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.

The Easter Bunny greeted everyone who came to the Butternut Center’s Easter Party on Wednesday, April 20th. For more photos, click here.

In the News:

• Butternut Community Police Center needs elbow room (syracuse.com)
• Phase one of renovations for police center (ynn.com)
• Northside community center marks anniversary, celebrates expansion (The Eagle)

Click here for a printable pdf of the flyer advertising this event.

Butternut Center is undergoing a remarkable transformation. In a month, walls have been removed to create two large rooms and make the layout of the Center more comfortable and user friendly. The carpet was torn up and replaced with tile and by the end of January and we were back to full function with a whole new look for our February Open House. Stay tuned for more construction updates.

We are still looking forward to a basement rec room, but as planning progressed it became clear that it was a much larger effort than we were financially prepared to undertake. So the Center’s board decided that opening up space by removing two walls would provide space needed for youth recreation, make larger meetings possible, and fill the Center’s immediate needs while leaving a healthy start on funding for the basement renovation.