Learn about the danger of lead in common household products and materials in your home! When lead comes in contact with the poison lead, our body may slowly “shut down” itself. The cumulative presence of lead attacks the nervous system and poisons brains, leading to eyesight destruction, kidney failure, and central nervous system destruction (especially in children). Most of the time, the process of lead accumulation and poisoning of our bodies proceeds slowly and goes undetected.
Join us from 11:30-1 pm, Thursday, May 17, at NorthWest Inititaive to find out about the latest Lansing lead report and how to protect your family from lead poisoning! Robert L Scott, Ph.D, acting coordinator and data manager for the Michigan Department of Community Health Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Program (HHLPP), is the guest speaker.
Light refreshments will be served to those who RSVP by calling 517.999.2894 or emailing northwest.lansing@gmail.org. NorthWest Initiative is at 530 W. Ionia, Suite D, Lansing, (in the Michigan Optometric Association Building). Free parking is located in the lot off Pine Street on the northside of the building.
The WNA neighborhood-wide yard sale is the weekend of June 9-10, 2012 from 8:00-4:00 each day. If you’re interested in hosting a Yard Sale, please use this form to register. You can also sign up by emailing Danielle at yardsale@wnalansing.com or calling (517)618-WNA1(9621). Be sure your email or voicemail includes: your name, address, email or phone number & which day(s) you plan to host your sale. The WNA will promote the Yard Sale through a variety of media outlets and will create a map indicating all known Yard Sale locations. No contact information, except the address of your Yard Sale, will be shared. Please contact Danielle by June 1st to be included on the Yard Sale Map!
Letts Community Center is having their first annual Spring Carnival on May 12th. View the flyer here
Budding artists may want to register for a new painting class being offered at Letts Community Center. Details below:
New One Stroke Painting classes start this week.
Beginners class Tuesday 5:30PM at Lett’s Center
Advanced class Wednesday 5:30PM at Foster Center.
Please register ahead by calling 517 483-4311 or 517 483-4277
Join us at the Irish Pub tonight from 4-6pm for food, fun, and $4,000 worth of silent auction items! Check, cash, and charge are accepted. Tickets are $18 for adults and $5 for children 12 and under.
Yesterday’s Letts/Riddle clean-up in partnership with the National Center and Caucus on Black Aged – Lansing Chapter was incredibly successful. Over twenty people came between 9am and noon to spruce up the Letts Community Center and Riddle Elementary.
Volunteers weeded flower beds spread mulch around the community center and at the Ascent sculpture native plantings garden, picked up litter around the community center and in the play equipment areas of Riddle Elementary and Letts, and even had time to fill an entire trash bag full of garbage from a footpath leading between Lenawee and Kalamazoo just south of the community center.
The WNA Neighborhood Improvement Committee would like to thank our partner in this cleanup, the National Center and Caucus on Black Aged – Lansing Chapter; the multiple donors who supplied snacks, drinks, lunch, mulch, tools; and of course the great people who gave up their Saturday morning to labor on improving the look and safety of this area for all to enjoy! If you haven’t stopped by in a while, be sure to check out the Letts Community Center (1220 W. Kalamazoo) and see this newly-polished gem in our neighborhood.
Photos are also available at the bottom of this photo gallery page: http://wnalansing.com/photos/?psmash-gallery=8
The Ingham County’s Land Bank Spring 2012 Home Showcase will occur on April 21-22. The hours are Saturday 1-5 pm and Sunday 1-5 pm. The Land Bank does a great job of housing renovation. Featured homes in the Westside Neighborhood include:
- 1221 W Ottawa St
- 1216 W Allegan St
- 1815 William St
- 916 W Genesee St (technically not WNA territory, but close)
Check out the photos on their website!
Join us in a conversation with folks from MDOT where we will begin discussing the potential for a Road Diet on Saginaw Street. Simply by reducing the multiple lane route by one lane, we can increase the safety of both drivers and pedestrians, including the possibility of a bike lane addition and/or on street parking.
The meeting takes place on Wednesday, April 11 from 8:00 – 9:00 am at the Michigan Small Business & Technology Development Center Lansing Community College 309 N. Washington Square Lansing, MI 48901-7210. This part of the monthly Business Breakfast series hosted by the Westside Commercial Association.
If you are unable to attend, but would like to submit comments, they are certainly welcome and will be taken to the meeting on your behalf. please email lansingwca@gmail.com.
Breakfast treats will be provided and we hope to see you there!
Following on cleanup efforts last fall, the WNA Neighborhood Improvement Committee is planning a spring clean-up at Letts Community Center/Riddle Elementary on April 14 from 9am to noon. If snow is on the ground that day, the alternate date is May 19 – never know with April! This clean-up will be in partnership with the National Caucus and Center on Black Aged – Lansing Chapter. Come on out and help further improve on this gem in our neighborhood! Question/concerns – email to improvements {at} wnalansing.com
Those on Facebook can sign up at http://www.facebook.com/events/306630232736544/ but all are welcome to come help out. Meet in the Letts parking lot!
