Mark your calendars for November 30th!

Time to mark your calendars!

Get more info & vendor applications at DundeeDay.Org

On Sunday, July 16, the Omaha Mobile Stage will host Show Wagon, a youth talent show for ages 3 - 19, in Elmwood Park. Winners will advance to a Finals competition at Gene Leahy Mall in downtown Omaha on August 20. This event is sponsored by the Dundee-Memorial Park Association.

All registered acts, ages 5+, are invited to the Omaha Community Playhouse for Youth Performing Arts Summer Camp on June 1 and July 18. Registration and events are free and open to the public.

To register, visit www.omahamobilestage.org. For questions, contact Kaylea at Kaylea@livable.org.

Time for your junk to either start paying rent or get out!

Get ready to haul your junk with us this year at Elmwood Pool’s Parking lot.

Please enter west of pool at the frontage road. You will enter the parking lot from the north and exit south. This cleanup typically is very popular, and the trucks leave at 2:00p.m.. We hate to turn any- one away and had to last year due to popularity. There are multiple neighborhoods hosting cleanups on May 20th. For more info for other locations and what is acceptable to drop off and what is not, please visit Wasteline’s Website.

Start sorting your books now for the Dundee Day book sale. Books will be gathered prior to Dundee Day by Mary Schleifer at her home, 417 S. Happy Hollow Blvd, at back door, under cover. If you have a large number please contact her first, msiatros@gmail.com or call or text 864-498-4420.

Last year $2,158. was generated for the AV Sorensen branch library.

March 13th, 7pm at Brownell Talbot

Join us for our March in person meeting at Brownell Talbot! It will be on March 13th at 7pm in the cafeteria on the Happy Hollow side.

Robert Fuchs, longtime neighbor and Master Naturalist will talk to us about gardening this spring and how to incorporate techniques that are plant and insect friendly.

Tiffany Regan will keep us up to date on the birthday party we are throwing for Memorial Park and the exciting new construction taking place and what it means for the park.

I will also give a brief update on what the DMPA has been doing to support homeowners on Farnam as the roundabout votes draw near. Hope to see you there!

John Asford, DMPA President

Kick off the holiday season with our annual Lights on Dundee celebration with activities for the whole family!
5000 Underwood Ave. Omaha, Ne

Enjoy Hayrack rides, photos with Santa and Mrs. Claus, (pets welcome!), free hot chocolate and many sweet treats! Local student choirs will be making the holiday bright with caroling along Underwood Ave.

And be sure to check out the annual Gingerbread contest creations displayed throughout merchant windows for voting!

Very Special Promotions!
Albany and Avers - In-store popup with local small businesses
All Smiles Family Dentistry & Dundee Pediatrics - Complimentary hot chocolate and cider
Better Homes and Gardens Real Estate - Play I Spy with large holiday window display
Brownell Talbot - Complimentary face painting
Dark Horse Salon - Complimentary s'mores kits
Dundee Bank - Complimentary hayrack rides and cookie decorating kits
Dundee Candle Co. - Letter writing to Santa and coloring station
Dundee Merchant Booth - Selling Dundee merchandise and calendars
eCreamery Ice Cream & Cookies - Holiday flavor reveal
Exist Green - Make your own dried citrus holiday ornament
Good Lookin' - Holiday crafts
Omaha Massage and Healing Arts - Complimentary Chair Massages
The Barre Code Dundee - Online membership and class pack specials, 22% off select retail items

Very Special Donation Collections!
AB’s - Free soda and cookie with canned/dry goods for St. Vincent de Paul Food Bank
Amsterdam - Free curry fries with diaper donation benefitting Lydia House
Avoli - Free bag of dried pasta with canned food donation
Brownell Talbot - Donate used holiday lights to be recycled
Cork and Bottle - Free drink with Toys for Tots donation
Dark Horse Salon - Collecting diapers for channel 94.1 Diaper Drive
Dundee Candle Co. - 20% off coupon with personal hygiene donations for the Siena Francis House
The Hoppy Taco - Free chips and salsa with canned goods donation
Underwood Bar - Free drink with coat drive donation

More info HERE.

