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Pensacola Park Post A Monthly Pensacola Park Neighborhood Distribution Find us also on the web @ www.PensacolaPark.org #GIVING: D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 9 UPCOMING EVENTS IN DECEMBER: In recent years, December has become an important month financially for non-profit organizations. With events like #GivingTuesday and Lexington’s own Good Giving Challenge, there are multiple opportunities to donate funds to organizations you believe in and support. As an added incentive to help your dollars go further, there are many private organizations that provide “matching dollars” for organizations that qualify. For example, Patagonia provides a 100% match to donations made via their Action Works program for environmental preservation causes. Although Pensacola Park isn’t on the list to receive matching funds from Patagonia, as a 501c3, we are qualified and registered for PayPal’s Giving Fund. The PayPal Giving Fund will provide a 10% match to all funds donated to Pensacola Park through the Paypal website or app. What do your donations to Pensacola Park pay for? The majority of funds are used for matching grants to make neighborhood improvements. For example, we recently applied for a grant from Kentucky Utilities for tree replacement in Pensacola Park. However, for us to receive $5K in grant dollars, we have to provide a $5k match. Some grants require a 50/50 match; others only require a 20/80 match. Other projects Pensacola Park is working on include helping to mitigate storm water flooding at the end of Penmoken Park (and the overflow to Pensacola Dr.) by coordinating storm drain replacement with the city and re-designing the green-space at the end of Penmoken Park to help capture some of the excess run- off. Ultimately, the dollars you donate are used directly to improve your neighborhood. Whether you can donate $5 dollars or $50 dollars—every little bit helps and will be used to leverage more grant dollars for our neighborhood. We greatly appreciate your support!!! How can you donate? 1. Paypal. Our Paypal account is: [email protected] 2. Venmo. Our Venmo account is: @Pensacola-Park 3. Pay by Cash or Check (you can drop off either of these): a. Our neighborhood mailbox located at 107 Lackawanna Rd Lexington KY 40503 (Please put it in the mailbox with our PP logo on it. Checks can be made out to “Pensacola Park”) b. Our monthly neighborhood meetings. You can check the meeting schedule at www.pensacolapark.org (on the title page). Donations are also tax deductible, so if you would like to donate and receive a tax deduction form, please write us at [email protected] . Let us know how Dec 5th: Trans-Siberian Orchestra 2019 Presented by Hallmark Channel Location: Rupp Arena 7:30pm tickets via ticketmaster Dec 6th: Southland Tree Lighting Ceremony Info : 5:30pm-6:30pm at fire station #12 on Southland Drive. Tree lighting will feature the Lafayette Singers, a Orchestral Ensemble, Elsa, Santa, and concessions from Southland restaurants and shops. Dec 7th: Old-fashioned Musical Christmas Info : An All day celebration of the Christmas season in Wilmore! http://www.wilmore.org/ Dec 7 th , 14th: Ashland Illumination Info : 5:00pm lighting and caroling to commence at the Ashland Henry Clay estate on Richmond Rd. Dec 7 th , 14 th , 21st: Photograph with Santa Info : Hamburg Pavilion from 10am-3pm Dec 11th: Big Blue Santa Info: Have your picture taken with Santa in his Kentucky Blue suit along with the Kentucky Wildcats mascot @ Dillard’s Court in the Fayette Mall from 6pm-9pm Dec 14th St. “Nich” Christmas Parade Info: Parade in Nicholasville KY from 5:15-7:30pm. Dec 18th: Cirque Dreams Holidaze (Touring) Info: Rupp arena. Tickets @ https:www.rupparena.com/event s/detail/cirque-dreams-holidaze Dec 14 th , 15 th , and 21st: The Nutcracker presented by the Kentucky Ballet Theatre Info: www.lexingtonoperahouse.com Dec 21st: Bill’s train Open House. (see reverse for details) Dec 22 nd -Dec 30th: Happy Hanukkah and Chanukah!! Dec 22 nd -Jan 2 nd 2020: Happy Yule! Dec 25th: Merry Christmas!! Dec 26th: Happy Boxing Day!! Dec 26th: Happy Kwanzaa!! Dec 31st: Merry New Years Eve, goodbye 2019, hello 2020!! HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!!
