2007 Summer

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" rowspan="2" width=210 BGCOLOR="#99CC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="03f8dfc3.jpg"> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=82 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfe1esnpes.jpg"> <div> <B>2007 Summer</B></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" height=398 colspan=2 BGCOLOR="#CCCC99" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="0408dfc3.jpg"> <div> <B>President’s Column </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#808080" FACE="Tw Cen MT" >by Delores Robinson</FONT></div> <bR> <div> Summertime is time for fun, relaxation, vacations, and picnics! So the Triangle Federation is planning a fantastic picnic for all of our Dayton View Triangle neighbors and Omega Baptist Church members – and it’s free!! Please plan to come and meet, greet, and have fun with your neighbors.</div> <div> The picnic will be held on <I><B>Sunday, August 19th at the Omega Baptist Church – Harvard Campus Oval from 3:00-6:00 p.m</B></I><B>.</B> The oval is located in the middle of the campus, surrounded by all of the buildings.</div> <div> We will be serving hamburgers, hot dogs, baked beans, potato chips, drinks, and cake. We are asking that <I><B>each family bring a covered dish</B></I><B> (appetizer, fruit, salad, vegetable, or dessert) to supplement the meal. </B><I><B>We also ask that you bring something to sit on</B></I><B>, lawn chairs or blankets, for your family</B>. We will provide tables.</div> <div> Live music will be provided by Willie Morris from the University of Dayton, accompanied by two or three of his students. There will be fun and games, with prizes for the children. For the adults we will have bingo, card games, and volleyball. We will also have door prizes, including some goodies from local businesses that we have contacted.</div> <div> The timeline for the day is: Children’s games will start at 3:00 p.m., "Getting to Know You" activity at 3:30 p.m., eating at 4:00 p.m., and adult activities starting after dinner, about 4:45-5:00 p.m. </div> <div> Your dedicated neighbors who have been planning the picnic include: Beverly Jenkins and Donna Shultz (co-chairpersons), Steve Blatt, Jackie Colvard, Andria Perkins, and Delores Robinson. Show them that you appreciate their hard work by attending the picnic. </div> <div> We still need more door prizes as well as help with set-up and clean-up. If you would like to help, please contact me (Delores Robinson) at 277-8031 or <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#0000FF" FACE="Bodoni MT" ><U>dchis64@aol.com</U></FONT>. I hope to see you at the Neighborhood Picnic on August 19, 2007!!!</div> <div> <I><B>Please volunteer to be a trustee</B></I><I>!</I> <I>You don’t have to live within the district to represent it.</I></div> <div> Welcome to new trustee Marco Marmolejo – and welcome back to Norm Cary, longtime Triangle resident! </div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>Guerilla Gardening Attracts New Residents </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#808080" FACE="Tw Cen MT" ><B>by Laura Haney</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> A little landscaping can make a long-unoccupied house less of an invitation for looters and vandals. This was my goal when I first began trimming the brush and putting marigolds around some of the empty houses I walk by. </div> <div> Then I noticed that houses where I had done minor landscape maintenance sold within a year. I have wonderful neighbors across the street, and all I did was put daylilies and stonecrop beside the driveway, figuring they looked better than weeds. At another house on Burroughs, I put in marigolds. At a third house, I killed poison ivy and trimmed hedges.</div> <div> Upcoming Home Tours inspired me to do major work on the Salem and Alameda houses. I took my trusty pruners on evening walks, and within about a week of 10-minute visits, I had years of underbrush cut away from the side of the house on Salem. I put in some stonecrop and day lilies. The cuttings I dragged to the back yard. Within months, the house, owned by a lending institution that did not list its address, had been sold to someone who gutted it and resold it. </div> <div> A house on Alameda owned by the VA (which seems to have a policy of leaving houses unoccupied for 4 years before putting them on the market) had vastly overgrown hedges, a jungle of poison ivy, and a circular flowerbed of tall weeds and vines. In addition, its screen doors hung loose. I put a rock against each of the doors. This house took several 90-minute sessions, but the next year, it too had sold. The new owners have substantially improved the property with new doors and windows, anda new roof.