April 2016 Newsletter

A Food Pantry for Whitely

This month I would just like to take a moment to personally thank all of our WCC Partners for their continued support and encouragement. There is no way that we could do the things we do without all of you. To all of the Churches and Businesses, Foundations and Administrations, all of the City Officials and Community Organizations, School and Universities, Students and Faculty, to all of our Board members and Committee Chairs, Friends and Family, I want to say, “Thank You!” You have displayed and

demonstrated the true essence of how Muncie can operate and what can be achieved through Unity.

You have shared your time, your talents and your treasure, you have given us your ideas, insight and influence and have helped us grow and expand our vision for this community. I am humbled by the magnitude of support and generosity we have received and only wish that it could be communicated and reported in a greater way. People need to know that there is this kind of collaboration and that these kinds of relationships are being built for the betterment of Muncie. Thank you all again for not just your partnership but also your friendship.

President Frank T. Scott, Sr.

This Month: Whitely Food Pantry Paint the Park—McCulloch Kitselman Project Plans

Let’s Talk

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A Letter from the President

Working towards a solution for food insecurity

THANK YOU!

Special thanks to

IU Health Ball Memorial

Hospital for printing this

newsletter.

Whitely Community Council is partnering

with other wonderful Muncie non-profits

like Second Harvest and Edible Muncie in

order to develop a food pantry that will

also double as a grocery store for the area.

This idea combines the traditional pantry concept with the idea of time banking, so that those truly in need will have free access to healthy nutritious food. Those with low-income who do not want to accept handouts, or those of any income who simply want access to healthy food locally, will have two options for how to utilize the location – they can either pay money just like a normal grocery store, or they can pay with their time by completing volunteer hours around the community, manning the store itself, or gardening to help supply local produce to the store. Essentially people can pay with money or they can pay with time. (Continued)

How Can I Make My Community Better?

Become a Member of the Whitely Community Council

Be a part of making positive changes in your community.

Get free access to the Whitely Toolshed.

Get assistance with your home repairs during neighborhood makeovers.

Sign up with Curtis during volunteer hours at Connection Corner, during off hours at Connection Corner.

Applications are available on the community table and can be mailed to P.O. Box 665, Muncie, IN

47308. Applications can also be filled out at a Whitely CC meeting. Memberships must be renewed

annually. Yearly membership costs are as follows:

$12 for individual membership $15 for family membership $50 for business membership

Donate to Whitely Community Council

Donate via check (given to any board member) and made out to Whitely Community Council or via

online donation at whitelycc.org

Volunteer.

Call 288-1892 or ask about volunteer opportunities at the next Whitely CC meeting.

Join a Committee.

There are seven Goal Committees as well as Hospitality and Membership committees. Everyone in this

community has something to offer, and we would love to benefit from your experience, knowledge,

talent, and passion for the community. Help us make Whitely better by getting involved in leadership

efforts. Listed below are each of the committees:

Goal 1: Beautification and Improved

Infrastructure

Goal 2: Community Safety

Goal 3: Education and Health Promotion

Goal 4: Employment and Business Support

Goal 5: Neighborhood Pride and Event

Planning

Goal 6: Resource Development and

Fundraising

Goal 7: Advertising and Public Relations

(Continued) A Food Pantry for Whitely

Our hope is that the Whitely community and its supporters will help this project to move forward and get involved from the beginning. There are three ways we would love for you to get involved. 1. FUNDING: WCC has secured the needed funds

for an endowment through Community Foundation. The current objective is to secure startup funding for an initial investment in property purchase, construction, and getting the food pantry/grocery established. Donations to help with startup funding for this project can be sent to Whitely Community Council at P.O. Box 665, Muncie, IN 47308. Checks should be made out to Whitely Community Council with the phrase “food insecurity” written in the memo line, to ensure the funds go to the appropriate project. Your donations, hard work, and support are essential to the success of this pantry/grocery store.

