Food: A potluck lunch will immediately follow at Mary Catherine Strobel park (at the pedestrian bridge at the end of Carden). WANA will provide a brisket and beverages.

 

Hippity! Hoppity! Easter's on it's way!

Please join us for the 8th Annual Whitland Neighborhood Spring Social and Easter Egg Hunt to be held on Easter Day, April 1st  from 3-5:00! There will be something for everyone, including egg hunts for children of all ages, light refreshments, and the ever-popular Easter Keg!  The event will take place at Strobel Park at the bottom of Carden Ave.

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Creek Cleanup, Saturday April 21

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This year we will work the creek from the Kingfisher Bridge .(bottom of Carden Ave.) to MBA. A potluck luncheon will follow at about 11:30AM at Strobel Park. 

 

Tree - a woody perennial plant, typically having a single stem or trunk  and bearing lateral branches.  Let's preserve the beauty of our neighborhood and plant trees.

WANA is investigating adding arboretum status to our neighborhood.  If you have a tree in the public right of way or within 10 feet of the sidewalk that you would like to include the arboretum please contact Melissa Donahue, lis.donahue@gmail.com. 

 

For information on Nurseries and a List of Trees click here and download a PDF file..

 

Please join your neighbors and Council Member Kathleen Murphy for wine, cheese, and conversation.

Sunday January 28, 2018

4:00 PM

***NEW LOCATION FOR 2018***

MBA Pfeiffer Auditorium

(located in Ingram Science Building)

 

Directions:

Park in the garage located off Wilson Avenue.  The entrance is half-way between Rolland and Whitland.  Take the elevator or walk up to the football field level.  Go past the dining hall, with the football field on your left.  At the dining hall turn right and walk through the first quad and between the buildings to the quad closest to West End.  Go past the library (with the Ben Franklin statue sitting on the bench) and into the doors straight ahead.

 

Join us for the

WANA Holiday Party!

Saturday December 16, 2017

6:30 – 10:00 pm

 

 

At the home of

Jay & Melissa Wellons

3801 Whitland Avenue

 

We’re supplying wine & beer, ham & turkey

Please bring an appetizer, a side or dessert

        You are invited to the

Neighborhood Halloween Party!!

Tuesday, Oct. 31st

Kickoff to show those costumes:  4:45 pm 

Costume Judging to Start:  5:15 pm sharp [Note 15 minutes earlier than last year]

End of Carden Avenue

Light Refreshments Served

Come on Down!!!

Sponsored by the Whitland Area Neighborhood Association

Prizes for individual kid costumes ages 1-4, 5-9, 10+ and family prize too!

 

New Slide Hill in Our Park

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

This large tree was uprooted by the storm and fell on the powerline to 230 Carden. Power was restored by NES. We now have a new slide hill in the park that the kids have discovered. A plan will be needed to remove the tree and root ball.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Carden Bridge Damage

In addition to the felled tree, a tree that was cut down a few weeks ago at 235 Leonard and and improperly dumped in the creek was floated by the flood downstream and hit the pedestrian bridge at the bottom of Carden.  Neighbors cleaned the brush off the bridge but one board is missing so watch where you are going when you walk your dogs across.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Obviously we are going to need help to straighten this mess out.  More to come . . .

 

Printed copies of the newsletter with an invitation to the July 4th Celebration are being delivered to each home in the Whitland Area. You can also get a PDFcopy here.

Saturday, June 17 is the Whitland Summer Social at the Mary Catherine Stroble Park at the end of Carden down beside Kingfisher Creek.  The weather forecast is 92 degrees with a 16% chance of rain.  The fun starts at 11:30 AM with food. Bring a dish if you would like to. Drinks, chicken nuggests, fruit, and bbq will be provided. Rumor has it an inflatable water slide for the kids will be setup on the roadway so bring towels. 

Hope to see you there!

It was a good call to cancel our creek clean-up on April 20th.  The weather was terrible!

But this Saturday, May 6th is looking much more promising and we will gather to cleanup Kingfisher Creek from 8:00 - 11:30 am at the Mary Catherine Stroble Park at the end of Carden.  Please wear tough pants and shoes.  We will have T-shirts, gloves and trash bags.  Bring any tools that you may want to use.  We will be focusing on the area between Bowling and the pedestrian bridge at Carden.

Hope to see you there!

Whitland Neighbors,

Do your part for the neighborhood and for Earth Day by helping us clean up our lovely creek!  

We will gather this Saturday, April 22 from 8:00 - 11:30   am at the Mary Catherine Stroble Park at the end of Carden.  Please wear tough pants and shoes.  We will have T-shirts, gloves and trash bags.  Bring any tools that you may want to use.  We will be focusing on the area between Bowling and the pedestrian bridge at Carden.

 

At 11:30 the celebration will continue with a creekside Easter egg hunt and lunch lovingly prepared by our own "WANA Bob" (Lyons), Lesley Omary and team including Pru Sherrill, Charlotte Covington, Bob Duthie, and Bob Glenn.  The neighborhood association will provide smoked main entry, Chick-Fil-A nuggets, water and beer.  Neighbors are asked to bring a salad, side dish or desert (emphasis on salads and side dishes). A bounce house will be provide for children.  To keep it safe, please have a parent or responsible adult present and providing supervision for your kids.

 

We will have this Rain or Shine but will cancel if there is thunder and lightning.

 

Hope to see you there!

 

For questions contact Cyril Stewart, cyril@cyrilstewart.com or at 615-207-5959.