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Pensacola Park Post A Monthly Pensacola Park Neighborhood Distribution
Find us also on the web @ www.PensacolaPark.org
#GIVING:
D E C E M B E R 2 0 1 9
UPCOMING EVENTS IN DECEMBER: NOTABLE EVENTS:
In recent years, December has become an important month financially for non-profit organizations. With events like #GivingTuesday and Lexington’s own Good Giving Challenge, there are multiple opportunities to donate funds to organizations you believe in and support. As an added incentive to help your dollars go further, there are many private organizations that provide “matching dollars” for organizations that qualify. For example, Patagonia provides a 100% match to donations made via their Action Works program for environmental preservation causes. Although Pensacola Park isn’t on the list to receive matching funds from Patagonia, as a 501c3, we are qualified and registered for PayPal’s Giving Fund. The PayPal Giving Fund will provide a 10% match to all funds donated to Pensacola Park through the Paypal website or app.
What do your donations to Pensacola Park pay for? The majority of funds are used for matching grants to make neighborhood improvements. For example, we recently applied for a grant from Kentucky Utilities for tree replacement in Pensacola Park. However, for us to receive $5K in grant dollars, we have to provide a $5k match. Some grants require a 50/50 match; others only require a 20/80 match. Other projects Pensacola Park is working on include helping to mitigate storm water flooding at the end of Penmoken Park (and the overflow to Pensacola Dr.) by coordinating storm drain replacement with the city and re-designing the green-space at the end of Penmoken Park to help capture some of the excess run-off.
Ultimately, the dollars you donate are used directly to improve your neighborhood. Whether you can donate $5 dollars or $50 dollars—every little bit helps and will be used to leverage more grant dollars for our neighborhood. We greatly appreciate your support!!!
How can you donate?
1. Paypal. Our Paypal account is: [email protected] 2. Venmo. Our Venmo account is: @Pensacola-Park 3. Pay by Cash or Check (you can drop off either of these):
a. Our neighborhood mailbox located at 107 Lackawanna Rd Lexington KY 40503 (Please put it in the mailbox with our PP logo on it. Checks can be made out to “Pensacola Park”)
b. Our monthly neighborhood meetings. You can check the meeting schedule at www.pensacolapark.org (on the title page).
Donations are also tax deductible, so if you would like to donate and receive a tax deduction form, please write us at [email protected]. Let us know how
Dec 5th: Trans-Siberian Orchestra 2019 Presented by Hallmark Channel Location: Rupp Arena 7:30pm tickets via ticketmaster
Dec 6th: Southland Tree Lighting Ceremony Info: 5:30pm-6:30pm at fire station #12 on Southland Drive. Tree lighting will feature the Lafayette Singers, a Orchestral Ensemble, Elsa, Santa, and concessions from Southland restaurants and shops.
Dec 7th: Old-fashioned Musical Christmas Info: An All day celebration of the Christmas season in Wilmore! http://www.wilmore.org/
Dec 7th, 14th: Ashland Illumination Info: 5:00pm lighting and caroling to commence at the Ashland Henry Clay estate on Richmond Rd.
Dec 7th, 14th, 21st: Photograph with Santa Info: Hamburg Pavilion from 10am-3pm
Dec 11th: Big Blue Santa Info: Have your picture taken with Santa in his Kentucky Blue suit along with the Kentucky Wildcats mascot @ Dillard’s Court in the Fayette Mall from 6pm-9pm
Dec 14th St. “Nich” Christmas Parade Info: Parade in Nicholasville KY from 5:15-7:30pm.
