Lake Park Friends

2009

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January 2009

Celebration of Marcia Coles Community Room

Time: 5:30-7:30 p.m.

Location: Lower Level of Lake Park Pavilion

Details: The Marcia Coles Community Room, in the lower level of the Lake Park Pavilion, has been remodeled! Come to the celebration and enjoy food and music FREE! Please RSVP to Lake Park Friends at 962-1680 or lakeparkfriends@sbcglobal.net.

2009 Ice Skating Party

Time: 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.

Location: Ice rink and Warming House

Details: Enjoy s'mores and hot chocolate while skating or watching others skate. This wonderful family event is free!

"Things That Are Missing" rescheduled from Jan. 24 (cold weather)

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Location: Meet at Warming House

Details: Join members of the Lake Park Friends History Committee as we roam Lake Park in search of "Things That Are Missing". Armed with maps and early 20th Century postcards, we will try to uncover the secrets of Lake Park Past. Dress warmly as we will be hiking the trails.

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February

Duck Watch

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Location: Meet on east side of Lincoln Memorial Drive, across from the running track and north of Bradford Beach

Details: These free, informal walks are open to the public. Recereational birders with spotting scopes volunteer to locate and identify common and rare waterfowl and gulls, both near shore and far out into Lake Michigan. Dress warmly.

Who's Gone There? Animal Tracking

Time: 1:00-2:30 p.m.

Location: Meet at Marcia Coles Community Room

Details: Howard Aprill, a Naturalist with the Wehr Nature Center, will lead adventurers on an investigation of animal tracks in Lake Park. This program is appropriate for families and kids age 10 and up.

Lakefront Parks

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Location: Marcia Coles Community Room

Details: William Tishler, Professor Emeritus at UW-Madison, will speak on F.L. Olmsted, Horace Cleveland and the Landscape Architecture of Milwaukee's Early Lakefront Parks. Prof. Tishler will take us back to the era that preceded our first designed park, through the development of Juneau and Lake Parks by the greatest landscape architects of their age and into the present, for a discussion of the durable values our parks have for our communities. Prof. Tishler graduated from UW-Madison and Harvard. He is the co-founder of the Alliance for Historic Landscape Preservation and the author of more than 170 publications. We are extremely fortunate to have him here in Milwaukee so come join us!

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March

Duck Watch

Time: 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Location: Meet on east side of Lincoln Memorial Drive, across from the running track and north of Bradford Beach

"Things That Are Missing" II

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Location: Warming House

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April

18	UWM Hunger Clean Up at Lake Park Time: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Location: Warming House Details: UWM Students will be cleaning and weeding in the park. Other groups are welcome to join as well.
18	Plant Oak Saplings Time: 10 a.m. Location: Warming House Details: Lake Park Friends has acquired approximately 100 oak saplings to be planted in the park. This is a great family event! Meet at the Warming House for some orientation, get some supplies and head out to designated areas to plant the saplings. If you are able, bring a wagon, 5 gallon bucket and a shovel!
Saturday mornings 18, 25	Warbler Walks Time: 8:30-10 a.m. Location: West side of Warming House Details: These free, informal walks are open to the general public. Recreational birders, who are familiar with Lake Park, volunteer to lead people of all skill levels to the best birding spots in the park. (Cancelled if weather calls for thunderstorms or winds of 20 mph or higher.) Visit http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html for more information.
Saturday mornings 18, 25	Weed Out Time: 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Location: Warming House Details: Volunteers are needed to help remove garlic mustard in the park woodlands. Enjoy a spring day in the park and help restore natural areas and protect animals too. Wear sturdy shoes and gloves.
25	Great American Keep Milwaukee Beautiful Clean Up Day in Lake Park Time: 9-12 a.m. Location: Warming House Details: Be a part of the nation's largest organized annual clean up, beautification, and community improvement program. Set a positive example for your community by doing your part to help keep Greater Milwaukee beautiful!
26	Nature Walk Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: Warming House Details: Join some Nature Committee members as they lead a nature walk, lasting about an hour, through the park. The walk will focus on trees and will highlight the newly planted oak saplings.
29	Lake Park Public Meeting Time: 6:30-7:30 p.m. Location: Marcia Coles Community Room Details: A generous, anonymous donation has been offered to Lake Park Friends for the construction of a new band shelter in Lake Park. The public is invited to a discussion —moderated by Kevin Haley of Milwaukee County Parks and Tom Cheney, Lake Park Friends President, —for the purpose of gathering public input on the proposal. A number of elements such as history, site selection, and architectural design will be considered. Refreshments provided.

