Month: April 2018

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.