The Brightside Bash is a fun twist on a traditional gala fundraiser. The Bash features local bands, a silent auction, raffles, food and fun! The event will be held Thursday, September 21 from 6:00 – 9:00 p.m. at Copper & Kings Distillery, 1121 E. Washington Street. The 2017 Bash will feature music from Justin Lewis and Karter Louis & The GOAT band.

The Brightside Bash serves as a fundraiser for the Brightside Foundation. With the generous donations and contributions from this event, Brightside is able to continue to offer many educational programs, sustainability initiatives, and beautification projects to the community.

Click here to purchase tickets.

Join your neighbors and 5th Division police officers for coffee and conversation on Friday, September 22 at 9:00 a.m. at VINT, 2309 Frankfort Avenue. No agenda or speeches, just a chance to ask questions, voice concerns and get to know the officers in your neighborhood.

Bourbon & Beyond is scheduled for this Saturday, September 23 & Sunday, September 24 in Champions Park. The festival features the Steve Miller Band, Ellie Vedder, Stevie Nicks and many more. On Saturday, bands perform from 11:00 a.m. – 11:00 p.m. and Sunday from 11:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m. More information is available online, http://bourbonandbeyond.com/. 

LMPD is planning to close River Road 30 minutes prior to the end of the concerts on Saturday (10:30 p.m.) and Sunday (9:30 p.m.) to let the concert empty out. LMPD anticipates the road to be closed for an hour after the concerts end. More neighborhood street closures and no parking areas are in the next story. 

If you experience parking, traffic, noise or other issues during the concert, please contact the LMPD special events hotline at 689-1440. This number is only available during the concert. 

Thank you to Isaac Barnett and Malcom Oliver for attending the September 14, 2017, Metro Council meeting. Isaac and Malcolm served as District 9 pages during the meeting, working to pass information between Councilmembers. Both of them live in District 9 and attend Meyzeek Middle School, in the Math, Science and Technology Magnet Program.

If you are interested in having your child or grandchild serve as a District 9 page for a 2018 Council meeting, please contact our office at 574-3908 or email Kyle Ethridge.

For most varieties and locations, late summer or early fall is the best time to plant a tree. Just in time, a rebate program to encourage more tree planting has been extended. 

TreesLouisville Rebate Program, in partnership with the Louisville Metro Division of Community Forestry, is an incentive to get homeowners to plant trees on private property; the program allows eligible participants to receive 40% back (max. $80) on the purchase price of a shade tree.

• Participants must be residents of Jefferson County and trees must also be planted in Jefferson County.
• Trees must be considered a shade/canopy tree (verified by submitting itemized receipt with form)
• Trees must be planted in a residential yard
• Trees must measure at least 1in. diameter

More information can be found online at: treeslouisville.org/rebate. Participants may submit their rebate through the form on this page and tri-fold brochures are available at local garden centers. Shade trees are generally medium to large sized trees that have spreading canopies (think oaks, maples, lindens and elms), though smaller species like redbuds, serviceberries or dogwoods would also fall under this category. Avoid dwarf ornamental varieties. If you have questions about whether your tree is eligible for a rebate, email info@treeslouisville.org.

Now is a great time to go out and purchase and plant a new shade tree!

We’d like to feature your sustainability story - a resident or business doing good things for the environment.  Riding the bus, bicycling, walking, gardening and more - our eNews will feature practices which can benefit all of us.  Send your story to Bill Hollander or Kyle Ethridge. 

Congratulations to all of those receiving a Spirit of Crescent Hill award at last week's Crescent Hill Community Council meeting.  Shown with me after the ceremony are (back row) Barret Traditional Middle School Principal Tom Wortham, who accepted for the school; (middle) Mike DaRif, Charles Cash, Tara Bassett; (front) Doris Lamb.

Thanks for all of your contributions to Crescent Hill!

Masonic Homes of Kentucky is proposing to revise its approved Detailed District Development Plan and Conditional Use Permit in order to construct an addition to the Sproutlings Pediatric Daycare  and Preschool to include an additional four classrooms and a multi-purpose room on the west side of the existing Sproutlings building on the Masonic Home campus. The addition will be approximately 10,400 square feet.

You are invited to attend an informal meeting on the project, hosted by Dinsmore & Shohl, LLP, legal counsel for Masonic Homes. The meeting will be held on Thursday, September 28 at 6:00 p.m. in the Miralea Room at Miralea Active Lifestyle Community, 320 Joe Conway Circle, Masonic Home, KY.

If you have any comments or questions, please contact Mr. Clifford Ashburner at Clifford.ashburner@dinsmore.com or call 540-2382.

Cabel Street between Bowles Avenue and E. Washington Street will be closed to traffic through the end of January 2018. Cabel Street will remain open between Story and Bowles Avenues, as well as north of E. Washington Street at this time.

This work is part of MSD’s Force Main Extension Project for the Clifton Heights Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Basin. The work is also affecting traffic on Mellwood and Story Avenues and Brownsboro Road.

The Butchertown Neighborhood Association is proud to announce the annual Porktoberfest on Friday, October 6 from 5:00 - 10:00 p.m. at Copper & Kings Distillery, 1121 E. Washington Street. This culinary extravaganza will feature fabulous food, beverages and live entertainment.  

Volunteers are still needed to make this event a success! Please click here to see available shifts for the event.

Save the date for the annual Chili Cook off, hosted by the Clifton Community Council, benefiting Susan G. Komen. Gather up your beans, hot peppers and chili spices and join in the competition for the best tasting chili in Louisville. To be a competitor, please contact Brad Curry, brad@rededgelive.com, for official rules and entry.

The event is scheduled for Sunday, October 15 from Noon – 6:30 p.m. at the intersection of Frankfort Avenue and Pope Street. Tastings begin at Noon. The event is rain or shine.

A public-private partnership to help people who are visually impaired find points of interest in Louisville will expand, thanks to a $250,000 grant from the James Graham Brown Foundation.

The Indoor Explorer program, which is operated by the American Printing House for the Blind and created in partnership with the city’s Office for Civic Innovation, places low-power Bluetooth beacons in public buildings that feed information about amenities and points of interest to an app called Nearby Explorer.

People who are visually impaired will use this information to independently find their way through and around the public buildings to find features, such as an airline ticket counter at the airport.

The grant will fund the installation of low-power Bluetooth beacons inside additional public buildings, expanding the uses of the Nearby Explorer app for independent travel, employment, civic engagement, tourism, education, dining, recreation, shopping and more. The beacons will also improve indoor navigation — which is limited under current technology — for app users who are blind and visually impaired.

Check out this video (one minute, 48 seconds) made at the Crescent Hill Library on how Indoor Explorer works: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbxJHkFxPZc. 

If you’ve been complaining about litter, here’s a chance to do something about it.

Please plan to join your neighbors on Saturday, October 21, for the D9 Fall Community Cleanup. In partnership with Brightside, volunteers will be cleaning up Frankfort Avenue and Brownsboro Road. Volunteers should plan to meet at 8:30 a.m. at Bingham Park, 160 Coral Avenue, for breakfast sandwiches, provided by the Clifton McDonald’s, and hot coffee, provided by Heine Brothers’ Coffee. The cleanup will officially begin at 9:00 a.m. Volunteers will be able to walk to Brownsboro or Frankfort Avenue to beautify the area. The District 9 office will provide bags, gloves, tools and t-shirts on a first-come, first-served basis.

If you would like to register your own neighborhood team through Brightside, please click here.