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May

2, 9, 16, 23	Warbler Walks Time: 8:30-10 a.m. Location: West side of Warming House Details: These free, informal walks are open to the general public. Recreational birders, who are familiar with Lake Park, volunteer to lead people of all skill levels to the best birding spots in the park. (Cancelled if weather calls for thunderstorms or winds of 20 mph or higher.) Visit http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html for more information.
Saturday mornings 2, 9, 16, 23, 30	Weed Out Time: 9 a.m.-12 p.m. Location: Warming House Details: Volunteers are needed to help remove garlic mustard in the park woodlands. Enjoy a spring day in the park and help restore natural areas and protect animals too. Wear sturdy shoes and gloves.
Tuesdays 5, 12, 19, 26	Lake Park Friends Coffee Cafe Time: 8-10 a.m. Location: Marcia Coles Community Room Details: Before or after your morning walk or run in the park, stop by the Community Room for coffee or juice.
9, 16	Landscape the North Point Lighthouse Time: Shift one: 9 a.m.- 1 p.m. Shift two: 1-5 p.m. Location: North Point Lighthouse Details: Approximately 20 volunteers are needed to help landscape the North Point Lighthouse grounds. Contractors and Milwaukee County Crews will be planting the large trees and shrubs, but helpers are needed to do the rest. This requires being able to dig a hole and handle planting medium-sized plants. Bring your own shovel and fork. Call May Klisch to volunteer: 414.332.6754 or keeper@northpointlighthouse.org.
10	Annual Mother's Day Wildflower Walk Time: 1 p.m. Location: Warming House Details: Nature Committee members will lead a walk through the ravines of Lake Park in search of blooming wildflowers.
17	Sunday Fun-Day, a Friends Group Membership Recruitment Event Time: 1-5 p.m. Location: Lakefront Brewery, 1872 Commerce St. Details: This is an exciting opportunity to inform the community about our collective efforts to preserve the vitality of our parks for future generations, raise needed funds, and recruit new members to our Friends Groups! The Park People will raise funds to support new and existing Friends Groups by selling raffle tickets for the items the Friends Groups donate as well as other items.
18	Lake Park Friends Annual Meeting Time: 7-8 p.m. Location: Marcia Coles Community Room Details: Lake Park Friends will be holding its 2009 Annual Meeting. Plus, there will be presentation of the 2nd Annual Lake Park Friends Conservator of the Year Award.

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June

2, 9, 16, 23, 30	Lake Park Friends Coffee Cafe Time: 8:30-10 a.m. Location: Marcia Coles Community Room Details: Before or after your morning walk or run in the park, stop by the Community Room for coffee or juice.
16, 23, 30	Yoga Time: 7-8:15 a.m. Location: Marcia Coles Community Room Details: Instructor Edie Starrett will lead an introductory 7 session yoga class on Tuesday mornings. $10 per session, or $60 for 7 sessions. Preregister by calling or emailing the LPF office, or pay at the door. Bring your mat and stay for free coffee afterwards!
13	"Things That Are Missing" II - rescheduled from January Time: 1:00 p.m. Location: Warming House Details: Join members of the Lake Park Friends History Committee as we roam Lake Park in search of "Things That Are Missing". Armed with maps and early 20th Century postcards, we will try to uncover the secrets of Lake Park Past. This walk will focus on the a missing bandstand, a bridge, the gun club, the pump house and bandstand #2. Dress appropriately as we will be hiking the trails.
16	Playground Clean Up Time: 9-11 a.m. Location: Lake Park Playground near Warming House and Tennis Courts Details: Volunteers will be filling in sand, raking, cleaning up debris, edging and sweeping the playground area.
18	Playground Clean Up Time: 3-5 p.m. Location: Lake Park Playground near Warming House and Tennis Courts Details: Volunteers will be filling in sand, raking, cleaning up debris, edging and sweeping the playground area.
24	Superun 5K Run Time: Registration 5-6 p.m., Race begins 7:00 p.m. Location: Pavilion Parking Lot Details: The authority on running in Wisconsin, Badgerland Striders, is holding a 5K run in our own Lake Park! For all of the details and to register, visit www.badgerlandstriders.org
Tuesdays 23, 30	Grand Staircase Revival Time: 3-7 p.m. Location: Grand Staircase Details: Volunteers needed---The area around the Grand Staircase needs some help. This beautiful area, planted in 2000, is in desperate need of weeding and some replanting of perennials. The Nature Committee will start working on this area on Tuesdays from 3-7 p.m. beginning Tuesday, June 23. Volunteers are welcomed for any length of time. The more hands we have helping, the sooner the area will become presentable again!
28	Nature Walk Time: 9-10:30 a.m. Location: Marcia Coles Community Room Details: The nature committee of Lake Park Friends is sponsoring monthly Nature Walks exploring the natural areas of Lake Park with the goal of discovering the many native birds, mammals, trees and flowers found here. The walks will be led by Brian Hansen, and other members of the Nature Committee, and will be held on the fourth Sunday of each summer month beginning June 28. They will start at 9:00 a.m. in the Marcia Coles Community Room (in the lower level Lake Park Pavilion) and will be followed by coffee at 10:30.
29	Musical Mondays Concert - Milwaukee Children's Choir Time: 6:30-8 p.m. Location: Picnic area #3 Details: Under the direction of Ellen Shuler, Cantorei (the 4th-9th graders) will show why the MCC has the most sought-after choirs in town.