Dec 18th: Cirque Dreams Holidaze (Touring) Info: Rupp arena. Tickets @ https:www.rupparena.com/events/detail/cirque-dreams-holidaze
Dec 14th, 15th, and 21st: The Nutcracker presented by the Kentucky Ballet Theatre Info: www.lexingtonoperahouse.com
Dec 21st: Bill’s train Open House. (see reverse for details)
Dec 22nd-Dec 30th: Happy Hanukkah and Chanukah!!
Dec 22nd-Jan 2nd 2020: Happy Yule!
Dec 25th: Merry Christmas!!
Dec 26th: Happy Boxing Day!!
Dec 26th: Happy Kwanzaa!!
Dec 31st: Merry New Years Eve, goodbye 2019, hello 2020!!
HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL!!!
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD … (each month we interview a person in the neighborhood)
…Lives a Model Train Enthusiast…
-CAN YOU HELP ME SET UP MY KROGER REWARDS OR AMAZON SMILE ACCOUNT SO THAT MYFUTURE PURCHASES HELP DONATE TO PENSACOLA PARK?Of course!! Please come to any neighborhood meeting and we will set up either of these for you.
IMPORTANT NEIGHBORHOOD DATES/MEETINGS: - Next Monthly Neighborhood Meeting: Jan 8th at 7pm at the Liken House.
SUPPORT LOCAL PENSACOLA PARK BUSINESSES!! Please contact us to place an ad. It is $5 amonth, and you must be a resident within Pensacola Park.
Pensacola Park Preservation Society is a non-profit 501(c)3, formed to bring together residents and businesses located in the Pensacola Park Neighborhood for the common good of (1) preserving the historic integrity and resources of the area; (2) creating an environment that promotes sustainable and appropriate growth for the neighborhood; and (3) providing historic education and assistance to those in the Pensacola Park Neighborhood for the preservation and rehabilitation of historic homes, structures, and landscapes. Also check us out online at www.pensacolapark.org, and follow us on Facebook @ Pensacola Park Preservation Society.
All donations to Pensacola Park Preservation Society are tax deductible! We also receive donations from Amazon Smile and Kroger Community Rewards if you choose us as your charity! Please let us know if you need help setting these programs up or would like to donate.
If you have any questions or would like to submit topics or op-eds to Pensacola Park Post, please feel free to write us at [email protected]. If you would like to stop receiving the free monthly post, please write us and put “stop post” in the heading, along with your physical address. Thank you.
PENSACOLA PARK PRESERVATION SOCIETY
MEET: Billy Parker LIVES ON: YEARS IN P.P.: 13 years owned / 7 years lived
The love affair with trains began when he was a little kid. From his rural community of Cecilia, Billy Parker and his family would go to Elizabethtown at Christmastime to visit Santa Claus. There, at the lumber company, was not only the best Santa but a gigantic electric train set, or so it seemed to a kid of four.
His love was rekindled when, as a young man, he got a job at Turfland Mall’s Thornbury’s toy store. In the hobby section, he shared his love of trains with customers and started his own train collection. Over a 45+year period, he has created an exquisite town of electric trains and painstakingly-created buildings. Of course, his love of trains isn’t limited to the miniatures. He remembers the excitement of a family trip on the train from Elizabethtown to Toronto, Canada. He’s especially fond of the biggest trains: for one, the Chesapeake & Ohio’s Alleghenies; they were 16½ feet tall and could pull 160 coal cars. Today, of the 60 built, only two survive. And at the California State Railroad Museum, he had an opportunity to see another of the huge locomotives: the Union Pacific Cab Forward.
Billy wants to share his love of trains with Pensacola Park’s children. Children, accompanied by adults, are invited to experience this fascinating world of miniature trains on Saturday, December 21, from 2:00-4:00 p.m. The address is . Carrying on a tradition from his childhood, each child will receive a Christmas candy cane.
QUESTIONS FROM THE NEIGHBORHOOD:
