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NEWS of GROVE PARK April 2010 |
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NEWS of GROVE PARK April 2010 |
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President – Maureen Gilewski 704.568.9744
Vice President – Kaye Walsh 704.536.5314
Secretary – Debbie Tipton 704.568.4269
Treasurer – Judy Hall 704.537.9587
COMMITTEES
Communications: Chair, Mary-Ellen Jones
Neighborhood Watch: Chair, Mary Kay Brennan
Neighborhood Signs: Chair, Jewell Davis
Charlotte East Community Partners (CECP):
Representatives, Kristine Fisher and Shelin Wilder
Code/Zoning: Chair, Kari Brock.
Message from
Maureen:
Our next GPNA Meeting is scheduled for Tuesday May 4th at 7:00 PM at the Hickory Grove Recreation Center at 6709 Pence Road. We will elect our President and Secretary for the next 2-year term which begins May 2010 through May 2012. Our agenda will include an update on our neighborhood signs, the East Town Market meetings and our upcoming International Fest on Sunday May 23rd.
Elections for President and Secretary: MK Brennan is coordinating the nominations committee. We are accepting nominations for President and Secretary. If you are interested please nominate yourself by contacting MK at MKB1153@aol.com. Let’s keep GPNA strong and growing!
Neighborhood Signs
The Sign Committee received one proposal for our entrance
signs and is anticipating the delivery of a second plan. One former neighbor
whose parents live in our neighborhood and one current neighbor responded to
our request for a graphic design for our entrance sign.
Thank you to Jewell and Mel Davis who faithfully post the meeting signs before each GPNA meeting.
Share your neighborhood news with your Block Captain or email information to Mary-Ellen Jones at jjimj@gmail.com.
Your Block Captain:_________________________
Contact Details:_____________________________
Meeting with East Town
Management: Thank you to MK Brennan
for coordinating and leading the East Town Market meeting. Together with
Debbie Tipton MK prepared a power point presentation with the results of the
neighborhood survey. Representatives
from Ravenwood and Candlewood joined MK and Debbie for the meeting with the
manager of East Town Market. A second
meeting is planned next month with the East Town Market manager, Grove Park,
Ravenwood, Candlewood and our resource office Ericka Conway. Officer Conway will invite representatives
from other neighborhoods in the vicinity to attend the second meeting.
WITH THANKS: Recently
most of us were alarmed when we learned of the proposed closing of our new
Hickory Grove Library (along with eleven other libraries) as a result of
Charlotte - Mecklenburg’s budget deficit. Thanks to the efforts of
concerned neighbors all the libraries will remain open, although with shorter
hours. A special thanks to Kaye Walsh for leading Grove Park’s
campaign to keep the libraries open.
A
Review of TEDDY’s PIZZA by Kaye Walsh: Opening at East
Town Market in 2004, Teddy's Pizza serves up a variety of pizzas, subs and
more. The menu includes something for everyone, salads, wings, calzones
and pasta. The oven baked subs come in 7 or 11 inch sizes and are made to
order. I especially recommend the Italian sub or the Philly Steak
sub. Both are very messy, but extremely good. Of course the main
focus is on the pizza. With dough made fresh daily and using only the
best ingredients, Teddy's pizzas are awesome. Always made to
order, Teddy's offers any combination you can create, or there are the standard
favorites, ranging from Veggie Lovers to Supreme. A lifelong Cleveland
Browns fan, you will often find Teddy in the store and making pizzas
himself. He even has a Cleveland Browns Special: 2 large 2 topping pizzas
and 20 wings for 23.99. There is no inside dining, so all orders are
pick-up or delivery. Pick-up orders are usually ready within 20 minutes
of your call.
To order from Teddy's call 704-536-1660.
GROVE PARK-RAVENWOOD
GARDEN CLUB
meets the third Saturday
of the month, 10:30 a.m. Our next meeting is Saturday, April 17. We
are very fortunate because this meeting will be a local field trip. The
gardens of master gardeners, Tom Nunnenkamp and Lib Jones (near
Southpark) are well known for their plant diversity. Tours are available
only by appointment, and we are expected at 10:00 a.m. Plan to meet at
our home (6608 Terry Lane) at 9:15 a.m. We will go by carpool as space for
parking is limited. Also this meeting is our annual plant exchange.
Be thinking now of what plants you have to share as you take pleasure in
preparing your gardens for spring and summer. The plants will be left on
our carport, to be shared after we return from the field trip. Please let
me know that you plan to attend, as we do not want to leave anyone behind. Mary-Ellen
Jones jjimij@gmail.com
The upcoming 2010 SPRING GARDEN TOUR is our
exciting news, on Sunday April 18, from 1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. The Garden Tour
Committee has worked to assure that our Garden Tour this year will be as
memorable as our inaugural tour last year. Please share this unique
opportunity to appreciate the beauty around us with your family, friends, and
neighbors. This year the tour will consist of two gardens in Ravenwood,
two gardens in Grove Park, and the three Triangle Gardens, tended by members of
the Garden Club for the benefit of all. The tour begins at the Triangle
where brochures will be available with directions to the other gardens on the
tour.
