Board meeting moves this month

Any member of the Mentelle Neighborhood Association is always welcome to attend board meetings. Typically, board meetings are the third Wednesday of each month at 7 p.m. at Local’s restaurant, 701 National Ave.  If the meeting date or location changes, we try to note it here.

This month, the board will meet on the usual day and time (7 p.m. Wednesday, April 17) but at the Children’s Advocacy Center of the Bluegrass, 162 N. Ashland Ave., so board members can learn more about this social service agency whose headquarters is in our neighborhood. As always, any association member is welcome to attend.

More Easter eggs, candy needed

More plastic Easter eggs filled with candy are needed for Saturday’s Mentelle neighborhood Easter Egg Hunt and plant swap, which begins at 10 a.m. Please bring eggs (preferably filled) by Wednesday to 800 Aurora Ave. and place them in the bin on the front porch. Thanks, and we hope to see you there!

April 20 egg hunt — help needed!

How? 

1. Donate plastic eggs. We need about 400 eggs for this event.

2. Donate candy for filling the eggs. Bring eggs (preferably filled) or candy to 800 Aurora Ave., at the corner of North Ashland and Aurora avenues, and place them in the bin on the front porch. Please bring your donations by Tuesday, April 16.

3. Take part in an egg stuff-a-thon from 4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. on Friday, April 19, at Linda and Jeff Worley’s house, 800 Aurora. 

4. Bring a plant or two to swap at the event, 10 a.m. Saturday, April 20, at the Mentelle Park median near Cramer Avenue.

Neighborhood egg hunt, plant swap

Neighbors, please join us for the annual Easter Egg Hunt and first-ever Plant Swap on Saturday, April 20 at 10 a.m. on the Mentelle Park median near Cramer Avenue. Light refreshments and coffee from Nate’s Coffee will be provided.

The egg hunts — one for little kids and one for bigger kids — begin at 10 a.m. We also will have bubbles, chalk, yard games, hay rides and other fun activities for all ages.

After the egg hunt, adults can swap plants. Bring a plant to trade, as well as a container to carry home any plants you get. The Plant Swap is inclusive to all varieties: bulbs, potted plants, dug-up perennials, succulents, etc.

Please tell a neighbor. We hope to see all Mentelle Neighborhood residents there.

Neighborhood resident named state poet laureate for 2019-2020

Jeff Worley, an accomplished poet and retired editor of the University of Kentucky’s Odyssey magazine, has been named Kentucky poet laureate for the next two years. Worley, 71, will be inaugurated at 10 a.m. April 24 during the annual Kentucky Writers’ Day festivities at the Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives, 300 Coffee Tree Rd. in Frankfort.  Read the Herald-Leader story here. For more information about Worley and his work, go to his website. Congratulations!

Neighborhood wine tasting March 18

All Mentelle neighborhood residents are invited to a wine tasting social on Monday, March 18, 6 p.m. to 8 p.m., at ARTplay Children’s Studio, 309 N. Ashland Ave. No. 190. 

Gary Doernberg of Corner Wine (835 Euclid Ave.) will be presenting tastings from his stock. Rolling Oven (724 National Ave. inside Mirror Twin Brewery) will provide snacks.

A $5 donation is requested to help cover the cost of wine.

This is a great opportunity for adults in the neighborhood to socialize with neighbors and become more familiar with some of our fine locally owned businesses.