2. GARDENING: We need to set up a system of gardens and orchards in the Whitely area that can supply the store and provide fresh produce to the neighborhood. For the gardens to be sustainable they need to be attached to a network of hardworking, community-minded folks who can dedicate small amounts of time to keep the garden well-tended year after year. The ideal location for these gardens would be adjacent to churches in Whitely. There is no organization better for a task like this than a church, and if our local churches could establish gardens and create an expectation that parishioners donate their time to keeping it maintained, this could be such a great success. If you belong to a church in Whitely and are interested in helping to start a garden, please contact us.

3. ADVISING: Lastly, we need respected community leaders and faith leaders to help form an advisory committee for this project

that can help shepherd it through its early stages and set it up for success.

If you’re interested in doing any one of these things we would be so grateful. We absolutely need help from our residents, our supporters, our local faith community, and other local nonprofits. It is only if we all pull together that this project will succeed. We want to move quickly on this project and hope to have made major strides in establishing the pantry/grocery by the end of 2016. Please contact Cornelius and Mary Dollison at cdollison@comcast.net with questions, comments, or pledges of support. Your help would mean so much to WCC and will do so much to help move this community forward.

Congratulations to the Howells!

Whitely Community Council members Karen and Ben Howell are Muncie’s Persons of the Year! We’ve known about these gentle, generous community servants for a long time, and we are so very happy to see them get the recognition they richly deserve! Thank you, Karen and Ben, for your servant leadership in Whitely and beyond. Congratulations on this award!

East Side Transformation Indiana Forge and Indiana Steel & Wire Sites to be Revamped

The Ball State Next System Teach-In is the local regional initiative of a national Teach-In aimed at initiating a conversation around how people and communities can proactively engage the systemic challenges they face now and in coming decades. In the morning sessions, members of the community and the university will focus on current drivers of local system change (economic, social, environmental), resources available to optimize community success (energy, water, food, local collaboration), and strategies for helping communities thrive (cooperatives, local resource-flows, etc.).

(SOURCE: Muncie-Delaware County, Indiana Economic Development Alliance)

At an unveiling ceremony on the morning of March 31st, Muncie Mayor Dennis Tyler announced a transformative plan for the former King Indiana Forge and Indiana Steel & Wire industrial sites, located next to the White River at the city’s eastern gateway, near the 2200 block of East Jackson Street/Highway 32. The plan, a result of decades of collaboration, was detailed by Tyler and representatives of numerous partners on the project. Significant pieces of the plan include the Kitselman Trailhead, a new eastern gateway to the City of Muncie, the Muncie Arts & Culture Trail, and the Kitselman Pure Energy Park (KPEP).

Mayor Dennis Tyler noted, “This project is about catalyzing a revitalization of the City of Muncie, and ties into the fundamental themes of our ADVANCE ECI Regional Cities plan. The number of partners involved

Ball State Next System Teach-In

When and Where:

8:00am - 3:00pm April 29, Cardinal Hall

LA Pittenger Center Ball State University

What is a teach-in?

A teach-in is similar to a forum on any complicated issue. The main difference between a teach-in and a seminar is the refusal to limit the discussion to a specific time frame or a strict subject area. Teach-ins are meant to be open, practical, and oriented

toward action. "Teach-Ins" were popularized during the U.S. government's involvement in Vietnam.

In an afternoon workshop, community groups will play a game where they apply economic development strategies to provision the community to thrive. The Teach-In is seen as a seed that will grow and help the local community flourish. The closing session focuses on seeing positive changes occurring in the community not as separate initiatives but as the next system that is emerging locally. It identifies strategies for discovering and leveraging interconnections among these changes so as to enhance neighborhood and community self-reliance and ability to thrive in the next system.

in today’s announcement is a testament to Muncie’s focused and collaborative approach to creating the public/private partnerships that are necessary for talent attraction, increased investment, and population growth.”

