Editor’s Pick: Celebrate Midtown
September 6, 2010 • No comments
You've no doubt started to feel the slight chill in the air at nights announcing fall's arrival. Feels good, doesn't it? Fall means a lot of things--football, school, leaves, pumpkins--but more than anything autumn is a time for celebrations. Midtown takes center stage this Friday with the return of the popular Celebrate Midtown event. This year's event, hosted by the Midtown Neighborhood Alliance, will help raise funds for the
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Make Some Noise with the United Way of the Midlands
September 1, 2010 • No comments
Think “lawn party” and visions of smallish, rather urbane affairs may come to mind, scenes where you might expect to learn a little more about your neighbors and the neighborhood over quiet conversation and a mint julep. With the United Way 2010 Campaign Kickoff & Day of Caring event Sept. 2 on the ConAgra Foods campus the same idea applies, but the “lawn” becomes a sprawling, multi-acre “front yard,” your
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Eclectic Approach Keeps Book Club Going Strong After Sixty Years in Omaha
August 31, 2010 • No comments
Unlike most book clubs, the Eclectic Book Review Club doesn’t gather to discuss a book that everyone’s read. No, they come together to hear a featured reviewer discuss a book that perhaps none of them have read. Been that way since 1949. On Oct. 11 of that year 28 people showed up for that first club meeting at the Hill Hotel, which still stands today as the Kensington Tower at 16th and Howard Streets. They came with money in
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A Moment with Mary: Parents and Teachers
August 31, 2010 • No comments
We welcome Mary Maxwell, Omaha’s First Lady of Humor, to her new space on the pages of Neighborhood News. Her quick wit and dry humor have made her a popular speaker at events throughout Nebraska and across the country for more decades than she cares to count. I’m not so sure it takes a village to raise a child, but I do know that it takes both parents and teachers to take a five-year-old who can barely tie his shoes and turn read more »
Fall Youth Sports Update
August 31, 2010 • No comments
Azzurri Soccer Club – The Azzurri offers year-round, indoor/outdoor select soccer to girls and boys ages 4 – 13. Visit azzurrisocceromaha.com or call 402-593-9919 for additional information. Bellevue Junior Sports Association – The BJSA offers open play in football, volleyball, baseball, basketball, cheerleading and volleyball to youth in the Bellevue area. Visit bjsa.net or call 402-292-2572 for additional
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