Hermosa Beautification + Cleanup Committee Meeting Schedule for 2023

Monthly Meeting Schedule // Calendario de Reuniones Mensuales

All meetings occur on the 3rd monday of the month at 7pm. They are currently all remote via Google Meet accessible on any device or phone. Click on the dates for details to join for a specific date. // Todas las reuniones tienen lugar el tercer lunes del mes a las 6:30 pm. Actualmente, todos son remotos a través de Google Meet y se puede acceder a ellos desde cualquier dispositivo o teléfono. Haga clic en las fechas para obtener detalles para unirse a una fecha específica.

What is the Hermosa Beautification Committee?

The Hermosa Neighborhood Association is seeking neighbors to engage in cleanups, planting, and planning of greenspaces in our action-based Beautification Committee.

Committee meetings are monthly, and discuss efforts to keep Hermosa beautiful with green ideas, recruit volunteers for special projects.

//La Asociación de Vecinos de Hermosa está buscando vecinos para participar en la limpieza, plantación y planificación de espacios verdes en nuestro Comité de Embellecimiento basado en acciones.

Las reuniones del comité son mensuales y discuten los esfuerzos para mantener a Hermosa hermosa con ideas ecológicas, reclutan voluntarios para proyectos especiales.

Interested? Register to talk with one of our volunteer coordinators. // ¿Interesado? Regístrese para hablar con uno de nuestros coordinadores de voluntarios.

Hermosa Beautification + Cleanup Committee Meeting Schedule for 2022

Monthly Meeting Schedule // Calendario de Reuniones Mensuales

All meetings occur on the 3rd monday of the month at 7pm. They are currently all remote via Google Meet accessible on any device or phone. Click on the dates for details to join for a specific date. // Todas las reuniones tienen lugar el tercer lunes del mes a las 6:30 pm. Actualmente, todos son remotos a través de Google Meet y se puede acceder a ellos desde cualquier dispositivo o teléfono. Haga clic en las fechas para obtener detalles para unirse a una fecha específica.

2022 Cleanup Schedule for Hermosa

What is the Hermosa Beautification Committee?

The Hermosa Neighborhood Association is seeking neighbors to engage in cleanups, planting, and planning of greenspaces in our action-based Beautification Committee.

Committee meetings are monthly, and discuss efforts to keep Hermosa beautiful with green ideas, recruit volunteers for special projects.

//La Asociación de Vecinos de Hermosa está buscando vecinos para participar en la limpieza, plantación y planificación de espacios verdes en nuestro Comité de Embellecimiento basado en acciones.

Las reuniones del comité son mensuales y discuten los esfuerzos para mantener a Hermosa hermosa con ideas ecológicas, reclutan voluntarios para proyectos especiales.

Interested? Register to talk with one of our volunteer coordinators. // ¿Interesado? Regístrese para hablar con uno de nuestros coordinadores de voluntarios.

Vote for Your Favorite New Lawn Sign Design

**VOTING CLOSED**Help the HNA Choose the Next Lawn Sign Design // Ayude a la HNA a elegir el siguiente diseño de letrero para césped

Because of such high demand, we’ve run out of lawn signs for litter and poop. The Hermosa Neighborhood Association is printing new lawn signs and we need your help with picking a design. If you’re familiar with our current ones, these new designs are 12” x 18”, smaller than our previous ones (18x24). // Debido a una demanda tan alta, nos hemos quedado sin letreros de pasto para basura y excremento de su mascota La Asociación de Vecinos de Hermosa está imprimiendo nuevos letreros para el césped y necesitamos su ayuda para elegir un diseño. Si está familiarizado con nuestros diseños actuales, estos nuevos diseños son de 12” x 18”.

Choose Your Favorite Design: A, B or C // Elija su diseño favorito: A, B o C

Lawn Sign Design Poll Results

Thank You for Voting! You’ve Chosen a Winner / ¡Gracias por votar!

Have your ordered your lawn sign? / ¿Ha pedido su cartel?

Hermosa Cleanup / Limpiar Schedule

The Hermosa Neighborhood Association's summer cleanup schedule is in full swing! We are looking for individuals of all ages who can help pick up trash to beautify our parks, streets and greenspaces. Gloves and garage bags will be provided, dress according for the weather. // ¡El programa de limpieza de verano de la Asociación de Vecinos de Hermosa está en pleno apogeo! Buscamos personas de todas las edades que puedan ayudar a recoger la basura para embellecer nuestros parques, calles y espacios verdes. Se proporcionarán guantes y bolsas de garaje, vístase de acuerdo con el clima.

