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August 2006
I want to thank everyone who attended the BBQ last month-we had about 60 people attend and the burgers were great. This month is vacation month for a lot of us, but if things get too hot for your neighbors (especially the elderly), please contact 311 and see that they get to one of these places below to cool off: Eastern Community Action Center - 1400 Orleans St.; Southeastern Community Action Center - 3411 Bank St., Hatton Senior Center - 2825 Fait Avenue. Lastly, this also the month before elections, and Fells Prospect has invited other associations to take part in a candidates forum for State District 46. It will take place on August 9th at the Holy Rosary Church on S. Chester Street, between Bank and Eastern. -Richard Hackett. Garden Tour Recap: WHAT FUN! The early morning deluge and gray skies made the Garden Tour most pleasant-not too hot and very green. Many thanks to the gardeners who labored to bring their spaces to the peak of perfection, to the greeters who guided visitors, and to all the behind-the-scenes workers-chairs Joe & Roxanne Rehak; Events Committee members: Sue, Liz E., Martha, Bill, Tori & Ray, Dee & Barry, Sandy, Ann and Betsy; day-of helpers: Liz B., Rich & Kathy, and Rick; and those who opened their garden gates: Athba, Beth & Tom, Cheryl & Tom, Jack, Theresa, Roxanne & Joe, Heather and Rick; as well as all the garden sitters and artists who exhibited their work. As the summer progresses and our gardens mature, give some thought to "Garden Tour 2007." If you have, or notice, a garden that might be on next year's tour, contact Sue: 410-522-6773. (The tour is also a fundraiser for our community.) Please thank the following businesses that contributed to the event: Whole Foods, Santoni's, and Henningers Restaurant and the businesses that allowed us to display our posters: Whole Foods, Broadway Market, Petticoat Tearoom, Broadway Liquors, Santoni's Supermarket, DiPasquale's Italian Deli, High Grounds Coffee & Book Shop, Phoenix Realty, Long & Foster, Coldwell Banker, Poor Boys Garden Center, Dundalk Florist, Rite Aid (Foster Ave.), Safeway and D.J. Liquidators in Highlandtown and Old North Point Blvd. Not all businesses support the efforts of local community groups, those that do deserve our patronage. FLEA MARKET RETURNS!!! GOT STUFF? - A 15'x15' space could turn it into CASH. To reserve a space: $20 by September 9th or $30 after, call Bev: 410-675-0148. OR you could DONATE clean, salable items to the Butchers Hill booth the morning of the event. Proceeds will benefit School #27, now adding a 6th grade, and the Patterson Park Charter School. OR YOU COULD JOIN IN THE FUN AS A VOLUNTEER: call Ray: 410-675-4948 for information. Special thanks to Comcast, Mayor Martin O'Malley and the Baltimore Office of Promotion & the Arts. OPEN YOUR HOUSE FOR THE TOUR! The Butchers Hill House Tour 2006 is slated for Sunday, October 15th, noon to 5, and luckily you still have time to volunteer your house to be one of the chosen twelve. Your home doesn't have to be big and beautiful, or in magazine-perfect condition. We're looking for diversity, variety, and interesting ways that you have made one of these old structures into your comfortable abode. We are also interested in houses not on previous tours. Let us know if you'd like to be interviewed to be on the tour. Since we're starting a bit late this year, the sooner you call or email us, the better. We hope to have the twelve houses selected within the next two or three weeks. Contact: A SPECIAL THANKS TO NEIGHBORS PAULINE, DEBBIE, LIZ, MANAY, and STEVE who helped clean up the large, stinking, trash hot-spot at the corner of Fairmount and Patterson Park Avenues on the morning of July 20th. Neighbors had been complaining to the city about the site for weeks, to no avail. Please help keep the spot clean-trash begets trash! And thank you to Erich for helping with the community clean-up on that day BHA COMMITTEES AND MONTHLY MEETINGS
COMMUNITY DUMPSTER, Thursday, August 17, 2100 block of E. Fairmount Ave. 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 AM and leaves around 2 PM. Please fill from the back. The tentative date for next dumpster is Thursday, Sept. 21st. Education Committee report : Thank you to everyone who adopted a teacher. Every teacher has been adopted. Please remember to go out and get the supplies and be sure that your supplies are delivered directly to the specific school no later than Friday, August 25 th. Teachers begin back on August 23 rd and so the preference for delivery is August 23-25. However, if you would like to deliver prior, please call the school to be sure that someone is on site: School 27: 410-396-9300 and for the Charter School, adopters can take the teacher materials to PPPCS, at 27 North Lakewood between 8 and 4 weekdays. Call to make certain Carol Evans Turner will be there—she is the new administrative assistant and her number is 410-558-1230, extension 4, or call 410-534-0364 (Michelle Tracy home). The Adopt-a-Teacher Breakfast in Patterson Park is on Friday August 25 th. Please mark you calendars. Remember the Fun Mobile for kids in Patterson Park, Sundays noon to 3, and Tuesday evenings from 5:30 to 8:30. $1050 has been donated so far for maps for the Charter School: $300 from Barry Glassman, $200 from Bo Forrest, $400 from Dave Holmes, $50 from Ed Makowski, and $100 from Sue Noonan. Our goal is $7000. —Tori Simms. STREETSCAPE COMMITTEE REPORT: The Betsy Patterson Historical Mural Project is a go! Thanks to a very generous donation from local residents Bonnie and Dave Holmes and a timely grant from