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July

Wonderful Wednesdays Concert - Mark Hayward

Time: 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Location: Picnic area #3

Details: Whether you are looking for a world-class yo-yo performer, a comedy juggler, or just an engaging guy who is really good at playing with toys, you have come to the right place. Mark's performance consists of an amusing combination of comedy and object manipulation. He uses props such as yo-yos, tops and juggling equipment, as well as nontraditional performing props like a mousetrap (and even a wombat trap!), in a fun and witty style for a show that can be enjoyed by anyone. Mark has even performed on Late Night with David Letterman. http://www.markhayward.net

July 4th Celebration in Lake Park - Theme "America-A Land of Beauty"

Time: 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

Location: Lake Park Pavilion Parking Lot Area

Details: 9 a.m. parade begins at Hartford Ave. or Maryland Ave. Schools and proceeds east on Newberry Blvd. (Free flags distributed on the parade route.) 9:30 a.m. Free Ice Cream! 9:45 a.m. Honor Guard with flag raising and national anthem. 10:00 a.m. - 1 p.m. Free carriage rides courtesy of Lake Park Friends. Also games and contests for boys and girls of all ages. 10:45 a.m. Water Balloon Toss 11:00 a.m. Judging of decorated doll buggies, coaster wagons and tricycles. 11:30 a.m. Judging of decorated bicycles. 12:00 p.m. Sidewalk chalk drawing contest in parking lot. 9:15 p.m. Fireworks. To volunteer, call Phil Rozga at 332-4052. To enter contests, sign up at the registration table on the day of the event.

Musical Mondays Concert - Tim Burr & Son

Time: 6:30-8 p.m.

Location: Picnic area #3

Details: With just voice, guitar and bass, these troubadours transport the listener back to the times and ballads of the Great American Songbook.

Tuesdays 7, 14, 21, 28

Grand Staircase Revival

Time: 3-7 p.m.

Location: Grand Staircase

Details: Volunteers needed---The area around the Grand Staircase needs some help. This beautiful area, planted in 2000, is in desperate need of weeding and some replanting of perennials. The Nature Committee will start working on this area on Tuesdays from 3-7 p.m. beginning Tuesday, June 23. Volunteers are welcomed for any length of time. The more hands we have helping, the sooner the area will become presentable again!

Wonderful Wednesdays Concert - The Chickadees

Time: 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Location: Picnic area #3

Details:The Chickadees are a female music trio that record and perform fun and educational children’s songs. Banded together at “the gathering place by the waters,” Mary Karlzen, Anjl Rodee and Carmen Nickerson have been collaborating for some time on “grown-up” music projects, in Milwaukee, when they were inspired to apply their talents in the world of children’s music. http://www.thechickadees.net

Musical Mondays Concert - Peter Baime & Friends

Time: 6:30-8 p.m.

Location: Picnic area #3

Details: Infectious music of old Spain through the magic of Flamenco guitar, enchanting songs, and the staccato of these dancers’ footsteps.

Wonderful Wednesdays Concert - Fox & Branch

Time: 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Location: Picnic area #3

Details: Dave Fox and Will Branch play a timeless kind of music. Their crowd-pleasing mix of old blues, jug band songs, fiddle tunes, New Orleans-flavored numbers and Cajun tunes makes people stop and smile. The duo has played to appreciative audiences at clubs, festivals, schools and libraries all over the Midwest, as well as on the east coast. Their music has been played on folk radio across the United States and Canada.http://www.foxandbranch.com

"Things That Are Missing" III

Time: 1:00 p.m.

