Dundee Community Garden This Week

Hello DCG Members and Friends,

DUNDEE COMMUNITY GARDEN CONTRIBUTES TO MAKING THE DUNDEE-MEMORIAL PARK NEIGHBORHOOD ONE OF THE NATIONS'S 10 BEST NEIGHBORHOODS!    Check out the article in today's Omaha World-Herald at: http://www.omaha.com/article/20111004/NEWS01/710049946#dundee-rated-among-the-best

Full article copied at end of this e-mail.

LAST TWO WEDNESDAY NIGHT HARVEST NIGHTS, 6:00 p.m.  For these last two weeks we'll continue harvesting at 6 p.m. Please join us if you can help pick produce for the Underwood Tower.  And let us know if we can pick extra produce from your plot to donate!

FALL CLEAN-UP   Sun. Oct. 16,  1-4 p.m.  We will need lots of help digging up the sweet potatoes and cleaning out the community beds, so bring shovels and garden tools for the fall clean-up.  You'll also want to bring a yard waste bag for cleaning out your own plot.  We plan to have a trailer there to collect the yard waste bags.  

Note: if you clean out your own plot before Oct. 16, leave the yard waste bag in your plot and we'll load it on the trailer on Oct. 16.  If you clean out your plot after Oct. 16, you will need to dispose of your own yard waste bag.

Please have all plots cleaned out by Nov. 1.

CANNA BULBS:  We will also need volunteers to help store the canna bulbs over the winter.  

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Dundee Neighborhood Rated Among the Best  (article from today's Omaha  World-Herald)

Omaha's Dundee-Memorial Park neighborhood is one of the nation's 10 best, according to annual rankings published by a nonprofit community development group.

The American Planning Association cited the midtown neighborhood for its "varied residential architecture, strong sense of community and ongoing commitment of residents to care for and beautify the neighborhood."

Association officials also pointed to the neighborhood's inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places and its amenities: public spaces, parks, shopping and upscale homes.

Dundee was an early Omaha suburb, built at the end of a streetcar line.

The planning group noted the hundreds of flower baskets that hang from restored historic street lamps, thanks to residents' efforts; the waiting list for the neighborhood garden; and plans for a community orchard. Volunteers tend street island gardens and staff special events.

The honor for Dundee "just gives more reinforcement to what we already know, but it certainly tells everybody else the great things that we're doing here," said Dave Schinzel, president of the Dundee-Memorial Park Neighborhood Association. "It's the people living here who are responsible for the things we are doing."

The organization's nine other "great neighborhoods" for 2011 are: Gold Coast and Hamburg Historic District, Davenport, Iowa; Swan Lake, Tulsa, Okla.; Highland Park, Birmingham, Ala.; Northbrae, Berkeley, Calif.; Ansley Park, Atlanta, Ga.; the Pullman Neighborhood, Chicago; Hattiesburg Historic Neighborhood, Hattiesburg, Miss.; German Village, Columbus, Ohio; and College Hill, Providence, R.I.

Contact the writer: 402-444-1068, johnny.perez@owh.com, twitter.com/PerezJr