</div> <div> Of course the City of Dayton should crack down on houses with multiple violations, but dealing with the bureaucracy takes a lot of time. Sometimes it can be years before there is a visible result. While we were waiting for action, vandals broke windows on at least one house. Another empty house was stripped of all its copper plumbing. Trustees Steve Blatt and Mike Dolinski are patiently and persistently pushing the City. Lawns have been cut on many of the eyesore houses, and there is a promise for more action on our top 10 eyesores with multiple violations. </div> <div> I call what I do guerilla gardening. I'm not authorized to do anything at the abandoned houses. Fixing up the landscaping has not brought residents to all of the abandoned houses I have tended, but every house I tended had something done. Sometimes it was enough to remind the owner to do a little something and then to ignore the house for a few more years. Was it worth my time? Sure. For at least a summer, the houses looked less abandoned. </div> <div> If we attack the problem of abandoned houses on several fronts, through guerilla gardening as well as through the established bureaucratic channels, we can keep the Dayton View Triangle a good place to live and a great place to walk through.</div> <div> Do not assume that every house with a messy lawn is abandoned. I look up the owners in the Montgomery County tax records. If tax is several years in arrears or the owner of record is unreachable, I figure the house is a fair target for a fixup! </div> <bR> <div> <B>Have Stencil, Will Travel</B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#808080" FACE="Tw Cen MT" ><B>by Steve Blatt</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> The DVT Federation continues to offer you the opportunity to have your house number painted on your driveway apron or curb for only $10! Experienced painters (and neighborhood trustees) Steve Blatt and Jerry Shultz stand ready to deploy their stencils (using a green or white background) at your command. </div> <div> For only $10 you can have your house number placed in a conspicuous spot where it will b readily visible to visitors or to emergency vehicles. All their work carries a money-back guarantee! Contact Steve at 277-5534 or Jerry at 277-7821.</div> <div> <FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Wingdings" ><B>Ø</B></FONT><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Wingdings" ><B>Ø</B></FONT><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Tw Cen MT" >Please volunteer for the picnic!!</FONT><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Wingdings" ><B>×</B></FONT><B> </B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Wingdings" ><B>×</B></FONT><B> </B></div> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <I>The Dayton View Triangle – It’s Your Neighborhood!</I></div> <div> <B>Meet Your Trustees: </B>Paul Humble, District 3, and Kim Haley, District 6<B> </B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>Paul:</B></I><B> </B>Technically, my wife Mindy and I moved into the neighborhood 32 years ago, but Mindy grew up in a house her father designed at the corner of Burbank and Cornell, and we both graduated from Colonel White High School. Our children went to Fairview Elementary and Middle schools, and our son played on the Triangle soccer team coached by Dennis Turner, one of the Association’s founders. Mindy is a Montessori school teacher and I am a director of an independent living community.</div> <div> During the last 30 years we have seen many changes to the neighborhood, but one thing that has not changed is the quality of the people who live in the Triangle. City living is not for everyone – it is for people who cherish the closeness of neighbors, the diversity urban living offers, and the convenience of amenities. We face the same challenges that other cities are experiencing, but I am confident that they can be overcome if more people become involved in solving our neighborhood problems. </div> <div> <I><B>Kim:</B></I><B> </B>Ever since I was eight years old and became aware of different neighborhoods, one of my strongest desires was to live in the Dayton View Triangle. Well, here I am – along with my three lovely daughters, who kindly tolerated my limiting our house-hunting to the Triangle. I’d like to introduce my pride and joy: Julliett Parrott, who is a student at the University of Cincinnati and resides in Cincinnati; Erin Parrott, my retail and contemporary queen; and Sydney Green, who has just started into her teenage years… and Curley, our infamous little dog who left the nest but had the sense to return.</div> <div> Our family arrived in August 2003, so we have just celebrated our four-year anniversary in our delightful neighborhood. We have wonderful neighbors on the entire block; everyone has been very approachable and helpful. I’m so grateful to have realized my lifelong dream of living in one of the best and most diverse neighborhoods in the Miami Valley!