Don’t miss this Omaha events folks. The LOVAM Jazz Festival is Saturday, September 2, 2023 at 4PM.
We will be treated to Grammy Award Winning Saxophonist, Gerald Albright and other great musicians.
It is also free!
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Location:
Turner Park
3100 Farnam Street
Omaha, NE 68131
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Enjoy fresh vegetables and other offerings at the Omaha Farmers Market in Aksarben Village.
It runs every Sunday from 7 May to 15 October from 9 AM to 1 PM.
Location:
Aksarben Village at 67th Street & Mercy Road
Enjoy fresh vegetables and other offerings at the Omaha Farmers Market in the Old Market on Saturdays.
It runs every Saturday from 6 May to 14 October from 8 AM to 12:30 PM.
Location:
Old Market at 11th & Jackson Streets
Omaha’s Original Greek Festival has free admission today and will close early at 2PM.
Having a frappuccino, spanakopita and tiropita.
The frappuccino was very rich and foamy. The spanakopita was roll shaped with golden flaky crust and spinach. The triangular tiropita was filled with salty-cheesy goodness. The different shapes help identify which is which by looking and can change from year to year.
Omaha’s Original Greek Festival
St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church
602 Park Ave
Omaha, NE 68105
Text:
“Dundee Day
A Historically Festive Neighborhood
Join the Dundee Merchants Association and Dundee Memorial Park Association for the 30th Annual Dundee Day Street Festival and the “Dundee Night” evening of music, food and fun.
August 19, 2023
8:00 AM-4:00 PM
Street Festival
4:00 PM-12:00 AM
Dundee Night Street Party
For up-to-date information,visit our website at
www.DundeeDay.org”
It’s just a day away!
Want more on Dundee Days?
Check out:
Omaha Interview: Dundee Day Interview-Eric Kaplan for Dundee Day, Part Two
https://www.omahanebraska.com/blog/omahanebraska-com-interview-with-eric-kaplan-for-dundee-day-19-august-part-two/
Omaha Interview: Dundee Day Interview-Eric Kaplan for Dundee Day, Part Two
https://www.omahanebraska.com/blog/omahanebraska-com-interview-with-eric-kaplan-for-dundee-day-19-august-part-two/
OmahaNebraska.com Interview with Eric Kaplan for Dundee Day (19 August): Part One
Omaha Interview: Dundee Day Interview-Eric Kaplan
Omaha Interview: Dundee Day Interview- Leigh Neary of Exist Green
https://www.omahanebraska.com/blog/omaha-interview-dundee-day-interview-leigh-neary-of-exist-green
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Dundee Day Website
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Enjoy your Greek food and dance favorites at Omaha’s Original Greek Festival at St. John the Baptist Greek Orthodox Church.
Location:
602 Park Ave
Omaha, NE 68105
OmahaNebraska.com Interview with Omaha Mayor Jean Stothert
Special thank you to the Mayor for taking time for the interview with her busy schedule.
The thing I’m most excited about today is public private partnerships. How it is to work from your side? You said how great it was to work with the City of Omaha and then the different projects that you’ve been working on.
Well, I will say, and I said it in my speech, nearly everything that we do in Omaha really benefits from these partnerships that we have – public private partnerships – that are very unique for Omaha. It’s their financial support, their leadership and their vision that has really helped us move forward and you see it all over Omaha. You see it in the Arena Convention Center, the ballpark, the Luminarium. These three parks now that are known as the Riverfront are an amazing example [of] that the same step forward. We put in about 60 million, and they raised 400 million of private dollars. That is, is uniquely Omaha and you don’t see that in a lot of other cities. So those relationships and those partnerships have enabled the city of Omaha to achieve things that we couldn’t have done on our own.
Thank you. The streetcars are up next…
Well, the Streetcar is, is underway. So, you know, all the approvals that I needed from the Council have been done. It’s in design right now, and we will move forward with it and the great thing about the Streetcar is all these venues that we have downtown. They’re really not all close enough that you could just park your car and walk from one to another, especially if you want to enjoy seeing our Old Market [to] go down dinner, and the Streetcar is just going to connect everything together. You know, it’ll be down there right in front of the Arena Convention Center. It’s going to go through downtown and it’s going to go all the way to Midtown and back and people can hop on the streetcar say at Midtown, come into downtown, go through all the venues down here and get on the streetcar and go back to where they parked their car. So, this is just a way to connect all these things, and for those living downtown. You know, we just opened up the Brickline weeks ago at the Mercantile which is the ConAgra campus development. And so many of the new tenants work at the Med Center. They love it because they’re going to be able to hop on the street car and not use their car to get there. And so all of that is working together. And I think right now we’re seeing the results of a great partnership.
Thank you.
Thank you.
OmahaNebraska.com Interview with Mogens Bay
A special thank you to Mogens Bay for the interview. Pubic Private Partnerships have been a great interest area of mine for some time. It was wonderful to hear his speech earlier and to do the interview.
Please tell me more about the public private partnership.
Well, often, when you need to get stuff done, people have to get together. As you know, the city owned all this land. We didn’t have to acquire any lands. We knew there was a fantastic philanthropic community in Omaha. So public is the city, private is philanthropy and when we get together, good things happen.
You said that it was very special to work with Omaha in this capacity and enumerated some of that in your speech. Can you tell us a little more please?
We worked with the mayor’s office. We worked with the City Council and we worked with MECA, which became our partner from the very beginning. They were going to manage the Park and they were very much involved in getting the Park built and overseeing that. Then, of course, we had lots of contractors and subcontractors. I would say that the City is the public part of the partnership and philanthropy, whether it is foundations or companies or individuals, is the private part.
Coming here to Omaha…what helped you along the journey to work on this project?
Bob Daugherty, who was the founder of Valmont, he’s the one that brought me to Omaha. He was my mentor when it came to getting involved in community stuff – nonprofits – making sure that we make a difference.
He established a very significant foundation on his death and that foundation was investing about $40 million dollars in our community. So, people that have benefited from living here are committed to giving back – Daugherty is a good example of that. That’s how we learn. We learn from Peter Kiewit. We learn from Walter Scott and there are more examples.
This is not just something that happens now, but it happens so that we have more money available now because these foundations are becoming very, very big. The spirit [of] getting together to make things happen in Omaha, no, it’s not new.
What do you recommend for people or companies that want to become more involved?
Get their employees involved with nonprofits with anything that they have a passion for. Don’t just go out and place a board member. No. Some may have a have a passion for economic development. Some have a passion for social services. It doesn’t matter. Just commit some of your time. As a matter of fact, when I look at the current situation and the future of Omaha, our problem is not going to be money. It’s going to be leadership. People stepping up to do things.
Thank you.
Thank you.
Today at 10:00 AM the City of Omaha opened the Heartland of America Park!
The ceremony was brief and meaningful and was followed by a ribbon cutting.
Special thank you to Omaha MECA and Angela Hutchings for this photograph.
Please enjoy our OmahaNebraska.com pictures below and come back to see more pictures and interviews.
