Membership
Membership in IHLNA is open to neighborhood residents. It's voluntary, but supports neighborhood activities and advocacy. Membership donation is $10, or $5 for 20-year residents. Please consider an extra donation of $10, $20, or $50 to support IHLNA activities.
Fun Stuff
FDOT aerial photographs of
Indianhead in 1957!
Neighborhood history and street names courtesy of Hartsfield School.
Event photos
Halloween Party
2011
Ansje's
Neneland Halloween
Pony
rides at the November Potluck in the Park
IHLNA Board
Board meetings are convened as needed, not on a regular schedule.
All Indianhead Acres and Lehigh residents are invited to all IHLNA board meetings. Meetings are announced by email.
Next meeting: not scheduled.
Neighborhood Safety Info
IHLNA Facebook page
(announcements)
IHLNA Facebook group
(discussions)
Upcoming
neighborhood events:
April 14: 4th Annual Nene Fest in Optimist Park. More details will be available in early 2012, both here and in a newsletter to be distributed before then.
April 28: neighborhood yard sale in Optimist Park.
May 13 (Sun): Potluck in the Park 6:00 (note change to summer time).
The neighborhood Potluck in the Park is the second Sunday of every month at Optimist Park. Some utensils are usually available, but it's better if you bring your own.
Declining attendence at the potluck has led to discussions in early 2011 on how to envigorate it. Read some of the comments here. Attendence has been good August 2011 through April 2012 -- keep coming!
Nene Fest 2010 is over!
See the
Nene Fest Children's Chorus on Youtube!
Visit the Nene Fest participatory photo gallery and submit your Nenefest photos!
Nene Fest 2009, our first neighborhood festival, was a great success! Check out:
Photos by various participants
The Tallahassee Democrat ran an article about Nene Fest, but they've moved it to for-pay archives.
Halloween 2009 Neighborhood Party!
Indianhead/Lehigh Mobility Plan
Neighborhood Planning Survey Results
Nene Fest 2012 News
Nene Fest 2012 will be held on April 14th, 3 to 9 PM, at Optimist Park. We hope you can attend! We have an exciting festival planned. Food returns to Nenefest this year! Page down for detailed plans on Food, the Musical Lineup, t-shirts and posters, arts crafts and business showcase, and various outstanding volunteer needs.
We still need your help! As of April 10, we still need a few volunteer servers and cashiers. We can also use help on setup and breakdown. Page down for details.
Food 5:00-8:00
We will serve food from 5 to 8pm. Price will be $5 for the meal and $1/serving for desserts.
New Leaf Market will cater a main dish (with a meat, vegetarian, and vegan option), and neighbors will donate side salads. We will sell a plate with a main and sides inexpensively. We will also separately sell neighbor-made single servings of dessert. Our neighbor Mike from Cabos Grill has generously agreed to donate salsa and bean dip.
Disposable plates, flatware, and cups will be available, but we encourage you to bring your own non-disposables.
Any money made on food sales will be used to offset the cost of putting on Nenefest and other neighborhood events.
Musical Lineup 3:00-9:00
We will have stages and neighborhood musicians once again!
3:00 Kelly Hirai's group
3:45 Tuesday Night Bluegrass Ensemble
4:30 The Bothys
5:15 Eclectic Acoustic
6:15 Tz Jonz and the Ontological Elephants
7:10 Quanta
8:00 Harvest Gypsies (until 9:00)
Richard Bertram has graciously agreed to be our stage manager. If you can help or have questions, please .
T-shirts and posters 3:00-7:00
The popular Nenefest t-shirts will return! Our neighborhood artist Charity Myers has created a new design for 2012. We will also sell 2012 posters, signed by Charity. Buy a t-shirt or a poster, display your neighborhood pride, and help bring the fest back to the hood every year. Shirts and posters will be sold at the Fest on a first-come-first-served basis. We are also arranging to have a few posters and t-shirts with previous years' designs for sale.
The t-shirt table will be open until 7:00, but buy early for the best selection!
Activities
We have some great activities planned, including a knitting tutorial for adults various activities for children. Some activities will continue through much of the afternoon. Scheduled activities:
Kung Fu lesson: 4:00 - 4:30, presented by Andres Plata Stapper (lives in our neighborhood) and his teacher, Dewaine, of Pangai noon Kung Fu. All ages can participate!
Games and Sports: 4:30 - 5:30 (roughly), on the softball field and volleyball and basketball courts. For all ages.
Scary Stories 8:00 - 8:30, in the clubhouse: Ages 4 and up. David will tell the stories.
The organizers can always use more help, so if you’d like to help (or just want to find out more!), please .
Arts, Crafts, and Business Showcase 3:00-8:00
Many neighbors will have exhibit tables to sell their hand-made art or crafts, let others know about their businesses, and just share their interests and activities. As of April 10, we have quite a few exhibits registered, but could accommodate more. We are especially still looking for massage therapists to give or sell messages, as this was very popular at one previous NeneFest. NeneFest can provide tables but not tents or booths. If you have questions or are interested in exhibiting, please or .
Volunteers: make salads
We are looking for people to make and donate side salads of about 40 portions. As of April 10 we have some volunteers, but more is always better! We can reimburse you for some of the ingredients you use so that cost is not an impediment to your participation, but donations of salads are more than welcome. If you'd like to share a copy of your lovingly-prepared recipe, it can be memorialized in an online Indianhead/Lehigh Acres Cookbook that will be added to our neighborhood website. Please as soon as possible if you’re interested.
Volunteers: desserts
The 2012 Nenefest will feature a dessert table of homemade treats from the 'hood. As of April 10 we have some volunteers, but more is always better! Might you be able to donate a dozen, two dozen, or more single-servings of sweet treats to sell at the event? All the proceeds will help fund all the wonderful work of our neighborhood association. Even those who would like to participate "remotely" can make items that someone will happily pick up from you at home. And, if you'd like to share a copy of your lovingly-prepared recipe it can be memorialized in an online Indianhead/Lehigh Acres Cookbook that will be added to our neighborhood website. Please or call her at 556-9297 if you'd like to participate.
Volunteers: serving food
We need volunteers for one-hour shifts from 5 to 8 pm to serve food! Positions are mostly filled but backups are good! As of April 6, we were still looking for one more cashier. Please as soon as possible if you can do this.
No Puppet show
Puppet show coordinators from previous years are not available, and no one took it over for this year. If you are interested in bringing back giant puppets for future Nenefests please to get information about what needs to be done. Past scripts and puppets are available for use, though Meany Nene needs some TLC.
Volunteers: stage set up
The stage will be set up starting Saturday morning. Helpers are needed. We especially need people with long ladders and trucks. If you can help, email You can also help by just showing up, but the exact time will be a last-minute decision.
Volunteers: break down and garbage crew
If you can stay after the fest has ended and help break down the stage and pick up trash and recycling, please do! If you're willing to help, please email Or just stay and help, but Grant would like to know in advance that he won't be working alone in the dark.