Posts Tagged ‘Neighborhood Associations’
Community Contribution The launch party for the “Vickery Place Centennial Cookbook, Recipes and Recollections: Vickery Place Cooking Since 1911,” which took place Saturday, at Downing Hill Garden Studio, attracted the curious and the contributors. Attended by friends and neighbors of Vickery Place and surrounding neighborhoods, co-editors Kathy Harris and Shelia Huffman were thrilled with the [...]
By Bruce Felps National Night Out returns to East Dallas tomorrow with the ultimate goal of preventing neighborhood crime. The national program serves communities on the neighborhood level. It focuses on relations between residents and city services, police and fire departments, charitable organizations, and each other.
By Bruce Felps In conjunction with its centennial celebration, Vickey Place Neighborhood Association whipped up a few recipes and published them in a commemorative cookbook titled “Recipes and Recollections: Vickery Place Cooking Since 1911.” Neighborhood residents Shelia Huffman and Kathy Harris compiled a collection of 150 recipes from Vickery Place residents past and present 15 [...]
By Bruce Felps The Lower Greenville and Lakewood Heights neighborhood associations plan a couple of events designed to help make the community a safer place. The city’s Community Emergency Response Team — or CERT, because everything needs an acronym — presents an emergency preparedness seminar at 6:30 p.m., Sept. 29, at Skillman Church of Christ. [...]
Community Contribution The centennials keep coming. The Vickery Place Centennial Home Tour kicks off on the evening of Saturday Oct. 15 with a VIP party followed by the tour of homes the next day. Vickery Place commemorates its centennial with a home tour featuring several renovated historic homes ranging in architectural styles from original 1911 [...]
Community Contribution The Munger Place Home Tour and Tremont Party take place this weekend in one of the city’s most architecturally historic neighborhoods.. Five restored homes, one newer Craftsman construction, and the newly renovated Munger Place Church will be on tour to the public from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., Sept. 24.
By Bruce Felps Many a neighborhood association in East Dallas recognizes the Yard of the Month but the Old Lake Highlands group stepped out of the ordinary for its September winner. The OLH Neighborhood Association, in its September newsletter, named the gardens at Hexter Elementary School as its Yard of the Month recipient.
By Bruce Felps Ted Thompson, president of the Greenland Hills Neighborhood Association, has friends in Bastrop County, Texas. Bastrop County has wildfires and needs for displaced residents, hundreds of families. Put the three together and they equal an East Dallas neighbor’s determination to help.
By Bruce Felps Organizers with three neighborhood associations and one civic support group — Lakewood Heights, Lower Grenville, Wilshire Heights, and Friends of Tietze Park Foundation — plan to cool things down a bit this weekend in the neighborhood. Planners have put together this year’s installment of Tietze Splash, the neighborhood pool party at the neighborhood park. [...]
By Bruce Felps We conclude this broadcasting day much the same way we started it, with a video depicting some neighborhood history. The webmaster keeping the Hollywood-Santa Monica Neighborhood Association afloat in these cyber-waters sent an e-mail message directing attention to the revamped association website.
