Witherbee Neighborhood Association Preserving the Heart of Lincoln!
Our Boundaries: 33 Street (West) to 56th Street (East); O Street (North) to Randolph Street (South)

Sponsors/Ads/Links

Please patronize these neighborhood friendly businesses!


Now open at
48th & O Street
(4901 O St.) 402-488-5551

.Braeda
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50th & O Street
Next to Braeda
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West Gate Bank
Lincoln's Bank
50th & O Str.
434-3452

West Gate Bank is committed to offering our customers the best, most competitive financial products and services.
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Jeff Jacobson, DVM
4145 "O" Street
Lincoln, NE 68510
327-0705

Hours 8-6 M-F
8-12 noon Sat.
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OPEN 24 Hours
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Family Restaurant
121 N 48th Str.
467-2674

Free Wireless Internet
Prompt, Friendly Service
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325 N. 52nd St.
Lincoln, NE

467-1102

We offer a host of products and services to assist you in making the right decisions for a carefree and secure financial future!
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1st logo
2500 N Str.
(402) 475-7059


Membership in 1st Choice Credit Union is limited to those who live, work... in Lancaster County, NE
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TOP IN WIG SALES & SERVICE

O'Hair
Full Service Salon since 1985
42nd & O

488-5253


Investment Ideas
Local Branch
DEBRA ZIMMER
LINCOLN, NE
(402) 476-2266
for more info click here

Marcia Murray
~Realtor
"A Lifetime of Caring"

Cell: 402.432-3989

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Tabitha Specializes
in Caring for You

4720 Randolph St., Lincoln
486-8520
www.Tabitha.org

Advertise your Business here e-mail or call for more info.
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WNA Garage Sales this weekend June 11th, 12th and 13th See more details below


Spring BUZZ COUPONS

Print you your COUPONS from here

for Runza, Braeda, Hy-Vee and SUPER SAVER

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WNA Garage Sales
Neigbhorhood wide garage sales will be held this week end June 11th, 12th and 13th in the WNA area. For a complete list of sale locations and a map of sale addresses click here.

Yard of the Month
May 2009, Yard of the Month 3807 J Street.
By Amy Greving

If you've driven by 3807 J street in late spring or early summer and been wowed by the colorful display of lilies and iris, then you may already be familiar with our May Yard of the Month recipient, Sue Field.

By late spring, Sue's front yard begins to bloom. By growing perennials along with some annual flowers, she is able to have something in flower most of the summer.
Sue said her colorful flower garden between her driveway and her neighbor's was created out of frustration when grass refused to grow in such a hot, dry strip. After improving the soil and raising the strip's soil level for better drainage, she found perennials such as iris and Asiatic lilies would actually grow quite well.

Sue followed the same process with her parking strip between the sidewalk and street. After she was finished planting and to save water on both beds, she added soaker hose (the black drip type) through out each planting and then mulched with shredded cedar mulch.*

Come summer, Sue's small parking strip blooms with coneflowers and the clear pink blossoms of Nearly Wild roses. Late summer brings Russian's sage's small lavender flowers and its soft, silvery foliage, an excellent combination with purplish-pink blooming coneflowers. These beautiful, hardy flowers will grow in many tough spots if given sun and good drainage.


Sue Field's yard may be Yard of the Month for May, but don't forget to visit her yard this summer too.

*Wood mulch (such as shredded cedar) is fine to use in a flower or vegetable garden on top of the soil. It holds moisture well and helps control weeds. However, it's best to not dig this into the soil at the end of the growing season. The mulch could tie up the available nitrogen as it decomposes causing a nutrient shortage for plants.

Yard of the month Info. Nominate one of your favorite yards!

by Amy Greving

As spring makes its welcome return, Witherbee neighborhood residents are busy sharpening mower blades and planting vegetables and flowers. It's time for the Yard of the Month award!

The Yard of the Month award is given May-October. The recipient is given a yard sign to proudly show off in their yard for the entire month. It is indeed an honor to be chosen for this award for the friendly competition has become quite fierce.

Yard of the Month standards are based on having a beautiful yard that also conserves water. Saving water in the landscape should not mean sacrificing beauty. And, it doesn't mean giving up your beloved pond/waterfall either. In fact, using less water usually means fewer disease, insect and maintenance problems while conserving a precious resource and saving on your water bill.

As Yard of the Month judge, I'll be looking for landscapes that are:

  • well planned and maintained
  • using appropriate plants
    (roses in the sun, hostas in the shade and plants with same water requirements planted together)
  • mulching for water conservation
  • appropriate irrigation
    (no watering the sidewalk and street if possible please)

Nominations are welcome. Please nominate your neighbor or yourself by the 25th to be considered for the following month. Contact Amy Greving 402 484-7681 (leave message) or send an email to . Please include: Name, phone number and address. The Yard of the Month can be a home or a business.