Location: Warming House

Musical Mondays Concert - Philomusica String Quartet

Time: 6:30-8 p.m.

Location: Picnic area #3

Details: Come hear Milwaukee’s newest classical combo with its fresh take on some of the genre’s well-loved repertoire.

Wonderful Wednesdays Concert - KG & The Ranger

Time: 6:30-7:30 p.m.

Location: Picnic area #3

Details: The adventure, beauty, and excitement of the Old West come to life as this husband and wife duo (Karen Gogolick and Rick Roltgen) perform classic and contemporary cowboy songs. Whether they are yodeling in harmony, offering cowboy wisdom, or spinning a lariat, KG & The Ranger will take you on an unforgettable musical ride through the sagebrush. http://www.kgandtheranger.com

Nature Walk

Time: 9-10:30 a.m.

Location: Marcia Coles Community Room

Details: The nature committee of Lake Park Friends is sponsoring monthly Nature Walks exploring the natural areas of Lake Park with the goal of discovering the many native birds, mammals, trees and flowers found here. The walks will be led by Brian Hansen, and other members of the Nature Committee, and will be held on the fourth Sunday of each summer month beginning June 28. They will start at 9:00 a.m. in the Marcia Coles Community Room (in the lower level Lake Park Pavilion) and will be followed by coffee at 10:30.

27	Musical Mondays Concert - Above the Town Time: 6:30-8 p.m. Location: Picnic area #3 Details: With fiddle, banjo, guitar and bass, and carefully crafted vocals, these four guys practically make the blue grass grow!

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August

3	Musical Mondays Concert - Becky Spice & Jamie Johns Time: 6:30-8 p.m. Location: Picnic area #3 Details: These two never fail to delight with their renditions of familiar songs and forgotten treasures – plus a surprise or two here and there.

10	Musical Mondays Concert - Lee Henning & Friends Time: 6:30-8 p.m. Location: Picnic area #3 Details: One of the area’s most accomplished tenors proudly introduces some of Milwaukee’s gifted young vocalists.

Musical Mondays Concert - Worldwind Jazz

Time: 6:30-8 p.m.

Location: Picnic area #3

Details: This mellow ensemble promises to remind you of the delights of Musical Mondays all the rest of the summer.

Nature Walk

Time: 9-10:30 a.m.

Location: Marcia Coles Community Room

22, 29

Warbler Walks

Time: 8:30-10 a.m.

Location: West side of Warming House

Details: These free, informal walks are open to the general public. Recreational birders, who are familiar with Lake Park, volunteer to lead people of all skill levels to the best birding spots in the park. (Cancelled if weather calls for thunderstorms or winds of 20 mph or higher.) Visit http://home.roadrunner.com/~phunter1/lakeparkbirds.html for more information.

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September

5, 12, 19, 26

Warbler Walks

Time: 8:30-10 a.m.

Location: West side of Warming House

LPF/UWM Eco Walk

Time: 11 a.m.-2 p.m.

Location: Begins at Spaights Plaza on UWM Campus

Details: This walk focuses on eco-friendly practices occuring at UWM and in Lake Park. The highlights on campus include a walk through Downer Woods and a visit to a prairie garden and rain garden. In Lake Park, the walk highlights the Locust Street Ravine, Waterfall Ravine and the North Point Lighthouse rain garden. A snack is served before the walk begins and a light lunch will be served afterwards in the Marcia Coles Community Room in the lower level of Lake Park Pavilion. Registration includes 1 entry into the raffle for an Apple MacBook. Additional tickets may be purchased. More details and online registration is forthcoming.

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October

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November

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December

Christmas Bird Count

Time: 1 - 6 p.m.

Location: Meet at Warming House

Details: Early rising birders will gather at the Urban Ecology Center to begin the day's count at 8 a.m. Then everyone (sleepyheads welcome) will come to the Warming House in Lake Park at 1:00 p.m. for some warm chili and other refreshments. After fortifying ourselves, we will head out into the park to continue the count, and complete the day with with an evening "owling". Owls previously heard on CBCs have included Great Horned Owl, the small Screech Owl and the even smaller Saw-Whet-Owl. It's a great way to celebrate an early Christmas!