The third annual Hambrick Avenue Block Party is Sunday, May 4, from 3 p.m. to 7 p.m. All Mentelle neighborhood residents are invited for food, fun and community-building. Please bring your own drink and a dish/snack to share! Hambrick Avenue will be blocked off, so please walk or park on Ashland or Walton avenues.
Highlights include:
Balloon art by local artist Twist & Shout
A visit from the Lexington Fire Department – truck arrives at 4 p.m.
Thanks to everyone who made the annual Mentelle Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt a big success. Neighbors contributed 1,012 eggs for our children to find. Special thanks to Dean Holt, starring as the Easter Bunny, and Conrad Smith, whose excellent egg-hiding skills made it a special challenge. Here are some photos:
We look forward to seeing Mentelle Neighborhood residents and their families tomorrow at 10 a.m. for our annual Easter Egg Hunt. Thanks to the generosity of our neighbors, we have lots of eggs for another wonderful hunt this year! If you still plan to donate eggs, please bring those to the porch of 29 Mentelle Park by this evening.
We will gather in between the two medians closest to Cramer Avenue. Kids aged 5-10 will hunt on the first median (closest to Cramer) and those younger than 5 will hunt on the second median. The Easter Bunny will be with us for photos until 10:30 a.m. Complimentary coffee and Spalding’s Bakery donuts will be available for all neighborhood residents to enjoy.
From Ray and Jill DeBolt, Mentelle Median Committee co-chairs:
All the flower beds are mulched and sticks picked up on the 3rd and 4th median. Thanks to Krista Giancarlo for picking up sticks and Barb Wagoner for weeding the Richmond Road bed. Gil Dunn has volunteered to check the 3rd and 4th medians on Thursday to make sure they are ready to go for the Easter Egg hunt.
There is still some work to be done! Large sticks need to be picked up on the 1st and 2nd median. Also, the naturalized area on the 4th median needs to be cleared of some invasive plants. If you have some spare time or your children need something to do outside, any help would be greatly appreciated. Let us know any volunteer hours and feel free to contact us with any questions/concerns.
In celebration of Lexington’s 250th birthday, Lexington is hosting a community-wide Porch Festival on June 7-8 . City officials are asking neighborhoods and musicians across town to participate by hosting low-key, intimate musical performances on their front porches or lawns. Neighbors are encouraged to attend as many performances as they can that weekend. Click here for more details, and to sign up to participate by performing or hosting a performer.
Our annual Easter Egg Hunt is right around the corner! If you wish to donate filled plastic eggs for the Mentelle Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 19, please bring them to the porch of 29 Mentelle Park. Donations will be accepted until the evening of Friday, April 18. We would love to have at least 600 eggs to make this a fun and memorable event for our neighborhood’s children. Thank you to everyone who has already dropped off eggs!
The hunt will begin at 10 a.m. on the Mentelle Park medians near Cramer Avenue. There will be two hunts — one for little kids through age 4 and one for bigger kids between ages 5-10. Bigger kids will hunt on the median closest to Cramer and the little ones will hunt on the second median. And the Easter Bunny will be there starting at 9:45 a.m. for photos and to hand out additional treats to the kids.
No small children in your household? No problem! We hope that all Mentelle Neighborhood residents will come out to socialize with your neighbors and celebrate the beginning of spring. Complimentary coffee and delicious donuts from Spalding’s Bakery will be available to all.
The large west pillar at Mentelle Park’s Cramer Avenue end was repaired this morning following an accident last Thursday. A member of the sewer line replacement crew that has been working in the neighborhood was moving a piece of heavy equipment when his trailer clipped the pillar, breaking its cement seal at the street and knocking it crooked on its base.
The crew returned this morning, straightened the pillar and cemented it back in place. It looks good as new.
Damaged last Thursday.
The pillars, which were installed along with Mentelle Park’s street in 1905 before any home construction began, were designed for a traffic pattern of the horse-and-buggy era, and they have suffered their share of wear-and-tear over the years. A few years ago, a delivery truck backed into the large east pillar at Cramer, knocking it into the street in many pieces. Fortunately, a city engineer driving by soon afterward noticed it and called for a crew to gather up and safely store all the pieces until it could be rebuilt by an expert mason. The city later hired the same mason to repair the large east pillar at Main Street when water and ice infiltration was causing it to split apart from the top. We appreciate city government’s efforts to maintain our historic neighborhood!
