Registration for the Spring/Summer season is on going until April 8th or until the divisions are full. Stop by and register your Men's, Women's, Co-ed, Adult Church or Youth Church team today.

Athletics Office is located at 2100 "M" Street - north of the Lewis Ball Fields or just southeast of the Distribution Center of the City Mission (21st & N).

For more information and directions on how to get to the office, please call 402-441-7892 or visit our website. 

Leagues will play Sundays thru Fridays with games at the following fields - Densmore, Sawyer-Snell, ELKS, Lewis, Holmes, Mahoney, Ballard, & Cooper.

Games on Sundays are in the afternoon and evening - 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, & 4pm, 515pm, 615pm, 715pm, & 815pm.

Games on Monday thru Friday are in the evening - 615pm, 715pm, 815pm & 915pm.

For more information on all softball matters - call 402-441-7892 or email tborucki@lincoln.ne.gov

What a Jump Into Spring!  Nature Explorers Campers had a great week as they created a habitat in a terrarium, waded into the creek to dip for the first aquatic critters of the season and test water quality, recorded their own biodiversity survey, dissected owl pellets, worked on a service project, and had fantastic field trips to the landfill and Homestead National Monument.   

Exciting experiences for ages 3 to 17 are planned for this summer during seven weeks of Wilderness Nature Camp and five sessions of Camp Discovery.

Don't miss Nature's Market Saturday, April 16!  This family friendly event encourages everyone to get outdoors and rediscover Spring!  Festivities begin at 9a and wrap up at 2p.  New this year is the Nature Experiences silent auction - a slumber party in the log cabin, nature photography lessons, a tea party in the one room school house and several others are up for grabs.  Admission is free, and all proceeds benefit the scholarship program at the Nature Center.  

Somewhere Over the Rainbow.  Here's a note from Horticulturist Steve Nosal on this year's theme:

This theme came to us after witnessing several [rainbows] over the last few years. We first noticed a double rainbow arched and ending in the newly rebuilt Sunken Gardens in 2005. The appearance of these rainbows seemed to be perfectly timed after a spring rain that started just after we had finished installing the entire Garden. Every year thereafter, a double rainbow has presented itself to us at coincidental times; on a long drive home over the purple hue prairie and somewhere over the shores of blue Hawaii! It seemed they were an omen.   So, this year we chose colors of purples, cranberry, whites, and primrose yellow with glints of bright oranges and reds to create arched rainbows - yellow brick roads and avant-garde rainbow patterns of color flowing down the ledges.

If you'd like to help plant this year's annuals, sign up for the Wake Up the Beds event May 14.  Call 402-441-7035 or email forestry@lincoln.ne.gov.