Oh yeah, remember the round up? I should probably start doing that again, eh? Anyways, here’s a bunch of random things I have from this week.
TENNEY LAPHAM ARTISTS NEEDED
Visual artists living in the Tenney/Lapham Neighborhood are invited to exhibit their art work (in their homes) in this year’s art walk, Sunday, June 26, 1-5pm. No fee. Contact Sharon Redinger at sharonredinger@gmail.com or 256-6282.
WILD WARNER MEETING
Please come to Wild Warner meeting at Warner Park Center on Tuesday, May 3, from 6-8pm. Or the first Tuesday of every month. Mark your calendar. Same time, same place.
Help us protect the wild areas and wildlife. Help us educate everyone, including Northside youth.
Learn from Alex about the grant we just received to run summer nature programs for Northside Youth in Warner park.
Learn about the success of our Earth Day activities.
Learn how 102 species of birds were discovered in Warner Park.
Bring your young people. There is a role, large or small, for everyone who cares about this jewel in our midst.
Check www.wildwarnerpark.org for news, especially about public nature events every month. Bluebird talk and walk on Saturday, April 30, 9am. Accessible.
EVENING WALK AT CHEROKEE
Evening Walk at Cherokee Marsh
April 29 (Friday), 6:30 pm until darkJoin the Friends of Cherokee Marsh and Madison Audubon to view the
spectacular evening sky dance of the American woodcock. We’ll also
have a good chance of spotting sandhill cranes, snipe, and other
early signs of spring.Meet at 6:30 pm in the main parking lot, Cherokee Marsh Conservation
Park North Unit, 6098 N. Sherman Ave.
www.CherokeeMarsh.org
CITY CAMP
Since neighborhood associations are such a vital component of municipal government; and of course with current events that have local governments being stripped of their rights to govern and reducing democracy to dictatorships under cries of expediency, the time is now for Madison to have its very own CityCamp [http://citycampmadison.eventbrite.com].
CityCamp recognizes that local governments and community organizations have the most direct influence and impact on our daily lives. This event seeks to create local communities of practice who are dedicated to design, process, and technology applications that make cities and other local communities more open and “user friendly”.
With the focus to “Stimulate, Participate, Collaborate, Repeat,” CityCamp’s have four major goals:
– Bring together local government officials, municipal employees, experts, programmers, designers, citizens and journalists to share perspectives and insights about the cities in which they live
– Create and maintain patterns for using the Web to facilitate local government transparency and effective local governance
– Foster communities of practice and advocacy on the role of the Web, mobile communication, online information, and open data in cities
– Create outcomes that participants will act upon after the event is over
Madison’s CityCamp will happen on May 21st in the US Bank building downtown. Please registered at:
http://citycampmadison.eventbrite.com
Share and or vote on topics to be discussed during the day at: http://www.google.com/moderator/#16/e=70706
Learn more about CityCamp’s at: http://citycamp.govfresh.com/
WHAT ROADS WILL BE BUILT/REPAIRED
And other transportation projects in the queue.
Please find attached a copy of an agenda for the following City Engineering presentation to the Council:
Common Council Presentation:
Transportation Improvement Plan 2012-2017
Tuesday, May 3, 2011
5:30 p.m.
Room 201, City-County Building
BLUEBIRD WALK AND TALK
Come to the Warner Park Rainbow/Tin Can Shelter on Saturday, April 30 at 9am. Listen to a bluebird expert talk about these beautiful birds. Then take a short walk/wheel to the bluebird houses to see them in person as they prepare to lay eggs and hatch chicks. Binolulars will be available. Bring a camp chair if you want to linger. Or wander the park to see what is there. Free and appropriate for all ages.
If you can, walk or bike to this event.
Cars should enter at the Northport entrance, not the Sherman Ave one, if you want to avoid potholes.
Cars can pull up right next to the shelter to drop off persons with disabilities. The path to the bluebird houses is paved and a short distance from the shelter.Also in the park: Red Tailed hawks, eagles, sandhill cranes,red-wing blackbirds, migrating warblers, robins, geese, herons, and many more. 102 species in all. Some trees that are hundreds of years old. Are the turtles back and under the bridge yet? Have their babies hatched?
Look for wildflowers in the woods. Are any blooming yet. Blood root and trout lily are ready to bloom soon. Can you find the trillium? Dutchman’s britches? Shooting stars?
Find more info at www.wildwarnerpark.org.
DANE COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT WEBSITE
Dane County now has a website geared specifically toward economic development, thanks to the Dane County Economic Development Committee. The site promises to be a one-stop resource to help with business start-ups, expansion, and community development. The site can be found at
WILLY ST PARK PLANT SALE
Willy Street Park’s GREEN-UP TIME PLANT SALE is this SATURDAY, April 30, 9-2 in the park at Williamson and Brearly Streets. Rain or Shine! We have a tent.
Bedding plants in bloom, tomatoes and peppers, woodland plants, and assorted perennials will be on offer for early gardening. Individual Volunteers and the Horticulture program at MATC have grown seedlings for the sale. And gardeners are digging up their yards. We’ll have annual flowering plants from Rose Cottage.
This is a fund-raising event for The Willy Street Park, the all-volunteer, non-profit community corporation [501(c)(3)] which owns and operates the isthmus park. Donations of plants, help and money are welcome and needed to keep our community park green and thriving. For more information call 242-0712. Volunteers have kept this park alive since 1978.
The park blooms are exceptional this Spring!
NEIGHBORHOOD MEETING ON HISTORICAL SOCIETY BUILDING
Neighboring Troy Gardens and rezoning issue from last council meeting.
At my first City Council meeting as an alder on April 19, I asked the council to delay a decision on a zoning change that would allow a huge Historical Society-Veterans Museum storage facility to be built by the state of Wisconsin next to Troy Gardens. The council agreed to delay a decision until May 17, to allow time for an informational community meeting. The meeting has been set for Thursday, May 5, from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Warner Park Community Recreation Center.
This will be your chance to learn about the plans from the applicants and to ask questions. I hope we have a good turnout, and knowing the community involvement of Northsiders, I’m pretty sure we will (unless there’s another spring snowstorm!).
Anita Weier
18th District alder
There’s more, I didn’t even get to the news, but I’ll save that for next week!
