Neighbors Building Brightmoor

Neighbors Building Brightmoor seeks to mobilize our neighbors to work together to equip families and individuals to improve the quality of life in our neighborhood.

October 2012
Dates to remember NBB mtg. and Potluck Wednesday October 10, 6:30-8:30pm at St. Christines Soup Kitchen, 22261 Fenkell. Third Annual NBB Harvest Festival Saturday October 13, 36pm at Curtis Green Park, corner of Beaverland and Chalfonte. Brightmoor Alliance mtg. Thursday October 18, 68pm at Leland Missionary Baptist Church, 22420 Fenkell. Halloween Party! Saturday October 27 2:30-4:30pm at St. Christines Soup Kitchen, 22261 Fenkell. Kids Corner Mondays 4-6pm at St. Christines Soup Kitchen, 22261 Fenkell. Election Day November 6 at a polling station near you. Vote!

Lamphere Honey Bee Garden Officially Opened!

by Bill Hickey

On Sunday September 23, about 20 neighbors helped celebrate the opening of the new Honey Bee Garden, a space planned and planted by kids from our neighborhood. Stop by sometime to see all the plants that attract honey bees and other pollinators, and sit on one of the two benches built by the young people. Funding for this project was provided by the Prevention Network in partnership with the Skillman Foundations Good Neighbors Project. The garden is located on a formerly vacant lot, opposite 14910 Lamphere, between Chalfonte and Eaton.

Special thanks to:

St. Christines Church for hosting our events Speedys Gas Station for donating $20 every month Environmental Consulting & Technology, Inc. for printing our newsletter

NBB 2012 meeting schedule

Our NBB meetings are always on the second Wednesday of the month and are mostly held at St. Christines Soup Kitchen. They start with a potluck (bring a dish to pass) at 6:30pm and the meeting starts promptly at 7pm. We try very hard to stop at 8:30pm. Please put the following dates on your calendar and be ready to share your great ideas on neighborhood improvement.

Volunteers needed for NBBs Harvest Festival, Saturday October 13 from 1-3 at Curtis Green Park The NBB Harvest Festival planning team is looking for volunteers to help plan, set-up and run our annual festival. Jobs include: food preparation/cooking, handing out flyers, setting up tables and chairs, kids activities and games, and helping with the hayride. We are also looking for ENTERTAINERS (musicians, poets, etc.) to perform at the Open Stage during the festival. If interested and for more information call Kat 313-918-9160 or email walsh.katharina@gmail.com . Want to Improve Your Street? If you would like Neighbors Building Brightmoors help in organizing and hosting a group of volunteers on your street, become an active member in NBB (come to our meeting this Wednesday, September 12 dinner will be served!) and take the Volunteer Management Class. For more information or to request a Volunteer Management Class, call Kat at 918-9160. Kids Corner Kids Corner is back to a school-year schedule and location MONDAYS from 4-6pm at St. Christines (22261 Fenkell). Join us for painting, crafts, creative building projects and baking! FREE and open to all ages. For more information call Miss Kat at 313-918-9160. Halloween Party! Show off your costume, make fun spooky crafts and trick or treat with us Saturday October 27 from 2:304:30pm at St. Christines. For more information call Miss Kat 313-918-9160. Eliza Howell Fall Colors Walk See all the glorious oranges, reds and yellows of fall. Meet at the head of the Nature Trail at the back of the park road loop on October 23 at 5:30pm. Election DayVote! This year Election Day falls on Tuesday November 6. Make your voice heard by going out and casting your ballot.

Brightmoor Teen-Room!
by Katharina Walsh

A group of enthusiastic teenagers has been busy setting up and planning a weekly Teen Night with our partner, the West Outer Drive United Methodist Church, located at Outer Drive and Acacia. Pastor Sampson has given us permission to use one of the rooms in the church basement, and we have already painted a mural and started redecorating. This is just the beginning and we are looking for more interested teenagers to join us in creating a unique program of events and activities for youth in our neighborhood. We are also looking for donations of games (foosball, Twister, etc.). For more information call Miss Kat at 313-918-9160.

