Friends of Elmwood Dunes Seeks Volunteers

Volunteers will be cleaning up a strip of lakefront property in Wilmette between 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on April 13.

  Friends of Elmwood Dunes, a group made up of people interested in the 80-foot wide and 600-foot long strip of lakefront property in Wilmette, will hold its first village sanctioned Elmwood activity between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on April 13.  The group is seeking volunteers to help with heavy brush removal, tagging and culling invasive plants, bagging trash, photographers and people to coordinate refreshments for the volunteers.  Last fall, members of the group walked the site with staff from Wilmette’s forestry division and engineering department to get a sense of the cleanups needed. Those interested in participating can contact Friends of the Elmwood Dunes at: Elmwood.Dunes@gmail.com, Wilmette Life reported.  Last year, the village’s …

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Wilmette’s Elmwood Beach Cleanup Set for April 13

Friends of the Elmwood Dunes will hold the cleanup from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., where volunteers will haul garbage, wood and brush out of the area’s wooded strip.

  Friends of Elmwood Dunes, a group made up of people interested in the 80-foot wide and 600-foot long strip of lakefront property in Wilmette, will hold its first village sanctioned Elmwood activity between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. on April 13, Wilmette Life reported.  Last fall, members of the group walked the site with staff from Wilmette’s forestry division and engineering department to get a sense of the cleanups needed, next month the group will be hauling out deadwood and trash as well as tagging invasive plants for removal, those interested in participating can contact Friends of the Elmwood Dunes at: Elmwood.Dunes@gmail.com, Wilmette Life reported.  Last year, the village’s Municipal Service Committee recommended turning the Elmwood …

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Editor's Pick: Committee Recommends Public Use for Elmwood Avenue Property

The village’s Municipal Service Committee members said the option would benefit the village as a whole.

POLL: Do You Agree with the Elmwood Avenue Beach Recommendation?

The village’s Municipal Service Committee said it will recommend the property become a publically-accessible, passive-use nature preserve.

Yesterday, Wilmette-Kenilworth Patch reported that the Elmwood Avenue right-of-way is one step closer to becoming a publicly-accessible, passive-use nature preserve after the village’s Municipal Service Committee recently decided it would likely recommend that option to the Village Board. But the committee’s recommendation, which could decide the future of the controversial 80-foot wide, 600-foot long strip of land, was only one of several alternatives. What do you think? Did the committee get it right? Or is there a preferable alternative? Take our poll and let us know!

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Committee Recommends Public Nature Preserve for Elmwood Avenue Property

The village’s Municipal Service Committee members said the option would benefit the village as a whole.

Wilmette’s Elmwood Avenue beach and right-of-way is one step closer to becoming a publicly-accessible, passive-use sanctuary and nature preserve after the village’s Municipal Service Committee members unanimously decided Thursday that the option presented the best overall choice for the community. Committee members will present their choice as a recommendation to the Village Board sometime in the coming months. The recommendation provides a clearer vision for the future of the 80-foot wide, 600-foot long right-of-way that runs from the eastern end of Elmwood Avenue to Lake Michigan. In the past, neighbors have painted the stretch of land as a “Wild West”, free-for-all, safety hazard, where a combination of boat launches, speeding jet skis…

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