Snow Angels and Welcome Bags

Snow Angels Needed
In the upcoming January newsletter, Jan Sorby has put out a call for volunteer "Snow Angels" to help elderly and ill neighbors clear their walks after winter storms. We have a neighbor in the 600 block of S. Lincoln who needs help with this. Please contact Jan Sorby (334-2075) or Mary Miller (339-2628) if you can help.

Welcome Bag Coordinator
Aviva Orenstein has volunteered to take care of welcome bags for new neighbors. Contact her if you know of anyone new to the neighborhood, and she'll be glad to deliver a welcome bag to them. Thanks Aviva!

aorenste@indiana.edu (email)
812-855-8736 (phone)

January 2008 Newsletter

Here's a link to the January 2008 Newsletter.

BPNA By-Laws

Click the link to see the BPNA By-Laws.

BPNA Meeting Tues. Jan. 26, 2010

Our first meeting of 2010 will be this Tuesday, Jan. 26. As usual, we'll meet at 7:00p.m. at the Free Methodist Church at the corner of Grimes and S. Lincoln. This will be a good chance to get back in touch and look forward to the new year.

What would you like to see BPNA accomplish in 2010? Bring your plans and ideas to the meeting, so we can get started on another great year. There have been suggestions to start advertising neighborhood businesses in the blog, and a suggestion that we start an emergency preparedness project. What do you think?

We can also continue the discussion about Nancy Hiestand's presentation in November.

Anybody willing to step up and become a block captain? The main duty of block captains is to help deliver BPNA newsletters to a section of the neighborhood. It's a great way to get to know your neighbors!

How about taking over the welcome bags that Corinne Carpenter put together last fall? Corinne has moved out of the neighborhood, and we need a volunteer to take this on.

Please let me know (mpm_miller@yahoo.com) if you'd like to add anything to the agenda. See you at the meeting!

Annual Plant/Seed Exchange Scheduled

Annual Bryan Park Neighborhood Plants/Seeds Exchange
The annual Bryan Park Neighborhood Plant/Seed Exchange will take place on Sunday, April 25th from 2:00-4:00 p.m. at the home of Ria Collee. The address is 932 S. Henderson St. (on the North corner of Allen and Henderson). Please bring any garden plants that you want to share, or seedlings (flowers, vegetables, etc.) that need a home. Tables will be set up on the Allen Street side to place the plants on.
Ria has a Backyard Wildlife Habitat garden and is a Habitat Stewart. If anyone is interested in making their yard/garden more wildlife friendly and starting a Backyard Wildlife garden, she will offer to help you. She will have native wildflower plants to give away, such as echinaceas, penstemons, lance-leaved coreopsis, false blue sienna, blue vervain, sundrops, goosenecks and black-eyed susans as well as vegetable seedling.
If you don’t have anything to give away, come anyway and give some plants a home or take away some seeds to start a garden. This event is a great way to meet the other gardeners in your neighborhood and it has always been a great deal of fun. For more information about this event contact Ria, at 336-2512 or mcollee@indiana.edu