Author: Tom Eblen

The National Association of Letter Carriers — those nice U.S. Postal Service people who bring mail to your door — will be having their 26^th annual Stamp Out Hunger Food Drive this Saturday, May 12.

Carriers will be collecting non-perishable, unexpired canned and boxed food for donation to God’s Pantry in Lexington.

It’s easy to donate: Just gather and bag the items you want to donate and leave them near your mailbox Saturday for your carrier to pick up when he or she delivers your mail.

Let’s fill the mail trucks Saturday and help replenish our local food bank for the summer.

 

All residents of Mentelle neighborhood are invited to a progressive garden tour social beginning at 3 p.m. on Sunday, June 3.

Three neighborhood gardens will be open for you to enjoy, plus there will be music, food and drink. The plan is to spend about 45 minutes at each garden, then move to the next.

The tour will begin at Page Etchison’s garden at 817 Cramer Ave. Next will be Esther Hurlburt’s garden at 309 Given Ave. The event will conclude in the garden of Shelby Reynolds and David Bartley at 710 Aurora Avenue.

Come out, enjoy the afternoon and meet some new neighbors.

Bill and Beverly Fortune, 714 Bullock Ave., are landscaping and have some nice hostas to be given to good homes. If you are interested, call them at 519-8501.

Mark your calendars for the first weekend in June:

• Centered is celebrating its fifth anniversary Friday and Saturday, June 1 and 2, at 309 N. Ashland Ave., Suite 180. Other businesses in the Warehouse Block area are planning sidewalk sales during the weekend.
• The second annual all-neighborhood yard sale is Saturday, June 2, from 8 a.m. until 2 p.m., rain or shine. The Mentelle Neighborhood Association is asking residents who plan to have sales in their yard or garage to contribute $5 to help with promotional costs. Have good items but don’t want to organize your own sale? There will be a booth in the Mentelle Park median for residents who want to donate yard sale items, with proceeds going to the association. (Last year, the booth earned $265.50 for the association.)
• On Sunday, June 3, the association will sponsor a Garden Social. Mentelle neighborhood residents will be invited to enjoy food and drink in three of your neighbors’ gardens. More details will be announced in May.

City officials have invited residents of Mentelle and other nearby neighborhoods to a public meeting to hear details about the Town Branch Commons and Midland Avenue sanitary sewer construction projects. The meeting will be Tuesday, May 1, at 5:30 p.m. at the Charles Young Center, 503 E. Third St.

Town Branch Commons is an urban park and trail system that will connect new and existing downtown parks and the Town Branch and Legacy trails. The first phase begins with utility construction along Midland Avenue, including sanitary sewer improvements.

Construction is anticipated on Main Street, Eastern Avenue, Short Street and Midland Avenue by early summer. It will require temporary lane and road closures.

See updates on the projects at: Lexingtonky.gov/townbranchcommons. Questions and comments may be sent to: townbranch@lexingtonky.gov.

Heritage Baptist Church, 163 N. Ashland Ave., has its annual spring flower and plant sale April 25-28. Hours are 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday through Friday and 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday.

This sale always has excellent flowers at good prices. Funds raised help support the church’s youth and children’s summer camps.

Gil Dunn is hosting a “neighborhood get-together and conversation” with Vice Mayor Steve Kay from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. Tuesday (April 10) at his home, 38 Mentelle Park.  Everyone is welcome. For more information, contact Gil at: gdunn@md-update.com or (859) 608-8454.

Kay is running for re-election as an at-large member of the Urban County Council. (The at-large council member with the most votes in each general election becomes vice mayor. Kay is in his second term as vice mayor.)

Note: The Mentelle Neighborhood Association does not endorse political candidates. As a public service, the association website will post information about any political event held within the neighborhood boundaries. If you are organizing such an event, you may request a notice by emailing Tom Eblen at: tomeblen@gmail.com.

 

We had a great turnout today for the annual neighborhood Easter egg hunt and book swap. Thanks to Jessica Mohler, Bethany Baxter, Kim Naujokas, Ann Olliges, Shelby Reynolds, Ray and Jill Debolt and everyone else who helped organize the event and clean up the median for it.

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The annual Easter Egg Hunt & Book Swap for Mentelle Neighborhood residents and their families will be at 10 a.m. Saturday (March 31)  on the  Mentelle Park Median.

There will be separate egg hunts for little kids and big kids and a book swap and socializing for adults. (In case of rain that morning, watch for email updates or go to mentelle.org for rescheduling plans.)

Donations of filled plastic eggs are appreciated. Please bring them to Jessica Mohler’s front porch, 346 Memory Lane (last house on the right), by Friday evening.   If you have books to swap, either bring them with you that morning or drop them off beforehand on Tom and Becky Eblen’s porch, 52 Mentelle Park.

Also, if you have any spare time this week, please come out to the Mentelle Park Median and pick up some sticks and debris so it will be clean for our children Saturday morning.

Mentelle Neighborhood Association and Ruth Hunt Candies will host a wine and chocolate tasting for neighborhood residents from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. on Wednesday, March 7, at Ruth Hunt’s neighborhood store, 213 Walton Ave. Come and enjoy Ruth Hunt candy, wines from Corner Wine and socialize with your neighbors.