Hyde
Park Record: Hyde Park-Kenwood Neighborhood and Hyde Park-Kenwood Community
Conference's
neighborhood and backgroundwebsite
SOME
MAKE THINGS HAPPEN, OTHERS KNOW WHY OR HOW... DON'T BE LEFT ASKING "WHAT
HAPPENED!"
Meetings
and Events in the Neighborhood
Presented as a service by Hyde Park-Kenwood
Community Conference.
We have a new and reorganized site for HPKCC- hydepark.org
home which has a calendar.
To go back to the home index in this background site (which is also updated
and with lots of topical material including calendars), go to Hyde
Park Record Home.
To MANY MORE AND FULL CALENDARS- Directory
of Calendars and Directories. Specific:
Arts and Culture. Community
meetings. Civic, political
and social interest.
Major community and specialized
events, celebrations.
Schools and
Education. Local School Councils.
Parks. Park
Councils. CAPS (recurring).
Faith
To Calendar run here (selected events and meetings)
We
support your participation in the many programs of Blackstone
Library and Friends of Blackstone Library (and http://www.chipublib.org)
and its Friends. Next Despres Family lecture series program- tba. And
the programs of SHoP, the Southside
Hub of Production, 5638 S. Woodlawn.
Note: Hyde
Park Jazz Society programs returned to Room 43 January 8.
Ward
meetings. 4th Ward Aldermanic- 4th Aldermanic- Now 3rd Mondays 6-8 pm move around.
Next January 16?? as it is King and Presidents days. (open hours all the other
Mondays 5-8 call ahead 773 536-8103). 4th Dem. org. 4th or last Sat. Monumental
Baptist 729 E. Oakwood.
5th Ward Jan. 24 6 pm (usually 4th Tues.) St. Philip Neri School (moves around).
Open hours 5-8 Tuesdays when no a ward mtg. call ahead for these, 773 324-5555.
Next 53rd TIF meeting is on March 12, 7 pm, Kenwood Academy Little Theater.
Don't forget SHoP,
5638 S. Woodlawn- all kinds of events.
February 4, Saturday,
1 pm. OWL Hyde Park, at First Unitarian north entry,
5650 S. Woodlawn: Celebrating Competent Caring-Peer Relationships
in Later Life. In this season of valentines and love, we will focus on
how we deal with changes in our close relationships with our age peers. We know,
from experience and from research, that intimate relationships are crucial to
well being in later life. Ill health, dementia, and distance are among the challenges
we encounter in our friendships and other sustaining relationships.
Lorie Rosenblum and Margaret Huyck are the program leaders.
On Saturday, February 4 our program will focus on friendship networks in later
life. Margaret Huyck, Ph.D. and Lorie Rosenblum, Ph.D., LCSW, will lead a discussion
on how we can nurture friendships to contribute to our health and well-being
in later life. February is the traditional time to celebrate loving relationships.
Such relationships can come in many varieties. However, one of the best predictors
of feeling that life is good is having at least a couple of close peer relationships.
Family members are important, but most of them are not of our choosing; we have
more choice in those we accept as close friends.
Developing and maintaining friendships is part of “relational competence”;
we can enhance this competence just as we develop other competencies with age
and experience. We especially realize how crucial the support of our friends
is when close peers “disappear” into illness, dementia, depression,
or death. We will share our experiences and what we have learned about dealing
with such transitions whenever they occur. We can
learn from each other how to enhance our own relational competence for this
phase of life.
February 4, Saturday, 2-4 pm. Help decorate drop boxes for the 2012 February "Have a Heart for Public Schools Supply Drive", sponsored by HPKCC Schools Committee. Questions: contact haveaheart2012@gmail.com.
February
18, Saturday, 1:30-3;30 pm. Small tool sharpening workshop.
Jackson Park Fieldhouse, 6401 S. Stony Island. Sharpen Your Tools While Your
Sharpen Your Minds!
Saturday,
February 18, 2012, Jackson Park Fieldhouse, 6401 South Cottage Grove Avenue,
in Chicago, 1:30 – 3:30 PM.
It’s not too early to prepare your garden tools for the upcoming gardening season! Don X. Nekrosius, well known gardening expert, will help local gardeners sharpen and care for their clippers, loppers, and other tools for the upcoming growing season. Don will be presenting the workshop as a University of Illinois Extension Master Gardener. He’s also a master composter – maybe he can answer questions about composting as well!
Bring your tools and take them home as good as new!Direct questions to the Jackson Park Advisory Council, Louise McCurry, President, (773) 844-2225, or Fran Vandervoort, (773) 752-8374.
February 25, Saturday,
10 am-noon. Coalition
for Equitable Community Development Annual Meeting
and Forum: What's Happening to Rental Housing in Hyde Park-Kenwood: Who Can
Afford to Live Here Anymore? Augustana Lutheran Church, 5500
S. Woodlawn.
Speaker Geoff Smith of the Depaul Housing Institute (which has recently issued
a report on rental housing in Cook County); panel of local rental real estate
management; questions may be submitted on cards at the start. Free, with refreshments.
February 25, Saturday, 5:30 pm. Hyde Park Historical Society Annual Awards Dinner. Speaker Lee Bey on Hidden Treasures of Hyde Park Twp. Cornell and Despres awards. At Quadrangle Club. $55. Info/res hydeparkhistory.org, Fran Vandervoort, 773 752-8374.
Watch for a meeting by U of C and Ald. Hairston in early March on construction plans on 5757 University to Woodlawn including the alley.
March 12, Monday, 7 pm. Regular meeting of the 53rd St. TIF Advisory Council at Kenwood Academy Little Theater, 5015 S. Blackstone.
4th and 5th wards street sweeping schedules (and look for the day-color signs with big letters tied to trees). Street cleaning is important incl. to flood avoidance, but that's no reason you should be caught with a fat fine. 5th: http://1537news.com/share/5thWardStreetCleaning.php. 4th: http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=2&ved=0CCgQFjAB&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.cityofchicago.org%2Fcontent%2Fdam%2Fcity%2Fdepts%2Fstreets%2Fsupp_info%2Fstreets_sweeping%2FScheduleWard4.2011.pdf&ei=7FabTd3GC4bGsAPU-bmPBA&usg=AFQjCNFBgh_FX9KKRboMZY_Qjav3wGvWQw&sig2=GfKVGeGJZEH8FDfWRwYGBA
Park
Councils- Visit the Park
Councils meetings calendar-
Go to Washington Park Page
for it's events-council 3rd Wednesdays.
Elm Park- Timika Hoffman-Zoller
or Piotr Gornicki-Jackson.
Kenwood
CAPS- 312 747-2930 (21st or 312 747-747-5530 (3rd). See mtgs.
calendar by date or standing.
Schools- see in LSC page. Committee meets Oct. 27 tba.
Chamber
of Commerce: 1st Thursdays 5:30 pm networking events feature a particular
business street- next October 6 at Mandel Clinic 60th and Kenwood.
3rd Wednesdays Networking events 11:30 am at Chant.