Mayor Martin O'Malley's Office of Neighborhoods which matched dollar-for-dollar all previously raised funds, the Butchers Hill Association has surpassed our fundraising goal for this exciting project. The contract is signed and work is now underway! Look for masonry work to begin soon on the south wall of 22 S. Chester Street. Following initial site preparation, Murals of Baltimore will begin painting the artwork depicting the tragic love story of Betsy Patterson and Jerome Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, with much of the work nearing completion around the time of our fall House Tour. The Streetscape Committee would like to acknowledge all of our previous donors: Larry and Karen Tong, the Townes of Butchers Hill, the Butchers Hill CDC, and Schultz Development; as well as the granting organizations that have contributed to this project getting underway: Banner Neighborhoods, and the William G. Baker, Jr. Memorial Fund. We hope the Betsy Patterson Historical Mural Project will be but the first of a series of historical murals to be painted in Butchers Hill, featuring important episodes from our neighborhood's diverse history. Future murals might feature Commodore John Rodgers and the defense of Hampstead Hill; or 8-year-old slave Fred Bailey (later Frederick Douglass) driving sheep to the butchers on Laudenslager's Hill; or from the more recent era, the Patterson Park to Druid Hill Trolleys. Thanks to Rick Gilmour for these and other excellent suggestions. Other Streetscape News: Thanks to all our local residents who submitted tree request forms, and in particular Dustin McQuate of the 100 Block of S. Castle St., and Liz Barrer of the unit block of N. Patterson Park Ave. for organizing strong neighborhood involvement. Over the coming months the Butchers Hill Association will be working with the city to negotiate concrete cutting services prior to this season's tree planting. We hope the city will approve all of this season's tree requests. -Remington Nevin. Patterson Park in August Naija Fest 2006—Nigerian Festival, Saturday, August 12 th, Noon - 8 PM, Corner of Linwood & Eastern Aves. Website: www.nyamaryland.org. Pow-Wow Native American Festival, Friday, Aug 25 th through Sunday, Aug 27 th: Fri Noon to 8 PM, Sat 10 AM to 9 PM, Sun 10 AM to 6 PM. Corner of Linwood & Eastern Aves. Website: www.baic.org. Free Concerts on Pagoda Hill—Mercy Medical Center presents the WYPR Concert Series at Patterson Park, 6:30-8:30 PM Tuesday, August 15 Rumba Club. Rain date August 16. Latin Beat Magazine calls the Rumba Club "the finest dancing and listening music possible"--don't miss it! Sunday, August 27 Blue Rhythm Boys. Rain date August 30. This first-rate swing trio is back by popular demand, and blues-ier than ever! Useful information for new neighbors is available under the Moving In link on our web site: www.butchershill.org. If you would like to receive our monthly e-mail with a preview copy of the newsletter, please e-mail bhamember@gmail.com. We still have summer merchandise for sale. Check the web for details: www.butchershill.org/shop or e-mail bhamember@gmail.com. COMMUNITY BULLETIN BOARD SUPER SUMMER PICNIC! Deep rumbles of thunder heralded the Annual Summer Picnic set-up committee to Halcott Square at 5 PM on July 12 th. By 6 PM Duncan Street was closed to traffic, tubs of ice-cold beer, wine, water and juice were set up, the barbie was blazing, and tables were ready to receive Butchers Hill residents’ “pot luck.” Fortuitously, the rumbles dissipated and a lively breeze eased the otherwise high temperature providing a lovely evening out-of-doors. Soon the park was filled with long-timers, more recent comers and brand-new residents. The conversation was lively as neighbors enjoyed each others company and the park setting. An enticing variety of side dishes contributed by BHA residents complimented the hamburgers and hotdogs cooked by grill-master Rich Hackett. Roasted chicken breasts were also offered thanks to Liz Elliott’s home cooking. If not sated by the main course options, picnickers could choose from a tantalizing array of desserts ranging from “dirt” (pudding, whipped cream, crushed Oreo cookies and gummy worms served from a bucket with a shovel!) to decadent peanut butter brownies and several luscious summer fruit concoctions. A thank you to the volunteers who made it happen – Liz Elliott, Rich & Kathy Hackett, Barry Glassman, Dee Lundelius, Peter Greene, Greg Matanoski, Debbie Lantry, Sandy Sales, Betsy & Geoff Wadsworth, Steve Young. —Betsy Wadsworth
Y O G A S P A C E in Butcher's Hill Butcher's Hill resident and yoga teacher, Stephannie Weikert, recently opened Y O G A S P A C E, a small second floor studio located at 2027 E. Lombard Street (use side entrance on Castle Street), offering vinyasa classes for beginner and intermediate students. The space is an intimate, convenient and flexible yoga alternative for neighborhood residents. And most importantly, you don't need a car to get there! Om Shanti. All classes are $10; a schedule is posted in the window at 2027 E. Lombard St. For more information, contact Stephannie at weikerts@verizon.net. Hear Ye! Hear Ye! The newly renovated Patterson Park Pool is open this season until September 4 th. Admission: $1.50; $25 season membership (unlimited swimming and swim lessons). Learn to swim: $5 for 10 lessons (registration required). If the temperature exceeds 90 degrees, the pool will be open to the general public (all ages) during these times: 12-2 PM; 2:30-4:30 PM; 5-7 PM. For more information, contact the Pool Manager at 410-446-9574.
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