Author: Kim Naujokas

Lexington government is sponsoring a hazardous waste collection event this weekend.  The Mentelle Neighborhood Association is coordinating an opportunity to drop off hazardous waste products from your homes and garages at Ashland Elementary in advance of this event. This service will allow you to free-up your weekend so you don’t have to wait in line to drop off your waste!

On Friday, May 10, you may drop off one box load of any of the hazardous waste products on this list at the Ashland Elementary School parking lot between 5:30 p.m. and 7:00 p.m.  Shelby Reynolds will take this load to the drop off center on Saturday. Please note:

• This service is free to members of the Mentelle Neighborhood Association.  If you are not a member but live in the neighborhood, we request that you join our Association or pay $10 cash when you make the drop off.
• Please limit your load to one medium-size box.  Many neighborhood residents will want to participate, so please be reasonable.
• You must limit your items to things on the list.  Please do not ask for exceptions.  Please be sure items are well sealed so they will not spill.
• This is a first-come, first-serve service.  Once the pickup truck is filled, we will cease taking items.

Please join us for our annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, March 30, at 10 a.m. on the Mentelle Park medians near Cramer Avenue. The egg hunts — one for little kids up to age 4 and one for bigger kids between ages 5 – 10 — begin at 10 a.m. Bigger kids will hunt on the median closest to Cramer and the little ones will hunt on the second median.

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 will be available from Kenwick Table and we will have delicious Spalding’s Bakery donuts.

Donations of eggs are gladly accepted! If you would like to contribute to the event, please bring plastic eggs (preferably filled with a piece of wrapped candy) in a bag to the porch of 29 Mentelle Park no later than Friday, March 29. We would love to have at least 600 eggs to make this a truly fun and special event for the children of the neighborhood. And while we appreciate the generosity of all of our neighbors, we can’t use loose candy at this time.

We hope to see all Mentelle Neighborhood residents there!

See you at the hunt!

Our annual Easter Egg Hunt is right around the corner! If you wish to donate plastic eggs — preferably filled with a piece of wrapped candy — for the Mentelle Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 8, please bring them to the porch of 29 Mentelle Park. Donations will be accepted until Friday, April 7. We would love to have at least 400 eggs to make this a fun and memorable event for our neighborhood’s children.

And this year the Easter Bunny will make an appearance! Thanks to Chad Walker of the Warehouse District and Eklektic Alchemy in Winchester, the Easter Bunny will be available for photos starting at 9:45 am. 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.

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 will be available as well as delicious donuts from Spalding’s Bakery.

We hope to see all Mentelle Neighborhood residents there!

Please join us for our annual Easter Egg Hunt on Saturday, April 8, at 10 a.m. on the Mentelle Park medians near Cramer Avenue. The egg hunts — one for little kids up to age 4 and one for bigger kids between ages 5 – 10 — begin at 10 a.m. Bigger kids will hunt on the median closest to Cramer and the little ones will hunt on the second median.

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 will be available as well as delicious Spalding’s Bakery donuts.

Donations of eggs are gladly accepted! If you would like to contribute to the event, please bring plastic eggs (preferably filled with a piece of wrapped candy) in a bag to the porch of 29 Mentelle Park no later than Friday, April 7. We would love to have at least 400 eggs to make this a truly fun and special event for the children of the neighborhood.

We hope to see all Mentelle Neighborhood residents there!

It was great to see so many neighbors at our annual Easter egg hunt on Saturday! We were fortunate to enjoy a beautiful, sunny spring morning – perfect for catching up with friends. And thanks to the generosity of numerous Mentelle neighborhood residents, we received 800 eggs this year and expanded the hunt to three medians. A special thank you to Shelby Reynolds and Hannah Ruehl for helping to make the event a success as well as the Mentelle Park residents who cleaned up the median for us ahead of time. We hope everyone had a happy Passover and happy Easter! (photos courtesy of Kate Smith)

We look forward to seeing all Mentelle Neighborhood residents and their families tomorrow, Saturday, at 10 a.m. for our annual Easter Egg Hunt. Thanks to the generosity of our neighbors, we have more than 650 eggs this year!

We will gather in between the two medians closest to Cramer Avenue. Complimentary Nate’s Coffee and Spalding’s Bakery donuts will be available. We will also have temporary tattoos for anyone who would like to partake. Then, kids aged 5-10 will hunt on the first median (closest to Cramer) and those younger than 5 will hunt on the second median.

We do see a forecast for some rain this evening and early tomorrow morning, so expect that the grass will be wet. But hopefully the weather will be clear in time for the event.

If you live on Mentelle Park, please take a few minutes today to pick up sticks and other debris from the median in front of your home so no little ones get hurt. We appreciate your help!

See you at the hunt!

The Warehouse Block Business Association (WBBA) Advisory Board will meet this Thursday, April 14, at 4:30 p.m. at Mirror Twin Brewing. In addition, the WBBA is excited to offer the first of several candidate forums to be held inside the Warehouse Block leading up to the Primary election on May 17.

The first forum will be held at Mirror Twin Brewing on Monday, April 18, from 5:30 until 7:00 p.m. This forum will feature Council-at-Large hopeful, Mr. Dan Wu. Dan was born in China, immigrating to America as a child. He landed in Lexington just in time to attend Henry Clay High School and the University of Kentucky. Although Dan has followed several unique career paths, his most notable came as a contestant on Fox’s Master Chef in 2014. That exposure prompted him to delve deeper into his passion for cooking, dubbing himself a “Culinary Evangelist,” with the successful launch of a pop-up food stand and then later opening Atomic Ramen at the Summit.

Dan’s passion for activism can be seen across Lexington with campaigns he originated including “I am a Kentuckian,” and “Immigrants and Refugees Belong Here.” WBBA is proud to co-host the meet-and-greet event that will take place in a casual format where you can engage with the candidate directly. In the meantime, please check out his website, along with his social media pages.

Hope to see everyone there!