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The Midwood area did not have a neighborhood park, so the Midwood Men's Club worked to create one. This drive to raise money and get support from the city is one of the early examples of community activism in the neighborhood.

Midwood Elementary School closed after the 1982-1983 school year. Concerned residents of Plaza-Midwood worked to find uses for the vacant building. In 1984 the Neighbors for an Improved Community Environment (NICE) solicited ideas from the…

In response to a proposed plan to widen and extend Matheson Avenue through established residential areas in the mid 1970s, the residents formed a neighborhood association. The Midwood-Matheson Neighborhood Association was successful in defeating the…