The Kitselman Trailhead will occupy 18 acres on the former King Indiana Forge and Indiana Steel and Wire sites, and will link Indiana’s longest trail, the 62-mile Cardinal Greenway, with the White River Trail and the Muncie Arts & Culture Trail. The location will be the setting of a new, visually-compelling gateway for the City of Muncie in a beautiful, bold design that not only provides a significant entry in the city, but puts people at the center of this new entrance. $4.5 million in private and Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) financial support toward the $9 million project cost has been secured for the Kitselman Trailhead. A

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Paint the Park

Year of Color Coming to McCulloch Park

Mark your calendar for Saturday, May 14th. That’s

when we’ll be painting McCulloch Park in gorgeous

pastels as part of Whitely’s Year of Color.

In cooperation with the Muncie Parks Department, the

City of Muncie, Muncie-Delaware Clean and Beautiful,

and others, we present “Paint the Park.” Volunteers

will work together with Parks Department staff to give

the park a makeover: painting stages, benches,

playground equipment, and picnic tables throughout

the park. We will also work to plant flowers and

saplings, pick up trash, and generally beautify our

beloved local park.

A day of hard work will be followed by an evening of

fun, as the Muncie Parks Department plans to provide

live entertainment and refreshments for Whitely

volunteers and residents.

Follow Whitely Community Council on Facebook for

more details as things develop.

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Upcoming Events and News

New Senior Pastor @ Union Missionary Baptist Church

Robert Scaife has recently been named Senior Pastor at Union Missionary Baptist Church, one of the largest churches in Muncie. An ex-police officer, Pastor Scaife brings to this post a deep, abiding commitment to our community, experience and knowledge of safety and legal concerns, and solid relationships throughout the county and beyond. He also brings with him a beautiful and accomplished family, including scholars, athletes, and activists.

April Classes @ ConnectionCorner

Connection Corner

1824 E Centennial Ave

Computer Basics April 4 and 5 10am-12pm

Windows 10 Intro

April 14 10am-11:30am

Internet Security

April 21 10am-11am

Upcoming Events and News

Final Friday: Censorship @David Owsley Art Museum

Friday April 29 at 6pm. David Owsley Art Museum at Ball State

2021 W Riverside Ave, Muncie

MCs Braydee Euliss and Traci Lutton introduce

PechaKucha talks to Muncie to highlight what is creative and cool about the area. Stay to enjoy music

by DJ JANELL, refreshments, cash bar, artist demonstration, art, and more.

Walk Indiana Kickoff Event

April 9 at 8:15am. Cardinal Greenway Depot

700 East Wysor Street

Join community members for the annual Walk Indiana Kickoff event which will feature a 3.5 mile walk through the Craddock Wetlands area on Saturday, April 9 at 8:15 am. There is no cost to attend and free blood pressure checks will be offered by IU Health Ball Memorial Hospital. The event will take place at the Cardinal Greenway Depot, 700 East Wysor. More info at www.walkindiana.org or look for Walk Indiana on Facebook. The Walk Indiana main event, featuring 5K, 10K, 13.1 mile walk distances will be held on September 10, 2016. Once again, IU Health is offering a limited number of Walk Indiana scholarships to offset the $30 registration fee. See IU Health’s John Disher at the kickoff event to apply.

NBA 2K16 Tournament @ Connection Corner

Thursday, April 21, 5:30pm-7:30pm Connection Corner

1824 E Centennial Ave

Adults only. Mystery prize for the tournament winner. Snacks provided. Call 747-8216 now to get your name

on our NBA 2K16 Tournament Bracket. Spaces are limited. Special after-hours event. Come game with us!

Upcoming Events and News

Conversations About Race

New class offered by Update Learning

Update Learning is offering a new class Conversations about Race during our Spring session. Classes are held each Monday from April 4 through May 9 at High Street Methodist Church in Muncie.

Maude Jennings will steer this class along with other community leaders.

Monday, April 18 9:30am-10:20am

Monday, April 25 9:30am-10:20am

Monday, May 2

9:30am-10:20am

Monday, May 9 9:30am-10:20am

Update is offering more than 30 classes in four time

slots. Call the church, 747.8500, to ask for a brochure to be mailed or stop at the church to pick one up. The cost is $8 total to take just one class or up to four classes. High Street Methodist is located

at 219 South High Street, 47305.

