Girl Scout Sampler Day for girls grades 2-6 in the community. Saturday, May 5th from 1-3 p.m. with a variety of activities including: art project with clay, make a gift for Mother’s Day, collage, painting & snack time. Meet an artist/instructor from Commercial Art Supply Store. Pre-registration is required, contact the Butternut Community Center @ 422-2745.

Sponsored by Butternut Community Police Center and Girl Scouts of NYPENN. Click here for a flyer.

Please join us for a Gala Fundraiser on Wednesday, April 18th from 6-8 p.m. at the Palace Theatre, 2384 James St., Syracuse, NY. Click here for an invitation and response form.

The Butternut Community Police Center opened in December 2009. It was requested by participants in Tomorrow’s Neighborhoods Today (TNT) Northside planning councils who saw the need for a facility that would help stabilize a challenged neighborhood and provide a safe space for children and adults.

The Center’s evolving programs include youth recreation, arts and crafts, trips to sporting events, homework assistance, summer camps and field trips, and the ability to talk with a police offi cer who knows the neighborhood and works to establish relationships with the diverse communities in the immediate area.

The Northside has historically welcomed generations of many nations. It’s been home to immigrants from Italy, Germany, Southeast Asia, and more recently, Somalia, Sudan, Burundi, Nepal, Bhutan – all around the globe. The Northside is growing in population and diversity and the Center needs to grow with it.

The second issue of the new BCPC Newsletter has been completed. Click here to read.

We just finished our 2012 Open House Appreciation Reception.  We would like to thank the following dignitaries for attending:

• City Council members Jake Barrett and Lance Denno
• Senator DeFrancisco representative Alex Walsh
• Assemblyman Magnarelli representative Christine Fix

To see Officer Burdick’s speech, download or open the following PDF document: Open House 2012 speech

Many thanks to YNN Channel 10 Syracuse and reporter Katie Gibas for media coverage of the event! (Click on the image to view the story.)

The Butternut Community Police Center students have formed a Newsletter Committee to  inform their families and the Center’s friends, neighbors and supporters of Center activities and events. Click here to read.

Eat at UNO Chicago Grill in the Carousel Center with this ticket on Thursday, February 9th, and the Center will receive up to 20% of your check. Click here to download and print the ticket, or stop by the Center. Please spread the word.

Thanks to the management and staff of UNO Chicago Grill and everyone who participated this was a very successful event for us in October. Let’s make this one even better.

Go to  BCPC Christmas Party, 12-22-2011 for an album of pictures from our party at St. John the Baptist Parish Hall.

. . . and Christmas past:

and click here for photos from Butternut Center Christmas Party, 12-17-2010 at Holy Trinity Parish Center.

Eat at UNO Chicago Grill in the Carousel Center with this ticket on Thursday, October 20th, and the Center will receive up to 20% of your check. Click here to download and print the ticket, or stop by the Center. Please spread the word.

Click here for a photo album of the day.
Butternut Community Police Center was pleased to be able to support Northside CommUNITY, an annual festival recognizing and celebrating the rich cultural diversity that is growing on the Northside. Funding for the inaugural event on Saturday, October 8th at the Bova Center in Schiller Park was the result of Northside TNT’s participation in the Neighborhood Leadership Training Program of the Central New York Community Foundation. For full details, please visit www.northsidecommunity.wordpress.com or follow Northside CommUNITY on Facebook.