum. The euchre nights have been an amazing way to bring neighbors together in a really casual way that I would love to create with other events. 

DeWayne Estes:

I am DeWayne Estes and I  live at 711 e washington st. I have live in the neighborhood for 30 years.  I have been an active member as long as I have been in the neighborhood.  The OWSF has always been my favorite event, I currently run the Bean Booth. I am also involved in Island and Garden projects, the Emily house activities.

Kim Miller:

Hi! My name is Kim Miler and I have been involved with the neighborhood for almost 10 years now. Since being involved because our business was in Madjax, I fell in love with the neighborhood and have bought a house on Main St. to restore to not only save it but to live here. I have been the chairman of the Old Washington Street Festival for multiple years and hearing how much people love to see and be in our neighborhood keeps me wanting to improve both the festival and neighborhood however I can. I enjoy helping volunteer for the various activities that happen in the neighborhood so I can meet new people and make more connections with others. If re-elected I would like to work to connect more with the businesses, non-profits, and residents to see how we can all work together to lift each other and the neighborhood up. 

Chris Poland:

My name is Chris Poland. I have lived in the neighborhood for 43 years. I work at Ball State Financial Credt Union for 24 years. I was the beautification committee chair this past year for the island at Madison and Wysor and the urban garden at Gilbert and Pershing. I have volunteered for Washington Park clean up and Music nights, Fire Up Downtown, Old Washington Street Festival, Serve Week, Soup Crawl and working with Emily Kimbrough’s 4th great granddaughter  to showcase her BSU senior project at the museum. Also, helping work on the porch and front steps at the Emily Kimbrough Museum. I love the neighborhood, as you can see how involved I am. Being a board member would allow me to bring other ideas I have to work on bigger projects to help more improvements for the whole neighborhood.

Annie Poole:

ECNA Members,

I’m Annie Poole and I have has the pleasure of living in East Central neighborhood for over 25 years. During my residency I have been an active ECNA member involved in several activities. These include acting as anofficer of the association (President, V Pres, Secretary), OWSFestival Committee, Slushie Team, Orchard Founder, Emily’s Little Free Library and many beautification and maintenance projects throughout the neighborhood. I loveEast Central Neighborhood!

Thank you for your consideration as a 2026 board member.

Sincerely,

Annie Poole

Voting

Voting is open to any dues paying member of ECNA, you may pay your dues here https://muncie-ecna.org/?page_id=261 or at the membership meeting. You may vote via proxy if you are unable to attend the membership meeting.