BrightStars Early Learning Centers

Mondays
Parent Book Club (ECFRC) 10-11:30am

Tuesdays

Wednesdays

Thursdays

Fridays

Parent Music & Movement Roundtable (DCI) 10:30-11:30 (ECFRC) 10-11 am Transportation AvailaStorytime ble (DCI) 10:30-noon Discovery Time Transportation Availa- (ECFRC) 11Father & Child Playble 12:30pm group (EFCRC) 1112:30pm Music & Movement Nature Explorer (ECFRC) 11:30(RCC) 12-2pm Sewing for Begin12:30pm ners (Adults) (EFCRC) 1-3pm Music & Movement (RCC) 6-7pm

Circle Time with Toddler Playgroup Mr. Mike (ECFRC) (DCI) 10:30-noon Transportation Availa10-11am ble Music & Movement (0 to 18 Just for Fun Kids months) (RCC) 6- Book Club 7pm (ECFRC) 1-3pm

Cooking Matters (adults) (ECFRC) Beginning Thursday October 18 at 11am. You must preregister for this six week class. Halloween Party (DCI) All BrightStars Families are invited! Wednesday October 31 at 10:30am.

BrightStars offers a variety of FREE resources and programming for families with children 0-5 years of age.

For more information about these programs or to join BrightStars, contact Mike Martin at (313) 2550900, ext. 2125.

Choose from 3 locations:

Development Centers, Inc. (DCI) (313) 255-0900 ext. 2125 17321 Telegraph Rd. (between Grand River & 6 Mile) Redford Community Center (RCC) (313) 387-2787 12121 Hemingway (west of Beech Daly & north of Plymouth) Early Childhood Resource Center (ECRC) (Formerly DLA) (313) 766-6475 23450 Davison West (old church offices located on the DLA Campus-East parking lot)

Greening News
Urban Agriculture Education Series Put A Root Down! Root Cellaring Saturday October 13, 1 -3pm at Oakland Avenue Community Garden 9354 Oakland Avenue (north of Arden Park Blvd, south of Holbrook). In this class we will show you how to convert your basement or cellar into a safe haven for your root veggies. Hop To It: Beer Making Saturday November 10, 1-3pm at Club Technology 8230 E. Forest (north of VanDyke, south of McLellan). Imagine a beer tasting at your own house featuring beer you made from hops that came right from your garden. Leave this class ready to make a delicious batch of beer that will impress friends, family, and neighbors. Each One Teach One: Teacher Training Saturday December 8, 1-3pm at Hannan House 4750 Woodward (north of Warren, south of Forest), parking is available behind building and on Hancock. This class will help you brush up on your teaching skills and equip you to teach a class of your own.

Detroit Recycles: Brightmoor!

We are in a special region of the City that gets two garbage containers: the large all black courville for rubbish and a blue -lidded courville for recycling. The blue lidded container goes to the curbside on the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays of the month for those living between City limits and Outer Drive/Lahser. If you live east of Lahser your recycling pick up day is 2nd and 4th Wednesdays of the month. DO Recycle: cardboard (flattened) newspapers junk mail plastics (with the recycling symbol) tin cans aluminum cans milk cartons juice cartons glass jars and bottles DO NOT recycle: styrofoam plastic bags food fabric anything toxic (such as empty bug spray cans, cleaning products, etc.) Brought to you by Rosedale Recycles and Zero Waste Detroit.

NBB Block Contacts

Grayfield Riet Schumack 283-8091 Myra Jessie 808-3074 Beaverland Nicky Marcot 590-1965 Scott Unger 310-7052 Bramell Tim Miller 687-2806 Gwen Shivers 533-9455 Chatham Michelle Young 918-8945 Eaton Donna Voss 804-7540 Lamphere Bill Hickey 541-2601 Tywan Bell (248) 755-1034 Jeremy Kenward 701-2063 Jackie Adams 753-5446 Dacosta Sherry Courtney 537-5558 Dolphin Craig Reinke 778-2710 Need an additional captain. Rockdale Ilka Lapeer 532-9272 Need another block captain to help Ilka. Outer Drive Bernice Walker 926-1975 Lyndon Lyndon is in our target area. We need block captains on Lyndon. Fenkell Still need a block captain.

For questions about or submissions to the NBB newsletter, please contact Leah Wiste at (530) 902-5332 or leahwiste@gmail.com.