LOCATION: BROWNELL TALBOT CAFETERIA (ENTER ON HAPPY HOLLOW SIDE)

TOPIC: ROUNDABOUTS ON 50th and 52nd and Farnam

GUESTS: Councilmembers Pete Festersen and Danny Begley

INVITED GUESTS: Mayor Jean Stothert and Bob Stubbe – We are waiting on response

SEE YOU THERE!

Time to get rid of your junk that is cluttering your garage and your mind!

This year’s Fall Clean Up Day will be October 15th at Brownell Talbot from 9am to 2pm. Vehicles can enter from the Happy Hollow Entrance.

Please take a moment to check the acceptable and unacceptable items on Wasteline’s website HERE.

Location: Brownell Talbott, enter through Happy Hallow

Date: Septemeber 12, 2022 at 7pm

Topic: TBD

Please plan to join us on August 20th, 2022 as the Dundee Merchants Association and Dundee Memorial Park Association bring back the 29th annual Dundee Day street festival. Mark your calendars, more information soon!

Our neighborhood Spring Clean Up day will be May 21st at the Brownell Talbot parking lot. If you have any questions about what items are accepted, you can check out the full list at Omaha’s Wasteline website HERE.

None of the items under the “Prohibited Items” list will be accepted.

We will be collecting donations for Spring Tree Planting so bring your cash and haul your junk!

Thank you board member Wiff Farrell for coordinating the event!

We are excited to see you in person on April 11th for DMPA’s neighborhood meeting.

Guests for this quarterly meeting include Tiffany Regan with the Omaha Parks Department, Amanda Tjarks with Albany and Avers, and Saul Lopez with the City of Omaha’s Lead Information Office.

Tiffany Regan will touch on the topics of the Omaha Parks Foundation, the connection of the Foundation with parks within DMPA neighborhoods, and a proposed celebration of the upcoming 75th Anniversary of Memorial Park.

Amanda Tjarks will talk with neighbors about the opening of Albany & Avers in the Business District.

Saul Lopez will explain more why Dundee is a lead focus area and answer any questions neighbors may have.

We hope to see you there!

Our main speaker for January's Neighborhood Meeting will be Lauren Genier, Crime Prevention Specialist-NW Precinct. Lauren is our Dundee neighborhood liaison and will talk with neighbors about crime trends, safety tips, and also answer any questions.

Guests for January's meeting include Roger Hazard & Chris Stout-Hazard, the owners of the furniture store Roger + Chris located in Dundee's Business District.

Our meeting will be held at Brownell Talbot and masks are required. We will also live steam the meeting on our Facebook page and will provide a Zoom link to those who request it.

We are very excited to host these wonderful guests and we hope to see you there!

More details soon!

We will gather at the Memorial Park monument at 9:00 AM on Thanksgiving morning. There is no charge to participate, but participants are encouraged to bring either 5 cans of food for the Omaha Food Bank and / or a monetary donation to the Food Bank. The event will be a 2 loop run (5k) around Memorial Park or a 1 loop walk. Costumes are optional.

This quarterly neighborhood meeting will be IN PERSON (Yowza!) at Brownell Talbot. Masks are required.

Guests: ADU’s and Dundee Candle Co.
Location: Brownell Talbot School, 400 N. Happy Hollow Blvd.
Details: Parking available in the Happy Hollow lot, and enter building from this lot.

Volunteers from Mode Shift Omaha’s Missing Middle Campaign will present about ADUs, also known as granny flats, secondary suites, etc., which are currently allowed in the Transit Oriented Development designation. They will provide an update on how the recent changes to the zoning code have impacted the construction of ADUs locally, discuss the benefits of these structures, and show examples both locally and nationally of successful adoption.

Additionally, just in time for the holidays, we’ll get a brief introduction to a new Dundee business that opened last year during the pandemic. Dundee Candle Co. owner Jeanne Nielsen will tell us about her custom candle bar and fragrance studio.

We’re grateful to Brownell Talbot School for offering us the use of their building for DMPA meeting space. Enter the school from the Happy Hollow lot, and we’ll have people and signs directing you to the dining room. Brownell Talbot requires that everyone wear a mask while in the building, regardless of vaccination status.

Find out more on our FB page HERE.

I hope to see you there!

This year’s Fall Cleanup will be on October 16th at Brownell Talbot.

If you have any questions about your waste that you will be dropping off, please check Wastline’s Website HERE and review the image below.

