Volume 51, Issue No. 9
October 2012
A Greater Park Hill Community, Inc. Publication
Park Hill Home Tour & Street Fair: Another Successful Year By Roberta Locke Park Hill Home Tour Coordinator
Thanks to a perfect Colorado fall day and a great lineup of homes, we enjoyed yet another delightful Park Hill Home Tour and Street Fair. We were a little more spread out than usual and it was good to see so many people on bikes. It is quite remarkable that this tradition has continued for 34 years and it’s a tribute to all of the dedicated Park Hillians who contribute in so many ways to this lively, fun community-building event. First and foremost, we pay special tribute to the seven homeowners who opened their homes to more than 1100 people: Dorothy and Gary Crow-Willard,
1980 Bellaire Street; Ann Davis, 4535 Montview Boulevard; Renee and Greg McMichael, 2380 Colorado Boulevard; Heather Lenox and Kelly Vicknair, 2664 Cherry Street; Liz and Don Rutledge, 2250 Elm Street; Nina and Mark Kuhl, 2211 Glencoe Street; and Janis and Tom Cella, 1739 Forest Parkway. We are so appreciative of your willingness to share your homes with so many and we understand what an undertaking it is to prepare for the home tour. We can’t thank you enough. We hope that the architectural rendering by Marc Applebaum you receive is a fond remembrance of this special day. Thanks to our 2012 home tour sponsors. We welcome the new sponsors as well as the sponsors who stick with us year after year: Roberta Locke,
New Courts Open at Holly Peace Mural Park
Kim Tighe, Janey McLaughlin, Nina Kuhl, Steve LaPorta, Renee McMichael and Jody West of Cherry Creek Properties LLC; Mary Gerwin and The Gerwin Group of Kentwood Company of Cherry Creek; Hart Studio LLC; GO Builders; Anastasia Williamson of Kentwood City Properties; Leah Johnson of Megastar Financial; Three Horse Design; Casa Verde Paint; HomeWrights Custom Homes; Applebaum Architects; and Native Landscaping. Thanks to all of the vendors and nonprofits who took part in the Street Fair. We had more than 60 participants who offered a vast array of products, services, artwork, and samplings of wines, oils, spices and delectable taste treats. You could get advice See Home Tour on page 4
25th Annual CROP Hunger Walk Bolsters the GPHC Food Pantry By Pauline Miles Park Hill United Methodist Church
Jon Denzler/Piton Floodlight
Kids practice futsal at opening day of the new Holly Peace Mural Park courts on Saturday, September 8. PARK HILL MOMENTS > Page 6.
GPHC Annual Meeting, NEPHC Meets at Smiley By Erin Vanderberg, Editor
In lieu of the monthly Greater Park Hill Community meeting, the GPHC is holding its Annual Meeting on Thursday, October 4 from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. at The Garden restaurant at 3435 Albion. At the meeting, the GPHC Board will elect new representation for Districts 1, 3, 5, 7 and 9 and three of the six At-Large seats. Dues-paying members of the GPHC are eligible to serve on the board. Those interested in serving should contact gphc@ecentral.com or 303-388-0918. Also away from its usual location, the October
meeting of the Northeast Park Hill Coalition will take place on Thursday, October 11th in conjuction with the Be Healthy Denver project sponsored by the Department of Environmental Health at Smiley Middle School from 4-7 p.m. For more information, contact 720-837-5492. Both the GPHC and the NEPHC will return to their usual locations in November. GPHC meets every first Thursday at 6:30 p.m. at their offices at 2823 Fairfax. NEPHC meets every second Thursday from 6-8 p.m. at the District 2 Police Station at 3921 Holly.
On Sunday, October 21, the 25th Annual Park Hill CROP Hunger Walk will reactivate the partnership between two lead churches, Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church and Park Hill United Methodist Church, by bringing together CROP (Communities Reaching Out to People) walkers from our community to support the work of Church World Service and the GPHC Food Pantry. Founded in 1946, Church World Service (CWS) has provided interfaith opportunities through local community CROP Hunger Walks to meet the challenge of increasing access to nutritious food for hungry people around the block and around the world. Each year people in more than 2,000 communities across the U.S. join together in some 1,600 CROP Hunger Walks that are a reflection of the determination of members of faith communities, civic organizations and businesses to end the scourge of hunger and malnutrition at home and abroad. Each year, the CWS uses 75% of the funds raised by CROP Walks to provide disaster relief, emergency food supplies, refugee resettlement and self-help economic development to more than 80 countries worldwide. This year again, 25% of the proceeds of the Park Hill CROP Hunger Walk are donated to the GPHC Food Pantry on Fairfax Street to provide support for needy families in this community. In addition to the fundraising effort, many of this year’s CROP Walk participants will join in a post-walk workday to renovate the Food Pantry in an effort to make it more functional and inviting for families in need. As a result of those efforts, the GPHC Food Pantry, which suspended services this summer in order for the organization to regroup and improve services, is tentatively slated for reopening the last week in October. Over the years, this interfaith CROP Hunger Walk has involved the following area churches and a synagogue: Blessed Sacrament Catholic Church, Center of Light, *Cure d’Ars Catholic Church, *Fireside Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), *Messiah Lutheran Church, Montclair Community United Methodist Church, *Montview Boulevard Presbyterian Church,*Park Hill Congregational United Church See GPHC Food Pantry on page 8