The Newsletter of the Historic Ninth Street Hill
Association. January 15, 2015
Potluck Dinner/Organizational Meeting
Thursday, January 22, 2015
Gather at 6:00 pm Eat at 6:30 pm
Meeting at 7:30 pm
At the Home of Cindy Gerlach & Gary
Mueller, 520 S. 9th Street
Bring a covered dish/salad/desert to share and the beverages of
your choice. (If you are not a cook or don’t have time, Oreos,
Chips, and packaged salads will work, the neighbors eat everything!)
Meeting Items
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Election of officers for the year:
Sr. Chairs: Ed & Shelly Opperman / Jr. Chairs: Olivia & Paul Schueler
2 year Co-Chair (need one) Secretary (Need one)
Treasurer: Lou Nargi
All others are appointed , see page 2
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Projects/meetings for 2015, bring your calendar See page 3.
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Find Hosts for meetings through the year. See page 3.
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Box Parade 25th Anniversary. Jana Minjarez will “retire” after this year
and needs a mentee to help planning and take over next year.
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Revisit last year’s vote to print newsletters 3 times a year and e-mail all
others through the year.
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Other concerns/items for meeting.
Listed below are the Block Reps and Committee Chairpersons for last year. If you
are listed, and would like to move on to another area, please contact Shelly Opperman @ 449-1968 to do so.
Block Reps for the Association 2014
100 & 200 Block Annie Mar ie (Cell) 1-312-919-2354
300 & 400 Block Nancy Nar gi (Cell) 714-0337
500 Block J ason & Lisa Cannon
838-1922
600 & Kossuth Block Sandy Lahr 742-6905
8th & State Block Carol Kor ty (Cell) 419-0465
400 S. 7th & Hitt St. Block Bill Huston (Cell) 420-8099
Upper 7th & Lingle Ave. Block Linda Phillips 423-2699
Committee Chairpersons 2014
Donation Secretary Mar y Ann Loepker 742-7061 Needs a mentee
Gifts Chairperson Sandy Lahr 742-6905
Public Relations Cindy Ger lach 742-1970
Festooned Flags Scott Gilkey (cell) 404-2067, Jamison Nichol, Shannon
O'Malley (cell) 479-0498, & Brian Scott
Luminaria Ruben Minjarez (cell) 413-7710 Needs a mentee
Webmaster J eff Boswell (cell) 414-1407
Welcome Wagoner J amie Der r inger (cell) 491-8444
Garden Master Dave Lahr (cell) 412-6809
Newsletter Dave Lahr (cell) 412-6809
As you noticed above, Mary Ann Loepker needs relief as Donation Secretary. As far as records go, it is believed that she is the
only person to hold that position. She started as Membership
Chair at the beginning of the formation of the association. We
can not thank you enough, Mary Ann!!! So here is a big HUG!!
ALERT!!
Unless there is a change at the January 22nd meeting, this will be the last
printed newsletter you will receive until June! Due to the cost of printing
the Association chose to send only three printed newsletters a year. If you
feel this action needs to change please attend the meeting.
Also, if you wish to get up-to-date information all year, send your e-mail address to [email protected]
Let’s Keep Alley and 8th Street Clear!
For those of us who live behind the alley
and adjourning 8th Street we ask your consideration and please keep the alley way
clear of cars. If you have workers at your
residents, please ask them to not block the
alley and try to provide them with a parking area on your lot. When cars are not
moving in these areas it causes a real problem with traffic flow, especially for those
whose access to their garage is in the surrounding area. It can be a problem with
emergency vehicles that need to respond to
problems in the area.
Welcome New Neighbor
Kathy Wilkerson has just moved into an
apartment at 540/542 S. 9th Street. Hope
to see you soon at an event, Kathy.
Calendar Suggestions for 2015
March 17 5:30 to 8:00 pm St. Pat’s Party @
home of Bill & Tre Huston 408 S. 7th St.
April ? Children’s Egg Hunt need a chair man
April 25 9 am to noon Garden Clean up
Dave Lahr 412-6809
June 25 5:30 pm Hang Flags
July 4 10:30 am Box Parade J ana Minjarez 430-4073 Need a Co-Chair
July 6 5:30 pm Take down Flags
August ? 9th St. Bar Crawl Adult par ty.
Need hosts.
September 14 5:30 pm Eat in Street Ed and
Shelly Opperman 449-1968
October ? Progressive Halloween Party
Need 3 hosts
November 7 9 am to noon Put Garden to
Bed
November ? Bag folding party/ meeting
Ted & Amy Paget home 461 S. 7th Street
December ? Christmas Party need host
If you have a new neighbor in your area,
December 23 & 24 Luminaria Display Ruben Minjarez 413-7710
Please contact Jamie Derringer @ 4918444 with information.
December 23 Luminaria Warm up Party?
Need host
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A Note in the Next Door Ninth St.
Neighborhood Website
What a treasure we have in all of you,
keeping the Ninth Street Hill luminaria
display tradition alive! Clearly you have
it down to a science - as I came home
from work Tuesday to see it all in place,
and came home from my family’s Christmas on Thursday to see it all put away.
But that doesn’t mean it was easy and
convenient for you all. We lead busy
lives - you took the time out of yours to
continue a wonderful tradition that the
entire city benefits from. Thank you so
much! I hope you had a lovely Christmas and wish you all good things in the
New Year! Karen Demerly
Contribution Time Again!
Once again the Historic Ninth Street
Hill Neighborhood Association is
asking for your help by donating
funds to the Association to help support the projects we have throughout
the year. These projects include the
Festooned Fourth Festivities, the Box
Parade, and the Luminaria Display in
December. Your financial support is
needed.
Please use the attached envelope to
send your donation. We are a 501©
(3), making donations tax deductible.
Thank you.