  Spotted recently in Whitland: wild turkeys!  Have you seen these large strutting birds around the hood?  While we're thrilled that wildlife is drawn to our land of creekside and lush trees, please note that wild turkeys can be hard on lawns and gardens.  So if they're going after your property, you may want to shoo them away.  Also, since they're not the sharpest of birds, if they wander into your back yard, they may have no idea how to get out. Turkey GPS may be required!

So many of us love to wander along Rolland Road to look down at our beloved stream or gaze into the water from the Carden Avenue walking bridge to see the fish who live and thrive there.  But next time you’re fish-gazing there’s something new to look for: a Streamside Salamander, also known as an Ambystoma barbouri.

Can You Find One?

Back in the sixties, six populations of this salamander were spotted in the Green Hills area probably in fishless small streams with no other streams feeding into them.  Sadly, the salamanders are so rare these days, they’ve become a protected species, and Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation would like to know if they still survive here.  Rediscovery of this species would be an important find. 

Look in Winter

A. barbouri lives hidden for much of the year, but are winter breeding.  It’s only as they move towards their breeding site from mid-December to mid-March that they can be spotted. Though they’ll breed in streams that flow year-round, they are most often drawn to ephemeral streams. Think of the streambeds along the alleyway from Craighead to Leonard and along Rolland across from the Richmeade townhouses, streams that are dry in summer, but flow gently in wetter seasons.

Take Photos NOT Salamanders

You can identify these creatures by their grey and black speckles and by this photograph.  If you see one, take a photo, please!  And contact david.withers@tn.gov who is a zoologist with the Tennessee Natural Heritage Program to let him know. But please do not turn stones looking for the salamanders, or disturb their delicate habitats.  We want to encourage this rare friend to think of our neighborhood as his own!

The Whitland Area Neighborhood Association will host "Dumpster Day" on Saturday, October 1st.  The main feature of this day are neighborhood-wide yard sales from 8:00am to 1:00pm.

 

 

 

 

 

 

We make this easy for you by providing the following:

• Advertising the sales
• Posting signs that direct shoppers into the neighborhood
• Marking your sale with balloons at the curb
• Providing maps to help shoppers locate all of the sales

All you need to do is empty out those closets/attics/basements, price your items, set them out by 8:00am on Saturday, October 1st and sell, sell, sell!

To register your sale, please send an email to Bob Glenn at re.glenn@yahoo.com so your sale will be included on our neighborhood map of the sales so shoppers can find you!

Click here to see the June 2016 Newsletter. Click here to pay your annual dues online.

 

 

Among our Whitland neighbors, we have lots of proud graduates and their parents to salute this spring.  They include:

Sam Fisher, son of Luci Crow graduated from USN and will be attending Washington University in the fall.

Jackson Regen, son of Robinson & Doug Regen graduated from Albion College

Anna Pitz, daughter of Bob Pitz & Carol Armes received her DDS from Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, ,VA  She will continue with a 3-year residency in prosthodontics at the University of Texas Health Sciences in San Antonio in July, 2016

Joel Bell Covington V, grandson of Charlotte and the late Joel Covington, graduated from Hillsboro High School with an International Baccalaureate diploma.  He will be attending Furman University in Greenville, SC in the fall

Crawford Lyons, son of Bob & Melissa Lyons graduated from USN

Elizabeth Conrad, daughter of Marty & Jim Conrad completed her PhD in Molecular Physiology at Vanderbilt University

Will Allen, son of Kelly Motley and John Allen graduated from Montgomery Bell Academy and will be attending Kenyon College and playing baseball for the Lords this fall.

Congratulate these neighbors when you see them!

The May 21 cleanup of Kingfisher Creek took place as scheduled. In spite of the event being advertised as annual it had not been done last year.  Vegetation had grown up so high the creek could not be seen almost the entire way from Wilson to Bowling. What a difference a day makes to improve the appearance of the street when there is a crew of about 20 neighbors and friends to help. 80% of the work was completed in 2 hours. Click on photos to enlarge.

Lessons Learned

1. Unwanted papers are washed down Carden and Leonard during rain storms and wind up littering in near the creek. Please clean up these papers when delivered and advise the advertisers to take you off their list.

2.  A significant number of filled doggy bags were tossed into the brush and not carried home.  This is worse than not using bags where the waste disintegrates in a few days. Bags can take years. Photo too disgusting to show.

3. The use of woody plant pullers, borrowed from Warner Parks thanks to Melissa, made it much easier to pull up invasive species by the roots easily. This stops the plants from just growing right back. Left side photo shows one standing up. Right side shows Kevin in action.

4. Where the creek runs under Leonard, there is a dam of gravel which creates a pond that could provide a mosquito breeding ground.  Committee Chair Bob is removing some of invasive plants at the bridge.

5. Committee Secretary Cyril provided and operated a chain saw which made quick work of some of the invasive trees and dead branches. Left photo right to left Lucius, Revell & Cyril

6. How to identify plant signs all along the route were a great help to workers to avoid the poison ivy.

 

 

7. It took three people to clean up around the Carden bridge.

 

 

 

8. Most of the crew worked the creekfrom Carden to Leonard. Amazingly there was very little trash to collect along Rolland Road (see 1 & 2 for the exceptions). Chairman Bob G. arranged to have one lane of the road blocked on the creek side. This was a brilliant move since we avoiding having to submit a comprehensive plan and employ an off duty policeman. A number of cones and lane blocked signs were rented. Traffic on the open lane proceeded with caution with very few exceptions.  Being able to put so much brush on the road made it much easier.  Thanks very much to the Rolland Residents for putting up with this. Metro is scheduled for Monday to take all the brush away.

9. At noon a potluck lunch was enjoyed by all. Two residents unable to attend the clean up kindly provided homemade BBQ pork tenderloin.

 

 

 

 

Report & photos by Bob Duthie