The German Village Commission honored three projects that contribute to the preservation and enhancement of the historic fabric of German Village. Following the Commission’s awards, the German Village Society presented the President’s Award to City of Columbus Recreation and Parks Department.

Andrea and Brett Cambern joined us to receive a special recognition for years of dedication and service to the German Village Society.

Awards were followed by a reception and a chance to socialize with like-minded leaders in preservation and Columbus advocacy. Before the evening even began, our Open House showed off our newly remodeled office space and named the team of donors responsible for our very polished new home! If you couldn’t join us to see the self-led walking tour of the offices in person, here are the notes from the plaques.

May 15, 2012

Thank you to our partner educators: Spanish for Ninos, Chrysalis Sculpture Studio, LLC, Local Matters, Village Singers, BalletMet and Actors’ Theatre.

We all look forward to welcoming you this summer — hopefully for repeat visits!

Please click the headline for further details about each program, then visit our registration site to sign up.

Spanish For Ninos – Session 1

Spanish for Ninos – Session 2

Clay Sculpting – Make Your Own Working Whistle!

Food Matters with Local Matters - This page includes a sign-up form. Food Matters is NOT included on the payment site linked above!

Village Singers present “Showtime”

Actors’ Theatre: Stand Up For Shakespeare

Actors’ Theatre: Stand Up for Shakespeare (younger students)

Actors’ Theatre: Creative Dramatics

BalletMet: Castle Adventures

BalletMet: Come Dance With Me

Zumba (for adults) with BalletMet

CLICK HERE TO REGISTER.

Prices for German Village Society members are lower than non-member prices. Save money now by joining the German Village Society!

May 22 | 7 p.m. | Scheurer Room

Here is what the city has had to say about the new recycling initiative:

Mayor Michael B. Coleman, Department of Public Service Director Mark Kelsey, City Environmental Steward Erin Miller and others today delivered the city’s first blue recycling cart filled with donated prizes to Columbus resident Lisa Dame, 6147 Woodsboro Drive, to celebrate the beginning of RecyColumbus, the City of Columbus’ new residential recycling service.

“Now that residential recycling is finally here, we need participation from our residents in order to be successful,” Mayor Coleman said. “Simply by throwing our recyclables in the blue cart instead of the wastebasket, we can save taxpayer dollars, protect our environment and become a greener city.”

Columbus residents who live on the west, southwest and northwest sides will begin receiving new, blue residential recycling carts in front of their homes on Monday, April 16. Delivery to these neighborhoods continues until May 19. Recyclables will be picked up at residents’ homes in this first phase beginning Monday, June 4 at no additional cost to residents. Recycling will be collected on a bi-weekly schedule, alternating with yard waste collection.

“Recycling preserves the environment, keeps recyclables out of the landfill, and creates and retains jobs. Plus it can save $3 million a year in tipping fees to the landfill if residents divert 25% of their trash to recycling. According to national statistics, 60% of the materials buried in a landfill could be recycled and put to good use,” said Councilmember Eileen Y. Paley, chair of the Public Service & Transportation Committee. “I look forward to this rollout and making this service available to our residents.”

RecyColumbus will serve more than 227,000 households by the time the program is fully implemented in February 2013. It is being rolled out in five phases. Columbus residents living in single-family homes or in a building with four units or less that are not part of a complex are eligible for this new convenient and easy-to-use city service.

In addition to saving millions of dollars in landfill tipping fee costs over several years, recycling preserves the environment.

“Recycling even one aluminum can, instead of trashing it, can make a difference. It takes 95% less energy to make a new aluminum can from a recycled one. One person, or family, really can make a difference with each recycled can, bottle, paper, plastic jug and carton,” said Public Service Director Mark Kelsey.

RecyColumbus is a program of the City of Columbus Department of Public Service. Visit www.RecycleColumbus.org to learn more about collection days, cart delivery or what to put in the cart. Residents can also email 311@columbus.gov or call 645-3111. Find out your yard waste collection day online at http://311.columbus.gov/colorday. Connect online at: Facebook.com/ ColumbusPublicService and twitter.com/ColumbusDPS or search for #RecycleColumbus.

This is the time that we are called upon to greet and welcome visitors to our very special community. Board of Trustees member Chris Hune – serving this year as H&G Volunteer Coordinator – is working with Bob Jackson to recruit volunteers.

Can you spend a couple of hours to help host the beautiful homes and gardens that are being opened to visitors? This year, you can sign up for shifts and indicate your preferred addresses electronically. Just click here to fill out the online form.

After you have completed the form, Bob or Chris will forward you a confirmation of your assignment sometime in May.

Questions in the meantime may be directed to Bob at 221-8888 or volunteer@germanvillage.com.

Thank you for being a part of our biggest fundraiser of the year!

Bunny’s artists statement will whet your appetite:

I am known as a process-oriented painter.   I use acrylic paints, collage elements, and tools as varied as squeegees, combs, and chopsticks to move the paint on paper and canvas.   I often draw on top of the initial layer of paint, developing the image that I see emerging.  The subjects of my paintings come from my travels, from the joy of walking in German Village and seeing flowers peer through wrought iron fences, from my past life as a New Yorker, and most often, from my imagination.  Having majored in English and French in college, words often become the main content of my art.   I am firmly rooted in the 20th Century art of abstraction but enjoy incorporating 21st Century ideas, using digital photos as painting surfaces and back-lit frames to add new dimensions to my art.  I have been painting for the last 19 years now and still feel the amazing joy that I felt on that day I walked into a watercolor class, picked up a brush, a palette, and astounded myself by making art!