NEW !!! Membership Payments on line.


 

Witherbee is now taking Membership Payments on line. Be one of the first's to join via Web Payment.

It is SAFE and SECURE. Check it out [more here]


 


Witherbee Neighborhood Meeting

Membership Meeting 

Thursday, July 2nd-- 7 p.m.

at Tabitha's Lifequest Center 48th & J.
Enter the door under the big blue sign.

Agenda

  • 7:00 PM Welcome
  • Program: Rick Bagby Everything you always wanted to know about sleep but didn't know who to ask.
  • Business meeting: old and ongoing
    • Treasurer’s report
    • Minutes of previous meetings
    • Summer Garage Sales
    • Woods Park Free swim and icecream social
    • Witherbee Park commitee

    Witherbee Village Update

  • Any other business to come before the membership.

 


UNL Big Event

Witherbee and Woods Parks Neighborhood Associations
& 2009 UNL Big Event Project
joined hands at Woods Park, Saturday, April 25, 2009

UNL students joined volunteers from both neighborhoods to install wood chip mulch around park trees on a very chilly Saturday morning. Most trees in the park were mulched. Doughnuts were proviced by Deb Kuwamoto. Pictures and more detail later.


About Witherbee Park

 

Witherbee Park 46 & O Street.
by Fred Freytag

This valuable green space in Midtown Lincoln could have been lost as part part of the widening of O Street in 2006. During an open house about the O Street widening Rick Bagby noticed proposed changes for that park space and brought it to the WNA's board attention. WNA informed residents of the proposed changes and meetings were held to save the park.

Because of WNA's involvement a plan for the park was drafted and sidewalks were installed as part of the O Street widening. Since there was no funding to develop the park no more work was done. WNA asked the Parks and Rec. to look for funding to develop the park in the near future.

Three years later the future has come!

On February 26, 2009 Mayor Chris Beutler announced that the Lincoln Cares program will help fund six projects and programs across the community in 2009. Lincoln Cares is a community donation program, which allows Lincoln Electric System (LES) customers to voluntarily add one dollar to their bill payments each month for projects not included in the City budget.

The Mayor made the announcement at the Air Park West Recreation Center, where the NEOS play center was on display. The high-tech, interactive, portable play tower is one of the items to be funded by Lincoln Cares this year. The 2009 Lincoln Cares project list also includes the development of the Witherbee Park playground; a solar-heated pool and bathhouse demonstration project at Woods Pool; Union Plaza; and Boosalis Trail renovation from 17th to 20th streets. (More details on the projects click here.)

The news conference was attended by Witherbee representatives Curtis Wood (President), Fred Freytag (Past President) and Karen Vogeley (Past Treasurer).

Pictured from left are: Todd Hall, Lincoln Electric System; Fred Freytag, Witherbee Neighborhood Association; Lynn Johnson, Lincoln Parks and Recreation Director; Christie Dionisopoulos, Lincoln Parks Foundation; Mayor Chris Beutler, Curtis Wood, Witherbee Neighborhood Association; and Ann Shrewsbury of Time Warner Cable.

Quote from Lincoln Cares as provided
by Susan Rodenburg, Program Manager:

Witherbee Park Play Area—$25,000

"Emerging research indicates the important benefits that play in natural settings has on children's social, physical and cognitive development. A continuing emphasis in the development of Lincoln's park system is providing outdoor play and activity areas within neighborhoods. Lincoln Cares funds will be used to develop a new outdoor play area in Witherbee Park at 46th and "O." Streets to serve children and families living in mid-town neighborhoods."

Lincoln Cares is a community donation program which allows Lincoln Electric System (LES) customers to voluntarily add one dollar to their bill payments each month for projects not included in the City budget. Each dollar is matched with 50-cents from Lincoln Parks Foundation (up to $15,000) and Time Warner Cable (up to $30,000). For more information on Lincoln Cares, contact the Lincoln Parks and Recreation Department at 441-8264 or visit the City’s Web site at lincoln.ne.gov (keyword: cares).

Please give to Lincoln Cares as you can see it comes back to our neighborhood parks. Read more about it here. Here is a link to LES [more here]

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NEWS

Citizens' Meeting

by Doug Emery

Every third Thursday of the month from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at the Victor E. Anderson Branch Library 3635 Touzalin Avenue. Enter on the west side and turn left.

To get a monthly email with speaker info from Doug send him an email to the city council and request to be on the list.

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