Thanks to Russ Aikman for offering to host the February 27th tasting. We will gather at 7pm, please bring a bottle of wine and a complementary food that highlights the flavors of your wine choice. RSVP by posting here on the message board that you will be attending.

At the Chili cook off on Saturday, I spoke with a few people who were intimidated by the concept of a wine tasting, although I would have thought that “Winos” would have been the clue that this is not in any way shape or form a sniff, swirl, sip and spit event. I assured them then, as I am assuring you all now, you don’t need to know anything about wine to participate, and you don’t have to be a creative cook either. If you enjoy drinking and eating, this is the party for you.

So check your social calendars and plan on joining us for this fun filled neighborly good time. RSVP on the Forum here

The Bishop Arts District is sponsoring its first Dash for the Beads on Feb 6 at 9am. It’s going to be a 5k run or 1-mile walk, with a costume contest thrown in. We want to get a group from Winnetka Heights to participate together in this event and help make it successful. We also will be making shirts that identify us as WH residents – since we ask for community support at our events, it will be great to show everyone that we reciprocate. The event is even going to be pet friendly, so bring your dogs to run/walk with you. There’s more info about the race, as well as registration here.

The event is going to be SATURDAY February 6 at 9am. The race starts at 9am, but we will plan on meeting up before that to make sure everyone has t-shirts, beads, costumes, etc. I will post more details once we have a better idea of how many people are interested. In the spirit of Mardi Gras, we were hoping to follow the race with some mimosas. Respond to this thread or contact Jeff Fahrenholz at communications [at] winnetkaheights.org if you you’d be interested in running/walking. This will help us know the number and sizes of t-shirts that we will need to order. Since there is an entry fee for the run, the neighborhood was planning to pick up the tab for the t-shirts that identify us.

Neighborhood students were asked to design a t-shirt for our neighborhood association. If you are a WH resident, please vote for your favorite design in this thread in the forum. Voting ends February 15th!
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If you are a resident and don’t have an account for the forum or can’t remember your username, just send Jeff Jones an email – jeff@thejonesthing.com

Saturday, Jan. 30th, 9 AM – Winnetka Heights Reforestation
Meet at the little park at the SW corner of Jefferson and Clinton
We are planting nearly 70 trees this year. All neighbors are invited to attend. Shovels and gloves are highly recommended. The more help, the merrier. (And the sooner we’ll finish!)

We hope to be finished planting by 12:00 – 12:30 at which time we will reward ourselves with a big lunch. This year we will be having a Chili Cook Off.

All neighbors are invited to participate in the Chili Cook Off whether they plant trees or not. We already have several batches lined up, but if you’re feeling competitive and would like to be a contestant, please contact Crystal at crystalmgonzalez@gmail.com. Also contact Crystal if you have any other contribution for our big event. i.e. utensils, drinks, sides.

Tree recipients can bring their food contribution to the park in the morning. Others can bring theirs around 11 AM. Electricity will be provided for crock pots.

If you’re not planting trees or even cooking chili, you’re still invited! Somebody’s gotta judge the chili!

Questions about the event? Contact Rob at herrhansy@sbcglobal.net.

Put on your grubbiest clothes and come down to the park at 9 AM next Saturday. Come on, it’s fun to get dirty with your neighbors!

It’s almost time for the next Winnetka Heights Neighborhood Association General Meeting.

When: Tuesday, January 26th , 2010 from 7pm-8:30pm

Where: Turner House – 401 N. Rosemont Ave.

Guest Speaker will be:

Carol Roark of the Dallas Public Library- Special Collections
Carol will give a talk entitled “How to Research the History of Your Home”
She will focus not only on the resources available at the Central Library, but also those that can be accessed online with a Dallas Public Library card. She is always interesting and very informative.

Other reports:
Reforestation
Holiday Home Tour Wrap-up
Latest on Davis St. Study
OneDay Dallas Trash Pick-up
Bike Routes
NOCUPP Signup
and more.

Also we will let the membership vote on the next T-shirt design for WH.
We have a number of entries to choose from offered by students from the
Greiner Exploratory Arts Academy.

Hope to see you there!

The holidays are behind us and it is time to regroup and rejuvenate with a neighborhood wine tasting.

Aaron and Daralee, new to our neighborhood, have generously offered to host. Let’s show them what a great neighborhood they have moved into by having a large group of friendly and vivacious winos to fill their home.

As usual, please rsvp on the wh forum if you are planning on attending and pick up a bottle of wine and find a complementary food to go with it and join us at 7pm on Saturday, January 23rd.

Hope to see many of you there. As usual this is open to all WH neighbors, so if someone is not on the Winos email list or does not access the message board, please invite them and get them a password so they can post here that they are coming.

Be thinking if you would like to host in upcoming months and let me know who is available for February, we would like to do this each month until May when we of course will switch to front porch concoctions in the warmer weather.