Just a reminder that we are meeting tomorrow (Sunday) at 6 PM at the entrance to the park in the 1700 block of Lexington to award the December Yard of the Month! So if you haven’t pulled out your decorations from the attic, you have one more day to get ready! We’re going to walk all the blocks of Richwood Place and decide whose house is the best for December!
Hope to see you all there!
Laura
Instead of us picking YOM this month, let’s get together and pick it as a neighborhood! I’d like to award the December Yard of the Month this Sunday to the best Holiday decorated yard. Why don’t we meet at the entrance to Chew Park on the 1700 block of Lexington at 6 PM? We’ll walk all the blocks and decide as a group which is the best “yard” for December. We’ll walk down west down Lexington, turn right and walk up Norfolk to the east, with a final turn left to walk down Portsmouth. After that, we’ll vote on the best of the best.
Take this weekend to deck out your yard in your finest Holiday decorations!
I’ll see you on Sunday at 6 PM, and I warn you – caroling might break out, and cookies along the way will not be turned away.
I hope that everyone had a safe and happy Thanksgiving. Just a reminder that our next scheduled General Meeting will be Tuesday, December 7th, at 7 PM. The meeting will be held at Zoe’s Kitchen. Elections will be held the following month, on January 11th.
If you are interested in running for any position on the Richwood Place Board, I encourage you to attend the meeting this month. We will be going over what each position entails, and what we can do as a neighborhood to strengthen our visibility and cohesiveness.
Happy Thanksgiving!
Please join us to kick off the holiday season, meet your neighbors and escape from the holiday shopping!
Neighborhood Block Party- 1900 Block of Lexington
1950 Lexington Street
(Home of The El-Hakam Family)
Saturday, November 27, 2010
4pm-6pm
We’ll have a bouncy house for the kids, beverages and Cotton Candy!
Please bring a potluck dish to share. And, lawn chairs, if you want to guarantee a place to sit. Hope you can join us in the spirit of thanksgiving.
Contact Rebekah if you have any questions or would like to help. email: lexingtonblock@gmail.com
We hope to see you soon!
From the River Oaks Examiner:
The Pavilion is the winning store design for the new H-E-B Montrose…
The store is expected to open before Thanksgiving 2011.
Upcoming Oct 30 Neartown Development Forum III
Saturday, October 30th, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The Neartown Development Forum III will take place tomorrow, Saturday, October 30th, 9 a.m – 1 p.m. at St. Stephen’s church Pecore Hall. St. Stephen’s Church is located at 1805 W. Alabama. Please participate!
We will reconvene with Metro and HEB for a public meeting intended to update the community on the status of the University Line and the grocery store development at West Alabama and Dunlavy.
According to a recent Neartown email…
The Buffalo Bayou Partnership invites Houstonians to review the organization’s preliminary Master Plan for the Shepherd to Sabine stretch of Buffalo Bayou. The community meetings will take place Wednesday, October 13, and Thursday, October 14, from 6-8 pm at the United Way of Greater Houston Community Resource Center, 50 Waugh Drive, Houston 77007 . The meetings are co-sponsored with Super Neighborhood #22. Both meetings will follow the same format and no reservations are required.
The October 13 and 14 meetings follow a series of gatherings held in June where the public shared their ideas and recommendations for enhancing the Shepherd to Sabine parkland, one of Houston’s most iconic landscapes.
“We have listened to the public input that we received at our earlier community meetings and have incorporated many of the ideas into the preliminary master plan,” explains Anne Olson, Buffalo Bayou Partnership President. “The upcoming meetings will give the public the opportunity to review the preliminary design and provide additional feedback.”
In addition to seeking the public’s input on the preliminary master plan, Buffalo Bayou Partnership representatives will be providing updates on numerous projects recently completed or currently underway along the Shepherd to Sabine segment, including:
· Harris County Flood Control District “pilot project” that has restored a small stretch of the bayou channel to a more natural condition
· Construction of a new pedestrian bridge and trails connecting to nearby neighborhoods
· City of Houston and TxDOT rebuilding of the three-decades-old bike trails that have fallen into disrepair
To review the summary from the June community meetings, click here.
For a history of the Shepherd to Sabine project, click here.
For additional information about the community meetings, please contact Trudi Smith, Buffalo Bayou Partnership, (713) 752-0314, ext. 3 or tsmith@buffalobayou.org.
Montrose residents will select their favorite of three designs for the H-E-B store planned at Dunlavy and Alabama streets at the next Neartown Development Forum.
Neartown Development Forum III will take place Saturday, October 30, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. at St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church, 1805 W. Alabama St. The public meeting will also include a METRO update on the University Line.
HOUSTON (KTRK) — A sharp rise in burglaries in one neighborhood and the weather is making homes vulnerable to thieves.
Today, Houston police officers will go door to door in the east Montrose neighborhood just north of Westheimer.
Police can’t say for sure if these break-ins are the work of just one person. But it leads homeowners in
the neighborhood to wonder because in several of the home burglaries, the same MO was used.
