May 2009                                
If you’re like me, counting the days until summer is an annual ritual: cheering for the Oryuls,  gewin’ downy ocean, visitin’ de Quariryum, and socializing with your friends neck-store.  Then, BawlmerGasLecric spoils it all with a monthly bill. Well friends, it’s time to fight back! Come to our May meeting and we’ll show you how to lower your electrical bills in ways that don’t cost very much and are surprisingly easy. As a person who spent most of his life on Wall Street, I always look for a big return on investments and that’s what we have for you.
We’ll begin with a presentation from People’s Council. They’ll explain to us how to save money by switching from BG&E to another supplier and how to decrease your carbon footprint at the same time. We’ll also do a show and tell on compact fluorescent lights, thermal leak detectors, tankless hot water heaters. reflective roof paints, window sealing, and more.
If that isn’t enough excitement for you, we’ll also vote on the revised bylaws (available on butchershill.org) and our 2009 budget.
I have a new nickname; “Mr Mud In My Face.”  Last month I expressed doubt that the Parking Authority would bend their rules and procedures to work with us in a practical manner on permit parking.  Was I wrong!  After I expressed my frustration to them on various issues, they suddenly agreed on all three issues.  They agreed to do a parking study without us petitioning.  If we eventually petition for residential permit parking they also agreed to a random verification of signatures and to treat the neighborhood as a single entity, not block by block.  We will hold off on requesting the study until angle parking has been installed on Fairmount & Chester Streets.  Hopefully we’ll have real numbers to work with so we can make an informed decision on permit parking.
 -Barry Glassman   President BHA

Spring Flea Market
BARGAINS . ART . MUSIC . FOOD
PAGODA OPEN!
SATURDAY, MAY 9th
9 AM – 3 PM
Rain date: May 16th.
Bargains, bargains, bargains: at the Butchers Hill booth and at the usual great vendors, good food plus music by the Paul Snyder Trio.   Contact Barry, (410)558-1080, to reserve space: $25 now, $30 the day of the Flea Market. 
Volunteers needed – please donate an hour of your choice to: help set up 7-9am, staff the Butchers Hill booth, food stand, or help break down 3-5pm.  Contact Tori, (410)675-4948.  Donations may be brought to the Butchers Hill booth located at the Lombard Street park entrance, on Saturday, May 9th, after 6 a.m.  Tax receipts will be available there.  Please put a suggested price on each item.

SPRING CLEANUP THE BEST!
Mattress, box spring, glass table top, old christmas tree - DISAPPEAR BY MAGIC!?  YES!!!  THE MAGIC OF GREAT NEIGHBORS - and a great community.  Block Captains gave out notices, Streetscape Committee coordinated with the city - and then changed gears when the promised dumpsters turned out to be a wonderful compactor truck
 with a great crew, the WEATHER WAS FABULOUS and in addition to the many large
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 1  Flower Mart
Washington Monument

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Kinetic Sculpture Race   pg. 3

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Baltimore Farmers Market opens!

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Cinco De Mayo

6  Butchers Hill
GENERAL MEETING, 7 PM

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Butchers Hill Flea Market
9am-3pm            pg. 1

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Mother’s Day

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Land Use Committee 7PM

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Book Club I
7:30PM

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C.O.P.   7:30 PM

Executive
Committee
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BIKE JAM
pg. 3

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& Crime Prevention 7PM

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Wine Tasting
PP Fundraiser
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24 Sowebo Arts
Festival 12 – 9pm
Hollins Market

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C.O.P.  7:30 PM

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House Tour Planning  Mtg
7PM

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POLISH FESTIVAL pg 3

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  may in patterson park
Saturday, May 2 – Kinetic Sculpture Race.  All over the city and multiple locations within the park 1-3pm. www.kineticbaltimore.com.
Saturday, May 9 – Butchers Hill Flea Market.  Music, Food, Fun! www.butchershill.org
Saturday, May 16 – Movie in the Park.  Pee Wee’s Big Adventure (PG) The Hill in PP East near Ellwood & Gough.  8:30pm.  Rain date 5/18
Sunday, May 17 – Bike Jam.  Pagoda open!  For more info www.bikejam.org
Thursday, May 21 – Wine Tasting.   7-9 pm  $50 Annual fund raiser.  (410) 276-3676
Saturday, May 23-Movie in the Park. Madagascar. (G) The Hill in Patterson Park East near Ellwood & Gough. 8:30 pm. Rain date 5/25.
Fri - Sun, May 29-31 – Polish Festival.  Pulaski Monument (Linwood & Eastern).  Fri (5pm-10pm), Sat. (12-10pm), Sun. (12-4pm).  Fri. $2, Sat. & Sun. $4 www.familypolka.com/festival

walking tour schedule – fells point

The Preservation Society of Fells Point announces the walking tour schedule for 2009.
Beginning on the first week-end in April, the entertaining and informative Walking Tours of Fells Point researched and presented by docents of the Preservation Society, will run through November 2009.  All tours start from the Visitors Center at 1742 Thames Street and are approximately 90 minutes long.  There is a fee for these Tours which are led by costumed  and knowledgeable guides.  Call or stop at the Visitor Center for reservations or more information – (410) 675-6750. Extension 12 or 16.
Authentic Fells Point Ghostwalk: Fri. & Sat. evenings at 7:00 pm
Immigration Tour:  Saturdays at 12 noon
Secrets of a Seaport - Fells Point Tour: Saturdays at 10:00 am
African American History Tour: Sundays at 3:00 pm
Robert Long House & Colonial Garden Tour, Tues. - Sat. l:30 pm
Contact: Ann Stacy, (410)522-3050 for Preservation Society of Fells Point                                        

School 27 News.

Thanks to those neighbors who shared their work experience at School 27's first Career Day for our 8th graders.  And thanks to others who have helped begin the school’s recycling program.  Some students will be receiving community service credits for helping collect school papers for recycling.  For the rest of this school year we will be putting out the school’s recycled paper during our neighborhood bimonthly collection.  Next year we hope to have weekly collections at the school.  All classrooms are participating.  The school has had several wonderful presentations from our city's office of recycling.
                                                                            Carolyn Boitnott

Visit our website for complete General Meeting notes, newsletters, “moving in” information, Butchers Hill history, Butchers Hill Artists, and so much more at www.butchershill.org

COMMUNITY DUMPSTER, Tuesday, May 12th, unit block N. Collington.  For neighborhood residents only.  No building materials, refrigerators, water heaters, washers, dryers, stoves, batteries, wet paint, automotive parts (including tires and rims), or hazardous materials.  The dumpster generally arrives around 10 and leaves around 2.  Please use the open end of the dumpster to walk your items inside.  Closed toe shoes required to enter the dumpster.  No NOT throw items over the side.  There may be people inside the dumpster.