GROVE
PARK HISTORY: Remember earlier reading Acree
Armstrong’s recollections of the early years on Terry Lane? In this
issue we feature Peggy Sue and David Henry’s memories of their early
years in Grove Park.
“In March of 1955 we built our home on Grove Park Blvd., at that time
it was a gravel road with no house in sight. Lawyer Erwin’s house
was the next block over - there was nothing here, we really lived out in the
country. In 1956 we started going to a church in a barn on the corner of
Hickory Grove - Newell Road which now is W.T. Harris. The church, Hickory
Grove Baptist Church was built in 1957.
After the church was built we started growing in Grove Park; our street was
paved and that was such a great improvement. A number of firsts:
Winn-Dixie, first grocery store (East Town Market, now Compare Foods); Hickory
Grove Volunteer Fire Department (across the street on the left from HGBC);
Spoon’s Pharmacy was located in the same block as the Fire Department. Mr.
Spoon was the main doctor. There was a Gulf Service Station where
Rite Aid now sits across from HGBC. Food Lion and the rest of the stores
across from HGBC are located in the former cow pasture. Going towards
Hickory Grove Methodist Church was Deans, a small grocery store. Mr.
Dean lived on the corner past HGMC. The Gym for the Methodist Church
is where Dean’s Grocery was located. Across from the Methodist Church is
Hickory Grove Elementary School, where our children attended (the school is in
use today).
Grove Park’s lakes were a
drawing point for the many homes that began to be built here. The oldest
house (the gray house at Williams and Oakwood) was the Williams home (Williams
Road is named for Mr. and Mrs. Williams). We have truly seen it all grow
up. It was then and still is an area by many, here in the east side of
Charlotte. Thank you Peggy Sue and David Henry! If
you have lived in Grove Park for some time and remember the way it used to be -
even a small account, please let us know, Maureen Gilewski, or Mary-Ellen
Jones.
Independence
Boulevard Transportation Project: The letter from Sec. Conti and CDOT Danny
Pleasant both makes and implies several points relevant to the Citizens'
Advisory Group's input and focus.
1. The future
of Independence as a transit corridor is held whole.
2. Access to
business areas is improved via the right lane cut
outs.
3. The
integrity and quality of the neighborhoods are well considered.
4. The
neighborhoods are connected in pedestrian friendly ways to each other and to
the "back door" of the business areas.
5. The
funding and the timing of this project are maintained, thereby offering a
stable basis for decision making by those in the area.
The Super Street
concept was discussed by Staff. Its roots lay in the past experience of
Independence before the enormous volume of traffic (only to be increased by the
feed from the Monroe Bypass). If this plan were adopted, because of the
treatment of the intersections (no separation), we would lose the capacity for
Rapid Transit on Independence (light rail preferred by the citizens).
The Mayor has
requested a meeting of those concerned before the end of the first week in
April, with Council Members Kinsey and Carter concurring. A meeting of
the Citizens' Advisory Group, whose deliberations, with Staff's, have
provided such a good basis for this process, is scheduled for April 15th.
There will be a public meeting on this topic on May 6th. In all of these
meetings, as in the District 5, 3/24 meeting, dialogue will be encouraged and
respected.
Thanks to each of
you for your interest and investment in Charlotte East,
Nancy Carter
Charlotte City
Council, District 5
The City of Charlotte and the North Carolina Department of Transportation will jointly host a Public Information Session
to provide an update on the upcoming Independence Blvd
transportation project.
Date: Thursday, April 15, 2010
Time: 6:00 pm
Location: The Park (formerly Charlotte Merchandise Mart)
800 Briar Creek Road
Charlotte, NC, 28205
Fifth Annual Eastside Treasures (sponsored by Charlotte East Community Partners).
Neighborhood Yard Sales allow people to come into the neighborhoods and off the
main corridors. Where: In your neighborhood at selected sights.
When: Saturday, May 1, 2010, 7am to 12 noon. Cost: $5 per
cash box. Please call Vickie Fewell 704-763-5286, or Diane
Langevin 704-536-7809 for more information.
ASSOCIATION
DUES: Grove
Park Neighborhood Association is a voluntary association (no mandatory
ordinances); voluntary dues are $20/year.
Please make your checks payable to GPNA. Mail or hand delivered to Judy
Hall, our treasurer. (7044 Lakeside Drive, Charlotte, NC 28215).
