A workshop to help rediscover creative and un-commercialized play.  A screening of Consuming Kids will inspire us to take back our children’s right to creative play.  A wealth of informational resources will be available as well as a hands on toy petting zoo of homemade and recycled-material toys that will awaken the inner child in us all and guide us in finding creative alternatives to commercialized play.  There is a parent/child room available if you need to bring your child but need to step out with them briefly.

Yates Educational Community Center, 3260 Davenport St.  RSVP to Kate Bodmann by emailing katrinaob@yahoo.com

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You Can Help!  This is a project to help educate citizens in Omaha that they should not throw materials down city storm drains.  JCNA will be tackling the storm drains by sweeping up trash, adhering “No Dumping” discs, and placing fliers in neighbor’s doorways.  We will meet at the corner of 49th and California on Saturday, May 23 at 10 AM as long as it is above 60 degrees, and not raining.

If you have any questions call Tiare Weak at 614. 5201, or email tiarecyphers@cox.net

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Would you like to join JCNA in adopting Clarkson Park?  This Keep Omaha Beautiful Adopt-A-Park program is a simple way to make our neighborhood park even better.  It’s as simple as being scheduled for one week, and going to Clarkson Park to pick up paper, and other items.

If you are interested in helping to keep this gathering and play space special for all in our neighborhood, please contact Tiare Weak at 614.5201, or email tiarecyphers@cox.net.

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Joslyn Castle Neighborhood Association Annual Spring Clean-up

Saturday, June 6, 2009

9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

40th & Page Streets, across from St. Cecilia’s Cathedral

Disposal opportunities for bulky items or difficult to dispose of items will be available in neighborhoods across the city. Spring Clean-Up also offers the opportunity to dispose of large limbs and brush not eligible for the City’s yard waste collection. Each Clean-Up site will have vouchers available that will cover the disposal cost of tree limbs and brush at an off-site location that day.

Appliances, tires and automotive batteries will only be collected at one designated site each Clean-Up Saturday. During JCNA’s Clean-up on Saturday, June 6th, large appliances may be dropped off at the west parking lot of Hillside Elementary located at 7500 Western Avenue. Tires and automotive batteries may be dropped off at the west parking lot of Boyd Elementary located at 8314 Boyd Street.

The JCNA Spring Clean-up committee encourages those requiring assistance with curbside pick-up of disposable items on June 6th to schedule in advance their

pick-up. Please contact Tiare Weak at 614-5201 or by email at tiarecyphers@cox.net. Please contact Magan Smith at 558-1661 or by email at magan368@cox.net for additional JCNA Spring Clean-up information and volunteer opportunities.

New JCNA memberships and membership renewals will be made available at the event, as well.

Please contact the City of Omaha to obtain additional Spring Clean-up dates and locations throughout the city by calling the Clean-up hotline at 444-4636.

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Don’t miss Hal Daub and Jim Suttle in a debate on neighborhood issues. The debate is sponsored by South Omaha Neighborhood Alliance, Midtown Neighborhood Alliance, Benson/Ames Alliance, UNO CPACS, Democracy Matters and the Neighborhood Center. The debate will take place in the UNO College of Public Affairs and Community Service Building (60th and Dodge) in Room 101. UNO Ambassadors will be on hand to help direct you to the location. Parking on Sunday is free and you can use either the South or North University Drive.

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Creighton/Salvation Army’s Lied Renaissance Center Property Clean-up along with Joslyn Castle/Bemis Park Neighborhood Associations

Join Creighton and neighborhood volunteers to sweep the entire front parking lot of the Lied Renaissance Center at 38th and Cuming Street. We’ll also pick up trash from around the entire campus, tie up any tree limbs for removal and clean the medians on Cuming Street between 38th-40th and Cuming Street. Meet at Salvation Army parking lot at 11:00 am.

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Have fun celebrating Earth Day at Elmwood Park!
http://www.earthdayomaha.com/2009.php

The mission of the Earth Day Omaha Coalition is to organize, direct and produce the city’s annual Earth Day event, providing a showcase for the many charitable, scientific and educational efforts advocating for sustainable environmental practices and lifestyles.

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Our neighbors, Gifford Park, are taking young farmers to market for the first time ever.  Dive into the basics of entrepreneurship from product selection, to marketing , to pricing and selling.  Interested teens between ages of 10 and 18 are welcome to discuss the program concept, possibilities and questions at an informational meeting Wednesday, April 8, 2009 from 7-8:00 p.m.  Yates School, 3260 Davenport Street.  Parents welcome!  

Contact Kate Bodman (496-8419) or Cynthia Shuck (556-2090).

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 Joslyn Castle Neighborhood resident Rachel Ziegler, and students of The Kent Bellows Studio and Center for Visual Arts invite neighbors, friends and family to a neighborhood Ice Cream Social and Portrait Session. The event will take place on the front lawn of 4404 Chicago Street, from 5pm to 8pm on Saturday, April 11th. The intent of this project is to have fun, eat ice cream and get to know our neighbors.

The portraits will be facilitated by students of The Kent Bellows Studio and Center for Visual Arts, under the advisement of Rachel Ziegler, current Mentor for The Kent Bellows Artist-In-Residence program. These students are: Alex Carlson, senior at Central High School; Rebecca Noddle, senior at Westside High School and Emma Headley, senior at North High School. The students will utilize photography, video and sound recordings to capture portraits of the neighborhood throughout the evening. These recordings will become a final art piece, featured in The Kent Bellows Studio Exhibition on Friday, May 15th.

About the Kent Bellows Studio and Center for the Visual Arts

The Kent Bellows Studio and Center for the Visual Arts provides ground-breaking educational opportunities to Omaha’s young artists by partnering with the local arts community. The education programming at The Kent Bellows Studio is founded upon the perspective that we all possess the power to think and act creatively when we are given the necessary balance of freedom and support. In order to develop this nurturing environment, these students participate in hands-on, authentic art experiences while receiving opportunities for one-on-one mentoring and peer mentoring. The Kent Bellows Studio currently holds classes in the Bemis Underground, but plans to move into their newly renovated studio space in the fall of 2009.

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