Category: President’s Letter

Greetings Neighbors! It’s another great day in the ol’ West End Neighborhood. Membership Our 2025 membership has surpassed 180! While we’re not at all satisfied with that number, it does represent a high mark in many years. Our 2025 goal is to get over 200 so if you’re reading this and aren’t a member, please […]

Happy new year, Neighbors! It’s another . . . FRIGID day in the ol’ West End. Hope you’re all staying warm in this latest Siberian Blast. As I’m writing this letter my thermometer is reading right at 0! That’s cold!! For comparison, my sister lives in Anchorage, Alaska, and the current temp there is 33 […]

Ho, ho, ho it’s another grand day in the ol’ West End. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah and well wishes to all of our neighbors! Special thanks to those who came out to our annual WCNA Holiday Party held at Chapman’s Brewery at Electric Works. It was a great chance to meet some new […]

Hello Neighbors! It’s another grand day in the ol’ West End. Inasmuch Ministry At our November membership meeting we had a very powerful presentation by our neighbor Mary Ann Mings on the Inasmuch Ministries located at Broadway Christian Church. Their mission is to help the hundreds of homeless in our region, which they do and […]

Hello Neighbors! It’s another grand day in the ol’ West End. 2024 Home & Garden Tour By now many of you have likely heard, but the 2024 Home & Garden Tour and Artsfest were both HUGE successes! In fact, we broke records for the second straight year in terms of attendance, revenue and profits! A […]

Hello Neighbors! It’s another grand day in the ol’ West End. Our August membership meeting was a good one! We had very nice attendance (although we’d love to have even more) and robust conversations. To lead things off, Creager Smith from the Historic Preservation Commission provided a wonderful history of the West Central neighborhood, beginning […]

Hello Neighbors! It’s another grand day in the ol’ West End. At our July meeting we were visited by Dan Baisden with the Fort Wayne Community & Economic Development, Neighborhood Planning & Activation. Dan presented a whole host of data around the demographics of West Central. Here are some quick highlights. Safety Sundays were created […]

Hello Neighbors! It’s another grand day in the ol’ West End. Thanks to all of you who attended our April member meeting. We had such a large turnout that we had to scramble to set up more chairs – which is awesome! A reminder to others who might be reading this, but don’t attend the […]

Hello Neighbors! It’s another grand day in the ol’ West End.  As many of you probably know, this past fall West Central lost one of its legends in the passing of Jody Hemphill Smith. Jody and husband Mark co-owned the Castle Gallery and have been integral fixtures in the neighborhood for decades. Jody’s influence on […]

Hello Neighbors! It’s another grand day in the ol’ West End.  Did you know that our neighborhood used to be called the West End? This was back when Fort Wayne quite literally ended at what is now Swinney Park, or the far west end. Our neighborhood started out home to the working class who could walk […]