University Place

Please join us for our third annual Farmers Market beginning this Wednesday, June 12 from 3-7 pm!

There will be a special opening day ceremony at 4:00 with remarks from Mayor Beutler, Councilman Doug Emery, live music by Release Time, a booth to sign up for the summer reading program with Lincoln City Libraries, and more!

The market will be every Wednesday through September 18 in the lot on the corner of 48th & Madison. Vendors will sell produce, specialty foods, and prepared foods. Here are some of our vendors with more to come throughout the season.

• Medinger’s Market
• The Normandy
• Chisholm Family Farms
• Cook, Grow, Sew
• Grandpa’s Kettle Corn
• Hesse FM Sales
• Yankee Hill Landscape
• The Root Beer Guy
• Great Harvest Bread
• Twin Springs Pecans
• Muffins and More
• Abie Vegetable People
• Page Produce

Hope to see you there!

Click here to view the UPCO summer newsletter. It has information about the farmers market, the upcoming neighborhood cleanup, and other things going on in University Place. To receive the newsletter by email or by mail, become an UPCO member.

The third annual UPCO Farmers Market will being on Wednesday, June 12. The market will be from 3-7 p.m. Watch for more information about special guests for the opening ceremony and a list of vendors.

The Lincoln-Lancaster County Planning Department has scheduled a briefing of the Planning Commission on Wednesday, May 1, 2013.

There will be a presentation by Jed Moulton, the Urban Design Manager of Omaha’s planning department. He will present the efforts of the City government and others in Omaha to improve the city’s visual image and character.  Jed will describe the process which led up to the adoption of an overall urban design framework as part of Omaha’s master plan, and will highlight the types of new design standards that are being used to guide new development in their more significant commercial and civic centers and corridors.

The Planning Department has been working on proposals to encourage more attractive and pedestrian-oriented commercial and mixed use developments, and we thought that hearing about the work being done in Omaha would be instructive.

This briefing will be scheduled as part of the regular May 1 Planning Commission meeting, immediately following the development applications that are scheduled for public hearings.

You are welcome to come down to the Council Chambers in the County-City building to view the presentation in person.  Or, you can tune in to Channel 5 on your television or the City’s webpage, to view these presentations live.  Or, you can view them later through “video on demand” on the webpage.  The consideration of the hearing items should be completed fairly quickly, so we advise you to attend or tune in shortly after 1:00 pm if you want to watch the live presentation.

UPCO will be sponsoring a neighborhood clean-up on Saturday, June 1 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. at UPCO Park (40th & Adams). All University Place residents are invited to participate.

We will have dumpsters available for garbage, household trash, litter, clothing, metal, and recyclable construction materials. We will try to recycle as much as possible. We will accept old tires and car batteries for a small fee. Although we cannot accept leaves or grass clippings, we will accept brush. Brush is considered to be tree limbs and garden prunings.

Start your spring cleaning now and use this opportunity to make our neighborhood beautiful and litter-free!

Thanks to everyone who helped make the 22nd annual UPCO Easter Egg Hunt a success! Candy was provided by HyVee Mainstreet and toothbrushes and toothpaste were provided by Tolly & Tolly Dentistry. The event was sponsored by University Place Community Organization, First United Methodist Church, and University Place Business Association. The event could not have happened without volunteers from the University Place Community Organization and the Uni Place community. If you are interested in donating to or volunteering for any UPCO events, please email us at upcoemail@gmail.com or stop by an UPCO board meeting.