<html><head><style type='text/css'>p { margin: 0; }</style></head><body><div style='font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000'>Hello Neighbors Here are a few things for you to think about.<br>More information is below:<br><br>Prospect Park Summit #2 tonight (Wednesday) 7pm<br>Volunteers needed to meet our neighbors<br>River Round Up<br>Midwest Sliders Meet and Greet<br>Easter Bunny at Frog Island on Saturday<br>Volunteers needed for Border to Border Survey<br><br>This is a sampling of the things I get on ListServs from around the Community. I post all the information I get (more than this) plus things I find out about myself at http://ppna.wordpress.com<br>contact me at prospectparkneighborhood@comcast.net<br><br><br>_______________________________________________________________<br>Please Join us for the Prospect Park Summit #2 -- Folks from the 4 surrounding neighborhood associations will be meeting at Adams School in the Multi Purpose Room -- enter from the parking lot, to the right of the main doors it is a weird steel security door but this is where you enter. We will then walk around Prospect Park and discuss what we'd like to see there, events, group activities, maintenance etc. <br>___________________________________________________________________<br>Sometime over the next couple of weeks I'd like to get volunteers to work with me to meet our neighbors. We will say hello and conduct a brief survey. I would like to get as many folks as I can on this email list and know which folks don't get email so we can get flyers to them about important events in the neighborhood. This will be a knocking on the doors campaign but we'll try to make it fun. If anyone has a replica of the 'Blues Mobile' from the Blues Brothers Movie it would be a helpful tool.<br>___________________________________________________________________________<br><br>April 25th will be River RoundUp , check the health of the river
and streams in the annual spring stream monitoring event. Spend a day
outdoors while you help to collect aquatic bugs that scientists us to
gauge the quality of the water and the health of the stream habitat.
RSVP by April 7th by contacting Joan at <span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT36"><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT37">jmartin@hrwc.org</span></span> or (734)769-5123, ext: 11 <br><br><br>________________________________________________________________________<br><p align="left"><span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1238528717_5"><font face="TTE22B2138t00" size="3">YPSILANTI, MI</font></span><font face="TTE22B2138t00" size="3"> (March 31, 2009) </font><font face="TTE22BE9A8t00" size="3">– The <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1238528717_6" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204);">Midwest Sliders</span> of Ypsilanti will be hosting a Meet & Greet at Frenchie's on Wednesday, April 8</font><font face="TTE22BE9A8t00" size="1">th </font><font face="TTE22BE9A8t00" size="3">from 5PM to 7PM. Frenchie's is located in the heart of <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1238528717_7">Depot Town</span> in Ypsilanti, MI at 54 East Cross Street.</font>
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</font></p><p align="left"><font face="TTE22BE9A8t00" size="3">The Meet
& Greet will take place beginning at 5PM, free of charge, and will
be the kick-off event for a great season of baseball at Eastern
Michigan University's Oestrike Stadium. Fans will get a chance to talk
baseball with players and get autographs. In addition, <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1238528717_8" style="border-bottom: 1px dashed rgb(0, 102, 204);">Tim Birtsas</span> will be there to sign autographs and meet fans. Birtsas pitched for <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1238528717_9">Michigan State University</span>, was the <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1238528717_10">New York Yankees</span> #1 draft choice in 1982, and won a <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1238528717_11">World Series</span> with the 1990 <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1238528717_12">Cincinnati Reds</span> as a member of the "Nasty Boys" bullpen.</font></p><p align="left"><font face="TTE22BE9A8t00" size="3">____________________________________________________________________________________________</font></p><p><span lang="en-us"><b><font face="Verdana" size="2">Saturday April 4th @ 9a (this Saturday!)</font></b></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><b><font face="Verdana" size="2">The Easter Bunny will be in Frog Island!</font></b></span>
<br><span lang="en-us"><font face="Verdana" size="2">The Ypsilanti Area
Jaycees invite you and your family to a fun filled morning of Easter
Egg hunting, games, crafts and the famous Marshmallow Drop. This year’s
event begins Saturday, March 15 at 9:00am, rain or shine, at Frog
Island Park in Depot Town. The hunts start at 10:00 am and the drop is
at 11:00 am. Registration starts at 9am (cost is $1 per child). Plan to
arrive early, as candy is only guaranteed for the first 500 children!</font></span></p>
<p><span lang="en-us"><font face="Verdana" size="2">The Marshmallow
Drop will feature a helicopter dropping 75 pounds of marshmallows on
the field at one time, over 3000 marshmallows.</font></span></p>
<p><span lang="en-us"><font face="Verdana" size="2">Children’s events
will include a jelly bean guessing jar, a sucker tree, and a bean bag
toss. The Ypsilanti Area Jaycees have been running the Easter Egg Hunt
since 2001, and have had on average 500 children enjoy the event each
year. Many thanks to the volunteers and donors who make this event
possible, and to Helicopter Services of Wayne, Michigan for making the
marshmallow drop possible.</font></span></p>
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</font></p><p align="left"><font face="TTE22BE9A8t00" size="3">Team President Rob Hilliard will be available to answer questions about <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1238528717_13">season tickets</span>,
group pricing, sponsorship opportunities, and becoming a host family
for the 2009 season. In addition, come and discuss how to keep <span class="yshortcuts" id="lw_1238528717_14">minor league baseball</span> in Ypsilanti permanently!</font></p><p align="left"><font face="TTE22BE9A8t00" size="3">___________________________________________________________________________________________</font></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span>Please volunteer to help out the
Border to Border Trail! A large segment of the trail runs through
Ypsi, and in order to assure that we get funding for it, we need to see
how many people are using it. Contact me if you want or need maps of
the trail!<br>
</span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><br></span></p><p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span>"The
Washtenaw County Parks and Recreation, Planning and Public Health
Departments are working with Michigan State University to complete a
trail usage survey of the Border To Border Trail. By gathering data on
trail usage and demonstrating how the existing trails are being used,
Washtenaw County will be better able to leverage available local, State
and federal funding to complete the trail.</span><span style="color: black;"></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><span><br></span><span>Volunteers
then are needed for a user survey of Border To Border Trail from
mid-April through May 2009. Survey sites will be at Bandemer Park,
Gallup Park, Ford Lake and the EMU campus. For a survey flyer </span><span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT81"><a href="http://www.ewashtenaw.org/government/departments/planning_environment/planning/B2B%20Flyer" target="_blank"><span><font color="#800080">click here</font></span></a></span></span><span> For survey volunteer information (including a short training video) </span><span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT82"><a href="http://www.ewashtenaw.org/government/departments/planning_environment/planning/B2BVolunteers" target="_blank"><span><font color="#800080">click here</font></span></a></span></span><span>. To volunteer (shifts are only for a few hours) contact Anya Dale at 734-222-6848 or </span><span><span class="Object" id="OBJ_PREFIX_DWT83"><a href="mailto:dalea@ewashtenaw.org" target="_blank"><span>dalea@ewashtenaw.org</span></a></span>.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt;"><br><span></span></p><span>Bob Krzewinski"<br>_________________________________________________________________________<br><br></span></div></body></html>