</div> <bR> <div> <B>Mayor McLin Visits the Triangle</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Bodoni MT" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#808080" FACE="Tw Cen MT" >by Delores Robinson</FONT></div> <bR> <div> How often can you talk with Dayton’s Mayor, face to face, without making an appointment, driving downtown, and paying for parking to meet with her? Well, now you have the opportunity to meet with her without even leaving your neighborhood! </div> <div> Mayor Rhine McLin will visit the Dayton View Triangle on <I><B>Monday, September 18</B></I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Bodoni MT" ><I><B>th</B></I></FONT><I><B> from</B></I> <I><B>4 to 6 p.m.</B></I> She will be available to talk with you and your neighbors, answer your questions, and listen to your ideas. Omega Baptist has kindly offered to let the DVT Federation use Bonebrake Hall for her visit. Please mark September 18th on your calendar, so you won’t miss this wonderful opportunity to share your concerns with the Mayor of the City of Dayton! </div> <div> <B>The Summer Quarterly Meeting Takes Place at… </B><FONT SIZE="6" COLOR="#808080" FACE="Tw Cen MT" ><B>THE DVT PICNIC!</B></FONT></div> <bR> <div> <I><B>IT’S ALMOST HERE! </B></I><I>Sunday, August 19</I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial Black" ><I>th</I></FONT><I>, from 3 to 6 p.m., on the Oval on Omega Baptist’s Harvard Campus.</I><I><B> </B></I><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Bodoni MT" >Music, games, athletics, and the company of good neighbors. Tables and basic cookout food will be supplied – bring your own chairs or blankets and your favorite side dish, salad, or dessert. A brief quarterly meeting will be held towards the end; you’ll be interested to hear some of what your trustees are considering. Does "neglected houses" get your attention? We have plans….. </FONT></div> <div> <B>Phoenix Project Ice Cream Social </B><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#808080" FACE="Tw Cen MT" >by Jill Hamilton</FONT></div> <div> The Phoenix partners and staff want to thank their friends and neighbors for their support. Please plan to attend their next Quarterly Public Meeting for a brief project update. Then… make your own cool, delicious ice cream treat from the Young’s Jersey Dairy Sundae Bar! This very social meeting will be held on <I><B>Tuesday, August 28</B></I><FONT SIZE="1" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Bodoni MT" ><I><B>th</B></I></FONT><I><B> from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m.</B></I> under the canopy at <I><B>Fairview Park & Pool</B></I><I>,</I> 900 McCleary Avenue. (From West Hillcrest Avenue, turn south on Elsmere Avenue and go one block.) A delicious way to find out what’s happening with the ongoing improvements that affect a good deal of the Triangle as well as the other side of Salem – and our property values.</div> <bR> <DIV ALIGN="LEFT"></DIV> <div> <B>A Neighborhood Star</B><FONT SIZE="3" COLOR="#000000" FACE="Arial" > </FONT><FONT SIZE="4" COLOR="#808080" FACE="Tw Cen MT" >by Steve Blatt</FONT></div> <bR> <div> I’d like to introduce you to a neighborhood person whom some of you may not know. Bill Evans and his wife, Rosemary, who owned and operated Evans Bakery for 35 years, retired from that business three years ago. Bill has three adult children and four grandchildren with a fifth on the way. He is also a once-a-week golfer, which keeps him "in balance." Bill used to be a DVT trustee (remember when we had the neighborhood patrols with Grace?). At present he is the Executive Director at the House of Bread. Here are a few of his other involvements: </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Active Northeast Priority Board member for 13 years </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">St. Vincent de Paul District Council President (and recipient of Artemis Peace Keeper of the Year Award) </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Old North Dayton Business Association President </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Past President of the Ohio Bakers’ Association </div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">City Commission Candidate <I>(he came in second, which unfortunately does not count) </I></div> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.png" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Currently Chairman of the Board of Zoning Appeals, where he has served for 10 years</div> <div> Bill and Rosemary continue to be happy residents of the Dayton View Triangle. Bill says he thought he would have more time once he retired. However, since he joined in the effort to nourish hungry people at the House of Bread, where 85,000 meals are prepared each year, he finds he has very little time left over. </div> <div> The House of Bread is a great opportunity for volunteer activity, and Bill would welcome seeing his Triangle friends and neighbors as part of a volunteer group of the day. Volunteers are needed on weekends for breakfast or on weekdays for lunch!</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>