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Thursday Night :: Fundraiser for Commercial Park Playlots at SmallBar

The bar is open to the public so spread the word.  Commercial Park playlots will receive the profits from the sale of every pint!!!

SmallBar and Stephen Freshnock present a

Home Brew Tapping

Date:
Thursday, June 3, 2010
Time:
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Location:
SmallBar Division St 2049 West Division

What: featuring homebrewed Coffee Bean Brown Ale made with Star Lounge beans and West Coast Double IPA in the spirit of a certain “elder”

A $5 donation is suggested per pint
Proceeds to Benefit Commercial Park

http://www.freshbrewlog.blogspot.com for more info and behind the scenes with the brewer!

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::Important Commercial Park Reminders::

Just a reminder that online registration for summer programming at Commercial Park and all other Park District Programs begins today at 9am.  For the summer session, CP is offering Day Camp with extended day options, Sports Camp and T-Ball (outdoor).

The Garden Club is scheduled to start this week with Jeanne!  Tuesdays at 4:30.  Check with the staff to confirm.

Also, tomorrow night is the monthly CPAC meeting.  Some things on the agenda include:  Earth Day follow-up, update on meeting with Alderman Moreno, Summer events at the park, and more.  Please join us.  The meeting is open to all interested in attending.  7:30pm in the Commercial Park field house.  Hope to see you there

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Earth Day Neighborhood Clean and Green

We hope you will come out and join us for this annual event.  The new Alderman of the First Ward will be there helping us spruce up the neighborhood and will be feeding the volunteers with a post-clean-up barbecue.  If you have friends in the neighborhood please forward this email on to them.  If you are interested in receiving these updates about events at Commercial Park and Honore, Superior and Snowberry playlots please head to our website http://www.commercialpark.org and click on subscribe!  Hope to see new and old faces this Saturday. ~ Georgia Burke

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New Solar Powered Trash Compactor at CP!

Have you seen it???  Our park was chosen by the Chicago Park District to receive one of the new solar powered trash compactors that have been going in a few parks across the city.  Just in time for the busy days of summer and for Earth Day…

Speaking of Earth Day….In honor of Earth Day this year our parks will be participating in two great events to support cleaning up our parks and our neighborhood.  Friends of the Park is sponsoring the Earth Day Parks and Preserve Clean Up and the 1st Ward is taking part in the City of Chicago’s Clean & Green.  To take part in both events meet up at Commercial Park at 9 am on Saturday, April 17.  We will work to clean up the streets and parks in our neighborhood, including Superior, Honore and Snowberry Playlots. Around lunch time please head back to Commercial where we are planning to have a bar-b-que and enjoy some time together as a neighborhood.  Plan to bring gloves if you have them.  Rakes, shovels and garbage bags will be provided.

More details to follow on Friday!

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CPD Summer Camp Scholarships Available

Commercial Park Advisory Council received this information and wanted to pass it on.


Thanks to a grant of over $200,000 from Parkways Foundation eligible Chicago families will receive scholarships for the Chicago Park Districts summer day camp program.  The grant will allow the Chicago Park District to subsidize eligible children at a rate of 50% or 75% of the cost to attend the six-week long session.

On Thursday, March 18 from 10 a.m. 9 p.m. and Saturday, March 20 from 9 a.m. 12 p.m., parents can submit required paperwork to see if they qualify at designated scholarship processing centers at nine citywide parks.  For more information, call the scholarship information line at 312.742.5734 or click here for full details from the CPD website: Scholarship Info