05/08/2017
Triple Header of Terrific! Arbor Lodge Park this Saturday, May 13th, 9-12
* Love your Park work party - 9-12, meet off Dekum at the west baseball diamond. Help us keep the Park pesticide and herbicide free by weeding and spreading bark mulch, and we'll buy you lunch afterwards. Bring a water bottle, we'll have snacks.
* Young Street Tree Pruning Workshop - 8:45 to 12. meet off Dekum at the west baseball diamond. Learn to prune young trees - 3-7 years old by working in a small team of 3-4 with a Certified Arborist. Learn for free and help street trees in Arbor Lodge grow strong.
* Mason Bee workshop - 10-12. meet at the picnic area just north of the playground area. Master Gardener Mimi Siekman will share info, show you great pictures to aid the conversation, and answer your questions. Mason Bees do not make honey, but are native pollinators active mid March thru June.
* Yoga for Kids led by Healthy Kids Yoga Instructors. This could be impacted by rain, but bring your mat if you want to participate in this activity.
Hope to see you at Arbor Lodge Park this Saturday.
05/01/2017
Notes from May 1st AL Tree Team meeting
Notes from the Arbor Lodge Tree Team meeting, May 1st - next meeting June 5th, 6pm, Lucky Lab
* 1st, we talked about the Young Street Tree Pruning event set for May 13th, starting at Arbor Lodge Park. This starts at 8:45, meet at the Park near Dekum and the west baseball diamond.
* 2nd, we announced the Park Tree Inventory for Arbor Lodge Park is set for Sept 16th, mark your calendars. This will help us develop a walking tour of the Park naming the Trees.
* we discussed the Omaha Blocks - trees and grass cutting issues. a) trees - good news, the City Urban Forestry staff will continue to inoculate the Elm Trees in the Omaha Blocks, b) getting the grass cut in this Tree Park is the responsibility of PBOT. They have not been cutting with regularity. ALNA will write a letter to PBOT asking for their planned schedule. Also, Jen Cairo just confirmed that this summer the YCC Tree Crew will help by pulling weeds around these trees and spreading bark mulch. Maintenance after that will be the responsibility of neighbors or the AL Tree team.
* Celebration for Cindy - our newest Heritage Tree - is still pending. We will schedule it when the plaque for Cindy is ready for installation and when UF staff can schedule it.
* our larger discussion centered around planting more trees in Arbor Lodge, specifically in the area between Concord Street and I 5, and Lombard and Ainsworth.
We need to do research to prepare a grant application. We are looking for help in researching these areas:
1. Air Quality in Arbor Lodge - we believe that it isn't good and Trees could help improve it, DEQ and Neighbors for Clean Air could be resources. Does anyone want to volunteer to research this?
2. Health overlay - maybe the US Forest Service has this info - again, does anyone want to research this?
3. Tommy is interested in Portland Maps. We need to learn about this section of our neighborhood, what properties are rentals, landlord info, demographics if possible too. We will ask Nate to help Tommy learn about how to use Portland maps. We welcome anyone else interested in helping on this too.
4. We will develop a letter to go to landlord property owners once we've developed a strong grant application listing our plan in detail
We hope to plant trees in this area - Concord to I 5 - Ainsworth to Lombard. We will use the Urban Forestry tree list. We will also try to work with Friends of Trees and ask if we can join their planting times in Arbor Lodge for this project.
5. We hope to recruit an arborists or landscape planner to help us get a wholesale price for trees
Next, we talked about meeting regularly to work on this idea of planting trees and developing a strong grant. Our next meeting is set for Monday, June 5th 6pm at the Lucky Lab. All interested folks are welcome. We will be inviting the Overlook Tree Team to join us and individuals who are Tree Stewards from Piedmont also. The goal is for all three Tree Teams to thrive.
04/28/2017
First Friday Neighborhood Social - May 5
Join us for our monthly neighborhood social hour on Friday, May 5th, 5-7PM at Lucky Labrador Brew Pub on N Killingsworth. We'd love to share a slice of pizza and make a toast to neighborly relations!
We're organizing all kinds of fun events in May and would love to chat about those and about what you care about in the neighborhood. We love meeting the people who make up the Arbor Lodge community, so we hope to see you there!
04/27/2017
Update: April 27th 2017
Interested in Trees in Arbor Lodge neighborhood?come join the Tree Team, check us out and decide to join us or not - hope you do.
Monday, May 1st, 6pm, Lucky Lab on Killingsworth
Tree Team meeting!
Agenda:
1. Young Street Tree Pruning Event, May 13th, start/end Arbor Lodge Park
2. Park Inventory to create trifold flyer for all, Sept 16th, Arbor Lodge Park
3. update on Omaha Blocks, inoculation of Dutch Elm Trees and mowing and young trees - Allen can you update us on the Dutch Elms for this? I'll also ask Mike Tokstad, Omaha resident who brought the mowing issue to ALNA
4. Urban Forestry grant options to plant trees in our neighborhood
5. Planned Celebration for "Cindy" our newest Heritage Tree in Arbor Lodge neighborhood
I'll bring our Street Tree Inventory map, info on the Urban Forestry grants, brochures on what trees can be planted where, etc.
questions? ginger.edws@gmail.com
04/24/2017
Update: April 24th 2017
Food Needed!For the school backpack program for kids in need at Chief Joseph Elementary.The program needs these foods delivered to the school, anytime Monday-Friday, 7:30 am to 3:30 pm to help fill the weekend backpacks for those kids identified as hungry on Monday mornings. At this point they send out ~ 30 backpacks each week.* cups of soup* cups of chili* protein snacks - like trail mix bars high in protein or small bags of nuts* fruit cups* peanut butter* granola barsThanks for your help for our neighborhood kids.