Graceland West Community AssociationGWCA’s Community Meeting is a lunch pot luck for your entire family. We also have a survey for 2019, which is GWCA’s 40th Anniversary and we’d love your input. Laurie Gillman, Jeff Fleshman and Brad Zerman are running for Council seats.
Please join the neighborhood for some fun
Thanks to those of you who are on the GWCA ECO – Environmental Committee.
Each year GWCA has had a major environmental focus. Based on this climate report, individually, together and as a city, what we do NOW really matters.
I hope most of us can attend the rescheduled GWCA Pot Luck this Saturday, December 1st, 11:45 am at Rizal. Please bring your family, significant other, partner or housemates, some neighbors and a dish to share (byob).
This GWCA Community Social and very quick meeting is for everyone (newborn to 102). Laurie Gillman, Jeff Fleshman and Brad Zerman are running for Council Seats. We have a short survey and brainstorming about what you want for GWCA and the neighborhood. Your input is essential for 2019 and beyond.
See you Saturday!
Thanking the GWCA Council, Block Reps, Committee Chairs and Graceland West neighbors for a terrific 2018.
2018 Council Members (with committees they chair or co-chair) are:
Laurie Gillman (Membership) 12/18
Kristi Passarelli (Halloween Party & Food Drive) 12/18
Brad Zerman (Block Rep Co-Chair, Aldermanic Liaison, Zoning) 12/18
(Please thank Laurie, Kristi and Brad Zerman, whose most recent Council terms end this month. Laurie, Brad and Jeff Fleshman are running for the GWCA Council. The election will be held at Monday’s Community Meeting and Pot Luck. Candidates need your votes).
Dave Barnett (Children’s Activities and Flooding)
Bruce Braun (GWCA Leaf Cleanup, Zoning)
Brad Pierce (GWCA Parkway Signs, GWCAFest)
Janice Horwich (Block Rep Co-Chair, ECO Committee, Aldermanic Liaison, Flooding, LVHS & Scholarship) 12/19
Matt Ivey (Rat Issues, Montrose Business, Aldermanic Liaison) 12/19
Joanne Yonan, (GWCA Leaf Cleanup, ECO Committee, Flooding) 12/19
Barb Sullivan (Former Council Member, Treasurer, GWCAFest)
Mark Nehring (Former Council Member, Yard Sale)
Terry Baublis (Former Council Member, Various + Garden Walk and Berteau Greenway)
Donna Forsberg (Former Council Member, Garden Walk, Berteau Greenway, Parkway Corners)
Kathleen Dudley (Former Council Member, Garden Walk Dinner, GWCAFest)
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2018 highlights included
March “Historic Lakeview” presentation and exhibits with Historian Garry Albrecht, Authors and Historians Patrick Butler and Matt Nickerson and LVHS Principal, PJ Karafiol.
January: LVHS meeting with Alderman Tunney and Pawar to present final LVHS Improvement Plan
June: GWCA Leadership Planning, Neighborhood Outreach Blitz and Pizza
June: Green-Roof – “Live Roof” Presentation, Demonstration, Community Meeting and Election
June: Yard Sale
August: Annual Garden Walk
August: Community Meeting
August: GWCAFest
September: LVHS Ribbon Cutting for Improvements to school and campus
September: Installation and Ribbon Cutting for Green & Climate Change Project at Rizal; Pollinator habitat for N Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, N Indiana endangered rusty patched bumblebee, bird, bat, butterfly, beneficial insect habitat and stormwater absorption.
October: Children’s Halloween Party
November: Pot Luck, Community Meeting, Election
December: GWCA Leadership Planning to come
“Lights On”. A bright front porch light on from Sunset to Sunrise every day is our first visible offensive move for a safe neighborhood. When we all do this (residences and businesses) it makes a difference.
In addition to your front porch, please keep some lights on timers so your home looks occupied even if you’re not yet home from work. Light your rear porch and add some motion activated lights.
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Hi neighbors, if you rake and bag your street leaves, there is no need to carry them to your trash area. We’ve arranged a one time bagged leaf pick up. Just put your bagged leaves on your parkway and please don’t overfill the bags.
Cleaning up street leaves, crosswalks and keeping sewer grates clear helps reduce neighborhood street, basement and vehicle flooding. Today (Saturday) 20 LVHS students and more than 40 GWCA Council Members, Block Reps and neighbors from Pensacola to Cuyler helped with this effort. You can bag and leave any leaves through Sunday night for this special pickup. This makes it easy to clean up street, parkway, sidewalk and front yard leaves. Our final 2018 street cleaning was October 3-4 so the street leaves are on us.
Thinking to Spring (let’s think Spring, not Winter), to further prevent flooding, please consider
1) using permeable hardscape such as permeable pavers or permeable concrete or sand grouted pavers rather than concrete or sealed pavers.
2) grass is almost as non-permeable as concrete. It also has very shallow roots. So stormwater runs off into streets or to a neighbor. Please consider reducing grass and aerating the soil well to 9″ and adding some native plants.