• 6/19 - Hermosa - Pitch in for your Parks

• 7/10 - Kelvyn - Pitch in for your Parks - Cleanup meet at Kostner + Wrightwood

• 7/17 - Fullerton Cleanup meet at Healy Metra

• 8/7 - Kelvyn - Pitch in for your Parks - Cleanup meet at Kostner + Wrightwood

• 8/28 - Armitage Cleanup meet at Stock 'n Save

• 9/4 - Kelvyn - Pitch in for your Parks - Cleanup meet at Kostner + Wrightwood

• 10/2 - Kelvyn - Pitch in for your Parks - Cleanup meet at Kostner + Wrightwood

• 11/6 - Kelvyn - Pitch in for your Parks - Cleanup meet at Kostner + Wrightwood

How to Organize a Neighborhood Cleanup

Anyone can host a Neighborhood Cleanup and the HNA would love to help! Contact us by any method below and we’ll assist you in organizing one for your block or area you feel is need within Hermosa.

1. Contact the Hermosa Neighborhood Association to help with promotion and supplies:

   • Reach us on Facebook Messenger

   • Reach us by Text or Phone Call: 773-295-7790

   • Reach us by Email: info@ourhermosa.org

   • Register to Talk to a volunteer Coordinator

2. Contact Your Neighbors, Friends and Nearby Schools

   Neighbors: You may not have contact information for your nearby neighbors, but this is a great opportunity to becoming a block leader. Leave a note on someone’s door to recruit residents, post on social media and gather a phone and/or email tree to get people involved.
   
   Friends and Family: Your friends or family don’t need to live on your block to help you clean. You can invite them over (with masks) to gather outside safely and make it a social (distancing) affair.

   Your Nearby Elementary School: If you live close to a school, call the school to let them know the date and ask them if they can promote this on their social media channels or with school families. It’s a great way to get to meet school staff and families, even if you don’t have school-aged children.
   
   Your Nearby High School: All Chicago Public Schools high school students are required to log a certain amount of volunteer hours. By contacting the school or posting in a school Facebook group you can promote the cleanup with students. The student will need a non-profit or supervisor to sign their logged volunteers hours so the HNA can help with this.

Here’s an example of how the HNA can help promote your cleanup

Not sure where to start? Text us!

Hermosa tree planting BIG success!

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We wanted to extend a big thank you to all those who came out to help us plant trees near Kelvyn Park on Saturday November 5th. We helped to settle an incredible 42 trees into their new homes....the Hermosa community!!!! Combined with our earlier tree planting in the spring, we have planted a total of 64 trees in Hermosa in 2016....WOW!

These trees included various red oaks, chinquapin oaks, catalpas, sweet gums, lindens, and bur oaks. These trees are going to make a HUGE difference to our community for years to come!!!!

Here are a few of the benefits they will provide:

• Each tree will intercept about 159 gallons of stormwater runoff per year. This means an additional 10,494 gallons of water will be stored in Hermosa each year. This will reduce soil erosion, flooding, and help minimize the amount of pollutants washed into nearby aquatic ecosystems.

• Each tree will conserve 9 kilowatt hours of energy per year by providing shade to nearby buildings and reducing wind speeds in the area. This means a total of 576 kilowatt hour conserved in Hermosa per year!

• Each tree will reduce atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2, a greenhouse gas) by 42lbs a year. This means a total of 2,772 lbs of CO2 will be reduced by the trees we've helped plant!

Caring for and expanding the green spaces in Hermosa is crucial for both the health of the environment, and the health of our community as a whole.

Thank you again for your hard work, and we hope to see you at another planting and tree maintenance session soon.

Thank you to the 100+ participants who came out to help plant these trees. A big, big thank you to Openlands for accepting our grant, supplying the trees, Treekeepers, tools, and know-how.  Thank you to Michigan State University, Kelvyn Park High School and Kelvyn Park Advisory Council for bringing so many volunteers! Thank you Alderman Milly Santiago - 31st Ward for water and for supplies and handy help from Phil the Ward Superintendent.

And a big BIG thank you to La Central Bakery (4348 W. Armitage Ave, 773- 252-7302) for their generous donation of delicious sandwiches and cookies. Awesome job everyone!

An additional shout out to Chicago Park District for providing tools and mulch, and to the City of Chicago for providing permits.  

Feel free to visit Openlands' Facebook (www.facebook.com/openlandschicago) to see additonal pictures and videos from this event.

If you would like to get more involved in Openlands, please check out more information, here: http://www.openlands.org/what-we-do-page-8.php