We will have two guests joining us for our first DMPA Neighborhood meeting of 2021! To keep all neighbors safe, we will continue with an online format for meetings until further notice.

During this quarterly meeting, The League of Women Voters will give an educational presentation on Redistricting 2021. The League is a nonpartisan, nonprofit, grassroots organization advocating for voters’ role in democracy. The process of redrawing lines of voting districts only happens every 10 years. The presentation will provide an overview of what redistricting is, how it works specifically in Nebraska, and how to get involved to support transparent and fair redistricting. Learn how you can protect every Nebraskan’s right to fair voting districts. Attend the meeting on September 13th to hear about this very important process.

Our second guests includes Nicole Wheeler with Mode Shift Omaha and Dundee Book Company. More details from Nicole soon!.

It’s happening everyone!

Get it on your calendar and we give you more details soon!

You can always check the Facebook Page for the most up to date info.

Mark your calendars for the Neighborhood Spring Cleanup, Sat. May 22, 9-2, at the Elmwood Park pool parking lot, 606 S. Elmwood Park Rd. This free event provides Omaha residents the opportunity to recycle or dispose of large or bulky items that are not accepted through curbside waste or recycling services. Only residential/household items accepted (commercial waste prohibited.) Metal and electronics recycling will be available at the Elmwood site, and tires & appliances will be accepted at other participating sites. Please visit www.cleanup.wasteline.org for more information and feel free to contact Board Member Wiff Farrell at wiff@cox.net with any questions.

There are exciting plans for UNMC's former Omaha Steel Castings property between Farnam & Leavenworth, Saddle Creek & South 48th Street. There are 28 structures and features in the transformational billion dollar plan. UNMC's Director of Facilities Planning, Brian Spencer, will be doing a presentation with the DMPA to give neighbors more information. We hope you will join us!

You can attend the Live Facebook Event HERE.

It's that time of year! Grab your masks and join us for LIGHTS ON DUNDEE 2020, Thursday, December 3rd from 4 to 8pm.

As with all things in 2020, Lights on Dundee will look differently this year, but we are so excited to see our neighbors and support our local small businesses as we enter the holiday season. In the past years, we've put together a fun, interactive evening for families, with crafts and other fun activities.

This year, with social distancing in mind, we are focusing on how we can help others less fortunate. We are collecting toys, diapers, canned goods, and other nonperishable items. Check the list below to see where to bring your goods and what you can receive in return! The time has also been extended to encourage safe spacing of guests. Masks are encouraged for the entire evening. If you don't feel comfortable going inside a business, just browse the windows of area businesses and check out photos of the gingerbread house entries. As always, the event is free.

There will be live street music by Kevin Lloyd and many merchants with special holiday activities in their locations with COVID -19 safety precautions kept in mind.

Please find our event page on Facebook for the most recent updates as we will closely be following Douglas County Health guidelines as it gets closer to the event date. If the event gets cancelled, we will still have the Gingerbread House Decorating contest as it is something you do at home on your own and simply send a picture in.

Wear a mask, stay safe, we will see you soon!

Some of the Lights on Dundee Fun:

• Gingerbread Decorating Contest- Decorate a Gingerbread house and submit your entry to LightsonDundee@gmail.com

• Scout Dry Goods- Outdoor Holiday Window photography.

• Dundee Candle Co- Photo opportunities with Elsa and new Holiday candle offers

• eCreamery Ice Cream & Gelato-New Holiday Flavor release

• Exist Green- Refill guessing game

• Marks Pantry & Bottle Shop-Bring in non-perishable food donations for the Food Bank and receive free goodies

• The Hoppy Taco- Bring 2 canned goods for donation and receive free chips and salsa

• Amsterdam Falafel and Kabob- Bring a pack of diapers for channel 94.1 food drive and receive free curry fries

• Better Homes & Gardens Real Estate- Holiday Window Display

• Cork and Bottle- Bring a toy for Toys for Tots and get a ticket for a free drink (valid through 2020)

• Dario's Brasserie-Bring food donations for the food bank and receive free hot apple cider and a cookie.

• Avoli Osteria- Bring food donations for the food bank and receive a bag of dried pasta.

• AB'S 66- Bring 2 canned goods and receive a free fountain drink or coffee, with a cookie