3) other options to consider include green roofs, rain gardens, downspouts disconnected and diverted to rain gardens and French drains.
Our next GWCA Meeting is Monday, November 26, 6:45 pm at Rizal. It’s mostly a social night with a pot luck (BYOB). GWCA’s 40th anniversary is in 2019 so we’ll do some quick brainstorming too on what you’d like.
Hi neighbors, please help clean street, intersection, cross walks and sewer grate leaves on Saturday. You can leave bagged leaves on the closest parkway. The city is doing a special pick-up for us. Please don’t overfill leaf bags as if they are too heavy, they break when city workers try to pick them up.
Please bring your family and a neighbor and clean the Greenview intersection closest to your house first. Then, if you live on Greenview, please help clean Greenview next. If you live on an east / west street, please clean that next. We need all street leaves up from Montrose to Irving and Clark to Ashland. Our final city street sweeping was October 3-4, before any leaves fell, so we encourage all to help. Your work will reduce street, basement and vehicle flooding and help prevent slick and frozen leaves from causing falls. Getting these leaves up before they form a 4″ frozen mat makes it easier to shovel parking spaces too.
We need you to help if you are a tenant, condo or home-owner, landlord or business owner. Whether you park on the street or have visitors who park on the street, this is a volunteer effort all of us need to do. Please support your GWCA current and former Council Members and Block Reps who are leading this neighborhood safety and flood prevention effort. You’ll need to bring 10 garbage or leaf bags, and a rake, shovel or dust pan. Shovels and dust pans work well to scoop leaves. If you can’t help on Saturday, you can also leave bagged leaves on the parkways through Sunday.
Thanks everyone for living here and loving and supporting this neighborhood. Our annual pot luck is on November 26th, 6:45 pm at Rizal.
Our final 2018 neighborhood street cleaning was October 3rd and 4th, before leaves fell. Please bring a rake, shovel or dustpan and 10 leaf bags and help get street leaves up. Meet at Greenview and Belle Plaine or the Greenview intersection closest to your house.
If you can’t make it, can you please cleanup the leaves in front of your house, apartment, condo, business and under garbage cans and dumpsters and clean crosswalks before Saturday? As you do this, please look for rat holes especially near air conditioners, near sidewalks, in your parkway and in trees.
As leaves will continue to fall after this cleanup, can you please continue to keep sidewalks, parkways, streets and sewer grates clear of leaves and debris? These are the leaves that most blow into the street and migrate downhill to block sewers. Your efforts now to help reduce neighborhood flooding, also make it less slick to walk and reduce rat habitat. That said, leaving some yard leaves can help provide pollinator habitat.
Neighbors and GWCA Council Members and Block Reps, thanks in advance for everything you do. Everyone, can you please bring your family and a neighbor to help?
Uptown: Two carjackings in 10 minutes on Friday afternoon
Two motorists were carjacked within ten minutes on Friday afternoon in the Uptown neighborhood, police said. No one is in custody.
Approximate locations of Friday’s carjackings.
Around 4:40 p.m., a 20-year-old man was sitting in his car in the 4800 block of North Paulina when a Chevy Impala pulled up behind him. Two offenders got out of the Impala and ordered the man from his 2014 Honda Civic at gunpoint, according to the victim. After robbing the victim of his personal belongings, the two carjackers got into his Civic and sped away, leaving the Impala in the middle of the road.
Minutes later, a driver was sitting in a car in the 4400 block of North Greenview when the carjackers pulled up behind him in the just-stolen Honda Civic. One of the carjackers got out of the Civic and ordered the man out of his car while threatening him with a “long-barreled weapon,” according to a police report.
The carjacker took the victim’s Nissan Altima and drove out of the area with the other carjacker following in the Civic.
Police said the Honda is a gray 2014 Civic bearing a license plate that begins with “AM129.”
The Nissan is a white 2008 Altima with a license plate that begins with “Z6388.”
According to the victims, the carjackers are two black men in their late teens or early 20’s. One wore a black hoodie with jeans. The other wore an orange hoodie.
On Tuesday evening, a 23-year-old man was carjacked of his Chevy Impala by two offenders in the Wrigleyville neighborhood.
The victim had just entered his parked car in the 3800 block of North Kenmore, and he was trying to close the door when two men approached him at 7:55 p.m. Police said the robbers ordered the man out of the vehicle while implying that they were armed with a handgun. The victim complied with the robbers’ demands and both offenders climbed into the man’s car, then sped away southbound on Kenmore.
Police could not say if the Impala recovered on Friday was the same vehicle taken in the Wrigleyville carjacking.
Tuesday’s carjackers were two black males: one wore a gray hoodie and the other wore a black hoodie.
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Hello Neighbors — just a reminder that the annual GWCA Halloween party is this Saturday, from 2 PM to 5 PM at Warner Park. How many Harry Potter’s will there be? Could we see Captain America dancing The Floss? The only way to find out is to stop by! There will be candy, games and warm apple cider. And no one will question the contents of your solo cup.
See you on Saturday!
