The annual Mentelle Neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 16, the day before Easter. Kim Naujokas will send out details about the event and how you can donate filled plastic eggs for our neighborhood children to find that morning.
To get ready for the egg hunt, the Mentelle Median Committee leaders have planned two cleanup days for our neighborhood’s public park. These will be mainly to clean up sticks and other tree debris and get the flower beds ready for summer. The cleanup sessions will be at 10 a.m. Saturday, April 9, and at 2 p.m. Friday, April 15. Everyone’s help is appreciated.
One more suggestion: Add some bending and stretching exercises to your daily walk around the neighborhood. Take along a plastic bag and pick up trash that has accumulated over the winter.
There will be a Zoom meeting at 6:30 p.m. Monday (Jan. 31) with water company officials at which neighborhood residents and businesses can get more information and ask questions about the project.
Although the renovation of this historic district has been slow and organic, it has finally achieved a stability as one of Lexington’s first adaptive reuse projects. Following the implementation of the PlaceBuilder criteria, the City of Lexington has placed much greater emphasis on collaboration between property developers, or in our case re-developers, and the neighboring residences. I have always maintained an open line of communication with Kenwick and Mentelle neighborhoods, but also with individual residents on upcoming projects, challenges and resolution of issues that extend beyond our neighborhoods.