IU Health Free Cervical Cancer Screenings

Thursday, April 21, 6pm-8pm IU Health Ball Memorial Cancer Center

2401 W. University Ave

The Indiana University Health Ball Memorial Hospi-tal Foundation is sponsoring a free cervical cancer screening in the IU Health Ball Memorial Cancer Center on Thursday, April 21 from 6 pm to 8 pm. The screenings offered are a pap test and an HPV test for the following:

Women ages 21-65

Underinsured or uninsured

With no pap exam in the past year

Hasn't had a total hysterectomy Space is limited, so make an appointment today. To make an appointment or for more information, please call Health Focus at 765.741.1073.

Upcoming Events and News

Make Your Voice Heard

Indiana Primary Tuesday May 3rd, 6am -6pm.

Indiana’s Primary is coming up fast! Make sure to visit

indianavoters.in.gov to find out more information about where to vote. Don’t miss your chance to make

your voice heard during this election.

Peace Walk A Better Way

April 16 at 8:30am. Westside Park, Muncie

Awareness walk to raise money and awareness for A Better Way Services. Registration begins at 8:30AM and Walk begins at 9:00AM. For more information visit www.abetterwaymuncie.org

Upcoming Events and News

Saturday April 16, 8pm Cornerstone Center for the Arts

520 E Main St, Muncie

THE SHOW IS GETTING BIGGER AND BETTER ... We're starting the laughs off with one of Muncie's Own:

comedian Troy Davis will be bringing the funny business. Your feature act is one of the comic rising

stars in the industry today Jordan Jackson out of Atlanta! Starring JJ Williamson as seen on “Showtime

at the Apollo” & BET’s “Comic View.”

The Muncie City Wide Comedy Jam will be hosted by the very funny Marcus Combs from BET’s Comic

View and HBO’s Def Comedy Jam.

Music provided by Muncie's Own #1 DJ Goldie.

The doors open at 7pm. Show starts at 8pm.

Tickets are $10 in advance and $15 at the door.

Tickets are 2 for $15 online at www.cornerstonearts.org.

A Taste of Muncie

Sunday, April 17, 2pm-4pm

Cornerstone Center for the Arts 520 E Main St, Muncie

Cornerstone Center for the Arts and Prime Trust

Federal Credit Union are excited to announce the 30th Annual A Taste of Muncie, “Cheers to 30 Years.”

This annual fundraiser features cuisine from several of the finest restaurants in the area. Attendees are invited to sample items and vote on “The Best of

Taste” in various categories. All proceeds from the event benefit Cornerstone Center for the Arts’ arts

programs and events.

A Silver Ticket event will start early at 1pm. For the Silver Ticket reception local breweries,

Guardian Brewing and New Corner Brewing Co., have joined forces to present two original brews created

exclusively for A Taste of Muncie. The beer tastings will be paired with food by Vera Mae’s Bistro.

New to the event for its 30th anniversary is the

addition of a beer garden. This 21 & up area will be open to attendees interested in purchasing craft beer from Guarding Brewing and New Corner Brewing Co.

Beer is only available for additional purchase and does not come with general admission tickets.

Tickets for A Taste of Muncie are available at

Cornerstone's 2d floor desk from 10-4 daily, by calling 765-289-9687, or online. Silver tickets are $40 per

person. Advanced general admission tickets are $20 for adults or $15 for students with ID (Student tickets

available at Cornerstone only). General admission tickets at the door are $25 for adults and $20 for

students. Children, ages 5 and under, are free.

Partnering for Success Whitely Nominated As

Outstanding Community Partner

WCC members along with Ball State students, faculty, and staff from the BSU Office of Com-munity Engagement attended the Indiana Campus Compact Awards and Recognition Ceremony in Indianapolis. WCC was nominat-ed by the BSU Office of Community Engage-ment for the Indiana Campus Compact Out-standing Community Partner Award.